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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 SHAABAN 24, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Filipina maid Snowden’s Russian Lisicki and content after options narrow rocket Radwanska trials and as nations explodes in star on day of tribulations5 reject asylum7 Kazakhstan10 understudies20 Morsi snubs ultimatum, Max 47º Min 34º army readies ‘roadmap’ High Tide 07:25 & 21:25 President, Sisi in crisis talks • Brotherhood urges ‘martyrdom’ Low Tide 01:16 & 15:01 40 PAGES NO: 15858 150 FILS CAIRO: Opponents of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi poured onto the streets of Cairo yesterday to press their demand that he step down after the Islamist president snubbed an ultimatum from the army to agree to the “people’s demands” or face an imposed solution. Morsi and army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi have been locked in talks all day to “discuss the current crisis”, a military source said. Egypt’s military has drawn up a plan to suspend the Islamist- backed constitution, dissolve the Islamist-dominated leg- islature and set up an interim administration headed by the country’s chief justice if Morsi fails to reach a solution with his opponents by the end of today’s deadline, the state news agency later reported. The report yesterday provided the first details on the road map that the military has said it will implement if Morsi fails to meet its ultima- tum. Most businesses remained closed and very few cars were on the streets, as tensions soared ahead of today’s deadline, which the president’s supporters have con- demned as a coup threat. Pro-Morsi demonstrators also massed in two parts of Cairo to defend the legitimacy of the president. Clashes erupted between Morsi supporters and opponents in the Cairo neighbourhoods of Giza and Helwan as well as in the northern province of Beheira - away from the main rallies - leaving around 30 people injured, security officials said. A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood called on its supporters to be ready to sacrifice their lives to prevent an army takeover, recalling that hundreds had died during the 2011 revolution that ousted veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak. The main opposition coalition said it was ready to join the urgent talks on a negotiated transition called for by the army and named former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei as its chief negotiator. Military sources earlier told Reuters that once a two- day deadline set by the head of the armed forces expires at 5 pm (1500 GMT) today, the military intended to install an interim council, composed mainly of civilians from dif- ferent political groups and experienced technocrats, to CAIRO: Opponents of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed run the country until an amended constitution was draft- Morsi shout slogans and wave national flags in Tahrir ed within months. That would be followed by a new presi- Square yesterday. (Inset) A military helicopter flies over as dential election, but parliamentary polls would be a protestor waves a flag in Tahrir Square. (Inset right) A delayed until strict conditions for selecting candidates supporter of Morsi holds up his image during a rally out- were in force, they said. side Cairo University. — AP/AFP Continued on Page 15 69 Islamists jailed in More prominent figures register UAE coup plot trial Candidates call for participation • Convicted Fadhl flees Bahrain jails 8 Shiites By B Izzak KUWAIT: More prominent figures registered for the ABU DHABI: Sixty-nine convicted coup abuser of basic human rights,” said polls yesterday including some members who were plotters received jail terms of up to 10 Nicholas McGeehan, Gulf researcher at with the opposition and boycotted last December’s years in the United Arab Emirates yester- Human Rights Watch. “Today’s judge- elections, as most candidates urged voters to head to day after a trial that targeted Islamists ments mark yet another low point for the ballots on July 27. Former MPs Adnan Abdusamad, and drew criticism from human rights the UAE’s worsening human rights Mohammad Al-Abduljader, Ahmad Al-Mulaifi, Jaber Al- groups. Among those sentenced were record.” Alkarama, a Swiss-based Arab Muhailbi and Duaij Al-Shemmari, a former member of academics, lawyers and members of human rights group, called the verdicts the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM), registered prominent UAE families, including a politically driven and said they should to run in the polls and urged the opposition to join. cousin of the ruler of one of the seven be overturned. Amnesty International Others included former members of the opposition emirates in the oil-rich federation, a slammed the verdicts, saying the trial Ahmad Al-Azemi, who was a member of the scrapped longtime foe of Islamist groups seeking was “grossly unfair” and the charges a role in politics and state affairs. Eight were “bogus”. Feb 2012 assembly, Tarqi Al-Mutairi and Mohammad Al- men were sentenced in absentia by the “Not only do the defendants appear Enezi, who joined the opposition in boycotting the Dec Federal Supreme Court to 15 years in to have been targeted simply because of 2012 election. Almost all those who registered yester- prison, in a judgement rights groups their views, but they have been convict- day, particularly those who had links with the opposi- said showed growing intolerance in the ed on bogus charges and denied the tion, said they decided to run in the election after last US-allied Gulf Arab country. basic right to a fair trial,” said Hassiba month’s constitutional court ruling which upheld the The government said the sentences Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty’s Middle East controversial amendment to the electoral law that could not be appealed. “These verdicts and North Africa deputy director. reduced the number of candidates a voter can pick cement the UAE’s reputation as a serious Continued on Page 15 from a maximum of four to just one. DAR ES SALAAM: US President Barack Obama and former US President Continued on Page 15 George W Bush pause for a moment of silence during a wreath laying cere- mony yesterday to honor the victims of the US Embassy bombing. — AP Smooth Qatar handover Obama joins Bush at Saudis extend rooted in ex-emir’s past Tanzania memorial amnesty for Ex-PM loses QIA position DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Democratic ecessor: “They’re learning from us.” illegal expats DUBAI/DOHA: Qatar’s outgoing emir in office, Sheikh Hamad, 61, stepped President Barack Obama and Republican The Obamas departed Africa for RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday extended by four more wanted to abdicate while he was still down following 18 years in office and predecessor President George W Bush home shortly after crossing paths with months an amnesty enabling illegal foreign workers to able to help his 33-year-old heir consoli- made way for his son, Sheikh Tamim bin found common ground in Africa yester- the Bushes, who were hosting the sum- regularise their status or return home without prosecu- date his authority, so ensuring minimal Hamad Al-Thani. Sheikh Hamad, a force- day, honoring the victims of a terrorist mit promoting the role of African first tion. King Abdullah has ordered “extending the time discord inside a family with a long record ful, independent-minded personality attack in an unprecedented encounter a ladies in bringing change to their coun- limit” of the amnesty due to expire today until of palace intrigue. While no one other who now takes the title “Father Emir”, world away from home. The US presi- tries. Bush ended up joining the current November, the interior ministry said in a statement car- than outgoing emir Sheikh Hamad bin explained in an abdication speech that dents observed a moment of silence president for the wreath-laying ceremo- ried by the official SPA news agency. English-language Khalifa Al-Thani can know his full motiva- he wanted a new generation “with their together at a monument to victims of ny honoring the Tanzanian victims of the daily Arab News said the amnesty would now expire on tions, foremost among them appears to innovative ideas and active energies” to the 1998 embassy bombing here in the simultaneous attacks at the US Nov 4. The ruler of the oil powerhouse had announced have been a need for stability in a take over. east African city where Bush coinciden- embassies here and in Kenya master- the amnesty on April 3, granting foreign workers a dynasty that has ruled for more than 130 Left unspoken were other, related pri- tally happened to be as Obama wrapped minded by Osama bin Laden. Both presi- three-month grace period to regularise their residency years. That is the picture of last week’s orities. The outgoing ruler has had kid- up a weeklong tour of the continent. dents have bin Laden in common. Bush’s or leave Saudi Arabia to avoid being jailed, fined or placed on a blacklist. Security forces will launch a wide- abdication that emerges from diplomats ney problems, and while the condition While the two leaders didn’t say anything two terms were tinged by the 9/11 ter- reaching campaign across the kingdom to crack down and others familiar with a country that was not the reason for his decision, publicly, their wives engaged in a warm rorist attacks carried out in New York and on illegal foreign workers once the amnesty has during his rule rose from obscurity and diplomats said, his continued ability to and chatty joint appearance at a summit Washington by bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda expired, the interior ministry warned. relative poverty to global prominence in master Qatar’s complex dynastic politics on African women. Initially the two presi- network; Obama ordered the US military dents weren’t even planning to meet raid that ended with bin Laden’ death The embassies of Asian countries from which most of finance, diplomacy, sport and media. will have been a factor in his thinking. the workers hail welcomed the extension. India’s Under the long planned handover, Hamad’s need for a smooth succession while in town, but first lady Michelle two years ago in Pakistan. Obama joked as she sat next to her pred- Continued on Page 15 embassy in Riyadh described the extension as a rare in a region where rulers usually die Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait hopeful of solution to Egypt crisis, says FM Senegalese delegation holds talks in Kuwait KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister tion with the EU, due to high taxes noted that the GCC had issued a al cooperation namely within and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah on GCC products, the minister said statement urging the UNSC to framework of the third Arab- Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yester- the foreign ministers of the council “shoulder the responsibility” in African summit and planned sec- day expressed confidence the member states were tasked to shadow of continuing bombard- ond session of the Kuwaiti- Egyptian people would resolve “make an assessment of the situa- ment of Homs, “which warrants Senegalese commission, due in their problems noting this nation tion and file a report in this regard immediate cessation of the vio- Dakar in 2014. has a civilization dating to 7,000 next November.” The joint action lence and the blood-shedding.” The Senegalese Minister years back. Egypt has succeeded in program is linked with the free On his talks with the visiting expressed thanks for the warm resolving crises and has emerged trade accord and there is “some Senegalese minister, Sheikh Sabah reception and the great attention stronger, said Sheikh Sabah Khalid, positive assessment of this pro- Khalid said the eminent guest was accorded to the Senegalese dele- at a news conference with the visit- gram,” Sheikh Sabah Khalid said, honored earlier yesterday with a gation, in addition to meeting HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad KUWAIT: Deputy Chief of the National Guards Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, where they dis- Sabah held talks yesterday with the visiting Director General of Public Security in cussed ways to develop bilateral Jordan, Lt Gen. Tawfiq Hamid Al-Tawalbeh on issues of common concern and means cooperation between the two of boosting military cooperation. The talks also dealt with exchange of expertise and countries and issues of common the distinctive ties binding the two countries.— KUNA concern. The minister said he handed out a written message from President of Senegal Macky Sall to His Highness the Amir on strengthening relations of cooper- ation between the two countries and their peoples, in addition to an invitation for HH the Amir from Senegalese President to visit Senegal, saying HH the Amir has accepted the invitation where a date is to be determined through joint diplomatic channels. He explained that the Joint Committee is the first of its kind with Kuwait and represents a dis- tinguished step in deepening rela- tions of cooperation between the KUNA: The Joint Higher Cooperation Committee between Kuwaiti and Senegalese governments held its two countries, noting that since the first session headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al- opening of Senegal embassy in Sabah and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Mankeur Ndiaye from the Senegalese side in Kuwait Kuwait and the opening of the yesterday.—KUNA Kuwait embassy in Dakar, relations have been progressing in the right ing Senegalese Minister of Foreign expressing hope that cooperation meeting with HH the Amir, relaying direction towards the development Affairs and Expatriates Mankeur would be pursued within frame- greetings of the Senegalese presi- of consultation on all issues and Ndiaye. The foreign minister work of the program to reach a dent and affirming the aspirations common interests, particularly in expressed hope that Egypt would final agreement on the free trade. to boosting cooperation with the international organizations. He succeed in strengthening security, Asked about reported call by the State of Kuwait. added that the positions of the two stability and safety so it may restore GCC on the UN Security Council to Sheikh Sabah Khalid added that countries are almost identical con- its vital and constructive role on the hold an emergency session to he and the Senegalese minister, cerning major issues especially on Arab, Islamic, African and impose a no-fly zone in Syria about along with his accompanying dele- the Palestinian cause, supporting International arenas. super powers’ seriousness toward gation, held a meeting within the struggle of the Palestinians’ Asked whether Kuwait would the issue, he said the deteriorating framework of the Kuwaiti- right to self-determination and the ponder calling back its citizens situation in Syria has lured concern Senegalese commission to discuss establishment of a free Palestinian from Egypt, the minister affirmed of the GCC and EU states “as we mutual cooperation and issues of state. He pointed out that the that following up on conditions of sensed during the meeting with point concern in the economic, vision of the two countries also the Kuwaiti citizens abroad is their representatives in Manama political and cultural domains. He identical towards the situation in among priorities of the ministry, last Sunday.” added that the two sides agreed Syria, where both countries are noting that a decision in this The issue of Syria was a focal on pursuing the coordination on within the Group of Friends of respect should be taken upon rec- point in these talks with the various Arab and Islamic affairs, Syria, valuing the vital role played ommendations of the ministry spe- Europeans, the minister said, namely the Palestinian cause, Syria, by Kuwait in the Syrian crisis. The cial panel, tasked with monitoring adding that the two sides affirmed Mali as well as preparations for the Senegalese Minister said that the conditions in Egypt. The Kuwaiti necessity of continuous action on Arab summit due in Kuwait in first session of the Joint Higher embassy in Cairo is contact with the political track and peaceful November. Senegal opened an Committee for Cooperation the Kuwaitis there and the ambas- transfer of authority. Elaborating, embassy in Kuwait in 1971 and between the Government of the sador, Dr Rashid Al-Hamad, is coor- Sheikh Sabah Khalid said the two Kuwait established a diplomatic State of Kuwait and the dinating with the special panel in sides, during the talks in Manama, mission in this African country in Government of the Republic of this respect. underscored necessity of thrashing 1981. Sheikh Sabah Khalid praised Senegal has achieved what was out “details of the Geneva-2 (con- Senegal’s support for Kuwait and hoped for of expectations, adding Joint program ference) and shift to setting date participation in the alliance that that his country looks forward to KUWAIT: The Jordanian delegation headed by General Security Director in Asked on reports that the GCC for the convention, in addition to liberated the country of the Iraqi further bilateral cooperation in Jordan General Tawfeeq Hamed Al-Tawlba paid a visit to Al-Othman house, states decided to suspend the joint the humanitarian aid to the Syrians occupation in 1991.He expressed the second session of the and toured the house and saw contents which represent the Kuwaiti heritage program and free trade coopera- in and outside Syria.” Moreover, he hope to advance further the mutu- Committee. — KUNA and past of our fore fathers. Cuban dancers enthrall audience

KUWAIT: The Cuban folk dance and music group won the hearts of Kuwaitis, expatriates and diplomats alike with their skillful performance, rhythmic footwork, graceful body movement, music and thrilling light effects. The pleasant cultural evening was organized by the Cuban Embassy in Kuwait in cooperation with National Council for Culture Arts and Literature at Dasman Theater. The five male and five female artists enthralled the audi- ence for more than one hour invoking continuous applause from the audience at the packed hall. The presentation was titled “Flamenco Ecos.“ The Flamenco company was founded in 1999 in Havana, by a group of dancers and musicians whose musical roots can be traced to the Andalus region of Spain. The main focus of the Ecos is the traditional art and its scenic expression though additional representation in tableau style was added to it in a more contemporary set- ting. The musical element, choreography and movements that are naturally evident in traditional Flamenco dance form have taken a different shape in the recent years. Ecos expresses its self in a perfect mix of a flamenco tradition and music and dance of Cuban origin. —Photos of the event by Joseph Shagra WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL 43 candidates enter poll fray on 6th day Scorching summer to add to election heat KUWAIT: Up to 43 nominees for forth- Tarqi Al-Mutairi and Faisal Al- declared opening nomination regis- coming parliamentary elections filed Maimouni. Also contending from the tration for the elections as of June 27. their nomination papers at the fourth district were Mohammad Al- The grace period for delivering the Ministry of Interior Electoral Enezi, Mohammad Lafi Al-Azmi, papers expires on July 6. Department yesterday, the sixth day Moahmmad Mefleh Al-Azmi, Heated contest for seats in the for nomination for legislative seats. Mohammad Naif Al-Enezi, Mefreh National Assembly will be marked The contestants are vying for seats in Tahous Al-Otaibi and Nasser Metleg with scorching summer weather, par- the National Assembly (parliament) in Dugheim. ticularly on the balloting day when its 14th legislative term, due on July Nominees for the fifth division the temperature is forecast to hit 50 27. Running in the first constituency were Ahmad Abdullah Saad Al-Azmi, degrees in shadow. Astronomer Adel were Khaled Issa Abdullah Al-Shatti, Jaber Saad Al-Azmi, Humoud Al- Al-Saadoun said in a statement to Adnan Sayed Abdul Samad Zahed, Hamdan, Khaled Al-Obaidi, Khaled Al- KUNA yesterday that the weather in Mohammad Al-Hadiah and Yusuf Bou- Shemmari, Salem Muhailan Al-Hajeri, the coming period will be distin- Abbas. From the second constituency, Saad Mohammad Mohsen Al-Enezi, guished with high temperature in the the nominees were Duaij Al- Talag Fahad Hajjaj Al-Azmi, Thaher Arab Peninsula. Shemmari, Mubarak Al-Mutawaa, Besher Al-Enezi, Abdul-Aziz Al-Ansari, The season is known by natives as Mohammad Abdul-Gader and Omar Hudaiban, Awad Al-Rashidi and “Bahourat Al-Saif.” As of next week, the Mohammad Uwaid Rihan Al-Mutairi. Eid Shuraim Al-Otaibi. temperature will hit record high lev- Contenders from the third district Also presenting their papers of els, up to 50 degrees in the shade. who delivered their registration docu- candidacy for the fifth district were And, hot winds are forecast to blow as ments yesterday were Ahmad Yusuf Fawaz Buhaish Hawash Al-Azmi, Faisal of July 23. Al-Saadoun noted that the Ahmad Abdul Aziz Al-Mulaifi, Ahmad Hassan Reda Hussein, Faisal Al-Khaldi, upcoming elections will be the first Abdul-Mohsen Turki Al-Mulaifi and Majed Al-Rashash Al-Mutairi, polling process that would fall in the Majed Jaber Hassoun Al-Enezi. Mohammad Nasser Al-Dosari, Mujeb fasting month of Ramadan. Bi-elec- From the fourth constituency, the Al-Qahtani and Nasser Al-Shemmari. tions had been held in 2000. He urged KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday candidates were Bader Thani Jaber Al- The law allows the nominees to nominees and voters to abstain from Palestinian Ambassador to Kuwait Rami Ihasn Tahboub, who handed HH a letter from Palestinian President Jassar, Bandar Saleh Thaher Al-Fuhaid, back down from the nomination sev- direct exposure to sun light and called Mahmoud Abbas concerning bilateral relations and ways to develop them on various levels. —KUNA Eid Al-Rashidi, Jamal Al-Nesafi, en days ahead of the balloting day, for necessary precautions at the ballot Duwaim Al-Muwaizri, Saad Al-Rashidi, July 27. The MoI Electoral Department centers during the process. — KUNA

Bader jaber Thani Al-Jassar Bandar Saleh Al-Rashidi Eid Shraim Al-Otaibi Faisal Yasin Al-Khaldi Khaled Ghazi Al-Shemmiri

Mohammed Lafi Eid Al-Azmi Mohammed Mefleh Al-Azmi Mohammed Naser Al-Dousary Mohammed Tana Al-Enezi Abdulaziz Hassan Al-Ansari Al-Saqr skips elections, calls public to participate

KUWAIT: Former MP Mohammad Roumi, who was the deputy speaker to focus on narrowing the number ion of the Supreme Advisory Al-Saqr announced his plans not to in the first 2012 parliament. Fifth of their respective candidates in Committee for the Implementation run for parliament in the upcoming constituency candidate Nasser Al- order to increase their chances of of Islamic Sharia that he chairs, nor 53 MPs represented 2nd elections on July 27, ending debate Merri who was elected in last being elected,” the sources that of the government. “Today we about whether the liberal figure December’s elections announced explained. face the national duty of working could be targeting the speaker’s meanwhile that he plans to run for By-elections are illegal under together and electing a parliament constituency since 1981 position that he lost in favor of top speakership if elected under claims Kuwaiti law, but tribal communities that hopefully represents all political oppositionist Ahmad Al-Saadoun in of freeing the key post from “domi- have resorted in recent years to ‘con- and social categories and would be Al-Dumaitheer won nine legislative terms the opposition-dominated 2012 nation of certain families and sultative meetings’ as an alternative, able to complete its 4-year tenure”, KUWAIT: Up to 53 MPs represented the Mohammad Al-Rusheid, parliament. However, Saqr indicated [urban] areas”. which refer to gatherings in which Mathkour told Al-Watan on Monday. second constituency in the past 11 Mohammad Habib Al-Bader, Abdul in a statement published yesterday Meanwhile, Al-Qabas reported candidates agree to step aside in He further indicated that setting up assemblies, between 1981 and Rahman Al-Ghuneim, Jassem Al- that his decision does not mean that yesterday quoting sources within favor of boosting certain candidates’ political parties is “the parliament’s December 2012, latest of which was Qutami, Abdullah Al-Aradeh, Dueij Al- he is boycotting the elections, but the fifth constituency that tribal chances. In this regard, Al-Anbaa job which is going to happen when- dissolved upon ruling by the Shemmari, Mohammad Al-Abdul-Jader, that he chose to stay away in order communities there are preparing to quoted sources familiar with the ever MPs find it necessary to do so”. Constitutional Court. Khalaf Al- Salwa Al-Jassar, Abdul-Latif Al-Omairi to “maintain friendships with fami- hold consultative meetings this government’s thinking who “Today there might not be a chance Dumaitheer represented the second (member of the dissolved February lies of second constituency candi- week in order to nominate candi- announced a ‘new work mechanism’ to establish political parties, but it constituency in nine legislative terms, 2012 parliament) represented the con- dates rather than contest in a heat- dates to represent the tribes. The will be adopted by the interior min- could always happen in the future”, thus he was number one in terms of stituency in a single term. Kuwait wit- ed electoral race”. Saqr clarified that sources who spoke on the condition istry in monitoring the elections he added. longest representation of this district, nessed an unprecedented constitution- his decision also does not mean that of anonymity explained that the which focuses on keeping a closer In other news, second con- which comprised the second, third, al event in 2012, the dissolution of the he is retiring from political work. He decision came after Sheikh Falah Bin eye on vote-buying and by-elec- stituency candidate Dr fifth, sixth and 18th in the 25-division February and December assemblies urged voters to participate in the Jame, chief of the Awazem tribe, tions. Abdurrahman Al-Jeeran, a Salaf electoral system. upon rulings by the Constitutional upcoming elections and honor the which is the largest tribal communi- Separately, a top Islamist in the Islamist, weighed in on the situation Al-Dumaitheer had also served as Court, thus parliamentary membership Constitutional Court’s ruling on June ty in Kuwait, announced shunning government clarified recent state- in Syria by indicating that it has member of the December 2012 assem- of the February 2012 parliament for 16 which upheld the controversial practices that fall under the concept ments in which he called for estab- turned into a “ground for feuding bly that was invalidated upon a ruling Riad Al-Adsani and Hamad Al-Mattar single-vote system. of byelections and done to improve lishing political parties as a neces- parties to settle their differences of the Constitutional Court. Jassem were suspended. Saqr’s decision narrows the list of the chances of tribal representation sary step to “organize political life” in there”. He specifically named Al- Mohammad Al-Kharafi came second, In the December 2012 parliament, potential candidates for the speak- in the parliament. “Bin Jame’s call is Kuwait, stating that his remarks Qaeda whom he accused of releas- representing the constituency in eight membership of Abdul-Rahman Saleh er’s post, with favorites including Ali seen to have the potential of costing reflect a “vision for the future” and ing fatwas (religious ruling) “that legislative terms. Meshari Al-Enjeri and Al-Jiran, Bader Al-Bathali, Adel Al- Al-Rashed who was the speaker of the Awazem tribe between two and not his opinion for the upcoming serves the United States of America”, the second parliament to be elected three out of five seats it usually con- elections. Furthermore, Dr Khalid Al- and Hezbollah whom he referred to Ahmad Baqer were MPs in six legisla- Kharafi, Khalil Al-Saleh, Hamad Al- in 2012 and later scrapped by a trols in the fifth constituency, Mathkour indicated that his earlier as “one of Iran’s systems”. — Al- tive terms. Mohammad Jassem Al- Hershani and Salah Al-Atigi were court ruling, as well as Abdullah Al- prompting other tribal communities statement does not reflect the opin- Qabas, Al-Anba & Al-Rai Sager (member of the dissolved waived. Moreover, the second con- February 2012 assembly) and Ali Fahad stituency has a high record of occupan- Al-Rashed (who served in the dissolved cy of the parliament chairmanship. February and December 2012 assem- Mohammad Al-Kharafi headed the par- blies) served in five terms. liament for five terms, 1999, 2003, Relationship between Kuwait and US MPs Mohammad Al-Barrak Al- 2006, 2008 and 2009. Ali Fahad Al- Mutair, Jumaan Thaher Al-Harbash Rashed took over the post in the is one of friendship, mutual agreement (member of the dissolved February December 2012 assembly, that was dis- 2012 parliament), Marzoug Ali Al- solved by the Constitutional Court. KUWAIT: Thousands of US soldiers are stationed played a big role in helping to liberate Kuwait now there for us, “They willingly provide us with Ghanem (member of the dissolved However, this district has the record in Kuwait, but not for battle. Kuwait is a crucial from the Iraqi invasion back in the 90’s, but the land for bases so we can have a safe location to February 2012 assembly), Khaled of a small number of ministers and outpost for support operations in the Middle friendship between the two countries actually move our troops in and out of war zones and Sultan Bin Issa (member of the dis- deputies in the governments, formed East. Hundreds of troops from the mid-state have goes back much further. “Many people think threatened areas our solders need to be,” solved February 2012 assembly), since 1981, amounting to four out of been sent to the country. CBS 21’s Brandie Meng Kuwait and American relations started in 1990 explained Sowinski. “If a conflict were to arise Rashed Salman Al-Hebeida and 26, picked up from the diverse con- and David Oliver traveled half way across the when Iraq invaded Kuwait, but this relationship anywhere in the world, getting soldiers there is Abdullah Mohammad Al-Naibari repre- stituencies. world to find out why we’re in Kuwait, and for actually goes back many years,” stated Tareq Eid the easiest part,” believes Major Keith Hickox. sented it for four terms. Deputies of this constituency did how long. Al-Mezrem. “When Kuwait was nothing with no “Getting equipped soldiers there, it takes a lot Representing the constituency for not get any ministerial portfolio in the The answer is basically logistics, Kuwait serves oil, Kuwait was nothing. more time.” Major Hickox is also deployed to three legislative terms were Abdul-Aziz cabinet formations of 1981, 1996, 1999, as a staging area for our troops in and out of the Tareq Eid Al-Mezrem is with the Ministry of Camp Arifjan and works with the National Guard Al-Mutawaa, Meshari Al-Osaimi, Abdul- 2006, 2008 and 2009. But Jassem Al- Middle East, but even with our troop draw Information, he says the relationship between units deployed from Central PA. Wahab Al-Haroun, for two terms were Kharafi served as minister of finance downs, we are told our presence in Kuwait will the United States and Kuwait began when two He says our soldiers are part of the overall Jassem Hamad Al-Sager, Abdul- and economy in the 1985 cabinet. With stay. That’s because both our government and American missionaries came to his country to goal in maintaining the joint forces missions Mohsen Yusuf Jamal, Hamad Humoud comeback of the parliamentary life in the Kuwait government want it that way. help his people. “In the 20’ s they came to help us between the two governments. “There’s a lot of Al-Roumi, Sayyah Bou-Shiba, Hamad 1992, Meshari Al-Enjeri served as min- “We’ve had soldiers here performing sustain- as doctors to give medical support and at same joint training missions that go on to develop Abdullah Al-Joan, Ahmad Mohammad ister of justice and administrative ing operations in the Middle East since (19)91 time in the 1990 they came to help us liberate both forces simultaneously,” Hickox addressed. Al-Nassar, Fahed Saleh Al-Khennah, affairs. Ahmad Yaagoub Baqer Al- and that has just continued,” stated Lt. Col. Todd Kuwait this is a great indication how the United “There’s always been a mutual support mutual Adnan Ibrahim Al-Mutawaa (who had Abdullah worked as minister of justice, Sowinski. Sowinski is the commander for the First States and Kuwait have a strong relationship,” Al- training and a presence here in Kuwait.” membership in the dissolved parlia- minister of Awqaf and Islamic affairs in Squadron 104th Calvary out of Fort Indiantown Mezrem explained. “We still have a role in sustaining soldiers, air- ments of February and December of 2001. Ahmad Al-Abdullah served as Gap with the 55th brigade. That relationship and respect has only grown men and Marines that operate in the Middle 2012), Abdul-Rahman Fahad Al-Enjeri the minister of justice in the 2003 cabi- Currently he is deployed to Camp Arifjan in stronger over the years. “We always look at the East,” explained Sowinski. “And this is one of (who was member of the dissolved net, following a reshuffle in 2005. Ali Kuwait. He sees firsthand what happens, and United States as an important ally, we like the those big sustainment hubs that do that.” February 2012 parliament) and Ahmad Fahad Al-Rashed served as minister of knows all too well what could happen. Kuwait is idea of American, we look at America as an There are no combat missions in Kuwait. Our Haji Lari (who was member of the dis- state for cabinet affairs in the 2011 a small country in the Middle East. It shares a bor- important friend,” Al-Mezrem continued. military presence stays on the base and does not solved 2012 assembly). cabinet. —KUNA der with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The United States And as we were there for Kuwait, Kuwait is mix with civilian life. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL

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Dear Badrya, By Labeed Abdal You may be receiving many emails from expats in the last few weeks and I appreciate your efforts in doing whatever possible in your capacity to ease the tension and make things better understood. I am writing in an attempt to get the legal status of Viber and Skype. Are they illegal in Kuwait? I have [email protected] searched the Net, including websites of the Ministry of Communication and the Government he move by the Ministry of Social Affairs and of Kuwait, but did not get the answer. Kuwait Times Labor to record more than 500 violations and Arab Times have reported that Kuwait is look- Tagainst companies who made their workers ing at means of how to block/ban these sites. work outside from 11 am to 4 pm - breaking many Which to me, means they are as of now OK. laws that prevent it - is excellent. We have a peak Can you, using your good offices, please let us hot season from the end of June to the end of all know the present legal status? Should those August and this needs caution, by avoiding the who have it (I think Skype is universal) uninstall it direct sun which might cause severe dehydration from their mobiles (and PC/laptops?) to avoid that could be fatal. The ministry must be extra kuwait digest being victimized (fined, jailed, deported)? If they strict in this matter to eliminate these violations are truly illegal, why not just block them totally, so from the labor market. that there is no ambiguity, and nobody needs to Curbing a cocktail of violations against expatri- Who is ruling the country? check our mobile phones? I have heard friends ate workers and deter companies and heartless installing the same over the weekend while at employers who have no conscience when they demand their employees to work in the sun under By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa home, and uninstalling while going out. The belief harsh weather is a real must move. Not only this, is that they are not being blocked, as only citizens uring a time in which Arab Spring countries are behavior come in his capacity as justice minister in a but also delaying salaries, overworking employees of certain countries are being targeted during witnessing true and bloody struggles between constitutional and legal state or as a member of a Salaf checking or raid. And the apps are ‘OK’ for some, or withholding leave or weekend pay by some supporters of a civil state and their Islamist party practicing his religious principles? If the minister D not so for others. This unnecessarily takes a racist employers must also be added to the tasks of the adversaries that snatched the youth revolutions for their behaved as a minster, then he must accept the responsi- inspection unit of the ministry of labor. own interests, the scary struggles that are going on bilities of the ministry, as the decision by the higher hue, when there actually may be none. Moreover, the matter shouldn’t continue to be a today in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria council for the judiciary must be respected, because we Living in a state of uncertainty is to be avoided calculation of plus or minus to reach better annual can reach us in Kuwait if the authority does not watch live in a country of constitutions. as far as possible. Thank you for understanding. profits or less losses in the budget of the company. its behaviors and reconsiders its political alliances. The But if the minister is behaving according to personal With regards, Moreover, it’s clear with the many violations that ministers who belong to political Islam groups are convictions as member of the Salaf movement, then he depend on language or cultural barriers, the ill entangling the country in a maze and unconstitutional should submit his resignation because the decision A reader actions can have its roots in a local company or issues, only because some decisions do not agree with does not agree with his Salaf ideology, as accepting to sleeping sponsor or foreign companies that are their religious and partisan ideologies. be a minister means acceptance of what comes with it Dear Badrya, fronts of irresponsible local entities. Human rights And in order to avoid being accused of attacking and he must apply the law. The minister’s behavior can- should always be there in sunny days or even cold groups and government, we will write what was pub- not be accepted by logic, because ministers have the One has to remember that all the Prophets from ones. Protection from sunburn by using hats or lished in Al-Shahed newspaper on Tuesday, June 25, responsibility of applying the law and the constitution, Adam right to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be onto gloves when working on hot summer days should 2013, which said “Minister of Justice and Minister of and must not act according to their partisan, sectarian all of them) were sent to various nations, races, cul- go further by considering the heart or stomach Awqaf Shareeda Al-Maousherji refused to sign a deci- or tribal affiliations. tures, traditions for one purpose and that is to pro- burns that could harm many dedicated workers. sion of the higher judicial council in which it approved The rejection of the minster to accept a woman in vide guidance in whatever way possible. This of I am glad about the latest strict decisions for the appointment of 62 new deputy prosecutors who the prosecution, despite the approval of the higher judi- course means telling people or denouncing the applying the law on traffic violators, the huge passed a course from the Kuwait Institute for Judicial cial council, is strong evidence that our democracy is sins of people and guiding them to righteousness. inspections in the ministry of education against Studies.” The sources said the reason behind the minis- not actual and credible, because how can a politically ter’s refusal is the presence of 22 female citizens on the ideological minister allow himself to deny the rights of This also includes correcting the mistakes people some irresponsible teachers selling exam papers, list, and he said the appointment of women as deputy women according to the constitution. The problem is make irrespective how minute to simply improve the faster services in the ministry of high education prosecutors, which is a judicial job, is a shame in his not in the rejection of the Salaf minister of women’s the well being of your fellow brothers and sisters over scholarships and attesting graduation certifi- Salaf history and he will not accept this disgrace. rights - the tragedy is that there are no social powers, and mankind as a whole. cates and the fast services of the department of Since when is women’s work in the judicial sector a whether women societies, MPs or liberal movements, There are a few sensitive scenarios which I have nationality and passports in the MoI. These are disgrace in a country whose leadership claims the that deter the minister, because liberal movements are learned about from my interaction with people very positive signs in the country. respect of the constitution, freedom and equality in weak and do not dare raise their voice. Where are the that is worth mentioning, not to create an mutiny front of the law? Are we living in the State of Kuwait or women? Why do they not oust those who stand against or controversy but to rather improve the stereo- the State of Taleban? The question: Does the minister’s their rights... what a shame! — Al-Watan type of people in Kuwait towards a better future. kuwait digest Road Rage Firstly, this topic needs no introduction, as it is a kuwait digest persistent pain that has to be eliminated. I was told Bouncing back that people become so sensitive to criticism about the way they drive or “reverse” in some cases that from the dead A call to the decision maker their reaction becomes abnormal, violent and absolutely idiotic. This can be very much related to a nagging child screaming, slandering and shout- By Thaar Al-Rashidi By Khalid Al-Tarrah ing because his/her favorite toy was either stolen heoretically speaking, the return of 2009 Assembly s election day approaches, we have to realize the all the time. Kuwait has seen many conferences dis- or broken. Are we under so much pressure that is still on and theoretically speaking, the annulling fact that the debate in the political scene over cussing various topics since the Jeddah Convention when we drive carelessly and are told by innocent Tof the 2013 Assembly is on too. The funny paradox Athe single-vote system is not going to stop during the time of the 1990/91 invasion. However, it is citizens (local or expat) that what we are doing is is that the 2009 Assembly refuses to die, like the hero of regardless of the level of participation compared to the clear that they haven’t brought anything of substance wrong, we become angry and feel like taking the an Indian movie. Despite tens of bullets raining on him, last time Kuwaitis headed to the polls. The current polit- that would have put us on track to move forward past poor innocent person’s life. There were couple of he still stands on his feet to rescue his sweetheart from ical debate has signs of leading the country into further our differences. So far, we have failed to reach a level of reports I had received and waived them initially as I the bad guys. In spite of all those bullets, he manages to turmoil and social division, whereas initiatives calling change that controls the ongoing developments on the saw them to be rather trivial but an accumulation even marry her and bring up several children. for accord and reform that have been presented so far - political scene and achieves long-awaited reform. of similar reports necessitates an article of this Theoretically speaking again, if the fight among the while they undoubtedly seek to achieve national inter- These challenges put us facing the need for national opposing factions comes to an end totally after July 27, est - fall short of providing significant change that dialogue featuring all social categories and spectra, and nature. then the next Assembly will be changed by a percent- meets the people’s ambitions. such an initiative has to be adopted by the state. The I have been told by many people that drivers age that could reach 100 percent. But if the fight is not In this regard, it is important that we do not forget final decision is left to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- drive so recklessly that even the slight bit of criti- over, and remains on hold as usual, then the house shall the movements within the ruling family and the activi- Ahmad Al-Sabah, with hope that he personally super- cism especially from expats towards the dangerous return with a change of 50 percent at the most after ties of sheikhs on different levels and with different vises the dialogue or nominates another person or driver turns out to be a fight, argument and assault political settlements behind the scenes as happens after motivations. Of course this does not mean that these department he deems fit for the job. The dialogue that case. Are divers and people in Kuwait under so every parliamentary elections. activities do not serve national interests, but it often could also be followed by a referendum is necessary at much pressure that slight useful criticism for their comes in the shape of a group of goals controlled by this point in which the sharp level of political controver- general ambitions that in some cases would be legiti- sy is increasing along with the number of political blocs own well being and the well being of others mate, while in other cases could be influenced by per- in a way that does not serve the national interest. becomes a threat to drivers such that they have to If the fight among the opposing sonal interests that do not necessarily serve Kuwait’s There are a lot of challenges, extremism, disintegrat- jump out of their vehicles and run after people to factions comes to an end totally present and future. Perhaps the recent statement of ed state departments and regional insurgencies that are slander, scream, shout and assault them? To what after July 27, then the next Sheikh Talal Al-Fahd Al-Sabah in which he claimed that influenced by sectarianism and are unfortunately affect- extend will drivers who are a risk go to dishonor the government’s decision to set up the Ministry of ing Kuwait whether we like to admit it or not. National Assembly will be changed by a themselves, their religion and pick on innocent Youth Affairs was motivated by “fear from the Arab dialogue and a referendum under Amiri supervision expats who they very well know will not fight back percentage that could reach 100 Spring”, supports the argument that some members of could perhaps be the best way to save Kuwait and its as this could lead to further complications? the ruling family are not necessarily on the same page people from falling into further conflict.— Al-Qabas percent. But if the fight is not over, Are drivers a real threat in and out of their vehi- and remains on hold as usual, cles? What is the MoI doing about this especially then the house shall return with a the young teenagers driving sports cars in kuwait digest Salmiya? To what extend will one go to drive his change of 50 percent at the most aimless, unsupported point to an innocent expat after political settlements behind who is in charge of his own and others well being? the scenes as happens after every Not running! Can we be so arrogant and stoop to such levels to parliamentary elections. drive an unessential point across when one very well knows that our driving is a risk. By Dr Aseel Al-Awadhi Why are we under such pressure that sound Theoretically speaking, so that we will not be blamed advice is regarded as a threat, are we that moronic? for what they don’t want us to say, partnership in the n view of some predictions that are no more than cult under the current system and the futile political late Assembly did not relate to the public or political rumors, I recently received many inquiries environment and a regime with a non-elected When are we going to learn, perhaps one day groups, tribes and sects. But it was a partnership that Iwhether I plan running for the upcoming parlia- Cabinet. It is also difficult in view of the lack of a law when the very same happens to us and we are vic- satisfied the fighting parties mostly. One of the mem- mentary elections. Therefore, I would like to confirm for political bodies that would oblige them set timized, that is when I guess we will appreciate the bers of the annulled Assembly said: “The popular gains that I had already made my decision two years ago defined agendas and hold them accountable if they advice and suggestions of others and let me are the children’s allowance, the increase of the housing not to run for any further parliamentary elections for fail to turn them into reality. Our system is mainly remind you that Kuwait is not far from that situa- loan and the cancellation of loans”. No dear, you misun- several reasons including some I will talk about in built on random individual trials and impulses in the tion. derstand the meaning of popular gains. These are not this article and leave others for later ones. absence of laws that would guarantee the integrity To the wonderful drivers we have, do you ever popular gains, but political falls for the members. The My decision to run for elections four years back and transparency of those operating it. This makes it wonder about the advice given to you, are you so real popular gains are the implementation of 1962 con- was based on a presumption that a parliamentary easy for the corrupt to benefit, to question the con- arrogant that you cannot accept sound advice or stitution as it is without anything less, and to work as per seat was not an end itself - it was not a step towards scious of the honest and crack down on them with- apologize if you know you are wrong. Do you ever its articles. making a fortune or personal glory for its occupant. I out proof, all of which would cost any institution its wonder what you have done and realize how idiot- My shock really and frankly speaking, is the speed believed it is an honorable means to find real solu- credibility and legitimacy. ically you had behaved, why does good criticism of implementing the law on ministry of education offi- tions to the problems faced by citizens and the Not running for elections does not mean boy- not be followed with a smile but rather with resent- cials after the scandal of the exams of the high school. whole country and to fulfill our dreams to build a civ- cotting them. I am not for vacuuming our legislative The minister of education has fired those whom he il advanced state that we can pass down to future institution of honest and serious lawmakers and ment and hatred especially if it comes from an believed to be behind leaking exam papers, and this is generations. Therefore, I took a pledge before myself leave it to corrupt ones. I am not for giving up on it expat. Do you think you are more superior to oth- a good thing. But what about those who caused losses and my voters to give a different example of political even if is too difficult to clean. For me, not running in ers after behaving in this irrational manner. Please of millions of dinars at Sabah Al-Salem University City. activity - an example that would meet the people’s the elections means choosing another position to go think again or get some seriously help on anger Why you did not fire them and hold them account- aspirations and respect the ethics of the position on work for and serve Kuwait in, maybe, better ways. My management and proper behavioral strategies, able, but left them in peace. No, hold them account- the one hand and to immediately step aside frankly short parliamentary experience proved that public stop living in a fool’s paradise, it cannot last forever. able and send them to the public prosecutor. Even if and transparently telling citizens whenever I find dif- service can be done in various fields that could be Thank you. they deport the ministry of education inspectors, ficulty achieving it. It is with this in mind that I more important than a parliamentary position. these are minor steps. And those who stole tens of declare not intending to run for the elections. Political work, as a means of reform, is not limited to A reader millions are “nice people”?! —Al-Anbaa Parliamentary work and achievement is very diffi- the parliament. — Al-Jarida WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL Filipina maid content after trials and tests No longer under house arrest

By Sunil Cherian ID, they came to know Eva’s visa had been can- celed. Eva contacted her former employer. “You KUWAIT: Believe it: This maid is getting KD 170 a are not working with us; hence the cancellation,” month, off on Fridays, overtime and job satisfac- was the reply. “When I asked for my passport, tion! Eva, 32, a Filipina housemaid working for a they said I’d have to pay money. I somehow family - with no babies - in Mangaf, swears she wanted to go home. When the amnesty came, I gets peace of mind too. Her work - cook for three went home by using an emergency certificate people and make sure the house is in order from my embassy”. which is usually the case. Three years ago, things Back home things were not pleasant for Eva. were different. Eva came to Kuwait eight years Her 73-year old mother was dying. Worse, her ago through an agency and worked for a family husband - now separated - had lost a good for KD 50 a month. The family paid the agency amount of money by gambling, a show of irre- KD 75. The rest in her words: sponsibility Eva said she detests. “Those 4 “After two years, at the end of my contract, months I went through tests after tests. But it the family, happy with my work, asked me to was a miracle that I could serve my mom. She continue for KD 75. They said they won’t have to Filipina housemaid Eva died in my hands.” Eva came back to Kuwait, this pay anything to the agency. I continued with time on her present employer’s visa. Now after that family, taking care of four kids, grandpar- without salary. Then they gave me my civil ID two years, she is happier than ever. “My present ents and the baba, a widower. After four months, but withheld my passport. “When you change employer is like my mother who has given me I got only KD 50, not KD 75 as promised. I said I your residence, we’ll give you your passport,” the most miraculous event in my life - the pre- wanted to work elsewhere. said the grandma. cious time I got to serve my sick mother. She is The grandma said, “Pay KD 250 to get a When Eva’s present employer asked her, at very motherly. I continue to see my mother in release”. So I worked for another five months random in 2011, to check the validity of her civil her,” Eva said. MOH committee meets on MERS

KUWAIT: Presided by Health Ministry another matter, Sahlawi stressed that undersecretary Dr Khaled Al-Sahlawi, MoH’s legal affairs manager the ministry’s supreme committee for Mahmoud Abdul Hadi has been offi- Jahra officials destroy fighting the MERS coronavirus cially asked to meet with officials recently met, said informed sources, from the TB prevention and treat- noting that the committee discussed ment departments to discuss their 1.9 tons of foodstuff the precautionary measures and disagreements in a way that would By Hanan Al-Saadoun food, olives and pickles, ghee and salads. plans to fight the virus compared to ultimately serve the public. The food items expired in May. those adopted worldwide. He also noted that precautionary KUWAIT: The emergency team of Jahra The public relations department at On another issue, Sahlawi said that measures to stop epidemics or dis- Municipality destroyed 18.9 tons of expired municipality called on the public to coop- the MoH has amended its agreement eases carried by Asian laborers foodstuff at a destruction site off the erate and report any violation to the hot- with the British Great Ormond Street arriving from affected countries Seventh Ring Road. line 139 which works round the clock for hospital, operating through NBK’s needed to be revised in order to The expired imported food items were their service and called upon store and Children Hospital, to change their match the successful measures fol- seized from a store in Sulaibiya, which con- supermarkets owners to abide by munici- experts’ stay to be permanent instead lowed in Kuwait’s medical office in sisted of rice, corn, ready-to-eat Indian pality regulations. of coming on periodic visits. On Cairo. — Al-Jarida Woman killed in Salmi Road crash Arab expat held Morsi supporters, opponents clash with narcotics KUWAIT: A woman was killed in a car crash reported Monday on Salmi Road while investigations are ongoing By Hanan Al-Saadoun to reveal the mystery behind the accident. Police and paramedics rushed to a location early in the morning fol- KUWAIT: Anti-drug officers arrested an Arab expat and lowing a report about a flipped car. The driver was pro- seized 7,500 Tramadol pills after receiving information nounced dead on the scene before criminal investigators about the man’s activities. Immediately, legal formalities were called to carry out examinations. The body was tak- were taken and a work team was formed to collect more en to the forensic department for an autopsy while inves- information. The suspect agreed with an undercover agent tigations are underway to determine the circumstances to buy 100 pills and was arrested at the time of delivery that led to the accident. with the purchase money, which he confessed was the pro- ceeds of selling drugs. He also confessed getting the pills from another expat of the same nationality, who disap- Hotel guest in rape bid peared as soon as he heard about the arrest of this man. A man was arrested inside a Fahaheel hotel after he His house was raided after he escaped and 7,500 pills of attempted to sexually assault a teenager who works there Tramadol was found. The suspect and the drugs were sent as a trainee. According to the police report, the 17-year- to concerned authorities. old summer program trainee was sent to the 28-year-old guest’s room after he called the reception. The young Bangladeshis held man told police that the Gulf national had first offered Security sources revealed that two Bangladeshi expats him money to oblige to his sexual requests, and then were arrested on bribery charges. Sources said that a patrol attempted to rape him when he refused. The suspect was in Mina Abdullah on routine round stopped a vehicle in held at the Fahaheel police station where the teenager which the two were riding, and after checking their IDs, along with his parents headed and pressed attempted they discovered that an absconding report was filed sexual assault charges. against them. After the patrol asked them to accompany them, they offered them KD 100 as a bribe in return of Trio held with weapon, drugs releasing them. But instead of being released, they were Three people were arrested Monday with drugs and KUWAIT: A number of bedoon (stateless) students protested outside the Ministry of Education yesterday to sent to Mina Abdullah police station with a new case of firearms and were also found to be intoxicated during the protest against what they described as the atrocities allegedly committed by the principal of their school in Jahra. bribery. time of arrest. The suspects, a Kuwaiti man, a stateless res- ident and a female citizen, where riding a luxury vehicle that was pulled over for swerving. They were put under arrest after police found out that they were inebriated and discovered multiple drug-related crimes when they checked their criminal records. Police searched their car and found an AK-47, 73 rounds and two plastic bags con- taining marijuana. The three were referred to the authori- ties to face charges.

