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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 THULHIJJA 22, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net N Korea warns Hezbollah Turkey signs Ronaldo ripe US of greatest declares deal to buy for Real return pain, rejects victory in Russian S-400 in Champions sanctions6 Syrian war6 missile 7systems League15 Lawmakers threaten to Min 26º Max 47º grill premier, ministers High Tide 03:37 & 17:31 Low Tide MP calls for probe into plane, balloon collision 10:50 & 22:59 32 PAGES NO: 17329 150 FILS

By B Izzak ter ordered the forgery and should apol- ogize to the Kuwaiti people and should KUWAIT: MP Omar Al-Tabtabai yesterday step down - and if he did not order that said he will file to grill Minister of Oil but signed the wrong answer, he should Essam Al-Marzouk over appointments in also resign or face grilling. the vital oil sector as his senior lawmaker Omar Al-Tabtabai said that he believes Waleed Al-Tabtabai called on MPs to that the end of the Oil Minister has unite to grill the prime minister instead approached and spoke about the period of questioning individual Cabinet mem- after his resignation. The lawmaker said bers. The new threats came as several that if the minister is not capable of run- lawmakers have threatened to grill the ning the affairs of the ministry, he should ministers of finance, oil, social affairs and quit immediately. He also criticized a labor, defense, information, education decision by the oil sector to appoint a and others over a variety of claims of fail- non-Kuwaiti as head of the state-owned ure to perform their duties and charges Equate petrochemicals company and of corruption. warned the council of ministers against “Our colleagues will file to grill the accepting the decision, adding that the ministers of social affairs, oil, finance, post must be occupied by a Kuwaiti. defense, sports, information, education Meanwhile, MP Nasser Al-Dossari and others. What’s your opinion if we strongly lashed out at Education Minister gather all to grill the prime minister,” Mohammad Al-Fares and accused him of Waleed Al-Tabtabai wrote on his Twitter failure to carry out his job after the min- account. The lawmaker also criticized the istry failed to take the necessary prepara- government’s policies to nationalize gov- tions to open new schools at Sabah Al- ernment jobs, saying that if the govern- Ahmad area. He said that he and other ment was serious about Kuwaitization of colleagues had informed the Education jobs, it should begin with legal and Ministry about preparing the schools in financial advisors and not with typists the newly-built area and the officials said and secretaries as has been the case. everything was ready but it turned out to In a related development, MP Omar be exactly the opposite. Al-Tabtabai threatened that he will file to The lawmaker said the situation at the grill the oil minister at the start of the area’s schools are catastrophic and will next Assembly term, beginning next not pass without action, adding that the KUWAIT: The Ministry of Defense announced yesterday the launch of Kuwaiti-US military drill ‘Mulahez Al-Sahraa’ (Desert Monitor). month if he did not resign. The lawmaker minister must be made to pay for the Troops from the Kuwaiti ground, air forces, personnel of the Ministry of Interior and the National Guard are taking part in the three- claimed that the Ministry of Oil has bad management of the ministry facili- day military exercise. The troops are engaging in the maneuvers for bolstering joint planning, execution, and uplifting combat pre- “forged” and changed a question sent to ties and schools. Dossari asked the paredness. — KUNA the Oil Minister by him and also sent a Education Minister if his officials had wrong answer. He said that if the minis- Continued on Page 11 Saudi foils terror plot

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said yesterday it foiled been hit by deadly bombing and shooting an Islamic State plot to bomb its defense attacks by Islamic State militants targeting ministry headquarters and security forces and Shiite also said it had arrested several Muslims. people suspected of carrying The assailants were out espionage in the kingdom training in the use of explo- on behalf of foreign powers. It sive belts, the security was not immediately clear source added, while whether the two announce- authorities said they seized ments, made separately by a grenades and firearms dur- security official to state news ing the operation to foil the agency SPA and a security attack. Islamic State has for source speaking to Reuters, years criticized the leader- were related. ship of Western-allied Saudi The would-be bombers Arabia, the world’s top oil were identified as two Yemeni exporter, accusing it of KFSD denies rumors nationals living under aliases deviating from their strict in the kingdom who were Ahmed Yasser Al-Kaldi interpretation of Islam and By Hanan Al-Saadoun detained along with two Saudi advancing the interests of citizens also suspected of involvement in their US enemies. In a separate news item, KUWAIT: KFSD’s PR and Media Department said the attack planned for the capital Riyadh, SPA quoted a security source saying authori- that the Acting Deputy Director for Prevention the official from the Presidency of State ties uncovered “intelligence Affairs Brigadier Khaled Abdullah Fahad has strong- Security added. Saudi Arabia has previously Continued on Page 11 This undated photo shows seized explosives displayed by Saudi security forces. — AP ly denied social media reports about banning a cer- tain type of elevator in Kuwait. Fahad stressed that all elevators get checked and examined by KFSD before issuing a license for any facility. He added Hopes fade as Gulf crisis hits 100-day landmark that KFSD also mandates property owners to sign maintenance contracts with lifts maintenance com- DOHA: As the boycott of Qatar by a Saudi-led bloc of Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut all ties with Qatar on pressure of its key trading partners. Instead, Qatar denied panies certified by KFSD to ensure users’ safety. countries approached its 100th day today, experts have June 5, accusing it of bankrolling Islamist extremists and the charges and portrayed the boycott as an attack on its Fahad explained that some lifts have automatic warned the increasingly bitter dispute could last into being too close to Iran. sovereignty. On Monday, Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh doors while others have semi-automatic doors 2018 and beyond. “If the present trajectory is anything to They closed Qatar’s only land border, denying air space Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani accused the Saudi- (manual ones). Both, he said, are regularly inspected go by, I expect this crisis to last well into the next year,” to its national airline and suspending maritime links. The led bloc of trying to force Doha “into a state of trusteeship”, by KFSD. He also stressed that KFSD had not issued Christopher Davidson, a Middle East expert at Britain’s drastic measures led many observers to believe the tiny emi- echoing his initial response to the crisis on June 7. an order to remove lifts with manual doors. Durham University said. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab rate would have no choice but to yield quickly under the Continued on Page 11

Oman secures release of India sets up centre to kidnapped Indian priest help migrant workers MUSCAT: Muscat has secured the release Sultan Qaboos. The news release said CHENNAI: A new resource centre for mentation, low salaries or even with- of an Indian priest who was abducted Omani authorities “coordinated with Indian migrants employed in Gulf out a job once they arrive here,” said last year during a deadly attack by Yemeni parties” to free Uzhunnalil, states will help reduce the risk of work- Dinesh Kumar, an official at the Indian Islamist militants in Yemen, Oman’s offi- described as a “Vatican employee”, at the ers being trafficked to fake jobs and Embassy in Abu Dhabi. “Help for Indian cial news agency said yesterday. Thomas request of the sultan. In video footage exploited, officials said yesterday. With workers in distress will be a phonecall Uzhunnalil had been held captive since from Oman TV, Uzhunnalil is seen arriv- a 24 hour helpline and a team of advis- away.” Government figures show there March 2016, when jihadists attacked a ing in Muscat. He disembarks from a ers, the Indian Workers’ Resource are some 6 million Indian migrants in care home operated by missionaries in Royal Air Force of Oman plane unaided, Centre in Sharjah in the United Arab the six Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, the southern port city of Aden, killing 16 but struggles as he makes his way down Emirates aims to help the thousands of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab people including four nuns. Uzhunnalil the steps to the tarmac. Indian workers in the region who may Emirates and Oman. Over the years, was pictured yesterday wearing local tra- “I wish first and foremost to thank God be at risk of exploitation. the Indian government and non-gov- ditional dress and with a flowing but tidy almighty for this day,” the priest said “There are numerous fake job rack- ernmental groups have received a white beard grown while in captivity. before thanking Sultan Qaboos and ets that result in migrant workers find- steady stream of complaints He appeared relatively healthy, stand- those who prayed for his release. Indian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil ing themselves without proper docu- Continued on Page 11 ing tall before a portrait of Oman’s Continued on Page 11 LOCAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Amir sends his condolences to Kuwait PM’s Turkey visit Trump over hurricane victims to boost ties to new level KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yes- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His terday sent a cable to US President Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh ANKARA: Kuwait Prime Minister His Highness Donald Trump, expressing his condo- Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah’s lences over the victims of Hurricane both sent similar cables. National upcoming visit to Ankara today, will further Irma, which continues to hit Florida. Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al- cement bilateral relations and cooperation “Kuwait sympathizes with the American Ghanem yesterday addressed cables to between Kuwait and Turkey. His Highness the people over this catastrophe,” read an Chairman of the US Senate Mike Pence Prime Minister, who would visit Turkey on Amiri Diwan statement, which and chief of the Congress Paul Ryan September 13-16, would build upon three recent expressed confidence that US officials expressing deep condolences on losses summits held between the leaders of Turkey and would be able to overcome this natural inflicted by the Hurricane Irma in Kuwait: the last March in Ankara and the next two disaster. His Highness the Deputy Amir Florida. — KUNA in Kuwait in May and July this year. His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak is to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Benali Yildirim on bilateral relations and regional developments, while Istanbul would host Turkey-Kuwait Economic India Minister Akbar to Forum on Friday. Kuwait and Turkey established diplomatic relations in 1969 and embassies visit Kuwait on Sept 20 opened the following year. The two countries signed a land transportation agreement in 1970. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Turkish KUWAIT: India’s Minister of State for The two countries signed between 1975-1988 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. agreements on culture, air services, economic, External Affairs M J Akbar is leading an preservation of environment and natural Ghanem visited Ankara in Feruary 2016. Indian delegation to Kuwait for the third technical and industrial cooperation, in addition to encouragement and protection of investments. resources, sustainable development, development India-Kuwait Joint Ministerial Commission of industrial exports, custom, agriculture, media Humanitarian need meeting on September 20, 2017, an Indian Bilateral relations witnessed a new leap when late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and maritime transport. The State of Kuwait has Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development embassy press release said yesterday. also been active in offering humanitarian aid for (KFAED) began operations in Turkey in 1979, This meeting on trade, economic, scien- visited Ankara in November 1991 to thank Turkey for its support of Kuwait during the 1990-91 Iraqi the Syrian refugees in Turkey. His Highness the extending loans to build development projects tific and technological cooperation Amir visited Istanbul in November 2009 to chair in many sectors. KFAED offered, up until between India and Kuwait is taking place invasion. Turkey considered Iraq’s seven-month occupation of Kuwait a violation of international Kuwait’s delegation to the Organization of Islamic November 2009, 12 loans totaling 106 million after a gap of nine years. Anas Khaled Al- Cooperation’s (OIC) standing committee on eco- Kuwaiti Dinars (KD) (USD 352 million). Kuwait also Saleh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister law, voicing complete solidarity with Kuwait, stop- ping export of Iraqi oil on Turkish territories and nomic and trade cooperation. contributed to meet humanitarian need in of Finance of Kuwait will lead the Kuwaiti His Highness the Amir also participated in the Turkey, whether from citizens or Syrian refugees. delegation at the meeting. There will be joined the US-led international coalition that liber- ated Kuwait. OIC summit in Istanbul in April 2016 and the inter- The Gulf country offered USD 20 million to offer wide ranging discussions on various issues national humanitarian summit in the same city health and educational services for Syrian of common interest between two sides, M J Akbar Bilaterial agreements last May. Former Turkish President Abdullah Gul refugees. His Highness the Amir donated USD the release added. paid three visits to Kuwait in 2009, 2011 and 2014. million to help alleviate suffering of victims of an Despite his busy schedule, Akbar will Kuwait supported the democratically-elected government in Turkey during the failed coup Current President Erdogan visited Kuwait in April earthquake that struck Turkey. interact with members of Indian communi- community to attend the meeting. All con- 2015, and then last May to attend inauguration of His Highness the Amir’s village was opened in ty in Kuwait at Embassy’s Auditorium on cerned are requested to arrive at embassy attempt in July 2016. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a Kuwait International Airport’s new terminal, exe- the eastern city of Van, which was subjected to a September 20 from 5 to 6 pm. The auditorium by 4.30 pm on Wednesday, 20 cuted by the Turkish Limak company. devastating earthquake in 2011, killing 644 peo- embassy invited all members of the Indian September 2017. message to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to congratulate him on the success of the Trade exchange between the two countries ple and injuring 4,152 others while destroying legitimate leadership and preservation of democ- reached USD 1.287 billion in 2016. Turkish com- 2,262 houses. Another village was built to house racy. His Highness the Amir visited Turkey in 2008, panies were executing USD 6.5 billion worth of Syrian refugees in the southern city of Kilis. The during which the two countries signed agree- projects in Kuwait, while Kuwait has USD 1.7 bil- Kuwaiti government and non-government ments on economic, scientific, health and labor lion investments in Turkey. More Kuwaiti com- organizations (NGOs) contributed heavily to cooperation. Kuwait and Turkey, during His panies and individuals are investing in Turkey, assisting the Syrian refugees in Turkey, offering Highness the Amir’s 2013 visit, signed eight bilat- prompting the Ankara government to waive financial and material aid in order to ease their eral agreements. They covered aviation, higher visa on Kuwaiti citizens. At the parliamentary suffering. Kuwait hosted three international education, scientific research, livestock, defense level, former speaker Cemil Cicek paid an official donor conferences to help the Syrian people, industries, military and diplomatic cooperation. visit to Kuwait in January 2014, while Kuwait pledging a total of USD 7.5 billion, of them The two countries also sealed accords on National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Kuwait contributed USD 1.3 billion. —KUNA

DGCA’s Director General Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah with Carl Burleson, Deputy Assistant Administrator of Policy, International Affairs, and Environment at the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Kuwait, US eye closer civil aviation cooperation: DGCA KUWAIT: The Directorate General of Civil talks with the Kuwaiti delegation, indi- Aviation (DGCA) yesterday affirmed cating that it is FAA’s first ever high-level keenness to boost cooperation ties with meeting with DGCA. He wished for fur- KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chairs the first session of the premier term fo the re- US civil aviation authorities. Kuwait seeks ther joint cooperation in civil aviation formed Supreme Council for Planning and Development. to benefit from the US experience in air- field with Kuwait and other countries in ports management, DGCA’s Director the Middle East region. General Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Meanwhile, DGCA mentioned that Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said, cited by a the Kuwaiti-US talks focused on finding DGCA’s statement. ways to strengthen the two nations’ Sheikh Salman made his remarks cooperation in airports’ safety and secu- after meeting earlier with Carl Burleson, rity. Talks also addressed ways to boost Deputy Assistant Administrator of bilateral cooperation in training, devel- Policy, International Affairs, and opment, and human resources growth Environment at the US Federal Aviation to improve the skills of Kuwait Administration (FAA), in Washington DC. International Airport’s workers and He reiterated DGCA’s aspiration to bol- enhance employees’ work efficiency. ster joint cooperation with FAA, wishing Sheikh Salman and Burleson also agreed that US civil aviation bodies can over- to exchange visits and intensify bilateral come hazards of the ongoing hurricanes meetings to benefit from the American in their country. For his part, Burleson expertise in running airports via use of expressed his joy towards outcomes of modern technology. —KUNA

Kuwait calls for cementing Premier heads 1st session of Arab-Japanese cooperation reformed supreme council CAIRO: Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister menace of terrorism on world security and Khaled Al-Jarallah called for strengthening stability, he added. Al-Jarallah expressed KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Arab-Japanese economic, cultural, and educa- appreciation of Japan’s support to Arab caus- Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah chaired, at tional cooperation for better future for both es at international events and organizations. Seif Palace yesterday, first session of the premier sides. Speaking at the opening session of the He recalled Japan’s role in liberation of term of the re-formed Supreme Council for first round of the Arab-Japanese ministerial Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation and its sup- Planning and Development. His Highness the political dialogue, which kicked off at the portive stance to the Palestinian people. This Premier, at the session onset, congratulated the Arab League headquarters in Cairo Monday honorable stance would be remembered council members for winning His Highness the evening, Al-Jarallah stressed that a stronger forever by Kuwaiti people, he said. He point- Amir’s confidence and praised former members. and wider cooperation in a slew of domains ed out that Japan is the fourth largest trade He affirmed the council’s significant role for would be beneficial for mutual interests. partner to Kuwait with trade exchange esti- proposing ideas regarding the aspired sustain- It would also help confront political and mated at USD 14 billion in past few years. able development. Current period is sensitive security challenges, particularly the growing Meanwhile, Al-Jarallah expressed deep due to security and political tensions in the Gulf concern about the latest region, as well as oil prices’ decline along with its worrying developments in impact on the Kuwaiti economy and the region, the Korean Peninsula after he pointed out. The session addressed amend- the recent nuclear test by ments to the by-laws, which regulate tasks of the North Korea. “This devel- council and sub-committees, in addition to the opment prompts us to call commissions’ formation, stated Minister of Social on North Korea to imme- Affairs, Labor and Minister of State for Economic diately and completely Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh, in a statement. — KUNA abide by its obligations as per the relevant UN reso- lutions,” he said. He reiter- Australian Senate receives ated Kuwait’s commitment to work with the interna- tional community to press letter on anti-Islam actions the North Korean govern- ment to stop its nuclear, KUWAIT: President of the Senate of Embassy in a statement received by KUNA. and ballistic missile and Australia Stephen Parry received a letter Al-Bader also explained to the Australian other mass destruction from Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker official that Muslim countries are exerting weapons production pro- Marzouq Al-Ghanem, hailing the senate’s great efforts to fight terrorism and extrem- grams. In abidance with condemnation of anti-Islam actions in the ism, as part of their commitment to the the UN resolutions related country. The letter, delivered by Kuwaiti international fight against terrorism. to boycotting North Korea Ambassador to Australia Najeeb Al-Bader Al-Bader meanwhile, applauded the to push it to implement its yesterday, expressed appreciation for the contributions of over 600,000 of Australia’s obligations, Kuwait has senate’s opposition to the anti-Islam Muslims to the country’s development in taken several trade meas- actions taken by leader of the One Nation all fields, the embassy added. Hanson had ures in this regard and Party Pauline Hanson. spoken out controversial anti-Islam state- lowered the diplomatic During his meeting with Parry, ambas- ments, among them were calls to forbid representation with North SYDNEY: President of the Senate of Australia Stephen sador Al-Bader affirmed that Kuwait wearing the burqa. She had also launched Korea to the level of Parry receives Kuwaiti Ambassador to Australia believes in dialogue as a way of spreading a campaign aiming to prevent Muslim charge d’affair. — KUNA Najeeb Al-Bader. peace among nations, said Kuwait migration to Australia. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 LOCAL

Minister Hind Al-Sabeeh visits ACK’s Aviation department

By Faten Omar human share capital in Kuwait to serve devel- the aerospace industry as aircraft trainee opment comprehensive process concept with a mechanics or trainee engineers. KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor focus on applied and professional aspects Diploma graduates will be equipped with a and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al- based on the knowledge base. He stressed that wide range of practical skills and knowledge, Sabeeh visited Aviation department at in the philosophy learning undertaken by the applicable to the aerospace maintenance Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) yesterday in Australian College of Kuwait, “We learn to know, industry. These diploma programs have five Mishref. Minister Al-Sabeeh was received along to work, to educate and to live together.” semesters and it is a two and a half years full- with Ibrahim Al-Khuzam, CEO of Kuwait He thanked Kuwait Airways for their support time course. Successful completion of the Airways, Engineer Faisal Al-Azmi, and Director and their keenness to provide training opportu- Diploma program also provides a pathway for of Engineering at Kuwait Airways. Prof Dr Essam nities for students during the study and further training towards becoming a Licensed Zaabalawi, President of ACK welcomed minister employment opportunities after graduation Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME). Al-Sabeeh and showed his appreciation for and ACK looks forward to opening new hori- The Australian College of Kuwait was estab- their visit that reflects the extent of their inter- zons and enhancing cooperation between the lished to provide internationally recognized est in supporting and strengthening the role two parties to increase the benefit by partici- and accredited experiential education and played by the college through its mission, pating in the development of new programs. training in Business, Engineering, Aviation and which is the directives of His Highness the Amir The Aviation department at the Australian Maritime sectors. It was licensed by the Ministry of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad College of Kuwait has been approved as a Part- of Education and Higher Education under Amiri Al-Jaber Al-Sabah related to the development 147 Maintenance Training Organization, by the Decree 141/2003 and commenced operation in of education. European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the October 2004. Since then, ACK has grown to Zaabalawi added that the college is keen to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) become one of the leading educational institu- provide educational and training special pro- Kuwait and the General Civil Aviation Authority tions in Kuwait, strongly contributing towards grams in the fields of engineering, business (GCAA), United Arab Emirates (UAE). The the employment sector and continuing to pro- administration, aviation and marine science to Diploma program is a course specially designed duce knowledgeable, skilled and professional contribute effectively to the development of for students who wish to gain employment in candidates for Kuwait’s growing economy. — Photos by Joseph Shagra

HORECA 2018 due at Fair Grounds January 15-17

KUWAIT: Leaders Group for Consulting and Development (Leaders Group)’s general manager Nabilah Al-Anjari said that the 7th Horeca Kuwait exhibition is set to be held from January 15-17, 2018 and would be jointly organized with the Hospitality Services Company. Al-Anjari added that the exhibition would be held over a total area of 6500 square meters at hall number 8 at the Mishref International fair Grounds and that it intends keeping the valuable trust it gained from leading hospitality, food industries and hotel equipment compa- nies during previous exhibitions. Nabilah Al-Anjari “Preparations for the coming cycle of the exhibition have gone a long way”, Al- those figure emphasize Kuwait’s need for Anjari said noting that most exhibitors such specialized exhibitions to develop and sponsors had already signed con- its hospitality and food industry sectors. ‘Theatrical Comedy Nights’ festival kicks off tracts for the new cycle as soon as the “The figures also emphasize Horeca’s role previous one was concluded last in developing Kuwait’s exhibitions and January. She added that exhibitors in the conferences industry to contribute to KUWAIT: The second edition of the “Theatrical Chairman Dr Bader Al-Duweesh said in his speech Hajri said that this year’s festival presents the cre- last cycle of the exhibition had increased turning Kuwait into a regional financial Comedy Nights” festival kicked off Monday during the opening that the festival chose the ations of the Kuwaiti comedy theater, indicating hub”, she added noting that success evening in memory of the late artists comedian Tareq Al-Ali as the festival personality an approach to blend comedian theatrical works by 40 per cent, participants in the cook- ing competition increased by 18 per cent achieved by Horeca was the result of Abdulhussain Abdulredha and Mohammad Al- for this year for his rich artistic career. He pointed with constructive and educational messages. Jari cooperation with the Hospitality Services Roshoud, who left their clear mark on the out that NCCAL represents the main incubator for Al-Ardh (Viewing) play, will be the first to entertain and exhibitors’ satisfaction reached 89 per cent compared to previous cycles. Company as a leading Lebanese compa- Comedy Theater. In the festival, the Gulf Theater artistic, cultural, and literary creativity, adding the audience, followed by 4 other plays, Al-Hajri ny in this particular line of business. Band presented comedic works of the distin- that it is keen on organizing theatre and artistic added. The festival will continue until September Furthermore, Al-Anjari noted that guished writer Mohammed Al-Roshoud at Dasma events, such as Kuwait Theater Festival, which has 19 under the auspices of the Minister of State for Theater. The National Council for Culture, Art and become one of the most important theater festi- Cabinet Affairs and Acting Minister of Information Letters (NCCAL)’s Assistant Secretary-General for vals in the Arab world. and Chairman of NCCAL Sheikh Mohammad Al- Kuwaiti photographer chosen the Arts Sector and festival’s higher Committee For his part, the festival director Abdulkarim Al- Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. — KUNA in worldwide Nikon showcase

TOKYO: Kuwaiti photographer Majed with the Direct Aid Sultan Al-Zaabi was chosen as one of 32 Society, including photographers to represent four types of the famine of photography in eight countries in Asia, the Somalia and Pacific, Middle East and Africa, spearhead- northern Kenya ing a showcase of the latest Nikon D850 and many charita- camera. In a statement to KUNA, Al-Zaabi ble projects in dedicated this achievement to His Highness Africa and other the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber countries. Al-Zaabi Al-Sabah in commemoration of naming His has won more Highness the Humanitarian Leader by the than 100 interna- UN. “I feel proud to belong to the state of tional photogra- goodness and humanity and I am happy phy awards and he when I convey a picture that may con- is also an active Photographer Majed tribute in lifting the suffering of a human member in social Sultan Al-Zaabi being,” he said. media and has an For his part, General Manager of the educational channel on YouTube as well as International Business Division Imaging many local and international workshops Group, Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd, Hiroki where he also published many of the pic- Yamaoka, said “we are delighted to be tures in the National Geographer. working with 32 great photographers in the Four expert photographers from each of Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Nikon’s local offices were selected in eight KEPS following climate change Africa,” adding the photographer’s vast regions including Australia, Hong Kong, experience in photography will help to India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, deliver outstanding content and will high- Thailand, the Middle East and Africa to rep- impact on migratory birds light the best D850 features as well as pre- resent four types of photography, event senting them to a wide audience in the photography, nature and commercial pho- photography community. tography. The company was founded in Bird monitoring and protection team environment protectorates. The team carried out try to collect important data that contribute to KUWAIT: Al-Zaabi is one of the most prominent 1917 and has since worked on building its of Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) semi-daily monitoring operations during migra- building an information system to help study figure in the field of documenting charitable position as a leader in optical technology in said yesterday it is monitoring the impact of cli- tion seasons for birds in many areas of the coun- future changes in birds, Khorshid said. — KUNA work, where he documented many events Japan and abroad. —KUNA mate change on migratory birds and their migration to and from Kuwait during its annual migration from the North to the South and vice versa. The team during its participation in the LNG terminal project vital assessment of local potential for the develop- ment of a national bird-watching activity work- for oil sector, says official shop presented some suggestions and courses of monitoring and protection of birds to KUWAIT: Kuwait Integrated Petrochemical Moreover, it is seeking to design a petro- increase knowledge about this field, team mem- Industries Company (KIPIC) yesterday chemical complex for producing other ber Mohammed Khorshid told KUNA. affirmed the significance of the Liquefied derivatives. The Al-Zor LNG terminal is pro- The two-day workshop, organized by the Natural Gas Import Terminal Project for jected to have a refining capacity of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of backing up the national oil sector. The LNG 615,000 barrels per day, some 45 percent of Sciences (KFAS), gathered all those interested in terminal output capacity is projected at the national refining capacity. Main transac- birds monitoring from experts, teams, groups some 3,000 billion thermal units (65,000 tions for the project is made up of five pack- and individuals in the country to present pro- tons) per day. The terminal at Al-Zor refinery ages at a total value of KD 4.87 billion (USD posals in this regard and to identify scientific will produce optimal type of natural gas 15.9 billion), said Al-Gharabally, explaining gaps, he said. The team, through monitoring and and environmentally friendly fuel oil, said that it will secure 225,000 barrels per day to awareness, is preparing some information mate- Mohammad Al-Gharabally, the head of the cover needs of the country’s power stations. rials that contribute to highlighting the positive team tasked with performance at KIPIC. He KIPIC, established in 2016, is a subsidiary role of preserving the birds through news about was speaking at a seminar, organized by the company of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation migration and the latest species observed in company about the project. KIPIC is cur- (KPC). It was set up to follow up on estab- Kuwait. rently conducting studies for a petrochemi- lishing and operating the petrochemical He pointed out that the team also makes cal complex, including the third olefins refinery and import LNG import terminals short films highlighting the beauty of Kuwait’s plant, the second aromatics plant and the in Al-Zor, a key venture in the national environment and its birds as well as the role of petrochemicals’ breaking unit. development strategy. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 LOCAL

Photo of the day

KUWAIT: The calm and tranquil waters observed off Kuwait’s coast during sunset. — KUNA Kuwait tenders agency, ministry honored by Arab competition

CAIRO: Kuwait’s Central Agency for Public Tenders (KCAPT) and the Ministry of Public Works has won two shields and a couple of certificates of appreciation at end of the Golden Excellence Award Competition for Arab Governments’ Achievements 2017. Kuwait’s honoring was declared during a gath- ering, held by the Academy for Excellence Awards in the Arab Region. Ayman Al-Serhan, the assistant undersecre- tary at KCAPT, said in remarks to KUNA that the Kuwaiti agency won the e-government shield for a program on classifying contrac- tors. Khaled Al-Ammar, director of KCAPT’s information department, said he was proud of winning the award for the second time this year. For his part, Anwar Al-Tawari, the secre- tary charged with contractors’ classification at the Kuwaiti agency, noted the department’s key role in facilitating and speeding up appli- cations by contracting companies. Iman Ashkenani, director of the informa- tion systems at the Ministry of Public Works, contracts and auctions. Registration for con- accepted if they meet the ministry criteria. He expressed satisfaction for partaking in the tracts and auctions is now possible via the may print the acceptance and request qualifi- competition for the service; qualifying and ministry electronic website. An applicant cation card to be able to deal with the min- recording participants in the ministry tenders, should post his (her) data, which may be istry as an importer, she explained. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Parents have accompanied their children to kindergartens on the first day of the new scholastic year. The kids’ reactions to the experi- ence following the long summer break were divergent. Some appeared joyful, others were overwhelmed with concern and anxiety and a num- ber of the kids wept or cried for being separated from the parents. Parents overcome their sentiments and play a vital role in enabling the chil- dren get back to classes. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 From the Arabic press

In my view Al-Anbaa Jerusalem: Home for all Puzzled parents

By Dr. Nermin Al-Houti he recent ad about the opening and registra- Projects tion to join the Higher Institute of Dramatic By Labeed Abdal TArts (HIODA) in Kuwait’s newspapers left many parents puzzled as it didn’t contain a lot of information regarding the enrollment. The ad did not mention the GPA required for the enrollment process without which students cannot join the cultural facility. According to the academic law, [email protected] when the GPA eligibility is not mentioned, it gives every student the right to join the institute where rab foreign ministers strongly condemned the they have low or high GPA as the ad cancels the dangerous Israeli acceleration in occupied requirement of GPA as a condition, which is a basic Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa mosque. They warned in any prestigious university or academy. thatA such aggression could have dangerous conse- The ad only mentioned the requirement of an quences in the future and might start a religious conflict original copy of the educational qualifications in the region. This reminded me of a funny story when I (General Secondary/credits) or equivalent for met a Tunisian lady during one of my trips abroad, and admission. The question is does the institute have asked her about her son’s name. With a deep sigh, she a department for certificates equivalency? And is replied, that her son’s name was Rayyan and that he the institute authorized to approve secondary cer- meant everything to her. That woman’s sigh truly tificates or other universities? expressed that he was part of her soul. The specified requirements for admission were: This story reminded me of a song by Lebanon’s prime for Kuwaitis, the applicant must be 18 years and

singer, Fairooz tiltled ‘Ta’a We La teji’ (Come and do not Al-Jarida not older than 22, and is allowed to waive two come), which talks about a mother’s longing for her departed son. Back to the Israel’s aggressions that years in case the applicant showed outstanding oppose the idea of considering Jerusalem as a religious tests’ results and for employed Kuwaitis in the gov- home for three heavenly religions, one cannot see any ernment and private sectors, no age limit was civilization when the UN uselessly makes a unanimous CBK organizes ‘Healthy Day’ mentioned which means if an employee brings a resolution on adapting the two-neighboring states solu- permission letter and passes the admission test, he tion to solve a problem between two peace-loving peo- or she can join HIODA. In collaboration with the ple and avoid potential crimes of hatred and revenge. KUWAIT: Your Excellency the Education Minister, I am Diet care Company, the writing to on behalf of all the parents asking if it is Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) realistic to mix youngsters aged between 18 and recently organized a ‘Healthy Day’ 24 with people above 35 years. I, as a guardian and Kuwaiti researcher during which the company spe- educator fear that mixing children with people wins Shoman award cialized in healthy diets conducted medical checkups on CBK employ- from different age groups and attitude may not be ees and provided consultancy on a good idea. AMMAN: Kuwaiti researcher Dr Ali Al-Dosari won The improving their lifestyles. I also hope that admission conditions for expat Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for his Speaking on the occasion, CBK’s students, from some friendly Arab countries that research “climate change and its impact on biodiversity deputy director for PR and publici- do not have scholarship or cannot issue a paper and desertification”. This came in a statement published on ty, Amani Al-Wer’a said CBK hosted from their embassies be waived due to the unsta- the website of the award announcing the winners’ names. Diet care team to provide the best ble situation in the Arab world. Kuwait is the coun- The organizers said that Al-Dosari’s research was included medical services to its employees try of benevolence, and let’s continue to keep it as in the basic sciences field and among 151 candidates from as part of several further activities a beacon for humanity, just like our leader HH the various Arab universities and scientific institutions. The meant to enhance employees’ Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad. Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers was health awareness and encourage —Translated by Kuwait Times launched in 1982 to promote Arab scientific research and following healthy lifestyles provide incentives to upcoming generations of young amongst them. Arab scientists. — KUNA Otaibi denies MOE school statements

By A Saleh es compared to only 14 last year. “School was suspended for a week in another KUWAIT: MP Khaled Mohammed Al- school because it is understaffed com- Otaibi described the statements made pared to the number of pupils”, he by MOE officials about preparations added noting that parents have started made for the new school year as fake taking their kids to other less crowded because the real situation in various schools in distant areas. schools were different, namely those in areas he described as the ‘forgotten’ MPW vacancies ones such as Sabah Al-Ahmed City. MPW is expected to announce 18 “We have previously warned of what vacancies for managers and heads of happens in new areas every year and departments within a few days, said the negligence Ali Sabah Al-Salem informed sources noting that six further school suffered from is happening again vacancies would be later announced. now in Sabah Al-Ahmed schools”, he Meanwhile, MPW assistant undersecre- underlined noting that a girls’ intermedi- tary for road engineering affairs, Ahmed ate school has 1500 students and is still Al-Hessan said that the ministry would understaffed in both teachers and sign three new road construction con- administrative staff. tracts within the coming two months to Al-Otaibi added that the area’s boys develop Abdali, Salmi highways and secondary school now includes 31 class- south Surra road. New technical measures to rehabilitate water grid

By Mesh’al Al-Enezi years for both men and women. Al-Ajmi stressed that the new decision would have KUWAIT: MEW’s assistant undersecretary very important positive socio-economic for water operation and maintenance, impacts on various families. It would allow Khalifa Mohammed Al-Feraij announced women to take more care of their families the commencement of new technical and household matters, take part in volun- measures to rehabilitate the fresh water tary initiatives and cultural activities and grid in blocks 5 and 7 at Funaitees after take part in economic activities such as some new buildings had been built. He small and medium projects. Al-Ajmi added added that the rehabilitation measures that the decision also allows men to start include cleaning and sterilization. their own businesses at suitable age so that they could be able to run them. “We Minimum retirement age hope the government will approve such Chairman of Kuwait Labor Union, Salem tendencies, as well”, he underlined noting Shebeeb Al-Ajmi hailed the parliamentary that the amendment will not overburden financial affairs decision on approving a the state budget and that the majority of draft law proposing amending the social those applying for retirement would do so security law concerning reducing the mini- out of some socio-economic motives mum retirement age and maximum service rather than out of their wish to relax. Crime Report

Infamous Jahra car were stopped and 26 bottles were found in thieves arrested the trunk of their car. The third arrest was in KUWAIT: Jahra detectives arrested two car Jleeb when a Korean was caught with 130 thieves near the Industrial Sulaibiya area, bottles, the fourth arrest was in Jleeb when after they were put under surveillance for an Indian ran away when he saw police few days. The two were witnessed on leaving bags behind, and they found 66 numerous occasions stealing cars and rob- bottles with him. bing citizens and expats in Adan and Farwaniya areas. Law enforcement interro- Indian woman beaten gations revealed that the two stole a car An Indian woman was found beaten from Adan then robbed expats. They took hard by a man she claimed she knows. The police officers to the place where the car woman went to Jleeb police station and was stolen and later to the place they left it told them that while heading home from in Jahra desert. work she was stopped by an Indian man with whom she had financial differences. Liquor-maker arrests As the argument escalated, he began beat- Farwaniya police arrested five Asians ing her and then stole her gold necklace trading in locally made liquor, in four sepa- and bracelets before escaping. rate arrests in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and Khaitan. The total number of bottles found Ardhiya thief on them tallied to 232. The first arrest was An Asian who was wanted on several in Khaitan when an Indian was seen walk- theft cases was arrested in Ardhiya. ing with a large bag. When a police patrol Detectives discovered where he was stay- was passing by, he threw it and started run- ing and so they went to the house and ning; he was then caught and arrested with arrested him the minute they saw him and 20 bottles in the bag. The second arrest immediately took him to the nearest police was in the same area when two Indians station. — AlRai/Alanbaa WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 Turkey signs landmark Russian weapons deal Global split over Rohingya crisis as China backs Myanmar crackdown

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DEIR EZZOR: A picture shows destroyed fighter jets and a helicopter at the military airport in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. — AFP Hezbollah declares Syria victory Govt, allies press attack on IS in Deir Ezzor

