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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 THULQADA 19, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Hundreds of Thousands Woman Demichelis Kuwaitis lose march for UK incarnate saves City their passports as Scotland Bardot against battling every month4 vote nears7 hits40 80 Arsenal20 Senior Brotherhood Max 44º Min 28º figures to leave Qatar High Tide 00:28 & 12:29 Doha facing pressure from Gulf states Low Tide 06:33 & 19:08 40 PAGES NO: 16285 150 FILS CAIRO: Qatar has asked seven senior figures from Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to leave the country, the Kerry in Cairo to drum up support movement said yesterday, following months of pressure on the Gulf state from its neighbors to stop backing the CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry said yester- Islamists. Ibrahim Munir, a senior Brotherhood official day Egypt was on the frontline against “terrorism” based in London, told Reuters the departures did not after meeting its leadership to garner support to fight mean a rupture in ties between Qatar and the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Egypt’s formidable army is Brotherhood. “The Qatari authorities told the Brotherhood they are facing pressure and circumstances would not unlikely to take part in a military coalition against the allow the presence of all these Brotherhood figures in Islamic State (IS) jihadists, but it has closely cooperat- Doha,” he said by telephone, without elaborating. Qatari ed with the United States on counter-terrorism. The officials were not immediately available for comment. Arab world’s most populous state boasts the presti- Qatar and Turkey were the only regional countries to gious Sunni Muslim authority Al-Azhar which Kerry back the Brotherhood after Egypt’s army toppled Islamist said would fight back against the Islamic State’s use of President Mohamed Morsi last year following mass the religion. protests against his rule. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Washington says it is “at war” with IS and has Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf Arab states, in contrast, have named John Allen, a hawkish former commander in showered Egypt’s new rulers with billions of dollars. They Afghanistan and Iraq, to coordinate its campaign see the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat to the against the movement that has seized large chunks of monarchies. Iraq and neighbouring Syria. Kerry, who flew in from Tensions over Qatar’s support for the Brotherhood led Ankara, held talks with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE to withdraw their after meeting Arab League chief Nabil Al-Arabi. ambassadors from Doha in March. “To lift the embarrass- Cairo’s involvement in the coalition may help to ment for the state of Qatar, which we found hospitable, soothe its relations with Washington, after the United some of the symbols of the Muslim Brotherhood who have States suspended - then restored - military aid when been asked to move their residency outside the state have the army ousted elected Islamist president Mohamed agreed,” senior Brotherhood figure Amr Darrag said on his Morsi in July 2013. Morsi’s successor, the former army Facebook page. Munir said Darrag was one of the chief Sisi, is fighting Islamist militants in the restive Brotherhood members leaving Qatar, though Darrag did Sinai Peninsula who have expressed support for the not specifically say so in his message. Islamic State. “Egypt is on the frontline of the fight Ties between Qatar and Egypt were badly damaged against terrorism, particularly when it comes to fight- after Morsi’s fall. Doha has welcomed a number of senior ing extremist groups in Sinai,” Kerry told a news con- Brotherhood figures since Egyptian security forces ference with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri. CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at the presi- launched a crackdown on the movement, killing hundreds Continued on Page 13 dential palace yesterday. — AFP in the streets and arresting thousands of others. Continued on Page 13 Uganda foils Shabab attack Americans told to stay home • France aided Godane killing KAMPALA: Ugandan security forces terday. “We remain in close contact with our specific targets, and the Ugandan authorities stopped a cell of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Ugandan counterparts as investigations con- have increased security at key sites, includ- Shabab insurgents apparently “planning for tinue into what appears to have been plan- ing Entebbe International Airport,” the an imminent attack”, the US embassy said ning for an imminent attack,” the US added. embassy said. Last Monday the US embassy yesterday. Arrests were made, police said, in Police spokesman Fred Enanga said forces warned that Shabab insurgents may try to raids two weeks after Ugandan troops, fight- had “made arrests” but gave no details of exact revenge for a US air strike that killed ing in Somalia, reportedly provided intelli- how many people had been detained. “Joint the militant group’s commander. “Stay alert gence that helped US special forces kill the security agencies in Uganda have foiled a to the ongoing potential for terrorist attacks Shabab’s chief in a devastating air strike. terrorist attempt at one of its installations,” in Uganda,” it said. “We also caution US citi- “Ugandan authorities reported the discovery Enanga told AFP, without giving any further zens of the possibility of retaliatory attacks of an Al-Shabab terrorist cell in Kampala,” the information. in Uganda by Al-Shabab in response to the US embassy said in a statement, adding that Security forces have boosted patrols US and Ugandan military actions in Somalia forces were working to see “whether there around major sites, the US said, in a warning last week which killed Al-Shabab leader are members of the cell still at large.” statement to its citizens in the east African Ahmed Godane.” Citizens were urged to stay at home yes- nation. “At this point we are not aware of Continued on Page 13 Gazans move into mobile homes
KHAN YOUNIS: Fifty Palestinian families Israeli air strike, is one of those moving SRINAGAR: An Indian air force Mi-17 flies over floodwaters during a rescue and made homeless by Israeli bombing dur- into the UAE accommodation, which he relief mission yesterday. — AFP UN criticizes ing the summer’s fierce offensive on the described as an “excellent initiative” for Gaza Strip were rehoused yesterday in the near term. “We expect to rebuild our Oman on right mobile homes in the southern town of house; we do not just want a temporary Thousands still stranded Khan Yuonis. During the 50-day conflict, solution,” he said. Haddad said each unit - 9,800 homes were totally destroyed and comprising two bedrooms, a bathroom by killer Kashmir floods to assembly another 8,000 left uninhabitable, accord- and kitchen - could accommodate six ing to data from the housing ministry in people and cost an estimated $7,000. He SRINAGAR: Rescuers struggled to reach relief camp, told AFP. MUSCAT: The right of Omanis to peaceful assembly is “virtually non-existent in practice” a United Gaza. Imad Al-Haddad, Gaza head of a said his association would donate 50 more than 200,000 people still stranded In both countries, security forces were United Arab Emirates association provid- more before the onset of winter. yesterday in Indian Kashmir as deadly using boats and helicopters to deliver Nations special rapporteur said yesterday during a visit to the Gulf monarchy, which detained hundreds ing these 50 mobile homes, told AFP that According to the UN agency for aid to floodwaters receded, revealing horrific food supplies and evacuate survivors. in the town’s Khuzaa neighbourhood Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), 65,000 devastation in the Himalayan region People waved from rooftops and upper- in 2011 after quashing pro-democracy protests. Oman, a US ally which occupies one side of the nar- alone 500 families lost the roofs over homeless Gazans are still sheltering in including neighboring Pakistan, officials storey windows to attract attention. In their heads. UN schools awaiting accommodation, said. A smell of death hung in the air as Indian Kashmir, there was anger over row Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil shipping route, has an elected parliament but ultimate power Mohamed Al-Najjar, 60, whose and thousands more have sought refuge animal carcasses lay in the roads of slow rescue efforts. Some rescuers had three-storey house was crushed by an with relatives. — AFP Indian Kashmir’s normally scenic main been attacked, although now such inci- rests in the hands of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who city of Srinagar, a top tourist draw, that dents had diminished, Indian Kashmir has ruled since 1970. one top official said had been “drowned State disaster chief Shah said. “My men “In my meetings with the government, I observed completely” by the worst floods in over a have been beaten up, our boats have a consistent focus on maintaining peace, order and century. “This is not a flood, this is a been attacked with stones. If people are stability in Oman, often used as the rationale for lim- tsunami,” Mehraj-Ud-Din Shah, Indian depressed they can do anything. They iting assembly and association rights,” said Maina Kashmir State Disaster Response Force blame the government for not doing Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of peaceful chief, told AFP by phone from Srinagar anything,” he said. “We try to calm them assembly and association. Kiai said at a news confer- yesterday. “There’s a stench everywhere down by saying ‘We will help you, we ence in the capital Muscat that he had also met as animals have died and their bodies will help your family, come with us’,” he activists who had been detained. “All the people I are floating around,” fuelling concern said. spoke to who have been subjected to this harass- about the spread of water-borne dis- In flood-hit areas in Pakistan, some ment, stress that what they want is peaceful reform, ease, Shah said. people waded through knee-deep water not revolution,” Kiai’s preliminary report stated. The floods and landslides from days to escape with many carrying children “Oman’s basic law (its constitution) guarantees of heavy monsoon rains have now and household belongings on their the right to peaceful assembly...within the limits of claimed at least 480 lives in Pakistan and backs while others led livestock. Two the law. Unfortunately, based on the information I India. But officials on both sides of the dykes on a flooded river were blown up have gathered, these limits of the law are quite border said it was still too early to assess to save the historic southern Pakistani restrictive, to the point where they often annul the fully the extent of the disaster with city of Multan, home to two milion and essence of the right,” he said. “Gatherings of more many roads still impassable. “There’s no nerve centre of the country’s textile than nine people, for example, require a de facto milk for children and they’re crying day industry, from the muddy, swirling approval of the authorities. It seems that this per- and night. The authorities supply us with floodwaters that have caused wide- mission procedure is purely administrative and can’t rice but children need bread and milk,” spread crop damage. be contested before a court of law,” he said at a news conference. — Reuters GAZA: Mobile homes are delivered to rehouse Palestinian families in Khan one survivor, Fizza Mai, 45, at a Pakistani Continued on Page 13 Younis’ Khuzaa neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LOCAL Further praise heaped upon Amir for UN honoring
CAPITALS: The recent UN acclamation of His Kuwaiti diplomatic mission, congratulated HH Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad the Amir for the honoring and international Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as an international recognition of his leading role for resolving Prime Minister “Humanitarian Leader” has drawn further global issues and crises. praise namely by leading Kuwaiti envoys serv- “Such unprecedented honoring for the ing abroad. State of Kuwait as a center for humanitarian to visit Germany “Such good traits have turned to distin- action is a source of pride for the Kuwaiti peo- guish the Kuwaiti diplomacy and its foreign ple,” he said, noting that the Kuwaitis’ gen- BERLIN: His Highness the Prime Minister policy,” noted Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghnem, erosity is rooted in their culture and religion, of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- the State of Kuwait’s Permanent Delegate at Islam. Hamad Al-Sabah will start a working vis- the UN. He noted in this respect Kuwait’s long Meanwhile, the Republic of Korea congrat- it to Germany next Friday for talks with record of relief and humanitarian activities on ulated HH the Amir on being honored by the Chancellor Angela Merkel. the world arena. UN, said a press release by the South Korean The talks between the two sides will The State of Kuwait contributes to interna- Foreign Ministry. South Korea lauds the UN focus on the bilateral ties, particularly in the economic field, as well as regional tional relief operations, aiding peoples afflict- Secretary-General Ban for designating Kuwait issues, Christiane Wirtz, deputy ed with wars, catastrophes and crises. It as a “Humanitarian Center”. spokesperson of the German govern- grants, annually, USD three million to the Commenting on the press release, Kuwaiti ment, said in a press briefing. International Committee of the Red Cross and Ambassador to South Korea Jassem Al-Bdaiwi The latest developments of the situa- USD two million to the UN relief agency, UNR- said the South Korean gesture showcased tions in Iraq and Syria will be on the WA. HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad was Kuwait’s vital role within the global humani- agenda of the talks, Wirtz, also deputy recently celebrated by the UN as the world’s tarian domain. He thanked South Korea for head of the Press and Information Office “Humanitarian Leader,” and the State of HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah highlighting Sheikh Sabah’s humanitarian of the Federal Government, added. Kuwait as a “Humanitarian Center,” owing to efforts, affirming that the two friendly nations Separately, HH the Prime Minister the country’s generous giving for the needy In Valletta, Malta, the Kuwaiti Ambassador, are willing to bolster relations on all possible received a phone call from UK Secretary Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and the poor across the globe. Faisal Al-Musaileem, and staff members of the domains. — KUNA of State for Foreign and Commonwealth and naming of Kuwait a “Humanitarian Affairs Philip Hammond. During the Center”. phone, the UK Secretary congratulated Sheikh Jaber and Hammond also HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- touched upon means to develop bilater- Jaber Al-Sabah on UN honoring and al relations in various domains and Kuwait foreign minister naming of him a “Humanitarian Leader” issues of common concern. — KUNA on first visit to Palestine Officials laud ‘important, historical’ trip
KUWAIT/RAMALLAH: First Deputy Prime resources at the disposal of the Arab countries now president of Palestine, apologized to Kuwait Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah affected by the Israeli aggression for the sake of over the PLO stance on the Iraqi invasion in 1990. Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah is travelling to restoring their land. He called for immediate and His Highness the Amir reaffirmed Kuwait’s sup- Palestine today on his first visit at an invitation of unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli troops portive stance towards the Palestinian people in his Palestinian counterpart Riyadh Al-Maliki. from all occupied Arab territories pursuant to the Gaza Strip in the wake of the first Gaza War. In an The visit is expected to be a landmark in the UN charter and international laws. address to the first Arab Economic, Social and history of the deep-rooted relations between the In the fourth Arab Summit, held in Khartoum Development Summit, hosted by Kuwait in two Arab countries as it will see the launching of on August 29, 1967, Kuwait pledged GBP 55 mil- January, 2009, he strongly condemned the brutal the joint higher commission. It signals the long- lion to the Arab countries affected by the aggres- Israeli aggression. standing commitment of Kuwait’s leadership and sion to help rebuild their armies. Kuwait’s sup- On April 15, 2013, President Mahmoud Abbas people towards supporting the Palestinian peo- portive stance for these countries, particularly visited Kuwait, held cordial talks with His ple in their legitimate struggle for restoring their Palestine, was self-evident during the Middle Highness the Amir, and reopened Palestine rights on the Arab and international levels. East War of October 6, 1973. Embassy in Kuwait. His Highness the Amir reaf- Since the very beginning of the Palestinian’s firmed firm support to the legitimate rights of blight in early 1930s, Kuwait has spared no effort the Palestinian people in his address to the 25th GAZA: The KRCS team during a visit to a damaged building. — KUNA in supporting the Palestinian people even before Arab Summit, held in Kuwait in March, 2014. its own independence. In 1932, Kuwait received The summit culminated in the Kuwait then Mufti of Palestine Hajj Amin Al-Husseini Declaration which holds Israel responsible for the KRCS continues its Gaza who was touring Arab countries to raise funds for stalemate in the Middle East peace process and the rehabilitation of Al-Aqsa Mosque. reaffirms commitment to the rights of the humanitarian mission When the Palestinian revolution broke out Palestinian people to establish their independent against the British occupation authorities and fully-sovereign state within the pre-June, 1967, GAZA: A Kuwait Red Crescent Society the Gaza Strip via Rafah Crossing. Zionist militias between 1936 and 1939 the borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. (KRCS) team, currently in Gaza to distribute Kuwaiti people formed a popular committee in aid and medical supplies to Palestinian Medical team support of Palestine to offer financial and moral Significant visit families, continued yesterday its humani- A medical team from the Kuwait Medical support to the revolutionaries. The Palestinian Presidency has welcomed the tarian mission to alleviate the suffering of Association (KMA) had left for Gaza on significant visit of Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister the Israeli-war stricken Palestinians. Friday to offer treatment and medical sup- Support for Palestinian refugees and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- KRCS’ mission head to Gaza Khaled Al- plies to victims of the last Israeli aggression As the Nakba (catastrophe) befell the Sabah to Palestine, Presidential Spokesperson Zaid that the society has harnessed all its on the Strip. The team includes 12 doctors, Palestinians on May 14, 1948, when Israel Nabil Abu Rudeineh said yesterday. capabilities to distribute the food and med- of various specializations, a member of the declared its independence and thousands of Abu Rudeineh told KUNA that this visit comes ical aid to the Palestinian people in the war- Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), and Palestinians were forced to leave their homes, amidst critical conditions facing the Palestinian ravaged strip. another from the Kuwait Fire Service Kuwait scaled up its official and popular support cause, which require Arab coordination and joint The KRCS delivered some 7,000 food Directorate, said KMA Chairman and received thousands of Palestinian refugees. action. “Kuwaiti-Palestinian relations have a long packages to displaced Palestinian families Mohammad Al-Mutairi in a press state- In his debut in the UN pulpit in 1963, His history as Kuwait has been supporting the in the Gaza Strip yesterday. ment. The convoy was set off on the behest Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah Palestinian Authority and its people at all levels,” The KRCS relief team delivered the of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Sabah, then foreign minister and now Amir of he added. The Palestinian leadership appreciates Kuwaiti food aid to around 500 families in a Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who placed Kuwait, underlined the right of the Palestinian Kuwait slapped, in coordination with the His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahamd number of North Gaza’s districts, including Kuwait among the major supporters of the refugees to return to their homes and blasted the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a ban on oil exports to Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s unwavering efforts in support Shujaiyya, Deir Al-Balah, Gaza City, and Palestinian people in Gaza, and was recent- attempts to impose a fait accompli in the occu- Israel’s allies and called for an emergency meet- of Palestinians in their just cause to create an eastern Rafah, in addition to some 2,500 ly named a “Humanitarian Leader” by the pied territories. In 1964 Kuwait hosted the head- ing by the OPEC members in October, 1973, to independent state recognized internationally food packages to families in Beit Hanoun in UN. Al-Mutairi also highlighted backing by quarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization discuss similar steps against supporters of Israel. with Jerusalem as capital. northeast Gaza. Minister of Health Dr Ali Saad Al-Obaidi, (PLO), increased its political and financial sup- Kuwait reduced its daily oil output from 3.7 mil- Meanwhile, a number of Palestinian officials The Kuwaiti team also handed 200 gifts and the Ministry Undersecretary Khalid Al- port, and became the biggest donor for the lion barrels to 2.5 million bpd in January, 1974 described Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid’s visit to to children living in UN-run school shelters Sahalwi, to facilitate procedures for the Palestinians. and upgraded the PLO representation office to Palestine as ‘important’ and ‘historical’. Member in several areas of the Strip. The team also convoy to have access into Gaza. According In the same year, Kuwait donated GBP two an embassy. of the executive committee of the Palestinian handed food packages to a large number to the KMA chief, another medical convoy million to the formation of and Palestinian libera- Liberation Organization (PLO) Wasel Yousif told of workers from several municipalities in is slated for September 18. tion army under a resolution by the Second Arab Ups and downs KUNA that the visit also is important because it the Strip. Deputy KMA Chairman, who leads the Summit, held in Alexandria, Egypt, in September. Kuwait-PLO relations underwent ups and came after the brutal Israeli aggression on the The KRCS team arrived in Gaza Strip late medical mission to Gaza, Abdul-Mohsen Al- downs in the 1990s as a result of the Iraqi inva- Gaza Strip, adding that the visit is reflective of Thursday carrying 7,000 food packages, as Kandari, said the team is coordinating with All resources sion of Kuwait. In December, 2000, Kuwait donat- Kuwait’s supportive stance towards the well as a medical team of 12 male and two hospitals in Al-Aresh and Gaza receives In response to the Middle East war in June, ed USD 1.5 million to the UN Relief and Works Palestinians. Similarly, Fatah central committee female physicians for the treatment of dis- the convoy. He added that the KRCS had 1967, large numbers of Kuwaitis took to streets in Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East member Abbas Zaki said that the upcoming visit placed families. The Egyptian authorities provided the convoy with medical aid protest against the Israeli aggression and the (UNRWA), thus becoming the biggest donor for by the Kuwaiti minister is an example to the allowed the Kuwaiti medical team to enter worth USD one million.— KUNA usurpation of more Arab territories. the agency. world that the Palestinian cause is alive and well. His Highness Sheikh Sabah led a delegation to In December, 2004, the bilateral ties gained He lauded the ties between Kuwait and the Fatah the UN General Assembly session on July 25, momentum after Mahmoud Abbas, the then movement, hoping that the visit would bolster 1967, when he affirmed that Kuwait puts all chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and unity among Palestinians. —KUNA Embassy, WFP celebrate Amir UN honor