Labor law violations Police are looking to arrest a Kuwaiti man who accord- ing to his driver hired illegal residents to carry out some manual labor in violation of labor regulations. Ahmadi police had pulled over a bus on the Seventh Ring Road that raised their suspicions when they noticed it carried a number of Asian workers. The officers checked the work- ers’ identities and found out that they all had expired visas and are reported missing by their original employ- ers. Police then questioned the driver who explained that his employer had assigned him to hire workers for KD 5 a day each to collect steel, copper and other metal object so that they can be sold at the scrap market. The detainees were referred to the authorities for further action while orders were given to summon the employer for investigations.

Egyptian hurt in fight An Egyptian man suffered a broken finger during a fight with compatriots that was sparked by the ongoing unrest in their home country. Police rushed to a coffee shop in Farwaniya after receiving emergency calls report- ing a fight between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. The injured man was taken to Farwaniya Hospital for treatment while the oth- ers are in police custody for investigations.

Maid accused of theft A search is on for a domestic worker whose employer accused her of theft after she disappeared at the same time her jewelry vanished. In her statements to Jahra police station officers, the Kuwaiti woman explained that she first discovered that her housemaid was missing, before checking her bedroom and finding that gold jew- elry worth nearly KD 2,000 was also missing. She accused the maid of stealing her jewelry and escaping. Police cir- culated the woman’s information to border checkpoints and Kuwait International Airport to prevent her escape as investigations are ongoing. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 LOCAL Regional situation VIVA offer for students to check grades via SMS KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s newest and roils travel season most advanced mobile telecommuni- cations service provider, yesterday announced its launch of a special service for the Ministry of Education 3 main destinations excluded this year (MOE) offering high school students the opportunity to find out their KUWAIT: It seems that the current regional mind, five Asian destinations (Kuala Lumpur, requests to change routes. The agents also said General Secondary results for this aca- political unrests are playing a major role in Colombo, Bangkok, Thailand and the Maldives) that these changes would surely increase the demic year 2012-2013 by sending changing the summer travel plans of many peo- that used to attract a high percentage of passen- prices of European destinations by 25 percent SMS text message service with the their seat number to ‘50860’ via SMS. ple who decided changing their destinations to gers from Kuwait have regained momentum in and 20 percent for Asian ones including taxes. MOE, or about VIVA’s competitive pro- more expensive ones, mainly European, to avoid booking despite a 15 percent increase in prices Executive of the Broker Aviation Agency Once the minster announce the motions, products and services, you them, said various local travel agents noting that and the lack of promotional offers compared to Jawada Mazlom stressed that the retreat in results readiness it will be sync auto- can visit any of VIVA’s 15 conveniently three of the most favorite annual destinations previous years. They added that some major bookings to certain destinations may be tempo- matically with VIVA data base and the located branches across Kuwait, or vis- for Kuwaitis - Cairo, Istanbul and Beirut - were agencies demanded a larger share of seats in rary depending on the improvement of the situ- service will be ready. it the company’s website out of the race this year. view of overbooking their own seats as a result ation. He added that the current tensions shifted VIVA stated that “VIVA is always www.viva.com.kw. Local travel agents also said that with this in of the growing demand and passengers’ priority to 15 European destinations. —Annahar striving to make information more transparent, engaging, energetic easily accessible to the Kuwaiti com- and fulfilling. VIVA continues to take a munity. We are proud to take part in considerable share of the market by the Ministry of Education’s initiative offering an innovative range of best which offers General Secondary stu- value products, services and content dents the chance to find out their propositions; a state of the art, nation- examination results via SMS. This ini- wide network and world-class service. tiative demonstrates our commitment VIVA offers internet speeds of more and support towards students across than 100 Mbps, due to the implemen- Kuwait especially during this critical tation of the most advanced fourth time in their lives.” generation (4G LTE) network in Kuwait VIVA will continue to explore differ- resulting in superior coverage, per- ent ways of staying closer to the dif- formance and reliability. ferent segments in Kuwait by provid- For more information, visit VIVA at ing them with the best and most one of its 15 branches or on innovative services and products. www.viva.com.kw or any of its author- To find out more about the new ized dealers across Kuwait. CBK finishes second in IBS program KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait finished second in a Branch Manager Program organized by the Institute of Banking Studies in Kuwait, the CBK announced in a statement yes- terday. “We acknowledge in the CBK the importance of offering constant training programs to our staff members as part of our efforts to provide opportunity for national manpower to improve. This improvement reflects positively on the quality of services presented to our clients”, said Acting General Manager of the Human Resources Department Huda Sadiq in the press statement. Dive Team records progress She further said that CBK employees who took part in the training program KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team announced when planted within 20 months. The project team Mahmoud Ashkenani said that the were honored in a special ceremony held making progress in its coral reefs rehabilita- has been underway since 2010 at different most progress was recorded at the Al-Zoor on the occasion for achieving good tion project, recording a growth rate of up locations in Kuwait’s territorial waters, but coral reefs where rehabilitation started in results in the training program. Huda Sadiq to 18 times compared to the coral’s size environmental projects supervisor in the 2011. MoH opens new health office in Washington

WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s Health work of the office to fulfill the needs patients. There must be communica- Minister Dr Mohammed Al-Haifi of Kuwaiti patients undergoing treat- tion and a hotline for the patients.” attended Monday the official opening ment in the US. He shed light on the “The other thing that was ushered ceremony of the new Kuwait Health reasons that led to the re-location of in today was the website to serve our Office in Washington DC which is to the office, such as the need for a new- patients and students and help them handle affairs for patients sent for er building and bigger space to allow understand what to expect in treatment in US facilities. The opening for more services and make it easier America.” Finally, the Minister thanked ceremony was held under the minis- for the Kuwaiti citizens to visit the the Ambassador for his “unlimited ter’s patronage and the patronage of office. support.” For his part, the Ambassador Kuwait’s Ambassador to the US Sheikh He added that this move made it reiterated to KUNA that the Health Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. It easier to divide work in a more con- Office is “an integral part of Kuwait’s was attended by Head of Kuwait venient manner and update systems embassy in Washington, and it per- Health Office Dr Abdullah Al-Wteib. In in the office. It also gave room for forms a massive job, frankly, in taking his speech at the opening ceremony, increasing staff members to respond care of our patients that turn to the Sheikh Salem expressed congratula- to the large number of calls received US for treatment as well as providing tions on the opening of the “wonder- daily from patients and their families. insurance for our students that are ful” office and stressed that the Health He noted that the students’ divi- here, whose number exceeds five Office is “an integral part of the sion in the office has also been updat- thousand.” “So frankly, the responsibil- embassy’s work here in Washington, ed as the office is responsible for the ity [the Health Office] bears is huge, taking care of the patients that are health insurance of 7,728 students and they perform their work as best sent for treatment, as well as our stu- and their families in the US and 219 they can,” he said. dents in America.” others in Canada. He indicated that He affirmed that the expansion of “You have a big responsibility, the office also launched, today, its the Health Office as well as its renova- frankly, and it will grow and get website and twitter account to broad- tions “was necessary” for the tasks and tougher, but you are qualified for it, cast all urgent news such as informa- responsibilities of the office to contin- and I have nothing but appreciation tion during natural disasters, security ue and grow. The Minister will leave for the Health Office,” he remarked. He incidents, and explosions, and to stay Washington DC heading to Canada on thanked Dr Al-Wteib for his leadership in contact with the patients. an official visit, during which he will of the office, and thanked all of the Meanwhile, Health Minister Dr. follow-up on signed agreements. The staff of the office, saying “I want to Mohammed Al-Haifi told KUNA and Minister was also in London on an thank you one by one for your efforts Kuwait Television, “The most impor- official visit in response to an invita- and the responsibility you bear before tant thing in my opinion about this tion from his British counterpart, dur- our patients and our students.” new office is the switchboard.” He ing which he met with top health offi- “Because, again, this is an integral stressed, “we have patients across cials and discussed issues that are of part of the embassy’s work. An impor- many states, and one of the main mutual interest. Dr. Al-Haifi is accom- tant part. A part which involves problems was communication, and panied by Assistant Undersecretary humanitarian work much of the time, the need for phone calls.” for General Health Dr. Qais Al-Duwairi, and the embassy places a great “In the old office, it was difficult to Director of Makki Juma Hospital Dr weight on humanitarian issues,” he add a new line, but now with the new Ahmad Al-Awadhi, Director of Public remarked. For his part, Dr Al-Wteib office, one of the first things they did Relations and Media Faisal Al-Dowsari, thanked the minister and ambassador and that I was pushing them for was and Director of the Minister’s Office for their support in facilitating the communication via phone with the Abdulaziz Al-Tasha. —KUNA

KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait organized a workshop in cooperation with Ernst & Young on the principles of governance. Executives from different NBK departments discussed methods to apply the Central Bank of Kuwait’s instructions in this regard. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 An unmanned Russian Blasting heat keeps hold on US Western states carrier rocket explodes

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ENNISKILLEN: This file picture shows US President Barack Obama (left) holding a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama have ordered the chiefs of their respective security agencies to find a ayw out of the impasse caused by fugitive leaker Edward Snowdenís stay in a Moscow airport. — AFP Nations reject Snowden’s asylum requests Snowden threatens to leak more info

MOSCOW: Several countries yesterday cuted. Maduro said he would consider an el pass to fly to Moscow was “a mistake does not want to damage ties with the “Russia has never extradited anyone, spurned asylum requests from Edward That ruled out a prolonged stay in asylum application. Snowden’s on our part”. “Are we responsible for United States over a man with whom is not extraditing anyone and will not Snowden, the former US spy agency Russia, where a spokesman for request for safety in Ecuador, which getting him to Ecuador? It’s not logi- Putin, a former KGB spy, has little sym- extradite anyone,” Putin’s spokesman, contractor wanted for leaking secrets, President Vladimir Putin said Snowden has sheltered the founder of anti- cal,” he said, adding that Snowden was pathy. At a meeting with Russian Dmitry Peskov, told reporters. Peskov despite an appeal from Venezuela for had withdrawn his request for asylum secrecy group WikiLeaks Julian now Moscow’s problem. Moscow is Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in said Snowden showed no sign of stop- the world to protect him. Snowden, after the Russian leader said he should Assange in its London embassy, has unwilling to send Snowden to the Brunei, US Secretary of State John ping releasing secret US documents who revealed the secret US electronic give up his “anti-American activity”. seemingly ended. US President Barack United States, a move that could make Kerry said he had raised Snowden and added that he had abandoned his surveillance program Prism, has But while country after country denied Obama has made clear to a number of it look weak, and has no extradition “from our point of view” despite the intention of staying in Russia. —Reuters applied for political asylum in more his asylum requests on technical countries that granting him asylum treaty with Washington. But it also affair not being in their domain. than a dozen countries in his search grounds, Venezuela, part of an alliance would carry costs. for safety from the espionage charges of leftist governments in Latin in the United States. America, said it was time to stop berat- MISTAKE The 30-year-old is in legal limbo in ing a man who has “done something Snowden has prepared asylum the transit area of Moscow’s very important for humanity”. “He requests in countries including India, Sheremetyevo airport, unable to fly on deserves the world’s protection,” China, Brazil, Ireland, Austria, Bolivia, to a hoped-for destination in Latin President Nicolas Maduro told Reuters Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, America because he has no legal travel during a visit to Moscow. the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, documents and no Russian visa to “He has a right to protection Poland, Spain, Switzerland and leave the airport. On Monday, he because the United States in its Venezuela, WikiLeaks has said. But sev- broke a nine-day silence since arriving actions is persecuting him...Why are eral countries, including Snowden’s in Moscow from Hong Kong, challeng- they persecuting him? What has he favored Ecuador, said yesterday they ing Washington by saying he was free done? Did he launch a missile and kill could not consider an asylum request to publish more about its programs someone? Did he rig a bomb and kill from Snowden unless he was on their and that he was being illegally perse- someone? No. He is preventing war.” territory. Norway said he was unlikely to get asylum there, and Poland said it would not give a “positive recommen- dation” to any request. Finland, Spain, Ireland and Austria said he had to be in their countries to make a request, while India said “we see no reason” to accept his petition. France said it had not received a request. Officials in Russia, which has made clear it wants Snowden to leave, say an embassy car would be consid- ered foreign territory if a country picked him up - possibly a message to leaders of oil-producing countries in Moscow for talks this week. Snowden’s options have narrowed sharply. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa PARIS: Telecom network cables are pictured in Paris. The European Union was quoted in Britain’s Guardian news- angrily demanded answers from the United States over allegations paper on Monday as saying he could Washington had bugged its offices, the latest spying claim attributed to not consider the asylum request and fugitive leaker Edward Snowden. — AFP that giving Snowden a temporary trav- Turkey’s Jews ‘worried’

ISTANBUL: A Turkish deputy prime minister linked the Community and chief rabbinate said in a joint statement “Jewish diaspora” to recent anti-government unrest and on the community’s website. the country’s Jewish community expressed fears yester- “(Because) Turkish Jewish citizens, as well as other day the comments could make them targets of popular Jewish people living all around the globe, may be affect- anger. Turkey was rocked by violent protests last month ed and pointed (out) as a target of such a generalization, when a small effort to save Gezi Park in central Istanbul we wish to express our concerns and share our appre- from redevelopment mushroomed into a mass demon- hension and worry of the consequences that such per- stration by tens of thousands of people opposed to ceptions can cause.” Turkey’s Jews, most of whom trace what they see as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s their roots here to the 15th Century when their ances- increasingly authoritarian rule. tors found refuge in the Ottoman Empire from the Erdogan, in power for ten years, and other cabinet Spanish Inquisition, have in recent years faced pressure officials have spoken of conspiracies involving “foreign as relations between Israel and Turkey soured. circles”, including an “interest-rate lobby” and interna- Ties between the erstwhile military allies hit a low in tional media organizations engineering the protests to May 2010 when Israeli commandoes killed nine Turkish undermine Turkey’s growing economy and political activists in storming the Mavi Marmara, a ship in a clout. “There are those inside and outside the country Turkish-led convoy seeking to break a naval blockade of who are envious about Turkey growing too much,” Besir the Gaza Strip. Earlier this year, Erdogan called Zionism Atalay, one of four deputy prime ministers, told “a crime against humanity”, prompting objections from reporters on Monday in comments broadcast on the US Secretary of State John Kerry. President Barack Cihan news agency website. “They are all uniting. Obama subsequently orchestrated an Israeli apology for On the one side you have the Jewish diaspora. You the Mavi Marmara raid. have seen the foreign media’s attitude over the Gezi While at least one other member of Erdogan’s ruling Park events, how quickly they bought into it and how party has suggested Jewish involvement in the Gezi quickly and widely they started broadcasting before any protest, the remarks by Atalay, appeared to be the first assessment was made,” he said. The Turkish Jewish such public accusation by a senior member of the ruling Community, which represents most of Turkey’s estimat- AK Party, which traces its roots to a banned Islamist ed 23,000 Jewish faithful, said Atalay’s remarks could movement. On the microblogging site Twitter, the AK lead to reprisals against its members in a mostly Muslim Party mayor of the Turkish capital Ankara, Melih Gokcek, country of 76 million. said on June 16 the Gezi protests were a “a game of the “We are trying to obtain information about the Jewish lobby” and cited a Turkish newspaper report that meaning, the scope and details of Deputy Prime a Washington-based think tank linked to the American Minister Besir Atalay’s statement about the ‘Jewish Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbying group had pre- Diaspora being behind Gezi protests,’” the Turkish Jewish dicted the protests earlier in the year. — Reuters INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Brazil leader readies reforms to defuse social unrest

BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma tional representation voting system-will the same survey. In Sao Paulo, the coun- 38 percent from June 6-7 to June 27-28. from 55 percent to 25 percent during the Rousseff was readying a package of go before lawmakers, a government offi- try’s most populous and wealthiest state, In Rio de Janeiro, Governor Sergio period. And according to the same sur- political reforms on Monday designed to cial said. The reforms are seen as an anti- Governor Geraldo Alckmin of the oppo- Cabral, of the Brazilian Democratic vey, the mayors of Sao Paulo and Rio, the defuse social unrest after weeks of dote to the strong anti-establishment sition Brazilian Social Democratic Party Movement party which is part of country’s two largest cities, also saw protests which have seen her popularity feelings expressed by protesters, ana- (PSDB) lost 14 points from 52 percent to Rousseff’s ruling coalition, lost 30 points their respective approval ratings dip. plummet. More than one million protest- lysts say. Despite the setback, Rousseff, who ers have taken to the streets across Brazil Rousseff wants the reform to be enjoys the staunch support of her men- since early June, targeting the approved by Congress before October, tor and predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Confederations Cup to vent fury at the the deadline for it to be implemented in Silva, still leads polls for the October $15 billion cost of that event and next the 2014 national elections. She has an 2014 presidential polls although she is year’s World Cup, rampant corruption overwhelming majority in Congress but expected to face a run-off. and sub-standard public services. still will need the support of allied par- PSDB Senator Aecio Neves, tipped as Rousseff, who stayed away from ties in the ruling coalition. “Our responsi- Rousseff’s likely opponent in presidential Brazil’s triumph over Spain in Sunday’s bility is to listen to the message (of the elections, said the polls reflected final, has been rocked by the explosion streets),” Rousseff said in her weekly “Brazilians’ dissatisfaction not just with of unrest, which has triggered a near 30- radio address. She reiterated that the the president, but with the political class point slump in her approval ratings in a plebiscite was part of her bid to join with in general, due to the lack of effective matter of weeks. Brazil’s win on Sunday state governors and city mayors in offer- responses.” The government has warned came as police and demonstrators ing “rapid and concrete solutions to that it must prepare for the possibility clashed outside Rio’s Maracana stadium problems of the economy, transport, the demonstrations may continue when before kick-off, with security forces firing health, education and politics.” Pope Francis visits the country July 22-28 tear gas to quell the violence. Rousseff has been jolted by a for a major Catholic youth fest. “The Rousseff meanwhile scheduled a cab- Datafolha poll that found that her demands have nothing to do with the inet meeting on Monday as she pre- approval rating has plummeted from 57 papal visit. They are directed at our gov- pared to forward her political reforms to percent to 30 percent since the start of ernment. So we suppose there won’t be Congress. Rousseff’s proposal for a pop- the protests in early June. The governors major problems,” Cardinal Hummes, the ular plebiscite on political reform of Brazil’s two richest states, Sao Paulo BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff gestures during a press conference emeritus archbishop of Sao Paulo who focused on a review of election cam- and Rio de Janeiro, suffered a similar at Granja do Torto presidential residence, following a cabinet meeting in Brasilia backs the protests, said in a newspaper paign finance and the current propor- sharp drop in popularity, according to on July 1, 2013. — AFP interview. — AFP Army reprises hero role UAE Islamist group ‘had in new Egyptian drama CAIRO: Egypt’s army reprised its role as “The army and the people are one no desire’ to topple govt hero in a new act of the country’s political hand!” they chanted - a refrain heard the drama with a move celebrated by protest- night Mubarak was toppled - as five army ers as a decisive blow against an unpopu- helicopters flying Egyptian flags circled lar president just two and half years after over central Cairo. Spurred on by mass Islah group shares ideas with Brotherhood: Families the military unseated his predecessor. anti-Morsi protests, the army moved in Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted in party dramatic style on Monday by giving the DUBAI: With a small, wealthy local population, the scenes reminiscent of the night Hosni president and his opponents 48 hours to United Arab Emirates seemed immune to both Mubarak was forced from office in 2011, resolve a standoff that has beset his first Islamist militancy and revolts of the Arab Spring. So as hundreds of thousands of people year in office. Failure to meet the people’s when it said it had exposed a “secret organization” rejoiced at an army move they believed demands, the army said, would result in plotting to depose the ruling sheikhs, astonishment heralded the end of President Mohamed the military unveiling and implementing reigned. Many of the so-called UAE94 group belonged Morsi’s rule. Fireworks burst over the its own road map for the country. to Al-Islah, an Islamist association suspected of ties to square that was the theatre for the his- Many analysts doubt the army wants the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement which came toric 2011 uprising. Delighted protesters to move back into an executive role. to power in Egypt last year and advocates Islamic prin- waved flags, sounded horns, beat drums Diplomats say 17 months of interim rule ciples in everything from politics to education. and danced in joy at what was widely fraught with economic and political crises After a trial that began in March, the group, which seen as an army ultimatum to the Islamist was more than enough for the generals. includes lawyers, doctors and academics, were sen- head of state. In its statement on Monday, the army reit- tenced on Tuesday. Eight were sentenced in absentia erated its commitment to the nascent to 15 years in prison, 61 received jail terms between democracy. For Akram Mahmoud, a 50- seven and 10 years, and 25 were acquitted. The case highlighted the UAE’s sensitivities about political dis- year old civil servant, a year of Morsi’s sent in the wake of Arab Spring protests which have presidency had made army rule an attrac- spawned a rise in the power and influence wielded by tive option. “I prefer the army, I want the Islamists. But family members said that the charges army to take power. There is nothing were cooked up by authorities fearful of any call for greater than our armed forces,” he said, change under a Gulf monarchy that bans all forms of clutching an Egyptian flag as he cursed political parties. himself for having voted for Morsi. “They now want to say that (Al-Islah) are demand- He said he had voted for the Muslim ing the same as the Arab Spring, a revolution on pow- Brotherhood politician because he saw er and its authorities ... Al-Islah’s ceiling of demands him as a man who “knew God”. A year lat- was to stop vicious penetration of security in civil life DUBAI: In this file photo, Ahmed Mansour, an Emirati blogger and a human rights activist, er, he had concluded that he was a man ... this really disturbed them,” said Khalid Al-Rukn, talks with his children after he was pardoned by UAE’s president and released from jail in who “traded in religion”. It echoes the whose brother, a prominent rights lawyer, was sen- Dubai. More than 65 suspects accused of plotting an Islamist coup in UAE received prison sen- complaints of Egyptians who also list the tenced to 10 years yesterday. “They are scared that the tences of up to 15 years yesterday, in a mass trial that underscored the widening crackdowns country’s economic crisis and what they effects of the Arab Spring will reach the Emirates. And on perceived Arab Spring-inspired dissent across the entire Gulf Arab region. — AP perceive as a Brotherhood power grab as that is impossible,” said another family member, citing red line. We do not accept any foreign country or sities and ministries. reasons why Morsi must go. The Islamists the generous welfare system most Emiratis enjoy. organization, even if it is similar to ours in our ideolo- “There isn’t a single recording or paper in the state rallying for Morsi see the protests Reuters met the families of the UAE94 twice in recent months to learn more about al-Islah’s activities, gy, to interfere in the policies of the state,” said Rukn, prosecutor or state security’s office that has unequivo- demanding he step down as an assault wearing the traditional Gulf Arab white robe. “I believe cal proof that this group has outside contact or inter- on democracy. If the army is seen as a their motives and why they feel the government, which once sanctioned the creation of the group, is in the ideology, but if the ideology leads to destabiliz- nal activities that confront the founding principles of hero to Morsi’s opponents, Islamists rally- now cracking down on it. The family members said ing society inside the United Arab Emirates or in Gulf the United Arab Emirates and the government and is CAIRO: An Egyptian female opponent of ing outside a mosque in northern Cairo they have had scholarships revoked, jobs denied, are society, then we do not take it.” planning to overthrow it,” Rukn said. In March 2011 a Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi flash- felt differently. sometimes prevented from travelling abroad, have The relatives denied al-Islah received any funding group of Emirati activists and intellectuals signed a es the V-sign for victory during a protest “Today’s statement is blatant interfer- received death and rape threats on social media, and from abroad, saying it only had membership fees. petition which called for granting direct elections to calling for his ouster at Cairo’s landmark ence in the president’s affairs,” said have been shunned by some family and friends Since its board was forced to resign in 2011, al-Islah the Federal National Council, the UAE’s quasi-parlia- Tahrir Square yesterday. — AFP Mohamed Sabry, an Islamist camped out through fear. While they acknowledged Al-Islah has a members have met at each other’s homes and carried ment. Some of the signatories were arrested and later with others at the rally where their lead- similar ideology to the Muslim Brotherhood, they out activities in individual institutions. UAE authorities released, but UAE authorities have been watchful In 2011, as now, the protesters praised ers addressed the crowd late into the denied any organisational links to the Islamist group said they had invested money from Brotherhood since then. Some of those who have signed the peti- the army for responding to the “will of the night. But to political opposition parties and said they seek a dialogue with UAE authorities for membership fees and charity funds to set up commer- tion are among the UAE94. people”, disregarding the Islamists rally- that have struggled to get organized greater freedoms in civil life. cial enterprises and real estate investments held in Rukn insisted the group did not seek the removal ing in smaller numbers across the other since Mubarak was toppled and lost a their own names to conceal their activities from the of the ruling families despite reservations that they side of town in support of the president series of elections to the Brotherhood, the SHEIKH’S COUSIN SENTENCED state. had allowed the UAE, a tourist hub, to be too open to freely elected last year. In Tahrir, there was army’s intervention was a welcome if Al-Islah, which means reform, was set up in 1974 Western influences. “Islamic religion rejects decadence no talk of the tensions that made the imperfect way forward. “They are very with the approval of then UAE Vice-President Sheikh ETHICS in the streets, rejects alcohol, rejects what’s happen- generals the focus of protester fury dur- strongly supported by the public,” said Rashid bin Maktoum as an organization promoting Asked whether his father had met the Muslim ing. For me to go to a mall and find a woman wearing Brotherhood in Egypt, Abdullah, Qassimi’s son, would transparent clothing through which you can see her ing 17 months of military rule punctuated Mohamed Aboulghar, head of the stricter adherence to Islamic values. The group’s ori- only say: “He is in contact with symbols of Islamist underwear, is that really the ethics of the Emirates?” with crises. Instead, there was relief that Egyptian Social Democratic Party. “The gins date back to the 1950s and 1960s when Emiratis sought out religious knowledge either when they movements worldwide.” Those in jail have said they “In the 1980s people used to go to Bangkok and Mursi was on his way out - or so they army will be very reasonable,” he added. have been tortured. UAE officials have dismissed the Thailand for prostitution, now they come here. There believed - thanks to the army initiative “We are optimistic, but not completely travelled abroad, or from Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinian Islamists who had settled in the UAE. The accusation. Authorities also said the group had sought are parties for homosexuals. This is all against Islam,” that did not define his future. optimistic.” — Reuters group’s activities mainly focused on organizing charity to infiltrate state institutions including schools, univer- he said. — Reuters events, Islamic lectures and student competitions. By 1994, the group was dissolved in Dubai but Sheikh Saqr Al-Qassimi, the-then ruler of Ras Al-Khaimah, an Iraq attacks kill 41 emirate to the north, “rejected the dissolution of Al- Jailed Tunisian rapper Islah because he felt it played a role in preserving the youth”, said Rukn. as violence surges Heading Al-Islah is Sultan Al-Qassimi, the late to be freed on appeal sheikh’s nephew. Sultan Al-Qassimi is also a cousin of the current ruler of Ras Al-Khaimah, Sheikh Saud Al- TUNIS: A Tunisian rapper jailed for two years for a speech, a charge rejected by Islamist Prime BAGHDAD: Attacks in north of Baghdad left ing turn the tide of Iraq’s insurgency. No Qassimi. That a member of a ruling family was so pub- song in which he insulted the police will be freed Minister Ali Larayedh. 41 dead yesterday as the UN said more than group immediately claimed responsibility for licly detained was surprising in a region where power- on appeal, to the relief of his supporters who “He was not tried on the basis of his work, or 2,500 were killed in the past three months, Monday’s violence, but Sunni militants linked ful connections are generally seen as protection from hailed yesterday’s ruling as a victory for freedom the freedom of expression, but for inciting hatred highlighting concerns that Iraq is slipping to Al-Qaeda frequently target the Sahwa, the hand of the law. Before his arrest in April 2012, of expression. Ala Yaacoubi, who goes by the rap and calling for the death of police and magis- back into all-out war. The latest violence whom they regard as traitors, and Shiite Qassimi interacted personally with many of the name Weld El 15, was imprisoned on June 13 for trates,” Larayedh said on Monday, in an interview comes as the country grapples with months Muslims, whom they see as apostates. Emirates’ rulers, his son said. a song he wrote called “The Police are Dogs,” and with television channel France 24. In a video of of protests among the Sunni Arab minority, The UN released new figures on Monday “A group of armed men in civilian clothes entered the Tunis court of appeal on Tuesday reduced the the song which was posted on YouTube, the rap- tensions along a swathe of territory in north- which showed that 761 people were killed- the house and took my father. They did not show any jail term to a six-month suspended sentence, per is heard saying: “Police, magistrates, I’m here ern Iraq, and a protracted political deadlock most of them civilians-across the country in official documents, they did not identify themselves,” allowing him to go free. to tell you one thing, you dogs; I’ll kill police that has blocked key legislation. Analysts June, bringing the overall death toll for the Qassimi’s son, Abdullah said. He was then taken to the “It’s a victory for freedom and democracy, for instead of sheep; Give me a gun I’ll shoot them.” Ras al-Khaimah ruler’s palace where he was kept have warned that the stalemate and tensions past three months to 2,518. Figures compiled Weld El 15 who did nothing wrong but made a The decision to release Yaacoubi comes less under what amounted to house arrest for five months could continue until a general election due by AFP, meanwhile, showed the death toll work of art,” attorney Ghazi Mrabet, who used the than a week after three European women with in the grounds, Abdullah said. “He was given a paper singer’s rap name, said following the court’s ver- radical topless protest group Femen walked free next year. from April through June was more than twice which he was asked to sign but he refused to even On Monday, a series of attacks in restive that of the first three months of the year. dict. As the ruling was announced, shouts of joy when their four month jail sentences for baring look at it.” erupted outside of the court of appeal in Tunis their breasts in Tunis were also suspended on areas north of Baghdad left 41 people dead “They (militants) are intent on causing large In September, Qassimi was taken to the UAE capi- as new figures released by the UN mission in numbers of casualties, to embarrass the gov- where friends and supporters of the rapper had appeal. Tunisia’s Islamist-led government has fre- tal Abu Dhabi, but for a month his family had no idea gathered. “Freedom for Weld El 15!” they shout- quently been accused by its critics of seeking to Iraq showed a dramatic surge in violence in ernment, to raise frustrations and possibly where he was and they were not allowed to see him, recent months. Most of the victims died when stoke a return to militias again,” said John ed. curb civil liberties acquired after the popular Abdullah said. Eventually they visited him at a state “After being shaken by a great wave of con- uprising that overthrew former strongman Zine a suicide bomber set off his explosives-rigged Drake, a Britain-based analyst for risk consul- security prosecution office in Abu Dhabi. He looked cern, today’s verdict is a relief for us. It has given El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. In March 2012, vest in the middle of a packed funeral for an tancy AKE Group. “There’s something about dazed, Abdullah said. “When we asked him the size of reassurance,” said Thameur Mekki, who heads the two young graduates, both atheist, were sen- Iraqi soldier being held in a husseiniyah, or this period that’s very familiar. It feels like the place where he was being held, he replied ‘slightly rapper’s support group. The 25-year-old musician tenced to more than seven years for publishing larger than a grave.’ We asked him, ‘Do you see the Shiite religious hall. we’ve gone back several years. was to be freed from the prison in a suburb of the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on sun.’ He said, ‘no’.” The 10:00 pm blast in the town of “I remember saying the same things in capital where he has been held since his convic- Facebook. Muqdadiyah killed 23 people and wounded 2007,” he added, referring to the brutal sectar- tion by the court of first instance last month. The And Amina Sboui, a Tunisian activist with the 27, a police colonel and a medic said. In near- ian war that blighted Iraq in 2006 and 2007, TRIAL FREE AND FAIR, UAE SAYS The UAE Ministry of Justice said “the case was severity of the two-year jail sentence infuriated topless protest group, was arrested in May for by Baquba, capital of Diyala province, another leaving tens of thousands dead. Attacks last his supporters who attended the trial, and clash- painting the word “Femen” on a wall near a ceme- bombing at a cafe in a Shiite neighborhood month targeted a wide cross-section of Iraqi investigated, prosecuted and tried before an inde- pendent judiciary in full compliance with the applica- es with the police broke out afterwards in which tery in the city of Kairouan, in protest against a killed 10 people and wounded 22. Earlier in society-government targets and security some of them were badly beaten. planned gathering of Salafists. She remains in the day, eight former Sunni militiamen were forces were hit by car bombs, mosques were ble procedural, evidentiary and legal standards of the UAE judicial system.” It was committed to “the full Two rappers and a French-Tunisian journalist custody waiting to hear whether she will be pros- kidnapped from their homes north of struck by suicide attackers, anti-Qaeda militia- application of the due process of law in the event of implicated in the violence were later charged ecuted for desecrating a cemetery and indecen- Baghdad in pre-dawn raids by gunmen wear- men were shot dead, and Iraqis watching and suspected threats to national security.” with abusing public officials in the course of duty cy, which carry prison terms of two years and six ing military uniforms before being shot dead, playing football were killed by blasts. Much of But family members said the group posed no and attacks on public morals, and are due to months respectively. Rights activists have written assassination-style. the unrest struck Baghdad, but attacks also threat. “... Al-Islah in the United Arab Emirates is an stand trial in October. The initial jail sentence was an open letter to French President Francois The men were all former fighters in the hit predominantly Sunni Arab cities and idea that is influenced by some thoughts ... most of sharply criticized even by some government offi- Hollande, who is expected in Tunis later this Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal militias towns north and west of the capital, whereas which are from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt,” said cials. Members of the opposition and human week, asking him to raise the most pressing that turned against Al-Qaeda and sided with violence in the mostly-Shiite south and Hassan Mohammed Al-Mansouri, whose father was rights groups called it an attack on freedom of human rights issues during his visit. — AFP the US military from late 2006 onwards, help- Kurdish north was markedly lower. —AFP sentenced to 10 years in jail. “The political system is a INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 A global campaign to reduce the use of nuke US, Russia remove enriched uranium from Vietnam

VIENNA: The United States and Russia have helped Nuclear Research Institute to Russia, where it origi- Grigory Berdennikov said. The UN nuclear agency United States and its allies secured 68 kilograms ship out nearly 16 kilograms of highly enriched ura- nally came from, took place six years ago and there and Canada also provided assistance. In the previous (150 pounds) of highly enriched uranium from the nium from Vietnam as part of a global campaign to was a second delivery this month, Russian envoy such case, the White House said in April that the Czech Republic. reduce the use of nuclear fuel that could also pro- vide material for bombs. The move - making JAPAN’S PLUTONIUM PLANS Vietnam the 11th country from which all highly Obtaining weapons-grade fissile material poses enriched uranium has been removed in the last four the biggest challenge for militant groups, so it must years - was announced during a meeting in Vienna be kept secure both at civilian and military facilities, on how to prevent potential bomb ingredients from experts say. A fairly simple-to-design bomb would falling into the wrong hands. require about 50-60 kg of highly enriched uranium, There are about 1,440 tons of highly enriched the NSGEG said. More sophisticated devices would uranium (HEU) and 500 tons of plutonium stock- need less material, experts say. The United States is piled and in nuclear arms globally, says the Nuclear working with other countries to “implement tech- Security Governance Experts Group (NSGEG) lobby nologies to minimize and eventually eliminate the group. Most of it is under military guard but some civilian use” of HEU, Moniz said. He also said he had for civilian uses is less stringently secured. Analysts asked Japanese officials during the week-long say that radical groups could theoretically build a nuclear security conference in Vienna “of how the crude but deadly nuclear weapon if they had the planning is going to manage plutonium stocks” in money, technical knowledge and materials needed. the country. “With this accomplishment (in Vietnam), we will But Japan’s plans for a major nuclear fuel repro- have removed nearly all highly enriched uranium cessing facility - which would yield plutonium for from Southeast Asia,” US Energy Secretary Ernest the recycling of spent reactor fuel - is “clearly a sover- Moniz said. The material, he said, will be downblend- eign choice in terms of how Japan operates its fuel ed into low-enriched uranium to fuel power reac- cycle”, he said. tors. But, “highly enriched uranium still exists in too In May, the Wall Street Journal said Japan was many places where there are viable alternatives,” preparing to start up the Rokkasho facility over the said Moniz. Refined uranium fuels nuclear energy objections of the US administration, which it said reactors but, if processed further, can also form the fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear fissile core of nuclear bombs. Highly-enriched urani- AN KHE: US veteran doctor Sam Axelrad (right) holds the preserved arm bone of Vietnamese ex-sol- technologies and even weapons in North Asia and um has traditionally been used for research reactors, dier Nguyen Quang Hung (left) at Hung’s home in An Khe town, central highland’s province of Gia the Middle East. Japanese officials have said the plu- making such plants especially sensitive. Lai. Axelrad said on July 1 he had returned the carefully-preserved arm bone of a Viet Cong soldier to tonium would strictly be used for power generation, The first uranium shipment from Vietnam’s Dalat its owner more than forty years after he amputated it during the Vietnam War. — AFP the WSJ added. — Reuters

Palestinian president to visit Beirut amid unrest South Africa’s De BEIRUT: Palestinian president Mahmud the Palestinians are not a card that any (of Abbas is due in Beirut today, where he is Lebanon’s political movements) can use”, said expected to offer the Lebanese authorities Naufal, of Beirut’s Institute for Palestine Klerk hospitalized assurances that the Palestinian refugee camps Studies. The visit comes a week after a fierce will stay clear of the country’s growing Syria- battle pitting radical Sunnis loyal to Sheikh related unrest. During his three-day visit, Ahmad Al-Assir against the Lebanese army Abbas is also expected to discuss the situation raged in the southern city of Sidon, in which Fellow Nobel laureate Mandela lies critically ill of Palestinians who fled Syria for Lebanon, 18 troops were killed. which is already home to some 470,000 Nearby, clashes broke out pitting the army JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Palestinian refugees living in 12 official against Islamist fighters on the edges of Klerk was hospitalized yesterday to receive a pacemaker, as his fel- camps. Palestinian Ain al-Helweh camp, Lebanon’s low Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela lies critically ill. De Klerk Abbas is slated to meet with Lebanese largest. Within hours, the violence there sub- cut short a visit to Europe over the weekend because of Mandela’s President Michel Suleiman soon after his sided thanks to the intervention of Abbas and ailing health, only to fall ill himself. The 77-year-old felt dizzy after arrival mid-afternoon. Abbas will reassure the the chief of the Hamas Islamist group which his return from Europe on Sunday and saw his physician. “The spe- Lebanese authorities “of our firm and unwa- runs the Gaza Strip, Khaled Meshaal. Abbas cialist recommended immediate installation of a pacemaker,” his vering commitment to stability and security in “wants to offer his guarantees to Lebanese spokesman Dave Steward said. “It’s a routine procedure. He will Lebanon, and to the neutrality of the officials over the situation in the camps, after spend the night in hospital.” De Klerk will receive the device, which Palestinian camps” in Lebanon’s unrest, the situation in Sidon was successfully helps the heart beat at a normal rate, in a Cape Town hospital. embassy spokesman Hassan Sheshniyeh said. brought under control”, added Naufal. Meanwhile, 94-year-old Mandela is spending a 25th day of The main topic on Abbas’ agenda for his He also “aims to ensure that attempts by treatment in a Pretoria health facility for a recurring lung infection. Beirut visit is “security”, including that of the some sides to drag (the Palestinians) to inter- He is in a critical but stable condition, the South African president’s Palestinian camps, researcher Michel Naufal vene on Assir’s side are not repeated”, said the office said Monday evening. De Klerk-a one-time hard-liner-dis- said. Abbas will insist “on the principle that researcher. —AFP mantled white-minority rule and authorized the release of Mandela from prison in 1990, a decision that changed the course of South African history. Sometimes heated talks between the two and their factions in the end brought about the first all-race elec- Jordan govt blocks tions in 1994 which propelled Mandela to power. The two men shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. 254 news websites At a prayer meeting in downtown Johannesburg yesterday, organized by the ruling African National Congress, hundreds of supporters gathered to wish Mandela well. “Growing old is not a AMMAN: The Jordanian government said the law applies to it”. curse-it’s a blessing,” ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told CAPE TOWN: This file picture shows South Africa’s President F W de Klerk (left) and yesterday that it had blocked 254 unlicensed The PPD’s decision drew renewed criti- the crowd outside the organization’s headquarters, which was news websites, 16 of them in the previous cism of Jordan from international human adorned with a huge poster of Mandela. “We are not tired of hav- anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela two days, using powers under a 2012 law rights watchdogs, as well as from journalists, ing our old icon. We still want him to live for a long time,” Mantashe shaking hands after historic “talks about talks” between the South African govern- criticized as a threat to freedom of expres- activists and the main opposition group, the told the cheering crowd. ANC chairwoman Baleka Mbete added: ment and the ANC in Cape Town. South Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk sion. Fayez Shawabkeh, head of the Press and Muslim Brotherhood, who saw it as an “We hope that you come out of that hospital. We still want to learn was hospitalized yesterday to receive a pacemaker, as his fellow Nobel peace laureate Publication Department said: “16 local news attempt to impose censorship.— AFP from your example.” — AFP Nelson Mandela lies critically ill. — AFP websites were blocked in the past two days after carefully examining their situation. “This brings the total number of sites the PPD blocked recently to 254, while 111 sites have obtained licences.” On June 3, authorities said they would block near- ly 300 out of 400 local news websites “for failing to obtain the necessary licens- ing,” under last year’s con- troversial legislation. The law gave the gov- ernment powers to regulate “electronic publications,” requiring them to register with the PPD and obtain a licence. It stipulates that the chief editors of news web- sites must be members of the Jordan Press Association, giving the gov- ernment the right to censor content and hold journalists liable for comments posted on webpages. The PPD has insisted “the decision does not seek to restrict freedoms,” and that “the objective is to organize the work of these websites.” “I call on all local news web- sites to correct their status in line with the law. Operating outside the law, which we will continue to apply, will not be in their interest,” Shawabkeh warned. Journalists accuse the government of seeking to control who can publish news. One of the sites blocked in the past two days is 7iber, Arabic for “ink”. Its editor, Lina Ejeilat, told AFP 7iber was an inter- active website that pub- lished reports and features from contributors, and said it should not be covered by the legislation. “We are a blog and defi- nitely not a news website,” she said. Shawabkeh dis- agreed, saying that “7iber is registered at the trade and industry ministry as a news website and posts news and political analyses about Jordan, which means that WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 INTERNATIONAL NSA: America’s ever-expanding digital spy agency

