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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 MUHARRAM 2 , 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Audit Bureau Two dead in Setback for Barca beaten finalizes US school City as West by Real report, finds shooting after Ham claim Madrid on violations4 online warnings7 shock18 win Suarez20 debut Kuwait calls for Gulf Max 33º Min 18º reforms as oil declines High Tide 00:23 & 13:52 GCC states risk deficit, warns IMF chief Low Tide 07:29 & 19:29 40 PAGES NO: 16323 150 FILS KUWAIT: Gulf Arab oil exporters will have to reform their state spending and make cuts in some areas Central Bank because of weak oil prices, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh said yesterday. “We must undertake com- prehensive economic reforms including the reform of to cut bad imbalances in public finances,” Saleh told a meeting of Gulf Arab finance ministers, central bank governors and loans to 2% the International Monetary Fund in Kuwait. “This must be undertaken through strengthening of efforts to KUWAIT: The Central Bank aims to cut the bad loan diversify away from oil and decrease dependence on oil ratio among Kuwaiti commercial banks to below 3 revenue, which is now inevitable.” percent of total loans by the end of this year from 3.2 Global oil prices tumbled to four-year lows below percent at present, Central Bank Governor $83 per barrel this month, threatening - if current levels Mohammad Al-Hashel said on Friday. Hashel, speak- are sustained for a long period - to push the state budg- ing to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of cen- ets of some of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation tral bankers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council into deficit after several years of big surpluses. Council, said he wanted the ratio to fall further to 2 The IMF has estimated Saudi Arabia will need an aver- percent by the end of 2015. age oil price of $90.70 a barrel in 2015 to balance its In the last couple of years, many banks have made budget; the United Arab Emirates would face a level of considerable progress cleaning up their balance $73.30, Kuwait $53.30 and Qatar $77.60. Oman and sheets. “The banks are working hard to reduce this fig- Bahrain need much higher budget break-even prices. ure,” Hashel said. “I have a goal, God willing, that the A sustained oil price decline of $25 in effect reduces banks should cut this ratio to below 3 percent this the revenue of most GCC countries by the equivalent of year...and God willing, it should fall to the level of 2 about 8 percentage points of gross domestic product, percent by the end of 2015.” Big provisions for bad and could therefore push many of them into fiscal loans taken by Kuwaiti banks in the past few years deficits, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said. “That’s why it is have limited profits distributed to shareholders. “We important to address the fiscal situation now, although do not want more provisions, but prudence requires clearly the GCC countries have the buffers to fiscally and us to take provisions to the extent necessary,” Hashel KUWAIT: Finance Minister Anas A-Saleh cuts a ribbon next to International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing financially resist the consequences of such a situation,” said, adding: “Don’t overdo it.” — Reuters (See Page 3) Director Christine Lagarde during a ceremony to inaugurate the Middle East Center for Economics and she told a news conference after the meeting. Finance (CEF) yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 3) Continued on Page 13 Iran hangs woman for Sinai in lockdown after killing alleged rapist TEHRAN: Iran yesterday hanged a fession to her crime was obtained bomb kills 30 soldiers woman convicted of murdering a for- under intense pressure and threats mer intelligence officer she claimed from Iranian prosecutors, and that she had tried to sexually assault her, defy- should have had a retrial. ing international appeals for a stay of Iranian actors and other prominent Sisi blames ‘foreign hands’ execution. Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, who figures had campaigned for clemency had been on death row for on Jabbari’s behalf, echo- five years, was put to death ing similar calls in the West. at dawn, the official IRNA The judiciary had given Israel troops news agency quoted the several deadlines for Tehran prosecutor’s office Sarbandi’s family to spare as saying. The execution Jabbari under an Islamic kill US teen drew condemnation from sharia law provision that the United States and allows a death sentence for in West Bank human rights monitor murder to be commuted to Amnesty International, jail time. But relatives of RAMALLAH: Washington confirmed Friday that a Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli troops was which dubbed it “a bloody Reyhaneh Jabbari Sarbandi, a 47-year-old stain on Iran’s human rights surgeon who earlier a US citizen - the second time this week an American record” and “an affront to justice”. worked for the intelligence ministry, child has fallen victim to the ongoing conflict. The A message posted on the home- refused the pleas, demanding, accord- army said that the youth killed Friday had been page of a Facebook campaign set up ing to Iranian media, that she tell “the about to hurl a petrol bomb at Israeli motorists near to try to save Jabbari noted the “sad truth”. the West Bank city of Ramallah. An army spokes- news” of her death, adding the words A UN human rights monitor said woman said troops posted at the village of Silwad to “Rest in Peace” alongside pictures of the killing came in self-defence after protect a major road widely used by Jewish settlers her as a young child. Jabbari, an interi- Sarbandi tried to sexually abuse in the occupied territory spotted a person about to or designer, was executed for the fatal Jabbari, and that the condemned hurl a petrol bomb. “The forces fired immediately to 2007 stabbing of Morteza Abdolali woman’s trial in 2009 had been deeply neutralise the danger... and confirmed a hit,” she Sarbandi. The United Nations and flawed. said. CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, surrounded by top military gener- human rights groups had said a con- Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 als, addresses journalists following an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces yesterday. — AFP

CAIRO: A state of emergency came into to “break the will of the Egyptian people force yesterday across parts of Egypt’s Sinai and army”. Security officials said a suspect- Peninsula as the military pounded suspect- ed jihadist behind the attack rammed a ed jihadists after 30 soldiers were killed in a checkpoint with an explosives-packed vehi- suicide car bombing. It was the deadliest cle. The bombing in an agricultural area of attack on the country’s security forces since El-Arish, the main town in north Sinai, also the army deposed Islamist president wounded 29 troops, medics said, including Mohamed Morsi last year, to the fury of his a senior army official and five officers. supporters. The state of emergency in the Gunmen also shot dead an officer and north and centre of the Sinai will remain in wounded two soldiers on Friday at another place for three months, the president’s checkpoint south of El-Arish, security offi- office said. A curfew is in force from 5 pm to cials said. Jihadists in the peninsula have 7 am. killed scores of policemen and soldiers since Egypt also announced it would close the Morsi’s overthrow to avenge a bloody Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, the only police crackdown on his supporters. The route into the Palestinian territory not con- attacks have dealt a further blow to a trolled by Israel. “The army and the police tourism industry already reeling after a will take all necessary measures to tackle 2011 uprising that overthrew long-time the dangers of terrorism and its financing, president Hosni Mubarak. to preserve the security of the region... and While south Sinai is dotted with tourist protect the lives of citizens,” the presidential resorts on the Red Sea - a popular destina- decree said. While militants have been killed tion for scuba divers - the lawless north is a or arrested, the army has been unable so far base for militants who have launched a to crush them despite a massive operation wave of attacks, mostly targeting security in which it has deployed attack helicopters forces. The peninsula’s southern coastline and tanks. The military launched fresh air has been largely spared from the violence strikes yesterday in northern Sinai, killing rocking the country since the 2011 revolt, eight suspected militants, security officials partly thanks to security checkpoints in the said. region. But it has not been completely President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the army untouched by the militants. In February, a chief who toppled Morsi and later won elec- suicide bomber killed three South Korean tions, chaired a meeting yesterday of the tourists in an attack on a bus in the south Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to Sinai resort of Taba that was claimed by discuss what measures to implement under Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the most active mili- the state of emergency. After the meeting, tant group in Egypt. After Friday’s attack, KUWAIT: A picture taken yesterday with a telescopic lens shows a gigantic sunspot known as AR2192 that measures almost 80,000 miles Sisi told reporters that Friday’s attack was Sisi announced three days of national across on the lower center of the sun. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat carried out with “external support” in order mourning. — Agencies SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 LOCAL Amir to embark on historic Russia visit Mufti hails Kuwait’s support

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- through the blessing and support of the Kuwaiti leadership. Jaber Al-Sabah’s upcoming historic visit to Russia will focus Russian-Kuwaiti relations date back to the end of the on bolstering ties between Kuwait and Russia. This is the 19th century when Russian ships began to dock at Kuwaiti first visit by Sheikh Sabah to Russia as Amir of Kuwait. The seaports. Diplomatic relations between the two countries Amir will be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, dis- began in 1963 when Kuwait and Soviet Russia agreed to cussing with him issues pertaining to bilateral relations and open embassies in Kuwait City and Moscow. The first agree- mutual interests. ment between Kuwait and Russia was in 1964 when late Speaking about the visit, Sheikh Rawi Ainuddin, chair- Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah - then man of the Russian Ifta Council, told KUNA that the Russian Minister of Finance, Industry, and Petroleum - visited administration called on the council to partake in prepara- Moscow and signed a commercial and economic accord. tions for the upcoming visit which would focus on bolster- The highlight of the strong relations between the two ing relations in all possible domains. Ainuddin lauded nations came in 1990 when Moscow approved of UN Kuwait’s continuous support to Russian Muslims and its pro- Security Council Resolution 678 which called for the use motion of tolerance amongst religions which was evident in of necessary methods to end the Iraqi occupation of the opening of a center for religious tolerance in Moscow Kuwait. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Ambassador of Cyprus Panicos Kyriacou held a reception on Thursday to celebrate the National Day of the Republic of Cyprus. A large number of officials and Cypriots in Kuwait attended the event. — Photos by Joseph Shagra NBK Shabab program welcomes sixth batch of Kuwaiti graduates

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) recently welcomed Annually, NBK offers many training programs including NBK the sixth batch of trainees in the Shabab Training Program. Academy, the Summer Internship Program and the first of its This intensive program is specially designed to develop the kind in the region NBK High Fliers Program in collaboration skills of newly recruited diploma holding graduates. NBK with the American University of Beirut. In collaboration with Shabab Training Program extends over a period of two and a the renowned Harvard University, NBK also organizes an exec- half months. The program is tailored to provide young utive training program in line with the bank’s commitment to Kuwaitis who recently joined the bank with theoretical and developing and investing in its key resource and human capi- practical skills covering the different aspects of the banking tal. industry. NBK maintains its leading position as one of the country’s NBK Shabab program falls within the framework of NBK’s largest employers in the private sector. NBK continues its strategy to attract and hire qualified nationals. This program efforts to provide career and training opportunities for nation- aims at improving young Kuwaiti skills in order to prepare als and to support the country’s aim to encourage young them as highly qualified Kuwaiti banking leaders of the future. Kuwaitis to assume roles in the private sector.

KUWAIT: In celebration of naming HH the Amir as a ‘Humanitarian Leader’ by the UN, activist Ali Al- Eidan climbed the 2,300 steps of Hamra Tower - Kuwait’s tallest building - all the way to the roof, where he was met with a garland and a special plaque. — Photos by Joseph Shagra

KUWAIT: Emad Al-Ablani, NBK Deputy General Manager, Human Resources Group, and NBK officials in a group photo with the trainees. Zain organizes ‘Visioning and Inspiring’ leadership workshop

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in the human element. A leader’s responsibility generally expand their horizons and capabilities in preparation to Kuwait, organized a comprehensive workshop entitled revolves around helping employees reach their goal, which acquire higher responsibilities and positions within the com- “Visioning and Inspiring” for the company’s managers and is where the idea of establishing the academy came from, to pany,” concluded Bourisli. executives in Radisson Blu Hotel. The workshop is consid- eventually embrace leaders and develop their skills.” Zain further stressed about the importance of advancing ered a continuation to the company’s “Zain Leadership “As a leading Kuwaiti company, Zain has been forever its human element, considering it the company’s main asset. Academy” initiative that aims to enhance executives’ skills committed in investing in its human element and especially By investing in its people, Zain will be placing the ideal and uplift the national workforces’ energies. in national energies by providing employees with learning investment to serve the company’s goals in the best ways Zain’s organization of the “Visioning and Inspiring” work- opportunities and numerous resources to allow them to possible. shop falls under its overall Human Resources internal strate- gy, which outlines its dedication in investing in national workforces to help them escalate their professional ladder and pursue a managerial career. Additionally, the workshop’s primary purpose was to translate Zain’s strategy to training initiatives relevant for the Kuwaiti employees in particular, and the company in general. Zain affirmed its commitment in providing its employees with globally certified training courses and workshops with renowned professionals, carrying a main objective of employee skill development. The company works hard to invite experts and consultants to share their experience and vision with employees while partnering with top education- al entities to accelerate their learning process. The “Visioning and Inspiring” workshop was organized in partnership with Ashridge Business School in the United Kingdom; one of the world’s leading business schools and leading provider of tai- lored executive education, and was considered the entity’s first workshop provided to a Kuwait based company. Zain highlighted that the recently organized “Visioning and Inspiring” workshop, which was attended by 12 of the company’s leaders, is a firm continuation of “Zain Leadership Academy” which aims to develop the necessary skills and develop the spirit of leadership within the company’s employees, whether they are in dynamic positions or employees of the company in general. Nawal Bourisli, Zain’s Human Resources Director said: “at Zain, we believe that investing in our employees by bringing them the world’s top trainers and speakers is a national and valuable investment, especially during the current competi- tion on the local talents. As a company, we believe in two KUWAIT: Zain managers and executives are seen at a comprehensive workshop entitled “Visioning and Inspiring” at the main factors which lead to success; ability to manage and Radisson Blu Hotel. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Finance Ministers and Central Banks Governors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries pose with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde (center) during their annual meeting yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Development projects unaffected by oil prices

KUWAIT: Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh said GCC members’ general economic structures are growth whether at the national and regional level tary stability. However, the GCC countries’ general yesterday the current drop in global oil prices characterized by some distinctive features which or at that of international financial institutions, he financial conditions require more efforts to redress would not impact state budget-enrolled develop- make the financial policy the main source of the argued. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has some imbalances that could be partially produced ment projects. Speaking at a news conference fol- economic reform process, Saleh added. tended to cut its world economic growth rates for by some accumulations which are linked to the lowing the joint meeting of the Financial and The minister stressed the significance of this 2014-15, thus bringing direct and indirect impacts nature of Gulf economic structures or by regional Economic Cooperation Committee at the level of meeting which came amid regional and interna- of world economic trends on the GCC countries and world developments, Saleh opined. GCC ministers of finance and economic and GCC tional circumstances that impose more challenges which are an integral part of the global economic He called for creating a developed social safety Committee of Governors of Monetary Agencies and require an all-out strategy to confront relevant system, Saleh added. Such regional and interna- network and attaching more attention to the and Central Banks, the minister said the 25 percent reflections and ramifications. World governments tional developments would surely require fresh process of boosting capital spending in a way that fall in oil prices over the last couple of months and international financial institutions were parameters for the mechanisms of response to con- could encourage the private sector to play more would have an impact on the State public finance. impressed by some optimistic indications about comitant fallout and risks, he noted. active economic role. The Kuwaiti minister finally Should the current level of the oil price continue, global economic performance as conflicts and The Kuwaiti minister of finance pointed to the stressed the necessity of putting in place an all-out there would be economic reforms, rather than eco- troubles took place in some regions and oil prices key role played by GCC monetary institutions and economic reform process, including financial nomic measures, the minister said, adding that a were consequently affected, he said. central banks in taking adequate measures to fight reform, in redressing financial and general disequi- long-term strategy would be set out in order to put This, as a matter of course, has affected future this crisis in a professional and efficient manner, librium, diversifying income sources and reducing the national economy back on track. forecasts about the outlook of world economic together with their basic role in maintaining mone- reliance on oil revenues. — KUNA Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh Earlier, Saleh said the strong financial condi- tions of the GCC member states have effectively contributed to boosting their economic capabilities GCC keen on stability of oil markets: Hashel in face of challenges and foreign jolts, especially the fallout of the recent global financial crisis. In a KUWAIT: The Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) Banks of the six GCC countries. All these crises can affect the GCC countries, he keynote speech at the joint meeting, the minister member countries are keen on maintaining stabili- Hashel said global economy was affected by said. The global political crises, he noted, forced the expected average economic growth rate of the ty of international oil markets in order to prevent geopolitical conflicts from political disputes in International Monetary Fund (IMF) to lower its GCC member states to be 4.5 percent in 2014 and sharp prices’ fluctuations, Kuwait’s top banker said Hong Kong to Ebola in West African countries, the international economic growth projections to 3.3 2015. Friday. The GCC countries realized the regional and crisis in eastern Ukraine all the way to the political percent this year and 3.8 percent in 2015. The GCC But he sounded the alarm about some risks and international economic challenges resulted from conflict in Yemen. He noted that countries suffer- countries, said Hashel, should work on strengthen- perils due to swift regional and international devel- regional conflicts, thus took preventive measures ing from armed conflicts like Iraq, Syria and Yemen ing economic reforms, creating lucrative invest- opments on crude price developments which to boosting and maintaining monetary and finan- were risking further deterioration in their econom- ment atmospheres, boosting competitiveness, affect the GCC countries’ financial conditions, eco- cial stability with the objective of absorbing ic and financial conditions, which would send diversifying economy, reducing dependence on oil nomic reform and public spending. This would shocks, Mohammad Al-Hashel, Governor of the shockwaves to the region. The political tension in revenues and bolstering human resources. “The necessitate more concerted efforts to go ahead Central Bank of Kuwait, said. He was speaking at Hong Kong was also affecting Asian financial mar- GCC is an integral part of the global economic sys- with comprehensive economic reforms by means Central Bank Governor the opening of a meeting of the Committee of kets, in addition to the consequences of the crisis tem. It is influenced by changes around the world of adopting adequate measures to redress some Mohammad Al-Hashel Governors of Monetary Agencies and Central in eastern Ukraine on the euro-zone, noted Hashel. either directly or indirectly,” he said.—KUNA structural imbalances, the minister pointed out. The Oman may start cutting subsidies

KUWAIT: Oman’s government is likely to start cutting some state subsidies next year as the decline in global oil prices pressures its finances, Minister for Financial Affairs Darwish Al- Balushi said yesterday. The country’s original budget plan for 2014 assumed the govern- ment would run a deficit with an average oil price of $85 a barrel. For most of this year the oil price has been much higher, but in the last few months it has dropped steeply to as low as $82. Oman has been consid- ering ways to reform its costly and sometimes wasteful sub- sidy system, though reduc- tions in spending would be politically sensitive. Asked by Reuters whether cuts were likely next year, Balushi said: “Yes, I think the time is probable and especially with the decline in oil prices. “I think the people would be more understanding now, more accepting. They realise that this was natural wealth that is being overused, wast- ed...” In an interview on the sidelines of a meeting of Gulf Arab finance ministers and central bank governors in Kuwait, Balushi also said the current subsidy system was ineffective because it did not focus on poorer people. “Everybody gets, people who deserve and people who do not. I think if we rationalise it and use the saving for better priorities, that will definitely have a return for the people of Oman.” The subsidy reforms will proceed gradually and make sure people who deserve state aid are not affected, Balushi said. He did not give details of which subsi- dies would be cut, but in the past has described petrol as an obvious target.—Reuters SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 LOCAL Audit Bureau report on state bodies completed Financial violations found l Ex-senior officials still receiving salaries

KUWAIT: The Audit Bureau has completed its boost competitiveness of products and curb et, though capital and investment expendi- legal documentation authorizing it, such as Crime annual report on the budgets of official bod- the negative impact of falling prices. ture is not even half the rate, the bureau spending KD 162,000 on hospitality, trips and ies and balance sheets for FY 2013-2014, it Production costs have also to be reviewed chairman said. “This is an index of the struc- gifts which the PM’s diwan said was spent as Report announced yesterday. The bureau has devel- and decreased. tural imbalances in the budget.” Adsani cash gifts given to Kuwait embassy staff in oped auditing methods and enhanced coop- According to the first chapter of the referred in his press release to issues com- London instead of giving them other gifts in eration with the targeted bodies for the sake report, wages and other relevant expenses prised in previous reports by the bureau that appreciation of their efforts as ordered by the Policemen arrest of realizing effective monitoring of funds as consume about 45 percent of the state budg- were not addressed. These include develop- PM himself. The report also showed that “a partner in public interests and a monitor”, ment projects comprised in previous budg- some former officials were still receiving drunk harasser Chairman Abdulaziz Al-Adsani said in a press ets that have not been completed so far, monthly salaries and that some others still in release. which negatively affects the target of the service received ‘excellent performance’ KUWAIT: A citizen who was extremely drunk harassed In the report, the Audit Bureau refers to annual plan and the development plan 2010- bonuses they did not deserve. women and pedestrians on Arabian Gulf Road. Hawally legislative and executive powers a host of 11/2013-14, he said. Moreover, the report highlighted some security men went to the scene and took him to Salmiya issues of prime importance, as they have Meanwhile, the Bureau continues to fol- financial violations in the ministry of state for police station. wide financial, economic and social impact, low up implementation of capital projects in youth affairs, such as granting awards and and need to be studied and remedied, the oil sector, the pillar of the state income, paying financial support to student unions Adsani added. He noted that the issues raised Adsani said, calling for making the utmost abroad without legal causes. “How can the Right of way fight by the report are “the responsibility of all and use of real estate property, both public and head of a youth program ask for KD 50,000 for it is very important for the legislative and private, as a prominent element for enhanc- a project and be given KD 80,000?” wondered A young man became very angry with a citizen over executive powers to activate the bureau’s ing revenues. the report, noting that KD 219,000 had been the right of way in Sabahiya, so he started swearing at reports, which will help halt negative aspects Meanwhile, an Al-Qabas report published spent on purchasing rewards, KD 25,000 was him, then pulled a firearm and threatened to kill him. of the official bodies”. yesterday revealed the bureau had detected paid to one person for ‘supervising’ an exhibi- The victim, 45, told Sabahiya police that he was insult- One top issue addressed by the report is a number of violations at the prime minister’s tion of ‘talented Kuwaitis’, KD 50,000 was ed and threatened with a firearm by a person driving a the rising cost of producing Kuwaiti oil at the diwan and the ministry of state for youth spent on holding lectures and workshops, KD pick-up and gave them the car’s license plate number. time when crude prices are on the decline affairs. In its report, the bureau stressed that 25,000 for holding a Ramadan football tour- Detectives arrested the suspect, 23, who admitted to worldwide, Adsani said. This prompts speed- the PM’s diwan had spent considerable nament and KD 19,000 spent on purchasing the charges and was referred to the public prosecution. ing up capital projects in the oil sector to Abdulaziz Al-Adsani amounts in the form of presents without any cellphones and tablets. —Agencies

Man flees with money A Filipina, 36, accused a compatriot of taking KD 226 to send it to her mother back home, but he took the money and disappeared. A security source said that detectives are investigating.

Maid accused of theft A citizen told Sabahiya police station that he was a vic- tim of a theft and that his Ethiopian maid escaped from the house after the crime. A security source said the citizen said the suspect allegedly entered his bed- room and stole KD 1,000. Detectives are investigating.

Body washes up The body of an unidentified male washed up near Julaia cape, said security sources, noting that Shuaiba port rescue forces were dispatched to the scene to retrieve the body and hand it over to forensic experts to determine his iden- tity and cause of death.

Oil price fall won’t hit Kuwait’s budget

KUWAIT: The current sharp drop in oil prices would not force Kuwait to squeeze its budget or cut spend- ing, but it raises alarms about the sustainability of the national economy’s reliance on oil revenues, industry experts concurred yesterday. There is no fear about the negative impact of the decline in current oil prices Municipality workers remove illegal camps. on Kuwait’s budget, former Director of OPEC’s Research Division Hasan Qabazard told KUNA. He added that Kuwait can withstand the current crisis as Municipality cracking down on illegal camps its budget’s hypothetical price for oil stands at $75 a barrel, below the actual price of oil on the market. By Hanan Al-Saadoun Kuwait also has huge financial reserves that can help it overcome the current deterioration even if prices KUWAIT: In implementation of municipal instructions about the necessity to have a special license to pitch a camp in certain designated areas, a Kuwait municipality inspection team fall furthur, he assured. removed 25 illegal camps that had been pitched outside camping areas, said team leader Ali Al-Quaissi, noting that inspections would continue. He also urged all campers to call the The price of Kuwait crude oil per barrel went up by municipality hotline number 139 or visit www.baladia.gov.kw to obtain their camp licenses and select available locations. $1.22 to stand at $81.33 pb on Friday compared to $80.11 the day before, said Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) yesterday. Qabazard, however, Talks in Kuwait to counter underscored that the government has to embark on Rising costs threat an urgent and well-studied plan to diversify the militants’ online campaign national economy away from oil revenues. There is an urgent need also to rationalize expenditure and to to medical services reform energy subsidies in a way that does not harm WASHINGTON: Kuwait will host internation- “There are media outlets that have done a lit- low-income people, he said. al talks this week aimed at finding ways to tle bit. But this is a nascent effort and there’s a KUWAIT: Ever increasing costs pose a system of healthcare. They noticed rapid On an OPEC role to stop the slide in oil prices, he undermine the slick online campaign attract- lot more that needs to happen to effectively major threat to healthcare in Kuwait, said and rising healthcare costs worldwide, stated that OPEC can’t make any move before its ing foreign fighters to the ranks of Islamic communicate with the public in these coun- a senior official at the Health Ministry yes- and expect a crisis resulting from inade- anticipated meeting in November. He argued that militants battling in Iraq and Syria. “The con- tries.” Religious leaders and governments all terday. It is a basic quate financing of medical services if the OPEC should not intervene in the current situation - it ference will present an opportunity for an in- have a role in trying to counter the militants’ assumption that current system continues. rather should have to let the market address the depth exchange of ideas for increasing coop- messages, stressing “that ISIL is not Islam,” she financing is the Referring to the financial status of imbalance itself. The oil market is expected to recover eration among coalition partners,” US State said. bedrock of any healthcare in Kuwait, Falah said that the in the coming months and even to make up its losses project or institu- budget rose from KD 625 million in the Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Western governments have been increas- in the long-run, he forecast. tion - establishing fiscal year 2007-2008 to KD 1.8 billion in Meanwhile, oil strategies expert Dr Jassem Beshara Thursday. The US delegation to tomorrow’s ingly alarmed by the numbers of European a new institution 2014-2015, a rise of about threefold. The begged to differ. The oil price dip would inevitably talks is being led by Undersecretary of State and American fighters sneaking into Syria to or developing an Health Ministry is currently working on affect Kuwait’s budget and could even force the state for public affairs Rick Stengel, and special US fight with IS. At the weekend three teenage existing one can- many construction projects and is plan- to set priorities for spending on projects, Beshara told envoy, the retired general John Allen, will girls from Colorado, of Sudanese and Somali not be consid- ning several more for the future to KUNA. He added that the price retreat rings alarm give an address. They will join counterparts origin, were caught heading for Turkey by ered without pro- enhance hospital bed capacity from 7,000 bells to warn the Kuwaiti government that the from Bahrain, Britain, Egypt, France, Iraq, German authorities at Frankfurt airport, CNN Walid Al-Falah viding adequate at present to 15,000, the ministry’s assis- reliance on oil revenues is unsustainable. Beshara Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia television said. A law enforcement official financing, Assistant Undersecretary for tant undersecretary said. agreed that Kuwait can adapt to the current crisis, but and the United Arab Emirates. told ABC News the girls were trying “to fulfill Quality and Planning Dr Walid Al-Falah Once these projects are completed, not for too long. “I think every country coming will be what they believe is some vision that has said in a press statement. the ministry will need a rise in its budget Kuwait has previously coped with a price of $50 asked to do more,” Psaki said, as the US leads been put out on a slick media campaign” by A budget usually covers buildings and to KD 3 billion to KD 3.5 billion, which per barrel and even $30 a barrel, he said. He suggest- efforts to build a coalition against the Islamic radical groups in Syria. Canadian police also equipment, regardless of human will put a huge burden on the state ed that the government has to invest more in petro- resources, and medical supplies, he said. budget, he said. Falah said it is urgent to State (IS) group. “Some have started to take said that a gunman who rampaged through chemical projects and non-petroleum businesses to Therefore, health economics experts have conduct a rapid reform of the health sec- raise the added value of Kuwait oil and to diversify the steps. There are muftis in many of these the Canadian parliament in Ottawa was been warning over the past two decades tor, restructuring medical institutions economy. —KUNA countries who have spoken out. There are applying for a passport to travel to war-torn against the continuation of the ongoing and developing relevant laws. —KUNA governments that have taken steps,” she said. Syria. —AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait honors its exemplary employees at the Salwa Al-Sabah Hall. Ooredoo organizes employee recognition award

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait organ- CEO Sheikh Mohammed bin ized a dinner and an awarding cere- Abdullah Al-Thani said: “We believe mony for its exemplary employees that the hard work of our employees for the second and third quarters of is the main reason for our success. the year. This comes as part of the We organized this event as a gesture company’s continuous efforts to to show our employees our appreci- show appreciation for its employees. ation for all their hard work and The event, which was held at Salwa efforts.” Speaking of awarding Al-Sabah Hall, was attended by Fakhroo, the CEO lauded his hard guest of honour Abdulaziz Fakhroo, work saying: “Mr Fakhroo set the the former General Manager and foundation of a very solid establish- CEO, who was awarded by the ment, and we are continuing in his employees in gratitude to his efforts footsteps. We wish him all the best in the company. Commenting on in his pursuits. He is very dear to all the occasion, General Manager and of us in this company.” Group seeks to develop all areas on Yarmouk model Eijabiya highlights achievements By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: The Eijabiya Union Volunteer Group (EUVG) held a press meeting recently at the Duaij Diwan in Qadsiya to highlight the achieve- ments of the group in the past year. The meeting was attended by members of the group, area chiefs and the media. The group was formed about a year ago to work on beautifying and developing all areas of Kuwait to become ideal cities. They discussed the role of the group in developing the social services in various areas. “The main reason for our meeting tonight is to let people know what we are doing. We aim to improve the social serv- ices that are available in all governorates. We took Yarmouk as a model, as it became an ideal city, and we encouraged other areas, especially the new ones, to do the same and develop their KUWAIT: Narjis Al-Shatti, Head of the Eijabiya Union Volunteer Group, speaks during a press utilities,” said Narjis Al-Shatti, Head of EUVG, dur- meeting at the Duaij Diwan in Qadsiya. —Photo by Joseph Shagra ing the meeting. ing and teamwork, which will support our work councils work as consultants and transfer ideas Shatti thanked the minister of interior for giv- in the areas. We will also hold various activities in and suggestions to the governors to realize and ing governors competencies to help the group. schools, which represents an effective power in apply it in their areas,” she said. She also thanked the minister of information for the society,” Shatti further said. Nahid Al-Freih, another member of EUVG, his support in providing an hour to broadcast an Sheikha Al-Adwani, a member of the group, praised the support of the co-op union. “We KUWAIT: Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets Vice awareness program which speaks about their said EUVG has formed councils in some areas. “In have the same goal and we face the same or Chairman and Rotating CEO of Huawei Guo Ping. plans and their desired goals, in addition to the Yarmouk, the council includes various institu- similar problems in all areas and we all aim to ministry of social affairs and labor for their sup- tions including schools, the police station and develop the services in our areas. The chairmen port. the cooperative union. Our goal is to change the of various co-ops offer their moral and material Premier meets Huawei’s The group is preparing many programs. “We areas into ideal cities by beautifying them and help and support, and we appreciate it. We will be cooperating with the Boy Scout improving services including security, health, would also like to encourage more people to Association and the Girls Guides Association to cooperative and others. Today, Yarmouk is an volunteer in our group so we can realize more Vice Chairman Guo Ping raise the role and the importance of volunteer- ideal health area on the international level. The achievements,” she pointed out.

KUWAIT: Prime Minister of Kuwait HH Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah met Guo Ping, Vice Chairman and Rotating CEO of Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, in the capital of Kuwait. The two had a friendly discussion concerning Huawei’s plans for development in Kuwait over the next few years. Huawei has been operational in Kuwait for eight years since it entered Kuwait Market in 2006. With over 650 employees, Huawei Kuwait has grown into a well- known high-tech company providing communications equipment and solutions in Kuwait. With its leading innovative products, Huawei provides services to the leading telecom carriers in Kuwait, including Zain, VIVA, and Ooredoo. Huawei continues to play a critical role in the development of modern communications networks in Kuwait. Huawei’s products and solutions are now serving millions of people in the country. “We attach great importance to our cooperation with Huawei,” stat- ed Sheikh Jaber. “We saw Huawei products in every country we paid a visit and I am pleased not only to see Huawei’s success and contribution but also the high quality products what Huawei continue to provide to Kuwait,” he added. Guo Ping said: “We appreciate the support that prime minister and the Kuwaiti govern- ment have extended to Huawei during our business development in Kuwait in the past years. Kuwait is one of the most influential countries in the Middle East and we are wholly committed to the market and recognize the significant business advantages in Kuwait. Huawei will continue to actively participate in the Kuwait Development Plan, help to facilitate the execution of Kuwait’s ICT strategy, and improve the communications experience for Kuwaiti people with our world-leading products and solutions.” ICT technologies have become an important engine that drives development across all industries. Huawei is committed to developing the ICT industry in the coun- tries in which it operates, thereby supporting economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Huawei will continue to invest in local activities, training centers, and cooperate with local universities in cultivating ICT professionals in Kuwait. Huawei also actively explores new ways to share its professional ICT knowledge with local communities. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 LOCAL

Local spotlight kuwait digest Women and Just one thing! global terror

By Ali Mahmoud Khajah

e have been producing oil without being able to control its prices. All of Kuwait works with one single By Muna Al-Fuzai Wgoal in mind - produce oil, sell it and collect rev- enues to spend mainly on payrolls, infrastructure and other details that would facilitate oil production and sale till it runs out and we start spending our savings we have accumulated over 50 years to mark the end of our country. These facts can- not be refuted, not even by the most optimistic people who [email protected] will even fail to glorify them. It is only a matter of time now. The countdown may begin today or be postponed for a year or two. It is not up to us to decide but the recent oil price believe we are now confronting a global terrorist depreciation of over 20 percent per barrel in addition to sus-

movement, and every human is either a target or fuel. Al-Anbaa pending oil production at the Khafji oilfield, and accordingly IUnfortunately, women too are one of the two. Women Judaizing losing $4 billion annually, are all indicators of an imminent within IS are not all Arabs - some came from far by their Jerusalem crisis, while we still do nothing to revert it. We have no alter- own free will and desire to join this group but were native sources of income or qualified manpower capable of turned into sex slaves or forced to marry men who call crisis management. themselves mujahedeen (Muslim warriors) . There is only one thing we can still do to save whatever It is no secret that women under IS face all kinds of can be saved - that is saving the Kuwaiti people or at least humiliation and abuses, as well as rape and maltreat- those who will suffer from the consequences of this disaster ment. I can try to understand how some Arab women not very long from now - by adequate qualifications. Just possibly joined this movement because of their blood suppose Kuwait becomes bankrupt today - how many relations with its male members and lack of options. But Kuwaitis will manage to earn a living doing jobs that pay what I can’t understand are the reports that some them well enough outside Kuwait? How many of them poss- Western women and teenage girls have joined IS. es real qualifications to meet the challenges of working Western news reports have spoken about hundreds of kuwait digest abroad? How of them will actually be able to live with the Western women who have joined IS. new circumstances in Kuwait without oil? Some of these women are as young as 16, and trav- I believe there will be very few, because in short, most of eled to Syria through Turkey to marry and live with Better late than never us do not have the least amount of qualifications or vocation- jihadists, while some of them are bearing arms. IS was al skills that enable us to lead dignified lives because of edu- able to attract and drag adolescent girls from Europe and cational deterioration over the past three or four decades, America through social media! What are these women By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa which still applies today, because despite abundance in looking for? Can they be saved and what will happen to spending on education in recent years, educational outputs them when IS falls and they go back home bloody-hand- e thank the parents of the tricked youth who told the that Kuwait people are used to, which is the religion of centrism, for- have been retreating according to international classifica- ed? What future should these women expect, if any? Interior Ministry about their children joining religious and giveness, love of good deeds and not discriminating between citi- tions. At the same time, hundreds of Kurdish women are Wintellectual extremist groups. A statement by the Interior zens on basis of sect or religion. This proves that the problem lies in the lack of vision, fighting with Kurdish men in Kurdish areas on the Syrian- Ministry said eight parents voluntarily came to the ministry and pro- With the absence of the state, and its overlooking of many planning and administration rather than in funds. Kuwait has Turkish borders against IS. So does this mean that these vided security authorities with information and fears that their chil- things, cooperative societies resorted to offering extra lessons to been, and still is, increasing education budgets and accepting women have a better understanding of the false calls of IS dren joined extremist groups through trickery. The parents said that children, where religious groups become active in brainwashing our those with the least scores to join teaching staffs. Our curricu- and that is why they were not fooled by these terrorists? they became afraid because of the emergence of strange behavior children with the principles of extremism and hatred of others. The lums are still overstuffed with memorization and extreme Yazidi women for example were subjected to the most and ideas by their children and asked authorities to take the neces- question: Why did the families act now? And why didn’t they do so ideas. In fact, one of the basic subjects taught in schools brutal treatment by IS. It is all over the media, so why sary action to prevent their children from getting involved in terror tens of years ago, when our children got involved in jihadist action all states that minds have limited potentials and does not doesn’t it reach the ears of many women who dream to and violence abroad. The parents’ information about the behavior over the globe starting with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Bosnia encourage using them! join IS? Some reports have revealed that some of these of their children is a progressive move that is in the interest of the Herzegovina, Kosovo and now in Iraq and Syria? We have lost a Therefore, we have to at least qualify today’s generations women are enticing more women to leave their families youth, society and state, as it protects our youth from getting group of tricked children in useless wars that we have nothing to do well because the coming years will not be ones of luxury and join them. They are using social media as a tool to involved in jihadist action. This pioneering move by parents, even if with. The families moved out of fear for their children and country where Kuwaitis will surely get jobs without working hard to communicate and provoke others against their govern- it is late, it will protect children, the state and society from the evils after the governments of the region including Kuwait announced get them and get free medical care, electricity and water. This ments. I wonder why women choose to join IS despite of terror in this secure country. their participation with the Western alliance to fight jihadist groups will all come to an end soon. So, as long as we still have the the images of atrocities committed by them against We have written many times over many years to warn against such as Daesh, Nusra and Hezbollah. The chasing down of terrorists funds, we have to save for rainy days even if this calls for women. the growing extremism and exaggerations in religion in our society, by allied air forces and killing many including Gulf nationals and citi- importing an integrated educational system with all its cur- UN agencies and NGOs in the Middle East should work and we stressed the role of the education ministry and mosque, and zens, forced families to act and tell concerned authorities. riculums, teachers and administrations from countries known hard on better understanding this phenomenon and cre- most importantly the family. The issue of extremism and exaggera- Finally, what is required from us as citizens and expatriates is to to have advanced educational systems. ate awareness campaigns to address Western teenagers tion in religion is caused by education, mosque and the family, protect our country and keep them away from terrorist operations. Let us, just for once, read the future in a better way and and parents over allowing young girls to travel alone to which is the most important because it is responsible for educating We must inform concerned authorities about every suspicious accordingly make the right decisions because future genera- war zones of the Middle East. Western governments children ethically and patriotically, away from extremist principles. move and keep our eyes and ears open to all mosque sermons that tions will surely curse us if things continue deteriorating at should work with educational bodies and schools to Yet the regretful matter is that the parents are no longer raising their spread division and hatred, contrary to the loving and forgiving the same pace. Let us at least do one thing they can thank us spread the threat of communicating with such groups children and have left this to domestic helpers or political Islam principles of Islam, so that every citizen and expat becomes a for - that is focus on developing our educational system that online. This war has no religion and no parents should be groups. Parents are keen to take them to religious societies to teach watchman to protect this secure small country. has been ignored for years. blamed for being irresponsible. them religion, thinking that those groups teach the correct religion —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida

Washington Watch My values, my vote

By Dr James J Zogby

ith midterm elections only weeks away, I am once America with nothing but hopes and dreams and a com- again being asked by Arab friends to explain my mitment to work hard to produce a better life for their fami- Wsupport for the Democratic Party. They maintain, lies. Sure, my dad and mom worked hard. And yes, we suc- not unfairly, that neither of the two major parties - ceeded - in many ways beyond their wildest dreams. But Democratic or Republican - have commendable records on my mother’s point was that the success we realized wasn’t issues affecting the Arab World. As our annual Arab ours alone. It was also due to a social contract that had pro- American Institute Congressional vote guides establish, vided some degree of security and support when we and majorities in both parties have horrible voting records on our neighbors and friends needed it most. Whether it was Arab American concerns. So how does one choose for the public school system, the Works Progress which party to vote and on what basis should one base Administration, Social Security, or the vast social move- their vote? In response to these questions, I explain the ments that fought for civil rights and women’s rights - we roots of my political thinking - with lessons I learned both owe our success to working together and for each other. from my mother and from my own life experiences. My own life experiences, have taught me much the One of the clearest examples of my mother’s thinking same. From my earliest work in the Palestine Human Rights came back in 1996 when she was being interviewed on Campaign, through my involvement in Jesse Jackson’s 1984 Good Morning America. They were doing a story on that and 1988 presidential campaigns, to my work fighting year’s election and wanted to know why she, an 89 year old against political exclusion and discrimination against Arab Catholic woman, was voting for Democrats. In her respons- Americans, or more recently to our efforts to defend our es to the reporter, mom related how her life had shaped her civil liberties combat the post-9/11 anti-Arab anti-Muslim politics. backlash - in all these instances, most of our strongest and In the matter of fact way that was her style, my mother most dependable allies have been associated with the began by telling how when her Lebanese immigrant family Democratic party. As our vote guide demonstrates, we arrived in Northeast Pennsylvania at the turn of the 20th have a number of allies in Congress - almost all of them are century, it was the Democratic Party that welcomed them, Democrats. helping them find their way in the New World. They lived in We haven’t won every battle. But I cannot imagine the heart of coal country and most of their neighbors were where my community would be today had it not been for immigrants from Ireland or Eastern or Central Europe who the support we received from African Americans, Asian worked long tough hours in the mines. It was the Americans, Latinos, church leaders, liberals, and progres- Democrats, she said, who fought for their rights and pro- sives. They defended us and we worked together in coali- tected their interests. When the Great Depression hit hard, tion to support each other’s rights. Within these coalitions, it was Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal that put people back we work to make change - to get folks to be smarter about to work and created an economic safety net for those most and to apply our values to our wrong-headed foreign poli- impacted by the crisis. cy. Along the way, we’ve won new allies. No doubt, we still have a ways to go. Responsibility Moving forward, my mother noted the role of the party Black and White in defending civil rights, Social Security, Medicare, and pro- Politics, I have learned is never easy or perfect, and rarely grams that addressed the needs of the poor, the disabled, is it black and white. It is, however, a matter of values - how, and at-risk children. In short, Mom grew up not only believ- as my mother would have said it, we can do the most good ing that government had a responsibility to lend a helping for those with the greatest need. Take the example of the hand to those who needed it. She had seen, first hand, gov- debate over health care reform. No one can claim that ernment fulfilling those responsibilities and serving the Obamacare, as it is called, is perfect. It most certainly has greater good. problems that can and must be fixed, but this healthcare When I was in my rebellious teens, I read the ultra-con- reform legislation has been a blessing to many. At a recent servative Ayn Rand and became enamored of Barry town meeting I helped lead in Pennsylvania, a middle aged Goldwater’s “Conscience of a Conservative”. My mother immigrant grocer with a heart condition told us how he would have none of it. One day as I was spouting off about had never been able to get health insurance - because he individualism and the evils of government, she pointed a had a pre-existing condition. Since Obamacare forbids disapproving finger in my face and told me “if it weren’t for denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition, Social Security survivor benefits [which I had been receiv- now he is insured - for the first time in his life. ing since my father’s death when I was 15], you’d be out I take this issue personally. My granddaughter, Hope, working right now instead of being in school”; and if it was born with Down Syndrome. Because under weren’t for the New York State scholarship you’d won, we Democratic Administrations, the State of Maryland (where wouldn’t have been able to afford to send you to college”. my granddaughter lives) provides state-supported services She concluded with “don’t deny to others what you take for to “special needs” children, Hope is getting remarkable sup- yourself”. port. And because she was born three weeks after The phase through which I had been going was typical Obamacare was signed into law, my family knows that stuff for teens - a kind of infantile narcissism where you Hope, too, will never be denied health care because of a think only of yourself. Mom’s injunction was, in short, to pre-existing condition. Doing the most good for those who grow up, get over my self-absorption, and see the bigger are the most in need - that’s what government should do. picture of the benefits we receive from and the responsibili- That was the lesson I learned from my mother and my life, ties we have toward others. My rebellion was short-lived. and I look at every election through the lens of that value. My family, like so many other immigrants before us, and NOTE: James J Zogby is the President of the Arab American so many others who have come since then, arrived in Institute. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 Grateful for US, Kurds name Women on the frontlines against Islamic State baby ‘Obama’ Page 8 Page 8

LOS ANGELES: Police agencies and FBI organize outside Marysville High School, following a shooting earlier at the school. A student walked into his Seattle-area high school cafeteria on Friday and without shouting or arguing, opened fire, killing one person and shooting several others in the head before turning the gun on himself. — AP 2 die in school shooting after online warnings US shootings revive debate on gun control

LOS ANGELES: A US student who had issued chilling ing for me to see that. I saw him with a gun in his KOMO that three young people were in a “very critical and Explosives (ATF) said that it had been “legally warnings on Twitter opened fire in a school cafeteria hand shooting,” student Rachel Heichel said. Austin, condition” after the shooting. acquired,” declining to comment further. Marysville on Friday, killing at least one person and critically speaking to KING 5, said: “I jumped under the table as Previous mass shootings, like that which killed 20 police chief Rick Smith said the shooting should be a injuring three before taking his own life. Terrified fast as I could and when it stopped I looked back up children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut in wake-up call. “It is time for us as a country, as nation classmates dived for cover as the gunman, identified and I saw he was trying to reload his gun. “When that December 2012, have triggered intense debate about .. . to work out what’s going on, maybe look at our by media reports and fellow students as Jaylen happened I just ran the opposite direction and I was America’s relatively lax gun control laws. The weapon values and determine what we’re going to do. “It’s Fryberg, launched his attack in a school in the north- out of there as fast as I could.” Dr Joanne Roberts of used in Friday’s attack was not identified, but Doug time for us to act, and not just talk anymore,” he western state of Washington. As with previous such Providence Medical Center told local TV station Dawson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms added.— AFP shootings, it revived debate on gun control, even though the gun involved was legally acquired. “I heard one loud bang and I was wondering what it was. Then I heard about four or five more. People started screaming and people started getting to the ground and going for the nearest exit,” said a student identified as Jordan. “So I hit the ground. But after he’d already put some bullets into the backs of stu- dents,” he told CNN. The shooting, just the latest in a long line of such rampages in the United States, erupted in Marysville, 35 miles north of Seattle. Town police spokesman Robb Lamoureux declined to iden- tify the shooter or comment on online suggestions, including on Fryberg’s social media posts, that the attack might have been triggered by a failed romance. “The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” he said. Television footage showed swarms of police descending on the Marysville-Pilchuck High School as students, some with hands on heads, came out of the sprawling campus, which has some 2,500 students. A student identified as Austin told KING 5 television how the gunman was initially “quiet” before opening fire on fellow diners. “There was just a big group of kids. ... He was quiet. He was just sitting there. Everyone was talk- ing. All of a sudden I see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket,” he said. “At first I thought it was just someone making a really loud noise with like a bag, like a pretty loud pop until I heard four more after that, and I saw three kids just fall from the table like they were falling to the ground dead.”