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah at a religious gathering, were confirmed to Reuters the government side, helping its advance east into General Suheil Al-Hassan, a Syrian officer who through rafts on the river, and god willing, we has declared victory in the Syrian war while by a source familiar with the speech. Hundreds of the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor. has risen to prominence in the war. will target them in the water before they get Russia said government forces had driven mili- thousands of people have been killed in the con- The SDF, which is battling to defeat Islamic away,” a commander said in a televised inter- tants from 85 percent of the country where flict, which has fractured Syria into a patchwork of Air strikes State at Raqqa city, has in recent days launched a view. Aside from the territory held by the SDF President Bashar Al-Assad’s rule seemed in dan- areas and generated a refugee crisis of historic pro- Government forces last week reached Deir separate offensive against Islamic State in Deir and Islamic State, rebels still control a corner of ger two years ago. The comments from two portions, forcing millions of people into neighbor- Ezzor city, the provincial capital on the Euphrates Ezzor province. The Syrian Observatory for the northwest, a corner of the southwest, an Syrian government allies mark the most confi- ing states and Europe. River, breaking an Islamic State siege of a gov- Human Rights said air strikes likely to have been area near Damascus, and an area north of the dent assessments yet of Assad’s position in the Military backing from Iran and Russia has ernment-held enclave and a nearby air base. “To carried out by Russian warplanes killed 69 peo- city of Homs. war that spiraled out of 2011 “Arab Spring” proven critical to Assad in the war with insur- date, 85 percent of Syria’s territory has been ple since Sunday near the Euphrates River in Deir Syrian government attacks in the rebel-held protests against him. gents including rebels who have been backed by cleared of the militants of illegal armed groups,” Ezzor. The Russian Defense Ministry did not Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus suggest The government’s most recent advances have Gulf Arab states, Turkey and the United States, the RIA news agency cited Alexander Lapin, chief immediately respond to a Reuters request for Assad may yet try to recapture the remaining recovered swathes of territory in eastern Syria which has decided to end a program of covert of staff of the Russian military contingent in comment on Tuesday’s report by the Britain- rebel-held areas of the west, including enclaves from Islamic State, which is being targeted in the support to rebels. Rebel groups were making Syria, as saying. Islamic State fighters are still in based monitoring group. The Observatory, which at the borders with Turkey, Jordan and Israel. A same region in a campaign waged by US-backed steady advances against Assad as recently as control of around 27,000 square km of Syria’s ter- identified the victims as civilians, said the air major general in the Syrian Republican Guard Kurdish and Arab militias. Hezbollah leader 2015, when the deployment of the Russian air ritory, he said. strikes had hit encampments on the western interviewed by a state-run TV station from Deir Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose group has sent force to Syria turned the tide in his favor. Lapin made no reference to a swathe of terri- bank of the river and vessels crossing to the east- Ezzor on Monday warned Syrians who had “run thousands of fighters to Syria, dismissed the Over the past year, Assad has crushed numer- tory held in northern Syria by an alliance of US- ern side. Syrian state television separately report- away or escaped from Syria to any other coun- fighting left to be done in Syria as “scattered bat- ous pockets of rebel-held territory in the cities of backed militias - the Syrian Democratic Forces ed the army was conducting artillery and try” not to return. tles”. “We have won in the war (in Syria),” he said Aleppo, Homs and Damascus, brokering local (SDF) which is led by the Kurdish YPG and is not machine gun attacks on rafts carrying Islamic Major General Issam Zahreddine, head of the in comments reported by the Lebanese newspa- deals by which thousands of his opponents have at war with Assad. “The liberation of (Deir Ezzor) State militants to the eastern side of the river 104 Brigade which was under IS-siege for three per Al-Akhbar. been moved to remaining rebel-held enclaves of city is proceeding,” Lapin said. “Syrian troops are from their last positions in Deir Ezzor city. years in Deir Ezzor, later issued a clarification on Referring to Assad’s opponents, Nasrallah said the country. Ceasefires brokered by Russia, Turkey, finalizing the defeat of the ISIL group blocking his Facebook page, saying his warning had been “the path of the other project has failed and wants Iran and the United States in remaining rebel-held the northern and southern districts of Deir Ezzor,” ‘Only escape route’ directed only at people who had taken up to negotiate for some gains”. The comments, made areas of western Syria have freed up manpower on he said. He said the assault was being led by “Their only escape route out of the city is arms.—Reuters UN Security Council steps up sanctions on defiant N Korea UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council form of ultimate means”, Han said, without als in 2016 that totaled $752 million and isolation and free itself of economic pressure and tougher sanctions invite further tests,” unanimously voted to step up sanctions on elaborating. accounted for a quarter of its income from was to end its nuclear program and resume Xinhua said. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo North Korea, with its profitable textile exports “The forthcoming measures by DPRK will trade, according to South Korean data. Nearly dialogue. “North Korea needs to realize that a Abe quickly welcomed the resolution and said now banned and fuel supplies capped, prompt- make the US suffer the greatest pain it ever 80 percent went to China. “This resolution also reckless challenge against international peace after the vote it was important to change ing a traditionally defiant threat of retaliation experienced in its history.” US disarmament puts an end to the regime making money will only bring about even stronger interna- North Korea’s policy by stepping up pressure. against the United States. Monday’s decision, ambassador Robert Wood took the floor to say from the 93,000 North Korean citizens it sends tional sanctions against it,” the Blue House said. The resolution imposes a ban on conden- triggered by the North’s sixth and largest the Security Council resolution “frankly sent a overseas to work and heavily taxes,” Haley said. However, China’s official Xinhua news agency sates and natural gas liquids, a cap of 2 mil- nuclear test this month, was the ninth such res- very clear and unambiguous message to the “This ban will eventually starve the regime of said in a commentary that the Trump adminis- lion barrels a year on refined petroleum prod- olution unanimously adopted by the 15-mem- regime that the international community is an additional $500 million or more in annual tration was making a mistake by rejecting ucts, and a cap on crude oil exports to North ber Security Council since 2006 over North tired, is no longer willing to put up with revenues,” she said. diplomatic engagement with the North. Korea at current levels. China supplies most Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs. provocative behavior from this regime”. “The US needs to switch from isolation to of North Korea’s crude. A US official, familiar Japan and South Korea said after the pas- UN member states are now required to halt Resume dialogue communication in order to end an ‘endless with the council negotiations and speaking sage of the US-drafted Security Council resolu- imports of textiles from North Korea, its sec- South Korea’s presidential Blue House said loop’ on the Korean peninsula, where “nuclear on condition of anonymity, said North Korea tion they were prepared to apply more pressure ond largest export after coal and other miner- the only way for Pyongyang to end diplomatic and missile tests trigger tougher sanctions imported about 4.5 million barrels of refined if North Korea refused to end its aggressive petroleum products annually and 4 million development of nuclear weapons and ballistic barrels of crude oil. missiles. A tougher initial US draft was weak- Chinese officials have privately expressed ened to win the support of China, Pyongyang’s fears that an oil embargo could risk causing main ally and trading partner, and Russia, both massive instability in their neighbor. Russia of which hold veto power in the council. “We and China have also expressed concern don’t take pleasure in further strengthening about the humanitarian impact of stiffer sanctions today. We are not looking for war,” US sanctions on North Korea. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley Haley said the resolution aimed to hit told the council after the vote. “North Korea’s ability to fuel and fund its The North Korean regime has not yet weapons program”. Trump has vowed not passed the point of no return. “If it agrees to to allow North Korea to develop a nuclear stop its nuclear program, it can reclaim its missile capable of hitting the mainland future ... If North Korea continues its dangerous United States. path, we will continue with further pressure,” South Korean officials said after the North’s said Haley, who credited a “strong relationship” sixth nuclear test that Pyongyang could soon between US President Donald Trump and launch another intercontinental ballistic mis- Chinese President Xi Jinping for the successful sile in defiance of international pressure. North resolution negotiations. North Korea’s ambas- Korea said its Sept. 3 test was of an advanced sador, Han Tae Song, told the UN-sponsored hydrogen bomb and was its most powerful by Conference on Disarmament in Geneva yester- far. The latest resolution contained new politi- day the United States was “fired up for political, cal language urging “further work to reduce economic, and military confrontation”. tensions, so as to advance the prospects for a The North regularly threatens to destroy comprehensive settlement”. the South and its main ally, the United States, The resolution also calls on countries to which it accuses of continual preparation for inspect vessels on the high seas, with the con- invasion. “My delegation condemns in the sent of the flag state, if they have reasonable strongest terms, and categorically rejects, the grounds to believe the ships are carrying pro- latest illegal and unlawful UN Security Council hibited cargo. It also bans joint ventures with resolution,” he said. The Democratic People’s North Korean entities, except for non-profit Republic of Korea (DPRK) was “ready to use a NEW YORK: Members of the United Nations Security Council meet concerning North Korea at UN headquarters in New York City. — AFP public utility infrastructure projects.—Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 INTERNATIONAL

News in brief Turkey signs landmark

Russian, US-led strikes kill 35 civilians in Syria’s Deir Ezzor Russian weapons deal BEIRUT: Separate Russian and US-led coalition air strikes yesterday killed 35 civilians in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, where parallel offensives against the Islamic State group are under way, a monitor said. The province lies Missile systems purchase to raise concerns in West along Syria’s border with Iraq and is seen as a strategic prize by both the Russian-backed Syrian regime and an ISTANBUL: Turkey has signed a deal with India. Some analysts have suggested the alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces supported by the US- Russia to buy S-400 missile defense sys- message sent to the West by the military led coalition fighting IS. The Syrian Observatory for Human tems, its first major weapons purchase cooperation between Moscow and Ankara Rights, a Britain-based monitor, had earlier reported a toll from Moscow, in an accord that could trou- is as important as the delivery itself. In 2015, of 28 dead in Russian and US-led strikes, but raised the fig- ble Ankara’s NATO allies. The purchase of Turkey scrapped a $3.4 billion deal with ure after new Russian raids on the village of Hawayej Thiab the surface-to-air missile defense batteries, China to build its first anti-missile system. in the west of the province. Ankara’s most significant deal with a non- NATO supplier, comes with Turkey in the Another blow throes of a crisis in relations with several Russia’s relations with NATO have been Iraq MPs vote against Kurdish Western states. in crisis over its annexation of Crimea from independence referendum “Signatures have been made for the Ukraine and for backing pro-Moscow sepa- purchase of S-400s from Russia. A deposit ratists in eastern Ukraine. Turkey, a NATO BAGHDAD: The Iraqi parliament voted yesterday to has also been paid as far as I know,” Turkish member since 1952, has currently troubled oppose an independence referendum planned by Iraqi President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in ties with the United States over a number Kurdish leaders for later this month prompting a walk- comments published in several newspa- of issues including Washington’s support out by Kurdish lawmakers. Speaker Salim al-Juburi, a pers yesterday. “Mr Putin (President for the People’s Protection Units (YPG) Sunni Arab, said the vote required the government to Vladimir Putin) and myself are determined Syrian Kurd militia which Ankara considers “take all steps to protect the unity of Iraq and open a on this issue,” he told Turkish journalists a terror group. The Turkish-Russian contract serious dialogue” with Iraqi Kurdish leaders. Prime aboard his presidential jet returning from a is a new sign of better relations between Minister Haider al-Abadi and other top officials have trip to Kazakhstan. Moscow also confirmed Ankara and Moscow since a reconciliation said repeatedly that the referendum planned for the accord, with Vladimir Kozhin, Putin’s deal was signed last year following the September 25 would violate Iraq’s constitution. Kurdish adviser for military and technical coopera- 2015 shooting down by the Turkish military leaders plan to hold the plebiscite not only in the three tion, saying: “The contract has been signed of a Russian plane over the Syrian border. northern provinces but also in other historically and is being prepared for implementation.” ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a meet- Ankara was also heartened by Kurdish-majority areas of Iraq that Kurdish forces cap- ing of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party provincial heads at the AK Party Moscow’s response to the 2016 failed coup tured during the battle against the Islamic State group. Take our own decisions Headquarters in Ankara. — AFP in Turkey and the two sides have been The purchase of the missile systems working together in search of a solution to from a non-NATO supplier is likely to raise based on its defense needs. Quoted by Russian state-owned TASS news the Syria conflict. But the two nations- concerns in the West over their technical “Nobody has the right to discuss the agency, Kozhin said the deal was fully in whose rivalry in the Black Sea and Zimbabwe can feed itself compatibility with the alliance’s equip- Turkish republic’s independence principles line with Moscow’s strategic interests. Caucasus regions dates back centuries-are again, Mugabe claims ment. The Pentagon has already sounded or independent decisions about its defense “For this reason we fully understand the still at odds on a host of political issues. the alarm, saying bluntly that “generally it’s Turkey, which vehemently opposed the Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed its industry,” he said. “We make the decisions reactions of several Western countries HARARE: a good idea” for NATO allies to buy inter- 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea people for the first time since adopting a controversial poli- about our own independence ourselves, we which are trying to put pressure on Turkey”. operable equipment. But Erdogan said peninsula by Moscow, condemned cy to strip land from white farmers, President Robert are obliged to take safety and security However signing the deal does not mean Turkey-which has the second largest stand- Tuesday the jailing of a Tatar leader for Mugabe told parliament yesterday. From the year 2000, measures in order to defend our country.” that delivery is imminent, with Russia facing ing army in NATO after the United States- eight years by Russia over a rally against hundreds of white farmers were evicted from their farms, He said Moscow would extend a credit to a high demand for the S-400s from its own was free to make military acquisitions Moscow’s seizure of the region. —AFP often violently, and land was handed to allies of the ruling Turkey for the purchase of the weapons. armed forces and key clients like China and ZANU-PF party and in many cases became neglected and unproductive. Zimbabwe had previously been known as the “breadbasket” of Africa. “The country has this year suc- ceeded in regaining its food self-sufficiency status on the Netanyahu slams Iran as he arrives back of the good rainy season and the introduction of com- mand agriculture,” Mugabe said as he opened parliament. for landmark Latin America visit 100 Greek university Benjamin Netanyahu it is “an obligation for all countries of cul- students caught cheating BUENOS AIRES: urged all countries to fight terrorism and ture to fight against terrorism ... and in par- singled out Iran as a serial offender as he ticular, against the Iranian terrorism sys- ATHENS: More than 100 Greek university students have been caught in a mass cheating scandal, the state paid tribute to the victims of two bombings tem.” Israel “will continue to act resolutely agency ANA reported yesterday. The group at the in Argentina on the first trip by an Israeli to countering Iran’s terror and terror in gen- University of Patras, most of them first-year students, premier to Latin America. Surrounded by eral” along with its partners in Latin submitted the same paperwork in four separate heavy security, Netanyahu held a closed- America and in North America, he said. coursework exercises, the head of the business man- door meeting with members of Argentina’s agement department said. “These exercises constitute Jewish community, estimated to be Latin Netanyahu’s critics 30 percent of the final grade,” associate professor America’s most numerous with 300,000 DAIA, an umbrella organization for the Yiorgos Androulakis told ANA. “They are composed of members. He also participated in a ceremo- country’s Jewish community, welcomed four sets of exercises. “The students submitted identi- ny to remember victims of bomb attacks at the visit and said it represented a “rap- cal paperwork on all four.” The university has banned the Israeli embassy in 1992, and at a Jewish prochement between Argentina and Israel.” the 106 students from sitting the rest of their exams in community center in 1994. But some relatives of victims of the 1994 September. The embassy attack killed 29 and bombing refused an invitation to the injured 220, while the community center Netanyahu event. “Netanyahu did not blast left 85 dead and 300 injured. Israel come to commemorate the attack, but to blamed the embassy attack on the increase business,” said Diana Malamud, Nine suspected militants Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. who heads a group called Active Memory. killed in a Cairo raid Argentine investigators accused five former “In these 23 years (since the bombing) Iranian officials of sponsoring Hezbollah’s Israel has been an observer, like any other CAIRO: Egypt’s official news agency says police killed attack on the community center but Iran country,” and did not honestly help “search nine suspected militants when they raided two apart- denied involvement. “Iran is the one that for the truth” behind the attack, she said. ments in a densely populated Cairo neighborhood. The was behind of the great attacks in Buenos Argentina’s 1980 Nobel Peace Prize BUENOS AIRES: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, delivers a speech Middle East News Agency says five policemen were Aires in the 90s and is the ‘octopus of terror,’ winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel was also during a press conference after a working meeting at the Casa Rosada presidential wounded in yesterday’s early morning exchange of fire in and also Hezbollah that is sending branch- critical. “Not only is he himself accused of house in Buenos Aires. —AFP the Ard el-Liwa district. It says police found rifles, ammu- es (of terror) around the world, arms to committing crimes against humanity in nition, bomb-making materials and explosive devices at Latin America as well,” the International Criminal Court for killing the apartments. The report, which cited an unnamed Netanyahu said, according to a tran- civilians, bombing schools, hospitals and Argentine dictatorship,” Perez Esquivel accused of committing crimes against Interior Ministry official, did not say to which group the script provided by the Israeli embassy. The Palestinian mosques, but he provides pro- said. Esquivel was referring to Israel’s humanity during Argentina’s 1976-1983 suspects were linked. —Agencies Israeli leader, who arrived on Monday, said tection to a repressor of the last refusal to extradite Teodoro Anibal Gauto, military dictatorship —AFP. Trump hosts scandal-hit After filming IS horrors, Raqqa Malaysian PM Najib Razak activists become war reporters BEIRUT: They honed their media skills secretly filming ities after it captured Raqqa in 2014, with groups like WASHINGTON: US President Donald Islamic State group beheadings in Raqqa. Now, these Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently publishing Trump hosted Malaysia’s prime minis- Syrian activists have become impromptu war footage of beheadings and jihadist patrols. When ter at the White House yesterday, a reporters, covering the US-backed assault on their city coalition air strikes on Raqqa began in 2014, the city’s meeting that risks being overshad- from the ground. “If the crack is sharp and the column activists started to document those too. owed by his guest’s spiraling corrup- of smoke goes straight up, it’s an air strike,” Syrian But the activists say the real change in their work tion scandal. Prime Minister Najib activist Tim Ramadan tells AFP from Raqqa, using a came when the SDF entered the city, prompting clash- Razak will visit the Oval Office for talks pseudonym and communicating through a Facebook es that brought rampant power cuts and made mov- that the White House says will be profile that disguises his identity. ing around much more difficult. “IS has actually lifted focused on terrorism, trade and Asian Every night, Ramadan discreetly turns on his inter- some of its restrictions on people because it’s busy maritime disputes. But the run-up to net satellite service, uploads his daily records from the with clashes,” says 21-year-old Mazen Hassoun, who Najib’s arrival has been dominated by battle-torn city to Europe-based colleagues at the manages news outlet Raqqa Post from Germany. “But questions about his entanglement in “Sound and Picture” collective, then immediately communicating with our team is harder now than an ongoing US Justice Department deletes the messages. Media networks including before, especially after the internet cafes were shut investigation. Sound and Picture are providing a rare window into and fighting reached the city itself,” he says. The veteran prime minister faces life in Raqqa, ravaged by fighting since the US-backed Like other activists, Raqqa Post’s team stockpiled allegations that billions were looted Syrian Democratic Forces broke into the city on June food, water, and medicine and turned basements into from a sovereign wealth fund, 6. They write stories on what it’s like for civilians to makeshift bomb shelters in anticipation of a long 1Malaysia Development Berhad scavenge for food and water, publish footage of air fight, says Hassoun. Mohammad al-Khaled, who heads (1MDB), in complex overseas deals strikes, and commemorate civilians killed in fighting. the Raqqa 24 media collective from northern Syria, that are being investigated by authori- WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump greets Malaysian Prime “This is the only thing I can do right now-keep track warned his correspondents that he had seen how bru- ties in several countries, including the Minister Najib Razak outside of the West Wing of the White House in of how many air strikes, shells, dead, wounded. Who tally IS responded to other US-backed assaults. “I told United States. Both the prime minister Washington, DC. — AFP was killed by a sniper, an air strike, or a mine. How them Daesh would be more evil towards civilians, that and the fund deny any wrongdoing, many houses were destroyed,” Ramadan says. Activists they would use them and their families as human but the Justice Department has filed counterterrorism cooperation,” halting Criticism of Najib like him once solely focused on documenting the shields if they stayed,” Khaled tells AFP, adding that civil lawsuits to seize assets, from the Islamic State group, “addressing Malaysian opposition lawmaker Lim gruesome atrocities of IS’s three-year-reign over the some chose to flee. high-end real estate to artworks, it North Korea” and “making sure that we Kit Siang painted that appeal as a city. But the assault on Raqqa changed all that. “We says are worth about $1.7 billion. promote maritime security in the deflection. “No prime minister of used to be afraid of being arrested (by IS) if we went IS leaves, but ideas stay The White House refused to say South China Sea” as topics for discus- Malaysia in the past 60 years had to out in the street. Now we’re afraid of going outside in In recent months, Khaled has begun using new whether the issue will come up, and sion. Trump is also likely to reiterate face such phalanx of international case an artillery shell hits us. messaging programs and code words to protect his has tried to shift the focus onto rela- thanks for Malaysia’s efforts to assist media hostility or avalanche of adverse And if we don’t go out, we’re scared an air strike correspondents. Two members of the network’s six- tions with a key partner in South East the USS John S. McCain, which collid- press publicity both in the United could flatten the whole house on top of us,” says person team have been wounded in clashes, but cor- Asia. Trump is expected to visit the ed with a tanker as the destroyer was States and the world,” he said in a state- Ramadan. US-led coalition warplanes and SDF shelling respondent Khalil still refuses to leave. “My specializa- region later this year for summits in on its way to Singapore, tearing a ment. “It is inconceivable that Najib have pounded Raqqa, where up to 25,000 civilians still tion with the network is documenting casualties Vietnam and the Philippines. “Look, huge hole in the hull and leaving 10 would have the credibility to salvage live after tens of thousands escaped. The SDF has cap- because of my background in medicine. I record the we’re not going to comment on an sailors dead. his own as well as the nation’s reputa- tured around 65 percent of Raqqa, recently overrun- number and cause of deaths,” Khalil says, using a ongoing investigation being led by Ahead of his arrival at the White tion with his visit to the United States.” ning the strategic Old City. “When the coalition and pseudonym and communicating via an online mes- the Department of Justice,” said press House, Najib sought to play up majori- “Najib cannot free Malaysia from the the SDF entered the scene, we had to document more. saging app. secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on ty-Muslim Malaysia’s role as a partner ignominy and infamy of being regard- Daesh wasn’t the only side killing civilians anymore,” “If I was to leave at a time like this, it would be a Monday. “That investigation is apoliti- in countering violent extremism. “What ed worldwide as a global kleptocrat.” In Ramadan says, using the Arabic acronym for IS. betrayal of my countrymen, whom I’ve decided to stay cal and certainly independent of any- underpins decades of friendly, produc- an editorial, the Washington Post said within this situation.” Aghiad al-Kheder, who coordi- thing taking place tomorrow.” tive and cooperative relations are the Najib’s visit “sets a new low” for the Human shields nates with Ramadan and other Sound and Picture cor- “The United States and Malaysia deep-seated values we share,” he wrote Trump administration. “Not only is Mr Since Syria’s uprising began in 2011, citizen journal- respondents from Germany, spent a year living under have had a 60-year relationship and in an article published by The Hill Najib known for imprisoning peaceful ists have used cell phones and social media to docu- IS in Raqqa before escaping in 2015. At the time, he partnership built on common eco- newspaper. “Our commitment to the opponents, silencing critical media and ment protests and violations by armed forces. graphitized anti-IS messages and distributed flyers to nomic and security interests, and that fight against radicalization and terror is reversing Malaysia’s progress toward They adapted the same tools to document IS atroc- combat the jihadists’ extreme ideology. —AFP continues.” She listed “strengthen something we feel in our hearts.” democracy,” the paper wrote. —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 INTERNATIONAL Unions embrace single market but torn on immigration

BRIGHTON: A sea of hands went up at Minister Theresa May’s government to munist magazine outside the conference Britain’s annual trade union gathering “use all the domestic powers at its dis- centre on Brighton’s windy seafront, said this week in favor of keeping close ties posal to manage the impact of migra- she was frustrated at the enthusiasm the with the European Union. Labor leaders tion”. The RMT transport union, which Labor Party and the TUC showed for the representing some 5.6 million workers, campaigned in favor of Brexit ahead of single market. But Sally Hunt, head of the meeting in Brighton for the Trades Union last year’s referendum, was the only one University and College Union, said immi- Congress (TUC), said they embraced the of the TUC’s affiliated unions to openly gration “enriched” British society and European single market and warned of oppose the umbrella body’s policy on argued in favor of free movement of the perils of a “hard Brexit”. But their the single market. It accused the EU of people. “It is the employers who depress reluctance to commit to the single mar- propagating “key anti-worker policies”. wages, not immigrants,” she said. ket’s requirement for the free movement “It was (former Prime Minister Whatever the approach to Brexit, of people illustrated the dilemma at the Margaret) Thatcher that campaigned for union leaders warned it should not heart of Britain’s labor movement. the single market. We should be working come at the expense of workers’ rights. “We were never starry-eyed about for socialism, not collaboration with the Many leaders also voiced fears that spe- Europe,” said Len McCluskey, leader of bosses,” said RMT representative Edward cial executive powers in draft Brexit leg- the TUC’s largest union, Unite. His union Dempsey. “The European social model is islation put forward by the Conservative backed remaining in the single market always focused on individual workers government could lead to workers’ with the caveat that employers should rights and we should remember that rights being altered without parliamen- not be able to pay foreign workers lower we’re a collective movement,” he said. tary scrutiny. salaries than domestic workers. TUC The new bill would repeal the 1972 general secretary Frances O’Grady said Blame employers, not immigrants European Communities Act, convert an the practice of employers advertising Some leftists said they rejected the estimated 12,000 existing European reg- abroad for jobs they are not advertising idea of staying in the single market alto- LONDON: Pro-European Union demonstrators protest outside the Houses of ulations into British law and end the at home should be stopped. She also gether, and were furious that the main Parliament against the first vote today on a bill to end Britain’s membership of supremacy of EU legislation. Brexit could suggested options such as reserving opposition Labor Party has called for the EU.—AFP lead to “a race to the bottom” on workers’ public sector jobs for British citizens doing so during a transition period after rights, O’Grady warned. “We don’t want could be of interest. Brexit. “EU liberalization, allowing capital with it and suppresses wages. Old Karl said Kate Brown, 61, a former university Brits falling behind the rights that other The TUC in a motion urged Prime to flow out of the country, takes jobs Marx worked that out a long time ago,” lecturer. Brown, who was selling a com- Europeans enjoy.”—AFP Irma’s death toll rises, residents News start to return to Florida coast in brief Authorities working to restore basic services FLORIDA: Florida allowed some residents to return yester- Beach and from some parts of the Keys they could go home Commissioner Heather Carruthers said on Monday that day to areas hammered by Hurricane Irma’s high winds and but warned it might not be prudent to remain there. “This is people had been killed in the Keys, which have nearly storm surge, while the death toll rose in the second major going to be a frustrating event. It’s going to take some time 80,000 permanent residents, but she did not have a count hurricane to hit the United States this year. Irma, which had to let people back into their homes particularly in the on how many. “We are finding some remains,” she said in rampaged through the Caribbean as one of the most pow- Florida Keys,” Brock Long, administrator of the Federal an interview with CNN. Video footage of the islands erful Atlantic hurricanes on record, was downgraded to a Emergency Management Agency, told a news conference. showed homes torn apart. Several major airports in tropical depression on Monday. It will likely dissipate from FEMA was continuing to rescue people stranded by flood- Florida that halted passenger operations due to Irma Tuesday evening, the National Hurricane Center said. ing around Jacksonville, in the state’s northeast, he said. began limited service yesterday, including Miami At its peak the storm prompted evacuation orders for Irma devastated several Caribbean islands en route to International, one of the busiest US airports. 6.5 million people in Florida, the largest evacuation in Florida. It destroyed about one-third of the buildings on Miami Beach will allow residents to return home from 8 modern US history. Irma killed nearly 40 people in the the Dutch-ruled portion of St. Martin island, the Dutch am, its mayor said. More evacuation orders were likely to Caribbean and at least six in Florida and Georgia. A local Red Cross said yesterday. The storm was the second major be lifted yesterday. Monroe County opened road access POINTE-A-PITR: France’s President Emmanuel Macron Florida official said there had been more deaths yet to be hurricane to make landfall in the United States in a little yesterday morning for residents and business owners from meets official upon his arrival in Pointe-a-Pitre, reported, particularly on the Florida Keys, where Irma more than two weeks when it roared over Key Cudjoe. Key Largo, the main island at the upper end of the chain, as Guadeloupe island, the first step of his visit to French arrived as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of Hurricane Harvey plowed into Houston late last month, well as the towns of Tavernier and Islamorada farther to the Caribbean islands.—AFP up to 130 miles per hour on Sunday morning. killing about 60 and wreaking some $180 billion in dam- south, fire officials said. No timetable was given for reopen- France’s Macron visits Local authorities told around 90,000 residents of Miami age, largely through flooding. Monroe County ing the remainder of the Keys, which are linked by a series hurricane-hit Caribbean of causeways and bridges down to Key West, a popular MARIGOTE: French President Emmanuel Macron travelled tourist spot on the southern tip of Florida. yesterday to the hurricane-hit Caribbean, joining the Dutch king in the region for a tour of the devastated islands. Florida without electricity Macron’s visit to the islands of St Martin and St Barts comes Utilities reported some 6.9 million homes and business- almost a week since Hurricane Irma roared over the region es were without electricity in Florida and neighboring as a maximum Category Five storm, leaving at least 10 states and said it could take weeks to fully restore service. dead on French territory and a wide trail of destruction. Between 2,000 and 3,000 utility workers from out of state, Authorities have begun evacuating locals and tourists from sent to inspect and repair power lines, were staying in the hardest-hit French, British and Dutch territories in the Broward County in cramped conditions at BB&T Center, Caribbean where many have complained about a break- home to the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, down in law and order and widespread shortages of food, said Gus Beyersdorf, 40, of De Pere, Wisconsin. water and electricity. Insured property losses in Florida from Irma were expected to run from $20 billion to $40 billion, catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimated. One man was At least eight die found dead in his crashed car on the Keys and two law in Italy floods enforcement officers died in a possibly storm-related fatal ROME: At least eight people died in flooding after vio- car crash on Sunday in Orange County, Florida. On Monday, lent rains lashed the Tuscan city of Livorno over the two people were killed by falling trees in two Atlanta sub- weekend, Italian rescue services said yesterday. The body urbs, according to local authorities. A man was found dead of a 67-year-old man, who had been reported missing in Winter Garden, Florida, after being electrocuted by a since Sunday, was found yesterday, while the body of a downed power line, local police said. 34-year-old woman had been found the day before. The remnants of Irma moved into Alabama yesterday Heavy rainstorms swept across the country overnight and were forecast to head into western Tennessee by yes- from Saturday to Sunday, with Livorno bearing the brunt terday evening with maximum sustained winds of 25 mph. of the flooding. Four people from the same family were In South Carolina, the Charleston Harbor area saw major found dead in a flooded house in the city on Sunday, flooding on Monday with water about 3 feet above flood where 40 centimeters of rainfall in four hours trans- stage and minor flooding was forecast for yesterday, the formed streets into rivers and washed away cars. National Weather Service said. The National Hurricane Center was monitoring another hurricane, Jose, which was spinning in the Atlantic about 700 miles west of Florida. School segregation in Europe FLORIDA: Two retirees ride tricycles through a flooded street at the Enchanted Shores manufactured home park in About 2-1/2 months remain in the Atlantic hurricane sea- ‘worst forms of discrimination’ Naples, Florida, after Hurricane Irma hit Florida.—AFP son, which starts in June.—Reuters STRASBOURG: School segregation in Europe is “one of the worst forms of discrimination”, the region’s top rights Venezuela Supreme watchdog said in a report published yesterday. Many Bittersweet election European countries continue to exclude disabled children, Roma children and migrants or refugees from mainstream Court has staged schools, according to the report by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. “School segregation effective coup victory for Norway PM harms children’s learning opportunities and is a clear injustice against minority and other vulnerable groups of GENEVA: Venezuela’s Supreme Court has progressively OSLO: After clinching a narrow victo- ther tax cuts to bolster the economy. expressed growing dissatisfaction people, which also perpetuates their marginalization,” said dismantled the rule of law, becoming an instrument of ry in Norway’s legislative elections, The opposition, led by Labor with the populists on issues such as Nils Muiznieks. Countries have an obligation to combat President Nicolas Maduro’s government in what amounts Prime Minister Erna Solberg will start leader Jonas Gahr Store, meanwhile the climate and immigration. segregation in schools, but the reality is very different, the to a coup against the constitutional order, an internation- out with a fragile second mandate, wanted to raise taxes, especially for Contrary to four years ago, the report said. al human rights group said yesterday. The collapse of the given her weaker majority and less the richest, seeking to reduce inequal- Christian Democrats have already judiciary has left victims of torture, killings and disap- conciliatory allies. “You can never be ities and beef up the Norwegians’ ruled out any formal alliance with a pearances and their families without recourse to justice confident that you will survive for four cherished welfare state. Credited with coalition that includes the Progress after months of violent street protests, the International years,” Solberg said yesterday. “There successfully steering the country- Party-a very likely member of Solberg’s Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said. It called on the UN was a lot of speculation that this (gov- Western Europe’s biggest crude pro- government. “We can’t provide any Human Rights Council to take action. ernment) would not last, after the last ducer-through the oil industry slump guarantee for the next four years,” the “We have seen a judiciary that has essentially lost its election in 2013. We have managed to and the migrant crisis, Solberg now head of the Christian Democrats, Knut independence and become a tool of a very authoritari- do this and I think it’s possible to do it looks set to have her work cut out, Arild Hareide, warned. an executive branch,” Sam Zarifi, ICJ Secretary-General, for the four next years,” she said. simple arithmetic shows. told a news briefing. “This breakdown of the rule of law The popular and experienced 56- The rightwing bloc lost seven seats No blank cheques has also severely obstructed accountability (and) year-old is the first Conservative in oil- in the new parliament. It will need to Without a formal cooperation essentially made it impossible to bring to justice those rich Norway to win a second straight stand more united than ever to gov- agreement with the Christian responsible for gross violations of human rights,” he mandate in more than 30 years. In ern-and that is easier said than done. Democrats and the Liberals, Solberg said. The Venezuelan government did not immediately Monday’s nail-biting election, her Until now, Solberg’s coalition had held will have to engage in tricky negotia- reply to a request for comment. Foreign minister Jorge coalition-made up of the a minority in parliament and needed tions on each issue to obtain the sup- Arreaza on Monday rejected as “baseless” a UN report Conservatives and the mildly populist the support of only one of the two port of the centre-right, which has that found excessive use of force by its security forces anti-immigration Progress Party-and smaller centre-right parties-the refused to give her a blank cheque. and other violations. two smaller centre-right allies took Christian Democrats or the Liberals-to Concessions and compromises will be Four months of demonstrations in which at least home a thin majority of 89 of the 169 pass legislation. But now Solberg necessary, leading tabloid Dagbladet 125 people were killed have all but stopped due to seats in parliament. The Conservatives needs the support of both parties to to headline Tuesday’s frontpage fatigue among protesters and disillusionment at seeing campaigned on a vow to pursue fur- do that, and they have both “Bittersweet Victory”. As soon as the the ruling Socialist Party cement vast powers despite election results were in late Monday, PROVIDENCIALES: A handout picture shows Royal the concerted opposition push. The ICJ said the top Solberg invited the rightwing parties Marine Commandos unloading aid supplies from a court had undermined human rights and infringed the to find a way forward. RAF C-130 after landing on the island of Constitution through a series of rulings since “We will talk to the two partners the Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos archipelago December 2015. In two rulings in March 2017, the coalition has had in parliament, and following the passing of Hurricane Irma.—AFP Supreme Court of Justice “effectively claimed legislative we’ll try to reach an agreement with British FM flies to Caribbean powers for itself, depriving the National Assembly of its them. And we’ll see where we go from after criticism of Irma aid Constitutional powers and granting sweeping arbitrary there,” Solberg said, noting that the LONDON: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson flew to powers to the executive,” it said. two parties had more influence work- British territories in the Caribbean yesterday following “These decisions amount to a coup d’Ètat against ing with the government than in oppo- intense criticism of London’s efforts to help communi- the Constitutional order and have ushered in a new sition. Before the shape of the next gov- ties devastated by Hurricane Irma. Johnson, who has reign of arbitrary rule,” Zarifi said. Judges on the ernment had even taken form, ques- dismissed the criticism from local residents and British Supreme Court are mainly from the Socialist Party or tions were already being raised about tourists as “completely unjustified”, will visit the affect- former officials of the government of Maduro or both, its chances of survival. “It’s not a given ed British Overseas Territories, the foreign ministry said the Geneva-based jurists’ group said. “Judges who have that they will last four years,” warned on Twitter. Britain has sent more than 700 troops and demonstrated independence and ruled against the Audun Lysbakken, head of the Socialist 50 police officers to the British Virgin Islands after Irma executive branch have faced retaliation and punish- Left party, one of the few winners in the swept through last week. Six people have been killed ment,” Zarifi said. —Reuters OSLO: Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg arrives for a press conference election even though it remained in the in the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla. in Oslo.—AP opposition. —AFP

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 INTERNATIONAL

North Korea: The celebrity circuit’s unlikeliest outpost

TOKYO: What do a flamboyant wrestler-turned-sena- a budgetary committee saying he had seen a mysteri- sang “Happy Birthday” to the young leader-Marilyn tor from Japan, a former NBA star with a penchant for ous flying object disappearing over the horizon. Inoki Monroe-style. The most recent visitor was controver- tattoos and a French comedian with a string of convic- has said he wants to “contribute to world peace sial French comic Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, who tions to his name have in common? They all form part through sports” and has arranged martial arts and announced on his YouTube channel that he was going of a colorful cast of characters that have made well- wrestling festivals in North Korea, often meeting high- to North Korea to appear at a “peace festival.” publicized trips to North Korea, sparking media fasci- ranking officials during his visits. Pictures on his Twitter only showed him at the nation amid a thirst for information about the hermit During his latest trip this week, he said he briefly Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas-a regu- kingdom. Experts say the visits are mainly motivated met North Korea’s ceremonial head of state Kim lar stop for tour groups to the North. Dieudonne by self-publicity, but in the absence of conventional Yong Nam and his visit merited a series of dispatches sparked outrage-and a two-month suspended jail sen- ties they can, in some cases, offer a rare point of con- from the official KCNA news agency. Another tence-in France by saying he sympathized with one of tact at a time when nuclear tensions on the Korean Japanese personality, a sushi chef who goes by the the jihadists involved in the January 2015 attack on the peninsula are at fever pitch. pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, claimed last year that Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris. Japan’s Antonio Inoki, unmistakable from his out- Pyongyang’s young leader himself picked him up sized chin and trademark tie and red scarf-even in from the airport during his last visit. Former basket- ‘The Worm’ returned summer-was the latest unorthodox foreign visitor to ball star Dennis Rodman has also hit the headlines in Officials dismiss the trips as a sideshow. Asked North Korea for a five-day mission. It was the 32nd trip recent years for his trips to North Korea where he has about Inoki’s recent visit, Japan’s Chief Cabinet to Pyongyang for Inoki, who stands 1.9 meters tall and described holiday plans with Kim and dining with Secretary Yoshihide Suga pointedly reminded journal- shot to fame in 1976 for battling then world heavy- him on a huge yacht. ists that Tokyo has a travel ban in place for North weight champion Muhammad Ali in a zany wrestler- The heavily tattooed Rodman, who once dated Korea, urging the politician to “act appropriately”. TOKYO: This photo shows Japanese wrestler- versus-boxer bout in Tokyo. Madonna and was married to model and actress Washington has also sought to distance itself from turned-politician Kanji ‘Antonio’ Inoki hold- Now a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house of parlia- Carmen Electra, says he calls Kim “kid” all the time and Rodman’s trips with a state department official saying ing a press conference upon his arrival at ment, Inoki also forced the government to take an offi- has described him as “awesome”. On one visit with a after one trip that the NBA star known as the “Worm” Tokyo’s Haneda airport following his return cial position about aliens when he tabled a question in team of fellow former NBA players in 2014, he publicly had “never been a player in our diplomacy”. —AFP from a visit to North Korea. — AFP

News in brief

Sri Lankan minister Sirisena sacked for rocking coalition

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yes- terday sacked a minister who had threatened to split his coalition government, three weeks after another was fired for publicly criticizing a government decision. Sirisena’s office said Arundika Fernando, junior minister for tourism and Christian affairs, was expelled from the government under the executive powers of the president. “With this sacking the president has asserted his authority and sent a signal he won’t hesitate to expel more,” a source close to the presidency said, citing Fernando’s previous assertion that around a dozen ministers were planning to leave the government.