WASHINGTON: Revelations from US allowing the agency virtually free reign William Arkin. The agency’s sprawling intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to snoop on the Soviet Union and to headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, have shed a rare public spotlight on the track communications entering and northeast of Washington, has its own ultra-secret National Security Agency, leaving the United States. exit on the freeway for employees only. which uses super computers and code- Employees at the secrecy-minded The number of NSA workers is also a breaking mathematicians to oversee the agency would say they worked at the secret, though one top official once world’s most powerful electronic spying Defense Department, earning the NSA joked the workforce was somewhere operation. Hollywood directors and nov- nicknames such as “No Such Agency” between 37,000 and a billion. Since the elists have made the CIA famous for its and “Never Say Anything.” While the CIA advent of the Internet and the demand undercover agents in the field, but in the may break into a building to plant a bug, for intelligence on Al-Qaeda after 9/11, digital era, the ohi-tech NSA may repre- the NSA is in charge of information “in the NSA has steadily grown in impor- sent the most far-reaching arm of the motion,” vacuuming up data transiting tance, hiring tens of thousands of con- country’s 16 spy agencies, with its intelli- telecommunication cables or radio tractors, like Snowden, to manage its gence at the center of decision-making waves. Congress imposed more over- extensive operations that require cryp- and military planning, experts say. sight and stricter legal guidelines in the tologists, linguists, electrical engineers The latest leak from Snowden alleges 1970s after a Senate inquiry exposed and other technicians. the NSA has been eavesdropping on US numerous intelligence abuses, including In its early years, the NSA inherited a allies, including the European Union the use of the NSA to spy on Americans program called “Shamrock,” in which the offices in Washington, which would fit in involved in anti-war and other protests. agency intercepted up to 150,000 tele- with the agency’s ability to scoop up any Not only is the NSA in charge of all graph messages a month, with the help conversation or email relevant to “for- manner of “signals intelligence,” the of American companies who agreed to eign targets.” Created after World War II agency’s chief also heads up the mili- the arrangement despite worries about to avoid another Pearl Harbor-style sur- tary’s Cyber Command for digital war- its legality. Now, each day “collection sys- HONG KONG: A television screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a prise attack, the NSA “has transformed fare, and the service plays a vital role in tems at the NSA intercept and store 1.7 former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping US sur- itself into the largest, most covert, and securing computer networks against a billion emails, phone calls and other veillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. — AP potentially most intrusive intelligence cyber attack on the United States. The types of communications,” and the NSA agency ever created,” wrote author NSA’s budget remains classified but it is “sorts a fraction of those in 70 separate puter “cloud” for the NSA. The NSA’s parliament were outraged after revela- James Bamford, whose books helped lift believed to be the largest in the intelli- databases,” according to “Top Secret alleged spying on US allies is not the first tions of an elaborate eavesdropping the lid on the agency’s work. With code- gence community. Funding doubled America.” To store the massive amount of time Washington has been accused of operation carried out by the US, Britain, breaking services in a disorganized jum- since the attacks of September 11, 2011, data, the agency is constructing a vast snooping on friendly governments to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, ble, President Harry Truman set up the according to the book “Top Secret storage center in the Utah desert at a gain an edge in diplomacy and trade. In which they alleged had been used to NSA through a secret directive in 1952, America” by journalists Dana Priest and cost of $2 billion, which will serve a com- 2000-2001, members of the European undermine some European firms. —AFP Top Vatican bank managers quit after monsignor arrest Director-general, deputy resign amid scandal VATICAN CITY: Two top managers of the scan- says Scarano controlled vast amounts of money exchange, apparently in a bid to cover his tracks. dal-plagued Vatican bank have resigned follow- and felt he could act with impunity because of He then deposited the checks into an Italian ing the arrest of a high-ranking cleric with close his connections to the Vatican bank. Only last bank account to pay off the mortgage. ties to the financial institution, in the latest of a Wednesday, two days before the arrests, Pope The case against Scarano came as an embar- string of embarrassments for the Holy See. Francis set up a commission of inquiry into the rassment to Francis, who, since his election in Director Paolo Cipriani and deputy-director Vatican bank, which has been hit by a number of March, has pointedly eschewed many of the Massimo Tulli stepped down three days after the scandals in the past decades. Scarano was for years a trappings of office and sought to stress the Vatican was rocked by the arrest of Monsignor senior accountant for a Vatican department known importance of a simple life of devotion. The IOR, Nunzio Scarano, who is accused of plotting with as APSA, whose official title is the Administration of tarnished by accusations of failing to meet inter- two other people to smuggle 20 million euros the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. national transparency standards intended to into Italy from Switzerland. Ernst von Freyberg, a combat money laundering and tax evasion, is German who earlier this year became president SUSPENDED trying to clean up its image after a long history of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Magistrates have said there is no indication of scandals. Its most notorious incident came in Works of Religion (IOR), will assume the role of so far that the Vatican bank was directly involved 1982 when it was enmeshed in the bankruptcy bank director until a permanent replacement is in the attempt to bring the money into Italy, but of Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano, whose chairman appointed. that the investigation was continuing and more Roberto Calvi was found hanging from London’s In this frame grab, Russian booster rocket carrying three satellites crashes at a The bank has also established a new position searches were under way. Scarano was suspend- Blackfriars Bridge. Russia-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday. — AP of chief risk officer who will be charged with ed from his duties several weeks ago when he In 2010, Rome magistrates investigating improving compliance with financial regulations was placed under investigation by magistrates in money laundering froze 23 million euros ($33 at a bank which has long been a byword for Salerno. million) held by the IOR in an Italian bank. The An unmanned Russian secrecy and lack of transparency. Scarano, 61, In that investigation, his lawyer Silverio Sica IOR said it was transferring its own funds who worked as a senior accountant in the said wealthy friends had donated money to between accounts in Italy and Germany. The carrier rocket explodes Vatican’s financial administration, was arrested Scarano in order for him to build a home for the money was released in June 2011 but the along with an Italian secret service agent and a terminally ill. According to Sica, his client wanted investigation continues. The European anti- ALMATY: An unmanned Russian carrier rock- samples taken at 0600 GMT. Locals said the financial intermediary. According to transcripts to use that money to pay off his mortgage so he money laundering committee, Moneyval, said et exploded yesterday on takeoff at the explosion sounded like thunder and that from a judge’s report, Scarano, who is under two could sell a property in Salerno and use the pro- in a July report that the IOR still had to enact Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, releas- they were not unduly concerned about their separate investigations by Italian magistrates in ceeds to build the care home. Scarano has been more reforms in order to meet international ing tons of highly toxic fuel into the air in the safety. “They asked us to stay indoors and not Rome and Milan, mentioned the director in accused of taking 560,000 euros in cash out of standards against money laundering. The space program’s latest disaster caught on live to open windows,” said Mukhtar Umurzakov, phone conversations tapped by police investiga- his account in the Vatican bank and giving vari- Vatican is due to give Moneyval a progress television. Spectacular footage showed the a 46-year-old driver, who lives in the town of tors. The judge’s report, obtained by Reuters, ous amounts to friends who gave him checks in report this year. — Reuters Proton-M rocket veering off its trajectory just Kyzyl-Orda some 300 kilometers from seconds after its 6:38 am launch, before Baikonur. “They also said you cannot release falling apart in mid-air, erupting into a ball of cattle out to pasture but no one paid atten- Karadzic, Mladic flames and unleashing clouds of noxious tion,” he told AFP. Protesters storm police black smoke. Officials in Kazakhstan said earlier yester- hold key to Hague “It seems something is going wrong,” said day that a cloud of fumes that had formed a Russian television commentator during the over the cosmodrome could move beyond tribunal’s ‘credibility’ HQ in Ukraine over rape live coverage of the launch at the Baikonur the area. Head of the emergencies ministry THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Tribunal for KIEV: Ukraine’s president ordered a top- nor to calm them. “What happened last cosmodrome in the Central Asian state of in Kazakhstan, Vladimir Bozhko, said that ear- the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which saw some of its level inquiry yesterday after a night of vio- night is a wake-up call,” Vitaly Klitschko, the Kazakhstan. “Something is wrong. It seems it ly indications showed the accident was powers transferred to a new body in The Hague, has lence in a small southern town in which world boxing champion-turned-politician, will be a catastrophe,” said the presenter, his caused by a malfunction of a first-stage come under fire for a series of recent acquittals. But people angered by the rape of a local told parliament which interrupted a discus- voice trembling, shortly before the rocket engine. Experts say the disaster is a major analysts say it will be future judgments on Bosnian woman in which they said police were sion on European integration to hear reports exploded. blow to the reputation of the reliable Proton- Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko involved attacked a police headquarters on the overnight unrest. “The impunity of President Vladimir Putin had been M rocket. “Proton is our main workhorse for Mladic that will leave the longest lasting impression of with petrol bombs. The protests, prompted law enforcement authorities has caused a informed of the accident, the Kremlin said in commercial use,” space analyst Vadim the court in the minds of the public. by suspicions one of the policemen people’s rebellion,” Klitschko said. a statement. The rocket, which fell to the Lukashevich said. “Businessmen will now In a rare and ferocious critique, one of the tribunal’s involved was being protected because of President Viktor Yanukovich, who is ground some 2.5 kilometers from the launch start thinking whether they should look for own judges said the recent acquittal of two Croatian family connections, came at an awkward already at odds with the EU over the jailing pad at the cosmodrome that Russia leases another carrier.” generals and three high-profile Serbs set an entirely time for the former Soviet republic. The of his main political opponent former from Kazakhstan, was supposed to take He added that Russia would likely come new legal precedent. Frederik Harhoff sent a letter to European Union is pressing Ukraine to prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, told three Russian Glonass-M navigation satellites under more pressure from Kazakhstan to the president of the court, American Theodor Meron, eradicate corruption and bias in the police security chiefs urgently to investigate the into space. The rocket carried 600 tons of increase rental payments for the cosmod- leaked to the Danish press in June, accusing him of and judiciary to improve its chances of incidents and violence. Authorities kerosene, heptyl and amyl which are highly rome. Prominent Kazakh environmental establishing a legal precedent in the interests of a “mil- signing landmark political and trade deals announced that the regional prosecutor as poisonous components of rocket fuel, said activist Mels Yeleusizov blamed the Russians itary elite of prominent countries,” including Israel and with the bloc in November. well as the heads of the regional and town the head of the Kazakh space agency, Talgat for the disaster. “This is real slovenliness the United States. Several hundred people took to the police had been sacked. Musabayev. The Russian space agency indeed. Accidents happen all the time,” he Harhoff further claimed that Meron had pressured streets in Vradiyevka, 400 km south of the Her face swollen and disfigured by Roskosmos, citing preliminary information, said. “It’s high time to ban this Proton.” other judges to acquit the officers, possibly under capital Kiev, after reports circulated of the bruising, Iryna Krashkova told a television said the accident caused no damage or casu- Though key accomplishments like sending pressure from the US. The acquittals would mean that attack on a 29-year-old shop assistant who channel from her hospital bed that she had alties but the crash site was immediately cor- the first man into space in 1961 have the highest-ranking officers were not automatically said she was beaten and raped by two been grabbed late at night on June 26 as doned off and residents of nearby towns brought Russia’s space program acclaim, it responsible for crimes committed by their subordi- policemen after being grabbed on a street she walked home from a discotheque. She including Baikonur were told to stay indoors has recently suffered several major setbacks, nates, he said, adding wryly, “The American and Israeli and forced into a taxi. Video footage at the was driven into woods and raped by two and keep their windows shut. Heptyl is a notably losing expensive satellites and an military chiefs must be breathing a sigh of relief.” But scene showed police cowering back as policemen, both of whom she knew by highly poisonous component of rocket fuel unmanned supply ship to the International according to Goran Sluiter, professor of international mobs tried to force their way into the main sight, while a taxi driver stood by and did and is known to be more toxic than the Space Station. The most recent disaster law at the University of Amsterdam, the court is still a police building and used metal bars to beat nothing. chemical weapon sarin. Kazakh officials brought to memory a horrific rocket explo- respected source of authority, regardless of its recent in windows and a metal perimeter fence. “They wrenched off my ear rings and played down the immediate danger to peo- sion at the same Baikonur cosmodrome in decisions. Police used what appeared to be pepper- threw me out of the car,” she said. Interior ple, saying a lot of the fuel had burned in the 1960 when a prototype rocket exploded on “Despite the recent debates, the ICTY remains the spray to force them back. Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko, delivering a air. A spokeswoman for the Kazakh space the launch pad and released the highly poi- benchmark of international courts, because it has suc- Part of the building was ablaze in the report on Tuesday after visiting Vradiyevka, agency told AFP that officials had found no sonous rocket fuel in the air dubbed the ceeded where all others have failed,” he said, referring early hours of Tuesday after petrol bombs pledged to carry out a “fast, full and unbi- traces of heptyl and amyl in the air and soil “devil’s venom”. —AFP to the indictment of 161 suspects since 1993 for seri- were thrown. Angry crowds were still ased investigation”. He confirmed that one ous violations of international humanitarian law in the demonstrating in the town in mid-after- policeman and the taxi driver had been former republic, a feat achieved by no other tribunal. noon despite a visit by the regional gover- detained. —Reuters Contacted by AFP, Meron refused to comment on the damning claims made by his fellow judge. Vatican judges approve The court’s chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz ques- tioned whether the president’s continued silence on John Paul for sainthood the issue was helping an already tense situation. “I would personally consider that, in a world where com- VATICAN CITY: The Vatican congregation from Parkinson’s disease after praying for munication is so important, not reacting at all to criti- in charge of examining candidates for the late John Paul II’s “intercession” had no cism was perhaps not the best way to respond,” he said sainthoods has recognized a second mira- medical explanation. The second miracle in an interview with AFP. cle by John Paul II, leaving just a papal sig- reportedly took place on the very day that “Any form of criticism must be seen in a construc- nature necessary to authorize the former John Paul II was beatified in a lavish cere- tive way and become a topic for a debate,” he added. pope’s canonization, Italian news agency mony in St Peter’s Square on May 1, 2011, Without wishing to comment directly on the Harhoff ANSA reported yesterday. The Polish pope and was the healing of a woman from letter, he would only say that the disputes triggered by is likely to be canonized by the end of the Costa Rica. The go-ahead from the Vatican’s the acquittals had “surely not helped” the credibility of year in a ceremony which could take place Congregation for the Causes of Saints must the tribunal. Brammertz has said he “shared the disap- in December, the agency said. Vatican the- be followed by a written decree, signed by pointment” of victims, and had lodged an appeal to ologians in June had attributed a second Pope Francis, to authorize the Polish pon- overturn the May 30 acquittals of two Serbian intelli- miracle to John Paul II, which Vatican tiff’s canonization and announce the date it gence chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who sources had said would “amaze the world”, will take place. For healings to be officially were accused of war crimes. the report said. The long road to sainthood certified as miracles, they must be instanta- Furthermore, the cases of Mladic and Karadzic requires two “confirmed” miracles, the first neous, permanent and with no scientific could not be compared with those of Yugoslavian of which is necessary for beatification, a explanation. John Paul II was hugely popu- army chief Momcilo Perisic, Stanisic and Simatovic, hurdle the Polish pope cleared just six lar through his 27-year papacy, and at his added Brammertz, as they were implicated directly in months after his death in 2005. funeral in 2005, crowds of mourners cried crimes in Bosnia rather than aiding and abetting from VRADIYEVKA: Irina Krashkova, a 29-year-old woman from the town of Vradiyevka, That was the healing of a French nun, “Santo Subito!”-which roughly translates as Belgrade. —AFP Ukraine speaks from a hospital bed. Krashkova says she was driven to the woods, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, whose recovery “Sainthood Now!” raped and savagely beaten by two local policemen, aided by a driver. — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Blasting heat keeps hold on US Western states

SEATTLE: A heat wave scorching the Western sought solace in mountain streams. “People strip while visiting from England, but they said that lightning had ignited fires in several Chipman. United States fueled lightning-sparked fires in are sweating, about to pass out, but they’re made sure to walk indoors through cooled states, including the one in Arizona. “Given By Monday at about 2 pm, Chipman said, it several states and pushed temperatures well still walking around,” said Jordan Edwards, a casinos, venturing outside only to dash from how dry it’s been, it hasn’t taken a lot. Any was 125 degrees (52 C) - and the temperature above normal on Monday in typically cooler college student who was making money sell- one building to the next. “We don’t get any- kind of lightning that’s out there, we’ve need- was still climbing. Next week marks the 100th regions such as Seattle and parts of the Rocky ing bottled water to tourists in Las Vegas, thing like this at home,” said Armstrong, who ed to keep an eye on,” he said. anniversary of the day that Death Valley experi- Mountains. In Arizona, the weather cooled off where an elderly man died over the weekend was in Las Vegas with her husband and chil- enced the hottest temperature - 134 F (57 C) - slightly - to 111 degrees (44 C) on Monday in a house that had no air conditioning. dren to visit family. MELTING TENNIS SHOES ever recorded on Earth, Chipman said. She said from 115 (46 C) the day before. But a wildfire The heat topped 110 degrees (43 C) in the Matt Solum, a meteorologist with the There was an excessive heat warning for about 100 people were expected to attend a that killed 19 firefighters on Sunday raged desert city on Monday, prompting 15 calls to National Weather Service, said Monday Seattle, where the temperature on Monday conference at Death Valley National Park mark- unchecked, engulfing 8,400 acres (3,400 the city’s emergency system for heat-related marked the midpoint of the heat wave, which reached 90 F (32 C), about 16 degrees (9 C) ing the centennial. One attendee came early, hectares) of tinder-dry chaparral and grass- issues, and sending four people to the hospi- he added would begin to dissipate over the above normal for the Pacific Northwest city. Chipman said, just in case the record was bro- lands. In Boise, Idaho, where a ridge of high tal, said Timothy Szymanski, public informa- next few days. California’s Death Valley National Park drew ken again this week. It gets so hot at the park, pressure air pushed thermometers as high as tion officer at Las Vegas Fire and Rescue. “We’re about in the middle of it right now,” hundreds of heat-seeking tourists as tempera- she said, that buildings have backup genera- 107 degrees F (41 C), grazing cattle clustered Pam Armstrong and her family planned to Solum said. “It started late last week and will tures soared to 129 degrees (54 C) over the tors just to make sure the air conditioning can together under trees for shade, and teenagers visit several places along the famed Las Vegas continue through the Fourth of July.” Solum weekend, said public information officer Cheryl keep going during a power outage. —Reuters Experts probe Arizona Colombian rebels blaze; Bodies removed PRESCOTT: The bodies of 19 young expected to worsen the blaze, compli- firefighters killed in America’s dead- cating the task for the some 400 fire- hold rare summit liest wildfire in 80 years were removed fighters now battling it, up from 200 in a cortege of white vans Monday, as on Sunday. “It’s a very difficult situa- experts probed how they perished so tion,” said Arizona land management Rebel groups talk peace, revolution suddenly. The names of the dead men, spokesman Dennis Godfrey. “The high mostly in their 20s, were released a winds are a real danger... It’s even a day after the Yarnell Hill fire tragedy, in greater danger when those winds are BOGOTA: The top commanders of Colombia’s two which all but one of a 20-strong elite shifting directions.” The dead firefight- biggest rebel groups met in secret to discuss ways to team were killed, many in cocoon-like ers’ names were released: 14 of them bolster the nation’s “guerrilla and revolutionary” move- ment, a sign the insurgent groups may be seeking to last-ditch protection shelters. were in their 20s; the youngest was 21, pressure the government for a joint peace effort. In a The blaze, which quadrupled in size the oldest 43. Officials stressed that statement published by both groups on Monday, the overnight, was the most lethal since the nature of the hotshots’ work Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the September 11, 2011 which cost meant they needed to be in the peak FARC, and the National Liberation Army, ELN, said they the lives of 340 firefighters in the ashes of physical fitness. held a rare “summit” inside Colombia during which of the Twin Towers in New York. As a Juliann Ashcraft told the AZ Central their leadership addressed the need for all rebel makeshift memorial grew outside the website that her husband Andrew groups to be involved in peace talks. victims’ home station, including died in the blaze.”They died heroes .. Colombian government and FARC negotiators cur- American flags and 19 water bottles We’ll miss them. rently are holding talks in Havana in the hope of end- ing five decades of war. The two sides have clashed in arranged in a heart shape, Arizona We love them,” said Ashcraft, who recent days as they discuss how to incorporate the governor Jan Brewer ordered flags to learned about the tragedy while FARC, the Andean nation’s biggest rebel movement, be flown at half-staff through watching TV with her four children. into the democratic process. “We have held a summit Wednesday. “The Yarnell fire exploded Officials said the deaths were under in a fraternal environment of unity and camaraderie into a firestorm that overran the local investigation but that the firefighters with the idea of strengthening advances toward a Granite Mountain hotshots,” she said, appeared to have deployed fire shel- united guerrilla and revolutionary movement in our using the name of the elite firefighting ters-last-ditch protection equipment- country,” said the rebel groups’ statement. unit, which typically goes in first to set just before they were engulfed in “Any solution to the internal conflict in our country CALIFORNIA: People crowd Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California amid the heat wave through dialogue must inevitably advance through up initial fire containment lines. flames. gripping the southwest US.— AFP Recalling the 340 who died on 9/11, “It’s a very elite group of people conversations with all Colombian insurgents,” it said. It was signed by FARC chief Timoleon Jimenez, known backed offensive against both groups has severely and civilian targets. He has refused to consider any she added: “Just as we honor the who are highly trained, highly moti- as Timochenko, and ELN leader Nicolas Rodriguez, weakened their numbers in the past decade, halving changes to Colombia’s institutions or economic model memory of the firefighters lost that vated, very fit... We don’t know what known as Gabino. In what appears to be the Marxist the FARC’s fighting force to about 8,000 and whittling as a condition for talks with either rebel group. day as they charged into the burning happened,” Wade Ward, a visibly FARC flexing its political muscles as talks focus on the ELN to less than 3,000. Still, neither are spent and Efforts to rid Colombia of its reputation as one of towers, we will remember the brave shocked Prescott Fire Department what may be the most controversial item on a five- are still able to hit hard at the nation’s economic infra- the most dangerous places to do business have result- men of the Granite Mountain hot- spokesman, told CNN early Monday. point agenda, the joint statement is sure to annoy structure, attacking oil and mining installations as well ed in a rush of investment into areas that were once shots.” Hundreds of residents of Yarnell President Juan Manuel Santos who has called on the as military and civilian targets. off-limits. Just a decade ago, armed rebels roamed President Barack Obama tele- and Peeples Valley were meanwhile rebels to stick to what was agreed upon before talks At the heart of their struggles against the govern- almost unhindered over great swathes of land and phoned Brewer-a Republican with evacuated, officials said, as the blaze began in Cuba. ment is what they see as unfair distribution of land prevented citizens from traveling in many areas for whom he has previously had strained continued to tear through the area. The FARC and the ELN, which have fought each and policies that excessively benefit the rich and for- fear being kidnapped. Both the ELN and the FARC other for control of drug trafficking routes but main- eign interests. More than 100,000 people have been have battled a dozen governments since they were relations-to pledge federal aid to help Figures from the National Fire tained a distance in recent years, discussed issues killed in the conflict and millions displaced. Santos has founded in 1964 and are considered terrorist groups learn from the tragedy, and deal with Protection Association (NFPA) show such as “deep changes to society, the economy, poli- previously said he would consider negotiating peace by the United States and the European Union. The ELN the blaze. “He also expressed his grati- that the Arizona deaths are the worst tics and Colombia’s institutions,” the statement said. It separately with the ELN, the nation’s second biggest was inspired by the Cuban revolution and established tude to the hundreds of first respon- firefighter fatalities from a wildfire did not specify when the meeting took place. A US- rebel group, but only if it stops its attacks on military by radical Catholic priests.— Reuters ders who continue to work around the since 29 died fighting a blaze in Los clock to protect homes and businesses Angeles’s Griffith Park in 1933. Mexico from this deadly blaze,” the White The Yarnell Hill wildfire is the worst House said in a statement. The victims’ of several raging across Arizona and politician bodies were loaded into a fleet of comes two weeks after two people white coroner’s vans Monday for the died and 360 homes burned down in killed in 85 mile (135 km) trip south to Phoenix, the western state of Colorado’s most bloody where a large stars-and-stripes flag bil- destructive blaze ever. Record and lowed in the wind as they arrived, near-record temperatures left much of run-up polls guards standing solemnly by. the US southwest sweltering over the By Monday the raging fire had weekend, with Death Valley in MEXICO CITY: A mayoral ripped through more than 8,000 acres California equaling the hottest ever candidate in a northern (3,200 hectares), up from 2,000 late June temperature in the United Mexican municipality was Sunday, and was zero percent con- States, at 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53 shot dead on Monday, the tained, officials said. High winds were Celsius). —AFP third attack on a politician in less than a week and the lat- est incident in the run-up to Mexico’s first elections since last year’s presidential vote. Ricardo Reyes, a candidate for the leftist Citizen’s Movement party, was run- ning for mayor of San Dimas municipality. He was killed around midday in Tayoltita, a rural mining town in the northwestern state of Durango, a party statement said. “The cowardly killer of comrade Reyes is part of an alarming climate of violence and impunity, which seems to be aimed at inspiring ter- ror ... before the elections next Sunday,” the statement said. The state attorney general could not immediately be reached for comment. Last week, a ruling party candi- date for the state legislature in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state was shot several times and left in critical condition. That came just two days after police found the body of a top leader of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), also in Oaxaca state. It is still unclear who or what groups were behind the three separate attacks. Fourteen Mexican states will vote Sunday in the first major election since Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, took power last year. The PRI, which ruled Mexico with an iron fist for much of the 20th century, was ousted in 2000 by the National Action Party (PAN). The PAN is on track to retain the key electoral bastion of Baja California next month, according to a poll released last week, in a result that could strengthen a fragile cross-party alliance built by Pena Nieto to re-energize the economy. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Pakistan’s hub faces growing extortion menace

KARACHI: One afternoon a stranger traditional time for extortionists to come days after the extortionist paid his visit to linked other political parties to extortion, expanding into new parts of the city. The called at Muhammad Faizanullah’s sta- calling, Karachi traders and shopkeepers Faizanullah’s shop in the bustling Alam although the MQM and other parties in gang, the police say, is linked to the tionery shop in Karachi, Pakistan’s com- are braced for what police say will be a cloth market in December, two men on Karachi repeatedly deny any involvement. Pakistan People’s Party, which ruled mercial capital, and wordlessly handed record year of demands. “The extortion motorbikes stopped him, his father and In the past year, the rules of the game Pakistan until its defeat at May general the man behind the counter two items: a racket has blown out of all proportion uncle as they were driving home from have changed as competing political par- elections. “If some political party says they piece of paper with a phone number with the previous year,” said Ahmed work. One of the men, a gun visible in his ties, militant groups and criminal entre- are not involved in the extortion racket, scrawled on it, and a bullet. “The letter Chinoy, chief of the Citizen Police Liaison waistband, told Faizanullah: “You people preneurs intent on challenging MQM’s they are lying,” said Majyad Aziz contained a demand for 200,000 Pakistani Committee (CPLC), a Karachi body set up don’t seem to understand our polite atti- grip on Karachi have expanded their Balagamwala, a former president of the rupees ($2,000),” Faizanullah, 20, said. “The to help police by providing crime statis- tude, we will have to shoot you.” They extortion rackets to fund ever deadlier Karachi Chamber of Commerce and man said ‘Just call this number and pay tics and technical support. demanded the men’s cellphones and turf wars, police officials say. Industry. the amount, otherwise the bullet is The growing demands reflect the roared away. “We live under constant The number of killings in Karachi Police say Pakistan’s Taliban move- meant for you.’” shifting dynamics of a city of 18 million stress,” Faizanullah said. But he has insist- jumped to more than 2,300 in 2012 from ment, which originated on the northwest- Businesses in Karachi are facing a people where new challengers, including ed that his family refuse to hand over any 1,700 the previous year. More than 1,400 ern frontier with Afghanistan, has also surge in extortion demands from criminal Pakistan’s Taliban movement, are locked cash. Professionals, not just shopkeepers, murders have already been recorded ramped up extortion operations in gangs, forcing many owners to delay new in an increasingly violent, neighbour- are also targets. since the start of this year. The increasing Karachi in the past year and has been investment or to relocate their families to hood-by-neighbourhood battle for con- When Javed Hanif, a doctor, answered death toll has made it easier for gangs to blamed for attacks that have killed escape the sense of insecurity gripping trol. Figures collected by Chinoy’s com- his cellphone in June the caller reeled off coerce people into paying money, dozens of police. In spite of the climate of the urban heart of Pakistan’s economy. mittee show there were more than 630 a list of Hanif’s personal details: his work although there have been few reports of fear, business sentiment is not universally The worsening law and order situation in extortion complaints registered in Karachi in a government hospital, the registration extortion-related killings. “The extortion bleak. Retail is booming in Karachi, sym- Karachi, which generates 25 percent of from January to mid-June, compared to number of his car, and preparations for racket in Karachi has become an industry,” bolized by the opening of a flashy mod- Pakistan’s economic activity, presents one 589 in the whole of last year. Most cases his son’s wedding. The man demanded said senior police officer Niaz Ahmed ern shopping centre called Dolmen Mall of the many challenges new Prime were registered by people who have 500,000 Pakistani rupees. Khosa. “There are around 50 no-go areas Clifton in 2011 which showcases interna- Minister Nawaz Sharif must overcome to refused to pay. in Karachi, which police cannot enter. tional brands such as Debenhams and fulfill promises to set Pakistan on a path Police say the actual number of inci- Hand-grenades Most of the extortion rackets and other Fatburger. But nobody is immune from to faster growth. dents is many times higher since the vast Karachi traders say paying extortion crime are being generated from these an extortionist’s call. Byram D Avari, the An expanding middle class is fuelling majority of extortion demands go unre- has long been part of the cost of doing population pockets.” owner of a prominent hotel chain and a consumer spending but extortion is hurt- ported and victims usually decide to pay. business in Karachi. The police say thugs The police blame much of the increase well-known figure in Karachi, refused to ing confidence among thousands of fami- There is no way to know the sums working for the Muttahida Qaumi in extortion on a criminal gang known as pay the demands of a caller who threat- ly-run firms that form the backbone of involved, but police say payments run Movement (MQM), the dominant political the People’s Aman Committee (PAC), ened to set off hand grenades at his the economy. With the Muslim Holy into tens of millions of dollars annually party in Karachi, are the biggest extortion based in the district of Lyari, one of the hotels and home. But many others dare month of Ramadan due to start in July, a and that 2013 will be a record year. Ten menace in the city. The police have also police no-go areas, and which they say is not say no. —Reuters Taleban attack on NATO suppliers kills 9 in Kabul 4 Nepalese, 1 Briton, Romanian among killed

KABUL: A Taleban truck bomb and gun attack truck, and two or three insurgents then fought for a US-Afghan security deal which would allow killed nine people in the Afghan capital Kabul guards for about 30-40 minutes. All the attackers a “residual” US force to stay in the country with yesterday, destroying the entrance to a NATO were killed. The bomb left a large crater in the legal immunity. NATO commanders, the Afghan supply company’s compound in the latest insur- ground, and reduced walls and a guard post to a government and the Taleban have all vowed to gent assault to shake peace efforts. Four pile of rubble and twisted steel. Police said some fight on at the same time as international efforts Nepalese, one Briton and one Romanian were suicide vests were later detonated by security are made to secure a ceasefire and kickstart a among those killed in the bombing, which fol- forces. The Taleban claimed responsibility for peace process. lowed a series of recent Taleban suicide attacks yesterday’s attack, as pressure grows on the Only hours after the Qatar office opened, a targeting the Supreme Court, the airport and Afghan government to secure a peace deal with Taleban rocket attack killed four Americans on the presidential palace. the rebels before international troops pull out by the largest military base in Afghanistan. Days lat- The US has been pushing for peace talks as the end of 2014. er, a suicide squad targeted the presidential 100,000 NATO combat troops prepare to leave “An important foreign logistic and supply palace and a CIA office in Kabul. US President Afghanistan next year and local security forces facility was attacked, first by an explosive-filled Barack Obama has said he anticipated “a lot of take on the fight against the Islamist extremists. truck which removed all the barriers and fol- bumps in the road” but that a peace settlement ALLAHABAD: Policemen carry an unidentified body recovered from the Ganges river “Four Nepalese guards, one Afghan guard and lowed by devoted mujahideen armed with small with the Taleban was the only way to end vio- in Allahabad yesterday. A total of five unidentified bodies were recovered in flood two Afghan civilians have been killed,” Kabul and heavy weapons entering the base,” the lence in Afghanistan. water as the water level of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers rises in Allahabad. — AFP police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said Taleban said in a statement. A Taleban office that More than 3,300 coalition personnel have after the attack. The British embassy said one opened in the Gulf state of Qatar on June 18 to been killed in the country since 2001, peaking at male British national had also died, giving no start peace talks enraged President Hamid Karzai 711 deaths in 2010, according to the independ- further details, while the Romanian mission said by styling itself as an unofficial embassy for a ent icasualties.org website. Half of the 68,000 US Pakistan PM’s advisor a male civilian contractor was killed and another government-in-exile. troops in Afghanistan will exit by February, and wounded. Karzai broke off bilateral security talks with the newly-trained Afghan army and police are The group provides many NATO bases with the Americans and threatened to boycott any increasingly taking the lead in the battle to sup- meets US, India officials food, water, fuel and other supplies, as well as peace process altogether. The Taleban, who have press the Taleban. maintaining military storage buildings and been fighting a guerrilla war for 12 years, have The Taleban were deposed in a 2001 US-led ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special of his visit due to unexpected develop- accommodation. Its compound is close to UN consistently refused to hold peace talks with the invasion for sheltering Osama bin Laden and Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz met ments in the Syria situation. Aziz also met offices and several NATO bases. Salangi said the Afghan government. But the Pentagon on other Al-Qaeda leaders after the 9/11 attacks on with US Secretary of State John Kerry and with Indian External Affairs Minister Salman attack began with a suicide bomb in a large Monday expressed optimism over negotiations New York and Washington. —AFP Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to review the confidence building Khurshid in Brunei on the sidelines of measures with New Delhi. Aziz after meet- Association of Southeast Asian Nations ing the Indian minister told media that (ASEANS) summit yesterday. During the Sharif and Singh were likely to meet in US sanctions Myanmar meeting with Kerry, bilateral relations and September on the sidelines of the UN matters of mutual interests were discussed, General Assembly. general for dealings it was officially reported here. They also dis- India had expressed its desire to with North Korea cussed Issues relating to Afghanistan. The enhance bilateral relations and wished to meeting was the first high level contact take positive steps for improved ties WASHINGTON: The Obama administration yesterday between Pakistan and United States since between the two countries, he further sanctioned the head of a missile research and develop- assumption of power by Pakistan Muslim added. Sharif also met a delegation of ment facility in Myanmar for ignoring international League Nawaz (PML-N) after May 11 gener- Pakistan India Business Forum earlier this requirements that he stop buying military equipment al elections. week and reiterated his resolve to boost from North Korea. Lieutenant General Thein Htay runs the Moreover, Kerry is expected to visit bilateral trade ties between the two coun- Directorate of Defense Industries, which was sanctioned in Pakistan this month after the cancellation tries. —KUNA July 2012 for buying military equipment and material from North Korea.”Thein Htay has disregarded international requirements to stop purchasing military goods from North Korea,” said US Under Secretary for Terrorism and Environmentalists slam Financial Intelligence David Cohen. “We will continue our efforts, alongside our international partners, to shut down catfight over India’s lions North Korea’s dangerous and destabilizing weapons prolif- eration.” NEW DELHI: Environmentalists yesterday “The lions in Gir are in conflict with the Yesterday’s action prohibits US citizens from engaging slammed an Indian state’s attempt to halt local villagers. Lions are audacious crea- in transactions with Thein Htyay, and freezes assets he the relocation of some of the country’s tures, they will hunt if they have to and might have in the United States. It comes on the heels of endangered lions, saying it was undermin- they do go after livestock. sanctions imposed June 27 on a North Korean bank and ing efforts to boost their dwindling If the cattle is killed, it is a severe loss to other individuals. The US has been ratcheting up the pres- numbers. The country’s top court ruled the locals,” the Trust’s Mayukh Chatterjee sure on North Korea since its latest nuclear test in in April that some of the 411 Asiatic Lions said. He rejected suggestions that the lions February. —Reuters found only in the Gir forests of the western may not withstand the move to a new state of Gujarat must be moved to a wildlife habitat. “Lions are tough and ferocious sanctuary in a neighbouring state. creatures. They adapt very easily to the sur- The Supreme Court’s decision was roundings.” Wright said today’s scientists News applauded by wildlife experts, who said were well equipped to successfully move restricting the lions to just one area put the lions. “For the sake of the future of the in brief them at risk of inbreeding, disease and Asiatic lions, they must be relocated,” she extinction. But the Gujarat government on added. —AFP Pakistan Hajj Monday petitioned the Supreme Court, quota reduced seeking a review of its judgement, saying ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is expected to incur a loss of that moving the wild cats would prove “dis- $10 million after decreasing of Hajj quota by 20 per- astrous” for the species. “Any external inter- cent by the Saudi government. The Joint Secretary vention in a Lion group by removing some Ministry of Religious Affairs, Shehzad Ahmad, said in a of them may result in social disturbance,” statement yesterday applications of 85,000 pilgrims the state said in its petition. The petition had been accepted and there would be a loss if 18,000 also said that previous experience had were not allowed to perform the annual religious ritu- PATNA: The bodies of slain Indian policemen lie in a vechile after a Maoist attack in a showed that “top carnivores had never als. Advance payments had been made for the hous- jungle area of Kathikund where a police patrol was ambushed. —AFP been successfully relocated”. ing of pilgrims and the issue of returning funds had Environmentalists rejected the argu- been raised with Saudi government, he further added. ments. They said the lions were being The hajj Quota was decreased by 20 percent for all Maoist rebels kill five caught in a political tussle between Muslim countries due to the ongoing expansion proj- Gujarat, where the cats are a source of ect of the Masjid-e-Haram. policemen in India pride, and neighbouring Madhya Pradesh state which says it has the expertise to Polio-free Pakistan PATNA: A group of more than 50 Maoist returning from a security meeting nearby. manage them. “It is important to have a The Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan, Muhammad guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in east- Last month about 100 of the leftwing guer- second or third independent home for the Nawaz Sharif, has assured full cooperation of his gov- ern India yesterday, killing the district rillas opened fire on a passenger train in long-time survival of the animals,” said ernment to with the Non-Governmental Organization police chief and four others, officials said. the adjacent state of Bihar, killing one Belinda Wright, founder of the Wildlife “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” in the fight to The rebels opened fire on vehicles carrying police officer and two passengers. In May Protection Society of India. “It should have eliminate polio from Pakistan. Bill Gates, the 57-year- police Superintendent Amarjeet Balihar in they killed 24 people including the top nothing to do with politics. No animal old businessman-turned-philanthropist and head of the Dumka district of Jharkhand, an impov- local leaders of the country’s governing belongs to any state,” Wright said. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, telephoned Nawaz erished and densely forested state home to Congress party during an ambush in the The cats are a subspecies of lion which Sharif and said that his foundation would continue to a large Maoist movement. “Five policemen central state of Chhattisgarh. are slightly smaller than their African AHMEDABAD: Asha Foundation animal extend its support and assistance to Pakistan for com- including police Superintendent Amarjeet The revolutionaries, described by the cousins and have a fold of skin along their shelter and hospital founder, Harmesh plete eradication of polio from the country. Sharif told Balihar were killed in the Maoist attack,” government as the country’s most serious bellies. They are a major attraction for Bhatt poses with three Jungle Lynx kit- Bill Gates that his government was committed to a Rajeev Kumar, the director general of internal security threat, have waged a tourists to Gujarat. Their numbers have tens being nurtured at the shelter on the polio-free Pakistan. Bill Gates had claimed that vacci- police, said from the state capital Ranchi. decades-long battle across central and slowly increased thanks to decades of con- outskirts of Ahmedabad yesterday. The nation campaigns could eliminate polio within six “Two persons are seriously injured,” he eastern states to overthrow local and servation work in the state. But the Wildlife Jungle Lynx kittens, who are native to years from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria where it added. national authorities. The rebels say they are Trust of India said their habitat was under Central and Southeast Asia, were rescued was still endemic. More than 50 Maoists were involved in fighting for the rights of the poor and land- threat in Gir from encroaching villages. from Dabhoda village of Gujarat. — AFP the attack on the police convoy which was less farmers in India. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Kerry raises Snowden issue FM at ASEAN N Korea under fire at Asia security forum BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei: US nations to consider asylum. President from provocative action,” South Korean China for talks on a set of rules governing as merely a gambit to deflate pressure support for the rebel movement. Kerry Secretary of State John Kerry said he Vladimir Putin has said that Snowden is Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se told conduct at sea meant to prevent actions while in Brunei. On the final day of a said “we both agree that the conference raised the sensitive issue of secrets leaker welcome to stay in Russia but that he reporters on the sidelines. that could lead to conflict. series of related diplomatic events in the should happen sooner rather than later”. Edward Snowden in talks with his coun- must “stop his work aimed at inflicting “So they have to listen to these mes- China claims virtually all of the South sultanate, Kerry said he and his Russian However, despite some hopes that terpart from Russia, where the US fugi- damage on our American partners-no sages very seriously.” However, North China Sea and has long resisted moves to counterpart, Sergei Lavrov agreed on the the conference could be held this month, tive is in diplomatic limbo. But Kerry told matter how strange this may sound com- Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-Chun talk with ASEAN as a bloc, reluctant to need to hold an elusive international Kerry said it was unlikely until after reporters after an Asia security summit in ing from me”. fired back in the discussions, calling the cede any ground on its claims. On conference to end Syria’s civil war. Russia August. Their meeting took place under a Brunei that his discussions with Sergei Meanwhile, North Korea came under United States the “true provocateur” and Sunday in Brunei it agreed to begin dis- has backed Syrian President Bashar Al- cloud spawned by the sensational case Lavrov failed to yield any progress on an fire at an Asia-Pacific security forum yes- saying it would retain its nuclear cussing a code of conduct. But a senior Assad in the more than two-year conflict of Snowden, who has been in limbo for a impasse that has further strained testy terday as foreign ministers called on the weapons program until Washington US government official, speaking on con- that has claimed more than 100,000 lives, week in a Moscow airport in a bizarre, US-Russian ties. Kerry said the issue was defiant communist state to end its drops its “hostile” stance. dition of anonymity, dismissed the move while Washington has said it is boosting globe-circling asylum bid. — Agencies more a matter for justice officials. nuclear weapons program. In a flurry of “Unless the US removes all its anti- “So it is fair to say that we didn’t dis- diplomatic activity, the gathering in North policies and threats against us, any cuss any substantive progress but I cer- Brunei also saw Beijing pressured over problems including the nuclear issues on tainly raised from our point of view how its South China Sea claims while the top the (Korean) peninsula will not be solved,” North Korean official Choe Myung-Nam told reporters, citing Pak. A day earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks with his counter- parts from China, Japan and South Korea in Brunei that the four nations were unit- ed on the issue. China is the main ally of North Korea, which defiantly carried out its third nuclear weapons test in February and threatened to attack the United States, in language shrill even by the standards of the reclusive communist state. A joint statement released hours after the forum ended avoided tough lan- guage but “encouraged” Pyongyang to abide by UN resolutions, and called for denuclearisation and peaceful dialogue. Diplomats also urged a resumption of long-stalled six-country talks hosted by BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: US Secretary of State John Kerry bids farewell to China aimed at negotiating the North’s onlookers as he boards a plane bound for Washington in Brunei. — AFP disarmament. The issue of the South China Sea also simmered on after the it fits within the context of our relation- US and Russian envoys met to discuss Philippines at the weekend accused ship...,” he said. “It wasn’t discussed in a the thorny issues of Syria and US fugitive Beijing of a military build-up to enforce way that he would be able to take any Edward Snowden. Participants in the its claims to nearly all of the disputed action on it, though I hope he will com- ASEAN Regional Forum, which include 26 waterway. municate the things I expressed.” The countries across the Asia-Pacific and the Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert talks were the highest-level contact European Union, sent a “very strong mes- Del Rosario told reporters that one for- between the two nations since Snowden, sage” to North Korea, Seoul’s envoy said. eign minister after another at Tuesday’s event stressed the need for negotiations a former government contractor who “Most ministers at the meeting on avoiding conflict at sea. The 10-mem- leaked explosive details of US surveil- expressed a very strong message to the ber Association of Southeast Asian lance, flew from Hong Kong to Moscow North Korean delegation that they Nations has been pushing a reluctant over a week ago. He has asked 21 should denuclearise, they should refrain Five dead, dozens hurt in Indonesia quake