Tortured Twitter posts Fryberg, a Native American, left a series of tortured posts on Twitter, suggesting a teenager used to han- dling guns, and hinting that a failed romance may have triggered the shooting. One post on Instagram showed him brandishing a hunting rifle. “Probably the best BirthDay present ever! I just love my parents!!!!,” he posted in a message accompanying the photo,” he wrote. In his final post on Twitter on Thursday, Fryberg had stated ominously: “It won’t last...It’ll never last....” Earlier, in August, he had issued threats to an apparent love rival: “Your not gonna like what happens next.” But some schoolmates voiced shock after the attack. “When I saw him, I was like, oh my gosh, that’s Jaylen. I would have never expected it would have been him out of all people. It was really heartbreak- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Lebanese troops attack gunmen in Tripoli market

TRIPOLI: Lebanese troops attacked Islamist region near the Syrian border, after ing for a Lebanese newspaper. The security Masri told AFP by telephone. ried out multiple attacks against the army. gunmen holed up in the historic market of unidentified gunmen tried to cut off a official said most of the militants were “My brother is wounded, but the Red They accuse it of cooperating with Shiite the northern city of Tripoli yesterday, after main road. Troops killed two militants in believed to be Lebanese. “Some of them Cross is unable to enter the area. We are militant group Hezbollah, which has sent deadly clashes rocked the longtime tourist the fighting, the army said, adding that the are Islamists, while others are wanted begging the army to let us out,” said Masri, thousands of fighters to Syria to support attraction, an AFP correspondent reported. road had been reopened. thugs,” he said. adding that he could see gunmen on the President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces. In a sep- A civilian caught in the crossfire and a gun- The fighting came nearly three months street. The AFP journalist said the market arate development, the army confirmed it man were killed, while nine soldiers, eight after a battle in eastern Lebanon between Civilians trapped area was completely surrounded by the killed a Lebanese army deserter who had civilians and six militants were wounded, in the army and jihadists from Syria’s Al- Relative calm was restored yesterday army, and that snipers were positioned on announced his defection in an online fighting that broke out in the city’s souks Qaeda branch and the Islamic State (IS) afternoon, after a humanitarian truce was the rooftops. He had earlier heard shelling video, during a raid on Thursday in the late Friday, a security official said. group. It broke out after gunmen attacked mediated by local charities, in order to and heavy gunfire as the army launched its Dinniyeh area north of Tripoli. The army It was the first time since the civil war in an army patrol Friday in the Khan Al-Askar allow civilians trapped in the market to assault. Masri said “some people are faint- also arrested an IS recruiter and a second neighboring Syria erupted in 2011 that area, near the heart of the coastal city, flee, said the official. The AFP correspon- ing because of the thick smoke rising from deserter from the army. Dominated by violence had spread to the market in wounding four soldiers. The gunmen then dent saw dozens of civilians, among them the flames.” Tripoli has seen repeated clash- Damascus for 30 years until 2005, Lebanon Tripoli’s historic centre, which is on the took up position in the market’s narrow children, walk out of the strife-torn area. es between Sunni militants sympathetic to is still deeply divided into pro and anti- shortlist for possible selection as a UNESCO alleyways and, after a night of heavy fight- But others remained trapped in the neigh- the rebels in neighboring Syria and Assad camps. Most of the country’s Sunnis world heritage site. Elsewhere in northern ing, the army launched an assault. One of borhood. “We are stuck between the army Alawites who back the Damascus regime. support the anti-Assad revolt, while most Lebanon, a clash broke out in the Akkar the wounded civilians is a journalist work- and the gunmen,” resident Motassem Al- Islamist gunmen in the city have also car- Shiites back Assad ally Hezbollah. —AFP Women on the frontlines against Islamic State group An unusual phenomenon in the Muslim world

SURUC: Just over a year ago, Afshin absolutely necessary. Earlier this month attacking IS fighters with gunfire and Kobani was a teacher. Now, the Kurdish the Syrian Observatory for Human grenades as they moved in. Syrian woman has traded the class- Rights, which monitors events in Syria, Surrounded, she detonated explosives room for the front lines in the battle for reported IS militants beheaded nine strapped to her body. The Kurds then Kobani, a town besieged by fighters Kurdish fighters, including three recaptured the position - but lost it from the Islamic State extremist group. women, captured in clashes near again on Wednesday. The 28-year-old Kurdish fighter, who Turkish border. In Kobani, Sheikh Ahmad Hamo’s uses a nom de guerre, said she decided After more than a year of fighting, daughter Rukan signed up for the fight to join the fight in her hometown Kobani has risen through the ranks to for Kurdish independence at the age of when she saw IS advances in Syria. “I become a commander of a mixed-gen- 18, and was quickly sent to Iraqi lost many friends to this, and I decided der unit. “We are just the same as men; Kurdistan, in Iraq’s north. That was there was a need to join up,” said there’s no difference,” she said. “We can eight years ago. For the first six years, Kobani, who declined to reveal her do any type of job, including armed she didn’t contact her parents or her birth name. “This is our land - our own - mobilization.” There is nothing new nine siblings. Her mother, Salwa and if we don’t do it, who else will?” about Kurdish women fighters. They Moussa, traveled to northern Iraq in Perched on the other side of the have fought alongside men for years in March last year in the vain hope of see- Turkish border, the Syrian town of a guerrilla war against Turkey, seeking ing her daughter. Five months after Kobani has been under an intense an independent Kurdistan which that, she phoned home. “When she assault by IS for more than a month. would encompass parts of Turkey, called, she had a mountain accent. Her The town - surrounded on the east, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The campaign for mother didn’t recognize her,” said south and west by IS - is being defend- Kurdish independence has been pur- Hamo. “When we talked to her, we ed by Kurdish forces in Syria. sued mainly by leftist militant groups were happy, but we were also crying.” Among those fighters are thou- that championed gender equality, Rukan Hamo’s 23-year-old brother sands of women, an unusual phenom- such as the Kurdistan Workers Party in Ferman was killed fighting in Kobani this enon in the Muslim world in which Turkey. month. The sister didn’t make it to the warfare is often associated with man- Suicide bombings have long been brother’s funeral. Her parents don’t know hood. In April, Kurdish fighters created part of the Kurdish women fighters’ when, or if, they will see her again. In the all-female combat units that have battleground repertory. Early this dust-blown cemetery of the Turkish bor- grown to include more than 10,000 month, Deilar Kanj Khamis, better der town of Suruc, a corner has been laid women. These female fighters have known by her military name Arin out for the casualties among Syrian played a major role in battles against IS, Mirkan, blew herself up outside Kurds fighting in Kobani. Of more than said Nasser Haj Mansour, a defense offi- Kobani, killing 10 IS fighters, according 30 dead, 10 are women. “It’s not strange cial in Syria’s Kurdish region. The to Kurdish forces. Haj Mansour, the that women are fighting,” said Wahida Kurdish women now find themselves Kurdish defense official, recounted that Kushta, an elderly woman who recently battling militants preaching an Kurdish fighters were forced to with- helped prepare the body of a young SULAIMANIYAH: An elite unit of women Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles extreme form of Islam dictating that draw from a strategic hill south of the female fighter, 20-year-old Hanim northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. —AP women only leave the house if besieged town. Khamis stayed behind, Dabaan, for burial. —AP Tunisians ‘skeptical’ on eve of historic election

TUNIS: In a raucous cafe in a Tunis slum, men talked in As the government and opposition deadlocked amid loud voices and paid little attention to the politicians the rising political acrimony - and against the backdrop of debating on the television mounted on the wall. Qais a military coup against the Islamist government in nearby Jebali swiftly made espressos behind the bar and Egypt - the Islamist-led government stepped down at the explained why no one in the gritty neighborhood of end of 2013 in favor of new cabinet of technocrats. Polling Tadamon cared about the upcoming elections. “We’ve had from the Pew Research center in Tunisia has seen support five governments since 2011 and nothing has changed on for democracy as the best form of government drop from the ground,” he said, arranging the cups of strong black 63 percent in 2012 to 48 percent, while the demand for a coffee on a tray with a bowl of sugar. strong leader rose from 37 percent to 59 percent. The disaf- “The poor people don’t trust the government because fection is particularly strong among young people, the they are marginalized, harassed by police and don’t have group that so spectacularly took to the streets to fight Ben money to pay bribes.” Outside, members of the National Ali’s riot police and force him out of power three years ago. Guard in bullet-proof vests and carrying assault rifles waved cars through a dilapidated traffic circle. Security was Discontent and apathy heightened because a standoff with suspected militants In the neighborhoods like Tadamon, it’s difficult to find was taking place just a few kilometers (miles) away. any young people registered to vote. According to On Sunday, Tunisians will vote for their first five-year Mouheb Garoui of the election monitoring group I Watch, parliament since they overthrew dictator Zine El Abidine some 60 percent are undecided just days before the elec- Ben Ali, marking the end of the democratic transition that tion. “There were so many promises in 2011 and now the they alone among the pro-democracy Arab Spring upris- same promises are being made in 2014,” he said. “There is ings have managed to achieve. Now, many Tunisians are discontent and apathy among youth.” The Islamist-led expressing disillusionment over democracy. They say it has government managed to lay down many of building not brought prosperity and seems largely to involve blocks of a new political system and, together with the squabbling politicians and attacks by Islamic militants, rais- opposition, write a constitution described as one of the ing fears that many may not turn out to vote in a country most progressive in the region. Yet the turmoil and dead- that has been described as the best chance for democracy lock kept away foreign aid, tourism and investment. in the Arab world. “The question of the economy was neglected in the three years of the revolution - it was years of political Moderate Islamist wrangling and political transition,” Prime Minister Mehdi “There is a depression after these three years of seeing Jomaa, the interim prime minister that succeeded the rulers lying, not keeping their word, not doing or not even Islamist government, told The Associated Press. He says his trying to do what they promised to do, and especially, in administration, which succeeded the Islamist government, the midst of a dire economic situation,” said Chawki has begun the necessary economic reforms to stabilize Gaddes, a political analyst at Tunis University. In 2011, the the country. Under his watch, foreign aid has flowed back moderate Islamist Ennahda Party dominated elections and to the country. In the past year, security forces have also formed a coalition government with two secular parties. carried out a string of attacks to dismantle suspected mili- Over the next two years, the country was buffeted by pun- tant cells, most recently on Friday when a counterterror- ishing inflation, attacks by radical Islamists, assassinations ism operation in the suburbs resulted in the deaths of six and the daily spectacle of squabbling politicians in a coun- alleged militants - five of them gun-toting women, accord- try accustomed to a half century of one-party rule. ing to police. —AP Grateful for US, Kurds name baby ‘Obama’

SURUC: Sultan Muslim, a Syrian Kurd, had no our homes,” she said, cradling her three-day- bolic gratitude for the US assistance to save doubt what to name her seventh child when old son. Kobane. “We want Obama to help us so that he was born, safely in Turkey, after a harrow- The family started their exodus almost a we can get back home. We are also human ing month-long flight from her home in month ago, following some 200,000 Kurds beings. We, the Kurds, attacked whom, fight Kobane: Obama. Desperate to flee the flash- who have already entered Turkey to escape against whom?” he cried out. The family is point Syrian border town, the heavily preg- the IS onslaught on Kobane. “We were housed at the “Rojova Cadir Kenti” refugee nant mother, her husband and six other chil- stranded at the border for days, without camp, whose name is a mix of Turkish for dren made it across the frontier just in time water or food,” said the young mother. “We “tent city” and the name of the northern part for the boy’s arrival. did not take any clothes to wear. We did not of Syria. Islamic State (IS) jihadists, accused of have any blankets ... I was pregnant and had There, joy abounds over the air strikes by widespread atrocities, seized control of the no chance of taking a bath.”Though not the a coalition of Western and Arab allies that strategic locality and US-led bombing raids world’s first baby named after US President have killed more than 500 Islamist fighters launched in the last few weeks have tried to Barack Obama, the choice reflects the relief during a month-long campaign in Syria. US stop their advance. “I gave my son this name of many locals who thought help would nev- planes have also dropped bundles of sup- from my heart. I will never change this name,” er come. plies, which include ammunitions and the shy 35-year-old said in a refugee camp in weapons, to help Syrian Kurdish fighters try- Suruc, just inside Turkey. “He dispatched ‘No friends but the Americans’ ing to defend Kobane from the IS, an extrem- planes, aid for us. Because of his help maybe “We named him Muhammed Obama ist Sunni Muslim group that has seized con- we will get rid of this cruelty and get back to Muslim,” father Mahmut Beko said, in sym- trol of large parts of Syria and Iraq. —AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Suspect arrested in death of 2 Californian deputies Islamic State threat

SACRAMENTO: A man armed with an assault Santa Cruz police detectives were shot and rifle shot three sheriff’s deputies and a civilian, killed. seen as important killing two of the deputies and leading dozens of Marquez had a driver’s license that identified police officers on a wild six-hour chase and man- him as a Salt Lake City resident. Sacramento hunt Friday that spanned two Northern California County Sheriff Scott Jones said the deadly chain counties before the 34-year-old suspect was tak- of events began when Deputy Danny Oliver, 47, US military response ‘not gone far enough’ en into custody. Marcelo Marquez, of Salt Lake approached a suspicious vehicle in a motel park- City, was taken alive Friday afternoon from a ing lot around 10:30 a.m. and was shot in the WASHINGTON: Sixty-five percent of Americans response has not gone far enough - up from 40 it comes to supporting the idea of deploying home in Auburn in Placer County after the shoot- forehead at close range. Oliver, the first county now say the threat from the Islamic State group percent in September. Fifty-six percent said the U.S. ground troops, respondents were more ing hours earlier in a strip mall in a commercial deputy killed since 2008, was a 15-year veteran is very or even extremely important, and nearly military response from countries that have guarded. Thirty-seven percent said they area of Sacramento, said Placer County Sheriff’s who leaves behind a wife and two daughters. half think the US military response in Iraq and joined the US in the fight against Islamic State opposed putting American forces on the spokeswoman Dena Erwin. “This guy was on a “He was not able to return fire or do anything,” Syria has not gone far enough, according to an militants has not gone far enough. The US and ground, 33 percent favored the idea and 28 per- one-man crime spree today. He has no idea of Jones said. He said Oliver’s partner shot back as Associated Press-GfK poll. Most want to see partner countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia cent said they were neither for nor against it. the damage he did,” she said. Marquez, 34, was the vehicle fled. Bonner later described Davis as America’s partners step up their contribution to and the United Arab Emirates, have been bomb- Obama has said repeatedly that he has no plans examined at a hospital for unspecified injuries. an 18-year law enforcement officer. Davis leaves the fight, less than half, 43 percent, approve of ing Islamic State targets since August. to send ground troops to Iraq or Syria. He and a woman also taken into custody were behind a wife and four children. the way President Barack Obama is handling the “It shouldn’t just be us. It shouldn’t just be However, 28 percent thought it was very or being questioned by investigators about their Bonner said the wounded deputy, Jeff Davis, danger posed by the extremist militants. ‘Oh, the United States is policing.’ It should be extremely likely that he would, and an additional motives late Friday night and it was unclear when is a 17-year veteran who was shot in the arm. He Greg Franke, 24, of Columbia, South Carolina, everyone is there policing and everybody 45 percent thought it was moderately likely. Just they would be formally arrested, Sacramento was released after treatment at a hospital. About was among the 55 percent of those who disap- believes this is wrong and everyone - worldwide 24 percent said it was not likely. Michael County sheriff’s Sgt Lisa Bowman said. The shoot- a mile away, the suspect attempted to steal a car, proved. Franke, a 24-year-old assistant editor at a - is trying to stop this,” said Kathy Robinson, 24, Rainwater, 64, of Sammanish, Washington, does- ings sparked a manhunt that included search but shot the driver in the head when he refused research library, said he thought Obama was too a Sterling, Virginia, woman who works at an n’t particularly want to see US troops sent in, but dogs, helicopters and armored vehicles. to give up his keys, Jones said. He did not know hesitant in responding to the militants, who information technology company. At the same thinks they might be deployed at some point. “I Residents nearby were told to stay indoors, and the condition of that victim but said he was alive have employed brutal tactics to swiftly seize ter- time, she thinks the United States eventually will think all of these things tend to escalate,“ he schools were locked down. The owner of the and conscious when he was transported. The ritory. “I understand the need to be hesitant, but put troops on the ground in the region “just to said. “You can’t keep pouring fuel on the fire and home said officers used tear gas to drive the sus- assailants then stole a pickup from Jose Cruz, this was a group that was marching across parts make sure nothing starts back up - to keep the expect the fire to get smaller. So every time we pect from the basement. “I think there’s those who was gardening outside a client’s house in of the Middle East, which is already unstable,” peace.” Only 32 percent think Obama has done a bomb or send in armed drones, you are creating people who would say, ‘You know what, I wish Sacramento. Cruz told The Sacramento Bee that Franke said. “I think it warranted a swift and good job in clearly stating US policy against the more terrorists.” you’d killed him,’” Placer County Sheriff Ed Bonner a man told him he needed a favor: “I need your more decisive response.” IS group. More than six in 10 of them think it’s He does not think, though, that the Islamic said at a news conference. “Now, that’s not who keys,” the man said. “Hurry up, because they’re “I also think that his declaration that US either not likely or only moderately likely that State is in a position to mount a 9/11-style we are. We are not him. We did our job.” chasing me.” troops would not be involved was premature,” the US and its partners will achieve their goal in attack against the US, said Rainwater, a retired He identified his slain officer as sheriff’s The suspects then fled to neighboring Placer he said. “I don’t want US troops involved. But I fighting IS. software company owner: “It is more of a crimi- homicide Det. Michael David Davis Jr. The 42- County, about 30 miles north of Sacramento. don’t think we need to close doors.” A majority, nal entity because basically what they are doing year old detective died 26 years to the day after Deputies swarmed the area, and the suspect 66 percent, favor the airstrikes the United States Are Americans following developments? is kidnapping people for ransom, taking over oil his father, for whom he is named, died in the shot two deputies with an AR-15-type assault has been launching against the militants, yet 65 While 47 percent of those surveyed said refineries for the income.” The AP-GfK Poll was line of duty as a Riverside County deputy sheriff. weapon. Laura Larson, who lives at the Auburn percent of those surveyed say Obama has not there’s a very or extremely high risk of another conducted Oct. 16-20 using KnowledgePanel, Gov Jerry Brown Brown called the killings “a home where the suspect was apprehended, told clearly explained America’s goal in fighting the terror attack inside the United States, just a third GfK’s probability-based panel designed to be tragic reminder of the sacrifices we demand of KCRA-TV that her uncle was at home when Islamic State group. The president met with his said they have been keenly following the news representative of the US population. It involved our peace officers and the incredible courage Marquez broke in but her uncle survived. She national security team on Friday to discuss the about the US military action against IS. An addi- online interviews with 1,608 adults, and had a they display as they protect our communities.” said her family has “no idea who this guy is.” Islamic State and talk via video teleconference tional 38 percent said they were following the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.8 Flags at the state Capitol were ordered flown at House painter Sean Smith of Sacramento said he with US officials at the American Embassy in action somewhat closely, and 31 percent said percentage points for all respondents. half-staff. The slaying of the deputies was the was working when he heard gunshots. “Once I Baghdad and consulates in Irbil and Basra. Here’s they were keeping up not too closely or not Respondents were selected randomly using single deadliest day for California law enforce- heard the rapid fire, I knew it was a shootout,” he a look at the poll: closely at all. phone or mail survey methods, and later inter- ment since February 2013. In separate incidents said. “Within 10 minutes there were sirens all viewed. People selected for KnowledgePanel that month, a former Los Angeles police officer over the place and six helicopters screaming Is enough being done? Do people support airstrikes? who didn’t otherwise have access to the killed two law enforcement officers, and two overhead.” —AP Forty-six percent said the US military While Americans support the airstrikes, when Internet were given free access.—AP Firestorm over White House security breach

WASHINGTON: For once, the debate gripping Washington is not about party politics. It’s about the White House fence. Is it high enough? Should it be electrified? Are tourists allowed to get too close to the building? After a series of security lapses that raised questions about the safety of the US president, do authorities need to change or reconsider the fence surround- ing the First Family’s residence in the heart of the city? White House fence jumpers are hardly a new phenomenon. But the spectacular breach that saw an Iraq war veteran sprint across the White House lawn in mid-September and enter the building with a knife in his pocket has rattled the US Secret Service, which is tasked with protecting the president. A com- plete security review was ordered, and the results are due in two weeks. The arrest of yet another fence-jumper this week has fueled the debate over how to best secure the building where American presidents and their families have lived and worked since 1800. President Barack Obama’s administration has stressed its commitment to finding a balance between the “top priority”- protecting the president-and making sure the symbol of American democracy does not become a fortress. “It certainly would be possible to build a multi-story bombproof wall around the 18-acre complex of the White House,” spokesman Josh Earnest said. “But that, I don’t think would be striking the appropriate balance.” He said experts were considering a range of meas- ures, such as deploying more personnel and technology, or placing additional fences or other barriers. “It’s not just pro- tecting a popular tourist destination; it’s about protecting the symbolism of that popular tourist destination continuing to be accessible to the American public and to the individuals who are responsible for electing the person who lives there,” Earnest said. Tourists visiting Washington for the first time are often sur- prised by the almost unobstructed view of the White House. From the North, across from Lafayette Square, the gardens sur- rounding the building seem surprisingly easy to reach, with an iron fence about 7.5 feet high the only barrier. Maintaining the concept of accessibility is key, even if visitors clearly cannot just walk through the front door unhindered. Washington’s non- voting representative in the US Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, this week demanded a taller fence with a curve at the top that would make fence-jumping more difficult. But she also warned against the temptation to push tourists farther away. Any changes to access “should be in line with current public access to the areas surrounding the White House and maintain the current views of this historic and national land- mark,” Norton said.

Jeffersonian ideals Beyond its appeal to tourists, the area near the White House is a symbol of the right to freedom of expression, a place where all sorts of protesters gather. Anyone can come in front of the gates to express anger or joy, megaphone in hand. And the range of opinions expressed is indeed broad. Anti-nuclear activists have faithfully kept a peace camp there since 1981. One day, a man in an orange jumpsuit demands the closure of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On another, a man in a white Hazmat suit demands a ban on flights com- ing from African countries affected by the Ebola virus. While the debate now centers on boosting security, access to the White House gardens was for a long time far easier. The first fence was put up under president Thomas Jefferson. But the goal then-when Washington was still largely rural-was to keep the cattle out. The third US president (1801-1809) in fact did much to encourage Americans to consider the place as their own, opening the house to the public for the first time. Jefferson was intent on “making it clear that the White House was a structure that belonged to the American people, it was not a structure to be hidden away,” said William Bushong, chief historian of the White House Historical Association. While the fence was completed gradually, the gates were often open, with the gardens serving as a public park for most of the 19th century. The fence has remained little changed over the years but the entire security apparatus has evolved. Cars have been blocked from traveling on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House since the deadly 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Some have recently suggested naming a “czar” to oversee White House security. Obama recently named one to manage the Ebola crisis. Could he name another to reconcile Jeffersonian ideals and an American president’s 21st century security needs? Earnest, the White House spokesman, found the idea amus- ing. “It would be a little ironic to have a White House czar, though, wouldn’t it?” he asked reporters, who responded with laughter. —AFP p10 2_Layout 1 10/25/14 7:57 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Poland bids to reclaim forgotten past as haven for Jews News in brief Jewish leader says today Warsaw is safer than Paris WARSAW: Poland, the country on in Gaza clashed with riot police Mayor wants separate whose soil Nazi Germany carried outside two Paris synagogues. buses for Roma people out the darkest acts of the Incidents like that have created a ROME: An attempt by an Italian mayor to create a separate Holocaust, is starting to re-connect climate of fear among Europe’s bus route for Roma people sparked outrage among politi- with its other role in Jewish history, Jews, even though some data from cians yesterday, who compared the move to apartheid-era as a home for 1,000 years to one of Jewish groups point to a decline South Africa’s segregation policies. Claudio Gambino, the the world’s biggest Jewish commu- last year in the number of anti- centre-left Democratic Party (PD) mayor of Borgaro nities. The country will take a step Semitic acts recorded in Britain Torinese, said this week he wants separate buses because in that direction next week with and France. Roma people who live in a camp of around 600 inhabitants the opening of the main exhibition on the outskirts of the northern Italian town “have been at Warsaw’s newly built Museum of Fear and shame afflicting us for over 20 years”. “To guarantee the security of the History of Polish Jews, a project If Poland is, relatively, a haven our citizens we need two buses. One for citizens, the other that sets out to remember not just for Jews, it may be because there for Roma people,” he was quoted as saying by Italian media how Jews in Poland died, but how are too few of them — 7,508 on Friday, adding that buses were plagued by theft and they lived. Poland’s effort to reach according to the 2011 census-to petty violence. Town councilor Luigi Spinelli of the Left, out to its Jewish heritage, tentative make them a big target, or Ecology and Freedom party (SEL) has supported the and incomplete though it is, con- because Poland has no sizeable motion-to the disgust of his party’s leader Nichi Vendola, trasts with the mood in other parts Muslim community. In other coun- who told La Stampa daily on Saturday that “giving people of Europe, where Jewish groups say tries, the perpetrators of some different rights is called ‘apartheid’.” “The left which com- Jews are subject to hostility and high-profile attacks on Jewish tar- petes with the right on Alabama grounds has lost all rea- sometimes violent attacks. gets were Muslim. It could also be son to think itself different,” he said, calling on Gambino to Some in the Jewish community that because the Holocaust has left “think again.” say Poland-site during the German such a deep stain on the way occupation of the Warsaw ghetto Poland is perceived, any steps to and the Auschwitz, Treblinka and embrace the Jewish past, however Nepal bus crash kills Sobibor camps where millions of small, feel like important progress. WARSAW: Old Jewish tombstones lay in a park in Warsaw.—AFP 14, injures dozens Jews were killed — is now more On Tuesday, the presidents of KATMANDU: A Nepal bus packed with people, welcoming than many western Israel and Poland will lead the dig- who hid their Jewish roots that her father, and the Jewish history 1,000-year history in Poland, Jews including Israeli tourists and locals heading home for European countries. “When you nitaries at a ceremony to open the there is nothing to fear and noth- that he represented. After one visit were persecuted by their Polish a Hindu festival, veered off a mountain highway, take into account that Jews are main exhibition at the Museum of ing to be ashamed of,” came a breakthrough: the town neighbors. killing 14 and injuring dozens, police said yesterday. being beaten up in the streets in the History of Polish Jews, in a Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said. decided to commemorate the date The exhibition, a sequence of Among those killed was at least one Israeli woman Germany or France or Scandinavia, glass-sided building on the site of Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s father of the 1942 deportations. That eight connecting galleries that use who was part of a group heading to the Langtang you even have synagogues being what was Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto. grew up in Opatow, a town in experience, said Kirshenblatt- sound, atmospheric lighting and trekking area. Israeli media reported two Israeli burned down, murders-we don’t Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, south-eastern Poland. He emigrat- Gimblett, was a template for the eyewitness testimony to evoke women died and for other Israelis were among the have any of that,” said Piotr Kadlcik, Program Director of the Core ed to Canada before the war. In role she hopes the museum will moments in Jewish history, deals dozens of injured. Police were still trying to identify vice-president of the Jewish com- Exhibition, said she hopes the 1942, the Nazis deported the play in reviving memories. with Poland’s own treatment of the bodies. The bus was carrying nearly 100 people, munity of Warsaw, one of the museum will reach the Poles who, town’s Jewish population to the Jews by showing visitors the good most of them Nepalese who were heading home to country’s biggest Jewish groups. because of the Holocaust and per- death camp at Treblinka. Heroes and villains and the bad, and letting them celebrate the Diwali festival with their families. It “I think that right now it’s safer secution of Jews under Communist Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, for many The museum building was make up their own minds. The sec- drove about 100 meters off the road down a steep to walk around Warsaw in a yar- rule, have suppressed their Jewish years a professor at New York financed by the Polish state while tion that deals with the war slope. Police were investigating the cause of the mulke than it is in certain neigh- identity. They are estimated to University, accompanied her father the exhibition was funded by describes how some Poles made a crash, which occurred about 50 kilometers west of borhoods in Paris.” On May 24, a number in the tens of thousands. on his first trip back to his home- donors in Poland and abroad. living extorting money from Jews the capital, Katmandu. Poor maintenance of roads man with a Kalashnikov rifle “One of the things which we town in 1988. Initially, she said, her Exploring the history of Jews in who were in hiding by threatening and vehicles contributes to many accidents in moun- walked into a Jewish museum in were looking to do is for this muse- father was a reluctant visitor, and Poland involves confronting to expose them. It also describes tainous Nepal. Brussels and killed three people, um to be transformative, to sup- local people kept their distance. uncomfortable truths. While Nazi how Catholic nuns risked their while in July people protesting port the renewal of Jewish life, by But after a decade of visits, the occupiers carried out the lives hiding Jewish children at a against Israel’s military operation showing those in Poland today townspeople started to embrace Holocaust, at several points in their Warsaw orphanage.—Reuters Iran govt loses lawsuit in Taiwan over arms scam TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Supreme Court has reportedly rejected a Scottish opposition bid by Iran to make a Taiwanese bank refund $15 million Ukraine oligarch intended for an arms deal that disappeared three decades leader quits with ago, after it was apparently claimed by three mysterious con artists. Iran’s defense ministry had sued Taiwan’s Chang ‘dinosaur’ blast Hwa Bank over the deal to purchase arms from the island in 1981. The deal, according to reports in several Taiwanese LONDON: Johann Lamont, leader of the opposition put on the spot newspapers yesterday, was the brainchild of Taiwanese Labor Party in Scotland, quit yesterday, branding the businessman Wu Fu-jeou. Wu reportedly convinced the wider UK party leadership “dinosaurs” who failed to Iranian government that he could help broker an arms deal grasp how the independence referendum had changed Billionaire’s business interests hit by conflict with Taiwan. Wu requested the funds be wired to an Scottish politics. Lamont said the party in Scotland account at Chang Hwa Bank-a joint account under the needed greater autonomy as more powers are trans- DONETSK: The clanging of repairs to Zakharchenko, who suggested nation- facility in Donetsk and, accordingly, has names of three Iranian nationals representing the govern- ferred from London to Edinburgh following the narrow- tanks and heavy armored vehicles rings alizing some enterprises in the Donetsk nothing to do with actions undertaken ment who were supposed to withdraw the funds in Taiwan ly-contested referendum. out from a factory in eastern Ukraine region, must be sounding alarm bells. there,” it said in a statement. The people to pay for the deal, according to the Apple Daily newspa- And her resignation with immediate effect highlights that is owned by the country’s richest The heavy-machine factory may be now in charge declined to be named, per. But when they went to do so, they were told the mon- deep divisions within the left-of-centre party, led by Ed man but was taken over by pro-Russian the only part of the Akhmetov empire saying their role was too sensitive. On ey had already been claimed by three other people who Miliband, ahead of Britain’s May 2015 general election. rebels. Rinat Akhmetov’s Corum com- directly controlled by the separatists. the factory floor, workers covered with had reportedly presented bank officials with the correct In last month’s referendum, Scotland voted by 55 per- pany says it has nothing to do with the But much of his other business sits on dark green paint two white stripes on documentation. cent to 45 percent to remain in the United Kingdom. The current work at the factory, where cap- rebel-held territory, including several some combat vehicles, a field marking pro-independence campaign was led by the Scottish tured army vehicles are re-marked and industrial plants, a huge steel rolling often used by Ukrainian government National Party (SNP), the governing party in Scotland, men fix tank tracks, clean cannons and mill, a handful of coal mines, banking forces. while Labor favored staying within the union. apply extra layers of armor. The steel and communications assets and pres- They said a lack of spare parts was “Scotland has chosen home rule-not London rule,” and energy multi-billionaire is, as tige structures like the space-age Euro- their main headache, forcing them to Lamont told the Daily Record newspaper. “The Labor always, saying little but showing signs 2012 Donbass Arena football stadium. bring in even badly damaged and Party must recognize that the Scottish party has to be of positioning himself for all possible He has moved some of his business burned-out vehicles they call their autonomous and not just a branch office of a party outcomes to the separatist conflict in operations into government-controlled “donors” in the hope of recovering based in London. “There is a danger of Scottish politics which several thousand people have territory, while some others go on something useful. “Sometimes we get being between two sets of dinosaurs ... the Nationalists been killed and Western sanctions working as best they can on rebel-held one and the same vehicle three or four who can’t accept they were rejected by the people, and slapped on Russia. land. “Akhmetov has one single strate- times. That especially tends to happen some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has With a parliamentary election taking gy and that is to survive - to survive after intense battles at the airport,” said changed.” Lamont said she had been critically under- place in Ukraine today and parts of his and preserve even if it is only a part (of one man who oversees the work, refer- mined by the central party. “Any leader whose general business empire threatened as the his empire),” said Volodymyr Fesenko of ring to prolonged fighting at Donetsk secretary can be removed by London without any con- rebels toy with the idea of nationaliza- the Penta political research institute in city airport despite the truce. “So we fix sultation is in an untenable position,” she said. tion, it is a delicate balancing act. When Kiev. them again and off they go,” he said. The 57-year-old added: “This has been orchestrated the separatists first occupied public His work register, printed on several by people who do not understand the politics they are buildings in Donetsk, the 48-year-old Separatists’ stronghold pieces of paper, lists 57 armored vehi- facing. Scotland has changed forever after the referen- businessman, whose fortune from met- Donetsk, an industrial hub with a cles of various types and another 19 dum.” A Labor fiefdom since the 1960s, Scotland is cru- als, energy, banks and communications pre-war population of about one mil- cannons that have gone through the cial to the party’s hopes of winning the May 2015 gener- has a net worth put by the Forbes mag- lion, is now the main stronghold of the plant since mid-August. Many of the al election, making Miliband the prime minister. Labor azine at $11.7 billion, remained silent. rebels fighting to split east Ukraine workers were employed at the factory won 41 of the 59 Scottish seats at the 2010 election to Many then said that Akhmetov - ever from Kiev and tie it to Russia. Moscow before the conflict began, the people the 650-member parliament, but lost supporters to the the prudent businessman was cautious- has sided with the separatists but running the plant said. They said the pro-independence cause during the referendum cam- ly weighing the shifting sands in a denies it is a party to the conflict. workers now receive only food rations. paign and will face a much tougher challenge from a volatile situation that had caught him Moscow dismisses charges by Kiev and Former Vietnamese photographer Le Minh Thai buoyant SNP next time around. and others by surprise. the West that it has sent in troops and Balancing act Nicola Sturgeon, the incoming SNP leader and After fighting flared between the weapons to support the rebels despite Akhmetov’s background as a pow- Le Minh Thai, Vietnam Scottish first minister, said Lamont quitting showed rebels and Ukrainian troops and growing evidence to the contrary. erful mogul who emerged victorious war photographer, dies Labor was in “deep division”. “Her shock resignation Russian involvement on the rebel side Donetsk has seen prolonged fighting, from vicious power struggles and a SAN DIEGO: Le Minh Thai, a photojournalist who cov- reveals Labor to be in complete meltdown in Scotland,” grew, Akhmetov, a former close confi- including fierce artillery battles on its carve-up of assets in the industrial east ered the Vietnam War for The Associated Press and Time she said. Miliband did not address Lamont’s complaints dant of the pro-Russian president oust- outskirts, despite a Sept. 5 ceasefire in the 1990s, as well as his long friend- Life, has died. He was 93. Thai died Oct 10 at a nursing as he paid tribute to her, saying: “Johann Lamont ed by protests in Kiev, came out in agreed between the Kiev government ship with the now disgraced, Moscow- home in Encinitas, where he had been living for the past deserves significant credit for the successful ‘No’ vote in favor of a united Ukraine. He has stuck and the rebels. allied Ukrainian leader Viktor seven years, his daughter, Quynh Thai said. The eldest the Scottish referendum campaign.” Labor’s woes were to that public position since and state- That ensures plenty of work for the Yanukovich, mean many question his son of a merchant family in Vietnam’s ancient port city not helped by a report in The Daily Telegraph newspa- ments by System Capital Management, workers in Akhmetov’s Donetskgormash integrity. Akhmetov was one of the last of Hoi An, Thai went on to become a member of the per claiming Tony Blair-Britain’s Labor prime minister which manages his global empire, heavy machine factory, turned into mili- people whom Yanukovich saw before Saigon press corps. He worked for The Associated Press from 1997 to 2007 - thought the party had not made a focus on his commitment to looking tary repair workshop by the rebels in fleeing to Russia last February. Insiders in the 1950s and later for Time Life, covering his coun- good enough case to win the May general election. But after his more than 300,000-member August. Corum said it had paused opera- say the tycoon then advised try’s civil war, his daughter said. He had strong contacts Blair said yesterday: “The Telegraph story does not repre- workforce and paying taxes to the tions due to fighting before the factory Yanukovich to resign as president, both in the government and the military brass of South sent my view. Ed Miliband and the Labor Party can and state. But a statement last week by the was seized. “Currently, the Corum com- though he refused and fled across the Vietnam and was well-known for helping foreign jour- will win the next election.”—AFP top separatist leader Alexander pany does not control the production border.—Reuters nalists navigate their way through his homeland, the family said. The Vietnamese national was a favored pho- tographer of the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, who in 1967 requested Thai for his official Ukraine votes under the shadow of war portrait. He covered the simmering tensions in Saigon as the war escalated, including demonstrations by KIEV: Ukrainian leaders made final appeals to rebels. “At last we will elect a pro-Ukrainian and emerge as the biggest party in the 450 seat leg- blame Russia for the turmoil and have slapped Buddhist monks and students. In 1963, he helped Time voters ahead of snap parliamentary elections not pro-Moscow, an anti-corruption and not islature, although without an absolute majority, painful economic sanctions on Moscow. magazine open a bureau in Saigon, his family said. today that are intended to give impetus to pro-bribery, a pro-European parliament,” meaning he will have to form a coalition, proba- However, President Vladimir Putin accuses the democratic reforms, but are overshadowed by President Petro Poroshenko said late Friday. bly with harder-line nationalists. The elections West of stirring up the conflict as part of a deepening conflict with Russia and pro-Russian His Petro Poroshenko Bloc was forecast to were called to cement the pro-Western course strategy to weaken Russia. In a combative Malaysian diplomat in launched in a February street revolt that over- speech on Friday, the Kremlin leader lashed custody on sex charge threw the corruption-tainted, Moscow-backed out at the United States and said Ukraine was WELLINGTON: A Malaysian military attache extradited to president Viktor Yanukovych. For the first time showing a “lack of goodwill” to end the conflict New Zealand to face an attempted rape charge was since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the “by peaceful means”. Communist Party is not expected to enter par- remanded in custody following a brief court appearance liament, symbolising what Poroshenko, elected No business as usual yesterday. Muhammad Rizalman Ismail, who stood silently president in May with 55 percent of the vote, The tug-of-war over Ukraine, a country of in the dock as Malaysian High Commission staff watched hopes is an irreversible political shift. Polls show about 45 million, has propelled nationalist par- from the public gallery, will reappear in court on Tuesday. a majority of Ukrainians support economic and ties to the fore in today’s vote, meaning that Rizalman was flown from Kuala Lumpur to New Zealand democratic reforms especially a crackdown on Poroshenko will be under pressure to deliver under police escort on Friday and spent the night in cus- corruption-leading eventually to European on anti-corruption promises and a solution to tody in Auckland before being put on a flight to Wellington Union membership. the armed conflict. Radical Party leader Oleg on Saturday for his court appearance. He had fled home to However, the optimism and energy of the Lyashko, a populist whose group has been Malaysia in May after invoking diplomatic immunity when revolution have been sucked out by Russia’s polling second with nearly 15 percent of the accused of stalking and attempting to rape 21-year-old seizure of the Crimea region and an uprising vote and could end up in a coalition with the by pro-Russian rebels in the industrial Donbass Petro Poroshenko Bloc, says he won’t tolerate Tania Billingsley at her home in the same Wellington sub- region that has killed more than 3,700 people. business as usual. “We are bringing new peo- urb where Malaysia’s High Commission is located. With no military victory in sight, Ukrainians ple into parliament,” he said in a final state- Rizalman, who was a defense staff assistant at the High may face the same kind of frozen conflict ment Friday, before campaigning was sus- Commission, faces a jail term of up to 10 years if found KIEV: Pedestrians walk past posters on Independence Square in Kiev showing the severely weakening other ex-Soviet states, pended. “We are going to parliament to carry guilty. Billingsley has waived her right to anonymity grant- Ukrainian soldiers taking part in anti-terrorist operations (ATO) on the eve of the such as Georgia, that have tried to break free out radical reforms, to radically change the sit- ed in sex cases under New Zealand law to express her frus- country’s parliamentary elections. —AFP from Russia’s influence. Western governments uation.”— AFP tration at how the case had been handled. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Brazil’s election: ‘Ghosts’ versus ‘Monsters’

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian voters elect- and she immediately jumped to a dou- Neves urged voters to look at “monsters ing a new president this weekend are ble-digit lead over Rousseff and Neves. of the present,” including an economy being asked to decide what scares them Silva initially tapped into the discon- recession, inflation that’s floated above least: the incumbent’s warnings about tent over poor public services that mil- the government’s 6.5 percent target, and the “ghosts of the past,” or her chal- lions of Brazilians expressed in anti-gov- allegations that the Workers’ Party was lenger’s charges about the “monsters of ernment protests last year, but her cam- involved in an apparent decade-long, bil- the present.” The latest polls give left- paign never found its feet and voters lion-dollar kickback scheme at state-run leaning incumbent Dilma Rousseff a drifted away from her within weeks. That oil company Petrobras. slight edge in Sunday’s runoff vote to opened the gap for Neves to stage his The latest results from Brazil’s two lead the world’s fifth-largest nation. But surprisingly strong showing in the Oct 5 most respected polling groups put few people are counting out center-right first-round vote, coming in second and Rousseff ahead of Neves. A Datafolha challenger Aecio Neves after a topsy- forcing Rousseff into a runoff when her survey released Thursday had Rousseff turvy campaign that has been the most first place finish didn’t get an absolute leading Neves 53 percent to 47 percent, competitive, divisive and dramatic since majority. The campaigns hit fever pitch with an error margin of two percentage Brazil’s return to democracy in 1985. in the three weeks since, with the points. An Ibope Institute poll put the “The country is divided in two, with Workers’ Party that’s been in power for president’s lead 54-46, with the same half feeling that social inclusion and pro- 12 years and Neves’ Social Democracy error margin. “I’m voting for Dilma tections are what matter most, and the Party that last held the presidency in because the Workers’ Party has made life other half believing that macroeconomic 1995-2003 battling it out with no short- easier for the poor. I still live in a slum, stability is more important,” said Carlos age of verbal jabs and nasty allegations. but now my home is full of nice, modern Pereira, a political analyst at the Gertulio Rousseff attacked her rival with cam- things - I’ve got a TV, a new refrigerator Vargas Foundation, Brazil’s leading think paign ads asking Brazilians to remember and air conditioning,” said Ana Paula tank. “The candidate who convinces vot- the “ghosts of the past” when Neves’ party Marinho, a nurse who lives in the Pavao- ers he or she is best prepared to com- ruled, with much of the nation mired in Pavaozinho favela that sits above bine these two beliefs and make them poverty, unemployment rife, and con- Copacabana’s ornate apartments. “We Combo photo shows Brazilian president and candidate of the Workers Party (PT) complementary will win Sunday’s elec- sumers crippled by hyperinflation. The can see that we’ve got a better future Dilma Rousseff (left) and Aecio Neves, presidential candidate of the PSDB. —AFP tion.” The race turned dramatic after incumbent has emphasized the deep with Dilma.” the price if the country doesn’t rebound 12 years. Those are real accomplishments Eduardo Campos, a main opposition can- social gains made under the Workers’ But Patricia Botelha, who lives on a soon. While she voted for the Workers’ and we’re all better off for it,” Botelha didate, was killed when his campaign Party, whose expansive social welfare pro- leafy street in Rio’s wealthy Ipanema Party in the last three elections, this year said. “But we need new ideas on the plane crashed in August. His running grams helped yank millions out of pover- neighborhood, said Rousseff’s poor man- she’s casting a ballot for Neves. “We’ve economy, on how to keep growing, or mate, renowned environmentalist ty and into the middle class and have agement had led Brazil’s economy to never seen social advances among the those gains will be reversed no matter Marina Silva, was thrust into his spot, kept unemployment at historic lows. weak growth and all Brazilians will pay poor as we’ve witnessed during the last what policies are enacted.”—AP Indian PM breaks the ice with media at first meet Modi aims to mend his rocky relations with the press

NEW DELHI: India’s Prime on Facebook and Twitter-where Minister Narendra Modi reached he has 24 million “likes” and 7.3 out to journalists yesterday for million followers respectively-and the first time since taking office, uses these websites as platforms ALLAHABAD: Indian Hindu devotees walk on the banks of the Sangam to perform aiming to mend his rocky rela- to express his views and make evening rituals in Allahabad yesterday. Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, tions with the press. The right- announcements. Journalists are Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, is considered one of Hinduism’s holiest sites. — AP wing leader, whose Bharatiya often asked to refer to official Janata Party (BJP) came to power press statements and Modi’s in a landslide election in May, has Twitter feed for news, leaving pri- ‘Love jihad’ claims fuel never given a press conference vate news organizations grum- and prefers using state media as bling over Modi’s one-way inter- Hindu-Muslim tension well as his huge Facebook and action which they say offers no Twitter following to communi- debate and shields him from NEW DELHI: When a Hindu woman tearfully fears among religious minorities of marginal- cate with the masses. tough questions. claimed to national media recently she had ization under his right-wing administration. But in an apparent break from Despite this, he often criticized been kidnapped, raped and forcibly convert- And certainly moderate, mainstream Hindus the approach passed on by his his predecessor Manmohan ed to Islam, India’s religious hardliners seized dismiss “love jihad” as a ridiculous conspiracy predecessors-who similarly Singh for being on “silent mode” the chance to hike their “love jihad” fears. theory. But experts warn efforts by hardliners shunned regular media interac- during his Congress party’s two- Hardline Hindu activists, encouraged by the to divide India along religious lines risk tions-he addressed more than term rule. Singh addressed three media attention, claimed scores of Muslim fuelling animosity between its many faiths. 200 journalists at BJP headquar- press briefings during his decade- boys were attempting to abduct, seduce and “Some people are trying to polarize the coun- ters in New Delhi, pledging to long stint as prime minister. elope with Hindu girls across the country for try along communal lines,” political and social meet them more often. “I am “Modi is not media shy,” wrote the sole purpose of conversion. commentator Paranjoy Guha Thakurta said. “It looking for ways to strengthen Rahul Shrivastava, senior political On websites and leaflets, right-wing will be most unfortunate if those who are in my relationship with you and... I affairs editor at NDTV news chan- groups warned India’s Hindu majority of the power and their supporters allow it to hap- will try to find time to meet you nel, in a blog earlier this month. “dangers”, and a senior government minister pen (because) it is bound to inflame Hindu- called for talks between religious leaders “to Muslim tensions in the country,” he said. more often,” said the Hindu “His engagement with them find a solution to the issue”. Last week, the nationalist, an announcement (media) will be controlled by him- woman, from northern Uttar Pradesh state, ‘Seduce Hindu women’ welcomed by journalists who provider-controlled information, sensationally retracted her claims, saying she Police said the 20-year-old woman from have complained of a lack of two- which is filtered and aimed at had in fact been pressured by her family to Uttar Pradesh, the scene of deadly communal way communication with the crafting or adding to an image,” concoct the story. But hardliners remain violence last year, had eloped with her new government. said Shrivastava, who has been adamant that Muslims, numbering about 150 Muslim lover. With inter-faith relationships After an eight-minute speech covering the prime minister’s million in India, have a secret strategy to turn considered taboo in some parts of India, she in which he thanked the media office for more than two decades. the secular country of 1.25 billion into their had originally felt pressured in August to for its coverage of his ‘Clean India’ Analysts date back Modi’s own. claim rape and conversion. Local politicians campaign-aimed at tidying up troubled relationship with the “Of course the girl is being forced to give seized on the false claims during state by- public spaces-he stepped off the media to the 2002 religious riots false statements,” Vinod Bansal, a spokesman elections last month in a bid to polarize vot- dais to shake hands and briefly in his home state of Gujarat that for the radical Vishwa Hindu Parishad outfit, ers along communal lines, before she finally chat with top editors and left at least 1,000 people dead, told AFP of the woman’s retraction. “Our reversed her story. “She said she was being reporters, who scrambled to pose most of them Muslims. Modi, who police systems are so weak that women find it threatened by her own family (into making for “selfies” with the tech-savvy was chief minister of Gujarat at tough to open up on how they are being tor- the false claims),” said Onkar Singh, police premier. But Modi faced flak from the time, was questioned by tured by Muslim men,” Bansal said, claiming superintendent of Meerut city. critics for not taking any ques- national and international media he knew of at least 10 “love jihad” cases in The term “love jihad” first gained traction tions from the media. He has over his role in the carnage, with New Delhi alone. Hindu activists like Bansal in India in 2009 when Hindu extremist carefully controlled his communi- rights groups accusing him of have been emboldened since Prime Minister Janajagruti Samiti claimed some 30,000 cation strategy since coming to turning a blind eye. Modi has Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party women in southern Karnataka state had been stormed to power at elections in May after 10 converted to Islam. Sites and paraphernalia power, mostly choosing the state- denied any wrongdoing over the years of rule by the centre-left Congress party. devoted to the issue claim militant groups are backed Doordarshan broadcaster violence and has never been Modi, who himself has deep roots in the waging “love jihad” worldwide and blame the MUMBAI: An Indian musician blows a trumpet near a hoarding with a and All India Radio to address charged. He abruptly walked out portrait of Indian Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Hindu grassroots Rashtriya Swayamsevak “fake secularism” of India’s mainstream media India’s 1.2 billion-strong popula- of a 2007 television interview Sangh (RSS) organization, has tried to allay for encouraging it.—AFP leader Narendra Modi during celebrations outside the BJP party office tion. when asked if he regretted the following state elections in Mumbai. —AFP He is also immensely popular 2002 riots.—AFP Mexico’s students not the only ones missing

COCULA: A year before Mexico’s latest night- Many of them were young people, Varela a scenic mountain range. But behind the lovely mare-the disappearance of 43 students-there said. “I went after them, asking them not to hills lies a veritable cemetery of victims of vio- was another night of terror in a neighboring take him away, as he was young, but they did lence. town when gunmen broke into homes and not care,” the 43-year-old mother said, crying. Since the start of the year, mass graves took people away, mainly youths. Prosecutors She is one of few neighbors willing to give her holding more than 80 sets of remains have in the southern state of Guerrero say they have name. “It seemed like a war. There were many been found in these hills, again shining light received complaints over the disappearance of explosions and people woke up afraid, without on the horror of missing people in Mexico. six people in the wee hours of July 1, 2013 in wanting to go outside,” said Alfonso, a neigh- Some 22,000 people have disappeared since the village of Cocula. But relatives of the vic- bor also wary of talking because he himself the government sent in troops to fight the car- tims put the number at 17, and say some peo- was abducted a year ago. Residents say they tels in 2006. Prosecutors say that of 28 sets of ple will not come forth because they fear never heard again from the 17, and that the remains dug up since the disappearance of the police are in on the crime. “Here everyone police and soldiers who were sent in to investi- students, none pertain to the 43 who have knows everything. You hear everything, and gate left the town six weeks later, having found been missing since late last month. Victor is people spoke of 17 missing,” said Cesar nothing in their search. not among the 28 either. “It takes a bit of Penaloza, mayor of Cocula, a town of 4,300 weight off my shoulders,” his mother said. located 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Who is in the graves? Mexico City. Witnesses say they think the perpetrators of Wrong place, wrong time One of the families that did file a complaint the attack were members of the Guerreros Before 14 police officers were arrested in is that of Victor Albarran, an adolescent. His Unidos drug cartel, looking for members of the the case of the missing students, the force had mother, Maura Varela, constantly relives that rival La Familia gang, which is dominant in the already triggered anger and suspicion among night of hell, which started with the arrival of a region. Guerreros Unidos is accused of taking townspeople for not opposing the assault in commando of 50 men. “They were shooting all part in the shooting attacks against dozens of 2013. The mayor recalls that police told him over the street,” Varela recalls. She and her students in a rural teaching college on the they feared for their lives. After the attack, six husband rushed to get their kids out of bed night of September 26 in Iguala. Forty-three of them resigned. “Many police have not had and and hide them in the basement. But they students are still missing, and the crime has physical or psychological training. Many do not missed Victor. He was in the bathroom. When triggered outrage both in Mexico and abroad. even know how to handle a gun,” he said. With the mother came up to look for her 15-year-old According to prosecutors, police from Iguala no sign of Victor, his mother asks that the gov- son, three hooded men shot their way into the and Cocula turned over the students to hench- ernment not only look for the students but the house. They shot at the floor, kicked Victor, and men of the Guerreros Unidos who, according other vanished as well. “I want them to help after asking in vain for his older brothers, put to the testimony of detained members, proba- me get him back, and if he is dead I want to him in a pickup truck where other hostages bly killed and buried the students. Cocula is know because I believe one cannot live like were already waiting. separated from Iguala by a road surrounded by this, with this constant anxiety.” —AFP INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 Number of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar tops 100,000

