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The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 that was shot down yesterday near the Ukraine- Russia border takes off from Los Angeles International Airport in this Nov 15, 2012 file photo. — AP اطن 31103 Local FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

Local Spotlight Diwaniya no longer a male bastion

By Muna Al-Fuzai

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he diwaniya in Kuwait has existed since a long Ttime. It was a male domain and no women were welcomed or allowed to visit it for any reason. That is all history now. The diwaniya is no longer limit- ed for males only. A new trend emerged a few years ago with mixed diwaniyas. But these were few and for highly intellectual figures to discuss specific matters of interests to them. Nevertheless, several diwaniyas now welcome and appreciate visits of women activists and female parlia- ment candidates to talk and discuss national issues or even host foreign guests, bearing in mind that we have many female diplomats who visit diwaniyas for social events. Does that mean the diwaniya is no longer represent- ing the sole avenue for men’s social life here in Kuwait? Yes, because youth - especially those between the ages of 18 to 30 - have different interests and with the spread of shisha cafes, western restaurants and malls, the excuse that they only can get together in the diwaniya is not true, except for social events and Ramadan gatherings. During Ramadan this year, some diwaniya chiefs were annoyed because most youths had been busy fol- lowing World Cup games. For them, it was a little embarrassing receiving guests while everyone else was busy and away. One diwaniya owner told me that he would rather tell diplomatic guests to visit him either before or after football matches. The World Cup is over now, and everyone has begun the countdown for Eid. The diwaniya is a fundamental part of Kuwaiti life and traditional social life. But it has become less con- servative. This is normal, due to lifestyle changes. And with more youth educated in the West, the power of the diwaniya is no longer a pressure. Now the diwaniya only keeps its social status. One tip if you go to a Kuwaiti diwaniya in Ramadan - enjoy the dates and don’t consume too much coffee!

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Ramadan Kareem Last ten days of Ramadan

By Hassan T Bwambale

llah is the creator of everything including this auspicious month: The intercession of both will thus be accepted. How do you expect to gain the mercy and for- Ayears, months, weeks, days, hours, seasons, 1. Devise a timetable: You can include the The reward for reading a letter of the Glorious giveness of Allah - the Almighty? Now is the etc. He has made some seasons better times and frequency of reading and reciting the Quran in this auspicious blessed month is also opportunity to ask your parents to forgive you for than others in that if you do an act of worship in Glorious Quran. Determine how much you will very much increased - starting with 10 rewards anything wrong you have done to them. them, you get double or triple reward or even read: is it a juz’u (portion) or a surah (chapter) or a per letter up to 700 rewards and more depending more depending on your sincerity and the perfec- number of verses (aayaat)? Furthermore, deter- on your sincerity and level of perfection. 6. Seek out Laylatul Qadr (The Night of tion in which you performed that act. The last ten mine how many optional prayers you will perform Decree): This auspicious night made the last 10 nights of Ramadan are the best of all nights due day in and day out - and make sure you stick to 4. Strive to gain forgiveness: Aisha (May Allah nights of Ramadan to be the best nights through- to the fact that the Night of Decree (Laylatul Qadr) that plan. be pleased with her) said: “I asked the Messenger out the year. “LailatulQadr is better than a thou- falls in one of the last odd numbered nights of of Allah: ‘O Messenger of Allah, if I know the exact sand months” [97:3]. If you worship Allah devoutly Ramadan. 2. Spend the last 10 days in etikaaf: Keeping night when the Night of Decree will fall, what during this night, you will be rewarded more than “Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) yourself in confinement in the mosque for prayer, should I say (in supplication) during it?’ He said: someone who worshipped Allah for 83.3 years - used to exert himself in devotion during the last meditation, recitation of the Quran, supplication, ‘Say: O Allah, You are the Most Forgiving; You love outside of the Night of Decree. ten nights to a greater extent than at any other etc. You do this with the intention of becoming to forgive, so pardon me.’ The best time to ask for time” (Muslim). Aisha (may Allah be pleased with closer to Allah, the Almighty, by doing constant forgiveness - and anything else for that matter - is 7. Evaluate yourself and make the changes for her) reported that with the start of the last ten remembrance, glorification and worship seeking during the last third of the Night (tahajjud time). the rest of the year! Ramadan is full of lessons days of Ramadan, the Prophet (PBUH) used to His pleasure and rewards. During this period of the night one should con- from which we have to carry out the rest of the tighten his waist belt (ie work harder), pray all the centrate on repenting as well as asking Allah year. We should strive to continue good behav- night long as well as keep his family awake for the 3. Recite the Glorious Quran as much as you whatever he wishes to have - keeping in mind the iour, discontinue the evil and NEVER go back to it. prayers (Bukhari). So we need to emulate the can: Fasting and the Quran will intercede on etiquette of supplication (Duaa). As you repent to For we don’t know when our souls will be taken. example of the Prophet (PBUH) in doing our best behalf of Allah’s servant on the Day of Judgment. Allah, you should vow not to repeat sins. during this time of the month of Ramadan. It The fast will say, “O my Lord! I prevented him from Courtesy of the TIES Center, the social and would be a big challenge but remember: food and desires during the day, so accept my 5. Serve your parents and be dutiful to them: If educational hub for English Speaking Muslims in Abundant rewards come out of hard work. intercession on his behalf. Whereas, the Quran will your parents are angry or unhappy with you then Kuwait. For more information, please call Here are some ways that we can all make the say, “O my Lord! I prevented him from sleeping by how do you expect your fast and acts of devotion 25231015 or e-mail [email protected] or visit best of these precious last ten days and nights of night, so accept my intercession on his behalf.” to be accepted and thus accrue rewards to you? www.tiescenter.net. Experts discuss roots of turmoil in Mideast By Nawara Fattahova curriculum is narrow and glorifies the leader. And the government is promoting ue to increasing violence in com- slogans such as human rights, freedom of Dmunities and the world in general, expression, supporting freedoms, applying various organizations and groups laws, eliminating poverty and social equity. are trying to tackle the roots of this phe- When the Muslim grows up, he faces a nomenon. The Justice and Peace contradiction between what he learnt in Gathering held a forum titled ‘National and school and what he finds in real life. Political Peace in the Modern Society’, Violence and extremism are the result for which focused on issues such as increasing demanding his rights,” Fuzai added. extremism and violence in Gulf communi- “The second reason behind violence is ties, Arab political conflicts and their role in exploiting religion for political purposes fostering terrorism, the truth behind the and vice versa. The example of this is the Arab Spring and other related issues. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who failed Secretary General Ali Al-Jazaf said that in ruling the country. They exploited reli- Kuwait is currently passing through a tense gion to reach power. Osama bin Laden is situation. “The region is witnessing the another example, who became the leader most dangerous situation in modern histo- of the Taleban and executed the attacks on ry, and Kuwait is part of this region, and its New York. And finally the ruling systems, stability is connected to these countries. which exploited sectarian differences a The West provoked wars in the region and way to reach power through dividing the played with our feelings and beliefs. We nation, such as Saddam Hussein, the for- need to put security plans to avoid any mer president of Iraq,” she concluded. possible effect of the terror in Iraq. I hope Dr Khadeeja Mahmid believes that vio- the government will take this issue seri- lence is not natural, as the human spirit ously, and that this forum will issue recom- encourages peace. “Violence is not new, as mendations that will be applied,” he not- it started thousands of years ago with the ed. first murder. But the crimes have devel- Political activist Mona Al-Fuzai spoke oped with time from classical weapons to about the roots of political extremism and hijacking airplanes, and using nuclear and violence. “In the present time, extremism biological weapons. In addition, social has become connected to Islam, as if media have also supported political move- Muslims are the models presenting it to ments that encourage violence,” she the world. But we forgot that the West was explained. suffering from violence and extremism for Dr Tawfeeq Al-Saif from Saudi Arabia decades, and succeeded to overcome it stressed the importance of having religion with an international system, while the as part of public life. “The religious con- Arab and Islamic world is still living with flicts in the Arab and Islamic world are due extremism,” she pointed out. to the gulf between nations and individu- According to her, there are three main als. Successful leadership needs the partici- reasons behind violence and extremism. pation of people, and it was proved that “Education is one of the most important people don’t participate if their religion is reasons behind this phenomenon, as our distanced from public life,” he stated. Don't Worry Enjoy the Sun ...

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The parking is easy to use. “The vehicle can be moved within a few minutes. Each vehicle has a number, and the driver just has to press a button with the number of his vehicle and he will receive his car within two minutes. This parking works on electricity and has a one-year warranty and a yearly maintenance contract,” he added. Even since they placed these units in their two locations, many people have seen it and expressed interest to have one, especially since parking is a hassle in most areas of Kuwait. “It’s a great idea for houses, buildings, offices and any crowded place. We have received calls from people wanting it for their villa, hotel or company. Unfortunately we didn’t receive an or- der yet from building landlords or tenants, and the reason may be the high price of this smart parking system, as one parking place costs around KD 1,850, so for 17 cars for instance it will cost around KD 31,000,” stressed Mirza. “We have German and Korean parking systems, but both are assembled in China. I’m optimistic that the price may drop to be affordable in the future. Also they’re getting better, as the mistakes are corrected. For instance, earlier models were based on hydraulics, which broke down often,” he noted. “We don’t have these smart parking units in a warehouse as they can’t be stored, so we only import them based on an order. Some customers have ordered it for their boats, which are parked in their parking lot and take up space. There is no standard size for the smart parking system - it can be custom- ized depending on the customer’s need. It’s really the solution to the continuous crisis of parking places,” concluded Mirza.

It’s a great idea for “houses, buildings, offices and any crowded place. ” Local FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 ‘Journey of Hope’ boat sets anchor in Toulon

TOULON, France: A Kuwaiti boat making a France under the guidance of the French journey around the world to bring attention and Kuwaiti ministries of defense, prior to to the plight of people with mental disabili- the return trip back home to Kuwait. ties anchored on Wednesday in this French Chief of the crew Jassem Al-Bader, in city. On hand to greet the boat’s passengers similar remarks to KUNA, thanked the city and crew were the consul of Kuwait in Paris of Toulon for their warm welcome and said Muhammad Al-Shamlan and the staff of the the message was not lost on anyone that it Kuwaiti embassy in the capital among oth- was imperative to show optimum care for ers. Moreover, Kuwait’s ambassador to people with mental disabilities by integrat- France Ali Al-Saeed issued a statement, a ing them into the society, their handicaps copy of which was obtained by KUNA, in notwithstanding. The idea of the worldwide which he hailed the humanitarian nature of journey was the brainchild of a number of the “Journey of Hope” mission. Kuwaiti parents with children having men- The boat has traveled 6532 nautical miles tal disabilities including the Down syn- since it sailed from Kuwait on May 1, having drome and autism. The parents wanted to made 22 ports of call including Toulon, said bring awareness to the plight of these chil- one of the caretakers of the boat’s mission dren and life’s restrictions on them. The Yousif Al-Jassem, in remarks to KUNA, not- boat is supposed to make 37 ports of call in ing that the boat will be anchored for a all during 210 days of sailing around the TOULON: Kuwait’s consul in Paris Muhammad Al-Shamlan and staff of the Kuwaiti month of maintenance at a naval port in world. — KUNA embassy receive the “Journey of Hope” boat. — KUNA

Emirates’ superjumbo New destinations begins Kuwait flights from Kuwait during summer

A380 service marks 25th ’versary of links KUWAIT: Kuwait International Airport will begin operat- ing new direct flights during the summer to destinations KUWAIT: Emirates introduced its sched- in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Philippines, uled A380 service to Kuwait on Slovenia and Turkey, the Directorate General of Civil Wednesday, marking the airline’s 25th Aviation (DGCA) said yesterday. Bosnia and Herzegovina anniversary of flights to the country. “We Airlines will launch the Sarajevo-Kuwait-Sarajevo service would like to express our special thanks to from July 24 until Oct 25, while a Bulgarian air charter Kuwait, the aviation authorities and will operate one weekly return flight to each of the Black Kuwait International Airport for their con- Sea resorts of Varna (July 31-Oct 10) and Burgas (Aug 4- tinued support over the past 25 years and Sept 9), according to DGCA official Sultan Al-Shuwaiei. for allowing us to bring the A380 into their As for the Philippines, Cebu Pacific Air plans to launch country. This is a tremendous opportunity a Manila-Kuwait-Manila route between Sept 2 and Oct for customers travelling to and from 25, while Slovenia’s Adria Airways will fly once weekly to Kuwait to enjoy the pride of the Emirates Ljubljana from July 26 to Sept 11. Turkey’s Atlasjet fleet,” said Sheikh Majid Al-Mualla, Airlines prepares to offer regular flights to Istanbul Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President, between July 24 and Oct 25, while Freebird Airlines will Commercial Operations Centre. offer one flight a week between Kuwait and the Black Emirates began flights between Dubai Sea coastal city of Trabzon and northwestern city of and Kuwait on July 16, 1989, and the air- five daily flights will soon be six.” they can freshen up with a shower before Bursa between July 29 and Oct 9. — KUNA line now serves the route five times daily Kuwait is only the second market in the landing. Both first and business class pas- with a combination of Boeing and Airbus Middle East to be served by the airline’s sengers can also chat over drinks and aircraft. The Emirates A380 on the Kuwait flagship aircraft after Saudi Arabia. snacks in an onboard lounge. Throughout route will offer 14 first class private suites, Emirates currently operates its A380s to 28 all cabin classes, passengers have access 76 flat-bed seats in business class and 399 of its 143 global destinations. Passengers to Wi-Fi, the award-winning ICE entertain- seats in economy class, Mualla added, not- travelling on Emirates’ A380 in first class ment system and gourmet cuisine pre- ing that flights on the Kuwait route will can step out of their private suites and vis- pared by chefs and served by a multina- operate daily at 4:00 pm local time. “The it one of two onboard shower spas where tional cabin crew. — KUNA Kuwait delivers funds to Arab Parliament

CAIRO: Kuwait delivered on Wednesday the sum of $400,000 to the Arab Parliament, thus meeting its financial contribution to the body’s budget for the current and previous years. Kuwait Permanent Representative to the Arab League Aziz Al- Daihani handed over the amount to Arab Parliament Secretary General Abdulnaser Janahi. Daihani said in a state- ment to KUNA that Kuwait has handed over its contribution to Arab Parliament budget to honor its commitment and sup- port to the Arab Parliament as one of the main pillars of joint Arab work. Janahi praised Kuwait’s efforts and support to the Arab Parliament through its constant keenness on meeting its financial commitments to the parliament, the legislative arm of Arab joint action. Meanwhile, Daihani participated in a con- sultative meeting of the council and discussed the latest developments in Gaza. In response to a question about the KUWAIT: Firemen prevented a suicide attempt by an Asian maid role of Kuwait in supporting the people of Gaza, Daihani said in Salam. After receiving a call about the suicide attempt, firemen that ‘the main mission at this stage, as the current president of arrived to find the maid had locked her room’s door and tied a the Arab summit, is to support collective Arab action and this bed sheet to the fan and around her neck. Orders were given to was through an invitation by Kuwait to hold an emergency break the door and she was saved at the last moment. meeting of Arab foreign ministers’. — KUNA Paramedics took her to hospital. — Hanan Al-Saadoun

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Gaza death ‘Keep calm’ Fighting spoils toll hits I can handle 4th wife dream 23112 it: Obama17 of 18father-of-36

SEPANG, Malaysia: Airport police stand guard at the arrival hall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport yesterday. — AP Malaysian jet crashes in Ukraine All 295 on board feared dead • Kiev blames rebels KIEV: A Malaysian airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam 10,000 m. He said it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, direct claim of a Russian attack on Ukrainian forces, Kiev said a to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in rebel-held east Ukraine, regional which can fire missiles up to an altitude of 22,000 m. Separatist Russian airforce jet shot down a Ukrainian warplane Wednesday officials said yesterday, as Ukraine’s president said the jet may leader Andrei Purgin told AP that he was certain that Ukrainian evening - before the fresh round of Western sanctions were have been shot down. Malaysia Airlines said it had “lost contact” troops had shot the plane down but gave no explanation or proof announced - as it was carrying out its duties. with flight MH17, which Ukrainian officials said came down near for his statement. Purgin said he did not know whether rebel The pilot of the Su-25 plane managed to eject and was res- the town of Shaktarsk, in the Donetsk region. Regional officials forces owned Buk missile launchers, but said even if they did, cued by Kiev forces, Ukraine’s National Security and Defence said the number of dead was “not yet known” but Russian news there had no fighters capable of operating it. A launcher similar to Council said. Russia’s defence ministry - which NATO claims has agency Itar-Tass cited an unnamed source at Ukraine’s aviation the Buk missile system was seen by AP journalists earlier yester- massed some 12,000 troops along Ukraine’s porous border - dis- authority as saying there were no survivors. Eyewitnesses quoted day near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne, which is held by missed the claim as “absurd”, Russian news agencies reported. by Russian news agency RIA Novosti spoke of dozens of bodies at the rebels. the crash site. The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin and US President Sanctions Fallout Interfax also quoted the deputy prime minister of the self- Barack Obama had discussed the shocking new development in The dramatic developments on the ground came alongside a declared Donetsk People’s Republic, Andrei Purgin, as saying a crisis-torn Ukraine where fighting between pro-Russian sepa- major diplomatic fallout over fresh Western sanctions that group of rebels had arrived at scene and found “many dead”. ratists and the Western-backed government has claimed over 600 Washington and Brussels hope will force Moscow to help halt the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the jet may have been lives. US stocks fell sharply following reports the plane had been conflict. Obama took a swipe at major players in Russia’s finance, shot down. “We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and shot down, while Britain’s Foreign Office said it was “working military and energy sectors in the new sanctions despite a warn- confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets urgently to find out what’s happened.” The incident comes just ing from Putin that the measures would inflict “very serious dam- in the sky,” Poroshenko said in a statement. months after Malaysia’s Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 age” on the already tattered US-Russia relationship.In eastern The Boeing 777 aircraft was expected in the Malaysian capital with 239 on board. The plane diverted from its Kuala Lumpur to Ukraine fierce fighting between government forces and pro- at around 6:00 am today (2200 GMT Thursday), Malaysia Airlines Beijing flight path and its fate remains a mystery despite a mas- Moscow rebels has intensified in recent days with some 55 civil- said. Still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370, sive aerial and underwater search. ians killed since the weekend. The fighting forced more than a Malaysia announced on Twitter the loss of the airliner. Malaysian dozen Ukrainian border guards to flee into Russia seeking medical Prime Minister Najib Razak said on his Twitter feed he was Ukrainian Jet ‘Downed’ help with one dying from his injuries, the Russian authorities said. “shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed”. “We are launch- The crash came with tensions already soaring after Kiev Germany and France have been spearheading a push to revive ing an immediate investigation.” Ukraine’s Poroshenko expressed accused Russia of downing a Ukrainian military plane on a mis- talks between Kiev and the rebels over a potential ceasefire but his “deepest and sincerest sympathies for the families and loved sion over the east of the country. That allegation came a day after attempts to hold a Skype videoconference fell through Tuesday. ones of those killed” and vowed that “those behind this tragedy the US and EU bolstered sanctions against Russia over its per- Ukrainian forces made a string of major gains after Poroshenko will be brought to justice.” ceived support of the separatist insurgency in the ex-Soviet state. tore up an unsuccessful ceasefire earlier this month, but progress Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, Moscow condemned the punitive measures as “blackmail” and has slowed since rebels retreated into two major regional centres said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of warned of retaliatory actions against Washington. In the first where they have pledged to fight to the end. — AFP

International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Israelis flock to Gaza death hits toll 231 apps as rocket Humanitarian truce goes into force

alerts multiply GAZA: Israeli tank fire killed three people in the Gaza Strip yester- off gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza. During the ceasefire, air day, medics said, as the overall death toll from 10 days of violence raid sirens went off briefly in southern Israel and the military said JERUSALEM: The barrage of rocket fire from Gaza has not in the Palestinian territory rose to 231. One Israeli has also been three mortars landed in open areas, but the truce appeared to be just triggered a rush for shelters, but has also sent Israelis killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. Gaza emergency generally holding. No group in Gaza claimed responsibility for the scrambling to download applications to help cope with the services spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said the three, all men in mortar fire and there were no reports of Israeli retaliation. frequent alerts. With nearly half a million downloads, the their 20s, were killed in southern Rafah shortly before 10:00 am Hours before the truce began, about a dozen Palestinian fight- “Red Alert” smart phone application has become an every- (0700 GMT). Their deaths came after another seven people were ers tunneled under the border, emerging near an Israeli commu- day essential for Israelis since the July 8 start of Israel’s mili- killed overnight. Two men were killed in Gaza City, another two in nity. At least one was killed when Israeli aircraft bombed the tary operation to stop Palestinian rocket fire brought a para- Deir Al-Balah and a fifth in northern Beit Lahiya. group, the military said. The break in 10 days of fighting was doxically sharp increase in attacks. Since then, militants have One man was also killed in southern Khan Yunis and another requested by the United Nations to allow residents of the Gaza fired more than 1,200 rockets and mortar rounds at Israel, in Rafah, also in the south, Qudra said. Another man injured by a strip, ruled by the Hamas group viewed by Israel as terrorists, to and Israel has bombed more than 1,750 targets inside the strike in Rafah on Wednesday died of his wounds yesterday. In gather supplies and repair damage to infrastructure such as water Gaza Strip, the army said on Wednesday. addition, 1,690 people had been injured during conflict, Qudra mains and power. One Israeli has been killed and four seriously wounded. In said. Israel and the Hamas movement announced yesterday they Gaza health officials say at least 224 Palestinians, mostly civil- Gaza, more than 220 Palestinians have been killed, according were observing a five-hour humanitarian truce called for by the ians, have been killed. In Israel, one civilian has been killed by fire to medics. Red Alert is meant to complement other means of United Nations. According to figures provided by the Gaza-based from Gaza, where the Israeli military says more than 1,300 rockets warning, alongside the air raid sirens in every Israeli city, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), more than 80 per- have been launched into the Jewish state. The strikes have made town and village and the real time alerts broadcast on cent of the conflict’s victims have been civilians. a race to shelters a routine for hundreds of thousands of people. national radio channels. It gives people who are not close to So far, one person has been killed in Israel-a civilian who died Israel’s military, which government officials said was poised to a radio, or who are unable to hear a siren, an extra warning on Tuesday evening in a rocket strike near the Erez crossing, expand its air and naval bombardments into possible ground and allows people in one location to know what is happen- medics said. At least four Israelis have been seriously wounded. operations, said it would respond “firmly and decisively” if mili- ing to friends and family elsewhere in the country. But Since the latest violence began before dawn on July 8, at least tants launched attacks during the truce. Sophie Taieb, 37, manager of a web community in Tel Aviv, 1,021 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel, and another 256 In Gaza City, hundreds of Palestinian lined up outside banks to says that coming on top of the mainstream warnings, the have been shot down by the Iron Dome air defense system, army collect salaries paid directly into their accounts, while others went app just adds to the tension. figures show. During its campaign of air strikes aimed at halting food shopping. Gaza roads almost deserted over days of conflict “When it sounds to signal an alert in Tel Aviv, I’m already the rocket fire, Israel has struck more than 1,750 “terror targets” were filled again with traffic. “We are here to get paid. Thank God on the stairs trying to run to shelter,” she says, having already across the coastal enclave, the army said. for the calm and we hope it lasts,” said Zakaria Ahmed, 35. “We heard the local sirens. “I hesitate to have it turned on hope Egypt brings a good truce, we hope the killing will stop and because it makes me terribly anxious.” Israeli application Mortars hit Israel (Gaza’s border) crossings will open.” There was also relief in Israel. “Yo!”, which raised a million dollars in startup money at the Meanwhile, Palestinians rushed to shops and banks yesterday In the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, which has been under end of June, started out as “a Joke app” the Times Of Israel as a five-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas constant rocket fire, families strolled through the streets after news website said. It has the cryptic function of sending the came into force, hours after the Israeli military said it had fought remaining at home for the past week.—Agencies word “Yo!” which the recipient is meant to know means the caller is perhaps waiting at a rendezvous, outside in the car or maybe wants to be called back. Israelis have customized it to pass on warnings from other sources, for example by sending the message “Yo!AlertJerusalem.”