LAMPAHAN, Indonesia: A powerful and roads badly damaged and blocked Ema Suryani, a doctor at a health clinic earthquake in Indonesia’s Aceh by landslips. Five people had so far been in Lampahan city in the district, told AFP. province flattened buildings and confirmed dead in the quake, Fauzi, an “We have received around 50 people sparked landslides yesterday, killing at official from the local disaster agency, with injuries sustained when the walls of least five people and injuring dozens in told AFP late Tuesday. their houses collapsed,” added the doc- a region devastated by the quake-trig- In Suka Makmur village a landslide tor. gered tsunami of 2004. engulfed a coffee plantation, killing one “There are around 30 people serious- The 6.1-magnitude quake struck man, said the official who uses one ly injured, some with head injuries. The inland at a depth of just 10 kilometres name. “A man was working at a coffee rest have only light injuries like minor cuts and grazes.” Injured people had been transported from several affected villages in two trucks, she said. Around 40 houses were damaged by the quake, including some which were flattened, said disaster agency official Fauzi. Most of the damaged houses were in the Wih Pesam area of the district, he added. People ran outside in panic in Banda Aceh as the quake shook houses, and in Medan city to the south of the province on Sumatra island. “The quake was felt strongly for around 15 seconds, from Bener Meriah to Banda Aceh. People panicked and rushed out of their homes,” national dis- aster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, is regularly hit by quakes. In 2004 a massive tremor sparked a tsuna- mi that killed 170,000 people in the LAMPAHAN: Acehnese earthquake survivors are brought outside the hos- province and tens of thousands more in pital at Lampahan village in Aceh province yesterday. A powerful earth- countries around the Indian Ocean. quake in Indonesia’s Aceh province flattened buildings and sparked land- In April last year an 8.6-magnitude slides yesterday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens in a region quake struck 431 kilometres off Banda devastated by the quake-triggered tsunami of 2004. — AFP Aceh, prompting an Indian Ocean-wide (6.2 miles) in the mountainous Bener plantation with his wife when a land- tsunami alert. Five people died and sev- Meriah district in the heart of Aceh, the slide caused by the quake struck,” he en were injured in Aceh in the quake US Geological Survey said. It destroyed said. “His body was found under a pile and following aftershocks. In September houses in the district, some 320 kilome- of earth soon afterwards,” he said, 2009 a major earthquake near Padang tres (200 miles) from the provincial capi- adding that his wife and another city on Sumatra killed more than 1,000 tal Banda Aceh, and triggered several woman were missing at the site. people. landslides. Four other people died in hospitals in Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Police and troops were deployed to the district from injuries sustained in the Fire” where tectonic plates collide, caus- lead rescue efforts, as pictures showed quake, he said. One of the fatalities was ing frequent seismic and volcanic activi- the walls of houses reduced to rubble a child who died when a wall collapsed, ty. — AFP Pressure on Taiwan to keep radio broadcasts into China TAIPEI: Several US legislators have President Ma Ying-jeou. Ma initiat- president of the network said. urged Taiwan to stop tearing down ed the island’s ongoing detente RTI insisted that despite the shortwave radio transmission tow- with China after being elected in demolition of the ageing facilities, ers which have broadcast uncen- 2008. its shortwave broadcasts on behalf sored news to China since the “These towers are powerful of clients which also include Radio 1960s. The legislators have raised strategic assets that can broadcast Free Asia of the United States fears the move could reduce the uncensored news and information would continue. range of the broadcasts by the to all of mainland China,” the letter “All the programs transmitted state-funded Radio Taiwan said. “Any demolitions that would through the two stations will be International(RTI). On Monday RTI reduce the capability to transmit moved to other stations which began work to demolish towers at into China should be halted until have updated facilities and greater two radio stations in the southern alternatives can be fully explored.” transmission power,” an RTI public- cities of Tainan and Huwei. The move also raised eyebrows at ity manager said. The Tainan station, once one of the Sound of Hope Radio Network, She said the demolition, aimed the world’s biggest, has 20 signal a San Francisco-headquartered at reducing the number of RTI transmission towers which are radio station which has entrusted transmission stations to six, was in each 75 metres (247 feet) high. “I RTI to broadcast Chinese-language accordance with a resolution have been informed that Senators shortwave programs to the main- approved by parliament in 2010 to James Inhofe and Bob Corker are land 17 hours a day. “Shortwave enhance RTI’s efficiency. Taiwan concerned about plans that may radio programs are critical to the and China have remained techni- reduce pro-democracy shortwave people in mainland China, where cally at war since their split in 1949 broadcasts into mainland China by half of its 1.3 billion population at the end of a civil war, but ten- Radio Taiwan International,” US don’t know how to use keyboards. sions have eased markedly since Representative Dana Rohrabacher Many of them rely on shortwave Ma came to power. He was reelect- said in a letter to Taiwan’s radio to find the truth,” Allen Zeng, ed in January 2012. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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f you are worried about the Western middle class - and we all should be - you may have started to have some Idoubts about the virtues of flexible labor markets. In theory, flexible labor markets should make our economies more productive, and all of us richer, by making it easier for people to do the work the economy needs and to stop doing the work it doesn’t. In practice, though, some econ- omists who once championed flexible labor markets with- out reservation, like Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have begun to A racially challenging week in America have second thoughts. Acemoglu doesn’t doubt the posi- tive economic effects of flexible labor markets, but he has By Suzanne Gamboa age is changing rapidly, we as a nation would change its mind with Brown vs. Carolina state conference. begun to be concerned about their political and distribu- tional consequences. They might help the economy grow have hit racial fatigue,” said Maria Teresa Board of Education, which declared racial Gail Christopher, who has been lead- overall, but they may also be contributing to the hollow- ake a glance at the anniversary cal- Kumar, co-founder of Voto Latino. “We no segregation in public schools unconstitu- ing a five-year racial healing project ing out of the middle class by weakening its political bar- endar this year and it’s clear that in longer want to discuss race, and we like tional. While the Supreme Court didn’t sponsored by the W K Kellogg gaining power. TAmerica, racial progress comes in to believe that we’re above it. We are ban the use of race in university admis- Foundation, attributed the cyclical set- That’s why a recent paper by Joao Paulo Pessoa and fits and starts. The Emancipation not.” Briana Bacon, 20, of Philadelphia, sions on Monday, it returned the case to backs to the view that the country has John Van Reenen, both of the Center for Economic Proclamation declared slaves to be free put it more bluntly. “I think they’re shut- a lower court and set a higher standard yet to deal with its fundamental belief in Performance at the London School of Economics, makes 150 years ago. Within a decade, a trio of ting down opportunities for minorities, for the University of Texas to meet before a racial hierarchy. “We are being called on such fascinating reading. Van Reenen and Pessoa set out amendments to the Constitution made and I think minorities are in a (expletive) using race in deciding who may enroll. In as a country to do serious work on this,” to unravel the two big mysteries about Britain’s economic them citizens. Over the next century, the place to begin with,” said Bacon, who is two other decisions that same day, the Christopher said. While the court’s rul- performance over the past five years. The backdrop to Supreme Court and Jim Crow segrega- black and recently enlisted in the court made it harder for employees to ings came down, Kellogg announced both is the devastation that Britain, with its oversize bank- tion in the South snatched their rights National Guard. sue businesses for retaliation and dis- $3.8 million in grants to community ing sector, suffered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. away, Medgar Evers was murdered trying Civil rights leaders are unwilling to say crimination. groups in Mississippi that work to “The big story in the UK is that the economy has shrunk by to get them back, and Martin Luther King that things today are as bad as they were A day later the high court stopped improve life outcomes for young men of 2.5 percent since the pre-crisis period,” Van Reenen told Jr’s populist protests yielded laws that in King’s heyday. But they acknowledge enforcement of a provision of the Voting color. Those monies come on the heels of me. “That’s the longest depressed economy in this country restored them before King, too, was that there are some uncanny parallels at Rights Act of 1965 that has kept states the state’s commemoration of Evers, the for more than a hundred years.” killed. Britain’s dismal economic performance certainly helps Less than a year ago, the nation re- to explain the grimness of British politics at the moment, elected its first black president - a step and the growing appeal of the nationalist fringe. But the widely considered the culmination of all story becomes more mysterious when you start investigat- this labor. President Barack Obama, the ing what is happening inside the country’s shrunken econ- omy. Given the prolonged recession, economists would product of integration with an Ivy normally predict that unemployment would soar. It has League education, was sent to the White risen, but, Van Reenen said, “not nearly as much as you House by a diverse American electorate, would expect, and not as much as in, for example, the and presides over a country where peo- United States,” where the economic contraction has not ple are free to live, work, play, go to been as prolonged. So, when it comes to jobs, Britain has school and marry regardless of race, surprised on the upside. The second riddle is a less cheer- things that by no means were guaran- ful one: While employment has held up relatively well, giv- teed 50 years ago. en the country’s poor economic performance, productivity Yet in this week alone, a series of has plunged, an unanticipated departure from the pre-cri- events illustrated just how fragile that sis trend line. “We are 12 percent lower in productivity progress really is. The Supreme Court today than we would expect,” Van Reenen said. “That is the chipped away at that King-inspired vot- puzzle. Why has this happened? Have we gotten more stu- ing rights law and others on job discrimi- pid?” nation and affirmative action, then punt- Van Reenen and Pessoa propose a single answer to ed them to Congress to fix - a very divid- these two mysteries: flexible labor markets. In contrast ed Congress that has accomplished little with previous economic downturns, the British economy since President Barack Obama first took today has a much less sheltered workforce. The result is office and which includes GOP conserva- what classical economic theory would have predicted: The tives who want to avoid voting on job market has adjusted more successfully to the shrinking whether those who came to the US ille- economy than it did during previous downturns. But that good news comes at a price: The flexibility in the British gally should become citizens. labor market has been in wages, which have shrunk even This and other events percolating in more than the economy as a whole. “In this recession, American culture - George Zimmerman’s unions are much weaker than they were in the 1980s, and trial in Florida for shooting to death black we’ve had welfare to work reform, so there’s a lot more teenager Trayvon Martin, and celebrity pressure on people to find jobs,” Van Reenen said. “The chef Paula Deen’s career meltdown labor market is much more flexible, which means wages because of her past use of the N-word - fall. That is bad news for the people whose wages fall, of amounted to a gut punch for many, course, but the positive side is that employment has prompting questions about what exactly stayed up. Some pay is better than no pay, at least in a is going on. “It’s so troubling for me, who This June 25, 2013 photo shows representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund standing outside the Supreme recession.” has sort of bridged many, many years of Court in Washington awaiting a decision in Shelby County v Holder, a voting rights case in Alabama.— AP It is easy to understand how Van Reenen’s labor market social change, and to not see an end to theory explains the combination of falling real wages and this, I find it really nauseating,” said Suzy play. Marc Morial, president of the and local governments from implement- state’s first NAACP field secretary, who relatively strong employment at a time of economic Post, 80, of Louisville, Kentucky, a white National Urban League, said that in the ing racially discriminatory election and was shot to death on June 12, 1963. slump. What’s less obvious is how weak productivity fits woman who has worked for civil rights first four months of this year, restrictive voting laws and rules. Between those rul- In an interview before that grim into the story. He believes that, too, can be explained by causes since the 1950s and is now a voting bills were introduced in more ings, civil rights activists stood together anniversary, Evers’ widow, Myrlie Evers- flexible labor markets. Workers have become cheaper in member of the state’s Human Relations than half the states. “I don’t question across town and announced plans to use Williams, told AP how she thought her Britain and, despite low central bank interest rates, capital Commission. whether Dr King’s dream remains viable. the 50th anniversary of the August 1963 husband would perceive the times he is still expensive for many firms, or hard to come by. As a Those sentiments were echoed last What one questions is whether the March on Washington to renew the push did not live to see. “I believe he would result, Van Reenen argues, “instead of investing in Tuesday by a visibly shaken collection of nation has the commitment to freedom, for racial equality. The times, they said, look at the landscape of this country and machines, firms are keeping on workers.” That means each hour of human work is less productive. black and Hispanic members of Congress justice and equality of opportunity for all require it. “We have a black president and realize what so many of us have said: We Van Reenen and Pessoa’s paper is thought-provoking who bemoaned the fresh blows to the on a broad basis. What we currently see a black attorney general, but that is not have made progress but there’s still so because it connects the two British economic phenomena laws that helped to put many of them in in the country is a tension,” Morial said. achieving Dr King’s dream,” said the Rev much to be done, and if we don’t guard that are inspiring a great deal of hand-wringing - falling office. “The issue of race, slavery - it’s our Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist. “That the progress we’ve made, that too will productivity and falling real wages - with the one bright original sin as a nation,” said Rep John recalled that King’s widow, the late may be a means to achieving it. slip away,” she said. One thing Evers did spot in the British economy: the relatively low increase in Lewis, who as a student activist was Coretta Scott King, once observed that Achievement is when we have one envision, his widow said, was the elec- unemployment. As in Germany, where job cuts were severely, and repeatedly, beaten in the freedom is never really won in full; every nation with equal protection under the tion of a black president. That president, avoided thanks to more formal deals to decrease the hours voting rights struggle of the 1960s. “It’s generation must win it anew. “The times law and equal opportunity.” Obama, said last Tuesday he was “deeply and pay of a wider group of workers, Britain’s flexible labor going to take years and maybe a genera- we are living in remind us that Mrs. King In some parts of the country, 1960s- disappointed” by the Supreme Court’s markets allowed a lot of people to weather the recession tion before we end it. It’s a long, ongoing was right,” Jealous said. The United States style civil disobedience is already under- voting rights decision, but it would not by pricing themselves into a shrunken economy.—Reuters struggle. It’s the struggle of more than a has seen backlash against black way. “Moral Monday” protests at North stop his efforts to end discrimination. A lifetime.” Americans before. After the passage of Carolina’s General Assembly have result- day later, he boarded Air Force One and Where strides toward equality once the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to ed in nearly 600 arrests since late April. took off. For Africa. All articles appearing on these were met by fire hoses or head-cracking the Constitution, which banned slavery, The protests began over healthcare He surfaced in Senegal on Thursday pages are the personal opinion of blows from billy club-wielding police, extended blacks’ equal protection as citi- access but have grown to include and visited Goree Island, a transit point now they can elicit racist commentary on zens and granted them the right to vote, demonstrations over unemployment for the ships that brought African slaves the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Twitter, such as the hateful barrage over respectively, blacks experienced fairly benefit reductions and proposals to to America. He said the Supreme Court responsibility for views expressed the national anthem being sung by rapid gains in political and economic toughen voter identification require- “made a mistake” in gutting the Voting therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Sebastien De La Cruz, a young Mexican- power. Southern states responded by ments and other rules for voting. “It Rights Act, and he looks forward to seek- ers to voice their opinions. Please American, during the National Basketball passing laws that allowed them to cir- seems as though every time that we start ing “potential remedies” that preserve Association finals. Or they generate odd- cumvent the 15th Amendment. making strides the forces that seek to everyone’s ability to vote. “It was the cor- send submissions via email to: opin- ly placed outrage, such as criticisms of a Enter the Supreme Court in 1896 with dismantle any equality or any justice nerstone and the culmination of years of [email protected] or via snail Cheerios commercial that depicted a its Plessy vs Ferguson ruling, which efforts, they rise up and they do all that struggle - blood, sweat, tears - and in mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. white mother, a black father and their declared segregation legal if accommo- they can to undermine any progress some cases, deaths,” Obama said. “I might The editor reserves the right to edit biracial child. dations for blacks are “separate but that’s made,” said the Rev Anthony T not be here as president had it not been “What I believe is happening is that equal” to those of whites. Fifty-eight Spearman, 62, a small-town pastor and for those who courageously helped to any submission as necessary. while the country’s demographic and years went by before the high court vice president of the NAACP’s North pass the Voting Rights Act.” — AP NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

69 Islamists jailed in UAE coup plot trial Saudis extend amnesty for illegal expats Continued from Page 1 said they had been abused in detention, an accusation the Continued from Page 1 ward so far. Of these, some 180,000 have left the kingdom in state denied. addition to more than 200,000 unregistered workers “The only thing this trial shows is the fundamental flaws in International media have been barred from attending the “humanitarian” gesture, urging its citizens in the king- expelled at the start of the year under new regulations to the UAE justice system,” she added. According to Amnesty the court hearings, which began in March. Yesterday, witnesses dom “to fully utilise the grace period effectively”. Deputy stamp out illegal immigration. Foreigners desperate to work trial “was marred by allegations of torture which were blatantly said police blocked roads outside the court. Family members chief of mission at the Indian embassy Sibi George said that in the country are willing to pay for sponsorship, and spon- ignored, the rights of defence were flaunted, and independent gathered at a parking lot nearby said they had expected tough he hoped “that the grace will be enough” for Indians working soring expatriates has become a lucrative business for some observers were banned from the court room.” The London- verdicts but were disappointed that the court had not exam- in Saudi Arabia to regularise their status or leave. Saudis. But under the new rules workers can be employed based watchdog pointed out that the convicted men have no ined allegations of torture and procedural flaws. A British Mohammed Nazmul Islam, consul general of Bangladesh in only by their own sponsors. right to appeal. “The slick PR of the UAE is enough to hide the lawyer, Melanie Gingell, mandated by several human rights the western city of Jeddah, also welcomed the amnesty, say- Rules mainly impact low-paid workers, most of whom are fact that the trial was grossly unfair and that fundamental groups to attend the hearing, was informed at the last minute ing many of his compatriots “who decide to go back... would from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia, but with rights have been recklessly disregarded,” said Hadj Sahraoui. that she could not do so, the groups said in a statement. search for a new company, a new sponsor” to stay in Saudi some from Yemen and Egypt as well. They had been fearful State news agency WAM said that apart from those sen- Attorney General Salem Saeed Kubaish said in January the Arabia. of the campaign of arrests promised by authorities once the tenced in absentia, 56 were jailed for 10 years and five for sev- defendants had sought to infiltrate state institutions, including Foreign workers must have a Saudi sponsor in order to amnesty expires. Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged the en years, while 25 were acquitted, including all 13 women schools, universities and ministries. He said the accused, all obtain residency permits. According to the labour ministry kingdom to abolish its sponsorship system and allow work- accused. Among the 56 is Sheikh Sultan bin Kayed Al-Qassimi, UAE nationals, had invested money from Brotherhood mem- more than 1.5 million illegal foreign workers have come for- ers in abusive situations to easily change their jobs. — AFP a member of the ruling family of the emirate of Ras Al- bership fees and charity funds to set up commercial enterpris- Khaimah, WAM said. Prominent human rights lawyers es and real estate investments held in their own names to con- Mohammed Al-Roken, the former head of the UAE Jurists’ ceal their activities from the state. A government statement Association Mohammed Al-Mansoori, and Salem Al-Shehhi after the verdict said the court had been transparent, fair and Smooth Qatar handover rooted in ex-emir’s... each received 10 year jail terms, WAM said. Dozens of suspect- independent, with more than 500 observers at each hearing, Continued from Page 1 agency reported. Sheikh Tamim decided in a decree to ed Islamists have been detained in the past year amid govern- including relatives of the defendants, local media and a state- restructure the QIA’s administrative council, of which he is ment worries about a spillover of Arab unrest. The trial was linked rights group. Rights groups had urged authorities to appears to have been shaped by an awareness of the head, handing the vice presidency to his half-brother widely seen as an attempt to tackle what the UAE sees as a grant full public access to the trial. They did not do so. volatile Al-Thani family history: He himself took power in a Prince Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani, QNA said. The decree threat from the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Separately, a Bahraini court sentenced seven Shiite men to coup, as did the man - his own father - that he ousted. As a also named Finance Minister Ali Sherif Al-Emadi and Many of the 94 defendants belong to Al-Islah, a group 15 years in prison yesterday for the attempted murder of a result, Sheikh Hamad will have wanted to arrange matters Economy and Trade Minister Ahmed bin Jassim Bin which the UAE says has links to Egypt’s Brotherhood. Al-Islah police officer in Aug 2012, a judicial source said. An eighth so that he has maximum time to steer his son’s early Mohamed Al-Thani to the new administrative council. A denies this, but says it shares some of the Brotherhood’s ideol- Shiite was sentenced to three years in prison while two others, months in office and help him deepen his own power base. separate decree appointed Ahmad Mohamad Al-Sayed, ogy. The defendants, known as UAE94, were accused of on trial over the same case, were acquitted, the source said. Shibley Telhami, a Middle East expert at the Unversity of managing director of Qatar Holdings, as executive chair- “belonging to an illegal, secret organisation ... that aims to The group were also accused of setting a police station ablaze Maryland said his abdication, carried out at a time when man of the QIA. The emir also announced the formation of a counter the foundations of this state in order to seize power in the Shiite village of Sitra using petrol bombs and of taking Qatar was “thriving, moves the country into the hands of a higher council for economic affairs and investment, which and of contacting foreign entities and groups to implement part in an “unauthorised gathering”, according to the charge new generation with minimal dissent, while giving his son a he will head himself, QNA quoted a separate decree yester- this plan”. The defendants had denied the charges, and some sheet. — Agencies golden chance to bolster his own legitimacy and creden- day as saying. Several ministers and top officials, including tials”. Jane Kinninmont, a Gulf Arab expert at Britain’s the prime minister and representatives of the QIA and Qatar Chatham House think tank, said: “In a country with no tradi- Development Bank, will sit on the new council. More prominent figures register tion of smooth successions, leaving now allows the father Analysts familiar with the country said the outgoing Continued from Page 1 the ICM, adding that the movement has openly declared to help oversee his son’s succession, and help him build up emir wanted his son to have something he had never its boycott of the polls. Shemmari said that Islamists boy- his support base within the ruling family. Emir Hamad left enjoyed - the experience of wielding office without the “The constitutional court’s ruling has settled the dis- cotted the previous nullified election with the exception on a high note ... He clearly has a sense of history and dra- handicap of feeling obligated to others. In his own case, pute and those who boycotted before have no other of Salafists and “now, most Islamists are returning”. ma.” Sheikh Hamad had placed considerable reliance on Hamad option but to take part,” former Islamist lawmaker Former MP Mulaifi, who was a member of the Sheikh Hamad’s earlier experience of power was turbu- bin Jassim, the then foreign minister who helped his 1995 lent and marked by continual tensions over control of state takeover by building support for the move amongst major Muhailbi said after he filed his nomination papers. Enezi, scrapped Assembly, said that the opposition has no right finances. He became effective ruler in 1992 when his father, Qatari families and contacts. “HBJ”, as he is known, went on who boycotted last December polls, said he decided to to claim that they are boycotting the election for the Sheikh Khalifa, allowed him to appoint a cabinet of his own to turn the country’s gas export earnings into investment contest the election after the single-vote amendment sake of safeguarding the constitution, because this is choice and left him to run Qatar’s day-to-day affairs, holdings with global clout, an achievement that provided “has been confirmed by the court and out of respect for untrue. He said that if they truly believe in the constitu- although his father kept ultimate power by retaining finan- the emir with the economic muscle to back his activist the judiciary.” Mutairi, who also boycotted the polls in tion, they should respect the constitutional court ruling, cial control. But they fell out in early 1995 when Sheikh regional diplomacy. December, stressed that taking part in the election has the judiciary and other institutions. The statements by Khalifa apparently tried unsuccessfully to claw back some of “Tamim starts without being in debt to anyone,” said become a “duty” after the constitutional court ruling. He the candidates came after former opposition Islamist MP his previous authority and to resume control of the econo- Saad Djebbar, an Algerian lawyer who knows Qatar well. also said that a boycott will not achieve anything. Mohammad Hayef called on voters to take part in the my. Later that year Sheikh Hamad ousted his father in a “HBJ (Hamad bin Jassim) was very good at business. He was Lawyer Mubarak Al-Mutawa, a well-known activist and polls. Hayef has maintained that he will not contest the bloodless coup. In early 1996 he survived a coup attempt kept busy. He knew how to deliver a deal. His strength was constitutional expert, insisted the need to halt the boy- election but is urging voters to take part in order to elect that analysts attributed to his father, who had come to pow- that he knew everyone and had a network. He provided cott in order to participate in improving parliamentary good candidates. er in a similar palace takeover in 1972 when he ousted his money at a time when the emir didn’t have much,” he said. work, adding that prolonging disputes is not in the inter- In another development, former member of the cousin. “Now, the new emir comes without any baggage. And he est of anyone in the country. scrapped assemblies Nabeel Al-Fadhl was yesterday sen- Fears of a possible repeat of the 1996 attempt continued has plenty of money. He has no constraints. The old emir Shemmari said that the opposition has no justifica- tenced to one month in jail for slandering the wife of for- to overshadow the country for several more years. The for- will still have a vision and power. He will stand behind the tion for continuing the boycott if they truly respect the mer opposition MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei. The court mer emir’s priority now appears to be to help Sheikh Tamim (new) emir. And he believes that the vision will guide his state of institutions” and urged them to respect the ordered the sentence to be implemented immediately stamp his own mark on the state unbeholden to any pow- son.” opinions of others. He however said that he is running in but Fadhl left Kuwait for an unknown destination just erful personality such as his own key lieutenant, Sheikh His departure from the cabinet has stirred speculation Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani, Qatar’s top diplomat. Sheikh that recent setbacks by Syrian rebels armed by Qatar were the election as an independent and not as a member of hours before the ruling. Hamad bin Jassim lost his jobs as prime minister and for- the real reason for the abdication. Rebels backed by Qatar eign minister in Sheikh Tamim’s first cabinet reshuffle, in and other Gulf Arab states have suffered reversals on the what some diplomats saw as a long-planned step by the battlefield at the hands of President Bashar al-Assad’s Obama joins Bush at Tanzania memorial “Father Emir” to remove a potential rival to the young emir’s forces. authority. Qatar’s policy of arming Syrian rebels is viewed with Continued from Page 1 comes to the power of their husbands’ roles, Obama has Yesterday Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim was also replaced as unease by some other Gulf Arab states. But the abdication said he wants to usher in a new era of US-Africa rela- deputy head of the powerful Qatar Investment Authority in was planned at least two years ago, if not even earlier, peo- Obama and Bush bowed their heads as a Marine tions. Obama has praised Bush for helping save millions a shakeup ordered by the new emir, official QNA news ple who know Qatar well say. — Agencies placed the wreath of red, white and blue flowers in front of lives by funding AIDS treatment. But, he said Monday, of the large stone memorial on the grounds of the new “We are looking at a new model that’s based not just on US Embassy. After a few moments, they shook hands aid and assistance, but on trade and partnership.” with survivors of the attack and relatives of those killed “Ultimately, the goal here is for Africa to build Africa for before returning to the embassy together in private dis- Africans,” Obama said. “And our job is to be a partner in cussion. At that very moment, their wives were putting that process.” on a public display of mutual affection in a discussion In that spirit, Obama announced a program to bring moderated by American journalist Cokie Roberts. Mrs more power to Africans without access to electricity. Obama said she wanted to appear with Laura Bush During a visit to a local power plant built with a US because “I like this woman” and it’s therapeutic to share grant, Obama demonstrated a soccer ball designed to the challenges of their roles. “It’s sort of a club, a sorori- bring power to communities off the power grid. One ty, I guess,” Mrs Bush responded. invention that could help on the electricity front is the Their goal was to encourage African first ladies to SOCCKET ball, developed by two Harvard graduates. raise their voices for causes they are passionate about, The ball has a pendulum-like mechanism inside that even if the public is sometimes focused on more trivial creates kinetic energy during play and stores it. Its mak- matters, they said. “While people are sort of sorting er says 30 minutes of play can power a simple LED lamp through our shoes and our hair, whether we cut it or not for three hours. Obama kicked the ball off his foot and ...” Mrs Obama started. “Whether we have bangs,” Mrs did a low header. “We’re going to start getting these all Bush interjected to laughter. Mrs Obama expressed sur- around Africa,” Obama said. “Pretty impressive stuff.” prise that her change in hairstyle this year would In remarks afterward, he touted his “Power Africa” prompt so much media coverage. “Who would have electricity program as a win-win for Africans and US thought? I didn’t call that. But,” Mrs Obama said, “we companies. He also reflected on the trip, recalling some take our bangs and we stand in front of important of the folks he met along the way, including a female things that the world needs to see. And eventually peo- farmer in Senegal and young people in the Soweto area ple stop looking at the bangs and they start looking at of South Africa’s capital city, Johannesburg. “I’m inspired what we’re standing in front of.” because I’m absolutely convinced that with the right “We hope,” Mrs. Bush joked. Mrs Obama replied, approach, Africa and its people can unleash a new era “They do, and that’s the power of our roles.” When it of prosperity,” Obama said. — AP Morsi snubs ultimatum, army readies... Continued from Page 1 aimed at “pushing all political sides to quickly find a solu- tion.” They would not say how the military intended to deal The June 30 Front, which includes the grassroots with Morsi if he refused to go quietly. Tamarod movement that brought millions of protesters The June 30 Front called for mass protests to keep up out onto the streets across Egypt on Sunday - said it had the pressure on Morsi and tens of thousands packed into delegated ElBaradei “to be the voice” of the opposition. Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the large avenues outside the The Front “entrusts ElBaradei with the responsibility to capital’s two presidential palaces. Chants of “Leave” rang ensure the execution of the Egyptian people’s demands out from the crowds. The mood contrasted with the ten- and to draft a scenario that aims at the complete imple- sion that had gripped protesters camped out in Tahrir ear- mentation of the roadmap for the political transition.” As lier in the day after Morsi’s office issued a statement the political uncertainty grew, Morsi was hit with a spate rebuffing the army’s ultimatum. Accountant Mona of resignations, including by his foreign minister Elghazawy said she was “very worried”. “It’s now a battle Mohammed Kamel Amr and the ministers of tourism, between all the state institutions and the Islamists.” Fellow environment, investment and legal affairs. Presidential demonstrator Mostafa Gharib said he feared the Islamists spokesman Ehab Fahmy and cabinet spokesman Alaa Al- would “fight to the end”. Hadidi also resigned, officials and the media reported. Backers of the president joined a sit-in in his support in US President Barack Obama, whose government is a Cairo’s Nasr City neighbourhood, as crowds massed near major military aid donor to Egypt, called Morsi to warn him Cairo University vowing to defend his legitimacy. that the voices of all Egyptians must be heard, a White Brotherhood leader Mohamed Al-Beltagui urged them to House official said. Obama told him Washington was com- honour the sacrifices of those killed during the 2011 revo- mitted to “the democratic process in Egypt and does not lution that paved the way for Morsi to take power as support any single party or group,” the official said. Egypt’s first freely elected president. “Seeking martyrdom German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called on all to prevent this coup is what we can offer to the previous sides not to squander the hopes of democracy of the 2011 martyrs of the revolution,” he said. revolution. “These are decisive days for the political trans- The opposition too expressed concern that the military formation in this key country of the Arab world,” he said. was poised to play a political role in the deeply divided Morsi’s opponents accuse him of having betrayed country, even as the army hastened to damp down talk of the revolution by concentrating power in Islamist hands an imminent “coup”. In a statement issued overnight, the and of sending the economy into free fall. His support- presidency insisted it would continue on its own path ers say he inherited many problems from a corrupt towards national reconciliation. The army declaration had regime, and that he should be allowed to complete his not been cleared by the presidency and could cause con- term, which runs until 2016. Yasser El-Shimy, Egypt ana- fusion, it said. The president was consulting “with all lyst at the International Crisis Group, said the army ulti- national forces to secure the path of democratic change matum had hardened positions on either side, making and the protection of the popular will”, it said. Egypt’s it very difficult to find a constitutional way out of the main opposition bloc, the National Salvation Front, said it crisis: “Things could deteriorate very rapidly from there, would “not support a military coup”. It expressed trust in either through confrontations on the street, or interna- the army’s insistence that it does not want to get involved tional sanctions,” he said. “Morsi is calling their bluff, in politics. The army denied there was any attempt at a saying to them, ‘if you are going to do this, you will have “coup”, saying that army chief Sisi’s statement was merely to do it over my dead body’.” — Agencies SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

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IRELAND: Paul Casey has suffered his share of trials and tribulations in recent years SOCHI: The National Hockey League (NHL) and the International Ice SAO PAULO: Influential Brazil midfielder Paulinho has accepted an offer from and it was close friend Justin Rose’s first major victory at last month’s US Open that Hockey Federation (IIHF) inched closer to an agreement on Monday Tottenham Hotspur and will join the Premier League club from Corinthians before inspired him to land the Irish Open title on Sunday. that would free players to take part in the next year’s Sochi Winter Olympics. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, IIHF chief Rene Fasel and the start of the season, the player said on Monday. A powerful box-to-box midfield- The three-shot victory at County Kildare represented his first win on the er, Paulinho, who scored 34 goals in 167 games for Corinthians, shone in Brazil’s European Tour for two and a half years, a period when form and fitness NHL players’ association boss Donald Fehr met for five hours at the league’s New York offices and left expressing confidence an agreement successful Confederations Cup campaign last month. deserted him and he also went through a painful divorce. “These were three wonderful years of my career, “Watching Justin really lit the fire for me,” Casey told reporters was nearly in place. “There are still some ‘I’s to dot and ‘T’s to cross,” Bettman told of victories, of working with great people, who after a win that sent him soaring from 169th to 102nd in the reporters. “We are on track and things are moving along, I think it is fair always helped me,” Paulinho said in a tearful world rankings. “Justin’s victory was phenomenal. He’s a to say we are not quite ready to announce it’s done. farewell on Monday. good friend and I was so proud of what he did, the way he “There’s still a little bit of work to do but on most issues, not all played and the way he conducted himself,” he said of his “All I have to say to Corinthians is ‘I’ll be back’.” issues, there is a pretty good understanding of where we need to be. Widespread media reports say Spurs will pay 20 fellow Englishman. Casey’s win was his 12th on the “We’re on a compact schedule and everybody is working hard and we European Tour but he said it felt like a breakthrough tri- million euros ($26.07 million) for the 24-year old, seem to be pulling the oars in the same direction.” who helped Sao Paulo side Corinthians to the umph. “Psychologically I think this is huge,” the 35-year-old NHL owners and officials have long been unhappy with what they explained. “This almost feels like a first win. perceive as second class treatment by the International Olympic World Club Cup in December and became a regu- “I have struggled with confidence and this is a huge relief, Committee (IOC) and are seeking some form of compensation for shut- lar choice for the national side. knowing I am moving in the right direction, that I’ve got ting down for two weeks in the middle of the season and releasing the He picked up the bronze boot trophy some great golf left in me for another 10-plus players. The key issues standing in the way of an agreement center for the third best player in the years.” around travel, insurance and hospitality for players’ and owners’ fami- Confederations Cup on Sunday, Casey rubber-stamped his victory at lies. The NHL also wants to be treated more like a rights holder or top shortly after Brazil destroyed Carton House by rolling in a 60-foot eagle sponsor and to trade on the Olympic brand to help sell and promote world champions Spain 3-0 in the putt at the final hole. —Reuters the league. —Reuters final. —Reuters Nationals whip Brewers

WASHINGTON: Bryce Harper homered on his first swing since coming off the disabled list and his Washington Nationals teammates quickly joined in, beating the slumping Milwaukee Brewers 10-5 on Monday night. After missing 31 games with bursitis in his left knee - the most lingering fallout from his colli- sion with the Dodger Stadium wall - Harper energized the Nationals and sparked their sec- ond rout in two days. After toying with .500 for the entire month of June, Washington moved two games above the break-even mark for the first time since late May. Jayson Werth had five RBIs, and even pitcher Jordan Zimmermann was an offensive jugger- naut with a team-high three hits, including a double to start a five-run third inning and a sin- gle to open a two-run fourth. Working with an 8- 0 lead, Zimmermann (12-3) pitched six innings and allowed four runs to tie unbeaten Max Scherzer of the Detroit Tigers for the major TORONTO: Omar Infante No. 4 of the Detroit Tigers hits an RBI double in the fourth league lead in wins. inning during MLB game action against the Toronto Blue Jays. — AFP Harper launched the second pitch he saw from Yovani Gallardo (6-8) into the visitors’ bullpen beyond left field for an opposite-field Blue Jays defeat Tigers homer that drew a thumbs-up curtain call. The Nationals improved to 26-19 when Harper plays; TORONTO: RA Dickey won again, Jose Struggling reliever Jared Burton (1-6) they are 16-21 when he doesn’t. The 20-year-old Reyes and Mark DeRosa homered and the gave up three runs and three hits while slugger finished 1 for 4 with a walk. The Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays beat the slumping getting only one out for the Twins, who missing injured Ryan Braun, have lost six Detroit Tigers 8-3 on Monday for their sev- coughed up another eighth-inning lead. straight. enth straight home win. Ryan Doumit had two hits and two RBIs. The Blue Jays delighted a sellout crowd Cano also had a double, a walk and REDS 8, GIANTS 1 of 45,766 on Canada Day with their 11th three RBIs for the Yankees, who totaled 13 In Cincinnati, Todd Frazier homered and victory in 13 games at Rogers Centre. runs during their losing streak. Pettitte drove in four runs, leading Cincinnati out of its Coming off his two-hit shutout against allowed four runs in five innings. Joba offensive slump to a victory over San Francisco Tampa Bay, Dickey (8-8) was sharp and won Chamberlain (1-0) pitched a scoreless in a game shortened to six innings because of for the third time in four starts. The knuck- inning for the win. rain. leballer allowed two runs and six hits in Frazier had an RBI single and a three-run seven innings, striking out four and walk- RAYS 12, ASTROS 0 homer off left-hander Mike Kickham (0-3), who ing one. In Houston, Matt Moore allowed two has been hit hard in each of his three major Reyes hit a leadoff shot in the third hits in seven innings for his 11th win and league starts. against Tigers rookie Jose Alvarez (1-2). For Ryan Roberts homered twice to lead Tampa Bronson Arroyo (7-6) gave up a pair of hits in Reyes, it was his third homer of the year Bay over Houston. six innings, including Brandon Belt’s homer. Rain and second in two days. Moore (11-3) won his third straight deci- halted the game after the sixth. The umpires DeRosa added a three-run drive in the sion and Cesar Ramos pitched two perfect waited 1 hour, 28 minutes before calling it. fourth off reliever Luke Putkonen. Prince innings to complete the two-hitter and Fielder and Omar Infante hit solo homers help the Rays win their third in a row. MARLINS 4, PADRES 0 for the Tigers. Detroit lost for the sixth time Roberts made it 3-0 with a two-run In Miami, Jose Fernandez struck out 10 and in seven games. homer in the third off Dallas Keuchel (4-5) allowed only two hits in a career-high eight Infante went 4 for 4 with a two-out and tacked on another run with a solo shot innings as Miami beat San Diego to match a sea- WASHINGTON: Jordan Zimmermann No. 27 of the Washington Nationals throws a pitch in the homer in the ninth. Tigers star Miguel in the eighth inning. son high with its third consecutive victory. first inning during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers. — AFP Cabrera, who came in with an AL-leading Sean Rodriguez had a career-high four Jeff Mathis delivered the big hit for the sec- .373 batting average, went 0 for 4 with two hits - two doubles - with three RBIs, and ond game in a row, raising his batting average to career high in strikeouts. Steve Cishek entered save opportunity since the ex-Met went on the strikeouts. three other Rays added three hits apiece on .154. He hit a three-run double in the sixth, with two on and got the final out for his 15th disabled list May 8. Cody Ross led off the 13th a night when they tied a season high for when the Marlins scored four unearned runs off save in 17 chances, completing a three-hitter. with a homer against David Aardsma (1-0), but YANKEES 10, TWINS 4 runs and finished with 17 hits. Jason Marquis (9-4), who issued a career-high Fernandez improved to 3-1 with an ERA of 1.34 the Mets fought back again against the In Minneapolis, Robinson Cano home- Chris Carter and Jake Elmore got seven walks in 6 1-3 innings. Mathis’ ninth- over his past six starts. Diamondbacks bullpen. red twice and Andy Pettitte broke Whitey Houston’s only hits with singles as the last- inning grand slam beat the Padres on Sunday. Satin doubled with one out off Josh Ford’s club record for career strikeouts to place Astros dropped their fourth in a row. The Marlins began the week with the worst METS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4 Collmenter (4-1) and John Buck was intentional- help New York snap a five-game skid with a Moore struck out nine and walked three to record in the majors, but since June 1 they’re 16- In New York, Andrew Brown hit a two-run sin- ly walked. Mets pitcher Matt Harvey pinch hit for victory over Minnesota. tie his win total from last season. 10, and they’ve won six of their past seven gle with two outs in the 13th inning and New Aardsma and sacrificed the runners over. Zoilo Almonte had three hits and two Tampa Bay slugger Evan Longoria was games. They’ve allowed three runs in the past York put together a pair of late rallies to beat After Omar Quintanilla was intentionally RBIs as the slumbering Yankees offense out of the lineup for the third straight three games. San Diego lost for the seventh time Arizona, handing the NL West leaders their walked, Brown lined an 0-2 pitch into left-center woke up with seven runs in the last two game with plantar fasciitis in his right foot, in nine games. Padres shortstop Pedro Ciriaco fourth straight loss. to end a game that lasted 5 hours, 13 minutes. innings to reach double digits for the first but the Rays don’t plan on placing him on made an errant throw that led to the unearned Hot-hitting Josh Satin tied it with an RBI sin- Paul Goldschmidt hit an early two-run homer for time since May 10. the disabled list. — AP runs. Fernandez (5-4) walked one and equaled a gle in the ninth off Arizona closer JJ Putz, his first Arizona, his 20th. — AP Puigmania breaks out in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES: Yasiel Puig probably won’t finish the bigs is enough for an invite to the All-Star more in his first calendar month in the majors. Indeed, the team is finally winning, much to the season hitting .436, though by now there’s a game. He looks a lot like Bo Jackson once did, though the relief of Mattingly and the new owners who growing number of people in Los Angeles who Already, a write-in campaign for Puig is under- so far he’s connected with curve balls at a lot high- bankrolled more than $200 million in payroll this surely believe he can. way online. Even if that falls short, it would be er rate than Jackson ever did. His seven home runs year. The Dodgers still haven’t reached .500, but Hard to fault them, because Puig has turned a hard to imagine fellow players not voting Puig in have included shots down the left-field line and after winning eight of their last nine are just four lot of people into believers in the month he has as a backup or manager Bruce Bochy not using into the right-center bleachers. games out in the NL West. played baseball in the big leagues. one of his selections on him. He’s also figured out how to say the right Puig wasn’t supposed to be the player to get The buzz he’s generating at Dodger Stadium is His statistical sampling is small, yes, but it tells things in postgame interviews, even if they’re them there, even after impressing everyone in his reminiscent of what Fernandomania was like a big story. In just 101 official at bats he’s hitting translated from Spanish. first stint in spring training. He was sent to the when Fernando Valenzuela took the mound more .436 and his OPS of 1.180 is the best in the “I’m really excited to be part of that list,” Puig minors for seasoning before things really got des- than three decades ago. The numbers he’s put up National league. His 44 hits since being called up said after getting four hits Sunday in a win against perate at Chavez Ravine and he was called up to in his first month at the plate bring comparisons on June 3 are a monthly rookie record for the Philadelphia, “but more excited that the team is play right field. to the debut of Joe DiMaggio 77 years ago. Dodgers, and only DiMaggio (48, May 1936) had winning.” He hasn’t been out of the lineup since, energiz- He’s a 22-year-old phenom who put a spark in ing his teammates not only with his bat but with the Dodgers when they were desperate for it daredevil base running that doesn’t always end most. He may have saved manager Don well. After stealing two bases himself last week to Mattingly’s job, and he may just save the season set up the winning run in a game, Kemp was for the Dodgers. asked what the difference was in the Dodgers of History says it won’t last. Never does at this lev- early season and midseason. “Puig,” he answered. el, where pitchers and hitters continually engage The Dodgers took a big chance on Puig, who in a cat-and-mouse game of adjustments and was viewed as a raw talent when he was signed more adjustments. for $42 million over seven years in a gamble only a But there’s not much doubt by now that the deep-pocketed team can afford. The contract now player called “wild horse” by Mattingly in spring looks like a bargain on a team loaded with big training because of the way he attacks the game contracts, including one with Andre Ethier, who is something special. Fans make sure they’re back used to occupy right field at Dodger Stadium and from the beer lines in time to watch him hit, and could be the odd man out in the outfield once even a Puig strikeout has a certain air of excite- Carl Crawford returns from injury. ment to it. For all Puig is doing on the field for the “He kind of reminds me of myself,” Dodgers Dodgers, his impact on the franchise might be center fielder Matt Kemp said. “Sometimes he greater than his ability to hit or run the bases. plays too hard, and sometimes you have to tell Before he was called up the Dodgers were strug- him: ‘Man, calm down. You can’t make every play.’ gling mightily, and Dodger Stadium was littered But he’s done an amazing job in his first month in with empty seats. the big leagues. He’s gotten big hits and made big Now, fans who are notorious for leaving early plays on defense. He’s doing a lot, and I think to beat the traffic are staying to the end of games we’re just feeding off the kid.” just to get another chance to see Puig hit. A month ago the question was whether the The .436 average isn’t likely to last the summer. Cuban could handle the lifestyle of a major league LOS ANGELES: Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig breaks his bat as he hits a single during the seventh inning of But early indications are Puigmania could be in for player. Now it’s whether one spectacular month in their baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in this file photo. — AP a long run in LA.— AP SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Football, rugby teams play on same day for Mandela

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s national football “The launch happens at a time when South and waving to nearly 100,000 football supporters as endeared himself to sports-mad South Africans and rugby teams will play on the same day at the Africa is a nation in distress following the hospital- he circled the pitch before the World Cup final, with his appearances at those rugby and football former World Cup showpiece stadium in Soweto to ization of our father and icon Nelson Mandela, who three years ago next week. games, and he is still often referred to as a motiva- honor Nelson Mandela, bringing together in a rare also happens to be the primary inspiration behind South Africa’s first democratically elected presi- tion for current South African sportsmen and move the country’s two most popular sports that this initiative,” the ministry said. dent has strong and emotional ties to sport in his women. once portrayed its deep racial divisions. On the day, South Africa’s football team will face nation, having famously supported the Springboks As well as the Springboks and Bafana Bafana The South African sports ministry said yesterday Burkina Faso in a friendly and the Springboks will rugby team when it won the World Cup in 1995, sharing the same field, the Aug. 17 sports day also that the Nelson Mandela Sports Day on Aug. 17 at start their Rugby Championship campaign against and then the football team — known as Bafana will have a music concert and another football FNB Stadium — formerly Soccer City — was aimed Argentina, both at the 94,000-seat FNB Stadium on Bafana — a year later when it lifted the African Cup game between former South African and Italian at uniting the country and the world “in celebration the outskirts of Soweto, a site which holds signifi- of Nations trophy at the FNB. internationals. And South Africa’s continental cham- and promotion” of the anti-apartheid leader’s lega- cance for sport and for Mandela himself. Rugby and football were previously examples of pion netball team and leading Springboks try-scor- cy, as South Africans continued to long for the criti- The old FNB was where Mandela made his first South Africa’s racial segregation, with rugby mainly er Bryan Habana will be recognized, the sports min- cally ill former president to recover. speech in Johannesburg and held his first major ral- followed by whites and football by blacks until istry said. While calling the sports day a celebration of ly after his release from prison in 1990, having been Mandela’s act of reconciliation and unity at the ‘95 South Africa’s minister of sport and minister of Mandela, the ministry referred to the somber cur- jailed by the apartheid regime for 27 years. Rugby World Cup, when he embraced the arts and culture will visit Mandela’s foundation rent mood in South Africa, with its inspiring and Renamed Soccer City and rebuilt for the 2010 World Springboks, a team associated just a few years earli- offices in Johannesburg today to deliver messages beloved national hero, now 94, still in a critical but Cup — the first in Africa — it also was where er with apartheid and white racist rule. of support for the ailing former president, they stable condition after 25 days in the hospital. Mandela made his last public appearance, smiling Wearing team shirts on both occasions, Mandela said.—AP Horwill ready to take on Lions