ROME: The World Food Program, in collabora- Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). On behalf of the WFP, he thanked HH the tion with Kuwait Embassy held a symposium to In his address to the event, Abdullah wel- Amir and Kuwait government and non-govern- mark the United Nations naming of His Highness comed the unprecedented UN honoring of HH ment fund-raising agencies for their contribu- the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- as a culmination of the long years of generous tions to the Program’s activities. Sabah as Humanitarian Leader and Kuwait as donations by Kuwait under HH the Amir to the Ambassador Sheikh Ali spoke highly of the humanitarian center. victims of natural and man-made disasters. WFP relief efforts across the world, saying: “The Kuwait Ambassador to Italy Sheikh Ali Al- “Thanks to HH the Amir’s efforts, Kuwait has Program is the humanitarian arm of the United Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attended the sym- become a beacon of humanitarian action and Nation; it strongly supported the candidacy of posium alongside with the WFP Deputy asserted its position at the forefront of relief HH the Amir to the tile of Humanitarian Leader.” Executive Director and Chief Operating efforts,” he said, pointing out the country’s time- In a statement to KUNA he took pride in the UN Officer Amir Mahmoud Abdullah, and ly responses to emergency situations worldwide. recognition of the humanitarian role of Kuwait Director of the Regional Bureau for Middle Abdullah also highlighted Kuwait’s leading under the wise leadership of HH the Amir and HAVANA: The Kuwaiti MPs in front of Kuwait’s embassy in the Cuban capital. — KUNA East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central role in responding to the needs of socio-eco- said this is a milestone in Kuwait’s history. Asia Mohammad Diab, as well as representa- nomic development and galvanizing other Sheikh Ali also commended the partnership tives of the Food and Agriculture donors to contribute to the relief efforts and the between Kuwait and the WFP in delivering Kuwaiti lawmakers in Cuba Organization (FAO) and the International alleviation of poverty and hunger. humanitarian aid to the displaced people and the victims of the conflicts in such countries as amid South American tour Syria, Iraq and Palestine. Meanwhile, Diab, the WFP regional office HAVANA: Kuwait’s parliamentary friend- quarters located at a renowned location in director, extolled Kuwait for responding to the ship committee arrived in Cuba Friday downtown Havana. needs of the Syrians displaced by the conflict expecting to hold a series of talks with sen- Speaking on the occasion, National through hosting the first and second interna- ior officials there ahead of another trip to Assembly Secretary MP Yaqoub Al-Sanea tional pledging conferences for Syria in 2013 Nicragua. said he was delighted to have attended the and 2014 under auspices of HH the Amir. Receiving the Kuwaiti National celebration that show the embassy’s keen- Donors pledged USD 1.5 billion at the first Assembly members was Kuwaiti ness to take part in the celebrations wit- conference and USD 2.4 billion for the Syrian Ambassador to Cuba Bader Al-Awadhi. nessed at home. refugees at the second conference. The ambassador proceeded to invite the He along with his fellow lawmakers However, the remaining of these funds cover guests to a ceremony marking the UN experienced a warm welcoming from the only 20 percent of the food relief for the humanitarian leader title bestowed upon embassy, and Al-Sanea said he was grati- refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey in His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- fied with this gesture. October, Diab noted, voicing hope that the com- Ahmad Al-Jaber and humanitarian centre Fellow lawmaker Abdullah Al-Tamimi ing conference, due in Kuwait on October 12, designation for Kuwait. reiterated these sentiments, and thanked will help raise more funds for the relief opera- The MPs expressed delight and pride on the embassy for its efforts to shed light on tions. Kuwait is one of the leading contributors the occasion rendered glorious to the this “important occasion.” The delegation to the WFP food relief for some 80 million peo- Kuwaiti people - a sentiment they shared headed by Jamal Al-Omar and consisting ple in 75 countries, including four million with embassy staff attending the function. his deputy Yaagoub Al-Sanea, Yousef Al- Syrians; the country donated USD 43 million to The celebrations were marked by the Zalzalah, Saif Al-Azmi and Abdullah Al- the Fund in 2013 and some USD 37.5 million placing of a portrait of His Highness the Tamimi, is also scheduled to visit Nicaragua ROME: Ambassador Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled and Amir Mahmoud Abdullah during the event. —KUNA since the beginning of 2014.— KUNA Amir at the entrance of the embassy head- amid a tour which ends in a week. — KUNA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LOCAL
Fake money School fees Minors fund
KUWAIT: Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh announced KUWAIT: MP Talal Al-Jalal urged acting education minister KUWAIT: MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan said that the parlia- that attempts to forge the new Kuwaiti banknotes Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej to take swift action against private ment will discuss the alleged violations at the Public since its inception were limited, and make nearly zero schools that increase tuitions ‘in an illogical and unaccept- Authority for Minors Affairs during the next term percentage from around 126 million bills currently in able way.’ The lawmaker blamed the absence of the educa- which opens later this month. The lawmaker raised the market. The minister said in responses to MP Dr tion ministry’s supervision for the ‘rapid increase’ in tuitions questions on that regard pertaining with the collec- Abdullah Al-Turaiji’s inquiries that all counterfeit mon- seen recently in some schools, and have caused serious tive investment fund which contains nearly KD500 ey confiscated were a result of ‘obvious and primitive’ financial problems for Kuwaiti and expatriate families alike. million in assets. He asked whether the fund is He also defended parents who staged a demonstration forgery attempts that could easily be detected since owned by the authority or minors covered, and recently against increases ‘that are completely inadequate the bills lacked any security features. — Al-Qabas inquired about where the assets would go if the fund with their monthly income.’ — Al-Qabas was to be liquidated. — Al-Qabas Photo of the day
KUWAIT: The main dome of the Belal bin Rabah Mosque in the Sideeq area in South Surra. Located over a 10,000 square meter area overlooking the Fifth Ring Road, the mosque is the second largest in Kuwait after the Grand Mosque. Construction of the Belal bin Rabah Mosque was funded by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. In addition to its size, the structure is also characterized by its unmistak- able Islamic architectural design. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
The European honey buzzard The steppe eagle. Thousands of raptors stop in Kuwait
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS) after cutting around 300 kilometers from southwest of Iran, ney that lasts for one month, Hajji added. announced detecting large numbers of migratory birds of prey in before resuming their trip to Africa the next morning, said Rashid Birds attempt to avoid passing over sea during their travel Kuwait, including six Egyptian vultures, seven European honey Al-Hajji, bird observation team member at KEPS. Thousands of from east Europe to Africa, so they gather at the top of the buzzards and hundreds of steppe eagles. raptors belonging to 38 species make their annual stop in Kuwait Arabian Gulf before traveling to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia then to The birds perched on the coast between Kazma and Subbiya at this time of the year during their fall migration trips in a jour- Africa across the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Hajji explained. — KUNA Rashid Al-Hajji
KPC, EPA sign ‘Kuwait always ready to memorandum help the stricken worldwide’ KUWAIT: Kuwait is ever at the beck and call of stricken people world- The Minister noted in his statement the great honor the UN has wide with valuable relief aid and humanitarian assistance, said visiting recently bestowed on His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Sagging oil price normal: Expert Somali Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Saeed Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah by designating him a ‘Humanitarian Abdullah Mohammad in a press statement. Leader’ and Kuwait a ‘Humanitarian Center.’ Among the topics of dis- KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) the fall in the price of oil at the current time is The statement came after his meeting with Deputy Chairman of cussion between the Somali minister and the deputy chairman was signed a memorandum of understanding on seasonal and normal, yet the fact that the price the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Anwar Al-Hasawi to whom he KRCS’s assistance to Somalia in the latter’s efforts to curb the onset of the exchange of information with Environment sunk by seven dollars in less than three weeks is relayed his country’s gratitude for the humanitarian assistance Kuwait drought. The deputy chairman emphasized KRCS’s earnest undertak- Public Authority (EPA), said a KPC press state- not. has given and continues to give to African nations, including Somalia. ings to alleviate any humanitarian situation in Somalia. — KUNA ment on yesterday. Usually a slide in the price of oil is attributed The memorandum is part of the govern- to anemic demand at this time of the year ment’s effort to create a well-integrated data when the holiday season is in full swing, Dr base of environmental issues that can be Abdul-Sameea Behbehani told KUNA. The price tapped into by all government ministries and tumble was from USD 105 to USD 98 a barrel. agencies. The memorandum is also an imple- He said judging by statistics for the second mentation of the environmental protection law and third quarters of this year, it was observ- which requires all government ministries and able that there was a surplus in oil markets of agencies to exchange environmental informa- about 1.3 million barrels as the supply reached tion and data with the EPA. 92.3 million barrels at the time that demand KPC’s CEO Nizar Al-Adsani extolled EPA’s was for 91 million barrels. efforts at fostering the environmental data base In the United States about seven percent project as did acting director of the EPA Raja’a of drilling apparatuses stopped being used Al-Busairi who said that the singed memoran- which has led to the lower price of oil, dum dovetailed well with EPA’s project dubbed though the US production of shale oil has Vision 2030 about compiling a national environ- been on the rise from 200,000 barrels to mental data base. 300,000 barrels a day, said Behbehani, adding that with the onset of the winter in the Seasonal price drop northern hemisphere the demand for oil is Meanwhile, an oil expert said yesterday that bound to spike. — KUNA KUWAIT: KRCS Deputy Chairman Anwar Al-Hasawi with the visiting Somali minister. — KUNA SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LOCAL Hundreds of Kuwaitis lose their passports every month No penalty for loss, but issuance may take a while
By Nawara Fattahova certain number of times. According to Crime the Head of Public Relations and Crime KUWAIT: Hundreds of Kuwaiti citi- Moral Guidance at the Ministry of Report Report zens are losing their passports every Interior Brigadier General Adel Al- month. After reporting the loss of Hashash, in Kuwait there is no fine for their passports, their names are pub- such a situation but there is another Western officer lished in the official gazette Al Kuwait form of punishment. Four arrested for Al Yawm. Last week’s issue included “After publishing the numbers of arrested over the names of 97 citizens including the lost passports with the names alcohol consumption one passport without nationality and the passage of two weeks, the marijuana shipment (issued to bedoons) that were report- procedure of issuing new passports ed lost. Just a week earlier, the starts and may last up to 6 months. By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: Customs inspectors at the air cargo terminal gazette carried names of another 130 But those who are registered with Kuwaitis who lost their passports. repeated cases of losing of their pass- KUWAIT: Two citizens and two expatriate women (an Iraqi foiled an attempt to smuggle in 7 kg of marijuana con- and a Jordanian) were arrested and referred to Kabd police cealed in a tea shipment arriving from Kenya, said secu- This number is huge for a popula- ports may be punished with a pro- tion of less than 1.5 million citizens. longed period of issuance of the new station after a police patrol spotted them heavily drunk rity sources, noting that narcotics detectives identified with two bottles of Black Label whiskey. the recipient as a Western military officer residing in According to the announcement in passport that may be more than a Fahaheel who was arrested and is being currently inter- the gazette, a period of two weeks is year. This will make people more rogated. given for anybody who finds these careful not to lose their passports,” passports to hand them over to the Hashash told Kuwait Times yesterday. Brigadier General Adel Al-Hashash Intruder caught General Department for Citizenship A person who loses his passport to let him come back to Kuwait. After A citizen caught a bedoon student in a second-floor and Travel Documents. After this peri- should report this at the General arriving, he should report the loss of bedroom of his house in Qairawan, said security Absconders forced into prostitution sources, noting that the citizen called the police and Jleeb policemen freed a number of absconding od, the process of issuing new pass- Department for Citizenship and Travel his passport to the department in ports will begin. Documents in Farwaniya. “If the per- Farwaniya, which will transfer him to handed the intruder to them pending investigations female Asians who had been held captive by a on why he had entered the house. Bangladeshi man and forced into prostitution to In most European countries, if a son loses his passport while travel- the investigation department. After citizen loses his passport repeatedly, ling, he should inform the Kuwaiti the investigation is over, the proce- pay him for providing them with a hideout, said he will have to pay a fine as a penalty embassy abroad, which will issue a dure of issuing a new passport for Break in and robbery security sources. Case papers indicate that one of for losing his passport more than a temporary travel document for him him will begin,” he explained. the women escaped and reported the matter to the An Egyptian man reported that unidentified robbers had broken into a vehicle he drove for a citizen and stole police, accusing the suspect of holding her and a KD 100 from it, said security sources. number of other illegal residents. The woman Health insurance hospitals IPO in January added that the suspect forced them to practice prostitution and that he collected the money and By A Saleh pitals with a total capacity of 200 beds Insult on phone gave them part of it and kept the balance for him- each within three to four years. A female citizen recently filed a complaint against a self in return for accommodating them. KUWAIT: The initial public offering for citizen she named, accusing him of insulting her 50 percent of shares for a company ‘Domestic labor’ amendment through phone calls, said security sources. A case was that will build hospitals for expatriates The government referred an filed and further investigations are in progress. Counterfeit items confiscated covered with government insurance amendment it recently approved per- Shuaiba port customs inspectors foiled an attempt will be held in January 2015. taining substituting the term of Battery assault to import 13,000 replica purses of famous brands, said Following a government decision ‘housemaid’ with ‘domestic worker’ in A citizen, his wife, three of his daughters and two of his security sources, noting that the fake handbags were to officially establish the company, official documents to the parliament. bedoon relatives accused two Syrian men of assaulting inside a container. A case was filed and further investi- preparations went underway for the The government justified the amend- them, said security sources. They noted that the man pro- bidding process to take place next ment by the need to avoid interna- gations are in progress. vided the police with medical reports of injuries they sup- January when the government would tional human right organizations’ and posedly sustained during the assault. bid on citizens’ behalf, well-informed other relevant bodies’ reservations on Deliveryman not guilty of harassment sources said. using the term ‘maid’ in the law regu- The criminal court acquitted a deliveryman who Earlier reports had suggested that lating the domestic labor sector. had been accused of breaking into a house and sex- the IPO will take place next month. Bathali appeals sentence ually harassing a minor female citizen, said security The government, represented by the Lawmaker demands Cabinet KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Islamist activist Mubarak Al-Bathali sources. Case papers indicate that the girl reported Kuwait Investment Authority, already reshuffle, slams KAC revealed that his defence team will file an appeal over a that she ordered a meal that was delivered to her owns 24 percent of the company’s MP Yousef Al-Zalzalah called on His court order sentencing him to three years imprisonment after midnight and that the delivery man pushed shares, while the remaining 26 per- Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Yousef Al-Zalzalah with labor, noting that the lawyers would demand sus- her into the house yard and sexually molested her. cent are owned by Arabi Group which Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to con- (KAC)’s board