MANILA: Young residents play on a flooded street in BANGLADESH: Bangladeshi volunteers from the Chhagalnaiya village council distribute food donations to Rohingya Muslim refugees at Naikhongchhari in Chittagong. — AFP Manila, after tropical depression locally codenamed ‘Maring’, hit the eastern town of Mauban before moving northwest across the main island of Luzon Global split over Rohingya crisis as and passing just beside Manila, the government weather station said. — AFP At least four dead as China backs Myanmar crackdown storm hits Philippines MANILA: At least four people died and six were miss- Myanmar govt denies abuses, blames militants ing after a major storm caused flooding in and around Manila yesterday, forcing schools, government offices and businesses to shut down. A 12-year-old girl who COX’S BAZAR: International divisions many belonging to Rohingya. But interna- are still on the move making it difficult to been severely curtailed due to the violence. drowned in a rain-swollen river in a Manila suburb and emerged yesterday ahead of a UN Security tional pressure on Myanmar heightened include them in the count, the UN said, The exodus of Rohingya has saddled a three-month old baby who was crushed by a land- Council meeting on a worsening refugee this week after United Nations rights chief adding 60 percent of refugees are children. Bangladesh with its own humanitarian cri- slide southeast of the Philippine capital were among crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing sup- Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the violence Most are in dire need of food, medical sis, as aid workers scramble to provide the victims, local officials said. Most of the dead and port for a military crackdown that has seemed to be a “textbook example of eth- care and shelter after trekking for days food and shelter to a daily stream of missing were poor people forced to live in identified been criticized by the US, slammed as “eth- nic cleansing”. through hills and jungles or braving dan- bedraggled refugees. The UN-run refugee “danger zones” despite government warnings of the nic cleansing” and forced 370,000 The US also raised alarm over the vio- gerous boat journeys. In a statement late camps in its Cox’s Bazar district were risks they face during storms. Rohingya to flee the violence. Beijing’s lence while the Security Council Monday Suu Kyi’s foreign ministry defend- already packed with Rohingya who had intervention appears aimed at heading off announced it would meet Wednesday to ed the military for doing their “legitimate fled from previous waves of persecution. any attempt to censure Myanmar at the discuss the crisis. Opprobrium has been duty to restore stability”, saying troops Dhaka is providing them temporary shel- Pakistan police hunt elder who council when it convenes today. heaped Suu Kyi, who was once a darling of were under orders “to exercise all due ter. But Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh ordered couple’s electrocution China was one of the few foreign friends the rights community but now faces accu- restraint, and to take full measures to Hasina, who visited a Rohingya camp yes- of Myanmar’s former junta.Beijing has sations of turning a blind eye to-and even avoid collateral damage.” Britain and terday, stressed it was up to Myanmar to KARACHI: Pakistani police were yesterday hunting a tribal tightened its embrace under Aung San Suu abetting-a humanitarian catastrophe by Sweden requested the urgent Security “resolve” the issue. “We will request the elder who ordered a teenage couple to be electrocuted by Kyi’s civilian government as part of its giant Western powers who once feted her as Council meeting amid growing interna- Myanmar government to stop oppressing their families as punishment for eloping, in the country’s trade, energy and infrastructure strategy well as a slew of fellow Nobel Laureates. tional concern over the ongoing violence. innocent people,” she said during a tour of latest gruesome “honor” killing. The couple, members of for Southeast Asia. The exodus from But Beijing offered more encouraging The council met behind closed doors in a camp in Cox’s Bazar, according to local the Pashtun ethnic group living in the southern city of Myanmar’s western Rakine state began words to her yesterday, with foreign min- late August to discuss the violence, but outlet bdnews24.com. Karachi, fell afoul of their families after eloping last month. after Rohingya militants attacked police istry spokesman Geng Shuang voicing could not agree a formal statement. Dhaka, which has refused to perma- But police said the man’s family persuaded them to return posts on August 25, prompting a military support for her government’s efforts to nently absorb the Rohingya, said it plans to home so they could be married. A tribal jirga (council) then backlash that has sent a third of the Muslim “uphold peace and stability” in Rakhine. Stop the oppression build a huge new camp that will house a ordered the couple’s execution after the families had put minority population fleeing for their lives. “We hope order and the normal life The UN special rapporteur on human quarter of a million refugees. But it remains their case to the influential group of elders. The couple Exhausted Rohingya refugees have giv- there will be recovered as soon as possi- rights in Myanmar has said the latest vio- unclear if or when they will be able to were tied to a wooden bed and electrocuted by family en accounts of atrocities at the hands of ble,” he told a press briefing. The Rohingya lence may have left more than 1,000 dead, return. Plumes of smoke continued to rise members. Police said the girl was aged 15 or 16 and the soldiers and Buddhist mobs who burned minority are denied citizenship and have most of them Rohingya. Myanmar says the on the Myanmar side of the border this man was around 18 years old. their villages to the ground. They cannot suffered years of persecution in Buddhist- number of dead is around 430, the majority week despite the militants’ announcement be independently verified as access to majority Myanmar. “An estimated 370,000 of them “extremist terrorists” from the on Sunday of a unilateral ceasefire. There Rakhine state is heavily controlled. Rohingya have entered Bangladesh,” since Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). It was no direct response from Myanmar’s Myanmar’s government denies any abuses August 25 Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for says a further 30,000 ethnic Rakhine and military, though government spokesman and instead blames militants for burning the UN refugee agency, said. The real fig- Hindus have been displaced inside north- Zaw Htay tweeted: “We have no policy to down thousands of villages, including ure may be higher as many new arrivals ern Rakhine, where aid programs have negotiate with terrorists.” — AFP Anger in Singapore Controversial Australia vote as no election for president on same-sex marriage begins SYDNEY: A contentious postal survey marriage equality, with 70 percent of chose an unusual approach-a volun- SINGAPORE: Singaporeans yesterday poured scorn on on same-sex marriage began in those surveyed in a Fairfax Media poll tary and non-binding postal vote-after the process to select their new president after an estab- Australia yesterday, with ballots deliv- yesterday backing the “yes” campaign, an election promise of a national lishment figure was deemed the only eligible candidate, ered across the vast continent ahead Australia has yet to legalize such plebiscite was twice rejected by parlia- meaning no election will be held. Halimah Yacob, a for- of an expected fractious campaign unions despite more than a decade of ment’s upper house, the Senate. If HONG KONG: Veteran activist and former Hong mer speaker of parliament from the city-state’s Muslim between the “yes” and “no” sides. While political wrangling. most Australians vote “yes” to same- Kong lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, centre right, and Malay minority, will be the first woman to hold the there has been growing support for The conservative government sex marriage the government will Avery Leung, centre left, chairman of the League of largely ceremonial role if as expected-she is formally move to hold a parliamentary free Social Democrats (LSD), burn a picture of former nominated to the presidency today. But the 63-year-old vote on changing the marriage laws. It White House chief strategist Steve Bannon during a will avoid an election originally slated for September 23, will not do so if there is a “no” out- protest against US President Donald Trump and as others hoping to run against her were judged by come. “I encourage everyone to fill in Bannon’s visit to the city in Hong Kong. —AFP authorities not to have met strict eligibility criteria. the survey and return it. I’ll be voting Anti-racism protesters greet Five people had expressed an interest in becoming ‘yes’ as will (my wife) Lucy,” Prime ex-Trump aide Bannon in Hong Kong president of the tightly-controlled, affluent nation of Minister Malcolm Turnbull told com- about 5.5 million people. Two were disqualified as they mercial radio this week. HONG KONG: Activists gathered in central Hong Kong were not Malay-the presidency was on this occasion Turnbull, a moderate, is opposed by yesterday to protest the visit of US President Donald reserved for members of the ethnic minority-while two some members of his conservative rul- Trump’s former top strategist Steve Bannon, chanting Malay businessmen were disqualified as their compa- ing Liberal-National coalition on the “Nazis are not welcome here!” as they donned cartoon nies were too small. “All Singaporeans are unhappy that issue and the postal vote is seen as a Trump masks. The protesters stood outside the harbor meritocracy and electoral fairness, core Singaporean compromise. The start of the ballot front Grand Hyatt hotel in Hong Kong where the 63- values, have been eroded to fulfill perceived political process followed weekend rallies for year-old was due to speak at a closed-door investors’ goals,” writer and political commentator Sudhir Thomas and against changing marriage laws, forum, holding a rooster-shaped cardboard cut-out Vadaketh said. There was criticism of the process on with thousands of people dressed in capped with Trump’s hairstyle and labeled “toxic social media, with Facebook user Hussain Shamsuddin rainbow colors packing central Sydney nationalist”. Media were denied access to Bannon’s commenting: “As a citizen of this democratic island on Sunday to back the “yes” vote. speech, hosted by CLSA, a Hong Kong-based broker- nation, I’m deeply embarrassed.” “Don’t call it an election Hundreds of “no” campaigners age firm owned by China’s CITIC Securities, China’s if we Singaporeans can’t vote,” wrote Fazly Jijio Din on marched on Saturday, arguing that biggest investment bank. —Agencies Facebook. —AFP SYDNEY: This picture shows demonstrators taking part in a same-sex mar- changes would infringe religious free- riage rally in Sydney. — AFP dom and children’s rights. —AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

NANTES: A demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back to anti-riot police during a protest called by several French unions against the labor law reform yesterday in Nantes, western France. French unions launched a day of strikes and protests yesterday against French President’s flagship labor reforms, a key test as he stakes his presidency on overhauling the sluggish economy. — AFP

Hopes fade as Gulf crisis hits 100-day... Saudi foils terror plot Continued from Page 1 No deal Continued from Page 1 Saudi Arabia and with the aim of destabilizing the securi- The crisis has also exposed the West’s inability to ty and national unity in preparation to overthrow the But initial speculation of a military intervention resolve the conflict, despite the fact all the states activities for the benefit of foreign parties” by a group Saudi regime in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood,” the against Qatar has given way to an increasingly bizarre involved are western allies and some host vital strategic of people it did not name. source said. stalemate, with state-backed media outlets and PR firms assets including America’s largest Middle East air base. A Saudi security source, who declined to be named Citing an ongoing investigation, the source declined playing a major role. Saudi contacts with an obscure Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump said a deal due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters that the to name the countries or the members of the group. The Qatari Sheikh in August triggered speculation he was could be “worked out very quickly”, but only days passed suspects were accused of “espionage activities and hav- source said one of the detainees is a member of the being used to undermine the Qatari leadership. before a fresh row erupted between Riyadh and Doha. ing contacts with external entities including the Muslim armed Houthi movement, which is locked in 2 1/2 years Qatar has portrayed itself as victim of human rights Some nations appear to be benefitting from the conflict. Brotherhood”, which Riyadh has classified as a terrorist of war with a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, and is in direct organization. “The group is also accused of having con- contact with the group. The suspects are in custody and abuses, to the bemusement of campaign groups critical Oman has seen a 2,000 per cent trade increase with tacts with and receiving financial and other forms of sup- will be granted legal rights and due process, the source of the emirate’s treatment of foreign workers as it pre- Qatar since June 5, according to official figures pub- port from two other countries to harm the Kingdom of added. —Reuters pares to host the 2022 football World Cup. And exiled lished in Muscat. Qatar also sees some upsides to the Qatari opposition figure Khalid Al-Hail is set to speak crisis, Ulrichsen said. “Qatar is ‘winning’ in the sense that tomorrow at a mysterious conference in London entitled Doha has proved far more resilient and able to with- “Qatar, Global Security and Stability”. Kristian Ulrichsen, a stand the pressure placed upon it than the anti-Qatar Oman secures release of kidnapped Indian... Gulf analyst with the Baker Institute at the US-based Rice quartet initially envisaged,” he said. But that may not University, said the standoff was not likely to end any last forever. The costs of a long-running boycott may Continued from Page 1 The internationally recognized government in war- time soon. eventually take their toll, especially as Qatar prepares to torn Yemen is grappling with both an Iran-backed rebel- “The sense of bitterness and betrayal on all sides is host the World Cup. Uzhunnalil, who is in his mid-50s, last appeared in a lion and a growing jihadist presence. Al-Qaeda and IS video circulated online in December 2016, in which he have stepped up attacks in Aden, targeting mainly loy- so great, and nobody wants to be seen to be the one Qatar has previously said the majority of up to 1.3 appealed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alists and members of a Saudi-led coalition battling who blinked first,” he said. “The 2014 diplomatic spat million fans visiting in 2022 would likely be Saudis, cur- Pope Francis to secure his freedom. Yemeni authorities Houthi rebels and their allies. President Abedrabbo (when Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi pulled their ambas- rently banned from travelling to the country. Regardless have blamed the Islamic State group for last year’s attack. Mansour Hadi has declared Aden to be Yemen’s tempo- sadors from Doha) lasted for eight months and the cur- of its new-found confidence, Qatar may be forced to Al-Qaeda, which is also active in the area, distanced itself rary capital since Sanaa was seized by the rebels in rent crisis far exceeds 2014 in magnitude, so it is likely blink first, Davidson said. “The only real way out is for from the mass shooting, saying that it was not involved. September 2014. — AFP to last a lot longer.” He said the dispute is also damag- Qatar to agree to the blockading nations’ original ing the Gulf states’ reputations abroad. “Leaders in the demands,” he said. “This is the only practical scenario Gulf don’t fully seem to understand how the dispute is that will allow Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to sufficiently save Lawmakers threaten to grill premier ... undermining their reputation as reliable security part- face, and that will prevent another crisis emerging fur- ners in the West,” he said. ther down the line.” — AFP Continued from Page 1 last month, describing the incident extremely dangerous. The lawmaker said he will send questions to the Minister of informed him that the number of students in the class- Social Affairs and Labor and State Minister for Economic room will be 50 and that some schools do not have admin- Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh, who oversees civil aviation, regard- India sets up centre to help migrant... istrators nor teachers. ing the investigation, adding that the probe must be neu- The lawmaker called on the minister to step down as a tral, specialized and internationally recognized. Continued from Page 1 Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview. An result of mismanagement. Harbash said that although the various concerned sides extension of the Indian government’s safe migration In the meantime, head of the Assembly Committee on like Civil Aviation, the Defense Ministry and the concerned plaints from migrant workers, ranging from non-pay- awareness program, the centre will also invite workers Bedoons or stateless people MP Nasser Al-Dossari said yes- airlines may have launched their investigations, the gov- ment of wages to torture and abuse. To register these to camps to educate them on their rights. terday that he will call for an emergency meeting for the ernment should also carry out its own probe. He said that complaints, a multilingual toll free number (800 INDIA) “We are largely dealing with blue collar workers, many committee over the Ministry of Education refusal to admit only a neutral investigation will prevent similar incident will be run 24/7 at the Sharjah centre, where job offer of them illiterate and unaware of the terms surrounding children of Bedoon servicemen. He said the committee will from reoccurring, adding that the minister has so far failed letters will also be verified to ensure they are not fake. their work contract,” said Ankit Agarwal of Alankit, the in carrying out the required duties which require taking meet with Education Minister Mohammad Al-Fares to dis- Besides being duped by job agents, many workers are firm collaborating with the Indian government to run the cuss the issue, adding that reasons made by the ministry her to account. trapped in low paying jobs, unaware of how to seek centre. “At the camps, we give out basic information and are unjustified. The lawmaker said the minister must Harbash said he will propose a special pay-scale for avi- answer the committee questions clearly about why the ation monitors after he found that their financial and living legal or financial help, Kumar said. tell them how to reach us when they are in trouble.” In ministry refused to enroll the bedoon students adding that conditions are far below their counterparts in other Gulf In many cases, the difference in culture, language 2010, the Indian government opened its first resource his answers must be supported by figures and facts. states. He said that it is time to consider this profession as a and food habits becomes a hurdle for workers migrat- centre in Dubai. In 2016, the Dubai centre received nearly In another development, MP Jamaan Al-Harbash yester- hard job, calling for the establishment of a navigation insti- ing from poor Indian families, he added. “Counselors 25,000 calls from workers and more than 2,000 letters, day called for a neutral investigation into the collision tute. The collision did not result in any damages and all will be available at the centre to help workers cope with faxes and phone messages, including one from a univer- between a passenger plane and an air defense balloon late passengers escaped unhurt. the place and talk about their worries,” Kumar told the sity professor who wasn’t paid his dues. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 ANALYSIS

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Focus Refugees start new school term in Serbian limbo

By Katarina Subasic, Rachel O’Brien

oung refugee Shvaib Nazari flicks between his native Dari and wobbly Serbian language notes during his first week back at school in Belgrade, Ywhere his family lives in a state of limbo. The 12-year- old is one of 700 migrant children enrolled for a new school term in Serbia-far from the image of Europe that his Afghan family dreamt of when they left home nearly two years ago. Since the closure of the “Balkan route” last year, the country has become a cul-de-sac for around 4,000 migrants, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, who want to start new lives in the European Union but cannot cross its borders. Nearly half of them are chil- dren, whom Serbian authorities-with the support of UNICEF-are increasingly trying to accommodate at Pain and despair as Rohingya families local schools, despite the difficult language barrier. “The school is good, the other boys talk quite a bit and they’re noisy but I don’t pay attention to them,” in India and Pakistan watch from afar Shvaib said. “They only teach us in Serbian and we don’t under- By Anuradha Nagaraj and Zofeen T of seven whose fisherman husband Majid is week. “My mother and sister are missing,” said over the river,” said Islam, who took the stand some things.” But he and his siblings could Ebrahim often out of work. Yusuf, just back from work as a daily laborer. same path himself decades ago. answer a few basic questions in the local language, “My father said he was alone and dying. There “We were 200 people, all related, but 15 which they are gradually picking up thanks to extra n a dilapidated shelter in south India, Houses torched is destruction everywhere, he told me. The of them were my immediate family includ- classes. Eight family members stay in one clean but surrounded by squalor, Alakamma Bibi The United Nations’ top human rights few men left in the village are just about sur- ing my wife Aisha and Majid, then aged just cramped room filled with bunk beds in an asylum dials her home in Myanmar every few official on Monday slammed Myanmar for viving, eating once every three days.” five,” he said pointing to his wife and son centre on the outskirts of Belgrade, originally built for Ihours. All she gets is a beeping tone. In the conducting a “cruel military operation” sitting by his side. From Bangladesh they refugees in the 1990s Balkan conflicts. Each morning, two weeks since she first heard of the against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, ‘Tenfold more brutal’ crossed northern India and reached the four of the siblings take a bus to the nearby Jovan upsurge in violence in Myanmar, she has branding it “a textbook example of ethnic On a Karachi backstreet, Hamida’s port of Karachi after a three-month trek. Cvijic school, one of 47 establishments now enrolling spent countless hours trying to reach her cleansing”. In southern India, Bibi’s mobile father-in-law, Saeed Islam, relives the terror “We travelled with just the clothes on our migrant children throughout the country. parents and siblings, desperate to hear phone is full of video clips and Whatsapp of his own getaway from Myanmar 40 years back, begged for food on the way and slept their voices. “I can’t sleep anymore,” she messages describing the unfolding horror. ago every time he sees video clips of the along the wayside. We crossed borders ille- ‘Sense of hope’ said, hunched over a pot of bubbling rice. “We hear some are hiding in forests, their current violence on his son’s mobile phone. gally during the night,” said Islam. “The eld- “For us it’s a very important step,” said Michel Saint- “My parents may be dead, you know. They houses burnt down, their children killed,” The older members of Karachi’s Rohingya erly and the sick died on the way.” Lot, who represents UNICEF in Serbia. “Education is stayed back because it was home. Now Bibi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. community fled Myanmar, formerly Burma, not only a fundamental right for children, but it offers suddenly there is no place to call home.” “We had farms, a proper home, livestock. when the military seized power in a 1962 an opportunity to give those children a semblance of Uncertain future Bibi is one of hundreds of thousands of Look at where I live now - in dirt, with no coup, escaping on foot or by boat to The Rohingya in Karachi largely work on normalcy, a structured way of living, a sense of hope.” Rohingya Muslims who have fled from savings, no hope and no future if this con- Bangladesh, which was then East Pakistan. fishing boats, or clean the catch brought by Their inclusion in formal education is not without chal- Rakhine state in Buddhist-majority tinues,” said Bibi. Eventually, they made their way to Karachi. fishermen who set sail from the nearby lenges in non-EU member Serbia, a relatively poor Myanmar since 2012 to other countries, In the run-down cyclone shelter in “We were told we should go to a Muslim Korangi Creek. Like the Rohingya in south- country of seven million people where the average including Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Kelambakkam that now serves as a refugee country - like Pakistan - as there was no ern India, they live in uncertainty, on the monthly wage is less than 400 euros ($480). Many of Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and the United the children in transit are “coming with their baggage centre, Rohingya families are constantly on place for us in Myanmar. But what is hap- margins of society. Most of them are state- Arab Emirates. In the last fortnight alone, their phones, desperately dialing in to pening now is tenfold more brutal,” he said, less as they cannot obtain Pakistani identity of trauma-trauma from conflict, trauma from the jour- more than 300,000 Rohingya have fled ney, the uncertainty of where, what their life will look Myanmar, hoping someone will pick up at the in broken Urdu. “They will wade through cards, essential for opening bank accounts, across the border to Bangladesh, fleeing an other end. Mohammad Yusuf, 30, managed to rice paddies, and uneven and rocky moun- enrolling into school, using public hospi- like three months, six months from now,” said Saint-Lot. explosion of violence. Myanmar’s govern- Then there is the language issue, exacerbated by a get a call through to his ageing father last tainous terrain; some will come in boats tals, and even getting a job. ment regards the approximately 1 million In India’s Kelambakkam, the Rohingya lack of translators. While his younger sister Zainab sat Rohingya as illegal migrants from neigh- work as ragpickers and casual laborers. As through a recent class with an interpreter, Shvaib boring Bangladesh and denies them citi- well as the violence in Myanmar, they are attended a music lesson without translation. zenship, even though many Rohingya fami- Valentina Pandjeitan, head teacher at Jovan Cvijic, lies have lived there for generations. also following the Indian government’s said the newcomers went to the classes that were eas- In retaliation for attacks by Rohingya talks on deporting them with concern. “We ier to follow without fluency, such as music, art and insurgents on police posts and an army are from Myanmar, but have no documents mathematics. Serbian parents were initially worried base, the Myanmar army and Buddhist vigi- that recognize that fact,” said Yusuf, taking that “teachers would lose time in class and be focused lantes have mounted a campaign of arson out papers carefully preserved in a plastic on migrant children and less on other students,” aimed at driving out the minority group, folder. “All we can do now is pray for the Pandjeitan said. But she said the fears proved human rights monitors and fleeing safety of those back home and hope the unfounded and so “parents made no problems”. Rohingya say, a charge the Myanmar gov- Indian government does not deport us.” ernment denies. Pockets of Rohingya com- Recalling his own flight from Myanmar Plans to move munities are dotted around South Asia, in 2012, Yusuf said it had taken a year to The goal is to have all 1,500 school-age refugee with exiles anxious for news of their rela- reestablish contact with his family after he and migrant children in Serbia in formal education. tives back in Myanmar. crossed over to Bangladesh and then made But Shvaib’s father, Zaman Ali Nazari, is skeptical of In an alleyway in the garbage-strewn his way to India. “My son Abu was born their chance to study without better language skills. Hundred Quarters in Karachi, Hamida, who here, in this Kelambakkam refugee shelter. I “They don’t understand the lessons,” he said. And in was born in the Pakistani city but speaks flu- had hoped to take him home one day, any case, he hopes his family will be able to leave in a ent Burmese and only a smattering of Urdu, show him the house I grew up in, the few months’ time to join another 15-year-old son, has been reading verses from the Koran, streets I played in, the mosque I went to who is already in Vienna. All the migrants currently praying for an end to the persecution of her pray in. Now, he may never know where he stranded in Serbia are “taken care of”, with accommo- Muslim relatives in Myanmar. “My cousins is from and what can be worse than that,” dation, food, healthcare and now schooling, accord- fleeing from their village have told us many Yusuf said, sitting on the steps to his clut- ing to Ivan Miskovic, a spokesman for the Serbian tered and cramped room. On the door of our relatives have been butchered, even TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Men prepare food for Rohingya refugees, who crossed the bor- Commissariat for Refugees. While the size of the tran- behind him, scrawled in chalk is “Allah hu”. small babies,” said Hamida, aged in her 40s, der from Myanmar, in the Bangladeshi city of Teknaf. Ordinary citizens have turned sitory population is stable, he said the average length “It’s all about keeping the faith now,” said adding many had asked for help. “We know out in droves to volunteer in a kitchen that provides hot meals to Rohingya of stay had “significantly increased”. Hungary is allow- Bibi, the woman stirring a pot of rice. “And they desperately need money, but we our- refugees, joining an army of ordinary Bangladeshis pitching in as aid agencies strug- ing only around 50 migrants to enter from Serbia so we pray for peace back home.”— Reuters each week, according to the UN’s refugee agency. The selves live hand to mouth,” said the mother gle to cope with an overwhelming tide of desperate civilians. —AFP Nazari family hopes its turn will come to leave via this route in five to six months.

‘Not the dream country’ Why Irma wasn’t as catastrophic in Florida as feared Fearing for his life, the father, a former driver for a government-run service in Afghanistan, said he had By Leila Macor, with Kerry Sheridan surge flooding in Miami is a mere fraction of what dangerous areas, noting that 260 people had called 911 decided to leave the country after the Taliban would have happened if the core of the storm had been in the thick of the storm, when emergency crews could stopped him and stole his cargo. The family from urricane Irma was supposed to be a monster further east,” tweeted Rick Knabb, former director of the not respond. All those calls were resolved without inci- Kabul left in early 2016 and reached Turkey. From storm, immense and record-breaking in size as it National Hurricane Center and currently an expert on dent by early Monday, he said. there they were smuggled by boat to Greece, staying charged toward Florida packing a punch that the Weather Channel. for a few months because of the closure of the Balkan couldH lay waste to a state that is home to some 20 mil- The worst to come? route, which by then had been taken by hundreds of lion people. But as the sun rose Monday, floodwaters in Orderly exit But plenty of challenges remain, and the large thousands of people. With the help of people smug- Florida quickly receded, and torn off roofs, tree-dam- With weather forecasters warning of the impact to scale of the disaster zone presents its own problems. glers the Nazaris moved on to Macedonia and then aged homes and toppled boats were limited to isolated Florida a full week in advance, many people took time to “The real test is going to be in the ability to recover Serbia. “During our time here we have not had a sin- pockets of the state. shutter their windows and take to highways in search of effectively,” said Redlener. Some 5.6 million cus- gle bad experience, but our problem is that we can- Hurricane Irma is blamed for killing at least 40 people safer ground. Five and six days out, Irma looked set to tomers-or about 15 million people-are without pow- not stay,” the 45-year-old said. —AFP across the Caribbean. Just two deaths in Florida were charge up the east coast of Florida. In the last day or er, and officials warn it could be weeks before the reported by state officials Monday. “I didn’t see the two, suddenly the Gulf Coast was bracing for the worst. electricity is fully restored. damage I thought I would see,” Florida Governor Rick This uncertainty was unsurprising from a meteorological “We are worried about flooding, housing, debris Scott said after an aerial tour of the island chain of the standpoint, said Irwin Redlener, director of the National and power restoration,” Homeland Security Advisor All articles appearing on these pages are Keys, which were hit by the Category Four storm early Center for Disaster Preparedness and professor at Tom Bossert told a White House press briefing. “We the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait Saturday. One of the most alarming warnings had to do Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. haven’t assessed yet entirely what the damage is... with storm surge-a wall of water that rushes over land “We are way better than we used to be but we are Remember, it’s a peninsula, it is a wider-scale prob- Times takes no responsibility for views during a hurricane and often kills far more people than nowhere near where we could be,” he said. Despite fuel lem and it has been a larger-swath storm.” expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites the wind. In the end, the surge was “not as bad as we shortages and traffic bottlenecks, Florida somehow With water lines and sewers damaged in the Keys, thought,” Scott added. Part of the reason Florida managed to evacuate six million people from the vul- debris to clear and power infrastructure to rebuild, readers to voice their opinions. Please send escaped the worst had to do with the path of the storm, nerable coasts-a far larger exodus than any other storm Miami Mayor Carlos Gimenez cautioned that the road submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- meteorologists said. in recent memory. “The evacuation went more smoothly to normalcy could be rocky. Hurricane Irma razed the northern coast of Cuba as a than I thought it was going to go,” Redlener added. “We now go through the much longer phase, which times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 potent Category Five storm on its way toward Florida, While plenty of Floridians chose to shelter in place, is the recovery phase. And believe me, folks, some of Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right losing some of its strength in the process. Its westward the evacuations likely saved lives and kept first respon- this is going to take a while, especially power restora- shift, away from Miami, also spared the coastal tourist ders out of harm’s way.Dennis Jones, chief of tion,” he said. “But you know what? Inconvenience is a to edit any submission as necessary. haven from the storm’s fearsome right-front quadrant, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, which includes the great thing versus having your home destroyed and with the highest winds and surge potential. “The storm city of Tampa, said he was “thankful” for those who left your life significantly altered.” —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 SPORTS

Lions captain Warburton Bok Jaco Kriel ruled Froome to compete in out with neck problem out of All Blacks Test world championships LONDON: British and Irish Lions captain Sam Warburton is set to miss the first JOHANNESBURG: A shoulder injury has ruled Springboks flanker Jaco LONDON: Four-times Tour de France winner Chris Froome will follow up his first four months of the European season following the recurrence of a neck injury, it Kriel out of a Rugby Championship Test in New Zealand Saturday, South Vuelta a Espana victory by competing in the team and individual time trials at the was announced yesterday. The statement from the Cardiff Blues, the Wales African Rugby announced yesterday. SA Rugby said in a statement that road world championships starting in Norway at the weekend. British Cycling head flanker’s club, means Warburton will miss Wales’s end of year home Tests the 28-year-old suffered a shoulder tear during a 23-23 draw with coach Iain Dyer said in a statement yesterday that the 32-year-old would take one against Australia, Georgia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Blues said that Australia in Perth last Saturday. No replacement will be called up for of Britain’s two places for the individual time trial. Dyer added that he expected the Warburton had “exacerbated” the injury in training this week. Warburton, 28, 31 kilometre course in Bergen, with a 3.4km climb up Mount Floyen to the finish, to had yet to make his first appearance of the season after a post- the All Blacks Test and Jean-Luc du Preez is likely to be promoted from play to the rider’s strengths. Froome had said after becoming the first Lions break before returning to training, having led the com- the bench to form the back row with Siya Kolisi and No. 8 Uzair Cassiem. Briton to win the Vuelta last weekend, and also the third man to com- bined British and Irish Lions side to a drawn series away to Coach Allister Coetzee will have to make at least one other change to plete a Tour-Vuelta double in the same year, that he aimed to compete New Zealand, the reigning world champions. “Sam the pack that started against the Wallabies as tighthead prop Coenie for Sky in Sunday’s team time trial and then “it’s probably time for me Warburton will undergo surgery following a recurrence of a Oosthuizen broke an arm during that match. Trevor Nyakane is the to put my feet up”. The men’s elite individual time trial is on the fol- long-standing neck injury,” Cardiff said. “The Cardiff Blues probable starter in the No. 3 shirt with Ruan Dreyer and mid-tour squad lowing Wednesday. Froome, who will not take part in the road race in flanker, who led the British and Irish Lions to a drawn Test addition Wilco Louw the options for a place on the bench as front-row Bergen, won the Olympic time trial bronze at last year’s Games in Rio series with New Zealand in the summer, exacerbated the cover. Title-holders and world champions New Zealand have 14 points, de Janeiro. Mark Cavendish, the 2011 road race champion who broke injury in training this week. “He has undergone scans and has South Africa 11, Australia three and Argentina none halfway through his shoulder during the Tour de France in July, and Geraint Thomas, been reviewed by a consultant, who confirmed the manage- the six-round competition. — AFP also injured in the Tour, will be absent after withdrawing ment plan. — AFP from selection. — Reuters

DENVER: Denver Broncos inside linebacker Corey Nelson (52) tackles Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler (30) during the second half of an NFL football game, Monday, in Denver. — AP

NFL Broncos block late FG, beat Chargers 24-21

DENVER: The rookie head coach iced the rookie to me because it was going right down the mid- The Broncos held Rivers to 115 yards passing kicker. Shelby Harris got a hand on Younghoe dle. And I think if we get to OT, we would have through three quarters but let him engineer a NFL results/standings Koo’s 44-yard game-tying field goal try with a finished it off, but we didn’t get that chance.” comeback when Siemian threw an interception second left and the Denver Broncos began the Harris got the start only because Jared Crick and and Jamaal Charles fumbled on plays that were Denver 24, LA Chargers 21; Minnesota 29, New Orleans 19. Vance Joseph era with a 24-21 win over the Los Zach Kerr were out with injuries. upheld despite video evidence that had the American Football Conference National Football Conference Angeles Chargers on Monday night. “It was a lit- The ending was reminiscent of last year’s crowd of 76,324 convinced they should have AFC East NFC East tle too exciting,” Von Miller said after presenting opener in Denver, when the Broncos escaped been overturned. W L T OTL PF PA PCT Philadelphia1 0 0 0 30 17 1.000 Joseph with the game ball in the jubilant locker with a 21-20 win over the Carolina Panthers in a Rivers threw touchdown passes to Keenan Buffalo 1 0 0 0 21 12 1.000 Dallas 1 0 0 0 19 3 1.000 room. “But a win is a win.” Koo nailed the kick Super Bowl 50 reunion when Graham Gano Allen and Travis Benjamin following the take- Miami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Washington 0 1 0 0 17 30 0 moments earlier, but Joseph had called a time- missed a 50-yard field goal with 4 seconds left. aways to make it 24-21. Back-to-back sacks of NY Jets 0 1 0 0 12 21 0 NY Giants 0 1 0 0 3 19 0 out to ice the kicker. Denver took a 24-7 lead into the fourth quarter Siemian set up a 50-yard field goal try that New England 0 1 0 0 27 42 0 NFC North “I had two timeouts and I wasn’t going to in this opener and the Broncos were feeling pret- McManus pushed wide right, giving L.A. the ball AFC North Minnesota 1 0 0 0 29 19 1.000 leave with those in my pocket,” Joseph said. ty good. And why not? The Chargers were 1-155 at its 40-yard line trailing by three. But Koo’s miss Pittsburgh 1 0 0 0 21 18 1.000 Green Bay 1 0 0 0 17 9 1.000 Derek Wolfe had bull-rushed the first field goal in their history when trailing by 17 or more in loomed larger in the final seconds. Baltimore 1 0 0 0 20 0 1.000 Detroit 1 0 0 0 35 23 1.000 and told Harris, a third-year journeyman who the fourth quarter and Denver was 175-0-1 with Cleveland 0 1 0 0 18 21 0 Chicago 0 1 0 0 17 23 0 made the team largely because of a rash of a fourth-quarter lead of 17 or more. VIKINGS 29, SAINTS 19 Cincinnati 0 1 0 0 0 20 0 NFC South injuries along the D-line, that he’d get a chance Then came a nightmarish eight-minute Sam Bradford threw for 346 yards and three AFC South Carolina 1 0 0 0 23 3 1.000 to slice through this time because the guard stretch in which they had two turnovers that touchdowns, and the Minnesota Vikings spoiled Jacksonville 1 0 0 0 29 7 1.000 Atlanta 1 0 0 0 23 17 1.000 would lean his way. Sure enough, Harris got his were converted into touchdowns, a missed field Adrian Peterson’s return with a 29-19 win against Tennessee 0 1 0 0 16 26 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 right hand on the ball, which frittered short of goal and a punt. “The game was in firm control the New Orleans Saints on Monday night. Indianapolis 0 1 0 0 9 46 0 New Orleans 0 1 0 0 19 29 0 the end zone as the Chargers looked on in dis- for about three quarters and we felt good but Vikings wide receiver Stefon Diggs made two Houston 0 1 0 0 7 29 0 NFC West may and the Broncos dog-piled Harris. you turn the ball over twice on the short side of touchdown receptions in the first half. Bradford AFC West LA Rams 1 0 0 0 46 9 1.000 “It’s too bad because Koo drilled the first one,” the 50, it’s going to be a problem with Philip completed 27 of 32 passes with no turnovers. Oakland 1 0 0 0 26 16 1.000 Seattle 0 1 0 0 9 17 0 Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said. “And Rivers,” Joseph said. Before those fourth-quarter Adam Thielen caught nine passes for 157 yards, Kansas City 1 0 0 0 42 27 1.000 San Francisco 0 1 0 0 3 23 they called timeout and I think he drilled the sec- foibles, Trevor Siemian threw two TD passes to and tight end Kyle Rudolph added a touchdown Denver 1 0 0 0 24 21 1.000 0 ond one, too. At least, that’s what it looked like Bennie Fowler and ran for another score. reception for Minnesota (1-0). — Agencies LA Chargers0 1 0 0 21 24 0 Arizona 0 1 0 0 23 35 0 Phoenix, Washington rally to advance in WNBA playoffs