YANGON: A growing sense of desperation is fueling a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar, with the number fleeing by boat since communal violence broke out two years ago now topping 100,000, a leading expert said yesterday. Chris Lewa, director of the nonprofit advocacy group Arakan Project, said there has been a huge surge since Oct 15, with an average of 900 people per day piling into cargo ships parked off Rakhine state. That’s nearly 10,000 in less than two weeks, one of the biggest upticks yet. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 50 million that only recently emerged from half a century of military rule, has an estimated 1.3 million Rohingya. Though many of their families arrived from neighboring Bangladesh gener- ations ago, almost all have been denied citizenship. In the last two years, attacks by Buddhist mobs have left hundreds dead and 140,000 trapped in camps, where they live without access to adequate health care, education or jobs. Lewa said some Rohingya families have been told new ships have started arriving in neighboring Thailand, where passengers often are brought to jun- gle camps, facing extortion and beatings until rela- tives come up with enough money to win their release. From there they usually travel to Malaysia or other countries, but, still stateless, their futures remain bleak. In Myanmar, the vast majority live in the northern tip of Rakhine state, where an aggres- sive campaign by authorities in recent months to reg- ister family members and officially categorize them as “Bengalis” - implying they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh - has aggravated their situa- tion. RAKHINE: Rohingya children travel in a rickshaw in north of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. A growing sense of desperation is fueling a mass exodus of According to villagers contacted by The Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar. — AP Associated Press, some were confined to their villages the men died. “Our team is becoming more and more beginning of a large exodus of Rohingya, in part due Rohingya one of the most persecuted religious for weeks at a time for refusing to take part in the convinced that this campaign of arbitrary arrests is to calmer seas but also because it is a chance to minorities in the world, earlier this year confirmed “verification” process, while others were beaten or aimed at triggering departures,” she said. spend time with family and friends. But there seems figures provided by Lewa about a massive exodus arrested. More recently, dozens of men were detained Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing denied any to be a growing sense of desperation this year, with that began after communal violence broke out in for having alleged ties to the militant Rohingya knowledge of arrests or abuse. “There’s nothing hap- numbers nearly double from the same period in June 2012, targeting mainly Rohingya. With the lat- Solidarity Organization, or RSO, said Khin Maung Win, pening up there,” he said. “There are no arrests of sus- 2013. est departures, Lewa estimates the number of flee- a resident from Maungdaw township, adding that pects of RSO. I haven’t heard anything like that.” Every Lewa said a number of Rohingya also were mov- ing Rohingya to be more than 100,000. It was not several reportedly were beaten or tortured during year, the festival of Eid al-Adha, which was celebrated ing overland to Bangladesh and on to India and immediately clear where the newest arrivals were their arrests or while in detention. Lewa said three of by Muslims worldwide early this month, marks the Nepal. The United Nations, which has labeled the landing. — AP Activists, residents clash over anti-North leaflets Pyongyang threatening to retaliate over the launch

PAJU: Tensions flared yesterday as South Korean activists attempting to launch prop- aganda leaflets into the North were thwart- ed by egg-throwing residents of a border town, following threats of retaliation from Pyongyang. Hundreds of riot police were deployed as the dispute erupted in the town of Paju, some 40 kilometers north of Seoul, when a dozen people with their faces hooded seized an activists’ truck carrying balloons and leaflets. TIECHANGGOU: An injured miner is transferred to hospital after a coal mine collapsed in Police also surrounded a bus carrying Tiechanggou township, China’s Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi yesterday. — AP around 20 activists after local residents hurled eggs at it, shouting “Go back. Don’t 16 killed in China put our lives in danger!” The activists had planned to release balloons carrying around 40,000 leaflets criticizing the North’s coal mine collapse government across the heavily-militarized frontier. But with Pyongyang threatening to BEIJING: A coal mine shaft collapsed in of fatalities in mine accidents in recent years. retaliate over the launch, local residents set northwestern China, killing 16 miners, an offi- The government’s China National Coal up road blocks with tractors and a placard cial said yesterday, highlighting the persist- Administration reported 1,067 deaths in 604 reading “Stop anti-North leaflet launch ence of safety problems in the industry coal mining accidents in 2013, down 23 per- jeopardizing our lives!” “We will become the despite a leveling off of demand. Another 11 cent from the year before. That’s down from victims of shelling if leaflets are scattered,” miners were injured in the disaster, which more than 6,000 a decade ago, largely due to PAJU: Policemen surround a bus carrying South Korean activists after local residents hurled eggs at read another placard put up in a tree. it near Imjingak Peace Park in the border city of Paju, north of Seoul yesterday. — AFP struck just before midnight Friday in increased inspections and the closure of small The activists retreated after a two-hour Tiechanggou township outside the Xinjiang and unregulated mines. The decline has coin- protest during which they traded insults regional capital of Urumqi. cided with plateauing demand for coal as the Thirty-three miners were in the shaft when Chinese economy cools from the dizzying with the residents and chanted slogans the accident occurred, six of whom were heights of the last few years. such as “Let’s terminate the dictatorship of Democrats try to regain brought out by rescuers, said an official with While China still produces and consumes (North Korean leader) Kim Jong-Un!”. the State Administration of Work Safety. The almost as much coal as the rest of the world However they did not abandon their official, speaking on routine condition of combined, the amount it burned in the first attempt entirely, parking their bus on a road lost votes outside cities anonymity, said that all of the injured were in three quarters of 2014 was off by about 2 per- leading to the park with some insisting they stable condition and that the cause of the cent from the same period last year, accord- should try again to float the balloons. Later PERRY: In an arena usually reserved for rodeos and to get down there and work on that,” Collins said of cave-in was under investigation. State broad- ing to Greenpeace energy analysts in China. new leaflets were brought in by the livestock shows, Democratic Senate candidate Perdue. caster CCTV showed footage of injured min- That came despite slower but still robust eco- activists, but local residents and liberal Michelle Nunn told a boisterous crowd she was “glad GOP ads accuse Nunn of being a “rubber stamp” for ers sitting up in their hospital beds and nomic growth of 7.4 percent during the same groups teamed up to foil their repeated to be home.” Her Republican opponent in the Georgia Obama’s “liberal agenda.” In Kentucky, Senate describing their experiences to a reporter. A period, showing that China’s economy is attempts. “Those instigated by North Korea race, David Perdue, stood on the same debate stage Republican leader Mitch McConnell tells voters that his man who answered the phone at the mine’s becoming somewhat more efficient in its ambushed us to block our event today but and bellowed, “Welcome to Perdue country.” Neither Democratic challenger, Secretary of State Alison offices said he could not comment, and calls energy use. Widespread use of coal is largely we will come back,” Busan University profes- candidate lives near the fairgrounds, much less among Lundergan Grimes, was “handpicked by Barack Obama to the Xinjiang regional safety administration blamed for the choking smog that envelops sor Choi Woo-Won, the main organizer of cattle or row crops. Nunn is a nonprofit executive who and Harry Reid.” Republicans running against rang unanswered. major cities in the country. Beijing yesterday yesterday’s event, told reporters. resides in a liberal neighborhood near downtown Democratic incumbents Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mary China’s mines are among the most dan- was smothered in a toxic cloud that prompt- Atlanta, while Perdue is a wealthy former corporate Landrieu in Louisiana and Kay Hagan in North Carolina gerous in the world, although improved safe- ed many citizens to don air filtering masks CEO who lives behind multiple gates on a coastal all say they’re running to demote Reid and hamstring ‘Grave consequences’ ty measures have vastly lowered the number when venturing outside. — AP island. Obama. Republicans attack the incumbents’ 2010 Despite Seoul’s stance that the activists But both candidates spent their formative years in votes for the president’s health care overhaul. have a democratic right to launch the middle Georgia, and both have made a concerted play McConnell says Grimes would play along with leaflets, police intervened to prevent a clash for rural and small-town voters despite the state’s pop- Obama’s regulation of coal-fired power plants, which Myanmar army kills between activists and residents. More than ulation shift to cities and suburbs. The same dynamic he blames for 7,000 lost jobs in Kentucky. Perdue says 1,000 riot police were deployed in and exists in Senate races in several other Southern states - he wants to serve on the Senate’s Agriculture around the park, the South’s Yonhap news Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and North Carolina - Committee and mocks Nunn’s wish for the same reporter in custody agency said. Pyongyang, which refers to the that will help determine which major party controls appointment as window dressing. Democrats counter activists as “human scum”, has long con- the Senate after the Nov. 4 election. with endorsing a minimum wage boost and portray- YANGON: Myanmar’s press council yester- from the army which ruled Myanmar with demned the launches and in recent weeks For Republicans, six seats from a Senate majority, ing Republicans as obstructionist. In Arkansas, Pryor day said the army had admitted to shoot- an iron fist for decades-added the man had has stepped up its demands for Seoul to it’s a matter of maximizing their edge outside of cities hammers GOP Rep. Tom Cotton for opposing the farm ing dead a man in its custody who activists been buried in Shwe Wah Chaung village, ban the practice entirely. by capitalizing one more time among white voters bill. Grimes hits McConnell for his ties to wealthy claim was a reporter detained after cover- near where he died. MPC secretary Kyaw who dislike President Barack Obama and Democratic Republican donors like the billionaire Koch brothers. ing clashes near the conflict-hit eastern Min Swe told AFP the burial meant it was Two weeks ago, North Korea border guards attempted to shoot down some bal- standard-bearers like Senate Majority Leader Harry Hagan criticizes Republican Thom Tillis for using his border. Aung Naing was gunned down as difficult to verify the army version of Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. For post as North Carolina’s House speaker to adopt budg- loons, triggering a brief exchange of heavy he tried to flee detention in Kyaikmaraw events. “This is a big question to ask the Democrats, the challenge is making elections about ets she says shortchange public schools. Nunn slams town in southeastern Mon state on military, because they cannot show the machine gun fire between the two sides. “If something other than Obama as they again try to Perdue for leading outsourcing efforts for several October 4, the interim Myanmar Press dead body,” he said, also questioning why a rash act of scattering leaflets slandering reclaim middle-class and poor whites who once American firms, then boasting during the campaign Council (MPC) said citing a rare statement the group had received news of the death our dignity and system is taken again in anchored President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that he’s “proud of it.” Still, many citizens and political issued by the military. nearly three weeks after the shooting. South Korea, its consequences will be very coalition. A Nunn campaign memo lays out the elec- observers say, winning outside of cities is as much He “tried to escape by fighting with a On Friday the CPJ said the death of grave,” Rodong Sinmun, the North’s official toral math: To reach her 1.4 million-vote target, she about cultural identity and imagery as it is any particu- soldier and attempting to steal his Aung Naing was “reprehensible”, adding newspaper, said in a commentary yesterday. needs about 160,000 more white votes than the lar policy - a political reality demonstrated in every- weapon” said the document seen by AFP, that he was the first reporter killed in the The North has warned that failure to halt 412,000 that Democrat Roy Barnes got for his guber- thing from Grimes shooting a gun in one of her ads to adding that Aung Naing was suspected of former junta-run nation since 2007. future launches could scupper the planned natorial bid in 2010, the last national midterm election. Perdue donning blue jeans and boots for many cam- being a member of a local armed group. “Civilian authorities must investigate the resumption of high-level talks between the Ideally, much of the increase would come from paign stops. This was contradicted by activists and local military’s accounting of his death, which two Koreas. The local residents in Paju insist- suburban women, but Nunn still would need to add “It’s not a matter of disliking or distrusting Alison,” media reports which said he was a free- has the initial hallmarks of a cover-up,” said ed that the threats of military retaliation by support outside metro Atlanta, home to 6 million of explained Bobby Clue, who runs the Chamber of lance journalist covering unrest in the Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s Southeast Asia repre- North Korea are credible and that the the state’s 10 million residents. Republicans acknowl- Commerce in Pulaski, Kentucky. “There’s just not much region, where fighting between govern- sentative, in a statement. “Any soldier activists are putting their lives and business- edge that Nunn may have a small opening, at least in for people to identify with when they think about ment troops and rebels has flared in recent found responsible for his extrajudicial south Georgia, where her father, former Sen Sam President Obama or Harry Reid. We revolve our lives es at risk. The South says there is no legal weeks. killing or mistreatment before his death Nunn, remains popular among erstwhile “Southern around church and schools and our civic clubs. It’s just The US-based Committee to Protect must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of basis for a blanket ban, but it has urged the Democrats.” Rob Collins, director of the national GOP’s a different speed here.” In rural northeast Georgia, Journalists (CPJ) said Aung Naing was the law.” Reporters were regularly detained activists to exercise common sense and Senate campaign arm, said Perdue’s name ID is low in White County Republican Treasurer Roy Johnson said, thought to have worked for several local under the junta, which meted out long jail restraint. Police have previously prevented some rural pockets because he concentrated on metro “Abortion, gay marriage, those are big issues here, but news titles but the MPC was unable to con- sentences to journalists while choking off the launches at times of high cross-border Atlanta in the primary, while his runoff rival, Rep. Jack it’s not just one thing. The Democrat Party just moved firm his status as a reporter. The military information with some of the world’s most tensions, citing the possible dangers posed Kingston of Savannah, dominated the south. “He’s got away from us.”—AP statement issued Thursday-a first of its kind draconian censorship rules.—AFP to local residents.— AFP NEWS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Steve Ward and Donna Workman add pumpkins to a display as work on Ric Griffith’s Pumpkin House continues on Friday in Kenova, West Virginia. — AP

Iran hangs woman for killing alleged... Israel troops kill US teen in West Bank Continued from Page 1 a statement that cited “serious concerns with the fairness” of Continued from Page 1 Judaism’s holiest place. Prayers concluded on Friday her trial, including “reports of confessions made under severe afternoon with clashes in the Wadi Joz neighbourhood But a medical report, prepared for the judiciary and quot- duress”. “We join our voice with those who call on Iran to Palestinian officials named the youth as Orwa north of the Old City. Palestinians there threw stones ed by IRNA in its dispatch yesterday, said Sarbandi was respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people under Hammad, 17, saying he was shot during a stone-throw- and fired flares at police, who dispersed them and stabbed in the back and that the killing had been premeditat- Iran’s own laws and its international obligations,” spokes- ing protest against troops, a regular occurrence at arrested three demonstrators, Samri said. An AFP corre- ed. IRNA said the police investigation found that Jabbari sent woman Jen Psaki added. Britain voiced similar concerns and Silwad, near Ofra settlement. US State Department spondent said undercover police in the crowd of a text message to a friend saying she would kill Sarbandi three called on the Islamic republic to halt its use of the death spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US “expresses its Palestinians made the arrests. days before the deadly incident. penalty. “Actions like these do not help Iran build confidence deepest condolences to the family of a US citizen There were also clashes in east Jerusalem’s Issawiya Efforts for a commuted jail sentence had intensified in or trust with the international community. I urge Iran to put a minor who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces”. neighbourhood, where AFP photographers saw police recent weeks but Sarbandi’s family and Jabbari remained at moratorium on all executions,” said Foreign Office Minister Calling for “a speedy and transparent investigation”, fire bursts of tear gas to break up a crowd of loggerheads over the circumstances of the killing. According Tobias Ellwood. According to the United Nations, more than Psaki said officials from the US consulate in Jerusalem Palestinians who hurled rocks and burned tyres on the to Jalal Sarbandi, the victim’s eldest son, Jabbari testified that 250 people have been executed in Iran since the beginning of were in touch with the family of the slain youth. “We streets. There were no reports of injuries on either side. a man was present in the apartment where his father was 2014. Amnesty’s deputy director for the Middle East and killed but she had refused to reveal his identity. Jabbari’s North Africa, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, said Jabbari’s death was continue to urge all parties to help restore calm and Samri said around 8,000 people took part in prayers at mother was allowed to visit her for one hour on Friday, “disappointing in the extreme”. “Tragically, this case is far from avoid escalating tensions in the wake of the tragic Al-Aqsa, with hundreds of others in areas around the Amnesty said, a custom that tends to precede executions in uncommon. Once again Iran has insisted on applying the recent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said site. Iran. death penalty despite serious concerns over the fairness of Psaki. On Thursday night, two Palestinians were arrested Following Jabbari’s death, the US State Department issued the trial,” she added. — Agencies Locals in Silwad said Hammad’s father lives in the during clashes in the Old City in which stones, bottles United States. Also on Friday, police in annexed east and flares were thrown or fired at police, who used Jerusalem clashed with Palestinians, firing tear gas to unspecified “riot dispersal” weapons, Samri said. The Kuwait calls for Gulf reforms as oil... disperse stone-throwing protesters. They were fighting has shaken east Jerusalem on an almost daily Continued from Page 1 not clear how far they will proceed with budget reforms. Cuts deployed in force ahead of weekly Muslim prayers as basis since the murder of a Palestinian teenager by in social welfare spending are politically very sensitive, while the army restricted access to a flashpoint mosque, after Jewish extremists in July. Clashes intensified during the The combined GDP of the GCC last year reached $1.64 tril- infrastructure projects are designed to diversify economies a deadly Palestinian attack sent tensions soaring. 50-day Gaza war. lion, so in this scenario the annual revenue of the six nations and reduce their dependence on oil in the long run. However, Clashes have broken out nightly since a Palestinian Police branded Wednesday’s incident - in which 21- could plunge by roughly $130 billion. The total revenue of the there are some signs that officials are using the oil price drop ploughed his car into a crowd of Israelis on Wednesday, year-old Abdelrahman Shaludi from Silwan in east GCC states - 90 percent of which come from oil - more than to justify reforms. This month Kuwait revealed plans to slash killing a baby who Washington said was a US citizen, Jerusalem drove at high speed into a crowd of Israelis - doubled from $317 billion in 2008 to $756 billion in 2012. It costly state subsidies on diesel, kerosene and jet fuel - relative- and injuring six other people before he was shot dead a “terror attack”. Israeli police braced for the funeral yes- declined slightly to $729 billion last year, according to IMF ly minor reforms - and it is studying hikes in electricity and by police. The security presence was boosted across terday of Shaludi. Palestinian sources said he was to be estimates. Benefiting from high oil prices for more than a water costs that would have a bigger effect. Oman has said it east Jerusalem including the Old City, police spokes- buried in Jerusalem at 10:00 pm yesterday. Public radio decade, the GCC states have built fiscal reserves estimated at is considering cutting subsidies on petrol. woman Luba Samri said. Palestinian men under the age said the timing was set by Israeli authorities, who also $2.45 trillion by the International Institute of Finance. “Electricity is still under study by the higher planning coun- of 40 were not allowed into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa imposed a maximum limit of 80 mourners for fear the This will enable them to keep spending up even if oil prices cil committee, and once it is done it is a law that will have to stay weak over a long period. For example, Saudi Arabia has go to parliament,” Saleh said without giving details. He said, mosque compound for Friday prayers because of fears event could turn into a violent protest. Silwan - a accumulated $736 billion of foreign assets, while the UAE is however, that spending on economic development projects of further unrest, she said. densely populated Arab neighbourhood on a steep estimated to have a similar amount in its largest sovereign in Kuwait would not be affected by weakness in the oil mar- The compound is the scene of frequent clashes hillside just south of the Old City - has been the focus wealth fund. Also, very low levels of public debt - Saudi Arabia’s ket. Economic growth in the GCC region is expected to be between Palestinians and Israeli police. The plaza hous- of Palestinian anger over Jewish settlements in east was at just 2.7 percent of GDP in 2013 - mean GCC countries around 4.5 percent on average in 2014 and 2015 but the risk es the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has would have easy access to the debt markets if needed. that it will slow has increased because of soft oil prices, Saleh third-holiest site. It is also revered by Jews as the loca- warned that any further attacks would be met with “the Despite the reformist rhetoric of some Gulf officials, it is said. — Agencies tion of the biblical Jewish temples, considered harshest response”. — Agencies SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 ANALYSIS

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mazon.com Inc’s once fairy-tale ride on Wall Street has hit its most jarring bump yet. The company that for years Aenthralled investors with improbable growth and earned one of the technology sector’s highest valuations drew wide- spread ire after a spectacular results letdown on Thursday. Amazon missed expectations across the board - on margins, on its net loss and on revenue. An unaccountably poor 7 to 18 per- cent revenue growth forecast for the typically strongest holiday quarter was the final straw for some. Coming just three months after a big letdown in July, the warning may represent a tipping point for investors who are already wary of a triple-digit price-earnings ratio and a persistent unwillingness to throttle back spending. “They’re becoming Israel and Jordan ties troubled but vital much too distracted in all these other efforts” outside core busi- nesses like online retailing and web services, said Matthew By Hazel Ward also been growing concern over Israel’s actions at the Al- (2000-2005), the 2006 Lebanon war and three bloody con- Benkendorf, portfolio manager at Vontobel Asset Management. Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, where Jordan’s sta- flicts in Gaza, all of which inflamed public opinion in Benkendorf unloaded his Amazon holdings a year ago and said wenty years after Israel signed a historic peace treaty tus as custodian is enshrined in the peace treaty. Jordan and provoked a series of angry statements from he would be skeptical of future involvement even if the stock falls with Jordan, the pact - deeply unpopular among “The major problem from the Jordanian side is that as Amman. further. “They are their own worst enemy to success,” he said. Jordanians - is a strategic partnership both sides are long as there is no comprehensive solution to the Israeli- Beyond the headlines, however, Israel and Jordan have “They really need to do some soul searching and get focused.” T determined to protect, experts say. In the two decades Palestinian conflict, the regime finds it very difficult politi- a relationship neither wants to sacrifice, says Schenker. After some rough patches following the dotcom boom, CEO since the October 26, 1994 accord, the frosty relationship cally to go into full normalisation,” Oded Eran, former Israeli “There is an understanding that there will be rhetoric, that Jeff Bezos for years weaved a spell over Wall Street, riding a track has survived numerous tests, mostly from the Israeli- ambassador to Amman and now a senior research fellow at the king will say things and the Israelis won’t be happy, but record for upending the retail industry with Amazon’s low-cost, Palestinian conflict. Although the treaty remains a source Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, told AFP. On this is the price of doing business,” he said. speedy-delivery model. But Bezos has increasingly sought lead- of public chagrin in Jordan, where over half the population Monday, King Abdullah II added to tensions by saying the ing positions in Internet computing, digital media, and on- are Palestinian, the relationship has been quietly strength- Middle East was suffering from “Zionist extremism” as well ‘Not Popular, Makes Sense’ demand services. ened as both countries face up to rising Islamist extremism as the threat posed by Islamic extremists. “Israel is still con- Although bilateral trade between Israel and Jordan is Investors have given Bezos a lot of leeway based on past suc- across the Middle East. sidered an enemy,” said veteran Jordanian lawmaker Khalil meager - worth only $365 million in 2013 - the regional cri- cess, including the introduction of Amazon Web Services. The David Schenker, head of the Arab politics program at Attieh, who once burned an Israeli flag in parliament. “It is sis has played a role in improving economic ties after Sinai cloud-hosting and computing service started out as a low-cost the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israel still occupying Palestinian land, still violating the peace militants sabotaged Amman’s supply of natural gas from option for cash-strapped startups but now vies successfully with and Jordan both viewed jihadist outfits “the same way”, treaty by the assaults on Al-Aqsa, still killing innocent Egypt. The move paved the way for a planned $15 billion IBM on government and corporate IT contracts. But the company including the Islamic State group that controls large parts Palestinians and destroying their homes. It is still building deal for Israel to supply Jordan’s natural gas needs over 15 is entering a phase when many investors are expecting to see of Syria and Iraq. “It necessarily drives these countries clos- settlements,” he told AFP. years. “This gas deal is the clearest sign that the kingdom is profit improvements, said Andrew Cupps, president of Cupps er together, just like it has driven Egypt and Israel closer strong in its ties with Israel and that their relations will only Capital Management in Chicago. Cupps now owns about 20,000 together,” he said. “They recognise that the closer the intel- Palestinian Question become closer,” Schenker said. “It is not popular but it Amazon shares, down from around 30,000 earlier this year. ligence relationship is, the closer the military relationship Jordanian-Israeli relations first soured in 1996 when makes sense for the kingdom and demonstrates the Amazon shares fell 8.3 percent on Friday to a year’s low of is, (and) security for both countries will be stronger.” rightwing hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu was first elected degree to which the relationship is solid.” $287.06, wiping out more than $12 billion in value. Including In spite of shared security concerns, Israel’s conflict with as prime minister, now serving his third term in office, and For Daniel Nevo, Israel’s current ambassador to Jordan, Friday’s plunge, Amazon’s stock is down by nearly a third since the Palestinians - historically the pact’s largest sticking took a further nosedive a year later when a Jordanian sol- there is still some way to go. “The relationship is in a good January. Investors had begun questioning Bezos’ growing spend- point - still forms a barrier to closer ties with Jordan, dier shot dead seven Israeli schoolgirls. In the same year, place, there is a lot more to improve. It’s not an ideal situa- ing on perceived side-projects since his company missed sec- experts said. The deal has been sorely tested in recent the relationship reached breaking point after a botched tion but we definitely have taken some steps in the right ond-quarter profit targets. months after the Israeli army’s killing of a Palestinian- attempt by Israel’s Mossad spy agency to assassinate direction,” he told Israeli army radio on Thursday. “Jordan is Such long-term endeavors included Hollywood-style content Jordanian judge and a bloody 50-day war in Gaza where Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Amman. Ties were further an island of stability and moderation in this unstable and mobile devices to compete with Apple Inc and Google Inc. nearly 2,200 Palestinian died, mostly civilians. There has strained by the violence of the second Palestinian intifada region and we could not ask for a better neighbour.” —AFP But while Amazon’s original drama series “Transparent” has won rave reviews, the jury is still out on whether the company can consistently deliver Netflix-style hits like “House of Cards.” Meanwhile, its “Fire” smartphone project appears in trouble. The company took a $170 million writedown in the third quarter, In Senate battle, GOP’s weapon is Obama largely because of unsold phones. And last month, it slashed the phone’s price (with a two-year AT&T contract) to 99 cents from $199. By David Espo tant. Another state, Kansas, is in a category Mark Pryor, who won six years ago without time with Barack Obama. I don’t know That’s why brokerage analysts previously enamored of of its own, a Republican stronghold where Republican opposition. Now, Cotton says many Arkansans who think that Barack Amazon’s prospects struck a pessimistic note. At least 20 broker- truggling to preserve their Senate veteran GOP Sen. Pat Roberts is struggling Pryor “votes 93 Obama is right 93 percent of the time.” ages cut their price targets on the stock on Friday. “Even if Bezos majority, Democrats are attacking against independent Greg Orman. percent of is unconcerned about institutional investors’ near term, he needs SRepublicans over Medicare and Social There is evidence of a potent effort the Safe Bet to care how the stock impacts his ability to attract and retain tal- Security in Louisiana, spending cuts in by Democrats to expand the cus- It’s a safe bet in a state where Obama ent, particularly given the broadening tech expertise he needs,” Arkansas, offshore jobs in New Hampshire tomary midterm electorate. won 37 percent of the vote in 2012. In said Macquarie’s Ben Schacter. “If the stock continues to get hit, and women’s issues in Colorado. Arkansas reports 131,000 new- Colorado, Sen. Mark Udall stayed in we could even end up in a situation with activists calling for sig- Republicans have a one-size fits-all count- ly registered voters this year, Washington this year when Obama went to nificant changes.” er-argument. It’s Barack Obama, a two-term and there are more than the state to raise campaign funds. More president they’ve turned into a political that in Georgia, the state recently, the first-term Democrat made it Sick of it punching bag and pummeled at will while where Democratic hopes sound like he himself was persona non To be sure, short interest in Amazon remains low compared Democrats avert their eyes. “Mark Begich is of picking up a grata at the White House. “When with most companies, suggesting that few investors deem the with Obama. I’m with you,” Republican chal- Republican seat are they look down the front company to be in trouble. But it has increased over the past six lenger Dan Sullivan of Alaska says in his strongest. Robert lawn the last person they months. About a year ago, 0.3 percent of the shares available for newest television commercial in one of sev- McLarty, in charge want to see coming is short bets were being used for such activity. That’s increased to eral close race in red states that define the of the Democratic me,” he said. Begich, about 1.6 percent as of Thursday, according to Markit, which nation’s battle for Senate control. get-out-the-vote elected narrowly six tracks share lending. And despite Friday’s steep target-price cuts, He’s not the only one. Senate effort in years ago in a heavily no brokerage yet has a sell rating on the stock. Of the 44 analysts Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Arkansas, says Republican state, has covering Amazon, 28 have a ‘buy’ or higher rating on the stock, plagued by his own poor approval ratings, new voters are been running as a though that’s down from 32 three months ago. has said much the same thing for months heavily black, thorn in Obama’s side Some still give Bezos the benefit of the doubt. “I get it that in Kentucky. His opponent, Alison young and from the beginning. people are frustrated that they’ve done a lot of different things Lundergan Grimes won’t disclose if she vot- female. “These “As senator, he took that haven’t helped them that much,” said Daniel Morgan, senior folks have prob- on Obama to fix portfolio manager at Synovus Trust Company, which will hold ed for a president whose nominating con- Alaska’s VA, exempt our onto Amazon for now. “We’ll hang in there a little longer to see if vention she attended two years ago. At a ably not been this thing will come to fruition for them.” Others have begun to debate last week, the secretary of state surveyed” by schools from No Child waver. During Thursday’s earnings call, analysts pressed Amazon wrapped her refusal in lofty principle, citing pollsters whose Left Behind and is taking on when it would see a payoff from heavy investments in China, a “constitutional right for privacy at the bal- work points to a responsibility for fixing devices and other areas. Wolfe Research analyst Aram Rubinson lot box.” victory for the health care law so it asked what metrics Amazon tracks “because it’s a little hard to see After remaining off television for more Republican Tom works for Alaska,” said an any of it making positive progress.” than a week, Democrats say they will make Cotton, he added. early-campaign commer- “We are at the point where they’re getting sick of it,” said John one final advertising push on Grimes’ Yet Republicans cial. Thompson, chief executive of Vilas Capital Management, who behalf. But Republicans sound increasingly say they, too, have Though Obama is less has been shorting Amazon for about two years. He took issue in confident that McConnell will win a sixth spent months on than two years removed particular with executives’ assertions that they rely on cash flows term, and nearly all public polls suggest the turnout. “Our entire from winning his second as one of their prime performance metrics. —Reuters same. Nationally, Republicans must gain six effort is now focused term, his campaign efforts seats to win Senate control. The most com- on low-propensity vot- this year are largely confined petitive races, many in states where Obama ers,” said Sean Spicer of to fundraisers from which the lost in 2012, remain tight enough in the the Republican National news media are barred - a step All articles appearing on these polls to leave the outcome in doubt after Committee, referring to that ensures nervous candidates months of campaigning, a mid-October people who either do not won’t be photographed by his pages are the personal opinion of debate season and millions of dollars in generally vote or do not side. Interviewed by the Rev Al the writers. Kuwait Times takes no attack ads. usually support GOP candi- Sharpton recently, he said he tells responsibility for views expressed As a result, it appears that Democratic dates. Other Republicans Democrats, “You do what you need to do to therein. Kuwait Times invites read- hopes for maintaining Senate control hinge express skepticism at the win. I will be responsible for making our on overcoming Obama’s general unpopu- Democratic claims. “It’s not votes turn out.” Republicans have an all- ers to voice their opinions. Please larity with a targeted get-out-the-vote pro- like the Democrats get to purpose answer to that, as well. When send submissions via email to: opin- gram to boost turnout among blacks, operate in a vacuum. We get they learned Thursday Obama had giv- [email protected] or via snail young voters and women in key states. to run a campaign, too,” says en an interview to an Atlanta radio sta- mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Among them are Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Justin Brasell, campaign man- tion, they swiftly circulated his Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, ager for GOP Rep Cotton in remarks, calculating it would help The editor reserves the right to edit North Carolina and Colorado, a state where Arkansas. Cotton, a first-term Republicans win a close race in any submission as necessary. Hispanic voters will be particularly impor- congressman is challenging Sen. Georgia. —AP p15_Layout 1 10/25/14 7:53 PM Page 1

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Beale not joining Wallabies Three battle for early lead Suarez: Biting is harmless MELBOURNE: New Australia coach Michael Cheika has declined a chance ALICANTE: Three boats were vying for the 6,487-mile first leg honours in LONDON: Biting opponents may be appalling but it is harmless and should not to rush Kurtley Beale into the Wallabies squad for the season-ending tour of the Volvo Ocean Race yesterday with 30 miles separating them at the front be punished as severely as a bad tackle, says controversial Barcelona striker Luis Europe after the utility back was sanctioned for sending an offensive text of the seven-strong fleet. Suarez. The Uruguayan marksmen is set to make his long-awaited Barca debut message about a former team staffer. In global offshore sailing terms that is as tight as it gets and Briton Ian in El Clasico at Real Madrid later yesterday after completing a four-month ban Beale was fined A$45,000 ($40,000) but escaped further punishment Walker, the skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, knows he cannot rest on for sinking his teeth into Italy defender Georgi Chiellini at the World Cup finals after a tribunal heard charges that he had sent ‘deeply offensive’ text mes- his laurels for a moment with a paper-thin 18-mile advantage over Dutch in Brazil. sages about Wallabies’ business manager, Di Patston, who resigned under boat, Team Brunel. It was the third time that Suarez bit an opponent, with previous incidents at stress amid the scandal. Although omitted from Cheika’s 33-man squad, Denmark’s Team Vestas Wind are closing rapidly in third spot on a more former clubs Ajax in 2010 and Liverpool in 2013 punished with seven and 10- announced upon his appointment on Wednesday, Beale walked windy, easterly course than their rivals as they head for the Southern match bans respectively. The 27-year-old said he was getting help to control his away from Friday’s code of conduct hearing with his national Ocean, just over halfway through the opening stage. “impulse” to bite but in his new book “Crossing The Line: My Story”, serialised in contract intact and free to join the tour for matches against The boats are due to complete the first leg from Alicante to Cape Town The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, he said that the offence should not Wales, France, Ireland and England, if called. around Nov. 6, depending on sailing conditions in the meantime. receive severe punishment. “After my 10-match ban in 2013 for bit- “The Australian Rugby Union today confirmed... The fleet also includes boats from China, US/Turkey, Spain and Sweden. ing (Chelsea defender) Branislav Ivanovic (for Liverpool), I had Wallabies head coach Michael Cheika has advised The latter, Team SCA, are the first team of women to enter the race in 12 questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one Kurtley Beale will not join the squad for the Spring years. They were in bottom spot but still in touch, some 120 miles off the actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration,” Suarez Tour,” the ARU said in an emailed statement. lead at 0940 GMT on Saturday. wrote. “The damage to the player is incomparable with that “From time to time there are changes to person- The race, generally reckoned to be global offshore sailing’s toughest suffered by a horrendous challenge. Sometimes English foot- nel during tours, due to injury or other matters, test, takes nine months to complete, visits 11 ports around the world and ball takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in and we will advise if there are any changes to this covers 38,739 nautical miles. It finishes in Gothenburg on June 27, 2015 Europe, but of course it will have if you can take some- position.”—Reuters having begun in Alicante on Oct. 11. —Reuters one’s leg off and still not be booked.—Reuters Unpaid volunteers worth millions to Olympic Games

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio needs 70,000 agreed to pay the IOC $7.75 billion for the unpaid volunteers for the 2016 Olympics rights to six Olympics beginning in 2022, and Paralympics, and Brazilian Olympic reflecting the value of the Olympic brand, medalist Ricardo Prado is making a pitch built partially by volunteer labor. with a deadline for signups just three The IOC also has about $1 billion in the weeks away. “Without the athletes, the bank, a reserve for emergencies. “They games can’t happen,” he says in a recruit- (volunteers) feel it is all wonderful partici- ing advertisement. “But without the vol- pating, when in fact the wonderfulness is unteers, it’s the same.” of their own creation,” said Chalip, who The International Olympic Committee studies sports policy at the University of promotes volunteers as the spirit of the Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “They feel games, recalling a time when athletes like it’s a gift, when it’s actually something were unpaid amateurs. They do thou- they are giving.” Chalip said working sands of jobs - greet fans, escort athletes “backstage” motivated volunteers, offer- and give directions around town - and ing a glimpse of what most see from afar. many deliver specialized services. They’re “Some who had worked their allotted the smiling faces of the host nation, often hours in Sydney were angry they couldn’t praised at the opening and closing cere- keep working,” he said. Dr. Arin Saha, a monies by monarchs, presidents and surgeon who volunteered at the 2012 prime ministers. They also save organizers London Olympics, termed his service at least $100 million in salaries - and pos- “unforgettable.” “I found the experience of sibly more. volunteering fantastic and would have “There is a question to be asked: Is the been one that I would happily have paid exchange really even, or is it unequal?” for,” he said in an email. said Laurence Chalip, who conducted a Every recent Olympic host has a differ- study for the IOC on volunteers at the ent challenge finding volunteers. Britain 2000 Sydney Olympics. and Australia had engrained cultures of Volunteers are not only unpaid, but volunteering. Greece and China did not. ANAHEIM: Hampus Lindholm No. 47 of the Anaheim Ducks knocks the puck out of trouble with his glove in the final minute. —AFP they pay their own lodging and trans- Brazil is more like China or Greece. The portation to the host city. They get trans- country lacks a volunteer-philanthropic portation to venues and meals only on tradition, partially because of its stark the days they work, some training and economic inequality. This means the poor Ducks thrash Blue Jackets uniforms to treasure. Chalip calculated can’t afford to work for free. That narrows their value in Sydney at $60 million, and the pool, leaving the better-off to work that was for only 40,000 volunteers. A without pay. Flavia Fontes, Rio volunteer ANAHEIM: Corey Perry and defenseman Sami record for shootout losses to 18 straight. who have rebounded from a difficult start to the very conservative estimate suggests it manager, said she was recruiting from the Vatanen scored power-play goals in the first Kari Lehtonen had 25 saves for Dallas. It didn’t season. Ben Scrivens finished with 30 saves. period as the Anaheim Ducks beat the appear as if he had to stop any in the shootout, Riley Nash, Jeff Skinner and Jay Harrison had would cost at least $100 million to pay city’s slums (favelas), hoping to give the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Friday for their with Mike Cammalleri’s shot going over the net Carolina’s goals. The Hurricanes are the only win- Rio’s 70,000 volunteers a minimum wage poor a chance. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes seventh consecutive victory. on the first attempt and Jaromir Jagr losing con- less team in the NHL, off to a franchise-worst 0- to work two weeks at the games. Many said months ago the poor would be giv- John Gibson, starting in net for the first time trol of the puck on the second. 5-2 start. Edmonton grabbed control with four will work much more. Anything above en “subsidies” for Olympic tickets. Surveys since losing 6-4 in his hometown of Pittsburgh Spezza scored after Cammalleri missed with a goals in the third. the minimum wage and the bill doubles show they were priced out of this year’s on opening night, faced just 17 shots as the two- dancing backhander in front. Benn beat Cory or triples. It would rise further if highly World Cup. time defending Pacific Division champions Schneider skating across the crease from right to LIGHTNING 4, JETS 2 skilled volunteers, such as doctors and “We really want to have a mix,” Fontes improved to 7-1. Last season, the Ducks also left. Benn scored for the fifth straight game and Jonathan Drouin, Vladislav Namestnikov and other medical professionals, were paid told The Associated Press. “We don’t really won seven straight after a season-opening loss Patrick Eaves got Dallas’ other goal in regulation. Ondrej Palat scored in the second period, lead- normal wages. Rio plans to use about want it just to be the whites. We really at Colorado. Eric Gelinas and Damien Brunner scored for New ing the Lightning to the win. Ben Bishop made 1,000 medical volunteers. want it to be a mix of what Brazil is all Scott Hartnell had a power-play goal for the Jersey, which has lost four in a row. Schneider 40 saves for Tampa Bay, which has won three of The operating budget - the budget for about.” Although Brazil bills itself as a Blue Jackets and Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 made 35 saves. four on a five-game road trip that ends at simply running the games themselves - is racial democracy, blacks make up the saves. Minnesota on Saturday night. Steven Stamkos $3 billion. Paying volunteers would boost vast majority of the poor with whites of Perry, who got his second hat trick of the sea- OILERS 6, HURRICANES 3 scored in the first, and Nikita Kucherov finished the budget by about 3 percent. European decent in charge in business son in Wednesday’s 4-1 win over Buffalo, opened Jordan Eberle had two goals and an assist in with three assists. Overall, Brazil is spending about $20 and politics. the scoring with a backhander from the edge of Edmonton’s third consecutive victory. Jesse Bryan Little scored Winnipeg’s first power- billion - a mix of public and private mon- Rio hopes 300,000 will register for the the crease just 1:28 after the opening faceoff Joensuu, Leon Draisaitl, Matt Hendricks and play goal of the season, and Blake Wheeler ey - to prepare the games, building sports 70,000 available positions. So far only and 64 seconds after David Savard was sent off Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers, added his third goal in the third period. —AP and urban infrastructure. 120,000 have signed up with the dead- for hooking Jakob Silfverberg. The 2011 MVP has “The question is not so much whether line looming on Nov. 15. Fontes declined nine goals in his first eight games in the fastest NHL results/standings we should - or should not - pay $100 mil- to say she was having problems, but start in franchise history. lion more out of an operating budget of acknowledged Brazilians might need a Dallas 3, New Jersey 2 (SO); Tampa Bay 4, Winnipeg 2; Colorado 7, Vancouver 3; Edmonton 6, Carolina 3; Anaheim 4, AVALANCHE 7, CANUCKS 3 Columbus 1. $3 billion,” Christophe Dubi, Olympic “push” in a Latin country where people Jarome Iginla collected his first two goals for Games Executive Director, said in an often act at the last minute. Non- Western Conference Eastern Conference Colorado and had an assist in a win over Pacific Division Atlantic Division interview with The Associated Press. “It is Brazilians are expected to make up 5 per- Vancouver. Matt Duchene had a goal and two Montreal 6 1 0 22 21 12 about the spirit of volunteerism.” cent of the final 70,000. “I think we just WLOTLGFGAPTS assists and Erik Johnson had a goal and an assist Anaheim 7 1 0 29 15 14 Tampa Bay 5 2 1 25 16 11 Dubi said the operating budget was need to talk to more people,” Fontes said. Detroit 4 1 2 16 13 10 for Colorado, which broke out of an offensive Los Angeles 5 1 1 17 10 11 Ottawa 4 1 0 14 10 8 tight, and paying volunteers would not “We need to meet face-to-face with the slump to earn its first home win of the season. Calgary 5 3 1 25 19 11 Boston 4 5 0 22 23 8 be easy. “The money is really scarce and poor community so they understand the It was also the first win for goalie Semyon San Jose 4 3 1 27 25 9 Toronto 3 3 1 20 21 7 they (organizers) are looking for ways and games first, and the values. When they Varlamov, who returned from injured reserve to Vancouver 4 3 0 23 24 8 Florida 2 2 2 9 14 6 means to save money,” he said. do, they’ll want to be part of it.” But only if make 26 saves. Varlamov missed three games Edmonton 3 4 1 23 32 7 Buffalo 1 7 0 9 28 2 Arizona 2 3 1 16 24 5 Metropolitan Division Earlier this year the US network NBC they can afford to. —AP with a groin injury suffered in a morning skate NY Islanders 5 2 0 25 22 10 Central Division Washington 3 1 2 20 14 8 last week. Nashville 5 0 2 19 13 12 Daniel Sedin had a goal and an assist for Columbus 4 3 0 21 20 8 Dallas 4 1 2 24 22 10 New Jersey 3 2 2 22 23 8 Vancouver. Henrik Sedin and Alex Burrows also Chicago 4 1 1 18 10 9 NY Rangers 4 3 0 21 23 8 scored, and Eddie Lack stopped 41 shots. Minnesota 3 2 0 12 4 6 Pittsburgh 3 2 1 22 19 7 England survive Philadelphia 2 3 2 22 28 6 Colorado 2 4 2 19 27 6 St. Louis 2 3 1 13 13 5 Carolina 0 5 2 14 29 2 STARS 3, DEVILS 2 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the Jason Spezza and Jamie Benn scored in a Winnipeg 2 5 0 13 20 4 standings and are not included in the loss column (L). Samoan scare shootout as the Stars extended the Devils’ NHL

BRISBANE: Samoa gave England a mas- Simona just after super-sub Pita Godinet sive fright before going down 32-26 in a had stolen the lead with two slick dum- thrilling opening game of the Four my-half darts. Toulon defeat Ulster Nations rugby league tournament in The ball spilled free to the right just Brisbane yesterday. The Samoans led 22- before the goal-line where Joel Tomkins PARIS: Two-time defending European champi- tion in the second-half. Ulster are struggling with just a point after two 20 with 20 minutes left before going pounced and scored for a 26-22 advan- ons Toulon took a big step towards the Ulster got a late try through Craig Gilroy but it games. down narrowly in a brutal and entertain- tage. European Champions Rugby Cup knockout was not enough to prevent them slipping to “This was like a semi-final to us,” said Toulon ing classic. From England’s next set of six tackles, stages with a solid 23-13 victory over 1999 win- their second defeat in a week in the competi- flanker and man of the match Chris Masoe. “To The lead swapped five times as the Sam Tomkins leapt high over Simona to ners Ulster in Belfast yesterday. The French side tion, the first time they have lost their first two get a win here is tough. True champions are two sides crossed for five tries each, but take another Matty Smith bomb to outscored the hosts two tries to one-South games since the 2008/09 campaign. those that bounce back and front up and we it was the English who had the compo- scramble over for a try. African star Bryan Habana finishing off an excel- Toulon top Pool 3 with eight points while have done that since we lost to Toulouse a fort- sure and attacking precision to seal the Led by Frank Pritchard and Josh lent move on the stroke of half-time and English English side Leicester, who play Welsh outfit night ago. result. McGuire, Samoa kept attacking for wing Delon Armitage running back an intercep- Scarlets later on Saturday, have four points while “To be fair we are not looking towards win- ning three in a row we are just looking at each The closest a minnow fourth team Antonio Winterstein to cross for a try but game as it comes.” Ulster captain Rory Best was in the end it was goalkicking which cost had previously come to the big three of left disappointed by his side’s display on what the international league was when Samoa a slice of history. was his 50th appearance in the competition. France were smashed 34-12 by England Gareth Widdop slotted six-from-six, “We fancied our chances today but the fact is in 2009. compared to three from five by the great clubs have good players who take the But Samoan coach Matt Parish tem- Samoans. Relieved England coach Steve right decisions and Toulon have that capacity pered his pride at putting a mighty scare McNamara admitted his side dodged a and did that today,” said the hooker. through the English. bullet in a “tremendous game”. Toulon Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny land- “I thought we blew a great opportuni- “I knew that sort of game was com- ed two penalties in quick succession after miss- ty,” Parish said. “It is probably a massive ing,” he said. “We’re a brand new team, ing his first attempt at goal to give the visitors a learning curve in this competition but we’ve got so many new faces, we’ve trav- 6-0 lead by the quarter hour mark. I’m very proud of the way we came back. elled from one end of the world to the Paddy Jackson, who was surprisingly left out “We created enough opportunities to other and played in pretty extreme of the Ireland squad named this week for the win tonight but we didn’t execute and (steamy) conditions for an Englishman. November tests, reduced the deficit with a probably didn’t get the rub of the green “They put us under a lot of pressure penalty in the 22nd minute. with a couple of calls.” and we had to dig ourselves out of some Not all was going Toulon’s way as they lost The call that most frustrated the high- dark places at times to win.” England take Argentinian veteran flanker Juan Martin ly physical Samoans was Australian refer- on hosts Australia in Melbourne next Fernandez-Lobbe in the opening minutes with a ee Gerard Sutton’s decision to allow play- Sunday (November 2), while Samoa face left leg injury, and also saw fly-half Matt Giteau go off before the half hour mark with what on from Michael Shenton’s high-ball New Zealand in Whangarei late yester- BELFAST: Toulon’s French center Maxime Mermoz breaks through Ulster’s defence during the looked like a groin injury.—AFP fumble over the top of fullback Tim day. —AFP European Rugby Champions Cup match between Ulster and Toulon at Kingspan Stadium. —AFP p16_Layout 1 10/25/14 9:11 PM Page 1