of directors and accused pending the verdict. Bathali, who denied the blasphemy The girl added that the deliveryman, who had usu- won the strategic investor’s stake last duct a Cabinet reshuffle to change it of destroying Kuwait’s image abroad charges, expressed hopes that the verdict would be year. The company is scheduled to some ministers. Zalzalah also ally delivered her orders and used to chat with her because of the “bad performance” of changed. He added that he has been staying at home to build three 50,000 square meter hos- slammed Kuwait Airways Corporation for up to ten minutes every time, promised to marry its officials. avoid being caught to execute the court order. her within a year or two after he had saved enough. Bathali said he has finished writing the first part of his book - ‘Jihad Secrets’ - in which he tells of his own 20-year- Search for fake policeman Govt requests retrieving ‘court long experience with jihadists and his listing on the UN’s terror list, noting that he will translate it into English. He An Asian man reported that an unidentified man added that he has received many offers from British, impersonating as a police detective had stolen KD 150 offense’, ‘capital punishment’ bills American and Qatari publishers to publish the book and from him in south Jahra, said security sources. Case that he has not yet made up his mind. —Al-Watan papers indicate that the suspect stopped the victim’s KUWAIT: The government has vehicle asking to see his ID and registration, but suspect requested retrieving two bills the snatched his wallet, hit the man and fled the scene. Cabinet previously referred to the NGOs to be closed for parliament for approval. The first bill concerns amending the penal practicing politics Visa violators caught law pertaining offending the court KUWAIT: In view of the violations committed by some Fifteen Asian nationals were arrested for violat- or judiciary officials, and asked for ing visa laws in a campaign launched at various NGOs that had been interfering in politics, the Ministry of stricter penalties against offenders. Social Affairs and Labor is currently in the process of form- cafes around Farwaniya governorate, said security According to the suggested ing a special committee to evaluate these organizations’ sources. amendments, “Those who verbally performance, said informed sources. The sources added or refer to offending a public ser- that violating NGOs (those interfering in politics) would be Child hospitalized after swallowing coin vant on duty because of his/her job gradually penalized starting with warnings, then dissolv- A 6-year-old girl was rushed to Jahra Hospital by her duties will be punished by up to ing their boards and appointing new ones and finally clo- father after she swallowed a 100 fils coin, said security three months imprisonment and/or sure. —Al-Watan sources, noting that although the girl seemed normal up to a KD 200 fine. If the offense is and suffered no pain, doctors operated on her to take committed in court against a mem- the coin out. ber of the judiciary, violators will be FM works on settling punished by a one month to one year imprisonment and/or a KD Kuwaiti diplomat, KD 470,000 embezzlement 100-600 fine.” Turkish officer row A citizen working for the Hawally verdict execu- The amendments also state that tion department was arrested for embezzling KD “Those assaulting or resisting pub- KUWAIT: Kuwait’s foreign ministry is currently working 470,000, said security sources. He was referred to lic servants on duty because of hard on resolving what some Turkish newspapers the proper authorities to face charges. their job duties will punished with described as an assault of a Turkish pilot by a Kuwaiti in up to one year imprisonment Ankara. Well-informed sources stressed that the ministry Policeman faces charges and/or up to a KD 600 fine. If the ted by unauthorized individuals to The second bill the government was closely watching the developments and that what assault was committed against a force a public servant to certain retrieved includes the following actually happened was a simple argument in a parking Following up the case involving a traffic policeman area outside a bank in Turkey between a Kuwaiti diplomat who illegally videotaped a Canadian woman while court of law or a member of the conducts, violators will be punished amendment to article 21 of the judiciary during a hearing, violators by up to three years imprisonment penal law number 16/1960: “ If an and the Turkish officer. “The argument only lasted a few examining a road accident and said foul words about minutes and was immediately resolved,” stressed the her, security sources stressed that the policeman’s will be punished with a 3-month to and/or up to KD 3,000 fine. If the individual between the age of 16 one-year imprisonment and/or a offender uses a weapon or any kind and has not yet turned 18 commits sources. penalty might go as far as dismissing him from the Notably, the Turkish Army joint staffs had issued a KD 300-1,000 fine”. of baton or other solid objects or a crime punishable by capital pun- force. related statement wishing the Turkish officer a speedy The amendments also suggest threatens to use these, violators will ishment or life imprisonment, recovery. The Turkish foreign ministry issued a statement adding a new clause to article 160 be punished by up to five years he/she will sentenced to a maxi- noting that it had phoned the Turkish pilot to get more Duo wanted for burning Quran of the penal law that states that “If imprisonment and/or up to a KD mum of up to 15 years imprison- details about the incident and that Turkish security and Hawally deceives are currently in pursuit of a the offense or assault was commit- 5,000 fine”. ment”. — Al-Jarida judiciary authorities were currently investigating the mat- man and woman who reportedly burnt a copy of ter. “Proper measures will be taken once the investiga- the Holy Quran in public in a Salmiya street. tions are over,” stressed the Turkish foreign ministry state- Investigations in the case are ongoing. — Al-Rai ment. — Al-Watan MOH trains nurses on dealing with Ebola
KUWAIT: Ministry of Health’s contagious diseases awareness committee recently launched a special train- ing program for its nursing staff on preventive measures and precautions to be followed on dealing with the Ebola virus. The head of the committee Dr Ghaliya Al- Mutairi said that the program includes five lectures and five workshops that started on Sept 1 and are due to go on until Sept 22. “The aim of this program is to enhance nursing staff members’ knowledge of precautionary and preventive measures to be followed on dealing the Ebola virus in a bid to limit the danger of transferring the disease from one person to another,” she under- lined, pointing out that the disease was usually trans- mitted through direct contact with a sick person, name- ly through body fluids. Mutairi added that the program, that was held upon instructions from MOH undersecretary Dr Khaled Al- Sahlawi, included lectures and workshops in both Arabic and English to doctors, nursing staff and techni- cians. Committee member and head of Jahra nursing KUWAIT: The Kuwait Fire Services Directorate (KFSD) signed a contract with Hamza Akbar Contracting Company to staff Zahra Abdul Emam stressed the need to coordi- carry out maintenance works for KFSD buildings. Acting General Director Brigadier General Khalid Al-Mikrad said nate between the training bureau and the heads of after signing the 36-months contract that the maintenance works come simultaneously with projects to improve nursing staffs in various clinics and hospitals to urge efficiency at KFSD establishments.— By Hanan Al-Saadoun them to attend the program. —Al-Rai SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LOCAL
Phase II of Jumeirah Corniche Development complete DUBAI: The Roads and Transport Authority shot up to 77% and the project is expected (RTA) in Dubai completed Phase II of the to open next October. Jumeirah Corniche Development project Maitha bin Udai, CEO of RTA Traffic and spanning 2.5 kilometers such that the areas Roads Agency, said that the completed sec- open to the public now extends to 4.5 kilo- tor will be opened for the public as of the meters. third week of this month, adding that sport Accordingly, the completion rate has enthusiasts are welcome to play in the Corniche area. Udai added that the Jumeirah Corniche Development project extends about seven km and the project encompasses a 5-meter wide walk, 4-meter wide jogging track, and rest areas including retail kiosks and shaded benches overlooking the beach, as well as public and health amenities. The project is characterized by a unique touch of beauty featuring gorgeous landscaping and floor- ing works, which are distributed in a highly coordinated style in addition to decorative lighting in a stylish and innovative manner. The Jumeirah Corniche Project will turn the sand beach into a vibrant venue fitted with abundant public utilities for resident and tourist beachgoers heading to the beaches of Dubai to savor a fine seaside setting or to Maitha bin Udai practice any walking sports. — KUNA
KUWAIT: Behzad with participating students at the program. — KUNA KEPS announces green schools program
KUWAIT: The Kuwait Environment Protection tection measure that will educate the students Society (KEPS) announced a new program in public about the program. and private schools under the supervision of the Behzad added that a small group of volun- Ministry of Education. teering students will be trained to take on the KEPS official Jenan Behzad told KUNA that the role of spreading the new program and any current school term will witness many applications important information to the familial and socie- Jenan Behzad of the program as well as a new environmental pro- tal spheres. — KUNA DUBAI: The Jumeirah Corniche Development project. — KUNA NBK organizes health awareness program
KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait has recently and raising awareness about serious threats caused avoids future health problems. organized a health awareness day for its employees. by being overweight. NBK goes far beyond banking to serve the com- Dietitians from different clinics and health institu- Dietitians offered employees a diet plan, regular munity in myriad ways. This initiative demonstrates tions visited NBK’s Head Office and Arraya building medical checkups, regular blood pressure tests and NBK’s lasting commitment to the community. NBK offering NBK staff free checkups, in addition to pro- regular weight checkup, in addition to providing strongly supports health care awareness. viding consultations and advice in order to raise the consultations and advice on how to maintain the Throughout the years, NBK also organized several employees’ awareness about their health. weight lost. This initiative comes as part of a com- social awareness programs including Blood The visit aimed to educate the employees about prehensive program aiming towards building up Donation drives and Breast Cancer awareness cam- achieving the perfect weight for each employee health awareness amongst NBK employees and paigns.
Male teachers at primary schools
KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education is gradually replacing female teachers at boys’ primary schools with male ones after complaints from parents who said that they wanted their sons to be taught by teachers of the same gender. The decision also comes after the ministry discovered flaws in the experi- ence of assigning female students to teach boys at primary schools, almost a decade after the step was adopted. The sources added that one of the problems the ministry faces is that some female teachers refuse to work in boys’ schools because of harassment, including sexual, by some older stu- dents who have hit puberty but are still in primary stage due to failing for a number of years. — Al-Jarida SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 LOCAL
Local spotlight In my view No Ethiopians The humanitarian leader to Kuwait
By Abdullah Buwair Medicine
Kuwait By Muna Al-Fuzai Arrival to
t was not surprising to see United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki- [email protected] moon honor HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as a Ihumanitarian leader, given the fact that His Highness has shown a uwait is no more open to Ethiopians - male or female great deal of ability and efficiency in resolving internal and foreign workers cannot enter the country. Such a decision is issues for Kuwait from all the positions he has assumed. Education, Klike labeling a nation with the mark of being killers and health, housing, environment and oil have always been top priorities crazies that need to be banned in order to keep Kuwait safe for His Highness and the subject of many urgent studies that he and secure from possible threats. The Ministry of Interior sus- Fake meds ordered throughout his career. pended the entry of all male and female Ethiopians workers entering According to many of his contemporaries, Sheikh Sabah as a diplo- since February because of the crime rate recorded among Kuwait mat has always worked tirelessly and with high energy to improve this nationality in terms of murder and theft. Kuwait’s relationships abroad, especially with the permanent members Personally, I think such a decision is unfair and cruel. For of the UN Security Council. His Highness has also played a pivotal role example, if someone claims that all Muslims are terrorists to mediate between conflicting countries, and managed many times because IS and bin Laden are Muslims or Jews are bad peo- Al-Anbaa to soothe regional tensions. The mediator has eventually become a ple because they are occupying Palestine and calling it the specialty of Kuwait’s foreign policy since Sheikh Sabah became foreign land of Israel, will that make sense to you? Because then all minister in 1963. The years that he spent in that position has qualified Muslims and Jewish will be no better than the Ethiopians, him to become the right man for Kuwaiti foreign policy, the world’s who have been labeled with similar allegations because dean of diplomats and the sheikh of diplomacy. some of their people committed crimes here and there. If a kuwait digest Social quarters in Kuwait were not surprised by the Amir’s honor- Western country took a decision to prevent all Muslims from ing, and even thought that it was overdue given Sheikh Sabah’s record entering its land, wouldn’t that seem like discrimination? If of humanitarian achievements. There are many dozens of initiatives these general opinions seem unbearable, then why do we Humanity compass that His Highness has launched to destinations around the world’s six treat others similarly? continents. The contributions were made in many fields and had one Most of these decisions are like undergoing surgery to By Dr Hassan Jouhar thing in common - the humanitarian side. Sheikh Sabah’s contributions avoid medications - a short cut but not necessarily the right were present in efforts to combat pollution and climate change with a one. When an Ethiopian worker commits a crime, we treat $150 million donation. He also ordered the establishment of the ith all the honor and appreciation it reflects, the UN’s Since modern globalization is based on imposing control this incident with fear and emotions. Yes, we feel sorry for ‘decent life’ fund with an estimated $100 million contribution from honoring of HH the Amir as a world leader of human- and domination over interests, Kuwait contributes in reinforc- the victims, but do not ponder if this is the whole story and Kuwait to combat the negative effects of the global food crisis in ity is also a challenge and a test for us as a country ing the bright side of this globalization and how much people on the truth behind this crime. No one seems to wonder if W underdeveloped countries. His Highness also supported small and and people. Kuwait’s reputation goes way back in internation- humanely and emotionally need each other. Therefore, many there was any kind of verbal abuse or maltreatment or medium enterprises in the Arab world with a $500 million contribution, al humanity records. It has always taken the lead to send relief other countries and leaders did not get this title despite their harassment. Or if the accused person was given the oppor- and has shown endless support for the Palestinians through donations and aid to poor countries even before the oil era. This changed endless spending because it has always been conditioned and tunity to tell his/her side of the story. When a crime occurs, via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees into leading institutional work that covered all contents and based on interests, domination and authority. most people tend to stand up like judges and make opin- in the Near East (UNRWA). Sheikh Sabah also donated $500 million to became a base of foreign policy that was also administered for The honoring of HH the Amir as a ‘Humanitarian Leader’ ions in favor of the victims without knowing the whole fund infrastructure projects in East Sudan, funded the Journey of Hope long decades by HH the Amir as foreign minister. will be followed by turning Kuwait into a global center for truth! When someone labels a nation with the mistakes of for mental disability awareness, paid the expenses for preparing the The unique thing about Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed’s person- humanity too. This is the real challenge indeed, as the success some of its people, it becomes hard for them to live normal- new headquarters for the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, ality is probably that humanitarian aid has taken an interna- of such a project requires that our national culture, foreign ly. Verbal abuse is the worst here and widespread. Ethiopia, and launched a campaign to collect $2 billion for non-Arab tional form under his leadership through holding international policy, social and political elites’ tendencies and public opinion Ethiopians are also humans. There is a cultural issue here Asian countries - of which Kuwait donated $300 million. conferences involving world leaders, international bodies and indicators all go in parallel and integrated lines towards rein- because we bring maids from different cultures without real- In addition to that, His Highness is credited for supporting the humanitarian organizations, especially concerning the Syrian forcing the concepts of tolerance, fraternity, love and wishing izing that it could be hard for them to accept the new cul- Syrian people with two donor conferences through which Kuwait issue, the sorrowful incidents in Africa, the serious develop- good for others. ture easily. donated more than $800 million, and giving $1 billion in easy loans to ments in Asia and the experience with neighboring Iraq. Unfortunately, some pockets still work against the human I have lived long to believe that most new female work- African nations over the next five years. He also announced a $1 million Kuwait’s diplomacy has adopted the principle of repaying race and encourage tumult, hate and division in the sickest ers are under pressure of homesickness, so an extra pressure annual prize named after the late philanthropist Abdurrahman Al- wrongdoings with good ones and abstaining from dragging and most retarded manners. We will never make a good inter- - especially if it is a physical one - would surely turn them Sumait for developmental research in Africa. We cannot also forget that the country into tumults. The value of aid by Kuwait in Iraq, national reputation in humanity while our homeland front suf- into a bomb ready to explode or make them fragile and des- during his term as foreign minister and chairman of the permanent Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, Sudan and elsewhere in friendly coun- fers from divisions and sectarianism which turned the country perate so they may harm others and kill themselves after- committee for Arabian Gulf relief, Sheikh Sabah gave many grants to tries is incomparable with the billions spent by countries, gov- to be dominated with anxiety and fear. It is high time we made wards. Another issue here that may lead to depression Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Furthermore, the committee’s ernments and parties on killing, destruction and civil wars. Sept 9 a day to start national reconciliation, open new hori- among maids, especially females, is that they are not given work under His Highness’ supervision expanded to cover Yemen and Kuwait has not been selective in giving and never paid one zons for a better future and plant a humanitarian seed to grow the right to have a day off or personal freedom to meet their South Sudan. Kuwait also established an office in Dubai to supervise party to fight another. It only gave to help distressed people. It according to the international compass that our country friends. These matters seem trivial but not to these workers. services that it provides, including social and developmental services. gave for construction rather for destruction, and thus its Amir changed its direction towards its leader and Amir. If Kuwait is not welcoming them, they will still get welcomed For all those reasons and more, HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- well deserved such an international honoring. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida in other parts of the world. Sabah truly deserves to be named a global humanitarian leader.