NEW YORK: Phoenix and Washington don’t thing,” Taurasi said about being down 17. have much time to rest after pulling off dou- “There comes a time in games if you are just ble-digit comebacks to advance in the WNBA going to lay down or fight back and try to get playoffs. Both teams open the semifinals on back into it. And at that moment, we said, ‘Lets’ the road Tuesday night with the fifth-seeded just go back, take each possession, and try to Mercury visiting No. 2 Los Angeles and the do our best.’ And we did that.” Here’s a look at a sixth-seeded Mystics at No. 1 Minnesota. The few other tidbits from those two series. Mercury and Mystics needed big rallies to get to Tuesday night. They become the seventh WELCOME BACK WHALEN and eighth teams to win on the road when Lindsay Whalen missed the final 12 games they trailed by 14 or more points according to of the regular season with a broken left hand, the Elias Sports Bureau. but a bye to the semifinals ensured she will be “We really didn’t change that much up at back in time for the playoffs. Surely there will the half,” Washington coach Mike Thibault said. be some rust, but just having her back will The Mystics were down by 14 to the New York help the Lynx, who are in search of their fourth Toyota Prius secures podium finish at Fuji Liberty in the second quarter before Kristi title in the past seven years. Toliver got going. She finished with a Mystics The Lynx will play their playoff games at franchise playoff record 32 points, hitting nine the University of Minnesota because of FUJI: Toyota continued its run of good form to Representative Office, Toyota Motor Corporation. end of lap 22 and, in a calculated move, the team 3-pointers. That’s the new WNBA mark for 3s in scheduling conflicts. Their normal home, claim its third straight GT300 podium in the 2017 “The intense competition and the absence of decided to go without a tire change, thus get- a postseason game. Target Center, was shut down for the summer AUTOBACS SUPER GT series. The No. 31 TOYOTA rain despite the cloud cover ensured the race ting the second stint driver Koki Saga back in the “I’ve never witnessed something like that, as its being upgraded in time for the PRIUS apr GT driven by Koki Saga and Rintaro was an entirely enjoyable one for spectators. I race in just about 21 seconds. but to be on court and be on the right side of Timberwolves to open their home schedule Kubo finished in third position in a closely would like to express my sincere gratitude to all The move paid off, as the no-tire-change it was unreal,” Elena Delle Donne said. “We just on Oct. 20. The Lynx played at the Xcel center fought Round 5 at the Fuji Speedway to maintain our fans for their constant encouragement of our strategy allowed Saga to move into second posi- rode her wave today - she was unconscious, during the regular season, but with presea- the team’s impressive start to the season. racing initiatives.” tion after the rival cars that had delayed their pit but that’s her. I mean, I grew up watching her. son NHL starting soon it wasn’t available for “I congratulate the team on their perform- More than 33,500 spectators turned out to stop finally made it to the pit. Saga was however That was her in the national championship the playoffs. So Minnesota turned to “The ance. This podium finish adds to our proven watch the second of the season’s two races in unable to sustain the advantage for long, and on game (for Maryland), so when she’s going off Barn,” one of the oldest arenas in the United record in motorsports, whereby the DNA from Fuji, which got off to a start late afternoon under lap 41, had to cede the second position to the like that, we just do all the other little things States. Lynx owner Glen Taylor spent more our racing products trickles down to our produc- overcast skies. The No. 31 TOYOTA PRIUS apr GT, chasing car. The No. 31 TOYOTA PRIUS apr GT and let her go.” than $1 million to bring some improvements tion vehicles as we continue our pursuit of creat- starting sixth on the grid, got out of the blocks eventually finished in third to claim their first Phoenix faced a 17-point deficit in to the building to accommodate the team ing ever-better cars that will truly put a smile on quickly and edged its way into the fourth posi- podium finish of the season. Connecticut in the second quarter before rally- and league, including air conditioning units our customers’ faces and make them feel safe tion within a few laps of the race. Running strong The series now moves to Suzuka for Round 6. ing for the win. “We called a timeout, and I that are generally not needed with the and secure,” said Takayuki Yoshitsugu, Chief in fourth, the car chose to be the first among the The 1,000-km Suzuka is the longest and biggest think everyone was just searching for some- Gophers take the court in the fall. — AP Representative, Middle East and North Africa lead group to make its routine pit stop at the race of the season. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 SPORTS Olympic chief defends handling of corruption case

LIMA: International Olympic Committee President the IOC about Nuzman’s activities repeatedly in the had contacted Brazilian authorities hoping to obtain fur- “Everybody has his own judgement of the image of Thomas Bach defended his organisation’s handling of cor- years leading to his arrest. ther details about the Nuzman case. somebody,” he said. “You may like somebody your friend ruption allegations on Monday, insisting the movement However Bach stressed on Monday that the IOC had “We are following up on everything that has been does not like, and you may have an image of somebody could never make itself immune from scandal. The IOC, acted promptly to deal with allegations as they provided or will be provided by the judicial authorities,” that your friend does not like. What are you asking me? which is gathering in Lima to award the 2024 and 2028 emerged. “Credibility for us is extremely important,” he said. “Once evidence is there we will act and we will My personal judgement? My response would be this is Olympics to Paris and Los Angeles today, has been rocked Bach said. “We have taken a series of measures with be in a position to make recommendations in this not my call to speak about the IOC’s image because it’s by allegations of graft in the race for the 2016 Olympics. regard to good governance. We have changed the can- respect.” In response to letters sent to the IOC regarding in the eyes of everybody. Top Brazilian official Carlos Nuzman was arrested didature procedure. This does not make us immune. Nuzman by former Brazilian sports official Eric Maleson, “No one wants to have credibility issues in his or her by police last week, accused of involvement in a scam “No organisation in the world is immune. No law is so Bach insisted they had been dealt with properly. organisation. But we have to be realistic-no organisation to funnel cash to IOC members taking part in a 2009 perfect that it cannot be broken. There are laws against “If there had been any evidence they would have fol- in the world is immune to credibility issues.” Bach mean- vote in Copenhagen to decide the 2016 Games, even- fraud and theft for centuries and they are still being bro- lowed it up,” Bach said. “There are allegations concern- while said the IOC had agreed to set up a $1 million fund tually won by Rio. ken. It does not make us immune. “But we feel have ing Mr Nuzman, as far as we know he is not even to provide relief to member nations, mostly in the It followed earlier revelations in France about a simi- done what we can do.” charged yet.” Caribbean, hit by Hurricane Irma. “We will assess the lar plot involving the 2013 vote in Buenos Aires which Bach meanwhile was elusive when he was asked to damages with regard to sports and sports infrastructure awarded the 2020 games to Tokyo. In the Brazilian case, ‘WE WILL ACT’ give his assessment of how the IOC’s image had been and if this leads to more we will reassess this amount of a whistleblower told the New York Times he had warned Bach said lawyers for the IOC’s Ethics Commission tarnished by the various corruption allegations. $1 million,” he told reporters. — AFP

CRICKET Aussies will have advantage in India: Michael Clarke

NEW DELHI: Former skipper Michael less captaincy that has helped India Clarke said yesterday the Australians dominate with their aggressive would likely upstage hosts India in the approach. upcoming one-day series thanks to their India not only regained their number stints with the Indian Premier League. one Test spot under Kohli last year but The Steve Smith-led side, which lost the recently blanked hosts Sri Lanka 9-0 across Test series 2-1 to India earlier this year, all three formats. “I think this team has cer- will play five ODIs, with the first in tainly got that aggression in them... they Chennai on Sunday. are led by an aggressive captain. Seems to Smith captained the Pune franchise in me that Virat is not scared to lose and the last edition of the cash-rich IPL, that’s a great advantage,” said Clarke. arguably the world’s most popular Indian batting great VVS Laxman, Twenty20 tournament. Players like David who was also present at the event, said Warner, Aaron Finch, Glenn Maxwell and he did not foresee any controversy in Pat Cummins have had successful IPL the ODI series. In the Test series Kohli stints and Clarke said the team should had expressed his displeasure after have no excuses in the shorter format. Smith looked up to his dressing room “It’s not just the wicket you are batting while deciding whether to review his on or the ground you are playing, it’s the lbw dismissal in the Bangalore match, heat, the food you eat, the hotel your are and a war of words erupted between staying at,” Clarke told reporters. “(With) the two captains. these players now being involved in the “They are not only two modern-day IPL, India is like a second home because captains but two modern-day greats. In you spend so much time here. such a short span of time the impact “Yes, it’s a shame we don’t have these two players have had on interna- Mitchell Starc or Josh Hazlewood avail- tional cricket is just amazing,” said PHOENIX: Nolan Arenado #28 of the Colorado Rockies hits a three run home run off of Jake Barrett #33 of the Arizona Diamondbacks during the able unfortunately due to injury. Those Laxman, who made a match-winning eighth inning at Chase Field on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona. — AFP two will be missed. “But this Australian 281 against Australia in the epic 2001 team has no excuses. They know the con- Kolkata Test. BASEBALL ditions really well... and this is a massive “And I think when you are playing series for us,” he said, predicting a 3-2 win international cricket it’s not necessary to for the visitors. be friendly on field... I am sure both will Indians extend win streak to Clarke saw a “carrot right there” for the go all out and be aggressive and win the Australians, who will topple South Africa matches for their team... They are both from top spot in the ODI table if they trendsetters according to me,” he said. 19 with victory over Detroit beat India 4-1. The cricketer turned com- Laxman picked India to win with a 4-1 mentator also praised Virat Kohli’s fear- scoreline. — AFP CLEVELAND: Unrelenting and unbeatable at the three-run homer in a five-run fourth inning that led before a replay challenge overturned the call. moment, the Cleveland Indians refuse to lose. With New York over Tampa Bay. Jacoby Ellsbury broke DeShields then raced home from first on Shin-Soo their latest overpowering win, they extended Pete Rose’s major league record by reaching base Choo’s two-run double that made it 4-1, running baseball’s longest winning streak since 2002 to 19 on catcher’s interference for the 30th time, and through a stop sign from fill-in third-base coach games with an 11-0 blowout of the Detroit Tigers David Robertson (8-2) pitched a career-high 2 2/3 Jason Wood and scoring on a nifty headfirst slide. on Monday night to move closer to a record that innings in relief of CC Sabathia, removed with two Two innings later, DeShields hit his fifth homer. has stood for 101 years. Francisco Lindor tripled on and one out in the fifth. Ellsbury was struck by Alex Claudio worked a perfect ninth to get his home three runs off rookie Myles Jaye (0-1) in the Jake Odorizzi (8-8). Opening a stretch that has 17 of eighth save in 12 chances. Mariners starter Ariel second inning, and the Indians, who haven’t lost their final 20 games in New York, the Yankees Miranda (8-7) allowed gave up six hits and walked since Aug. 23, added another blowout to their closed within three games of Boston in the AL East three in only 1 2-3 innings. growing list of lopsided conquests. The defending and opened a four-game lead over Minnesota for AL champions aren’t just rolling, they’re steam- the top AL wild card. The Rays dropped four games BLUE JAYS 4, ORIOLES 3 rolling opponents, outscoring them 132-32 during behind the Twins with 17 remaining. Ryan Goins hit a solo home run, Marco Estrada a stretch that includes six shutouts. Carlos won his third straight decision and Toronto beat Carrasco (15-6) struck out nine in six innings, RANGERS 5, MARINERS 3 slumping Baltimore. Darwin Barney had two hits Lindor had four RBIs and Jose Ramirez hit a two- Delino DeShields homered after taking a and an RBI as the Blue Jays won their third straight run homer as the Indians lowered their magic speedier trip around the bases for an earlier run as and handed the Orioles their fifth consecutive number to clinch the Central to six. Texas beat Seattle in the opener of a four-game defeat. Mark Trumbo hit a solo homer for series matching teams still hoping to get an AL Baltimore, which entered three games back in the YANKEES 5, RAYS 1 wild card. Cole Hamels (10-3) struck out seven in AL wild-card race. Estrada (8-8) allowed two runs In the start of a series moved from Florida to Citi six innings to win for the first time in his last four and four hits in five innings. Dominic Leone Field because of Hurricane Irma, Todd Frazier capi- starts. DeShields reached on a one-out bunt single pitched around a leadoff single in the ninth to earn talized on Trevor Plouffe’s two-out error with a in the second, when he was initially called out his first career save. Ubaldo Jimenez (5-10) is win- less in six starts.

MLB results/standings PIRATES 7, BREWERS 0 Steven Brault and four relievers combined on a San Francisco 8, LA Dodgers 6; Colorado 5, Arizona 4; Chicago White Sox 11, Kansas City 3; Texas three-hitter to lift Pittsburgh over Milwaukee. 5, Seattle 3; Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 0; Cleveland 11 Detroit 0; NY Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 1; Milwaukee didn’t get a runner past first base NEW DELHI: Former cricketers VVS Laxman (L) of India and Michael Clarke of Toronto 4, Baltimore 3. against the Pirates and fell 21/2 games behind Australia interact with the media ahead of the India-Australia cricket series starting American League National League Chicago in the NL Central after outscoring the September 17, in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP Eastern Division Eastern Division Cubs 20-3 in a three-game sweep at Wrigley Field over the weekend. Brault (1-0), making his second W L PCT GB Washington 88 55 .615 - start of the season, only allowed a fourth-inning Boston 81 62 .566 - Miami 68 75 .476 20 W Indies look to recalled walk to Ryan Braun and a fifth-inning leadoff sin- NY Yankees 78 65 .545 3 Atlanta 64 78 .451 23.5 Baltimore 71 73 .493 10.5 gle to Jesus Aguilar. He struck out six in six NY Mets 63 80 .441 25 innings for his first major-league win. Milwaukee Gayle for ODI inspiration Tampa Bay 71 74 .490 11 Philadelphia 54 89 .378 34 Toronto 67 77 .465 14.5 rookie Brandon Woodruff (1-2), allowed six runs Central Division BELFAST: The recall of Chris Gayle to the rankings at the end of this month at the Central Division on seven hits and a walk in five innings. Chicago Cubs 77 66 .538 - West Indies ODI squad, for the first time 2019 finals in England. Cleveland 88 56 .611 - St. Louis 75 68 .524 2 since the 2015 World Cup, has dominated Minnesota 74 69 .517 13.5 WHITE SOX 11, ROYALS 3 Milwaukee 75 69 .521 2.5 the countdown to the upcoming five- FANS HAPPY Kansas City 71 72 .497 16.5 Jose Abreu had four hits, Adam Engel hit a match series against England. But Gayle- After his selection, Gayle confirmed he Detroit 60 83 .420 27.5 Pittsburgh 68 77 .469 10 three-run homer and the White Sox pounded the one of the biggest draws in the game-is wanted to play in the finals. “The fans were Chicago W Sox 57 86 .399 30.5 Cincinnati 62 82 .431 15.5 Royals. Abreu, who hit for the cycle Saturday and likely to make his first appearance against happy to see me back on the field represent- Western Division Western Division had two home runs Sunday, drove in two and Ireland on Wednesday. ing West Indies,” said Gayle. “Hopefully, things Houston 86 57 .601 - LA Dodgers 92 52 .639 - scored once while raising his average to .306. He Gayle arrived with the 15-man squad in can get better. Hopefully I can play a few more LA Angels 73 70 .510 13 Arizona 83 61 .576 9 was a homer shy of another cycle. Northern Ireland on Monday after the West games. “I definitely want to play the 2019 World Texas 72 71 .503 14 Colorado 79 65 .549 13 Engel went deep off Brandon Maurer during a Indies board announced an amnesty which Cup. “Things are beginning to open up a little Seattle 71 73 .493 15.5 San Diego 65 79 .451 27 six-run sixth. Yolmer Sanchez, Yoan Moncada and has also seen the return of Marlon Samuels more now between players and the board. It’s Oakland 63 80 .441 23 San Francisco 57 89 .390 36 Abreu, the first three White Sox hitters, combined to go 9 for 16 with six runs and four RBIs. Moncada and Jerome Taylor. looking good, and we’ve to try and build from had his first career three-hit game. Reynaldo Lopez Previously players had to be available this to get the best players out on the field.” (1-3) gave up three runs and eight hits in six-plus for the corresponding domestic tourna- Only six of the Test squad that has just innings to pick up his first victory since Sept. 29, ment before being selected for limited- completed the three-match series in England 2016. Royals starter Jason Hammel (8-11) was overs internationals or Test cricket. are staying on for the white-ball action - pulled after giving up five runs in 3 1/3 innings. Samuels last played in October 2016, which also includes a one-off T20 against but was dropped for the tri-series against England on Saturday - but Roston Chase is ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4 Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe the following the only player dropped from the squad that Nolan Arenado’s tie-breaking three-run home month, but while Gayle played in the one- lost 3-1 to India in the home series in July. If run in the eighth inning powered the Rockies to a off T20 game against India in July, his next the weather allows-and the West Indies win over the Diamondbacks. The Rockies took the ODI will be his first since the 2015 World arrived in Belfast in rain and more is forecast first game of a key four-game series between the Cup. Taylor’s last ODI was in July 2016. “The for the next 48 hours-they should gain a National League wild-card leader, Arizona, and sec- panel welcomes back Chris Gayle and morale-boosting win against the newest Full ond-place Colorado. Marlon Samuels, who will both add value Member, who have failed to win any of their The Rockies moved four games behind the to our batting and help with the nurturing last nine games. It is also the beginning of Diamondbacks and 3 1/2 ahead of St. Louis for the of the young batsmen in the team,” said the end of John Bracewell’s two-year reign as second wild card slot. Arenado drove in four runs chairman of selectors Courtney Browne. Ireland coach. The New Zealander steps with a double and his 33rd home run of the season, The selectors will also hope the experi- down in December and will be succeeded by and the Rockies won their seventh straight road enced pair-Samuels is 36 and Gayle cele- former South Africa and Sri Lanka coach game and fifth overall. Left-hander Tyler Anderson, brates his 38th birthday on the day of the Graham Ford, who was appointed on a activated from the 60-day disabled list on Sunday, second ODI against England next week-can three-year contract last week. pitched four scoreless innings in relief for the victo- help West Indies qualify for the next World Ford will not be at the match but the play- ry. Anderson (4-5) allowed a hit with four strike- Cup. But unless they beat Ireland and then ers know their performances will be scruti- outs. The Rockies’ winning rally started with two win four of the five games against England nized by the new coach and, with the likeli- outs in the eighth. D.J. LeMahieu tripled over the they will find themselves in the qualifying hood of facing West Indies in the World Cup top of an extreme defensive shift toward right field tournament next March, along with Ireland, qualifiers, long-serving captain William LAHORE: Pakistani spectators cheer as they watch the first Twenty20 international match and Carlos Gonzalez walked against Diamondbacks Afghanistan and hosts Zimbabwe. Only Porterfield, who has a virtual full-strength side, between the World XI and Pakistan at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore yesterday. — AFP reliever Jake Barrett (1-1). — AP two qualifiers will join the top eight in the said: “We want to lay down a marker.” — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 SPORTS

Champions League to test Klopp’s progress at Liverpool

LIVERPOOL: When Jurgen Klopp arrived at they prepare to face Sevilla once more, this time Liverpool were defensively suspect last season, ourselves.” At times, it feels as if Klopp has spent Liverpool in October 2015, he made a promise: “If in the Champions League. The best and worst of and those difficulties have continued into the new two years, and a lot of money, recreating the we sit here in four years, I think we (will) win one the 2017 Liverpool were shown when they beat campaign. Liverpool team who almost won the Premier title,” he said. Next month will mark the second Hoffenheim in last month’s play-off to reach the League under Rodgers four seasons ago. anniversary of Klopp’s appointment, the halfway Champions League group stage. ‘LIKE A WOUNDED ANIMAL’ They are thrilling going forward, an accident point of that four-year cycle. There has undoubt- Klopp’s side showed an attacking verve that Klopp signed Loris Karius from Mainz to be his waiting to happen defensively. The question is edly been progress in that time; a team who were could threaten the best in Europe. Close-season first-choice goalkeeper, then dropped him mid- whether Sevilla are ready to punish them. Much 10th in the Premier League when he arrived fin- signing Mohamed Salah has formed a quick way through last season. Ragnar Klavan, another has changed at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan ished fourth last season. understanding with Sadio Mane and Roberto Klopp buy, from Augsburg, replaced Lovren for Stadium since Unai Emery guided them to a third Whether they are significantly closer to win- Firmino. Salah and Firmino both scored in the last Saturday’s 5-0 thrashing at Manchester City. successive Europa League title with victory over ning a major trophy is more open to debate. home leg, while Mane was heavily involved in two However, the extent of the defeat should be Liverpool two seasons ago. Liverpool reached two finals in Klopp’s first seven of the goals. put into the context that they had matched City Emery went to Paris Saint-Germain, and his months as manager, losing on penalties to It is a wealth of attacking talent, and they still and were trailing 1-0 when Mane was sent off. successor Jorge Sampaoli left at the end of last Manchester City in the League Cup at Wembley, have Philippe Coutinho to come back following “We have to take the first 20 minutes of Saturday’s season for the Argentina job. Eduardo Berizzo and suffering a more decisive 3-1 defeat by Sevilla his failed attempt to engineer a move to game, and how we played before the internation- arrived in May from Celta Vigo and has spent in the Europa League in Basel. Barcelona. Defensively, though, Liverpool were al break, and take it into the next game,” said goal- heavily, bringing in Colombian forward Luis Muriel That European adventure was an unexpected weak in both legs against Hoffenheim; they keeper Simon Mignolet. “Of course, we can’t neg- from Sampdoria and Nolito from Manchester City bonus. Expectations at Anfield are higher now, could easily have conceded more than three lect the performance after that, but we have to supplement last season’s top scorer Wissam Ben but Liverpool look far from a complete team as goals in the tie. another game in midweek when we can prove Yedder. — AFP

RB Leipzig relishing Champions League debut LEIPZIG: Just eight years after starting life and Kevin Kampl are the only ones to have in the local leagues, RB Leipzig will played at this level. enhance their rags to riches tale today by The quartet have a combined tally of 31 hosting Monaco on the German club’s Champions League appearances. Champions League debut. In contrast, 17 of the Monaco squad Backed by energy drinks giant Red Bull, have 236 Champions League appearances who bought the licence of a fifth-division between them and last season’s semi-final club, Leipzig began climbing Germany’s defeat to Juventus is still fresh. football pyramid in 2009. But Leipzig’s coach Ralph Hasenhuettl They are widely unpopular with German sees his team’s lack of experience as an fans, due to the commercialism they repre- advantage. “We want to collect some expe- sent, but after four promotions in seven rience for ourselves. It means you more years they finished second last season in alert, sharper, more focused,” said the the Bundesliga to qualify directly for a Austrian. Champions League place. Rangnick is confident of a win. Leipzig make their debut against last “If we can show our full power on the season’s semi-finalists Monaco at the Red pitch, then we are capable of winning,” Bull Arena and director of sport Ralf insisted the RB boss. This is the first time for Rangnick is proud of their achievement. nearly 29 years that European football will “When you think we were still in the be played in the former East German city. fourth division five years ago, then the On the last occasion, Diego Maradona’s Champions League is another promotion,” Napoli drew 1-1 at Lokomotive Leipzig, RB’s said Rangnick. arch-rivals, on October 26 1988 in the sec- “Something like that has never hap- ond round of the UEFA Cup. Fast-forward to pened before and most likely won’t happen today and Monaco will want to bounce again in the next 50 years.” This is a step back after being beaten 4-0 by neighbours into the unknown for Leipzig with only four Nice last weekend in their first defeat of the members of their squad having Champions season after straight wins to start their League experience. French league title defence. Swedish playmaker Emil Forsberg, plus It was the first time they have failed to new-signings Bruma, Jean-Kevin Augustin score in 37 top-flight games. — AFP

MADRID: Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas stretches to control the ball during a training session in Madrid, Spain, yesterday. Real Madrid will play APOEL Nikosia today in a Group H Champions League soccer match. — AP

SOCCER Prudent Real Madrid remain Champions League favourites

MADRID: Such is Real Madrid’s confidence in spot in the group stage last season. But Real seems to be playing the long game this season. creating more Champions League history that have mastered the art of saving their best for The Frenchman rested a host of first-team while others have spent hundreds of millions when the competition really gets going for the regulars including Luka Modric, Isco and Gareth trying to catch up, the back-to-back European contenders in the knockout stages in the new Bale on their return from international duty for a champions were happy to cash in. year. “We have a stupendous squad but this is a disappointing 1-1 draw against Levante on Real made a profit of over 75 million euros competition that takes you to the limit in all Saturday. “I am not going to revolutionise what ($90 million) in the transfer market thanks to aspects,” added Butragueno. I want to do with this team due to one bad the departures of Alvaro Morata, James “You can have a big squad with all the game,” Zidane insisted afterwards. Rodriguez and Danilo. Yet they remain very resources, but when the moment of truth Real will be bolstered for the visit of the much the side to beat as the Champions arrives you need to not have injuries, for your Cypriot champions in midweek by the return of League returns on Tuesday having ended a players to be in optimum form and have luck. Cristiano Ronaldo. The World Player of the Year’s near three-decade long wait for a team to There are so many factors.” absence due to a five-game domestic ban for retain the trophy. pushing a referee has exposed the one flaw in “We are the champions so everyone faces us STRENGTH IN DEPTH Real’s squad in a lack of back-up to Karim with extra motivation,” warned former Real strik- Real’s strength in depth was used intelligent- Benzema. LEIPZIG: Leipzig’s German forward Timo Werner (C) attends a training session on the er Emilio Butragueno, now the club’s director of ly by coach Zinedine Zidane to win the club’s Having not replaced Morata, Bale was forced eve of the UEFA Champions League football match between RB Leipzig and AS institutional relations. Madrid coped with that first La Liga and European Cup double for 59 to act as an auxiliary striker against Levante Monaco in Leipzig, eastern Germany yesterday. — AFP challenge admirably last season, dismissing years last season. It is also why one of the rich- after Benzema went off injured. Yet even an Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and Juventus in est clubs in the world didn’t feel the need to go enforced rest for Ronaldo could ultimately work the latter stages. Their quest to become the first wild in a hyper-inflated transfer market follow- in Real’s favour come the end of the campaign. side since Bayern in the mid-seventies to win ing Neymar’s world record 222 million-euro The Portuguese scored 10 goals from the Spurs fight to three in a row starts with a more modest test in move to Paris Saint-Germain. quarter-finals on last season as Zidane’s rotation the form of APOEL Nicosia at the Santiago Instead, Real continued their policy of snap- policy left him far fresher and freer of injuries Bernabeu today. ping up the best young talent in Spain in Theo than in previous years. With a fit Ronaldo come end Wembley woe Tougher tasks lie in wait in the form of Hernandez and Dani Ceballos to add to the likes the knockout stages, Real will remain the team Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur in of Isco and Marco Asensio. Despite a slow start to beat as the rest of Europe tries to end their LONDON: Frustrated by a series of miser- Tottenham’s struggles at Wembley came Group H. Dortmund even beat Madrid to top to their campaign in La Liga, Zidane already hegemony. — AFP able experiences at Wembley, Tottenham into harsh focus last season in the Hotspur host Borussia Dortmund today Champions League when they won just desperate to finally vanquish the ghosts one of their group matches there. CSKA that haunt them at the national stadium. Moscow were the only team they could When Mauricio Pochettino’s side kick off beat as defeats against Monaco and Bayer Rampant Man City ready their Champions League campaign against Leverkusen sent them crashing out. the Germans, it won’t be just priceless Even playing against Gent in the Europa Group H points that are up for grabs. For League at Wembley proved a painful expe- Tottenham, Wembley is in danger of rience as the Belgians claimed a draw that to march on Feyenoord becoming the bogeyman that wreaks hav- eliminated Tottenham in the last 32. oc on their ambitions to challenge for sil- Remarkably, there was still more Wembley THE HAGUE: Pep Guardiola’s rampant League experience if he is to try and outfox very strong, very pacy. They make the pitch big, verware at home and abroad. woe in store for Spurs before the end of Manchester City will be keen to keep the Guardiola’s team. that is a quality of them and it is difficult for the The north London club have been the season as they lost the FA Cup semi- momentum going as they open the hunt for City have spent more than £200 million ($264 other teams.” Meanwhile, Feyenoord winger forced to relocate to Wembley while White final to Chelsea 4-2. Champions League glory against a diminished million, 219 million euros) over the summer Steven Berghuis said he expected it to be a Hart Lane is being rebuilt. But Spurs have The contrast between their form at Feyenoord in Rotterdam today. After mauling strengthening their squad after losing to tough night for the hosts, European Cup winners now played 12 matches at Wembley since Wembley and White Hart Lane is stark. Liverpool 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday, Monaco in the last 16 last season. De Bruyne told in 1970. “It’s going to be tough to stay standing the famous old arena was revamped-win- Last season’s second-place finish in the City now travel to face the Dutch champions- British media on Monday: “The guys who have against this club (Manchester City),” Berghuis ning just twice and suffering eight defeats. Premier League was built on a brilliant who face a daunting prospect after a 15-year come in have a very physical quality, they are told daily tabloid De Telegraaf. — AFP unbeaten record in front of their own fans, absence from the group stage of the competi- which saw them win 17 and draw two of tion. Eyes in particular will be on City playmaker their 19 home league games. Kevin De Bruyne, whose sublime form played a Matches on TV Yet as soon as they pitch up at major part in the Liverpool drubbing and who is (Local Timings) Wembley, Tottenham’s invincibility evapo- sure to sniff out and exploit weaknesses in rates. They’ve done their best to make Feyenoord’s midfield and defence. Feyenoord Wembley feel like home, draping the stadi- UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE may have beaten Heracles 4-2 in a Dutch top- um in the club’s livery, hanging posters RB Leipzig v AS Monaco 21:45 flight match over the weekend, but their oppo- with Spurs slogans, and employing a drum- beIN SPORTS HD 6 nents came dangerously close to scoring more mer to lift the noise levels. Liverpool v Sevilla FC 21:45 goals-a fact no doubt that will play on coach But after the more intimate atmosphere beIN SPORTS HD 3 Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s mind. The Rotterdam of White Hart Lane, where the fans were Tottenham v Dortmund 21:45 club faced a further blow up front after leading much closer to the pitch, Wembley hasn’t beIN SPORTS HD 5 striker Nicolai Jorgensen came off with a leg been conducive to generating the intensity Feyenoord Rotterdam v Man City 21:45 muscle injury 21 minutes into the Heracles game. Tottenham thrive on. Facing Chelsea in beIN SPORTS HD 2 The 26-year-old Danish international-last their first home game this season, NK Maribor v Spartak 21:45 year’s Eredivisie top scorer with 21 goals in 32 Tottenham fell behind to Marcos Alonso’s beIN SPORTS HD 8 games-will not play in the City match which goal before Michy Batshuayi’s late own FC Porto v Besiktas 21:45 opens their Group F campaign, Feyenoord goal drew them level. beIN SPORTS HD 7 announced on Monday. Shakhtar Donetsk v Napoli 21:45 Not for the first time at Wembley, Tottenham couldn’t keep calm at the oth- beIN SPORTS HD 4 ‘PHYSICAL QUALITY’ er end and Alonso won it after a mistake Real Madrid v Apoel Nicosia 21:45 With Jorgensen out, former Dutch skipper from goalkeeper Hugo Lloris with two ROTTERDAM: Manchester City’s Spanish midfielder David Silva (R) takes part in a training ses- beIN SPORTS HD 1 and Arsenal midfielder Van Bronckhorst will minutes left. — AFP sion at the City Football Academy in Manchester, northwest England yesterday on the eve of now have to draw on every ounce of Premier their UEFA Champions League Group F football match against Feyenoord in Rotterdam. — AFP Broncos block W Indies look to late FG, beat recalled Gayle Chargers 24-21 for ODI 13 inspiration14 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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LIMA: Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (L) and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti pose for pictures ahead of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) session on Monday in Lima. For the first time in history, the Olympics will confirm two Summer Games host cities at the same time today, when Paris is handed hosting rights for 2024 and Los Angeles wins 2028. — AFP IOC readies to crown Paris, Los Angeles

LIMA: The International Olympic Committee will crown Olympics for a third time. difficulties in persuading voters that staging the Nuzman stands accused of plotting to bribe IOC mem- Paris and Los Angeles as hosts for the 2024 and 2028 The city will receive roughly $100 million more than Olympics is worth the multi-billion-dollar price tag. bers into awarding Rio de Janeiro the 2016 Games at a Olympics here yesterday, delivering a welcome feel-good Paris in IOC funding for the games, a financial sweetener IOC chief Bach first signalled publicly that the double- 2009 vote in Copenhagen. factor amid a gathering storm of corruption allegations. that delivers “a frankly much better economic result”, award of an Olympics could be on the agenda in Former IOC member Nuzman was taken in for ques- For the first time since the awarding of the 1984 according to 2028 bid chief Casey Wasserman. “We think December last year, lamenting that the bidding process tioning with his passport confiscated and a search of his Olympics, when only one city was in the race, the tradi- the result is extraordinary,” Wasserman told AFP. “We’ll be produced “too many losers.” As the bidding battle for house unearthing around $150,000 worth in cash in vari- tional frenzy of last-minute lobbying, politicking and celebrating on Wednesday night and through the week- 2024 unfolded, and as the field thinned to leave Los ous currencies. Brazilian police later said they are prob- schmoozing will be strikingly absent in Lima. end in LA for sure.” Angeles and Paris as the last bids standing, the IOC’s ing “an international corruption scheme” aimed at “the In a historic move, the IOC brokered an agreement IOC chief President Thomas Bach, the driving force determination to lock in two high-quality cities for the buying of votes for the election of (Rio) by the that will see Paris handed the 2024 Games with Los behind the double award, described the candidacies of next two summer games became apparent. International Olympic Committee as the venue for the Angeles awarded 2028, an outcome that all sides are Paris and Los Angeles as a “golden opportunity.” “For the Los Angeles and Paris, whose bids emphasise a high- 2016 Olympics.” declaring as victory in a “win-win-win” deal. IOC it would have been a huge mistake not seize this level of venue readiness, both wowed the IOC’s The charges swirling around Rio’s bid revive memories IOC members will ratify the agreement following 25- golden opportunity,” Bach said Monday. Today’s vote Evaluation Commission during back-to-back visits in May. of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, which led to 20 IOC minute presentations by Paris and Los Angeles, the last marks the conclusion of a mostly good-natured bidding In July, the IOC announced it would award the staging members being either kicked out of the Olympics’ ruling two cities left in the race for the 2024 Olympics. “It’s a big campaign notable for the number of cities who withdrew rights for the 2024 and 2028 Olympics at the same meet- body or pleading guilty to accepting bribes for votes. win and we are here to really enjoy it,” said Paris 2024 bid from the race citing waning public support and concerns ing in Lima. French investigators meanwhile have already co-chief Tony Estanguet, reflecting the triumphant mood over budget. The drama-free conclusion also guarantees the IOC announced they are investigating the 2013 vote in amongst the French delegation as today’s vote neared. will not have to confront the explosive fall-out from the Buenos Aires which awarded the 2020 Olympics to Los Angeles 2028 officials meanwhile insisted they are ‘TOO MANY LOSERS’ vote for the 2016 Olympics, which detonated spectacu- Tokyo, following reports of secret payments into a satisfied with the deal which means the Californian city Hamburg, Rome, Budapest and Boston all fell by the larly last week when investigators in Brazil swooped on Singapore-based bank account linked to the son of dis- will have to wait 11 more years before it stages the wayside during the competition, reflecting the political the country’s Olympics chief Carlos Nuzman. graced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack. — AFP

Japan’s Date bows out in S Africa accepts decision to tears after ‘double bagel’ replay World Cup qualifier JOHANNESBURG: The South African involved in the fixing, and the referee TOKYO: Japan’s Kimiko Date, the grande also been nursing a sore shoulder and it Football Association won’t appeal was likely manipulating the match for dame of women’s tennis, bowed out of the showed against Krunic. against FIFA’s unprecedented decision illegal betting rings. Lamptey had pre- sport after being thrashed 6-0, 6-0 by “A lot of things were going through my to strip it of a victory in World Cup quali- viously been under scrutiny and was Aleksandra Krunic at the Japan Women’s Open head this morning but during the match I was fying and order a replay because of suspended by the Confederation of yesterday. The former world number four, just trying everything I could to win a game,” match-fixing by the referee, the federa- African Football for allowing a crucial who turns 47 later this month, was simply no said Date after taking just 13 points off her tion said yesterday. goal from a clear handball to stand in match for a Serbian opponent who at 24 is opponent. “I just didn’t have it physically. It SAFA announced it would not appeal an African Champions League semifinal young enough to be Date’s daughter. Krunic feels strange to be retired but I have to accept the order that annulled South Africa’s 2-1 match in 2010. took just 49 minutes to inflict the dreaded it. At the end I was relieved I hadn’t made my win over Senegal last November, but The fact that he was still appointed by “double bagel” on Date in a lop-sided first shoulder worse.” said that its “rights to sue for damages FIFA’s referees committee for the World round encounter in Tokyo. remain open.” That raised the possibility Cup qualifier is one of two major gripes Date tried gamely to mix up her shots in the ‘NERVOUS WRECK’ that SAFA might seek compensation for South Africa. The other is that SAFA second set but to no avail as Krunic, ranked Date, whose game is a throwback to a time from FIFA, which it believes should take was never invited to make any represen- 67th in the world, blasted winners past her at when tennis was more about lobs, dinks and responsibility for the referee, who was tation in the process by FIFA, which ulti- appointed by FIFA’s referees committee mately ended up in a decision that will. Krunic continued to swing away from the clever use of spin than power-hitting, showed despite some suspicious performances. adversely affected South Africa. baseline and put the former Wimbledon semi- brief glimpses of her former pomp. After “Why didn’t FIFA do an integrity South Africa now has little chance of finalist out of her misery with a huge forehand warming up to Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff”, TOKYO: Japan’s Kimiko Date returns a shot check on the referee since they have reaching the World Cup in Russia next which Date could only dump into the net. Date was anything but and lacked the power against Serbian Aleksandra Krunic in the these mechanisms?” SAFA senior legal year. FIFA’s unprecedented decision to “It’s finally over,” a tearful Date told fans, to trouble Krunic, who after embracing Date first round of the Japan Women’s Open ten- counsel Norman Arendse said. FIFA’s order a replay because of fixing must be many of whom were sobbing themselves. “I told her she had started the match as a nerv- nis tournament in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP decision on the South Africa-Senegal confirmed by its organizing committee feel sad mostly I guess but also really grateful ous wreck. qualifier was the first time the world for competitions at a meeting on for what tennis has given me,” said the eight- “I want to apologise,” she said after complet- to win a WTA singles title. body ordered a game to be played again Thursday. It should be rubber-stamped, time WTA Tour singles champion, who took a ing the whitewash. “I don’t like that I had to be Despite playing on until the ripe old age of because of match-fixing. with no opposition now from SAFA. 12-year hiatus from professional tennis after the one but Kimiko has had a great career. “I 46, Date still fell some way short of her idol FIFA banned Ghanaian referee Joseph “SAFA has decided on ethical and quitting at the peak of her powers in 1996. was a mess at the beginning,” added Krunic, Martina Navratilova, who retired a month shy Lamptey for life after he awarded South moral grounds that if this match was Date, a wiry 1.63 metres (5ft 4in), under- who next faces American Alison Riske. of her 50th birthday in 2006. Date insisted she Africa a penalty for a non-existent hand- manipulated, we should replay it,” the went two knee surgeries since appearing at “When I go back to the locker room, I’ll had no desire to become a coach in the future. ball against a Senegal defender. South South African federation said. The game the 2016 Australian Open, but defied the odds probably cry.” Date broke several tennis “No, I’m definitely not cut out for that,” she Africa scored from the penalty and went will be replayed in November, likely after to return to action in May this year. The Kyoto records, most notably at the Korea Open in laughed. “But I don’t feel like I did when I first on to win the qualifier 2-1. all the other qualifiers in the group are native, presented with flowers and a trophy in 2009 when she became the second-oldest retired and didn’t want to go near a tennis FIFA found neither team was completed. — AP an emotional ceremony after the match, has player in the modern era-after Billie Jean King- court again. I’ll stick to just watching.” — AFP Global economy forges ahead despite political headwinds Page 18

US stocks add to Business records ahead of Apple launch WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 Page 20 Xerox, Alamana launch new technology to British Airways’ top five autumn getaways transform the workplace Page 21 Page 22 Zain kicks off 4th edition of Zain Great Idea accelerator program Initiative to foster next generation of Kuwait’s tech entrepreneurs

KUWAIT: Zain Kuwait holds a press conference at its headquarters yesterday. KUWAIT: Zain team with the entrepreneurs.