SYDNEY: James Horwill is free to lead Australia in Saturday’s third and deciding test against the British and Irish Lions after being cleared of stamping charges in a second judicial hearing ordered by the International Rugby Board. Appeal officer Graeme Mew of Canada reject- ed the IRB appeal brought against Horwill after he was cleared of foul play charges at a previous judicial hearing by New Zealand-based Nigel Hampton, who found there was no intentional or deliberate action of stamping or trampling on Lions lock Alun-Wyn Jones in the first test in Brisbane. The IRB launched its unprecedented appeal before the second test in Melbourne, where Horwill led Australia to a 16-15 victory to level the series. The decision was released yesterday, more than 14 hours after a two-hour hearing held late Monday in Sydney by video conference and with Mew in Toronto. Horwill said he found out during a weight training session that he’d be eligible to play Saturday. “It’s huge,” Horwill said. “I love what I do and it means a lot to me to represent my country, and not only to represent it but to lead it in what is Brian O’Driscoll arguably the biggest game in this country since the Rugby World Cup final in 2003. I’m excited at that opportunity and now we can focus on the O’Driscoll: Game of our lives game. SYDNEY: “I feel very vindicated by the way it’s gone. British and Irish Lions stalwart Brian Lions up to the seaside resort of Noosa for four The process is what it is but I have to say it was a O’Driscoll is urging his team mates to shrug off days before the deciding test has come under very fair process both times.” the disappointment of last weekend’s defeat fire from former England coach Clive Woodward, and play the 80 minutes of their lives in the deci- who described it as a “big mistake”. O’Driscoll, In his findings, Mew said that there was no sive third test against Australia. who was captain to Woodward’s coach on the ill- errors of law or principle in the original decision The 34-year-old Irish centre is still searching fated 2005 tour of New Zealand, begged to dif- and no evidence that Hampton’s decision was for his first test series win on his fourth Lions fer. “You have to be able to switch off for 24-48 “manifestly wrong or that the interests of justice tour after the Wallabies came from behind to pip hours away from rugby, even on Lions tours,” he otherwise required his decision be overturned.” the tourists 16-15 in Melbourne on Saturday. said. “When the time kicks back in to getting “There was sufficient evidence upon which a After the 23-21 first test victory for the Lions, back on the park and into team meetings and reasonable judicial officer could have reached the series remains in the balance going into this talk about rugby we will do exactly that. the decision that was made,” Mew said. weekend’s decider in Sydney with O’Driscoll “There is always a mental toll in games of this However, Mew also noted that the IRB’s James Horwill looking likely to be named captain in place of magnitude. Thankfully, you do get seven days appeal had been properly taken in the discharge the injured Sam Warburton. “It’s still all to play to try to get over one game and have the build- of its responsibilities to promote and ensure on.” Irvine said, adding that the incident didn’t hearing went through its due process via an IRB- for,” O’Driscoll told reporters at the team’s train- ing process for the next one.” player welfare and to protect the image and the look good on TV but he’d seen a lot worse in his appointed judicial officer.” ing camp in Noosa, Queensland. “They have O’Driscoll made his Lions debut in the last reputation of the game. The Dublin-based IRB time. Jones needed stitches to a head wound after been two incredibly keenly contested games. tour to Australia 12 years ago, when the home issued a statement saying it ‘fully accepts” Mew’s The judicial officer “looked at all the different the Lions won the first test 23-21 and Horwill was Both of them should probably have gone the side lost the opening test and trailed at halftime decision, and was satisfied it took the right angles and replays, he is as very decent guy Nigel subsequently cited. Hampton’s original finding other way that they did, and it now culminates in the second before winning the series 2-1. approach with the case. Hampton ... he is a very experienced individual, if caused outrage among fans in Britain, and the with a winner-takes-all on Saturday. That the first two contests were decided by a “The protection of players from foul play, that’s his decision we’re happy to accept it.” IRB said it wanted to “further examine potential “We knew we were never going to get it easy combined three points suggested to O’Driscoll intentional or otherwise, is vital in upholding the against Australia, and it has been proved. Yes, that 2013 would be different in terms of how The Wallabies had prepared contingency acts of foul play which either potentially or in values and image of rugby and to send a clear there is disappointment and you have to have a much momentum the Australians would take plans in case Horwill was banned, but are back to reality impact on the preservation of player wel- little bit of a mourning period after any loss, but from their Melbourne victory. message to all levels of the game that such acts training at full capacity for the third test. fare.” the spirits of the guys have been picked up. “People talk about the momentum going are unacceptable,” the statement said. “In light of “You are always hopeful,” Wallabies coach In his earlier comments, Horwill said the one “It is important to be able to feel the disap- with the team that wins the second test, and I the potential adverse implications, the IRB is Robbie Deans said, adding he was “delighted to TV angle shown on replays wasn’t a full reflection pointment because if you try to banish it imme- would have agreed with it in 2001 because it keen to ensure all acts of foul play involving the have Kevvy (Horwill) back.” of the incident, when he claimed to have lost bal- diately it will come back to you, and it still does was a comfortable victory they had back then,” head should be given serious and thorough con- If Horwill had been banned, it would have ance before making contact with Jones’ head at times throughout the day. he said. “But the way these two games have sideration.” meant both captains were lost to their teams. On with his right boot. “You can slow anything down “But then after a couple of days you just have gone, with two points in the first one and one Lions tour manager Andy Irvine said the deci- Monday, Lions flanker Sam Warburton was ruled to make it look different but if you look at the to have the ability to shelve it and focus on the point in the second one just shows how tight it sion was “no great shakes as far as we’re con- out of the third match with a torn left hamstring. other angles you can see what happened,” target. One more 80 minutes this season is all is. “I think the team that turns up on Saturday cerned” and reiterated that the combined British Horwill told a news conference last week after Horwill said. “I’ve played more than 130 profes- that is asked of everyone in the squad - the 80 and gets some momentum from early on in the and Irish team had nothing to do with the IRB’s the IRB announced the appeal that he was “confi- sional rugby games and never been cited once minutes of their lives.” The decision to take the game will get the upper hand.” — Reuters decision to appeal the original findings. dent of what happened on the field.” and never been to any judicial hearings. “As far as we’re concerned, once a judicial offi- The original hearing, he said, “was four hours “It was a complete accident. Unfortunately cer gave his decision last week we were of the and we had nine different camera angles to look accidents happen in rugby — it’s a contact sport. US tour supports new view that it was done and dusted and let’s move at so it was very thorough and in that case the There was no intent or malice.” — AP rule on long putters JACKSONVILLE: Park will chase fourth The US PGA Tour will fol- the case for hundreds of years. low a new rule that bans the anchored put- The wrinkle that came out of the tour’s ting stroke used by four of the last six major meeting was asking the R&A and USGA to champions, asking instead on Monday for a give amateurs more time to adjust away temporary reprieve for those who play the from the anchored stroke. PGA of America major at British Open game for fun. president Ted Bishop was among those The announcement after a tour board concerned that banning the stroke used for SOUTHAMPTON: meeting is the final piece of confirmation long putters would force too many people Inbee Park hoped to win a share her success with the fans who wake up in will have a hard time not noticing if Park quickly from a major golf organization for Rule 14- to quit the game out of frustration, at a Grand Slam. A career Grand Slam, that is. The the middle of the night to watch her play. pulls in front again. “You don’t even know if she 1b, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2016 time when golf is worried about decreasing single-season variety was just too outlandish. St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf, seems has a pulse out there half the time,” said Paula when the next “Rules of Golf” is published. participation. Yet she’ll head to St. Andrews next month for the only appropriate as the spot for where Park Creamer, who tied for fourth at Sebonack. The rule makes it illegal for players to “The policy board continues to believe Women’s British Open with a chance to become could make history, Sorenstam said. “Doesn’t matter if it’s a good shot or a bad shot, I attach the end of the club to their body to that extending the time period the ban the first player to go 4 for 4 in majors — whatev- Park will just have to keep not thinking about think I’ve seen her actually smile maybe 10 make a stroke. Adam Scott used a long put- would go into effect for amateurs would be er that may be called, now that there are five that on the course. “If I knew what I was doing,” times.” ter held against his chest when he won the beneficial for golf participation and the majors in a year. Park said, “I think I wouldn’t be able to stand.” The only player to win the year’s first three Masters. Ernie Els (British Open) and Webb overall health of the game,” Finchem said. “Whether I do it or not, I’m just a very lucky Beecher said she’ll glance at leaderboards majors had been Babe Zaharias in 1950 — and Simpson (US Open) used a belly putter last Finchem cited the USGA changing the person,” Park said Sunday after winning the US but excels at not worrying about what other there were only three then. year. Keegan Bradley in the 2011 US PGA groove configuration for irons in 2008. It Women’s Open for the second time. players are doing. The rest of the field, though, “After Annika retired I didn’t think anybody Championship was the first major champi- was effective for elite play in 2010, but does Park’s four-shot victory at windy Sebonack would ever do it,” said Angela Stanford, another on with a belly putter. not apply to recreational play until 2014. would seem to bode well for Scotland, though of the players who tied for fourth, nine strokes The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and US But the decision on grooves was an the world’s top-ranked player has won in pretty behind Park. Golf Association proposed the new rule in equipment issue. Anchoring is a change in much every situation this season on the way to After the Women’s British Open on Aug. 1-4, November and allowed for a three-month the actual rules of golf. For the USGA and six titles, including all three majors and three The Evian Championship is Sept. 12-15 for the comment period. It formally adopted the R&A, which set the rules for the 600-year- straight tournaments overall. year’s fifth and final major. If Park can win at St. rule in May. old game, to allow amateurs more time to Park talked Sunday about how calm she felt, Andrews, everyone will need to decide whether Finchem said in February the tour was use anchored strokes would be created two and Annika Sorenstam could only marvel. a new term is required for winning all the opposed to the new rule because there sets of rules. Sorenstam was the last player to try to win the majors. were no data to suggest an advantage and The PGA of America also said it would no “overriding reason to go down that follow the new rule, while expressing con- year’s first three majors, in 2005, and she didn’t Park recalled when there were other players road.” The tour’s opinion was shaped by a cern about amateurs. “We continue to feel come close at the U.S. Women’s Open. “I was she thought she couldn’t beat. She kept working players-only meeting that month. strongly that the amateur player needs a NOT calm,” she said with a laugh. at her game and proved herself wrong. So she “In making its decision, the policy board longer period of adjustment to this rule,” “I know the pressure you can feel, the expec- figures there’s no reason her rivals won’t do the recognized that there are still varying opin- Bishop said. tations,” Sorenstam added. “She’s handled it same now. ions among our membership, but ultimate- Neither Finchem nor Bishop recom- beautifully. Nothing seems to faze her.” Brad “I know I have a long ways to go to go some- ly concluded that while it is an important mended a date for amateurs. Finchem also Beecher, Park’s longtime caddie, said he’s never where like what Yani (Tseng) or what Annika and issue, a ban on anchored strokes would not sounded a warning that the tour reserves seen her angry or emotional on the course. what Lorena (Ochoa) have achieved,” Park said. fundamentally affect a strong presentation the right to make its own rules for its play- “I think it’s because I feel the happiest when She added: “I still have a lot of things to learn.” of our competitions or the overall success ers, and that the USGA pledged “open and I’m at the golf course,” Park said. “I feel calm No matter what happens in Scotland, Park will of the PGA Tour,” Finchem said in a state- effective communication” on any future dis- when I’m on the golf course. I think I’m just a always be the first player in the modern era to ment. cussions on the rules. much better person when I’m on the golf course. win the year’s first three majors. “We might not “The board also was of the opinion that “It is not inconceivable that there may Yeah, outside the golf course, I feel the pressure see that again for another 60 years,” said having a single set of rules ... applicable to come a time in the future when the policy and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on Sorenstam, now an analyst for Golf Channel. all professional competitions worldwide board determines that a rule adopted by the golf course, it’s just the golf ball and clubs. Park and Beecher didn’t talk about the record was desirable and would avoid confusion.” the USGA, including in the area of equip- And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pres- book until after she hit her third shot on the par- The decision to go along was not a sur- ment, may not be in the best interests of sure off of me.” 5 18th hole Sunday. “I just said to her, ‘Mate, prise. The common ground by all sides was the PGA Tour, and that a local rule eliminat- She’ll head home to South Korea for a rare you’re just about to join history, enjoy this walk,’” the importance of golf being played under ing or modifying such a USGA rule may be visit before the British. Park knows she won’t get SOUTHAMPTON: Inbee Park of South Korea the Australian recalled. And Park actually one fundamental set of rules, as has been appropriate,” he said. —AP much time to herself there, but she wants to putts in this file photo. — AFP grinned. —AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 SPORTS

Preview Photo of the day Janowicz, Kubot no longer Poles apart at Wimbledon

LONDON: What should have been a dream showdown between on Wednesday. Djokovic’s expected final date, second seed Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal has turned into the battle of Poland Murray, has made it through to his sixth successive quarter-final as Lukasz Kubot and Jerzy Janowicz unexpectedly find themselves here and having won all 12 sets he has contested in the tourna- in Wimbledon’s quarter-final mix along with Novak Djokovic and ment, he is shaping up well to go one better than his runner-up Andy Murray. finish to Federer last year. Fernando Verdasco will be eager to end The shock exits of seven-times champion Federer and Nadal the US Open champion’s hopes of becoming the first British man during a topsy turvy opening week at the grasscourt major paved in 77 years to hold aloft the Challenge Cup. the way for Kubot to set up the unlikeliest of quarter-finals against However, the clay-loving Spaniard might find his debut quar- 6-foot-8 countryman Janowicz. ter-final appearance at Wimbledon a daunting prospect as he will “Whatever happens one of us will be in the semi-finals which also have to deal with Murray’s 15,000-strong fan club. makes history for Polish tennis. We are happy about what’s going Much was made of Verdasco’s fellow Spaniard David Ferrer on right now - it’s magical,” said a beaming Kubot, who has enter- being installed as the fourth seed above 12-times major winner tained the crowds with his high-kicking celebratory can-can rou- Nadal but the 31-year-old proved his worth by reaching his second tine. The two friends are poles apart in the rankings, with Kubot a success quarter-final here. lowly 130th while world number 22 Janowicz has been tipped as He will take on gentle giant Juan Martin Del Potro, who broke the next big thing in tennis. into the big time when he won the 2009 U.S. Open but has not On the eve of Poland’s match of the century, though, the two made it to the final four of a slam since. stood side-by-side draped in their country’s red-and-white flags as The Argentine is still feeling the effects of an on-court collision the world’s media bombarded them with questions. with a chair during his third-round match and hopes his battered While Kubot and Janowicz are two new faces at what the play- knee will stand up to the test of taking on the inexhaustible Ferrer. ers call the ‘business end of a grand slam’ Murray and Djokovic are “The ankle is good and the knee is not good. The knee is both- old hacks. ering me a lot. I couldn’t extend the knee 100 percent,” said Del Top seed Djokovic, in pursuit of a second title at the All England Potro, who is no stranger to injury woes after his 2010 season was Club, will be contesting his 17th consecutive major quarter-final wrecked by a wrist problem. “I’ve had many injuries in the past. against 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych. But this time I don’t have luck, and that’s it. I was winning so easy The Czech beat six-times grand slam winner Djokovic in their the third round. Just for run a dropshot, I twist my ankle and hyper only previous clash on grass - at Wimbledon in 2010 - and in their extended my knee. I will do all the treatments to see if I can be bet- Toma Coconea and Martin Freinademetz perform during the Red Bull Man Against Machine at Lake Balea. most recent meeting, but the Serb will be more eager to rely on ter. “Winning here on grass for one Argentinian guy could be very, —www.redbullcontentpool.com the overall 13-2 win-loss record he holds when the two lock horns very special.” — Reuters Who’s that girl? Fans have to check who is playing

LONDON: Clutching tickets won in a raffle, acquired through the local tennis club or bought at a charity auction, the fans huddled together on a chilly Centre Court all agreed — the Wimbledon women’s quarter-finals were low on star names. But the diehard aficionados ready to queue all night outside the grounds were delighted to find it took them only three hours to get in to watch what Britain’s Times newspaper scornfully called “the women you’ve never heard of.” Five-times champion Serena Williams is out. Maria Sharapova has gone. In the last eight, household names are hard to come by as only The leaser team with Sheikh Talal Al-Mohammad three of the top 10 seeds made it into the last eight. Williams’ unexpected downfall in the Kuwait plans unique fourth round prompted American great John McEnroe to quip: “Serena’s exit has kept this crazy tournament as crazy as it’s ever been!” Futsal opening ceremony With one of the quarter-final line-ups now By Abdellatif Sharaa requests by Sheikh Talal, adding that he has boasting a showdown between Sabine Lisicki designed the medals and cups. and Kaia Kanepi, fans were feeling a little under- KUWAIT: The opening ceremony of the Meanwhile, Qadisiya Club player and whelmed. Kuwait Mini World Futsal Club Tournament will member of the national team Abdallah “It has lost its edge. We are slightly disap- be unique and a qualitative move, as the seg- Sheikhan thanked Sheikh Talal for the efforts pointed,” confessed Daniel Francis, on Centre WIMBLEDON: Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi returns against Germany’s Sabine Lisicki during their ments to be presented by an Australian com- he exerted to bring indoor soccer to higher Court with his mother Breda with their tickets women’s singles quarter-final match on day eight of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships ten- pany are not like those we are familiar with as levels lately, adding that Sheikh Talal is the won in an auction. nis tournament. — AFP the start will be with a song by Bashar Al- patron of the game and “always in our support But, eager to put a positive spin on a thor- to queue from Friday to Monday for a chance to Men’s number one seed Novak Djokovic also Shatti. The ceremony will be an hour long, both morally and materially, and this makes us oughly British experience, he said: “I suppose it is see their hero in action. Such devotion does not welcomed the new-look second week after including the speech of the chairman of the bring out the best”. The Kuwaiti team is now good to see the underdogs just like we do in stretch to the women’s game. Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal suffered shock organizing committee Sheikh Talal Al- participating in the world indoor cup, and per- football with the FA Cup.” “Seeds are falling like flies,” said Michael Ly, a early exits. Mohammad. The ceremony was decided to be formed strongly in Asia. Jenny Gibbs, enjoying her Centre Court debut tennis fan from Melbourne, Australia. Delighted “It’s good for change in a way because top short to avoid boredom. It was learned that Goalkeeper of the National Team and as a spectator, said: “I must say I was disappoint- that it took so little time to get in, he said: “This is players are always expected to reach the final the ceremony relies on technology and lasers, Qadisiya Club Sayyed Hassan Al-Mousawi said ed it wasn’t men’s tennis. That at the moment is a once in a lifetime thing to do.” stages of major events,” he said. “I think it’s inter- along with other surprises. holding a tournament such as this in Kuwait so much better.” Dorothy Richardson agreed: “I Jonathan Down could not believe his luck in esting also to see new faces for the crowd, for There is no doubt that Sheikh Talal wants will bring good returns to Kuwait’s sports in am disappointed we are not going to see the the queue. “We got Centre Court tickets as there (the) tennis world in general.” to send a message to all those who believed general and indoor soccer in particular. “I am stars.” Fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska is the that Kuwait’s role as a pioneer in sports has proud that a major tournament is being held is much less interest.” But fan Dave Chisholm, quaffing Pimms up taken a backseat, and this cannot happen as in Kuwait, especially that it is sanctioned by highest ranked survivor. Name a famous Belgian But Sue Barker, former French Open winner on Henman Hill, was not so sure. Sitting with we have young leaders who are able to man- FIFA and the Asian Federation,” he said. tennis player and most would pick Kim Clijsters and now a BBC presenter, argued that change friends on a picnic table looking up at the giant age and organize such as Sheikh Talal Al- Mousawi said Al-Qadisiya’s participation will or Justine Henin. was positive. She told Reuters: “I would love to screen put up beside the grassy knoll named Mohammad. The tournament and its opening not be “just to participate”, “as we have four Few would choose Kirsten Flipkens, one of see Serena and Maria through but times change after former British number One Tim Henman, ceremony will be an outstanding mark in international professionals, and we will bring the last eight at Wimbledon 2013. Fans of British and times have to change. It’s lovely to see new he said: “I think we are going to go off and see international indoor football and organization. three more, which will make the team number one Andy Murray were fanatical enough faces and get some new stories.” some of the men’s doubles instead.” — Reuters Tournament Director Khalid Habeeb said stronger and coherent”. the Australian company has finished installa- The opening ceremony will be on tion of all equipment according to the time Saturday, July 6. It was also revealed that the schedule and trials are underway. Habeeb total prizes amount to $500,000. The champi- IOC members set to be thanked Sheikh Talal for providing all these on will get $100,000, runner-up $50,000, third facilities, adding that what will be shown dur- and fourth places $25,000 each and the rest ing the opening ceremony are special will be distributed to the teams. hit by election fever

LAUSANNE: Electioneering fever will hit the Swiss city favourites after a glowing report from the Commission plus an emphasis on educating the young in Olympic Kuwait junior shooters of Lausanne this week as the three cities bidding for but question marks remain over whether their cam- ideals are high on many of their lists while several are the right to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and the paign has sufficiently captivated the members. The keen to see the Olympic Games kept to a reasonable show promise six men vying to succeed Jacqes Rogge as report, though, lauded their plans. Tokyo intends to size and not getting bigger and more expensive to put International Olympic Committee (IOC) president will use “the power of sport” to offer hope to the Japanese on. German IOC vice-president Thomas Bach is still By Abdellatif Sharaa Saad proved to be highly good”. make presentations to their electorate the IOC mem- people and promote national spirit, unity and confi- seen as the favorite to take a post that he has seeming- The skeet results were as follows: bers. While both those final decisions will come in dence,” in particular after the massive 2011 earthquake ly been groomed for years but Singapore businessman KUWAIT: Kuwait’s junior team that participat- First - Slavic Milo, Cze, 116 September in Buenos Aires — the 7th for the city and and tsunami, the report said. and diplomat Ng Ser Miang as well as Puerto Rican ed in the 55th GP Zbrojovka Brno 2013 in the Second - Sholti Otridge, Cze, 112 the 10th for the presidency — the host of the 2018 On the fear of more natural disasters in Japan, the banker Richard Carrion are viewed as real dangers to Czech Republic were able to register a signifi- Third - Mohammad Al-Azmi, Kwt, 111 Youth Olympic Games — one of Rogge’s innovations IOC report said the Tokyo bidders had ensured that that coming to fruition. The Youth Olympic Games race cant win which promises the rise of young Otaibi lauded the efforts of the board during his 12 year reign — will be designated in a vote “robust” anti-quake construction standards and neces- is a three-way one with Medellin being praised for an men who will play a major role in the future. members for their support to bad achieve- tomorrow. The 2020 Games bid teams from Istanbul, sary anti-tsunami safety measures were in place. impressive campaign but both they and Glasgow Head of the participating delegation Duaij ments at all levels. Otaibi also welcomed Madrid and Tokyo will approach their presentations The six contenders to replace Rogge — after a could well lose out to Buenos Aires, who by happy Al-Otaibi said plans of Kuwait Shooting Sport youth to the shooting school and Sheikh today all in relatively good heart, emboldened by posi- largely successful and peaceful presidency — will out- coincidence are hosting the IOC Congress in just a cou- Club concentrated on preparing a new lineup Saad Academy. A championship will be held tive assessments by the IOC Evaluation Commission line their vision for taking the movement forward post ple of months time and the members will probably of shooters that supports the leaders. He said in the name of the late Sheikh Sabah Al- last week. Istanbul in particular will be keen their effec- Rogge. Cracking down on illegal gambling and doping prefer not to have a chilly welcome. —AFP that junior teams in all Olympic events were Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah under the tive message about being a bridge to different cul- prepared, and the successful participation in patronage of the chairman of the board on tures, religions and generations returns to centre stage the Czech Republic “gives us high hopes as Saturday at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic after an uncomfortable period when mass street shooters Mohammad Al-Azmi, Nasser Al- Shooting Complex in the rifle, pistol, skeet protests round Turkey threatened to destabilise their Klitschko to fight Mutairi, Nasser Al-Khalidi and Abdelaziz Al- and trap events. bid. Aside from that the question marks raised by the Commission over transport congestion in the city could arise again from other members but Istanbul’s Povetkin in October energetic chief executive Hasan Arat believes solving that problem is already well in hand. HAMBURG: Wladmir Klitschko will defend his “With regards to transport the report also states multiple heavyweight titles against mandatory that we have significantly improved public transport challenger Alexander Povetkin in a highly and we have enough funding to continue on the other anticipated showdown on Oct. 5 in Moscow. projects,” he said last week. Madrid will have an even Klitschko’s management says the fight, long greater spring in their step and justifiably so after the in the making, will take place in the Olympic Evaluation Commission crucially gave them the Arena. “This is the best fight that the heavy- thumbs up over their relatively modest planned budg- weight division has to offer at the moment,” et for remaining building work should they get the Klitschko said in a statement yesterday. Games. The Commission said they were confident that Klitschko holds the IBF and IBO belts and is the modest budget of 2.37 billion euros ($3.10 billion, also the WBO and WBA “super champion.” �2.01 billion) for fulfilling the remaining building work Povetkin, 33, is WBA’s “regular champion.” is feasible. “As the additional investment required to Klitschko’s older brother Vitali is the WBC deliver the Games is relatively modest, the champion. The Ukraine-born brothers have Commission believes that Spanish economy should be able to support the delivery of the Games,” read the dominated the heavy division for a decade. report. While the terrible economic problems bedev- Russia’s Povetkin is like Wladimir Klitschko a illing the country will not be solved any time soon the former Olympic champion and has a 26-0 record, with 18 KOs. Klitschko is 60-3. His last bid team can at least regard that factor posing a con- Wladimir Klitschko stant question mark over their viability as a candidate fight was a sixth-round TKO over Francesco as being laid to rest. “Madrid are very much a live can- Pianeta in May. Povetkin, who beat Ruslan Chagaev on didate to win the right to host the Games,” one IOC The Klitschkos rarely fight outside Germany, points in August 2011 for the then-vacant title, source told AFP. “They have 28 of the 35 venues built, their base. “I’ve never boxed in Moscow and I’m also last fought in May and stopped Polish the infrastructure is in place and they are running an looking forward to many Ukrainians and challenger Andrzej Wawrzyk in the third round effective campaign,” the source added. Russians who will come to the arena and cre- for his fourth successful title defense. Klitschko, Duaij Al-Otaibi with Kuwait’s delegation Tokyo, the only one of the three to have previously ate a special atmosphere,” Klitschko said. 37, will be in his 24th title fight. — AP hosted the Games in 1964, still appear to be the WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 SPORTS19 Exploding F1 tyres bad news for Pirelli brand

LONDON: “Take the F1 performance to line is your product is a tyre. It goes around your car,” runs a slogan on the website of on a fast car and it failed spectacularly,” he Italian tyre maker Pirelli that risks alarming added. motorists after a weekend of high-speed The British race was the eighth stop of 19 blowouts in the British Formula One grand on the F1 calendar this season and the first prix. time that tyre blowouts have been a major Pirelli, which supplies all 11 teams in F1 problem. motor racing, suffered the downside of sup- The Pirelli tyres had been the centre of porting high profile sport on Monday after controversy all season, with drivers com- images of its shredded tyres were beamed plaining they had to cut their speed to pre- to millions of TV viewers around the world. vent them wearing out after only a few laps. “Terror tyres” was the headline on the One possible solution to the crisis would be back page of Britain’s Daily Mail, while The to revert back to last year’s tyres, leading Times said “Road to hell as tyre chaos team Red Bull suggested. almost halts grand prix.” Shares in Pirelli edged lower on Monday The case has echoes of the PR meltdown when news also broke that Italian prosecu- suffered by Britain’s G4S last year when it tors were seeking to jail company chairman failed to supply enough security guards for Marco Tronchetti Provera for two years in a the London Olympics, forcing organisers to case related to his time as head of Telecom draft in soldiers and exposing the company Italia. to ridicule. Pirelli, the world’s fifth biggest tyre mak- Pirelli’s motor sports specialists were er, has been the sole supplier to Formula urgently trying to discover what caused the One since 2011 under a contract that five tyre failures during the British grand expires at the end of this season. prix at Silverstone, whether it was some- The 11 teams make a cash payment to thing to do with their product or whether Pirelli for the tyres and also carry branding the track was to blame. for the company. The teams complain that The sport’s millionaire drivers raised the the value of the advertising they supply far spectre of boycotting next weekend’s outweighs the cost of the tyres. German grand prix if changes were not Sponsors and suppliers use major sport- made, fearing for their safety. Brazilian ing series and events like the Olympics to SILVERSTONE: McLaren Mercedes’ Mexican driver Sergio Perez drives with a shredded tyre during the third practice session at the Ayrton Senna in 1994 was the last driver to show their ability to deliver under the most Silverstone circuit in this file photo. —AFP be killed in a race. exacting circumstances. F1’s complex rules, internal politics and “F1 is Pirelli’s attempt to shout louder the risk was that the brand would develop remain in the sport and repair its image or was urgently analysing the failures. team rivalries have all complicated Pirelli’s than anyone else, to get noticed,” said negative associations - the exact opposite cut its losses and quit. It has already com- One by-product of Sunday’s chaotic race, efforts to produce a good racing tyre this Simon Chadwick, professor of sports mar- of what sponsors are trying to achieve. mitted to contracts for trackside advertising won by German Nico Rosberg in a season but those subtleties were lost on keting at Coventry University in central “You normally associate F1 tyres with for next season so a withdrawal would be a Mercedes, was that it put the sport back in most viewers. England. safety and security. It’s about reliability,” he surprise. the news on a weekend when it was com- “A lot of these things are beyond their Chadwick said that few viewers would said. “Its brand to a greater or lesser extent The company declined to comment on peting with Wimbledon tennis and the control,” said Joel Seymour-Hyde of sports have decided never to buy a Pirelli tyre on will have been affected.” Monday. Paul Hembery, its motorsport British and Irish Lions rugby tour to marketing agency Octagon. “The bottom the basis of Sunday’s blowouts. However, Pirelli must now decide whether to director, said on Sunday that the company Australia.—Reuters Blatter hails Maracana, predicts great WCup

RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA president something exceptional and that between expensive new stadi- tions, maybe in the favelas and Sepp Blatter hailed the Maracana was a very special roar. The fans ums and the poor state of public other places where people have fans and the electric atmosphere were extraordinary yesterday. services including health and no access to the stadium,” he at Sunday’s Confederations Cup Not fanatical fans but fantastic transport. said. final as the most incredible he fans,” Blatter said. “It was a success despite all the “We want to give them the had ever heard and said Brazil “They sang the national unrest and protests,” Blatter said. chance to watch and be part of would host a great 2014 World anthem for so long they delayed “But I think the social unrest is the World Cup. We have done it Cup. before in past World Cups and Speaking at a news conference that is exactly what we will do in where FIFA secretary general Brazil.” Jerome Valcke pledged possibly Valcke added that while to bring World Cup matches to protests had been a part of tour- Brazil’s impoverished favelas via nament, a degree of respect also fan zones and giant screens, emerged between the protesters Blatter declared the test event a outside the stadiums and people success despite unrest on the wanting to watch the match. streets. “The protesters did not stop What moved Blatter most dur- them,” he said. “We know what ing the two-week competition the situation is and we have had was the astonishing rendition of it for the last two weeks. But on the Brazilian national anthem one side you had all the fans before Sunday’s final between wanting to watch the match and Brazil and Spain, a game the on the other side the demonstra- hosts won 3-0. “In all my years I tion. LONDON: In this file picture taken on June 20, 2013 Australian cricketer Chris have never witnessed anything “There was respect between like that,” Blatter said on the two groups and they co-exist- Rogers poses for a photo after playing a game of cricket. —AFP RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA’s President Joseph Blatter during a press Monday.The 70,000-plus crowd ed in this Confederations Cup.” conference in this file photo. —AFP at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana sta- Valcke maintained security issues Rogers gets surprise dium continued singing the the start of the match for two now resting. I don’t know (for) were a matter for the govern- anthem after the musical accom- minutes but it was not important. how long but it is now resting.” ment and said the tournament Ashes opening slot paniment stopped, rising to an Yes there have been problems Valcke said the protests would had been a success. ear-splitting crescendo. but they will be solved and we not stop the governing body’s “It was a great competition NOTTINGHAM: Rookie Test batsman Chris He averages 50.38 from 239 first class They continued chanting and will have a great World Cup in plans to take the World Cup to but from the minute it was Rogers will open for Australia in the first matches. The team for Worcester also fea- singing after the match began Brazil next year.” the people next year. over, it was over,” he said. Ashes test against England at Trent Bridge, tures 19-year-old left-arm spinner Ashton and by the time Fred scored the Scenes of riot police firing tear “There are three million tickets “Now we are totally focused on Nottingham, next week, coach Darren Agar and seamers Jackson Bird and Ryan opening goal after two minutes it gas were common during the available for the World Cup but the World Cup, the World Cup Lehmann said on Monday. Harris, as new coach Lehmann rings the was impossible to hear the per- tournament with protests cen- this is a land of 200 million peo- did not start today it started The 35-year-old has only played one changes after taking over from Mickey son next to you talking without tred on a number of grievances, ple so we will have fan zones and the minute the Confederations previous test, scoring 19 runs in two Arthur who was sacked on June 24. them shouting. “The Maracana is the main one being the contrast giant screens in different loca- Cup ended.”—Reuters innings against India at Perth in January Last week Lehmann also confirmed 2008. “I’ve dreamt about this but I didn’t Watson’s return to the top of the order for necessarily believe it would ever come the Ashes and the opener responded with true,” Rogers told the BBC. “This opportuni- a powerful 90 in a tour victory over Premier League looks ty is one that is not going to come too Somerset. often. “I have nothing to lose and hopeful- Rogers’s inclusion sees regular opener ly I can take that attitude into the test Ed Cowan move down to number three, to tend to local roots match. It’s going to be about managing my with all-rounder Steve Smith handed an LONDON: English soccer’s Premier League successful exports, with overseas TV rights for emotions.” opportunity at number six. put a fraction of its riches into a scheme to the next three seasons worth an estimated 2 Rogers will partner Shane Watson at the Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson and support youth sport yesterday, seeking to billion pounds ($3 billion) and top clubs like top of the order but first the untried pairing Peter Siddle are all rested. Yesterday’s will team up in Australia’s final warm-up game is also a test for Somerset opener underline a commitment to local communi- champions Manchester United able to sign match against Worcestershire yesterday. Nick Compton, who was replaced by Joe ties its clubs are accused of taking for grant- sponsorship deals in dozens of foreign mar- Rogers may be a test novice but he has Root for England’s warm-up match against ed. kets. plenty of experience in English conditions. Essex this week, but hit 81 against the Flush with cash from a 5 billion pound United and title rivals Manchester City, He is the captain of county side Middlesex tourists last week and has been given a Shahid Afridi ($7.6 billion) television windfall, English clubs Chelsea and Arsenal are about to embark on and has also played for Derbyshire, “guest” place in the Worcester side. The face pressure to cut ticket prices and familiar long-haul overseas tours to tune up for the Leicestershire and Northants. first test starts on July 10.—Reuters questions about their failure to produce gift- new season and help build their international Afridi wants to ed young players for the national team. following. But Chief Executive Richard Scudamore Back home, some fans argue that the TV play both defended the 20-club League against accusa- windfall should be used to subsidise cheaper Mineiro take on Newell’s tions it was not doing enough to support tickets to prevent less affluent fans being Twenty20 & ODIs teams lower down the soccer pyramid and priced out of going to matches. grassroots sport. Scudamore said it was up to clubs to set BRAZIl: With Confederations Cup outcast should be confident after their role in ISLAMABAD: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi made it clear Ronaldinho itching for action and forwards Brazil’s success. As part of efforts to stay in touch with their own prices but added they should main- yesterday he is hoping for a recall after being dropped for last local communities, the Premier League has tain strong local ties to complement their Jo and Bernard back after Brazil’s success, But centre back Rever is out of both legs month’s Champions Trophy. Atletico Mineiro play Newell’s Old Boys of the semi-final after being sent off for dis- teamed up with government-backed Sport global ambitions. The 33-year-old veteran of 348 one-day internationals paid England in a 17 million pound scheme to “It means making sure that the local peo- today with a Libertadores Cup final on their sent at the end of Atletico’s dramatic quar- the price for a below-par performance on the tour of South minds. ter-final win over Tijuana. encourage young people to take up a variety ple that live and breathe and work around Africa, where he remained wicketless in all five ODIs and of sports. the clubs are able to go and watch those Atletico travel to the Argentine city of With the score 1-1 and 3-3 on aggre- scored only one half century. But Pakistan’s humiliating three Rosario for the first leg of the semi-final gate, the Mexican debutants looked set for Scudamore bridled at suggestions that teams, not every week perhaps, but certainly successive defeats in the Champions Trophy have raised his such funding was small change for the on an occasional basis,” he said. England has after a month’s break in the Libertadores a shock victory in the second leg in Belo hopes for this month’s tour of the West Indies for five ODIs Premier League where players can earn up to the most lucrative league in the world, but and the Brazilian championship while the Horizonte. But goalkeeper Victor saved a and two Twenty20s. 200,000 pounds a week. has only won a major international competi- 2014 World Cup hosts staged and won the penalty with his foot to keep Atletico in the “I am doing all the hard work and I want to play both one- “There is no other company in this country tion once - the World Cup on home soil in Confederations Cup. tournament on the away goals rule. day internationals and Twenty20s,” Afridi told reporters in “We’ve been missing the ball,” Ronaldinho’s side are looking to win Lahore, where he has been practicing at the National Cricket that gives away more than we give away,” he 1966. Ronaldinho, overlooked by Brazil despite South America’s top club title for the first Academy for the last three weeks with former international told reporters at a London school. “We will The Premier League attracts many of the his fine form for Atletico, told the club’s TV time. Victory over Newell’s would put them Mansoor Rana. give away next year more than 260 million world’s top players but critics argue that channel. into a final against three times champions “I have tried to bat for longer periods in the nets and have pounds. We will give away 50 million just in homegrown youngsters are getting crowded “This break has come at a good time. Olimpia of Paraguay or Independiente worked on quite a number of things with Mansoor Rana,” raw charitable causes,” he added, surrounded out. Scudamore said a 320 million pound We’re all going to come back keener to Santa Fe of Colombia. Afridi said. by teenagers showing off their soccer, table investment to improve academies for young play and reach the final. It’s going to be Olimpia, Paraguay’s most successful Afridi has scored 7,201 runs and taken 348 wickets in ODIs. tennis and basketball skills. players was starting to pay dividends. another ‘final’, the hardest match we’ve club who last lifted the South American But his form dipped sharply in the last 12 ODIs, when he The larger figure includes money distrib- “There were 210 players qualified to play had so far,” he said of the game at the crown in 2002, are at home in the first leg scored only 161 runs at an average of 17.88 and took just four uted to other parts of the professional game, for England playing in the Premier League Marcelo Bielsa stadium. at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in wickets. including “parachute payments” to clubs to last year,” Scudamore said. “We ought to be Jo, joint top scorer with team mate Asuncion yesterday against Colombia’s However, Afridi believes he still has a lot to offer his coun- cushion the financial impact of relegation. able to find 11 to take the field to do well,” he Diego Tardelli on six goals, and Bernard Santa Fe.—Reuters try and should be allowed to play himself back into form.—AP The Premier League is one of Britain’s most added.—Reuters Puigmania breaks Rogers gets out in surprise Ashes Los 16Angeles opening19 slot WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Exploding F1 tyres bad news for Pirelli brand Page 19

WIMBLEDON: Germany’s Sabine Lisicki serves against Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi during their women’s singles quarter-final match on day eight of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. — AFP Flipkens, Lisicki book semi spots

LONDON: Kirsten Flipkens and Sabine Lisicki, whose “Last year I didn’t even get into the qualifying of coming into Tuesday’s match having downed Williams in Pironkova in the fourth round. careers were almost wrecked by illness and injury, booked Wimbledon. I still cannot believe it. I was so calm on the the fourth round. “I have played so much tennis in the last few days, that’s emotional places in the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday. court, I had nothing to lose and I just went for my shots.” “There’s no pressure. I just keep playing the game that I why I have the problem.” Li fired 58 winners in Tuesday’s Flipkens will be playing in her first Grand Slam semi- Lisicki followed-up her shock defeat of five-time cham- love,” she added. It’s also a surface she loves-the German’s quarter-final but was undone by 40 unforced errors. final at the age of 27 after knocking out 2011 champion pion Serena Williams to book her place in her second record at Wimbledon stands at 18 wins and just four losses Bartoli, the 2007 runner-up to Venus Williams, fell foul of Petra Kvitova, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The Belgian 20th seed goes on Wimbledon semi-final. while she is only 16-15 at the three other Slams. the fans on Court One when she demanded that play be to face 2007 runner-up Marion Bartoli, the 15th seed, who The German also made the last-four as a wildcard in Kanepi has now played and lost six quarter-finals at the stopped when she was leading 5-4, 40-40 with Stephens defied a chorus of boos before seeing off American 17th 2011, three months after her world ranking had slumped majors. Radwanska, the highest seed left following the exit serving as light rain began to fall. seed Sloane Stephens, 6-4, 7-5. Lisicki made her second to 218 as she fought her way back from a serious ankle of defending champion Williams, Victoria Azarenka and When they resumed after two and a half hours, Wimbledon semi-final by cruising past Kaia Kanepi of injury which left her “needing to learn to walk again”. Sharapova, beat Li in a gripping two-hour, 43 minute con- Stephens quickly dropped the first set and slipped 2-0 Estonia, 6-3, 6-3. “It was an amazing match yesterday, but I had to make test which was completed under the Centre Court roof. down in the second, losing the first nine points as the The German 23rd seed now tackles Polish fourth seed sure that I had calmed down and was ready for today,” said Radwanska, the runner-up in 2012, took victory on an crowd, convinced that the Frenchwoman’s complaints over Agnieszka Radwanska who battled past Chinese sixth seed Lisicki, who completed victory in her fourth Wimbledon eighth match point. The 24-year-old Pole, who had gone the state of the court had been unjustified, jeered follow- Li Na, 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 6-2. quarter-final just before rain began to fall. into the quarter-final with a 4-6 losing record against Li, ing their lengthy wait. This time last year, Flipkens, the 2003 junior champion, “I have had experience of other years to help me. I also also overcame an injury scare when she needed her right “I don’t get why the crowd was against me,” said the 28- was ranked a lowly 262 in the world after blood clots in her played the semi-finals in 2011 so that helped me be ready thigh tightly-strapped at the start of the deciding set. year-old Bartoli. “The courts are slippy even when they are left ankle forced her to take several months off. for today.” “Li played unbelievable tennis. I was just happy to get dry but when they are wet they can be dangerous. “I want- “It’s amazing, it’s more than a dream come true to be in Lisicki, who was defeated by Maria Sharapova in the through after struggling in the final set,” said Radwanska ed to make sure I didn’t get hurt. I didn’t want to come off the semi-final of a Grand Slam, it’s ridiculous,” Flipkens said. semi-finals two years ago, insisted that she felt no pressure who had also needed three sets to beat Tsvetana for any other reason.” — AFP Gerrans takes Finnish islanders yellow jersey NICE: When Simon Gerrans started cycling to help take on Europe rehabilitate knee injuries suffered while racing motor bikes, he never imagined he would go on to HELSINKI: Finnish club IFK Mariehamn, are inhabited and the total population is emulate the feats of pioneering Australian compa- from the capital of a Swedish-speaking only 28,000. triot Phil Anderson. archipelago in the middle of the Baltic Aaland could have become Swedish On Monday Gerrans, who won his maiden Tour Sea, make their European debut this week and its inhabitants voted as such when de France stage in 2008, grabbed his second career in a remarkable rise for one of the conti- Finland became independent in 1917. But win on the race to hand his Orica-GreenEdge team nent’s smallest sides. Helsinki, which claims sovereignty, their maiden Tour win. The team have been drawn against obtained an agreement from the League It got the proverbial monkey off his team’s back Inter Baki of Azerbaijan in a two-legged of Nations in 1921 that Aaland would a year after their race debut in 2012 ended with first-round qualifying match for the remain definitively under its control, in lots of encouragement but no stage wins. But few Europa League to be played tomorrow exchange for autonomous status. expected Orica to make it two in a row. and next week. Aaland today has its own flag, vehicle Yesterday, the Aussies kept the momentum Tiny Mariehamn’s appearance in the number plates, parliament and stamps going with victory in the fourth stage team time competition is by all accounts astonishing, that sets it apart from the rest of Finland. trial over 25 km around Nice. To top it off, Gerrans as 10 years they were playing in the The recent success of Mariehamn’s foot- took possession of the fabled yellow jersey. depths of the Finnish third division. ballers is another source of local pride. “It’s unbelievable. It’s been a dream two days for Competing in Europe has been “the Lyyski, who has run a number of hotels us. It really doesn’t get any better than this,” said FRANCE: A combination of pictures shows (from top, left to right) Australia’s Simon Gerrans celebrating his overall leader’s yellow jersey on the podium; riders of Orica Greenedge team team’s dream for years”, manager Pekka on the archipelago for several years, is Gerrans. While Gerrans had caused minor shock on Lyyski, told AFP. pleased with his successful transformation Monday by throwing his wheel over the line ahead competing; riders of the Sky team crossing the finish line; and Australia’s Simon Gerrans (cen- ter) celebrating his overall leader’s yellow jersey with his teammates. — AFP Lyyski, now 59, played for the club in of the club into a professional outfit. of Slovakian sprint specialist Peter Sagan, team the 1970s and took charge as coach in “Since our promotion to the sporting director Matt White was even more sur- for the team. To win today, to put Simon (Gerrans) deficit to former two-time winner Alberto 2003, taking them to two successive pro- Veikkausliiga (1st division), financing from prised by Tuesday’s winning performance. into the yellow jersey, we didn’t really expect it.” Contador. motions and into the Finnish top-flight. private sponsors has increased consider- “It’s certainly been a very big two days,” said On a mainly flat course suited to teams with Evans, who usually speaks out in defence of his Last year, he steered Mariehamn to an ably, allowing us to make our club into a White, who only returned to the sport recently fol- powerful riders Orica pushed Omega-Pharma into teammates, was less charitable this time. “You look unprecedented 4th place-and a tilt at business,” he explained. lowing a ban after admitting to using performance second place by just one second with Sky and to gain every second you can at this stage in the enhancing drugs while a rider with Lance Europe for the first time. For their “We don’t pay big wages in interna- Team Saxo in third and fourth at three and nine Tour and losing a lot of seconds certainly isn’t what European opponents, Mariehamn is an tional terms but for Finland we’re compet- Armstrong’s US Postal team. seconds adrift respectively. I hoped for today and isn’t what I expected,” said unlikely footballing destination. itive,” he added. With an annual budget of “Most teams are judged very much by how they Of the big hitters, Cadel Evans was one of the the 36 year old. perform at the Tour de France,” said White. “We’ve principal casualties. His BMC team finished ninth at “But we’ll have to go back and have an analysis The sleepy town is the capital of the about one million euros ($1.3 million, won more than 50 races since our inception ... but 26sec behind Orica to leave him with a 23sec and look at why and go on from here. The simple Aaland chain of islands between Finland 854,000 pounds), Mariehamn reflects the yesterday (Monday) was obviously the biggest win deficit to race favourite Chris Froome and a 17sec analysis is that we weren’t fast enough.” — AFP and Sweden. Just 80 of the 6,500 islands average in Finnish football. —AFP Egypt surges after army ultimatum; Gulf mixed Page 22

The ‘worst is over’ Business for India economy WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Page 23 Ford and Chrysler post solid gains in auto sales US home prices jump 12.2 percent Page 22 Page 22

DETROIT: Jeff Caldwell, 29, a chassis assembly line supervisor, checks a vehicle on the assembly line at the Chrysler Jeffersonorth N Assembly plant in Detroit. The auto industry is on a hiring spree as car makers and parts suppliers race to find engineers, technicians and factory workers to build the next generation of vehicles. —AP (See Page 22) Portugal destabilized as finance minister quits Economy reels as social discontent mounts