in my view Gulf states could help defeat IS
By Linda Gradstein
s the Middle East awaits President “The air strikes are important to support Obama’s prime-time address, Arab the local forces but will not be enough,” Eyal Astates are growing increasingly con- Zisser, a Middle East expert at Tel Aviv cerned about Islamic State (IS) and its power University said. “The US needs to strengthen to further destabilize an already unstable the Kurdish fighters and support efforts to region. The campaign against IS could also establish a strong Iraqi government with a lead to new regional alliances. coalition of Sunnis and Shi’ites.” US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Saudi Iraq this week announced it had cobbled Arabia today, after visiting Iraq, which, along together a new government of Kurds, Shi’ites with Syria, has lost large swaths of territory to and Sunnis headed by Shi’ite Prime Minister IS. Analysts say that Saudi Arabia is very con- Haidar al-Abadi. The power-sharing deal cerned about IS and would be willing to help came as the US said it needed a unified Iraq the US as it confronts the jihadist organiza- to help beat IS. tion. The brutal beheading of journalist Israeli media this week quoted a Western Steven Sotloff has galvanized anti-IS senti- diplomat that Israel has been sharing intelli- ment in many parts of the Middle East. gence information about IS with the US and “Saudi Arabia moved tens of thousands of moderate Arab states. Israel has spy satellites troops to northern part of the country and over Iraq, which are able to show the amount constructed a new border fence between the of damage of US air strikes. So far the US has Kingdom and Iraq,” conducted 150 air Theodore Karasik of The strikes on IS targets in Institute for Near East The brutal beheading Iraq. It is expected that Gulf Military Analysis President Obama will said. “We are also seeing of journalist Steven expand the air campaign increasingly tough Sotloff has galvanized to Syria and could even speeches by King send some special forces Abdullah regarding IS. anti-IS sentiment in to Iraq and Syria. This shows that Saudi many parts of the Arabia would like to take Moderate states a forward-leaning pos- Middle East. Eyal Zisser says that ture on what happens in unlike the case of the Syria.” Nusra Front, which is Until now, Saudi Arabia has supported holding territory very close to the Israeli- Shi’ite rebel groups against Syrian President Syrian border, Israel is not directly affected by Bashar Al-Assad. Karasik says that could IS. Israel will also not want to be seen as change and Saudi Arabia could begin to sup- being directly involved in the campaign port Assad against IS. Earlier this year, Saudi against IS. At the same time, the US could Arabia conducted a major military exercise unite moderate Arab states including Jordan, with 120,000 troops earlier this year called Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait Abdullah’s Sword. against IS, with Israel quietly providing intelli- “It illustrated to neighboring countries gence. what the Kingdom can do with its armed “IS is a clear and present danger to all mod- forces, not only defensively, but offensively, erate states in the region,” Karasik said. “New as well,” Karasik said. alliances and the sharing of information could make for strange bedfellows.” Not enough At the same time, the perception is that the But other analysts say that there is concern US lost in both Iraq and Afghanistan despite in the Middle East that without US troops on huge investments of US troops, firepower and the ground, it will not be difficult to defeat IS. money. Before Mideast states commit to join- President Obama has already ruled that out. ing the US in a war against IS, they want to The only alternative is to strengthen those make sure that the US will stay the course. fighting IS. —The Media Line SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
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GLASGOW: Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond poses with children during a visit to a housing estate in Glasgow yestertday. Five days ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum the race remained too close to call, with the misgivings of business leaders over the prospect of quitting the United Kingdom becoming louder. — AFP Thousands march for UK as Scotland vote nears
EDINBURGH: Thousands of members of the Protestant Watching the streams of Orange order pipe bands and Orange order marched through Edinburgh yesterday in a marchers singing “God Save The Queen” through the show of strength against Scottish independence, as cam- streets of Edinburgh, “No” voter Ginger Fraser said he did paigning ahead of the referendum entered its final week- not think Scots would be swayed by the event. end. “I don’t think it will affect the vote. People make up their Organisers claimed up to 15,000 people attended the own mind,” he told AFP. march to show support for the United Kingdom, among Campaigning in Glasgow, Deputy First Minister and SNP them members from Northern Irish and English branches deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon had a similar message, of the ultra-conservative, anti-Catholic organisation. albeit drawing a different conclusion. The official campaign against independence had dis- “The ‘Yes’ campaign has been carried along by a flour- tanced itself from the protest amid fears it would fuel sec- ishing of self-confidence among people in Scotland,” she tarian tensions just a few days before Thursday’s vote, but it said. passed off peacefully. “That momentum is still growing and will soon become “We are proud to be part of Great Britain. We are pas- unstoppable, as people reject the Downing Street-orches- sionate about the union. We are here to galvanise the ‘No’ trated campaign to talk Scotland down.” vote,” Henry Dunbar, Grand Master of the order’s Grand Lodge of Scotland, told a rally in the shadow of Edinburgh ‘Day of reckoning’ Castle. Business leaders and economists issued a string of Across Scotland, campaigners from both sides were warnings this week about the risks of breaking from the pounding the streets at the end of a week that saw pro- 300-year-old union, and yesterday’s poll indicated their unionists forced to raise their game following an opinion message was hitting home. poll that put the pro-independence camp ahead for the Some 40 percent of voters said they believed they and first time. their families would be financially worse off in an inde- However, a new Survation poll on Saturday suggests the pendent Scotland, against 27 percent who believed the “No” campaign has regained its lead, recording 47 percent contrary. support to the “Yes” camp’s 40.8 percent, with nine percent Global investment giant Deutsche Bank said independ- undecided and 3.2 percent unwilling to say. ence “would go down in history as a political and economic But both sides are taking nothing for granted, and the mistake” as large as those that caused the Great “Yes” campaign led by Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Depression. Alex Salmond has 35,000 volunteers out this weekend and And Finance minister George Osborne and Bank of plans to deliver 2.6 million leaflets over two days. England chief Mark Carney have cancelled plans to attend a G20 meeting in Australia, to ensure they are in place to ‘Flourishing self-confidence’ deal with the economic fall-out of a “Yes” vote. Members of the official “Better Together” campaign had The nationalists have reacted with anger at the dire eco- rejected the Orange order’s involvement in what they said nomic predictions, which they dismiss as speculative and should be a non-sectarian push to keep the union together. say are being orchestrated by the London government. Orange marches in Northern Ireland often descend into Former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars said Friday that violence, and a 12-year-old spectator was hit in the face the “scaremongering” business leaders would face a “day of with a bottle at an event in Glasgow in July. reckoning” if Scotland votes for independence. After that incident, opposition Labour lawmaker Jim He threatened energy giant BP with nationalisation, Murphy said: “I want nothing to do with them.” although on Saturday Salmond tried to play down his Many in the unionist “No” campaign are also wary that remarks. “The day after a ‘Yes’ vote will be a day of celebra- interventions by outsiders may be counterproductive, tion for the people, not reckoning for big companies including last week’s visit by British Prime Minister David drawn into the ‘No’ campaign by Downing Street,” the SNP Cameron. leader said. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Islamic State’s Twitter silence raises questions
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON: Islamic employees, though there was no evidence to “People (in government), but also people such as Russia’s VKontakte and Diaspora, a advocates and political protesters from New State’s Twitter users, which have trumpeted link the two episodes. outside, are constantly referring these com- four-year-old social network that relies on a York’s Occupy Wall Street to students in the group’s violent acts and worldview on Twitter Inc declined to comment on panies to identified terrorists,” the official said. decentralized network of independent com- Cairo’s Tahrir Square. the social media service, have gone abruptly actions the company has taken related to “I wouldn’t say there is a systematic policy puter servers. Such a tactic is sometimes Twitter, which in general has fewer restric- quiet in past days. accounts affiliated with the group, which is that the U.S. government is going around employed when militants want to evade tions on content than its social media rivals, Several accounts affiliated with the mili- also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and asking (companies like) Twitter to shut these tracking, the source added. has thus become a vital communications tant group appear to have gone dormant, Syria and as the Islamic State of Iraq and the people down. They sprout very fast. They tool for activists, political protesters and mili- according to US government sources, raising Levant. But it has suspended several change their handles.” A second government Cat and mouse tant groups alike. questions about whether the government accounts affiliated with the group in recent source familiar with the situation said there The evolving practices underscore the Of particular appeal to groups like the has pressured Twitter to clamp down more months, including one user who threatened was a clear change of social media tactics by challenges facing government officials and Islamic State: it can be used anonymously, aggressively or whether the group has retaliation against Twitter’s employees. Islamic State in the days leading up to Internet companies as militant organizations unlike many other services, and it can be moved to other social media channels. A US official who spoke on condition of President Barack Obama’s Wednesday discover the power of social media for propa- used by any cellphone with a text-messaging When contacted, several US officials said anonymity said that as government officials speech. Obama said then that he had ganda and recruiting. function. on condition of anonymity they were identify people on social media whom they authorized air strikes in Syria and Iraq, in a Twitter’s laissez-faire approach to moni- Its rules prohibit tweets that include unaware of attempts to quash those Twitter believe to be “terrorists” or “extremists,” they broad escalation of a campaign against the toring content, together with an aggressive “direct, specific, threats of violence against accounts. The sudden silence also came days draw them to the attention of companies organization. posture in challenging censorship requests others,” and the company will suspend after reports about Islamic State-linked such as Twitter and Facebook Inc, which act Some experts say the militants may have and demands for customer information, accounts that use Twitter for illegal activi- accounts threatening action against Twitter at their own discretion. increasingly taken to other online services have made it the darling of civil liberties ties. —Reuters US banks on strong Iraq coalition to fight IS Arabs and Turks wary of joining action
PARIS: The United States says it is passing all sides of society to be in over the heads of regional powers Friday. “comfortable” it can forge an inter- place for the period after Islamic or neglect the importance of form- “The basic fact is that no deci- national coalition to fight Islamic State (IS) is weakened. ing an inclusive government in Iraq. sions about UK military action have State, but with Western and Middle “The coalition must be the most Like France, it is also cautious been taken or are being asked of us Eastern allies hesitant, it risks find- legal possible,” said former French about action in Syria because of at the moment.” ing itself out on a limb. Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine. “It legal questions and Syrian govern- Most other European countries President Barack Obama last needs members of the Security ment air defences. appear unwilling to go beyond week unveiled a rough plan to fight Council and as many Arab countries In Iraq, it has delivered humani- humanitarian and logistical aid. the Islamist militants simultaneous- as possible and there has to be a tarian aid, carried out surveillance, Germany and the Czech ly in Iraq and Syria, thrusting the follow-up. Otherwise it will all start given weapons to Kurds and prom- Republic have promised to help United States directly into two dif- again in three months. There needs ised training. arm the Kurds. But Berlin has been ferent wars in which nearly every to be a long-term vision.” On military action, Britain sup- adamant it will not take part in air country in the region has a stake. That is the idea of a conference ports US air strikes and Prime strikes. The broad concept of a coalition in Paris on Sept. 15 that will bring Minister David Cameron has repeat- NATO is ready to facilitate and has been accepted in Western capi- Iraqi authorities together with 15- edly said Britain itself has ruled coordinate airlift supplies, and tals and on Thursday 10 Arab states, 20 international players. The talks nothing out except combat troops could offer training to Iraqi forces. including rivals Saudi Arabia and come ahead of a UN Security on the ground. “We have to try to support and ARBIL: Female members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) take position Qatar, signed up to a “co-ordinated Council ministerial meeting on “We need to keep working close- sustain the local protagonists who on the front line in Makhmur, some 50 km south of Arbil, the capital of the military campaign”. Sept. 19 and a heads of state meet- ly and talking, thinking about the may be able to stop and contain autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq where clashes with Islamic “I’m comfortable that this will be ing at the UN General Assembly at strategy. It shouldn’t be presented Islamic State in those areas,” Italian State (IS) militants are ongoing. —AFP a broad-based coalition with Arab the end of the month. too much as ‘here is the plan, these Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti nations, European nations, the “The goal is to coordinate aid, are the roles, who wants what’,” said said. United States, others,” US Secretary support and action for the unity of a British government official. “The Americans have chosen to Kurdish female fighters face of State John Kerry said in Ankara Iraq and against this terrorist group,” With an election less than nine carry out air strikes. We haven’t yet chosen that,” she said. jihadists in Iraq’s north
Arabs and Turks on board? MAKHMUR: Tekoshin stands on a moun- break up and we and the men deploy The US-led coalition will want tain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her together on different fronts.” Kurdish active military support from Middle shoulder and a grenade tucked into her women have fought alongside men for Eastern states, to at least avoid the belt, facing jihadists in “a struggle to liber- years in the PKK, its Syrian offshoot the appearance of waging a Western “crusade”. ate women”. People’s Protection Units (YPG), and to a In the campaign to bring down Women have been fighting alongside lesser extent, the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga former Libyan leader Muammar men in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces. Gaddafi in 2011, the United Arab to wrest Mount Makhmur in northern Iraq Asked whether she was married, Emirates contributed to air strikes, back from Islamic State (IS) jihadists, whose Tekoshin laughs: “Most of us here aren’t while Qatar provided weapons to treatment of women makes the fight espe- married. I joined the PKK when I was 14 rebels. cially personal for the dozens of female years old.” Tekoshin says the PKK does not But in Iraq, the stakes for region- fighters on the mountain. forbid its fighters from marrying, but that it al players are higher. Saudi Arabia, IS-led militants have overrun large areas is generally frowned upon. Turkey, Jordan and Egypt are unlike- of Iraq, and the group also controls signifi- ly to want to take a key role in mili- cant territory in neighbouring Syria, enact- ‘More afraid of us’ tary operations. ing its harshly restrictive and brutal inter- She also finds amusing the idea that the “The situation is critical on our pretation of Islamic law in both countries. jihadists may have been surprised by com- border because (Islamic State) are close. Yes, Saudi Arabia is ready to Tekoshin, 27, says she and other women ing face to face with women fighters. help, but America must first show it are fighting the group not only because of “I think (IS) were more afraid of us than is with us now,” said a Saudi Arabian the threat it poses to Kurds but because it of the men,” she says, adding that she military officer in Paris last week. “is against women’s liberation”. thinks “they believe they’ll go to hell if they Turkey, a NATO member which “They don’t allow women in areas under die at a woman’s hands”. shares long borders with both Syria their control to go to the market” and force While Tekoshin says she fights best with and Iraq, has so far also conspicu- them to wear headscarves, she says. “Our her Kalashnikov assault rifle, Saria, 18, shyly ously avoided committing itself to struggle against (the IS) is to defend says she feels equally comfortable with the new military campaign. women from them and from that kind of both light and heavy machineguns and US officials have played down thinking.” sniper rifles. DOHUK: Displaced Iraqis, who have fled the offensive led by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, hopes of persuading Ankara to take Saria grew up in northern Syria, and her a combat role, focusing more on stand yesterday at a camp for displaced people in Khanke, a few kilometres (miles) from the Women, men deploy together two brothers and her sister are currently Turkish border in Iraq’s Dohuk province. —AFP Turkey’s efforts to stem the flow of foreign fighters crossing its territory Some 50 women are among the fighters fighting against IS there, she says, adding and the provision of humanitarian on the mountain from the PKK, which that both her parents were in the PKK. on Friday. Hollande, the first Western leader to months away, the British govern- aid. launched an insurgency for self-rule in “When I was a child, I didn’t think I But he added it was “premature” travel to Iraq since Islamic State’s ment is well aware of public opposi- From the early days of the Syrian Turkey in 1984 and has been listed as a ter- would be a fighter. But I realised how much to set out what tasks individual advances in June, told reporters in tion to Britain’s role in invading Iraq conflict, Turkey has backed mainly rorist group by countries including the my (Kurdish) nation needs me... and I chose coalition partners would shoulder. Baghdad on Friday. with the United States in 2003. Sunni rebels fighting Assad. United States, but began peace talks in this road,” she says. And the devil could be in the France has so far sent weapons Cameron is also scarred by the Although it is alarmed by Islamic 2012. “It is important for us to find our place in details. to Kurdish fighters in Iraq and memory of an embarrassing parlia- State’s rise, it is wary about any mili- At the entrance to the mountain town of war, side by side with the men,” she says. “This coalition has to be efficient humanitarian aid. It is likely to send mentary defeat last summer, when tary action that might weaken Makhmur, “The Islamic State” was scrawled On the mountainside, the PKK fighters and targeted,” said a senior French about 250 special forces troops to he recalled MPs during the summer Assad’s foes. on a one-storey concrete house, but hastily live a communal life. Normally they take diplomat. “We have to keep our help direct strikes for Rafale fighter recess only to fail to win their It is also nervous about strength- painted over since the PKK took it back. turns cooking, but in wartime, male volun- autonomy. We don’t want to be the jets. approval to leave open the possibil- ening Kurds in Iraq and Syria. Tekoshin says women fought side by side teers from nearby Arbil city take care of United States’ subcontractor. For the But what it can offer is limited. ity of military action against Syria. Turkey’s own Kurdish militants with the men in the battle to force out the feeding the fighters. moment they haven’t made their France’s forces are stretched, with Members of the government waged a three-decade insurgency intentions clear to us.” more than 5,000 troops in Mali and have said they would again try to against the Turkish state and are jihadists. For Shimal, a 26-year-old fighter, the The United States and Britain Central African Republic. Its seek authorisation from parliament engaged in a delicate peace “We usually organise ourselves in anti-IS battle is as much about solidarity pulled out of striking Syrian planned 450 million euros overseas for involvement in any strikes, process. groups of four women, and I command one with women who have fallen victim to the President Bashar al-Assad last year defence budget for 2014 is already unless it became necessary to act Pro-government newspapers on of the groups,” she explained, wearing tra- jihadists as it is about the Kurdish national hours before French planes had over a billion euros, at a time when quickly due to a humanitarian Friday welcomed Ankara’s reluc- ditional Kurdish clothing usually seen on cause. IS “turns women into slaves,” she been due to take off, leaving the government is under severe emergency or a threat to Britain. tance to take a frontline role in the men. “But when it comes to fighting, we says. —AFP President Francois Hollande embar- pressure to cut spending. “As the global resolve to tackle coalition, questioning whether US- rassed and isolated. (IS) strengthens, we will consider led military action was the answer This time around Paris wants Britain keen - to a degree carefully what role the United and drawing parallels with 2003, clear commitment and international Britain, Washington’s main ally in Kingdom should play in the interna- when Turkey’s parliament rejected a legality for any action in Syria. In 2003, has sent mixed messages. It tional coalition,” Foreign Office US request to use Turkish territory Gunmen kidnap Lebanese Iraq, it wants a political plan encom- has stressed the West should not go Minister David Lidington said on to invade Iraq. —Reuters civilian near Syria border