Anti-snatch app Another application “Secure Spaces” offers an interactive Google map of the nearest public shelters, which can often be concrete blocks at the side of the street or an under- ground car park. Kidnap rescue app “NowForce SOS” was downloaded nearly 100,000 times after last month’s abduc- tion and murder of three young Israelis hitchhiking in the occupied West Bank, allegedly by Palestinian militants. Following the discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave, a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and burned to death in what police say was a revenge attack by Jewish extremists. Launched six years ago in Hebrew and English, an Arabic- language version is currently in the works. “The user, who must register in advance on our website, opens the applica- tion and clicks on the SOS button,” developer Dov Maisel said. “His location is plotted by GPS and in less than three minutes a rescue team can be on the scene.” These applica- tions have been developed by civilians and Israelis are likely to ask what the authorities are doing in the field in a country known for its hi-tech startups and slick IT products. Asked about the development of military applications to help peo- ple in times of war, an army spokesman told AFP without GAZA: A Palestinian woman stands in front of a damaged apartment building of the Al-Yazje family, which was hit by an elaborating that “the project is in progress.”— AFP overnight Israeli missile in Gaza City yesterday. — AP 14 Tunisia troops killed in mountain ambushes Troops trying to flush militants out of Chaambi area

TUNIS: At least 14 Tunisian troops were killed when gunmen Abidine Ben Ali and began its fragile steps towards democracy. democracy since the 2011 revolt. It adopted a new constitution attacked checkpoints in the remote Chaambi mountains, the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch, and allowed a caretaker government to take over until elec- deadliest militant strike on the North African country’s armed has claimed attacks in Tunisia in the past, but another militant tions this year as a way to ease tensions between a leading forces. Since April, thousands of Tunisian soldiers have been group, Ansar Al Sharia, which is listed as a terrorist organization Islamist party and secular opponents. deployed to the Chaambi range bordering Algeria in an operation by Washington, has also been blamed. The mountain range is But hardline ultra-conservative Islamists are still influential, to flush out al Qaeda-linked militants seeking refuge there, some tough terrain with access into Algeria. Tunisian forces conducted and Tunisia is one of the main sources of jihadist fighters travel- since fleeing French intervention in Mali last year. During the several raids there and have bombarded caves after eight soldiers ling from North Africa to fight with Islamist groups in Syria and attack on Wednesday night, militants with rocket-propelled were captured and killed last year. Iraq. Last year a Tunisian man who had travelled to fight in Syria grenades and rifles ambushed checkpoints the military had set up Algeria’s military, experienced in battling its own Islamist returned to carry out a suicide attack on a beach resort near the to try to control the Chaambi region. The gunmen attacked as the militancy, have been coordinating on their side of the frontier, capital, killing only himself, but shocking a country that relies soldiers were breaking their fast for the evening during the especially with sharing intelligence. But despite their large heavily on foreign tourism for revenue. Tunisian officials also wor- Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Defense Ministry said. More presence, Tunisian troops have been harried by improvised ry about arms and fighters spilling over from neighboring Libya, than 20 soldiers were wounded. landmines and the porous border complicates tracking mili- where the weak government is unable to impose order on Tunisia has struggled with the rise of radical Islamist militants tants who use the area as a training ground. One of the Arab brigades of former rebels and militias still fighting since the 2011 since the 2011 popular revolt ended the rule of autocrat Zine El- world’s most secular states, Tunisia has taken steps towards fall of Muammar Gaddafi. — Reuters International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 13 Should online accounts die when you die?

WASHINGTON: Should your emails, web with a trusted family member, or even mak- albums and other online accounts die when ing those passwords part of their will. But in you do? Or should you be able to pass them addition to potentially exposing passwords down to a family member much as you when a will becomes public record, anti- would a house or a box of letters? A leading hacking laws and the terms of service agree- group of lawyers says that families should ments prohibit that. immediately get access to everything online Several tech providers have come up unless otherwise specified in a will. They are with their own solutions. Facebook, for urging state lawmakers to enact their pro- example, will “memorialize” accounts by posal so loved ones don’t get shut out as allowing already confirmed friends to con- American lives move increasingly online. tinue to view photos and old posts. Google, “Our email accounts are our filing cabi- which runs Gmail, YouTube and Picasa Web nets these days,” said Suzanne Brown Walsh, Albums, offers its own version: If people a Cummings & Lockwood attorney who led don’t log on after a while, their accounts can the effort. But “if you need access to an be deleted or shared with a designated per- email account, in most states you wouldn’t son. Yahoo users agree when signing up get it.” The Uniform Law Commission, whose that their accounts expire when they do. But members are appointed by state govern- the courts aren’t convinced that a company ments to help standardize state laws, on supplying the technology should get to Wednesday endorsed the plan for “digital decide what happens to a person’s digital assets.” It would give loved ones access to - assets. In 2005, a Michigan probate judge but not control of - the deceased’s digital ordered Yahoo to hand over the emails of a accounts unless a will says otherwise. Marine killed in Iraq after his parents argued To become law, the legislation would that their son would have wanted to share have to be adopted by each state’s legisla- them. ture. It would trump “terms of service” Likewise, a court eventually granted agreements by tech companies that prohibit BEAVERTON: This file photo shows a printout of the Facebook page for Loren Williams, the Oregon mother, access to her people from accessing an account that isn’t Williams, now deceased, at his mother’s home in Beaverton, Ore. A group of son’s Facebook account, although she says theirs. “This is something most people don’t influential lawyers says it has an answer to that pesky question of what should the communications appeared to be redact- think of until they are faced with it. They happen to your Facebook, Yahoo and other online accounts when you die. —AP ed. Williams said she supports letting people have no idea what is about to be lost,” said decide in their wills whether accounts Karen Williams of Beaverton, Oregon, who they need access to settle financial details or be needed for access, to protect the privacy should be kept from family members. “I sued Facebook for access to her 22-year-old simply for sentimental reasons. What’s more, of both the owners of accounts and the peo- could understand where some people don’t son Loren’s account after he died in a 2005 certain online accounts can be worth real ple who communicate with them. “The digi- want to share everything,” she said in a motorcycle accident. money, such as a popular cooking blog or a tal world is a different world” from offline, phone interview this week. “But to us, losing Facebook and other tech companies gaming avatar that has acquired certain sta- McCall said. “No one would keep 10 years of him (our son) unexpectedly, anything he have been reluctant to hand over their cus- tus online. every communication they ever had with touched became so valuable to us.” And “if tomers’ private data, and many people say Privacy activists are skeptical of the pro- dozens or even hundreds of other people we were still in the era of keeping a shoebox they wouldn’t want their families to have posal. Ginger McCall, associate director of under their bed.” full of letters, that would have been part of unfettered access to their life online. But the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Many people assume they can decide the estate, and we wouldn’t have thought when confronted with death, families say Washington, said a judge’s approval should what happens by sharing certain passwords anything of it.” —AP International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 14

Doha facelift dumps migrant workers on the streets

DOHA: Expelled from housing in a Doha dis- old Msheireb district is inhabited mainly by referring to the Muslim month of fasting that there are cases of workers sponsored by trict undergoing modernization, scores of male blue-collar migrant workers. It is being ends in late July. locals who are not their employers, and they migrant workers have been left homeless, demolished to make way for the construc- tend to work independently. The embassy of some of them left to sleep on the streets of tion of a modern neighborhood, to be Sleeping on street Bangladesh said it has not received any com- energy-rich Qatar’s capital. The Gulf state has known as Msheireb Downtown Doha. Exhausted after a long day of work under plaints. “We are telling them if they are legally been under international pressure to clamp Msheireb Properties is chaired by Sheikha the blazing desert sun, the migrants spend residing in this area, they should come to the down on violations of the rights of migrant Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatar’s rul- the afternoon searching for a place to sleep embassy and we will help them,” said labor workers, who are mostly Asians, as Doha ing emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- on the streets of Doha. “I’m worried about attache Shafiul Azim. The workers feel they embarks on massive projects before it hosts Thani. Contacted by AFP, an official from the having to pay higher rent, between 500 and have no choice but to stay” in Qatar, where the FIFA World Cup in 2022. “We were in our municipality and urban planning ministry 600 riyals,” said Faruq, who earns a monthly they still manage to send between 200 to rooms when police arrived and gave us one said it was “not responsible for people being salary of 1,200 ($330) riyals and was renting 300 riyals ($55 and 82) per month to families hour to leave with all our belongings,” said taken out of” their homes. Eviction notices his bed space for 300 riyals. He arrived in back home. In a nearby parking lot, day labor- construction worker Mohammed Faruq. were left for residents, but some have opted Doha in 2009 after having paid a fee to a er Majid has been sleeping in his car since he to stay until police arrive to remove them. recruitment agency in Bangladesh that was expelled. His work tools are stored in We slept on the road “After iftar (evening meal which breaks the promised him work, social security and hous- trunks inside the fence of the car park. A few Until July 1, Faruq had lived with fellow day-long fast during Ramadan), they (police) ing in Qatar. meters (yards) away lie beds, mattresses and workers, mostly from Bangladesh, in a two- come. If they find a door locked, they break it But his hopes were shattered upon arrival other belongings of homeless workers who storey building consisting of eight rooms, down and remove everything from the in Qatar, where he was never given health have sought shelter in the parking lot. Doha each housing five to six people. They were room,” said another Asian who works as an insurance and left on his own to find housing. already faces a housing shortage, even before told to never set foot inside the building electrician. “I would have thought they’d Migrant workers in Gulf countries are usually the expected arrival of half a million more again. But Faruq and his friends return every wait until the end of Ramadan at least,” said housed by their companies, which should migrants to work on massive World Cup con- night to sit in front of their old home. Their Sulayman, the eldest among the group, legally be their sponsors in the country. But struction projects. —AFP Power woes in Philippines; Typhoon death toll hits 38 MANILA: Millions of people in the Philippines endured a second swel- tering day without power yesterday after a ferocious typhoon para- lyzed the capital and wrecked flimsy rural homes, claiming at least 38 lives. Authorities expressed frustration as reports from badly damaged areas filtered in and the death toll from Typhoon Rammasun, the first major storm of the Southeast Asian archipelago’s rainy season, was nearly doubled to 38. “We still have to find out what exactly are the reasons a lot of our countrymen refuse to heed the warnings,” National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chief Alexander Pama told reporters. As part of a “zero casualty” effort, the government evacuated nearly 400,000 people from the path of Rammasun and warned others to stay indoors. But most of the people who died were outdoors, killed by falling trees, collapsing buildings and flying debris, according to the coun- cil’s data. Pama said the death toll could rise further, with mobile phone and other forms of communication still cut to some rural areas. He said at least eight people remained missing. Rammasun, a BATANGAS CITY: A resident collects bamboo poles washed near a bridge destroyed at the height of typhoon Thai word for “Thunder God”, swept in off the Pacific Ocean on Ammasun in, Batangas City, southwest of Manila yesterday, a day after Typhoon Rammasun barreled the capital Tuesday night, then brought wind gusts of up to 160 kilometers an hour across land to Manila and other heavily populated northern Manila and nearby provinces. —AFP regions. “It really scrambled whole towns, blowing down houses and top- pling power lines,” the chairman of the Philippine Red Cross, Richard Three killed in California Gordon said. The typhoon destroyed or damaged 26,000 homes, while cutting electricity supplies to nearly all of Manila, a megacity of more than 12 million people, and surrounding urban areas. Schools and government offices were closed throughout the capital, hundreds of bank robbery, gunbattle flights suspended and the stock exchange closed. The stock exchange and government offices re-opened yesterday, but many schools Hostages thrown from SUV remained closed partly because of the power problems. Misery without power STOCKTON: Robbers fleeing a California bank cars and many homes along the robbers’ path gunshot wounds, and one of them later died. The Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the country’s largest took three women hostage and threw two of were peppered with bullets, Police Chief Eric The surviving suspect was conscious, Jones power distributor which serves the capital and surrounding areas, them from their getaway vehicle, as they fired Jones told a news conference late Wednesday. said. Witnesses said the shootout that brought said 1.8 million households still did not have power yesterday after- repeatedly at police during a high-speed chase. “It was such a chaotic ... fluid situation, really the episode to a close looked like a war. “It noon. As temperatures soared to 33 degrees Celsius and the air was Police shot out their tires but the shooting con- one of the most dangerous, tense situations sounded like five minutes of straight gunfire,” thick with tropical moisture, Meralco said it did not expect to have tinued, fatally wounding two suspects and the that a police officer could go through,” Jones witness Sam York told KCRA-TV. “It seemed like power fully restored to the capital and surrounding areas until late last hostage. The violence in this central said. “There was a lot on the line and the officers it wasn’t real.” Friday. Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla also said electricity in the California city erupted Wednesday afternoon responded appropriately,” he said. When the Jose Maldonado, who said he saw the rob- eastern region of Bicol, an impoverished farming area of more than when officers responded to a report of a rob- SUV’s tires were shot and the vehicle came to a bers taking the women out of the bank, said five million where the typhoon first hit, may not return until Tuesday bery at a Bank of the West branch and spotted stop at an intersection, officers exchanged gun- the men had rifles that looked like AK-47s next week. Manila office worker Karen Luna said her family spent a three men taking three female hostages from fire with at least one of the assailants. “The firing slung over their shoulders and they didn’t miserable night at home in Bacoor town adjacent to the capital with the bank at gunpoint, Stockton police officer never stopped,” Jones said, noting that the sus- seem to care that there were police all around. no power or tap water supplies. Joe Silva said. pects had ammunition strapped to their bodies. “They were not afraid. They weren’t going to “At first light I ordered my child to fetch water, so I was able to The suspects with their hostages in tow fled “They were trying to kill (the officers), no take no for an answer. These poor women, they bathe before going off to work, using half a pail,” Luna said. The in an SUV stolen from a bank worker and led doubt.” were screaming, they were so distraught, so neighborhood used candles overnight Wednesday and could not log officers on 45 minute chase. During the pursuit, When it was all over, the third hostage was scared,” Maldonado said. Jones said the rob- onto the Internet, while food was eaten quickly so it would not waste police said two of the hostages, both bank found dead in the SUV and one of the robbers bers also tied up a bank security guard. The in the warming fridge, she added. Across Manila, streets remained lit- employees, were thrown from the SUV. One was also dead. The police chief said the hostage bank said in a statement that it would not pro- tered with fallen trees, branches and electrical posts as repairmen was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound; was a bank customer, and that she appears to vide information about the victims. “This is a struggled to restore power services. The Philippines is hit by about the other suffered a grazing bullet wound. The have been used by the suspects as a human tragic incident and we are focused on support- 20 major storms a year, many of them deadly. The Southeast Asian pursuit continued as the suspects fired with shield during the shootout. Police said the other ing our customers and employees,” the state- archipelago is often the first major landmass to be struck after storms AK-47 style rifles from the SUV. Fourteen police two suspects were taken to the hospital with ment said. —AP build above the warm Pacific waters. —AFP International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 15

Bulgaria under fire over anti-refugee border fence GOLYAM DERVENT: Overwhelmed by an ing, basic sanitation or food. Duty to protect der crossings and have to brave remote ter- influx of mostly Syrian immigrants, Bulgaria But the small Balkan country’s attempts Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev noted rains to enter Bulgaria illegally. But even those has taken steps to secure its EU border- to tackle the problem have also been a recently that police officers on the border with documents are often turned away at the including building a barbed-wire fence-but matter of concern, rights agencies say. “manage to prevent the entry of an average checkpoints, leaving them no other option now faces criticism from rights groups. The Amnesty International condemned Bulgaria 150-200 persons per day.” “We are on the EU’s than to try the illegal route, rights groups said. 30-kilometre fence, standing three meters and Greece-another EU neighbor of Turkey, external border and we’re supposed to protect high and fortified with razor wire coils, was which has become a key transit point for it from illegal immigrants,” the head of the Improved conditions completed this week. Covering the least vis- Syrian refugees to Europe for repeatedly state agency for refugees, Nikolay Chirpanliev, On the bright side, conditions in the coun- ible section of Bulgaria’s 275-kilometre bor- rejecting refugees. “In their determination told AFP on Wednesday. Construction of the try’s seven reception facilities have “improved der with Turkey, it aims to stem a flow of to seal off their borders, the European fence began in October, at the height of the greatly” since last year, according to Boris refugees that saw more than 11,000 people Union and its member states are putting refugee crisis, and Bulgaria increased its police Cheshirkov, UNHCR’s spokesman in Bulgaria. enter the country illegally last year - 10 the lives and rights of refugees and presence along the border to prevent trespass- Visits by AFP to two shelters saw insulated and times the annual figure before the Syrian migrants at risk,” it said in a report last ing. Compared with a rate of 2,000 per month newly painted rooms, showers and toilets. conflict. The sudden influx caused a human- week. The UN High Commissioner for between October and December 2013, Swifter refugee status procedures have also itarian crisis in Bulgaria, already the poorest Refugees (UNHCR) has also appealed to EU between 300 and 400 people now enter the helped ease overcrowding: the number of member of the EU, as asylum seekers were states “to ensure access to their territory... country illegally every month, Chirpanliev said. immigrants living in shelters in May was less crammed into deserted army barracks and to ensure fair and efficient asylum proce- Lacking identification documents, most asy- than half the 4,000 in November, according to tents in the middle of winter with no heat- dures.” lum seekers cannot enter through regular bor- the state refugee agency. —AFP

In Ukraine crisis, a round of ‘conference call diplomacy’ PARIS: The diplomatic frenzy over Ukraine has taken an unprecedented turn in recent weeks as allies and opposing sides huddle together on the phone in trios or larger groups, seeking resolution to the crisis. French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko have all held several conference calls together in a bid to defuse the conflict between pro-Kremlin separatists and army forces. “I’ve rarely seen this. Bilateral calls, yes, all the time, but calls like that, with three or four people-it’s quite new and unprecedented,” said a French official who asked not to be named. “It shows to what extent this Ukrainian conflict cannot be resolved by just one person intervening from the outside and that mediation is only effective with several peo- ple.” In 2008, then French president Nicolas Sarkozy was widely feted for helping to broker a truce between Russia and Georgia after a brief war. At the time, he acted alone without Merkel, travelling to Moscow and Tbilisi for talks with Putin and then Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili, and using France’s then presidency of the European Union to give his intervention extra weight.