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications and the previous three successful two-year pro- youth.” Neda Al-Dehani, founder of Brilliant lab, emailed and given details of the Boot Camp November 2017 with Mind The Bridge, and company in Kuwait, held a press conference at grams (2010-11, 2013-14, and 2015-16) has seen commented: “we are extremely proud of this Orientation, which is a two-and-a-half week upon their return, will have their business plans its headquarters and announced the kick-off of the empowerment, training, and investment in partnership with Zain throughout the past five long intense local accelerator initiative for all reviewed and evaluated in one-on-one sessions the fourth installment of the highly successful hundreds of creative and driven young Kuwaitis, years, where we trained and accelerated over 300 valid applicants. During the boot camp, partici- with Brilliant Lab, before finally presenting Zain Great Idea (ZGI) accelerator program, of which many now own thriving Small and tech ideas in Kuwait. Brilliant Lab will be bringing pants will learn about the tech startup culture them to investors in Kuwait at Zain Demo Day aimed at identifying and fostering young, hi- Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Waleed Al- the best tech experiences from the region and and workings from leading mentors from in December 2017. tech entrepreneurs in Kuwait. Khashti, Corporate Communications and rela- the world to the participants. Seven years ago, it Stanford University, IE Business school, entre- Startup areas of interest for the program The accelerator program is a Zain initiative in tions Director at Zain Kuwait, said , “Encouraging was tough to make a tech idea come to life in preneurs and regional and international ven- extend, but are not limited, to the following: partnership with Brilliant Lab, a startup acceler- and providing the proper resources for the local Kuwait, then came ZGI and made the process ture capital firms. Participants will then be Apps, Websites, e-Commerce, Fintech, Gaming, ator service from Kuwait, and Mind The Bridge, entrepreneurial community is a top priority for easier from A-Z like no other program did”. required to prepare pitch decks and present to Tech Products and others. ZGI is open to any a Silicon Valley-based organization specializing Zain. Through our active corporate sustainability To be considered for participation in this a panel of judges who will determine the top Kuwaiti national above the age of 21 possess- in entrepreneurship education for startups, program, the company is keen to contribute to year’s program, applicants must submit their 10 finalists to enter phase 2 of the program. ing a tech startup idea, or prototype/demo, or enterprises and investors. Kuwait’s economic and national development, ideas online at www.ZainGreatIdea.com by 30 Phase 2 will see selected finalists travel to an established tech business. For more informa- ZGI is a highly-anticipated activity in Kuwait, much of which will be driven by the country’s September, 2017. Successful applicants will be San Francisco (Silicon Valley) and London in tion please visit zaingreatidea.com. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 BUSINESS

Western Union ties up Aman Exchange to launch online money transfer service in Kuwait KUWAIT: Western Union, a leader in pen. Our passion for people and innova- global money transfer and payments tion continues to grow.” services, in association with Aman In line with Central Bank of Kuwait Exchange in Kuwait, has announced the regulations, customers are required to launch of the WU.com transactional web- register on www.westernunion.com/kw site in Kuwait, increasing money transfer prior to the first use of the online service, options, giving customers the choice of a as well as to register in-person with their Western Union digital channel and the national ID at one of the 13 Aman convenience of sending money any time, Exchange locations. Once registered, any day of the week. Western Union My WUSM global loyalty To utilize WU.com services, customers program members can receive and can pay using any debit card issued in redeem points online using their current Kuwait. 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We believe that ance of reliable transfers, this will make NBK INTERNATIONAL MARKET REPORT when money moves, good things hap- sending money a pleasant experience.” KUWAIT: The global economy continues to hum the manufacturing index hitting its highest level still well below the 2 percent target, inflation along, though political headwinds and weather since 2011. The employment report, while slight- forecasts are now more upbeat. conditions have complicated matters in recent ly below expectations, continues to confirm a Retreating political risks have been part of the weeks. While the major economies have either healthy labor market. Much of the improved improving story in Europe. The risk of populists maintained robust growth or seen some momentum has been driven by optimism that coming to power or gaining traction is much improvement, the North Korea crisis and severe Mr. Trump’s reform agenda will be implemented diminished after elections in the Netherlands weather conditions in the US have weighed on in a reasonable timeframe. That is now begin- and France saw those forces defeated. In France, markets. Analysts also began to question ning to look less likely after several legislative the election of reform-minded Emmanuel whether promised US reforms will materialize initiatives failed to make it through Congress. Macron even bolstered hopes of a more market- following months of legislative failures. Thus, This could weigh on sentiment in the months friendly era. Elections in Germany later this despite the improving economic figures, yields ahead, especially given relatively high equity month, which never represented a significant risk have declined generally and stock markets have valuations. to begin with, are now expected to be easily won lost some of their gains. The US dollar also con- Nonetheless, markets are less convinced by Mrs. Merkel, maintaining the status quo. tinued its retreat from its 2016 highs, in part as today than they were just weeks ago that the Nonetheless, some political risks remain on the the eurozone outlook has improved. Fed will see another hike in its policy rate target horizon including an Italian election sometime in In the US, politics has dominated. Markets, this year. Indeed, the likelihood of a Fed rate hike the next 12 months and the progress of Brexit which had been anticipating a significant stimu- in December has now declined to 32%; we do talks, which risk using up valuable political capi- lus from promised tax reform, have begun to not expect one. As for next year, the market con- tal and risk souring EU-UK relations. Robust EU economies and shaky US politics question whether this can still be agreed upon sensus is for 2-3 hikes; we are more sanguine, combined to push the euro higher this year. The this year. Also, a debt ceiling and budget fight expecting just one to two 25 basis point hikes. currency rose to 1.20 versus the dollar in August Meanwhile, the Fed is also expected to was expected in September, though this has and is now up 14 percent against the US curren- now been pushed to later in 2017, after presi- announce the starting date of an expected bal- cy this year. Some of this move has also reflected dent Trump struck a deal with congressional ance sheet reduction in the coming weeks. The the changing interest rate outlook in the US, Democrats. Markets were initially worried that announcement itself is unlikely to rattle markets. especially on the likelihood of a December Fed failure to reach an agreement on a new budget In Europe, conditions have continued to shift hike. However, the euro has been strengthening and the debt ceiling could force a government toward a more positive stance. The economic consistently since late 2016, at a time when opti- FRANKFURT: A BMW i3s car and a BMW scooter are driven on stage during a show at shutdown, ultimately delaying the Fed’s next figures have broadly been surprising to the mism of US reforms was still strong and long the stand of German carmaker BMW at the Frankfurt Motor Show IAA in Frankfurt rate hike. The risk of this has now receded fol- upside, with GDP growth in the eurozone before markets began to entertain serious lowing the deal to postpone the debt-ceiling revised upward in recent months. More recently, doubts on these. am Main yesterday.— AFP question. that trend was bolstered by further strength in ECB dilemma Meanwhile, US growth has remained robust, the PMI and inflation. Inflation has also been The stronger euro has certainly complicated German economy to grow by with most indicators either steady or improving. stronger than prior expectations; headline infla- life for the European Central Bank. The ECB’s The latest ISM indexes were no exception, with tion in August rose to 1.5 percent y/y. Though Mario Draghi, who has been focused on ensur- more than 2% this year: BDI ing a smooth transition to a “less-loose” mone- tary policy, is now having to talk down the euro, BERLIN: The German economy is set to corresponds with a growth rate of slightly lest it derail the economic recovery. However, grow by more than 2 percent this year more than 2 percent,” BDI said, adding the Britain inflation surprise when it comes to the ECB’s quantitative easing adjusted for calendar effects, which would main reason for the improved outlook was (QE), markets know that it is unlikely to continue be the strongest rate in six years, the BDI the global recovery. renews talk of rate hike much longer past the middle of next year due to industry association said yesterday as it lift- the structural limitations of the program (i.e. ed its growth forecast for Europe’s biggest Retail sector LONDON: Inflation in Britain spiked up to 2.9 Burberry, was down 0.2 percent. Inflation is there are few German bonds left to buy). economy. The outlook followed a more In the first half of the year German percent in the year to August, official figures now well above the Bank of England’s target Nonetheless, observers are keen to hear more muted message from the Economy exports rose by almost 4 percent, BDI said. showed yesterday, in a development that has of 2 percent. In more normal times, that fact details about how the ECB plans to end QE. Ministry, which said the economy could “We also expect a similar expansion rate for stoked speculation the Bank of England may alone would have been enough for the central Japan has also surprised on the upside in lose some momentum in the second half the second half,” Germany’s biggest indus- raise interest rates sooner than expected bank to raise interest rates, which can rein in recent months, though this trend will be harder after powering ahead in the first six months. try association, which has a track record of regardless of how the country’s Brexit discus- economic activity, thereby keeping a lid on to sustain. Generally, quantitative easing there Record-high employment, rising real wages nailing the data, said. “In addition to con- sions shape up. price increases. If inflation ends up being has been far less effective and authorities still do and ultra-low borrowing costs are driving a struction investment, equipment invest- The Office for National Statistics said the more than 1 percentage point above the tar- not have their sight on the end of QE. Moreover, consumer-led upswing in the German econ- ment is also rising thanks to the high increase from the previous month’s 2.6 per- get, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney though the IMF did nudge their growth outlook omy that looks set to help Chancellor capacity utilization in the industry,” it said. cent rate was largely due to rising prices for will have to write a letter to the government for 2017 to 1.3 percent, growth is expected to Angela Merkel win a fourth term in office in The International Monetary Fund said in clothing and motor fuels. The scale of the explaining why that’s happened and what he return to 0.6 percent in 2018. Meanwhile, a federal election on Sept. 24. July it expected the German economy to increase, which took the consumer price infla- and his central bank colleagues are planning Japanese inflation remains mired below 1 per- The ministry, which has a reputation of grow by 1.8 percent in 2017 and by 1.6 per- tion rate to its joint-highest level in more than to do about it. cent, unlike inflation in the US and the eurozone giving more cautious outlooks, said in its cent in 2018. This would be slightly below five years, was unexpected - the consensus in However, policymakers are expected to where it has perhaps started to approach 2 per- monthly report that growth would contin- the 1.9 percent it achieved in 2016. The the markets was for a 2.8 percent rate. keep the bank’s benchmark interest rate at the cent. Emerging markets (EM) growth has also ue in the second half. “However, the ministry said private consumption would The pound jumped to near year-highs record low of 0.25 percent at their meeting on been improving despite a moderating pace in dynamics are likely to be somewhat weak- remain an important growth engine, but a against the dollar, a signal that some traders, Thursday largely because of Britain’s uncertain China. EM growth is seen rising to 4.6-4.8 percent er,” it said. The ministry is so far sticking to somewhat clouded mood in the retail sec- at least, think that borrowing rates could be economic outlook. At least two of the nine- in 2017 and 2018 by the IMF. The trend there has its 2017 growth forecast of 1.5 percent tor could prompt a slight cooling in the heading higher later this year or early next. member Monetary Policy Committee are been relatively steady with China continuing to unadjusted, which would translate into 1.8 third quarter. The pound was up 0.8 percent at $1.3261 in expected to vote for higher rates and the min- manage a smooth slowdown while avoiding percent on a calendar-adjusted basis. But The monthly report chimed with eco- early afternoon in London. The pound was utes of the meeting, also due for publication major bumps along the way. Beyond China, economists expect the government to raise nomic data published this month that also strengthening against the euro, which Thursday, could show a greater willingness to growth has been recovering as recessions in com- that in its autumn outlook, due at the end showed feeble domestic demand drove a was down 0.9 percent at 0.8991 pound. consider higher rates. modity exporting (Brazil, Russia) countries recede. of next month. surprise fall in industrial orders in July, The currency’s rebound from its post-Brexit “The inflation data builds a stronger case An improving economic outlook combined Drawing its forecasts from its close links while industrial production flatlined. In vote lows is potentially negative news for for the Bank of England to look at hiking rates with the risks from the North Korea crisis and to more than 100,000 large, medium-sized addition, retail sales fell more than expect- British firms that have big business interests but it is not yet strong enough for the mone- bad weather have helped push oil prices upward and small firms from all branches of pro- ed on the month in July, suggesting that outside the U.K. And the money they make tary policy committee to act this week,” said in recent months. Brent rose past $54 per barrel cessing industry, which together employ household spending lost some momentum abroad will be worth less when it is brought Neil Wilson, senior market analyst at ETX in early September; this is $10 higher than more than 8 million employees, the BDI at the beginning of the third quarter. back to the U.K. That helps explain why the Capital. While inflation has risen sharply in recent lows in late June 2017. The price has also sees more upbeat figures. “The German The ministry said that overall business FTSE 100 stock index of leading the past year largely on the back of the been supported by the OPEC decision to extend economy is picking up speed,” BDI said in morale remained high and firms contin- British firms was a laggard Tuesday. pound’s fall since Britain’s vote to leave the production cuts for an additional nine months its quarterly economic report. It now ued to hire new staff. “But employment Whereas other stock markets in Europe firmly European Union, the economy has slowed after these were due to expire in mid-2017. The expects unadjusted gross domestic prod- growth could be somewhat slower. Also, higher, the FTSE 100, which is made up of sharply as living standards have been price recovery has remained relatively limited, uct (GDP) to expand by 1.8 percent this production in manufacturing and con- many international companies like BP and squeezed by higher prices. —AP largely due to resilient shale oil production in year, up from its previous estimate of 1.5 struction could expand rather moderate- the US and high crude oil stocks. percent. “Adjusted for calendar effects, this ly,” it added. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian dollar 250.310 Malaysian Ringgit 75.855 Indian Rupee 0.004346 0.004735 Turkish lira 89.140 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.930 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Swiss Franc 321.700 Thai Bhat 9.675 Japanese Yen 0.002878 0.003058 ASIAN COUNTRIES Australian Dollar 245.930 Turkish Lira 101.390 Kenyan Shilling 0.003110 0.003110 Japanese Yen 2.798 US Dollar Buying 300.550 Korean Won 0.000262 0.000277 Indian Rupees 4.731 Malaysian Ringgit 0.072187 0.078187 Pakistani Rupees 2.864 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Nepalese Rupee 0.002851 0.003021 Srilankan Rupees 1.973 20 Gram 249.070 Pakistan Rupee 0.002719 0.003009 Nepali Rupees 2.958 10 Gram 127.450 Philippine Peso 0.006317 0.006617 Singapore Dollar 226.030 5 Gram 64.570 CURRENCY BUY SELL Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Hongkong Dollar 38.563 Europe Singapore Dollar 0.220621 0.230621 Bangladesh Taka 3.720 British Pound 0.393722 0.408722 South African Rand 0.015785 0.024285 Philippine Peso 5.948 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Czech Korune 0.004495 0.016495 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001655 0.002235 Thai Baht 9.133 Danish Krone 0.041365 0.046365 Taiwan 0.009299 0.009479 Euro 0.032150 0.0341150 Thai Baht 0.008372 0.008922 GCC COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Norwegian Krone 0.031870 0.037070 US Dollar 302.650 Romanian Leu 0.086745 0.086745 Saudi Riyal 80.520 Arab Qatari Riyal 82.933 Canadian Dollar 232.415 Slovakia 0.009007 0.019007 Sterling Pound 401.085 Swedish Krona 0.031320 0.036320 Bahraini Dinar 0.795553 0.804053 Omani Riyal 784.174 Egyptian Pound 0.025234 0.030352 Bahraini Dinar 801.780 Euro 339.245 Swiss Franc 0.305256 0.316256 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 UAE Dirham 82.210 Swiss Frank 294.580 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Bahrain Dinar 800.075 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 UAE Dirhams 82.630 Australasia Jordanian Dinar 0.422358 0.431358 ARAB COUNTRIES Qatari Riyals 83.840 Egyptian Pound - Cash 20.300 Australian Dollar 0.221624 0.233624 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Saudi Riyals 81.430 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 17.021 New Zealand Dollar 0.211948 0.221448 Lebanese Pound 0.000146 0.000246 Jordanian Dinar 426.460 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.212 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019264 0.043264 Egyptian Pound 33.985 Tunisian Dinar 126.260 America Nigerian Naira 0.001246 0.001881 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.076 Canadian Dollar 0.226401 0.235401 Jordanian Dinar 426.080 Indian Rupees 4.531 Georgina Lari 0.136578 0.136578 Omani Riyal 0.779035 0.784715 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.012 Pakistani Rupees 2.882 US Dollars 0.298300 0.303000 Qatar Riyal 0.082250 0.083700 Syrian Lira 0.000 Bangladesh Taka 3.851 US Dollars Mint 0.298800 0.30300 Saudi Riyal 0.079553 0.080853 Morocco Dirham 32.942 Philippines Pesso 6.435 Syrian Pound 0.001281 0.001501 Cyprus pound 159.500 Asia Tunisian Dinar 0.134032 0.142032 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 3.915 Bangladesh Taka 0.003384 0.003968 US Dollar Transfer 301.750 Turkish Lira 0.096819 0.107119 Syrian Pound 2.400 Chinese Yuan 0.044074 0.047574 Euro 365.570 UAE Dirhams 0.080907 0.082607 Nepalese Rupees 3.815 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036916 0.039666 Sterling Pound 400.720 Yemeni Riyal 0.001367 0.001447 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 BUSINESS Abe to launch $17bn Indian bullet train project as ties deepen

NEW DELHI/TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Japan’s high-speed “shinkansen” technol- foreign direct investor. India and Japan Minister Shinzo Abe will lay the foundation ogy. In Tokyo, a Japanese foreign ministry are also trying to move forward on a plan stone for India’s first bullet train in Indian official told reporters, “We would like to for New Delhi to buy Japanese amphibi- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home support ‘Make in India’ as much as possi- ous aircraft - ShinMaywa Industries’ US-2 state this week, in a tightening of ties just ble,” referring to Modi’s signature policy to - in what would be one of Tokyo’s first days after New Delhi ended a dangerous lure investors in manufacturing. arms transfers since ending a self- military confrontation with China. “And for that, we want to do what’s imposed embargo. The move by Abe, who started a two- beyond the Mumbai-Ahmedabad line and Tokyo hopes that by gaining a head day visit to India yesterday, highlights an achieve economies of scale.” India would start on rival exporters of rail technology early lead for Japan in a sector where the make “all-out efforts” to complete the line such as China and Germany, its compa- Chinese have also been trying to secure a by August 2022, more than a year earlier nies will be able to dominate business in foothold, but without much success. than planned, the government said this one of the most promising markets for Modi has made the 500-km- (311- week. Japan is providing 81 percent of the high-speed rail equipment. In 2015, China mile-) long high-speed rail link between funding for the 1.08-trillion-rupee ($16.9- won a contract to assess the feasibility of the financial hub of Mumbai and the billion) project, through a 50-year loan at a high-speed link between Delhi and industrial city of Ahmedabad in western 0.1 percent annual interest. Mumbai, part of a network of more than Gujarat a centrepiece of his efforts to 10,000 km (6,214 miles) of track India showcase India’s ability to build cutting- Ties blossomed wants to set up, but little progress has edge infrastructure. The leaders will Ties between India and Japan have been made. launch the start of work on the line blossomed as Modi and Abe increasingly Bullet train critics say the funds would tomorrow, India’s railways ministry said in see eye-to-eye in countering growing be far better spent to modernize India’s a statement. Chinese assertiveness across Asia. slow and rickety state-controlled rail sys- “This technology will revolutionize and Japanese investment into India has AHMEDABAD: Indian security personnel stand guard alongside a banner adver- tem, the world’s fourth largest. But a $15- transform the transport sector,” said surged in areas ranging from automo- tising the forthcoming visit to the city by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe billion safety overhaul has hit delays as a Railways Minister Piyush Goyal, welcom- tives to infrastructure in the remote (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the eve of the visit in state steel firm proved unable to fill ing the prospects for growth brought by northeast, making Tokyo its third-largest Ahmedabad yesterday. — AFP demand for new rail. — Reuters Chinese banks halt transactions for North Koreans

BEIJING: Branches of China’s biggest banks notice in May, and North Koreans can no longer have suspended financial transactions for North conduct transactions. An Agricultural Bank of Koreans, employees told AFP, suggesting that China employee in Beijing said North Koreans Beijing has pursued stronger measures against are barred from opening new accounts but those its nuclear-armed ally than previously thought. with current accounts can carry out transactions. Staff at branches in Beijing and the border city of Yanji-a major trade and transportation Cut off nuclear funds hub between the two neighbors-said their Zhang Liangui, a professor at the Chinese banks have banned North Koreans from open- Communist Party Central Committee school, ing new accounts and some have even started said the ban is “very normal” and in accordance to close existing ones. The restrictions were with UN resolutions. “Chinese banks restricting imposed well before the United Nations Security financial flows between (China and) North Korea Council unanimously approved, with China’s is actually restricting trade on the whole,” Zhang blessing, new sanctions on Pyongyang on said. “It mainly aims at limiting North Korea’s for- Monday following its latest and largest nuclear eign exchange revenue and cutting off the for- test. Employees at several branches of the coun- eign exchange (supply) that it needs to develop try’s “big four”-Industrial and Commercial Bank its nuclear plans.” of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of A 2013 UN Security Council resolution stipu- China and China Construction Bank-confirmed lates that member states must curb financial the financial curbs for North Korean clients. services or transactions that could subsidize “We have frozen their accounts, which North Korea’s nuclear programs. China has long means they cannot withdraw (money),” a staff been accused of lax enforcement of UN sanc- member at a Yanji branch of China Construction tions on North Korea, and US President Donald Bank told AFP. “They cannot use (their accounts) Trump complained earlier this year that trade in Yanji anymore, as well as our services... We between the two countries surged in the first have already started to inform them to cancel quarter. their account. If they can cancel, we let them In June, the United States slapped sanctions cancel. If they cannot, we will not let them use on the Bank of Dandong, a Chinese bank located it,” the staffer said. at the border with North Korea which it accused An employee at the Industrial and of “facilitating millions of dollars of transactions Commercial Bank of China in Yanji said the for companies involved in North Korea’s WMD PARIS: A man holds a flare during a demonstration called by several French unions against the labor law reform in Paris yesterday. French restrictions began last year or the previous year. (weapons of mass destruction) and ballistic mis- unions launched a day of strikes and protests yesterday against Emmanuel Macron’s flagship labor reforms, a key test as he stakes his presiden- “We also won’t open new accounts now. We sile programs.” But China has insisted that it cy on overhauling the sluggish economy. — AFP offer no service to them. Opening accounts or adheres to the UN sanctions. It suspended North foreign currency operations, we don’t offer such Korean coal imports in February and more services to them,” the employee said. recently banned new business ventures and Macron faces challenge as Other local bank branches said the bans have stopped buying iron, seafood and lead from its been carried out for a while, but they did not neighbor. China also backed Monday’s UN reso- remember exactly when. Some said they have lution, which bans textile exports and restricts union protests labor reform received a written document on the ban but oth- shipments of oil products, though it did so only ers said there has only been a “verbally delivered” after Washington toned down its original pro- message. A staff member at a Beijing branch of posal to secure the backing of Beijing and China Construction Bank said they received a Moscow. — AFP Labor reforms test French president’s mettle

PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron faced the “The president should listen to the people, 400,000 onto the streets, and stoked a rebellion first challenge on the streets to his business- understand them, rather than cause divisions,” within his own party. friendly reform agenda yesterday when workers Martinez told France 2 television. CGT workers Hollande was forced to dilute his proposals, from the hard-left CGT union began marching from the rail, oil and power sectors have said but so far there are no signs of Macron feeling through French cities to protest against a loos- they will heed his call for strikes yesterday, but compelled to back down. An opinion poll pub- ening of labor laws. by mid-afternoon there was no apparent impact lished on Sept. 1 indicated that voters have Sounding a call to the working class, Philippe on power and refining production, spokespeo- mixed views on the reform. Nearly six in 10 said Martinez, the head of the Communist Party- ple for utility EDF and oil major Total said. they opposed Macron’s labor decrees overall. linked CGT, branded the reforms a “social coup Just over 11 percent of the workforce at EDF, But when respondents looked at individual d’etat” and took offence at Macron’s pledge to which operates France’s fleet of 48 nuclear reac- measures, most received majority support. With give no ground to “slackers”. tors, took part in the strike, a spokeswoman for economic growth accelerating, unemployment Labor unions have scuppered previous the state-owned utility said. on a downward trend and the leading unions attempts to weaken France’s labor code, but this divided in their response to the reforms, it is not time there was comfort for Macron as two other Unions divided clear whether the protests will eventually gain unions, including the largest, the CFDT, declined Macron landed in the French Caribbean yes- significant momentum. to join the protests. terday to survey the devastation wrought by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told the After weeks of negotiations, the government Hurricane Irma on the French territory of Saint newspaper Les Echos that voters had chosen last month set out measures including a cap on Martin. Governments on the political left and Macron “to carry out the reforms that France has payouts for dismissals judged unfair and greater right have been trying for decades to overhaul shrunk away from for 30 years”. The moderate This file picture taken on September 4, 2017 shows the North Korean town of Sinuiju freedom for companies to hire and fire. the 3,000-page labor code, but ended up water- CFDT union described Macron’s labor decrees as (at rear) being seen behind the Friendship Bridge (L) which connects Sinuiju and the The reform makes no direct reference to the ing down their plans in the face of street demon- a “deep disappointment” but said it would not Chinese border city of Dandong, and the Broken Bridge, in Dandong, in China’s 35-hour week, a totem of the labor code, though strations. Macron was economy minister in the join the CGT demonstrations. The smaller Force northeast Liaoning province. — AFP it hands firms more flexibility to set pay and Socialist government of president Francois Ouvriere (FO), usually an ally of the CGT, also working conditions. The government plans to Hollande, whose attempt at labor reform led to decided to stay away, a move that has led to dis- adopt the new measures, being implemented by weeks of protests that at their peak brought cord within its ranks. — Reuters EU’s Vestager, the Dane decree, on Sept. 22. During a trip to Athens on Friday, Macron told the local French community: who is Google’s bane “I am fully determined and I won’t cede any Britain eases public sector ground, not to slackers, nor cynics, nor hardlin- BRUSSELS: If the critics of Silicon Valley But despite her thunderbolt deci- ers.” He said the “slackers” comment was aimed at needed a leader, many would turn to sions, Vestager, who took office as EU those who had failed to push through reforms in pay grip with rises for police Denmark’s Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s top competition commissioner in late 2014, the past, although political opponents and some LONDON: Britain’s government partially aban- for public sector workers recognizes their vital anti-trust regulator. Around the world, is also known for infusing one of the unions took it as an attack on the unemployed or doned a cap on public-sector pay yesterday, contribution ... while also being affordable and authorities and governments now look to EU’s most feared positions with a wel- on workers making the most of job protection. saying it would raise wages for police and fair to taxpayers as a whole,” deputy finance the elegant Dane who in June slapped come dose of humanity. Across the EU “Mr Macron knows very well it’s a power prison guard by more than its long-standing 1 minister Elizabeth Truss said. Google with a record 2.4-billion-euro fine institutions, Vestager is considered one struggle, that’s what he wants,” far-left firebrand percent limit. The government froze pay for all but the for illegally favoring its shopping service in of the most popular of the commission’s Jean-Luc Melenchon, who has become Macron’s Workers in Britain are unhappy over pay lowest-paid public-sector workers in 2010, search results. 28 commissioners. most vocal opponent in parliament, said on the growth since the financial crisis which has and capped rises in basic pay at 1 percent in “She’s loved by her team, and hugely sidelines of a demonstration in Marseille. “We fallen by more in inflation-adjusted terms 2013. The new pay rises are below inflation respected,” said a high-level Brussels official will make him back down,” he said. Turnout esti- than in any other major economy, dropping which hit 2.9 percent in August, and the gov- familiar with the often austere corridors of mates for the march varied widely between by an adjusted 0.5 percent as inflation rose ernment offered no extra money to fund the EU power. Vestager’s vast, bright office in sources, as is often the case in France, with the following last year’s Brexit vote. Britain is now increased staff costs, which raises the possibil- the commission’s Berlaymont headquarters CGT union putting it at 60,000 in France’s second facing the possibility of strikes over pay after ity of job cuts or reduced public services. is unlike most others. city, while police said it was nearer 7,500. the country’s biggest civil service union said A police staff representative said officers The walls are cribbed with personal Protesters were also gathering in Paris. last week it would ballot members over would be angry that the pay award was less photographs-including of her three daugh- industrial action. than the permanent 2 percent increase rec- ters-pinned alongside spirited, colorful Cherished rights And yesterday the head of a union cover- ommended by an official pay review body. A pieces by Danish artist Kristina Gordon. French workers have long cherished the ing more public-sector workers said coordi- senior officer who speaks for police chiefs, Her small desk faces out to the Brussels sky- rights enshrined in the labor code, but compa- nated strikes over pay were possible. Francis Habgood, said forces had no money line suggesting more contemplative work nies complain it has deterred investment and The new rises will still be less than inflation, for pay rises. job creation and stymied economic growth. BRUSSELS: EU Commissioner of Compe- than that of an official feared by highly paid with the government, which is trying to fix “Without better real-terms funding protec- lawyers and boardroom executives. Unemployment has been above 9 percent for Britain’s budget deficit, saying it would contin- tion from government, an award above 1 per- tition Margrethe Vestager gives an interview nearly a decade. at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. — AFP ue to exert discipline while also showing cent will inevitably impact on our ability to ‘I really liked it’ Macron’s reforms are being followed in greater flexibility for jobs that are hard to deliver policing services and maintain staffing Google hit back on Monday, filing an In an interview with AFP, Vestager spoke Germany as a test of his resolve to reshape the recruit. levels,” Habgood said. appeal at EU court, embittering ties of her anti-trust portfolio matter-of-factly, euro zone’s second-biggest economy, a must if But police officers and trade unions said Among the factors behind the low wage between Europe and Silicon Valley even but sparked to talk of the promise of he is to win Berlin’s backing for broader reforms they were unhappy with the offer which will growth are weak productivity growth and the further. The decision was the biggest blow Europe that she said had grown stronger to the currency union. The CGT is France’s sec- give police the usual 1 percent increase to government’s prioritization of reducing the ever inflicted on the US tech juggernaut from the drama of the debt crisis and ond-biggest union, though its influence has their basic pay, plus a one-off of 1 percent. budget deficit. and came less than a year after Vestager Brexit. “It’s as if everyone has lifted up their been waning. Martinez said yesterday’s nation- Meanwhile, prison officers will get an aver- This reached 10 percent of gross domestic shocked the world with an order that gaze and said OK they want to leave, we’ll wide protests were the “first phase” and more age pay rise of 1.7 percent in 2017/18. “We will product in 2010 and stood at 2.5 percent of iPhone manufacturer Apple repay 13 bil- find the best way to enable that, but for the would follow. He called Macron’s reference to continue to ensure that the overall package GDP in the 2016/17 financial year. — Reuters lion euros in back taxes in Ireland. rest of us: ahead!” she said. — AFP “slackers” an insult to workers. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 BUSINESS US stocks add to records ahead of Apple launch

NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks rose early yester- industrial Average was at 22,117.29, up 0.3 per- Hurricane Harvey, allayed concerns about the 0.27 percent, at 2,494.87. The Nasdaq Council resolution, which imposed a ban on day, adding to records ahead of a big Apple cent. The broad-based S&P 500 advanced 0.2 per- severity of its financial impact. Composite was up 16.20 points, or 0.25 the country’s textile exports and capped product launch and as worries about US hurri- cent to 2,493.74, while the tech-rich Nasdaq “Investors have gained confidence that the percent, at 6,448.46. Nine of the 11 major crude oil imports. canes continued to recede. Apple dipped 0.3 per- Composite Index climbed 0.1 percent to 6,439.23. worst is over and concerns over Irma’s economic S&P sectors were higher, led by a 1.03 per- “Although North Korea is a threat and cent ahead an event expected to launch new DowDuPont advanced 2.7 percent after con- impact seem to have disappeared for the cent rise in materials index. DowDupont can make the market nervous because of iPhone models to commemorate the 10th firming it was on target to save $4 billion follow- moment,” said Andre Bakhos, managing director rose 3 percent after the company said it uncertainty, more and more global powers anniversary of the game-changing smartphone. ing the completion of its merger. The chemicals of Janlyn Capital in Bernardsville, New Jersey. All was making changes to a plan of splitting are coming on board, taking the pressure Analysts expect one of the new offerings to giant also tweaked its plan to restructure into eyes will be on Apple as it prepares to unveil the itself into three. The stock gave the biggest off of just the US dealing with it. About that, include augmented reality capabilities and facial three companies to try to placate some share- 10th anniversary edition of the iPhone, whose boost to the S&P. the investors feel good,” Bakhos said. Sage recognition features. holder activists who had criticized the original sales will also have repercussions on its rivals and The market also seemed to shrug off Therapeutics slumped more than 19 per- The S&P 500 closed at a record Monday after plan. Goldman Sachs rose 1.7 percent after exec- many suppliers. North Korea’s threat that the United States cent after its drug to treat a life-threatening Hurricane Irma caused less damage in Florida utives laid out plans to boost profitability by $2.5 Apple shares dipped 0.3 percent ahead of the would soon face the “greatest pain” it had seizure disorder failed in a late-stage trial. than feared, and as anxiety about North Korea’s billion over the next three years in part by hiring event, scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. ET (1700 ever experienced in the wake of the UN Teva rose 5.24 percent after the drugmaker nuclear program diminished. Those dynamics more staff in fixed income and currencies trad- GMT). At 9:39 am ET, the Dow Jones Industrial stepping up sanctions against Pyongyang agreed to sell its contraceptive brand, were still in play early yesterday, analysts said. ing. The weakening of Irma, the second major Average was up 64.64 points, or 0.29 percent, at on Monday due to its nuclear tests. North Paragard, for $1.1 billion to a unit of Cooper About 15 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones natural disaster to hit the United States after 22,122.01 and the S&P 500 was up 6.76 points, or Korea yesterday rejected the UN Security Cos, whose stock was flat. —Reuters

TOKYO: People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo yester- day. Asian stocks rose strongly Monday after Hurricane Irma weakened and North Korea marked a weekend holiday with celebrations but refrained from launching more missiles, giving investors some relief. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 BUSINESS British Airways’ top five autumn getaways From picturesque European towns to fashionable countryside retreats

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KUWAIT: As summer swings into autumn, London in New York is unforgettable. British Airways has named its leading hotspots Catch your first glimpse of the English capi- The change in foliage is a hallmark of a stroll for a seasonal holiday. From charming tal at the start of the season as you descend through the world-famous Central Park. From European villages and towns, to the largest into London Heathrow, the home of British the Carousel to the Conservatory Garden and metropolises in North America, the UK’s flag- Airways. As the city gears up for one of the the Belvedere Castle, there are numerous pic- ship carrier is launching an end of summer biggest fashion events of the season, London ture-perfect locations to witness the leaves turn sale with dozens of special fares to make it Fashion Week, and outdoor rooftops open for color and capture ‘no filter needed’ memories. even easier for travellers to experience an visitors and residents to enjoy the crisp Head Southeast and take in the rich wildlife unforgettable autumn in some of the world’s autumn breeze, there are numerous spots in and forest preserves of the Catskill Mountains, most picturesque spots. this iconic city to say farewell to the summer. A home to thirty-five mountain peaks and the short walk from the centre of London, watch famous Woodstock festival. Under a two-hour the leaves of over 4,000 towering trees turn drive from New York, travellers can get up- golden yellow as you stroll through 350 acres close to nature and enjoy its many hiking of stunning urban greenery in Hyde Park. trails. The massive Adirondack Park boasts If you’re looking to step out of the city and waterfalls and mountains, it’s a must for any- follow the fashionable set, escape to celebrity one looking to satisfy their adventurous side. hotspots including Soho Farmhouse, Babington House, the Limewood Hotel and American West Coast The Ned. Looking for more colour and less From Washington to California, the coun- flash? Cruise to the Cotswolds or voyage to the try’s West Coast is made for autumn. It’s gold- Lake District, there’s no bustling city vibes, en and bronze hues galore across hundreds of only rolling hills and the cool scents of forests and natural trails in California. Add a autumn. touch of red to the mix with the famous Fly with British Airways to London this Central Park Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, its stun- Autumn for as little as KD 124. and the Villa Celimontanan, which is walking medieval sites of Nuremberg and Bamberg. ning Bay and the now infamous ‘Karl’ - the distance from the famed Colosseum in Rome. Alternatively, make a beeline for the Black recently-adopted moniker for the city’s leg- Italy British Airways offers multiple daily onward Forest in the country’s mountainous endary fog. Or head to Sausalito, a charming Milan, Rome, Lombardy, Tuscany: Italy connections from London Heathrow to Italy. Southwest region to experience evergreen and quaint town, to enjoy the local clam bursts with color in autumn. Tourists have a Enjoy return fares to Italy (via London Heathrow) woodlands - the catalyst of folk tales and chowder while you take in the serene bay. mix of ancient and modern treasures to for as little as KD 121. myths galore thanks to the Grimm Brothers. Travellers can even go slightly inland to explore in some of the world’s most romantic Choose your preferred onward connection Colorado to visit the soon-to-be snow-covered Germany cities - from historical sites in Rome, to the Germany when you fly from Kuwait to Germany via mountains of Colorado. In this case of west, it’s fashion boutiques and art stores of Milan. If The centre of Europe is the perfect place to London Heathrow with British Airways for as lit- southwest is best for autumn. Named after a Stretching right across British Airways’ glob- escaping to the Italian countryside is more embrace the change in seasons. A favorite tle KD 131. tree that dominates and defines the entire al network of 200 destinations, customers fly- your mission, then bask in the change in tem- with travellers from the Middle East, Germany town, Aspen never fails to impress. ing from the United Arab Emirates can choose perature - and lower prices - in hundreds of has a lot to offer - from cosmopolitan cities, American East Coast Passengers flying from the Middle East any of the airline’s four class cabins during the towns’ autumn festivals of food and grape that enchanting castles and picturesque country- Pack your best gear and touch down in the enjoy numerous daily connections to over 25 sale when they book between September 12 pop up across the country. side, including more than 100 national parks. Big Apple for Fashion Week, where new trends destinations across North America and will and October 1 for travel until March 31 2018. There’s also hiking in Cinque Terre (Five Munich is also a must-visit city on your dominate the conversation and revellers soak enjoy an enhanced sleep and catering propo- Whether your penchant is for breath-taking Towns), road trips to Tuscany, classic sightsee- journey through Bavaria - a true cultural trip. up all pomp expected from one of the world’ sition as British Airways’ 400-million-pound sunset strolls or snapping autumnal colors in ing along the Amalfi Coast, Mediterranean The home of the legendary Oktoberfest may leading fashion capitals. Whether you’re in investment in its Club World cabins is rolled some the world’s most famous cities, the air- swimming in water that remains warm in the be world-renowned, but there are celebrations town to catch a seat at a fashion show, looking out across the airline’s long haul services. line’s team of travel experts have offered tips cooler months, and a spread of public parks - across the entire Bavarian region (also known to wrangle your way to one of the exclusive Fly to the US with special fares on offer across on where to watch the arrival of autumn - no from the Giardini Pubblici (Public Gardens) in as Franconia) in autumn, where you can mean- after-parties, or just taking in the city that has North America starting from as little as KD 219 to matter where you fly. Milan to the Villa Bardini Gardens in Florence der through quaint towns and cities - try the inspired numerous songs and dreams, autumn New York, KD 312 to San Francisco. KFH Takaful opens service center at Al-Babtain Group garage

KUWAIT: Marketing & Develop- service as per the highest safety ment Manager at KFH Takaful and security standards, thus Insurance Co “KFH Takaful” Ahmed enhancing the concept of customer Al-Nuwaif said that the company service at the company. KFH was has inaugurated a special service established in Kuwait in 1977 and is center for its customers at Al- enlisted in the Kuwait Stock Babtain Group Garage at Shuwaikh. Exchange. KFH Group is a global The center incarnates the compa- pioneer in the field of Islamic bank- ny’s interest in providing distin- ing services, where it offers a wide guished services to unique cus- array of Islamic products and servic- tomers through continuous collab- es, not to mention a high standard oration with automotive agents to Ahmed Al-Nuwaif of innovation and client service. provide a faster and easier services KFH manages its operations in to related customers. the GCC, Asia, and Europe through Hurricane Harvey’s implications in Houston, Texas Qatar continues to suffer due to economic blockade Al-Nuwaif emphasized in a press conference over 480 branches, including KFH-Turkey, in order that the center shall serve company’s customers in to offer services for the bank’s clients in Turkey, case of accidents. The center shall receive cus- Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Germany, Jordan, S&P boosts Kuwait outlook, tomers and complete all procedures without them and Dubai. having to refer to the company. This process shall KFH’s mission is to achieve highest levels of save customers time and effort. Service will be pro- excellence and innovation in the field of client serv- vided as per the highest safety and efficiency stan- ice, while developing common interest for all those sanctions hit Qatar economy dards. He added that this new center is one of the concerned with the financial institution. KFH’s vision centers which KFH-Takaful has placed at the dispos- is to spearhead the global development in Islamic al of its customers as per cooperation agreements financial services, and to upgrade the bank into the KFIC Report for the Global and GCC Financial Markets in August 2017 concluded with highly reputable automotive level of becoming the most sustainable profitable agents in the market in order to facilitate proce- Islamic bank in the world. KUWAIT: dures and save customers time and effort and KFH’s values include cementing leadership Global developed equity markets cut- 2017 which is “credit positive” for the Kingdom, forming index. Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul index repair cars in a professional manner as per the high- through all its businesses, including leadership in back during the month of August as the MSCI Moody’s Investors Service said in a recent report. surged by +2.23 percent with positive contribu- est standards under the warranty of the agent. the Islamic banking services worldwide, through World Index decreased -0.69 percent MTD The deficit cut is largely attributed to a sharp tion coming from Capital Goods +8.26 percent, Accordingly the customer is able to complete all his innovation and in client service and the develop- Shanghai SE Composite was the top performing increase in oil revenues from higher oil prices, Consumer Services +5.15 percent, Banks +4.84 car repair procedures at the center located at the ment of its employees. In addition, KFH is commit- developed market index, followed by Dow Jones despite the government’s wide-ranging eco- percent, Food & Beverages +3.29 percent and concerned garage. ted to all its procedures, and to setting up long-life Industrial Average. In the US, the S&P 500 fell by - nomic and fiscal reforms to reduce its depend- REITS +3.58 percent. Negative contribution com- The center participates in providing high class partnerships with the concerned authorities. 0.51 percent as Wall Street dealt with several ence on oil revenue. In Kuwait, S&P global rat- ing from Media -8.67 percent, Utilities -1.22 per- issues throughout the month, including political ings has maintained Kuwait’s credit rating at AA cent and Retailing -0.98 percent. Kuwait’s events, geopolitical tensions and Hurricane with a stable outlook. The outlook reflected S&P’s Weighted Index increased by +4.18 percent Gulf Bank announces winners Harvey that devastated Texas’s Gulf coast region. expectations that Kuwait’s public balance sheets mainly due to significant gains in Telecom +8.95 During this month, US reported the highest and external financial positions will remain percent, Banks 5.62 percent, Real Estate 2.98 per- of Al-Danah daily draws growth in employment since March, totaling strong backed by huge financial assets, the cent Industrials +1.93 percent and Consumer Services +0.98 percent. Negative performance KUWAIT: 237,000 job additions, President Donald Trump agency also ranked Kuwait ‘4’ on a scale of ‘1’ Gulf Bank held its Al-Danah daily draws on Gulf Bank’s Online and Mobile Banking. announced plans to reduce US tax rate by 15 (strongest) to ‘10’ (weakest) in Banking Industry came from Consumer goods -3.38 percent and on 10 September 2017 announcing the names of its Five reasons why the Al-Danah account is the percent as it would create additional jobs and a Country Risk Assessment. Oil & Gas -1.71 percent. Dubai’s DFM index rose winners for the week of 5 - 7 September 2017. The best: rise in wages. UAE will begin imposing excise tax on select- by +0.12 percent as strong performance was Al-Danah daily draws include draws every working 1) Kuwait’s single biggest yearly cash prize of KD day for two prizes of KD 1,000 per winner. 1 million and the largest international bank prize In the UK, the FTSE 100 declined by -0.09 per- ed goods starting October, the legislation covers seen from Real Estate +0.95 percent and banks The winners are: according to Guinness World Records cent as fears around Brexit continued to unnerve the production or import of the excise goods, +0.61 percent and weak performance was (Tuesday 5/9): Nihad Abdullah Abdultahman Al- 2) Kuwait’s biggest quarterly cash prizes, up to investors. In Europe, the Euro weakened to 1.20 along with stocking of such goods. The rates can- reported in Services -8.06 percent, Telecom -4.58 Jeeaan , Huda Ismael Hussain Ashkanani KD500,000 EUR/USD compared to 1.18 EUR/USD during the not exceed 200 percent of the excise price, percent and Investment & Financial Services - (Wednesday 6/9): Ahmad Saleh Essa Al-Najem, 3) Two winners of KD1,000 every working day beginning of the month which led to a moderate approximately 350,000 companies are expected 2.64 percent. Abu Dhabi’s ADSM index decreased Omar Subhi Yousef Bdair 4) The most chances to win inflation rate in august, accordingly in France, the to register for VAT. The tax was likely to push by -2.14 percent mainly from Services -8.47 per- 5) Only Bank that transfers your chances to win CAC 40 fell by -0.73 percent, Germany’s DAX index overall consumer prices up by roughly 1.4 per cent, Financial Services & Investment -4.57 per- from the previous year to the current year dropped -0.96 percent as reduction in exports cent. Tax is forecast to generate up to AED 7bn in cent and Telecom -4.00 percent. Positive contri- Only Al-Danah makes millionaires. have put pressure on European benchmarks. In annual revenues for the federal budget. bution came from Energy +4.47 percent and Al-Danah also offers a number of unique servic- Japan, the Nikkei 225 fell by -2.10 percent as Yen In Qatar, S&P Global Ratings affirmed Qatar’s Industrial +3.86 percent and Insurance +2.31 es including: the Al-Danah Deposit Only ATM card strengthened, which is seen as a negative for ‘AA-/A-1+’ long-and short-term foreign and local percent. Qatar’s QE Index dropped by -6.44 per- which helps account holders deposit their money Japanese export-oriented stocks. In China, the currency sovereign ratings with a negative out- cent due to declines in all sectors, mostly Real at their convenience; as well as the Al-Danah calcu- Shanghai composite rose by +2.77 percent due to look, due to the ongoing blockade imposed by a Estate -11.41 percent, Telecom -8.92 percent, (Thursday 7/9): Yaser Mohammed Khudair Al- lator to help customers calculate their chances of solid economic and earnings growth in China in coalition of Arab nations on the country. In Consumer -7.28 percent, Industrials -6.59 percent Turkomani, Halima Abdullah Jeber Fayez becoming an Al-Danah winner. recent months. In commodities, oil prices declined Oman, Central Bank of Oman announced plans and Banks & Financial Services -5.89 percent. Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah 2017 draw lineup includes Gulf Bank’s Al-Danah account is open to Kuwaiti as WTI fell -8.56 percent to close at $46.0bb/l and to raise OMR150mn from development bond Oman’s MSM 30 Index strengthened by 0.56 per- daily draws (2 winners per working day and each and non-Kuwaiti residents of Kuwait. Customers Brent declined by -4.05 percent to close at $50.7 issue. The bonds will have a maturity period of cent meanwhile negative contribution came receive KD1,000). Al-Danah’s 3rd Quarterly Draw for require a minimum of KD200 to open an account bb/l. due to hurricane Harvey more than 20 per- 10 years and will carry a coupon rate of 5.75 per- from Services -1.29 percent and Banking -1.01 the prize of KD500,000 will be held on 28 and the same amount must be maintained as for cent of US refineries shut down, which led traders cent per annum. percent. Bahrain’s BB All Share index fell by -1.91 September. The final Al-Danah draw for KD 1 million customers to be eligible for the upcoming Al-Danah to invest in gold futures instead as Gold prices rose percent primarily due to a decline from will be held on 11 January, 2018 whereby the Al- draws. If the customer’s account balance falls below GCC equities review Danah millionaire will be announced. KD200 at any given time, a KD2 charge will be made by 3.71 percent to close at $1,308.6/oz Industrials -0.98 percent, Hotels & Tourism -0.55 Gulf Bank encourages you to increase your on a monthly basis to the account until the mini- GCC equities, as indicated by the MSCI GCC percent. Positive impact came from Insurance GCC economic overview chances by depositing more into your Al-Danah mum balance is met. Customers who open an IMI Index increased by 0.83 percent. Kuwait’s +3.37 percent and Banks +0.07 percent. — KFIC account, immediately from any local bank, using account and/ or deposit more will enter the daily In Saudi Arabia, fiscal deficit dropped 51 per- Weighted Index was the top performing regional Research, Reuters, S&P, Moody’s, Bloomberg, The the new ePay (Self-Pay) service, which is available draw within two days. cent (YoY) to SAR 72.73 billion in the first half of index and Qatar’s QE index was the worst per- Guardian, CNBC, SAMA, Zawya. technology WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Xerox, Alamana launch new technology to transform the workplace KUWAIT: In its continuous endeavor to deploy into fewer, faster steps using digital workflows smarter document solution strategies, Xerox and enabled right from the device. Alamana Industries are launching 29 new printers ● Industry-leading intuitive user experience - and multifunction devices. The new range will fea- Benefiting from years of Xerox research in this area, ture simple and secure on-the-go capabilities, cloud all 29 products share a similar, customizable user connectivity, and access to productivity boosting interface, which is unique to Xerox workplace solu- features and apps. The launch, the largest in the tions and allows the user experience to move with company’s history, will address growing demand in you. The tablet-like touch screen interface can be technological advancements across multiple indus- personalized for different work environments or indi- try verticals, including healthcare, real estate, educa- tion, retail and many others. vidual users. ● The new ConnectKey portfolio transforms tradi- Mobile and cloud ready - Information flows eas- tional printing devices into smart, connected work- ily from the device to cloud repositories like place assistants that reflect the evolving needs of Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive. Mobile workers today’s businesses. Personalized workflows, one- can print wirelessly from any computing device. touch access to the cloud and multi-layered security ● Total security for both the device and your features are the new print, copy and fax. information - ConnectKey technology ensures com- “We constantly focus on increasing our customers’ prehensive safety for system components and points productivity, efficiency and innovative approach of vulnerability. It offers protection from unautho- towards how work is being done. At this historical rized access to devices; keeps confidential communi- Pui Chi-Li launch, we are introducing a family of products in a Ayman Mattar cations and information safe with encryption and variety of sizes, speeds and capabilities to match the vation in the workplace but also strengthens Xerox’s devices are designed for small workgroups and dis- image overwrite; audits device access attempts and needs of small-and-medium-sized businesses as well positioning in the Middle East region. Kuwait repre- tributed teams and include 19 printers and multi- protects both data and device from malicious intent. as large enterprises,” said Ayman Mattar, General sents growing potential in document technology function printers (MFPs). The AltaLink series includes By working with industry leaders in network secu- Manager of Alamana Industries. and, by strengthening our product offerings, we are 10 MFPs designed for larger workgroups or print vol- rity, ConnectKey-enabled devices offer added securi- “The key highlight of this launch is increased con- enabling our key partners and expanding our chan- ume needs. Key attributes include: ty - ensuring they are monitored and trusted in even nectivity and secure workplace flexibility. As mobile nel network. Channel partners strive on technologies ● Streamlined business processes - Off-the-shelf the most security-conscious environments. AltaLink and cloud technologies are crucial to the evolution of that empower them to expand their client base and or created by channel partners, built-in apps from MFPs feature an added layer of security through our IT environments, we strive to stay one step ahead of grow their businesses,” said Pui Chi-Li, Head of the Xerox App Gallery help organizations create partnership with McAfee. document technology development because innova- Marketing for the Middle East and Africa at Xerox. workflows tailored to their specific operations. For All 29 devices are scheduled to be available by tion is always our first priority,” adds Ayman Mattar. The new products will be identified as the Xerox example, patient records filing, real estate contract the end of 2017 for Kuwaiti customers and channel “The launch of ConnectKey not only promotes inno- VersaLink and Xerox AltaLink series. The VersaLink management and retail invoicing can be streamlined partners. Electric cars, small SUVs dominate buzz at show Frankfurt auto show unveils technology strategies FRANKFURT: Carmakers at the Frankfurt auto show are unveiling the low-emissions vehicles and technology strategies they hope will let them profit from the sweeping changes due to hit the auto industry in the next few years. Volkswagen AG showed off a revised ver- sion of its electric ID Crozz crossover SUV concept vehicle as it announced a long-term electrification campaign, saying its brands would introduce 80 new electric vehicles by 2025. The company plans to invest 20 billion FRANKFURT: A couple sits inside the Renault prototype Symbioz during its world euros ($24 billion) in upgrading plants, cre- premiere during a show on stage at the Renault stand at the Frankfurt Motor Show ating two new electric car platforms and IAA in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, yesterday. —AP training workers. The company said that depending on IAA show displays industry market developments it could sell 3 million battery-only vehicles a year in 2025. Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz was to unveil yesterday in throes of reinvention a compact electric vehicle under its EQ sub- FRANKFURT: Automakers descended on had crashed nose-first into the pavement. brand and the GLC F-Cell, a battery-fuel cell Frankfurt yesterday, ready to show off their Auto bosses will be closely listening to a hybrid that can run on hydrogen and emits latest innovations at the glitzy International Thursday opening speech from Chancellor only water vapor. BMW AG is showing off a Motor Show (IAA) even as the spectre of Angela Merkel-who insists at election ral- concept vehicle for the first electric Mini tough new environmental rules and a lies that she is still “fuming” about the emis- compact due in 2019. string of no-shows took some of the shine sions trickery. As the industry stares down Carmakers are spending heavily to devel- off the event. On the surface there is noth- potential diesel bans in cities and compen- FRANKFURT: BMW i vision dynamics is presented at a BMW event during the first media day of the op and improve electric cars to meet increas- International Frankfurt Motor Show IAA in Frankfurt yesterday which runs through Sept 24, 2017. —AP ing but good news at the IAA: the sation claims, executives have taken refuge ingly tough government regulations aimed European car industry can boast of five in grand promises of an electric and hybrid at limiting air pollution. That is even though years of non-stop growth, projected to con- future. German titans Volkswagen, BMW current electric models do not enjoy high tinue this year, and its 12.6 million employ- and Daimler all announced far-reaching VW spends billions more sales because of limited range, higher price, ees on the Old Continent. electric vehicle programs in the run-up to and a lack of fast-charging stations. Analysts Almost 1,000 exhibitors will fan out the IAA, hoping to hit ambitious hybrid and think that as batteries get better and costs across the 200,000-square-metre area-the all-electric car sales targets with a flood of on electric cars in come down, electric sales may eventually size of 27 football pitches-of the German new models by the mid-2020s. There, too, a take off. According to research and analytics financial capital’s trade show grounds. shadow hangs over the progress, as gung- firm IHS Markit, battery-only cars were 0.57 The show, which opened with two days ho US entrepreneur Elon Musk’s Tesla search for mass market percent of global production in 2016 and will of media previews yesterday, will feature 50 Motors steals the spotlight from slower- increase to 0.86 percent in 2017. carmakers, a string of parts suppliers and moving European competitors. FRANKFURT: Volkswagen is stepping up its shift to luxury brand planned to offer electric motors Britain and France have proposed elimi- internet giants like Facebook and Google. Even mighty Volkswagen, the world’s electric cars and plans to invest more than 20 billion for all models by 2022, though cautioned the nating internal-combustion cars by 2040. And Germany’s VDA car industry federation largest carmaker, measures the volume of euros ($24 billion) in zero-emission vehicles by 2030 shift to lower-margin electric cars required China’s industry ministry is developing a promises some 228 new models will make batteries it will need to produce to power its to challenge pioneer Tesla in creating a mass mar- extra cost savings. BMW, which launched the i3 timetable to end production and sale of tra- their global debut during the show, many electric fleets in multiples of the output of ket. The world’s largest automaker by sales said on electric car in 2013, said on Thursday it was ditional fuel cars and will promote develop- of them the urban 4x4s that sprang from the “gigafactory”-Musk’s Nevada production Monday it would roll out 80 new electric cars across readying its factories to mass produce electric ment of electric technology, state media on nowhere to claim 30 percent of European facility. Along with Nissan, Peugeot, Volvo its multi-brand group by 2025, up from a previous vehicles by 2020 and pledged to have 12 purely Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying. new car sales over the past 15 years. But and Fiat, Tesla has shunned this year’s IAA, goal of 30, and wanted to offer an electric version of battery-powered models on offer by 2025. “Now the big question that everyone is ask- away from the gleaming chassis, high-tech months after the first of its keenly-awaited each of its 300 group models by 2030. Growing restrictions and charges for diesel and ing is, when will we see (electric cars) in presentations and optimistic keynote Model 3 cars rolled off the production line. The German company had previously said it gasoline vehicles are spurring the rise of elec- mass volume,” Volkswagen CEO Matthias speeches, warning lights are blinking on Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, an auto indus- would spend more than 10 billion euros by 2025 tric cars, although analysts say big investments Mueller said Monday. “But it is not just a the dashboard of an industry that remains try analyst at the CAR research institute, on a move to electric vehicles. Until it admitted in charging points and power networks will be matter of what is being offered from manu- key to Europe’s economic health. called the Model 3 “unquestionably the two years ago to cheating on US diesel emissions needed to serve a mass market. facturers but also the electric charging infra- most important car of the year” and tests, Volkswagen (VW) had been slow to embrace China, the world’s biggest automotive market, structure. That’s why it is important to have Battle on many fronts lamented that it would not be shown at the electric cars and self-driving technology. is studying when to stop the production and sale a fact-based conversation about the urgent The auto industry has yet to atone fully IAA. But carmakers are increasingly balking But the “dieselgate” scandal has prompted a of combustion engine vehicles, echoing moves problems with electric mobility and how for the “dieselgate” emissions cheating con- at the cost of exhibiting at industry shows, strategic shift, while major advances in batteries by Britain and France, which have announced they can be solved. This needs to be dis- troversy, with suspicion spreading beyond which can run into the millions of dollars, and a global fight against pollution in the wake of bans for conventional cars from 2040. cussed jointly, with electricity companies, Germany’s Volkswagen group-the first preferring to organize their own product VW’s scandal have raised pressure on carmakers to To cover the needs of “roadmap E”, VW has with states, with local authorities.” domino to fall in 2015. launches or appear at higher-profile elec- speed up development of zero-emission alterna- started a tendering process for the selection of The arrival of battery-powered cars is just Fairgoers headed into the convention tronics fairs like the CES in Las Vegas. tives. “A company like Volkswagen must lead, not partners in China, Europe and North America to one anticipated change. Automakers are centre Tuesday were given a stark reminder Time is running out for manufacturers to follow,” Chief Executive Matthias Mueller told provide battery cells and related technology worth also searching for ways to adapt to a future of the scandal by a group of Greenpeace get electric, hybrid, and other alternatives reporters on the eve of the Frankfurt auto show as more than 50 billion euros. Tesla in January started in which people find ways of getting from protesters carrying banners that read “The to the internal combustion engine right- he unveiled the group’s “roadmap E”. mass production of lithium-ion battery cells at its one place to another without necessarily oil age is ending”, as they stood beside an and to get consumers to share in the “We are setting the scene for the final break- own gigafactory in Nevada, which is aiming for owning a car, such as car-sharing or ride- upright blue VW car made to look like it excitement. —AFP through for e-mobility.” VW’s so-called I.D. model annual battery production capacity of 35 hailing through smartphone apps. They are will compete with Tesla’s least expensive car, the gigawatt-hours. VW said it would require capacity also working on developing autonomous new $35,000 base-price Model 3 sedan, for mass- equivalent to at least four gigafactories to power vehicles that could drive themselves - under Japan trials driverless cars to market buyers. VW’s electric car offensive mirrors the vastly increased fleet of electric cars. Mueller limited circumstances such as corporate pre-Frankfurt show announcements by German told Reuters TV that VW had no need to sell assets campuses or limited access freeways at first, keep rural elderly on the move rivals. Daimler said on Monday its Mercedes-Benz to fund the electric car offensive. —Reuters and possibly more widely later. The three German luxury carmakers were NISHIKATA, Japan: As the annual rice buses and taxis,” said Hiroshi Nakajima of the home team and showed it with large harvest begins this month in the mobile gaming software maker DeNA Co, display areas; some other carmakers are Japanese town of Nishikata, the com- which has branched into automotive skipping the Frankfurt show this year. bines that usually putter along the sleepy software. “But there are a lot of service Reasons include cost, other ways of display- roads lining its rice fields are giving way areas around the country, and they could ing cars to the public such as livestreamed to a vehicle residents have never before serve as a hub for mobility services,” events, and less focus on Germany and seen, a driverless shuttle bus. added Nakajima, the firm’s automotive Europe as a market. No-shows include Fiat Japan is starting to experiment with director. In the initial trials of the firm’s Chrysler’s namesake Fiat and its Jeep and self-driving buses in rural communities driverless six-seater Robot Shuttle, elderly Alfa Romeo brands, Peugeot and its DS luxu- such as Nishikata, 115 km (71 miles) residents of Nishikata, in Japan’s Tochigi ry division, plus Nissan, Infiniti and Volvo. north of the capital, Tokyo, where elderly prefecture, were transferred between a Even Porsche, part of Volkswagen, didn’t residents struggle with fewer bus and service area and a municipal complex wait for the show but showed off its new taxi services as the population ages and delivering healthcare services. Cayenne SUV on Aug 29 with an elaborate shrinks. The swift advance of The town mirrors Japan’s population streamed event from its base in Stuttgart, autonomous driving technology is profile, with roughly a third of its 6,300 Germany. Small SUVs are also a theme at the prompting cities such as Paris and residents aged 65 or more, up from about show as manufacturers crowd into a seg- Singapore to experiment with such serv- a quarter four years ago, while the popu- ment that has proven a winner with con- ices, which could prove crucial in Japan, lation overall has shrunk 4.5 percent. sumers. New offerings of SUV or SUV-like where populations are not only greying, Daily bus services are limited to just a body stylings on compact car platforms but declining, in rural areas. handful. “I worry about not being able to include: Volkswagen’s T-Roc, the SEAT Arona, Japan could launch self-driving servic- go out when I’m no longer able to drive,” Jaguars E-Pace, Kia Stonic, Citroen C3 es for remote communities by 2020, if the said one test rider, Shizu Yuzawa, adding Aircross, Skoda Karoq, and a so-far unnamed trials begun this month prove successful. that she would be open to using such a offering from Chery The government plans to turn highway service. “As people in towns become older And high-end cars remain a fixture as rest stops into hubs from which to ferry and younger people move away, it’s going before. Rolls-Royce has a new version of its the elderly to medical, retail and banking to become more difficult to get help get- FRANKFURT: CEO of German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) Matthias Mueller poses for photogra- Phantom, and Daimler is unveiling its services. “Smaller towns in Japan are ting around,” said the spry 77-year-old, who phers on a VW Sedric, the group’s first autonomous car prototype during a Volkswagen preview Mercedes-Benz-AMG Project ONE, a two- greying even faster than cities, and there drives around in a mini-pick-up truck that night for the media on the eve of the opening of the Internationale Automobil Ausstellung (IAA) seat hybrid with over 1,000 horsepower and are just not enough workers to operate belonged to her late husband. —Reuters motor show in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Monday.—AFP a top speed of 350 kph (217 mph.) — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE

130-ton monster fatberg clogs London sewer LONDON: Sewage workers have found a 130-ton added. Images show that the sewer totally blocked ball of congealed fat-dubbed a “monster fatberg”- by the 250-metre long fatberg. An eight-member clogging a Victorian-era sewer in London, utility crew is removing an average of 20 to 30 tons a day, company Thames Water said yesterday. Engineers the statement explained, using high-powered jet expect it will take up to three-weeks to remove the hoses to break up the mass which is then sucked rock-solid mass of festering food fat mixed with out into tankers. sanitary wipes found in drains under a major road Weighing the same as 11 double decker buses, in Whitechapel, east London. “This fatberg is up the fatberg easily eclipses the one found in 2013 in there with the biggest we’ve ever seen. It’s a total Kingston, southwest London. Described at the time monster and taking a lot of manpower and machin- as Britain’s biggest ever fatberg, it weighed 15 tons ery to remove as it’s set hard,” Matt Rimmer, Thames and took ten days to clear up. Thames Water clears Water’s head of waste, said in a statement. up an average of three fat related blockages and “It’s basically like trying to break up concrete. It’s five blockages caused by items including wet wipes frustrating as these situations are totally avoidable every hour from its sewers in London and the and caused by fat, oil and grease being washed Thames Valley. It costs the company around £1 mil- LONDON: This file photo shows a Thames Water sewer supervisor working in the intersection of the down sinks and wipes flushed down the loo,” he lion a month to do so. —AFP Regent Street and Victoria sewer in London. — AFP

Climate change threatens Latin America coffee producers

WASHINGTON: Climate change is threat- Arabica coffee distribution in Latin America ening the Latin American zones most among 39 species of pollinating bees. They favorable for growing coffee, according to concluded a temperature increase of over a study out Monday that warns seed pro- 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050 will reduce duction could drop by nearly 90 percent by seed production by between 73 and 88 2050. The study suggests high quality cof- percent in locations best known for coffee fees are most at risk-with Arabica coffee production today. A fall in the bee popula- unable to withstand even slight fluctua- tion of eight to 18 percent will also con- tions in temperature, humidity and sun- tribute to this decline. light. Robusta coffee, mostly grown in The largest production losses are Africa to be made into instant coffee, is expected in Honduras, Nicaragua and slightly more resistant. Venezuela. But it’s not all bad news-as “Coffee is one of the most valuable com- researchers suggested bee population and modities on Earth, and needs a suitable cli- diversity in other areas is in fact likely to mate and pollinating bees to produce well,” increase. This would contribute to a favor- said study co-author Taylor Ricketts, direc- able coffee-growing environment in the tor of the University of Vermont’s Gund likes of Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala Institute for Environment. “This is the first and Mexico, where temperatures in moun- study to show how both will likely change tainous regions are expected to be more under global warming-in ways that will hit suitable. The study also highlights the coffee producers hard.” importance of tropical forests for bees and During the study, published in the other key pollinators. Around 91 percent Proceedings of the National Academy of of Latin America’s most fertile areas for cof- Sciences of the United States of America fee production are currently less than 1.2 BEIJING: Tesla cars charge at a Tesla charging station outside a shopping mall in Beijing. —AFP (PNAS), researchers estimated changes in miles from a rainforest. —AFP Two years after ‘dieselgate’, can diesel be saved? Dieselgate drives diesel into a dead end

FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Buffeted by scandals future is casting a shadow over the glitzy indus- cars that would shake up the industry. But car- and threatened by driving bans, diesel has try showcase. makers in Europe, backed by governments des- become the bete noire of the auto industry. But perate to tackle climate change, have for years as the second anniversary of ‘dieselgate’ Dead end invested heavily in diesel technology, touting it approaches, is the engine of choice for millions “Dieselgate has driven diesel into a dead as more fuel-efficient and environmentally of European drivers really in its death throes? end,” Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of friendly than petrol because of its lower carbon “For several months now we have seen a net Germany’s CAR research centre, said. “It will die a dioxide emissions. drop in diesel sales in the major European mar- slow death.” But other experts cautioned against Yet ‘dieselgate’ has laid bare just how much kets of France and Germany,” said industry penning diesel’s obituary prematurely. Tens of the industry has resorted to skirting the rules, or ‘Fluffy’ the great white expert Stefan Bratzel of Germany’s Center for millions of diesel cars are currently on the roads, outright cheating, to cover up that the technolo- Automotive Management. bought in good faith before the scandal broke gy was spewing far more toxic nitrogen oxide In Germany, diesels now account for 37.7 out, and politicians have been at pains to stress (NOx) than legally allowed. NOx gases cause shark heads back to sea percent of new car sales, down from 45 per- that drivers won’t be made to pay for the indus- smog and have been linked to asthma, lung can- SYDNEY: A baby great white shark that edge and then it came in.” Several cent last year. In France, the share of diesel- try’s misdeeds. cer and heart disease. stunned onlookers when it washed up attempts were made to immediately powered cars has dipped below the 50 per- “You can’t expect households to replace their on a popular Sydney beach was return the injured shark to the sea by cent-mark for the first time since 2000, to 47.8 cars with clean energy ones from one day to the Clean, at a price released back into the ocean yesterday staff from the nearby Manly Sea Life percent. It was on September 18, 2015, at the next,” said Euler Hermes analyst, Maxime The European Commission has responded after spending the night in an aquari- Sanctuary, but it kept coming back to height of the last Frankfurt International Motor Lemerle. “Nobody stands to gain from an abrupt to the cheating by introducing tough new um. The thrashing 1.5-metre animal, land. The Sea Life team then put the Show (IAA), that diesel’s descent began, when change.” It’s no accident that diesel’s fall from emissions tests on September 1 that will force nicknamed “Fluffy” by marine experts, creature in a sling and carried it to a US regulators revealed that Volkswagen had grace has been most painful in Europe. One of carmakers to do a better job filtering the harm- came ashore at busy Manly beach on nearby rockpool-attracting crowds of used cheating software to dupe emissions diesel’s biggest selling points, that it is more ful pollutants from diesel engines-a complex Monday. “When you see a real-life shark, curious onlookers-while they worked tests on diesel engines. fuel-efficient than petrol, never did much to feat that is technically doable, but costly. “We it’s scary,” Dan Korocz, who was at the out what to do. They later took the The controversy went on to engulf a slew of sway drivers in the United States accustomed to know how to remove the pollution from a beach with his young family, told the shark to the sanctuary, where its health other car giants, shattering the myth of “clean low fuel prices. diesel engine, we know how to make it clean... Australian Broadcasting Corporation. was assessed and it made a good recov- diesel” and turning off consumers. As the every- China, the world’s biggest car market, mean- but it comes at a price,” said Patrick Koller, chief “I’ve got a four-year-old and a two-year- ery overnight, said the centre’s senior other-year IAA readies to open its doors again while has bet on the greener engines of the executive of French auto equipment supplier old and we went down to the water’s aquarist Robbie McCracken. —AFP this week, uncertainty over the technology’s future, and plans to set quotas for electrified Faurecia. —AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