BAALBEK: Gunmen kidnapped a since been beheaded, despite attempts Lebanon arrests ‘prankster’ for Lebanese civilian in Arsal yesterday, a mediated through Qatar to solve the month after jihadists from Syria clashed hostage crisis. with the Lebanese army in the restive On Saturday, a security source told border town, a security source said. AFP: “Gunmen at dawn kidnapped threatening to behead children The abduction comes weeks after Ahmad al-Hujeiri from the town of another civilian was kidnapped and lat- Arsal.” The unidentified gunmen kid- BEIRUT: Lebanese police have arrested a man who man’s care by their mother, his neighbour, while she Lebanese society. er killed by jihadists, who accused him napped him “because he disagreed with staged a sick prank by filming himself threatening was out at work. Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrian of “collaborating” with Hezbollah, which their political views,” the source added. to behead three Syrian refugee children left in his “The intelligence branch of the Internal Security refugees, and fighting related to the conflict fre- has deployed thousands of troops in An official in Arsal confirmed the kid- care, a security official told AFP yesterday. Forces has detained the man who made the video,” quently breaks out in the tiny country. Syria alongside President Bashar al- napping, and said Hujeiri was accused The police also briefly arrested the children’s said the police official, adding that the incident had Last month, jihadists took a number of Lebanese Assad’s troops. of “collaborating with Hezbollah”. mother, who confessed to enjoying the scene she taken place in the southern Nabatiyeh province. soldiers and police hostage after battles with them. Arsal saw a fierce battle in August The clashes and kidnappings in Arsal found when she returned from work. In security forces statement added that the chil- They subsequently beheaded two of the soldiers, pitting the Lebanese army against have sent tensions in Lebanon soaring, The video, which was posted on YouTube Friday dren’s mother was also briefly detained. and widely distributed images of their corpses. jihadists from the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al- with a series of tit-for-tat cases of and shared widely, shows the three terrified chil- “At the very end of the filming, the mother “We call on everyone to make sure we maintain Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS). hostage-taking occurring last week in dren crying as a man standing behind a camera arrived from work and (said she) enjoyed the scene our awareness, but of course this video shows the The fighting killed 20 Lebanese the eastern Bekaa valley. waves a knife and asks: “Whom do we behead and asked (her neighbour) to send her the video.” depth of the impact of the Syrian crisis,” said the troops, 16 civilians and dozens of Arsal is home to a majority Sunni first?” The woman was released shortly afterwards, police official. jihadists, who withdrew to the Qalamun population that generally backs the Adding to the pathos of the incident, the crying after pledging to treat her children better. “People are affected by seeing images of mountains across the border, kidnap- Syrian revolt against Assad. It is located children respond by pointing at each other. While describing the incident as “an isolated beheadings, and some people will start to imi- ping dozens of Lebanese troops and in the Bekaa, home to a majority Shiite A security official said the video proved to be a incident,” the official said the video was yet tate them. Poor children; they were terrified,” he policemen. population that backs Hezbollah and “sick joke,” and that the children had been left in the another sign of the effect of the Syrian war on added. —AFP Two of the kidnapped troops have the Assad regime. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Islamic State’s Twitter silence raises questions
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON: Islamic employees, though there was no evidence to “People (in government), but also people such as Russia’s VKontakte and Diaspora, a advocates and political protesters from New State’s Twitter users, which have trumpeted link the two episodes. outside, are constantly referring these com- four-year-old social network that relies on a York’s Occupy Wall Street to students in the group’s violent acts and worldview on Twitter Inc declined to comment on panies to identified terrorists,” the official said. decentralized network of independent com- Cairo’s Tahrir Square. the social media service, have gone abruptly actions the company has taken related to “I wouldn’t say there is a systematic policy puter servers. Such a tactic is sometimes Twitter, which in general has fewer restric- quiet in past days. accounts affiliated with the group, which is that the U.S. government is going around employed when militants want to evade tions on content than its social media rivals, Several accounts affiliated with the mili- also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and asking (companies like) Twitter to shut these tracking, the source added. has thus become a vital communications tant group appear to have gone dormant, Syria and as the Islamic State of Iraq and the people down. They sprout very fast. They tool for activists, political protesters and mili- according to US government sources, raising Levant. But it has suspended several change their handles.” A second government Cat and mouse tant groups alike. questions about whether the government accounts affiliated with the group in recent source familiar with the situation said there The evolving practices underscore the Of particular appeal to groups like the has pressured Twitter to clamp down more months, including one user who threatened was a clear change of social media tactics by challenges facing government officials and Islamic State: it can be used anonymously, aggressively or whether the group has retaliation against Twitter’s employees. Islamic State in the days leading up to Internet companies as militant organizations unlike many other services, and it can be moved to other social media channels. A US official who spoke on condition of President Barack Obama’s Wednesday discover the power of social media for propa- used by any cellphone with a text-messaging When contacted, several US officials said anonymity said that as government officials speech. Obama said then that he had ganda and recruiting. function. on condition of anonymity they were identify people on social media whom they authorized air strikes in Syria and Iraq, in a Twitter’s laissez-faire approach to moni- Its rules prohibit tweets that include unaware of attempts to quash those Twitter believe to be “terrorists” or “extremists,” they broad escalation of a campaign against the toring content, together with an aggressive “direct, specific, threats of violence against accounts. The sudden silence also came days draw them to the attention of companies organization. posture in challenging censorship requests others,” and the company will suspend after reports about Islamic State-linked such as Twitter and Facebook Inc, which act Some experts say the militants may have and demands for customer information, accounts that use Twitter for illegal activi- accounts threatening action against Twitter at their own discretion. increasingly taken to other online services have made it the darling of civil liberties ties. —Reuters US banks on strong Iraq coalition to fight IS Arabs and Turks wary of joining action
PARIS: The United States says it is passing all sides of society to be in over the heads of regional powers Friday. “comfortable” it can forge an inter- place for the period after Islamic or neglect the importance of form- “The basic fact is that no deci- national coalition to fight Islamic State (IS) is weakened. ing an inclusive government in Iraq. sions about UK military action have State, but with Western and Middle “The coalition must be the most Like France, it is also cautious been taken or are being asked of us Eastern allies hesitant, it risks find- legal possible,” said former French about action in Syria because of at the moment.” ing itself out on a limb. Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine. “It legal questions and Syrian govern- Most other European countries President Barack Obama last needs members of the Security ment air defences. appear unwilling to go beyond week unveiled a rough plan to fight Council and as many Arab countries In Iraq, it has delivered humani- humanitarian and logistical aid. the Islamist militants simultaneous- as possible and there has to be a tarian aid, carried out surveillance, Germany and the Czech ly in Iraq and Syria, thrusting the follow-up. Otherwise it will all start given weapons to Kurds and prom- Republic have promised to help United States directly into two dif- again in three months. There needs ised training. arm the Kurds. But Berlin has been ferent wars in which nearly every to be a long-term vision.” On military action, Britain sup- adamant it will not take part in air country in the region has a stake. That is the idea of a conference ports US air strikes and Prime strikes. The broad concept of a coalition in Paris on Sept. 15 that will bring Minister David Cameron has repeat- NATO is ready to facilitate and has been accepted in Western capi- Iraqi authorities together with 15- edly said Britain itself has ruled coordinate airlift supplies, and tals and on Thursday 10 Arab states, 20 international players. The talks nothing out except combat troops could offer training to Iraqi forces. including rivals Saudi Arabia and come ahead of a UN Security on the ground. “We have to try to support and ARBIL: Female members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) take position Qatar, signed up to a “co-ordinated Council ministerial meeting on “We need to keep working close- sustain the local protagonists who on the front line in Makhmur, some 50 km south of Arbil, the capital of the military campaign”. Sept. 19 and a heads of state meet- ly and talking, thinking about the may be able to stop and contain autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq where clashes with Islamic “I’m comfortable that this will be ing at the UN General Assembly at strategy. It shouldn’t be presented Islamic State in those areas,” Italian State (IS) militants are ongoing. —AFP a broad-based coalition with Arab the end of the month. too much as ‘here is the plan, these Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti nations, European nations, the “The goal is to coordinate aid, are the roles, who wants what’,” said said. United States, others,” US Secretary support and action for the unity of a British government official. “The Americans have chosen to Kurdish female fighters face of State John Kerry said in Ankara Iraq and against this terrorist group,” With an election less than nine carry out air strikes. We haven’t yet chosen that,” she said. jihadists in Iraq’s north
Arabs and Turks on board? MAKHMUR: Tekoshin stands on a moun- break up and we and the men deploy The US-led coalition will want tain in north Iraq with a rifle slung over her together on different fronts.” Kurdish active military support from Middle shoulder and a grenade tucked into her women have fought alongside men for Eastern states, to at least avoid the belt, facing jihadists in “a struggle to liber- years in the PKK, its Syrian offshoot the appearance of waging a Western “crusade”. ate women”. People’s Protection Units (YPG), and to a In the campaign to bring down Women have been fighting alongside lesser extent, the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga former Libyan leader Muammar men in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces. Gaddafi in 2011, the United Arab to wrest Mount Makhmur in northern Iraq Asked whether she was married, Emirates contributed to air strikes, back from Islamic State (IS) jihadists, whose Tekoshin laughs: “Most of us here aren’t while Qatar provided weapons to treatment of women makes the fight espe- married. I joined the PKK when I was 14 rebels. cially personal for the dozens of female years old.” Tekoshin says the PKK does not But in Iraq, the stakes for region- fighters on the mountain. forbid its fighters from marrying, but that it al players are higher. Saudi Arabia, IS-led militants have overrun large areas is generally frowned upon. Turkey, Jordan and Egypt are unlike- of Iraq, and the group also controls signifi- ly to want to take a key role in mili- cant territory in neighbouring Syria, enact- ‘More afraid of us’ tary operations. ing its harshly restrictive and brutal inter- She also finds amusing the idea that the “The situation is critical on our pretation of Islamic law in both countries. jihadists may have been surprised by com- border because (Islamic State) are close. Yes, Saudi Arabia is ready to Tekoshin, 27, says she and other women ing face to face with women fighters. help, but America must first show it are fighting the group not only because of “I think (IS) were more afraid of us than is with us now,” said a Saudi Arabian the threat it poses to Kurds but because it of the men,” she says, adding that she military officer in Paris last week. “is against women’s liberation”. thinks “they believe they’ll go to hell if they Turkey, a NATO member which “They don’t allow women in areas under die at a woman’s hands”. shares long borders with both Syria their control to go to the market” and force While Tekoshin says she fights best with and Iraq, has so far also conspicu- them to wear headscarves, she says. “Our her Kalashnikov assault rifle, Saria, 18, shyly ously avoided committing itself to struggle against (the IS) is to defend says she feels equally comfortable with the new military campaign. women from them and from that kind of both light and heavy machineguns and US officials have played down thinking.” sniper rifles. DOHUK: Displaced Iraqis, who have fled the offensive led by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, hopes of persuading Ankara to take Saria grew up in northern Syria, and her a combat role, focusing more on stand yesterday at a camp for displaced people in Khanke, a few kilometres (miles) from the Women, men deploy together two brothers and her sister are currently Turkish border in Iraq’s Dohuk province. —AFP Turkey’s efforts to stem the flow of foreign fighters crossing its territory Some 50 women are among the fighters fighting against IS there, she says, adding and the provision of humanitarian on the mountain from the PKK, which that both her parents were in the PKK. on Friday. Hollande, the first Western leader to months away, the British govern- aid. launched an insurgency for self-rule in “When I was a child, I didn’t think I But he added it was “premature” travel to Iraq since Islamic State’s ment is well aware of public opposi- From the early days of the Syrian Turkey in 1984 and has been listed as a ter- would be a fighter. But I realised how much to set out what tasks individual advances in June, told reporters in tion to Britain’s role in invading Iraq conflict, Turkey has backed mainly rorist group by countries including the my (Kurdish) nation needs me... and I chose coalition partners would shoulder. Baghdad on Friday. with the United States in 2003. Sunni rebels fighting Assad. United States, but began peace talks in this road,” she says. And the devil could be in the France has so far sent weapons Cameron is also scarred by the Although it is alarmed by Islamic 2012. “It is important for us to find our place in details. to Kurdish fighters in Iraq and memory of an embarrassing parlia- State’s rise, it is wary about any mili- At the entrance to the mountain town of war, side by side with the men,” she says. “This coalition has to be efficient humanitarian aid. It is likely to send mentary defeat last summer, when tary action that might weaken Makhmur, “The Islamic State” was scrawled On the mountainside, the PKK fighters and targeted,” said a senior French about 250 special forces troops to he recalled MPs during the summer Assad’s foes. on a one-storey concrete house, but hastily live a communal life. Normally they take diplomat. “We have to keep our help direct strikes for Rafale fighter recess only to fail to win their It is also nervous about strength- painted over since the PKK took it back. turns cooking, but in wartime, male volun- autonomy. We don’t want to be the jets. approval to leave open the possibil- ening Kurds in Iraq and Syria. Tekoshin says women fought side by side teers from nearby Arbil city take care of United States’ subcontractor. For the But what it can offer is limited. ity of military action against Syria. Turkey’s own Kurdish militants with the men in the battle to force out the feeding the fighters. moment they haven’t made their France’s forces are stretched, with Members of the government waged a three-decade insurgency intentions clear to us.” more than 5,000 troops in Mali and have said they would again try to against the Turkish state and are jihadists. For Shimal, a 26-year-old fighter, the The United States and Britain Central African Republic. Its seek authorisation from parliament engaged in a delicate peace “We usually organise ourselves in anti-IS battle is as much about solidarity pulled out of striking Syrian planned 450 million euros overseas for involvement in any strikes, process. groups of four women, and I command one with women who have fallen victim to the President Bashar al-Assad last year defence budget for 2014 is already unless it became necessary to act Pro-government newspapers on of the groups,” she explained, wearing tra- jihadists as it is about the Kurdish national hours before French planes had over a billion euros, at a time when quickly due to a humanitarian Friday welcomed Ankara’s reluc- ditional Kurdish clothing usually seen on cause. IS “turns women into slaves,” she been due to take off, leaving the government is under severe emergency or a threat to Britain. tance to take a frontline role in the men. “But when it comes to fighting, we says. —AFP President Francois Hollande embar- pressure to cut spending. “As the global resolve to tackle coalition, questioning whether US- rassed and isolated. (IS) strengthens, we will consider led military action was the answer This time around Paris wants Britain keen - to a degree carefully what role the United and drawing parallels with 2003, clear commitment and international Britain, Washington’s main ally in Kingdom should play in the interna- when Turkey’s parliament rejected a legality for any action in Syria. In 2003, has sent mixed messages. It tional coalition,” Foreign Office US request to use Turkish territory Gunmen kidnap Lebanese Iraq, it wants a political plan encom- has stressed the West should not go Minister David Lidington said on to invade Iraq. —Reuters civilian near Syria border
BAALBEK: Gunmen kidnapped a since been beheaded, despite attempts Lebanon arrests ‘prankster’ for Lebanese civilian in Arsal yesterday, a mediated through Qatar to solve the month after jihadists from Syria clashed hostage crisis. with the Lebanese army in the restive On Saturday, a security source told border town, a security source said. AFP: “Gunmen at dawn kidnapped threatening to behead children The abduction comes weeks after Ahmad al-Hujeiri from the town of another civilian was kidnapped and lat- Arsal.” The unidentified gunmen kid- BEIRUT: Lebanese police have arrested a man who man’s care by their mother, his neighbour, while she Lebanese society. er killed by jihadists, who accused him napped him “because he disagreed with staged a sick prank by filming himself threatening was out at work. Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrian of “collaborating” with Hezbollah, which their political views,” the source added. to behead three Syrian refugee children left in his “The intelligence branch of the Internal Security refugees, and fighting related to the conflict fre- has deployed thousands of troops in An official in Arsal confirmed the kid- care, a security official told AFP yesterday. Forces has detained the man who made the video,” quently breaks out in the tiny country. Syria alongside President Bashar al- napping, and said Hujeiri was accused The police also briefly arrested the children’s said the police official, adding that the incident had Last month, jihadists took a number of Lebanese Assad’s troops. of “collaborating with Hezbollah”. mother, who confessed to enjoying the scene she taken place in the southern Nabatiyeh province. soldiers and police hostage after battles with them. Arsal saw a fierce battle in August The clashes and kidnappings in Arsal found when she returned from work. In security forces statement added that the chil- They subsequently beheaded two of the soldiers, pitting the Lebanese army against have sent tensions in Lebanon soaring, The video, which was posted on YouTube Friday dren’s mother was also briefly detained. and widely distributed images of their corpses. jihadists from the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al- with a series of tit-for-tat cases of and shared widely, shows the three terrified chil- “At the very end of the filming, the mother “We call on everyone to make sure we maintain Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS). hostage-taking occurring last week in dren crying as a man standing behind a camera arrived from work and (said she) enjoyed the scene our awareness, but of course this video shows the The fighting killed 20 Lebanese the eastern Bekaa valley. waves a knife and asks: “Whom do we behead and asked (her neighbour) to send her the video.” depth of the impact of the Syrian crisis,” said the troops, 16 civilians and dozens of Arsal is home to a majority Sunni first?” The woman was released shortly afterwards, police official. jihadists, who withdrew to the Qalamun population that generally backs the Adding to the pathos of the incident, the crying after pledging to treat her children better. “People are affected by seeing images of mountains across the border, kidnap- Syrian revolt against Assad. It is located children respond by pointing at each other. While describing the incident as “an isolated beheadings, and some people will start to imi- ping dozens of Lebanese troops and in the Bekaa, home to a majority Shiite A security official said the video proved to be a incident,” the official said the video was yet tate them. Poor children; they were terrified,” he policemen. population that backs Hezbollah and “sick joke,” and that the children had been left in the another sign of the effect of the Syrian war on added. —AFP Two of the kidnapped troops have the Assad regime. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL
Battles leave Lugansk airport, busy tourist hub, in ruins