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24 participants to compete as Oman rally returns to Mideast

he Oman rally returns to the ly 2014. In addition to the Omani people Middle East area after 7 years joy, we can say that a new future career Tabsence. The manager of Oman tri- is opened here. Meanwhile we cannot al rally 2014 Hani Shaaban said that the forget the role of Nasser Al Attiyah, the return of this rally to the Middle East head of QMMF and vice president of FIA agenda is a real support to the path and MENA for the return of Oman rally. history of championship. About the technical aspects of the rally. Hani said that most of participants are familiarized with the geographical conditions of the rally. There is a diversi- ty of geographical stages. The total length of the rally is 545 km approxi- mately. 173 km of the total length is for the speed. The first day will be 84 km. The second last day will be 85 km while, the longest stage Al Amerat is 20.360 km while the shortest one is Wadi Odai 7.5 km. The rally will begin at 6 pm, Oct.30 at the headquarters of OAA. Then all competitors will move to the show stage. The service area will be in Al Wattiya area down town of the capital Muscat as it was furnished logistically. Only history can show the develop- ment stages the motor sport has wit- nessed in Oman. In 1977 a group of SAN FRANCISCO: Giants’ Hunter Pence is caught stealing second base by Kansas City Royals’ Alcides Escobar in the second inning during Game youth initiated the sport until the first 3 of the baseball World Series. —AP international rally was organized in 1979 We are quite optimistic to host offi- the rally continued up to 1998. It cially one of the next season 2015 stopped then returned in 2003 as a trial Royals hold off Giants rounds. 24 competitors in this rally is rally and continued up to 2007 where considered a positive indicator to the UAE Khalid Al Qassmi achieved first posi- success of this great rally, when we talk tion. Since then we can confirm that SAN FRANCISCO: The Kansas City Royals fol- the series in late yesterday’s Game Four in San manager Bruce Bochy replaced Hudson with about the facilities which the Omani Oman is considered one of the pioneers lowed their formula for success to perfection Francisco. Javier Lopez but the Royals scored one more run authorities provide. In addition to the country of this sport. Oman rally for turning a tight game over to their “monstrous” Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain and Hosmer each when a determined Hosmer spoiled several great role of OAA and a selected group local championships has a good reputa- bullpen to beat the San Francisco Giants on drove in a run for the Royals, in the playoffs for good pitches before delivering a single to score of sincere Omani youth who managed to tion. Since 1978 up to date this champi- Friday and seize the upper hand in the World the first time in 29 years, while closer Greg Gordon. put Oman on the motor sport map due onship is full of Gulf, Arab and foreign Series. Holland wrapped up the win in the ninth for his The Giants answered right back in the bot- to the practical, administrative or techni- competition which offered the sport After each team claimed a lopsided win in the seventh save of the postseason. tom half with two runs as pinch-hitter Michael cal experience they have. All these fac- diversity which we always seek in this first two games of the best-of-seven, Game “We’re just trying to get leads and hand off to Morse sparked the rally with an RBI-double tors leads to the success of the Oman ral- sport. Three was a 3-2 nailbiter that gave the visitors a our bullpen,” said Hosmer, whose single to cen- down the left-field line. Buster Posey drove in 2-1 lead in the series. ter in a battling, 11-pitch at-bat against lefty another run on a grounder to cut the deficit to 3- The pivotal victory was preserved by four hit- reliever Javier Lopez gave Kansas City their third 2. The Royals bullpen did the rest with Kelvin less innings thrown by Royals relievers. run. “This is a huge win for us and hats off to the Herrera, rookie Brandon Finnegan and Wade “Monstrous,” Royals manager Ned Yost said in bullpen for holding it down for us.” Davis setting the stage for Holland. describing the firepower he is able to call on in Holland clinched the win by retiring the heart the late innings. EARLY HOLE of the San Francisco lineup-Hunter Pence, Pablo “The key factor in all of this for us is timely hit- The Giants found themselves in an early hole Sandoval and Buster Posey-in order. ting, great defense, really solid starting pitching, when 39-year-old starter Tim Hudson received a Yost broke up his usual starting lineup as a but dynamic back of the bullpen.” rude welcome when Alcides Escobar stroked his concession to the spacious AT&T Park outfield. Of the previous 56 times a Fall Classic has first pitch for a double to left and eventually Starting in center was Jarrod Dyson with been tied 1-1, the team that has won Game scored on Lorenzo Cain’s ground out. Lorenzo Cain shifting to right instead of usual Three has gone on to win the Major League “It was high and probably outside corner or starter Nori Aoki. Baseball championship two-thirds of the time. outer third (of the plate),” said Hudson. “He was “Because it’s a unique park... we’re going to Kansas City starter Jeremy Guthrie pitched just swinging. He had his mind made up. Give put our best defensive outfield out there,” said five shutout innings before wobbling in the sixth him credit, he hit it.” Yost. “They just cover all kinds of ground out and turning the game over to the bullpen Hudson settled down after that and retired there.” The change also moved Gordon up in the brigade. 12 successive batters until Escobar collected his order into Aoki’s usual number two slot in the Unbeaten through the post-season until they second hit with a single in the sixth. That was lineup. lost the first game of the World Series at home quickly followed by an RBI-double from Gordon “I was really glad to see Gordy get the big hit,” on Tuesday, the upstart Royals have produced that bumped Royals’ lead to 2-0. said Yost, who pushed all the right buttons in back-to-back wins and could take command of With two out and a man on second Giants another Royals win. —Reuters Shiffrin, Fenninger share

HOFFMAN ESTATES: Tatsuki Machida, of Japan, competes in the men’s short dance at victory in World Cup GS the Skate America figure skating event. —AP

SOELDEN: Mikaela Shiffrin wasted no time fulfill- Machida clinches Skate ing her ambition to start winning giant slaloms this season. The 19-year-old American, already domi- America short program nating the women’s slalom circuit for two years, clinched her first GS win Saturday, sharing victory HOFFMAN ESTATES: Jason Brown was all get every single last point I can out of my with overall World Cup champion Anna Fenninger revved up, ready to put on a show for his program?” Brown said. “That’s really the in a tense season-opening race. home crowd. It didn’t quite work out. way I looked at it. I’m going to get up, I’m “I wanted this so bad for so long,” Shiffrin said. “It Brown fell early in his routine, and going to finish strong, I’m going to hit is so special, also to share the podium with Japan’s Tatsuki Machida dominated in the every note after this and I’m going to really Fenninger, especially in GS, as she is so smooth and Skate America men’s short program on focus on every detail so I can make up elegant.” Austrians Eva-Maria Brem and Kathrin Friday. points along the way. I really feel like I was Zettel came third and fourth, respectively, 0.66 and On a night when there were plenty of able to do that, so in that I feel successful.” 0.67 off the lead. Shiffrin led Fenninger by 0.09 sec- falls, Machida kept his footing and left the Brown’s homecoming also was the first onds after the opening run but looked like out of ice to loud cheers after wowing the crowd. time that music backed by vocals was contention when she trailed Fenninger by 0.63 sec- With 93.39 points, he had a comfortable allowed in a major singles or pairs event. onds halfway down her second run. lead over American Jeremy Abbott (81.82) It’s a shift in a sport where instrumental For the first time leading in a GS, Shiffrin “took and Brown (79.75), the Chicago-area prod- pieces rule, but a desire to appeal to the foot off the gas” early in her final run before uct. “I couldn’t have asked for a better younger audiences sparked the move. speeding up again. “It was a big fight,” the crowd, really,” Brown said. “The support, the That wall came crashing down when American said. “That was pretty rough. I am psy- love, it was really just awesome. I could Russia’s Artur Gachinski performed to ched I made it down alive.” hear everyone that I knew from home, and Michael Buble’s rendition of “Cry Me A The American accelerated to reduce her deficit then I could hear different people in the River.” “When you skate you can bring to 0.09 at the final split time before crossing the crowd. I was so excited to be out there and about the song, you can feel what the song line while matching the Austrian’s time. skate at home.” has inside,” he said. “I think it’s a good idea.” “I don’t think this really counts (as a win),” a stunned Shiffrin said on Austrian TV after being But Machida skated away with a com- Even so, switching to music with lyrics was SOELDEN: Mikaela Shiffrin (center) and Anna Fenninger (left) the winners, and third placed Eva- asked about her maiden GS victory. manding lead after Americans Madison not an easy decision. He said it’s easier to Maria Brem, celebrate on the podium of an alpine ski, womenís World Cup giant slalom. —AP Chock and Evan Bates won the ice dance get distracted. “You start dancing like Her first win in another discipline than slalom, short competition. you’re in the club,” Gachinski said. where Shiffrin is the Olympic and world champion two podiums, in the World Cup, and came sixth in getting injured at the Sochi Olympics, finished 2.54 The men’s long program and ice dance In the ice dance, Chock and Bates scored and holds back-to-back World Cup titles, immedi- the 2013 worlds and fifth in the Sochi Olympics in off the lead in 10th. free skate are Saturday evening, with the 68.96 points, outclassing the field in a com- ately raised the issue of her chances having a shot February. The American became only the eighth The 2010 Olympic GS champion, Viktoria pairs and women’s short programs earlier petition that featured the Flamenco and at the overall title. female skier to win 10 or more World Cup races as a Rebensburg of Germany, was 0.58 back in sixth, in the day. Gracie Gold, the 2014 Olympian Paso Doble. “Maybe, we need a few more races,” Shiffrin said teenager. Austrian standout Annemarie Moser- while 2013 overall champion Tina Maze of Slovenia and U.S. champion, leads the women’s field The brother-sister combo of Americans with a smile, and confirmed she planned to add Proell holds the record with 27 wins before turning trailed Shiffrin and Fenninger by a massive 4.72 along with two-time junior champion Elena Maia and Alex Shibutani (64.14) were sec- “one or two super-Gs” and probably some super- 20. Shiffrin likely won’t overtake her before turning seconds. Radionova of Russia. ond, with Russians Alexandra Stepanova combined events to her schedule. 20 in March, though she could catch up on Erika Shiffrin’s teammate Julia Mancuso, the 2006 Abbott stumbled on a triple axel early in and Ivan Bukin (56.37) in third. “I was fast in the flats so that are good signs (for Hess and Janica Kostelic, who share second place Olympic GS champion, was a late starter in 47th his routine, and Brown went down per- North Americans have dominated ice the super-G),” she said. Fenninger acknowledged to on the list with 12 wins each. after lacking results in the discipline in recent sea- forming the same move. It was an especial- dance in recent years, but reigning Olympic being “very nervous” in her opening run. It’s not the first time the season-opening race sons. Mancuso finished 4.11 off the lead in 17th. ly difficult development for Brown, who is gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie “I lost a weight from my shoulders in the sec- on the Rettenbach glacier ends in a tie. There was Sarah Schleper, who aims to compete for from Highland Park and drew attention White and 2010 champions Tessa Virtue ond,” the Austrian said following her ninth career even a triple victory in 2002 when Tina Maze, Mexico at the world championships in Vail and with a silver medal at the US champi- and Scott Moir are not competing this sea- win. “The season is so long, we don’t need to talk Nicole Hosp and Andrine Flemmen shared the win. Beaver Creek in February, made her return to the onships in January. That and his ponytail son. That leaves Chock and Bates to carry about the World Cup (title) now. But the start is Under cloudy skies and on a bumpy course, World Cup at age 35, three years after retiring. She make him one of the most recognizable on the winning tradition, along with the nice. I never thought it would go on like this. I am many of the pre-race favorites struggled. Lara Gut finished 10.87 seconds off and didn’t qualify for the skaters. Shibutanis, and the teams are holding the proud to have arrived where I always wanted to be.” of Switzerland, who won here last year, skied out in final run. A men’s GS on the same course is sched- “Once I fell, I had that choice: Will I let top two spots heading into yesterday’s free Shiffrin’s first GS win seemed just a matter of time. her second run, and Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather, uled for today. The women’s World Cup continues this affect me or can I make up and try to skate.—AP She already had seven top-10 finishes, including in the running for the overall title last season until in Levi, Finland, for a slalom on Nov. 15. —AP Marquez takes pole in Malaysia

SEPANG: Newly crowned world champi- what insignificant because they don’t whether he could race. Hiroshi Aoyama on Marc Marquez of Spain clinched a give you any points, but you achieve fell early in the second session of qualify- record 13th pole in the MotoGP season at them by being the fastest rider over a ing but will line up 11th on the grid. the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang yes- single lap,” Marquez told reporters. Andrea Iannone was ruled out of terday. “That doesn’t mean that you will be Sunday’s race due to left arm injuries Marquez, who sealed his title defence the fastest in the race, of course, so the after crashing on Friday. The Italian said in Japan two weeks ago, also set a record most important thing is what happens he would return home for further tests in time of one minute 59.791 seconds at today.” the hope that he could start in the final Sepang to finish nearly two-tenths of a Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo complet- race of the season at Valencia. second ahead of Honda team mate Dani ed the front row, while Stefan Bradl and “The power in my arm is really not Pedrosa. Australians Mick Doohan and Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso qualified there. I don’t have a good feeling with Casey Stoner had held the previous on the second row. the bike. It could be really dangerous,” he SEPANG: MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain steers his Honda through the first cor- record of 12 pole positions in a season. Pol Espargaro of Yamaha broke his foot said. “I am very sorry to skip this race ner during the third free practice session ahead of today’s Malaysian Motorcycle “I’m also happy to have broken the in a heavy crash during practice but will because I wanted to finish the season Grand Prix. —AP record. Maybe pole positions are some- be assessed on Sunday morning to see well.” —Reuters p17 2_Layout 1 10/25/14 10:16 PM Page 1

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Six-wicket Shakib skittles Photo of the day Zimbabwe out in first Test

DHAKA: Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan in to build a partnership after the tourists took six for 59 as Bangladesh dismissed won the toss and elected to bat. Shahadat Zimbabwe for 240 on the opening day of Hossain accounted for the only wicket that the first Test in Dhaka yesterday. fell to a seamer, having Vusi Sibanda Shakib, who made his Test comeback caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim after serving a three-month ban for poor in the first over of the match. discipline, led a three-pronged spin attack Bangladesh introduced spin in the that strangled Zimbabwe on the slow wick- eighth over and were rewarded almost et at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. immediately as Shakib had Masakadza Debutant leg-spinner Jubair Hossain caught by Jubair at long off for 13. claimed 2-58 and left-arm spinner Taijul Zimbabwe went in at lunch on a Islam finished with 1-42. Opener Sikander respectable 77-2 but Jubair, who at 19 Raza was top-scorer for Zimbabwe with 51. became the first specialist leg-spinner to Bangladesh were 27 for one in reply by play Test cricket for Bangladesh, dismissed stumps with Shamsur Rahman (eight) and Taylor and Raza in quick succession after Mominul Haque (14) at the crease. Opener the break. Shakib removed Panyangara Tamim Iqbal was dismissed for five, caught (eight) to complete his 12th five-wicket by Hamilton Masakadza at second slip off haul and then added debutant Tafadzwa Tinashe Panyangara. Kamungozi to his tally to wrap up the Raza shared a 52-run stand for the Zimbabwe innings. Zimbabwe’s tour of the fourth wicket with skipper Brendan Taylor South Asian nation features three Tests and (28), but none of the other batsmen settled five one-day internationals. —AFP SCOREBOARD

DHAKA: Scoreboard on the opening day of the first Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Dhaka yesterday: Zimbabwe 1st innings: 192 (Ervine), 7-200 (Chakabva), 8-221 (Nyumbu), V. Sibanda c Rahim b Shahadat 6 9-230 (Panyangara), 10-240 (Kamungozi). S. Raza c Mahmudullah b Jubair 51 Bowling: Shahadat 14-1-45-1 (nb1), Al-Amin 8-0- H. Masakadza c Jubair b Shakib 13 22-0, Shakib 24.5-5-59-6, Taijul 13-3-42-1, Jubair B. Taylor c Taijul b Jubair 28 15-1-58-2, Mahmudullah 1-0-2-0 E. Chigumbura c Mominul b Shakib 29 C. Ervine c Mominul b Taijul 34 Bangladesh first innings: Participants perform during Red Bull Sea to Sky in Antalya, Kemer, Turkey.— www.redbull.com R. Chakabva c Shamsur b Shakib 25 J. Nyumbu lbw b Shakib 14 Tamim Iqbal c Masakadza b Panyangara 5 T. Panyangara c sub (Marshall) b Shakib 8 Shamsur Rahman not out 8 T. Chatara not out 14 Mominul Haque not out 14 T. Kamungozi c Shamsur b Shakib 5 Extras: 0 Extras (b12, nb1) 13 Total (for one wkt, 12 overs) 27 Pakistan eye victory as Total (all out, 75.5 overs) 240 Fall of wicket: 1-10 (Tamim) Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Sibanda), 2-31(Masakadza), 3- Bowling: Panyangara 5-0-20-1, Chatara 5-2-5-0, 83 (Taylor), 4-128 (Raza), 5-142(Chigumbura), 6- Chigumbura 1-1-0-0, Nyumbu 1-0-2-0. Younis, Shehzad hit tons

DUBAI: Pakistan took a huge step towards victory in the first Test by taking four key Australian wickets after hundreds from Younis Khan and Ahmed Shehzad put them in the driving seat in Dubai yesterday. After setting an imposing 438-run target, Pakistan rattled the Australians through a brace of wick- ets apiece from spinners Zulfiqar Babar and Yasir Shah to leave Australia tottering on 59-4 at stumps on the fourth day, needing six wick- ets for a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series. Chris Rogers (23) and Steven Smith (three) were at the crease as Australia need another 379 for an unlikely win. Australia’s best chase to win a Test was way back in 1948 when they made 404-3 against DHAKA: Zimbabwean cricketer Tinashe Panyangara (left) bats watched by England at Headingley while their Bangladesh’s captain Mushfiqur Rahim (center) and Shamsur Rahman during the best chase against Pakistan was 369- first day of the first cricket Test match. —AP 6 at Hobart in 1999. Australia had raced to 44-0 before Babar struck twice in the 14th over, DUBAI: Australian batsman Chris Rogers plays a shot during the fourth day of the first Test cricket match inducing David Warner, who had against Pakistan at Dubai International Stadium. —AFP Serena, Halep in scored his third successive test centu- ry in the first innings, to come out of lead after being dismissed for 303 in Shehzad, 22, drove paceman Peter looked to stop the flow of runs and the crease for a smart stumping their first knock. Younis became the Siddle for his eighth four towards had a good chance of breaking when he was on 29 with his first ball final showdown seventh Pakistani batsmen, but first long-on to reach his second Test hun- through early, but Brad Haddin failed and then trapped Alex Doolan against Australia, to score twin hun- dred. Pakistan, 116-1 at lunch, cut to grasp a low catch when Shehzad (nought) leg before with his last. SINGAPORE: Serena Williams, her insatiable start to the match, reeling off the first three dreds in a Test. loose in the second session against a edged one on to the pads which Michael Clarke survived a review leg- will to win as strong as ever, regained her games for the loss of just three points. Hanif Mohammad (1964), Javed hapless Australian attack on a flat popped out of the wicketkeeper’s before decision on nought off Shah composure after smashing her racquet and Williams lost her opening service game when Miandad (1984), Wajahatullah Wasti pitch. hands. before trapped in front of the wicket being on the brink of defeat to beat Caroline she hit a half-volley just over the baseline but (1999), Yasir Hameed (2003), Shehzad smashed a four and a six But O’Keefe got his reward when in the leg-spinner’s next over for Wozniacki 2-6 6-3 7-6(6) on Saturday and held her next two, sealing her first game with Inzamam-ul Haq (2005) and off O’Keefe and then hit Mitchell he induced an edge off Ali straight three. Clarke was disappointed at his reach the title match at the WTA Finals. a booming 190 km/h ace. Mohammad Yousuf (2006) had also Marsh twice to the ropes to enter the into the hands of Haddin with the failure. “I’m really disappointed with The world number one will face Simona The American was unable to make any achieved the distinction in the past. 90s. After reaching his hundred, score at 71. Younis hit a six off Lyon my personal performance in this Test Halep in today’s final after the pint-sized early inroads on Wozniacki’s serve and her With his 26th hundred, Younis also Shehzad smashed two fours and a six and then drove Mitchell Johnson to match,” said Clarke who made two in Romanian crushed Poland’s Agnieszka frustrations boiled over after she fell 5-2 edged ahead of Inzamam (25 hun- off Siddle to take the lead past 370. cover boundary to complete his 29th the first innings. Radwanska 6-2 6-2 in the second semi-final. behind. dreds) as the highest Test century He was trapped leg-before soon after half-century in Tests, before cutting “I am not looking to blame any- Halep also demolished Williams during the maker for his country. It was actually tea by spinner O’Keefe, the only suc- loose to his hundred. The second and body else or criticise anybody else. round-robin stages earlier in the tournament, WILLIAMS OUTBURST Shehzad who set the tone for quick cessful Australian bowler with 2-112. final Test starts in Abu Dhabi on But if you look at all facets of the setting the stage for a mouth-watering She slammed her racquet into the purple runs in the morning. In the morning, Australia had October 30. —AFP game we’ve been outplayed at this rematch with the world number one. hardcourts three times, destroying her equip- stage. The best of friends off the court, Williams ment and incurring an official warning from “We’ve got to fight our backsides and Wozniacki slugged it out like two prize- the chair umpire Kader Nouni. SCOREBOARD off tomorrow and see what happens.” fighters for almost two and a quarter hours “I kind of lost my cool a little bit,” Williams Shah made it 4-49 catching night- until Williams delivered the killer blow to end said. “At least you know I’m passionate. I give DUBAI: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day in the first Test between Pakistan and Australia yesterday in Dubai. watchman Nathan Lyon in front of a contest filled with drama and escalating 200 per cent. “When I play, doesn’t matter Pakistan 1st innings 454 (S. Ahmed 109, Y. Khan 106, A. Shafiq 18-0-72-0, S. O’Keefe 27-3-112-2(w-1), M. Marsh 7-1- 19-0. the wicket on a day dominated by tension. The American looked to be on the how I feel, I’m going to give everything I have 89, Misbah-ul-Haq 69, A. Ali 53) Australia 2nd innings (Target: 438 runs) Pakistan. ropes after losing the first set and smashing for every shot and every point. Australia 1st innings 303 (D. Warner 133) C. Rogers not out 23 Younis hit a record making 103 Pakistan 2nd innings (Overnight: 38-0) D. Warner st S. Ahmed b Babar 29 her racquet in frustration, then falling 5-4 “I’m not the kind of girl that goes out there not out and Shehzad 131 to bolster behind in the third set. and just plays through the motions and just A. Shehzad lbw b O’Keefe 131 A. Doolan lbw b Babar 0 Pakistan to 286-2 declared. Younis Az. Ali c Haddin b O’Keefe 30 M. Clarke lbw b Shah 3 But Wozniacki, who lost to Williams in last doesn’t care whether I win or lose. I give added 168 for the second wicket with month’s U.S. Open final, blinked first, missing everything.” Unfazed by her opponent’s out- Y. Khan not out 103 N. Lyon lbw b Shah 0 Shehzad as Pakistan plundered 248 S. Ahmed not out 15 her chance to serve out the match and the burst, Wozniacki immediately broke Williams S. Smith not out 3 runs after resuming at 38-0. Extras (b-2 lb-3 w-2) 7 American made her pay by going on to win again to wrap up the opening set in just 25 Extras (lb-1) 1 Younis swept Steve O’Keefe to Total (for 2 wickets declared, 78 overs) 286 Total (for 4 wickets, 23 overs) 59 the deciding tie-breaker. minutes. Williams raised her game for the sec- square-leg boundary for his sixth Fall of wickets: 1-71 Az. Ali, 2-239 A. Shehzad Fall of wickets: 1-44 D. Warner, 2-44 A. Doolan, 3-49 M. Clarke,4-49 N. Lyon “Being so close and still losing, it really ond set, eliminating the mistakes that cost boundary to get to his second hun- Did not bat: Misbah-ul-Haq, A. Shafiq, M. Hafeez, Z. Babar, Y. To bat: M. Marsh, B. Haddin, M. Johnson, P. Siddle, S. O’Keefe sucks,” Wozniacki said. “But, you know, I think her the opening set and putting Wozniacki dred in the match following his 106 Shah, R. Ali, I. Khan Bowling: I. Khan 1-0-6-0, R. Ali 1-0-10-0, M. Hafeez 5-2-12-0, Z. it was a great match. I played all I could today. under pressure. in Pakistan’s 454 in the first innings. Bowling: M. Johnson 12-2-34-0, P. Siddle 14-5-44-0(w-1), N. Lyon Babar 9-3-22-2, Y. Shah 7-1-8-2. I played my heart out. I fought until the end.” She broke the Dane’s serve for the first Australia conceded a big 151-run Williams only snuck into the semi-finals on time with a ferocious return that Wozniacki a countback but is suddenly back on track to chipped back then broke her again to level win the elite season-ending event for the the match at one set apiece when Wozniacki third year in a row. Wozniacki made a flying double-faulted.—Reuters Korda, Pace share lead

HAINAN ISLAND: American Jessica Korda ing event in the Bahamas in January and took the at 9 under. They shot 68. rebounded from an opening double bogey for a Mobile Bay LPGA Classic in May in Alabama. Wie is making her second start since with- share of the second-round lead yesterday in the She saved par on the par-5 18th with a 17-foot drawing from the Evian Championship in Blue Bay LPGA. putt. “I would say the putt on 18 that I made to September after reinjuring a stress reaction in Korda made seven birdies in a 14-hole stretch save par was definitely good to bring the her right hand. She marveled at the course con- - the last three on Nos. 14-16 - and shot a 5-under momentum that I had on the last 17 holes. To ditions after the heavy rain Friday and Saturday 67 to match South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace at 11- bring it in for tomorrow,” Korda said. “So, hopeful- morning. “It’s pretty amazing how great the golf under 133 at Jian Lake Blue Bay. ly, I can just feed off of that.” course drained,” Wie said. “We were like sitting on “I got a little frazzled there as I was walking to Pace, winless on the LPGA Tour, is coming off a the ground today while we were waiting and it the first tee box and then obviously didn’t hit a playoff victory last week in the Ladies European was absolutely dry. It was so dry. It’s crazy. It’s good shot,” Korda said. “Just tried to forget about Tour’s South African Women’s Open. She chipped pretty phenomenal what they did with the it, tried to bring back.” in from the fringe for a birdie on No. 12 and also bunkers and how they got the course ready in Pace had seven birdies and a bogey in a birdied Nos. 14 and 15. “I played pretty decent,” that short of time. I think any other course if we 66.bAfter rain washed out play Friday and forced Pace said. “I made quite a few putts already by got that much rain we’d be done for the week. So tour officials to cut the event from 72 to 54 holes, that stage and then the putter just started rolling it’s pretty phenomenal.” the start of play Saturday was delayed three nicely toward the end.” Feng won the LPGA Malaysia two weeks ago hours. She won the LET’s Sanya Ladies Open in China for her fourth LPGA Tour title and is seeking her “The golf course is draining incredibly well for in 2010 and 2013. “Maybe I just like the type of second victory in China after winning the how much rain we got,” Korda said. “The bunkers grass. I can read the greens fairly easy,” Pace said. Reignwood LPGA last year in Beijing. are obviously a little wet, but other than that, it’s “I think what you see is what you get.” The tournament is the fourth stop on the six- amazing how well it’s responded to how much South Korea’s Chella Choi was 10 under after a tournament Asian Swing. The LPGA Taiwan SINGAPORE: Simona Halep of Romania plays against Agnieszka Radwanska of dumping it’s gotten.”bKorda, the first-round 66. Americans Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang Championship is next week, followed by the Poland during the semifinals of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) finals. —AFP leader Thursday after a 66, won the season-open- closed with birdies to join China’s Shanshan Feng Mizuno Classic in Japan. —AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 SPORTS Hammers nail City

West Ham 2

Man City 1

LONDON: Diafra Sakho struck for a sixth succes- sive Premier League game to secure West Ham’s shock 2-1 victory over Manchester City as the champions missed out on the chance to increase the pressure on leaders Chelsea yesterday. Senegal striker Sakho, signed during the close season for £4.5 million ($7.2 million) from Metz, headed West Ham’s crucial second goal in the 75th minute after Morgan Amalfitano had given the home side a first-half lead at Upton LONDON: West Bromwich Albion’s Saido Berahino (center) battles for the ball with Park. Crystal Palace’s Marouane Chamakh (left) and Adrian Mariappa during their English City were desperate to close the five-point Premier League soccer match. —AP gap on Chelsea, 24 hours before Jose Mourinho’s side face Manchester United at Old Trafford. But while David Silva halved the deficit in the Berahino’s late leveller 77th minute, Manuel Pellegrini’s men were unable to conjure an equaliser against a West LONDON: West Ham’s Carl Jenkinson (left) competes for the ball with Manchester City’s James Ham side who surprisingly cemented their posi- Milner during the English Premier League soccer match. —AP frustrates Crystal Palace tion in the top four. by Hammers keeper Adrian. coming close to heading a second. Downing was City were also anxious to move on from yet Silva then sent a free-kick on to the roof of guilty of spurning an even better opportunity wide before Ben Foster turned Fraizer another midweek Champions League disap- the net and Vincent Kompany headed over as early in the second half when he met Song’s Campbell’s header over on 16 minutes, pointment following the 2-2 draw at CSKA the visitors threatened to overrun Sam cross with a volley from 10 yards out, only to West Brom 2 only for Palace to score from the resulting Moscow. Allardyce’s side. send his effort wide. corner. Pellegrini admitted his side paid the price for But for all the early pressure they exerted, There was a growing sense that those misses Bolasie’s cross caused chaos and failing to close out that game after taking a two- City’s play lacked fluency and West Ham gained could prove costly as City injected more urgency Hangeland poked in from inside the six- goal half-time lead. With the future of their a foothold in the game when they were able to into their play. Aguero somehow directed a first- Crystal Palace 2 yard box after his initial header had can- European campaign now in doubt, Pellegrini service Sakho and Valencia, who showed they time effort against the bar from Jesus Navas’s noned off Dawson. was looking for an immediate response as they had the ability to stretch the visiting back-line. cross and Adrian produced an excellent save to It was a poor goal to concede but the resumed their defence of their Premier League deny Yaya Toure’s follow-up. Baggies almost levelled five minutes later title. TEMPORARY REPRIEVE Toure struck the bar midway through the half WEST BROMWICH: Saido Berahino capped only for Speroni to turn Craig Gardner’s ris- The meetings between these two sides last The combination of the front pair almost after being set up by Silva. But West Ham’s West Bromwich Albion’s fightback from two ing drive wide. Palace could have had a season were an embarrassing mismatch with brought an opening goal when Sakho’s headed attacking threat was always apparent and after goals down as the striker’s stoppage-time penalty nine minutes before the break City winning each of the four meetings includ- flick almost released his forward partner behind sending a clipped, 20-yard effort narrowly over penalty rescued a 2-2 draw against Crystal when Dawson appeared to fell Zaha but ing the two-legged League Cup semi-final, run- Kompany. the bar, Sakho gave the home side a two-goal Palace yesterday. Clattenburg ignored any appeals. ning up an aggregate score of 14-1. That proved to be only a temporary let-off for cushion when he rose to head Aaron Cresswell’s Alan Irvine’s team were in trouble at the Yet the Eagles did make it 2-0 from the But West Ham are a different proposition this City, who were undone in the 22nd minute cross past Joe Hart in the 75th minute. Hawthorns after Palace raced into the lead spot on 45 minutes when the hapless season following the arrival of Enner Valencia, when Song’s excellent through ball released City’s response was impressive with Silva before half-time through Brede Sebastien Pocognoli clattered into Bolasie. Sakho, Amalfitano and Alex Song. Valencia whose low cross was turned home by clawing one back within two minutes after cut- Hangeland’s goal and a Mile Jedinak penal- It was a foolish tackle so close to half- City started brightly, with Sergio Aguero Amalfitano from close range. It was clear City ting in from the right and curling a well-placed ty. time and Jedinak sent Foster the wrong immediately punching a hole in the home were rattled and they diminished as an attacking left foot shot beyond Adrian. But they were But Albion staged a powerful second way to put Palace in complete control-a defence with a powerful run from halfway force the longer the first half went on while West unable to find their way past the keeper a sec- half recovery to the frustration of Palace, position which weakened six minutes after before seeing a deflected shot scrambled away Ham grew in confidence with Stewart Downing ond time as the points slipped away. -—AFP who claimed goalkeeper Julian Speroni the break in controversial style. had been fouled before Victor Anichebe Berahino forced Speroni into a fine low netted the hosts’ first goal soon after the stop from 18 yards but the Baggies scored interval. Speroni was forced to come off from the resulting corner. Chris Brunt’s with a head injury after the clash and that delivery found Anichebe, who had replaced set the stage for England Under-21 interna- Stephane Sessegnon at half-time, to nod in tional Berahino to score his eighth goal of but Speroni had been fouled after defender the season after Australian midfielder Dawson clattered into him. Jedinak had fouled Anichebe three minutes The keeper needed treatment for a head into stoppage-time. injury and was eventually replaced by Palace were also denied what appeared Wayne Hennessey. Albion pressed for an to be a clear first-half spot-kick when refer- equaliser and Craig Gardner hit the cross ee Mark Clattenburg failed to spot Craig bar from 25 yards. Dawson’s foul on Wilfried Zaha. Their pressure paid off deep into stop- After a quiet opening Palace began to page-time when Jedinak’s rash challenge dominate against the lethargic Baggies. on Anichebe in the area allowed Berahino Yannick Bolasie’s 18-yard effort deflected to drill in low from the spot. —AFP Mane lifts Saints into second place

with pace and poise and Pelle directed his shot into the side-netting when Mane Southampton 1 escaped down the right again. Saints midfielder Dusan Tadic would have capped another fine display with another goal but for a fine, low save by Stoke 0 Asmir Begovic. The Serbian, fresh from providing a record-equalling four assists last week, LONDON: Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez (left) and Sunderland’s John O’Shea (center) battle for the ball during their English Premier League soccer then laid off for Morgan Schneiderlin, who match at the Stadium of Light. —AP SOUTHAMPTON: Senegal winger Sadio rattled the crossbar from the edge of the Mane fired Southampton to a 1-0 win over area. Stoke that lifted his team into second place Koeman’s side took the lead in the 33rd Sanchez downs Sunderland in the Premier League yesterday. minute when Pelle’s shot came back off the Ronald Koeman’s side had romped to an post and Mane did brilliantly to fire home 8-0 demolition of Sunderland in their previ- the rebound off the underside of the bar. It arrived courtesy of a mistake from veteran south coast to witness their side’s embarrassing ous fixture and while the performance Try as they might, Saints were unable to Sunderland defender Wes Brown, who badly capitulation. against gritty Stoke at St Mary’s wasn’t so find a second before half-time, from which Sunderland 0 mis-hit an attempted back-pass from near While Sunderland’s effort against Arsenal eye-catching, the reward was the same. they returned strongly as Pelle again hit the halfway. An alert Sanchez pounced on the loose couldn’t be questioned, they carved out pre- Mane’s first-half strike proved the differ- woodwork with a powerful header from a ball to sprint 30 yards with Brown in fruitless cious few chances in a defeat that left them ence and, remarkably after such a turbulent Tadic cross. pursuit, before chipping right-footed over with just one league win so far this season. They Arsenal 2 close-season marked by the departure of Tadic shook off a back complaint to exposed goalkeeper Vito Mannone to find the had a hopeful penalty appeal turned down ear- manager Mauricio Pochettino and five key swivel in the area and roll an effort wide in net from the edge of the area. Arsenal went ly on when Jack Rodwell’s header struck defend- players, Southampton have made a better the 66th minute, before turning provider close to doubling their advantage before the er Per Mertesacker on the arm. start than the 1983-84 season when they with a corner which Pelle could only direct break, firstly through Cazorla’s left-foot effort And it took until early in the second half SUNDERLAND: Alexis Sanchez scored twice as finished second in the English top-flight. across the face of goal. from 20 yards which skidded across the face of before they had an attempt on target, when As well as Mane’s cool finish, the key to It was another wasted opportunity, Arsenal beat Sunderland 2-0 at the Stadium of goal and narrowly wide. Rodwell’s header from 12 yards was comfortably Southampton’s success was their rock solid leaving the hosts susceptible to a late Light yesterday to ensure veteran manager Soon after, defender Calum Chambers out- saved by Wojciech Szczesny. defence, which has conceded only five Stoke comeback. Mame Diouf’s introduc- Arsene Wenger avoided his worst start to a sprinted the Sunderland backline to see his shot While there was only one goal between the league goals this season and held out for tion as a substitute had given Stoke more Premier League season. from a narrow angle blocked by former Gunners sides, there remained hope for Sunderland, and another clean sheet against a Stoke side of an attacking threat and, after having Chile forward Sanchez seized on two defen- keeper Mannone, as the hosts kept their half- Arsenal’s Polish keeper was up to the task when they will face again in the League Cup on penalty appeals waved away, he came sive errors to take his tally to eight goals in 15 time deficit to a single goal. Sunderland, who’ve Seb Larsson let fly from 25 yards around the Wednesday. close to latching onto a raking Phil appearances for the Gunners since his £30 mil- won just once in 22 league meetings against hour mark. Mane was the only change to the side Bardsley cross. Defending in numbers dur- lion ($50.4 million, 37.6 million euros) pre-sea- Arsenal, made a modest two changes to the Poyet’s side inevitably left gaps in search of that routed Sunderland and he made a ing the closing stages, Southampton son transfer from Barcelona. Victory was just side to suffer the club’s heaviest defeat for more an equaliser and the second goal arrived in lively start, with Graziano Pelle just unable breathed a deep sigh of relief when Stoke Arsenal’s second Premier League win in their last than 30 years at St Mary’s Stadium. That result stoppage time when Mannone, making a hash to turn home his cross-shot at the far post. substitute Marko Arnautovic struck wide eight games and third in nine overall this term as that saw Gus Poyet’s squad pay £61,000 of Santiago Vergini’s hurried back-pass, was dis- Southampton were pushing forward in stoppage time. —AFP they took their points tally to 14, eight behind ($98,000, 77,000 euros) to refund the 2,500 trav- possessed by Sanchez, who slotted the ball into leaders Chelsea. elling fans who made the long journey to the an empty net from a yard out. —AFP Such was Arsenal’s dominance, they had no need to call on Theo Walcott. The England inter- national made his return to the squad as an EPL results/standings unused substitute after a nine-month absence following a serious knee injury suffered against Liverpool 0 Hull 0; Southampton 1 (Mane 33) Stoke 0; Sunderland 0 Arsenal 2 (Sanchez 30, 90); West Brom 2 Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup in January. (Anichebe 51, Berahino 90-pen) Crystal Palace 2 (Hangeland 16, Jedinak 45-pen); West Ham 2 (Amalfitano 21, Sakho 75) Manchester City 1 (Silva 77). Sunderland restored a degree of pride after Playing later last week’s 8-0 humiliation at Southampton. Swansea v Leicester However, their latest defeat left them in danger Playing today of dropping into the bottom three if north-east Burnley v Everton, Manchester Utd v Chelsea, Tottenham v Newcastle. rivals Newcastle avoid defeat at Spurs today. Playing tomorrow Arsenal had been in danger of posting their QPR v Aston Villa lowest points total in the opening nine games to English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points): a campaign under French boss Wenger had they failed to win on Wearside for the fourth consecu- Chelsea 8 7 1 0 23 8 22 Stoke 9 3 2 4 8 10 11 tive season. But they rarely looked back once Southampton 9 6 1 2 20 5 19 West Brom 9 2 4 3 12 13 10 Man City 9 5 2 2 19 10 17 Aston Villa 8 3 1 4 4 12 10 Sanchez put them ahead in the 30th minute. West Ham 9 5 1 3 17 12 16 Everton 8 2 3 3 16 16 9 Former Sunderland loan striker Danny Welbeck Arsenal 9 3 5 1 15 11 14 Leicester 8 2 3 3 11 13 9 had already fired narrowly over from the edge of Liverpool 9 4 2 3 13 12 14 Crystal Palace 9 2 3 4 13 16 9 the area after latching onto a Santi Cazorla pass, Man Utd 8 3 3 2 15 12 12 Sunderland 9 1 5 3 8 17 8 when Sanchez rewarded the visitors’ dominance Swansea 8 3 2 3 11 10 11 Newcastle 8 1 4 3 8 14 7 LONDON: Southampton’s Morgan Schneiderlin (left) in action against Stoke City’s with the opening goal as the half hour mark Hull 9 2 5 2 13 13 11 Burnley 8 0 4 4 4 13 4 Geoff Cameron during their English Premier League soccer match at St. Mary’s Tottenham 8 3 2 3 10 11 11 QPR 8 1 1 6 6 18 4 approached. Stadium. —AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 SPORTS

Preview Pochettino aims to revive EPL campaign

LONDON: Mauricio Pochettino will six Premier League games, in a run Tottenham centre-back Federico Walker has yet to recover from a pelvic available? Then there’s Papiss and demand his Tottenham Hotspur side stretching back to August, and their fail- Fazio will be missing after being sent off problem. Newcastle had lost on four Cheick Tiote. forget about Erik Lamela’s stunning ure to build on a positive start to the in last weekend’s 4-1 defeat by successive visits to White Hart Lane “I’m not going to be clear on any of Europa League goal and attempt to season has left them in ninth position Manchester City. before last season’s victory, a win them until tomorrow (Saturday).” revive their Premier League campaign going into the latest round of matches. Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris also collect- inspired by a superb performance from Defender Mike Williamson is also a when Newcastle United visit White Hart Newcastle, who’ve won just once in ed a red card when he was dismissed their Dutch keeper Tim Krul. doubt, and Rolando Aarons, the Lane today. Lamela’s ‘rabona’ strike was the English top-flight this term, albeit against Asteras, prompting Pochettino But this weekend Newcastle manag- England youth midfielder, remains side- quickly installed as a strong favourite to last time out against Leicester are lan- to criticise his side’s failure to close out er Pardew must contend with several lined with a hamstring injury while be goal of the season-but Pochettino guishing in the bottom three but the game without late drama and devel- injury issues as he looks to guide the Dutch international Siem de Jong and showed no emotion as the ball hit the Tottenham captain Younes Kaboul op the good habits that will prove cru- Magpies to back-to-back wins for the Italian full-back Davide Santon are back of the net and indeed appeared warned his side nothing could be taken cial at other stages in the campaign. first time in almost eight months. longer-term absentees. However, Ryan more concerned by Spurs’ defensive for granted against Alan Pardew’s men. Lloris’s suspension will be restricted Papiss Cisse has joined the casualty Taylor’s return to the squad for the first frailties as they secured a comfortable 5- “You have to take all the games at to European competition but manager list after failing to train all week due to a time since late 2012, after the former 1 win over Asteras Tripoli. 100 percent and you always need to Pochettino said: “At 5-0, we need to knee problem not believed to be linked Wigan utility man battled back from A hat-trick for young striker Harry have a winning mentality,” central manage the game better and not give with the broken kneecap suffered earli- two career-threatening knee injuries, Kane added to the feel-good factor at defender Kaboul said. “Newcastle are the possibility to the opponent to arrive er this year by the Senegal forward. has provided a much-needed boost to the north London club but Pochettino coming here having just got their heads one against one with our goalkeeper. “We’re sweating a little bit on a few Newcastle’s bid to climb out of the rele- knows the upbeat mood created by above water with an important win last For that, I’m not satisfied.” of them,” Pardew said. “We’ve not got gation zone. “It’s an inspirational story Thursday’s result will disappear if they weekend and now they will feel confi- Nabil Bentaleb and Kyle Naughton what you’d call a crisis, but there’s one and it’s such a pleasure to put Ryan’s don’t beat strugglers Newcastle. dent ahead of facing us, but we have to will be missing from the Spurs squad or two we’re waiting for including name down on the travelling party.” Spurs have won just one of their last win and take the three points.” because of ankle injuries while Kyle Emmanuel Riviere, is he going to be Pardew said. —AFP Dortmund slip further after fourth defeat

BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund’s horror run of referee’s assistant needed glasses. Bundesliga results continued yesterday as Roberto di Matteo failed to pick up his they lost 1-0 at home to Hanover 96 to third straight win as Schalke 04 coach yes- drop to 15th after a fourth straight defeat. terday as the Royal Blues lost 1-0 at ten- Dortmund’s terrible domestic form is in man Bayer Leverkusen in the battle stark contrast to their Champions League between two of Germany’s Champions campaign, where they top their group with League sides. three straight wins after Wednesday’s Turkey midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu impressive 4-0 victory at Galatasaray. settled the matter with a superbly-struck But seven days before they face free-kick on 53 minutes. Leverkusen fin- Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich away, ished with ten men after 18-year-old Dortmund are now winless in their last six Croatia international defender Tin Jedvaj league games and just a point above the was dismissed for a dangerous tackle. relegation zone. “We wanted to offer more in attack than “We have to keep going-and ensure that we did today,” said Di Matteo with his side we no longer feel like this after games,” 12th in the table while Leverkusen are up insisted Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp. to fourth. “We turned all the screws and still we’re left “We didn’t do so badly in defence, but empty-handed. That’s tough. we can improve on attack and in our build- “We can’t do more, but we can do things up play.” better. We aren’t in a good situation in the With league leaders Bayern at Borussia Bundesliga and that’s something we Moenchengladbach on Sunday in the haven’t come to terms with until now. weekend’s top fixture, Hoffenheim took “We’ll continue to fight, the opponent Gladbach’s place in second with a 1-0 win made a lot out of little, we made nothing at Paderborn. out of a lot.” Winger Kevin Volland pushed his claim Klopp was left fuming on the sidelines for a place in the Germany squad for next at their Westfalenstadion as Japan’s Hiroshi month’s internationals with his first goal of Kiyotake curled in a free kick to score the season. Hanover’s first goal for 416 minutes follow- Augsburg moved up to ninth with a 2-0 ing three straight defeats. win at home to Freiburg with Dutch Mid-table Hanover finished with 10 men defender Paul Verhaegh converting a after Turkey midfielder Ceyhun Guelselam penalty before Turkey’s Halil Altintop earned a red card for his second booking added a second goal. after a clumsy challenge on Dortmund VfL Wolfsburg host Mainz on Sunday winger Marco Reus on 89 minutes. Hertha afternoon with both teams on the verge of Berlin claimed a 3-0 home win against a top three place. ITALY: Parma’s Felipe (right) vies for the ball with Sassuolo’s Domenico Berardi, during their Serie A soccer match at Parma’s Tardini stadi- Hamburg with Tunisia’s Anis Ben-Hatira Bottom side Werder Bremen sacked um. —AP netting twice as Hamburg remain in the coach Robin Dutt on Saturday, less than 24 bottom three. hours after his side’s 1-0 defeat at home to VfB Stuttgart leap-frogged Dortmund Cologne left them winless after nine into 14th place after their stunning 5-4 vic- games. Sassuolo stun Parma, tory at Eintracht Frankfurt. Stuttgart cap- The 49-year-old is the third Bundesliga tain Christian Gentner scored the 84th- coach sacked this season after Mirko minute winner when he stabbed the ball Slomka (from Hamburg) and Jens Keller home at close-range from a free-kick to (Schalke 04). Bremen’s Under-23 coach Cagliari rout Empoli claim only their second win of the season. Viktor Skripnik has been appointed as care- Frankfurt finished with 10 men after taker coach, with ex-Germany midfielder MILAN: Rock bottom Parma’s season went Reports from Italy said former Livorno Swiss striker Haris Seferovic was sent off Torsten Frings during the search for Dutt’s from bad to worse with a 3-1 home defeat to coach Davide Nicola, whose side lost to five minutes from time for miming that the successor.—AFP fellow strugglers Sassuolo as Cagliari moved Parma on the final day of last season, is Matches on TV up four places with a 4-0 rout of promoted being lined up to replace Donadoni. (Local Timings) Empoli yesterday. Earlier, Cagliari’s resurgence continued Parma went in for the half-time break 2-0 with a 4-0 rout of Empoli that gave Zdenek English Premier League down after Sergio Floccari and Francesco Zeman’s men only their second win of the Tottenham v Newcastle 16:30 Acerbi made the most of shabby defending season and moved them up to 13th and two beIN SPORTS 1 HD by the hosts to beat Antonio Mirante from points clear of the relegation zone. beIN SPORTS 11 HD close range. Striker Marco Sau held off his marker to Burnley v Everton 16:30 Algerian Saphir Taider had hit the post curl the ball past Davide Bassi from the edge beIN SPORTS 8 HD with a free kick minutes before the interval of the box on the half hour for his fourth goal Man United v Chelsea 19:00 beIN SPORTS 1 HD and gave Sassuolo a 3-0 lead seven minutes of the season. beIN SPORTS 11 HD after the restart when he fired a screamer Brazilian Danilo Avelar doubled Cagliari’s Spanish League into the top corner after a poor Parma clear- lead five minutes later when his free kick Malaga v Rayo Vallecano 14:00 ance. came off the underside of the bar to leave beIN SPORTS 2 HD Although Antonio Cassano scored a late Bassi with no chance. Avelar grabbed his sec- Espanyol v Deportivo 19:00 consolation for the hosts, Roberto ond, and Cagliari’s third from the spot two beIN SPORTS 7 HD Sevilla v Villarreal 21:00 Donadoni’s side suffered a seventh defeat in minutes later after Albin Ekdal was felled by beIN SPORTS 2 HD eight games as their local rivals from Emilia Mirko Valdifiori in the area. Getafe v Atletico 23:00 grabbed their first win of the season. Ekdal, who hit a hat-trick in a 4-1 win beIN SPORTS 2 HD Asked if something had been ‘broken’ at against Inter at the San Siro last month, Italian Calcio League Parma, Donadoni told Sky Sport: “That’s obvi- secured the points for the visitors on the Udinese Calcio v Atalanta 17:00 ous, we’ve lost seven times in eight games so stroke of half-time when he powered beIN SPORTS 2 HD beIN SPORTS 2 HD FR there’s not a lot to smile about.”We can do lit- through the Empoli defence to squeeze an beIN SPORTS 2 FR tle more but work hard and hope to get out angled shot past Bassi. Juventus v Citta di Palermo 17:00 of this rut somehow.” “We played our game the way we wanted beIN SPORTS 3 HD Donadoni has so far been given the back- to, keeping the defence high, and we pulled Cesena v Internazionale 20:00 ing of club owner Tomasso Ghirardi, who last it off especially in the first half,” said Zeman, beIN SPORTS 3 HD SS Lazio v Torino FC 20:00 week denied there had been threatening who gave special tribute to Avelar. beIN SPORTS 8 HD behaviour during an unscheduled meeting “Avelar was solid at the back and has two SSC Napoli v Hellas Verona 20:00 between players and ultras supporters fol- good feet too, as we saw with his free kick.” beIN SPORTS 10 wHD lowing the defeat to Atalanta. Sampdoria are looking to defend their AC Milan v ACF Fiorentina 22:45 But it has been a torrid start of the cam- unbeaten start to the league later yesterday beIN SPORTS 3 HD paign for Donadoni’s side who were denied a when they host a Roma side still smarting beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR beIN SPORTS 1 FR place in this season’s Europa League by the from a crushing 7-1 Champions League French League Italian Football Federation (FIGC) because defeat to Bayern Munich. Roma sit second, Lyonnais v Marseille 23:00 the club had not paid taxes amounting to just a point behind leaders Juventus who beIN SPORTS 5 HD approximately 300,000 euros. host struggling Palermo today. —AFP Friends reunited as Mourinho, van Gaal clash MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho and Louis van 17 years to the day their paths first crossed at strong, with Mourinho paying tribute to his Gaal insist their friendship will survive whatev- Barcelona. mentor when asked about van Gaal’s influence er happens when Chelsea look to cement their Mourinho, then labouring in anonymity as a on him. position on top of the Premier League with a translator and assistant to Barcelona manager “As a young coach to be working with Louis statement victory at Manchester United today. Bobby Robson, was kept on by van Gaal when at a club like Barcelona was very important,” Mourinho has never hidden his distain for he took over at the Nou Camp and earned the Mourinho said. “Everybody knows the respect I some of his managerial rivals, with Arsenal’s trust of his new boss to such an extent that he have for him. I never hide the respect, the rela- Arsene Wenger and Aston Villa’s Paul Lambert was allowed to take training sessions and give tionship and the fact he was an important crossing swords with the Chelsea boss already team-talks. influence in my career. “He knows what I feel this season, and the prospect of a crucial clash Van Gaal saw a kindred spirit in Mourinho, about him. The world knows, because I never with a team capable of ending his side’s who like the Dutchman is an obsessive worka- hide. What can I add?” unbeaten start would usually bring out the holic who had trained as a PE teacher, and the Van Gaal continued the mutual appreciation antagonist in the Portuguese coach. two men lived only 15 metres from each other society, jumping to Mourinho’s defence when Yet there should be a refreshing lack of ani- in an apartment block, often meeting around quizzed about his spikey personality and pen- mosity on the sidelines at Old Trafford this their dining tables to talk football. chant for acerbic outbursts. weekend, however heated the action becomes The partnership lasted until Mourinho left “He’s such a wonderful coach and to see GERMANY: Dortmund’s Lukasz Piszczek (left) vies for the ball with Hannover’s Leonardo on the pitch, because Mourinho and United to start his managerial career with Benfica in that he’s been a champion in different coun- Bittencourt during the German First Division Bundesliga football match. —AFP manager van Gaal have a bond that dates back 2000 and the ties between the pair remain tries is fantastic,” van Gaal said.—AFP Serena , Halep in Dortmund slip final showdown further after 17 19fourth defeat SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