Football chat sneaks in But during the Ukraine crisis, no Western president has travelled to Kiev or to other parts of the country, nor have they gone to Russia. Instead they are holding three- or four-way telephone conversations, SIMFEROPOL: A little boy sits in a baby’s bath at a temporary facility for refugees from Eastern Ukraine, 20 which are followed by joint statements calling for an end to violence in eastern Ukraine, or urging dialogue between the separatists and author- km outside from the Crimean capital Simferopol yesterday. —AFP ities in Kiev. These conference calls follow a well-honed process. The diplomatic advisors to Hollande, Merkel, Putin and Poroshenko first get Moscow denounces new in touch to see whether a phone chat is necessary. When a decision is taken, a time is set and the secretariats of each leader dial in when the moment comes. In Hollande’s office, the loudspeaker is on. “The talks do not generally follow protocol too much and are very direct,” says one sanctions as a ‘blackmail’ witness, who refuses to be named. “There are always interpreters in each language but, regularly, Merkel and Putin talk in Russian or German which they both know well. Poroshenko, meanwhile, frequent- US and EU bolster sanctions against Russia ly chats in English, and often Hollande will respond directly in English to MOSCOW: The US and EU bolstered sanctions are driving Russian-US relations towards a dead- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk go more quickly.”Participants are sometimes late to the calls, and while against Russia over its alleged support of sepa- end, (and) are inflicting very serious damage on praised the measures from Washington for they wait, those already on the line engage in small talk. ratists in Ukraine, drawing an angry rebuke yes- them,” Putin said while on a visit to Brasilia. “And showing “the unity of the US and EU in their Hollande, for instance, chatted football with Merkel and congratulat- terday from Moscow which said the measures I am convinced that this will harm the national dedication to the values of democracy and pro- ed her on Germany’s crushing of Brazil in the World Cup semi-final. amounted to “blackmail”. President Barack long-term interests of the American state, the motion of peace and support for Ukraine”. There’s also the option of holding a video-conference, if participants Obama in sanctions imposed Wednesday took American people,” Putin told reporters. “Russia will pay for starting a war against prefer. And while the leaders are in their virtual meeting, their foreign his first direct swipes at the Russian economy’s US sanctions like the ones imposed “have Ukraine,” Yatsenyuk said at a government ministers sometimes are also engaging in simultaneous conference-call finance, military and energy sectors, further never put anyone on their knees,” added Prime meeting. Western leaders say the punitive diplomacy on another line. escalating the worst standoff between the Minister Dmitry Medvedev, predicting a “rise of measures are designed to pressure Moscow Kremlin and the West since the Cold War. anti-American attitudes”. Moscow gave a milder into forcing the rebels to end their three-month Not for all crises Washington had warned last week that Moscow response to EU sanctions, with the foreign min- insurgency that has claimed more than 600 Francois Heisbourg of the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic had to demonstrate a clean break from sepa- istry saying it had “submitted to blackmail from lives. Research points out that multilateral diplomatic efforts abound, such as ratists or face the tougher sanctions. But Kiev the American administration” and should have the P5+1 grouping of permanent UN Security Council members and laid new allegations against Russia yesterday, “its own voice”. Ukraine hailed the tougher Russian markets down Germany, which is currently striving to reach a deal with Iran on its saying a Russian fighter jet on Wednesday shot sanctions, with Western-backed President Petro But the immediate pain was felt in Moscow nuclear program. “Consulting each other by phone is also pretty stan- down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory. Poroshenko saying he welcomed the EU moves with the two Russian market indices falling by dard. It’s the fact that it’s both at the same that is quite original,” he said. The Russian foreign ministry reacted to sanc- that involve the European Investment Bank and 2.7% and 4.05% yesterday and the ruble plung- But he added this novel format would not be applicable to all crises. “In tions in a furious statement: “We do not intend European Bank of Reconstruction and ing against the euro and dollar to 47.1 and 34.8, 2008, there was a situation of open belligerence, which means it wasn’t to tolerate blackmail and reserve the right to Development halting finance for projects in respectively. Shares in two giant oil firms now possible to gather together in a same phone call Saakashvili and Putin, take retaliatory measures” against the US. Russia. barred from US capital markets under the new as they were directly at war,” he said. “But in the case of Ukraine, there is Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier warned “The European Council has taken an impor- sanctions fell steeply with Rosneft dropping still the fiction that Russia is not belligerent,” he added, referring to that sanctions would inflict “very serious dam- tant step to support the sovereignty, territorial 4.74 percent and OAO Novatek shares plum- widely-held allegations that Moscow supports pro-Kremlin militants in age” on the already tattered US-Russia relation- integrity and independence of Ukraine,” meting 7.88 percent on MICEX stock exchange Ukraine. —AFP ship. “Without any doubt in this case (sanctions) Poroshenko said on his Facebook page. at around 0900 GMT. —AFP International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 16 Can Modi clean the Ganges, India’s biggest sewage line? KANPUR: Standing on the banks of the river Ganges a day after his election triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to suc- ceed where numerous governments have failed: by cleaning up the filthy waterway beloved of India’s Hindus. From a prime minis- ter already known for the scale of his ambitions, it was a bold but calculated promise to improve the health of what the deeply reli- gious leader referred to as his “mother”. Success would pay huge dividends in endearing him further to his core Hindu supporters- and correcting the long-standing neglect of the river would per- fectly demonstrate his fabled administrative skills. But nowhere is the scale of the challenge more evident than in the northern town of Kanpur, around 500 kilometers from the capital, which is known for its large leather-treatment industry. A river believed to cleanse sins is used here as a giant sewage line for the largely untreated excrement of five million residents and a disposal facility for millions of liters of chemical-laced indus- trial waste. Some devout pilgrims still brave the obvious dangers of submersing themselves in the water, in which fecal coliform bacteria can be 200 times the safe limit, according to local authori- ties. But even they are increasingly put off. Local boatman Vijay Nishad, who has been rowing religious visitors on the river for more than 15 years, says his business is suffering. “Around 100 or KANPUR: Hindu devotees and youths take a dip and swim in the polluted waters of the river Ganges at Sarsaiya 200 people came to bathe this morning but they left without Ghat in Kanpur. —AFP going in the water because of the dead fish and the terrible stench,” he told AFP as he oared his boat. Nishad put his hand into the soil-colored waters and plucked out a few small fish floating Taleban hits airport lifelessly just below the surface. ‘Nothing has changed’ The Ganges snakes for 2,500 kilometres across northern India from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal through a basin that is Afghan election audit begins home to an estimated third of India’s population — 400 million KABUL: Afghanistan yesterday began a violence of the 1990s. as explosions rang out. The attack end- people. Kanpur is one of the four most critically polluted spots massive audit of 8.1 million ballots cast in Abdullah-who says he already suffered ed more than four hours later, according which also include the holy city of Varanasi from where 63-year- the run-off round of its controversial pres- one stolen election at Karzai’s hands in to the authorities. Gul Agha Hashimi, a old Modi was elected to parliament for the first time in May. idential vote, hours after a brazen Taleban 2009 - is half-Tajik while Ghani is from the senior police official, said: “The attack is Rakesh K Jaiswal, founder of Kanpur-based campaign group Eco- raid on Kabul’s airport. The audit is aimed majority Pashtun community, as are the over, and the area is cleared from the Friends, told AFP the city produced 500 million litres of sewage a at reversing a destabilizing political crisis Taleban. Every one of the 8.1 million insurgents. All the insurgents who were day, and had a capacity to treat only around 160 million liters. A that has threatened to widen the coun- votes cast in the run-off election will be holed up in an under-construction recent note from the environment ministry, seen by AFP, estimat- try’s ethnic fissures as NATO winds down checked for signs of fraud in a painstaking building were killed.” ed that the capacity of sewage treatment plants in the 50 biggest its deployment after more than a decade process in Kabul. NATO’s International Civilian flights from the airport north towns along the river was only 1.2 billion liters daily. Total human of war. Some 23,000 ballot boxes are Security Assistance Force (ISAF) - whose of Kabul meanwhile were suspended. waste totaled 2.7 billion liters. being transported by the Afghan army main Kabul compound lies next to the ISAF and Afghan military helicopters Jaiswal wishes Modi and his newly named Minister for Water and NATO forces to the capital, where civilian airport-is providing air transport were seen hovering over the area during Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti well, but he is they will be examined at 100 verification for some 40 percent of the votes. The deal the attack, which came after a devastat- skeptical that significant changes can be made in their five-year stations. followed weeks of fruitless diplomatic ing suicide bombing at a busy market in term. India’s first highly publicized effort to clean its most sacred “The audit will take two to three efforts and paves the way for a govern- southeastern Paktika province on river was in 1986, when the Ganga Action Plan was launched. weeks, we are planning to form hundreds ment of national unity, including a role for Tuesday that killed at least 42 people. Environmental activists estimate billions of rupees have been of teams for this audit,” Ahmad Yousuf the losing side. Taleban militants claimed responsibility poured into clean up efforts over the last three decades with few, Nuristani, chief of the Independent for yesterday’s attack. “A number of our if any, results. Modi’s government announced another 20.4 billion Election Commission told a press confer- Brazen raid mujahedeen armed with heavy and rupees ($340 million) for a new “Ganga Mission” in its first budget ence. “I hope both candidates accept the Auditing began just hours after light weapons have launched an attack last Thursday. “It is the first time I have seen one issue uniting peo- results this time after the overall audit,” he Afghan security officials put an end to a on Kabul International Airport,” the ple from across the board. Everybody is united and working with added. The move was agreed upon by Taleban siege of Kabul’s airport in the insurgents’ spokesman Zabiuhallah unseen enthusiasm for this campaign,” minister Bharti told a con- the two rival presidential contenders, militants’ latest attempt to steal the ini- Mujahid said in a statement. The Kabul ference on the river on July 7. Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, fol- tiative amid the power struggle. airport is a prime target for insurgents. lowing a deal brokered by US Secretary of Insurgents seized a building under con- Militants destroyed Karzai’s parked heli- Effluent overflow State John Kerry. The impasse over the struction at around 4:30 am (0000 GMT) copter and damaged three other chop- While the lack of sewage facilities in Kanpur is an administrative vote to succeed President Hamid Karzai before opening fire with automatic pers after firing rockets into the airport failure common to most towns along the river, the industrial waste has raised fears of a return to the ethnic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades on July 3. —AFP problem is particularly acute here. Kanpur has been a centre of the leather trade since the early 1900s when it evolved as a major domestic handloom and leather hub under British colonial rule. A US cabinet ministers to woo India’s Modi sometimes overpowering stench of rotting flesh fills the air in the city’s tannery-dominated Jajmau area. Workers, mostly poor-illiter- WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday that top and May. His Hindu nationalist swept to India’s biggest elec- ate daily wagers, work barefoot without any protective gear as cabinet members will visit India in coming weeks to break toral mandate in three decades. Kerry will take part in annual they remove the skins and send them off for chemical bleaching, the ice with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was once US-India strategic talks, while Pentagon official Amy Searight coloring and drying. Drains from these river-side facilities dis- shunned by Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry will said that Hagel would seek greater military trade and coop- charge toxic, deep black, blue or at times yellow colored waste visit on July 31 and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will travel eration with the Modi government. water directly into the river. That the leather industry is owned to India in early August, culminating in Modi’s previously Modi has largely shown himself to be a pragmatist on for- and run by Muslims and those clamoring for a clean up are Hindu announced visit to Washington in September, officials told a eign policy. He has already met with Pakistani Prime Minister nationalists gives the new government’s operation an important Senate committee. “We are confident we can work in a Nawaz Sharif and Chinese President Xi Jinping, despite his religious hue. strong and collaborative partnership with the Modi govern- suspicions about the neighboring countries voiced before Jaiswal from Eco-Friends estimates 400 regulated and unregu- ment to grow our economic and strategic relations with his election. Modi did not reveal any lingering bitterness lated tanneries produce 50 million litres of waste per day, but only India,” said Nisha Biswal, the assistant secretary of state for over his treatment by the United States when accepting nine million litres are treated. The heavy metals and other pollu- South Asia. President Barack Obama’s invitation to the White House, call- tants kill river life and enter the food chain through use of the Modi was once persona non grata in the United States ing in a statement for stronger US-India relations. But same water for irrigation and the local fish consumed by local vil- due to allegations that he turned a blind eye to anti-Muslim Searight-responding to questions from Senator John McCain, lagers. “Modi government’s intent is definitely a good sign,” Neeraj riots that swept Gujarat in 2002 when he was leader of the who met Modi earlier this month and is a frequent critic of Srivastava, a coordinator of the Kanpur administration’s efforts to western state. He has denied wrongdoing. The United States Obama-acknowledged that India has voiced concern about clean and develop its river stretch said. “A lot has been tried since has rushed to make up for lost time since it became clear Afghanistan where the United States is preparing to with- 1986 but I think we’ve lacked a technical focus and coordinated that Modi would cruise to victory in elections held in April draw troops. —AFP effort. We have to do it now,” he said. —AFP International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 News ‘Keep calm’ I can in brief

Five killed as helicopter handle it: Obama crashes in S Korean city SEOUL: A helicopter that had been searching for victims of South Korea’s ferry disaster crashed yesterday in a residential district of Gwangju city, killing all five people on board, officials Rising powers challenge US resolve said. There were no reported fatalities on the ground, but one high school student was injured by flying debris when the heli- WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has a simple message rebels chewed off chunks of Iraq and Syria to establish a copter crashed shortly before 11:00 am (0200 GMT), narrowly for critics who charge that cascading global crises have left his caliphate, which some fear could turn into a terror haven to missing nearby apartment blocks in the southern city. Dramatic foreign policy flatfooted and US power enfeebled. Keep calm-I threaten the United States. footage taken by a vehicle camcorder and broadcast on YTN can handle this. Obama, who won re-election posing as a war- As it agonizes over how to shape Syria’s civil war and worries television, showed the free-falling helicopter plunging nose- ending, Osama bin Laden-dispatching statesman, is facing about Libya’s splintering, the administration also faces a long first into the ground, and exploding in a fireball on impact. increasingly caustic reviews of his leadership as the Middle East term challenge from an increasingly assertive China and the “Five people were on board and all are presumed dead,” local unravels in fire and blood and rising powers challenge US resolve march of radical Al-Qaeda inspired radicals across Africa and the fire chief Moon Ki-Shik told reporters at the scene, adding that across the globe. Middle East. But on Wednesday, the president offered a breezy the cause of the crash was not immediately clear. The crew “I’ll point out the obvious. We live in a complex world and at a summary of the current crises stacked up in his in-tray, apparently were returning from a mission to help in the search for missing challenging time,” Obama said, after appearing in the White bent on quelling Washington chatter about his leadership. He victims of the April 16 Sewol ferry tragedy. The 6,825-tonne House Briefing Room on Wednesday to discuss Iran, Ukraine, unveiled the most punishing US sanctions yet against Russia over Sewol sank in waters off the southwest coast on April 16 with Afghanistan and the Middle East. “None of these challenges lend Ukraine, hinted he would give more time to a deal making with 476 people on board-most of them schoolchildren. themselves to quick or easy solutions, but all of them require Iran over its nuclear program after a Sunday deadline and prom- American leadership,” Obama said. “As Commander-in-Chief, I’m ised to redouble efforts to end the battle in Gaza between Israel Lightning, floods kill confident that if we stay patient and determined, that we will, in and Hamas. 20 in rain-hit China fact, meet these challenges.”US presidents often look abroad in The plan seemed to be to project resolve and resourcefulness- BEIJING: At least 20 people have died in the past week as tor- their second terms when their domestic power erodes and the and Obama did not take questions that might have drawn rential rain batters swathes of China, with at least six killed by lure of legacy polishing achievements tempts. answers that diluted the simplicity of his message. It was not the lightning, thousands of homes destroyed and more than But when Obama casts his eye across the globe, he sees only first time in recent months that Obama felt the need to defend his 300,000 evacuated, state media said. There had been six trouble-and few opportunities to festoon a shrinking foreign poli- foreign policy. In Manila in April, he argued the key to US leader- deaths from lightning strikes in the central province of Jiangxi cy resume. His simple message-that he ended the Iraq and ship was avoiding big mistakes, like the Iraq war. That message since last Friday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Afghan wars and put Al-Qaeda on the run, has been trumped by was distilled into a formal foreign policy address in May when he There were other fatalities from lightning in Guizhou in the instability and geopolitical blazes which threaten to tear nations warned “tough talk often draws healdines, but war rarely con- southwest, it said, where a total of seven people died. A land- apart and swamp long-established national borders. The US forms to slogans.” This time the White House seems to have con- slide in the province yesterday buried eight people, Xinhua leader has been pummelled by critics who say he abandoned cluded that it was time to counteract an emerging trope that said, with two rescued by mid-morning but six still missing. Baghdad then stood by and watched as murderous Islamic State Obama was being outpaced by global events.—AFP Officials in Guizhou are bracing for more devastation, the China Daily said, reporting a warning that “local authorities should make full-scale preparations for geological disasters that could be triggered by rains”. The most severe downpours, which began on Sunday night, destroyed 5,800 homes and damaged another 16,300 in Guizhou, Xinhua said, in a report late Wednesday.

Japan, Britain launch joint missile research TOKYO: Japan and Britain are to jointly develop missile tech- nology for fighter jets, while Tokyo may also start exporting Japanese-made parts for US surface-to-air missiles, a report said yesterday. The plan-which comes months after Japan lifted a self-imposed ban on weapons exports-was likely to be approved by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet at a meeting of the National Security Council yesterday, the Mainichi Shimbun reported, without citing sources. The joint research with Britain was linked to a European missile project called Meteor, while the parts exports would be destined for Washington’s Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) missile defence system, the report said. If approved, the US exports would be the first since Japan in April approved a new policy that replaces its 1967 blanket ban on shipping arms overseas, the Mainichi said. Under the new rules, weapon sales are still banned to conflict-plagued countries or nations that could WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama speaks on foreign policy in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in undermine international peace and security, and they must Washington. — AFP contribute to international peace and boost pacifist Japan’s security. Uganda street kids ‘abused by police’ Tokyo police make arrest in massive data leak case KAMPALA: Street children in Uganda suffer from systematic abuse by the report said, adding that the number of Ugandan children living on TOKYO: Tokyo police said yesterday they had arrested an engi- the country’s police and other officials, including beatings and sex the streets was increasing-though the total number is not known. neer for allegedly stealing massive amounts of personal data attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report yesterday. Human Many are homeless because their parents have died from AIDS, while from an educational services firm, a leak that may ultimately Rights Watch said it had documented how police and officials threat- others have been displaced by the war against rebel group the Lord’s affect more than 20 million people. Private details-including en street children at night, and beat them with batons, whips, or wires Resistance Army (LRA) in the north. names, addresses, phone numbers and birthdays were stolen to extort bribes or as a punishment for vagrancy. Homeless children Human Rights Watch said it interviewed 130 current and former by 39-year-old suspect Masaomi Matsuzaki, police said, with are also at risk of beatings and forced drug use from older homeless street children throughout the impoverished east African nation, Japanese media reporting that he sold the information for children or adults, and both boys and girls living on the street report- along with members of organisations providing assistance to street about 2.5 million yen ($24,600). The magnitude of the leak, ed being raped or sexually assaulted by men and older street boys, children, health care workers, international humanitarian and chil- which has been headline news in Japan, prompted angry calls the report said. “Ugandan authorities should be protecting and help- dren’s organizations, police, and local government officials. “There is a for an explanation from Benesse, one of the country’s best- ing homeless children, not beating them up or throwing them in tradition... that the police use as a way of punishment in threes: the known companies. The firm, whose holdings include the Berlitz police jails with adults,” said Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher at first beating is to open your eyes, the second is to show you the way language education brand, offers services ranging from teach- Human Rights Watch. home, the third is to send you home. They say this to you (as they ing babies how to use toys to English instruction.Benesse said “The government should end arbitrary round-ups of street chil- beat you),” one 15-year-old boy who has spent 10 years on the streets last week that it had confirmed the leak of personal data of at dren and protect them from abuse. Instead of being able to turn to was quoted as saying. “They kept us in rooms where we were caned least 7.6 million people, but it added that the problem could the police or local government officials for help when they’ve been from the back to the buttocks. On the third day they opened the gate ultimately affect more than 20 million. However, other details abused, children find themselves living in fear of the authorities and we were caned as we left.” Human Rights Watch called on the such as credit card numbers, banking data and student per- meant to protect them.”Over half of all Ugandans are under 15, and Ugandan government to end round-ups and abuses, and investigate formance evaluations were safe, it said. children are the single largest demographic group living in poverty, and prosecute those responsible for abuse. —AFP International FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

US sentences 2 Britons over Taleban support

NEW YORK: A US judge sentenced two British men Chechens fighting the Russians and related terror was the Briton held the longest without charge as to a combined total of 20.5 years in prison groups. part of the global “war on terror.” The son of a Wednesday for conspiring to provide and for provid- For years, they pleaded not guilty but in retired civil servant and a retired science teacher, ing equipment and personnel to the Taleban. December changed their plea on two counts of the Ahmad worked in the IT department of London’s Computer engineer Babar Ahmad was sentenced to indictment-conspiring to provide and providing sup- prestigious Imperial College at the time of his arrest. 12.5 years and Syed Talha Ahsan, who was diagnosed port to the former Taleban regime. US District Judge Ahsan, who was educated at one of Britain’s top with Asperger’s syndrome in custody, to time served Janet Hall sentenced Ahmad to 150 months’ impris- private schools and has a degree with first class at eight years. They were arrested by British police in onment and Ahsan to 96 months, or time already honors in Arabic, was looking for a job as a librarian 2004 and 2006 respectively and extradited to the served. The case was heard in US federal court in New when he was detained. He now writes poetry, for United States in 2012 as part of a batch of Britons Haven, Connecticut because websites they ran in which he has won prizes. But the US government wanted on terror charges. London relied for a time on a Connecticut hosting says the men supported terror, even after the 9/11 British campaigners bitterly opposed their extradi- company. attacks, by running websites produced under the tion on the grounds that they were held so long name Azzam Publications and operated from 1996 without charge and arguing they should be tried at Released shortly? to 2002. Prosecutors said Ahmad recruited and home. Both sentences were lighter than demanded Ahsan is now expected to be released and arranged for would-be fighters to travel to by prosecutors. Ahmad, 40, and Ahsan, 34, were deported. Ahmad has already served a decade in Afghanistan to train, and solicited military suits and indicted in Connecticut on charges of conspiring to custody and reports suggest he too could be freed gas masks for the Taleban against US retaliation support and supporting the Taleban regime in in months. Their cases attracted the support of after the 2000 Al-Qaeda bombing of the USS Afghanistan while they sheltered Al-Qaeda, thousands in Britain and campaigners say Ahmad Cole.—AFP Sunni insurgency seeks an end to Shiite political domination Islamic State seen as ally to end Iranian designs AMMAN: Sunni insurgents and tribal leaders the Islamic State seized wide swathes of the said yesterday after a closed meeting they north and west of the country last month in would keep fighting until they take over the lightning advances. A final statement, which Iraqi capital and bring down a US imposed described the situation in Iraq as worsening, political order that brought Shiites to rule the urged the international community to support country and marginalized them. Several hun- the aims of the rebels to save “Iraq and the dred tribal figures, representatives of Islamist region from an unknown future.” The confer- insurgent groups, ex-army officers and former ence which excluded Maliki’s few Sunni allies Baath party figures attended the meeting in the within the government said they would fight Jordanian capital. any attempt to revive government-backed Sunni cleric Abdul Malik Al-Saadi, who Sunni militias known as the Sahwat praised the “mujahdeen” (holy warriors) lead- (Awakening) that had succeeded with US sup- ing the revolt, said tribes were the backbone of port in repelling and defeating Al Qaeda in Iraq. a broad based insurgency battling against Iraqi Sahwat is a pejorative term among jihadists, BANNU: Internally-displaced Pakistani resident Haji Gulzar Khan Wazir (6th left), who fled Shiite Islamist Prime Minister Nuri Maliki’s rule. who believe that the Americans pitted Sunnis with his family following a military operation against militants in the North Waziristan tribal He said these forces had now captured large against each other in Iraq, only to betray them agency, poses for a photograph with some of his children in Bannu. — AFP parts of western and northern Iraq. The Islamic later by handing power to a Shiite government. State, the Al-Qaeda offshoot, is only a part of Crucially, Islamic State fighters have now the uprising, the Sunni’s top religious figure received support from Sunni tribes who once Pakistan’s army assault spoils said. “This revolution is led by the sons of tribes fought bitterly against them, a sign of wide- who are leading it and the Islamic State is a spread Sunni alienation from Baghdad since 4th wife dream of father-of-36 small part of it,” said Al-Saadi, who led some of the end of US occupation. “We are not ready to the mass peaceful protests in Iraq’s Sunni heart- repeat that experience. The Islamic State has BANNU: Pakistan’s ongoing military operation 14-year-old cousin in Shawa. They had eight land in 2013 that called for an end to security not humiliated us and if it had not been for may be making headway in clearing militant daughters and four sons, but after eight years, abuses and perceived marginalization and them we would not be here today raising our hideouts, but it has shattered the dream of one the amorous tribesman got married again, to a political exclusion. heads high,” said Sheikh Qasem Obeidi, a tribal father of 36 children-to take a fourth wife. 17-year-old. “I was not satisfied and needed Most Sunni figures said they were left with leader sympathetic to the Islamic State. Gulzar Khan is one of hundreds of thousands of more of it-I mean the love-making,” Khan told few alternatives but to fight Maliki who is now Another tribal leader said the eyes of insur- people who have fled the North Waziristan trib- AFP at his 17-room house in the northwestern relying increasingly on Shiite militias such as gents were now focused on reaching the capi- al area since the army moved in to clear long- town of Bannu, where the bulk of people dis- Asaib Ahl Al-Haq they say are funded and tal Baghdad. “We will take over Baghdad and standing bases of Taleban and other militants. placed by the military operation have taken armed by Iran in his battle against the rebel- bring down the political regime in Baghdad in Escaping the military advance meant leaving refuge. “I do not indulge in adultery and sinful lious governorates. “We are now in a state of the coming weeks, God willing,” said Sheikh the 35-room house he shares in the North acts so I satisfy my natural desires lawfully by continued Jihad to end the remnants of the US Fayez Al-Shawoosh, spokesman for the insur- Waziristan village of Shawa with around 100 marriage,” said Khan, who worked as a taxi occupation and restore the rights of the Iraqi gent led council of Iraqi tribal chiefs. family members, including wives, children and driver in Dubai from 1976 to 1992. Khan’s third people,” said Abd Al-Naser Al Janaby, a promi- Representatives of the loose federation of grandchildren. wedding came when he married his brother’s nent Salafi cleric and politician and a leading Sunni armed groups and tribal fighters under The 54-year-old grumbled that paying to widow when he was killed in a dispute just a supporter of the armed uprising. “We expect a the umbrella of Military Councils said they were transport his brood used up the cash he had set month after tying the knot himself. new dawn for Iraq from this revolution.” Pro- not ready to fight the Islamic State many of aside for his fourth marriage. “The money I had Two of his sons now work as drivers in government papers close to Maliki have whose leaders were drawn from Iraq’s top saved was consumed in relocating my family Dubai and the money they send home helps attacked the Amman meeting, saying some of tribes. from Shawa to Bannu and now I have again support the extended family, along with the participants are politicians accused of ter- They blame Maliki’s Shiite led militias for started saving and waiting for the operation to income from Khan’s farmland in Bannu and rorism charges. the death, imprisonment and disappearance conclude,” he said. Islamic law permits men to Shawa. “My sons send up to 50,000 rupees In 2007 Maliki accused Janaby of kidnapping of thousands of Sunnis. Ex-army officers and take up to four wives and in Pakistan’s deeply ($500) every month from Dubai and we make and killing dozens of Shiites and is currently loyalists of executed former dictator Saddam conservative northwest, large families are the ends meet with this money,” Khan added. He deputy head of the “Front for Jihad, Liberation Hussein’s Baath party went as far as saying norm. But after giving birth to a dozen children said there were no disputes between his three and Natioanal Salvation in Iraq”. Ahmad they shared with the Al Qaeda offshoot com- each, Khan said, his wives had told him enough wives, all living under the same roof, but he Dabash, an insurgent leader and a founder of mon military goals even though they were was enough. “I was planning to have a fourth admitted he struggled to remember who was the Islamic Army, one of the several groups that ideologically wide apart. “Now the Islamic marriage because now my wives have boy- who’s mother. “I can tell you that he or she is have fueled the insurgency, said the partici- State is fighting and has scored victories and cotted me and told me ‘no more children’,” my child, but I cannot tell with all of them pants shared a common opposition to the par- helped revolutionaries in achieving their goals Khan said. “They do not allow me to go near who is his or her mother,” Khan said. As tribal tition of Iraq on ethnic or sectarian grounds. so we are almost in harmony with them in them, but I have desires I want to fulfill.” custom forbids women from speaking to men The conference held under Jordanian aus- achieving our goals,” senior Baath leader outside their family, AFP’s reporter was pices is the largest such event organized by Abdul Samed al Ghurairi who attended the ‘I needed more’ unable to seek the views of Khan’s wives on Iraqi Sunni leaders since militant fighters led by parley said. — Reuters Khan was 17 years old when he married his the matter.—AFP FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