7th generation proteges visit Ooredoo’s HQ and meet CEO

oredoo, Kuwait’s fastest network, Ooredoo’s vision of the company’s core experience with the 24-hour challenge ed that Ooredoo is keen on supporting ini- 16 and 24 by local iconic figures in differ- organized a visit for proteges stu- values of caring, connecting and challeng- that took place inside the Ooredoo’s head- tiatives aimed at youth development, and ent fields. The program prides itself in the Odents last week in the company’s ing. Guest speaker and proteges mentor quarters, where they participated in work- emphasized on the importance of the success of many of its graduates, including head office, where they had a chance in Abdulaziz Aloughani was also present and shops that included a number of presenta- partnership with various state sectors to Mohammed Al-Munaikh and Bader Al meeting and getting to know Ooredoo’s had the chance to share his thoughts on tions by Ooredoo Kuwait representatives accomplish this target. Tahous who won an MIT award for their CEO and General Manager Sheikh the success of the mentorship program from a variety of departments, in addition Eman Al-Rasheed, Executive Manager unique smartphone application Ghinwa, Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Thani, where and its positive impact on the students. to group sessions focusing on inspira- of the Protégés expressed her pride in in addition to Faisal Al-Duwaihees who they wanted to share their personal expe- During the visit, the students present- tional talks by guest speakers. partnering with Ooredoo for a second now serves as the Secretary of Kuwait’s riences and challenges that overcome dur- ed their final project ‘Kamala’, an Arabic Ooredoo Kuwait’s CEO and General consecutive year, which underscore Public Authority of Youth. ing the current Proteges program. card game aimed at educating youth Manager Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Ooredoo’s commitment to supporting Ooredoo’s commitment to supporting Ooredoo’s CEO exchanged some of his about historical and cultural Arab figures Al Thani noted, “We are proud of the proj- youth and providing them with skills youth is deep-rooted within its core val- personal challenges and career experi- which will be officially launched later on ect delivered by the Protégés students in that create unique leaders. “We look for- ues of caring, connecting, and challeng- ences with the students, sharing his life this year. conclusion of their program. The project ward for more partnerships and support ing, in addition to being a direct transla- lessons and taking them through The students explained that the pro- fits our values of caring, connecting, and in creating a more aware generation of tion of the recommendations of His Ooredoo’s CSR strategy in which support- ceeds from the sale of the game will be challenging perfectly. We are eager to see young innovative and creative thinkers,” Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh ing the youth and empowering them is donated to rebuild an educational facility the launch of Kamala launched into the she added. Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah who stressed one of its main pillars. Furthermore taking in some of the countries in the Arab world. market, and we are certain that it will be The Protégés program was launched in on numerous occasions the importance of them through the strategy of reflecting They also talked about their one-of-a-kind received positively.” Al-Thani also reiterat- 2010 to mentor youth between the age of investing in youth. Slim Chickens launches exquisite variety of chicken sandwiches

lim Chickens, part of Alghanim Industries and leader of the “better chicken” segment of fast- Scasual restaurants, launched their new exqui- site chicken sandwiches prepared with the brands’ renowned Southern tastes and delicious flavors, and using its accustomed fresh and all-natural ingredients. The sandwiches come in three authentic Southern flavors. The “Cayenne Ranch Chicken Sandwich” which is a delicious fried chicken breast prepared with cayenne ranch sauce, lettuce, pick- les, homemade fried onions, and cayenne season- ing on a toasted bun. The second sandwich, the “Buffalo Chicken Sandwich” is a delicious fried chicken breast shaken in hot sauce, topped with The Palms Hotel: The perfect place to enjoy your holidays the ideal reason to host friends and families in a Customers are invited to experience the new he Palms Beach Hotel and Spa is a des- homey Southern atmosphere where real Southern and fresh sandwiches at Slim Chickens’ stand-alone tination to charm the whole family lettuce, pickles, homemade fried onions, blue meals cater to every palate of tastes. restaurant on Blajat Street in Salmiya, opposite the Tmembers. They were keen to provide a cheese crumbles and a blue cheese sauce on a In the Southern ambience, Slim Chickens in old Showbiz, where customers are served for dine- festive program during Eid Al-Adha which toasted bun. The third sandwich is the “Hot and Kuwait uses all natural, delicious ingredients to in and take-away meals from 11 AM to 1 AM every has achieved a great feedback from the Spicy Barbecue Sandwich” which is specially devel- preserve the same standards of superior quality day. Alghanim Industries is actively expanding its hotel’s guests. On the first day of the feast, oped for those with a passion for spicy food, its and taste in every bite, in addition to the Southern Food & Beverage (F&B) portfolio, which began in we had a festive program which was pre- fried chicken breast shaken in hot barbecue sauce, hospitality in service and great experience at its 2013 with a franchise agreement that enabled it to sented by Osama Fouda which included topped with lettuce, pickles, onion, and Monterey restaurant. The brand also gives customers the penetrate the coffee shop market in Kuwait. The many different competitions and many gifts. Jack cheese on a toasted bun. choice to opt for health options with grilled chick- company recently expanded further through enter- In the following days we had lot of The rich variety of chicken flavors and meal en tenders on the menu, salad options and sand- ing the “better chicken” segment of fast-casual entertainment activities and various com- options, sauces and desserts make Slim Chickens wiches in lettuce wraps. restaurants, and is rapidly growing its F&B portfolio. petitions for the children organized by the to repeat such celebrations on holidays and hotel management and had valuable prices the end of each week throughout the year that brought joy and pleasure to the chil- to keep The Palms Beach Hotel & Spa the dren’s hearts, leaving a distinctive atmos- ideal place for you and your family to Ogilvy appoints Patou Nuytemans phere to their memory. spend your holidays and enjoy all the new The hotel management also promised services provided by the hotel. as the new Memac Ogilvy CEO KUWAIT: One of the region’s most beloved Memac Ogilvy and the regional seeks to unify Ogilvy’s many and successful marketing pioneers, Edmond leadership team. parts, and create a truly integrat- Moutran, founder and chairman of Memac Edmond Moutran will main- ed agency,” said Edmond Ogilvy, will step down as CEO, a role he has tain his position as Executive Moutran, Chairman and Founder held since Memac’s inception in 1984. Ogilvy’s Chairman of Memac Ogilvy, hav- of Memac Ogilvy. EMEA Chief Digital Officer and 22-year compa- ing served dual responsibilities “Creating One Ogilvy is not ny veteran, Patou Nuytemans, will succeed Mr. since he founded Memac in only in line with our thinking as Moutran, effective September 17, while he Bahrain in 1984. After building a a company, and our everlasting shifts his full focus to the Executive Chairman one-client, one-office company goal of making brands matter, responsibilities. In line with Ogilvy’s Next into the region’s most awarded but also in response to the Chapter evolution, an integration strategy out- agency, covering 14 countries, changing landscape of indus- lined by global CEO John Seifert at the start of with more than 1000 employees, tries, societies, and economies the year, Mrs Nuytemans has been identified he sold a majority share to Ogilvy in 2013. around the world. We are a people company, as the ideal candidate to lead Memac Ogilvy The partnership between Memac and one with clients at the heart. Adaptation and evo- forward through this transition. of the world’s most successful agencies has lution are essential requisites to building the Nuytemans’s incredible experience in the transformed Memac Ogilvy into one of the most relevant and successful brands, and modern marketing world has seen her repre- network’s most influential and important mar- maintaining our position as one of the leading sent Ogilvy in five markets across multiple kets. Nuytemans’s appointment signifies a agencies in the world. It is with this in mind continents, including South Africa, France, milestone in the company’s Next Chapter jour- that we proudly and whole-heartedly Belgium, and the US and UK. She has served in ney, as it seeks to create the modern, integrat- announce Patou Nuytemans as the new Chief her current role as the Chief Digital Officer for ed agency in one of the network’s most prom- Executive Officer of Memac Ogilvy group. She EMEA for 14 years, and has been one of the ising regions. is an undeniable talent, and true leader in the company’s most influential figures in trans- “At the beginning of the year, John Seifert digital age. We are confident she will drive forming Ogilvy from a traditional agency to a and the global leadership team announced Memac Ogilvy forward with creativity and gus- digital age group. Nuytemans will continue Next Chapter: a paradigm shift in the way we to,” he continued. Nuytemans will assume her her role as EMEA’s Chief Digital Officer, creat- think, work, and deliver. This global evolution new role on September 17, 2017, and be based ing an even stronger relationship between has been many years in the planning, and in Memac Ogilvy’s hub office in Dubai. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 TV PROGRAMS

20:12 The Jim Gaffigan Show Cat Noir 03:20 Celebrity Style Story 17:40 Mountain Men 14:36 The Thundermans 23:15 Sunday, Bloody Sunday 20:35 Kroll Show 22:20 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 03:50 Hollywood & Football 18:30 Swamp People 15:00 Henry Danger 21:00 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Cat Noir 04:40 Hollywood & Football 19:20 Mountain Men 15:24 The Loud House 21:30 The Half Hour 22:45 Lolirock 05:30 Celebrity Style Story 20:10 American Pickers 15:48 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:00 Tosh.0 23:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 06:00 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 21:00 Counting Cars 16:12 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:35 Revenge Of The Green Dragons 22:25 Tosh.0 23:10 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage Henry 21:25 Counting Cars 16:36 The Loud House 02:10 Harlock: Space Pirate 22:50 Idiotsitter Witch 06:55 E! News 21:50 Forged In Fire 17:00 Regal Academy 04:00 In The Heart Of The Sea 23:15 The Alternative Comedy 23:35 Binny And The Ghost 07:10 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 22:40 Forged In Fire 17:24 Winx Club 00:25 Mia And The Migoo 06:00 X-Men: First Class Experience Henry 23:30 American Pickers 17:48 Hunter Street 02:05 Ploddy Police Car On The Case 08:10 Harlock: Space Pirate 23:40 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 08:10 E! News: Daily Pop 18:12 Henry Danger 03:25 Memory Loss 10:05 The Darkest Hour 09:10 WAGs Miami 18:36 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn 04:50 Big Baby 11:45 In The Heart Of The Sea 10:10 WAGs Miami 19:00 School Of Rock 06:20 Mia And The Migoo 13:50 X-Men: First Class 11:05 WAGs Miami 19:24 Game Shakers 08:00 Dragon Hill 16:00 Mission: Impossible - Rogue 00:00 Henry Hugglemonster 12:00 E! News 19:48 The Thundermans 09:20 Ducktales: The Movie Nation 00:15 Calimero 12:15 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 00:45 Fish Of The Day 20:12 SpongeBob SquarePants 10:40 Legend Of The Sea 18:10 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:05 Destroyed In Seconds 00:30 Art Attack 13:10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 01:10 My Restaurant In India 20:36 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12:05 Outback 19:55 Warcraft: The Beginning 00:30 Alaska Gold Diggers 00:55 Zou 14:05 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 01:40 City Chase Marrakech 21:00 The Loud House 13:40 Memory Loss 22:00 Hardcore Henry 01:20 Driving Me Crazy 01:05 Loopdidoo 15:00 E! News 02:35 Food Lover’s Guide To The Planet 21:24 Sanjay And Craig 15:05 Big Baby 23:40 Green Street 3: Never Back Down 02:10 World’s Top 5 01:20 Henry Hugglemonster 15:15 E! News: Daily Pop 03:00 A Is For Apple 21:48 Rabbids Invasion 16:35 Albert 03:00 Finding Bigfoot 01:35 Calimero 16:15 WAGs Miami 03:30 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen 22:12 Breadwinners 18:05 Legend Of The Sea 03:50 Destroyed In Seconds 01:50 Zou 17:05 WAGs Miami 03:55 One Man & His Campervan 22:36 Harvey Beaks 19:30 The Adventures Of Don Quixote 04:15 Destroyed In Seconds 02:05 Art Attack 18:00 WAGs Miami 04:25 One Man & His Campervan 23:00 SpongeBob SquarePants 21:10 The Happy Cricket 04:40 How It’s Made 02:30 Henry Hugglemonster 19:00 E! News 04:50 My Restaurant In India 23:24 SpongeBob SquarePants 22:40 Albert 05:05 How It’s Made 02:40 Loopdidoo 20:00 Life Of Kylie 05:20 World’s Greatest Food Markets 23:48 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:45 Treehouse Masters 05:30 Alaska Gold Diggers 02:55 Henry Hugglemonster 20:30 Life Of Kylie 06:15 Places We Go 01:40 Bad Dog 06:20 Mythbusters 03:10 Art Attack 21:00 Life Of Kylie 06:40 Places We Go 02:35 Snake Sheila 07:00 Awesome Adventures 03:35 Loopdidoo 21:30 Life Of Kylie 07:10 City Chase Marrakech 03:00 Snake Sheila 07:25 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 03:50 Calimero 22:00 Hollywood Medium With Tyler 08:05 Food Lover’s Guide To The Planet 00:35 Primal Fear 03:25 Project Grizzly 07:50 K9 Cops 04:05 Art Attack Henry 08:30 A Is For Apple 02:50 The Blind Side 04:15 I Survived An Animal Attack 08:40 How It’s Made 04:30 Henry Hugglemonster 23:00 E! News 09:00 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen 00:04 Max & Ruby 05:05 The Guardian 05:02 Bahama Blue 09:05 How It’s Made 04:45 Zou 23:15 Second Wives Club 09:25 One Man & His Campervan 00:27 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 07:30 Gridiron Gang 05:49 Untamed & Uncut 09:30 Nextworld 05:00 Art Attack 09:55 One Man & His Campervan 00:38 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 09:40 Ghostbusters II 06:36 Going Ape 10:20 Mythbusters 05:30 Henry Hugglemonster 10:20 My Restaurant In India 00:48 The Day Henry Met 11:35 Inception 07:00 Going Ape 11:10 K9 Cops 05:45 Loopdidoo 10:50 World’s Greatest Food Markets 00:53 The Day Henry Met 14:05 Last Knights 07:25 Snake Sheila 12:00 Finding Bigfoot 06:00 Zou 11:45 Places We Go 00:58 Blaze And The Monster Machines 16:05 The Legend Of Zorro 07:50 Snake Sheila 12:50 How It’s Made 06:15 Calimero 12:10 Places We Go 01:21 Blaze And The Monster Machines 18:20 Lucy 08:15 Treehouse Masters 13:15 How It’s Made 06:30 Loopdidoo 00:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 12:40 City Chase Rome 01:43 Zack & Quack 19:55 Black Mass 09:10 Bad Dog 13:40 Alaska Gold Diggers 06:45 Henry Hugglemonster 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 13:35 Carnival Eats 02:03 Shimmer And Shine 22:00 Straight Outta Compton 10:05 Bahama Blue 14:30 Awesome Adventures 07:00 Sofia The First 01:00 Man Fire Food 14:00 The Food Files 02:26 Olive The Ostrich 11:00 Snake Sheila 14:55 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 07:30 The Lion Guard 01:30 Man Fire Food 14:30 Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen 02:31 Olive The Ostrich 11:28 Snake Sheila 15:20 Destroyed In Seconds 08:00 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 02:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 14:55 One Man & His Campervan 02:36 Paw Patrol 11:55 Project Grizzly 15:45 Destroyed In Seconds 08:30 Doc McStuffins 02:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 15:25 One Man & His Campervan 02:59 Little Charmers 12:50 After The Attack 16:10 Nextworld 09:00 PJ Masks 03:00 Man Fire Food 15:50 My Restaurant In India 03:11 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 13:45 Bad Dog 17:00 Don’t Drive Here 09:30 Miles From Tomorrow 03:30 Man Fire Food 16:20 Chocolate Covered 03:22 Dora The Explorer 00:30 How Do They Do It? 14:40 Bahama Blue 17:50 Zoltan The Wolfman 10:00 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 04:00 Chopped 16:45 Chocolate Covered 03:45 Max & Ruby 00:55 Food Factory 15:35 Untamed & Uncut 18:40 Mythbusters 10:30 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 05:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 17:15 Places We Go 04:07 The Day Henry Met 01:20 Secrets Of The Underground 16:30 Treehouse Masters 19:30 How It’s Made 11:00 PJ Masks 06:00 Barefoot Contessa: Back To Basics 17:40 Places We Go 04:13 Nella The Princess Knight 02:10 NASA’s Unexplained Files 17:25 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet 19:55 How It’s Made 11:30 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 06:25 Barefoot Contessa: Back To Basics 18:10 My Pacific Quest 04:36 Shimmer And Shine 03:00 Dangerman 18:20 Treehouse Masters 20:20 Destroyed In Seconds 12:00 Goldie & Bear 06:50 Anna Olson: Fresh 19:05 One Man & His Campervan 04:59 Dora And Friends 03:48 Mythbusters 19:15 Bad Dog 20:45 Destroyed In Seconds 12:30 Sofia The First 07:15 The Kitchen 19:30 My Restaurant In India 05:22 Zack & Quack 04:36 How Do They Do It? 20:10 Snake Sheila 21:10 Don’t Drive Here 13:00 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 08:05 The Pioneer Woman 20:00 Chocolate Covered 05:32 The Day Henry Met 05:00 Food Factory 20:38 Snake Sheila 22:00 Animal Nation With Anthony 13:30 PJ Masks 08:30 The Pioneer Woman 20:30 Chocolate Covered 05:38 Blaze And The Monster Machines 05:24 Secrets Of The Underground 21:05 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet Anderson 14:00 My Friends Tigger & Pooh 08:55 Siba’s Table 21:00 Places We Go 06:00 Rusty Rivets 06:12 NASA’s Unexplained Files 22:00 Treehouse Masters 22:50 Finding Bigfoot 14:30 The Lion Guard 09:25 Siba’s Table 21:30 Places We Go 06:12 Paw Patrol 07:00 How Do They Do It? 22:55 Bahama Blue 23:40 Destroyed In Seconds 15:00 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 09:55 Cooking For Real 22:00 My Pacific Quest 06:37 Dora The Explorer 07:26 Dangerman 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 15:30 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 10:25 Cooking For Real 22:55 City Chase Rome 07:00 Zack & Quack 08:14 Mythbusters 16:00 Sofia The First 10:55 The Kitchen 23:50 Carnival Eats 07:21 Bubble Guppies 09:02 NASA’s Unexplained Files 16:25 Miles From Tomorrow 11:45 Bake With Anna Olson 07:45 Blaze And The Monster Machines 09:50 How Do They Do It? 16:50 Doc McStuffins 12:10 The Pioneer Woman 08:08 Paw Patrol 10:14 Food Factory 17:15 The Lion Guard 12:35 The Pioneer Woman 08:31 Shimmer And Shine 10:38 Secrets Of The Underground 00:30 American Monster 17:45 Sofia The First 13:00 Siba’s Table 08:53 Nella The Princess Knight 11:26 Dangerman 00:50 Line Of Duty 01:20 Who Killed Angie Dodge: Keith 18:15 Goldie & Bear 13:30 Siba’s Table 09:15 The Day Henry Met 12:14 Mythbusters 01:45 Line Of Duty Morrison... 18:45 Mickey And The Roadster Racers 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:21 Paw Patrol 13:02 How Do They Do It? 02:45 Silent Witness 02:10 Your Worst Nightmare 19:15 Little Mermaid 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 00:10 Big Fish, Texas 09:44 Rusty Rivets 13:26 Food Factory 03:45 Doctor Foster 03:00 Forbidden: Dying For Love 19:45 PJ Masks 15:00 Chopped 01:00 Wicked Tuna 09:56 Bubble Guppies 13:50 NASA’s Unexplained Files 04:40 Holby City 03:48 Disappeared 20:15 The Lion Guard 16:00 The Kitchen 02:00 Air Crash Investigation 10:20 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 14:38 Dangerman 05:30 The Detectorists 04:36 Grave Secrets 20:45 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 17:00 Cooking For Real 03:00 Hooked 10:42 Zack & Quack 15:26 Secrets Of The Underground 06:00 Stella 05:24 Swamp Murders 21:15 Goldie & Bear 17:30 Cooking For Real 04:00 Big Fish, Texas 10:54 Team Umizoomi 16:14 Mythbusters 06:45 New Tricks 06:12 I’d Kill For You 21:45 Doc McStuffins 18:00 Chopped 05:00 Britain’s Greatest Machines With 11:17 Shimmer And Shine 17:02 NASA’s Unexplained Files 07:40 Death In Paradise 07:00 Disappeared 22:15 Little Mermaid 19:00 Guy’s Grocery Games Chris Barrie 11:40 Shimmer And Shine 17:50 Dangerman 08:30 Doctor Who 07:50 Grave Secrets 22:45 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 20:00 Chopped 06:00 Salvage Code Red 12:04 Max & Ruby 18:40 Mythbusters 09:20 Stella 08:40 Swamp Murders 23:15 PJ Masks 21:00 Food Network Star Kids 07:00 Dog Whisperer 12:27 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 19:30 Hacking The Wild 10:10 Holby City 09:30 I’d Kill For You 23:45 Loopdidoo 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 08:00 Dog Whisperer 12:38 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 20:20 How Do They Do It? 11:05 Death In Paradise 10:20 Blood Relatives 22:30 Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives 09:00 Britain’s Greatest Machines With 12:48 The Day Henry Met 20:45 Food Factory 12:00 Doctor Who 11:10 Disappeared 23:00 Chopped Chris Barrie 12:53 The Day Henry Met 21:10 NASA’s Unexplained Files 12:50 Stella 12:00 Disappeared 10:00 Rare 12:58 Blaze And The Monster Machines 22:00 Hacking The Wild 13:35 Holby City 12:50 Grave Secrets 11:00 How It Was: Voices Of 9/11 13:21 Blaze And The Monster Machines 22:50 Dangerman 14:30 Death In Paradise 13:40 Swamp Murders 12:00 9/11 Firehouse 13:43 Zack & Quack 23:40 Mythbusters 15:25 Doctor Who 14:30 I’d Kill For You 13:00 Salvage Code Red 14:03 Shimmer And Shine 16:15 Stella 15:20 Blood Relatives 00:20 Wheeler Dealers 14:00 Dog Whisperer 14:25 Olive The Ostrich 17:05 New Tricks 16:10 Unravelled 01:05 The Island With Bear Grylls 00:10 Don’t Tell The Bride 15:00 Dog Whisperer 14:31 Olive The Ostrich 18:00 Doctors 17:00 Disappeared 01:50 Treasure Quest: Snake Island 01:00 Emmerdale 16:00 Rare 14:36 Paw Patrol 18:30 EastEnders 17:50 Grave Secrets 02:35 Legend Of Croc Gold 01:30 Coronation Street 17:00 Inside Combat Rescue: The Last 14:59 Little Charmers 19:05 Death In Paradise 18:40 Swamp Murders 03:20 Fast N’ Loud 02:00 Coronation Street Stand 15:11 Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom 01:15 Sympathy For Delicious 20:00 Poldark 19:30 I’d Kill For You 04:05 The Island With Bear Grylls 02:30 The Chase: Celebrity Specials 19:00 Nazi Megastructures 15:22 Dora The Explorer 03:00 My Boss’s Daughter 21:00 Last Tango In Halifax 20:20 Blood Relatives 04:50 Alaska: The Last Frontier 03:25 Diana: The Day The World Cried 20:00 Rare 15:45 Max & Ruby 04:30 Guilty At 17 21:55 Prime Suspect: Tennison 21:10 Evil Online 05:35 How Do They Do It? 04:20 The Jonathan Ross Show 20:50 Inside Combat Rescue: The Last 16:07 The Day Henry Met 06:15 Rob Zombie’s Halloween 22:45 New Blood 22:00 Evil Online 06:00 Deadliest Catch 05:15 Couples Come Dine With Me Stand 16:13 Nella The Princess Knight 08:15 The English Patient 23:45 The Secret Of Crickley Hall 22:50 I Am Homicide 06:45 Wheeler Dealers 06:10 Don’t Tell The Bride 22:30 Nazi Megastructures 16:36 Shimmer And Shine 11:00 Kate And Leopold 23:40 Sin City Justice 07:30 Fast N’ Loud 07:05 The Chase: Celebrity Specials 23:20 Dog Whisperer 16:59 Dora And Friends 13:00 Loosies 08:15 The Island With Bear Grylls 08:00 Diana: The Day The World Cried 17:22 Zack & Quack 14:30 Beneath The Blue 09:00 Storage Wars Canada 09:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 17:32 The Day Henry Met 16:00 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 09:25 How Do They Do It? 10:00 Couples Come Dine With Me 17:38 Blaze And The Monster Machines 18:15 Sympathy For Delicious 10:10 The Island With Bear Grylls 10:55 Don’t Tell The Bride 18:00 Rusty Rivets 20:00 The Brothers Grimm 00:00 The Jail Atlanta: 60 Days In 10:55 Treasure Quest: Snake Island 11:50 The Chase: Celebrity Specials 18:12 Paw Patrol 22:00 Starsky & Hutch 01:00 Babies Behind Bars 00:00 Hank Zipzer 11:40 Legend Of Croc Gold 12:45 Emmerdale 18:36 Dora The Explorer 23:45 To The Wonder 02:00 Killers: Behind The Myth 00:25 Alex & Co. 12:25 How Do They Do It? 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Animal (Cutdowns) 22:21 Fresh Beat Band Of Spies 05:00 The Fashion Fund 12:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 03:20 Hank Zipzer 19:40 How Do They Do It? 08:20 Natural Born Monsters 22:44 Zack & Quack 06:00 Fit For Fashion 13:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 03:45 Alex & Co. 21:00 Harley And The Davidsons 09:15 Gangster Jackals (Aka Beach 22:54 Team Umizoomi 07:00 Fit For Fashion 14:00 It Takes A Killer 04:10 Alex & Co. 22:40 X-Ray Mega Airport Jackals) 23:18 Shimmer And Shine 08:00 Married At First Sight 14:30 It Takes A Killer 04:35 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 23:30 Fast N’ Loud 10:10 World’s Deadliest Animals 23:41 Shimmer And Shine 09:00 Married At First Sight 15:00 Cold Case Files Witch 00:00 America: The Story Of The U.S. 11:05 Wild Scotland: Highlands 10:00 Making Mr. Right 16:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 05:00 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 01:00 Clash Of Warriors 12:00 Secrets Of The Mediterranean 11:00 Making Mr. Right 17:00 Nightmare In Suburbia Witch 02:00 America’s Book Of Secrets 12:55 Valley Of The Wolves 12:00 Making Mr. Right 18:00 Crime Stories 05:25 Binny And The Ghost 02:50 Ancient Aliens 13:50 Monster Fish 13:00 The Fashion Fund 19:00 It Takes A Killer 05:45 The Hive 03:40 Ancient Aliens 14:45 Man V. Animal (Cutdowns) 14:00 Fit For Fashion 19:30 It Takes A Killer 05:50 Rolling With The Ronks 06:00 Penn Zero: Part Time Hero 04:30 Engineering Disasters 15:10 Man V. Animal (Cutdowns) 01:15 K-9 Adventures: Legend Of The 15:00 Fit For Fashion 20:00 Homicide Hunter 06:00 Jessie 06:25 Disney11 05:20 America: The Story Of The U.S. 15:40 Natural Born Monsters Lost Gold 16:00 Married At First Sight 21:00 Cold Case Files 06:25 Liv And Maddie 06:50 Gravity Falls 06:10 The Universe 16:35 Battle Of The Swamp Dragons 02:50 Return To Oz 17:00 Married At First Sight 22:00 My Haunted House 06:50 Tsum Tsum Shorts 07:15 Right Now Kapow 07:00 Clash Of Warriors 17:30 World’s Deadliest Killers 04:40 The Parent Trap 18:00 Bones 23:00 Stalked By A Ghost 06:55 Lolirock 07:40 Mech-X4 08:00 America’s Book Of Secrets 18:25 Wild Scotland: Highlands 06:50 Kronk’s New Groove 19:00 Bones 07:20 Elena Of Avalor 08:05 Marvel’s Rocket And Groot 09:00 Ancient Aliens 19:20 Man V. 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Undercover 15:10 Leepu And Pitbull 13:00 Breadwinners 14:40 Land Of Mine 18:35 Impractical Jokers UK Now? 21:00 Austin & Ally 00:05 WAGs Miami 16:00 Storage Wars 13:24 Sanjay And Craig 16:25 Boychoir 21:50 The Day I Almost Died 18:59 Frankenfood 18:10 Oleanna 21:25 Stuck In The Middle 00:55 WAGs Miami 16:25 Storage Wars 13:48 100 Things To Do Before High 22:40 My Extreme Excess Skin 19:22 Frankenfood School 19:45 Man In The Moon 21:50 Sunny Bunnies 01:50 E! News 16:50 Pawn Stars 23:30 90 Days To Wed 19:46 Ridiculousness Arabia 21:55 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 02:50 Celebrity Style Story 17:15 Pawn Stars 14:12 School Of Rock 21:30 Cake stars26 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

CROSSWORD 1709 STAR TRACK

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

You find yourself in a very practical mood and may have some serious or It seems as if everyone is asking for a handout today. Perhaps it is payback contemplative moments this day. Listen to your creative impulses, which time or perhaps you did not realize that you had more than you really neededonce you may require you to spend more time working alone or drawing up plans. The desire to begin to look around, you may decide that tonight is going to be a good time to set grow and enlarge your scope of professionalism will benefit by making a careful assess- aside for getting rid of the old and making room for the new. The universe has a way of ment of your past successes. Let this help guide you in any future professional choices. making us all create a balance; we either move to get rid of things or decide we need Your future is created in your mind. Schedule important meetings or make presentations. room for new things in our lives. Do not take chances or risks just now—be satisfied with Your attention this afternoon is in helping a young person understand his or her school the ordinary. Your home environment, friends and surroundings in general receive or family responsibilities. You are a revolutionary when it comes to the domestic scene. encouragement this evening. Young people study and adults dive in to contribute You have very special insights into home, family and surroundings. toward a garage sale or charity. Enjoy some fun communication with loved ones.

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

A meeting or planned event has been canceled and most of the day is You have a tendency to be too strict with yourself, to insist that whatever yours. You like to become positively connected to the professional associates around you does not contribute to security and other long-term goals is trivial. Unconventional so you may find a way to share the noon meal and have a meeting at the same time. It is approaches to philosophy, religion, law and politics come to play now. Developments in easy to gain support for your ideas. Close relationships take on emotional depth and these fields can have a big impact on you. You may decide to join a missionary group this importance. Nobody makes demands on your time today and life just seems to flow fall. You are ready to travel and you enjoy helping others and you enjoy learning about along very smoothly. Time involved in fun activities with your loved ones this evening is a new places. Travel sets you apart, giving you a new, and in some sense, revolutionary per- good investment of your time: bonding. Building good memories bonds the family spective. This is a rewarding day—whatever you want to achieve today is yours for little together. You are able to reflect and understand your own situation, just how you feel effort. Higher education, publishing, broadcasting or advertising could play an unexpect- about yourself and others. Perhaps you could add to the picture album soon. ed role in setting new directions.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You are most imaginative when it comes to anything spiritual, or psycho- Community concerns may come to your attention this morning and you logical. Others find you entrancing and you are always able to draw them may find yourself thinking of ways to improve conditions. After the workday is over you into your world of dreams. No one has any doubt that you are intuitive, complete with will make time to phone the people that can help you with this project. Others value you built-in psychic abilities and probably given to visions. Your creative side is in full swing for your ability to make practical decisions concerning group issues. You have a natural 4. Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin and others may help you decide if you can pull in some money for your creative ideas. ACROSS sense of what the public wants because you are observant and you listen. Your general You may be learning all about art shows, exhibitions, etc. You can inspire others with spir- 1. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet. more or less covered with hair. outlook on life is attractive and people seek you out to help them with their problems. itual insights through your art. This could involve cooking, sculpting, writing, music, etc. 4. Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry 5. An organization of independent states to pro- You are an optimistic, positive guide. This afternoon you will find a social gathering enjoy- A little surprise this evening brings new ideas your way; there are answers to some sort like a bark. able. You are at your most elegant this evening. You have a grasp for conceptual and spiri- of educational problem. This problem could be focused around finances. mote international peace and security. tual ideas and the ability to present them to others 11. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 6. A water wheel with buckets attached to the 15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs rim. northeast into the Rhine. 7. Armor plate that protects the hip and thigh. 16. French dramatist noted for his reinterpreta- 8. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) tions of Greek myths (1910-1987). 9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially You seem to be handling your financial situation much better than in the 17. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture of a celestial object). A misunderstanding with a loved one this morning needs cooling off—do and patron of scribes and schools. past. Make important overtures, communicating your intentions and requirements in not push an issue. Outside repairs and working in the yard today may bring the neigh- 10. Largest crested screamer. business situations. Your direct manner and clear thinking can surprise those who are 18. A deep opening in the earth's surface. bors to your attention. There may be an opportunity to plan an outdoor meal this week- 11. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh. more guarded. People close to you are optimistic and have good prospects. Close rela- end with friends; you are in a planning mood. Obtaining and exchanging information 20. A long noosed rope used to catch animals. 12. A platform raised above the surrounding level tionships offer a lot of potential for growth and good advice toward future investments. takes on more emotional significance for you. Being more involved with neighbors or 21. A cylindrical tower used for storing silage. to give prominence to the person on it. A marriage or other partnership can raise high hopes and give your spirits a boost. Faith, siblings satisfies a deep emotional need. A family member or relative may have an idea optimism and a yearning to explore all kinds of new horizons are some of the focal points 22. A communist state in Indochina on the South 13. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary that you will be able to use this afternoon. Take some time to show thankfulness for China Sea. in your life. There may be many requests to consider. Extended travel, enticing education, another’s contribution to a particular project. Young people need guidance and the rest means or skill or know-how or authority to 23. The United Nations agency concerned with and other ways to stretch and grow open new doors of opportunity for all. of the day may be spent in doing just that—helping young people. do something. the interests of labor. 14. An elementary particle with a negative charge 24. Roman Catholic theologian (1585-1638). and a half-life of 2 microsecond. 26. Relating to or accompanying birth. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 19. The capital and largest city of Yemen. Leo (July 23-August 22) 28. Of or in or relating to the nose. 25. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward 31. A federal agency established to coordinate Speculative ventures pay off by the end of this week. Law, politics, or per- You look for new avenues to improve working conditions. Your direction programs aimed at reducing pollution and the stern or tail. haps religions become opportunities to write interesting novels or short stories. You can becomes very clear this week. Put your mind to work and take care of any details that you protecting the environment. 27. A member of a North American Indian people express yourself quite well. You may excessively worry about one or more of these sub- may have, for mental discipline should come easily. You enjoy improved productivity. Yo u avoid wasting resources by finding ways to invest your time and energy in building a firm 33. A date. living east of the Sacramento river in jects. You probably should not get into a conversation regarding these subjects unless California. you have done your research. Good fortune and just plain old luck surrounds you today. financial foundation for you and your family’s future growth. You are extremely resource- 37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely It is easy for you to have your needs met. Allow yourself to receive and enjoy the benefits ful and can find a way to make money with practically anything. Repairs and shopping the razorbill. 29. A gum used especially as a thickener or emul- coming your way. You are still working on your physical image this fall—have you chosen may help you feel more organized. A family member or old friend may be visiting you 38. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to sifier. the body you wantdo not give up . . . Changes that happen in little steps are more perma- this evening. There is a natural breaking point in your life now: a time to let go of the past destroy men and animals or food. 30. Disorderly fighting. nent. Feelings of compassion can deepen your bond of love. and assume a new attitude. 40. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable sub- 32. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste stance not miscible with water. and often allowed to ferment. 42. A Loloish language. 34. Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 43. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born by chlamydia). in 1930). Individual competitiveness does not seem to work as well as projects Setting a reasonable pace is as important in a physical exercise routine as 45. A member of a seafaring group of North 35. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually lim- that have a cooperative effort. Address the need to improve working conditions. it is in keeping up a pace in cognitive shores. You work hurriedly now to Remember that the bottom line is to increase productivity, not to cater to the whims of American Indians who lived on the Pacific complete tasks that are difficult to complete in one day’s time. Slow down a bit and proof ited to the non-poisonous members of the others. Investments are best for you at the first of next month; financial advice is a good your work before trying to beat the clock, so to speak. Review contracts and reconsider coast of British Columbia and southwestern genus). thing. Charisma, self-transformation and the development of personal power are the legal actions for now. At home, you will find today a good time for meditation, whether it Alaska. 36. A major waterfall in southern Africa. things that play a big role in your life now. Remember that tiny causes can lead to big is a study time or whether you are thinking about future plans. You have a real apprecia- 47. The quantity that can be held in a mug. 39. A simple machine consisting of a circular effects. There are profound changes on the personal level—psychological and perhaps tion for creative as well as commonsense thinking. A sporting activity later this afternoon 48. Baffle that distributes sound waves evenly. frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can physical as well—as if you are transforming into an entirely new person. Think about will have positive results and help balance energies. This evening you may find yourself what a relationship means . . . A relationship has some reflection on you. reading, enjoying a long conversation or writing a few letters. 51. Being or moving higher in position or greater rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or oth- in some value. er machines). 53. Without a flaw. 41. The upper side of the thighs of a seated per- 55. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen son. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution in the Rhine to destruction. 44. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and 58. Type genus of the Aceraceae. for its seed which yield a gum used as a 60. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a thickening agent or sizing material. British term). 46. Type genus of the Ardeidae. 62. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 49. All the plant life in a particular region. 63. A legal document codifying the result of 50. Climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel- deliberations of a committee or society or colored flowers. legislative body. 52. Deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan- 65. Covered with beads or jewels or sequins. shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds. 69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from 54. Perennial evergreen herbs with white or pink aba cloth. 71. News that updates your information v 1. flowers. 74. A car with two doors and front seats and a 56. An insect or other arthropod between molts. luggage compartment. 57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere 75. The branch of information science that deals near Telescopium and Norma. with natural language information. 59. A telegram sent abroad. 76. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and 61. A drama set to music. scientist and architect. 64. Stem of plants of the Gramineae. 78. A bachelor's degree in theology. 66. A substance for packing a joint or coating a 79. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was porous surface to make it impervious to gas responsible for research into atomic energy or liquid. and its peacetime uses in the United States. 67. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal 80. A great raja. to about a bushel. 81. Take in solid food. 68. The state of owing money. 70. A drug combination found in some over-the- DOWN counter headache remedies (Aspirin and 1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central Phenacetin and Caffeine). America. 72. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of 2. German chemist who was co-discoverer with any major scale in solmization. Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968). 73. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 3. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in west- 77. A person who announces and plays popular ern Asia. recorded music.