LISBON: The shock resignation of small conservative CDS-PP party headed Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar by Foreign Minister Paulo Portas. Portas Gold sales to Iran puts the government in a dilemma over now becomes the number two minister reforms imposed by creditors and has trig- after the prime minister, and he has under US sanctions gered calls for an early election. warned that he could bring the coalition Opposition Socialist leader Antonio Jose down if a plan to raise taxes on pensioners WASHINGTON: Rigid new US sanctions against Iran Seguro was due to meet President Anibal is applied. But Passos Coelho has given came into force Monday including bans on the sale or Cavaco Silva later in the day to press for an Portas the task of completing by July 15 a barter of gold to the Islamic republic, as Washington early ballot, media reports said yesterday. reform of the state to save 4.7 billion euros ratchets up efforts to isolate the country over its The minister’s decision on Monday also by the end of 2014. This exposes Portas to nuclear program. Turkey is believed to conduct exten- sive business with Iran using gold, and US lawmakers reveals the full depth and drama of the the same political fire as has brought suspect it of importing Iranian natural gas and paying budget rigor imposed by the IMF and EU. down the finance minister. for the energy with the metal to circumvent existing But the centre-right government has little Gaspar, a onetime EU and ECB official, restrictions on financial transactions with Tehran. choice but to plough on. It has just two played the main role in applying the For years, the US and the international community weeks to come up with a program to reform program agreed with the European have imposed an arsenal of sanctions against Iran, reform the state before auditors arrive on Union and International Monetary Fund. accusing it of using its civilian nuclear energy program July 15 to examine progress on reforms for But in his letter of resignation, he acknowl- as a cover for attempts to build atomic weapons- the IMF, EU and European Central Bank. edged that “repeated slippages” in achiev- charges Tehran denies. US President Barack Obama “Vitor Gaspar quits, austerity stays”, the ing targets “have undermined my credibili- last July targeted Iran’s oil export sector, vowing pun- newspaper Jornal de Negocios said. “The ty as finance minister.” The drastic cuts in ishment against firms that circumvented restrictions government is dead and only the funeral spending and tax rises which he has over- Portuguese Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar on the financial dealings. Lawmakers saw the enforce- date has to be decided,” the left-wing seen have plunged the country into a ment measures as lagging, and last December passed Block party declared. The Communists, deeper recession, and with higher unem- But the European Commission was At BNP Paribas bank, economist the sanctions that went into effect Monday. whose labour union allies held a general ployment, than had been expected. quick to exhort the government to stick to Ricardo Santos commented that the new “Congress is going to definitely hold the adminis- strike last week, called on the centre-right At the end of March the public deficit reforms, saying that “a lot has been done minister should take over without difficul- tration’s feet to the fire on enforcement,” Mark government headed by Prime Minister amounted to 10.6 percent of annual out- to consolidate public finances.” Gaspar was ty since she had been directly involved in Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Pedro Passos Coelho to resign. The gov- put. The target set by creditors, already to be replaced from Tuesday by the the efforts by Portugal to return to raising Defense of Democracies said. In practice, gold sales by ernment came to power in early elections relaxed twice, is for a deficit of 5.5 percent Treasury Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque. funds normally on financial markets. This is any person or group to an Iranian government entity June 2011. This came after the Socialists at the end of the year. The national debt is At Commerzbank, analyst David Schnautz critical if the rescue program is to come to or private citizen can now trigger sanctions against the had admitted that their policies had failed running at 120 percent of GDP. The gov- commented that this “will not change the a successful end in a year’s time as seller. In May, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and asked the IMF and EU for bailout fund- ernment is increasingly isolated, as shown rules of the game.” Political analyst Antonio planned. In Berlin, German Finance and Financial Intelligence David Cohen suggested to ing of 78 billion euros ($102 billion) over by the fourth general strike organized last Costa Pinto also commented that “the Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble regretted Congress that Turkey did not provide gold in direct three years. week by trades unions. Business leaders margin for manoeuvre is so narrow that the resignation, describing Gaspar as a exchange for Iranian natural gas, but reserved his are also highly critical, calling on it to rec- unless conditions are eased from outside, “colleague and friend” but also said he was details on the matter for a closed-door hearing with REFORMS STILL NEEDED ognize the failure of the strategy of restor- the future of the Portuguese people will reassured by the knowledge that lawmakers. The resignation changes the political ing Portugal’s international financial credi- continue to be marked by sweat and Albuquerque would continue the work He also stressed the sanctions would be carried out base of the coalition which involves the bility-at any price. tears.” achieved so far.— AFP “without fear or favor.” “We have been clear that that July 1st date is a real date and that after July 1st, any sale of gold to Iran is something that we will pursue vigorously,” he said. The legislation also imposes penalties on any person or organization that conducts Saudi taps new oil areas in business related to Iran’s energy, shipping and ship- building sectors, industries which the United States links to Iran’s nuclear program. And it also includes the lucrative automobile sector, plan to preserve capacity after Obama signed an executive order on June 3 adding the industry to the sanctions regime. Many Iranian firms linked to the leadership and its KHOBAR: Saudi Aramco plans to devel- said. After pumping its biggest fields tional natural gas liquids, which are Aramco is still investing in new pro- Revolutionary Guards were already subject to US, op two less productive areas of major at near record rates to make up for lost recovered from the associated gas.” duction projects, however, to increase European or UN sanctions. The new measures extend oilfields, industry sources said, as supplies from Libya and Iran over the By 2017, Saudi Aramco aims to its options and take pressure off big to the totality of the Iran sectors, punishing groups Riyadh takes care to maintain excess last two years, the kingdom wants to boost capacity at Khurais by 300,000 fields such as Ghawar and Abqaiq that that do business with any Iranian firm in the named capacity for the long term, even while focus on less productive fields to ease bpd to 1.5 million bpd and at Shaybah have been the main source of wealth industries, rather than just with specific companies non-OPEC oil supplies are on the rise. pressure on aging reservoirs to help by 250,000 bpd to 1 million bpd, the for the economy for decades. Husseini identified by Washington. The plan to increase capacity from keep their output robust. sources said. The company could not said the expansion plans would require “By really blacklisting the Iranian economy and tar- Khurais and Shaybah by a total of “The targeted area includes the two immediately be reached for comment. new oil and gas processing facilities geting gold, they’re really sending a message out to 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2017 fields south of Khurais, Abu Jiffan and Saudi Arabia had planned in 2008 to and a dedicated pipeline to transport the international business community; there are very few areas of the Iranian economy where you can legal- will take the strain off Ghawar, the Mazalij, which are smaller complex increase production capacity to 15 mil- natural gas liquids from Shaybah. ly do business,” Dubowitz said. Meanwhile Treasury world’s largest conventional oilfield, fields that have not produced much oil lion bpd but then put the plan on hold Aramco completed a large capacity Secretary Jacob Lew said the sanctions are not aimed two sources familiar with the plans in past years,” Sadad Al-Husseini, a for- after the financial crisis. A surge in expansion plan in 2009-2010, which at hurting the Iranian people but to “change their deci- said. mer top executive at Saudi Aramco, North American unconventional oil included the start-up of Khurais and sion” about pursuing a nuclear program. Lew hoped Such projects are not intended to said. “As for Shaybah field, they want to over the last few years, meanwhile, has the expansion of Shaybah to 750,000 the sanctions would work, he said Sunday at a confer- raise Saudi production capacity mainly raise production from the south taken pressure off Riyadh. Officials now bpd. Khurais contains highly prized ence in Aspen, Colorado, because “the alternatives are beyond the current stated 12.5 million where the reservoir is less productive say there is no plan to expand beyond Arab Light crude, which is easily con- worse.”— AFP bpd, Saudi oil officials have previously and to gather large volumes of addi- the kingdom’s current capacity. verted into transport fuels.— Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 BUSINESS Mitsubishi UFJ, Thai bank to seal $5.6 billion deal

TOKYO: Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ, the coun- “(Bank of Ayudhya) is one of the leading December Mitsubishi announced it been looking abroad as the domestic mar- runs a television broadcaster, Bank of try’s largest lender, said yesterday it commercial banks in Thailand offering bought a 20 percent stake in state-owned ket’s growth potential remains lacklustre. Ayudhya holds the equivalent of around planned to buy 75 percent of Thailand’s diversified financial services while holding VietinBank worth about $743 million, the Rivals Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group 3.4 trillion yen in assets. Bank of Ayudhya for about $5.6 billion. wide range of client base and market largest-ever foreign investment in and Mizuho Financial Group have also The bank handles personal loans and The deal, which is subject to regulatory knowledge.” Mitsubishi said it would offer Vietnam’s banking sector. looked overseas to expand. credit cards and is strong in transactions approval, would be the biggest by a shareholders, including US-based General In April a US unit of Mitsubishi said it In May Sumitomo Mitsui struck an with small and medium-sized businesses. Japanese lender in Southeast Asia. “With Electric, a price of 39 Thai baht ($1.25) per had reached an agreement to buy a real- agreement for a 40 percent stake in About 4,000 Japanese companies operate its potential for future growth and a track share. estate lending business run by PB Capital Indonesia’s PT Bank Tabungan Pensiunan in Thailand, a major export base that is record of consistent economic growth, The Japanese firm said it was aiming to Corporation, a Deutsche Bank Group com- Nasional for about $1.5 billion. Two years home to a burgeoning middle class. Thailand has become an economic centre close the proposed deal by December. pany. A sale price for that deal was not ago Mizuho announced a plan to buy a 15 Yesterday’s announcement comes about of Greater Mekong,” Mitsubishi said in a Internationally, the deal would be one of immediately disclosed, but the leading percent share in Vietcombank. Bank of two weeks after New York state slapped statement. Mitsubishi’s biggest. It invested 900 billion Nikkei business daily said it would cost the Ayudhya, established in 1945, is Thailand’s Mitsubishi-UFJ with a $250 million fine for “Thailand and Japan enjoy a close rela- yen to buy a stake in Morgan Stanley in Japanese bank more than 300 billion yen fifth-largest lender with about 600 handling money transfers that violated tionship with numerous Japanese compa- 2008, throwing the troubled Wall Street Japan’s so-called mega-banks have strong branches and over 18,000 employees. sanctions on Iran as well as on Sudan and nies now operating in Thailand,” it added. giant a lifeline during the financial crisis. In balance sheets and have increasingly Established by the Ratanarak family, which Myanmar. — AFP Egypt surges after army ultimatum; Gulf mixed Underlying tone in UAE remains strong DUBAI: Egypt’s bourse posted its biggest one- dict how far the market’s rally might continue; days - partly because the government granted day gain in a year yesterday after an army ulti- even if the opposing sides somehow form a an amnesty extension,” said Asim Bukhtiar, head matum to President Mohamed Morsi to share coalition government, it will be unclear whether of research at Riyad Capital. power spurred buying by local investors. Gulf that government can operate smoothly until The building and construction sector gained markets were mixed though an amnesty for for- elections are held. 0.5 percent; shares in retail group Fawaz eign workers helped Saudi Arabia. Cairo’s bench- “It can be argued that the army’s intervention Abdulazis Alhokair , in another industry which mark rose 4.9 percent to a near four-week high, may mean we are heading towards a resolution relies heavily on foreign labor, jumped 5.2 per- in its largest one-day rise since July 2012. Some sooner rather than later. When it comes, and cent. Elsewhere in the Gulf, United Arab shares face 5 percent limits for their moves and depending on surrounding circumstances, the Emirates markets declined as investors booked went limit-up. The index is still down 8.7 percent market’s knee-jerk reaction could be positive,” gained from Monday’s rally. All Gulf bourses rose year-to-date. said Raza Agha, chief economist for the region at on Monday - the start of the third quarter - as After nationwide anti-government protests, VTB Capital. “This however will be tempered in asset managers opened new positions. Dubai’s the army threatened on Monday to intervene if the days/weeks that follow as the enormity of benchmark slipped 0.8 percent, trimming 2013 political parties did not reach a compromise what lies ahead becomes clear. One of the gains to 39.3 percent. Abu Dhabi’s index within 48 hours. Although this risks further tur- immediate challenges will be mobilizing donors, declined 0.7 percent. FLORIDA: A single family home is shown for sale in Surfside, Fla. US home prices moil and the possibility of a long-term escala- as the current situation may have had a negative The underlying mood remains strong, howev- jumped 12.2 percent in May from a year ago, the most in seven years. — AP tion of conflict between Islamists and secular impact on headline central bank reserve levels...” er. Dubai-based Daman Investments released a forces in Egypt, many investors think it may be a he wrote in a research note. report saying equities were on the verge of a step towards removing Mursi - blamed for much multi-year rally. “I will not rule out a triple-digit US home prices jump of the economic and political chaos of the past SAUDI LABOUR AMNESTY gain (this year, in percent) for either one of the year - in the near term, or at least forcing him to In Saudi Arabia, the benchmark climbed 0.7 UAE’s stock markets. All the positive elements Housing recovery strengthening share power. percent as banks led gains, with that sector ris- are there to help achieve that,” Shehab Gargash, “The confidence in the military pushed the ing 1.7 percent. Market sentiment was helped by chief executive of Daman Investments, told WASHINGTON: US home prices jumped number of people who signed contracts to market higher - investors have many hopes to the government’s decision to extend the dead- reporters. In Doha, Qatar Gas Transport Co, com- 12.2 percent in May from a year ago, the buy homes rose in June to the highest level see a new government with better economic line for foreign workers to legalize their status to monly known as Nakilat, rose 1.7 percent after most in seven years. The increase suggests since December 2006. There’s generally a plans that will remove the instability,” said Amr Nov 3 from July 3. Tens of thousands more work- one of its joint ventures sealed a loan refinanc- the housing recovery is strengthening. Real one- to two-month lag between a signed El-Feky, chief technical trader at Cairo Capital ers could be deported under a crackdown on ing deal worth $662.4 million, allowing it to pro- estate data provider CoreLogic said yester- contract and a completed sale. One worry Securities. Egyptians were net buyers of stocks illegal foreign labor, raising fears of economic ceed with an expansion of its LNG carrier fleet to day that home prices rose from a year ago is that higher mortgage rates could slow yesterday, bourse data showed, while foreigners disruption, particularly to the construction sec- six ships from four. The Qatari index climbed 0.4 in 48 states. They fell only in Delaware and the housing recovery. Still, rates remain low were net sellers. Analysts were reluctant to pre- tor. “The market has done well in the last two percent, up 12.1 percent year-to-date. — Reuters Alabama. And all but three of the 100 by historical standards. And increases in largest cities reported price gains. Prices rates could boost home sales. That’s’ rose 26 percent in Nevada to lead all states. because many Americans may act to lock in It was followed by California (20.2 percent), the lower rates before they rise further. Ford, Chrysler post solid gains in US auto sales Arizona (16.9 percent), Hawaii (16.1 per- A survey by the University of Michigan CHICAGO: Ford and Chrysler posted up nine percent at 908,332. “The fun- cent) and Oregon (15.5 percent). CoreLogic released last week found more Americans solid gains in June US auto sales yes- damentals for continued industry also says prices rose 2.6 percent in May believe it is a good time to buy a home terday as analysts forecast a strong gains in new vehicle sales remain from April, the fifteenth straight month- because both rates and prices are just start- close to the first half of the year and intact,” Reid Bigland, Chrysler’s sales over-month increase. ing to rise. Rates have been trending higher more growth in the months to come. chief, said in a statement. Steady hiring and low mortgage rates for two months. And the average rate on a Ford’s sales rose 13 percent to Automotive website have encouraged more Americans to buy 30-year fixed mortgage leapt to 4.46 per- 235,643 vehicles in its best June per- Edmunds.com forecast that total homes. Greater demand, a limited number cent last week, according to mortgage buy- formance since 2006. Sales for the industry sales will rise 6.3 percent in of homes for sale and fewer foreclosures er Freddie Mac. That’s the highest in two first half of the year were also up 13 June and come in at an adjusted, have pushed prices higher. Prices are still years and a point more than a month ago. percent at 1.3 million vehicles. annualized rate of 15.5 million vehi- 20 percent below the peak reached in April Mortgage rates surged after Federal “In June, we continued to see cles once all automakers have report- 2006, according to CoreLogic. Sales of pre- Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said last strong demand across the entire line- ed. “Within the last month we saw a viously occupied homes topped the 5 mil- month that the Fed could scale back its up,” said Ken Czubay, Ford’s sales slowing stock market and a stalled lion mark in May for the first time in 3 1/2 bond buying later this year and end it next chief. “We’re particularly encouraged unemployment recovery, but the years. And the proportion of those sales year if the economy continued to strength- by strong retail share gains, especially automotive market continues to that were “distressed” was at the lowest lev- en. The bond purchases have kept long- in coastal markets, where the combi- shine through it all,” said Edmunds el in more than four years for the second term rates down. nation of great design and fuel econ- analyst Jessica Caldwell. straight month. Distressed home sales Economists say that higher mortgage omy is resonating with customers- “The first half of 2013 was every include foreclosures and short sales. A rates are unlikely to stifle the housing including many buying a Ford for the bit as strong as the auto industry COLORADO: A buyer moves between rows of 2013 Ram pickup trucks and short sale is when a home sells for less than recovery. A more critical issue is whether first time.” Chrysler’s sales rose eight could expect at the beginning of the Dart sedans at a Dodge dealership in Littleton, Colo. Chrysler’s US sales what is owed on the mortgage. potential buyers can get loans. There are percent to 156,686 vehicles in the year, and there’s no reason why the rose 11 percent in May, a sign that auto sales rebounded from a slight dip Home sales are expected to increase in signs that banks have become more willing company’s best June in six years. next six months can’t maintain the in April and will continue to boost the US economy. Ram pickup truck the coming months. That’s because the to extend mortgages. — AP Sales for the first half of the year were same momentum.” —AFP sales were strong, up 22 percent over a year ago to almost 32,000. — AP EXCHANGE RATES

Irani Riyal 0.273 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Guinea Franc 0.0000444 0.0000504 Commercial Bank of Kuwait Hg Kong Dollar 0.0343279 0.0374279 GCC COUNTRIES Indian Rupee 0.0047635 0.0048285 US Dollar/KD .2770000 .2880000 Saudi Riyal 76.284 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000238 0.0000290 GB Pound/KD .4310000 .4470000 Qatari Riyal 78.601 US Dollar 286.050 Jamaican Dollars 0.0028600 0.0038600 Euro .3680000 .3760000 Omani Riyal 743.020 Canadian Dollar 275.305 Japanese Yen 0.0028005 0.0029805 Swiss francs .3020000 .3170000 Bahraini Dinar 759.800 Sterling Pound 437.965 Kenyan Shilling 0.0032650 0.0034950 Canadian Dollar .2780000 .2920000 UAE Dirham 77.905 Euro 375.500 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0856667 0.0926667 Australian DLR .2940000 .3020000 Swiss Frank 303.170 Nepalese Rupee 0.0028633 0.0030633 Indian rupees .0040000 .0069000 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 757.330 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028519 0.0028919 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.950 Sri Lanka Rupee .0020000 .0035000 Philippine Peso 0.0061857 0.0066557 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.148 UAE Dirhams 77.860 Sierra Leone 0.0000731 0.0000761 UAE dirhams .0771240 .0778990 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.335 Qatari Riyals 77.860 Bahraini dinars .7513970 .7589480 Tunisian Dinar 174.730 Saudi Riyals 78.515 Singapore Dollar 0.2218600 0.2278600 Jordanian dinar .3930000 .4110000 Jordanian Dinar 403.970 Jordanian Dinar 403.235 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021485 0.0021905 Saudi riyals .0720000 .0770000 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.919 Egyptian Pound 40.110 Thai Baht 0.0088278 0.0094278 Omani riyals .7366120 .7440150 Syrian Lier 3.108 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.191 Egyptian pounds .0370000 .0440000 Morocco Dirham 34.123 Indian Rupees 4.809 Arab Pakistani Rupees 2.876 Bahraini Dinar 0.7524592 0.7609592 CUSTOMER TRANSFER RATES EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bangladesh Taka 3.673 Egyptian Pound 0.0381547 0.0401847 US Dollar/KD .2841000 .2862000 US Dollar Transfer 285.950 Philippines Pesso 6.609 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0128198 0.0193198 GB Pound/KD .4338920 .4370990 Euro 375.740 Cyprus pound 701.700 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1454715 0.1472615 Euro .3707360 .3734770 Sterling Pound 438.930 Japanese Yen 3.880 Iranian Riyal 0.0000796 0.0000801 Swiss francs .3043390 .3065880 Canadian dollar 274.420 Thai Bhat 9.365 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001813 0.0002413 Turkish lira 148.850 Canadian dollars .2795430 .2816100 Jordanian Dinar 0.3979604 0.4054604 Swiss Franc 305.180 Syrian Pound 4.085 Danish Kroner .0497330 .0501010 Nepalese Rupees 3.154 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Australian Dollar 264.220 Lebanese Pound 0.0001755 0.0001955 Swedish Kroner .0443660 .0446940 US Dollar Buying 284.750 Malaysian Ringgit 90.395 Australian dlr .2963730 .2985640 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0219939 0.0459939 Nigerian Naira 0.0012181 0.0018531 Hong Kong dlr .0365940 .0368650 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Singapore dlr .2291130 .2308060 20 Gram 239.000 Omani Riyal 0.7321073 0.7431073 Japanese yen .0029600 .0028810 10 Gram 121.000 Qatar Riyal 0.0779292 0.0787122 Indian Rs/KD .0000000 .0052870 5 Gram 63.000 CURRENCY BUY SELL Saudi Riyal 0.0757600 0.0764000 Sri Lanka rupee .0000000 .0022880 Europe Sudanese Pounds 0.0465197 0.0470697 Pakistan rupee .0000000 .0029190 British Pound 0.4285400 0.4375400 Syrian Pound 0.0019500 0.0021700 Bangladesh taka .0000000 .0036810 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Czech Korune 0.0067217 0.0187217 Tunisian Dinar 0.1722147 0.1782147 UAE dirhams .0773800 .0779520 Danish Krone 0.0459301 0.0509301 UAE Dirhams 0.0764672 0.0779172 Bahraini dinars .7538810 .7594530 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Euro 0.3676509 0.3751509 Yemeni Riyal 0.0012909 0.0013909 Jordanian dinar .0000000 .4048090 Australian Dollar 267.56 266.000 Norwegian Krone 0.0432066 0.0484066 Scottish Pound 0.4262560 0.4337560 Saudi Riyal/KD .0757800 .0763400 Canadian Dollar 276.36 275.000 Al Mulla Exchange Omani riyals .7382100 .7436660 Swiss Franc 307.48 310.000 Swedish Krona 0.0386906 0.0436906 Philippine Peso .0000000 .0069870 Euro 377.01 380.000 Swiss Franc 0.2980239 0.3050239 US Dollar 285.70 287.800 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Australasia Sterling Pound 439.22 445.000 US Dollar 285.600 Australian Dollar 0.2528948 0.2648948 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Euro 375.850 Japanese Yen 2.93 3.000 New Zealand Dollar 0.2144824 0.2244824 Bangladesh Taka 3.689 3.700 Uganda Shilling 0.0001123 0.0001123 Pound Sterling 436.850 ASIAN COUNTRIES Indian Rupee 4.823 5.110 Canadian Dollar 274.000 Japanese Yen 2.884 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.190 2.800 America Indian Rupee 4.790 Indian Rupees 4.822 Nepali Rupee 3.010 3.600 Canadian Dollar 0.2652593 0.2742593 Egyptian Pound 40.160 Pakistani Rupees 2.876 Colombian Peso 0.0001458 0.0001636 Srilankan Rupees 2.189 Pakistani Rupee 2.886 2.990 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.185 Nepali Rupees 2.989 UAE Dirhams 77.85 78.200 US Dollars 0.2839500 0.2861000 Bangladesh Taka 3.663 Singapore Dollar 226.940 Bahraini Dinar 760.41 760.700 Philippines Peso 6.695 Hongkong Dollar 36.868 Egyptian Pound 40.19 40.200 Asia Pakistan Rupee 2.870 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036286 0.0036836 Bangladesh Taka 3.666 Jordanian Dinar 406.61 410.900 Bahraini Dinar 760.550 Philippine Peso 6.614 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031744 0.0034044 Omani Riyal 743.00 747.600 UAE Dirham 77.800 Thai Baht 9.203 Chinese Yuan 0.0456286 0.0506286 Malaysian ringgit 94.271 Qatari Riyal 78.89 79.100 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0165400 0.0196400 Saudi Riyal 76.300 Irani Riyal 0.271 Saudi Riyal 76.32 76.400 *Rates are subject to change WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 BUSINESS British business confidence ‘highest’ since 2007

LONDON: British business confidence is managers’ index on Monday was the high- Italy. At the end of May the BCC forecast tions remain about new governor Mark existence of huge untapped potential that the highest since 2007, bolstered by fast- est in more than two years, as was last the economy would grow 0.9 percent this Carney’s longer-term intentions. The BCC must be unleashed,” Kern said. But rising exports, a survey showed yesterday, week’s GfK consumer confidence barome- year, but based in part yesterday’s data, it survey showed that in the service sector, although confidence about future sales in fresh evidence that Britain is slowly ter. now expects growth of 0.6 percent in the domestic sales and orders were growing and profitability was the highest since recovering from the financial crisis. The “The UK economy is slowly strengthen- second quarter alone. at the fastest pace since the fourth quarter 2007 for manufacturers and service sector British Chambers of Commerce’s quarterly ing,” said David Kern, the BCC’s chief econ- This compares to 0.3 percent growth in of 2007, while export sales had grown at firms, Kern warned that growth could still economic survey - Britain’s largest major omist. “If recent progress can be sustained, the first three months of the year, and 0.5 the fastest rate since the survey began in be derailed. business poll also showed a strong rise in there are realistic hopes that growth fore- percent forecast by the Bank of England 1989. Financial turmoil emanating either firms’ domestic and overseas sales over casts will be revised up further,” he added. for the second quarter. This makes it even For manufacturers, domestic sales from the euro zone or from the US Federal the past three months, boding well for Britain’s recovery since the 2007-08 finan- less likely that the Bank of England will growth was the strongest in two years and Reserve’s efforts to reduce the amount of official data due later this month. Other cial crisis has been the slowest since mod- restart its program of asset purchases on export order growth the best in a year. monetary stimulus, as well as persistent surveys have shown a similar pattern. ern records began, and weaker than in Thursday after its monthly Monetary “The strength of the export balances, par- inflation in Britain, could all endanger con- Markit’s June manufacturing purchasing any Group of Seven economy apart from Policy Committee meeting, though ques- ticularly in the service sector, confirms the fidence, he said. — Reuters

Britain: Scotland independence would put jobs, growth at risk LONDON: Growth and jobs could be at risk flat fee. The Scottish government criticized if Scotland hinders access to its biggest the report, saying Scotland was proposing export market by voting to split from the to keep a single market for goods and serv- rest of Britain in a referendum next year, ices with the rest of Britain, including a cur- British business secretary Vince Cable said rency union. yesterday. Businesses operating in an inde- “Independence would allow future pendent Scotland would face reduced Scottish Governments to require proper access to the British market, extra regulato- connectivity for rural areas, boost business ry and administrative costs and increased growth and ensure a combined economic uncertainty, analysis by the government regulator that is both cheaper and more due to be released will show. efficient than Westminster’s bureaucracy,” a Scotland’s 5 million population will vote spokesman for Scotland’s devolved govern- next September on whether they want to ment said. The report also acknowledges keep a 306-year union intact. Scottish that independence could damage the nationalists say independence will free it prospects for the rest of Britain, costing from decades of economic mismanage- British exporters their second largest mar- ment, while the London-based govern- ket. The Confederation of British Industry ment is campaigning to keep Scotland part (CBI) said free movement of goods, servic- of Britain. “The union works for businesses es, capital and people benefited both sides on both sides of the border,” Cable said. of the Scottish border. “Breaking up Scotland’s most lucrative mar- “Scottish independence risks hampering ket would destabilize enterprise and poten- this - businesses could have to deal with KUWAIT: Ahluwalia with Indian Embassy officials pose here with local reporters yesterday just before the conference. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat tially put growth and jobs at risk.” Scottish different regulations and currencies, for exports to the rest of Britain were worth example, which would inevitably have a 45.5 billion in 2011, excluding oil and gas. negative economic impact,” said CBI That is double the value of exports to the Director-General John Cridland. Recent The ‘worst is over’ rest of the world and four times that of polls show nearly 60 percent would vote those to the European Union, the report against independence. The British govern- said. ment has recently produced research Joining the European Union post-inde- showing Scotland would have an unsuit- pendence would not compensate many ably large financial sector post-indepen- for India economy businesses for the loss of unfettered access dence including much of the operations of to the British market, the analysis said, Royal Bank of Scotland and parts of Lloyds highlighting the possible loss of access to Banking Group. It has also said that the infrastructure and services such as Royal Scottish government’s proposal for a cur- Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission sees positive turn around Mail, which delivers to most of Britain for a rency union would not work. — Reuters By Ben Garcia again to 6.4 percent when the eurozone crisis Nasser later today (Tuesday). It’s a two day visit broke out. This figure was still OK because as and I think we will be meeting with more peo- KUWAIT: After recording relatively lower eco- you all know, every country in the world has ple. We want more investors from Kuwait,” Workers’ strike triggers nomic growth last year, an Indian economic slowed down and we were affected too, and it Ahluwalia said. official, who is currently visiting Kuwait, said went down to 5 percent last year,” he said. Last He assured that India has undertaken more fuel queues in Nigeria the worst is over for the Indian economy. month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said efforts to make it easier for foreign companies Speaking to reporters at the Sheraton Hotel in the current downturn was ‘temporary’ and he to invest there. “We already make the lives of LAGOS: Long queues formed at petrol sta- multi-national oil firms, including Shell, Kuwait City yesterday, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, was confident the country’s economy would investors easy regardless of nationality. We are tions in some Nigerian cities yesterday after Chevron, ExxonMobil, Total and Agip, were Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of bounce back to an 8 percent growth rate. trying to treat everyone as our own, although a key oil workers union ordered a three-day employed on a part-time basis and paid India, believed this year will show positive out- Ahluwalia is in Kuwait to meet various high we treat Kuwait as the most favored nation strike to demand better conditions and poorly without proper benefits. comes and the economy will turn around posi- level officials here including the finance minis- when it comes to investment,” he mentioned. road repairs. The strike, which saw tanker A spokesman for Shell, Nigeria’s largest tively. He is in Kuwait to meet businessmen and ter. He is also set to meet with businessmen at Asked on India’s participation in current drivers refuse to deliver petrol in Africa’s producer, told AFP that the company does financial and economic officials here. the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and development projects in Kuwait, Ahluwalia not- largest oil producer, led to panic buying in not discriminate between local and expatri- “The five percent growth which we regis- Industry today. “Kuwait is a very important ed they have been encouraging Indian compa- major cities, including the economic capital ate staff, but declined to provide further tered last year will definitely turn around. I country to India. We have a long history of posi- nies to take part in projects here. “We are keen Lagos and the main northern city of Kano. details on the dispute. A spokesman for the don’t have an official estimate as yet but in my tive friendship. HH the Amir visit’s to India in on participating in projects being undertaken In the nation’s capital Abuja, many petrol labor ministry declined to comment. guess if we do around six percent, we’ll be 2006 was a milestone in terms of our bilateral here. Some of them (Indian companies) are stations closed while those that remained Korodo said “we also want government to doing okay. Some international agencies are ties,” he noted. He said the Gulf region has been already shortlisted, some are still bidding and open saw long lines. repair all the bad roads in the country. Our estimating a 5.7 percent growth but I am opti- a source of investments in various sectors in some are already successful, but we also hope “Right now, tanker drivers are not lifting members are dying daily because of the mistic we can hit the six percent,” he added. India. that more investors coming from Kuwait will from the depots,” Tokunbo Korodo, a senior poor condition of the roads.” Nigeria’s infra- Ahluwalia hopes to hit the seven to eight “India and Kuwait can deepen our relation- also take part in the development going on official of the National Union of Petroleum structure remains badly underdeveloped percent growth rate in the next two years. “The ship further through this visit. Besides, we have back in India,” Ahluwalia noted. “We already and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), which despite its oil wealth, including poor roads worse is over for the Indian economy and it will a number of Indians here in Kuwait contribut- have several Kuwaiti companies/entities in represents blue-collar workers. It was and a lack of steady electricity. The country unclear whether filling stations that closed imports much of its fuel due to a lack of turn around and go back to where it should be ing to development here. Our perception is India - they are investing primarily in the con- were out of fuel or if they were conserving refining capacity. Korodo said the union has - to more than eight percent,” he asserted. India that we have to deepen our economic rela- struction business and factories. The big fami- in case the strike continues, which often begun fresh talks with government and oil was recording annual growths of 9 percent tions, particularly on the investment side. lies (of businessmen in Kuwait) are also visible occurs. NUPENG includes tanker drivers companies to end the standoff. “If nothing until two years ago, but in recent months, it has Kuwait is a very important source of oil supply in India. The Alghanems are very well posi- who transport fuel across Africa’s most pop- positive comes out of the latest efforts, we seen a sharp decline blamed on a slowdown in for us,” he asserted. “Kuwait Investment tioned in India,” he said. Kuwait’s investments in ulous nation of some 160 million people. may be compelled to extend the strike its manufacturing and services sectors. He Authority is the oldest sovereign wealth fund, India are estimated at $2.5 billion. The value of Korodo however said crude oil exports were beyond Wednesday,” he warned. The majori- explained that even before the economic crisis, and we should interact with them to make trade between the two countries stood at $17.5 not affected by the strike. Its members are ty of Nigerians live on less than $1 per day India has steadily been recording a 6-7 percent them aware of what new investment opportu- billion in 2012. Yesterday’s press conference not directly involved in that sector of the while corruption is rife, often triggering growth rate. “In 2009-2010, our growth rate nities are opening up in India,” he noted. “I have was attended by Ambassador of India to industry. He said the union launched the social tensions and unrest. Polytechnic increased to 8.6 percent. In 2010-2011, it went a meeting today with finance officials, and we Kuwait Satish C Mehta and Dr Arvind Mayaram three-day strike on Monday to compel oil teachers have been on strike for the past up to 9.3 percent. In 2011-2012, it slowed down are going to hold more meetings with Sheikh from the Finance Ministry of India. firms to stop the “exploitation of Nigerian two months over pay in the country, while workers under the guise of casual workers”. lecturers in state-run universities also began The union alleges Nigerians working for an indefinite strike on Monday. — AFP News Merkel’s opponent ridicules in brief jobless summit as cynical ploy Euro-zone unemployment above 12 percent Bahrain issues $397.9 m in development bonds BERLIN: Angela Merkel’s summit on youth DUBAI: Bahrain issued 150 million Bahraini dinars unemployment in Europe is an attempt to ($397.9 million) in three-year government develop- paper over the economic consequences of ment bonds, a central bank statement said yester- the austerity policies she championed in day. The expected interest rate on the bonds is 2.90 the region, a leading member of Germany’s percent, said the central bank, which issued the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) said bonds on behalf of the government. The issue was yesterday. Andrea Nahles, General oversubscribed, receiving bids of 335 million dinars. Secretary of the SPD and manager of the Bahrain’s state spending is expected to jump 11 centre-left party’s campaign to unseat percent this year, by more than originally planned, Merkel in a September election, said the after parliament last month approved 174.2 million chancellor had already held several “show dinars in additional expenditure. The budget deficit summits” on a range of issues that yielded is now officially projected at 833.2 million dinars in no results. 2013, rising to 914.4 million in 2014. The country is “I don’t think Merkel’s 49th summit will also considering a US dollar-denominated interna- help,” said Nahles in an interview with DITZINGEN: German Chancellor Angela Reuters. “She is now driving around Europe tional bond issue and completed investor meetings Merkel gives an interview during a visit in an ambulance handing out band-aids for last month, but has so far not gone ahead with the to the Triumpf machine manufacturing the injuries she has caused with her own sale amid volatility in global debt markets. company in Ditzingen, southern policies.” With unemployment in the euro Germany yesterday. — AFP zone at a record high above 12 percent, Hungarian trade surplus Merkel will gather the leaders and labor Nahles, seen as a left-winger within the dips; auto exports surge ministers of more than 20 EU nations in SPD, told Reuters the best way to reverse the rise in unemployment was “to change BUDAPEST: Export-dependent Hungary saw its Berlin from about 2 p.m. local time (1200 the German government” which she said trade surplus dip in April from March as exports fell GMT) on Wednesday. had forced the EU to focus on public-sector and imports grew, even though the surplus went The stated aim is to agree efficient ways savings as the way out of the debt crisis. up 65 percent on a yearly basis, official data showed to spend the 6 billion euros ($7.82 billion) yesterday. Hungary’s surplus stood at 717.4 million “We will only reverse the trend in countries EU leaders have allocated to fight youth with over 50 percent youth unemployment euros ($934.4 million) compared to 784.0 million unemployment in 2014 and 2015, as part euros in March, the national statistics office KSH like Spain or Greece, or 40 percent in Italy, of a new “Youth Guarantee” to provide jobs, when we change overall economic policy said. On a yearly basis however, the figures showed training and apprenticeships. For the first a major hike from a surplus of 433.9 million euros in in the European Union,” she added. “Frau three years of the euro crisis, Merkel insist- Merkel has subjected the EU to a tough sav- April 2012, with exports up 11.7 percent and ed that struggling members like Greece ings diktat. She is the chief savings kommis- imports up 7.7 percent. The auto sector was the and Spain make deep spending cuts to sar and forgot there also has to be growth driving force behind the rise in exports, KSH said. reduce their deficits in exchange for aid. In and demand,” said the SPD’s second-in-com- Audi, Mercedes, Opel and Suzuki all operate major recent months, as unemployment in south- mand. The 150-year-old SPD is gunning for a manufacturing facilities in Hungary and in the first ern Europe has soared, Merkel has adjusted ruling coalition with the resurgent Greens. TRAVNIK: Bosnian man Ramo Rubanovic, 48, whistles to his flock of sheep in a pen in four months of 2013, car export sales rose by 16.0 her rhetoric, emphasizing the need for But polls suggest its best hope of returning the remote mountainous area at Vlasic in central Bosnia, near the town of Travnik percent in local currency terms compared to a year growth and jobs. to government may be to revive the 2005- 140 kms west of Sarajevo. Zedina Rubanovic and her family are some of Europe’s last earlier. A trade surplus is a key factor of growth in She points to her record on defending 2009 ‘grand coalition’ under Merkel. Her remaining nomads, a hardy group of families who roam from their winter habitat in an economy, whereas a trade deficit bears down on jobs in Germany, where unemployment is finance minister in that government, Peer the Bosnian lowlands to the mountains where they make cheese and shelter in aus- growth from other factors. close to post-reunification lows at 6.8 per- Steinbrueck, is now running against her but tere cabins. — AP cent, thanks partly to labor market reforms. faces an uphill battle. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 BUSINESS Gold gains for 3rd session Gold bar premiums steady in Hong Kong LONDON: Gold rose yesterday for a third straight ses- making gold less attractive. SocGen’s Bhar warned the exchange-traded fund, reported an outflow of 1.2 sion as investors interpreted the previous week’s current recovery was not likely to last for long and tonnes to 968.30 tons on Monday, its lowest level plunge to three-year lows as overdone, while looking that prices still could ultimately fall to $1,000 an since February 2009. Its holdings have dropped 382.5 for further indications of an end to US monetary eas- ounce. “The dollar is likely to strengthen further in the tons since the start of the year. Physical demand has ing soon. Traders were forced to cover their short second half of the year as the economy improves ... not come to the rescue of gold as it did in April, when positions and buy back metal they had agreed to sell the tide may turn but not much more than temporari- prices fell the most in 30 years, but Shanghai futures at a future date after gold logged its biggest three- ly.” Mixed US economic data on Monday added to were trading at more than $30 premiums to spot month loss since at least 1968, according to Reuters uncertainty over the exact timing of the Fed’s taper- prices, indicating some renewed interest. data. “It is a short-covering bounce after the losses ing, helping gold’s rebound. Investors, wary of taking “There has been some good physical demand seen last week, and people are now data-watching fresh positions before a US holiday tomorrow, are with premiums in Asia remaining elevated ... and want to see how this impacts on the FOMC poli- now focusing on Friday’s US payrolls report, and a (showing) that buyers believe that gold has proba- cy,” Societe Generale metals analyst Robin Bhar said. strong reading would lift both Treasury yields and the bly done enough on the downside for now,” Marex Spot gold rose to $1,267.20 an ounce earlier in the dollar, in turn weighing gold down. A European Spectron said. In Hong Kong, however, gold bar day and was up 0.4 percent at $1,257.40 by 1153 Central Bank policy meeting on Thursday is likely to premiums remained at the same levels as last GMT, for a gain of about 5 percent over the past three emphasise that the euro zone economy is in a much week, indicating demand had not picked up sessions. US gold futures for August delivery rose 0.1 different stage of recovery than the United States, strongly. Silver was down 0.1 percent to $19.53 an percent to $1,256.40 an ounce. Gold had lost 23 per- analysts said. ounce. It reached a near three-year low at $18.19 cent in the April-June period on speculation the US on Friday. Platinum and palladium were ATHENS: Greek teachers gather outside the ministry of administrative Federal Reserve’s ultra-loose monetary policy could ETF HOLDINGS HIT 4-1/2 YEAR LOWS unchanged at $1,373.99 an ounce and $684.72 an reforms, protected by strong police forces as they protest against layoffs and end soon. This would support a rise in interest rates, SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold ounce respectively.— Reuters relocations yesterday. —AFP Diverging growth outlook drives shares, dollar firm

LONDON: Diverging fortunes in the global ASIA RISES economy knocked emerging markets from a Earlier Asian markets were lifted by strong two-week high yesterday and sapped recent gains in Japan and a rise in Australian shares gains in European shares, while Japan’s Nikkei after its central bank left interest rates at a index hit its highest level in five weeks on the record low and suggested there was room for yen’s weakness. US shares were expected to further easing. Japan’s Nikkei index closed 1.8 take support from a report on US factory percent higher to finish above 14,000 for the orders due at 1400 GMT and seen rising by 2 first time in five weeks as blue-chip exporters percent. Overall world equities were little gained on the Bank of Japan’s robust Tankan changed with most investors content to wait business report and the yen’s slide against the for US jobs data later in the week to review US dollar. The dollar has risen to a four-week bets on when the Federal Reserve may begin high against its Japanese counterpart at trimming the bond buying that has been 99.91 yen, though it stayed below the key 100 underpinning markets. yen level with many investors wary of taking “It’s really all about the data later this fresh positions ahead of the jobs data and a week, especially the US employment report, US holiday tomorrow. The euro was steady at where the market be looking for further clues $1.3052, off last week’s trough of $1.29845, its on Fed tapering,” said Michael Hewson, senior lowest since early June. market analyst at CMC Markets. Surveys on factory activity in June, showing the United DEBT MIXED States, Japan and the UK on track for modest In fixed markets, Spanish and Italian debt growth while the euro zone stagnates and yields extended recent falls, but bailout wor- China slows, prompted some adjustments. ries drove up Portuguese and Greek yields. The slowdown in China and other developing Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar, architect of countries sent MSCI’s benchmark emerging Portugal’s bailout response, resigned on equity index down 0.5 percent although Monday, while Greek debt yields surged after Chinese shares rose for the third day. Reuters reported Athens has only three days In Europe, the broad FTSE Eurofirst 300 to convince lenders it should get its next index fell 0.6 percent by midday after a strong tranche of aid. With Greece due to repay 2.2 start to the new quarter on Monday. The billion euros of bonds in August, yields on 10- index remains some 8 percent off its 2013 year Greek bonds were up 20 basis points to peak, which marked a five-year high. But 11.24 percent. Among commodities, Brent while data showed a drop in new car sales in crude rose above $103 a barrel, extending Germany, Europe’s largest auto market, a gains to a second day due to concerns about more stable outlook overall is expected to supply disruptions in the Middle East and encourage the European Central Bank to Africa. Gold gained for a third straight session leave its rates unchanged at a policy meeting to $1,267.20 an ounce, recovering from last on Thursday. week’s three-year lows. — Reuters

HONG KONG: A young school boy walks to his family home in a Kowloon government housing estate in Hong Kong yesterday. New government data on May 23 underlined the housing crisis in Hong Kong where it estimated more than 170,000 people live in subdivided doubling official figures from 2012. — AFP White House has the coal country on the defensive

COLSTRIP: After several years of taking a He directed the Environmental Protection beating from the poor economy, new pollu- Agency to craft rules to make that happen. tion rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, The Colstrip plant, which dominates the sky- the coal industry was on the rebound this line of a 2,200-person coal-centered town by year as mining projects moved forward in the same name, burns about 10 million tons the Western US and demand for the fuel of coal a year from a nearby mine and pro- began to rise, especially in Asia. But almost vides power to customers as far away as overnight, coal is back on the defensive, Seattle. It also churns out an estimated 17 scrambling to stave off a dark future amid million tons of carbon dioxide a year. That’s President Barack Obama’s renewed push to roughly equivalent to the emissions from 3 rein in climate change. million cars running for a year. The proposal, with its emphasis on cuts in On Monday, as Colstrip’s 700-foot-tall carbon dioxide emissions from new and smokestacks poured out a constant plume of existing power plants, would put facilities carbon dioxide, smoke and steam into other- like the 2,100 megawatt Colstrip electricity wise blue skies, pipefitter Joe Ashworth, 60, plant in eastern Montana in regulators’ cross was nearby packing up his RV. He spent the hairs. That has profound spin-off implications past two months working on a maintenance for the massive strip mines that dot the sur- project at the plant. The traveling union rounding arid landscape of the Powder River worker said people in the coal industry were Basin and provide the bulk of the nation’s nervous that efforts to curb emissions could coal. Montana’s sole member of the US cost jobs and drive up electricity prices. “Go House of Representatives bluntly declared green sure. But do you have an electrical that the administration had decided to “pick vehicle that will pull my trailer so I can make winners and losers” in the energy sector with a living?” he asked. its plan. Despite a frequently heard boast that the “He wants to move toward shutting state has more coal than anywhere else in down the coal industry,” Republican Rep the US, antipathy toward the administration’s Steve Daines said of the president. Energy plan is not universal in Montana. One of Secretary Ernest Moniz and representatives Daines’ predecessors, former Rep Pat of the Environmental Protection Agency Williams, said last week that warming tem- rejected claims that the administration’s plan peratures pointed to a “doomsday” scenario would exclude coal. They pointed to billions if carbon emissions were not addressed. of dollars being spent by the government on Others maintain that the worries over lost technologies to decrease emissions by cap- jobs in the coal industry are overstated. On turing and storing carbon dioxide from coal Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense plants. Yet widespread application of those Council plans to release a report detailing technologies is years away, and Obama new jobs that would be created because of made clear in announcing his proposal that all the work needed to retrofit plants such as he intends to halt the “limitless dumping of Colstrip and other measures taken to reach carbon pollution” from power plants. the administration’s goal. —AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 BUSINESS Africa, where US presidents polish their legacies