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“Cyclone Twist (2013)” an aluminum sculpture by Alice Aycock on Park Av- enue July 16, 2014 in New York. “Park Avenue Paper Chase” is an exhibition of 7 large scale works by Aycock presented by The Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue and the New York City Public Art Program.—AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Ron Howard to direct Beatles documentary on Howard will direct a documentary The film will run up to the Beatles’ final on the Beatles that focuses on the concert in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park in Rband’s touring years during the early 1966. Much footage for the documentary has 1960s. Howard announced the project already been gathered. The movie is tenta- Wednesday. The film is being made with the tively slated for release late next year. — AP cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison. The Beatles company, Apple Corps, is co-producing the In this Feb 8, 1964 file photo, Ed film. The as-yet-untitled film is the second Sullivan, center, stands with The documentary directed by Howard, who said Beatles, from left, Ringo Starr, he’s long been a Beatles fan. Howard previ- George Harrison, John Lennon, and ously made the 2013 Jay-Z documentary Paul McCartney, during a rehearsal “Made in America.” for the British group’s first American appearance, on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show,’ in New York. — AP

‘All the Way’ with HBO for Bryan Cranston as LBJ BO says it’s “All the Way” with Bryan Cranston in an adaptation of his recent HBroadway turn as President Lyndon Johnson. HBO Films has acquired rights to the Tony Award-winning play that opened earlier this year to critical and popular success while also winning Cranston the Tony as best actor. The company said Wednesday that Robert Schenkkan will adapt his play for HBO. “All the Way” focuses on Johnson early in his pres- idency after the death of President John F. In this Friday, June 19, 2009 file photo, Johnny Winter plays during the Canton Blues Festival Kennedy in 1963. 2009 in downtown Canton, Ohio. — AP photos HBO hasn’t specified an air date. Cranston made his Broadway debut in the play fresh Bryan Cranston poses with his award for from the much-acclaimed finale of his AMC best actor in a play for ‘All the Way’ in the Blues legend Johnny Winter drama series, “Breaking Bad.” He’s currently press room at the 68th annual Tony nominated for a best-actor Emmy for that Awards at Radio City Music Hall, in New found dead in Swiss hotel room show. — AP York. — AP ohnny Winter, an American blues rock gui- Johnny, distinctive because he and brother tarist, vocalist and band leader known for Edgar were albino, broke into national fame in Jhis virtuoso slide-guitar solos and raspy 1968, when Rolling Stone magazine dubbed vocals, was found dead in a hotel room outside him the hottest musician outside Janis Joplin. In Zurich, Swiss police said yesterday. He was 70. 1969, he played the Newport Jazz Festival, Along with his brother, Edgar Winter, also a well where he performed with B.B. King, one of his known blues musician, the Texas-born Winter musical idols, and at Woodstock. He also pro- revered African-American blues tradition and duced albums for his idol, Muddy Waters, in the began performing in his teens. 1970s, helping to burnish the reputation of the legendary bluesman. Among Winter’s best known songs was “Still Alive and Well”, a blues rock stomper recorded after he resurfaced from heroin addiction in the 1970s. A new Winter album, on which Eric Clapton and Ben Harper appear as guests, is set to be released on Sept 2. A boxed collections of his main tracks since the 1960s was released this year, complete with tributes from other per- formers who said he’d been a seminal influence on their careers. In an interview with the New York Times ear- lier this year, Winter said he enjoyed touring and working with younger musicians. “I think about legacy a lot,” he said. “Hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That’s all I want.” Winter was found dead overnight in a hotel room outside Zurich, according to a police spokeswoman. A prosecutor has ordered an autopsy because the cause of death is unclear. There was no indication of third-party involvement, and early indications pointed to a Celine Dion performs with local choirs at a charity event Wednesday, July 16, 2014, in medically related incident. — Reuters Montreal. — AP Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Rapping Korean nuns fire up prayer competition outh Korea’s top Buddhist organization held an experimen- She was accompanied by two equally animated nuns-on tradi- South Korea is strongly evangelical, with a lot of proselytising tal “prayer competition” yesterday, featuring rapping nuns tional gong and drum-as she rapped over the sutra refrain “Aje work that some Buddhists believe is bringing young people to Sand singing monks in a bid to attract new, younger follow- Aje Bara Aje (Come, come, come upward)!” Buddhist tenets of the churches rather than the temples. Venerable Yin-Mook, a sen- ers. More than 300 monks and nuns packed a large temple in humility and overcoming material cravings were briefly pushed ior member of the Jogye Order and one of the judges of yester- downtown Seoul to take part in the competition hosted by the aside as monks from Hye-Kang’s temple chanted “We’re here to day’s event, said efforts were needed to make Buddhist scripture Jogye Order. Participants-mostly young monks-chanted prayers, win!” The contestants were competing for a cash prize of three more accessible. or invocations, from classic Buddhist scriptures, as well as million won ($2,900). “Many Buddhist prayers are written in ancient words many “freestyle” prayers they composed. Another nun, Go-Woo, also went down the hip-hop route, rap- people are not familiar with, so we asked participants to write While many delivered traditional, monotone recitations, some ping a mix of classic scriptures and original lyrics praising prayers in plain, easy-to-understand language,” he said. “We opted for something bolder. A group of three young nuns deliv- Buddha’s teachings. “You’re not alone. Let’s take down the wall wanted to let people, especially young people and children, know ered a blistering performance of a rap song derived from The among us and share the teachings of wisdom!” she sang. Hye- Yumbul (Buddhist prayers) can be more interesting and easier to Heart Sutra-one of the most popular Buddhist scriptures-and Kang said she and her fellow performers had taken the contest practice than they think,” he added. — AFP using their own lyrics promoting love and harmony. “Great wis- very seriously, practicing day and night for a month for the per- dom, perfect wisdom. Buddha’s teachings that show you the formance. “I wanted more young people to take an interest in way!” Hye-Kang bellowed out to cheers from hundreds of excited Buddhism and the message of its prayers,” she said. followers and monks. The Jogye Order claims 10 million followers, but Buddhism- The 25-year-old nun, clad in grey robes, waved at the audience once the dominant religion of South Korea-has been overtaken urging them to clap their hands as she jumped around the stage. by Christianity in terms of popularity. The Christianity practiced in

First lady salutes Grammy Museum, music teachers

ichelle Obama says every arts organiza- tion in the country should embrace the Mmission of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, which focuses on education. Six million American children attend schools with no art or music classes, she said Wednesday at the muse- um’s inaugural Jane Ortner Education Award Luncheon. “Arts are a way to channel ... pain and frustration into something meaningful and pro- ductive and beautiful, and every human being needs that, particularly our kids,” she said. “And Stevie Wonder when they don’t have that outlet, that’s such a tremendous loss, not just for our kids but for our nation.” The Grammy Museum has worked with the Stevie Wonder blends hits first lady since 2009 to produce concerts and music education programs for young people, bringing 1,000 students to Washington, DC to see live performances. “Those are some of my favorite at Montreux for Quincy Jones events at the White House,” Obama said. The Grammy Museum has focused on education since otown legend Stevie Wonder gave a have to write a song like this. But I had to write it opened in 2008, said executive director Bob soulful two-hour concert at the it, because it’s true. There is prejudice in the Santelli. It aims to inspire learning, creativity and MMontreux Jazz Festival on Wednesday world.” Wonder, 64, closed the show with critical thinking through music. The museum night, blending his hits with covers of the “Superstition”, bringing fans in the front rows of hosts more than 35,000 students a year and pro- Beatles and Michael Jackson for an audience seats - who paid 480 Swiss francs ($530) a ticket vides free curricula for various subjects that incor- Six-time Grammy nominee singer Janelle that included producer Quincy Jones. The - to their feet. “It’s been a wonderful night. I was porate music in innovative ways.—AP African-American singer and songwriter, wear- a bit late coming because I wasn’t feeling good Monae performs at the Grammy Museum’s ing lime green sunglasses and braids down to at all. But we had such a good time,” he said, Jane Ortner Education Award Luncheon in his waist, headlined the 48th edition of the apologising for arriving more than an hour late. Los Angeles. — AP photos prestigious Swiss festival, fulfilling a longtime “Maybe we’ll come back next year,” he wish of its late founder Claude “Funky” Nobs. added. Some fans who spent 185 Swiss francs “Tonight’s show is dedicated to a man who ($210) to stand were unable to even enter the talked with me so long about doing this event. packed Auditorium Stravinski, where several He is watching us from up in heaven - Mr women collapsed from the heat and crowded Nobs,” Wonder told the sold-out crowd of conditions. Vanessa Huguenin, taking a break some 4,000 fans. Addressing Jones, a former from the overflowing hall, said: “He’s great, co-director of Montreux who was seated in the impressive and sounds so good live. I brought front row, Wonder said: “Not only a brother but my 7-year-old son to a historic concert.” a friend, I’m so grateful I’ve known him since I Among those attending was M anifest, a was 14 years old. He brought out Michael rapper from Ghana who will perform on the Jackson and so many young artists.” Montreux stage yesterday with Britain’s Damon Wonder, a 22-time Grammy winner who has Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz fame. “I’ve seen a been blind from birth, displayed his versatility, legend, now I can die in peace. He was on my playing piano, harmonica and percussion. He list and my wish has been realised,” Swiss fan was backed by 10 musicians and four vocalists. Valerie Helfer told Reuters. “There aren’t any vir- He alternated hit singles including “How Sweet tuosos like him these days. He played Latin It Is (To Be Loved by You)”, “You Are the music, African music, blues, jazz and rock.” Sunshine of My Life”, “I Just Called To Say I Love Nathalie Pichard agreed: “It was great. He is You” with the Beatles hit “Day Tripper”, Paul such a complete artist, his voice, instruments - McCartney’s “Ebony and Ivory” and Michael no lip-sync. We waited three hours to be up Jackson’s “Billie Jean” from the best-selling front but it was worth it.” — Reuters “Thriller” album produced by Jones. During “Living for the City”, about a poor Mississippi boy encountering racism and New York drug pushers, he said: “How I wish I didn’t First lady Michelle Obama, right, hugs Janelle Monae. Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

Members of pantomime group Gabez clad in a samurai and ninja costumes performing. A member of a pantomime group Gabez clad in a ninja costume performing in a sightseeing bus in Tokyo dur- ing a press‘Ninja’ preview for the new bus tour tobus enjoy ninja acts on thetour street and the ancientset shrine. —AFP photos to kick off in Tokyo

apan’s biggest travel agency is formers jump out of the shadows. atre,” Kazuhiro Kumade, deputy presi- launching a bus tour with some When the tour launches next month, dent of SGRS, said before a media pre- Jdecidedly homegrown touches-a visitors will be treated to some mortal view Wednesday. Tickets for seats with flying ninja and sword-carrying samurai. combat between the all-in-black ninja the best view of the action cost 6,900 The one-hour “Samurai & Ninja Safari” and his samurai rival, according to travel yen ($68) apiece. The ride is loosely tour around the Japanese capital fea- agency JTB and partner event-planning modelled on New York’s popular The tures a bilingual guide pointing out key firm SGRS. “As the samurai and ninja Ride bus route, which bills itself as Members of pantomime group Gabez clad in a sights and then a roll around the historic battle in Asakusa, passengers can enjoy “equal parts theatrical show and immer- samurai and ninja costumes performing. Asakusa district where streetside per- it from inside the bus-it’s a moving the- sive tour”. —AFP

Members of pantomime group Gabez clad in a samurai and ninja costumes per- A member of a pantomime group Gabez in clad of ninja running before a sight- forming. seeing bus. Marvel says the next Captain America will be an African American

n African American character will soon strap on the enhancing “super soldier serum.” Wednesday night TV appearance on Comedy Central’s “The star-emblazoned shield and step into the red, white Rogers will hand the Captain America persona to his Colbert Report.” It came one day after Marvel’s announce- Aand blue uniform of Captain America in the pages of much younger friend and cohort, the character Sam Wilson, ment that another founding member of its Avengers super- Marvel Comics. The character of Captain America first already a comic book star in his own right as the true identi- hero team, the hammer-wielding Norse god Thor, would be appeared in 1941, as a super soldier fighting the Nazis. He ty behind the winged superhero known as Falcon. A three- reintroduced as a woman. was revived by Marvel in the 1960s and became an icon page explanation of the transformation was posted under For now, the changes in both characters - Thor and among Marvel’s lineup of heroes. the headline: “It’s time for an all-new Captain America.” It Captain America - will be limited to the pages of Marvel The change in characters was announced on the pub- was authored by Marvel writer-artist Rick Remender and comic books. Chris Hemsworth will continue to play a male lisher’s official website on Wednesday. It is built around the editor Tom Brevoort, part of the creative team involved in Thor, and Chris Evans a white Captain America, in Marvel’s retirement of Captain America’s original alter ego, Steve the publisher’s re-launch of several of its popular heroes. feature films. When Sam Wilson suits up as Captain America Rogers, who finds he has lost the extraordinary strength and The Captain America update also was unveiled by this fall, the character will undergo more than a mere racial agility he had once gained from injections of performance- Marvel Comics’ chief creative officer, Joe Quesada, during a transformation. —Reuters Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Archie comic banned in Singapore as censorship row escalates ingapore has banned a volume of the “Archie” comic Last month, a record crowd turned out for a gay-rights rally book that featured a same-sex marriage, adding fuel to a called “Pink Dot” while several Christian and Muslim groups Scensorship row that erupted over a children’s story protested against it by wearing white. Minister for about two male penguins hatching an egg. “Archie: The Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim has said he Married Life Book Three” was taken off book shop shelves fol- supports the library’s stand, although unusually not all mem- lowing a complaint to Singapore’s Media Development bers of the governing People’s Action Party (PAP) share that Authority which found it was not in line with social norms and view. breached their content guidelines. “I do not believe homosexuality falls in the category of News of the ban, which was imposed earlier this year but issues which should be excluded,” said Hri Kumar Nair, a PAP came to light late on Wednesday, comes a week after member of Parliament in a Facebook post titled Pulp Friction. Singapore’s National Library Board said it was to destroy three “But I think most neutrals would agree that children should children’s books seen as being pro-homosexual, including read books with controversial themes supervised,” he added. penguin story “And Tango Makes Three”. That prompted For Archie, the volume’s removal from book shelves in about 400 people to turn out on Sunday for a “read in” of the Singapore comes as the redheaded American teenager is due books in the national library’s atrium, while on Wednesday, to exit the comic world altogether. Next week, an issue will be three authors resigned as judges from Singapore’s main litera- released in the United States that shows him dying as he takes ture prize in protest against the move. a bullet protecting a gay friend. — Reuters Singapore has tight rules on censorship, banning Playboy magazine and blocking dozens of websites in what it has described as “a symbolic statement of the types of content which the community is opposed to”. However, whether This photo provided by homosexual content falls into that category is a thorny issue. A Archie Comics shows growing groundswell of support for gay rights is being met Archie in his final with noisy protests from religious groups, keen to maintain moments of life in the the status quo of sex between two men being illegal. comic book, ‘Life with Archie,’ issue 37. — AP Lush photos and flavors help teach budget cooking eanne Brown didn’t set out to write a buzz- fun section called simply “Things on Toast.” Brown worthy cookbook for people who want fine- wrote the book partly because she wanted a thesis Ldining taste on a food stamp budget. that could have a life outside academia. She also Because “Good and Cheap,” a beautifully pho- wanted to research whether she could eat the kind tographed e-book packed with low-cost, fuss-free of food she likes to cook on a food stamp budget recipes, actually began simply as a master’s thesis (around $4.43 a day). for the 29-year-old NYU food studies program “If you can cook there’s so much you can do graduate. But after Brown posted it online as a PDF with limited ingredients,” says Brown. “If you don’t it got attention on Reddit, the social networking know how to cook, you’ll feel pretty trapped.” and news website, then turned into a surprise hit, Following the success of the PDF version of the spawning a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to book, Brown launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover the cost of printing hardcover copies for the pay for a print run with the goal of raising enough people who need them most. money to donate hard copies through organiza- Yuko Yamaguchi, the third designer of Japanese cartoon and global mega-brand Hello Her approach to the cookbook - using the tions serving the low-income community. The Kitty, poses with various dolls during a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP same kind of high-quality photography and inno- campaign started with a goal of $10,000 and end- vative flavor combinations that go into cookbooks ed with more than $144,000. Other programs aim- aimed at people with $6,000 ranges in their ing to help low-income families eat better by cook- Hello Kitty designer kitchens - is part of a new breed of campaigns to ing more have taken similar approaches, hoping a defends help people eat well on a tight budget. The goal is gourmet touch can help sell the idea of saving simple - make it attractive to cook from scratch, money by getting in the kitchen. “It’s not about us cute character as cat turns 40 almost always the best and cheapest way to eat lecturing people. We need to get people cooking,” well without spending a lot. says Greg Silverman, a restaurateur, chef and direc- he flamboyant designer of Japanese cartoon image is licensed by Japanese company Sanrio, Recipes in “Good and Cheap” are healthy and tor of national partnerships for the Share Our and global mega-brand Hello Kitty defend- which says on its website that it makes more than enticing. Think vibrant vegetable jambalaya and a Strength No Kid Hungry Campaign.—AP Ted the cute cat against new rivals yesterday US$5 billion dollars in retail sales each year. Hello as the character prepares to celebrate her 40th Kitty is its flagship brand. birthday. Speaking on the sidelines of the Hong Yamaguchi, at the Hong Kong fair to tie in with Kong Book Fair, Yuko Yamaguchi took the con- its new Japan Pavilion, has been the lead designer cept of life imitating art to another level, wearing of Hello Kitty since 1980 and promotes herself as a Kitty-style strawberry dress with dyed auburn the character’s best friend. “She is very motivated hair piled into two buns topped with a red ribbon- and open and wants to face the future,” she says the cat’s signature accessory. of the character. There are plenty of detractors of As Kitty enters her next decade, she faces Hello Kitty’s sweetness-entire blogs are dedicated increasing competition from more cutting-edge to tearing down the cute icon, with online spoofs cartoons like Brown and Cony, the bear and rabbit depicting her like a horror movie character. mascots of Tokyo-based messaging app LINE, But Yamaguchi insists her appeal can endure. which has taken Asia by storm in recent months. “There are already three generations of fans that But Yamaguchi insisted Kitty would cope with like Hello Kitty, so I hope that there will be more growing older in a digital age. “There are new car- fans like that in the future, like people in a family toon characters that are coming out daily... (but) I loving Hello Kitty together,” she said. The main think Hello Kitty is the only one that can adapt to Hello Kitty 40th birthday celebrations will take the changes in the world,” Yamaguchi said. place later this year, including the first ever fan The moon-faced mouthless white cat first convention, hosted in Los Angeles at the end of appeared in 1974 on a coin purse in Japan and October. — AFP has since built up a worldwide fanbase, appearing on everything from handbags to sex toys. Her Leanne Brown poses for a picture in her apartment in New York. 24 FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

Keep it sweet n iftar meal will not be complete without irresistiblethis Ramadan desserts. Ramadan Discover this collection with new and easy recipes for a variety of oriental desserts. This Ramadan 2014, give a new and sweet taste to Abreaking your fast. Mouhalabieh simple, creamy and sweet milk-based pudding flavored with A orange blossom water and topped with ground pistachios. INGREDIENTS 5 cups milk 3 ½ tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in 1 cup milk 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar 1 tablespoon rosewater 1 tablespoon orange blossom water

For garnishing: 1 cup raw ground pistachios

COOKING METHOD 1. In a non-stick or stainless steel pot, put the milk, the dissolved cornstarch and vanilla sugar together. Place the pot on medium heat Awwamat These are flour dough balls that are deep fried then dipped in sugar syrup. and stir until the mixture starts boiling. They come out sweet and crispy! Serve hot or at room temperature. 2. Reduce the heat, add the sugar and continue stirring for 10 more min. INGREDIENTS 3. Turn off the heat then add the rose water and orange blossom For the dumplings: water. 2 ½ cups flour 4. Pour the mouhalabieh in serving bowls. Allow them to cool at 2 ½ cups yogurt room temperature for about 30 min then refrigerate for several hours. 1 teaspoon baking soda 5. Garnish with raw ground pistachios and serve cold. 5 cups vegetable oil for frying

For the sugar syrup: 4 cups sugar 3 cups water 1 teaspoon orange blossom water 1 teaspoon rose water 1 teaspoon lemon juice

COOKING METHOD 1. To prepare the sugar syrup: put the sugar and water in a small saucepan and place over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Leave to boil then add the lemon juice and keep on medium heat for 10 min until the syrup thickens. Add the orange blossom water and rose water. Remove from heat and pour the syrup in a large bowl. 2. To prepare the dumplings: In a bowl, mix together the flour, the yogurt and the baking soda. 3. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. 4. Make round mounds of dough with a teaspoon and drop them in the hot oil. Drop more or less dough balls at the same time depending on the size of your frying pan. Toss them until they become golden brown on all sides. Remove from the hot oil and drain them in a strainer. 5. Once drained dip them in the sugar syrup, toss for 2 min and remove. 6. They are best served hot to fully enjoy their crunchiness but can also be consumed at room temperature. 25 Maamul Tamer emolina-based cookies that are stuffed with a date paste, then shaped and decorated either by hand or using a special wooden Smold INGREDIENTS 2 cups semolina 1 cup fine semolina, ferkha flour 1 teaspoon 1 cup butter, 2 tablespoons orange blossom water 2 tablespoons rose water

For the stuffing: 125 g date paste 2 teaspoons butter 1 pinch of mahlab, if available

COOKING METHOD 1. In a bowl, mix the semolina and ferkha flour with the butter. Cover with a kitchen cloth and leave overnight. 2. Add the orange blossom water, rose water and dissolved yeast to the flour and butter mixture. Knead until you get a soft dough. 3. To prepare the stuffing: melt the butter in a saucepan, add the date paste and mahlab then mash the mix with the back of a spoon until pu- reed. 4. Divide the date paste into small cherry-sized balls and leave them aside for later use. 5. Divide the dough into walnut-sized balls. Place the dough ball in the palm of your hand and with your finger make a hole in it. Fill it with a date Knafeh with Walnuts paste ball; close the dough and roll into a ball. t’s cooked on special occasions. It is usually served after eating the mansaf. 6. Place the ball into the maamoul mold and pack it well inside it for the dough to take the shape of the mold. To unmold, flip the mold and tap it I on the table. The cookie will fall out. INGREDIENTS 7. Place the maamoul in an oven tray and bake at high temperature for 1 kg mafrouka about 15 to 20 min or until they are blushed. Ready knafeh dough, 1/2 kg walnuts, coarsely chopped 1/2 cup butter, melted 1 tablespoon cinnamon