LUGANSK: Lugansk International tered in the rough grass nearby. ing the ruins after weeks of battle that rorist” operation to dislodge the sepa- pick through the mountains of concrete Airport used to offer flights to Turkey, “As you can see the damage is huge,” finally saw Ukrainian government forces ratists from the hub. blocks as an armoured vehicle flying the Egypt and other sunny tourist spots as says Alla, a volunteer with the “rapid retreat barely a week ago. Just a month before, the rebels had red flag of the former Soviet Union rum- well as cities in Ukraine and Russia, han- reaction group” of the self-declared Kiev’s men remain in control of the inflicted a massive blow on the army bles past. dling as many as 10,000 passengers a Lugansk republic’s army, as she eyes the airport in neighbouring Donetsk-also when they shot down a military plane as Suddenly an explosion rips through day. But after almost two months of destruction around her. out of action after a massive battle in it was coming into land at Lugansk air- the air, sending a cloud of grey smoke deadly combat between Ukrainian gov- “There is no way it can be repaired. It May. So the seizure of the Lugansk facili- port, killing 49 personnel. into the air above a field. ernment forces and pro-Russian guerril- will all have to be rebuilt from scratch,” ty represents another decisive victory for Alla said about 300 in the pro-Kiev “We’re doing demining,” explains Alla. las, the Soviet-era airport has been liter- says the 53-year-old former hairdresser, the separatists who have made signifi- ranks were killed or injured in the airport She says the fighting may have ended ally wiped off the map. her hair scraped up under a green cam- cant advances across the southeast combat, while rebel losses were “mini- for now but insists it is not time to lay The main terminal, once a grey con- ouflage cap. since late last month. mal”. Ukraine’s top security spokesman down arms. “The ceasefire is a fiction,” crete and glass building surrounded by The airport was opened in 1964 after Andriy Lysenko said the order was given she says, accusing Kiev of using the tall trees and lush flowerbeds, is in ruins, being built in six months by Communist- ‘Professional gunners’ on September 1 for Kiev’s forces to pull truce to bring reinforcements to a vast mangle of collapsed steel, wire era labour known as “shock brigades” Apparently backed by Russian fire- out after they came under heavy Lugansk. “We cannot trust (President and piles of rubble. who faced the threat of prison if they power and troops, the rebels who have artillery fire. Petro) Poroshenko or the Ukrainian gov- The main runway and its surround is failed to complete projects in record been waging war against Kiev since “Given the precision of their shots, ernment.” pockmarked with large craters from time. Now, the airport website’s “news” April now control an area stretching they were professional gunners from the A fellow rebel who calls herself Akula rockets or shells and the odd puddle of section says it is shut for repairs and that about 300 kilometres (200 miles) along Russian armed forces,” he said. As they (Shark), her long blonde hair braided dirty water. the airspace over Lugansk and Donetsk the Russian border down to the Sea of left, the Ukrainian forces were instructed and tied with pink elastic, says there will A few small planes sit idly by, their is closed to civilian flights, without men- Azov. to blow up the runway to prevent any only be peace when Kiev leaves the east wings in tatters, one listing badly. Tubes tioning the war. The battle for Lugansk airport erupt- aircraft from taking off or landing. alone. from Grad rockets and other munitions The pro-Moscow rebels are the new ed on July 18, when Ukrainian govern- Today, men dressed in fatigues, “Lugansk is my land, I am ready to die stick out from mounts of dirt or lie scat- masters of the airport, jealously guard- ment forces launched a major “anti-ter- assault rifles slung over their shoulders, for it,” she declares. —AFP Merkel warns SPD to shun coalition with Left
APOLDA: Chancellor Angela Merkel SPD’s history warned the centre-left Social Democrats Merkel was also referring to the SPD’s (SPD), her junior partners in national gov- history - a forerunner called the SAD ernment, against forming a coalition to (Socialist Workers Party) was founded in the install the first hardline Left party regional Thuringian town of Gotha in 1861. Many premier after today polls in the eastern traditional SPD supporters here are leery of state of Thuringia. the Left party due to the forced merger in “There’s something strange happening Communist East Germany of the SPD and in Thuringia,” Merkel said, referring to spec- the Communist KPD party into the SED (or ulation the SPD might switch allegiances in Socialist Unity Party) in 1946. Thuringia, where they are now junior part- Opinion polls show Merkel’s CDU, who ners in a similar grand coalition as at the have ruled in Thuringia for the last 24 years national level in Berlin, and join a coalition with different coalitions, leading on 36 per- with the Left. cent, the Left is on 26 percent, the SPD 16 In an unusually blunt campaign speech percent and the Greens on 6 percent. in the town of Apolda, Christian Democrat The eurosceptic AfD (Alternative for (CDU) leader Merkel told the SPD it would Germany) party is at about 8 percent but be unfaithful to its traditions if it joined none of the parties would form a coalition forces with the Left to elect the first Left with the AfD. Either another CDU-SPD party state premier in united Germany. coalition or a Left-SPD-Greens coalition are “There’s a big national party here, the the two possible outcomes on Sunday. SPD, with a proud history nationally. But “The opinion polls show that we’ve got before this state election, they’re signalling different possible options,” the SPD leader in Thuringia, Heike Taubert, said. that no matter how strong the CDU is The SPD has formed several coalitions at they’d rather join up with the Left. That’s the state level with the Left party in eastern incredible. Who would have thought that? Germany and currently rules with the Left A big, proud party like the SPD is making in Brandenburg. The SPD and Left had also itself small.” formed coalitions in the past in the city- Thuringia was a part of the former com- state of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern munist East Germany. Merkel, who normal- and in Saxony-Anhalt. MARIUPOL: Ukrainian younsters speak with a serviceman guarding a rally supporting a united Ukraine in southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, ly does not intervene in the policies of oth- But the SPD has never before been jun- yesterday. The Ukrainian military said yesterday its forces had repelled an insurgent attack on the airport in the eastern separatist stronghold er parties, also warned the ecologist Greens ior coalition partners to the Left party and of Donetsk, despite an eight-day truce. — AFP in Thuringia against joining a possible Left- if they were to help elect a Left party candi- SPD-Greens alliance in the state, telling date as state premier in Thuringia it could about 2,000 people at the rally that the cause tension in Merkel’s grand coalition Ukraine PM slams Putin, Greens would betray their traditions in the with the SPD at the national level. formerly communist east. Such a three-way left-leaning coalition “The Greens emerged 25 years ago from with the SPD, Left and Greens could serve the ‘democracy now’ movement and now for the first time as a test for a similar coali- ceasefire under strain they want to help the Left party form a tion one day at the national level that many coalition,” she said. “Karl Marx is to be car- leftists want - although Left party policies, ried into offices of the state government. especially its anti-NATO stance, make that Russian aid convoy arrives in Lugansk That just can’t be possible.” unlikely any time soon. — Reuters KIEV/DONETSK: Fighting flared near an airport told a daily briefing that one soldier and 12 its own against Western interests. in eastern Ukraine yesterday in breach of a frag- rebels had been killed in the past 24 hours, with- Yatseniuk said yesterday the latest sanctions Swedish Social Democrats ile eight-day ceasefire as the prime minister out specifying where they had died. That would posed a big threat to the Russian economy. accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of bring the death toll among Ukrainian forces “It is bluff (by Russia) to say it does not care set to win back power planning to destroy his country. since the start of the ceasefire eight days ago to about the sanctions,” he said, noting that Russia Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said only six. The rebels have not said how many of their relied heavily on its energy sector and some of STOCKHOLM: Swedish politics seems set The groups have stated differences on membership of NATO would enable Ukraine to men have died in the same period. the sanctions targeted its oil firms. for the biggest change in nearly a decade crucial issues such as energy, defence, pri- defend itself from external aggression. Government forces still hold Donetsk airport, Yatseniuk defended his government’s efforts, in elections today, with the Social vate sector involvement in the welfare sec- Kiev and its Western backers accuse Moscow while the city is in separatist hands. Putin says despite the conflict, to tackle rampant corrup- Democrats likely to win narrowly while the tor and the need to undo the liberal of sending troops and tanks into eastern Ukraine Russia has the right to defend its ethnic kin tion and overhaul the creaking economy, far right vote could soar. reforms of the current centre-right coali- in support of pro-Russian separatists battling beyond its borders, though Moscow denies arm- adding: “It is very hard to attract investors when Stefan Loefven, a 57-year-old former tion. On Friday evening, during the final Ukrainian forces in a conflict that has killed more ing the rebels and helped broker the current you have Russian tanks and artillery in your union leader with a working-class back- debate on public broadcaster SVT, the left- than 3,000 people. Russia denies the accusa- ceasefire with Kiev. country.” His centre-right People’s Front party is ground and no parliamentary or senior ist leaders tried to show a more compro- tions. A ceasefire negotiated by envoys from Asked about future NATO membership, a red expected to do well in a parliamentary election governmental experience, is favourite to mising attitude in some of those thorny Ukraine, Russia, the separatists and Europe’s line for Russia, Yatseniuk said he realised the on Oct. 26. become the next prime minister. issues, sporting conveniently coordinated OSCE security watchdog, has been in place in alliance was not ready now to admit Kiev, but The conflict is taking a heavy toll on Ukraine’s According to the latest poll by red ties. eastern Ukraine since Sept. 5 and is broadly added: “NATO in these particular circumstances already battered economy, which is now being Demoskop, published on Friday, the Social “There must be more ingredients in an holding despite regular but sporadic violations, is the only vehicle to protect Ukraine.” supported by a 17 billion dollar loan package Democrats will win 29.2 percent of the employment strategy”, Loefven said during especially in key flashpoints such as Donetsk. There is no prospect of the Atlantic alliance from the International Monetary Fund. votes. Such a result would be among the the debate.”Investing in railways and hous- Yesterday afternoon, a Reuters reporter heard admitting Ukraine, a sprawling country of 45 The economy could shrink by as much as 10 worst ever for his party, which has largely ing. That’s what creates jobs here and now. heavy artillery fire in northern districts of million people between central Europe and percent this year, the head of Ukraine’s central dominated Swedish politics in the post-war That’s what strengthens Sweden.” Donetsk, the largest city of the region with a Russia, but Kiev has stepped up cooperation bank, Valeria Hontareva, was quoted by Interfax period and modelled its social and eco- The Social Democratic leader, whose pre-war population of about one million. He saw with NATO in a range of areas and has pressed news agency as saying on Saturday, much more nomic model, under the leadership of fig- party’s campaign slogan is “A better plumes of black smoke above the airport, which member states to sell it weapons to help defeat than the 6.5 percent decrease previously fore- ures like Olof Palme. Sweden, for all”, lacked the debating sharp- is in government hands. The city is controlled by the separatists. cast by the IMF. Loefven, a politician with limited charis- ness of his more experienced opponents in the rebels. Yatseniuk praised a decision on Friday to ma but an ability to rally people with collid- the televised exchanges. Speaking at a conference in Kiev attended by Humanitarian aid delay the implementation of a new trade pact ing ideas under the same banner, could Ukrainian and European lawmakers and busi- Yesterday, about 100 Russian lorries arrived in with the European Union until the end of 2015. face a complicated government scenario. Rise of the far-right ness leaders yesterday , Yatseniuk made the war-ravaged eastern city of Lugansk, part of He said it prolonged unilateral trade benefits The polls predict a very fragmented parlia- Another major concern for the left is the clear he did not view the ceasefire as the start of a convoy sent to deliver 1,800 tonnes of humani- now enjoyed by Ukrainian firms in the EU while ment, where a centre-left alliance will most rise of the anti-immigration Sweden a sustainable peace process because of Putin’s tarian aid to residents. maintaining modest customs duties on likely only attain a fragile minority. Democrats, who entered parliament in ambitions. “We are still in a stage of war and the It is the second such Russian aid convoy and European products entering Ukraine. “Social Democrats seem to have set a 2010 with 5.7 percent of the vote and could key aggressor is the Russian Federation ... Putin it passed the border without any major difficulty. Some have seen the decision to postpone the goal of 35 percent of the votes. And it looks double that tally today. wants another frozen conflict (in eastern The first convoy in August was denounced by implementation of the deal as a diplomatic vic- like they won’t get it. This would be a prob- Over the past four years they have often Ukraine),” said Yatseniuk, a longtime fierce critic Ukraine and its Western allies for crossing the tory for Russia, which is opposed to closer eco- lem for Stefan Loefven’s leadership,” said voted in line with the governing coalition, of Moscow and a supporter of Ukraine’s eventual border without Kiev’s permission. The Ukraine nomic ties between Kiev and the EU, but Mikael Sundstroem, a policial science pro- but are less likely to do so with a leftist gov- NATO membership. conflict has triggered several waves of Western Yatseniuk said it would be good for Ukraine’s fessor at Lund University. ernment. Yatseniuk said Putin would not be content sanctions against Russia, most recently on own economy. “We got a grace period. The EU Even ahead of the general election, According to Sundstroem, even if “no only with Crimea - annexed by Moscow in March Friday. The new measures, branded by Putin “a opened its markets but Ukraine is still protected, Loefven’s likely coalition with the Greens one wants to cooperate with them”, this - and with Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking bit strange” in view of the ceasefire, target banks so for Ukraine this is not a bad deal,” he said. and the former communist Left Party is party sways voters who are fed up with the eastern region. “His goal is to take all of Ukraine and oil companies. Deputy Foreign Minister Danylo Lubkivsky sub- considered shaky. pro-immigration consensus.—AFP ... Russia is a threat to the global order and to the Russia, which has already introduced bans on mitted his resignation, saying: “(The delay) sends security of the whole of Europe.” a range of US and European food imports, sig- the wrong signal - to the aggressor, to our allies Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko nalled it would respond with further sanctions of and, above all, to Ukrainian citizens.” — Reuters Congo opposition pledges more protests after govt crackdown
KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo’s oppo- and could not secure two of them. UNC General Secretary Jean-Bertrand Ewanga was sition pledged to escalate its campaign against a The international community has spent billions sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for possible third term for President Joseph Kabila of dollars and deployed a 21,000-strong UN peace- insulting Kabila at a protest in August. Authorities after police dispersed a protest march with teargas keeping mission in Congo in the wake of a 1998- accused Ewanga of inciting tribal tensions by in the capital Kinshasa yesterday. 2003 civil war in which millions of people died demanding at the rally that Kabila return to Anti-government protests were suppressed in mostly from starvation and disease. However, sta- Rwanda when his second term expires in 2016 — at least three other towns, the opposition said. In bility has remained elusive in the giant nation at repeating an opposition accusation that the presi- Butembo, in the eastern province of North Kivu, the heart of Africa and dozens of armed groups still dent was born in Congo’s tiny eastern neighbour. police fired teargas and threw stones at protesters, prowl its mineral-rich east. “We know that they have imprisoned Ewanga according to Fabrice Kakubuzi, a local civil society Vital Kamerhe, president of the Union for the but they haven’t imprisoned the spirit of Ewanga,” NORRMALMSTORG: Sweden’s Prime minister and leader of the Moderate Party, coordinator. Congolese Nation (UNC) opposition party, said that Kamerhe said, vowing more protests. Fredrik Reinfeldt (L), speaks standing next to his coalition partners, leader of the Provincial authorities in Kinshasa refused to police had teargassed protesters near the central A crowd of about 100 demonstrators gathered Liberal People’s Party, Jan Bjoerklund (2nd-L), leader of the Centre Party, Annie authorise the march in the capital, organised by a train station. Several protesters were injured or later outside UNC headquarters, some holding Loeoef (2nd-R) and leader of the Christian Democrats Party, Goeran Haegglund, dur- coalition of leading opposition groups, arguing arrested by police, he said. anti-government placards. “Kabila 2016: Let’s avoid ing a rally at Norrmalmstorg yestertday in Stockholm. — AFP they had already permitted another rally yesterday Opposition supporters had voiced anger after a Congolese Spring,” read one.—Reuters INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Lanka refugee expulsion goes to highest court
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan rights activists have gone to the why local rights defenders decided to file this case.” this month, but 102 people - 38 Pakistanis and 64 Afghans Lanka has ratified. Hundreds of Pakistani Christians and country’s highest court in a bid to stop the government The UN High Commissioner for Refugees in a state- - remained in custody and fresh arrests were taking place. Afghans fleeing persecution in their countries have been summarily deporting Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani ment Friday urged Sri Lanka to stop arrests and deporta- Between Sept 3 and 11, 62 Pakistanis and three Iranians arriving in Sri Lanka seeking UNHCR protection in the capi- refugees, their lawyer said yesterday. Six human rights tions of those who have filed refugee claims with the had been arrested and 40 of them had already been tal Colombo. Sri Lanka had earlier defended the action tak- defenders have petitioned the Supreme Court to chal- agency’s Colombo offices and sought access to those deported, the UNHCR said. The refugee agency has main- en against the asylum-seekers, saying that a state’s respon- lenge the expulsions, which are being carried out despite already detained. Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal, which is one tained that the deportations go against the principle of no sibility to international obligations had to be “nuanced and warnings that Sri Lanka is in breach of its international obli- step lower than the Supreme Court, earlier this month forced return, or non-refoulement, enshrined in interna- balanced in the context of domestic compulsions”. Sri gations, lawyer Lakshan Dias told AFP. “The case is coming overturned an order suspending the deportations and tional law. Lanka’s foreign ministry also accused the UNHCR of pro- up on September 29,” Dias said. “We feel that some of the cleared the way for the authorities to continue expulsions. The agency has also noted that returning an individual cessing asylum claims too slowly, and of not taking people who are being sent back face real danger. They The UNHCR said Colombo had initially responded to its to a country where they face the risk of torture is prohibit- responsibility for repatriating those whose refugee claims have life-threatening conditions if they go back. That is appeals and released 71 Pakistanis and two Iranians earlier ed under the UN’s Convention Against Torture, which Sri were rejected. — AFP