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SPAIN: Real Madrid’s Pepe (centre) celebrates with teammates Sergio Ramos (right) and James Rodriguez after scoring during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. — AP Real beat Barca in ‘El Clasico’

MADRID: Luis Suarez’s Barcelona debut ended in time behind me,” said Suarez, who was substitut- and played very well.” goalscorer in La Liga history from a tempting cross turning Sergio Ramos in the box before Ramos defeat as Real Madrid cut the gap on the La Liga ed after 68 minutes. Suarez proved his worth within three minutes as from Suarez. Just when Barca had appeared to have made a last-ditch tackle to prevent Messi turning leaders to just a point as they came from behind to “The feeling is bittersweet because of the result his cross-field pass was taken down by Neymar who taken the sting out of Madrid’s pressing, though, home Neymar’s cut-back. win El Clasico 3-1 yesterday thanks to goals from but this team has lifted itself many times before.” skipped inside Dani Carvajal and Pepe before slid- they gifted the hosts a route back into the game as Casillas then produced another stunning save to Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Karim Benzema. Barca boss Luis Enrique insisted he didn’t regret his ing the ball into the far corner for his 11th goal in as Marcelo’s low cross was blatantly handled inside the prevent Jeremy Mathieu’s rising drive finding the Playing for the first time in a competitive game decision to start the Uruguayan. many games this season. area by Gerard Pique. top corner. However, in their haste for an equaliser, since being handed a four-month ban for biting “I don’t regret it at all,” said Enrique. “He did more The goal sparked Madrid into life as Benzema Ronaldo stepped up and confidently buried the Barca were caught on the counter-attack from their Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup, Suarez’s Barca than I expected. He played more and with rhythm. failed to find the target from a narrow angle as he resulting spot-kick to become the first man to score own corner as Isco, Ronaldo and Rodriguez com- career had got off to a flying start as he set up We brought him off because it is very difficult to was pressured by Claudio Bravo before the against Barcelona in nine league games this season. bined to play in Benzema to fire home his seventh El Neymar to slide home the opening goal after just play the 90 minutes after such a long time.” Frenchman crashed a header off the bar from The home side could even have gone in at half- Clasico goal. three minutes. Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti, mean- Ronaldo’s cross. Both Messi and Neymar were time in front as James Rodriguez’s header drifted Suarez’s debut was then brought to a premature However, Real responded like European while, lauded his side’s reaction to conceding booked for late challenges on Toni Kroos and just wide from another Marcelo cross. end as he made way for Pedro Rodriguez and mat- champions as Ronaldo levelled from the penalty early on. “We didn’t lose our head after losing the Carvajal as the hosts upped the pressure in search It took Ancelotti’s men just five minutes to go in ters got even worse for the visitors when Andres spot before second-half goals from Pepe and early goal,” he said. of an equaliser. front after the break as Kroos’s out-swinging corner Iniesta hobbled off to be replaced by Sergi Roberto. Benzema handed them a deserved ninth consec- “I liked many things about the team, above all However, they were thankful to captain Iker was powered past Bravo by Pepe. Madrid comfortably saw the game out in the final utive victory in all competitions. “I am very happy the high tempo we played with. The team recov- Casillas midway through the half as he spread him- Barca came close to opening up the Madrid 20 minutes to inflict Barca’s first league defeat of the to return to playing, it is a great relief to have this ered well with just two days rest after Wednesday self to stop Lionel Messi becoming the joint top defence a couple of times as Suarez slipped after season. — AFP Balotelli draws another Bony double blank in Hull stalemate sinks Leicester first Premier League start to third-choice Eldin Jakupovic while Alex Bruce and Robbie Brady started Liverpool 0 in place of Michael Dawson and Andrew Robertson. Ivorian headed wide and then his 18- Liverpool created the game’s first chance in the yard shot from Gylfi Sigurdsson’s square 10th minute when Steven Gerrard’s corner picked out Swansea 2 pass was comfortably held by Kasper Dejan Lovren, but he saw a powerful header cleared Schmeichel in the Leicester goal. off the line by Ahmed Elmohamady. Leicester were struggling to cope with Hull 0 the hosts’ movement and they fell ENERGETIC BALOTELLI Leicester 0 behind after being cut open in the 34th Two minutes later Balotelli, who started the game minute. LIVERPOOL: Mario Balotelli’s struggles in front of with purpose and energy, brought a diving save out Angel Rangel’s pass found Bony and goal continued as Liverpool were held to a goalless of Jakupovic with a shot from a tight angle inside the his flick freed Sigurdsson, who shaped to draw by Hull City in the Premier League at Anfield penalty area. SWANSEA: Ivory Coast striker Wilfried shoot but instead cut the ball back to yesterday. Balotelli almost seized on an errant backpass and Bony bagged a brace as Swansea cruised Bony and the striker finished with The Italy striker has scored just once in 11 appear- Joe Allen fired a speculative effort past the post, how- to a 2-0 victory over Leicester yesterday. ances since his £16 million ($26 million, 20 million ever that was as good as it got for Liverpool for the aplomb from 20 yards. Bony put Garry Monk’s team ahead euros) pre-season move from AC Milan and endured rest of the half. Leicester needed to show some intent another frustrating day against the Tigers. Hull could have gone into the interval a goal head late in the first half at the Liberty and they struck the crossbar within two In truth, Balotelli was far from the worst performer when Elmohamady burst into the box and cut the Stadium and he struck again soon after minutes of the restart in bizarre circum- at Anfield, but without the injured Daniel Sturridge ball back for Jake Livermore, who shot straight at the interval to lift the Swans up to sixth stances when Liam Moore hurled his the goalscoring burden has fallen on the shoulders of Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. in the Premier League. throw deep into the Swansea area. the former Manchester City star and once again he Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard attempted to The 25-year-old has now scored four Jonjo Shelvey swung a leg at it but it failed to find the net. galvanise his team-mates after the break and twice times in his last three appearances after was unclear whether the midfielder Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers included fired low efforts from distance just past the post. failing to find the net in his first seven made any contact with it or the ball sim- Balotelli in his starting line-up despite substituting However, with little sign of improvement, Rodgers games this season. ply spun off the turf to hit the top of the the forward at half-time in the midweek 3-0 brought on Rickie Lambert and Coutinho for Allen LONDON: Liverpool’s Mario Balotelli (top) collides Bony’s goals ended Swansea’s barren Swansea crossbar. Champions League loss at home to Real Madrid. and Lallana on the hour mark. with Hull’s Alex Bruce earning the former a yellow run of five league matches without a vic- Monk’s men wrapped up the points in Balotelli controversially swapped shirts with Real Hull were forced to scramble the ball away from a card during their English Premier League soccer tory and left Leicester, without a win in the 57th minute when Jefferson Montero defender Pepe as the players went down the tunnel corner shortly after when Can’s near-post flick from match at Anfield Stadium. — AP four matches since their famous triumph and Sigurdsson interchanged cleverly for at the break and Rodgers subsequently reminded the Coutinho’s delivery was cleared off the line as Balotelli against Manchester United, hovering just the winger to breach the Foxes’ back-line, 24-year-old such behaviour ran contrary to desperately tried to get the decisive touch. Balotelli went down under pressure from Bruce only above the relegation zone. draw Schmeichel, and leave Bony with a Liverpool’s “culture”. Liverpool’s intensity increased but Hull refused to for referee Nigel Swarbrick to wave away the appeals. His second strike also made him the simple finish. Rodgers made three changes to the team beaten wilt under the pressure and, despite the hosts’ Raheem Sterling almost caught out Jakupovic joint highest Swansea scorer in Premier by Real as Javier Manquillo, Emre Can and Adam monopoly on possession, Jakupovic was rarely tested. Sigurdsson limped off straight away with a curling effort which struck the post in injury League history, equalling Michu’s 20- Lallana came in for Jordan Henderson, Philippe At the other end, Mignolet had to be alert with 10 time, while Balotelli was denied from close range at to be replaced by Tom Carroll, but goal total. Coutinho and Glen Johnson, who all dropped to the minutes left when Tigers substitute Sone Aluko stung the death by a brilliant point-blank save from the Hull Shelvey nearly got a third for Swansea bench. With injuries to goalkeepers Allan McGregor his palms with an ambitious effort from 25 yards. keeper after the Italian got on the end of Coutinho’s Poor marking from a corner allowed when his 30-yard shot cannoned off the and Steve Harper, Hull manager Steve Bruce gave a The Reds had a late appeal for a penalty when cross. — AFP Bony an early sight of goal but the bar. — AFP Russian law to clamp down on offshore tax sheltering Page 22

Kuwait’s August credit Business growth remains moderate Page 23 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 Warba Bank’s operating Kuwait’s Development Plan could bet on Japan model revenues rise 71% Page 24 Page 26 25 banks fail ECB health check: Report Failing banks thought to be in Ireland, Italy, Greece and Austria

LONDON: Some 25 euro-zone banks have raise funds through bond markets. failed a health check by the European Central Bank, reports claimed yesterday, Here’s a brief guide to the test: citing leaked documents. • It reviews the banks’ loans, holdings Nearly one in five of the 130 banks sur- and investments as of the end of 2013. veyed failed the stress test, the Wall Street Examiners looked at whether the banks’ Journal and the Daily Telegraph said, ahead holdings are worth what the banks claim. It of the publication of the official results by was a huge job, which is why it took a year. the ECB today. The unprecedented health For instance, officials sized up 119,000 check of euro-zone banks comes before the debtors for their ability pay. They valued ECB assumes the role of the region’s bank- 130,000 collateral items such as buildings ing supervisor next month. and real estate to see if the collateral was The Frankfurt-based institution takes on worth enough to protect the bank against its new watchdog role on November 4 and any failure to repay the loan. it hopes that a “comprehensive assess- After the review, banks are expected to ment”-made up of a so-called asset quality maintain a capital ratio of 8 percent. Capital reviews and a “stress test”-will uncover any ratios measure the amount of capital a potentially nasty surprises beforehand. bank has against the risky investments it Citing a draft memo seen by Bloomberg, could suffer losses on. A higher ratio means the Telegraph report said only 10 of the 25 a thicker financial cushion and a stronger banks which failed the stress test would be bank. told to raise more cash. Not all banks that fail the review will The failing banks were thought to be in have to raise new money. That’s because Ireland, Italy, Greece and Austria and will some banks will have raised money since have until November 10 to fill in capital the end of 2013, the date when the ECB shortfalls, the paper reported. The banks started looking at the figures. were already given a preliminary indication Banks were also put through a stress of their outcome on Thursday. test, a simulation to see what would hap- The review aims to weed out banks that pen to their finances in a three-year eco- are hiding financial problems that keep nomic downturn with plunging bond them from lending to businesses at afford- prices and gyrations on foreign exchange able rates. Companies need the loans to markets. invest and hire if Europe’s economy, which • Under stress, banks had to maintain a ROME: CGIL union workers union march during a demonstration to protest Premier Matteo Renzi’s labor reforms, in Rome, yesterday. Hundreds didn’t grow at all in the second quarter and capital ratio of at least 5.5 percent. of thousands of protesters have rallied in Rome to protest Premier Matteo Renzi’s plan to make it easier to fire workers. —AP (See Page 25) has unemployment of 11.5 percent, is to Banks found short of capital have two improve. weeks to tell the ECB how they plan to Banks that flunk the review could be close the gap, and then six to nine months forced to raise money, restructure or be to actually do it. One way to raise capital is sold off. That could cause some market tur- by issuing shares. Banks found to be in big moil in the short term as banks scramble to trouble could wind up restructuring or find cash from investors or governments. being sold. Independent experts estimate But in the longer term, the hope is several banks will fail, though it is not clear that this will create stronger banks. In how many will need to raise new money. Europe, businesses are more depend- PIMCO, the bond fund management com- ent on bank loans than in the United pany, estimates 18 banks will need to raise States, where companies more often new money. —Agencies Syrian war to cap Lebanon’s growth at 2-2.5% in 2015

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s economy will grow by officials and the International Monetary no more than 2 or 2.5 percent next year if it Fund have forecast 2 percent growth this does not resolve its political problems as it year, after last year’s 1.5 percent expansion. struggles to cope with the fallout from the With a population of only about 4 million, war in neighboring Syria, the economy Lebanon now hosts more refugees per minister said. capita than any other country in the world. Lebanon’s economy has been hit hard Many Lebanese blame refugees for increas- by Syria’s civil war, which has sparked gun es in crime and for taking jobs and overbur- battles, bombings and kidnappings in the dening schools, hospitals and other public small Mediterranean country and hurt key services. Lebanon’s finance minister said sectors like tourism. It has also forced more this week that the country had had little than 1 million Syrians to take refuge inside response after presenting the United its borders. Nations with a paper at the end of 2013 Economy and Trade Minister Alain estimating that refugees would cost the Hakim said the country needed $2.5 billion economy $7.6 billion. to start addressing the economic impact of Hakim said crime and competition for the Syrian refugees, whose presence has jobs had risen as a result of the refugee strained infrastructure and led to increased presence. “If we continue in this fashion, I competition for jobs. Political tensions have think the Lebanese economy will also start also risen. Lebanon has been without a to collapse, little by little. Even if it is president since May because lawmakers resilient, with time, especially in terms of have been unable to agree on a new one. commerce, the crisis will grow much worse Parliament is also expected to postpone than it is today,” he said. “Today the next month’s elections to 2017 because of Lebanese state needs $2.5 billion to start instability linked to the Syrian crisis. finding solutions to the Syrian presence in “Today, in the absence of a president Lebanon ... to treat the effects of the Syrian and the absence of parliamentary elections refugees on Lebanon,” he said. and the absence of political continuity, we Hakim, however, said remittances from cannot predict more than 2 or 2.5 percent Lebanese migrants into the country had (economic growth) in 2015 if we continue increased over 2013, helping the economy like this,” Hakim told the Reuters Middle withstand some of the impact. Inflation East Investment Summit. was at about 2.5 percent, he added. “And this is if the Lebanese economy is He said Lebanon would also try to forge resilient in confronting the political and new markets for Lebanese exports and security earthquakes that are happening businesses in countries where there were around us.” large presences of Lebanese migrants, such The government had not previously as in Latin America, Africa and parts of estimated growth next year. Government Europe.— Reuters Renault chief sees Europe auto market slowing in 2015

SHANGHAI: French carmaker Renault chief executive officer of Japan’s Nissan chairman, Carlos Ghosn, said yesterday that Motor Co. through an alliance between the he expects slower growth in Europe’s auto companies. market next year as it continues to recover Many foreign carmakers turned to from the global economic crisis. China, the world’s largest auto market, in Ghosn, who is also Renault’s chief execu- the wake of the global crisis as their home tive officer, said the European market was markets in the United States or Europe col- growing at six percent so far this year-the lapsed. best since the 2007 crisis. “I’m expecting in China’s auto market is now slowing as 2015 this recovery to continue,” Ghosn told well, as weaker domestic economic growth journalists on the sidelines of an industry and a corruption crackdown take their toll. forum in China’s commercial hub Shanghai. But Ghosn said Renault and Nissan were “I don’t see another six percent committed to adding production in China. increase. I think the increase will probably In late 2013, Renault signed an agreement be more moderate than six percent... in line with Chinese company Dongfeng to set up with GDP (gross domestic product) a joint venture that will start production in growth,” he said, but gave no estimates for 2016 with initial capacity of 150,000 vehi- Renault alone. Ghosn is also president and cles a year.—AFP BUSINESS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Russian law to clamp down Bayt.com weekly report 8 one-hour career on offshore tax sheltering transformations

ever underestimate the power of an hour! Next Russian owners of foreign firms to pay Russian tax time you find yourself idling away at your desk, Nremember that in an hour you can transform your life and career in a multitude of highly impactful ways. MOSCOW: Russia’s government has approved a new tax companies,” the government said in a statement on its to 10 percent if the total shareholding of Russian tax resi- Here are just a few things you can do in an hour (or less) law to clamp down on Russian companies and individuals website yesterday. dents amounted to 50 percent of the foreign company. that can improve your career and life significantly, as sug- using offshore tax shelters. The law is part of a range of The government’s approval means the law will now be Russian-owned companies operating in jurisdictions gested by the career experts at Bayt.com, the Middle East’s measures initiated by President Vladimir Putin, and collec- submitted for consideration by parliament, where it could where they are paying an effective profit tax of 75 percent tively known as “deoffshorisation”, which are aimed at yet be amended but is unlikely to face strong opposition. or more, however, would be exempt from the new law. The leading job site: bringing Russian businesses and money home from for- The “deoffshorisation” policy was initiated in 2012 by government said it would be appropriate to consider rais- 1. Greet everyone in the office by name eign jurisdictions. Putin, who has been annoyed by the decision of many ing the ownership thresholds and lowering the effective Make it a point if you don’t already to arrive every morn- Pressure on Russians to move assets and corporate Russian businesses to create offshore ownership structures, tax rate threshold to preserve Russian companies’ competi- ing with a smile and spend those precious first few minutes structures to Russia from abroad has intensified this year typically in tax havens such as Cyprus, which are reducing tiveness. It nevertheless backed the law, originally pre- of the day greeting everyone warmly and professionally by because of the crisis in Ukraine, which has highlighted the tax revenues in Russia. Putin has also backed measures to pared by the Ministry of Finance, in its current form. name. People like to work with people who are pleasant, vulnerability of Russian assets abroad to Western sanctions. make officials and parliamentarians divest offshore proper- “We consider that these measures, considered by the polite and cordial so put on the charms and really make an The new law would introduce modifications to the tax ty and bank accounts. law, as a whole will facilitate cutting the use of low tax effort to welcome everyone around you. code that will force Russian owners of companies based Under the new law foreign companies and other organ- jurisdictions for receiving unjustified tax advantages, and 2. Thank someone abroad to pay taxes in Russia. izations with Russian owners would be classed as “con- will also allow taxation of undistributed profits of con- Think hard. Who is it you need to thank for a favor or “The law considers establishing a mechanism for taxa- trolled foreign companies”. trolled foreign companies,” the government said in its special gesture even if it’s long overdue? This is an opportu- tion in the Russian Federation of incomes of controlled for- Any Russian company or individual that owns 25 per- statement. nity to rekindle relationships, reconnect with old contacts eign companies, if these companies do not distribute their cent or more of a foreign organization would be cate- “The government of the Russian Federation supports and remain top of mind. It could well be that a kindred spir- incomes for the benefit of Russian entities, controlling such gorised as a “controlling entity”. This threshold would drop the law.” —Reuters it will have forwarded that gesture out of sheer altruism and all they need is a sincere thank you and an assurance they have helped you along the way. 3. Read something meaningful D-Bank lawyer It could be a magazine article, a blog post or an entire book. You never know when you will stumble across that found dead in nugget of information that transforms your career and your life and inspires or elevates you to new heights. According to apparent NY suicide the Bayt.com ‘Innovation in the MENA’ poll, January 2014, 85 percent of professionals in the Middle East and North Africa BERLIN: Calogero Gambino, a senior Deutsche (MENA) region say they enjoy sufficient slack time at work to Bank regulatory lawyer, has been found dead in explore new ideas, and reading could be one of them. New York in what appears to have been a sui- 4. Write a plan Many a mental plan has gone awry so it’s essential to sit cide, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, down, preferably somewhere special, such as your favorite citing New York City officials and other sources. cafÈ, couch, conference room or corner of the office, and The 41-year-old man was found early on Oct. actively write down everything it is you want to, need to 20 hanging by the neck from a stairway banis- and would love to do in the immediate, intermediate and ter, the newspaper said. Gambino, an associate even long-term if you like. Your notes could end up being a plan for a book you want to write, numbers to align with a general counsel and a managing director who budget, or some colors that inspire you to try out a new worked for the German bank for 11 years, was decoration scheme. The idea is that the process of actively found by his wife and pronounced dead by writing allows you to discipline your thoughts and to hold medical practitioners at the scene, according to yourself accountable for following up on and achieving the paper. your plans. By transforming a dream to a written plan, you He had been closely involved in negotiating have already started the process of realizing it. 5. Improve your health legal issues for Deutsche Bank such as a probe 44.8 percent of professionals in the Middle East exercise by regulators of banks over allegations they occasionally, as stated in the Bayt.com ‘MENA Professionals manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate Health and Eating Habits’ poll, March 2012. An hour of exer- as well as currency markets, the newspaper cise a few times a week will do wonders for you but if you said. can’t spare a whole hour, any fraction of that on a regular He was also an associate at a private law firm basis is better than none. Building more muscle will ensure you burn more calories long after the exercises stop. Also try and a regulatory enforcement lawyer between COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan porter carries bananas at the main market in Colombo. Sri Lanka presented its annual budget on Friday ahead of snap presidential elections in January. —AFP abstaining from unhealthy snacks completely. If you must 1997 and 1999, the Wall Street Journal said, cit- snack, reach out for a reasonable portion of something very ing Gambino’s LinkedIn profile and conference healthy that agrees with you, such as a raw fruit or veg- biographies. Sri Lanka cuts taxes, boosts etable, and keep telling yourself that you are transforming Germany’s biggest lender, which has already your life and career by committing to a fitter, healthier you. paid 6.1 billion euros ($7.73 billion) in fines and 6. Choose a mentor subsidies before snap poll Asking for help professionally if you need it may be the settlements in the past two and a half years, biggest service you ever did your career and you may be expects to post litigation costs of 894 million shocked to discover just how many super successful profes- euros alone for the third quarter of 2014. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president cut country’s overall debt had fallen. Small shopkeepers and farmers sionals have had serious mentors in their careers, in many Earlier this year, former Deutsche Bank man- taxes and increased salaries, subsidies Rajapakse advanced the 2015 budget were exempted from tax altogether, in cases even multiple mentors that they have sought and ager William Broeksmit, who had close ties to and welfare spending on Friday in a by a month to give his government a populist move aimed at the rural elec- asked for mentorship. Choose a mentor wisely for their per- populist budget ahead of a troubled more time to implement tax cuts and torate. Political analysts say Rajapakse, sonal rapport with you as well as their industry skills and co-chief executive Anshu Jain, had been found bid to win a third term. subsidies ahead of the election. who oversaw the crushing of the Tamil coaching skills and networks and know-how. Be prepared to dead at his London home in what also Mahinda Rajapakse made no direct In a widely anticipated move, he Tiger rebel movement in 2009, faces a be a gracious and grateful mentee. appeared to have been a suicide. —Reuters reference during the budget announced he would increase the challenge to cling onto power as public 7. Coach someone announcement to his plans to seek a salaries of 1.2 million public sector gratitude fades. His United People’s In every office, team and personal life there is usually third term at an election that the gov- employees by 3,000 to 15,000 rupees Freedom Alliance only narrowly won someone we know is struggling with something we may be ernment says will be held in January, ($23 to $117) from January 2015 and last month’s election in the southeast- able to help them with even if it only to act as a sounding Kuwait oil price two years ahead of schedule. But he offered motorcycles and cheap loans to ern Uva province, the party’s worst per- board and moral support. Approach someone in need and hinted at confidence in the polls, say- public servants. formance since the president came to ask if your assistance is required then take the time to coach up to $81.33pb ing, “I can’t see any elephant who can He also ordered supermarkets to power in 2005. and advise or otherwise help if it is. cause trouble for the government”-a reduce their prices by 10 percent across Sri Lanka has posted impressive 8. Dress the part reference to the main opposition the board. “The recent reductions in annual growth rates of around eight KUWAIT: The price of Kuwait crude oil per barrel First impressions are vital so make sure that you are United National Party, whose symbol is electricity and energy prices and tax percent in the years since the end of dressed for the role already, whatever your vision of personal went up by $1.22 to stand at $81.33 pb on Friday the elephant. cuts should allow supermarkets to the Tamil separatist war in 2009, but the success is. In fact, 60.2 percent of polled professionals in the compared to $80.11 the day before, said Kuwait Rajapakse, who is also the finance effect this reduction,” he said, without government’s popularity has declined MENA feel it is important to appear fit, healthy, clean, happy, Petroleum Corporation (KPC) here yesterday. Global minister, painted a rosy picture of the specifying how the reduction would be in the past year. energetic, confident and well dressed, as per the Bayt.com country’s economy and said it was on enforced. Rajapakse said the strength of the ‘Influence of Personal Appearance on Hiring Decisions’ poll, oil prices have dropped yesterday amidst investors’ track to reach per-capita income of He capped income tax for public economy had allowed him to reduce concern that oil supply will flood the markets for the March 2013. Whether you want to be CEO of your bank, part- $4,000 by 2015 — a year ahead of and private sector employees at 16 per- the country’s goods and services tax ner in your law firm, a world class model or actress or trusted upcoming days. Prices have slipped due to Iraq’s and schedule. cent, down from 24 percent, and from 12 percent to 11 percent. Official surgeon, make sure your appearance doesn’t conflict with Libya’s intention to supply the market with more oil “There is a significant reduction of offered a host of subsidies for agricul- figures put the budget deficit for 2015 the image of yourself you want to leave with others. despite turbulences in the two countries. —KUNA poverty levels in the country during the ture and exports including tea, Sri at 4.6 percent of GDP, worse than the past 10 years,” he said, adding that the Lanka’s main export commodity. initially estimated 4.4 percent. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.782 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 Nepalese Rupees 3.922 Singapore Dollar 0.224488 0.230488 South African Rand 0.020213 0.028713 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.271 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.668 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001896 0.002476 Japanese Yen 2.682 Australian Dollar 235.87 232.87 Indian Rupees 4.748 Thai Bhat 9.921 Taiwan 0.009406 0.009586 Canadian Dollar 260.81 261.81 Turkish Lira 128.919 Thai Baht 0.008631 0.009181 Pakistani Rupees 2.815 Swiss Franc 312.13 310.13 Srilankan Rupees 2.213 Euro 374.07 375.07 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.962 US Dollar 289.65 292.65 Bahraini Dinar 0.761314 0.769314 Singapore Dollar 229.290 Sterling Pound 471.10 474.10 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 37.392 Egyptian Pound 0.038797 0.041887 Japanese Yen 2.76 2.78 Bangladesh Taka 3.742 Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Bangladesh Taka 3.732 4.002 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.479 Indian Rupee 4.723 5.023 Belgian Franc 0.007533 0.008533 Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 Thai Baht 8.968 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.210 2.645 British Pound 0.461255 0.470255 Jordanian Dinar 0.404159 0.411659 Irani Riyal transfer 1180.065 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal cash 142.935 Nepali Rupee 2.954 3.489 Czech Korune 0.005429 0.017429 Pakistani Rupee 2.812 2.790 Danish Krone 0.045718 0.050718 Lebanese Pound 0.000141 0.000241 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023560 0.047560 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.71 79.18 Euro 0.365264 0.373264 Bahraini Dinar 768.79 770.86 Norwegian Krone 0.040111 0.045311 Nigerian Naira 0.001148 0.001783 Saudi Riyal 77.419 Omani Riyal 0.745792 0.751472 Qatari Riyal 79.772 Egyptian Pound 40.40 41.00 Romanian Leu 0.083679 0.083679 Qatar Riyal 0.078794 0.080007 Omani Riyal 754.060 Jordanian Dinar 411.09 416.74 Slovakia 0.008405 0.018405 Saudi Riyal 0.076550 0.077250 Bahraini Dinar 770.900 Omani Riyal 751.18 758.48 Swedish Krona 0.036285 0.041285 UAE Dirham 79.054 Qatari Riyal 79.76 80.31 Swiss Franc 0.300822 0.311022 Syrian Pound 0.001715 0.001935 Saudi Riyal 77.16 77.56 Turkish Lira 0.127275 0.134275 Tunisian Dinar 0.158136 0.166136 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.127275 0.134275 UAE Dirhams 0.077825 0.078974 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.110 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.481 Australian Dollar 0.246591 0.258091 Yemeni Riyal 0.001306 0.001386 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.354 New Zealand Dollar 0.224942 0.234442 Tunisian Dinar 161.770 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 409.560 US Dollar 289.800 Canadian Dollar 0.251279 0.259779 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.947 Canadian Dollar 259.729 US Dollars 0.285350 0.290050 Syrian Lira 2.068 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Sterling Pound 466.582 US Dollars Mint 0.285850 0.290050 Morocco Dirham 33.532 Euro 370.991 US Dollar 289.500 Swiss Frank 306.372 Euro 368.850 Asia EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 770.563 Pound Sterlng 466.750 Bangladesh Taka 0.003326 0.003926 US Dollar Transfer 290.050 UAE Dirhams 78.800 Canadian Dollar 260.350 Chinese Yuan 0.045720 0.049220 Euro 369.810 Qatari Riyals 80.400 Indian Rupee 4.735 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035219 0.037969 Sterling Pound 469.160 Saudi Riyals 77.458 Indian Rupee 0.004479 0.004880 Egyptian Pound 40.463 Canadian dollar 260.480 Jordanian Dinar 408.907 Turkish lira 130.070 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.211 Egyptian Pound 40.435 Bangladesh Taka 3.737 Swiss Franc 307.260 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.215 Japanese Yen 0.002635 0.002815 Australian Dollar 256.980 Philippines Peso 6.460 Indian Rupees 4.733 Kenyan Shilling 0.003239 0.003239 US Dollar Buying 288.850 Korean Won 0.000264 0.000279 Pakistan Rupee 2.813 Pakistani Rupees 2.816 Bahraini Dinar 770.750 Bangladesh Taka 3.739 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085396 0.091396 GOLD UAE Dirham 78.850 Philippines Pesso 6.475 Nepalese Rupee 0.002957 0.003127 Tola 1 142.940 Saudi Riyal 77.300 Cyprus pound 711.077 Pakistan Rupee 0.002787 0.003067 Tola 2 281.13 Philippine Peso 0.006340 0.006620 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 696.855 Japanese Yen 3.707 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 BUSINESS Kuwait’s August credit growth remains moderate

NBK ECONOMIC REPORT

KUWAIT: Credit growth was moderate in August, failing to ful- ly counter the large decline seen in the previous month. Growth slowed to 7.2 percent year-on-year (y/y) on a KD 188 million net gain in lending. Household credit growth was par- ticularly strong, while growth among non-financials was unim- pressive, registering a gain that was below the recent average. Meanwhile, large declines in currency in circulation eased growth in the money supply. Deposit interest rates remained stable, while interbank rates moved higher on tighter liquidity. Household debt (personal facilities excluding loans for the purchase of securities) was up a strong KD 140 million, with growth up to 12.9 percent y/y. The strength likely reflects the near completion of Family Fund loan settlements and the con- tinued robustness of the sector. Installment loans have been the primary driver of household debt growth, adding a net KD 666 million in new debt thus far in 2014. This figure is compara- ble to what was achieved during the same period a year ago, confirming the sector’s resilience in spite of the Family Fund loan settlements. Non-bank financials Non-bank financials saw a decline of KD 37 million in credit. The deleveraging in the sector has seen total credit drop by 17 percent y/y. Declines in this sector are expected to maintain a steady pace with investment companies still facing pressure to reduce their debt burden and to settle overdue loans. Non-financial business credit gained by KD 84 million, with growth slowing to 7.0 percent y/y. Gains were seen in real estate (KD 37 million), construction (KD 19 million) and oil & gas (KD 12 million), in addition to “other” sectors (KD 61 mil- lion). Some weakness came from a decline in lending to the trade sector by KD 42 million and lending for the purchase of securities (KD 10 million). Growth in non-financial business credit has been somewhat weaker thus far in 2014. Annualized growth year-to date (ytd) slowed to 6.5 percent from 7.7 percent a year ago. The slow- down is largely due to weaker growth in the trade sector, con- struction and “other” sectors. Stronger gains in lending to the real estate, oil & gas and the industrial sectors helped stave off some of the weakness. Money supply (M2) growth eased slightly in August to 6.4 percent y/y on a weak month for deposits and a large decline in currency in circulation as the bulk of the old currency notes were removed from the system. Private deposits saw a small decline of KD 29 million as a KD 94 million increase in time deposits was offset by declines in sight, savings and foreign currency deposits. M1 growth also eased to 16.3 percent. Average customer deposit rates on dinar time deposits were mostly unchanged. The average rates on the 1-month, 3- month, 6-month, and 12-month time deposits increased by 1 to 2 basis points (bps) to 0.60 percent, 0.79 percent, 1 percent and 1.21 percent. KD interbank rates jumped higher on the month, with the 1-month KIBOR offer rate rose by 11 bps to 1.1 percent. US, Australia see momentum building on Pacific trade deal TPP to encompass 40% of global trade

SYDNEY: Momentum is building towards a pan- ‘Within our grasp’ They have also criticised the lack of details Pacific trade agreement, representatives of Froman said there was now an opportunity to about the talks, which Australia joined in 2008. Australia and the United States said yesterday as narrow differences ahead of leaders meetings in Ahead of the meeting, Robb dismissed the talks between trade ministers began in Sydney. Asia in coming weeks. The Asia-Pacific Economic criticisms and said the biggest risk was for the The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Cooperation (APEC) forum in Beijing and G20 TPP to be stalled. “Every country’s got its sensi- would encompass 40 percent of the global summit in Brisbane will both take place next tivities, as we do, and the biggest risk is that economy and include 12 nations, has been the month. those things prevent this agreement being con- subject of negotiations for years. “It’s very much within our grasp,” he said. cluded,” he told the ABC. US President Barack Obama said in June he Proponents of the TPP say any agreement will “Now, this weekend, three days of more con- hoped to have an agreement on framing the free up trade in goods and services across the sultations, hopefully will move us to a point French Junior Minister for Transport, Maritime Economy and Fishery Alain deal, which has been slowed by debate on key Vidalies (center) talks with the owner of the Bara Ruz fishing boat Frederic details between the US and Japan, by Nedelec (right), and the director of the Armament Bigouden company, Soizig November. Le Gall (left), at the opening of the outcry market in Le Guivinec, western of Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb, host- France, on Friday. —AFP ing the Sydney talks, told the opening plenary that reports from negotiators were that “there does seem to be a real head of steam”. French unemployment “I think a lot of progress has been made,” he said. “Clearly I think we are working now to try and conclude this agreement by the end of this hits new record year.” Robb admitted trade ministers had a “very PARIS: Unemployment in France hit a euros ($51 billion) in exchange for them big program” during the three-day talks, which attracted a small group protesting against the new record in September, with official creating 500,000 jobs by 2017. “secret deal”. “I do think this agreement is start- statistics published showing 3.43 million Given the parlous state of France’s ing to take some real shape,” Robb said. “We are people claimed jobless benefits. The fig- budget deficit, which is expected to at a point where we are trying to make as many ures showed a rise of 19,200 people join- remain above European Union limits final decisions as we can and bring this thing to ing the jobless queue and come as until 2017, Hollande plans to finance the completion.” President Francois Hollande marks the tax breaks with 50 billion euros in public US Trade Representative Mike Froman said midway point in his troubled mandate. spending cuts. since the last TPP meeting in Singapore in May, trade ministers had been in “almost constant” Since his election in May 2012, unem- This has proved highly unpopular on negotiations. “Going into this weekend we are ployment has swelled by more than half the left flank of Hollande’s ruling Socialist enjoying a great deal of momentum and focus a million people. “Let’s be honest: we’re Party, which sees it as a gift to business. across the board, and it’s up to us to seize that failing,” Labor Minister Francois France has halved its growth predictions momentum and make sure that this meeting is Rebsamen told Le Parisien newspaper. for 2014 from one percent to 0.4 percent. maximally productive,” he said. SYDNEY: A view inside the hotel where the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pan- “As long as there isn’t stronger growth, Its forecast for 2015 has dropped from The negotiations had been slowed while the Pacific trade agreement is being forged by trade ministers from 12 nations in Sydney there won’t be enough jobs created.” 1.7 percent to one percent growth. United States and Tokyo debate key details, including Japanese tariffs on agricultural yesterday. The TPP, which would encompass 40 percent of the global economy and He argued that the government’s Many economists believe an average imports and US access to Japan’s auto market. include 12 nations, has been the subject of negotiations for years. — AFP attempts to reform the labor market of 1.5 percent growth is needed to “The issues left at the end are often times the needed more time to take effect. The reduce unemployment. “We probably most challenging but now is the time to start region, reduce regulation and improve opportu- where this thing can be completed sometime government has introduced a much- need to wait for 2016 to see a decrease in working through those and finding solutions,” nities for jobs and for members generally. next year for the benefit of the region.” The 12 vaunted but highly disputed unemployment,” said Xavier Timbeau, an Froman said. “We’ve got some work to do and But critics say the pact will favor corporate prospective TPP members are Australia, Brunei, “Responsibility Pact”, which will cut social economist at the French Economic the table is set in a way that will allow us to rights over those of the public, and could result Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New charges for businesses by 40 billion Observatory (OFCE) think-tank. —AFP make progress on these difficult remaining in higher medicine prices, greater damage to the Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and issues.” environment and fewer Internet freedoms. Vietnam. —AFP As Cuban economy stagnates, IMF fights negative interest rates WASHINGTON: The International Monetary down to a negative level as well, a senior fund economists press for reforms Fund yesterday announced a minimum interest official explained. “Under the current rule there rate on its unique SDR currency as it fights off is nothing to stop the SDR rate from going nega- HAVANA: Some of Cuba’s best-known economists are Communist Party in 2011. never targeted so sharply the very pillars of the system. the impact of sagging interest rates and defla- tive,” he said. openly questioning the very core of the Soviet-style com- It has led Cuba to liberalize farming and retail services Juan Triana, one of the best-known and most influential tion from major economies. “Financially, it would be a somewhat per- mand economy and saying market reforms under way by turning much of them over to cooperatives and allow- economists, says the government’s reforms have signaled The IMF said that from tomorrow it would verse situation because our creditor members are too modest to boost weak growth. Emboldened by ing small private businesses. The Caribbean island is also a reliance on market mechanisms but officials have still maintain a floor rate of 0.05 percent, or five basis would be paying for providing us resources.” freer debate in the country, they are increasingly vocal in actively seeking foreign investment. Castro, who took not embraced competition for core parts of the economy points, on its special drawing rights or SDR cur- But it also acknowledges a worry the IMF, top criticizing rigid instructions coming down from the top over from his older brother Fidel in 2008, has repeatedly and more than 2,000 state companies. “The cost of not rency, which represents a basket of the curren- central bankers, and bond market traders and the uneven management of policies across the econ- said he despises false consensus and has encouraged recognizing the importance of competition for develop- cies of its largest members. Currently the rate have been expressing of major economies omy, from banking to agriculture. Their influence on gov- debate as long as it takes place within the system. ment are paid in lower rates of growth than the potential, the Fund pays on the money its members lend sinking toward deflation. “This is a reflection of ernment policy-makers is difficult to gauge due to the The economists now talking out are generally mem- the incorrect assigning of resources, lower than possible to it is 3 basis points. That is also the basis for the the fact that central banks have set very low secretive nature of the ruling Communist Party, but they bers of the Communist Party and some have contact with rates of productivity and efficiency, and most of all a lack global crisis lender’s loan rate to borrowers. interest rates, or even negative,” the official clearly have been given leeway to call for changes. high-ranking officials, suggesting they may be able to of incentives for innovation, one of the principal motors With short-term rates for key SDR compo- said. To meet the challenge of historically low Seeking to build a “prosperous and sustainable” influence the debate inside government on the speed of development,” he said in a recent presentation to mid- nents the euro and the yen now running below rates as well, the official said, the IMF will socialism, President Raul Castro pushed through a 311- and scope of reforms. level government officials and peers at a seminar in zero, and the dollar and pound rates barely round its rates to three decimal points instead point reform agenda that was adopted by the They have called for economic reforms for years, but Havana. —Reuters above zero, that risked pulling the SDR rate of two as in the past. —AFP BUSINESS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 Kuwait’s Development Plan could bet on Japan model

KUWAIT: We always hope to be wrong but all accomplish- ment percentages stated with reference to the past devel- AL-SHALL WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT opment plan were wrong whether they were 1 percent or about, or 100 percent or about, because the error was in the measurement tool or the criteria. Correct measurement is not the spending percentage from the amount allocated to the Plan projects; neither is it in the number of executed projects from the total; nor is it in the number of approved legislations from those ones to be approved. All of these are means but not ends or objectives. The correct measurement criterion is the number of job opportunities created to the citizens out of the estimated, the reduction in the contribution of the public sector in pro- ducing goods and services and their quality improvement, the reduction in the reliance of the public finance on oil, and the economic gains achieved in the economy competitive- ness as a finance and commercial center. Therefore, and without any doubt of error occurrence and by adopting the right criteria, we emphasize that the work accomplished to date in the Development Plan was below zero, or negative, because the domestic economic condition in the end of each Plan is worse than in its begin- ning from the perspective of widening the structural gaps or in terms of the deterioration of the competitive domestic economy compared with its competitors. We cite that summary because the effective date of the new plan is near not out of the desire to thwart it but to be a call for advance agreement on measurement tools so as to agree on the results and to agree on judging the outcomes. 12 months scored about KD 180.8 million. This makes the duction and approximately 5 percent of Kuwaiti production Total operations expenditures declined by KD 3 million Perhaps it is an opportunity, if what is published about seek- trading value during this month higher by 16.6 percent -higher percentage relative to exports- unless Al-Wafra pro- and scored KD 40.3 million vis-a-vis KD 43.3 million in the ing the assistance of Japan is true. Japan began almost a compared with 12 months average, while the number of duction also stops. But that is not among the most impor- third quarter of 2013 due to the decline in the item of other year ago to have an essential change in its methodology to deals increased to 150 deals compared to 98 deals in August tant repercussions. The core of the problem and the inter- expenses by KD 4 million to KD 4.8 million versus KD 8.8 mil- face a recession crisis that lasted for more than 20 years - 2014, bringing the average value per a deal of investment pretation of the foregoing and the forthcoming failure lie in lion in the third quarter of 2013. Item of staff expenses Abenomcis. It is currently in a real critical assessment of housing activity to about KD 1.405 million, up from August the crisis of confidence and doubt over intentions increased by KD 1.2 million to KD 30.8 million (KD 29.6 mil- those policies. Therefore, they certainly will not go wrong in average by about 7 percent. among the governments of these states. Originally they lion). It is noted that analysis of the bank’s financial state- teaching us the measurement tools. Value of commercial activity trading increased to about were brought together by fear from the other, but now they ments shows that the main reason for achieving profits is Another quality issue has always been at the core of suc- KD 17 million, up by about 22.2 percent compared with KD are divided because of their fear one from another. The due to the reduced total provisions which declined by KD cessful development plans. All contemporary world experi- 13.9 million in August 2014. Its percentage out of real estate recent disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait 3.4 million to KD 52.1 million (KD 55.4 million in the same ences from Japan and Germany in post -World War II and trading value decreased to about 4.3 percent compared remained hidden since 2009 when Saudi Arabia unilaterally period last year). Consequently, the net profit margin of the the Tigers of Asia, and not ending with the Turkish experi- with 5.3 percent in August. Average value of the commercial renewed the agreement with Chevron for 30 years in the bank increased to 30.6 percent versus 27 percent in the ence in the beginning of the new millennium, have adopt- activity trading in 12 months scored approximately KD 36.6 divided zone, and the terms of the agreement include the third quarter of 2013. ed high production values, superior education curricula million. This means the trading value during this month is use of Kuwaiti facilities such as Al-Zour Port without one sin- The financial statements show that the bank’s total and effective anti-corruption measures. Last week, two lower by -53.7 percent than the 12 months average. The gle cooperation/coordination session with Kuwait. assets rose by KD 127 million, or by 2.5 percent, to KD 5.192 Japanese cabinet women ministers resigned because of number of its deals was 5 deals compared with 4 deals in The gravity of what is happening among the GCC coun- billion vis-à-vis KD 5.065 billion in December 2013. These accusations of wasting funds worth tens of thousands of August. Therefore, the average value per one transaction tries is that their differences intensify and go deeper while assets increased by KD 128.4 million, or by 2.5 percent, dollars in their election campaign, and one of them was a scored about KD 3.390 million. painful events are rocking all the neighboring countries, and when compared with their value in the same period 2013 candidate to succeed the current prime minister, and they they know that each member state within the cooperation when they scored about KD 5.063 billion. Item of loans and were followed by a third minister using the official money council is a potential forthcoming crisis. At such a time, liv- advances to customers increased by 6.6 percent, about KD incorrectly. Here we are not talking about deputies ing nations tend to strengthen their internal fronts which 221.3 million, bringing their total to KD 3.583 billion (69 per- deposits of millions beyond the control of law. Japan is the are like the immunity system in the living creatures; they cent of total assets) versus KD 3.361 billion (66.4 percent of third largest economy in the world and Germany is the study weakness justifications in their cooperation experi- total assets) in December 2013. Total loans balance fourth largest. They started in 1946 from the wreckage ence in order to expand it so that all people may have opin- increased by KD 138.2 million, or by 4 percent, compared coinciding with Kuwait’s export of oil. Both are without nat- ion and interest in the cooperation. But unfortunately, all with KD 3.444 billion in the same period 2013 (68 percent of ural resources or wealth, but they have excelled by the evidence suggests that there is a real split between what total assets). human and stringent production values. Therefore, utilizing the rational dealing with exceptional and extremely serious Figures indicate that the bank liabilities (excluding the the Japanese expertise might be a right step, but it should circumstances requires and the decisions and actions on the total equities) increased by KD 101.7 million, or by 2.2 per- start with training sessions for the cabinet to explain the GCC real ground. We remain hopeful that the project of cent, to KD 4.683 billion compared with the end of 2013 but potential risks for lack of planning or the continuing of the freezing the conflict with Qatar would turn into a reconcilia- increased by KD 94.9 million, growth rate by 2.1 percent, current policies and, more importantly, to explain the tion project without dictating unattainable conditions by when compared with the end of the third quarter of 2013. importance of discipline and commitment as basic condi- either party. We also hope that the Saudi justification for the Results of analyzing financial statements calculated on tions for the success of any plan. temporary suspension of Al-Khafji production operations annual basis indicate that all bank indexes increased com- being due to environmental reasons and fixing a near and pared with the same period 2013. Average return on capital Real estate sector confirmed timing to resume production is the real and true (ROC) index scored 12.5 percent this year (11.9 percent). The latest data available in the Ministry of Justice -the one. Conditions have no more room for fragmentation. Average return on equities (ROE) increased to about 7.1 per- Real Estate Registration and Authentication Department- cent (6.9 percent in third quarter 2013). While the average indicate rise in the real estate market liquidity in September Gulf Bank financial results return on assets (ROA) increased slightly to about 0.7 per- 2014 vis-a-vis liquidity in the preceding month of August The Gulf Bank announced its results for the first nine cent (0.6 percent in the same periods last year). Earnings per 2014. Total value of traded contracts and agencies scored Trading value of the warehousing activity scored KD 6 months of the current year, which indicate that the bank share (EPS) value remained constant at 9 fils for the two about KD 396 million which is higher by 52.5 percent than its million, or 5 deals, in September 2014. achieved profits, after deducting due taxes, by KD 26.5 mil- periods. Price multiplier/earnings per share (P/E) scored 29.2 value in August 2014 in the amount of KD 259.6 million. But Comparing September 2014 trading with its counterpart lion, higher by KD 2.5 million, or by 10.2 percent (KD 24.1 times (33.3 times in the counterpart period 2013). Price mul- compared with September 2013 value, it increased by15.3 in 2013, we note that the real estate market liquidity million in the same period 2013). tiplier/ book value (P/B) index scored 2 times (2.3 times in percent. September’s trading was distributed to KD377.6 mil- increased from about KD 343.4 million to KD 396 million, or The bank’s total operations incomes scored about KD the same period 2013). lion for contracts and about KD 18.4 million for agencies. 15.3 percent, as we mentioned above. The rise included the 120.1 million, a decrease by KD 3.8 million, or by 3.1 percent, Number of real estate deals for this month scored 810 deals commercial activity by 64.7 percent and the investment below their value in the same period of last year at KD 123.9 The weekly performance of KSE (after excluding crafts activity and coastline system) distrib- activity by 55.8 percent, while the private residential activity million. This decline is due to the drop in the item of net The performance of Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) for the uted to 775 for contracts and 35 deals for agencies. Ahmadi declined by -18 percent. gains from dealing in foreign by KD 4.9 million to KD 6.6 mil- last week was less active, where all indexes showed a governorate captured the highest number of deals by about lion (KD 11.4 million in the third quarter of 2013). And decrease, the traded value index, the traded volume index, 487 deals representing around 60.3 percent of the total num- Gulf Cooperation Council decline in the item of net interests’ incomes by KD 2.5 mil- the transactions index, and the general index showed a ber of real estate transactions, followed by Mubarak Al- Kabir It does not seem that what is happening in the Gulf lion, or by 2.8 percent, to KD 86.7 million, versus KD 89.2 mil- decrease, AlShall Index (value index) closed at 497.1 points Governorate by 106 deals representing about 13.1 percent, Cooperation Council has anything to do with its name. What lion for the same period 2013. While the item of realized at the closing of last Thursday, showing a decrease of 1.8 while Al-Jahra governorate got the lowest number of deals is happening is the opposite of cooperation as defined by gains from disposal of investments available for sale about point or about 0.4 percent compared to the end of the pre- (27 deals) representing by about 3.3 percent. the language. All agreements have failed, starting with the KD 2.9 million to KD 4 million (KD 1.2 million in the same vious week, and an increase of 42.4 points or about 9.3 per- Value of private housing trading activity achieved KD Customs Union to the Common Market, and not ending period 2013). cent compared to the end of 2013. 162.2 million, higher by about 38.6 percent compared with with unified currency. Nevertheless, all this failure was KD 117.1 million in August 2014. Its contribution to total real bypassed and a quick call to the political federation was estate trading value decreased to about 41 percent (45.1 announced in November 2013. By March 2014, three percent in August 2014). Monthly average value of the resi- ambassadors were withdrawn from Qatar. Despite the last dential trading during 12 months scored KD 184.2 million, meeting in Jeddah which froze but did not resolve this con- which means that trading value of September is -11.9 per- flict, the controversy remained raging. The last Gulf cent compared to the average. But the number of deals for Cooperation Council clashes came this time between the this activity increased to 648 deals compared to 531 deals in largest partner and the headquarter of the Gulf Cooperation August 2014. Therefore, the average value per one transac- Council , ie Saudi Arabia, and the neutral mediator who is tion for private housing activity scored KD 250.4,000. supposed to resolve the conflict over ambassadors with- Value of investment housing activity trading increased drawal, ie Kuwait, by shutting down the production of oil to KD 210.8 million which is higher by 63.8 percent com- from Al-Khafji Operations unilaterally, without co-operation. pared with August 2014 with KD 128.7 million. However, its Although this stance comes at a time when oil prices fell total percentage out of total liquidity has increased to 53.2 by about 20 percent in less than a month, and that would percent compared with 49.6 percent in August. The monthly mean the loss of both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia a share of average value for residential investment activity trading in about 135 barrels a day, or about 1.5 percent of Saudi pro- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 BUSINESS Jazeera Airways Group reports KD 8.1m net profit for Q3 2014 Airline announces record earnings for quarter

KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways Group yesterday 9m 2014 business highlights announced a record net profit of KD 8.1 million In June, the airline launched four exclusive for Q3 2014, up 22.6 percent from Q3 2013’s and dedicated gates, making it the only airline in KD6.6 million, making it the company’s best Kuwait with gates that are exclusive to its cus- quarter in history. This is the company’s 17th tomers. The dedicated gates, which are quarter of straight profitability, of which 13 had equipped with two state-of-the-art bridges, are record net earnings. strong product differentiators and enabled Jazeera Airways to offer a better, easier, and Q3 2014 Highlights more streamlined boarding experience for cus- • Operating Revenue: KD 23.1 million, up 15.2 tomers. Today, Jazeera Airways passengers are percent from Q3’13 the only passengers in Kuwait who have access • Operating profit: KD 9.1 million, up 17.8 per- to booking with their mobile phone, checking-in online or in person using the airport kiosk, MIAMI: Job seekers Madelin Garcia (right) and Noharis Nunez fill out a job applications cent from Q3’13 boarding through exclusive gates and state-of- at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Florida. The US Labor Department reports on the number • Net profit: KD 8.1 million, up 22.6 percent from the-art bridges, and fly on brand new aircraft. of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday.—AP Q3’13 • Hard assets of KD 167 million Jazeera Airways also upgraded its Istanbul • Equity improved by KD 10 million since Q3 route by operating to and from the city’s primary US jobs market holds firm; 2013 airport, Istanbul Atat¸rk Airport (IST), with five • Flown passengers up by 10.8 percent flights a week, instead of flying to Sabiha factory activity slows a bit Gokcen International Airport (SAW), to which 9 Months 2014 Highlights the airline has served since 2008. The move to WASHINGTON: New claims for US unem- performance,” said Chris Williamson, chief • Operating Revenue: KD 52.4 million, up 3.1 Istanbul Ataturk Airport bolstered the route by offering customers better flight schedules to an ployment benefits held below 300,000 for a economist at Markit in London. percent from 9 months 2013 airport that is at the heart of the city. sixth straight week last week, suggesting Slowing growth in the euro-zone and Operating profit: KD 15.5 million, down 9.9 per- • Jazeera Airways Group is a Kuwait Stock the labor market was shrugging off jitters China has caused turmoil on global finan- cent from 9 months 2013 Exchange-listed company with a fleet of 15 over a slowing global economy. Weakening cial markets in recent weeks. In stark con- Net profit: KD 13.0 million, down 7.9 percent • A320s, through its wholly-owned leasing-arm growth in China and the euro zone, howev- trast, US activity is expanding at a healthy from 9 months 2013 er, appears to be impacting the manufac- clip, with growth in the third quarter Sahaab Aircraft Leasing. Sahaab has assets Jazeera Airways Group Chairman, Marwan placed with Virgin America, SriLankan Airlines, turing sector, with other data on Thursday expected to top a 3 percent annual pace. Boodai, said, “Despite the continued political showing factory activity at a three-month Flynas, TAP Portugal and Jazeera Airways. unrest in several areas of our network, the com- Jazeera Airways (the airline) operates seven low in early October. Even so, the sector October payrolls pany managed to deliver the best earnings in was still moving forward at a healthy clip. A third report showed a gauge of US Airbus A320s with a two-class cabin comprising the history of our nine-year old airline. That’s not a Business Class and an Economy Class. Business Initial claims for state unemployment economic activity rebounded solidly in to say that Jazeera Airways wasn’t impacted by benefits increased 17,000 to a seasonally September after a flat reading in August. Class travelers get both an upgraded experience the rise of hot spots in our region. In fact, like and exclusivity, starting with exclusive check-in adjusted 283,000 for the week ended Oct “Economic growth in the US remains many of our peers, some of the destination 18, the Labor Department said. That fol- healthy ... despite increasing global health lines, business lounge access, up to 60 kilograms flights paths had to be rerouted to ensure the in free baggage allowance, and an exclusive on- lowed three straight weeks of declines, concerns,” said Sam Bullard, a senior econo- safety of our passengers and crews, and that which had pushed claims to levels last seen mist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, board cabin. The airline’s Economy Class offers resulted in more flying hours. However, thanks in 2000. The four-week moving average of North Carolina. travelers free baggage allowance of 40 kilo- to our team’s dynamic capacity management claims, considered a better measure of Prices for US Treasury debt fell on the grams and free on-board meals with a changing and resource planning, we were able to absorb labor market trends as it irons out week-to- data, while the dollar was near a two-week menu every month. leisure, family, and weekend destinations such the impact in Q3 while registering 10.8 percent week volatility, fell to its lowest level since high against the yen. US stocks rose, also Jazeera Airways is based in Kuwait and serves as Dubai, Bahrain, Beirut, Alexandria, Amman, May 2000. cheered by Caterpillar Inc after the heavy growth in flown passengers and a 22.6 percent 20 popular destinations in the Middle East from Istanbul, Sharm El Sheikh, Assiut, Luxor, “There is no sign in these very timely machinery maker raised its full-year profit growth in profitability.” Kuwait comprising high-demand business, Mashhad, Sohag, Jeddah, Riyadh, and Cairo. data of weaker global growth or turmoil in estimate. the markets causing US growth to falter,” The jobless claims data covered the said Jim O’Sullivan, chief US economist at week during which the government sur- High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New veys businesses for its monthly reading on York. Separately, financial data firm Markit nonfarm payrolls. said its preliminary US manufacturing pur- The four-week average of new claims fell chasing managers index fell to 56.2 this 18,750 between the September and month from 57.5 in September. A reading October survey periods, pointing to anoth- above 50 signals expansion in economic er month of relatively strong employment activity. growth after nonfarm payrolls increased by New orders growth eased markedly, 248,000 in September. The number of peo- with new export sales slowing sharply. Job ple still receiving benefits after an initial growth, however, remained fairly robust. week of aid in the week ended Oct. 11 hit “The source of the slowdown appears to be its lowest level since December 2000, sug- weaker economic growth in key markets gesting the nation’s jobless rate could drop such as the euro-zone, China and other further. It fell below 6 percent in September emerging markets, which has hit export for the first time since July 2008. —Reuters Arab Bank 9-month net profit up 10% AMMAN: Jordanian lender Arab Bank ness prudently”. Masri said the bank was Group’s said its nine-month net profit rose confident of its legal position after a US 10 percent to $614 million compared to last jury in September found it liable for giving year, attributing it to a diversified portfolio material support to Hamas and said it must with growth in key markets and a prudent compensate victims of two dozen attacks risk strategy. One of the Middle East’s major attributed to the Islamic militant group in financial institutions, it said yesterday that Israel and the Palestinian territories. total loans rose 2.2 percent to $23.7 billion Masri said the bank had started steps at end-September, while deposits grew 3.5 to prepare for the submission of an percent to $34.1 billion compared to the appeal against the ruling that was same period last year. expected to take a year. Arab Bank, The bank gave no figures for third quar- whose geographic spread over 30 coun- ter net profits. Chairman Sabih Masri was tries in five continents has diversified its quoted in a brief statement as saying the operations and minimized risk, owns 40 bank’s results reflected its “solid business percent of Saudi Arabia’s Arab National NEW YORK: A specialist works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The market’s flux over the past week has vengi investors strategy and commitment to grow its busi- Bank ANB. — Reuters pause for thought. —AP Protests against Renzi Stock market’s big seesaw labor reforms in Rome gives investors pause ROME: Demonstrators from across Italy ments to meet European Union budget filled the streets of Rome yesterday to rules. Italian newspapers said a boat and NEW YORK: Sometimes a little fear is healthy for a deeper drop in stock prices. Instead, the slump age of 16.5. Schiller’s measure smooths out dis- protest against labor market reforms which two planes had been chartered to bring stock investors. Nine days ago, after a series of was typical of a sell-off that happens in a rising tortions caused by the business cycle. the government of Prime Minister Matteo people from the island of Sardinia to join sharp sell-offs, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index market, known as a bull market, he says. By con- It was also no coincidence that the slump in Renzi has made a cornerstone of its policy. the protests. was down 7.4 percent from its September trast, declines of 20 percent or more, known as stocks came shortly before the Federal Reserve Red flags bearing the logo of Italy’s largest record as fears of a global economic slowdown bear markets, tend to start with gradual sell- was due to end its economic stimulus, says union, the CGIL, waved over town squares Democratic party divided? intensified. Stocks have surged back this week, offs, rather than sudden swoons, Manley says. Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan as thousands of people rallied behind the Unions and left-wing members of thanks to strong corporate earnings, and on “The thing about bull market corrections is Partners. The Fed is expected to end its bond- group’s call for job creation and job security. Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) say the pro- Friday the S&P 500 had its best gain in nearly that they come out of nowhere, and they are buying program this month, and to start raising The CIGL estimated that 1 million peo- posals undermine workers’ rights and do two years. very violent and they are very nasty, and they interest rates by the middle of next year, its first ple had turned out by the early afternoon. nothing to address the underlying causes How should investors view this intense flip- are very short,” Manley says. For a deeper sell-off hikes since 2006. Pavlik points out that the mar- Members of Renzi’s own party also attend- of weakness in the Italian economy, which flop? As an overdue reminder that stocks aren’t to happen, investors need to become compla- ket’s sell-off only started to abate when St Louis ed the protests, suggesting the issue had has contracted by around 9 percent since a one-way ride up. While last week’s slump cent, or wildly enthusiastic, he says. So far, he Fed President James Bullard said that the cen- created divisions within the government. the start of the financial crisis in 2007. doesn’t technically count as a correction - sees little evidence of that on Wall Street. tral bank should consider putting off ending its The prime minister wants to give business- Italy’s overall employment rate is one of defined as a 10-percent drop from a peak - Manley expects the stock market to continue to purchases. Stocks also rallied this week on es more flexibility to hire and fire staff and the lowest in the euro zone, at 55.7 percent that’s how many professional investors view it. stabilize as the US economy strengthens and reports that the European Central Bank was won majority backing from his party late in in August, and joblessness among young “It’s important to have these periods of scare company earnings improve. considering buying corporate bonds, a move September for plans to change employee people is running at a record-high 44.2 per- and fear,” says Joe Quinlan, chief market strate- that could lower borrowing costs and revive the protection rules that critics say deter com- cent. As Rome reverberated with stamping gist for U.S. Trust. “It keeps investors honest and Psychology region’s economy. “Any time there’s a change in panies from hiring new staff, contributing feet and whistles, Renzi was in Florence, it keeps them on their toes.” Some believe that the slump changed the monetary policy you’re going to see the market to chronic economic weakness. where he used to be mayor, holding a In fact, such sell-offs often provide a base for psychology of the market. The Chicago Board become affected, and you’re going to see “If Renzi and his government have their meeting on jobs and investment with another move higher in stocks, market Options Exchange’s volatility index, known as volatility increase,” Pavlik says. antennas up, as they usually do, they will members of his party. observers say. That’s because a slump stops the VIX, or fear index, rose as high as 31 during Despite the gyrations, the S&P 500 index is receive a very strong signal today which is PD members in Florence as well as those people from focusing on the upward momen- the day on Oct. 15, but has since fallen back to trading at 1,964, slightly higher than where ana- that the majority of the people who work attending the protests in Rome fended off tum of the stock market. If prices rise with few 16.11. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell lysts expected it to end the year. The average and who want to work in this country do questions about whether there was any bumps along the way, investors sometimes stop as low as 1.91 percent last week as investors forecast of five banks polled at the end of 2013 not agree with their politics,” the general dispute within the party. Reform Minister considering the fundamental drivers of the mar- snapped up safer government bonds. It now was for the index to end this year at 1,915. secretary of the metalworkers’ union Fiom, Maria Elena Boschi said in Florence there ket, such as company earnings and the health of trades at 2.27 percent. History suggests that the last quarter of the year Maurizio Landini, told Reuters TV. was no conflict between the two events. the economy, Quinlan says. Investors are also But Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at will end up being a good one for stocks. The “If he really wants to change this coun- Hedge fund founder and long-time Renzi tempted to ignore a tenet of investing: Diversify. Commonwealth financial network, an inde- S&P 500 has gained an average of 4.8 percent try he needs to do it with these people, not ally Davide Serra said at the meeting in After a big drop, though, they think about put- pendent broker dealer, sees more caution in the during the period over the last 15 years. against us,” Landini said. European policy- Florence that people had the right to go on ting money into other things besides stocks. market. The sharp sell-off has made investors Another factor that could support stocks? makers have applauded Renzi’s proposals, strike but warned of possible damage to It has been more than three years since the focus on risks, such as a slowdown in growth in Global investors are likely to start shifting more which also aim to mend a labour market the economy. “We should try to understand last correction and that was making some Europe and China. “There are cracks in the ice at money to the US because growth elsewhere divided between young workers with few that there is a cost. Someone who was investors hesitant to buy stocks. The average this point,” said McMillan. “People are really remains muted. That could push up demand for employments rights and older employees going to come and invest here tomorrow amount of time between slumps is 18 months, starting to process the fact that ‘we’re pretty far US assets. whose jobs are rigidly protected. will not come,” Serra told reporters. according to data from S&P Capital IQ. Many up there,’” in terms of stock prices. “I do believe that the US economy is a The unusual standoff between labor Former PD chairman Gianni Cuperlo, investors reasoned that, statistically speaking, at After a surge of nearly 30 percent last year, shiny city on top of the economic hill right unions and a coalition led by a left-wing who lost out to Renzi in a 2013 race to lead least, the market was due for a sell-off. the S&P 500 is trading at 24.8 times its 10-year now,” says Kevin Mahn, President and Chief party is also fuelled by wider discontent the party, said in Rome that he thought John Manley, chief equity strategist at Wells average earnings, as calculated by Nobel Prize Investment Officer of Hennion & Walsh Asset about austerity policies, including heavy that the unions’ demands needed to be Fargo Funds Management says that the recent winning economist Robert Shiller of Yale. That is Management. “That’s where investors are public spending cuts, adopted by govern- addressed.—Reuters plunge wasn’t typical of a sell-off that precedes much more expensive than the long-term aver- finding some comfort.” —AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 BUSINESS Warba Bank’s operating revenues rise 71% to reach KD 13.21 million Financing portfolio grew by 90% to reach KD 346.75 million

KUWAIT: Warba Bank announced 182.45 million at the end of the at the end of the third quarter 2014 account all recent economic volatil- its financial results for the first nine third quarter of 2013. reached high rate far exceeding the ities. months of 2014, achieving a Warba Bank Chairman, Emad designated ratio stipulated by Basel Recently, Warba has successfully growth rate of 71.6 percent to Abdullah Al-Thaqeb, said that the III requirements and the Central exited from an investment property reach KD 13.21 million in the oper- Bank continues in achieving posi- Bank of Kuwait instructions. This in the West Bromwich in the United ating revenues at the end of the tive results in all its business during reflects the Bank’s robust and solid Kingdom. Warba acquired this third quarter of current year, com- the first nine months this year financial position that supports the building in March 2012 and rented pared to KD 7.70 million for the despite all the challenges faced by bank’s business future growth. it to the telecommunications com- same period in 2013. The financial the Bank. Warba Vice Chairman and Chief pany British Telecom for 15 years. data also showed that the Bank Al-Thaqeb stressed that Warba’s Executive, Jassar Al-Jassar, said that By exit, Warba generated a net prof- made a net profit of KD 318 million profits resulted from higher operat- the Bank has almost finalized its it of KD 680.640 which is good for the nine months ending under the current economic condi- Qatar Airways to welcome New Year September 30, 2014, an increase of tions. Warba is now in the process 110 percent compared to the same of assessing further global invest- with its A380 service to Bangkok period of 2013. ment opportunities with the objec- The bank’s financial statements tive of achieving strong returns DOHA: Qatar Airways’ highly anticipated of fatigue normally experienced by passen- show that the bank has achieved over the short-to-medium term. A380 aircraft will soon touchdown in gers after a long flight. net profit at 110 percent to reach Al-Jassar concluded: “The Bank Bangkok, Thailand, following the over- The seats and special amenities in each KD 318,000 at the end of the third continues to attract promising whelming success of its inaugural service of the cabin classes are proprietary to Qatar quarter 2014. national talents for a variety of to London Heathrow introduced earlier this Airways, and have been crafted in close col- As of September 30, 2014, the roles. We pay due care for their month. The airline is scheduled to com- laboration with the respective designers Bank’s total assets grew at 31 per- training and development so that mence A380 service between Doha and and manufacturers. cent to reach KD 507.1 million com- national labor constitutes key pil- Paris Charles De Gaulle, followed by an The First Class cabin features eight pared to KD 386.7 million reported lars for strengthening the Bank’s additional London service by the end of suites on the upper deck in a 1-2-1 configu- as on 30/9/2013. This growth was growth at all levels. We believe in the year. And now, Qatar Airways is ready ration. Each seat features a 90” pitch with a achieved while maintaining the the importance of the human fac- to bring this state-of-the-art aircraft to fully lie-flat bed, 26” HD in-flight entertain- assets quality high level. tor and particularly Kuwaiti nation- Thailand. ment screen and direct aisle access. The Profits before provisions grew by als and accordingly we are commit- Beginning January 5, 2015, passengers First Class cabin also offers features exclu- 344 percent to reach KD 1.643 mil- Warba Bank Chairman Emad Warba Vice Chairman and Chief ted from the beginning to support travelling to and from Bangkok on Qatar sive spa-like bathrooms with luxurious lion, compared to a loss of KD 673 Abdullah Al-Thaqeb Executive Jassar Al-Jassar national employment and offer sig- Airways QR836/QR833 will enjoy outstand- amenities to ensure passengers enjoy a thousand in the same period in nificant contributions to the contin- ing levels of comfort and service on the comfortable and leisurely flight. 2013, which is due to the good ing activity: The operating revenues strategy for the next three years in uous development process of the new A380. The aircraft’s state-of-the-art The Qatar Airways A380 Business Class quality and diversity of the bank grew to KD 13.21 million at the end cooperation with one of the distinguished professionals calibers technology will provide a unique and cabin features 48 seats on the upper deck asset portfolio maintaining high of the third quarter 2014 at a biggest consultancy firms in this in Kuwait. In putting this vision into enhanced travel experience by setting new in a 1-2-1 configuration, with an 80” full flat growth rates within a highly com- growth rate of 71.6 percent. In area. This strategy will constitute a life, Kuwaitization in the Bank benchmarks for all the key qualities related bed, 17” HD in-flight entertainment screen petitive environment in the bank- terms of risk management, the road map upon which Warba apply exceeds 60 percent of Kuwaiti skil- to passenger well-being. and direct aisle access. ing sector. Bank enjoys a high degree of asset the best practices to improve the ful calibers. Further national Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, There are two Economy Class cabins on The Bank’s financing portfolio quality as the irregular finances Bank’s performance in various employment in some sectors, such His Excellency Akbar Al-Baker, said: the Qatar Airways A380, with 56 seats on grew by 90 percent to reach KD reached 0.21 percent which is one fields as well as to enhance its role as Corporate Banking and Retail “Bangkok is one of the most popular desti- the upper deck in a 2-4-2 configuration, 346.75 million at the end of the of the best ratios compared to the and position in the local and Banking sectors exceeds 80 per- nations for travellers around the world, and and 405 seats on the main deck in a 3-4-3 third quarter 2014, compared to KD global rates. Capital adequacy ratio regional markets, taking into cent.” we recongize the importance of offering configuration. Each Economy Class seat is convenience coupled with our five-star 18.5” wide with a 32” pitch and features a service to passengers flying to Bangkok 10.6” in-flight entertainment screen. from Doha’s Hamad International Airport. The upper deck also features a spacious “Thanks to its popularity we have wit- inflight lounge offering Premium passen- nessed a steady growth in terms of the gers an escape from the typical airplane number of passengers flying to Bangkok environment, which is unique to the A380. over the years. Additionally, the number of Another key feature of Qatar Airways’ Thai passengers who travel with us to des- A380 service is its in-flight Wi-Fi connectivi- tinations around the world has also ty for all passengers - allowing them to increased significantly. Therefore, we are send emails for work, surf the web, or stay very much looking forward to kicking off up-to-date with their social network. the new year by introducing our new A380 Qatar Airways has seen rapid growth in aircraft to Bangkok and providing these just 17 years of operation, to the point passengers with our signature service.” where today it is flying a modern fleet of Wider seats, low noise levels, draught 137 aircraft to 144 key business and leisure free air circulation and accurate tempera- destinations across Europe, the Middle ture control are among the many advance- East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and ments on the A380 that reduce the feeling South America. Burgan Bank, Alta Fitness offer Youth Account holders 10% discount

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yester- owns a majority stake. Burgan Bank Group day its latest promotion with Alta Fitness, has one of the largest regional branch net- offering its female Youth Account holders a works with more than 233 branches across 10 percent discount at the fitness center. Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Infiniti Middle East introduces new Upon using their Youth Debit Card, Lebanon and Palestine. female Youth cardholders will be able to The Bank has continuously improved its avail a 10 percent discount and enjoy vari- performance over the years through an Q50 two-liter turbocharged engine ous benefits such as the opportunity to expanded revenue structure, diversified freeze their membership for a month, one funding sources, and a strong capital base. Continued expansion of powertrain options across Infiniti range complementary assessment per year, four The adoption of state-of-the-art services complementary personal training sessions, and technology has positioned it as a KUWAIT: Infiniti Middle East has introduced a powerful standing responsiveness. Differentiated drive mode Infiniti InTouch four complementary day guest passes, a trendsetter in the domestic market and new 2.0 litre turbocharged petrol engine that is now options, in conjunction with a high performance output l Infiniti InTouch next-generation Human branded membership card, and priority within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s available to all Infiniti Q50 drivers in the region. The of 208 HP and 350 Nm, ensure exceptional handling con- Machine Interface (HMI) with world’s first dual enrolment. brand has been created on a foundation of modern, lightweight 4-cylinder powerful petrol engine trol and a thrilling driving experience touchscreen displays (LCD/VGA 8-inch upper and Alta Fitness is located in Al-Tijaria Tower real values - of trust, commitment, excel- delivers 208 HP and 350Nm of torque, sending drive to l Front engine/rear-wheel drive 7-speed electronical- 7-inch lower color displays) on the 26th floor. The club is designed as a lence and progression, to remind us of the the rear wheels via a 7-speed automatic transmission. ly controlled automatic transmission with Downshift Rev l Bluetooth Hands-free Phone System and modern-futuristic environment for mem- high standards to which we aspire. ‘People Flexible and efficient driving is assisted by an early use- Matching and manual shift mode, Adaptive Shift Control Streaming Audio via Bluetooth(r) bers so as to inspire and uplift their moods. come first’ is the foundation on which its able torque delivery that begins at just 1250rpm. l Drive mode selector switch (Sport, Standard, ECO, Safety Shield Technologies Manufactured with the latest fuel efficiency and Custom settings) l Infiniti Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) with Burgan Bank’s Youth Account caters to products and services are developed. tuned by Infiniti engineers for an engaging throttle l 4-wheel independent multi-link suspension (front dual-stage supplemental front air bags with seat young individuals aged 15 to 25 who seek Earlier this year, ‘Brand Finance’ - the response, the 2.0T direct injection petrol engine joins the single pivot double-wishbone design/revised rear belt sensors and occupant classification sensor to attain a successful future. There is no international brand valuation company- renowned 3.5L V6 high-performance hybrid powertrain design) with extensive use of lightweight aluminium l Front seat-mounted side impact supplemen- deposit required to open an account, nor a re-affirmed Burgan Bank’s brand rating as and 3.7L V6 in the line-up. components and front and rear stabilizer bars tal air bags minimum balance required to maintain it. AA with a positive outlook making it the “The launch of the Infiniti Q50 2.0L turbocharged l Power-assisted vehicle-speed-sensitive rack-and- l Roof-mounted curtain side impact supple- Furthermore, account holders receive free highest rated banking brand in Kuwait. engine marks the next step in the company’s portfolio pinion steering mental air bags for front- and rear-seat outboard prepaid card and an ATM card that entitle Excellence is one of the Bank’s four key val- expansion plan. Set to increase its global model range l 4-wheel power-assisted vented disc brakes, 4- occupant head protection them to discounts at select merchandisers. ues and Burgan Bank continually strives to by 60 percent and more than double the number of its wheel Anti-lock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Brake l Traction control system and active Trace To find out more about Burgan Bank’s maintain the highest standards in the powertrains within the next five years, Infiniti’s commit- force Distribution, Brake Assist Control (integrated with Vehicle Dynamic Control) Youth Account as well as the latest promo- industry. The Bank was re-certified in 2010 ment promises to cater to a wider audience of discern- l Advanced Vehicle Dynamic Control with Active l Available Technology Pack includes the fol- tions, customers can visit the nearest with the ISO 9001:2008 certification in all ing customers,” said Juergen Schmitz, Managing Trace Control for dynamic cornering ability lowing features: Burgan Bank branch or contact the call its banking businesses, making it the first Director, Infiniti Middle East. l Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) designed l Intelligent Cruise Control with full speed center on 1804080. For more information, bank in the GCC, and the only bank in to monitor the air pressure inside the tires range Highlights l Lane Departure Warning (LDW) and Lane customers can visit the bank’s website on Kuwait to receive such accreditation. The Design Hospitality Departure Prevention www.burgan.com. Bank also has to its credit the distinction of l Sensuous dynamic styling with unexpected spa- l Driver-oriented layout and a console with warm, l Blind Spot Warning (BSW) and Blind Spot Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the being the only Bank in Kuwait to have won ciousness asymmetric design Intervention systems youngest commercial Bank and third the JP Morgan Chase Quality Recognition l Low, wide proportions and tight, athletic stance l Ample knee, head and shoulder roominess l Forward Emergency Braking largest by assets in Kuwait, with a signifi- Award for twelve consecutive years. l Infiniti signature “double arch” front grille, dynamic l Easy rear ingress/egress provided by wide rear door l Predictive Forward Collision Warning system cant focus on the corporate and financial Burgan Bank won the prestigious “Banking arch silhouette and crescent-cut C-pillar openings (PFCW) institutions sectors, as well as having a Web Awards” prize in the commercial and l Distinctive LED head lamps and lighting (head- l Natural contour ergonomic-design front seats for l Distance Control Assist (DCA) growing retail, and private bank customer corporate Category for Kuwait. In 2010 lights, front fog lights and marker lights), LED rear combi- enhanced comfort l Backup Collision Intervention (BCI) base. Burgan Bank has five majority owned Burgan Bank was awarded with the “Best nation lamps l Kacchu aluminium interior trim on centre console, l Around View Monitor with Moving Object subsidiaries, which include Jordan Kuwait Internet Banking Service award” from l Advanced aerodynamic design with 0.26 coeffi- instrument panel and doors Detection (AVM) Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - Banker Middle East Awards. Burgan Bank cient of drag and zero front and rear lift concept l Available Sunroof l Smart Beam Assist Turkey, Bank of Baghdad, Tunis was recognized in 2011 as Kuwait’s “Best Performance l Available next-generation Studio on Wheels by Bose l Adaptive Front-Lighting System (AFS) l* 2.0L turbocharged technology of the four-cylinder sound system with instrument panel three-speaker array l 3 point ELR with pre-tensioners, load limiters, International Bank, in which Burgan Bank Private Bank”, by World Finance. petrol engine delivers sustained acceleration and out- (up to 14 total speakers), Advanced Staging Technology and pre-crash and LAP pre-tensioners (DR/AS)

First Dubai posts KD4.84m total revenues during first 9 months Al-Mazaya Holding’s subsidiary earns KD2.15m gross profit KUWAIT: First Dubai, a subsidiary of Al-Mazaya Holding of its income-generating projects. from the sale of properties held for trading reached KD Dubai Land. In addition to the increase of the occupan- Company, announced its fiscal results for the first nine Commenting on the company’s financial results at 3.37 m in the first nine months of 2014, compared to KD cy rate to 99 percent at ‘Sky Gardens’, in Dubai months of 2014, after a meeting of the Board of the end of the first nine months of 2014, First Dubai 2.83 m in the same period of 2013. Revenues from the International Financial Centre. Directors held on Monday, October 20, 2014. achieved a quantum leap in its operational revenues of income-generating projects stood at KD 1.47 m during Reviewing the further financial statements of the The Board of Directors of First Dubai Real Estate 23 percent compared to the same period in 2013, the first nine months of 2014, compared to KD 1.10 m company, the company’s asset portfolio was extensive, Development Company, announced that the company reflecting its focus on the operational revenues result- over the same period in 2013, thus achieving net profit totaling KD 76.14 m at the end of September 2014, was able to record a leap in its operational revenues by ing from the sale of its real estate projects and rental of a of KD 1.85 m and profitability of 1.87 fils per share. compared to KD 66.05 m in 2013 representing an the end of the first nine months of 2014 - after having number of income-generating projects. The company’s And the company’s positive financial results are due increase by 15.28 percent. Shareholders’ equity totaled exerted strenuous efforts over the past few months, total operational revenues stood at KD 4.84 m over the to its success in the completion, delivery, and sale of a KD 62.03 million by the end of September 2014, com- represented by operational revenues from the sale of its first nine months of 2014, compared to KD 3.92 m over large number of real estate units in the Emirate of pared to KD 53.89 million in 2013 - an increase of 15.10 properties and other incomes resulting from the rental the same period in 2013, while the revenues resulting Dubai, including residential villas in ‘The Villa’ project in percent. technology SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 Smiths Detection: Meeting security challenges

By Islam Al-Sharaa

KUWAIT: Smiths Detection has been pres- ent in the Middle East region since 1984 and as a global supplier of the most advanced security and Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRNE) detection solutions, our innovations are today safeguarding the borders and other vital assets across the region. The Middle East is a priority geography for Smiths Detection and for the past three decades, we have supported the development of this regions’ airport, critical infrastructure and ports and border security infrastruc- ture with our latest innovations. Kuwait and other prominent countries ting an increasing number of passengers checked baggage screening by the in the Middle East are witnessing expo- through that space safely, securely and United States Transportation Security nential economic growth and infrastruc- quickly without creating a huge bottle- Administration (TSA). ture development that needs to be safe- neck. We are aware of this challenge and l The CIP-300 is a low-energy X-ray sys- guarded against modern day threats and hence have created state of the art next temthat can reveal hidden explosives, security challenges. Based on a report generation solutions that offer drugs, stowaways and contraband in published by Frost & Sullivan, the MEA unmatched airport security experience for cars, vans and smaller trucks while driv- market security spend was valued at £280 the passengers. ers and passengers can remain in the Billion (An estimate of 130 Billion Kuwaiti The future lies in more automated vehicle. Dinars) in 2008 and is projected to reach processes that will contribute to smoother l The IONSCAN 600’s small, portable £540 Billion (More than 250 Billion Kuwaiti procedures, improved networking capa- design, combined with its ease-of-use Dinars) by 2018. The report also indicates bilities between different checkpoints and reduces the cost and time of screening that security spending will increase by remote screening operations. We are also for a range of high-threat explosives. 18% over the next year alone. aware of how aviation operators are The technology behind the IONSCAN increasingly demanding people-screening 600 easily surpasses that of its previous solutions that fulfill the high security stan- version, the industry-leading IONSCAN dards of the future, while also improving 500DT used widely around the world- passenger experience and throughput. At from airport checkpoints to mail Smiths Detection, we have introduced screening. Its breakthrough feature is a eqo, an innovative solution for people proprietary non-radioactive Ion screening. Using its unique flat-panel mil- Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) source limeter-wave technology to detect con- which eliminates the need for special cealed threat objects, this people screen- licensing, handling or disposal require- ing system operates within a minimal ments. footprint. l The RadSeeker is a handheld, rugged This automated detection provides full and highly accurate radioscope detec- privacy for the person being screened tor and identifier that is specifically with a generic graphical representation of designed to meet the US Departments the person being presented to the opera- of Homeland Security mission require- tor. The system software indicates con- ments. Furthermore, the Multi-Mode cealed objects with a marker on the threat detector, another hand held appropriate part of the graphical display. innovation that is capable of identify- Eqo can be easily integrated into any cur- ing explosives, narcotics, toxic industri- rent checkpoint configuration. The open al chemicals and chemical warfare plan design offers a positive user experi- agents. ence and facilitates ease of communica- l The Sabre 5000 utilizes our Ion Mobility tion between the operator and person Spectrometry (IMS) technology to being screened. detect and identify over 40 threat sub- Paul Baker, Managing Director ME stances in approximately 20 seconds. operations - Smiths Detection Which new product do you These include threats such as common think is most suitable? peroxide-based, volatile and unstable Keeping in view the growing signifi- Each airport, port or critical infrastruc- chemicals often used to construct IED cance of Kuwait and wider Middle East ture has its own specific requirements that and ammonium nitrate commonly region as an aviation, industry, sporting are driven by the perceived threat analysis used in home-made explosives. and business hub, Smiths Detection’s of that asset. In the Middle East, given our portfolio of solutions is well equipped to experience in safeguarding vital installa- What about compatibility address the emerging security challenges tions, the following Smiths Detection solu- with existing products? for this region. Some of the security solu- tions have been adopted at several loca- Most of our solutions that we develop tions that are most in demand include the tions: are easily compatible with existing software are of great importance when addressing The process of automated detection IONSCAN 600, which is one of Smith’s l The HI-SCAN 10080 XCT is a next gen- used for screening and detecting potential security challenges. While we are focused provides full privacy for the passenger Detection’s recently launched next gener- eration high-speed checked baggage threats. For example, some of our software on ensuring that airports/entities or estab- when being screened with a graphical ation explosive trace detector, designed explosives detection system (EDS). It is solutions enable remote screening opera- lishments are safeguarded from potential representation of the person being rep- specifically to meet the growing security faster, takes up less space and its dual tions and provide networking capabilities threats, our products and current offerings resented to the operator. The system demands of the global aviation and infra- imaging expedites throughput. It com- between different airport check-points. We support smooth procedures and efficient at software indicates concealed objects structure sectors. bines a dual-energy X-ray line scanner are constantly looking for ways to combine checkpoints. Smith’s Detection’s eqo solu- with a marker on the appropriate part of with full 3D volumetric Computed our software solutions with our existing tion has paved the way towards revolution- the graphical display. Another advan- How do your products help Tomography (CT) imaging and recon- products in order to improve passenger izing screening procedures with automatic tage of eqo is that it can be easily inte- in minimizing wait times? struction. Belt speed: 0.5m/sec experience. We are living in dangerous detection, guaranteeing accurate screening grated into any current checkpoint con- Passenger traffic at airports in the (98.5ft/min); tunnel size: 1070 x times today. results while ensuring passenger’s full priva- figuration. The open plan design offers a Middle East is growing at a rapid pace. In 810mm (42.1 x 31.9in). The product is How does Smiths Detection cy. It’s primarily used to detect concealed positive user experience and facilitates 2013, 278 million people accessed airports EU/ECAC EDS Standard 3 approved address privacy issues? threat objects and operates within a mini- ease of communication between the across the Middle East; a 7 per cent traffic and laboratory certified for high-speed People’s experience, safety and security mal footprint. operator and person being screened. rise since 2012. Airport operators across the world including in the Middle East are very focused on offering a smooth, hassle free and fast experience at security check- point areas. Smiths Detection is a leading provider of handheld solutions that are specifically designed to detect trace amounts of explosives, chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals or nar- cotics at check points that are compatible with all our customer’s evolving require- ments. The checkpoint area can’t expand with- out undertaking massive developments. One of the key challenges of today is get-

Hong Kong Umbrella Movement gets computer game makeover California startup unveils HONG KONG: How do you defend yourself Big bad wolf gun technology for cops against scores of tear gas wielding police while Leung’s canine appearance is a nod to a manning the barricades at Hong Kong’s protest common insult thrown by detractors at the camps? Unleash the wrath of Chinese deity city’s leader, whose name sounds similar to the Guan Yu. That’s just one of the options available Cantonese word for a wolf. But in keeping with Latest product would notify dispatchers in real time to players of a new smartphone game which the protest movement’s non-violent ethos pro- has swiftly become a hit among gamers and testers cannot attack their assailants. “I wanted WATSONVILLE: A Silicon Valley been able to hit a button to acti- nology is not creating a smart gun owners to adopt the technol- protesters in the southern Chinese city. “Yellow to make a game not only for fun but also to startup has developed technology vate the safety and disable the gun, but rather is “police gunfire ogy,” Paredes said. “If law enforce- Umbrella” has been downloaded more than show our support to the students and to let to let dispatchers know when a weapon. tracking technology.” Sam ment wants to adopt this technol- 40,000 times from Google Play’s store since its others know that they are very peaceful in ask- police officer’s weapon has been Schaff would not say exactly Paredes, executive director of Gun ogy, that’s great. Just don’t make release on Monday, the game’s developers told ing for real elections,” Fung, the 31-year-old fired. The latest product by why the company gave up on Owners of California, said his every gun owner adopt the tech- AFP, although it has yet to receive approval from founder of game developer Awesapp, said Yardarm Technologies would noti- remotely disabling guns. Gun organization isn’t opposed to the nology.” Smart gun technology Apple and is noticeably absent from Google’s from his office in an industrial park in the city’s fy dispatchers in real time when rights advocates have raised seri- particular technology Yardarm is has been around for decades, but online store in mainland China. Sha Tin district. “After the tear gas, after the an officer’s gun is taken out of its ous concerns that so-called smart developing and other smart-gun technological advances and The game puts players on a protester barri- violence from gangsters and even police, I holster and when it’s fired. It can gun technology could be used to technology. recent large shootings have cade as it is charged by lines of police officers, thought we needed to do more to show our also track where the gun is locat- limit their access to weapons. The “What we do oppose are gov- prompted more than a dozen triad thugs, angry locals and even the city’s support,” he added. The democracy move- ed and in what direction it was developers insist their latest tech- ernment mandates requiring all smart gun companies to begin leader Leung Chun-ying dressed as a wolf. ment was galvanized in late September after fired. Santa Cruz County Sheriff developing weapons. Some began Incense sticks, stacks of money and durian fruit police used tear gas 87 times to clear protest- Phil Wowak, whose agency is selling in gun shops this year, but can all be placed in front of the attackers to slow ers who took over a major road opposite the among two testing the technolo- them down in a tower defense format similar to government headquarters. analysts say controversy surround- the wildly popular Plants vs Zombies. And when As the protest spread into other parts of gy, said it will allow the sheriff’s ing the technology could limit things get really tough, protesters can call down the city, demonstrators have clashed over the office to see whether deputies are sales. Guan Yu-a popular Chinese deity prayed to for weeks with angry locals, thugs and police- in trouble and unable to ask for The technology that tracks an protection. though the rallies have for the most part assistance. “That’s the worst night- officer’s gun relies on the Internet “They (the protesters) like Guan Yu very been largely peaceful. Student leaders held mare for any police officer in the and requires a small device that much because they want to resolve the prob- talks with the government on Tuesday. But field,” he said. can fit in the handle of most police lem but they don’t know how to do it. They the discussions made little headway and The system will not include a handguns. It connects to the offi- don’t want to use violence, so they just ask the there are fears a full breakdown in talks could remote disabling mechanism. cer’s smart phone using Bluetooth. god to help,” the game’s creator Fung Kam- lead to further clashes. The game was devel- Yardarm was pursuing that tech- “The officer simply inserts it into keung said. The game itself is filled with cultural oped in just five days, and so far reviews are nology and demonstrated it at a the back of the firearm, and now references inspired by nearly a month of mass positive. conference in Las Vegas last year, it’s installed. They don’t even know rallies and roadblocks calling for Beijing to “We play this game in order to keep our- but it has since abandoned that it’s there anymore,” Schaff said dur- rescind its insistence that Hong Kong’s next selves reminded of our struggle for freedom effort, according to the Capitola, ing a recent demonstration. leader be vetted by a loyalist committee ahead and democracy. Fight for freedom!” one user California,-based company’s mar- Yardarm is paying for the test in of elections in 2017. Yellow umbrellas and rib- Zux Kev, who gave the maximum five star rat- keting vice president, Jim Schaff. the hopes they can develop the bons are used as defensive tools as student ing, commented on the Google Play store. “If Yardarm’s system would have trig- technology nationwide and leader Joshua Wong, who has become some- you’re a Hong Konger and love democracy, gered an alarm on an owner’s cell- SAN FRANCISCO: Jim Schaff, vice president of marketing with charge departments for it next thing of a local celebrity and heart throb, cheers play it,” user Yeung Tim-wing, who also gave a phone if a gun had been moved, Yardarm, holds a sensor that fits into an Airsoft replica of a year. Schaff said the company has from the barricades. five-star rating to the game, said. —AFP and the owner would then have Glock 17 handgun in San Francisco. —AP not yet determined a price. —AP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Medical worker quarantined in NJ under new Ebola safeguards

NEW YORK: A medical worker quarantined in New Kennedy International in New York and Newark Manhattan. City health officials have said Spencer, free on Friday after catching the virus from Duncan. Jersey on her return from treating Ebola victims in Liberty in New Jersey. They are among five airports 33, did not begin to show symptoms until Thursday Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and the CDC West Africa was being evaluated in a hospital isola- through which the federal government has recently morning, the day of his hospitalization, and was thus also confirmed that the second nurse, Amber Vinson, tion ward yesterday after new contagion-control ordered all US-bound travelers from Liberia, Sierra not contagious before then. no longer had detectable levels of virus but did not safeguards were imposed for America’s biggest Leone and Guinea funneled for special Ebola screen- However, public fears about transmission of the set a date for her to leave that facility. urban center. She was the first to be quarantined ing. The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed at disease were stoked by the disclosure that he had Spencer’s case brought to nine the total number under a policy imposed on Friday by the states of least 4,800 people since March, mostly in those three ridden subways, taken a taxi and visited a bowling of people treated for Ebola in US hospitals since New York and New Jersey requiring all health work- West African nations, and perhaps as many as 15,000, alley in the days before he fell ill. Three people who August. Just two, Pham and Vinson, contracted the ers coming from Ebola-stricken West African coun- according to the World Health Organization (WHO). had close contact with Spencer since his return to virus in the United States. White House spokesman tries to be automatically confined for monitoring Only four Ebola patients have been diagnosed so New York, including his fiancÈe, were quarantined as Josh Earnest declined to discuss the possibility of a during the 21-day incubation period of the virus. far in the United States: Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, well, but they were reported still healthy on Friday. nationwide quarantine policy but said “these kinds of The worker, who has not been publicly identified, who died on Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Medical detectives, meanwhile, tried to retrace policy decisions are going to be driven by science” showed no symptoms when she arrived at Newark Hospital in Dallas, two nurses who treated him there; Spencer’s steps in the city in search of others who and the advice of medical experts. Liberty International Airport on Friday but developed and Spencer, the first New York City case. might have been exposed. A senior administration official said it was impor- a fever after being admitted to University Hospital in President Barack Obama has so far resisted calls After first seeking to allay concerns that Spencer tant for the United States to take “coordinated” action Newark, the state health department said. by some politicians to institute a US ban on travel to put others at risk by venturing out in public before on the issue, noting federal officials had met as Fever can be an early sign of the disease, which is and from West Africa. But expanding mandatory becoming sick, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently as Friday morning, but have not yet made a spread through direct contact with bodily fluids from quarantines to healthcare workers arriving through said Friday that common sense demanded a more decision. The prospect of expanding quarantines an infected person who is exhibiting symptoms. No all five designated US airports is an option under cautious approach. He was joined by Governor Chris also raised questions about balancing the needs for other details about her background or condition consideration by the administration, Tom Skinner, a Christie of neighboring New Jersey, marking a bipar- safeguarding public health with protecting civil liber- were given, but a department statement said she spokesman for the US Center for Disease Control and tisan teaming of two prominent political figures to ties, legal experts said. was “in isolation and being evaluated”. Prevention (CDC), told Reuters. take steps going beyond national restrictions being “It’s a severe restriction that the use of which New York and New Jersey officials acted to begin imposed by the Obama administration. should be very much guarded, that people should mandatory isolation of medical personnel arriving Tougher action Cuomo is seen as a rising star in the Democratic have a right to an attorney and some type of due from Ebola zones after Craig Spencer, a doctor who The two-state quarantine policy was instituted a Party led by Obama, and Christie, a Republican, is process,” said attorney Joel Kupferman, executive treated patients in Guinea for a month, came back to day after Spencer, a physician for the humanitarian widely discussed as a potential 2016 contender for director of the New York Environmental Law and New York City infected. group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without the White House. In Washington, Obama also sought Justice Project. “When they quarantine someone, The new measures apply to two airports serving Borders), tested positive for Ebola and was admitted to reassure a worried public with an Oval Office hug they should make sure that they are not treated as a the greater New York City metropolitan area - John F to a special isolation unit at Bellevue Hospital in of Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who was declared Ebola- criminal.” — Reuters