For the dough: (If you cannot get mafrouka) 3 cups semolina, (smeed) 1 cup ghee, (semne) 1 cup sugar

For the syrup: 6 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon rosewater 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

COOKING METHOD 1. You can either use a round or a rectangular baking tray. 2. To prepare the sugar syrup, place the sugar, rosewater, lemon juice and 2 cups of water in a saucepan. Stir until the mixture starts boiling, then reduce the heat and let sim- mer over low heat for 5 minutes. Set aside. 3. In a small bowl, mix the walnuts with the cinnamon. 4. If making the dough: 5. Place all the ingredients along with ¼ cup of water in a bowl and mix well until you form a dough. 6. Then put the dough in a baking dish and bake in a preheated oven for just 5 min- utes, until it dries. Make sure that the color of the dough does not change. Remove from heat and allow to cool. 7. Then knead it with your hands until soft and smooth. 8. Mix the knefeh dough (ready to use or the one you made) with butter for about 15 minutes, until the dough absorbs the butter. 9. Arrange a layer using half the knefeh dough on a greased baking tray. Spread over it the walnuts and cinnamon mixture and cover them with a layer of the remaining knefeh dough. 10. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes, until the top becomes golden. Remove from oven and pour the sugar syrup over it immediately. 11. Serve hot. —www.shahiya.com Traditions FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 26 Ramadan in Morocco has a different flavor

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amadan traditions in Morocco are very special. Recalling Ramadan tradi- tions in his hometown of Marrakech, Morocco, Abdessamad Ali’s memories are very specific. Ali recalls Harira, the special soup served to break the fast, his mother waking before the rest of the family to prepare Suhoor meal, the cannons which signaled the fasting masses that it was time to quench their thirst. He also recalls the Nefar, a local man who would walk the streets of his neighborhood blowing his trumpet to herald the start and the end of Rama- dan. Though many of these Ramadan rituals are still alive in Morocco, some, like the Nefar, Rhave nearly disappeared with the passing of time, particularly in bigger cities like Marrakech. “It’s really sad to see those traditions go away,” “The night drummer would come through the said Ali, who has lived in the United States since streets about two hours or so before it was time 1999. “But Ramadan is still special because you to begin the fast,” she said. “It was to wake you feel it.” For those who remember the Nefar- up so you could warm the food and sit together swith their long, skinny horns, the sound of the to eat it. The rhythm was beautiful! The drummer trumpet serves as just another engagement of would weave in and around the small streets the senses, of sights, sounds, and tastes that are making the sound echo of the houses. The tradi- linked with their memories of Ramadan. Mean- tion of drumming was usually passed down from while, in some other places, the ritual continues. father to son. It has been going on forever and “It’s an amazing tradition in small cities,” said still continues today.” She recalled. Kat Fadaouri, who hails from Agadir, Morocco, but now makes her home in London. Jennifer Traditional foods of Ramadan Wickens, a Canadian Muslim who lived in the city As Ramadan is the month of fasting, traditions of Mimlal for a year in 2008, never heard the blast naturally take root in what people eat when they of the Nefar’s trumpet, but she fondly recalls sit down to break their fasts. However, what peo- drummers roaming the streets during the early ple choose to prepare during this holy month morning darkness before the fast began, tapping can vary from home to home. Many people eat their drums to rouse people out of bed. chicken or some other types of meat served with Traditions FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 27

The night drummer would come through the streets about two hours or so before it was time to begin the fast vegetables, cooked the night before and heated in distinctly Moroccan soup of lentils, tomatoes and fasting all day and would make prayer uncomfort- the morning for quick preparation. Others choose a chickpeas that serves as the centerpiece of theIf- able. “It’s hard to bend (in Ruku) if you’ve eaten simple meal of bread with butter and coffee. Some tar menu. The ritual of serving Harira is so prevalent too much and your stomach hurts,” he said. It is prefer Moroccan Msemen, a type of pancake folded in Morocco that it is served in nearly 90 percent of only after spending that time in prayer and Quran into a square shape before being fried in a pan and the North African country’s homes during Rama- recitation that many Moroccans head home and then drizzled with honey. dan. eat a large amount of food, often enjoying meals Still others eat Beghrir, a crepe-style pan- The light and healthy soup is the perfect food and visiting with family and friends until the early cake that when drizzled with butter and paired to fill a shrunken and delicate stomach after a full morning hours. But no matter how long they stay with sweet Moroccan mint tea, is enough to day of fasting, particularly during the long days of awake eating, drinking and making merry, they ease anyone into the long food-free day ahead. summer. Boiled eggs, served with a side of cumin, can be assured of a trumpeter, a drummer or even Moroccan women often wake before dawn to often find a place beside the Harira on Iftartable. a steadfast mother waking them in a few hours to prepare Suhoor and then rouse their slumbering Smoothies, usually avocado mixed with milk, eat again and begin another day of fasting. families when it’s time to eat. sugar, dates and almonds, or freshly squeezed —www.onislam.net Ait Ali said he remembers his mother making orange juice; quench a long-denied thirst. Though her Suhoor preparations the night before. “My they are most popular in the early morning, Mse- mother would buy a lot of chicken and put them men and Beghrir are often eaten at day’s end as on the grill to cook overnight,” he said. “Then she well. would wake us up, we’d eat the food and have tea Of course prayer is an important part of the and bread then we’d go back to sleep.” Perhaps spiritual focus of Ramadan and, just like their Hari- even more than Suhoor, Iftar is essential for Rama- ra, Moroccans take it seriously. In fact, many dan traditions. would delay eating theHarira and Iftar meals, only Alerted by the blasts of the cannons or the wail eating some dates and water and perhaps coffee, of the sirens that tell of the time to break the fast, before heading to the mosque for Mahgrib and most Moroccans sit down to a traditional meal then Taraweeh prayers. of dates, milk and water; but it is the Harira, a Ali said it’s often hard to fill his stomach after 28

TravelFRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 umrahVirtues of in Ramadan bn Abbas relates that Allah the Almighty’s Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him) asked a Iwoman from Madinah: “What prevented you from embarking on the hajj pilgrimage with us?” She replied: “We had two camels. My husband and child took one and left the other for the rest of us to ride on.” The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) then told her: “When the month of Ramadan arrives, go for umrah, be- cause umrah in Ramadan is like accompanying me on hajj.” [Sahih al-Bukhari (1764)] Travel FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 29

The meaning of this hadith What a great achievement it would be for one of us to accompany Allah the The stronger of the two opinions – and Allah the Almighty knows best – is Almighty’s Messenger (Peace Be Upon Him) on hajj! Think of standing beside that umrah is not an obligation. The Quran clearly mentions the obligation him on the Plain of Arafah. Imagine spending the night in his encampment of the Hajj without once indicating anything similar for umrah. The Prophet in Muzdalifah and then getting up the next morning to go with him to Mina. (Peace Be Upon Him) further emphasized this by saying: “O people! Allah the What would it be like to perform tawaf and saiy alongside him. The apparent Almighty has enjoined the hajj upon you, so go for hajj.” [Sahih Muslim (1337)] meaning of the hadith is that our performing umrah in Ramadan is really that significant. And by saying: “Islam is built upon five things: The testimony that there is no God but Allah the Almighty and that Muhammad is His servant and Messen- The ruling for umrah in general and for umrah in Ramadan ger, the establishment of prayer, the payment of zakat, the pilgrimage to the We must understand that going for umrah in Ramadan is sunnah. It is not House, and the fast during the month of Ramadan.” [Sahih al-Bukhari (8) and an obligation and should not be treated as one. Indeed, the majority of schol- Sahih Muslim (16)] ars hold the opinion that performing umrah in one’s lifetime is not a religious obligation at all. This is the view of the Hanafi and Maliki schools of thought. We also have where a man from central Arabia with disheveled hair ap- It is also one of the views expressed by Ahmad bin Hanbal. Al-Shafii also one proached the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) and asked him about Islam. The time held this view, and it seems to have been his older opinion, The official Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said to him: “There are five prayers to be offered position of the Shafii school of law is that umrah is obligatory upon a Muslim, in the day and the night.” The man asked: “Do I have to offer any others?” The just like hajj, once in a lifetime. Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) replied: “No, unless you do so voluntarily.” Then Travel FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 30

he continued: “You must fast the month of Ramadan.” The man asked: “Do I to look after them and guide them. Younger children miss out on essential have to offer any other fasts?” The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) replied: “No, aspects of their upbringing. Older children may even fall into sin. unless you do so voluntarily.” Then the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) informed him about zakat, and he asked: “Do I have to pay anything else?” The Prophet There is another mistake parents make regarding their children. Some par- (Peace Be Upon Him) replied: “No, unless you do so voluntarily.” The man then ents take their children along with them to Makkah. Then, the father decides turned away saying: “By Allah the Almighty, I will do nothing extra for these to spend his time in seclusion at the Sacred Mosque, leaving his children to things nor do any less than I have to.” At this, Allah the Almighty’s Messenger languish in the hotel. This is a serious concern. Children who are left to their (Peace Be Upon Him) remarked: “He will attain success if he proves truthful.” own devices in a strange environment can easily get into trouble. How often [Sahih al-Bukhari (46) and Sahih Muslim (11)] we see adolescents and young adults behaving badly in Makkah during this sacred month, since they see the whole thing as a festive holiday. They act as As for specific hadiths on the topic of the ruling of umrah, there are some they please while their parents spend their time in worship – but neglect their which indicate that it is obligatory and others that indicate it is not obligatory. parental responsibilities. However, all of these hadiths have some weakness that can be levied against them. Therefore, we say on the strength of the general evidence that ‘umrah is It is, without doubt, a good thing for parents to take their children to a Sunnah. It is not an obligation. Makkah. It can be a wonderful, faith-inspiring experience. However, this re- quires from the parents to be responsible and conscious of their duties to their Some practical considerations children. Parents who are unable to manage their children should either stay It should make us truly happy to see how many Muslims converge on in their homes and spend a fulfilling Ramadan with their families, or if they go Makkah every year in Ramadan to perform umrah. However, there are a few to Makkah, make sure to do everything as a family and leave out etikaf. What is matters that we need to consider, so that the best possible effects of observ- the point of parents seeking extra reward from their personal devotions while ing this sunnah can be realized. Some people neglect their families to go on incurring sin due to their neglect of those whom Allah the Almighty has made umrah in Ramadan. This is a serious problem, because the blessed month of them responsible for? Ramadan is a time for people to show greater concern for their families. It is especially bad for parents to neglect their children during this month. And Allah the Almighty knows best.

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Garvin 01:35 Untamed & Uncut 09:55 Container Wars 00:00 Violetta 03:35 What’s That About? 14:10 Good Luck Charlie 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 02:25 Shamwari: A Wild Life 10:20 Savage Family Diggers 00:45 The Hive 14:35 Dog With A Blog 15:45 Chopped 10:45 How It’s Made 04:30 Moon Machines 02:50 Shamwari: A Wild Life 00:50 Art Attack 15:00 Dog With A Blog 16:35 Fast Food Gone Global 11:10 How Stuff’s Made 05:20 Unchained Reaction 03:15 Gator Boys 01:15 Art Attack 15:25 Liv And Maddie 17:25 Jenny Morris Cooks The Riviera 11:35 Street Outlaws 06:10 Science Of The Movies 04:05 Deadly Islands 01:40 Wolfblood 15:50 Liv And Maddie 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:25 American Chopper: Senior vs 07:00 Stephen Hawking’s Grand 04:55 Animal Cops Houston 02:05 Wolfblood 16:10 Mako Mermaids 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Junior Design 05:45 Clinically Wild: Alaska 02:30 Violetta 16:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 18:40 Siba’s Table 13:15 American Chopper: Senior vs 07:55 The Unexplained Files 03:10 The Hive 06:10 Clinically Wild: Alaska Junior 17:00 Herbie: Fully Loaded 19:05 Reza’s African Kitchen 08:45 What’s That About? 03:20 Art Attack 06:35 Breed All About It 14:05 Storage Hunters 18:40 Get Frozen 19:30 Guy’s Big Bite 03:45 Art Attack 07:00 Animal Airport 14:30 Container Wars 09:40 Science Of The Movies 18:55 Mako Mermaids 19:55 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 07:25 Mutant Planet 14:55 Savage Family Diggers 10:30 X-Machines 04:10 Jungle Junction 19:20 Violetta 20:20 Chopped 08:15 The Magic Of The Big Blue 15:20 Dual Survival 11:20 Moon Machines 04:20 Jungle Junction 20:05 African Cats 21:10 Chopped 09:10 Treehouse Masters 16:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 12:10 Unchained Reaction 04:35 Jungle Junction 20:30 Jessie 22:00 Throwdown With Bobby Flay 10:05 Shamwari: A Wild Life 17:00 Fast N’ Loud 13:00 How Does That Work? 04:50 Jungle Junction 20:50 Dog With A Blog 22:25 Throwdown With Bobby Flay 10:35 Shamwari: A Wild Life 17:50 Idris Elba: King Of Speed 13:30 What’s That About? 05:00 Art Attack 21:15 Mako Mermaids 22:50 Pizza Cuz 11:00 Animal Precinct 18:40 Fifth Gear 14:20 Mythbusters 05:25 Art Attack 21:40 Austin & Ally 23:15 Pizza Cuz 19:30 Gold Rush 05:50 Mouk 11:55 Animal Airport 15:10 Scrapheap Challenge 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:20 How It’s Made 06:00 Austin & Ally 12:20 Breed All About It 16:00 X-Machines 22:25 A.N.T. 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Sia snags first No. 1 on US Billboard chart

inger-songwriter Sia, the writing talent behind several pop 42,000 copies, while last week’s No. 1 artist Trey Songz dropped hits, on Wednesday grabbed her own No. 1 spot on the to fourth place as “Trigga” sold 35,000 copies, around a third of Sweekly US Billboard 200 chart for the first time with the the 105,000 sold in its debut week. album “1,000 Forms of Fear,” according to figures from Nielsen Another British singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, came in at No. SoundScan. In its debut week, “1,000 Forms of Fear,” sold 52,000 5 with 35,000 copies of “x” sold in its third week after debuting at copies, the lowest sales figure for a top-selling album in nearly No. 1. The veteran rockers at Judas Priest scored their highest two years, Billboard said. place on the charts with their 17th studio album “Redeemer of The unconventional artist, who has penned songs for Souls” debuting at No. 6 with 33,000 copies sold, Billboard said. Rihanna and Beyonce among others, has famously shunned the In the digital songs chart, “Rude,” from Canadian reggae industry’s marketing machine and not shown her face during TV fusion band Magic! rose to first place from second last week with performances of the single “Chandelier.” Surging back into sec- 185,000 downloads. Total album sales for the week ended July ond place from fifth last week was the soundtrack from the ani- 13 were 4.1 million, a 19 percent decline from the same week mated Disney film “Frozen,” which sold 46,000 copies in its 30th last year, Billboard said. Overall year-to-date album sales are consecutive week in the top five. British singer-songwriter Sam 129.2 million, a 15 percent decrease from the same period last Smith retained his No. 3 spot with “In the Lonely Hour” selling year. — -Reuters Sia FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

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LAS VEGAS: A file photo shows Nicolas Jecker (right), a Valeo representative, watching as a Range Rover Evoque equipped with Valeo self-parking technology backs into a parking spot during a driverless car demo at the 2014 International CES. — AFP Really smart cars are ready to take the wheel

PARIS: Why waste your time looking for a place to park when by 2020, and utterly autonomous robot cars by 2030. This could that make us of its Internet and mapping expertise. Even so, oth- your car can do it for you? An idea that was pure science fiction radically cut mortality, said Franck Cazenave, marketing director ers in the industry such as Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault and only a few years ago is becoming reality thanks to automatic at the parts maker Bosch, since “90 percent of accidents are Nissan, argue that car-marking is an art not everyone could pull robot cars. A car with no one on board drives into a car park at caused by human error”. off. walking pace, lets a pedestrian pass, and then backs into a narrow And, of course, there is the prohibitive cost of the technology. parking space without the merest bump or scrape. Who to blame for an accident? The radar system alone on a Google car is said to cost 60,000 The technology that makes this possible has been developed There are other benefits too. As soon as cars begin to talk to euros ($82,000), without counting existing auto-pilot technology by the Swedish car company Volvo and the French parts maker one another, and with the computers running the road system, that costs thousands of euros. “What is still holding us up is the Valeo. It is still at the prototype stage but could be widely avail- traffic will run more smoothly with huge savings on fuel. quality of the sensors and of artificial intelligence,” Ford has able within six years. Some cars are already able to drive them- According to Sebastien Amichi, an expert at consultants Roland admitted. And though everyone thinks that the next decade will selves in certain circumstances. The Mercedes CLS coupÈ brakes Berger, after 2030 there could be “fleets of vehicles available 24/7 see automatic robot cars driving on their own on motorways and by itself when the driver fails to react to the risk of an accident. that will come to pick you up where ever you want, and do so in car parks, having them in the middle of urban traffic with Some BMW models also warn drivers they are about to go over with amazing efficiency”. pedestrians and cyclists, is another question. The big issue is who the white line and they can go onto automatic pilot in traffic jams. These really smart cars will also make travel that much more is to blame if there is an accident. “Lots of the technology is already out there,” said Guillaume comfortable, their supporters claim. “Drivers won’t have to drive Before tackling this thorny question, governments will have to Devauchelle, director of R&D at Valeo. “But now we are at a turn- so they will have that time for themselves,” says Cazenave. They change road safety laws which demand that every driver “must ing point.” Rapid progress in radar and detection camera technol- will be able to read, surf the net, or even have a nap-which is why be in control of their vehicle”. As for the drivers themselves, some ogy now allows cars to “see” things going on around them. not only car markers have been attracted by the possibilities this will undoubtedly be happy to hand over the wheel. Others Onboard computers analyse road conditions and make the car offers. though will be reluctant to put their lives in the hands of a com- react accordingly. Which means that car makers believe that they Google has been testing fully automatic Japanese cars for the puter-not to mention foreswearing forever the pleasure of put- will have models on the market capable of driving by themselves last five years and is even making its own electric driverless cars ting their foot to the floor. — AFP Business FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

CNN could be worth $5bn if it is put up for sale

If Rupert Murdoch succeeds in buying Time Warner Inc offer, the 83-year-old Murdoch is unlikely to abandon the globe, with distribution in more than 200 countries. and CNN is put up for sale, the 24-hour cable news net- his pursuit, the sources said. But CNN is struggling with declining ratings and work could be worth $5 billion, according to one ana- Time Warner, which also owns pay-TV channel HBO advertising revenue as competition - especially from lyst’s estimate. Gabelli & Co’s Brett Harriss said CNN is and the Warner Bros movie studio, does not break out Fox News and Comcast Corp’s MSNBC - gained ground. worth about 11 times annual estimated earnings before financial data for CNN. Time Warner did not immediate- Jeff Zucker, the former CEO of NBC Universal, was interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) ly respond to a request for comment. Harriss said that tapped in 2012 to try to turn around CNN. He has of $450 million. He based the valuation on recent Walt Disney Co’s ABC network, which does not have a focused the network on developing original program- media deals such as Discovery Communications Inc’s cable news channel, could be a potential bidder for ming, such as celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts purchase of a controlling interest in Eurosport CNN. Disney did not immediately respond to a request Unknown” series, in addition to covering major break- International and AMC Networks Inc’s acquisition of for comment. ing news events, such as the missing Malaysian Air Chellomedia. Both transactions were valued at 10.5 CBS Corp is another possible suitor, according to plane. times to 11 times EBITDA, Harriss said. people familiar with the broadcast network. Over the Still, CNN continues to lag both Fox News and Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc said on years, CNN and CBS have mulled some type of merger MSNBC with prime time audiences, according to the Wednesday it made an offer to buy Time Warner for though the issue of control was always a sticking point, latest ratings from Nielsen. CNN averaged 493,000 total about $80 billion. Fox has indicated it would sell Time these people said. A CBS spokesman declined to com- viewers during the hours of 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM, while Warner’s CNN, a direct competitor of Fox News, to clear ment. Founded in 1980 by media mogul Ted Turner, Fox News averaged 1.7 million and MSNBC had any regulatory hurdles, according to people familiar CNN was the first cable news network in the United 621,000. A decade ago, CNN’s average total viewers with the situation. While Time Warner rebuffed Fox’s States and now has more than 40 news bureaus across was 802,000 during prime time.—Reuters UK’s need for sea patrol aircraft holds promise

FARNBOROUGH: Two high-profile sea searches have exposed a shortfall in Britain’s maritime patrol capabilities, raising hopes at rival planemakers Airbus and Boeing that they could soon be fighting over a multi-billion dollar contract. The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, missing since March, and the hunt for four British yachtsmen lost in the Atlantic Ocean in May, has brought home to the British government the need to invest in maritime patrol aircraft, sources close to the matter say. Since scrapping its former program - the delayed and over-budget BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 - as part of its defense review in 2010, experts say Britain has struggled to carry out aerial hunts for submarines as well as objects on the surface of its waters. Adding further urgency is that a new aircraft carrier will be received by the Royal Navy in 2017; the vessel is part of a 6.2 billion pound ($10.6 billion) project which Britain will want to adequately protect. The two planemakers, which regularly battle over commer- cial orders, are now sparring over the maritime patrol market, in the expectation Britain will want to adapt existing planes to its needs, rather than opt for another complex project like Nimrod. “It’s less about the aircraft and more about what’s in it,” said Glynn Bellamy, partner and UK head of Aerospace and Defense at KPMG, REDMOND: In this photo, a worker walks past a Microsoft Corp sign outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. — AP explaining that unlike the specifically-designed Nimrod, a future proj- ect could use a cheaper aircraft but with high-tech kit onboard. Both Boeing and Airbus say their options could suit Britain’s needs. Boeing Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs brought its P-8A aircraft, based on the company’s popular 737 com- mercial aircraft, to the Royal International Air Tattoo military air show SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it will slash up to when it struck the deal that it would cut $600 million per year in last week and the Farnborough air show this week to show off what it 18,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce, this year as it trims its costs within 18 months of closing the acquisition. Microsoft did describes as the plane’s superior maritime surveillance and other newly acquired Nokia phone business and tries to transform into not detail exactly where the remaining jobs would be cut, but capabilities. a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company. The said the first wave of layoffs would affect 1,351 jobs in the Seattle Supportability, upgradability larger-than-expected cuts are the deepest in the company’s 39- area. The company said it expects to take pretax charges of $1.1 Airbus is proposing an option around its C-295 military aircraft year history and come five months into the tenure of Chief billion to $1.6 billion over the next four quarters to account for which it said could be configured to meet Britain’s demands using UK Executive Satya Nadella, who outlined plans for a “leaner” busi- the costs of the layoffs. Nadella’s cuts are the biggest at the suppliers for critical content, a factor it hopes will curry favor with a ness in a public memo to employees last week. Redmond, Washington-based company since Ballmer axed 5,800, government which has stressed the importance of its domestic “We will simplify the way we work to drive greater accounta- or about 6 percent of headcount, in the depths of the recession in defense industry. “We in Airbus Group want to be at the heart of pro- bility, become more agile and move faster,” Nadella wrote to early 2009. viding options because obviously something like this, you’d want the employees in a memo made public early Thursday. “We plan to UK industry to be as involved as possible,” Airbus Group UK chief have fewer layers of management, both top down and sideways, Radical changes executive Robin Southwell said, adding the scale of the military patrol to accelerate the flow of information and decision making.” The The new CEO’s moves are designed to help Microsoft shift aircraft opportunity could run into billions of pounds. “It’s a big num- size of the cuts were welcomed by Wall Street, which viewed from being a primarily software-focused company to one that ber,” he said. “Acquiring, putting it in service ... then through life sup- Microsoft as bloated under previous CEO Steve Ballmer, topping sells online services, apps and devices it hopes will make people portability and upgradability.” Airbus, which has provided a similar 127,000 in headcount after absorbing Nokia earlier this year. and businesses more productive. Nadella needs to make aircraft to Chile, said its option would be lower in cost compared with “This is about double what the Street was expecting,” said Microsoft a stronger competitor to Google Inc and Apple Inc, Boeing’s P-8. Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. “Nadella is clearing which have dominated the new era of mobile-centric computing. the decks for the new fiscal year. He is cleaning up part of the Marking this change of emphasis, Nadella last week rebranded Spending review mess that Ballmer left.” Microsoft shares jumped 3 percent to Microsoft as “the productivity and platform company for the After it cancelled the Nimrod program, Britain assigned 30 UK air $45.40 in early trading, reaching their highest since the technolo- mobile-first and cloud-first world.” crew to maritime surveillance teams in the United States, Australia, gy stock boom of 2000. Microsoft is not alone among the pioneers of the personal Canada and New Zealand to ensure they kept their skills up-to-date, computer revolution now slimming down to adapt to the Web- UK Master Aircrew Dave Miles told Reuters. Miles, who is based at a Nokia-related cuts focused world. PC-maker Hewlett-Packard Co is in the midst of a naval air station in Maryland and is on loan with the US Navy, is help- About 12,500 of the layoffs will come from eliminating over- radical three-to-five-year plan that will lop up to 50,000 from its ing to lead testing of the P-8A aircraft and its software and hardware. laps with the Nokia unit, which Microsoft acquired in April for $7.2 staff of 250,000. International Business Machines Corp is undergo- He said opting for a wholly new design, like another Nimrod-style billion. Microsoft did not say how many jobs would come from ing a “workforce rebalancing,” which analysts say could mean project, instead of a proven one carried more risk that costs could spi- Nokia and how many from existing operations. The acquisition of 13,000, or about 3 percent of its staff, being laid off or transferred ral out of control. Britain will undertake a new defense spending Nokia’s handset business in April added 25,000 people to to new owners as units are sold. Chipmaker Intel Corp and net- review in the second half of next year, when it could fire the starting Microsoft’s payroll. work equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc both said in the past gun for a maritime patrol aircraft competition.—Reuters The Nokia-related cuts were widely expected. Microsoft said year they were cutting about 5 percent of their staffs. — Reuters Business FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Egypt food subsidy reforms BBC News to set to slash wheat imports cut 400 jobs in New smart card program to save money austerity drive