Anger mounts in Indian Kashmir after worst floods SRINAGAR: Residents of revolt-torn Indian Resentment Kashmir turned their wrath on state adminis- Many residents are deeply resentful of trators for failing to provide them with suc- what they say has been a complete absence cour after the worst flooding in over a centu- of their local government and police in the ry, angrily dumping food parcels into gutters. wake of the disaster. Others drew a compari- A week into the disaster, large parts of son to the thousands of police the Indian Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, state has deployed in the past to put down lay under water with many people still public protests against Indian rule, but were trapped atop their homes, and others crowd- now nowhere to be seen. “If there is a single ed in relief camps. Their misery has added to stone pelted, there are a hundred police out problems of the administration in a Muslim- beating one person,” said Megha Dar, a majority region where a revolt against Indian teacher living in a temporary camp. “Where rule has simmered for nearly a quarter centu- are they now? Where are the ministers?” ry. Hundreds of thousands of Indian soldiers Many complain that the government, are deployed in the Kashmir Valley, where the which has maintained a heavy presence in army says it has succeeded in putting down the territory to keep a lid on the revolt, has the armed groups that it believes are sup- left them to their fate. Residents stranded for ported by Pakistan. A senior army official said days by the floodwaters said that the army it was unfortunate that the rescue effort had has selectively evacuated tourists and people been politicized. “Our air force does not per- according to a pre-set priority list, leaving mit selective rescue,” he said. “The population locals to be rescued later by volunteers. has been affected by a tragedy. This reaction “Helicopters came, and we waved our arms,” is a reflection of their lack of faith in the civic said Aasiya Kutoo, who was living at a tempo- administration.” A new generation of young rary shelter. “Nobody came for us. Nobody in Kashmiris, who have grown up with house our area was rescued by air.” raids and army checkpoints, feel increasingly Outside one mosque-turned-camp in angry at Indian rule and champion street Srinagar, food supplies dropped earlier in the protests rather than the violent militancy that day by a military helicopter were strewn in a characterized the 1990s. gutter, rejected. “People said we don’t need this government food,” said Nayeem, who Infrastructure hit lives in the neighbourhood. He said since the Several government employees decried state of India occupied Kashmir, they were that basic needs were not being met in the ISLAMABAD: Pakistani policemen arrest Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders during a protest at the court area in Islamabad yesterday. A court in only providing relief out of duty. “If another capital. Two government doctors said public Islamabad has sent about a hundred workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek to Adiala prison on a 14-day judicial remand for state occupied this land, they would be hospitals were understaffed, and short on allegedly attacking state institutions and violating Section 144. — AFP bound to do the same.” basic supplies and medicine. “The local gov- Both the Indian and Pakistan sides of the ernment is totally crippled,” added Riyaz disputed Himalayan territory have been hit Ahmad, an officer with the labour depart- Standoff in Islamabad as by extensive flooding since the Jhelum river, ment, who was volunteering at a civilian-run swollen by unusually heavy rain, surged last relief camp. “There has been no communica- week. The river flows from Indian Kashmir to tion from my superiors. Every department is the Pakistan side, and then down into totally defunct.” political crisis drags on Pakistan’s lower Indus river basin. The Indian Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar government has put the death toll at 200 in Abdullah said the severity of the floods had the part of Kashmir it controls but there are knocked out his administration in the first Court sends 100 activists to jail fears that number will rise as the damage to few hours itself. But it had since recovered Srinagar, a city of one million, and villages in and was trying to do its best to deliver aid. ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan ordered yester- in a landslide and say they will not back down million. The confrontation turned violent last southern Kashmir is fully revealed. On the He said part of the problem was people did day that 100 opposition activists be sent to jail until he resigns - a demand Sharif has repeatedly month, with thousands trying to storm Sharif’s Pakistani side, officials put the death toll at not heed flood warnings broadcast from for holding illegal protests and other violations, rejected. “The end of the incumbent govern- house and briefly taking the state television 264 on Friday. government vehicles and mosques last prompting a tense confrontation between ment’s rule is near,” Qadri told domestic media channel off the air. Violence in the usually quiet weekend. — Reuters demonstrators and police in the centre of the yesterday. Yesterday night, the protest camp capital has alarmed many people in a nation capital. Protesters led by Imran Khan, a former crowd in the so-called Red Zone - home to where power has often changed hands though cricket star, and Tahir ul-Qadri, a firebrand cleric, Sharif’s house, ministries and embassies - military coups rather than elections. have been locked in a bitter standoff with the swelled to a few thousand people, with opposi- The army, which has ruled Pakistan for more government for weeks, refusing to leave their tion leaders adamant in their call for the prime than half of its history, has stayed out of the protest camp until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif minister to resign. “Now there is no room for fur- conflict, urging both sides to find a political resigns. ther talks, after what the government has done solution. Yet, some ruling party officials have Yesterday, a crowd of demonstrators gath- to us,” Khan told the cheering crowd. Although accused the military itself of instigating the ered outside a court in Islamabad in a protest the government has warned it had the right to unrest as a way of unsettling Sharif and exert- against its decision to send 100 activists to jail crack down to disperse the protesters, security ing supremacy over him. The army has denied for two weeks, with some trying to slash the forces protecting government buildings looked it was meddling in civilian affairs, saying it is tyres of a police van and shouting “Go, Nawaz, on and showed no sign of action. neutral. Late on Friday, an army spokesman go!” Although the crowd eventually left peace- once again repeated that the army had nothing fully after a two-hour stand-off with police, the Pressure to do with the conflict. Few commentators episode highlighted just how nervous both For Sharif, the persistent protests come at a think the army wants to seize power again but, sides of the conflict remained after talks to difficult time when his government is already even if Sharif survives, he would emerge signifi- resolve the crisis failed several times. under pressure for not doing enough to tackle cantly weakened and likely play second-fiddle Protest leaders accuse Sharif of rigging last deadly floods around the country which have to the army on key security and foreign policy year’s election which brought him back to power killed 280 people and affected the lives of two issues. — Reuters
UN threatens to
SRINAGAR: Kashmiri residents wade through a street as floodwaters in the area recede cut Afghan aid yesterday. — AFP KABUL: The United Nations threatened yesterday to cut aid to Afghanistan if its staff are harassed, responding to tensions surrounding its participation 16 dead as bus in a drawn-out and bitter investigation into fraud in the still-unresolved presidential election. The warn- plunges in India ing came a day after dozens of demonstrators gath- ered outside the Kabul headquarters of the world body and accused it of aiding vote-rigging. It was DEHRADUN: A bus smashed into a bridge lage, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) from another sign of heightened anxiety in the run-up to and plunged into a river in India, killing at state capital Dehradun. India has the high- the release of final election results over the next least 16 people after the driver lost control est number of road accidents globally, with week. A two-month-long crisis over results of the of the vehicle, police said. 138,000 recorded in 2012, the latest year vote to succeed President Hamid Karzai has been Another three people were in critical for which official government figures are destabilising Afghanistan just months before most condition after the bus, carrying 35 people, available. international troops withdraw. veered off the bridge in the mountainous Transport analysts attribute the huge The UN has been monitoring a vote-rigging inves- northern state of Uttarakhand. “The bus number of accidents to poor roads, ill- tigation since both candidates - former Foreign collided with the bridge and overturned” trained drivers and reckless driving. The Minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-Finance Minister into a small river, police officer Mukhtaar national government has recently put for- Ashraf Ghani - each claimed victory and accused the Hasan told AFP. Some of the victims ward proposals for new legislation to make other of fraud in early July. UN workers have fre- appeared to have drowned, police said. India’s road safer by stiffening lax traffic quently been caught up in heated disputes by the QUETTA: Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta The accident occurred in Juyalgarh vil- regulations. — AFP rival candidates’ audit observers. After Friday’s small yesterday. A bomb explosion on a busy road killed three and wounded at least 16 demonstration, which was peaceful but also featured people including two paramilitary soldiers in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan chants of “Death to the UN,” the world body appar- province, security officials said. — AFP ently decided to draw a line. “Intimidation and verbal attacks directed at #UN are unacceptable,” said a tweet by the official UN Bomb kills 3, wounds Assistance Mission in Afghanistan yesterday. A sec- ond post continued: “If such abuse continues, #UN 16 in SW Pakistan will be forced to severely limit its activities, reducing its assistance to #Afghanistan and its people.” Ari QUETTA: A bomb explosion on a busy road A member of a bomb disposal unit told Gaitanis, a UN spokesman in Kabul, declined to elab- in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan AFP that high quality explosives weighing up orate on specific abuse or threats against UN staff. province yesterday killed three people, to 40 kilograms (up to 90 pounds) had been The threat to cut aid underscored the high stakes including a paramilitary soldier, and wound- used to make the bomb. in Afghanistan’s election crisis, which marred hopes ed at least 16 other people, security officials A Frontier Corps spokesman, Manzoor for a smooth transition of power ahead of the foreign said. Ahmed, confirmed that one soldier has died troops’ withdrawal. Talks between both sides on The bomb, planted in a car parked by the in the attack while another was wounded. No forming a unity government have broken down in side of the road on a crowded crossroads in group has yet claimed responsibility for the recent weeks. Final results are expected in the next Quetta city, apparently targeted a paramili- attack but Baluch separatists are active in the week, though a specific date has not been set. It is tary vehicle passing the area. area and often attack government forces and widely believed that Ghani, who was ahead by 1.2 “The bomb was detonated by remote con- installations. million votes in preliminary results, will be declared trol when a vehicle of the Frontier Corps (FC) Resource-rich Baluchistan is home to a GHAZNI: Afghan men are pictured at the scene of the September 4 suicide attack on a the winner even after suspect votes are thrown out. came close to a busy crossroads,” Quetta long-running separatist conflict that was government compound in Ghazni, during a media tour of the area yesterday. A Taleban Abdullah, who has charged that more than 2 million police chief Abdul Razzak Cheema told AFP. revived in 2004, with nationalists seeking to attack September 4 on a government compound killed 13 security personnel and left at ballots were fraudulent, has vowed he will reject Cheema said two of the dead and most of stop what they see as the exploitation of the least 60 other people wounded when a truck bomb triggered hours of fighting, officials results that give the election to Ghani.— Reuters the wounded were labourers who were wait- region’s natural resources and alleged rights said. — AFP ing in the area. abuses. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 INTERNATIONAL China urges neighbours to step up extremism fight
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping Turkestan and have links with militants in Friday, citing Xi’s speech in Tajikistan to nations - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan in Xinjiang, resource-rich and strategically urged Central Asian states to step up the Central Asia as well as Pakistan. the heads of state of other Shanghai and Uzbekistan - formed the SCO in 2001 located on the borders of ex-Soviet central fight against religious extremism and The government says such separatists Cooperation Organization (SCO) mem- as a regional security bloc to fight threats Asia, largely have gone to majority Han cyber terrorism, state media said, as are influenced by militant groups’ train- bers. posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking Chinese, stoking resentment among Beijing reaches for help across its borders ing videos and audio from beyond its “Currently, (we) should focus on com- from neighbouring Afghanistan. Uighurs. China’s leaders have vowed to strike in addressing security concerns in its borders, though experts dispute their bating religion-involved extremism and Many experts and rights groups say hard at religious militants and separatist restive Xinjiang region. influence and reach. Internet terrorism,” Xi said, adding that economic marginalisation of Uighurs is groups. On Friday, a Chinese court sen- Beijing says separatist groups in the “(We) should make concerted efforts the group’s Regional Counter-Terrorism one of the main causes of ethnic violence tenced three people to death and one to life far western region of Xinjiang, home to to crack down on the ‘three evil forces’ of Structure (RCTS) should enhance efforts that has killed hundreds of people across in prison for an attack at a Yunnan province the Muslim Uighur minority, are seeking terrorism, extremism and separatism,” the to combat drug trafficking. China in the past year and a half. train station in March in which 31 people to form their own state called East official Xinhua news agency said late on China, Russia and four Central Asian They argue that benefits of development were killed and 141 injured. —Reuters
China’s HK chief says remarks to lawmakers were misrepresented
HONG KONG: China’s most senior official in Kong. He said media reports of the meeting Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming, said on Friday that had a “malicious intention”. remarks he had made to pro-democracy lawmak- The sources told Reuters in the September 11 ers in an August 19 meeting had been misrepre- story that Zhang had been responding to a ques- sented in media reports. tion by democratic lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung, “I admit that during the conversation, I used who asked whether a democrat like himself could the phrase ‘stay alive’,” Zhang wrote in a state- run in an election for the highest office in the city. ment on the website of China’s Liaison Office in The meeting took place before China delivered Hong Kong. its decision on August 31 on political reform in Zhang made his comments after Reuters pub- Hong Kong, which is governed under the “one lished a story on September 11 in which it report- country, two systems” arrangement which affords ed that he had told several pro-democracy law- the city’s residents a high degree of autonomy makers that “the fact that you are allowed to stay and freedoms not enjoyed by Chinese on the alive, already shows the country’s inclusiveness”, mainland. according to two people who attended the One of the lawmakers quoted in the Reuters August 19 meeting with Zhang and declined to article said on Saturday that he was standing by be named. his version of events. “I haven’t misspoken,” Lee Zhang’s office did not respond to several Cheuk-yan, who attended the meeting with faxed requests for comment before the Zhang on August 19 and decided to speak on- September 11 story was published. The article, record after Zhang’s statement, said in a phone which was picked up by other media outlets, interview. focused on the showdown between pro-democ- Reuters said in a statement on Friday: “We racy forces and Beijing over political reform in stand by our story and the original quote from Hong Kong. Zhang Xiaoming, which was obtained from two Zhang said in the statement on Friday independent sources who attended the meeting, night that his intended meaning was that as well as the accuracy of the Reuters translation.” Beijing had already shown “great political The statement was issued after some media and inclusiveness” in allowing some democrat law- blogs said that Zhang’s comments had been mis- makers to run for legislative office in Hong translated. —Reuters
AMPANG: Parents and children release a sky lantern, with a note of prayer written for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared on March 8, during a Malaysian school holiday event in Ampang, near Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Some 50 chil- dren and their parents participated in the school holiday event organised by a child education centre in the country’s capital. — AFP Philippines starts inquiry into militants in Syria Disturbing developments that could affect our security
MANILA: The Philippines is investigating the could affect our internal security situation,” the undergo military training and were subse- involvement of Filipino Islamists in the three- intelligence official, who declined to be named quently deployed in Syria. year civil war in Syria after two locals were because he was not allowed to talk to the press, “One of them was raised in Syria and the oth- reported killed fighting for Islamic State mili- told Reuters. er was a local passport holder,” said the intelli- tant group, an intelligence official said yester- “We have scant data based on intermittent gence official. day. information made available from different Rommel Banlaoi of the Center for AYUKAWA: This picture taken on March 24, 2011 shows a general view of the A senior police intelligence official said agencies, including the Department of Foreign Intelligence and National Security Studies said whaling town of Ayukawa, Ishinomaki City after the nation’s 2011 quake- Manila was also monitoring young Filipino Affairs. We are now exchanging intelligence the threats from Islamic State militants in the tsunami disaster. The whaling town of Ayukawa on Japan’s northeast coast Muslims who have gone to Syria and Iraq, and with our foreign partners so we can build our Philippines “is real rather than imagined”. used to bustle with activity as fishermen brought their massive catch back then tried to radicalise others on their return own data base.” “ISIS is replacing al Qaeda as the champion to port, supporting a community of nearly 14,000 people. —AFP home. Based on these exchanges, he said they have of the world Islamic caliphate,” Banlaoi said, The Philippines has been battling its own noted a gradual increase of foreign fighters adding a video on YouTube last month indicat- small but violent Islamist militant group, Abu heading to Syria coming from Indonesia, ed an Islamic caliphate in the Philippines has Sayyaf, which has been blamed for kidnap- Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and been established. Myanmar suspends work pings, beheadings and bombings in the south. Xinjiang, a troubled province in western China. Militants from Abu Sayyaf, Khilafa Islamiyah Since 2002, a U.S. special forces unit has been But the movement is not only one way, he Mindanao, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom advising and training local troops. said. Some locals who saw action in Syria, Fighters and the Muslim convert group Rajah permits for maids Thousands of fighters from dozens of coun- labeled themselves as “veterans” had returned Solaiman Islamic Movement had pledged sup- tries have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight to the south of the mainly Catholic state to port to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. YANGON: Myanmar has temporarily banned came into place but said discussions to thrash with extremist groups, prompting the United spread extremist Muslim ideologies. On Wednesday, Washington authorised its women from working as maids in out an agreement began around a month States to draft a UN Security Council resolution Documents seen by Reuters showed two airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more Singapore due to concerns over abuse and ago. After amending its migration law in demanding countries “prevent and suppress” Filipino Muslims had died in the Syria conflict in attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a cam- exploitation, an employment body in Yangon 2013, the former junta-ruled state has official- the recruitment and travel of foreign fighters. March. The foreign ministry also reported in paign against the Islamic State, which has seized said yesterday. ly only sent domestic helpers-most of whom “These are disturbing developments that May that about 100 Filipinos traveled to Iran to large stretches of Iraq and Syria. —Reuters The suspension comes amid a global are women-to Singapore and Hong Kong. spotlight on the working conditions of The official said there is also a suspension migrant domestic helpers in Asia after reports on permits for maids wanting to work in the of widespread abuse, including the case of an southern Chinese city, which received its first Thai army dragnet douses Indonesian maid who allegedly endured official group of 19 helpers in February, but months of torture by her Hong Kong boss. did not say when this came into effect. Myanmar-which only last year passed a The case of Indonesian maid Erwiana peace hopes in rebel-hit south law allowing its nationals to work as domestic Sulistyaningsih-whose Hong Kong employer helpers overseas-will impose the ban until an now faces charges including grievous bodily agreement is reached with Singapore over harm with intent-triggered international con- PATTANI: A bomb suspect held for two weeks without tal Pattani. “They took me to an (army) rangers’ base. I In that time security forces have been accused of issues including worker rights and salary. cern about the treatment of domestic charge in Thailand’s insurgency-battered south says an told them I was innocent, but they still held me. I don’t widespread human rights abuses-including extra-judi- “We have been informed of cases of abuse helpers. army dragnet following the coup is calcifying hostility know why,” the student, whose identity has been cial killings. and ill-treatment of Myanmar maids in Around 30,000 maids from Myanmar are towards the kingdom-and undercutting a fresh bid for changed by AFP, said of his arrest in July. Singapore... That’s why we want proper pro- thought to work both legally and illegally in peace. The decade-long conflict has claimed more than The blasts, which occurred two days after the May ‘Stop arresting us’ tection for workers,” Soe Myint Aung, a vice- affluent Singapore. Many more are estimated 6,100 lives across Thailand’s lush, forested Muslim- 22 coup, killed several people and wounded scores The three southern provinces bordering Malaysia chairman of the Myanmar Overseas to be employed without official permits in majority southern provinces, where shadowy rebels are more-appearing timed to remind the junta that new are also smothered by emergency powers allowing sus- Employment Agencies Federation, told AFP. neighbouring Thailand. fighting for a level of autonomy from the Thai state. political realities in Bangkok had little bearing on the pects to be held without charge for more than five “The labour ministry has temporarily sus- Migration experts have previously warned Most of the victims are civilians caught up in the battle for the deep south. weeks. pended permits for women until the federa- about poor working conditions for Myanmar near-daily bombings, shootings-and occasional Thailand colonised the area more than a century It took two days for Ri’s father and brother to trace tion signs a Memorandum of Understanding nationals in these roles. The country’s labour beheadings-that define a war largely ignored by Thais ago and has tried to corral the local Muslim population him, with the detainee denied phone calls. with (its counterpart in) Singapore.” ministry could not immediately be reached and forgotten by the wider world. into accepting its rule through assimilation schemes, “They kept asking me ‘Did you do it? Where were He did not specify when the suspension for comment. —AFP From a remote hamlet cocooned by fruit trees, 23- cash inducements and hard military power. But they you when the bombs went off?’” the student said. year-old Ri says he was arrested on suspicion of planting have comprehensively failed to staunch the insurgency, Despite protesting his innocence, Ri was held for a one of a series of bombs that rocked the provincial capi- which has ground on since 2004. further 10 days under an emergency decree before being released. His family say no evidence was brought against him, neither was an apology or explanation for his detention offered. The ordeal has left Ri scared and angry but also dismissive of a loudly trumpeted effort by the junta to forge peace. “Prayut says he wants peace,” he said referring to new Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha-who is also the outgoing army chief. “But first they have to stop arresting us.”