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FASHION

Casual denim hints at a new era for Oscar de la Renta

he sixth day of New York Fashion Week saw the young designers at Oscar de la Renta take the company in a more Tcasual direction with denim and other relaxed garments not normally seen at the storied luxury label. Carolina Herrera, who showed previously at the Frick Collection, found another stunning venue for her runway show: the Museum of Modern Art. The night before at Prabal Gurung, a notable guest was experiencing her first fashion show at age 83: feminist icon Gloria Steinem.

Denim at Oscar de la Renta? There was a whiff of change at Oscar de la Renta, where new designers Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim presented a whimsical collection featuring casual garments like midriff-bar- ing denim jackets and roomy windbreakers. It also was what you would call a signature collection - literally. Many of the gar- ments bore the signature, in various forms, of the label’s late, legendary founder, de la Renta - either in script, or even in large, sparkly letters spelling out his name. “We’re celebrating him unabashedly,” Garcia said backstage. The designers noted that the only time until now that de la Renta’s signature appeared on his clothes was on a gown that Sarah Jessica Parker wore to the Met Gala in 2014. It had been the actress’ idea to embroider his signature on the back. Garcia added that he and Kim had updated the image of de la Renta’s signature after looking around and finding that “the signatures he actually left behind were much more legible, and true to his handwriting.” The designers, presenting only their sec- ond Fashion Week collection for the label after taking over fol- lowing the sudden departure of Peter Copping, began their run- way show with a series of looks with a paint splatter motif. They were telling a story, they explained, of a woman trying to decide what to paint. Once she paints, she signs the canvas. While dresses and skirts had a paint splatter effect, the theme beautiful place to live.” He noted that the casting of his show was even extended to the stiletto shoes: The heels looked like the especially diverse this season - ethnically, in size and in gender. stems of black paint brushes. New techniques used by the label “That’s what the collection is all about,” he said. Gurung also this year included laser-cut leather, Garcia said, along with the recalled that he had been inspired by a recent trip to a pearl denim, part of an effort to expand the clientele and the appeal farm in Japan, where, he said, he had discovered that many of of the brand. But there was something for the traditionalists, too: the pearl divers were women. Toward the end of the show came the red carpet-ready gowns that define the brand’s image, like strapless gowns in tulle with Art in movement, at Carolina Herrera full skirts and even a ruby-dyed mink coat. Guests at Monday’s Carolina Herrera believes that fashion is “art in movement,” show, held at Sotheby’s auction house, included Paris Hilton, and so naturally one of her favorite places to show her clothes is Nicky Hilton Rothschild and Nicki Minaj. They were all getting a in a museum. In the past, she’s taken her show to the stunning double dose of Garcia and Kim, having attended their show on courtyard at the Frick Collection, and this Fashion Week she Friday for the duo’s fledgling label, Monse. secured the sculpture garden at the Museum of Modern Art. “I’ve been trying to do it for many years, and at last I could and I Gloria Steinem hits fashion week am so honored to be here,” the designer said before Monday To designer Prabal Gurung’s list of accomplishments, this can evening’s show. The outdoor courtyard with its bubbling foun- now be added: He got Gloria Steinem to her very first fashion tains served at the backdrop for Herrera’s chic garden party and show. The feminist author and activist was a front-row guest at ‘80s-inspired collection. Gurung’s runway show Sunday night, sitting two seats from “Being in the garden at the MoMA is one of those moments Huma Abedin, the longtime top Hillary Clinton aide. Steinem where, ‘is this really happening? even posted about it on Instagram, saying: “There’s a first time Is this real life?’ It’s so beautiful!” said Disney actress Peyton for everything, even at 83.” She added that Gurung was “a kind List, who sat in the front row alongside model Lily Aldridge, man doing great work in fashion and beyond.” Gurung, who actress Michelle Monaghan, and former “Teen Wolf” star Crystal bowed his head in salute to Steinem during his own lap down Reed. “I think this is the first time I’ve actually seen this garden at the runway, has long been a vocal supporter of feminism. At his night so I’m quite mesmerized by it,” Monaghan said. There was February show, he came out wearing a T-shirt that said, “This Is gingham, and lots of puffed sleeves, big shoulders, colorful pol- What a Feminist Looks Like.” His other models wore shirts with ka-dots and waists cinched with oversized bows. Sequins slogans like “The Future Is Female” and “Nevertheless, She reigned supreme. Persisted.” Gurung said then that he’d been inspired by the “This collection is all about color,” Herrera said. “Color is very women’s march he attended in New York in January. At Sunday’s powerful and makes you think in a different way. Color makes show, Gurung said backstage that the title of his collection, you see things in different eyes.” Herrera’s signature white blouse “Stronger In Color, When Dreamers Awake,” was literal and also made a runway appearance, this time with a deep V-neck, metaphorical. dramatic sleeves and a gingham wrap skirt. But the designer “Literally the collection is very colorful - it’s spring,” he said. eschewed her usual crisp white button-down in favor of a black “But more than that, what I wanted to talk about was the colors ensemble. — AP in our world. Politically, socially ... when we have (all colors) rep- resented, that’s when the world becomes an interesting place, a

Models walk the runway at the Oscar de la Renta Spring/Summer 2018 fashion show during Fashion Week, Monday in New York. — AP/AFP photos WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 lifestyle

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Models walk the runway for the Prabal Gurung SS18 show during New York Fashion Week. Fashion from Carolina Herrera collection is modeled during Fashion Week. Busting the transgender barrier, one model at a time

usty Rose has spent an entire year trying to a client to leave. Before meeting Peche, 27, Dusty Trump outrage become a model. Thwarted at every turn, she had sent her resume to modeling agencies each Peche proudly reels off campaigns for big brands Dfinally got a lucky break in the form of Peche time introducing herself as a young trans woman such as Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Smirnoff and L’Oreal Di, founder of an exclusively transgender modeling from Alabama. All to no avail. Paris, which made model Hari Nef a campaign agency. The 19-year-old trans woman born and raised “Expectations are definitely higher because you spokeswoman in the United States. But she chokes in the conservative southern state of Alabama are battling a lot of physical attributes that go along up when she talks about the US president. “It’s hor- jumped for joy when she discovered the agency, with being trans,” she said. rifying,” she says. “I felt the government is not founded in March 2015, through Instagram. “I “You have to be smaller or you have to be skinnier. accepting of us. How are we going to survive?” thought, ‘oh my God, this is kind of why I came to New If you are trans you are typically bigger, you just can’t Peche, who disguised desire to be a woman York, to meet people like this!’” says the six foot one help it... and then being too masculine and not femi- throughout her entire childhood, also set up dating (1.85 meter) wannabe model, dressed in jeans, pink nine.” “I mean I’ve had photographers tell me ‘no no app “Teadate” after Tinder blocked transgenders. sneakers and a strappy black vest top. no, we only need female models’ and I was just like The app already has 25,000 users. While some transgender models-like Brazil’s ‘oh! ok!’” President Donald Trump’s decision to ban For New York Fashion Week, which ends Valentina Sampaio, who graced the cover of French transgenders from the military hasn’t helped. “He’s Wednesday, Peche’s goal is to get more castings and Vogue in February, or Andreja Pejic, who walked here showing the country, ‘I’m the president, I can treat ultimately get her models on the runway. In the in Fashion Week-have found success, most continue people like this, so can you. So now there’s so much longer term, she hopes to book trans men and to face a wall of prejudice. It’s a problem even in liber- more aggression and just outward hatred,” she says. women for campaigns advertising body lotion, sham- al New York, where trans people are widely accepted, People “feel like it’s ok.” poo and body wash, believing it would be “very says Dusty, who started her transition when she was Peche, a fellow trans woman, immediately put inspiring” to see trans people on the screen. “Not com- 15 and still in high school. “The first day me and my Dusty at ease when they first met, at a recent photo pletely naked but partially,” she says, to show off their mom came up here, someone screamed ‘faggot’ at shoot in a Greenwich Village studio. Peche, who natural beauty. And Dusty’s dream? Becoming a me and my mom was like ‘my gosh this is New York, migrated from Thailand, went through similarly diffi- Victoria’s Secret Angel-one of the most competitive this is not supposed to happen here.’ And I just said, cult experiences in setting up Trans Models, one of and prestigious gigs in US modeling. — AFP ‘oh it happens everywhere’.” the world’s first modeling agencies to specialize in the transgender market. Today she represents 19 models, ‘Don’t want this one touching me’ most of them women but some men, as well as clients Dusty works in a New York hair salon. “There are who consider themselves neither male nor female. “Of Peche Di, model and founder of clients sometimes saying, ‘I don’t want this one course I see the progress,” says Peche when assessing transgender model agency prac- doing my hair’, ‘I don’t want this one touching me’: the 10 years since she first began modeling in tices a runway walk with transgen- Not even ‘her’ or ‘him’, just ‘this one’ that kind of Thailand. “Trans models have become a thing right der model Dusty Rose from bothers me,” she says. Dusty says she once had to ask now, but before it was not accepted.” Alabama in New York City. — AFP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

FASHION Blondie backs experimental eco-fashion in London show

londie star Debbie Harry took to the to imitate leather, and sustainable latex London catwalk Monday to support sourced in Malaysia, are also on the cards. Bsustainably fabrics created by VIN + Although the creation of such fabrics cur- OMI, designers experimenting with every- rently comes with high costs, the designers are thing from environmentally-friendly latex to keen to share their research and have their leather-style mushrooms. Draped in a golden sights set on an overhaul of the fashion indus- gown and flanked by the design duo, wearing try. “We want everyone to do it so we can cre- hoodies reading “Stop fucking the planet”, ate a global awareness of what can be done, singer Harry said the world had reached a and then governments will change and there “tipping point” and desperately needed to will be more processing plants and we can tackle waste. “I think that they have a great hopefully just get everybody wearing what purpose and a great focus in trying to make they’ve thrown away,” said Vin. — AFP these sustainable fabrics that are part of the future,” the 72-year-old musician told AFP. “I think it’s very important for everybody to recognize it and should be involved in it; because we all are inevitably,” she added. Harry was speaking after walking in VIN + OMI’s Spring/Summer 2018 collection, ahead of London Fashion Week starting on Friday, which highlighted the issue of plastic waste. Wearing heels encased in plastic and step- ping through clear plastic strewn across the US singer Debbie Harry walks down the catwalk of floor, models showed off a bold collection designers VIN + OMI during their Spring/Summer 2018 including slogans such as “wake up” and collection highlighting the issue of plastic waste in cen- “hope”. There was a wide range of fabrics tral London. — AFP photos used in the show, which the designers said proves environmentally-friendly materials can still make the runway. “It can still look great, it doesn’t have to look like hessian sacks when you’re making eco-fashion,” designer Vin told AFP. Most of the new collection is made from materials created out of recycled plastic, a technique the designers experimented with around sev- en years ago when they made t-shirts each created from 11 bottles. “You can make fur- type fabric out of plastic bottles, so you don’t need to wear fur. Any type of fabric now can be made out of plastic-based material,” explained Vin.

Pineapple as leather But they are also looking beyond plastic and towards natural products which can pro- duce clothes in a more sustainable way. “We’ve been working with a scientist in Spain who pioneered pineapple skins as leather,” said Omi. “We’re now looking at locally- sourced chestnuts, that’s in abundance here, and it’s got the same texture, the same feel to pineapple,” he added, recognising that the US singer Debbie Harry (center) walks down the catwalk manufacturing process was however very with designers VIN + OMI. expensive. Mushrooms which can be grown Models present creations by designers VIN + OMI. Turn over a new leaf: Chase that autumn foliage on foot

ere’s a novel way to enjoy autumn in New England: and gorges, and the covered bridge built in 1842 provides an While the trees are dropping their leaves, you can be iconic backdrop for foliage photography. You’ll find the Hshedding some pounds. Activate the “Health” app on entrance to the scenic loop off Route 7 between the bridge your iPhone (it’s standard and has a simple red heart icon); and the first parking area. Fun fact: George Washington is said don a light jacket; unleash your inner multitasker; and you’re to have had a riding accident nearby in 1781. good to go. Powered by the same GPS technology your Steps: 8,448 phone’s map uses to give you directions, the app will tell you Distance: 4 miles, easy/moderate not only how many miles or kilometers you’ve covered but exactly how many steps you took. If you’re a fitness geek, 2. Maine: Jordan Pond Shore Trail, Fitbit, Garmin and other trackers can give you more data than Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park you can shake a poplar branch at, including how many calo- Route: Picture a narrow boardwalk hewn from logs, encir- ries you’ve burned. If you’re a beginner looking to start a fit- cling a pinch-me-perfect pond mirroring birch, aspen and oak ness routine, no sweat. Autumn is the perfect season to get - all blazing with peak autumn glory. That’s the trail around outdoors: crisp and cool, with none of the strength-sapping idyllic Jordan Pond, formed by glaciers in the shadow of humidity that can discourage even well-trained athletes. Acadia National Park’s Cadillac Mountain, not far from Bar Scenic trails abound across the region, and they offer some Harbor and its playful puffins. Part of the trail is over graded of the most drop-dead-gorgeous places to view foliage off the gravel; about 4,000 feet of it follows bouncy log bridges. It’s beaten path while getting in your run or walk. Plus, these mostly flat and affords spectacular foliage-flecked views of the places are far less crowded in the fall and are at their most surrounding peaks. Apres-hike, indulge in tea and popovers at beautiful. Win-win. A guide to some of the more resplendent: the historic Jordan Pond House . Steps: 6,970 Tourists photograph the sunset at the summit of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine. Distance: 3.3 miles, easy 1. Connecticut: Bull’s bridge river walk, roughly circular loop passes numerous gigantic boulders, and New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The trail runs 14 kent 3. Massachusetts: Cliff Pond Trail, and an added attraction is the Albany covered bridge . miles from Burlington to Colchester; it starts at Oakledge Route: Don’t go chasing waterfalls? Good luck with that if Nickerson State Park, Brewster Steps: 7,392 Park on Flynn Street, and a good place to turn around is 2.1 you find yourself hiking this stunning path, which overlaps Route: One of Cape Cod’s best-kept secrets isn’t its beaches Distance: 3.5 miles, moderate miles later at the Union Station trailhead on King Street. part of the Appalachian Trail in the Litchfield Hills overlooking - it’s the peninsula’s often-overlooked autumn vistas. The Steps: 8,870 the Housatonic River. It’s replete with views of cascading falls foliage itself isn’t always five-star, but it’s framed by shimmer- 5. Rhode Island: Colt State Park, Distance: 4.2 miles, easy — AP ing saltwater ponds and marshes, fieldstone bridges, and Bristol acres of crimson cranberries awaiting harvest. You’ll find all Route: On one side, the salt and spray of Narragansett that and more on a leisurely hike around Cliff Pond , the Bay; on the other, undulating footpaths, stone walls and largest of four ponds contained within Nickerson State Park. some of the finest flora the Ocean State has to offer. All this The end of Flax Pond Road inside the park is a good place to is yours within Colt State Park , 464 acres open year-round start. If you’re feeling a little more ambitious, the 22-mile Cape on a windswept outcropping named Poppasquash Neck in Cod Rail Trail can carry you as far as the spirit moves you. tribute to its Native American roots. The East Bay bikeway Steps: 6,336 connects Colt to other state parks stretching from East Distance: 3 miles, easy Providence to Barrington. Consider a side trip to nearby Blithewold Mansion , whose 33 acres of manicured gardens 4. New Hampshire: Boulder Loop Trail, are well worth wandering. Kancamagus Highway, Conway Steps: 8,236 Route: Honestly, you don’t even have to leave your car Distance: 3.9 miles, easy to have a religious experience along the serpentine Kancamagus as it winds and twists through the White 6. Vermont: Island Line Rail Trail, Mountain National Forest, but you’ll be glad you did. There Burlington are numerous pullouts for trail heads, but some are steep Route: This just might be the hippest, most happening and rugged. One that’s not is the Boulder Loop , on the hike in New England. Once known as the Burlington east side of the highway just off Dugway Road. It’ll take you Bikeway, the Island Line Rail Trail skirts the waterfront of Bar Harbor, Maine is seen through a rusting boat cleat to several rock ledges with leaf-peeping potential that will Burlington, a vibrant and trendy college town. A prome- Peak colors are seen along the Kancamagus Highway in attached to a dock. — AP photos more than reward any extra huffing and puffing. The nade here provides sensational views of Lake Champlain Albany, NH.

A crimson field of blueberry bushes tinged by autumn Leaves turn colors near the summit of Cadillac Mountain A man cycles along the Island Line Rail Trail in Burlington, Vt Viewing fall foliage while walking or running one of New stretches to the horizon near Cadillac Mountain in Acadia in Acadia National Park in Maine. England’s many scenic trails is a fun and healthy way to experience autumn. National Park in Maine. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

MUSIC & MOVIES Toronto festival doc offers glimpse into sharia, women’s rights

early a decade after shattering the glass ceiling of Only two other women have been named to the Palestinian In response to a question about Palestinian women need- Islamic jurisprudence, the first woman judge to be sharia court since Faqih and Wuheidi’s appointments in 2009. ing “equality to men,” Faqih comments in the film: “We do Nappointed to a sharia court in the Middle East says There are also female religious judges in Egypt, Indonesia, indeed need a social revolution.” She calls current religious women’s rights still have a way to go. Kholoud Al-Faqih was at Jordan and Malaysia. Israel appointed its first female judge to a education “shocking,” noting: “They have a picture of a woman the Toronto film festival on Monday for the premiere of Erika sharia court in April. Faqih and her peers, however, continue to on the Quran verse about the devil.” She points to a lack of Cohn’s documentary “The Judge,” which looks at sharia law face pushback. “If she gives birth, if she is pregnant or bleeding, understanding of women’s rights, and the need for more edu- through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to she is bound by these things, which affect her work,” sharia cation. There are moments of levity, such as when a man drags the Middle East’s religious courts. “I’m personally satisfied with scholar Husam Al-Deen Afanah was quoted as saying in the a stranger from a nearby hallway into the court and asks him the speed of progress in Palestine,” Faqih told AFP. “But I wish film. A young woman at a cafe tells Cohn she would prefer a to testify to his character. Cohn recounts a tragic moment the rest of the Middle East would hasten their recognition of male judge. “For me, it’s painful to hear that a young woman when a man stabbed his wife to death in Faqih’s court. Arab women’s rights.” would reject a female judge,” Faqih said. After a moment of reflection during this interview, the Eight years ago, Faqih pressed Palestinian chief justice “But if that lady or anybody else comes to my court, they’ll director expressed hope that audiences will be inspired by Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi for the judgeship and beat out have to accept my ruling, because that’s the way it is.” Tamimi Faqih. “She’s an incredibly strong woman and I think a lot of dozens of male applicants. Tamimi initially laughed off the was forced to resign one year after appointing Faqih and obtained unparalleled court access for the documentary, people around the world will identify with her,” Cohn said. idea of a woman judge, but eventually was persuaded by her Wuheidi to the bench. “Women are not treated equally by the offering a candid look at life in the Palestinian territories. Then Faqih steps in, offering a piece of legal and personal arguments to appoint her and another woman, Asmahan law,” he says in the film, holding out hope for change. Getting access, however, was challenging. “People saw me as advice to women. “You must believe in your abilities and your Wuheidi. Many in the West associate sharia courts with reli- an American woman with broken Arabic and a tiny camera,” rights in order to reach your full potential,” she said. “If you gious extremism, but they are used throughout Muslim coun- Justice for women Cohn said. “But we just wouldn’t take no for an answer.” The only see yourself in a broken marriage, you will only see tries. In the Palestinian territories, civil courts handle criminal, The film showcases Faqih’s tireless fight for justice for film opens with the judge discussing women’s rights with pieces of yourself.” — AFP administrative and civil law, while sharia courts adjudicate women, while illuminating universal domestic conflicts groups of Palestinian women. It was at one of these meetings family issues. including child custody, divorce and spousal abuse. Cohn that Cohn met Faqih. Patty Jenkins to direct ‘Lady Bird’ leads ‘Wonder Woman’ 2019 sequel atty Jenkins will return to direct the “Elektra,” and the first to be directed by a another charge 2019 sequel to this year’s hit superhero woman. It rode to the top of the box office in Pmovie “Wonder Woman,” film trade June on a wave of good reviews and female publications said on Monday, after she empowerment, and with $816.4 million at the for ‘Moonlight’ became the highest-grossing female director worldwide box office, it is now the second- in Hollywood history. Jenkins, 46, will once biggest movie of the year after the live-action again direct Israeli actress Gal Gadot as the version of “Beauty and the Beast.” Jenkins maker A24 superhero in “Wonder Woman 2,” scheduled overtook Phyllida Lloyd, who directed 2008’s for release on Dec. 13, 2019, publications musical “Mamma Mia!,” for the title of highest- reta Gerwig’s directorial debut “Lady Bird” is including Variety and Hollywood Reporter grossing female director. Gadot’s Wonder one of the films that has distributor A24 said. Both publications, citing unnamed Woman will next be seen in November’s Gpoised to again be a major player through sources, said Jenkins will be paid around $8 superhero ensemble movie “Justice League,” awards season. After its first best-picture nominee million to direct the sequel and would also alongside Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry two years ago for the Brie Larson-led “Room,” and receive a back end of the film’s box office Cavill’s Superman. “Wonder Woman,” the Barry Jenkins’ best-picture winning “Moonlight” gross, which would make her the highest- fourth film in Warner Bros’ current iteration of last year, A24’s blistering streak may well continue. paid female director in Hollywood history. DC Comics’ cinematic franchise, helped boost Its films in Toronto also include James Franco’s Movie studio Warner Bros did not com- profits for Warner Bros’ parent company Time “The Disaster Artist” and Sean Baker’s acclaimed Liam Neeson attends a premiere for “Mark ment on the news and has not given any fur- Warner Inc. — Reuters “The Florida Project.” Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The In this file photo, director Patty Jenkins ther details on the sequel. “Wonder Woman,” “Lady Bird” is an autobiographical coming-of- White House” on day 5 of the Toronto poses at the 45th AFI Life Achievement was the first stand-alone movie to star a age tale written and directed by Gerwig and star- International Film Festival at the Ryerson Award Tribute to Keaton at the Dolby female superhero since 2005’s box office dud ring Saoirse (SEER-sha) Ronan. The film has been Theatre. — AP Theatre in Los Angeles. — AP hailed for its witty, honest portrait of a high school senior (a show-stopping Ronan) trying to breaking free of her youth while discovering acting and Neeson says his The ‘It’ factor: How a scary big hit could change horror feuding with her mother . — AP days as an action

here are no sure things in Hollywood, in the works. “It” focuses on the children of that,” said Kailey Marsh, who runs her own hero are over but modestly-budgeted horror movies Derry, Maine, while Part 2, expected in the management company and founded the Tcome pretty close. This weekend took third quarter of 2019, will focus on the adults. BloodList, which highlights unproduced “dark pecial set of skills or not, Liam Neeson that thinking to new heights as the big Mendelson predicts “It’s” success could lead genre” scripts. “What I liked about ‘It’ was that it says he’s finished making thrillers. In an screen adaptation of Stephen King’s “It” shat- to more modestly budgeted Stephen King looked and felt really expensive. It felt as Sinterview, Neeson said that he plans to tered records and even the boldest predic- adaptations, but cautions against thinking that expensive as a $100 million movie,” she said. “It” stop even though it’s hard to turn down the tions with its $123.4 million debut. Until “It,” its results can be replicated. “This was very hit a cultural nerve and become one of those lucrative offers he gets thanks to his box- rare must-see event movies that all studios office success in the three “Taken” films, as long for, but the Warner Bros and New Line well as other thrillers. Neeson believes he’s production is also a solidly mid-budget film- simply getting too old to be an action hero. which is its own kind of anomaly in the current “The thrillers, that was all a pure accident,” moviemaking landscape that has relied heavily said Neeson. “They’re still throwing serious on “micro” and low budget horror films in the money at me to do that stuff. I’m like, ‘Guy’s $3 to $15 million range in recent years. I’m sixty-five.’ Audiences are eventually going It’s a strategy that has worked well for to go, ‘Come on.’” Blumhouse Productions, the company behind Neeson still has two upcoming revenge the “Paranormal Activity” series, “Insidious,” thrillers he’s already shot: “Hard Powder,” in “The Purge,” “Sinister,” and this year’s “Split” and which he plays a snowplow driver who faces “Get Out”- all of which cost under $15 million off with drug dealers, and “The Commuter,” and most under $5 million - and something with director Jaume Collet-Serra, who also other studios have latched on to as well. Aside directed Neeson in “Unknown,” “Non-Stop” from “It,” only a handful of horror films the past and “Run All Night.” But, Neeson said, those five years have touted budgets over $20 mil- will be his last. “I’ve shot one that’s going to lion, like “The Conjuring” films which are also come out in January sometime. There might from Warner Brosand New Line. But even their be another. That’s it,” said Neeson. “But not This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Bill Skarsgard in a scene from “It.” — AP “Annabelle” spinoffs have been made for $15 ‘Taken,’ none of that franchise stuff.” Instead, million or less. Neeson has turned back to dramatic work. no horror movie had ever even opened over much the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ of horror “We try to make the best movie that we can His Watergate drama “Mark Felt: The Man $55 million, let alone $100 million. It had a movies,” Mendelson said, referring to the Walt with the best content that we can using the Who Brought Down the White House” was to cast with no movie stars and it only cost $35 Disney Company’s smash live-action hit from best talent that we can. We try to make it at the premiere Monday evening at the Toronto million to produce - on the high end for a earlier this year. “You have a movie that would right price. If the right price is small we’ll try to International Film Festival. In it, he plays the modern horror movie, but minuscule com- have been an event by itself, but you also have do that,” said Jeff Goldstein, who heads up dis- high-ranking FBI official who was the pared to standard superhero budgets, which the source material that captures several gen- tribution for Warner Bros. Marsh expects some Washington Post’s “Deep Throat” source in generally cost over $100 million and often erations of interest and nostalgia.” Beyond a studios to take note of the added return on the scandal. run north of $250 million. newly energized appreciation for King’s box investment that is possible with a slightly big- Neeson has also lined up to co-star in Even as the industry continues to lament office potential (excluding “The Dark Tower,”) ger budget. “Because Hollywood is reactionary, “Widows,” by “Twelve Years a Slave” director the year’s lagging box office, which is down “It” has some wondering whether Hollywood’s and rightfully so, I am excited about not having Steve McQueen. In December, he starred in around 5.5 percent from 2016, 2017 has been horror strategy might shift. to develop screenplays that are supposed to Martin Scorsese’s spiritual epic “Silence.” good for horror with massive successes like be capped at $10 million,” Marsh said. “You can Actress Greta Gerwig attends the InStyle/HFPA Neeson was always surprised by the unlikely “Get Out,” “Split,” “Annabelle: Creation” and now Right price get such a better cast and such better quality Party on day 3 of the Toronto International turn his career took beginning with 2009’s the new bar set by “It.” “If ‘It’ had made $120 “Everyone has been trying to mold them- in the long run.” — AP Film Festival at the Windsor Arms Hotel on “Taken.” He thought the film, he once said, million total it would have been a huge hit,” selves into this low budget model that sort of Saturday. — AP would go straight to video. The three says Forbes contributor Scott Mendelson. “This doesn’t work anymore. There are only so many “Taken” films have grossed $929.5 million is so unprecedented.” There is already a sequel things you can do with a limited budget like worldwide. — AP Tonya Harding, Louis C.K. films lead big buys in Bruno Mars Toronto film that finds the comedy and humanity in Tonya Harding is the biggest acquisition of the Toronto AInternational Film Festival. Domestic distribution rights for “I, Tonya,” starring Margot Robbie as the Olympic skater, were on Monday bought by a pair of new companies, Neon and 30West. Trade reports pegged the price at $5 million. Bruno Mars’ first TV special The film had been the hottest property in Toronto, which many predicting Oscar nominations for Robbie and co-star to air Nov 29 on CBS Allison Janney. The film’s producers said it has been “a whirl- wind few days” since the movie’s well-received premiere. Louis C.K.’s black-and-white “I Love You, Daddy” also sold for a similar runo Mars is getting his own TV special, a first for the amount to the Orchard on Monday. — AP Grammy-winning superstar. Atlantic Records and CBS Bannounced Tuesday that “BRUNO MARS: 24K MAGIC LIVE AT THE APOLLO” will air Nov 29 on CBS. The special was taped at the Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem, and Mars performed on top of the venue’s marquee. Mars and his band also taped performances and interac- tions with New Yorkers throughout the city. The last year has The cast and director of “I, been a massive success for the singer, songwriter and produc- Tonya” arrives for its er. Mars’ recent album, “24K Magic,” reached double platinum screening during the status, while the single “That’s What I Like” hit No. 1 on Toronto International Billboard’s Hot 100 and R&B/Hip-Hop songs charts, respective- Film Festival in Toronto ly. The album’s first single and title track also reached No. 1 on on Friday. — AP the R&B charts. Mars will executive produce the special. — AP Casual denim hints at a new era for Oscar de la Renta

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(From left) Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt and Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt attend the premiere of ‘First they Killed my Father’ at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario. — AFP

No sand, no problem: Beach Bizarre News Robot dog detects smelly feet A company has invented a robot dog Man sets Guinness World which faints when it detects smelly feet. Record with largest bee beard football in landlocked Afghanistan Hana-chan is the creation of the National A man has set the new Guinness World Institute of Technology Kitakyushu Record for the biggest bee beard. Juan t a makeshift beach in landlocked Sun, soil, stones College, in Kyushu, who have been work- Carlos Noguez Ortiz has smashed the Afghanistan, children as young as eight, The enthusiasm shown by Afghan children for ing on it for over two years. The toy dog, record for the person who dared to sit still Awearing baggy Real Madrid and Barcelona the beautiful game came to the world’s attention which has been made by their sister com- for the longest amount of time whilst a shirts with “Ronaldo” and “Messi” printed on the last year when six-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi pany NextTechnology, has a special sensor swarm of bees smothered his face to cre- back, joyfully kick and chase the ball. Kabul’s Ghazi became an online hit after he was pictured wearing inside its nose and even sprays air freshen- ate a long facial hair-looking illusion over stadium was the scene of gruesome executions an improvised Lionel Messi shirt made out of a plas- er to make the bad pong fresher. his body. The Canadian male didn’t move under Taliban rule but today it is where Afghan tic bag. He later met his hero. Almost 200 boys, NextTechnology’s Kimika Tsuji explained for nearly eighty minutes whilst the youths, the majority of whom have never seen the many from extremely poor families, train around how a father’s idea came to life. He said: winged animals covered his face, which sea, dream of representing their country at beach three times a week at the Ghazi stadium. “Most of “He told us his daughter had said his feet saw him gain the title. Although Juan football. our players are street kids who do not have any oth- were smelly. “But he didn’t want to know works at a honeybee farm and is used to “I had no idea about beach football before I er chance to show their talents to the world,” says how bad the odor was because he would being up close and personal with bees it joined this program. I have never been to a beach,” Baran. “I go to very remote areas of Kabul to find feel hurt. That’s why we developed this didn’t stop him from being stung. And 14-year-old Mudasir Yousufzai tells AFP, head over these talents. If you can play on the street, you can cute robot.” footage of Juan covered in the insects has heels for his newfound passion. play on the beach,” he adds. taken the world by storm and has gone “We have a lot of problems. We play on dust and Baran played in the victory over Qatar. viral on social media, the video has also rocks, our goals have no net, but because I am in Afterwards he signed for a Brazilian beach football been obtained by Metro Online. love with it I still like to play,” he adds, smiling. world, despite the lack of facilities and sand. club in Sao Paulo but soon returned home, commit- Yousufzai is one of dozens of youngsters taking part “When I first started this program people won- ted to developing Afghanistan’s future stars. A study proves 12 year olds are better in a rapidly growing scheme that was set up six dered what I was doing. They would say, ‘How can “Unfortunately, nobody supports us financially. But with technology than their parents months ago to help find the brightest beach foot- you prepare people to play beach football when I hope people help us so that we can continue this A study has discovered children under 12 ball talent in war-torn Afghanistan. The brains they have no idea what a beach looks like?’,” the 28- program, which is very unique,” Baran says. Beach years old are better with technology than behind the project is Hazratgul Baran, who plays for year-old tells AFP. But Baran has had no problems football pitches require a specific type of sand, usu- their parents. Research conducted by Afghanistan’s surprisingly respectable national attracting youngsters to the program. Football is ally sourced from beaches and desert dunes. But at Tech Will Save Us have found that almost beach football team-ranked 10 in Asia and 52 in the hugely popular in Afghanistan with kids playing on the Ghazi ground, the kids-many of them barefoot- 70 per cent of parents have noticed their dirt roads, in markets and in schools-wherever the play on heavier sand used for building construction, brood are a lot more tech-savvy and are security situation allows. Interest in beach football which is mixed with soil and rocks. Rather than a faster on all of the devices than they are. in particular has boomed since the national team glittering ocean as a backdrop, the pitch is sur- Whilst over 30 percent of those under 12 played their first international match, against Qatar, rounded by dried-out thorn bushes. people can program and code using in 2013 — a game they won against the odds. The laughter of the young players is a welcome Python, Javascript, SQL or PHP, in compari- In the beginning they were inspired by land- change from the ground’s sinister past, however. Police ‘severed arm’ report is false alarm son to 24 per cent of mothers or fathers locked countries like Switzerland that are doing During the Taliban’s rule from 1996-2001 thousands Police were called to reports of a “severed who have perfected the skill. Although great internationally, says Ruhullah Rastagar, the of spectators would be called to the stadium to hand” on a motorway - but it turned out to children are in the know about a number director of the Afghan Beach Football Committee. watch a football match. Before kick-off or at half- be plastic. Avon and Somerset Police were of topics, parents still worry about how “And now we are doing better than a lot of coun- time people deemed disloyal to the regime were alerted to the cut up body part on their brood will cope during their first tries who have beaches. We have beaten powerful often executed or mutilated in front of the crowd. Monday morning and jokingly offered “a week of school and question whether the teams such as Malaysia and China. If we have Now, as dusk falls, the exhausted, dust-covered kids hand” to anyone in need after finding out youngsters are prepared enough. enough support, I am sure Afghanistan’s beach smile as they enthusiastically shake hands before it was a false alarm. A tongue-in-cheek football team will be at the top of the world rank- heading home, dreaming of following in Baran’s tweet on the constabulary’s official page Pilot faces criticism after ings soon,” he adds. footsteps. — AFP read: “Call to say severed hand on motor- taking selfies while flying plane way. Then confirmed by Highways. A pilot was slammed after he posted a Officers take a look - plastic hand! selfie of him leaning out of the cockpit #AnyoneNeedAHand (sic)”. whilst flying a plane. Instagram user Pilotganso shared a photograph of him flying above the Palm Islands in Dubai to his 43,000 followers, which received more than 15,000 likes. He captioned the pho- to: “Its already my second hometown #dubai Selfie (sic).” However, the unusual image has been met with a lot of criti- cism, and have caused people to describe the snapshot as a fake, superimposed image. — Bang Showbiz

Adorable six-year-old pays off classmates lunch debt A school girl is selling lemonade to pay off her friends’ lunch debt. Amiah Van Hill is just six years old, but she had the intuition to setup the stand to make sure her fellow pupils at Hayden Meadows Elementary School in Idaho, are eating properly. She told InsideEdition.com: “Every kid at school needs lunch, so that’s my way of helping.” Amiah started off by holding up a “lemonade 4 lunch” signpost and man- aged to make $40, more than enough for youngsters who receive a reduction in their meal price to be debt free. Afghan youths play beach football at Ghazi stadium in Kabul. — AFP photos