CAIRO: Egypt, the world’s top wheat importer, said yesterday wheat by as much as 5 billion Egyptian pounds ($699 million), LONDON: The BBC said yesterday it will cut 415 jobs from reforms to its bread subsidy program alongside an improved stor- Hanafi said. its news department in the latest cost-cutting measures by age system should cut its import needs by as much as 30 percent. Food and energy subsidies traditionally eat up a quarter of the world’s largest public broadcaster. Director of News Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafi told Reuters a new smart card state spending. Officials say wheat consumption is kept artificially James Harding said the cuts were part of savings needed as system for bread distribution launched in April is now operational high in part by citizens who purchase subsidized loaves for the a result of a freeze in the license fee, which all British in five provinces and should be implemented nationwide by equivalent of one US cent and feed them to their livestock households with a television must pay. The cuts will save October. because the bread is cheaper than animal feed. £48 million ($82 million, 60 million euros) a year over the “We took quick steps towards the new bread system and over- Under the old system, Egyptians only have the option of buy- next two years and are part of a total of £800 million in sav- came a lot of the bureaucratic obstacles...,” Hanafi said in an inter- ing infamously poor quality rice, sugar, and oil but Hanafi said the ings that began in 2010. view. “With the completion of the new system our imports will fall list of items available to purchase would now be expanded first to The British Broadcasting Corporation would restructure around 30 percent,” he said. Egypt spends more than $4 billion a 20 and then to 100 within months. Meat and poultry will be its news operations while increasing its investment in digi- year on food subsidies, on which millions of poverty-stricken among the new products on the initial list. He said smart card tal journalism, Harding said. “It will be a testing time of Egyptians depend. One cash-strapped government after another holders would accrue points if they bought less than the quota of uncertainty and change,” Harding was quoted by the BBC has resisted tackling problems in the system, fearful of a backlash five loaves per family member per day, a number that officials as telling staff in a briefing at its headquarters in London. from the public. hope can later be reduced. The points would allow them to pur- “The challenge is how to make BBC News even better, But in an effort to rein in its budget deficit to 10 percent of chase other subsidized goods. despite having less money.” gross domestic product in the next fiscal year, Egypt’s new gov- Hanafi, who retained his position after Sisi took office earlier But he said the BBC would create 195 new posts in the ernment slashed subsidies for car fuel and natural gas, increasing this month, has been outspoken about the need to reform waste- news division as part of a restructuring plan, meaning an their prices by more than 70 percent earlier this month. President ful subsidies. Egypt imports around 5.5 million tons of wheat overall reduction of 220 full-time jobs. Harding joined the Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb have not annually for its bread subsidy program. The country also bought BBC last August, having previously edited The Times news- announced similar drastic cuts to the food subsidy system but 3.7 million tons of local wheat in the 2014 season. paper, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News UK. reforms to the way the government hands out the subsidy have Hanafi said Egypt’s enhanced storage capacity should help it BBC News currently employs around 8,400 people, been in the making since April in an attempt to decrease waste increase its local wheat purchases and cut waste. Egypt is making including some 5,000 journalists, the corporation said. and corruption. progress in increasing local storage capacity with the help of one Changes as part of the restructuring include having more Under the new system Egyptians use electronic smart cards for of its major Gulf backers, the United Arab Emirates. The UAE has programs with single presenters on the BBC News bread purchases and around 20 different subsidized goods at committed to funding silos that can store up to 1.5 million tons of Channel, merging some BBC News Channel and BBC grocery stores across the country. The cards follow a points sys- wheat. “We purchased from farmers all the quantities that were World output, and having fewer staff in South Africa and tem which raises incentives for Egyptians to buy only as much available to us and we aim to buy 4 million tons next year,” he Afghanistan.—AFP subsidized bread as they need, helping reduce spending on said. — Reuters Drones take flight into a world of possibilities

MONTREAL: Like a well-trained dog, the HEXO+ follows you Delerue, whose venture has attracted $1 million in Matternet, a start-up that’s exploring ways to put drones to faithfully wherever you go. But it doesn’t walk besides you-it’s Kickstarter funding plays down concerns that small drones work in developing nations for humanitarian purposes. “Why airborne. Developed by a French start-up, Squadrone System, could have a more sinister use, like peering at small children at don’t you use the same technology to save somebody’s life the six-rotor HEXO+ — which handily totes a GoPro video play in a park. “Regulations are in place that guard against when a mother needs medicine, or a child needs medicine... camera-is billed as the first autonomous small drone for the abusive use,” he said. To me, this is where technology works best,” he told Britain’s mass market. It’s also a prime example of the many ways in Guardian newspaper.Raptopoulos envisions a network of which automation will take to the sky as unmanned aerial Delivery by drone drones that can ferry food and medical supplies into conflict vehicles, or UAVs, become part of daily life in the not-too-dis- In North America and in Europe, advances in drone tech- zones or areas hit by natural disaster. tant future. nology have caught lawmakers on the back foot. They are now Matternet has already carried out trial flights in Haiti and in Due out in May 2015 with a planned retail price of US$899, scurrying to find ways to regulate the skies. Unlike military September, it aims to shuttle blood samples in conjunction the HEXO+ is targeted at extreme sports enthusiasts looking drones, drones for civilian use can only operate for up to 20 with international medical charity Doctors Without Borders. for a way to immortalize their every move. Users activate it minutes and usually cannot carry much more than a small Since December, the United Nations has used drones in east- with a smartphone app, then let it fly a few meters (yards) camera. But big business is looking to boost that capacity. In ern Democratic Republic of Congo to monitor rebel activity behind them, recording their every twist and turn, up to a top the run-up to Christmas last year, Amazon, the world’s biggest along the borders with Uganda and Rwanda. “Used imagina- speed of 70 kilometers (45 miles) an hour. online retailer, caused a stir with its proposal to use small tively, future drones could detect stirrings of ethnic conflict, “Making snowboard films is my main activity, so essentially drones to deliver packages. Russian fast-food chain Ilya find survivors amid rubble, or even perform fanciful functions I started using drones a few years ago,” said Squadrone Farafonov isn’t waiting. In June it unveiled its first pizza deliv- such as body-temperature surveys of populations to hunt System’s co-founder Xavier Delerue, a former world snow- ery drone, an idea it hopes to extend to the 18 cities in which it killer outbreaks,” said Jack Chow, a former US ambassador and board champion. “At the outset, it was great. It was easy. It was operates. expert on global health diplomacy, speaking at the Canadian going to change everything-and then I quickly realized taking For some drone enthusiasts, food deliveries via drone is a International Council think tank. News media are meanwhile good images involved a lot of logistics when it came to using a waste of time. “This is total nonsense. Why the hell would you scoping out the possibilities of drone journalism, with drone,” he told AFP. do that?” asked Andreas Raptopoulos, chief executive of Canadian journalism schools already offering specialized courses on UAV newsgathering.

From real estate to crops Aerial photography with drones has also captured the imagination of real estate agents eager to pitch luxury proper- ties in places like Los Angeles or Toronto-although regulations strictly limit flights in populated areas. Rural districts remain a more welcoming environment for drone flying, where farms can embrace the technology to evaluate soil conditions, guide tractors or assess the most effective way to spread fertilizer. Two years ago, French entrepreneur Vivien Heriard- Dubreuil, seeing opportunity in the countryside, founded Flyterra, which is based in New York with operations in Quebec. “Using drones to maximize harvests is very promis- ing,” he told AFP, adding that his drone fleet can also be useful to inspect mines, dams and windmills. There’s a cultural side to the drone revolution as well. A group of Australians recently launched the I-Drone, which with its powerful video projector has turned outdoor walls in Melbourne into movie screens after dark. And in Japan, a contemporary dance troupe pre- sented a show in May that explored the relationship between SAINT-MARTIN D’HERES: This file photo shows a drone prototype equipped with a GoPro camera being tested at the technology and the human body. Scenes featured three headquarters of the start-up Squadrone System in Saint-Martin d’Heres, central eastern France. — AFP dancers-and as many drones. — AFP Business FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 40 Anglo American platinum output falls Anglo American Plc, smarting from a five- June 30. Output of copper, which con- Anglo American and the largest primary did not provide any details about the possi- month strike at its platinum mines, reported tributed about a quarter of the company’s platinum producer in the world, warned this ble sale of these mines in its production a sharp drop in quarterly output of the pre- earnings last year, rose 6 percent to 194,400 week that its first-half earnings would fall by statement yesterday. The company declined cious metal that overshadowed higher cop- tons. Numis Securities analyst Cailey Barker as much as 96 percent. Platinum production to comment on the matter when contacted per and iron ore production. Anglo’s shares said yesterday’s production update was “not fell to 358,000 ounces in the second quarter. by Reuters. While output of platinum fell fell as much as 1.8 percent in early trading an awful set of results”. He said production For the first six months of the year, output of sharply, production of Anglo’s other pre- after the miner reported a 40 percent drop of nickel, copper and metallurgical coal was the metal fell 39 percent to 715,000 ounces. cious commodity - diamonds - jumped 7 in platinum output for the second quarter, better than had been expected. “However, A painful restructuring has been expect- percent to 8.5 million carats at its De Beers the result of lost production at its key mines the results are dominated by platinum pain,” ed in South Africa’s platinum sector, which is unit, the world’s largest diamond miner by in South Africa. Barker wrote in a note. Tens of thousands of struggling with rising costs and depressed market value. The decline, which is expected to dam- miners returned to work in June after wage prices for the precious metal used for cat- Anglo said its diamond operations in age first-half earnings, masked a slight deals ended the longest and most damag- alytic converters in automobiles. Anglo southern Africa were affected by high sea- increase in production of iron ore, the ing strike in South Africa’s history, a dispute American Platinum is reviewing its older and sonal rainfall in first, but recovered in the biggest money earner for Anglo last year. that also hit Lonmin Plc and Impala more capital-intensive platinum mines in second quarter. Anglo’s shares were down Iron ore production rose 2 percent to 11.5 Platinum Holdings Ltd. Rustenburg in South Africa, with Sibanye 1.5 percent at 1541 pence at 0900 GMT on million tons for the three months ended Anglo American Platinum, a subsidiary of Gold seen as a likely buyer. Anglo American the London Stock Exchange. —Reuters

Falling short on G20 growth target: Australian PM Abbott SYDNEY: The Group of 20 advanced and emerging countries has not enacted the policies needed to reach its growth targets, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday, casting fresh doubt on the ambitious roadmap laid out by the group earlier this year. Abbott told a meeting of the Business 20 leaders in Sydney yesterday that member countries would fall short by as much as half of their goal of raising collective GDP by an additional 2 percent over five years if they did not take stronger measures. Abbott said the growth strategies of individual countries are tak- ing shape following that pledge from G20 Finance Ministers at a meeting in Sydney in February. “They contain several hundred pro- posed measures - but quantity does not always mean quality,” he said at the opening of the B20 summit. Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has previously chided the group for its progress in meeting economic growth targets set by the Group, calling it “unacceptable” that only “one-tenth” of the necessary work had been achieved by April of this year. G20 members represent around 80 percent of glob- al gross domestic product, more than 75 percent of global trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population. Australia, which has the rotating chair of the G20 this year, is hoping a tight focus for the cumbersome grouping will refute criticisms of lots of talk and little action. It is expected to focus on measures such as boosting infrastructure SYDNEY: In this file photo, smoke billows out of a chimney stack of steel works factories in Port Kembla, spending and fiscal discipline to achieve the growth target. Abbott said G20 leaders will produce a short, three-page commu- south of Sydney. —AP nique in “plain language” when they meet in Brisbane in November. “Australia’s task is to keep the G20 totally focused on economic growth and to resist the temptation to deal with every ill that the Australia abolishes world may face,” Abbott said. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said a meeting on Saturday in Sydney of the G20 Trade Ministers would be used to pressure countries that are dragging their heels in identifying necessary reforms along those lines. “It could be embarrassing in front of all the other members if their divisive carbon tax package doesn’t come up to scratch,” he told Reuters yesterday. Robb warned that a resolution this year on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would boost growth towards the 2 percent tar- Scrapping tax part of govt’s economic strategy get was unlikely, making progress via the G20 ministerial forums all the more vital. SYDNEY: Australia yesterday axed a divisive gy,” said Abbott, who once said evidence bon is not only the most cost-effective way to carbon tax after years of vexed political debate, blaming mankind for climate change was reduce emissions, but also the tool to make At the limits in a move criticized as regressive and out of “absolute crap”. “A useless, destructive tax the economic paradigm shift the world The B20, set up in 2010 to give policy recommendations on behalf step with the rest of the world. The upper which damaged jobs, which hurt families’ cost needs.” of the international business community to the G20, says addressing house Senate voted 39-32 to scrap the charge, of living and which didn’t actually help the Abbott’s conservative government says which was imposed by the former Labor gov- environment is finally gone,” he added. dumping the tax would save households a $57 trillion shortfall in global infrastructure through to 2030 will be ernment on major polluters from 2012 in a bid The government must walk a tightrope in Aus$550 a year and strengthen the economy, crucial in meeting this goal. “We firmly believe 2 percent is achiev- to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It fol- the upper house, needing the backing of minor which is among the world’s worst per capita able,” Elmer Funke Kupper, ASX Ltd chief executive, told reporters lowed days of protracted negotiations with the party senators such as those from Palmer’s par- polluters due to its reliance on coal-fired pow- after meeting with fellow B20 members. minor Palmer United Party, which embarrassed ty to get its legislative agenda passed if it can- er and mining exports. Under the carbon tax, But the group has criticized cumbersome global rules and long the government last week by pulling its crucial not secure support from Labor or the Greens. the country’s biggest polluters, including min- delays to approval processes that make it hard for large pension support for repeal of the tax at the last minute. This includes not only scrapping the carbon tax ing, energy and aviation companies, paid for funds and insurance companies to invest in major infrastructure proj- Power-broker Clive Palmer backed the legisla- but the massive spending cuts it has planned the emissions they produced, giving them an ects. Abbott is supportive of the infrastructure goal, saying Australia tion after winning concessions for tougher to bring the budget under control. incentive to reduce them. is leading by example, investing A$50 billion ($46.8 billion) in a rolling measures to ensure cuts to electricity and gas The current administration favors a “direct 15-year list of infrastructure priorities. prices were passed through to consumers and Taking Australia backwards? action” plan that includes financial incentives But he is also stressing fiscal discipline. His Conservative-led businesses. Prime Minister Tony Abbott went EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie for polluters to increase their energy efficien- Coalition government delivered a tough budget earlier this year and to the polls in September with repealing the Hedegaard said the move was regressive. “The cy. The Climate Action Tracker, an independ- is scrapping controversial taxes on carbon and mining as it tackles pollution levy as a central campaign platform, European Union regrets the repeal of ent monitor of countries’ carbon pledges and what is says are unsustainable deficits due to total A$60 billion over arguing the cost was being passed to con- Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism just as actions, has said this method will increase the next four years. “We really are at the limits of what macro meas- sumers, resulting in higher utility bills. new carbon pricing initiatives are emerging all Australia’s emissions by 12 percent in 2020 ures can do to drive growth,” Abbott said. “We need to manage the “Scrapping the carbon tax is a foundation around the world,” Hedegaard said in a state- instead of reducing them by five percent from exit from unconventional monetary policy and to restore govern- of the government’s economic action strate- ment. “The EU is convinced that pricing car- 2000 levels as per its own target. —AFP ment’s fiscal position to sustainability.” —Reuters Business FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 41

Peak petroleum engineer? Or still time to join the boom? LONDON: Petroleum engineers are among the best paid professionals in the United States. Only chief executives and some specialist doctors earned more last year, according to federal government pay data. Petroleum engineers were paid an average of $132,000 a year, with the top 10 percent on more than $187,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These figures include everyone from the newest graduates to the most experienced engineers with decades of experience, and are based on median earnings in May 2013. Petroleum engineers earned almost four times as much as the average employee across the economy, who was on just $35,000 a year. Oil and gas specialists in all fields have benefited from the shale boom and the broader energy revolution sweeping the United States and Canada in the last ten years, with engineers leading the pack. Petroleum engineers were already well paid; now they are very well NEW YORK: Trader Benedict Willis uses his mobile phone as he works on the floor of the New York Stock paid. Between 2003 and 2013, pay for engineers with a spe- Exchange. —AP cialization in petroleum soared almost 60 percent compared with an average increase of just 25 percent across the whole economy. Booming demand from employers and sky high salaries are pulling large numbers of extra specialists into the indus- Wizz Air to keep growing try. By 2013, there were almost 35,000 petroleum engineers recorded in the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics, up from just 11,600 ten years earlier and fewer than 9,000 in as east Europeans fly more 1997. Enrolments at US universities in graduate and post- graduate engineering programs with a petroleum focus Wizz Air is biggest low-cost carrier in eastern Europe have more than doubled since hitting a low point in the late When a group of Hungarian the European Union, giving their com- since caught up. 1990s. Absolute numbers of new graduates remain small, BUDAPEST: businessmen told the manager of a bined 70 million people opportunities to When Hungary’s Malev folded, Wizz though they are rising quickly, as shown by the enrolment shabby air strip in southern Poland that travel that they had never known Air and other airlines also increased numbers published by the federal Department of Education. they wanted it as a base for a new airline, before. At the time, less than 5 percent capacity or opened new routes. Ryanair The majority of the growth in numbers has come from none of them had any idea that it would of people in the region flew, aviation within days had opened new routes many older petro engineers postponing their retirement, quickly become the biggest low-cost car- professionals estimate, compared to from Budapest airport, although it and engineers from other specialisms are transferring into rier in eastern Europe. Wizz Air’s maiden nearly half of Americans. downscaled later over a row about air- oil and gas, in response to the strong financial incentives. flight to London took off from Katowice “We were near Katowice, on a cold port fees. There has been speculation The shift is not surprising when petroleum engineers earn so in May 2004. It now has over 300 routes, winter morning in late 2003...We could that mainstream European airlines much more than those in other high-paying specialisms like annual revenues of 1 billion euros, not find the airport to save our lives. would like to takeover Wizz Air, giving aero engineering ($104,000), computer hardware ($104,000) counts Ryanair, another no-frills airline as There were no signs,” Varadi said. “The them access to the low-cost market in and nuclear technology ($102,000) let alone those in lower its main competitor, and dominates air airport served 200,000 people in a year. the region. Air France KLM and paying areas like chemical engineering ($96,000), electrical travel in a region with faster economic Today it serves 2.5 million, more than Lufthansa denied having any interest in engineers ($89,000) and civil engineers ($81,000). In case growth than the rest of Europe. half of which is us. We put that airport Wizz, which also said it was not in you were wondering, in professions outside engineering, Organic expansion in the region and on the map.” takeover talks. lawyers make an average of $114,000, accountants average as far afield as Moscow, Tel-Aviv or The executives knew the low-cost Ryanair remains Wizz Air’s fiercest $65,000, and journalists take home just $36,000, or nearly Dubai is set to continue while a new model they had chosen could only work competitor, with the two companies twice that if they work in television. phase of growth is likely to come from if they achieved an economy of scale. expected to entrench for an intensifying Wizz Air exploiting the difficulties of That meant lots of passengers, many competition for share of a quickly Maturing cycle state-backed regional airlines that are flights and large planes to keep the expanding market. “Demand for avia- Adam Smith’s invisible hand is gradually working, draw- struggling to survive. “These airlines costs down. They quickly started to run tion in Wizz Air’s core region of ing more people and resources into the sector, albeit slowly either disappear, or merge, or shrink a out of money. Then Indigo Investments, Central/Eastern Europe is projected to and with a delay. Staff shortages and surging salaries have lot from their current size,” said Jozsef a Phoenix, Arizona-based investment grow faster than the rest of Europe, due been among the biggest components in cost inflation for oil Varadi, Wizz Air chief executive and a group specialising in aviation, gave Wizz to higher GDP growth and lower current and gas companies since the start of the boom, together former Procter & Gamble executive. Air a small capital injection in the early levels of penetration of air travel,” indus- with the rising cost of steel and other raw materials. But “Either way that means opportunity autumn of 2004, followed by a bigger try analyst CAPA said in a report in May. salaries are likely to rise more slowly in future, perhaps even for Wizz Air.” Varadi set up the airline investment in February the next year. “Nevertheless, Wizz Air’s planned fall, as the skill shortage eases over the next five years. The after trying, without success, to reform The group is headed by Bill Franke increase in traffic is much faster than precise outlook for pay depends on a number of factors. Hungary’s Malev. When Malev eventually who was at one time chairman of market growth and will require further Petroleum engineers have not always been this fortunate. collapsed in 2012 Wizz Air stepped in to America West Airlines and has invested market share gains.” Wizz Air is now in a Many petroleum engineers and other oil and gas specialists pick up many of its routes and passen- in airlines including Mexico’s Volaris, straight fight with Ryanair to keep costs are fairly old (the average age is over 43 years) and a large gers. It plans a listing on the London Florida-based Spirit, and Singapore’s down and squeeze revenue from pas- cohort is nearing retirement. Stock Exchange to raise money for Tiger Air. Along with his cash, Franke sengers. Their average ticket prices are The relatively mature age structure of the profession is expansion, though an offering sched- shared with Wizz Air his industry expert- nearly identical. The two airlines are fair- the legacy of mass layoffs and the shuttering of university uled for June this year was pulled, with ise, procurement connections and ly close to one another on the main programs during the 1990s when oil prices were stuck in the company citing unfavourable market staffing, said people familiar with the benchmark, cost per available seat kilo- the doldrums. The ageing workforce should keep the supply conditions. It has said it would try again, companies’ cooperation. Franke meter, which for each carrier is around of engineers relatively tight over the next 5 years. but it is unlikely to do that this year. declined to be interviewed for this arti- 0.35 euro cents. Salaries and job numbers also depend on oil and gas Wizz Air is nevertheless, well placed cle, and Indigo declined to comment. Ryanair, Europe’s leanest airline, does output and the amount of spending on exploration and to pounce on other regional airlines - Niether Indigo or Wizz will say how better on fuel, airport services, and the production. The oil and gas industries have always been Poland’s LOT, Czech Airlines, Latvia’s Air much of the company Indigo now owns. cost of the aircraft it operates, according strongly cyclical, and there is no reason to expect that to Baltic, and Slovenia’s Adria Airways are to the Centre for Aviation, an Australian- change in future. The industry’s expansion, in North all propped up by state aid. LOT is espe- based aviation industry consultancy. Yet America and globally, is now a decade old. With oil and gas Competition cially vulnerable, with local press reports The Eastern European low-cost mar- Wizz Air is leaner than Ryanair in others markets well supplied, the next phase of the cycle is likely to saying it is in financial difficulties and ket offers huge opportunities. It is ways, in part because its workforce is see more consolidation, including pressure to improve effi- Wizz Air has many Polish-speaking flight expected to grow to $4.12 billion by based in lower-cost eastern Europe. ciency and control costs. crew and five operating bases in Poland. 2018 from around $3 billion this year, Varadi is confident Wizz Air’s growth Still there is no reason to expect the same sort of slump according to Euromonitor International, rates will continue. “We have produced in investment and hiring the industry experienced in the or a growth rate of 40 percent com- an annual growth rate of about 15 per- late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Oil and gas produc- Indigo investment Varadi was in Poland with other pared to 20 percent expected in cent in recent years and our portfolio is tion is becoming increasingly technical on a number of founders of the airline looking for a Western Europe during the same period. so diverse, we are present in so many fronts, with deeper wells, at higher pressures and tempera- base. They decided on Katowice for the Wizz Air stole a march on its low-cost markets, that I think we can keep that tures, more horizontal drilling, and increasingly demanding first flight, which took off two weeks rivals by entering the untapped eastern up regardless of any turbulence,” said environmental regulations. —Reuters after seven ex-Communist states joined European market first, but Ryanair has Varadi. —Reuters Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 42 Watson tips Rose, Bubba to tame Hoylake