DAR ES SALAAM: Africa is a home from also seemed to draw strength for his own Obama praised the scheme as Bush’s Africa to work with his policy institute. Obama during his tour and South African home for American presidents, as they repair political project. “crowning achievement” then came face to Questions of whether his Africa legacy will President Jacob Zuma rode to his rescue at or polish political legacies, drawn by a conti- The idea that one person can change the face with his predecessor in Tanzania, in pale against that of Bush, seemed to irritate one point. “I always avoid to talk about lega- nent’s palpable needs and explosive eco- world with bottom-up activism is deep in cies of people who are still there, generally,” nomic potential. The idea that leaders leave Obama’s political soul and helped sweep Zuma quipped, drawing a grin from behind works that endure was a constant him to the presidency in 2008. Yet Obama’s Obama.But talk of legacies always gathers theme of President Barack Obama’s Africa contention that “we are the change we seek” around second term US presidents who tour, which ended in Tanzania yesterday, and often slams headlong into entrenched inter- often look abroad as their power ebbs at was shadowed at every step by the plight of ests and political division in Washington, and home. “Let me just say that I’m going to be Nelson Mandela. Obama puts the anti- the indifference of great power politics on President for another three-and-a-half years,” apartheid icon on a pedestal alongside the world stage. American presidents have Obama reminded people in Soweto.”One of Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington and long seen Africa as a place to burnish a ques- the things that you learn as President is not Martin Luther King, proclaiming the political tionable legacy, or to sate their political only do people want you to fulfill your prom- legacy his hero can no longer voice as he lies yearnings once they leave office. ises, but they want you to fulfill your promis- in hospital. Jimmy Carter has worked for democracy es yesterday.” That expectation in Africa is a “Mandela’s spirit could never be impris- and public health on the continent in a post- particular burden for Obama, as the son of a oned-for his legacy is here for all to see,” presidency that is more successful than his Kenyan and as America’s first black US presi- Obama told a diverse audience of young four White House years. Bill Clinton is dent. A crush of international crises, and an people, “black, white, Indian, everything in remembered for the Africa Growth and austerity crunch in Washington, has meant between” in Cape Town. “Nelson Mandela Opportunity Act (AGOA), a cornerstone of US there has neither been the time, nor the showed us that one man’s courage can investment and engagement. In retirement, financial resources available to Bush and move the world,” Obama said, using the Clinton brokered deals between US drugs Clinton, for Obama to lavish on Africa. moral fight against apartheid to inspire a ris- giants and developing states that widened He did unveil a $7 billion dollar bid to ing generation to fix their own corrupt politi- access to life saving treatments. George W leverage private investment to spread elec- cal cultures. After standing in a quarry where Bush, pilloried for anti-terror and economic tric power in Africa, a new trade initiative, Mandela broke rock watched by racist policies elsewhere, is remembered as a fresh health programs, a $10 million effort to guards, and in the tiny Robben Island cell humanitarian in Africa for an HIV/AIDS and DAR ES SALAAM: People watch US President’s motorcade drive to Julius protect Africa’s wildlife and food security where he dreamt of emancipation, Obama malaria program that saved millions. Nyerere International Airport in Dar Es Salaam yesterday. — AFP efforts.—AFP Can Obama’s Africa Power plan hold candle to China? US $7 billion initiative follows big Chinese projects JOHANNESBURG: US President Barack Obama’s the scramble for African resources. view Beijing’s trade and investment surge as a $7 billion plan to shine “light where currently But Obama clearly hinted American invest- threat to US interests - “the more the merrier” was there’s darkness” in Africa by doubling access to ment may be better for Africa than Chinese his take on foreign economic involvement in power on the world’s poorest continent was billed investment in creating industries and jobs on the Africa - Obama could not resist a veiled mild jibe as a highlight of his African tour. He announced continent - not just sucking our resources - with at the way Chinese companies conduct their busi- the Power Africa initiative in Cape Town on more of a focus on a potential consumers’ market. nesses there. “If somebody says they want to Sunday in a speech which he also urged the fast- “Our primary interest when it comes to working come build something here, are they hiring growing but still troubled region to follow the with Africa on energy issues has to do with how African workers? If somebody says that they want shining example of South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. But Obama’s proposal, which aims to partner US government financing with private sector investment, may look low-wattage compared with China’s already ongoing big electricity projects on the world’s least-developed - and least lit - conti- nent. Beijing has been lighting the way in Africa with billions of dollars of promised power invest- ment and projects. As with other infrastructure ATYRAU: A general view shows the Bolashak oil plant on the Kashagan offshore development opportunities in Africa, Washington oil field near Atyrau in Kazakhstan, following a presentation for British Prime seems to be arriving late to the party. Minister David Cameron and Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Visiting Africa in March, China’s President Xi Jinping renewed an offer of $20 billion in loans to David Cameron arrived in Kazakhstan on June 30 on the first ever trip by a serv- “help African countries turn resource endowment ing British prime minister, hoping to boost trade ties but also promising to raise into development strength”. A major chunk of this human rights concerns. Cameron is leading a large business delegation to the Chinese money is aimed at connecting up African mineral-rich Central Asian nation and hopes to sign trade deals worth more than economies with electricity, from Zambia to £700 million ($1.06 billion, 820 million euros).— AFP Ethiopia. “The major thrust of the Chinese infra- structure spend in Africa has been in the power sector. It is tens of billions of dollars,” said Martyn Oil rises on Middle Davies, the chief executive of Frontier Advisory, a strategy and investment advisory company. The Asian giant has a huge appetite for African East supply worries resources from copper to oil and they cannot be extracted without power. China’s Sichuan Hongda LONDON: Brent crude rose above $103 a as bullish for oil. “Over 2 million barrels per Co Ltd signed a $3 billion deal with Tanzania in DAR ES SALAAM: US President Barack Obama speaks on African power and energy after a barrel yesterday, up for a second day on day (bpd) of global refinery capacity will 2011 to mine coal and iron ore and build a 600- concerns over supply disruption from Libya return by late July on top of the 2.5 million megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in the ‘Soccket’ ball demonstration at the Ubungo Plaza Symbion Power Plant in Dar Es Salaam and worries that political turmoil in Egypt bpd that has returned over the past four country’s south. The centrepiece among an array yesterday. The soccer ball harnesses the kinetic energy generated during play to provide could hit oil flows from the region. Brent weeks, providing ample opportunity for of Chinese power projects in Ethiopia is the $4.1 a source of renewable, off-grid power.— AFP crude futures for August delivery were up runs to rise,” Morgan Stanley said in a note. billion Grand Renaissance Dam. 50 cents at $103.50 a barrel by 1336 GMT do we power Africa so that it can be an effective to help you develop your natural resources, how after rising 0.8 percent the previous day. US SPREAD NARROWS NOT JUST A MINE, BUT A MARKET market creating jobs and opportunity,” Obama much of the money is staying in Africa?” Obama crude futures for August were 48 cents Brent’s premium to US crude narrowed Satellite imagery of “Africa at Night” shows a told a news conference in South Africa on said. This echoed complaints from some govern- higher at $98.47 per barrel after rising more to its lowest since January 2011 at $4.54 a mostly dark continent, the main exceptions being Saturday. ment and business circles in Africa that Chinese than 1 percent on Monday. barrel, as severe flooding disrupted the region’s dominant economy South Africa, the “We also then have somebody to trade with companies often bring in their own workforces to Oil output in Libya has fallen by a third Canadian oil supply to the United States. more developed North African Mediterranean and sell iPods to, and airplanes, and all kinds of develop resource-related infrastructure projects, after protesters shut several oilfields and Canada resumed operation on Monday at a coast, and scattered pinpricks of light in the oil- good stuff,” he added. “Obama seemed to be tak- creating few new jobs, let alone value-adding anti-government demonstrations in Egypt part of a major pipeline in Alberta as producing Gulf of Guinea, which includes Nigeria. ing more of a Brazilian approach to Africa. A lot of processing or manufacturing industries. The US have raised concerns about the stability of weather improved. Some analysts said the More than a century after the invention of the Brazilian policy is looking at what Brazil can sell to initiative, called Power Africa, will see Washington the whole region. Prices were also support- spread was too narrow and could widen to light bulb, the World Bank says only one in four the African market,” said Alex Vines, head of the commit more than $7 billion over the next five ed by data on Monday from the Institute cover costs to transport oil from Cushing, people have access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa Program at UK-based Chatham House. years with the stated goal to “double access to for Supply Management that showed US Oklahoma, the delivery point for WTI, to Africa. According to the International Energy Stressing rising oil, natural gas and clean energy power in sub-Saharan Africa,” according to the manufacturing activity grew in June. “It’s a other parts of the United States. Brent’s Agency (IEA), the region will require more than production in the United States, Obama told his White House. This includes up to $5 billion being mixture of supply worries and general mar- premium to WTI could also increase due to $300 billion in investment to achieve universal South African audience: “Frankly, we don’t need made available by the US Export-Import Bank. ket sentiment with yesterday’s ISM index in tighter supply in the North Sea grades from electricity access by 2030. energy from Africa”. Over $9 billion in US private sector invest- the US better than expected,” said Carsten which the Brent price is calculated, JBC In numbers of projects and investment Oil exports from Africa’s top producer Nigeria ments have also been committed to support Fritsch, oil analyst at Commerzbank in Energy said in a note to clients. “The cur- pledges, China seems well ahead of America at to the United States have fallen from over a mil- development of more than 8,000 MW. But not Frankfurt. rent weakness in the Brent market could the moment in the race to add more bright spots lion barrels per day (bpd) in 2010 to 383,000 now, everyone was happy. Outspoken American real He added that investors were taking the turn if the expected North Sea mainte- to Africa’s nocturnal gloom. Some Chinese proj- the U.S. Energy Information Agency says. Angola’s estate mogul Donald Trump called Obama’s opportunity to buy oil at relatively low nance through September materializes to ects, for example a hyro-power project in Ghana U.S. exports in the same period dropped to Power Africa plan “crazy”. “Every penny of the $7 prices after three consecutive quarters of squeeze supply of the four grades which that started producing 130 MW a month ago, 172,000 bpd from 393,000 as the domestic U.S. billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen falls, the longest such period since 1997- make up the marker, while continued arbi- have already come on line. Power plants cannot shale gas boom has taken off. - corruption is rampant! ... We should be con- 1998. Analysts also pointed to the increase trage interest from South Korea may fur- be built overnight and it may take years for similar cerned about the American worker & invest here,” in refining capacity due to come on stream ther tighten availability.”— Reuters US initiatives in Africa to be up and running. This THE MORE THE MERRIER Trump tweeted on his @realDonaldTrump Twitter may put America at a disadvantage to China in While he made a point of saying he did not Account— Reuters Al Mulla Exchange announces winners Tribune to buy Local TV KUWAIT: Al Mulla International Exchange, remittances made through Al Mulla and its 19 TV stations the leading exchange company in Kuwait, Exchange enjoy free insurance and loyalty announced names of the daily and weekly points on every transaction, as well as SMS winners for their promotion on remittances confirmation on delivery of remittances. Tribune bulks up in broadcasting in $2.73 billion deal to Egypt and Bangladesh. The two-month Besides making money transfer a quick, long promotion began in the first week of safe and relaxed experience for its cus- LOS ANGELES: Tribune Co has Inc. has also been on a buying spree. emerged from a four-year excursion improved since the advertising May and concluded in the last week of tomers, Kuwait’s premier exchange also announced a deal to buy Local TV This year alone, the company has through bankruptcy court. It filed for downturn that lasted through the June. Under the Egyptian promotion there offers the facility to send money from the and its 19 TV stations for $2.73 billion. agreed to acquire or is in the midst of Chapter 11 protection from creditors Great Recession from 2007 to 2009. was a daily draw and winners of the daily comfort of one’s home or office through The acquisition makes the media closing the acquisition of 46 TV sta- in late 2008 following a buyout Advertising has rebounded, and has Egyptian promotion received a high-end their online service at www.amxremit.com conglomerate the nation’s No 1 local tions from various groups for nearly orchestrated by Chicago real estate historically improved in tandem with Samsung S3 Mini mobile phone and one Among the winners of the Egyptian pro- TV broadcaster and broadens its $1 billion. mogul Sam Zell a year earlier. The economic growth. TV stations have Samsung LED TV as a bumper prize worth motion were, Sabri Farghali Abdul Haleem, reach to nearly half the country, or Media General Inc. and New deal left Tribune burdened with debt. also become a magnet for increasing KD400 at the end of the promotion. Salem Ahmed Abdullah Mohamed, more than 50 million households. The Young Broadcasting Holding Co. also Liguori called the acquisition “trans- political ad budgets in election years. Under the Bangladesh Promotion there Mohammad Abdulatef Ahmad, Ahmad deal is the latest in a wave of consoli- announced plans last month to com- formational.” It also clarified the com- The broadcast TV recovery is also was a weekly draw where the seven lucky Aezt Ahmad Ali and Ashraf Hessan Rezk dation sweeping the industry as TV bine into a company that will operate pany’s focus on its TV assets, not the made possible by the increasing fees winners of the Bangladesh promotion each Moustafa, who each won a high-end station owners gird for battle in con- 30 TV stations in 27 markets includ- newspaper industry, which is strug- that cable and satellite distributors received cash prizes ranging from KD400 Samsung S3 Mini mobile phone, while the tentious fee negotiations with cable ing San Francisco, Nashville, Tenn., gling with a near-decade long pay to broadcasters in order to make for the first prize, KD200 for the second winner of the bumper prize of Samsung and satellite TV companies -fights and Richmond, Va. That came after plunge in advertising revenue. their stations available on pay TV prize, KD150 for the third prize, KD100 for LED TV worth KD 400 was Ashraf Nabieh. that have caused dozens of blackouts Media General sold all its newspapers Tribune currently owns 23 TV sta- services. Research firm SNL Kagan the fourth prize, and KD50 each for the Meanwhile, some of the lucky winners in cities across the nation in recent last year to focus on broadcasting. tions and the pay TV network WGN expects these fees will more than fifth, sixth and seventh prizes. The promo- of the Bangladesh promotion were, years. Tribune Co President and CEO Peter America, along with the Chicago double from about $2.4 billion last tion proved to be highly popular amongst Mohamed Khalil who won a first prize of KD With a combined 42 TV stations - Liguori told analysts on a conference Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other year to $6 billion by 2018. And the customers remitting to Egypt and 400, Shah Jalal who won a second prize of including 14 in the top 20 markets - call that in addition to greater bar- newspapers. Many observers expect increasing use of the Internet to Bangladesh. We have seen several happy KD 200, Mohamed Babul who won a third Tribune will have greater leverage in gaining clout, more stations will help the company to sell the newspapers, show TV programming on computers customers walking away with valuable prize of KD 150 and Mohammed S Ali who fee disputes with cable and satellite the company maximize its national but Liguori said management contin- and mobile devices has boosted prizes every day. The attractive promotion won a fourth prize of KD 100. Among the distributors. The increased leverage is and local advertising sales and give it ues to focus on running them effi- broadcasters’ ability to raise new rev- gives customers yet another reason to list of fifth, sixth and seventh prize winners, one reason Tribune’s deal follows on more outlets to distribute its video ciently. “We’ll operate our newspa- enue from ads. “The business is the remit their money through Al Mulla who each walked away with KD 50, were a string of big purchases. Last month, and digital content. pers at the highest level possible,” he best it’s been in a long time,” said Exchange. Kajal Baidy, Anwar Hossain and Sirajul Islam Gannett Co announced a $1.5 billion “Our investment thesis is simple. said. “(Mergers and acquisitions) is Edward Atorino, a media company In addition to the promotion prizes, respectively. purchase of Belo Corp. and its 20 TV Scale matters,” Liguori said. The deal our night job. We know what our day analyst with The Benchmark Co. “I call stations. Sinclair Broadcasting Group comes six months after Tribune job is.” The economics of TV stations it a renaissance.”—AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 BUSINESS Easa Husain Al-Yousifi & Sons launches range of AC systems

KUWAIT: Easa Husain Al-Yousifi & and radicals to purify the air in the Sons Co recently launched their lat- room. The new collection of Home est range of Panasonic Air condi- Appliances from Panasonic is a tioners and home appliances new response to a desire for enigmatic products at the Court Yard Marriot and intelligent designs that are per- hotel in presence of their guests, fect to suit today’s modern require- customers and the press and media ments. They have been designed people. Panasonic, the leading air using high quality materials and its conditioner manufacturer in the iconic design features are a treat to region, has unveiled the new range the eye! Panasonic’s contemporary of world’s only tropical inverter range of small domestic kitchen room air conditioners , it sees as appliances with bold and ambitious ideal for tackling the region’s alarm- design aesthetics. They are ing rate of electricity consumption. designed to suit different kitchen Panasonic’s latest line -up of styles without compromising on tropical inverter air conditioners are the functionality. now available with new and The new range encompasses of advanced features that are not only the stylish Super premium and pre- designed to provide cooling com- mium series of new Panasonic fort to homes, but are more energy Kettles NC-ZK1 / NC-DK1, the pop- efficient and with increased air up toasters NC-ZP1 / NC-DP1 and microwaves both feature One- soleplate are designed to reduce Panasonic. Alumite (anodized alu- steam for a maximum performance. purification capabilities. The exist- the coffee makers NC-ZF1 / NC-DF1. Touch Cooking and abundant auto ironing time considerably. The new minum), is also used in the con- The iron head is heated to a high ing range of Tropical Inverters Air The products are packed with a cook menus. The NN-CD671M also models have a unique curved and struction of automobile engines, 200∞F temperature, making it conditioners have been upgraded sensible no-frills approach to features a dial control for easier double-headed soleplate design helping to prevent the wear and extremely effective in removing with the new Econavi Sensors design details, such as embedded operation. Panasonic’s new that glides effortlessly and smooth- tear of parts; the iron’s design has wrinkles on natural fabrics. The 2- which can sense human absence, blue LED indicators in Super premi- microwaves also include the com- ly in all directions. Also, 116 steam been borrowed from this principle in-1 Garment Steamer is equipped human activity, sunlight conditions, um series and are extremely user pany’s proprietary Inverter holes around the entire edge of the in making the plate scratch-proof. with a steam level adjustment so With this new product, cooling is friendly. They are designed to confi- Technology(tm), which provides soleplate ensure that maximum The Panasonic New Garment that even delicate fabrics can be possible even when the outside dently challenge convention, set- constant energy flow that variably steam is generated over a wider Steamers NI-FS900 and NI-FS600 given a gentle steam. Plus a quick temperature is 55c. ting a new benchmark for idiosyn- adjusts the power intensity so food area for easy and effortless ironing. uses an innovative water pump in start function produces heat in 60 The Deluxe Non-Inverter models cratic interior styling. is cooked evenly. The soleplate of the Panasonic the base which moves water direct- seconds, so a user can rapidly also come with the new nanoe-G Panasonic’s new 27 liter, NN- Panasonic’s new W900 series of JW950 is made from Alumite, and ly to the head where it is heated, steam their clothes without worry- air purifying system that utilize ions CD671M and NN-CT651M irons, with their double-headed has also been patented by producing higher temperature ing about running late. Nissan shareholders re-elect Ghosn, all board members

DUBAI: Nissan Motor Co Ltd sharehold- all directors, and the granting of share ers recently issued near-unanimous sup- appreciation rights (SAR) to the directors. port for the company’s CEO and board of All items were approved by the share- directors when they overwhelmingly holders as presented. Ghosn offered voted to re-elect them for another two- shareholders a picture of the year ahead. year term and passed all management He said that the global automotive proposals. The 114th Ordinary General industry should sell 81 million vehicles Meeting of Shareholders, which was held during Nissan’s fiscal year (April 2013 to at the National Convention Hall of March 2014), an increase of three percent Yokohama, lasted just under two hours. over the last fiscal year. A total of 1,379 shareholders attended Additionally, he reiterated the compa- the meeting. Nissan President and CEO ny’s goal of selling a record 5.3 million Carlos Ghosn and COO Toshiyuki Shiga new vehicles during the year-a 7.8% reviewed the company’s performance year-on-year increase that would bring Faten Abu-Ghazaleh during the past fiscal year and the out- Nissan’s global market share to 6.5 per- look for the year ahead for shareholders. cent. Ghosn also told shareholders that Service Hero announces Sampling Nissan’s fiscal year 2012 ended on March Nissan’s financial performance forecast 31, 2013. reflects the company’s growth expecta- Phase for the Service Hero Awards Three items were proposed to the tions for this fiscal year. The company shareholders for approval including the anticipates a net income of JPY 420 bil- KUWAIT: Service Hero, Kuwait’s first and appropriation of retained earnings for lion (USD 4.42 billion) for the year ahead, only annual customer satisfaction index, the 114th fiscal year, the election of nine and consequently suggested a dividend yesterday announced the launch of its Carlos Ghosn (9) directors due to expiration of terms of for fiscal year 2013 of JPY 30 per share. sampling phase to assess which compa- nies are the service heroes of Kuwait in 2013. The sampling phase begins with immediate effect and lasts till December 31st 2013. Established in 2010 to allow Somali Central Bank ‘slush consumers to evaluate the level and quality of the services they acquire on regular basis, Service Hero has spared no fund’ for private payments effort in helping companies improve their understanding of customers’ requirements, needs and expectations. Patronage system blamed for blocking state building Since the first Service Hero Index was published in 2011, there has been a UNITED NATIONS: Money at the Central to assert authority until a Western-leaning to power, and April, almost three-quarters meaningful 2% increase in the public’s position to better understand their mar- Bank of Somalia is not used to run govern- government was elected last year. The UN of withdrawals from the Central Bank were general satisfaction levels across 450 ket and act more effectively and confi- ment institutions in the war-torn Horn of report said all bank decisions were made made for private individuals. “Such statis- reviewed companies. Consumers can dently to address service issues and Africa country, with an average 80 percent by Omer because there were no board tics indicate that the CBS has effectively take part of the evaluation process by make improvements. of withdrawals made for private purposes, members in place and the bank does not functioned as a ‘slush fund’ for the (patron- just visiting Service Hero’s website The inspiration of Service Hero is according to a UN report seen by Reuters operate as a government body subject to age) system rather than as a financing www.servicehero.com and following the based on the American Customer on Monday. The confidential report by the policy decisions or oversight from integrity mechanism for government expenditures,” instructions to complete the assessment. Satisfaction Index (ACSI) which began in UN Group of Experts to the Security institutions and parliament. the UN experts said. The report noted that Faten Abu-Ghazaleh, Service Hero 1996, when the method of obtaining Council’s Somalia and Eritrea sanctions “On average, some 80 percent of with- Mohamud’s government “cannot necessari- President, said: “Service Hero is unique in customer insights first started via tele- committee blamed a patronage system - drawals from the Central Bank are made for ly be faulted for the continuing patterns of that it offers the only independent, neu- phone questioning; Service Hero is an dubbed the “khaki envelope” practice after private purposes and not for the running of corruption per se, but it can be held tral and scientific measure of customer independent online platform that the color of the stationery carried to the government, representing a patronage sys- responsible for the appointment of individ- service and quality across Kuwait. This obtains customer insights via a specially Ministry of Finance - for preventing the cre- tem and a set of social relations that defy uals involved in past or present corruption.” means that consumers can be sure that built website (www.servicehero.com). ation of state institutions. institutionalization of the state,” it said. The According to Central Bank accounts, a their views and comments will be record- This allows customers to freely rate “In this context, the fiduciary agency experts said Somali Finance Minister cashier at the Ministry of Finance, Ahir ed, and companies benefit through and assess the company at a time that managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers was Mohamud Hassan Suleiman had tried to Axmed Jumcaale, was responsible for with- direct comparison with their peers. best suits them to share their comments reduced to a transfer agent that could not reduce the scale of the patronage system, drawing the greatest amount of funds. The Consumers can play a judging role when and opinions. The Index is divided into ensure accountability of funds once they but “it is so pervasive as to be beyond his report said that between 2010 and 2013 they review the places they visit and the 17 industry categories. These are: cafes, reached the Somali government,” the control without a fundamental restructur- Jumcaale withdrew $20.5 million in his services they use, which they can do casual dining, fine dining, fast food, retail report said. “Indeed of $16.9 million trans- ing of the system.” name, which was then used for individual within a few minutes simply by filling up clothes, home furniture, regional airlines, ferred by PWC to the Central Bank, $12 mil- payments under the patronage system by our user-friendly assessment either retail and Islamic banks, hospitals, elec- lion could not be traced,” it said. “Key to CENTRAL BANK A ‘SLUSH FUND’ successive finance ministers or finance offi- online or directly on their smart phones” tronics stores, internet services providers, these irregularities has been the current Under the patronage system, a person cials. An individual named Colonel “By participating in our yearly assess- mobile operators, cars agents, car service governor of the Central Bank, Abdusalam can ask Somali leaders for a private pay- Abdiqaadir Moalin Nuur took out $4.7 mil- ments, customers can make their voices centers, supermarkets and health clubs. Omer.” ment “that cannot be resisted for personal lion between 2010 and 2013, the second heard and their opinions and feedback Each industry category is measured PricewaterhouseCoopers, Omer and the or other reasons,” the UN report said. A sen- largest amount of money, according to the can be objectively fed back to participat- across up to eight service dimensions, Somalia UN mission did not immediately ior politician signs a note authorizing the report, which said there was no explana- ing companies. In addition to expressing which are reliability, speed, product qual- respond to requests for comment. Omer, payment, which is honored either directly tion for his withdrawals. what they like and dislike about compa- ity, staff quality, value for money, loca- 59, is a dual Somali-US national who left at the Ministry of Finance or the Central The International Monetary Fund offi- ny services, they also have an opportuni- tion, call center and website quality. Somalia at age 16 and returned in January Bank, the report said. “This custom is also cially recognized the Somali government ty to suggest ideas to improve things These dimensions are assessed on a to become governor of the Central Bank in called the ‘khaki envelope’ procedure on in April, ending a 22-year hiatus, and last that, at the end of the day, directly help ‘before and after experience’ basis to a country with a shattered economy and account of the color of the envelopes seen week offered technical support and participating companies to develop.” evaluate the difference between cus- broken financial system. The overthrow of a carried to the Ministry of Finance,” it said. advice, a first step in efforts to secure debt On request, Service Hero provides tomer expectations of service and actual dictator in 1991 plunged Somalia into two “Since banks in Somalia, including the relief for the country. Also last month, the companies with a detailed feedback satisfaction with the service. This method decades of violent turmoil, first at the Central Bank, cannot make electronic trans- Central Bank of Somalia published its first report on aspects of their services. Many will allow participating companies to hands of clan warlords and then Islamist fers internally or externally, all transactions annual report since civil war erupted in companies have now started treating learn about any shortcomings and where militants, who have steadily lost ground are made in cash.” 1991, putting the total debt at $3.2 billion. these reports as a key part of their quali- they fall below expectations. The index since 2011 under pressure from an African The report found that between To win debt relief offered to poor nations, ty development process. Thanks to this also measures loyalty of customers Union military offensive. September, when the new government of it has to draw up a financial management feedback, companies are in an excellent towards their service providers. Somalia was virtually lawless and unable President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud came plan.—Reuters technology WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 GM, Honda partner on fuel cell vehicle development

CHICAGO: General Motors and Honda will combine forces to develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the hopes of delivering them to customers by around 2020, the US and Japanese automakers said yesterday. The partnership is aimed at solving the two biggest prob- lems facing the commercial feasibility of fuel cells: high cost and lack of fueling stations. “Honda and GM are eager to accelerate the market penetration of this ultimate clean mobility technology,” Honda chief Takanobu Ito said in a statement. “I am excited to form this collaboration to fuse our leading fuel cell technologies and create an advanced system that will be both more capable and more affordable.” Engineers from both companies will work together to develop the next generation of fuel cell technology, sharing all their previous research and future discover- ies at joint research facilities in Michigan and Japan. While the master agreement does not cover manu- facturing, it will likely lead the automakers to use essen- tially the same engine and storage tanks in their fuel cell vehicles. One of the goals is to reduce costs by working with suppliers to develop standardized-and SEONGNAM: This picture taken on June 11, 2013 shows a less expensive-components. The automakers will also South Korean child displaying a smartphone after a spe- work with governments and fuel station operators to cial class on smartphone addiction at an elementary develop the necessary infrastructure to support the WASHINGTON: A Chevrolet hydrogen-powered Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle rolls out for a test drive in this April 21, school. South Korea, after boasting for years advanced vehicles. 2009 file photo in Washington, DC. — AFP technology from high-speed Internet to Samsung smart- “This collaboration builds upon Honda and GM’s phones, is now taking pains to try to pull its tech-crazed strengths as leaders in hydrogen fuel cell technology,” and to be refueled in just a few minutes-an advantage youth away from digital addiction. — AFP said GM chief Dan Akerson. “We are convinced this is over slow-charging electric vehicles. The propulsion the best way to develop this important technology, technology also has sufficient horsepower to be used Yahoo buys which has the potential to help reduce the depend- on large vehicles. GM, which has been working on the ence on petroleum and establish sustainable mobility.” technology since the 1960s, has logged nearly three Bignoggins for No class-action Fuel cell vehicles are considered the holy grail of green million miles on a fleet of 119 hydrogen-powered vehi- cars because they emit nothing but water vapor from cles launched in 2007. Honda leased its first fuel cell status in the tailpipe and can operate on renewable hydrogen vehicle in 2002 and has deployed 85 so far in the US more bright ideas gas made from non-polluting sources like wind and and Japan. It plans to make hundreds of the FCX biomass. The current technology allows the vehicles to Clarity available to customers in Japan and the United SUNNYVALE: Yahoo has bought Silicon Valley Google book case drive up to 400 miles (640 kilometers) on a single tank States in 2015. — AFP startup Bignoggins Productions as part of its quest for more bright ideas in mobile applica- NEW YORK: Google Inc. got a friendly ruling Monday from a tions. The acquisition of Bignoggins announced federal appeals panel that stripped a group representing Monday is the latest in a series of mostly small authors of class-action status as the search engine defends deals that Yahoo Inc. has completed since the itself against claims that its plan to create the world’s largest One in five phishing attacks target Internet company hired Marissa Meyer as its CEO digital library will violate copyrights. nearly a year ago. Mayer, a longtime executive The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said it was too early for banks, other financial organizations with Google Inc. before defecting to Yahoo, has authors to be considered as a group in a lawsuit brought been paying relatively small amounts to bring in against the Mountain View, Calif.-based company by the more compelling technology and mobile engi- Authors Guild. DUBAI: Every fifth phishing attack registered tions will protect even the most inexperienced users neering talent. A three-judge panel of the Manhattan court said a judge between May 2012 and late April 2013 targeted when conducting transactions online. As with most of the other acquisitions com- presiding over the 8-year-old case must consider fair use users of banks and other financial organizations. That pleted since Mayer’s arrival, Yahoo didn’t disclose issues before deciding whether to consider authors as a class. figure emerged from research into the evolution of SAFE MONEY TECHNOLOGY A judge last year granted class-action status to the Authors how much it is paying for Bignoggins. That’s a phishing threats carried out by Kaspersky Lab spe- Kaspersky Lab’s products for home users - Guild, which is seeking $750 in damages for each copyrighted sign the price was too small to have a significant book Google copied. Google has said such a payout would cialists using data from the cloud-based Kaspersky Kaspersky Internet Security and Kaspersky PURE- impact on Yahoo, which ended March with $5.4 cost the company more than $3 billion. The appeals court said Security Network. protect online financial operations by implementing billion in cash. A chunk of that money has since Google’s argument that the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs According to Kaspersky Lab, 20.64% of all phish- ourSafe Money technology. A key feature of the tech- been spent on Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of cannot fairly represent the interests of hundreds of thousands ing threats registered between May 2012 and April nology is that it was developed based on analysis of blogging service Tumblr, by far the biggest deal of authors because some of the authors will benefit from 2013 were aimed at accounts of banks and other the techniquesused by fraudsters to attack users of during Mayer’s tenure. Google’s digital library “may carry some force.” financial organizations worldwide. online banking services and online stores. Although Bignoggins deal didn’t dent Yahoo’s It also said a consideration first by a trial-level judge of The data received from Kaspersky Security Network Among its arsenal of protection technologies, wallet, it represents a coup for Bignoggins Google’s claims that it can fairly use snippets of longer works is indirectly confirmed by the banks: according to the Safe Money includes advanced anti-phishing fea- founder Jerry Shen. He quit his job as a software without violating copyrights “will necessarily inform and per- results of a global surveyconducted in spring 2013 by tures: for example, the technology prevents the exe- engineer shortly after starting Bignoggins in San haps moot our analysis of many class certification issues.” B2B International and Kaspersky Lab, about 37% of all cution of any potentially dangerous code in the Jose, California, three years ago and proceeded The court also said neither side will be harmed by a delay banks surveyed were affected by phishing attacks at browser, thus protecting the user against XSS attacks to develop a series of mobile apps for players in in deciding whether the Authors Guild can represent all writ- least once over the previous 12 months. and attempts to automatically download malware fantasy sports leagues. ers. So far, Google has copied more than 20 million books. The It’s no surprise that banking and e-commerce has from an infected site. Additionally, the technology Bignoggins apps such as “Fantasy Monster” appeals panel that heard arguments earlier this year seemed attracted unwanted criminal attention: even a suc- checks that users are entering legitimate sites, and “Draft Monster” proved to be popular reluctant to get in the way of the plans. One judge said it cessful attack on search pages, social networks or thanks to its constantly updated database of trusted enough to convince fantasy sports players to pay would be a “huge advantage” for many authors while another email can only yield personal data. To turn a profit, websites and phishing URLs. At the same time, the for the service, helping Shen to finance a trip said it would have “enormous societal benefit.” cybercriminals must find buyers for this information. heuristic mechanisms integrated in the Kaspersky around the world that his wife, Adrienne, A lawyer for the Authors Guild told the judges earlier this However, successfully using fake online banking or Lab products can effectively detect malicious links blogged about at http://www.shenventure.com. year that there was only a “very remote” possibility that the shopping pages leads directly to earnings for the even if they are not included in the database. lawsuit would derail Google’s library. He said the aim of the Shen, 30, is joining Yahoo’s mobile engineer- scammers. Safe Money technology was first introduced in lawsuit was to make sure authors are properly compensated. ing team at the company’s Sunnyvale, California, The appeals panel noted in its ruling Monday that any fur- But despite the widespread dangers of phishing 2012 as part of Kaspersky Internet Security headquarters. He is the only Bignoggins employ- ther appeal in the case should be assigned to the same attacks, simply installing a security product with the 2013.Since then its advantages have been appreciat- ee joining Yahoo.—AP appeals judges. Lawyers on both sides did not immediately necessary functionality to protect financial opera- ed by millions of users worldwide. respond to messages seeking comment.—AP In ‘golden age’ of surveillance, US has big edge

LONDON: The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA Menlo Park, California-based Facebook Inc. has some 900 scope of SORM has grown dramatically since Vladimir Putin gravity for much of world’s social media, communications, makes one thing clear: The United States’ central role in million users - a figure that accounts for a third of the took power in 2000 and now allows a wide range law and online storage. developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful world’s estimated 2.7 billion Internet-goers. enforcement agencies to monitor Russians’ messages. Americans’ “position in the network, the range of servic- players has made it the global leader in the surveillance Electronic eavesdropping is, of course, far from an In China, surveillance is “pervasive, extensive, but per- es that they offer globally, the size of their infrastructure, game. exclusively American pursuit. Many other nations pry fur- haps not as high-tech” as in the United States, said Andrew and the amount of bandwidth means that the U.S. is in a Other countries, from dictatorships to democracies, are ther and with less oversight. Lih, a professor of journalism at American University in very privileged position to surveil internationally,” said also avid snoopers, tapping into the high-capacity fiber China and Russia have long hosted intrusive surveil- Washington. He said major Internet players such as Wright. “That’s particularly true when you’re talking about optic cables to intercept Internet traffic, scooping their citi- lance regimes. Russia’s “SORM,” the Russian-language microblogging service Sina, chat service QQ, or Chinese cloud services such as Gmail” - which had 425 million zens’ data off domestic servers, and even launching cyber- acronym for System for Operational-Investigative search giant Baidu were required to have staff - perhaps as active users as of last year. attacks to win access to foreign networks. Activities, allows government officials to directly access many as several hundred people - specially tasked with Many are trying to beat America’s tech dominance by But experts in the field say that Silicon Valley has made nearly every Internet service provider in the country. carrying out the state’s bidding, from surveillance to cen- demanding that US companies open local branches - America a surveillance superpower, allowing its spies Initially set up to allow the FSB, the successor organization sorship. something the Turkish government recently asked of San access to massive mountains of data being collected by to the KGB, unfettered access to Russia’s Internet traffic, the What sets America apart is that it sits at the center of Francisco-based Twitter Inc., for example - or by banning the world’s leading communications, social media, and them altogether. Santa Clara, California-based WhatsApp, online storage. That’s on top of the United States’ fiber for example, may soon be prohibited in Saudi Arabia. optic infrastructure - responsible for just under a third of Governments are also racing to capture traffic as it the world’s international Internet capacity, according to bounces back and forth from California, importing bulk telecom research firm TeleGeography - which allows it to surveillance devices, loosening spy laws, and installing act as a global postmaster, complete with the ability to centralized monitoring centers to offer officials a one-stop peek at a big chunk of the world’s messages in transit. shop for intercepted data. “The sheer power of the US infrastructure is that quite “Eventually, it won’t just be Big Brother,” said Richard J. often data would be routed though the US even if it didn’t Aldrich, the author of a book about Britain’s GCHQ eaves- make geographical sense,” Joss Wright, a researcher with dropping agency. “There will be hundreds of little broth- the Oxford Internet Institute, said in a telephone interview. ers.” “The current status quo is a huge benefit to the US.” But the siblings have a lot of catching up to do if they The status quo is particularly favorable to America want to match surveillance powers of the United States, because online spying drills into people’s private everyday and some have turned to cyberespionage to try to even lives in a way that other, more traditional forms of espi- the playing field. A high-profile attack on Gmail users in onage can’t match. So countries like Italy, where a culture 2010, for example, was blamed on Chinese hackers, while of rampant wiretapping means that authorities regularly suspicion for separate 2011 attack on various US webmail eavesdrop on private conversations, can’t match the level services fell on Iran. of detail drawn from Internet searches or email traffic But even in the dark arts of cyberespionage, America analysis. seems to have mastered the field. Washington is blamed “It’s as bad as reading your diary,” Wright said. Then he for launching the world’s first infrastructure-wrecking corrected himself: “It’s FAR WORSE than reading your diary. super worm, dubbed “Stuxnet,” against Iran and for spread- Because you don’t write everything in your diary.” ing a variety of malicious software programs across the Although the details of how the NSA’s “PRISM” program Middle East. One US general recently boasted of hacking draws its data from these firms remain shrouded in secre- his enemies in Afghanistan. cy, documents leaked by spy agency systems analyst In his comments to the South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden to the Guardian and The Washington Snowden said Americans had broken into computer sys- Post newspapers said its inside track with US tech firms tems belonging to a prominent Chinese research universi- afforded “one of the most valuable, unique, and produc- ty, a fiber optic cable company and Chinese telecoms tive” avenues for intelligence-gathering. providers. “We hack everyone everywhere,” Snowden said. The pool of information in American hands is vast. US officials haven’t exactly denied it. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. accounts for “You’re commuting to where the information is stored more than 90 percent of the world’s desktop computer and extracting the information from the adversaries’ net- operating systems, according to one industry estimate. work,” ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden told Bloomberg HONG KONG: In this June 23, 2013 file photo, a TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA Mountain View, California-based Google Inc. carries two- Businessweek earlier this year. “We are the best at doing it. employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping US surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in thirds of the world’s online search traffic, analysts say. Hong Kong. — AP Period.”— AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE

MEXICO: (Left) Fisherman collect dead fish piled up in the banks of the lagoon of the Hurtado dam in Acatlan de Juarez. (Right) Dead fish pile up in the banks of the lagoon of the Hurtado dam.—AFP photos Thousands of fish die in contaminated Mexico reservoir

MEXICO: Thousands of fish turned up dead in a water, authorities said Monday. The fish were Jalisco, the mayor of Acatlan de Juarez, Emeterio What will they live off? I’m outraged. This is a munity of San Pedro Valencia, said at least 500 western Mexico reservoir after a company that deprived of oxygen after the company poured Corona, told AFP. tragedy,” he said on the banks of the reservoir as tons of carp and bream were killed. The mayor made food for livestock without a permit hundreds of liters of molasses into the canal that “The environment and the sustenance of fishermen removed the dead fish. Arturo Arceo, has requested government help for the 180 fam- dumped huge amounts of molasses into the feeds into the Hurtado Reservoir in the state of everybody (in the community) was damaged. a member of a fishing cooperative in the com- ilies that live off fishing in the reservoir.—AFP Third of conifers under Higgs evidence mounts one threat of extinction year on, so too the suspense OSLO: A third of the world’s conifers, the most widely planted pine and prized as a biggest and longest-lived organisms on the fast-growing source of pulp, was moved to planet, are at risk of extinction, with log- a rating of “endangered” from “least con- PARIS: A year since the discovery of a subatomic and all other joined-up atoms in the Universe that are not exactly the way you would expect... ging and disease the main threats, scien- cern” because of threats such as a spread of particle set the science world aflutter, evidence would not exist. But while the Standard Model but this is not particularly significant.” tists said yesterday. The study of more than fungal disease. Conifers are the largest and is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson postulates the existence of a single Higgs boson, 600 types of conifers - trees and shrubs longest-lived species on the planet. The even as researchers warn the suspense is far alternative schools of thought like string theory More data needed including cedars, cypresses and firs - Bristlecone Pine can live 5,000 years and from over. “We have established without a doubt say there may be at least five. “Have we found New findings are expected to be unveiled at a updates a “Red List” on which almost the Coast Redwood can grow as high as that we have a new particle, and that it is a THE boson, or perhaps one of several predicted conference of the European Physical Society in 21,000 of 70,000 species of animals and 110 meters (360 ft). boson. What remains to be done is confirm that by other theories ...? Until now, everything indi- Stockholm in July, but Gagnon stressed much plants assessed in recent years are under Craig Hilton-Taylor, manager of the Red it is a Higgs,” said physicist Pauline Gagnon, a cates that this is the Standard Model boson,” more data is required for science to be con- threat. “The overall picture is alarming,” said List, which is updated twice a year, told member of the team that made the discovery at Gagnon told AFP. “It has the allure, the look, the vinced of the particle’s identity. As for Murray: Jane Smart, head of the biodiversity con- Reuters that diseases were compounding the European Organisation for Nuclear Research song and the dance of the Higgs boson.” Over “I’m not sure one will ever say this is the servation group of the IUCN, the existing threats from logging, pollution and (CERN). the past year, physicists have analyzed at least Standard Model Higgs boson. “We will never be International Union for Conservation of forest clearance caused by a rising human The elusive boson dubbed the “God Particle” 2.5 times the amount of information they had able to say it is the only one because there Nature, grouping scientists, governments population. And global warming might be was theorized by British physicist Peter Higgs in available at the time of the 2012 announcement. always could be one that is so incredibly heavy and environmental organisations. The IUCN making conifers, standing in the same 1964 to be what gave mass to matter as the And they have said the particle now appears that you could never... make it” in the LHC. said in a report that 34 percent of conifers place for hundreds or even thousands of Universe cooled after the Big Bang. Guided by to have at least two of the main characteristics Ironically, some would prefer the discovery of were at risk of extinction, up from 30 per- years, vulnerable to new pathogens as tem- the theoretical work of Higgs and others, hun- expected of a Higgs. In theory, a Higgs boson more than one Higgs, added Gagnon. “Finding cent in the last assessment in 1998. peratures and rainfall patterns changed, he dreds of scientists have been on a single-minded should have zero “spin,” a measure of momen- just one would confirm the Standard Model”, California’s Monterey Pine, the world’s said.—Reuters boson quest for over three years at the CERN’s tum. And “parity”-a measure of how its mirror which describes only about five percent of what atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC). On image behaves in quantum physics-should be the Universe is made up of, she explained. The July 4 last year, physicists announced to rousing positive. Having analyzed mountains of data, the LHC, straddling the border between Switzerland applause that they had found an elementary CERN said in March the available data pointed to and France, shut down last month for a two-year Red meat tied to worse colon particle “consistent with (the) long-sought Higgs “no spin and positive parity”. revamp that should allow bigger collisions and cancer outcomes, study finds boson”-a scientific milestone. “It is all shaping up exactly the way it should. the creation of heavier particles, perhaps other Finding the Higgs would fill a massive gap in Everything we look at looks more and more like Higgs bosons. But whatever proof it yields may NEW YORK: People who report eating the their risk of death, but the amount of meat a the Standard Model of particle physics, which a Higgs boson,” said Bill Murray, deputy physics never be conclusive. In science, explained most red and processed meat before being person ate before their diagnosis was tied describes the forces, particles and interactions coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Murray, “you can never prove something is right, diagnosed with colon cancer are more likely with their risk of dying during the study. that comprise the Universe. In theory, the Higgs “We haven’t seen anything that doesn’t look at you can only ever prove something is wrong. “All to die during the next eight years, according About 43 percent of the 580 people who exists as an invisible field, interacting with other all the way a Higgs boson should. We have some we can do is rule out more and more alterna- to a new study. “It’s another important rea- ate about 10 servings of red or processed particles to give them mass. Without it, humans small tensions in the data with one or two pieces tives.”—AFP son to follow the guidelines to limit the meat per week at the start of the study died intake of red and processed meat,” said during the follow up period. That compared Marjorie McCullough, the study’s lead author to about 37 percent of the 576 people who Nearly 21,000 species at risk of extinction from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta. ate about two servings per week. While the new study can’t prove eating The researchers also found that people GENEVA: A freshwater shrimp, an Craig Hilton-Taylor pointed out to species of conifers had declined “victim of habitat degradation red or processed meats - such as beef, hot who consistently ate more red or processed island-dwelling lizard and a pup- AFP that the rise of more than 700 during this period, with the num- and urban development,” it said. dogs and sausages - causes colon cancer meat before and after their colon cancer fish from Arizona have been species in this category was ber now in the “endangered” cate- The Cape Verde Giant Skink, a deaths, previous studies have found that eat- diagnosis were more likely to die from that declared extinct, while nearly explained by increased pressure gory, teetering on the edge of lizard that had lived on a single ing the meats is tied to an increased risk of cancer during the study, compared to those 21,000 species are at risk of dying on a number of them. It was also extinction, jumping to 27 from 20 island and two small islets and developing the cancer. who at the least before and after diagnosis. There’s less evidence, however, on how out, an updated “Red List” due to species moving down from in 1998, according to Hilton- which was last seen in 1912, was people’s diets after colon cancer diagnoses ‘Three or four times per week’ released yesterday showed. “The the more serious “endangered” Taylor. also declared extinct, as was the affect their chances of survival. The US Dr Jeffrey Meyerhardt, who wrote an edi- overall picture is alarming,” said category, as well as new species “We are sending a warning,” he Santa Cruz Pupfish, once found in National Institutes of Health estimates that torial accompanying the new study in the Jane Smart of the International being added to the assessment told AFP, stressing the huge the Santa Cruz River basin in about 143,000 Americans will be diagnosed Journal of Clinical Oncology, said it’s possible Union for Conservation of Nature list. Yesterday’s updates focused importance of conifers both in Arizona, which disappeared due with colon and rectal cancers in 2013, and that the link between red and processed (IUCN), which is behind the Red especially on the decline among economic terms as sources for to water depletion. about 51,000 people will die from them. meats and colon cancer comes from cancer- List of Threatened Species that to conifers, a category of cone-bear- paper and timber industries, and Hilton-Taylor told AFP it varies For the new research, McCullough and causing compounds found in cooked meat date has assessed 70,294 of the ing trees and shrubs that includes in environmental terms for their greatly how quickly a species can her colleagues used data from a different or preservatives. world’s 1.82 million known the world’s oldest and largest role of sequestering carbon. “The be declared extinct, pointing out study on 184,000 Americans who didn’t have “The primary message is a confirmation species of plants and animals. organisms, such as the Bristlecone more we have deforestation in that the Cape Verde Giant Skink cancer between 1992 and 1993, and who that increased intake of red or processed Smart, who heads IUCN’s biodi- Pine that can live to be almost the northern hemisphere, the was believed to have been driven were periodically asked about what they ate. meat can have detrimental effects on the versity conservation union, insist- 5,000 years old and the Coast greater the impact will be in into extinction 100 years ago by After excluding people, who had - among development of colon cancer, the type of ed urgent and more efficient Redwood which can reach a terms of climate change,” he said. the introduction of rats and cats, other things - multiple types of cancer, cancer and other health effects of patients in action was needed “if we are seri- height of 110 meters (360 feet). Yesterday’s report also provid- but that its rocky habitat had unverified diagnoses and missing informa- the long term,” Meyerhardt, a gastrointestinal ous about stopping the extinction The report, which provided the ed the Red List’s first-ever global made it difficult to determine for tion, the researchers had data on 2,315 men oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer crisis that continues to threaten first global reassessment of assessment of freshwater shrimps, sure that it was gone. The Santa and women who were diagnosed with colon Institute in Boston, said. McCullough said all life on Earth.” conifers since 1998, showed that a lamenting that a full 28 percent of Cruz Pupfish, meanwhile, had not or rectal cancer between the start of the about three or four servings of red or According to the update, full 34 percent of the world’s the carideans vital to freshwater been seen in the wild since the study and June 30, 2009. Overall, 966 of them processed meats per week is a good target 20,934 species are currently listed cedars, cypresses, firs and other ecosystems are threatened with 1960s, he said, voicing hope died between the start of the study and for people. “We’re not saying people need to as “threatened with extinction”, such plants are threatened with extinction. One such species, the though that “it may still be in December 31, 2010. The researchers found be vegetarians. It’s really just limiting intake no link between how much red or processed and making it more the exception than the compared with 20,219 last extinction-compared with 30 per- Macrobrachium leptodactylus, some hobbiest collection some- meat a person ate after their diagnosis and rule,” she said.—Reuters October. IUCN’s Red List Manager cent 15 years ago. A full 33 was declared extinct after it fell where.”—AFP Ramadan fasting permissible for many with type 2 diabetes Religious requirement can be conducted safely in consultation with doctors