Ebola-stricken doctor a globe-trotting do-gooder NEW YORK: Dr Craig Spencer, the for the disease had passed. The virus physician now being treated for Ebola can hide in the body for up to 21 days in New York City, is the kind of globe- before a person develops symptoms. trotting do-gooder who could walk “Dr. Spencer is a valued fellow and was into a small village in Africa and, even a volunteer and did great work, but though he didn’t know the language, that was a voluntary quarantine situa- win people over through hugs alone, tion for 21 days. He’s a doctor and even according to people who worked with he didn’t follow the voluntary quaran- him. tine, let’s be honest,” Cuomo said. Even before leaving for Guinea this summer to fight Ebola with Doctors Monitoring Without Borders, the 33-year-old had Neither the US Centers for Disease amassed an ordinary man’s lifetime Control nor Doctors without Borders worth of world travel, much of which ask health care workers returning from was in the service of the poor. In the the Ebola hot zone to quarantine past three years alone, Spencer, an themselves, but they do recommend attending physician at New York- that they monitor their temperature at Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia least twice a day. Spencer was comply- University Medical Center, had been to ing with that guidance, officials have Rwanda to work on an emergency care said. Friends of the stricken doctor teaching curriculum, volunteered at a described him Friday as fun-loving but health clinic in Burundi, helped investi- driven to stay involved in the global gate an infectious parasitic disease in health fight. the Democratic Republic of Congo and “Everything else in his life was two, traveled to 32 villages in Indonesia to three and four on the priority list,” said do a public health survey. Dr. Liz Edelstein, a San Diego emer- “He was never afraid of getting his gency medicine physician who met hands dirty or his feet dirty,” said Dr Spencer while teaching a course on PORT LOKO: A child stands near a sign advising of a quarantined home in an effort to combat the spread of the Ebola virus in Port Loko, Sierra Deogratias Niyizonkiza, founder of wilderness medicine. Leone. More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola, according to figures released yesterday by the World Health Organization, as Village Health Works, the aid group Doctors at Bellevue and city officials the outbreak continues to spread. — AP that brought him to Burundi for four haven’t released much information months in 2012. about his condition, but said he was “He went into this environment, a well enough on midday Friday that he country that is truly off the mark, with- was speaking to people by cellphone. out knowing the language and he Ebola death toll tops 4,900 Spencer’s fiancee has also been would make everyone feel so comfort- quarantined at the hospital, though able. It’s really a daunting task and yet she had not developed any sign of the he helped the people immensely,” Niyizonkiza said. “He talked to every- illness. In an article that appeared in as virus spreads, says WHO one, including the people working in the journal of Emergency Physicians the lab ... Their language was just to International last May, Spencer talked hug each other and smile.” about some of the tough conditions Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone record 10,114 cases In between it all, Spencer ran the he witnessed while working in ING New York City Marathon in 2013, Burundi. Those included a lack of GENEVA: The death toll from the Ebola epidemic tion in treatment centres, some of which have symptoms that include fever. finishing with a respectable amateur basics as simple as aspirin, and having rose to 4,922 out of 10,141 known cases in eight refused patients due to a lack of beds and basic In all, 450 health care workers have been time of 3 hours, 43 minutes. Spencer to ration a limited supply of oxygen for countries through Oct 23, the World Health supplies. infected to date including one in Spain and three was hospitalized at New York City’s the gravely ill. Organization (WHO) said yesterday. The UN agency, sounding an ominous note, in the United States- leading to the death of 244 Bellevue Hospital Center on Thursday, “In one case we gave oxygen to a The virus, which reached Mali through a two- said that out of the eight districts of Liberia and of them, the WHO said. “At the same time, exhaus- six days after returning from Guinea. child with pneumonia over a woman year-old girl who died on Friday, now threatens Guinea sharing a border with Ivory Coast, only tive efforts are ongoing to ensure an ample sup- Health officials said he began feeling who was very anemic from malaria,” he Ivory Coast, having infected people virtually all two have yet to report confirmed or probable ply of optimal personal protective equipment to tired on Tuesday, spent a day out in said. “The physicians in Burundi are along its borders with Guinea and Liberia. Ivory Ebola cases. It has also said trials of Ebola vaccines all Ebola treatment facilities, along with the provi- the city on Wednesday, and then alert- some of the best I’ve ever come across Coast is the world’s biggest cocoa producer. The could begin in West Africa in December, a month sion of training and relevant guidelines to ensure ed authorities when he developed a ... I don’t think I would have had the Ebola outbreak has hurt the economic growth earlier than expected, and hundreds of thousands that all HCWs (health care workers) are exposed fever Thursday morning. same success in deciding who needed that has been raising living standards in the of doses should be available for use by the middle to the minimum possible level of risk.” Experts have repeatedly assured the oxygen to survive and who didn’t. But region. The three worst-hit countries of West of next year. A medical worker quarantined in New Jersey public that there is little chance that they had experience. They’d seen it Africa-Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone-account The WHO says 15 African states including Ivory on her return from treating Ebola victims in West Spencer spread the virus prior to before.” for the bulk of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, Coast are at highest risk of the deadly virus being Africa was being evaluated in a hospital isolation developing symptoms, but his case Columbia University Mailman recording 4,912 deaths out of 10,114 cases, the imported. In the last 10 days it sent teams to both ward yesterday after new contagion-control safe- prompted the governors of New York School of Public Health epidemiologist WHO said in its update. priority Mali and Ivory Coast to help national guards were imposed for America’s biggest urban and New Jersey on Friday to order a Leslie Roberts, who worked with The overall figures include outbreaks in authorities gear up their capacity to detect and center. Isolation wards have been used for med- mandatory quarantine for any arriving Spencer on field research in Burundi, Nigeria and Senegal, deemed by the WHO to be treat potential cases. Four WHO experts are travel- ical personnel returning from Ebola zones since international travelers who had con- said in an email that he is “one of the now over, as well as isolated cases in Spain, the ling this weekend to Mali to reinforce the team Craig Spencer, a doctor who treated patients in tact with Ebola patients in three West most brilliant and delightful people” United States and a single case in Mali. there. Guinea for a month, came back to New York City African countries. he’d ever worked with. Spencer attend- But the true toll may be three times as much: The agency warned on Friday that many infected. “The patient is currently in isolation at The first person to fall under the ed The Johns Hopkins University as an by a factor of 1.5 in Guinea, 2 in Sierra Leone and people in Mali had potentially been exposed Bellevue Hospital in New York City, one of eight order was a health care worker return- undergraduate, studied Chinese lan- 2.5 in Liberia, while the death rate is thought to to the virus because the little girl was taken New York State hospitals that have been desig- ing Friday from treating Ebola patients guage and literature at Henan be about 70 percent of all cases. The WHO has across the country while ill. Some 43 people nated to treat patients with Ebola Virus Disease. in West Africa. By Friday evening, she University, got his MD at Wayne State said that many families are keeping infected peo- with whom she was in contact, including 10 Possible contacts are being identified and fol- had developed a fever but tested neg- University School of Medicine, in ple at home rather than putting them into isola- health care workers, are being monitored for lowed up,” WHO said. — Reuters ative for Ebola in a preliminary evalua- Detroit, and his Masters in public tion, New Jersey officials said. health at Mailman, according to his New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo criti- LinkedIn page. His profile said he was cized Spencer, saying he should have also proficient in Spanish, French and Mali scrambles to contain stayed home until any danger period Greek. — AP Ebola fears after girl dies

BAMAKO: Mali authorities yesterday scrambled to ease fears after the death of a two-year-old multiple opportunities for exposures-including to calm fears over Ebola after the disease girl, the first Ebola case in the landlocked coun- high-risk exposures-involving many people,” the claimed its first victim in the African country, a try, who travelled from neighboring Guinea. UN agency said. The girl and her grandmother contagious toddler who took a 1,000-kilometre “We are doing everything to prevent panic travelled by public transport from Keweni in journey on public buses before seeking treat- and psychosis,” he said in an interview with Guinea through the towns of Kankan, Sigouri ment. The World Health Organization warned French radio. “Since the start of this epidemic, and Kouremale to the Malian capital, Bamako. the situation in Mali was an “emergency,” and we in Mali took all measures to be safe, but we “The two stayed in Bamako for two hours said in its latest Ebola situation report that the never hermetically sealed ourselves from this,” before travelling on to Kayes,” in Mali’s south- biggest outbreak on record has now killed 4,922 he said. west, where treatment was sought for the child, people, the vast majority of them in Guinea, “Guinea is a neighbouring country, we have a the WHO said. Liberia and Sierra Leone, with 10,141 cases common border that we have not closed and The route made for a journey of around 1,000 reported. that we will not close.” kilometers (620 miles) that would likely take the The US states of New York and New Jersey better part of 24 hours. ordered mandatory quarantine for medics who Mali ‘emergency’ “Bleeding from the nose began while both had treated victims of the disease in west Africa, But WHO said it was treating the situation in were still in Guinea, meaning that the child was after a doctor who had returned from the Mali as an “emergency” because the toddler had symptomatic during their travels through Mali... region became the first Ebola case in New York travelled for hundreds of kilometres on public multiple opportunities for exposure occurred City. transport with her grandmother while showing when the child was visibly symptomatic.” President Barack Obama sought to calm a jit- symptoms of the disease-meaning that she was An Ebola victim is contagious when showing NEW YORK: A couple read news about Ebola on a screen in Times Square on tery public by hugging one of the two nurses contagious. symptoms of the virus, such as a high fever. Friday in New York City. Dr Craig Spencer, who returned to New York from Guinea who became the first to contract Ebola on She was said to be secreting bodily fluids- The Malian authorities were tracing everyone 10 days ago, tested positive for Ebola and is now being cared for at Bellevue American soil after treating a patient, but has contact with which is how the virus is passed on. who had contact with the girl and her grand- Hospital. Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, travelled around the now been declared free of the disease. “The child’s symptomatic state during the bus mother and 43 people had been placed under city after returning home. — AFP Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita aimed journey is especially concerning, as it presented observation, the WHO said. — AFP SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

US halal food supplier indicted over beef exports IOWA CITY: The founder of a popular according to the indictment. Midamar line of food products for observant also listed the wrong slaughterhouse Muslims has been charged with fraud- on paperwork sent to the US ulently shipping beef to Malaysia and Department of Agriculture to receive Indonesia that didn’t meet the coun- certificates for exporting, prosecutors tries’ import requirements, federal allege. The indictment charges Aossey prosecutors in Iowa said Friday. with conspiring to sell misbranded Bill Aossey Jr, who founded meat, making false statements on Midamar Corp in 1974, is charged with export certificates, wire fraud and conspiring to change labels and fabri- money laundering. cate documents to make products Faraj said evidence will show that appear that they originated from a the exported beef met Malaysian and slaughterhouse that met Malaysian Indonesian standards. “This was not a and Indonesian requirements. Iowa- case where they were substituting infe- based Midamar is a leading US halal rior product for the product that was company that sells beef, turkey, chick- requested. It was a minor regulatory en and other products around the violation that USDA’s own inspectors world. His attorney, Haytham Faraj, who were present didn’t think was a called the 19-count indictment unfair, violation at the time,” he said. “The saying it was filed after his client reject- product was of the same quality. It met ed a plea agreement. Aossey, a promi- the halal standard.” nent 73-year-old Cedar Rapids busi- He said he believed Midamar was nessman, hasn’t been arrested and is being treated more harshly than other expected to soon make an initial court meat companies because of its Muslim appearance, Faraj said. ownership. The investigation dates to Aossey, a son of Syrian immigrants, 2010, when USDA inspectors seized is the “quintessential American success thousands of pounds of what they Ryu Young-joon peers through a microscope, at Kangwon National University Hospital in Cuncheon, South Korea. Ryu, the whistle-blower who story,” Faraj said. Midamar, now operat- called misbranded meat products at exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake, says South Korea is still dominated by the values that allowed science fraudster ed by Aossey’s sons, celebrated its 40th Midamar. The agency stopped volun- Hwang Woo-suk to become an almost untouchable national hero. —AP anniversary this week. tary inspections at Midamar but Malaysia and Indonesia restrict the resumed them after the company took import of halal beef products to those corrective actions. In 2012, agents from certified slaughter facilities. Halal descended on Midamar to serve search Cloning whistleblower: meat is supposed to be killed in ritual warrants seizing its business records, slaughter and processed in compliance computers and bank accounts. with Islamic law. The indictment The Council on American-Islamic Little changed in S Korea alleges that Midamar, which relies on Relations, the largest US Muslim civil third-party suppliers for meat that it liberties group, said it was troubled by packages and sells, used an unnamed the raid and the secrecy surrounding it. CHUNCHEON: The whistleblower who exposed Hwang in 2005 had claimed a significant advance Even before his emergence as a national hero, Minnesota slaughterhouse that wasn’t Midamar’s lawyers have accused the breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake in the cloning of human embryonic stem cells, which researchers at Hwang’s lab felt unable to challenge certified to supply beef to customers in government of improperly trying to says South Korea is still dominated by the values that are a medical holy grail for their ability to become any him. A quiet exit from his lab was all they could wish both countries between 2007 and define halal standards, saying that allowed science fraudster Hwang Woo-suk to become type of human cell. That capacity to create healthy for. But they could not leave without a letter of rec- 2010. should be left to religions. Faraj said the an almost untouchable national hero. In an interview new cells raised possibilities such as reversing spinal ommendation. Without it, no employer or graduate Midamar employees used nail pol- government has backed off accusations with The Associated Press after almost a decade of cord injuries and curing Alzheimer’s disease. The school would accept them. To get one, they had to silence, Ryu Young-joon, one of Hwang’s former research published in the prestigious journal Science deliver the results that Hwang wanted, Ryu said. ish to remove the Minnesota slaughter- that Midamar didn’t understand halal. researchers, said the cost of telling the truth still said Hwang and his team used 185 eggs to establish No longer under Hwang’s control after using a house’s federal establishment number “This is, as I call it, the consolation weighs on him but he doesn’t regret his decision to 11 cell lines, a major advance from his research pub- plausible excuse to leave his lab, Ryu had the choice from packaging and put new labels prize,” he said of the indictment. “We out Hwang as a false prophet. lished in 2004 which claimed it took 242 eggs to cre- of being silent forever. Yet there was one factor that containing the number of an Omaha couldn’t get you on that, so we’ll get The revelations in 2005 rocked South Korea which ate just one cell line. Hwang also asserted that his would convince him to take an enormous risk: a para- slaughterhouse that was certified, you on something else.” — AP had celebrated Hwang’s research as a historic team grew embryonic stem cells that would geneti- lyzed 10-year-old boy who believed Hwang would achievement, focused unfavorable attention on the cally match patients and not be rejected by the help him walk again. country and diminished the reputation of its scientific immune system. Ryu was furious when he heard that a clinical trial establishment. The memory of the scandal is still Ryu, who by then had left Hwang’s lab, instinctive- on the paralyzed 10-year-old was imminent, believing US military starts training painful today and Hwang, though convicted of ly knew the research was a sham. He had written the there was a risk the experimental stem cell procedure embezzlement and violating bioethical laws, discred- first draft of Hwang’s 2004 study for Science. But that could kill him. Ebola rapid-response team ited and relegated to the scientific backwater of pet work still posed major obstacles for clinical treat- “If I did nothing then how could I live with the cloning, retains a loyal following among sections of ments because it needed too many eggs and it was remorse? What if someone died? It would be harder SAN ANTONIO: As health officials were with military precision putting on and the public and media. possible that the one stem cell line produced had to stand that,” he said. Ryu made several calls to pro- trying to manage a patient infected with taking off the bulky personal protective In the nearly 10 years since Hwang’s accomplish- occurred spontaneously, not as a result of cloning. fessors at Hwang’s lab but they were ignored. Ebola in New York, US military personnel equipment that is to be worn as part of ments were found to be built on lies, Ryu feels little The new research claimed to have overcome these in Texas were in the first stages of train- the protocol for medical personnel treat- has changed in a society where cozy ties between challenges in less than a year even though key Fraudulent ing a new rapid-response team that ing an Ebola-infected patient. government, business, the media and academics sti- researchers had left the lab. His friends and colleagues warned him it would be could head to hospitals the next time an In the next room, nurses dressed in fle criticism and foster blind nationalism. And junior Still, Ryu did not immediately act. He waited for almost impossible to prove the 2005 study was fraud- outbreak occurs. the protective suits practiced taking researchers still face great pressure to produce the other researchers to come forward and didn’t want to ulent when its author was so powerful. Ryu recalled The 30-member US Military Ebola vital signs on a dummy used for med- results their scientific mentors want and lack a formal jeopardize the medical career he was pursuing in a the night before he emailed Munhwa Broadcasting Rapid Response Team assembled at the ical training. The US Centers for Disease channel for whistleblowing. neurosurgery department. Corp. In his journal, he wrote a list of things that Army’s San Antonio Military Medical Control and Prevention announced new South Korea, said Ryu, is still obsessed with joining In 2005, South Korea’s government approached would happen to him. His would lose his job. He Center on Wednesday and consists of protocols for the protective suits after the ranks of advanced countries and to achieve that biotechnology like it had supported exporters of would not be able to see his patients again. He would five physicians, 20 nurses and five certi- two hospital nurses in Dallas who had end, many people believe it is acceptable to sacrifice computer chips and cars years earlier: an engine for not be able to make a living. His career would end. fied trainers. The group will supervise treated a man infected with Ebola ethics, safety and other concerns. the country’s growth that would make Koreans rich MBC eventually aired two programs that questioned treatment and help hospitals deal with became infected with the deadly virus “Mr Hwang is not a peculiar person. He is a por- and win foreign recognition. With the 2005 article in the research’s authenticity and unethical methods the intricacies of treating Ebola. this month. trait of us. He shows the South Korean society as it is,” Science, Hwang was put on a pedestal. Media and used to recruit egg donors. “There is always a fear factor when Navy Commander James Lawler, a Ryu said. “Most people believe that if we play by the politicians united to wax lyrical about Hwang. Drunk Far from being thanked, Ryu and MBC faced an you are dealing with this disease,” Major physician who has experience treating rules, we can’t catch up with the advanced on acclamation, Hwang promised to cure a famous intense backlash from a public that adored Hwang. Joseph Narvaez, a physician on the team, Ebola in West Africa, said a major effort economies.” singer who was paralyzed from the waist down after a Denounced by Hwang’s supporters as a traitor, Ryu traffic accident. was forced to resign from his job and lived like a fugi- said on Friday when training was open to will be made to make sure the team Advance “He began to gain an image of religious revivalist,” tive with his wife for months, separated from his child. the media. does not spread Ebola, or contract it The sinking of the Sewol ferry in April that killed Ryu said. “In the past, he was just a scientist with some But the programs led Seoul National University to “The more we train the more confi- themselves. hundreds of people was for many South Koreans the bluff.” The country doled out lavish treatment that open an investigation, which concluded that no dent we are.” Team members said they “Protecting our healthcare workers is latest vivid example of putting profit over safety. The other scientists could only dream of. A government embryonic stem cell lines were created and the arti- have not been requested to go to New our primary concern,” he said. national obsession with winning is played out every commission anointed him as the nation’s top scien- cles in Science in 2004 and 2005 were based on fabri- York City, where the latest case of Ebola Physician Narvaez said the team fall when Nobel prizes are announced. When tist. Hwang’s word could cut or add to the funds that cated data. Hwang was dismissed from the university in the United States was confirmed on sees its mission as a deployment to Japanese scientists took the physics prize this year, flowed to scientists. Government-appointed security and Science retracted his work. His legal battles con- Thursday night. It will deploy on the face an enemy. “We try to know our South Korean media was stuffed with analysis and guards began escorting him. Stamps were issued to cluded earlier this year with a suspended 18-month request of the US Department of Health enemy and know its weaknesses,” he handwringing about how Japan has taken 19 Nobel celebrate Hwang’s feat. Korean Air Lines promised prison sentence. His license to clone human embryos and Human Services. said. “We absolutely know that we will prizes in the field of science while South Korea has him first-class travel for free. Children began reading was revoked but Hwang has since made a comeback In the training, members practiced defeat it.” — Reuters none. Hwang’s biography. in animal cloning. — AP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Lu&Lu Hypermarket launches ‘Best of Britain 2014’

u&Lu Hypermarket, the largest 2014’ on 22 October in an elaborate Ambassador to Kuwait, inaugurated food products on offer during the fes- er instance where Lu&Lu Hypermarket and when they want it, with the clear operator of retail outlets in the inaugural ceremony at its Al Qurain the Food Festival at 6 pm in the pres- tival showcased high-quality British demonstrates its market insight, pro- focus of consolidating their retail dom- Lregion, launched ‘Best of Britain outlet. Mathew Lodge, Her Majesty’s ence of Regional Director Mohamed foods, many of which also address the vided customers with what they want inance in the region. Haris, Regional Manager Sreejith K.S., growing environmental and sustain- Operations Manager Martin Daly, ability concerns of customers. For a Commercial Manager Abdul Samad taste of Britain, the hypermarket’s spe- and other top management officials. cial British sampling food counters In its festive spirit, the Best of arranged in hot food sections were Britain 2014 highlighted Britain’s giant thronged with customers. Ferris wheel Britain Eye, its historical The opening of a dedicated pro- Britain Bridge, the red English curement office in Birmingham Telephone Booth and the Routemaster ensured that the Hypermarket not Britain bus, much to the delight of cus- only sourced the highest quality tomers. British foods, but also a speedy and The Best of Britain 2014, an eagerly timely delivery to their outlets across awaited annual event, celebrates the the region. With consignments of fresh best of British food. Besides fresh dairy dairy and bakery products brought in and bakery products, among the high- by air, frozen goods arriving by sea lights of this year’s festival was a dis- and the range of British grocery prod- play of ethical and organic produce, ucts on their shelves constantly which is gaining popularity with many replenished, the Hypermarket current- consumers, as well as among health ly accounts for a large portion of watchers in the country. The range British retail exports to the region. and variety of delectable and diverse The Best of Britain 2014, yet anoth-

Adooronam 2014

eople of Adoor living in Kuwait celebrated Onam at Hi-Dine auditorium, Abbassiya. PClassical dance by Adoor Children and also children from different dance schools performed along with cinematic dance, skits etc. The men of Adoor, with their traditional Kerala attire, displayed the Adoor Chundan - snake boat, which has taken all of them virtually to the homeland. Musical extrava- ganza led by local fame Binoy KJ, who is also a native of Adoor supported by Rebecca enthralled audience. Earlier the ‘King Mahabali’ visited the crowd and bless his ‘subjects’. The star attraction of the day was the performance by Kalabhavan Sudhi, who mesmerized the audience with his talent in mimicry. Al Mulla International Exchange launches 56th branch in Hawally The traditional lighting the lamp has done by advisory chairman Koshy Mathew Nellimmoottil. The n-line with the efforts of providing the best service and the company to strengthen its geographical presence, as The launch in Hawally is considered one of our strategic chief guest Sharaffudin Kannethu delivered Onam & easy access to its customers, Al Mulla International well as assuring offering the highest standards of efficiency expansion plans; as the leading exchange company that Eid message. President of Adoor NRI Forum, Kuwait, IExchange, the leading money remittance company in by achieving the requirements and needs of the money has huge number of loyal customers from expats to Mathews Oommen, chaired the meeting, while Kuwait, has recently opened their 6th branch in the coun- remittance sector which is part of its strategic expansion Kuwaitis we shall continue to make an endeavor to make try with the inauguration of their 56th branch in Hawally at plans, thus this will give us the opportunity of being closer our services easily accessible to them.” Rakesh concluded: General Secretary Sam C Vilanilam welcomed the Abraaj Complex Building B on Al Othman Street Near Al to our customers in Hawally.” “Our name is associated with the best financial institutions, gathering. Joint secretary Bijo P Babu, presented a Khurd Roundabout, giving the customers in more flexibili- Rakesh also added: “Hawally is considered one of the technical expertise, and our goal is to provide the most plan of action for the directory on behalf of directo- ty and easy access to transfer money through their pre- most viral areas that includes large number of population, efficient possible service to our customers.” ry committee. Vice President Reju Varghese, handed ferred and secure exchange company. This branch is an with the launch of the 6th branch we aim to provide the Al Mulla International Exchange, established in 2001 over the first cheque for advertisement to Jacob addition to the chain of branches of Al Mulla International best service and easy access to all our customers located in always assured in providing outstanding services to its cus- George Kottavila, the convener of Directory commit- Exchange that are all across the vital areas in Kuwait. and around Hawally, as we consider them our essential tomers and seeks to meet their expectations and satisfac- tee. Shyju Adoor was the MC. Jini Saji, Jayan Regarding the launch, Rakesh Joshi, General Manager assets and our goal is to satisfy their needs and support tion, it always strives to provide all its branches with the Janardhanan spoke on the occasion, Joint secretary said: “The launch of the 6th branch of Al Mulla them as much as we can as an appreciation to their loyalty latest technologies in favor to its customers and innovative Anu P Rajan delivered vote of thanks. International Exchange in Hawally reflects the keenness of and contribution to the growth of our business.” remittances and money transfer solutions. ICSK extends a helping hand to flood-hit people in Kashmir

What’s On - Submission Guidelines he students of the Indian Community School Kuwait contributed an amount of over 3 lakh Trupees (approx: KD 1,500) for relief operations in the state of Jammu and Kashmir where millions of All photos submitted for What’s On people have been affected by the worst floods in over a century. A cheque of Rs 302779 was handed should be minimum 200dpi. over to Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain on 21st Articles must be in plain text and October, 2014, at the Indian Embassy. Vice-Chairman to the ICSK Board of Trustees Bobby Mathew, the should include name and phone Secretary Vijay Karayil, Principal Dr V Binumon and the students Syed Talib Ali, Ankita Ann Binu and numbers. Articles and photos that Rashmi Dinesh Kamath represented ICSK. fail to meet these requirements will Highly noteworthy is that ICSK is the first school in Kuwait to contribute funds towards the Kashmir not be published. relief fund. Through this contribution, the students have learnt some invaluable lessons in social respon- Please send them to sibility and concern for the unfortunate victims of the natural disaster. As a part of education, the ICSK [email protected] sensitizes the children to the issues of the society and inculcates in them values which help them to develop and grow into humane individuals. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

US Ambassador Douglas A Silliman and Board of Directors for Hayat Breast Cancer Foundation with a contributor. Contributors at the Tree of Hope initiative. his wife during a briefing by Dr Labiba Temmim at the ‘Tree of Hope’ initiative.

Prestige Main Entrance lit in pink in observance with World Breast The Tree of Hope initiative at Grand Avenue. The Avenues lit in pink. Cancer Awareness Month. The Avenues supports world breast cancer awareness month

he Avenues, in collaboration with Hayat Breast ceeds from donations will benefit those inflicted by breast observed for one month. ly visited the ‘Tree of Hope’ initiative at The Avenues and Cancer Campaign, launched their ‘Tree of Hope’ ini- cancer disease who cannot afford costs of treatments, in This initiative is among a series of awareness cam- were briefed about the breast cancer awareness campaign. Ttiative in observance with World Breast Cancer addition to supporting all campaign related initiatives paigns in which The Avenues partakes on an annual basis. Commenting on this occasion, The Avenues manage- Awareness Month which officially began in early October including educating and promoting early diagnoses and The aim of these campaigns is to educate visitors and raise ment said, “The ‘Tree of Hope’, in collaboration with Hayat for a period of one month. detection for risk prevention of breast cancer disease. their level of awareness about the various health and Breast Cancer Campaign, is part of our Corporate Social The ‘Tree of Hope’ initiative is an opportunity for all visi- And for the sixth consecutive year, The Avenues is lit in social issues in collaboration with non-profit organiza- Responsibility initiative aimed at raising awareness tors to contribute by donating KD1 and, in return, tie a pink in support of the World Breast Cancer Awareness tions. towards our community with high hope that its receives pink ribbon on the tree, located in Grand Avenue. All pro- Month which also kicked off on1stof October and US Ambassador Douglas A. Silliman and his wife recent- wider attention and support from our visitors.” Argo Tea Café opens its first branch in Kuwait

rgo Tea, the award winning international tea brand, has opened its first Café in Kuwait in the Tavern com- Aplex located in the popular Jabriya district. Founded in Chicago in 2003, Argo Tea Café is present in 40 locations across the United States. Azadea group is the Franchise owner in the Middle East, and is currently operating 7 Argo Tea Café’s located in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha. Argo Tea is the largest tea Café chain in the world, serv- ing 10 million cups of tea annually. The company serves tea that is all-natural and made from real ingredients that are sourced from more than a dozen countries across the globe. Speaking on eve of an exclusive media event, Hussam El Batta, Senior Brand Manager for Argo Tea Café MENA said, “Our food and beverage philosophy is based on three truths: all natural, real ingredients and smart calo- ries. We’ve created our own unique blends of “Signature Drinks” that are all naturally fresh, healthy and distinc- tive, always made from real ingredients that are free of any artificial flavorings, colors or additives.” Commenting on the brand’s expansion in the region, El Batta further added “we have received positive feedbacks from our customers and are optimistic about the growth of the tea-consumption market here. We already operate 7 Cafés and have plans to open 2 more in Doha, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi by the end of this year. “ Engaging and interactive, the media event saw atten- dees being welcomed and treated to a pass around of Argo Tea’s signature drinks. Led by a specially trained tea host, an interactive blind tea tasting activity was organized to give media guests a chance to taste and smell different tea blends exclusively created by Argo Tea. Dany Abou Jamra, Country Manager for Azadea Group in Kuwait also commented “Argo Tea continues to challenge the traditional perception of tea. Tea drinking is an integral part of the Arab culture; people usually choose to socialize over tea at home with family and friends. Argo Tea Café makes this tea drinking experience more of a fun, social rit- ual; our cafes provide the perfect atmosphere for people to meet up with friends, family or even business associates.” Passionate about bringing teas directly from growers around the world, Argo Tea Café is dedicated to being a sus- tainable business by working with the best local and global tea, coffee, and food artisans and by contributing back to the community to promote a healthy lifestyle and the con- servation of natural resources. This eclectic blend of quality, taste, design and style has made Argo Tea Café the global leader in the tea Café concept

Upcoming Events in Kuwait

OCTOBER with a section of the museum dedicated 31 - 7 Market - Outdoor market at 5KD per child! Kids will get 1 game of 27 - Guided Tour of Hamad Al Fuzai to his relatives who died during the inva- Kipco Tower, Kuwait City. October 31. For bowling, a 1KD arcade card, 1 Cozmo bag, Museum of Antiques from 5pm. KD 2 per sion of Kuwait. Join us as he recounts sto- inquiries, email [email protected] a coloring book, a McDonalds kids meal person. Opened by a Kuwaiti gentleman ries about Kuwait and about the antiques 31 - Halloween party at Cozmo and trick or treat goodies. Participating in his own home, this museum has an housed in the museum. Advance reserva- Bowling in Discovery Mall. Bring kids for a kids in costume will be in a parade and excellent collection of Kuwaiti antiques tions required at [email protected] spooktacular time from 4-6pm for only have a chance to win prizes! TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

02:00 Antiques Roadshow 03:20 Art Attack 12:00 Champions League T20 02:50 Bargain Hunt 03:45 Art Attack 03:35 Homes Under The Hammer 04:10 Jungle Junction Highlights 04:25 Food & Drink 04:20 Jungle Junction 13:00 Champions League T20 00:45 After The Attack 04:55 Come Dine With Me 04:35 Jungle Junction Highlights 14:00 ICC Cricket 360 01:35 Animal Cops Houston 05:40 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 04:45 Jungle Junction 00:00 Down The Shore-PG15 14:30 Champions League T20 02:25 Shamwari: A Wild Life 06:05 Antiques Roadshow 05:00 Art Attack 02:00 The Hot Flashes-PG15 Highlights 02:50 Shamwari: A Wild Life 07:00 Antiques Roadshow 05:25 Art Attack 04:00 The Arrangement-PG15 15:30 Champions League T20 03:15 Too Cute! 07:50 Bargain Hunt 05:50 Mouk 06:00 Despicable Me 2-PG Highlights 04:05 My Cat From Hell 08:35 Homes Under The Hammer 06:00 Jessie 08:00 Peeples-PG15 16:30 Champions League T20 04:55 Jaws Strikes Back 09:30 Food & Drink 06:25 Liv And Maddie 10:00 Good Day For It-PG15 Highlights 05:45 After The Attack 09:55 Come Dine With Me 06:45 Dog With A Blog 12:00 The Hot Flashes-PG15 17:30 Live Champions League T20 06:35 Animal Airport 10:45 Antiques Roadshow 07:10 I Didn’t Do It 14:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 07:00 Meerkat Manor 11:35 Antiques Roadshow 07:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 Peeples-PG15 21:30 Champions League T20 07:25 Dogs 101 12:30 Bargain Hunt Teenage Witch 18:00 Jack The Giant Slayer-PG15 Highlights 08:15 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 13:15 Homes Under The Hammer 07:55 Win, Lose Or Draw 20:00 Grown Ups 2-PG15 22:30 Champions League T20 08:45 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 14:05 Food & Drink 08:20 Suite Life On Deck 22:00 Kick-Ass 2-18 09:10 Project Puppy 14:30 Come Dine With Me 08:45 A.N.T. Farm Highlights 09:40 Project Puppy 15:20 Antiques Roadshow 09:05 A.N.T. Farm 23:30 Champions League T20 10:05 Call Of The Wildman 16:15 Antiques Roadshow 09:30 Sonny With A Chance Highlights 10:30 Call Of The Wildman 17:05 Simply Italian 09:55 Sonny With A Chance 11:00 Jaws Comes Home 17:30 Bargain Hunt 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 00:00 AFL Premiership highlights 11:55 Meerkat Manor 18:15 Homes Under The Hammer 10:40 Suite Life On Deck 01:00 PGA European Tour high- 12:20 Animal Airport 19:10 Food & Drink 11:05 That’s So Raven lights 12:50 Too Cute! 19:35 Simply Italian 11:25 That’s So Raven 02:00 AFL Premiership highlights 03:00 Trans World Sport 13:45 My Cat From Hell 20:00 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 11:50 A.N.T. Farm 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 04:00 World Match Racing tour 14:40 Shamwari: A Wild Life Taylor 12:15 A.N.T. Farm 01:00 Alaskan Women Looking For 15:05 Shamwari: A Wild Life 05:00 World Match Racing tour 20:25 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 12:35 Good Luck Charlie Love 15:30 Dogs 101 06:00 World Match Racing tour 20:50 Bargain Hunt 13:00 Good Luck Charlie 01:50 Breaking Amish: Los Angeles 16:30 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 21:35 Bargain Hunt 13:25 Jessie 07:00 Golfing World 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 17:00 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 22:20 Bargain Hunt 13:45 Jessie 08:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 03:05 Secretly Pregnant 17:25 Weird Creatures With Nick 23:00 Homes Under The Hammer 14:10 Austin & Ally 09:00 Web.com Tour 03:55 Long Island Medium Baker 23:55 Food & Drink 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 12:00 WWE Night Of Champion 18:20 Call Of The Wildman 15:00 Mako Mermaids 12:30 Top 14 Highlights 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 18:45 Call Of The Wildman 15:25 I Didn’t Do It 13:00 Golfing World 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 19:15 Bondi Vet 15:50 Liv And Maddie 14:00 Champion Tour 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 20:10 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 16:10 Violetta 17:00 AFL Premiership highlights 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 20:40 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 17:00 Dog With A Blog 18:00 Golfing World 07:00 Craft Wars 21:05 Shark Girl 00:20 Outback Truckers 17:20 Jessie 19:00 NRL Full time 07:50 The Next Great Baker 22:00 Bondi Vet 01:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 17:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 19:30 Futbol Mundial 08:40 Ballroom Blitz 22:55 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 02:00 Fast N’ Loud Teenage Witch 20:00 European senior tour high- 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 02:50 Storage Hunters lights 23:25 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 18:10 I Didn’t Do It 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 03:15 American Diggers 18:30 Win, Lose Or Draw 21:00 Challenge Series Golf 23:50 Into The Shark Bite 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 03:40 The Liquidator 18:55 Liv And Maddie 21:30 Champion tour highlights 11:10 Cake Boss 04:05 How It’s Made 19:20 Violetta 22:30 WEB.COM tour Highlights 11:35 17 Kids And Counting 04:30 How Do They Do It? 20:05 Liv And Maddie 23:30 Golfing World 05:00 Gold Divers 20:30 Liv And Maddie 12:00 Little People, Big World 00:35 DCI Banks 06:00 Classic Car Rescue 20:50 Liv And Maddie 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 01:20 Eastenders 06:50 Deadliest Catch 21:15 Liv And Maddie 13:15 Oprah’s Master Class 01:50 Doctors 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 21:40 Liv And Maddie 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 02:20 Great Ormond Street 00:30 WWE Afterburn 08:30 Storage Hunters 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 14:55 Brides Of Beverly Hills 03:10 Lead Balloon 01:30 WWE This Week 08:55 American Diggers 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 15:20 Cake Boss 03:40 Silent Witness 02:00 WWE Superstars 09:20 The Liquidator 22:50 Shake It Up 15:45 Driving Me Crazy 04:30 My Hero 03:00 Live WWE RAW 09:45 How It’s Made 23:10 Wolfblood THE MARINE ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 06:30 TOP 14 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 10:10 How Do They Do It? 23:35 Wolfblood 05:20 Boogie Beebies 07:00 Indycar Highlights 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 10:35 Siberian Cut Stewart 05:35 The Green Balloon Club 08:00 WWE Experience 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 11:25 Outback Truckers 21:30 The Colbert Report 06:00 Nina And The Neurons 09:00 WWE Afterburn 18:15 17 Kids And Counting 12:15 Alaska: The Last Frontier 22:00 Legit 06:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 00:00 The Dream Team-PG15 10:00 WWE This Week 18:40 Little People, Big World 13:05 Storage Hunters 23:00 South Park 06:35 Boogie Beebies 02:00 Splash-PG 10:30 Top 14 Highlights 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 13:30 American Diggers 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 11:00 Golfing World 06:50 The Green Balloon Club 00:00 Giuliana & Bill 04:00 Fred 2: Night Of The Living 20:05 Brides Of Beverly Hills 13:55 The Liquidator 00:40 The Hungry Sailors 12:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 07:15 The Weakest Link 00:55 E! News Special Fred-PG 20:30 Cake Boss 14:20 Deadliest Catch 01:30 Coach Trip 13:00 ITM Cup 08:00 My Hero 01:25 Keeping Up With The 05:30 Sabrina-PG 21:00 Hoarding: Buried Alive 15:10 Classic Car Rescue 02:00 Emmerdale 15:00 WWE RAW 08:30 Lead Balloon Kardashians 08:00 Something New-PG15 21:55 My Naked Secret 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 02:55 Coronation Street 18:00 WWE Smackdown 09:00 Eastenders 02:20 E! News 00:00 Royal Pains 10:00 Undercover Brother-PG15 16:50 How It’s Made 03:25 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 20:00 WWE RAW 22:20 My Naked Secret 09:30 Doctors 03:15 Escape Club 01:00 Resurrection 12:00 4 Wedding Planners-PG15 17:15 How Do They Do It? 04:20 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 23:00 Indycar Highlights 22:50 Long Island Medium 10:00 Great Ormond Street 04:10 THS 02:00 Boardwalk Empire 14:00 Ski Patrol-PG15 17:40 Gold Divers Dogs 23:15 Secretly Pregnant 10:50 Call The Midwife 05:05 E!ES 03:00 The Leftovers 16:00 Something New-PG15 18:30 River Monsters: Amazon 05:15 The Chase 11:45 My Hero 06:00 The E! True Hollywood Story 04:00 Revenge 18:00 Father Of The Bride-PG15 Titanic 06:10 Please Marry My Boy 12:15 Lead Balloon 06:55 THS 05:00 Perception 20:00 Bernie-PG15 20:10 American Diggers 07:05 Coach Trip 12:45 Big Bear Diary 07:50 Style Star 06:00 Royal Pains 22:00 Here Comes The Boom-PG15 20:35 The Liquidator 07:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 13:10 Eastenders 08:20 E! News 08:00 Criminal Minds 21:00 River Monsters 08:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 00:30 Champions League T20 13:40 Doctors 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 10:00 Perception 21:50 When Fish Attack Dogs Highlights 14:10 Great Ormond Street 10:15 Giuliana & Bill 11:00 Revenge 00:35 The Hungry Sailors 22:40 Fish Legends Of Jakub 09:20 Prince George At One 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 15:00 Call The Midwife 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 12:00 Emmerdale 01:30 Coach Trip Vagner 10:15 The Chase 02:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 15:55 My Hero 11:35 E! News Special 12:30 Coronation Street 05:15 Take On The Twisters 23:05 Fish Legends Of Jakub 11:10 Emmerdale 01:00 The Entitled-PG15 Highlights 16:25 The Weakest Link 12:05 E! News 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 06:10 Big Star’s Little Star Vagner 12:00 Coronation Street 03:00 Blue Like Jazz-PG15 03:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 17:10 Eastenders 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 14:00 Criminal Minds 07:05 Coach Trip 23:30 River Monsters 12:30 The Hungry Sailors 05:00 The Glass Man-PG15 Highlights 17:40 Doctors 13:35 E!ES 15:00 Royal Pains 12:30 The Hungry Sailors 13:25 Please Marry My Boy 07:00 The Woman In The Fifth- 04:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 18:10 Great Ormond Street 14:30 Style Star 16:00 Emmerdale 13:25 Big Star’s Little Star 14:20 Coach Trip PG15 Highlights 19:00 One Foot In The Grave 15:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 16:30 Coronation Street 14:20 Coach Trip 14:45 The Chase 09:00 Scents And Sensibility-PG15 05:00 England Women v South 19:30 As Time Goes By Miami 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:45 Take On The Twisters 15:35 Lightfields 11:00 The Glass Man-PG15 African Women T20I Highlights 20:00 Call The Midwife 16:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 18:00 Criminal Minds 15:35 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 16:30 Murdoch Mysteries 13:00 The Philly Kid-PG15 06:00 Champions League T20 20:55 Stella 00:00 Violetta Miami 19:00 The Voice 16:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 18:20 Please Marry My Boy 15:00 The Intouchables-PG15 Highlights 21:40 Big School 00:45 The Hive 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 21:00 Devious Maids 17:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 19:10 Coronation Street 17:00 Scents And Sensibility-PG15 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 22:10 Last Tango In Halifax 00:50 Art Attack 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 22:00 Burn Notice Dogs 19:35 Lightfields 19:00 50/50-PG15 07:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 23:00 The Weakest Link 01:15 Art Attack 18:00 The Drama Queen 23:00 American Horror Story: 18:20 Big Star’s Little Star 20:30 Murdoch Mysteries 21:00 The Iceman-18 Highlights 01:40 Jungle Junction 19:00 E!ES Coven roes 22:20 Coronation Street 23:00 The Frozen Ground-18 08:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 01:50 Jungle Junction 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills Highlights 20:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 02:05 Jungle Junction 20:30 Giuliana & Bill 09:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 21:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 02:15 Jungle Junction 21:30 Giuliana & Bill Highlights Dogs 00:15 Come Dine With Me 02:30 Violetta 22:30 Fashion Police 10:30 ICC Cricket 360 22:20 Coronation Street 03:15 The Hive 01:05 Antiques Roadshow 23:30 Escape Club 00:30 Shark City-18 11:00 Champions League T20 22:50 Emmerdale 02:30 The Forgotten-PG15 23:45 Take On The Twisters 00:00 Aftermath 00:00 Bones Highlights 01:00 Good Morning America 04:30 Seven Pounds-PG15 01:00 Mega Factories 07:00 Crazy / Beautiful-PG15 02:00 Shark Men 03:00 Banshee 04:00 True Detective 09:00 Girl In Progress-PG15 03:00 World’s Deadliest Animals 11:00 Seven Pounds-PG15 04:00 Wild Case Files 05:00 Good Morning America 07:00 Emmerdale 13:15 Bobby Fischer Against The 05:00 Apocalypse World War I World-PG15 Italian court 06:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 07:30 Coronation Street 09:00 Unforgettable 15:00 Hoosiers-PG 07:00 Zambezi 17:00 Girl In Progress-PG15 08:00 Aftermath 10:00 Emmerdale 10:30 Coronation Street 19:00 The Perks Of Being A quashes Dolce & 09:00 Mega Factories 12:00 Chicago Fire Wallflower-PG15 10:00 Shark Men 21:00 Midnight In Paris-PG15 11:00 Inside 13:00 Bones 14:00 Live Good Morning America 23:00 2 Days In New York-18 Gabbana fraud 12:00 Is It Real? 13:00 Untamed Americas 16:00 Unforgettable 14:00 Nat Geo Amazing! 17:00 Chicago Fire 18:00 Bones convictions 15:00 Divine Delinquents 01:30 Friends With Kids-PG15 16:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler 19:00 Unforgettable 03:30 Red Tails-PG15 he Italian Supreme Court on Friday over- 17:00 Breakout 20:00 Chicago Fire 21:00 Bones 05:45 Chimpanzee-PG turned fraud convictions and 18-month jail 18:00 Inside Combat Rescue terms against celebrated fashion duo 19:00 Divine Delinquents 22:00 Banshee 07:15 The Smurfs 2-PG T Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, their com- 20:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler 23:00 True Detective 09:00 Quartet-PG15 pany announced. 21:00 Breakout 11:00 A Good Day To Die Hard- “We have always been honest and we are 22:00 Inside Combat Rescue PG15 extremely proud of this recognition by the Italian 23:00 Inside 13:00 The Way Way Back-PG15 Court of Justice. Viva l’Italia,” the two fashion house 00:00 The Marine 15:00 Sky Force-FAM chiefs said in a statement. 02:00 Skyline 17:00 Quartet-PG15 “The Italian Supreme Court of Justice found 04:00 Flight Of The Intruder 19:00 Peace, Love & Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana not guilty 06:00 Maximum Conviction Misunderstanding-PG15 of tax evasion,” a company press release said. 08:00 Skyline 21:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 In April an Italian appeals court had upheld a 00:00 Wilfred 09:45 Waterworld 23:00 Empire State-PG15 guilty verdict against Dolce and Gabbana for evad- 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 12:00 The Marine ing taxes totalling 200 million euros ($277 million). Stewart 14:00 The Grandmaster Dolce and Gabbana, whose celebrity clients 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John 16:00 Skyline include Beyonce and Madonna, were accused of Oliver 18:00 Summoned 01:15 Barbie And The Magic Of having transferred control of their brands to a shell 19:45 Waterworld 01:30 Eastbound & Down Pegasus company in Luxembourg in 2004 and 2005 to avoid 02:00 Hello Ladies 22:00 Haywire 02:45 Emilie Jolie paying Italian taxes. 02:30 South Park 04:15 Cinderella Prosecutors had argued that setting up the 03:00 Hot In Cleveland Luxembourg company Gado-an acronym of the 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Marc Logan 08:00 Hammer Boy surnames of the two designers-while the operation Jimmy Fallon was being run out of Italy was a bid to defraud the 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 10:00 Barbie In The 12 Dancing state. 09:00 Hot In Cleveland 00:00 Skyline-PG15 Princesses They were found guilty in June 2013, and given 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 02:00 Flight Of The Intruder-PG15 11:30 Niko 2: Little Brother, Big 20-month jail sentences, which they appealed. Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Maximum Conviction-PG15 Trouble Dolce and Gabbana were originally accused of 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 06:00 Skyline-PG15 13:15 Emilie Jolie tax evasion of around one billion euros, but the Stewart 07:45 Waterworld-PG15 14:30 Dragon Hunters court ruled that just 200 million euros of that sum 16:00 The Colbert Report 10:00 The Marine-PG15 16:00 Jelly T was relevant. 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 12:00 The Grandmaster-PG15 18:00 Barbie In The 12 Dancing On Friday the Supreme Court annulled the con- 18:00 Hot In Cleveland 14:00 Skyline-PG15 viction, declaring that the prosecution case was 18:30 Baby Daddy 16:00 Summoned-PG15 Princesses 20:00 The Great Bear “unfounded” and ending the case, Italian media 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 17:45 Waterworld-PG15 reported. — AFP Jimmy Fallon 20:00 Haywire-PG15 22:00 Dragon Hunters SKYLINE ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 22:00 2 Fast 2 Furious-PG15 23:30 Jelly T Classifieds

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

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(C 4771) Sharing accommodation Fajr: 04:37 KAC 286 Dhaka 08:15 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:40 25-9-2014 UAE 855 Dubai 08:40 UAE 856 Dubai 09:55 near Salmiya City Center, Shorook 05:57 Gadeer clinic building, KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 KAC 117 New York 10:05 Single room with separate Duhr: 11:32 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:00 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:20 Bahrain street, Salmiya. Tel: bathroom, kitchen facilities Asr: 14:42 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:20 FDB 056 Dubai 10:35 in Farwaniya for small fami- 66792392, 50505384. FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 JZR 482 Istanbul 10:35 ly/working ladies / bache- (C 4787) Maghrib: 17:07 20-10-2014 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 lor. Contact with Indian Isha: 18:24 GFA 943 Bahrain 10:15 GFA 943 LCA 11:00 Muslim family 99590292. GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:25 IRA 665 Shiraz 10:50 KAC 541 Cairo 11:30 MSC 405 Sohag 11:25 KAC 741 Dammam 11:45 JZR 165 Dubai 11:30 IRA 664 Shiraz 11:50 Kuwait MEA 404 Beirut 11:55 KAC 501 Beirut 12:00 SYR 341 Latakia 12:10 KAC 103 London 12:20 KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO UAE 871 Dubai 12:50 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:20 WEDNESDAY (23/10/2014 TO 29/10/2014) MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:25 IRC 528 Ahwaz 13:15 MEA 405 Beirut 12:55 JZR 561 Sohag 13:45 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 SYR 342 Latakia 13:10 SHARQIA-1 SUN+TUE+WED QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:10 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 12:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:15 PM KNE 472 Jeddah 14:25 JZR 176 Dubai 13:45 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 9:30 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 4:30 PM THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 AM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 6:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED FDB 057 Dubai 14:30 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 ANNABELLE (DIG) 8:45 PM KAC 742 Dammam 14:45 IRC 529 Ahwaz 14:15 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:45 PM FANAR-4 IRC 6507 Shiraz 14:50 KAC 673 Dubai 15:00 ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:45 AM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 12:30 PM GFA 221 Bahrain 15:00 KAC 617 Doha 15:00 FURY (DIG) 2:45 PM KAC 788 Jeddah 15:10 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 SHARQIA-2 FURY (DIG) 5:15 PM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 12:30 PM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 7:45 PM UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 FDB 058 Dubai 15:10 FURY (DIG) 2:30 PM FURY (DIG) 9:45 PM ABY 127 Sharjah 15:45 KAC 513 Tehran 15:30 FURY (DIG) 5:00 PM FURY (DIG) 12:15 AM FDB 051 Dubai 16:00 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:40 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 7:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED KAC 562 Amman 16:20 SVA 503 Jeddah/Madinah 15:45 FURY (DIG) 10:00 PM JZR 787 Riyadh 16:25 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:45 FURY (DIG) 12:30 AM FANAR-5 QTR 1072 Doha 16:40 IRC 6508 Shiraz 15:50 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:45 PM SHARQIA-3 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 3:45 PM CLX 752 Luxembourg 16:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 2:00 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 5:45 PM ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:55 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:25 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 4:00 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 8:15 PM RJA 640 Amman 16:55 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:00 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 10:30 PM UAL 982 IAD 17:05 FDB 052 Dubai 17:25 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:15 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:30 AM SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 QTR 1073 Doha 17:40 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:15 AM NO SUN+TUE+WED GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 UAE 858 Dubai 17:45 MUHALAB-1 MARINA-1 FDB 075 Dubai 17:45 JZR 538 Cairo 17:45 ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:30 PM GFA 944 LCA 17:50 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:50 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 3:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 2:30 PM JZR 777 Jeddah 17:55 RJA 641 Amman 17:55 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED UAE 875 Dubai 18:00 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 3:45 PM JZR 177 Dubai 18:20 UAL 982 Bahrain 18:20 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:05 AM SUN+TUE+WED KAC 541 Cairo 18:25 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 ANNABELLE (DIG) 5:45 PM MUHALAB-2 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 8:00 PM KAC 166 Paris/Rome 18:40 FDB 076 Dubai 18:25 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 12:45 PM OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:30 PM FDB 063 Dubai 18:40 CLX 752 Hong Kong 18:35 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:45 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:45 AM ABY 121 Sharjah 18:40 GFA 944 Bahrain 18:35 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 4:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED KAC 786 Jeddah 18:45 JZR 238 Amman 18:50 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:00 PM QTR 1080 Doha 18:50 JZR 134 Bahrain 19:10 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:15 PM MARINA-2 KAC 618 Doha 19:15 ABY 121 Sharjah 19:20 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 12:15 AM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:00 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 4:00 PM KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 UAE 876 Dubai 19:40 MUHALAB-3 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM AXB 393 Kozhikode 19:15 QTR 1081 Doha 19:50 FURY (DIG) 1:00 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 FDB 064 Dubai 19:55 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 3:45 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:05 AM GFA 217 Bahrain 19:30 AXB 393 Kozhikode 20:15 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 5:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED KAC 102 New York/London 19:35 GFA 218 Bahrain 20:15 FURY (DIG) 7:45 PM JZR 483 Istanbul 19:35 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 FURY (DIG) 10:15 PM MARINA-3 FURY (DIG) 12:45 AM FURY (DIG) 1:00 PM KAC 514 Tehran 19:45 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 3:30 PM KAC 502 Beirut 19:50 KAC 281 Dhaka 20:55 FANAR-1 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 5:30 PM JAI 572 Mumbai 20:05 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:05 ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:00 PM FURY (DIG) 7:30 PM FDB 061 Dubai 20:20 KAC 351 Kochi 21:15 ANNABELLE (DIG) 3:00 PM FURY (DIG) 10:00 PM OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 OMA 648 Muscat 21:20 NO SUN+TUE+WED FURY (DIG) 12:30 AM MSR 606 Luxor 20:45 FDB 062 Dubai 21:20 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 5:00 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED NO TUE+WED DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:50 DLH 636 Dammam 21:35 THE JUDGE (DIG) 7:00 PM AVENUES-1 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 MSR 619 Alexandria 21:45 NO TUE+WED TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:15 PM SYR 441 Damascus 21:15 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 9:45 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 4:30 PM MEA 402 Beirut 21:20 ALK 230 Colombo 22:10 NO TUE+WED TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 6:45 PM ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 SYR 442 MOW/Damascus 22:15 ANNABELLE (DIG) 11:45 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 9:00 PM FDB 073 Dubai 21:35 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 NO SUN+TUE+WED TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 11:15 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 1:15 AM UAE 859 Dubai 21:40 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:15 FANAR-2 NO SUN+TUE+WED GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 MEA 403 Beirut 22:20 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 12:30 PM QTR 1074 Doha 21:55 FDB 074 Dubai 22:30 JAZEERA 2 2«·Ã“Ì—… (DIG) (Arabic) 2:30 PM AVENUES-2 JZR 135 Bahrain 22:05 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:30 NO SUN+TUE+WED BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 1:45 PM KLM 417 Amsterdam 22:15 UAE 860 Dubai 22:50 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 3:30 PM BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 4:00 PM ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 SUN+TUE+WED BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 6:15 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:30 PM BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 8:30 PM KAC 172 Frankfurt 22:25 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:00 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 10:45 PM FDB 059 Dubai 22:30 QTR 1075 Doha 23:05 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:00 AM AIC 981 Chennai/Hyderabad/Ahmedabad 22:30 JZR 502 Luxor 23:05 NO SUN+TUE+WED NO SUN+TUE+WED BBC 1090 Jeddah 22:40 KLM 417 Dammam/Amsterdam 23:15 BBC 043 Dhaka 23:10 KAC 415 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 23:25 FANAR-3 AVENUES-3 PIA 205 Lahore 23:40 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:30 THE GUEST (DIG) 1:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 12:45 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 3:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 4:00 PM FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 FDB 060 Dubai 23:55 NO SUN+TUE+WED HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:15 PM DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION THE GUEST (DIG) 4:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 10:30 PM stars34 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

CROSSWORD 705 STAR TRACK

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

You will be pleased at what you can accomplish today. Few interruptions Everything may be pouring in at once and it’s all good news. Your benefit you in any research time. This opportunity can be wisely used to friends are in town or a homecoming football game party is shaping up your advantage. A day that is not too lazy or too stressful-time for accomplishing tasks nicely; whatever the case, there are lots of errands and chores and people to help or setting up a plan works successfully. Regular work or home chores move along before some celebration can be enjoyed. You may benefit from an older person or one swiftly. There is time for a luncheon, a meeting and perhaps a conference to talk of in authority this afternoon. This authority figure will help you understand some law or ways in which your ideas can develop. Productive conversations will bring positive teach some law. There is time to relax this afternoon, really! Talk about something oth- results. Your instinctive direction at this time is toward getting down to business. On er than the ongoing preparations you are involved with now. When you go back to the home front, you and your family might like to help organize a neighborhood your errands, you will find something special that will help complement the dance or garage sale so that you can use the funds to plant trees along the street or contribute the dinner or the party in general. You will find plenty of compliments regarding your toward a charity. efforts with this event.