HOYLAKE: Five-times British Open champion Watson told Reuters in an interview on the eve Bubba captured the second green jacket of the ball, you’ve got to like his chances. “He’s a Tom Watson has tipped Justin Rose and name- of the championship. “You’ve always got to look his career when he won the U.S. Masters at special player. He’s got the right shots to be able sake Bubba Watson to mount strong title chal- at the horse that’s leading the pack right now Augusta in April. British bookmakers rate the left- to hold the ball up in the crosswinds we are lenges at Royal Liverpool this week. and I like the way he won on another links handed American as a long-shot for the title - not going to get here, left to right, or right to left. The 64-year-old American says Englishman course at Royal Aberdeen last week.” so his namesake. “I kind of like Bubba,” said the He’s a real shotmaker.” Rose is the form horse while shot-maker extraor- World number three Rose is attempting to elder Watson who surprised cardholders at near- Veteran Watson almost pulled off a miracle dinaire Bubba has the ability to make the ball do make it three victories in successive tourna- by Caldy Golf Club on Wednesday and delivered a Open victory at Turnberry in 2009 when he precisely what he wants it to do in the tricky ments, having also won the Quicken Loans golf lesson as part of the #PricelessSurprises pro- arrived at the final hole with a one-shot lead, winds that are likely to confront the players on National event in Maryland and last week’s gramme (http://www.theopen.com/MasterCard). only to lose out to fellow American Stewart Cink the par-72 links course. “I like Justin’s chances,” Scottish Open. “The way he hits the ball, the way he shapes in a playoff. —Reuters Strong field and low scores expected at Marathon LPGA

SYLVANIA: Some like to see their name in lights. Beatriz Recari was thrilled to see hers bolted to a light pole. The name of each year’s winner of the Marathon Classic is placed on the signs along the main drag of this Toledo sub- urb. “It’s really cool,” said Recari, a 27-year-old Spaniard who has won three times on the LPGA Tour. “It’s obviously a great bonus not only to get this trophy and everything that comes along with it. But to get your own street for a year, that’s pretty special.” Recari has become more of a household name as her career blossomed in the last year. After winning the Kia tournament, she outdueled Paula Creamer down the stretch to also win the Marathon. While collecting more than $1 million in checks, she placed sixth in the tour’s player of the year standings, fin- ished 3-1-1 for the victorious European side at the Solheim Cup and contended at last week’s Women’s British Open. She began the final round at Royal Birkdale three shots back of the leader but faded to a tie for 17th with a 79. “I HOYLAKE: Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy retrieves his ball from the cup on the 17th green during his first had a little bit of a slow start first half of the year, but feel round 66, on the opening day of the 2014 British Open Golf Championship. —AFP like everything is coming along,” she said, referring to low- er back and hip problems. “I’m working on things that feel good for me. I’m healthy and fit. I had a very good perform- Woods delights Open ance last week, and I’m very happy with my practicing.” Mo Martin, who won the Women’s British Open with a closing 72, is still adapting to the title of major champion. crowds with birdie blitz “It’s definitely been a whirlwind,” she said of arriving in Ohio after several connecting flights and lots of frequent- flier miles. “I hadn’t even turned my phone on. When I HOYLAKE: Tiger Woods rolled back the form, in just his second tournament his way to victory in 2006 with a 190 yard eventually did get here, I turned my phone on and it kind years with some of the scintillating golf since he underwent back surgery in a bid shot that went straight in. of exploded, everybody just congratulating me.” that made him a 14-time major winner to resurrect his career, was telling and This time however, he found himself as he carded a three-under par 69 in yes- the former world number one began at the back of the green facing a difficult She also got a pat-on-the-back letter from no less than terday’s opening round at the British with two nervous bogeys to open his chip to a sloping platform. That led to his legend Arnold Palmer. Recari and Martin aren’t the only Open. round. third bogey of the round. prominent players to keep an eye on this week. Creamer, A marvellous run of five birdies in six But the global icon parred the third After slumping over his putter when who won the tournament formerly known as the Jamie Farr holes down the stretch leaves him three and then began to hit his stride with his the ball came up just short and slam- in 2008, always plays well at Highland Meadows. She is one shots off the clubhouse pace set by Rory first birdie of the day at the par five fifth ming his club down on the bag, Woods of the most popular players in the field every year. McIlroy of Northern Ireland. to return to one over. promptly birdied 15 and 16 to move, at “Yeah, I love this golf course,” she said. “I shot 60 here (in After the worst possible start on his As the crowds following the 38-year- that time, within two shots off the lead return to the scene of his 2006 triumph old around the flat par-72 layout grew, with two holes to play. the first round in ‘08). I have a lot of really good memories. at Hoylake, the 12th of his 14 majors, Woods began to rise to the occasion, Another makeable birdie putt at the This just fits my game.” There’s also local favorite Stacy Woods electrified the crowd as they sparked by a winding putt from the edge penultimate hole lipped out as he gri- Lewis - a Toledo native - who’s ranked No. 1 in the world. roared him home on a baking hot day at of the 11th green that saw him shake his maced with frustration and annoyance “It’s always fun coming back here just for me,” said Royal Liverpool. “That was a rough start fist in celebration. The Woods swagger at why the ball had refused to drop. Lewis, a winner this year in Arkansas, yet another of her there, bogeying the first two but I stayed was back and he clearly enjoyed the Controversy arose at the par five 18th childhood homes. “Just having the family connection, we patient,” Woods told BBC Sport. “I fig- occasion acknowledging an adoring when someone in the crowd disturbed have big family dinners on the weekends and stuff. It would ured it was one of those days where public with waves, nods and his unmis- him in mid-swing forcing Woods to someone would shoot seven under par takable beaming smile. abandon his initial attempt to find the be awesome to win here.” today and I had to just get in there and A pinpoint approach to the 12th was green in two. The field also includes five-time winner Se Ri Pak, top use the par fives I had to play. confidently rattled into the cup as he Instead, to the fury of the Florida resi- newcomer Lydia Ko and U.S. Women’s Open champion “If you’ve been off a few months it moved back to par for the first time since dent, he then drove a five-wood into a Michelle Wie. can be tough, compound that with sur- the opening hole with his second pot bunker at the left of the green that Regardless of who ends up winning on Sunday after- gery and it’s hard. “I know what it’s like straight birdie. ruined his chances of an eagle, and as it noon, it’s likely somebody who produces birdies in bunch- to win here but the golf course is com- Then came the short par three 13th turned out, birdie as well. es. Eleven times in the last 16 years, the winner at Highland pletely different to when I won in 2006, where Woods drilled a towering shot Forced to rest one of his legs outside Meadows has finished at 14-under 270 or better. it’s much lusher. “The weather forecast from right to left that plonked down the bunker, he did well just to get out of will change things over the next few eight feet from the pin for another the sand but he couldn’t get close “Small greens, narrow fairways,” said Wie, who has been days though,” added Woods. birdie. enough to give the fans in the packed coming to the tournament since she got an exemption The hype and tension surrounding He had a hiccup at the the challeng- grandstands the birdie finale they were when she was just 13. “You feel like if you hit good shots, the American and how he would per- ing 14th, a hole he memorably eagled on hoping for. —AFP you should be rewarded.” —AP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 43

Brumbies ready to face Chiefs on own terms

MELBOURNE: After two years dictating the against a potent Brumbies backline. The pair have been in top form, with the Lambie was initially ruled out for the sea- terms of the Super Rugby playoffs from their Having shipped an avalanche of tries versatile Toomua, who played inside centre in son when he sustained a bicep tear in March, Hamilton home, the Waikato Chiefs face the throughout the season, the Chiefs have sud- Australia’s series win over France, scoring a but is now fully recovered and White saw no ultimate test of character in Canberra tomor- denly become miserly. Though hardly able to hat-trick of tries against Western Force last problem drafting him back into the side row against a Brumbies team desperate for get their hands on the ball in Auckland last week. despite his lack of game-time. “The one thing payback. Chiefs coach Dave Rennie noted the weekend, their heroic efforts on the last lines The winner will face either the high-flying about Lambie is that he seems to have that importance of being postseason hosts in his to deny the Blues a match-winning score New South Wales Waratahs or the Canterbury knack of coming back in important games team’s run to back-to-back championships, secured their ticket to the playoffs and gal- Crusaders for a place in the final, depending and putting in a big performance,” White told and will experience it first hand at Canberra vanised the entire the team. “Definitely, if we on the result of Saturday’s later playoff reporters this week. Stadium where the Brumbies have not lost in defend well then things start to fall into place between the Sharks and the Otago The Highlanders have been bolstered by seven matches. for us and that’s definitely been the case over Highlanders in Durban. the return of co-captain and All Blacks full- Neither team has reached the heights of the last two weeks,” co-captain Aaron Cruden The sole South African team in the play- back Ben Smith, who missed last week with a 2013, when they faced off in a final of test told New Zealand media before boarding a offs, Jake White’s Sharks were beaten at leg infection, but must tighten up after mak- match intensity, with the Chiefs reeling in a plane to Canberra. home by the Highlanders in the regular sea- ing a hash of their set piece against the 10-point deficit in the last 15 minutes to leave The Chiefs were subject to a stinging 41- son, but the New Zealanders appear to have Crusaders last week. “You have to be at your their opponents heartbroken. No title is at 23 loss in their last journey to Canberra but All run out of petrol and head into the match absolute best when you play against the best stake in Saturday’s clash and the winner is Blacks flyhalf Cruden sat out the match with a after consecutive thrashings by the Waratahs teams in this competition and I’m not sure unlikely to be much more than cannon fod- broken hand. The head-to-head between and Crusaders. we’ve done that in the past two weeks,” der in the semi-finals against the form teams Cruden and his Brumbies counterpart Matt The Sharks may also be boosted by the Highlanders coach Jamie Joseph told New of the competition the following week. Toomua may prove decisive, and both the All availability of Springboks flyhalf Pat Lambie, Zealand media. “Any time we had a chance to That aside, the match is likely to be fierce, Blacks and Wallabies staff will watch the duel scrumhalf Cobus Reinach and prop Tendai build pressure we lost a lineout or had a bad pitting the Chiefs’ rapidly improved defence with interest. Mtawarira who have all shrugged off injuries. scrum.” —Reuters Griner blossoms in WNBA

PHOENIX: After a tough first season in the WNBA, Brittney Griner is blossoming into the player everyone thought she would be, all the while embracing her status as a role model for gay youth. “ We need more people in the LGBT commu- nity to step up and be role models,” she said. “I definitely take that on.” Last season, after a record-setting career at Baylor, Griner came out and wrote a candid memoir, “In My Skin,” that was critical of her college coach, Kim Mulkey. And she wasn’t dominating games the way people had projected. “The book wasn’t a distraction, really,” Griner said. “Just all the media from last year, being a rookie, was crazy.” After playing in China during the WNBA offseason, Griner returned to the Phoenix Mercury stronger and more confident. As teammate Diana Taurasi said, “She’s a totally different player.” “She’s gained her confidence back, her aggression,” Taurasi said, “her confidence on what she wants to do on the court, and obvi- ously defensively she’s a huge force.” Griner, marvelously fluid at 6-foot-8, had her second dunk of the season in a victory Tuesday, when Phoenix won its 11th in a row and improved to a league-leading 17-3 record. “She went to China and she really put the work in,” Mercury first-year coach Sandy Brondello said, “and she’s put the work in here every day we’ve been here. So it’s about getting physically strong and just understanding, ‘OK, these are the things I need to work on to be a force in this league.’” With Taurasi, Griner will represent the PHOENIX: In this June 3, 2014, file photo, Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner (42) shouts in celebration after scoring Mercury in the WNBA All-Star game Saturday in Phoenix. She is averaging 15.2 points, up from against the Seattle Storm. —AP 12.6 as a rookie. She’s pulling down 8.2 rebounds. She also had 18 rebounds against lot of Shaq (Shaquille O’Neal), just that giving opens it up for everybody else.” Embracing her rebounds per game, up from 6.3. And, of San Antonio on June 7. back to everybody.” Brondello said Griner, at 23, role as a prominent gay athlete also has made a course, she excels in blocked shots. Her 77 “Just a year under my belt,” Griner said when is just developing as a player. “She’s young,” the difference, those around her say. blocks - in 21 games - this season are more than asked to explain her better play this season. “I coach said. “She’s playing against the best play- “I think it’s great because she’s comfortable six WNBA teams. was able to work on my game in the offseason. ers in the world. She’s got all these expecta- in her own skin,” Brondello said, “and she can The dunks get the most attention. She has That’s a big difference.” She took her skills tions, but she’s embracing it. She’s very coach- be a role model for so many people. The public four in 45 games. The rest of the WNBA has six coach, Dean Demopoulos, when she went to able. She’s a great young lady. She wants to be loves her. She gets so much attention but she’s in 3,990 games. Her first this season came July play for Zhejiang Golden Bulls. After experienc- the best, so she’s going to get better and bet- very giving of her time. That’s what I like. She’s a 29 in Los Angeles, a one-hander when she rose ing life and basketball far from home, Griner ter.” star but she doesn’t have the ego that goes far above the hoop from the baseline and returned stronger and more confident. It has helped greatly that she is surrounded with that.” slammed it down. Ann Myers Drysdale, one of the great players by the veteran talent of Taurasi, Penny Taylor, Griner likes what she sees as more and more At Tulsa on June 29, she blocked a WNBA- in women’s basketball history and currently DeWanna Bonner and Candice Dupree. states allow gay marriage. But she knows it’s far record 11 shots. She scored a career-high 28 Mercury vice president, said “there’s a sense of “It just helps with your game and takes a lot from a universal attitude. points June 20, also against Tulsa. The previous maturity” in Griner now. of pressure off too,” Myers Drysdale said. And “I love the way the country’s changing,” she game, June 16 against Minnesota, she scored “I think last year she tried to please every- Griner has helped the others. “If you’ve got a said. “But it’s still a big issue. A lot of states are 27 points and matched her career high of 18 body,” Myers Drysdale said. “She reminds me a big post player down low,” Brondello said, “it changing rules, but it’s still tough.” —AP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 44

Toronto course a challenge for IndyCar drivers

TORONTO: Ryan Briscoe knows all about Briscoe has seen a bit of everything at ticular stand out to Briscoe: a tight right at mally makes it tough, but it’s character, it’s Toronto hospitals. Briscoe broke his wrist the race, and, like most drivers, is still try- Turn 1 and a deceptive Turn 3 hairpin fun,” Andretti said. in the first race of the doubleheader at the ing to figure out how to win in Toronto. where drivers often think they have more Complicating matters is a grueling Honda Indy Toronto last year. The injury “You never know,” he said. “Everyone will room than they do at the end of a long weekend set in the middle of a busy kept him from competing in the second say qualifying at the front of the track posi- straight. schedule. Toronto caps a set of races that race and later led to surgery. tion is very important, but the way these For Marco Andretti, who finished fourth has been going on at least once every Briscoe also made a visit to a local hos- races have been working out this year you and ninth last year, the final four turns are weekend since June 28. Drivers get just pital three years ago, albeit with a less seri- really just got to be heads up all the time, just as treacherous. A bumpy Turn 8 leads two 45-minute practice sessions Friday. ous injury, after a wheel-to-wheel incident get that strategy right, work the tires the into three final high-speed turns. IndyCar The weekend is much busier, with qualify- with Tony Kanaan. “I’ve still got a little lump right way, especially the red soft com- teams set up their cars differently depend- ing held in the morning before the after- on my hand from that,” Briscoe said. Just pound tires. “And then, with a track where ing on the track and weather conditions, noon race Saturday and Sunday. finishing the claustrophobic street course accidents are going to happen, you don’t and the high speeds of Turns 9-11 don’t “These races are so physical,” Briscoe race at Exhibition Place in one piece is diffi- want to be caught out on track when the mix well with the street-car setup usually said. “Especially in the middle of summer cult enough for IndyCar drivers. Surviving yellow comes out because the pits close employed in Toronto. when it’s so hot. You just really need to be two races, which run Saturday and Sunday, and then you’re hosed.” “You normally just have to hang onto on it, and on it quickly, and on the physical on a crash-prone track requires plenty of There are plenty of spots for potential the car that’s probably not going to do side it’s just all about staying hydrated, strategy and a bit of luck. accidents on the 11-turn track. Two in par- what you want through there, so that nor- really.” —AP Fognini crashes out HAMBURG: Serbian qualifier Filip Krajinovic defeated defending champion Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-0 Wednesday as a host of seeded players crashed out in the second round of the Hamburg Open. The 149th-ranked Krajinovic converted five of his 10 break point chances against the second-seeded Italian and dropped just eight points in the second set to win in only 54 minutes. Krajinovic next plays Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic, who defeated 15th-seeded Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 6-3, 6-4. Fifth-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia lost 7-5, 7-5 to 17-year-old Alexander Zverev, and another German wild card Tobias Kamke defeated 13th-seeded Argentine Federico Delbonis 6-3, 6-4. Delbonis lost to Fognini in last year’s final. Dustin Brown saved two match points in the third set before beating ninth-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (8). The popular German faces Pablo Andujar of Spain in the third round. GERMANY: Mercedes German driver Nico Rosberg (left) and Red Bull German driver Sebastian Vettel attend a news Andujar earlier defeated Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci 6-4, 3-6, 6- conference at the Formula One Grand Prix area in Hockenheim ahead the German Formula One Grand Prix. —AFP 2. Leonardo Mayer of Argentina upset 10th-seeded Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3) and will next play the 55th-ranked Dominic Thiem of Austria. Mercedes braced for Lukas Rosol beat 14th-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-2, 6- 4. The Czech next faces 2006 winner and third-seeded Tommy Robredo of Spain. Fourth-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine bucked the trend by beating Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz 6- Rosberg, Hamilton fight 4, 6-1. Also, 16th-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy beat 2012 cham- pion Juan Monaco of Argentina 1-6, 6-0, 7-6 (3). Home favorite HOCKENHEIM: Mercedes team boss Niki of the title race as the final races unfold. “What a week!!,” tweeted Rosberg. “I and seventh-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber defeated Portugal’s Lauda is preparing for tough times ahead In the opening nine races, Hamilton got married, Germany won (the World Gastao Elias 7-5, 6-1 in the late match. The German will next face as he seeks to ensure fair play and good had five wins and two retirements while Cup) and I signed a new contract with 2011 champion Gilles Simon. The 12th-seeded Frenchman behavior from Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg has had three wins and just one mercedes! Just need to win my home GP advanced following Martin Klizan’s retirement before their Rosberg in their world title scrap, starting retirement, but proved himself to the now.” match due to a left wrist injury. —AP with this weekend’s German Grand Prix. more consistent race-finisher overall. In recent years, the German Grand Prix Three times world champion Lauda, Lauda added that he does not fear for has been an excuse for a festival to cele- who is non-executive chairman of the Hamilton’s consistency in any way. brate Vettel’s domination, but this time Mercedes outfit, expects the competition “Everybody has highs and lows. Look at he travels to Hockenheim five places and Evans: Porte between championship leader Rosberg (Sebastian) Vettel. Vettel is a four-time 95 points adrift of Rosberg. and Hamilton to intensify. world champion and he moaned and But he remains adamant that he will deserves rewards The pair are separated by only four bitched over the last eight races, so if continue to believe in and fight for his MELBOURNE: Richie Porte’s years as a loyal Tour de points following Hamilton’s win at his there is one guy with more lows, then it is title defence despite Mercedes complete France underling are paying off as he fights to become home British Grand Prix on July 5 when Vettel. supremacy this year. only the second Australian to win the race, Cadel Evans Rosberg suffered his first retirement of “These things happen, and I think too “If you look at the points and mathe- said yesterday. the season with mechanical problems. much is put in to this. Lewis was, from the matics, we can still fight for the world Evans, the 2011 champion, is missing the tour for the Looking ahead at what is effectively beginning of the season on a good level, championship, so it would be stupid to first time in 10 years as countryman Porte maintained his the team’s home race, Lauda said: a stable level, and Nico I have to say has say we’re out,” explained the Red Bull overall second placing, 2 min 23sec behind Italy’s “Everything is reset like before Lewis had improved. driver. Vincenzo Nibali after Wednesday’s 11th stage. his second retirement (in Canada) and, “After Monaco, Nico had everything “Being realistic, Mercedes is in a posi- On a fleeting trip home to launch his own event-the now, they will fight to the end-like you going for him and this is what happens in tion where it can win every race and get a Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race-he praised the job Porte would not believe-to be world champi- sport when people fight at the highest one-two, without having people bother had done to put himself in contention after taking over as on. And, I will have a hard time. level. Nico had everything going for him them too much unless things are going Team Sky leader when defending champion Chris Froome “We will not interfere. This is very and Lewis dropped back one millimetre. wrong. crashed out a week ago. important. We didn’t interfere from the Now Lewis is back on track, so I tell you, “Our target is to catch up and beat “Richie, physically, he’s certainly got the capabilities to beginning, so why should we now? So it the next couple of races are going to be them sooner rather than later, but the do a great three weeks, as he’s shown in years gone by,” will be interesting to watch now, interesting.” gap is very big so therefore it’s difficult to Evans told reporters. because they are exactly at the same lev- Lauda’s team on Wednesday con- close it in a short amount of time. “He spent a long time with Froome and a long time el.” firmed that Rosberg had signed a “multi- “I’ve never really stressed at any point with (2012 champion Bradley) Wiggins for their two victo- The German contest marks the year” contract extension, an announce- in the season to focus too hard on the ries.” Evans warned that Nibali would be “hard to beat,” halfway mark to the season, the 10th ment designed to boost the team and championship, I’ve really gone race to but Porte, 29, was being rewarded for those tours ridden race out of 19, and it will be fascinating Rosberg’s mood ahead of their home race and tried to get the best out of selflessly to help the two most recent winners. —AFP to see how the pair react to the pressure event. myself and the car.” —AFP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 45 Photo of the day Duminy’s ton puts SA in driver’s seat