DUBAI: Local doctors are giving the low carbohydrates, or medication to overeat upon breaking their fast. Iftar that can occur in diabetes. below 70 mg/dL, a quick snack of crack- green light to Muslim patients with type adequately regulate their blood sugar meals tend to involve heavy, fatty foods “Patients prescribed medication for ers and a glass of milk, or the equivalent, 2 diabetes to fast during Ramadan, with levels. Type 1 diabetic patients’ pan- that are high in calories and have lots of their diabetes should continue to take it will reverse the condition almost imme- benefits ranging from weight loss and creases produce no insulin at all, result- refined carbohydrates, such as rice and as instructed,” said Khalid Amin, Regional diately. More than 50 million Muslim reduced blood pressure to lowered cho- ing in those with this condition having bread and these can send blood sugar Director of Cinfa. “Oral preparations patients with type 2 diabetes choose to lesterol and healthy blood sugar levels. to take regular insulin shots each day. levels sky high,” he added. shouldn’t be stopped simply because fast during Ramadan. The message is Urging strict compliance with doc- “While we urge type 1 diabetic According to a spokesperson for the person prescribed them thinks they that for the vast majority, the practice tors’ orders, diet-controlled and oral- patients to exercise extreme caution Cinfa, a Spanish pharmaceutical compa- no longer need them as they are not eat- can be healthy and fit in with religious hypoglycaemic agent-controlled diabet- should they decide to fast, type 2 ny that produces oral medication to ing in the daytime. The medication obligations with no ill effects. “Muslims ics can fast and take advantage of the patients can take advantage of treat type 2 diabetes, patients should regime should continue alongside regu- with type 2 diabetes should consult their health benefits associated with the prac- Ramadan. Type 2 diabetes is character- follow the treatment regimens as pre- lar blood sugar monitoring to detect for doctor about their intention to fast as a tice, provided they adhere to their pre- ized by excessive weight and obesity. scribed by their doctors and avoid signs of hypoglycaemia,” he added. suitable health care professional will be scribed medication and ensure they do Weight reduction leads to improved indulging in fatty foods and sweets. They Symptoms of hypoglycaemia include able to provide valuable advice on how not overindulge at Iftar, or the breaking cholesterol and blood pressure levels in should also test their blood sugar levels nervousness, sweating, intense hunger, to undertake this important require- of the fast. these patients,” said Dr Mahmoud at least twice a day before breaking their trembling, weakness, palpitations, and ment,” said Dr Benbarka. “The bottom Type 2 diabetic individuals are those Benbarka, Consultant Endocrinologist fast, with one test taking place around sufferers often have trouble speaking. In line is that it can be achieved easily and whose pancreases produce insulin - the and Head of the Diabetes Clinic at 4pm. If below 70 mg/dL, they need to severe cases it can necessitate hospital- can have positive health effects if proper hormone that controls blood glucose - Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi. immediately break their fast to avoid ization and can even lead to coma and care is exercised through regular blood but not in sufficient quantities, meaning “It’s important to stress, though, that hypoglycaemia, which is a potentially death. If these symptoms are experi- sugar tests and not overindulging at they need either a restrictive diet with Muslims with type 2 diabetes do not dangerous drop in blood sugar levels enced, or the blood sugar reading is Iftar,” he added. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Fasting made simple for diabetics during the holy month of Ramadan

el. “Fasting has very high chances of disease and prolonged hours of fast- blood or hyperglycaemia, if not con- choose colored variety, non-starchy adversely affecting diabetic patients ing can lead to hypoglycaemia, and trolled can lead to organ damage. vegetables such as spinach, carrots, because long hours without food dehydration. Novartis is distributing patient broccoli or green kidney beans your and drink can significantly reduce More than 50 million Muslim education booklets and glucometers meals. the blood sugar levels leading to patients with type 2 diabetes fast through health clinics to raise aware- 2. Choose the whole grain foods complications like unconsciousness, during Ramadan every year, abstain- ness on the safety measures. The instead of processed grains; choose seizures, brain damage and very ing from food, water and the use of education booklet has been devel- the wheat macaroni or the brown rarely death. Through a balanced oral medications between dawn and oped in consultation with medical rice instead of white rice. diet plan and strict monitoring of sunset. professionals. Here are some of safe- 3. Use the liquid oils in cooking blood sugar level these complica- Fasting can have important health ty measures from the booklet: instead of solid fats. Solid fats are tions can be avoided,” says Dr Rayaz high saturated. Remember that fats A Malik, Professor of Medicine & are high calories. Consultant Physician speaking at a Diabetic patients are often advised against fast- 4. Choose the beef slices; to recently held seminar on Diabetes reduce the fat ratio you eat, remove and the fasting population in ing due to the severe risk factors involved. the fat skin of chicken or turkey. Ramadan. However, with a balanced diet and constant moni- 5. Choose products of non-fat “The increased risk of hypo- milk such as non-fat milk, non-fat glycemia caused by fasting can be toring diabetics can safely fast during Ramadan. yogurt, non-fat cheese. severe and even life threatening for 6. Drink water or diet drinks free Dr Monira Al-Arouj patients with type 2 diabetes. Hence consequences for type 2 diabetes • Consult your doctor a few weeks from calories, have a little normal KUWAIT: Although strictly advised it is absolutely important for patients, including up to a seven- before Ramadan to come up with an soda and fruit juices, sweetened tea against fasting during Ramadan by patients to follow individualized fold increased risk of hypoglycemia individualized management plan and other drinks sweetened with doctors, majority of diabetic patients management plan in consultation (low blood sugar levels) that can • Monitor your blood glucose level sugar. continue fasting during the holy with their doctors.” says Dr Monira result in difficulty in concentrating, frequently, multiple times a day. If 7. In your meals, eat the dried month, exposing themselves to high Al-Arouj, Consultant Diabetologist coma, seizures and even death. the glucose levels are noticed to be kidney beans and lentil. Kidney rate of acute complications like and Assistant Director of the During Ramadan, diabetic patients very low, break the fast immediately beans and lentil contain high ratio hypoglycaemia and dehydration. To Dasman Diabetes Institute. are also exposed to different food • It is very important to maintain of protein and low ratios of fats. help these patients Novartis has During fasting, the circulating options without knowledge of level constant body weight throughout 8. Stay away from snacks and issued safety measures which will glucose levels in the blood tend to of calories or sugar content. Ramadan and that can take place high calorie sweets. Eat a little of create awareness on the precaution- fall due to decreased insulin secre- Due to prolonged hours of fasting only through a balanced diet. Tips food containing high fats and ary steps, balanced diet and con- tion. For diabetic patients, insulin there is a tendency to overeat which for a balanced diet: sweets such as chips, biscuit, cake stant monitoring of blood sugar lev- secretion is severely affected by the can lead to excess sugar level in the 1. Eat more vegetables and fruits; and ice cream. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

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Indian Embassy sets up helpline he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up helpline in order to assist Indian T expatriates in registering any com- plaint regarding the government’s ongoing campaign to stamp out illegal residents from the country. The embassy said in press release yesterday that it amended its previ- ous statement and stated if there is any com- plaint, the same could be conveyed at the following (as amended): Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has been in regular contact with local authorities regarding the ongoing checking of expatriates. The embassy has also conveyed to them the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the community in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait have con- veyed that strict instructions have been issued to ensure that there is no harassment or improper treatment of expatriates by those undertaking checking. “The embassy would like to request Indian expatriates to ensure that they abide by all local laws, rules and regulations regarding residency, traffic and other matters,” the release read. It would be prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other relevant documents such as driving license, etc. In case an Indian expatriate encounters any improper treatment during checking, it may be conveyed immediately with full details and contact particulars to the embassy at the following phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclu- sively for the above-mentioned purpose only.

8th Expo Pakistan to commence in September he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held from Sept 26 to 29 in Karachi. Held annual- T ly, Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair in the country showcasing the largest collection of Pakistan’s export merchandise and services. Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 was visited by delegates from 52 countries and generated a business of over $ 518 mil- lion. A 16 member delegation from Kuwait including reputable companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took part in the last exhibition. Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under the auspices of the Trade Development Authority Pakistan. Details about the event can be viewed www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further information and details of sponsor- ship can be obtained from the office of Commercial Secretary, Pakistan Embassy, Jabriya (25356594) during office hours.

Write to us Send to What’s On upcoming events, birthdays or celebrations by email: [email protected] Fax: 24835619 / 20 WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013 Embassy Pakistan safe for tourists Information mbassador of Pakistan to Kuwait ‘inhuman and cruel act’, the parliament Syed Abrar Hussain has said that unanimously passed a resolution to con- EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA Adespite Nanga Parbat tragedy on demn the attack and the Interior The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not 22 June, foreign tourists continue to Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan have a visa or immigration department. All come to the northern areas of Pakistan. declared that the attack on foreigners processing of visas and immigration matters Only last week around 25 foreign was an attack on Pakistan. tourists, including mountaineers and Northern areas of Pakistan including in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General trekkers, reached Pakistan to carry out Nanga Parbat, world’s ninth highest in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) their tourism missions. The ambassador peak, are known for their stunning [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: said that the incident targeting foreign beauty. Thousands of tourists, including +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa tourists is condemnable, however, the mountaineers from Europe, come to Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait spirit of the tourists is high and 25 these places each year during summer. applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa tourists from different countries, includ- The famous Himalayas are also located Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan ing Ireland, Canada and Czechoslovakia here which offer some of the most spec- flew from Islamabad to Skardu on June tacular climbing in the world. The mon- Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite 27, 2013 for tourism activities in various ey from the licenses and the jobs creat- the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. parts of the mountainous region. ed by the adventure tourism industry Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - He said that tragic killing of 10 for- are an essential source of income in the Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- eign climbers on June 22 at the base region which may get affected by such com for more information. Kuwait citizens can camp of Nanga Parbat may not be incidents. apply for tourist visas on-line at unique to Pakistan alone as other parts The government of Pakistan has www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. of the world too, in the past, have wit- ordered for a thorough investigation of nessed such dastardly acts. However, as the incident and has reiterated its it was the first such incident in Pakistan resolve to provide maximum security to n n n n n n n that involved killing of foreign tourists, it foreign travelers. “We are committed to The civil society including people demonstrated firm resolve to support drew countrywide condemnation. Prime make Pakistan a safe place for tourists,” from the area have also strongly con- the national cause of protecting foreign EMBASSY OF CANADA Minister Nawaz Sharif described it as the Prime Minister has said. demned this act of terrorism and have travelers from terrorists. he Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigra- Ttion department. All processing of visa and immigration matters including YIACO celebrates 60th anniversary enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.goingtocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: [email protected]. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Da’aiyah.Please vis- it our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The embassy will be closed on Monday July 1st 2013, for Canada Day, and will resume its duties on Tuesday 2 July 2013. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday.

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EMBASSY OF US IACO Medical Co recently celebrated this occasion, I extend my warmest con- Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may its 60th anniversary of operations in gratulations to the management and staff drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa YKuwait at the Marina Crescent on of YIACO on the occasion of completing 60 applications - completely free of an inter- June 14, 2013. YIACO hosted a special years of successful operations in Kuwait view or a trip inside the Embassy. The children event where the public had the chance to and would like to take the opportunity to participate in exciting competitions and express my sincere thanks to the staff for must be under 14 years of age, and additional games to win 60 wonderful prizes. The their services.” requirements do apply, but the service means event was broadcasted live via Marina FM. Worthy to mention some of YIACO parents will no longer have to schedule individ- People had chances to win 60 valuable Medical Co’s greatest achievements since ual appointments for their children, nor come prizes ranging from Samsung Galaxy Note its establishment in 1953 as the first phar- inside the Embassy (unless they are applying 2, iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII, iPads min- maceutical marketing company in Kuwait for themselves). The service is only available for is and airline tickets and much more in a include: establishing the largest pharmacy children holding Kuwaiti passports. To take fun and interactive atmosphere with com- chain in Kuwait; being listed fifth in the top advantage, parents must drop off the following petition questions related to the host com- 20 services companies and 17th among documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, pany. The management and staff at YIACO the top companies in the Middle East by available on the Embassy website held a successful event where they had the Forbes Middle East magazine in 2012; and opportunity to engage and interact with establishing the first Medical BOT project (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) the people in a joyous and celebratory with Kuwait by building and operating the - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous passport, manner. On this occasion, Chairman of YIA- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of CO Medical Co Nafel M Al-Hathal said, “On Laboratory Center in Al Adan Hospital. child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS-160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS-160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one par- ent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For children of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is avail- able on the U.S. Embassy website: kuwait.usem- bassy.gov/child_visas.html

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EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- ASSE Kuwait chapter tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th execs meet KNPC CEO floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For merican Society of Safety the upcoming conference. Vasudevan, information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to Engineers-Kuwait Chapter President, Mohammad Riaz Shareef, Vice 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: AExecutive committee members President & Golamari Sampath Reddy, Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- met Mohammad Ghazi Al-Mutairi, CEO, Secretary of ASSE Kuwait Chapter were tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications KNPC on June 30, 2013 at KNPC Head the other attendees who actively partici- please visit the following website Office. The meeting kicked off with a wel- pated in the discussion. Mutairi appreci- www.mfa.gr/kuwait. come address by Fadhel Al-Ali, Chairman, ated the efforts of ASSE Kuwait Chapter ASSE Kuwait Chapter wherein he for their good work being done in the n n n n n n n thanked KNPC Management for the sup- region and assured to continue the sup- port and encouragement extended port for ASSE Kuwait Chapter’s EMBASSY OF VATICAN towards the ASSE Kuwait Chapter Upcoming HSSE Conference and other Activities. Mohiuddeen, Director, 7th activities. As part of token of apprecia- The Apostolic Nunciature Embassy of International PDC, Health Safety Security tion and gratitude, Ali handed over a the Holy See, Vatican in Kuwait has Environment Conference briefed about memento to Mutairi. moved to a new location in Kuwait City. Please find below the new address: Yarmouk, Block 1, Street 2, Villa No: 1. P.O.Box 29724, Safat 13158, Kuwait. Tel: 965 25337767, Fax: University of Dundee 965 25342066. Email: honors Dr Behbehani [email protected]

ecently the University of Dundee in Scotland, on the advice of the Board n n n n n n n Rof the College of Medicine, Dentistry Pravasaandhra TDP donates and Nursing, the Senatus Academicus grant- to Uttarakhand flood victims EMBASSY AFRICAN EMBASSY ed Dr Kazem Behbehani, Director-General of During the holy month of Ramadan, the Dasman Diabetes Institute “The Honorary ravasaandhra Telugu Desam, people living in Kuwait who contributed South African Embassy will be open to Professor Appointment - Medical Research Kuwait recently chipped in with the amount. Pravasaandhra TDP the public, Sunday through Thursday Institute”. This appointment is to acknowl- PIndian Rs 100,000 towards aid for Coordinator CH Venkata Apparao and from 09:00 am to 14:00 pm. Please note that edge the enormous efforts Behbehani has the victims of the Uttarakhand floods Treasurer Sudarshan Naidu handed over exerted and been involved in over the past through NTR trust. Pravasaandhra TDP, the cheque to Chandra Babu Naidu the Consular Section operation hours will be decades and to recognize his contributions Kuwait President Mulakala Subbarayudu recently. Chadra Babu also lauded the from 09:30 am to 12:00 pm, Sunday through to the academic, research and medical field Naidu, Secretary Malepati Suresh Babu efforts of Pravasaandra TDP, Kuwait. Thursday. locally, regionally and internationally. Naidu appreciated the generous Telugu TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

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CROSSWORD 239 STAR TRACK

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

You have an inborn ability to guide and lead others through the hurdles of Your thoughts and ideas may not mesh with the plans and methods of life. You could be very much in demand as a counselor—even if you are not a counselor. someone you meet with today. You have a radical approach to communities and group work. Solving problems in the workplace seems easier than usual. There is an instinct to be powerful You are unusually motivated toward an end result that will help many people. This may not and in control—pulling the strings. This is a good day to get things done. There is good eye- have been your original plan but it has turned out to be just where you need to be. Things will hand coordination and a sustained effort that will make most any task run well. You may feel eventually be helpful to your own purpose if you maintain low tones for now. Tall mountains like exercising or getting out and about this evening. Perhaps visiting friends or dinner out with and steep valleys are calling your name. It could be that you enjoy mountain climbing or hang- a loved one is in order now. Emotions are very present but within control. If you are entertain- gliding but if you could wait one more month the weather will be much better. You enjoy ing this evening, you will not have to fish for compliments. Having everything prepared in exploring and extreme sports; you can take advantage of these few weeks to improve the advance, you have time to visit. physical status.

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

There are many opportunities to make practical decisions today—you may You may decide that this is the best time to buckle down and secure need to give yourself a little time before responding in some cases. Your ideas run deeper than your career. Your organizational abilities and sense of responsibility guide superficial issues in which an interest in depth psychology could evolve. Your sense of responsi- you and prove successful. There is a special job that you would enjoy. Your career could bility is so well developed that you may find you are managing things a little more than you assume a much more determined and solid form when you consider these things. would like at this time. This may be a good time to put in for an upgrade in your employment. Obtaining and exchanging information takes on importance. Being more involved with You are needed to interact in the ways you know best. When you are more able to express your neighbors or siblings satisfies a deep emotional need. Communicating by phone, e-mail, talents you will appreciate more and you will be appreciated more. The people with whom you snail-mail, etc., is where your attention moves this evening—fun topics. Lots of time is work will enjoy a little time out to laugh this afternoon. He who refreshes others will himself be spent on your computer later this evening and you have plenty of fun playing a game or refreshed. chatting with your favorite friend.

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

This is a great time to be with others, in any sort of group situation. In You may find yourself very appreciative of your very own skills today. You the workplace, your day should move along quickly. You have a sense of might enjoy putting together facts, solving problems and finding solutions for true understanding and real sacrifice to devote toward worthwhile projects. Dedicated to others, etc. A renewed appreciation for your work may be apparent to your superiors—in fact, long-range goals, you are future-oriented. You are intuitive and have an inner drive for all to everybody. A need to be respected is an emotionally charged issue. You develop a knack for ACROSS 79. City in central Iran. that is emotional, spiritual and magical. You may find yourself an advisor. You listen, as usu- organizing things and people, as a sense of ambition and practicality takes hold. Work, achieve- 1. Inquire about. 80. Water frozen in the solid state. al, to all sorts of information regarding relationships, progress and positive outcomes. ment and ambition take priority. You are entering into a cycle of mental development that Since you are artistic, you might consider the paintings of Norman Rockwell. Be careful of emphasizes the past and your roots in life. Curiosity about such things leads to study and 4. Stem of the rattan palm used for making research—perhaps the discovery of a family crest, real estate or home and family planning take canes and umbrella handles. DOWN quick responses this afternoon—you may misconstrue someone’s meaning. Use sunscreen when you are out exercising today. on greater importance. 11. (physics and chemistry) The smallest com- 1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially ponent of an element having the chemical in Turkey). properties of the element. 2. Someone who works (or provides workers) 15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which during a strike. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the pilot is talked down by ground control 3. God of love and erotic desire. CAPRICORN using precision approach radar. 4. The properties characteristic of the male You feel understanding and accepting and are easily moved by the problems of Your presence is important in the workplace, particularly today when you 16. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging sex. others. Psychology in all of its forms is a driving force in your life. An understanding are most tempted to stay home. You do tend to overwork and over worry about the letters of another word or phrase. 5. Used of a single unit or thing. into the needs and wants of others and an appreciation for their frailties, as well as your own, make the people you help and today you are needed in a place similar to a courtroom. You will be 17. A network of intersecting blood vessels or 6. Brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) you more cautious and conservative—pick your battles with care. There is a goal to reach today and able to help guide at least two people today and will help to encourage a piece of mind where intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph ves- your focus is the goal. You are connected to far-seeing visions and group work of all kinds. You may be frustration has been overwhelming. You are good with people and may find yourself working that was hammered into thin sheets. in a courtroom, hospital or some type of rehabilitation clinic. You may complain of never having sels. a bit independent when working with standard policies, however. Your sense of discrimination when 7. Struck with fear, dread, or consternation. it comes to practical issues is excellent. You are quick to compliment good problem-solving tech- any privacy or time to think. You have a pattern of living that seems to throw you into contact 18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 8. 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aomi Campbell not only owns the clothes universe of divergent and notable styles: From the fashion house on a journey across the four cor- she wears, but by her sheer magnetic pres- Dutch wunderkind Iris Van Herpen’s organic mus- ners of the globe: Encompassing the purity of Asia, Nence commands the entire runway when ings, the diaphanous display by Giambattista Valli the bold Americas, the bright stripes and patterns she walks it. Donatella Versace knows this well, in top form, to the supreme elegance of Christian of Africa’s Masai, with a dash of Europe’s dainty- casting the age-defying 43-year-old to start Paris Lacroix’s one-off ode to the late, great designer waisted “Parisienne.” haute couture week with a bang of indomitable Elsa Schiaparelli. energy. It was a hard act to follow. Monday, the Meanwhile, Christian Dior’s Raf Simons broke first of three full days of collections, showcased a through the walls of Avenue Montaigne to send

CHRISTIAN DIOR Images projected on the make-shift show walls inside Paris’ Invalides summed up the GIAMBATTISTA VALLI show’s message: A carpeted salon of Dior’s With bold and refreshing sense of femininity, Right Bank headquarters fused into scenes of Giambattista Valli produced what could well be one of exotic red flowers and images of black and his strongest haute couture shows to date for fall-winter. Asian models. In other words, with one full Thirty-nine diaphanous creations - in off-white, pale year as creative director under his belt, gray, mid red and soft Renaissance blue stunned rev- Simons has found the confidence to go ellers Monday evening with their finely balanced play of beyond the weighty heritage of the 70-year- texture, layering and transparency. A series of truncated old house codes and explore his own full silk shirts, that flared from the waist, softly blos- visions. While the iconic bar jacket popped somed thanks to myriad ruffles cut - in a masterly touch up in one belted gray wool outfit, its sev- - on the bias. While myriad floral embroiderings added a eral peplum flaps mirrored the layers of delicacy. One black and white bustier dress with tulle a Japanese kimono. sported an exquisite satin in lilac blue gathered silk sec- Elsewhere, looks fully embracing tion that flowed over the model’s hip, and billowed like a the East were pulled off with loose flower. panache, such as one off-white silk coat with stiff upturned collar, long front flaps and an incredible jut- ting back piece. All the looks were supremely feminine. But while all of the globe-trot- ting turned this show into one of Simons’ most cre- ative, the 53 looks were so diverse that it also was his hardest to make sense of. The brightly-col- ored Masai looks, for example, were sometimes so vivid they jarred. Still, there were plenty of bold new explo- rations. Next season, a more focused vision might help sharpen these great fashion ideas.

Models present creations for Christian Dior during the Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2013/2014 collection shows. — AP/AFPphotos lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

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Wild nature was in the spotlight for Dutch wunderkind Iris Van Herpen, who produced a typically organic-infused cou- ture display for fall-winter. The show ven- ue-among the pillared architecture of the neoclassical science museum - lent itself well to explorations of organisms and exoskeletons that ran through the 11 cre- ations. The twist this season was a neat fusion with Japanese styles. That featured nicely, for example, on a bronze kimono dress with round, large arms in the shape of a moth. Here, scratched detailing evoked the feeling of a perforated cocoon. The piece de resistance had to be an incredible oval dark gray mini dress that, in its intricate hard ruffles, teaming sinews and un-human shape, looked like a work of abstract sculpture. There was a feeling, however, that Van Herpen is having trou- ble moving forward creatively from her organic themes - though finely executed, two exoskeletal sheath dresses felt a little like a rehash of old-styles.

SCHIAPARELLI Shoe hats, lobster dresses, and spiraling goggle glasses could easily be part of a closet inventory belong- ing to Lady Gaga. But these objects were all spawned from the mind of another woman, one born- incredi- bly - in 1890: the avant-garde Elsa Schiaparelli. The house of the influ- ential fashion designer is being revived this year, and Monday saw famed couturier Christian Lacroix rise to the challenge of creating 18 dress- es for a presentation entitled “Homage to Elsa.” It was a sumptuous display. One dress called “Signature,” in luxuriant navy wool crepe and satin piping, sported large pockets in midnight blue faille that formed an imaginative peplum. Elsewhere, a timeless black chiffon gow featured a feathered front with a straight white satin bow and queenly gold collar. In a great touch, the lobster dress was reimagined as a clutch bag. Lacroix was chosen as a one-off designer, and the house is still to name an artistic director. — AP

Models wear creations for French fashion designer Christophe Josse’s Haute Couture Fall- Winter 2013-2014 collection, Monday. — AP/AFP photos lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

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here’s a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Previously the sidekick, Tonto plays the starring Depp and a bucket of makeup can accom- role in the story, narrating a tall tale of his coming Tplish. In “The Lone Ranger,” Gore Verbinski’s together with Reid, a district attorney who arrives in flamboyant re-imagination of the hokey long-run- the frontier town of Colby, Texas, with high ideals of ning radio show and ‘50s cowboy TV series, Depp justice and a copy of John Locke’s “Treatise on eagerly attempts to recreate the extravagant magic Government” under his arm. The lawman is made a of his similarly farcical Jack Sparrow of Verbinski’s Texas Ranger when the criminal Butch Cavendish “Pirates of the Caribbean.” With cracked white and (William Fichtner, ashen and sinister) escapes. The black streaks down his face and a dead crow atop pursuit takes on urgency when Cavendish mas- his head, Depp’s Tonto (whose look makeup artist sacres the rest of the Rangers (including Reid’s Joel Harlow took from the Kirby Sattler painting “I brother, played by James Badge Dale), leaving Reid Am Crow”) appears more witch doctor than warrior. and Tonto to navigate a familiar mid-19th century One would think that a so-costumed Depp careen- Old West - the coming railroad, mining develop- ing through the Old West with Buster Keaton ment and Indian warfare - with familiar types like aplomb would make “The Lone Ranger,” at worst, the intrepid tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) entertaining. and a one-legged madam (Helena Bonham Carter). But Verbinski’s film, stretching hard to both rein- Stepping into Clayton Moore’s boots, the tall, vent an out-of-date brand and breathe new life in baritone Hammer never looks at ease. While he the Western with a desperate onslaught of bloated exudes the Lone Ranger’s earnest wholesomeness, set pieces, is a poor locomotive for Depp’s eccentric he’s understandably an uncertain straight man theatrics. For 2 1/2 hours, the Jerry Bruckheimer- alongside Depp’s slapstick. Having to wear a white produced “Lone Ranger” inflates, subverts and dis- Stetson and mask in his first starring role feels like torts the conventions of the Western until, in an yet another humiliation for the Winklevoss twins interminable climax, the big-budget spectacle final- Hammer memorably played in “The Social Network.” ly, exhaustingly collapses in a scrap heap of train The most laudable aspect of “The Lone Ranger” is wreckage. that it attempts to dispel and mock Hollywood’s “The Long Ranger” is, alas, a runaway train. A past Native American ills. Depp, who has claimed he filmmaker of great excess, Verbinski’s ricocheting has some Cherokee ancestry, delights in upending whimsy here runs off the rails. Flashback-heavy plot false images of Indian mysticism, all the while toss- mechanics, occasionally grim violence (bullets land ing bird seed to the dead crow on his head. in bodies with the loudest of thwacks, a heart gets But “The Lone Ranger,” which was made with eaten) and surrealistic comedy add up to a confused much of the “Pirates” team including screenwriters tone that seems uncertain exactly how to position Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, along with Depp’s Tonto in the movie, to say nothing of Armie “Revolutionary Road” adapter Justin Haythe, can was a cartoon lizard, they crafted a far better This publicity image released by Disney shows Johnny Depp as Tonto, Hammer’s wayward Lone Ranger. The film begins only be filed alongside “Cowboys and Aliens” and Western in “Rango.” “The Lone Ranger,” a Walt Disney right, and Armie Hammer as The Lone Ranger, in a scene from “The Lone with an elderly, leathery Tonto (also Depp, nearly “Wild, Wild West” as ornate films that are so nervous release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense Ranger.”—AP unrecognizable) at a 1933 San Francisco fair where, about the modern appeal of the Western that they action and violence, and some suggestive material. under a sign labeled “noble savage,” the old Native ruin it by impulsively overstuffing it. The Coen Running time: 149 minutes. One and a half stars out American regales a young, masked Lone Ranger fan brothers’ “True Grit” and the 2007 remake of “3:10 to of four. — AP (Mason Cook) about his adventures with John Reid Yuma” better understood the genre’s inherent terse- (Hammer). ness. When Verbinski was last directing and Depp

ames Franco wants you to know that his “My intention is not to go on Indiegogo and Indiegogo campaign is not like the Kickstarter ask people to donate money that will then eventu- Jcampaign of his “Oz the Great and Powerful” ally go into my pocket,” Franco said. Should the co-star Zach Braff. One big difference? While Braff films get made (and, with 17 days to go in the cam- used his fans for his own profit, Franco’s raising paign and just over $150,000 of his $500,000 goal money to help filmmakers and charity. “I’m not raised, that is big question mark), Franco hopes to doing this for my own project,” Franco said in a take them on the festival circuit (“I have good rela- recent interview with UK site Back to the Movies. tionships with all the best film festivals around the When asked how crowdfunding campaigns are world and the country”). That’s all he seems to changing the film industry, Franco responded: “I’m know for sure in regards to distributions plans. not using my celebrity to get money for a project When asked if it would be difficult for the film- that I’m going to direct. This is really to give a makers to adapt his stories, Franco said that most chance to talented people that deserve it but of his own directing projects have been adapta- maybe wouldn’t have the opportunity to other- tions of books or poems. That no longer includes wise.” Any profits from the movie, he stressed, go to Andre Dubus III’s book Garden of Last Days. Franco Jennifer Lopez “raise money for a charity that I care about a lot.” was set to direct and star in the film, only to report- Braff, of course, raised over $3 million on edly drop out of the project a few weeks before Kickstarter to film “Wish I Was Here,” which he will shooting was to begin, leaving the financiers out write, direct, and star in. He was heavily criticized at $500,000. — Reuters the time for asking fans to donate money to a vani- ty project from which he may profit and his backers definitely will not. Franco is asking for $500,000 to fund three films based on his book Palo Alto Stories, which will be directed by young and mostly untested filmmakers, rather than Franco himself. ennifer Lopez would not have per- towards these unsavory leaders. It’s worth Any profits from those movies will go to charity The formed a private concert in noting that these leaders want public notice Art of Elysium. James Franco JTurkmenistan at the weekend had she ability and prestige that these celebrities known about charges of human rights viola- offer.” tions in the Central Asian nation, her publi- Young said the birthday song was not in cist said on Monday. Human rights cam- Lopez’s contract for the show but the com- paigners, who accuse Turkmenistan’s gov- pany had made a “last-minute ‘birthday ernment of restricting free speech and jailing greeting’ request” which she obliged. political opponents, criticized Lopez for per- Berdymukhamedov became Turkmenistan’s forming at the concert attended by Turkmen president in 2006 after the death of usic producer Pharrell Williams President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov Saparmurat Niyazov, who took absolute con- filed a lawsuit asking a US on Saturday. trol of the former Soviet republic following Mcourt to rule he has not violat- The 43-year-old singer came under par- independence in 1991. ed any trademark that Black Eyed Peas ticular scrutiny after singing “Happy Berdymukhamedov’s regime has been rapper will.i.am owns for the phrase “I Birthday” to Berdymukhamedov at the accused by Western states at the United AM.” The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan event, which was put on for local executives Nations of systemic repression of its 5.5 mil- federal court on Monday, said that of the China National Petroleum Corp in the lion people, but the country, which has will.i.am, whose real name is William resource-rich desert nation. “The event was world’s fourth-largest known natural gas Adams, has repeatedly sent letters to vetted by her representatives, had there reserves, enjoys support from fellow Islamic Williams demanding he stop using ver- been knowledge of human-right issues of and Asian nations. Young said there had not sions of the phrase “I AM” on a website any kind, Jennifer would not have attended,” been any discussion of Lopez donating her founded by Williams, iamother.com. Lopez’s publicist Mark Young said in a state- performance fee to charity. Other pop stars, The website, according to the law- ment. “This was not a government spon- including Mariah Carey and Beyonce, did suit, focuses on “encouraging individu- sored event or political in nature,” the state- donate their fees after coming under fire for ality through different forms of expres- ment added. performing for the family of former Libyan sion.” Trademarks owned by Williams’s Rachel Denber, deputy director for strongman Muammar Gaddafi. — Reuters company, I Am Other Entertainment, Europe and Central Asia at Human Rights do not have periods between the “i” Watch, commended Lopez for coming clean and the “am,” while those owned by about the performance but said any sort of will.i.am do, the lawsuit said. vetting on the country should have been Further, the lawsuit claimed, easy. “Just do a few Google clicks to look up will.i.am’s trademark for “I AM” covers their human-rights record,” she said. “It’s hard clothing and is “relatively weak” to know why they (pop stars) gravitate Pharrell Williams because similar trademarks already exist. An attorney for will.i.am was not immediately available for comment. The lawsuit asked the court to declare that the phrase “I Am Other” does not “infringe, dilute or unfairly compete” with will.i.am, said Brad Rose, counsel for Williams. Williams is part of he UN women’s agency is teaming up with actress Geena Davis in the world.” “Media images have an enormous impact on children’s the musical duo The Neptunes and has to support the first global study of how women and girls are self-esteem and aspirations,” she said in a statement. “This is why we collaborated with artists including Tportrayed in family films, saying the images have a strong decided to launch a global gender in media study: If girls see it, they Justin Timberlake, Kanye West and Jay- impact on how females see themselves. Gender representation in can be it.” Z. The Black Eyed Peas have sold more film influences the perception of women and girls, their self-esteem The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media commissioned the than 31 million albums, according to and the relationships between the sexes, Lakshmi Puri, acting head of study with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and UN Women. will.i.am’s website. The case is I Am UN Women, said Monday. Results will be released in late 2014. Previous research by the Geena Other Entertainment, LLC v William “We cannot let the negative depiction of women and girls erode Davis Institute revealed that in U.S. family films only 28.3 percent of all the hard gains that have been made on gender equality and women’s speaking characters were female. Many were depicted in stereotyped Adams, US District Court for the empowerment,” Puri said. “We hope that the study will address factors and sexualized roles. Only 3.4 percent of business leader characters Southern District of New York, No. 13- that positively impact the perception of women in society.” UN and 4.5 percent of high-level politicians were women. 4547. — Reuters Women said the study will examine the top-grossing international Davis, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for “The movies in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, Accidental Tourist” in 1988 and starred in “Thelma & Louise,” is also a Spain and the United Kingdom. special envoy of the U.N. International Telecommunication Union to The Academy Award-winning Davis, who played the first female promote the empowering role that technology can play in the lives of president in the television series “Commander in Chief,” said the women and girls. — AP dearth of female characters of substance in the media means children Geena Davis are being taught that girls and women “don’t take up half of the space Dior, Valli, Versace, Schiaparelli energize Paris 36 WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

Members of China National Acrobatic Troupe perform at the Beiteddine Festival in the Lebanese mountains southeast of Beirut. — AFP

he founder of Cirque du Soleil says his tight-knit per- formance company, renowned for extravagant shows Tthat challenge the boundaries of the body and the stage, is “completely devastated” after a veteran acrobat died in Las Vegas in a fall witnessed by the audience. Coroner’s officials said Sarah Guillot-Guyard, 31, was pro- nounced dead at a hospital late Saturday night shortly after falling about 50 feet from the show’s stage during a production of “Ka” at the MGM Grand. “I am heartbroken,” Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said in a statement. “We are reminded with great humility and respect how extraordinary our artists are each and every night. Our focus now is to support each other as a family.” While Cirque performers defy gravity every show - soar- ing over audiences, scaling vertical walls and dangling aloft in aerial ballets - the incident was the first stage casu- alty in the company’s 29-year history, according to Cirque spokeswoman Renee-Claude Menard. Witnesses told the Las Vegas Sun (http://bit.ly/14H3Te0 ) that the accident In this Nov 28, 2008, photo, Sarah Guyard-Guillot, left, and Sami Tiaumassi perform as “Forest The final fight scene is performed on a vertical stage during Cirque du Soleil’s “Ka” at MGM occurred during a fight scene near the end of the “Ka,” People” during Cirque du Soleil’s “Ka” at MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas. — AP photos Grand Resort in Las Vegas. which combines acrobatics with martial arts and puppetry and tells the story of two imperial twins on a quest to they expect to rule on the official cause of death yesterday. dren, recalled her “infectious laugh” and poured out their entertainment design firm. “They’re constantly looking at reclaim their Far East palace from evil warriors. Visitor Dan Nevada officials said the Occupational Safety and Health condolences in English and French. that. Mosqueda of Colorado Springs, Colo, said the woman was Administration opened an investigation into the incident, The accident occurred while Cirque’s top executives, They’re constantly practicing.” Montreal-based Cirque being hoisted up the side of the stage when it appeared and Cirque officials promised their full cooperation. including president Daniel Lamarre, were in Las Vegas to du Soleil was established in 1984 and now includes more that she detached from her safety wire and plummeted to Menard said Guillot-Guyard didn’t slip out of her har- celebrate the premiere of “Michael Jackson One” at than 1,300 artists, according to its website. “Ka” is one of 20 an open pit below the stage. ness, but couldn’t provide additional information about Mandalay Bay. While accidents are rare - and until now, shows playing around the world this year - eight of which “Initially, a lot of people in the audience thought it was what led to the deadly fall. OSHA’s conclusions aren’t never fatal - they do happen. On Wednesday night, a per- are based in Las Vegas. “Cirque du Soleil is at the very pin- part of the (show),” he told the Sun. “But you could hear expected for months. Guillot-Guyard, a mother of two, had former in a preview of “Michael Jackson One” suffered a nacle at these types of shows,” Lester said. No reopening screaming, then groaning, and we could hear a female been with the original cast of “Ka” since 2006, and had mild concussion after missing the protective pad below an date has been set for “Ka,” Menard said. — AP artist crying from the stage.” The show momentarily contin- been an acrobatic performer for more than 20 years, act and landing on the stage. That artist is expected to ued, then stopped. Minutes after the accident, a recorded according to Cirque officials. Born in Paris, she is also listed return to the show. “The reason there’s been so few acci- announcement informed audience members that refunds as the head coach at Cirquefit, a program that offers acro- dents is they pay so much attention to safety,” said Larry or vouchers to future shows would be offered, and the batic fitness classes for children. On a memorial website in Lester, who has worked in theater and previously oversaw crowd was dismissed. Clark County coroner’s officials say her honor, commenters thanked her for inspiring their chil- live action shows at Universal Studios before launching an

ome hungry customers began queueing cate puff pastry of a traditional croissant shaped customers, patrons are restricted to two cronuts piece. At 8:00 am, the wait was over. Ansel flung outside the pastry shop around 3:30 am. into a round doughnut, which is then deep- each. At first, customers could snaffle six at a open the doors and welcomed his first cus- SOthers managed to keep their taste buds fried, filled with cream, rolled in maple sugar time, but Ansel restricted it to two after discov- tomers. By 8:56, almost all of the approximately at bay for a few more hours, arriving at the and coated with a light glaze. It’s soft yet ering the cronuts he sold for $5 each were 250 to 300 cronuts available have been sold. A patisserie around 6:00 am. They were all united crunchy, light and delicious, say the cronut’s changing hands on the Internet at up to $50 a bakery employee distributed madeleine pas- by a desire to sample the food craze that has devotees. Ansel, regarded as one of the most tries, advising people who arrived at 7:00 am gripped New York since its debut a month ago. talented pastry chefs in New York, said settling they had a “40 percent” chance of satisfying Half-doughnut, half croissant: the ‘cronut’ has upon the cronut recipe was a painstaking their craving. left the Big Apple’s gourmets in a frenzy. By the process. “It took me about two months to per- By 9:05 am, Ansel broke the bad news to time the Dominique Ansel Bakery in the heart fect the recipe,” Ansel told AFP. those outside his shop who have missed out. A cronut sits on a plate at Ansel’s bakery shop. of trendy Soho opened its doors to the public at It is so perfect that Jessica Amaral, 30, “We are sold out for today,” he said. Inside, 8:00 am, the slavering customers were at break- thought nothing of leaving home at 3:00 am to around 20 people waited anxiously to snap up ing point. Within the hour, every single cronut get in line. The two cronuts she is buying are a the final cronuts on sale. A crafty customer available has been sold. treat for her husband to mark the couple’s offered to sell his place in the queue for $100. The bakery’s owner, Dominique Ansel, says eighth wedding anniversary. “I am the idiot, I His offer was accepted by two friends who the crowd reflected the typical pattern since the read online that people were arriving at three... delightedly came away with two cronuts each. May 18 launch of the the cronut, a food sensa- The others started to arrive at five. It’s my eighth Immediately behind stood Jessica McCord. tion powered by social media. On the first day, year anniversary, I thought it would be nice for She was furious, but consoled herself by opting 50 were sold. The next day 100 flew off the my husband.” Just behind Amaral in the queue for a kouign amann, the Breton cake that is a shelves, within 15 to 20 minutes. Since then the stood Steven Go, a chef who arrived from his house specialty. Meanwhile, Irvin, late for work, bemused pastry chef has become accustomed home in Staten Island shortly after 5:00 am, at hungrily devoured his cronuts. A young woman to queues of 150 to 200 people winding down the behest of his wife. Justin Gorder, a 30-year- meanwhile prepared to take her prized pastries, the street before the bakery has opened. Ansel old salesman, travelled an hour from New nestling in a golden case, to share with work settled upon the idea of the cronut after decid- Jersey. colleagues. McCord was disappointed to have ing he wanted to create a hybrid pastry that Irvin, a trader, bashfully admitted he should missed out, but the experience will not deter would be instantly recognizable as a marriage already be at work. Gina, meanwhile, arrived in her. “We’ll be back,” she sighed. — AFP A cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid, sits on a plate at of French and American food cultures. a taxi at 6:30 am, clutching her four-month-old French pastry chef Dominique Ansel poses the Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York. — AFP photos His revolutionary confection offers the deli- baby. To satisfy the largest possible number of with a cronut at his bakery shop.