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

The work you do, the way you take care of health and other mundane You are logical and can add a little sanity to some confusion today. obligations are important keys to your progress now. There is a need for focus and Perhaps some youth has a difficult time understanding the rules; you careful analysis in this area of your life. Set up systems and schedules and stick to have the right technique that will help guide a group or individual successfully. them! A new job offer from last week may call for new clothing: a suit, a coat, etc. This Although this may not be a workday for you it is a favorable time to tend to work is a good time to shop for those things but do not go overboard as you may decide issues. While people are running around preparing for a celebration or some other you like where you are working just fine. A comfortable get-together this afternoon event, you might consider a trip to the library for a little research regarding a work gives you an opportunity to laugh with friends and relax. Your brilliant imagination issue or project. This research would put you at the head of the class for Monday and enchanting manner transport all who meet you beyond the dull and into the morning. This research may even give you some ideas about investments. You are extraordinary regions where you enjoy your life. You would have fun writing short sto- home just in time this afternoon for lots of food, laughter with friends and pleasant ries. memories to create for all.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Opportunities open up in a very natural way. Situations are almost tailor- Someone needs your support this today and you are able to provide made and it is easy to see how the day ahead will unfold. Plans have help by simply being nearby. You should, however, wait until you are been made and a short trip or campout is at hand and you are ready to go; in fact, you asked to become involved-he or she may not need what you think. Later this after- were probably ready hours ago. The energies today speak of travel and friends and noon there is a chance to join in some team sports. The neighborhood or the commu- nity group for which you belong may be having some competition meet at a nearby ACROSS management and labor. fun. Circumstances should work together to help bring out your ideas. There are future plans you want to talk about and there are friends that are interested in your gym. Being more involved with neighbors or siblings satisfies a deep emotional need. 1. The compass point that is midway between 3. A federal agency established to coordinate thinking. You may find yourself more than a little curious about their goals as well. You You should work hard during this time to keep the family close. Communicating feel- north and northeast. programs aimed at reducing pollution and certainly would enjoy setting up time for more adventures like today. You enjoy the ings becomes more important. Food for thought: the images you see reflect your 4. Elder brother of Krishna. protecting the environment. day and visiting among friends. You may be tempted to purchase lots of curios; care- thoughts-think positive. New clothes are in the forecast. 12. Tag the base runner to get him out. 4. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of ful. 15. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder something (especially on a person's body). of Dadaism in Zurich. 5. American professional baseball player who 16. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in Capricorn (December 22-January 19) eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava 1934). Cancer (June 21-July 22) peninsula in northeastern Canada. 6. 16 ounces. You are much too busy at this time. It could be hard for you to balance all A nutritional change is in order and now is the most productive time to 17. An agency of the United Nations affiliated 7. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central the demands that come to your attention. Look for ways to strike a bal- make those changes. Put your mind to work and take care of any details with the World Bank. Asia. ance, even if you have to step away for a bit-create a diversion or hire someone to help that you may have, for mental discipline should come easily. Problems and obstacles 18. An alluvial deposit that contains particles of 8. The basic unit of money in South Africa. you. A young teenager might enjoy a little extra spending money if you are interested that have previously been confounding should find easy explanations under your in packing a few boxes away in storage, or perhaps getting a few boxes unpacked from keen examination. Now could be the time to move forward in any projects you want some valuable mineral. 9. A rapid bustling commotion. to undertake. Don’t worry about what you have to do; focus on the here and now and 19. A legendary creature resembling a tiny old 10. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral storage for the holidays ahead. A personal improvement of yours is visible. Changes you want to make regarding a habit or life-pattern of activity are a positive now and it will all work. Saying and writing things with style counts for a lot now and this tends man. island in a bay of the Indian Ocean. will have a good foundation. This evening you will benefit from a little time with your to bring out the social butterfly in all of us. You are able to enjoy and value your own 20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle 11. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square feet propped up and some relaxing music-of course a massage might be nice! life situation. A friend or visitor in your home gives you plenty of compliments. where driver sits. meters. 21. The blood group whose red cells carry both 12. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cath- the A and B antigens. ode and a cadmium anode. 22. An atom having a valence of one. 13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. A name that has been assumed temporarily. 14. A small cake leavened with yeast. There are optimism, faith and a tendency to take chances at the deepest 30. Wading birds of warm regions having long 23. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the Ideas and interaction with authority figures or respected elders may be in the forecast. It may be time to coerce a senior relative into moving to new emotional levels today. You could find that you are appreciated for your slender down-curved bills. alkali metal group. living quarters. This might not be too hard, depending on where the new digs might be ability to act and get things done. Someone understands your point of view and is 34. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows 24. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical located. Moving with the flow of energies today you will make some beneficial discover- willing to listen to some changes you may want to make in the home. Gathering and eastward into Oklahoma to become a tribu- America. ies. The home front may be in need of a little work and you are magical in how you talk exchanging information becomes an important part of your presentation and can be someone into helping you with a ladder as well as heavy work. You may be exhausted by an example for the young people in the home. Neighbors or siblings have a big tary of the Arkansas River. 25. Any of a family of bowed stringed instru- impact on your goals and make a big impression. This whole weekend could prove to 36. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. ments that preceded the violin family. the day’s end; your goals seem crowded into a small time element. The person helping you today will help you again, so you could spread the work out over a few days instead be a mentally and socially active period. You have a clear vision into your own inner 37. Slightly open. 26. Posing no difficulty. of all in one day. A helper might enjoy one of your special menus this evening. sense of values and how you appreciate and love. This is a good time to examine and 39. Displeasing to the senses and morally 27. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the create new goals. revolting. fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. 40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a 29. Established by or founded upon law or offi- skewer usually with vegetables. cial or accepted rules. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 44. An intensely radioactive metallic element 31. The cry made by sheep. that occurs in minute amounts in uranium 32. The housing or outer covering of some- This is a day where you could continue to be emotionally tested. You may You may appear very relaxed today. Everything seems to be working ores. thing. need to keep or adjust your thoughts or opinions into more positive directions. Challenges together and you may find yourself expressive and able to communi- 46. Loss of the ability to swallow. 33. An angular shape made by folding. just seem to follow you around today-challenges, however, bring opportunities to grow cate well. You could be most persuasive with others and eloquent in speech and com- 48. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 35. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 and expand your knowledge. All this challenge type of stress will pass because you help to munication. The situation is a natural for self-expression and lends itself to your partic- ular way of thinking. A good conversation with those you love is possible. You have a Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged pounds. make any adjustment positive. You may decide to dive in and coordinate some project so that it will move quickly and be successful. A sudden inspiration helps you find a useful real appreciation for the creative mind and you are encouraged to study. You may find and massacred American rebels who were 38. Tree of the West Indies and northern South shortcut where a complicated project is concerned. Stop early and move to the rhythm of yourself enjoying long conversations, writing a letter or making a special phone call. fighting to make Texas independent of America bearing succulent edible orange- music; dance, love, laugh and be happy. A lover enriches your life and today you think Decide what you want with regard to change in your living situation and then go for Mexico. sized fruit. about how great it is to have this person in your life-tell him or her. it. This may mean adding a loft apartment to the house or enlarging a kitchen or sim- 51. Tropical starchy tuberous root. 41. The square of a body of any size of type. ply, a new paint job; enjoy. 53. A transuranic element that has not been 42. English monk and scholar (672-735). found in nature. 43. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by 54. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the the anterior pituitary. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution genus Candida. 45. Tall fan palm of Africa and India and 56. (usually plural) A destructive action. Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet 59. An ancient Greek city famous for military sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar. prowess. 47. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows gen- 61. A temporally organized plan for matters to erally northward to the Atlantic Ocean. be attended to. 49. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike 62. A custom among some peoples whereby appendage. the husband of a pregnant wife is put to 50. English poet (1621-1678). bed at the time of bearing the child. 52. 10 grams. 64. One of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi. 55. An informal term for a father. 68. Wood of any of various alder trees. 57. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized 69. A Hindu religious teacher. by behavioral and learning disorders. 73. Fastener consisting of a resinous composi- tion that is plastic when warm. 58. A member of the mercantile and profession- 74. The basic unit of money in Iran. al Hindu caste. 76. An infectious tropical disease resembling 60. An acute viral disease marked by inflamma- syphilis in its early stages. tion of nerve cells of the brain stem and 77. An inquiry into public opinion conducted by spinal cord. interviewing a random sample of people. 63. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who 78. Japanese mathematical physicist who pro- would have inherited the Covenant that posed that nuclear forces are mediated by God made with Abraham and that Abraham massive particles called mesons which are passed on to Isaac. analogous to the photon in mediating elec- 65. A bluish shade of green. tromagnetic forces (1907-1981). 66. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 79. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation. oars). 67. In addition. DOWN 70. Pan with a convex bottom. 1. Plant with an elongated head of broad 71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made stalked leaves resembling celery. from aba cloth. 2. Agency of the United States government 72. Informal terms for the mouth. charged with mediating disputes between 75. Minor or subordinate. Friday’s Solution

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Gossip

Mel B plays ‘dress up’ in old Spice Girls outfits

he 39-year-old star has kept all her old clothes and while she handbags.” The ‘X Factor’ judge has recently shown off a short, sleek and her pals like donning the costumes for fun, her eldest bobbed hair style and says her new look has made her dress in a Tdaughter Phoenix, 15, just “laughs”. She said: “I keep everything more feminine way. She explained to Grazia magazine: “I think with so on a Friday night when my friends come round we do dress-up. shorter hair you have to be more conscious of what to wear because “I’ve still got all the old costumes in storage. My eldest daughter you don’t want to look too boyish. You want to stay looking ladylike.” Phoenix gets them all out and laughs her head off.” Mel - who also has daughter Angel, seven, with Eddie Murphy, and Madison, three, with husband Stephen Belafonte - also revealed she lets her spouse buy all her accessories because she thinks he has great taste. She said: “Stephen has an eye for everything. He buys all my shoes and

Suki Waterhouse to buy a house with Bradley Cooper

he 22-year-old model-and-actress - who has been dating the 39-year-old actor since February 2013 - is ready to settle down with Bradley and has reportedly started looking Tfor a new love nest for them. A source told the new US issue of OK! magazine: “Suki is in love with Bradley, and she wants a place for them to share.” The couple want to stay close to Bradley’s mother Gloria, whom he moved into his home in Los Angeles following the death of his father Charles in 2011. The source added: “Suki is aware that she needs to tread carefully ... she’s trying to figure out how to make it work for everyone. Suki knows Bradley wants to take care of his mom, but he’s almost 40, and she wants them to start sharing their lives, like any normal couple.” Suki recently admitted she is desperate to “settle down” and make a permanent home for herself. She said: “I don’t really live anywhere. We’re travelling gypsies - it’s wherever we’re working. But I’m desperate to have a home. I’m saving, but it’s hard because of the online shopping ... I’m addicted, it’s something about the packages arriving.” Bradley also recently expressed his desire to settle down with Suki and wants to start a family He said: “I would love Vogue Williams to be a father one day. I’m sorry my father won’t be around to see his grandchildren, but he knows fatherhood was something I was looking forward to. That’s my next big step in life.” takes a day to recover from a hangover Usher has ‘man-to-’man” he 29-year-old model-and-DJ loves going out partying with husband Brian McFadden Tbut admits she suffers heavily for her alco- relationship with Bieber hol consumption the following day. She said: “I love going out. Brian and I are going to Las Vegas soon to see Britney Spears. But these days I need he 36-year-old singer admits he can be very tough on the 20-year-old star and doesn’t always approve of a full day to recover after and I have been known his behaviour, but tries to be supportive. The ‘Good Kisser’ hitmaker said: “I can say I’m not happy with all the to eat three takeaways in one day on a hangover.” Tchoices my friend has made, but I’m supportive of him. He’s making his own decisions and it’s important to Vogue says Brian - who she wed two years ago - is show support.” He added: “Our relationship is more man-to-man now. I try my hardest to give as much positive the perfect husband and incredibly thoughtful. reinforcement as I can. I’ll punch him in the f**king chest when I need to, and give him a hug and kiss when I She told Closer magazine: “Brian always gives need to.” Usher has worked with the Canadian star since he was a young teenager, but told Billboard magazine great presents. He got me a make-up course this their relationship isn’t just professional. He said: “It’s more than just mentoring. I love the kid.” The ‘OMG’ hitmaker summer which was brilliant. And he makes me rushed to Justin’s defence earlier this year after a video emerged of him singing the N word repeatedly in a song scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast most when he was 14. He said at the time: “As I have watched Justin Bieber navigate difficult waters as a young man, I mornings.” And for her recent birthday, Brian can tell you that he hasn’t always chosen the path of his greatest potential, but he is unequivocally not a racist. treated Vogue to a romantic break to Paris - but “What he was five years ago was a naive child who did not understand the negative power and degradation that she admitted they rowed over what to do. She comes from playing with racial slurs. What he is now is a young man faced with an opportunity to become his said: “I loved Paris. Brian and I did all the sights - best self, an example to the millions of kids that follow him to not make the same mistakes.” though we ended up having a disagreement because we both wanted to do different things.” Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Butler celebrate third anniversary

he couple - who started dating in October 2011 - took a romantic trip to Sonoma Valley in northern California for the occasion and were spotted enjoying themselves at the newly Topened Hamel Family Wines. A source told Life & Style Weekly magazine: “They enjoyed a pri- vate tour of the grounds, including a barrel tasting in the caves with winemaker John Hamel, and a private reserve tasting with proprietor George Hamel III. It was really special, they loved it!” The 25- year-old actress has recently been supporting the ‘Carrie Diaries’ star following the tragic death of his mother last month, who had been battling cancer. After her passing Austin, 25, wrote on Twitter: “Lori Butler, my mom, my hero, & my best friend passed away this morning. Lets all celebrate her. I love you and will miss you every day Mom”. Vanessa replied: “#ripLoriButler #celebrateLori Spread the love for Lori.” Jourdan Dunn has admitted she got a reality check when her son was diagnosed with sickle cell anaemia. The 24-year-old model’s four-year-old child Riley was born with the condition - in which there aren’t enough healthy red blood cells in the body to carry adequate oxygen - but she was shocked when doctors discovered he had the disease when he was just six-months-old. She told Vogue magazine: “I knew there was a possibility that I was carrying a sickle cell baby because both his dad and I have the trait. But of course, I always had it in my head, ‘No, not my baby. That’s not going to happen to me.’ “Jourdan designed a Cell for Gratitude necklace with brand Tuleste to raise funds for the charity SCDAA (Sickle Cell Disease Association of America) and recently threw a star-studded par- ty at New York Fashion Week to raise awareness, where guests included her close pals Cara Gwyneth Paltrow, Delevingne, Rihanna and Karlie Kloss. She said: “I was so overwhelmed by it all. Before a model, I am a Rumer Willis ‘blown Brad Falchuk mother. Now, I do my job for Riley.” away’ by her ‘dating openly’ sister’s strength he 26-year-old star, who is the eldest daughter of Demi he Oscar-winning actress, who announced her split from Moore and ex-husband Bruce Willis, is very proud of Chris Martin in March after 10 years of marriage, started Tallulah Willis for getting her life back on track following romancing the ‘Glee’ and ‘American Horror Story’ co-cre- T T her recent stint in rehab. The actress told PEOPLE.com: “I’ve ator in July, and they now regularly circulate as a couple in actually been so impressed and blown away by her strength Hollywood. The insider told the New York Post’s Page Six: and her openness and willingness. Not only to move past “[They’re] openly dating, but behind closed doors. They go to things but also to share herself with other people.” She added: private Hollywood parties together.” The 43-year-old executive “The best thing you can do for anyone in your life that you producer, who also split from his wife of 10 years last year, first know is struggling with anything is just to be supportive and met the blonde beauty, 42, when she guest-starred on ‘Glee. not abandon them. Because I think that’s the hardest thing, They spent a lot of time together over the summer in Los when you’re going through something and you feel alone and Angeles and the Hamptons, and also enjoyed a secret holiday you feel like people don’t have your back.” The 20-year-old to Utah. Coldplay star Chris, who has daughter Apple, 10, and blogger, who spent six weeks in rehab shortly after admitting son Moses, eight, with Gwyneth, has also moved on with she battled an eating disorder and body dysmorphia when Jennifer Lawrence, 24. Meanwhile, the ‘Iron Man 3’ star admits she was younger, is now doing “really well” and recently cele- acupuncture has helped her “heal” in recent months. Writing on brated 90-days of sobriety. Rumer, who also has sister Scout, her lifestyle blog, Goop.com, she revealed: “Those many little 23, and spent much of her childhood in Idaho, believes needles have helped me through many an ailment. “Don’t get Tallulah’s problems stem from growing up in Hollywood. She me wrong, I am thankful as hell for a round of antibiotics or sur- said: “When you grow up like we do, everyone has an opinion gery when necessary, but I have been helped tremendously by of you. Everyone wants to put you in a particular box.” all of the practices below that help the body heal itself.” lifestyle SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Gossip

Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher want to have another baby

he couple, who welcomed daughter Wyatt into the world late last maternity clothes, pre-baby sizes and then her ‘Black Swan’ clothes which month, are reportedly already thinking about expanding their family are the smallest sizes she owns. “She has been doing yoga, and cardio but Tagain. A source told E! News: “They are loving being new parents. still isn’t going crazy. They enjoy bad food as well and she indulges when Ashton is already mentioning baby number two. Mila laughs and tells him she wants.” Meanwhile, the former ‘That 70s Show’ stars, who got engaged to slow down! But she wants another baby and to have it close to Wyatt’s earlier this year, are “super excited” to dress Wyatt up for Halloween next age so they can be close.” The 31-year-old actress is “not too stressed” Friday. The source said: “They think it’s hilarious and are putting her in all about getting her pre-pregnancy figure back, but recently started work- kinds of baby costumes and outfits. It’s their first holiday as a family and ing out again. The insider said: “Mila has been spending a lot of time try- even thought Wyatt is barely a month old, they are stoked!” ing to lose the baby weight, which is slowly coming off. She’s not too stressed about it but does want to get back into her skinny jeans. She says she has so many sizes of clothes in her closet. She has post baby sizes,

Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey still on amicable terms

he ‘America’s Got Talent’ host, who quietly split from the 44-year-old singer over the summer after six years of marriage, claims they still T“do everything that we’re supposed to do together” for the sake of their three-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe. He said: “We’ve always been people who are kinda on the go, coming and going, so their life has- n’t changed one bit. We spend holidays together, we do everything that we’re supposed to do together.” When asked if their children understand what’s going on, he told ‘The Meredith Vieira Show’: “They’re just happy. They love mommy, they love daddy.” The heartthrob is coping well and added: “It’s truly just staying focused on family and what’s right and get- ting through these times and just doing what’s right for the kids.” Nick recently had the “Mariah” tattoo on his upper back inked over with a new cross design, and while trying to convince the Meredith to get a tattoo on her ankle, he warned: “Don’t put anyone’s name!”

Tori Spelling’s husband insists he isn’t ‘ a monster’ Amal’s family want to ean McDermott, who has been battling to save his show George Clooney marriage to the former ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ actress Dsince he had a two-day fling with a waitress late last year, says he only cheated on her because he was insecure. he is ‘much-loved’ The ‘Chopped Canada’ host, who sought treatment in rehab for sex addiction in December, told ‘ET Canada’: “The affair was he British human rights lawyer and the ‘Monuments Men’ star - who tied the knot in more about how I was feeling about myself than having an Venice, Italy last month - will be the guests of honour at an extravagant post-wedding affair. “I messed up and I’m owning up to it and I’m getting Tparty, hosted by her parents, Baria and Ramzi Alamuddin, at the Danesfield House Hotel & help. But to label me a monster or evil is very hurtful.” He Spa in Buckinghamshire, England on Saturday night. A source told E! News: “[Amal’s sister] Tala added: “You know, I’m not the first person to ever cheat on his wanted to help her parents plan the party at Danesfield House and they all are eager to make wife.” But the 41-year-old actress, who is currently in hospital this weekend one to remember for George and Amal as a thank you for the amazing time they in Los Angeles, hinted she is might be preparing to split from all had in Venice. The feeling within the Alamuddin family is still very much one of celebration Dean, with whom she has four children, Liam, seven, Stella, and joy about the wedding. “They’re keen to show George how pleased they are that he and five, Hattie, three, and Finn, two. The blonde beauty shared a Amal are so happy together and that he is a much-loved and cherished part of the family.” The photograph of herself in bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, insider added: “The party is going to be everything that the wedding in Italy was - lots of cele- with the caption: “This sick in hospital I finally see how quickly brating with champagne, an incredible five-course dinner and then lots of dancing until the life can take it all away from you. We all need 2 step up frm early hours of the morning.” The 53-year-old star was spotted arriving at Heathrow Airport in inside& go 4 it! W/our friends by our side. Sadly I’ve finally London for the festivities this morning. An eyewitness said: “George seemed very relaxed and faced truth that 1 person will never be there 4 me #TrueTori” casual, he was so low-key that hardly anyone recognised him! George looked very happy to be Dean blames their upcoming reality TV series for her health back in the UK and seemed excited about the prospect of being reunited with Amal.” A large problems. He said: “The show we’re shooting is obviously very white marquee was erected at the five-star countryside hotel, which sits on 65 acres, for the pri- emotional. It’s six days a week. It finally caught up with her vate festivities in recent days, and crates of champagne, white lilies, purple orchids and mini and took its toll, so she has bronchitis, sinusitis and pneumo- white roses were delivered this morning. nia and she’s getting great care at the hospital.” Katie Price Keira Knightley never planning to got an invite to her prom sell her breast he ‘Begin Again’ actress had to attend her high loved it and identified with that part of their life as being school dance with a girlfriend because no boys the period.” Keira stars in ‘Laggies’ with ChloÎ Grace Moretz Tasked her to be their date. Talking to the Huffington and Sam Rockwell. Post, Keira explained: “We don’t really have proms in implants England, not in the American way. So I actually turned up late and went with one of my best girl friends, because nobody asked either of us to prom. We were each other’s dates, which was fun. “She’s great, she’s one of my best he 36-year-old model is to offload her current fake dren Harvey, 12, from a previous relationship with Dwight mates still. We had a lovely time and we didn’t care that boobs in a few months to raise money for breast cancer Yorke and Junior, nine, and Princess, seven, from her marriage nobody had asked us, we asked each other.” The 29-year- Tcharities because the former model - who last year to Peter Andre - revealed plans to have a breast reduction at old screen beauty also admitted that she “hated” being a revealed her assets are a size 32DD after previously being as some point because she wanted her boobs to be “pert”. The teenager so it was particularly interesting for her to play big as 32FF - wants to go under the knife again as an early brunette - who has gone under the knife six times in a bid to her character Megan in her new film ‘Laggies’, because her “Christmas present” for her and husband Kieran Hayler. She get perfect breasts - said at the time: “I’m like an orangutan. alter ego desperately wants to cling onto her youth. Keira told The Sun newspaper: “We should sell these implants for I’ve been pregnant for the last two years!” When asked if she said: “It’s a funny thing really because I hated being a charity. I’ve got more pairs in the safe. “I love them but I’d sell would have more cosmetic surgery, she replied: “I will do my teenager and I was never really interested in doing them in The Sun for a breast cancer charity. I can even sign boobs again ... they were amazing before I met Kieran. “They teenage films. I always just wanted to be out of that whole them with a marker pen. “You could have these very breasts were literally amazing, the best they’d ever been. But then period of my life. “So I sort of liked playing somebody who right from inside me in a few weeks.” Katie - who previously three months later, I’m pregnant. I think I’ll go a little bit small- had a completely different experience, who absolutely boosted her boobs from a natural size 32B to a size 32DD er this time and go pert.” when she was just 19 - insists her assets are now “saggy” after recently giving birth to her two children, Jett, 14 months, and two-month-old Bunny, with Kieran. The mother-of-five added: “I’ve had two babies very quickly so they’re saggy. “I know I look ridiculous but that’s what people want to see. I’d just had them done before I met Kieran so I’m having a service.” In June while she was pregnant with Bunny, Katie - who also has chil- lifestyle SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Anna Kendrick on modeling, movies, music

nna Kendrick is in the holiday spirit.“I want it did that day. And just playing with my male models to be Christmas already! I just want to throw for the day was so much fun, just sort of twirling Aa soiree,” the bubbly actress said during a around in this white dress. recent interview. Kendrick certainly looked the part, wearing a AP: Where do you get your sense of style? red, sleeveless party dress with a big, silk bow on Kendrick: (My mom) was always a fan of just the back. The outfit from Kate Spade New York’s really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we holiday collection is featured in the company’s grew up in Maine, so we didn’t have a lot of call for upcoming advertising campaign starring Kendrick. black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got But don’t call the 29-year-old a model. “If I had that sensibility from her. for one moment considered it modeling, I probably would’ve had a freakout,” she said. Instead, AP: You starting working with Kate Spade Kendrick approached the photo shoot like a film while playing Cinderella in Disney’s “Into the role and got into character by discussing back sto- Woods.” What was it like balancing those ries with older male models on the set. worlds? “Weirdly it felt a lot more like my day job than it Kendrick: Well, these clothes are a lot more did like modeling,” she said, adding “eww!” with a comfortable because (costume designer) Colleen grimace as she spit out the M-word. Atwood is a genius, but she does not care if you Along with the ads, Kendrick teamed with the can’t breathe. ... The costumes in that movie are so brand for its 2015 “The Year of Adventure” cam- exquisite and they’re completely authentic. ... It’s paign where she will collaborate on film and social lots of layers and somebody had to help me get media projects. dressed every morning because you can’t do up a In a recent interview, Kendrick discussed her for- corset yourself. So I felt like I was actually in ay into fashion, having a Cinderella moment in ‘Downton Abbey.’ “Into the Woods” (due out at Christmas) and her next big adventure. AP: You have three upcoming musicals: “Into the Woods,” “The Last 5 Years” and “Pitch Perfect AP: What’s it like being a spokesmodel? 2.” Coming from a musical theater background, Kendrick: Kate Spade has really embraced me is this your dream come true? being me, which is great because it would be a lot Kendrick: I was so excited when it started to harder to not be. So you know I’m glad that they feel like people are going to make movie musicals don’t mind a little quirk and a little sass. again. So I mean it wasn’t my master plan, but I’m really happy that that is a trend that is happening scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy catch up on because I’ve been leading this incredi- AP: Did you have a favorite look from the and I hope it stays.AP: Your hit single “Cups” from enough so the music industry to me seems like the ble, busy, beautiful life through my work. So I’m holiday campaign? the first “Pitch Perfect” film sold nearly 3 million wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare. hoping to actually be with friends and family this Kendrick: I think my favorite was this white tracks. year and maybe go someplace where I don’t have Anna Kendrick poses for a swing dress that shows off your shoulders and has AP: The campaign is called “The Year of to make a movie for 14 hours a day. — AP portrait at Chateau this beautiful embellished collar. That was just real- AP: Would you like to record an album? Adventure.” Are you the adventurous type? Marmont during an inter- ly fun to be in and that was the first shot that we Kendrick: Hell no. The music industry seems Kendrick: I feel like I have some adventuring to view in West Hollywood, Calif. — AP

Revival of Thai south script points way to peace

This picture taken on August 28, 2014 in Saiburi, in Thailand’s restive southern province of Pattani, shows Muslim schoolchildren studying in their class- room at a religious school, where the Yawi language is taught. Muslim schoolchildren lining up before entering their classrooms at a religious school, where the Yawi language is taught. A high-pitched chorus pours out from a Muslim nursery school in Thailand’s insurgency-battered south, as girls in crisp, white hijabs read aloud the elegant curls and flourishes of a script unique to their homeland but virtually erased from public life by the Thai state. — AFP photos

high-pitched chorus pours out from a Muslim nursery toppled the elected government in May, taking with him Colonial rule has seen several attempts to impose bringing all Muslim schools under the yoke of the national school in Thailand’s insurgency-battered south, as girls Ismail’s dream of seeing all 2,000 villages across the south giv- “Thainess” and the country’s shibboleths of ‘nation, religion system. Ain crisp, white hijabs read aloud the curls and flourishes en their jawi name. and king’ over the deep south-once a proud sultanate and To many the memory of those periods, which were accom- of a homegrown script virtually erased from public life. The script, which has variations across the Malay peninsula, wealthy trading point. panied by crackdowns on resistance, remains sharp. Thailand annexed the Muslim-majority south more than a is far from simply a cultural relic, also functioning as a way into Field Marshall Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Thai prime minister “If you have something of your own and then someone century ago and ever since has sought to railroad the distinc- the Koranic language of Arabic for the poorly educated Sunni through the late 1930s and then again from the late 40s, takes it, it’s natural to want to take it back,” says Abdullah Bin tive local culture into accepting rule from Bangkok. Muslim population. made Thai language teaching compulsory on the school cur- Abdulrahman, 54, a local businessman involved in the renam- Resentment at the perceived assault on the region’s identi- But as children stream out of their language classes, the riculum, parachuting Buddhist officials into key bureaucratic ing project. ty has galvanised support for an insurgency that has left 6,100 sea breeze sending their hijabs flowing behind them, Ismail positions, at the expense of local Malay-Muslim leaders. people dead-the majority civilians-since 2004. says now only the old or very young have a grasp of the script. Jawi was gradually culled from public life and locals were Prospects for peace Jawi (pronounced Yawi by Thais), which deploys the Arabic “Our ancestors tell us about our history, our language, but told to take Thai names-in addition to their own. In the 1960s Several rounds of peace talks fizzled out last year as focus alphabet to write the Patani Malay language, is used by elders the government wants to tell us a different story.” hardline military ruler Sarit Thanarat went a step further, turned to political turmoil in Bangkok. Now, junta leader and taught to youngsters at private Muslim schools in the Prayut Chan-O-Cha says he is ready to return to the table. southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. Last week broadcasters began adding Jawi subtitles to But repeated assimilation drives mean it is not on the cur- Prayut’s weekly televised address, normally delivered in Thai riculum in state schools while village names once written in with English subtitles, in seven southern provinces. jawi have been changed to Thai, leaving locals desperate to But trust is still in short supply. On Saturday the deep south revive the writing-and the cultural lineage it represents. will mark the 10th anniversary of the deaths of 85 anti-gov- “We have to preserve our cultural uniqueness,” says local ernment protesters at Tak Bai, the majority of them by suffoca- historian Ismail Ishaq Benjasmith at the end of jawi classes at a tion as they were stacked-hands bound-on top of each other tadika-religious school-in the coastal Saiburi district of Pattani. in army trucks. “It is a small issue but it feeds into violence, because our Thai security forces stand accused of widespread human history has been changed by the government and little by lit- rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, abuses and extra- tle people get angry.” judicial killings. Like many others in the mountainous, forested neck of For their part, rebels conduct near-daily ambushes or land between Thailand and Malaysia, Ismail says years of cul- bomb attacks on security forces and terrorise civilians-both tural degradation have crystallised support for the rebellion. Buddhist and Muslim-with assassinations and arson attacks. In a move to restore the much-loved script he is leading a Teachers have been a particular target, with scores shot campaign to bring jawi names back onto village signposts. dead by insurgents who see them as agents of the Thai state. A source close to the talks told AFP the rebels are “in princi- What’s in a name? ple” ready to talk, but have yet to formally agree. After a slalom through barbed-wire topped checkpoints, Locals such as Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman say peace the road reaches a fishing village on a palm-fringed beach. depends on the Thai military easing its grip on the region, but A signpost reads ‘Mengabang’ in the romanised rumi script they are desperate for a resolution to the bloody conflict. “We for Malay common across the peninsula, but the name is also are ready for a change, ready for peace... but after so long I written below in jawi and Thai. don’t know if we will get it,” he said. — AFP It is a small, but deeply symbolic, victory for Ismail who with a local cultural group called PUSTA lobbied for 10 villages to get a jawi sign. The former top Thai civilian official for the south, Tawee Sodsong, endorsed the pilot scheme in a rare nod by the state Schoolchildren studying to the underlying causes of the conflict. in their classroom at a But Tawee was removed from his job shortly after the army religious school. lifestyle SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

Film Review ‘Jia Zhangke: A Guy from Fenyang’

uteur portraits of fellow auteurs don’t always make unmentioned here, though his directorial hand is evident in revisit key locations from his films and encounter a discour- lutionary” work with justifiably nervous pride. for illuminating films: The line between sincere mutu- the film’s crisp, airy visual composure and aptitude for social aging succession of boarded windows, depopulated streets With material this substantial, Salles arguably doesn’t Aal appreciation and smug mutual congratulation can geography; it’s left to the viewer to conclude that this oddly and disappeared apple trees. The colorful cluster of karaoke need to lean as heavily on Jia’s own films as he does, though be a fine one. Brazilian director Walter Salles, however, gets matched pair may have more in common than meets the bars so integral to Jia’s feature debut “Xiao Wu” has been editor Joana Collier cuts to them at apposite moments to the balance just about right in “Jia Zhangke: A Guy from eye. erased entirely, a victim not just of economic recession but bring Fanyeng’s changing face into sharp relief. The length Fenyang,” an intelligent, restrained but warmly intimate cin- From the wandering social realism of his early Shanxi governmental puritanism to boot. Jia absorbs the drastic and number of extracts used could easily be reduced if ematic conversation with the Sixth Generation Chinese trail- Province trilogy to his journalistic documentary work to the changes with unsurprised melancholy, perhaps seeing that there’s any demand to shave the film’s current (and quite blazer. Similarly simple in concept to Olivier Assayas’ 1997 more violent, wuxia-colored cri de coeur that was 2013’s “A his films and the karaoke quarter aren’t such different enti- reasonable) 103-minute running time to fit ancillary require- study of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Salles’ film follows Jia as he wan- Touch of Sin,” Jia’s films are bound by an elegiac concern for ties in the current climate. ments. Still, the generosity of the selections gives newcom- ders the scarred streets of his hometown-many of them rec- the shifting infrastructure, cultural blind spots and socio- Jia is joined on his excursions by a range of acquaintanc- ers to Jia’s work a fair indication of its distinctive rhythmic ognizable from his own films-and muses wryly on a political- economic constraints of contemporary China. Salles’ film fol- es and associates, among them actors Wang Hongwei and and structural qualities, while even agnostics may be tempt- ly fractious career. Unspooled in Rome as a “work in lows suit, finding the filmmaker in dryly good-humored but Han Sanming, who offer their own reflections on the direc- ed to take another look at the likes of “Unknown Pleasures” progress” (effectively complete, but minus closing credits) decidedly anxious form, seemingly burned by his recent run- tor’s work and its place in modern-day China. Further per- and “24 City.” ahead of its world premiere at the Sao Paolo fest, this clip- in with Chinese censors over “Sin”-a film still, at time of writ- spective is contributed by a range of talking heads, includ- In her first collaboration with Salles, accomplished heavy cinephile’s delight should get heavy play on the festi- ing, unreleased in its home country, despite administrators’ ing, of course, Jia’s wife and muse Zhao Tao; below-the-line Chilean cinematographer Briones (“The Loneliest Planet”) val and repertory circuit. insistence that it hasn’t been banned. “We live in a time of collaborators share valuable insights on Jia’s evolving aes- captures Fenyang’s urban deterioration in dusty tones and There are few obvious points of identification between confused values and national malaise,” Jia observes wearily. thetic, and the practical nuts and bolts behind it. (His long- serene long takes that cannily channel Jia’s visual instincts- the burnished, gently conventional storytelling of Salles’ His own sense of personal malaise, meanwhile, is put in time d.p. Yu Lik-wai relates an amusing but revealing anec- while keeping this documentary foray firmly of a piece with work (“Central Station,” “On the Road”) and Jia’s more aus- more visceral terms: “My guts are messed up,” he mumbles, dote on how the director effectively tricked him into his the Brazilian’s oeuvre. — Reuters tere, sometimes abrasive brand of humanism, but that may between cigarette drags. now-signature use of DV.) Family also figures heavily into the be why “A Guy from Fenyang” works as well as it does. Salles equation, with onscreen testimony from Jia’s mother and sis- approaches his subject as an admiring peer, but doesn’t go Drastic changes ter, while the filmmaker offers a moving dedication to his to smarmy lengths to forge a spiritual connection between The decay isn’t just internal, as Inti Briones’ camera finds late father-an academically-inclined man made fearful by their filmographies. Indeed, Salles’ own career goes largely the city of Fenyang in a similarly doleful state. Salles and Jia the Cultural Revolution, who viewed his son’s “counter-revo-

Ex-cons start over at Kitano tired of gangsters Prague’s anti-prejudice cafe and commercial constraints t a cafe and sweet shop in central “The Czech Republic has programmes for Prague, Zuzana Auerova brings a seniors or disabled people, but no one before he mainstream Japanese film industry came in for a surpris- Achocolate-banana crepe to a guest, us had thought of a project aimed at people ing volume of criticism yesterday at a Tokyo event intended then hesitates: does the fork go on the right just out of prison,” Plhakova says. Tto celebrate the iconic comedian, actor and director Takeshi or the left of the plate? That includes the justice ministry, which Kitano. The occasion was an on-stage session at which Kitano “I’m sorry, I don’t really know how to do “doesn’t even compile data on the number of was named as the first recipient of the Tokyo International Film this yet,” the 40-something who was recently former inmates who work or are unem- Festival’s Samurai Prize. He was greeted and quizzed by eight released from prison says with a shy smile. ployed,” according to the 30-year-old. prize-winning student filmmakers, and then lauded by Cannes Auerova works at Cafe Dismas, a new venue “Why should they bear the burden of guilt festival selector Christian Jeune and critic and Asian film expert with the slogan “cafe without prejudice,” for the rest of their lives? They come to us Tony Rayns. which employs former inmates to help reinte- broken, distressed, and it’s amazing to see Looking and sounding as gruff and burdened as ever, Kitano grate them into society. them regain confidence when they know kicked off with a cute anecdote about his early days as a strug- “It’s almost impossible to find a job with a they’re of use to others. gling comedian who had to work in bars and massage parlors in criminal record. Employers say no and don’t “But we only hire those who really want to order make ends meet. “I scrubbed the backs of Yakuza [gang- want to listen to you,” says Auerova, who work, who are motivated,” she adds. sters],” he said. spent three years behind bars for burglary. Since then, that proximity to organized crime has come in She once trained as a gardener but that Immense joy, incredible worries handy. Not only have gritty gangster films become Kitano’s direc- was decades ago and she no longer feels able Stana Ledererova sips her cappuccino at torial trademark, he revealed that on his first visit to the U.K. to return to the profession at her age. So one of the tables. She has come to see how London Film Festival officials mistook him for a genuine bad guy. when she left prison, she found a temporary her son Petr is faring a few days into his new Now Kitano could be getting weary. “Maybe I’m getting tired job as a window cleaner before knocking on job in the kitchen. of violent movies. I’ve made a few in order to make money,” he the door of the cafe. “I’m happy he has this opportunity. It will said. “I was thrown in at the deep end. I had definitely be a good starting point for him. I Responding a seemingly innocent question about whether absolutely no experience doing this kind of know he’s desperate to change,” she says with foreigners can make Japanese films, Kitano launched into a cri- Japanese movie director work,” says Auerova. “But it’s a good opportu- a slight smile. tique of the academy that selects Japan’s contenders for the for- Asked to compare current Japanese cinema with that of Takeshi Kitano gestures as nity to learn something new, and to chat with Taking a break from cooking, Petr Lederer eign language Oscars. Korea, Rayns drew a very unflattering portrait. he answers questions after people. I like that,” she adds before serving a recalls what it was like to be a free man again “Only films from the major studios [Shochiku, Toho and “Korea is very dynamic, it is undergoing social and political winning the first Samurai “Raspberry Temptation” sundae to two after doing time for theft. “I felt immense joy Toei],and sometimes Nikkatsu, get selected. It really annoys me change. Its culture reflects that. Its films are rooted in change,” Award of the Tokyo guests. of course, but that didn’t last long,” the former that there is such a narrow source,” he said. “Who are the Rayns said. “In Japan I don’t see that. I see stasis. I still see same International Film Festival mechanic says. Academy members? And why is it that commercial considera- right wing politicians denying the existence of comfort women, during an event with young The good thief “Suddenly you have all these huge wor- tions always limit what filmmakers can say?” the same old stuff we’ve heard for 20, 30 or 40 years. Until we see Japanese filmmakers in The coffee shop’s staff is hired for eight ries: what am I going to eat tonight, where He acknowledged that some restrictions can be helpful to a some challenge to the establishment [in Japan] I don’t think you Tokyo yesterday. — AFP months by Dismas, a nonprofit organisation will I sleep, how will I earn a living...” filmmaker. “A lack of freedom makes you use your imagination,” will see the same dynamism as in Korean cinema.” co-funded by the European Union. It was That is when his mother discovered the he said, and also said that he had recycled things he had learned Moments later Kitano was asked by media to elaborate on his named after the good thief who repented of cafe on a social network. Its owners are now as a director into his comedy. future film projects, but it turned into a prime example of the his sins after being crucified next to Jesus planning to organise training for their In an interesting sideswipe, Kitano said that he did not enjoy conservatism that Kitano and Rayns had criticized. Christ. employees to help them earn certificates of the cartoons of Hayao Miyazaki, the Studio Ghibli founder and “I’m done shooting, but I’ve been told to keep quiet,” Kitano A social worker with a decade of experi- professional competence down the line. cultural icon honoured only a day earlier by the festival and replied. At that point the event MC cut in to proceedings and, ence, Dismas founder Katerina Plhakova runs There is also the question of what happens Pixar’s John Lasseter. “I really don’t,” Kitano said. “But it is impor- without explaining the reason, said that the festival bosses had the cafe and sweet shop together with her once the EU funds dry up. “People are already tant to recognize other opinions.” ruled such questions as inadmissible. — Reuters mother Alena Pesanova. getting into the habit of coming here, turnover Similar post-prison projects have sprung is not bad, but it’s nothing special either,” Rayns echoed up elsewhere in the world, from a coffee Pesanova says. “We will do our best to keep on Kitano’s commentary about restrictiveness of mainstream bean-roasting operation in the United States doing this job to help people.” — AFP Japanese cinema today. “The future of commercial cinema is in to a Singaporean restaurant started by an ex- the hands of only a few companies. Opportunities for independ- con and former heroin addict. ents may become limited. But other channels will probably But the concept was new to the central emerge [for new filmmaking voices], on the Internet, and European country when Cafe Dismas opened through downloading.” this summer.

Models wear dresses by Armenian fashion designer Vakhan Khachatryan during a fashion show in Yerevan yesterday. — AFP photos Anna Kendrick on modeling, 38movies, music SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014

In this Friday photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, a woman costumed as a hen pulls a wagon with a nest containing faux eggs down Fleming Street in Key West, Fla., during the Fantasy Fest Masquerade March. Thousands of revelers participated in the event that is a facet of the island city’s Fantasy Fest masking and costuming festival that concludes today. — AP Paris’ Picasso Museum re-opens Prolific works of best-known artist of 20th century

fter a five-year closure for what was supposed to be the world’s most extensive collections of Picasso’s work Laurent Le Bon, the expansion-which has boosted the The director, who had been at the helm for nine years a two-year refurbishment, Paris’s Picasso Museum with 5,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, pho- exhibition space to 3,800 square metres (41,000 square and at the museum for over two decades, was summarily Are-opened yesterday with arguments over the 52- tographs and documents. feet) — will allow it to display far more of its collection, sacked by France’s then culture minister, Aurelie Filippetti, million-euro ($66-million) project still reverberating. The Spanish artist spent most of his life in France and only a fraction of which was previously displayed due to following a staff rebellion and accusations of authoritarian French President Francois Hollande said at a ceremony the majority of the exhibits were left to the French state on lack of space. management. Her dismissal prompted Claude Picasso, the museum was “one of the most beautiful in the world his death in 1973. Others were donated by his family, Le Bon told AFP the beauty of the renovation was that who supported Baldassari, to accuse the French govern- and one of the most moving because it brings together including his widow Jacqueline. “everything has changed and nothing has changed”. ment of failing to value his father’s work and of dragging the considerable and prolific work of the best-known artist Hollande also used the opening to defend a US contem- “You still have the basic structure of the building... but its feet over the re-opening. of the 20th century”. porary artist, Paul McCarthy, who had a controversial inflat- at the same time everything has been redone,” he said. Baldassari “is the scientific authority who has been The ceremony, though, did little to hide the rancour sur- able work in Paris’ chic Place Vendome-meant to be an “One can move around much more easily than before, responsible for the growth of the museum for many years,” rounding the project, which featured the sacking of its abstract Christmas tree, but viewed by many as an over- one has a freedom which goes well with the spirit and the Picasso told the newspaper Le Figaro at the time, adding director, a blast of criticism from the artist’s son, lengthy scale green sex toy-was vandalised last week, leading to its works of Picasso.” that he would regard any replacement who thought they delays and a huge budget overrun. removal. The president condemned “the act of stupidity As part of the refit, offices have been turned into exhibi- could take her place as an “impostor”. The museum-housed in a 17th-century mansion in which leads to an artist being attacked or his work being tion areas, former stables transformed into a huge recep- In future, the museum is expected to hold one major Paris’s trendy Marais quarter-has been extensively mod- destroyed”. tion hall and the basement excavated. exhibition each year. The first in mid-2015 in collaboration ernised and enlarged to more than twice its previous size. “The talent of a nation can be measured by the impor- New minimalist exhibition spaces are characterised by with New York’s Museum of Modern Art will take Picasso’s But the project ran 22 million euros over budget due to tance it accords to artists,” Hollande added. grey terrazzo, bare stone and whitewashed walls. sculpture as its theme. — AFP an increase in the scope of the works, and a rift developed But the sacking of the museum’s previous director Anne between Picasso’s son Claude and the French government. More space for exhibits Baldassari in May 2014, just months before the re-opening, The gallery, which first opened in 1985, boasts one of According to the Picasso Museum’s new director, has cast a shadow over the project.

People visit Paris’ Picasso Museum yesterday at the Hotel Sale in Paris, on the day of its re-opening after a five-year closurefor what was supposed to be a two-year refurbishment. — AFP photos