GALLE: Jean-Paul Duminy hit a superb unbeaten remained off the field with a split webbing in his century to put South Africa in a position of strength bowling hand. on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka Duminy, dropped on 82 by Dilruwan Perera, was yesterday. given a standing ovation from his mates in the The left-hander came in to bat with South Africa dressing room after he completed his fourth Test placed at a shaky 331-7 but he batted sensibly under century. pressure to help his side declare their first innings at He shared valuable partnerships with tailenders 455-9. Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel (22) whose dis- In reply, Sri Lanka were 30-0 when stumps were missal in the 167th over prompted new South drawn for the day with Kaushal Silva batting on African skipper Hashim Amla to declare the innings. eight and Upul Tharanga on 20. Tharanga, playing Philander (27) was adjudged leg before wicket his first Test in six years, showed little signs of nerv- off Mathews but the batsman asked for a review as ousness, hitting four boundaries in his 40-ball he felt the ball had hit him high on the pads. innings so far. However, Hawk Eye upheld the on-field umpire’s The Sri Lankan bowlers were made to toil in hot call. He faced 96 balls and shared 75 runs for the and humid conditions by the gritty rival batsmen eighth wicket with Duminy. The morning session who dug in to ensure their team did not lose the belonged to Quinton de Kock who hit a maiden Test advantage of winning the toss and batting first on a 50 after resuming the day at his overnight score of placid track at the Galle International Stadium. 17. The rookie batsman, playing his second Test It was Duminy (100 not out) who stole the show after making his debut in February, hit six fours in his Jan Vidic performs at Red Bull Wild Ride in Divjina in Krize, Slovenia. with a superb rearguard action after opener Dean promising 90-ball innings. —www.redbull.com Elgar had laid the foundation for a good total with a A smashing cover-drive off slow bowler Dilruwan 103-run knock on day one. Perera (3-147) and another through point that raced Duminy, 30, frustrated the bowlers to take South to the boundary were the highlights of his innings. Africa past the 400-run mark. His 206-ball effort con- But Perera earned his revenge when he sent back tained 10 hits to the boundary including an exqui- De Kock with a sharp turning delivery that the bats- Buttler ‘Mankading’ site cover drive off skipper Angelo Mathews. man edged in the slips to give Mahela Jayawardene Mathews had to give himself the ball in the his 198th catch. The second and final Test will be is fine by MCC absence of pace spearhead Shaminda Eranga who played in Colombo from July 24-28. —AFP

LONDON: Some of cricket’s greatest names moving out of their crease before the appro- insisted England’s Jos Buttler had only himself priate time.” to blame for his ‘Mankad’ dismissal against Sri Even though ‘Mankading’, the term coined Lanka. after India’s Vinoo Mankad ran out Australia The issue of players being run out backing non-striker Bill Brown during the 1947 Sydney up was in the spotlight when Buttler was dis- Test, remains a valid dismissal, some regard it missed in such a fashion by bowler Sachithra as underhand. Senanayake during Sri Lanka’s 3-2 series- England captain Alastair Cook, speaking clinching victory in the fifth and final one-day immediately after the Edgbaston match, said: international at Edgbaston. “I was pretty disappointed with it to be hon- However, the world cricket committee of est with you. I hope I wouldn’t do it.” Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), whose chair- However, Sri Lanka captain Angelo man is former England captain Mike Brearley Mathews said afterwards: “We gave him and whose members include Australia greats (Buttler) two warnings, and I don’t know what Rodney Marsh and Steve Waugh, as well as else you can do to stop him doing that, so we India’s Rahul Dravid and Pakistan’s Majid had to go for it.” Khan, insisted Buttler, not Senanayake, was at During a wide-ranging meeting, the com- fault. mittee also backed the International Cricket MCC still retains worldwide responsibility Council’s crackdown on illegal bowling for cricket’s rules, or Laws as they are known, actions. and following their latest meeting at the Off-spinner Senanayake, coincidentally, club’s Lord’s headquarters in London, the was suspended by the ICC after being report- committee issued a statement Wednesday ed for a suspected illegal action during the saying: “The unanimous view of the commit- same ODI series with England. tee was that if the non-striker is out of his “The world cricket committee is supportive ground earlier than allowed in either the Laws of the ICC’s continued efforts to deal with the of Cricket or the International Playing issue of illegal bowling actions,” the state- Conditions, then he can have no complaints ment said. GALLE: South Africa cricketer JP Duminy raises his bat and helmet in celebration should he be dismissed in this manner. “While it is unfortunate for Sri Lanka’s after scoring a century (100 runs) during the second day of the opening Test “Furthermore, the committee believes it Sachithra Senanayake that he has been sus- match against Sri Lanka. —AFP was not against the Spirit of Cricket to uphold pended from bowling, it is a credit to the sys- such an appeal, and urges batsmen to ensure tem that he was reported and tested prompt- they do not try to gain an unfair advantage by ly.” —AFP SCOREBOARD GALLE: Scoreboard at close on the second day of the first test between Sri Lanka and South Africa on Thursday: Female Pakistani cricketer South Africa first innings (overnight 268-5) 8-389 9-455 A. Petersen lbw b Perera 34 Bowling: Lakmal 33-12-75-3 (1nb), Eranga 9-4-32-0, D. Elgar c Chandimal b Lakmal 103 Herath commits suicide F du Plessis c Silva b Perera 80 60-12-148-1, Mathews 11-1-36-1, Perera 53.2-8-162-4 H. Amla c Perera b Herath 11 KARACHI: A female Pakistani cricketer who cricketers-Seema Javed, Hina Ghafoor, Kiran Sri Lanka first innings AB de Villiers b Lakmal 21 K. Silva not out 8 committed suicide by drinking acid was under Irshad and Saba Ghafoor-had jointly levelled Q. de Kock c Jayawardene b Perera 51 U. Tharanga not out 20 extreme stress after an administrator sued her the charges against Multan Cricket Club chair- D. Steyn b Lakmal 3 for pursuing a sexual harassment case against man Maulvi Sultan Alam and selector JP Duminy not out 100 Extras (lb-1, nb-1) 2 him, her cousin said yesterday. Halima Rafique, Mohammad Javed in a television show in June V. Philander lbw b Mathews 27 Total (no loss, 12 overs) 30 a 17-year-old all-rounder from the central city last year. M. Morkel b Perera 22 Still to bat: K. Sangakkara, M. Jayawardene, L. of Multan died in her home on Sunday in a case The allegations rocked the cricketing establish- Extras: (lb-2, nb-1) 3 Thirimanne, A. Mathews, D. Chandimal, D. Perera, R. that has shocked both fans and women’s rights ment in the deeply conservative country where Total: (nine wickets dec.; 166.2 overs) 455 Herath, S. Eranga, S. Lakmal activists, who have accused cricket authorities the women’s game only recently gained promi- Did not bat: I. Tahir Bowling (to date): Steyn 4-1-4-0, Philander 3-1-9-0, of covering up her damaging claims. nence and male non-family members are barred Fall of wickets: 1-70 2-195 3-220 4-246 5-266 6-290 7-314 Morkel 3-2-4-0, Tahir 2-0-12-0 Rafique along with four other domestic from watching matches at stadiums. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 Nissan signs as sponsor of City, global clubs

LONDON: Premier League champion team, New York City FC, has been formed en our brand globally,” Nissan President chairman Khaldoon al Mubarak said in a Manchester City signed Nissan Motor Co. with the NY Yankees which has a minority Carlos Ghosn said. statement. as the first global sponsor of its portfolio of stake, and City recently bought Australian The Nissan partnership would not be as The deal is a further sign of how the clubs yesterday. side Melbourne Heart, which has subse- lucrative as Manchester United’s $559 mil- pulling power of the 134-year-old parent The five-year deal with Nissan was quently been renamed Melbourne City. lion, seven-year deal with General Motors club will be utilized to help the growth of announced two months after City bought Nissan will be the automotive partner Co.’s Chevrolet division, which is the jersey its spin-off teams. a stake in Japanese team Yokohama F of the whole City Football Group, with the sponsor. Although financial terms were Spain forward David Villa last month Marinos from the carmaker. company branding to feature prominently not disclosed by City, the contract is esti- joined NYCFC on a 3-year deal, and will Man City, which has been rapidly at the Etihad Stadium where Man City won mated to be worth tens of millions of stay match fit until the American team remodeled on and off the pitch since the Premier League title for the second pounds (dollars) over the five years. starts playing in March 2015 with a loan being bought by Sheikh Mansour in 2008, time in three seasons in May. “This new partnership presents us both spell at Melbourne City. City said the turned its focus to building a network of “This innovative partnership enhances with incredibly exciting opportunities to Nissan and Villa deals reflect the “poten- teams through its Abu Dhabi backing. Nissan’s investment in the game of soccer, collaborate through football both in Japan tial of the network’s unique business A Major League Soccer expansion which is a key platform to further strength- and across the world,” City Football Group model.” —AP

Van Gaal era starts at the double in Manchester LONDON: Manchester United players have already had a taste of Louis van Gaal’s methods after the new manager, who is officially unveiled in the role yesterday, ordered double train- ing sessions just two days into the pre-season. Van Gaal, smiling and looking relaxed after arriving from his stint as Netherlands manager at the World Cup, was given a tour of the Carrington training facility by his new assistants, recently-retired United star Ryan Giggs, and Albert Stuivenberg. The Dutchman introduced himself to the players individu- ally but it is understood that he is waiting for the return of those enjoying post-World Cup breaks, including striker Wayne Rooney, before he addresses the squad as a whole. Van Gaal, 62, a noted disciplinarian, has been asked to make United a force again after last season’s disappointing campaign under David Moyes in which they finished seventh and failed to secure European football. In Brazil, where he guided the Dutch to third place, he said he was aiming to instil the same team unity at Old Trafford. “I hope the group in Manchester will become like this one,” he said after the Dutch ended their World Cup campaign with a 3-0 victory over Brazil. “We have to sing from the same hymn sheet.” The squad containing new signings Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw, who were brought at a combined cost of £56 mil- BRAZIL: A photo taken on July 8, 2014 shows German national football team’s midfielder Toni Kroos cele- lion ($95.88 million), depart for the United States for a pre-sea- brating after scoring a goal. —AFP son tour on Friday. Van Gaal, who has won titles with Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and AZ Alkmaar, will take charge of a United match for the first time on July 23 against the Los Angeles Galaxy. Meanwhile, Japan’s Shinji Kagawa has vowed to prove his Kroos missile worth to new Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal after a disappointing World Cup plunged his future into further doubt. “I feel incredibly excited,” Kagawa told reporters at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Thursday before leaving for England. heads for Real “It’s a new start and I feel re-energised. It’s up to the players to get the results we need. I have a strong desire to do well.” Kagawa, an instant hit for United after being signed by Alex MADRID: Toni Kroos yesterday became option in any situation, with a vision of at the age of 17. He became a regular Ferguson from German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund in Real Madrid’s first high profile signing for the game enabling him to help his team- after an 18-month loan spell at 2012, found himself largely frozen out last season under the the new season, moving from Bayern mates, as well as an impressive kick.” Bundesliga rivals Bayern Leverkusen. troubled reign of David Moyes. Munich on a six-year deal just days after Kroos, whose contract with Bayern This is the second high profile World United’s decision to sack the unpopular Scot in April, after winning the World Cup with Germany. expired next season, sided with Real over Cup player to move to La Liga this just 10 months in charge, and the arrival of Dutch World Cup The 24-year-old playmaker had an alternatives such as Manchester United month, following Luis Suarez’s reported coach Van Gaal have left Kagawa sweating over his fate. outstanding World Cup, scoring two or Chelsea. EUR95 million ($128 million) transfer “I’ll look more closely at my game and accept the challenge goals in two minutes in the 7-1 semi-final A Bayern statement confirmed it had from Manchester City to Real’s arch rivals filled with passion,” insisted the 25-year-old Kagawa, who rout of Brazil, en route to overcoming made a deal with Real and that Kroos had Barcelona. gave three lacklustre displays at the World Cup as Japan fin- Argentina 1-0 in Sunday’s final. signed a six year contract. “The two clubs The path from the World Cup to ished bottom of their group. Van Gaal is expected to decide Spanish media said Real and Bayern have agreed to remain silent about the Spain could also see Monaco’s Colombia quickly whether to offer Kagawa, who has two years left on his agreed a deal worth between EUR25 mil- transfer fee,” it said. hotshot James Rodriguez join Kroos at contract, an extended deal. lion and EUR30 million ($33-$40 million). “We thank Toni Kross for his time at Real. The World Cup’s top scorer with six “It was the most disappointing experience of my life,” The two clubs said the transfer fee would Munich,” said Bayern chief executive Karl- goals told Spanish sports daily Marca on Kagawa said of Japan’s meek exit from Brazil. “How I can use remain secret. Heinz Rummenigge. “We have experi- Monday: “I’d jump at the chance of going that as a plus will depend on how hard I work.” Kroos is due to be unveiled by his new enced great successes with him.” to Real Madrid.” Real have also been Japan’s World Cup flop triggered criticism of key players employers at a press conference on Kroos arrives at the Santiago linked with a move for Keylor Navas, the including Kagawa and playmaker Keisuke Honda after a 2-1 Thursday. His arrival could hasten the Bernabeu with 11 trophies already on his goalkeeper whose heroics helped Costa defeat by Ivory Coast, a goalless draw with 10-man Greece departure of fellow German Sami Khedira cv, the World Cup the jewel in a collec- Rica reach the World Cup quarter finals. and a 4-1 thrashing by Colombia. Manchester United will who risks losing his midfield place. Real tion including the 2013 Champions Navas plays with Levante in the Spanish play in the pre-season International Champions Cup in North hailed their latest catch as “one of the League, Bundesliga titles and the Club first division and his arrival would America beginning on July 24, with Japan team-mates most important players of the moment.” World Cup. increase pressure on Iker Casillas already Honda (AC Milan) and Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan) also tak- A Real statement described Kroos as He joined Bayern as a teenager in criticised for his role in Spain’s World Cup ing part. —AFP “a playmaker capable of finding the best 2007, making his first team appearance collapse. —AFP Sports FRIDAY, JULY 18 , 2014

Kenya eye CAN success after World Cup visit

JOHANNESBURG: Watching World Cup matches in Brazil Angola and Gabon in a mini-league. the biennial tournament. Uganda were scheduled to play has convinced the football stars of Kenya they can qualify The six-match group phase kicks off in September, lasts Equatorial Guinea, but the central Africans were disquali- for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in Morocco. A three months, and the top two finishers are guaranteed fied for fielding ineligible Cameroon-born Thierry Fidjeu. country famous for their athletes has not featured at the places at the tournament. Kenya hardly justified the opti- Mauritania, beaten 3-1 on aggregate by the continental football showpiece since making a first-round mism of Onyango this week when held 0-0 by Burundi in a Equatoguineans, were restored to the competition and vis- exit 10 years ago. Nairobi warm-up that turned nasty during the second half. it a Ugandan side battling to score. The ‘Cranes’ managed But ‘Harambee Stars’ goalkeeper Jeremy Onyango Harambee Stars midfielder Victor Wanyama from English just one against the Seychelles and played a goalless draw believes that is about to change as they prepare for a third- Premier League club Southampton was sent off for hack- with Malawi this week in a warm-up that concerned coach round eliminator in Lesotho this weekend. ing down an opponent. Lesotho had to substitute mid- Milutin Sredojevic. “An inability to score is a chronic prob- Onyango was among 16 players and four coaches who fielders Ralekoti Mokhahlane and Motlalepula Mofolo and lem in Uganda,” admitted the Serb. “We must attack from travelled to Brazil thanks to the generosity of President striker Thapelo Tale during a bruising 2-0 warm-up loss the right, the centre and the left to try and score goals.” Uhuru Kenyatta. The head of state told the national team away to Botswana. Tanzania received a boost before hosting neighbours he would bankroll a visit to the World Cup after they won But coach Seephephe Matete is hopeful the injured trio Mozambique when star frontmen Mbwana Samata and the regional CECAFA Challenge Cup last December. will recover as his ‘Crocodiles’ try to build on a surprise 2-0 Thomas Ulimwengu were freed by Democratic Republic of Onyango told Kenyan reporters the trip was an eye-opener home win over Liberia in the previous round. Congo outfit TP Mazembe. The Lubumbashi club are in for him and his team-mates. “Seeing is believing. We He was unconcerned about the Botswana result: “It is a Tunisia preparing for the resumption of the CAF watched the stars from the stands and realised they do not timely wake-up call to my players, who tend to relax when Champions League next weekend. Midfielder Arnaud possess extraordinary skills that we lack. “We only need to results are going well for them.” Mendy from English fifth-tier club Lincoln City is in the believe in ourselves and we will do well in the Africa Cup of It is 36 years since Uganda last played in the Cup of Guinea-Bissau squad for an away game against Botswana. Nations qualifiers,” stressed the shot-stopper. Nations finals and 34 years since Tanzania made their soli- Malawi have axed full-back and captain Moses Chavula Should Kenya eliminate Lesotho in a two-leg tie, they tary appearance. Both enjoy home advantage as they try to and must do without injured midfielder Robert Ng’ambi would join 2013 Africa Cup runners-up Burkina Faso, edge closer to ending embarrassingly-long absences from when they meet Benin in Cotonou.—AFP Germany return to top of FIFA’s rankings

PARIS: Germany’s charge to claim Sunday’s der ten places to 20th, their lowest ranking for World Cup title has seen them return to the top 18 years. of FIFA’s world rankings for the first time in around 20 years. Latest FIFA rankings The latest list, published yesterday, has 1. Germany (+1) Germany moving up one place on the strength 2. Argentina (+3) of their 1-0 defeat of Argentina ar Rio de 3. Netherlands (+12) Janeiro’s Maracana. 4. Colombia (+4) Lionel Messi’s Argentina are placed second, 5. Belgium (+6) an improvement of three places, with the 6. Uruguay (+1) Netherlands leaping 12 rungs into third after 7. Brazil (-4) their impressive World Cup third place finish. 8. Spain (-7) The James Rodriguez-inspired Colombia 9. Switzerland (-3) move up to fourth (+4), ahead of Belgium (+6) 10. France (+7) and Uruguay while disappointing Brazil 11. Portugal (-7) dropped four spots to seventh. 12. Chile (+2) Deposed world champions Spain slumped 13. Greece (-1) seven spots to their new modest placing of 14. Italy (-5) eighth, with Switzerland and France (+7) com- 15. USA (-2) pleting the top ten. Costa Rica’s remarkable 16. Costa Rica (+12) charge to the quarter-finals was rewarded with 17. Croatia (+1) a jump of 12 places to 16th. 18. Mexico (+2) England’s woeful first round exit resulted in 19. Bosnia and Hercegovina (+2) Roy Hodgson’s side plummeting down the lad- 20. England (-10). — AFP

DENMARK: Simon Makienok of Brondby (left) vies with Martin Skrtel of Liverpool at Broendby stadium during friendly match. Broendby won 2-1. — AFP Pakistan to tour India

KARACHI: Pakistan’s football team are set to The PFF attempted to play against India in Liverpool lose to Brondby tour India for a two-match series, officials said England in 2011 but the plan was shelved yesterday, as the two nations resume their after sponsors backed out. A triangular series LONDON: Liverpool started life without Luis in young players that are hungry,” said Rodgers. rivalry after a nine-year hiatus. The last time in England, involving India, Pakistan and Suarez on Wednesday with a 2-1 defeat against “We will progress again from last season. It’s the two sides met was in 2005 when India Bangladesh was also cancelled last year due Danish side Brondby in the club’s opening pre- going to be a really exciting season. I’ve seen toured Pakistan for a three-match series to lack of funds. When India toured Pakistan season friendly. development in the players already in the short which ended with one match apiece and a the first match at Quetta ended in a 1-1 draw Christian Norgaard gave the home side the period of time that we’ve been back. This sea- draw, though the hosts scored more goals. while India went in front with a 1-0 victory in lead from a free-kick midway through the first son we have the belief to go along with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) secre- Peshawar. half before Liverpool’s Swedish international quality. tary Ahmed Yar Khan Lodhi said the team will Pakistan won the third and final match winger Kristoffer Peterson levelled early in the “We want to improve and continually play both matches in the southern Indian city Lahore 3-0, taking the series on better goal second half. improve. We’re working very hard behind the of Bangalore. “We have been making all-out average. India, a cricket mad country, has But Ferhan Hasani hit the Brondby winner in scenes, as we always do, in terms of getting the efforts to revive football ties with India and shown greater interest in football after intro- stoppage time. Liverpool manager Brendan best quality players into the club.” hope that these matches will prove to be a ducing the Super Football League to be held Rodgers shrugged off the loss in the team’s first Chelsea defeated fourth-tier Wycombe landmark in the sports relations of the two in September this year. They will also hold game since Suarez’s EUR95 million ($128 mil- Wanderers 5-0 with Patrick Bamford, Izzy Brown countries,” Lodhi told AFP. the Under-17 FIFA World Cup in 2017, target- lion) move to Barcelona, preferring to concen- (2), John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic on the Pakistan team will visit India from August ing a big youth population to get inspired trate on the challenges of the new Premier scoresheet. In Austria, Crystal Palace enjoyed a 16 to 21 and play matches on August 17 and from the world event. But both India and League season which starts on August 16. 13-1 romp at GAK Graz with Stephen Dobbie 20 in Bangalore. India cut all bilateral sport- Pakistan lag at the bottom of the FIFA team “This year, we know it’s going to be extreme- grabbing four goals and Glenn Murray, Joe ing ties with Pakistan in the wake of 2008 rankings released after the World Cup in ly competitive. Every team will strengthen and Ledley and Jonathan Williams all netting twice. Mumbai attacks, which were carried out by Brazil this week. India are 151 in the world we’ll be exactly the same. But the beauty for us Yannick Bolasie, Jerome Thomas and Marouane Pakistan-based militants. while Pakistan languishes at 165. — AFP is that we’re a young group and we’re bringing Chamakh finished off the rout. — AFP FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014

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BRAZIL: A photo taken on July 8, 2014 shows German national football team’s midfielder Toni Kroos celebrating after scoring a goal. —AFP