Peace under the gun? An already parlous rights situation has deteriorated sharply following the military takeover, according to campaigners, with scores of suspects swept into arbi- trary detention for days or weeks amid the power plays in the Thai capital. Despite tightening security the junta insists it is focused on rebooting stalled peace talks. Thailand’s Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said 78 people were arrested in the deep south between July 7 and August 28. The figures omit the initial six weeks after the coup and do not reveal how many of those detained were NARATHIWAT: This picture taken on September 3, 2014 shows a soldier manning a subsequently released or charged. TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with abduc- checkpoint in Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat. Detained for two Three people died in raids-including a 14-year-old tion victim Hitomi Soga (R) while entering a rally to support families of weeks without charge, a bomb suspect in Thailand’s insurgency-battered south says boy mistakenly shot on August 20 by a paramilitary sol- abduction victims by North Korea in Tokyo yesterday. Families of people an army dragnet since the coup is calcifying hostility towards the kingdom and dier, who is now facing charges after planting a hand- allegedly snatched by North Korea called on the international community to undercutting a fresh bid for peace. —AFP gun on the dead teen to cover up the killing. —AFP push Pyongyang to release their missing loved ones. —AFP NEWS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 Thousands still stranded by killer... Continued from Page 1 Omar Abdullah promised houses would be rebuilt before “the immense cold” of winter strikes. “There’s no Some 280 people have died from the heavy rains and question of people living in tents in winter,” he said in flooding in the Punjab, Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Srinagar. Some 137 relief camps were operating in the regions, Ahmed Kamal, a spokesman for the National Kashmir valley alone assisting over 100,000 people, offi- Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), told AFP, cials said. while over 214,000 people had been evacuated. But “with only 65 days before snow is forecast in the Pakistan, which has suffered a series of annual flood (Kashmir) valley, the race against time has already diasters, says as many as 2.29 million people have been begun for the rehabilitation process,” warned Bipul affected. Borah, a senior Oxfam charity official. Abdullah said In Indian Kashmir, as waters subsided, emergency “clean-drinking water” was a problem and disinfectants officials were able to get to more afflicted areas. “More like chlorine were being used to avert water-borne dis- than 200,000 people are still stranded,” Shantmanu, eases. State disaster response chief Shah said the flood Jammu region divisional commissioner, who uses one had left just one of Indian Kashmir’s main government name, told AFP. But rescue teams are now able to hospitals functioning. “We need more doctors. People increasingly get “inside houses and get out those still have lost everything they are suffering from depres- trapped inside and account for dead bodies,” he said. In sion,” he said. some areas, TV footage showed entire villages wiped As streets were being cleared, many flocked to out, their houses smashed by floodwaters that swept Srinagar airport where there are not enough flights. away their occupants. Strewn on the ground were “More than 5,000 people are waiting at the airport,” household items like saucepans and cups and soggy Shantmanu of Jammu region said. Migrant workers clothing. were also trekking from the state on foot with the army The government estimates at least 200 people died setting up relief camps along the way. Abdullah has and 142,000 people have been rescued in the restive defended the slow official response, saying no-one region Kashmir where militants have been fighting could have anticipated the disaster’s ferocity and mag- Indian rule since the late 1980s. State chief minister nitude. — AFP Uganda foils Shabab attack Continued from Page 1 arrested. It was not clear if the raids were connected. Shabab insurgents have claimed recent attacks in Kenya Meanwhile, French intelligence services assisted and Djibouti, and at home in Somalia. During the World Cup Washington in the operation that killed Godane, local media final four years ago, Shabab insurgents killed at least 76 peo- reported yesterday. “France and President (Francois Hollande) ple after setting off explosions that ripped through two supported with intelligence and coordination” a US air strike restaurants in Kampala. In July, the US embassy warned of a that killed Godane, the weekly Le Point magazine said. The “specific threat” by an unknown group to attack Entebbe US confirmed that Godane - one of the world’s eight top ter- international airport, which serves the capital Kampala. It also ror fugitives - was killed in a drone and aircraft strike in south- warned its citizens of a general threat of attacks which could ern Somalia on Sept 1. Paris is said to hold Godane responsi- target hotels, restaurants, clubs, malls, diplomatic missions, ble for the capture of two French intelligence agents in government buildings and transport. Somalia in 2009. One, Denis Allex, was killed in an unsuccess- The Shabab claimed responsibility for the assault on the ful commando raid to free him in Jan 2013. According to Le Westgate shopping centre that killed at least 67 people in the Point, “elements for this operation - namely the precise iden- Kenyan capital of Nairobi in September last year as well as for A Palestinian throws a boy in the air as they swim at the Gaza City beach on Friday. — AFP tification of (Godane’s) truck and the road he had to take - attacks on coastal regions. The strike against Godane came were sent to the Pentagon” by France’s foreign intelligence days after AU troops and Somali government forces service. launched “Operation Indian Ocean”, a major offensive aimed Uganda’s government said the country - a major contribu- at seizing key ports from the Shabab and cutting off multi- Kerry in Cairo to drum up support tor to AMISOM, the African Union (AU) force fighting the million dollar exports of charcoal, one of their key revenue Shabab - was “happy” at death of Godane, and had provided sources. AU troops in Somalia said Saturday in a statement Continued from Page 1 In Ankara, Kerry spoke of “a broad-based coalition the US with key intelligence on his whereabouts. Uganda’s they had attacked a Shabab base in the south of the war-torn with Arab nations, European nations, the United States Ministry of Internal Affairs said immigration officers had car- country, inflicting “heavy losses” on the extremists, including After securing the backing of 10 Arab governments and others”. Turkey is a fellow NATO member but has so ried out an “operation on illegal immigrant workers in differ- killing several foreign fighters. It was not possible to inde- this week, Washington is seeking a stamp of approval far refused to open its air bases to US forces and other ent parts of Kampala” yesterday morning, with 69 people pendently verify the report. — Agencies for its campaign from Egypt and its religious institu- members of the coalition. A Turkish official told AFP that tions, which include Al-Azhar university. “As an intellec- Ankara’s hands were tied by concern for 49 Turks, tual and cultural capital in the Muslim world, Egypt has including diplomats and their children, kidnapped Senior Brotherhood figures to leave... a critical role to play in publicly denouncing the ideolo- when IS seized Iraq’s second city Mosul in June. Continued from Page 1 Jordan, Lebanon and six Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and gy that ISIL disseminates,” Kerry said, using another In Jeddah on Thursday, Kerry gained the support of Qatar. Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil told Reuters acronym by which IS is known. Kerry said he also had a 10 Arab nations for the push to weaken IS, whose Egypt has declared the Brotherhood a terrorist movement. some Arab states at talks in Jeddah on Thursday had proposed “frank” discussion on human rights concerns in Egypt appeal has drawn volunteers from around the world. The Brotherhood says it is a peaceful group. The spokesman for expanding the campaign to fight other Islamist groups besides amid a bloody crackdown on the government’s oppo- But Washington has insisted it will not work with Egypt’s foreign ministry said he had “no idea” if Qatar had Islamic State. That could include the Muslim Brotherhood, nents, and the jailing of three Al-Jazeera television jour- President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria, where three and a expelled Brotherhood leaders, and declined to comment fur- though Turkey would be expected to oppose this. nalists and secular dissidents. half years of conflict has allowed the emergence of IS, ther until Cairo had examined the issue. Kerry arrived in Cairo yesterday for talks with senior govern- Shoukri said regional militant groups shared the the most violent and powerful group in modern jihad. It Ebtesam Al-Ketbi of the Emirates Policy Centre in Abu Dhabi ment officials. Egypt would certainly welcome any moves that same ideology and must be dealt with. “Ultimately this has carried out a spate of atrocities in areas it controls, said the move did not mean an end to Qatar’s support for the would further isolate the Muslim Brotherhood, many of whose extremist ideology is shared by all terrorist groups. We including attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, and Brotherhood. “This a first step. There are lots of other things the leaders are on trial in Cairo and could face the death penalty. detect ties of cooperation between them and see a dan- beheadings of American journalists and enemy soldiers, Gulf countries have been calling for. It shows that Doha wants Wagdy Ghoneim, a cleric who supports the Muslim ger as it crosses borders,” said Shoukri. “We believe that many of which it has recorded and posted on line. to ease its relations with Gulf countries, but it doesn’t mean it Brotherhood, said he was leaving Qatar. “Thanks to Allah, I have rejecting terrorism is a collective responsibility of all Under mounting criticism for not taking swifter has stopped supporting the Brotherhood,” she said. Qatar’s decided to move from dear Qatar, not to cause any pressure or members of the international community. There should action, US President Barack Obama set out a strategy on neighbours would be watching to see how many of the move- embarrassment or problems for my dear brothers in Qatar,” he be definite steps to achieve this target.” Wednesday to stamp out the group, including air strikes ment’s members leave Doha, she said, and whether the coun- said on his Facebook page. Egyptian security officials fear they face a threat from in Syria and expanded operations in Iraq. The CIA put try’s Al Jazeera news channel would change its editorial policy. The Brotherhood’s secretary general Mahmud Hussein, who Egyptian militants based across the border in Libya and the number of IS fighters at 20,000 to 31,500 in Iraq and Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi all see Al Jazeera as providing a is based in Doha, is thought to be the effective exiled head of from the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most Syria, up to three times the previous estimate. US air- platform for the Brotherhood to voice its views. But the depar- the group after Egyptian police detained much of its leadership. dangerous militant group. Both are linked to or inspired craft have carried out more than 150 strikes in Iraq since ture of leading members of the organisation shows Qatar has With the leadership in Qatar likely to relocate to Turkey, where by Islamic State. “We are working with international early August, the latest on Friday in the area of the made a major concession after coming under pressure from its other Brotherhood figures are already based, Istanbul is poised efforts to combat terrorism whether in Libya or Iraq or country’s largest dam, north of Mosul, in which two IS neighbours and the West, political analysts in the Gulf said. to host the regional headquarters for the 86-year-old move- “Qatar was becoming increasingly isolated within the GCC (Gulf ment. Other leaders are based in Britain, which has conducted any other Arab country,” said Shoukri. vehicles were destroyed. Cooperation Council) and on top of this was pressure from an inquiry into the Brotherhood’s alleged links to militants. Despite Washington saying it is “at war” with IS, Kerry Washington plans to help revamp the Iraqi army, world capitals, particularly Washington,” said Abdulkhaleq But the decision to relocate the Brotherhood’s leaders will has been reluctant to use the term, speaking instead of which withered under the IS-led onslaught in June, and Abdulla, a professor of political science in the UAE. “Then came leave an estimated dozens of Islamist activists in Doha, and a “major counter-terrorism operation”. On Friday, French has announced it will fly combat missions from an air- the sudden threat from Islamic State in Iraq and a lot of shuttle does not suggest a major change in Qatar’s policies, said President Francois Hollande travelled to Baghdad for base in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. Three years diplomacy by the Saudis. It all led Qatar to soften its position on Andrew Hammond, an analyst with European Council on talks ahead of an international conference on Iraq in after the end of the nearly nine-year US military pres- many issues.” Qatar has also been courted by the United States Foreign Relations. “I don’t think it signals a major shift in policy, Paris tomorrow. Kerry was in neighbouring Turkey to ence in Iraq, which some observers say nurtured what is to support US-led action against Islamic State militants who it looks like incremental concessions to placate (Qatar’s) neigh- address the threat posed by the jihadists, who seized now IS, Obama has also been careful to stress to the control parts of Iraq and Syria. US Secretary of State John Kerry bors and prevent the dispute from getting out of hand,” he said. much of the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of war-weary American public that he will not commit won backing on Thursday for a “coordinated military campaign” “The other issue is what happens with Jazeera’s line. Does that Baghdad in June. ground forces. — Agencies against Islamic State from 10 Arab countries - Egypt, Iraq, shift? Nothing has changed so far,” Hammond said. — Agencies SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 ANALYSIS
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hree Latin American countries hold elections next month - Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia - a Tcrunch test for ruling leftists seeking to bolster budding dynasties in the face of a regional slowdown. All three countries have become symbols of the region’s leftward tilt in recent years, but only Bolivia looks sure to continue the trend. In Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, an economist and former guerrilla with a no- nonsense reputation, is trying to extend the Workers’ Party’s nearly 12-year reign by winning a second term like her charismatic predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Washington Watch Silva. In Uruguay, fellow ex-guerrilla Jose Mujica, a folksy iconoclast known for legalizing marijuana and living in a run-down house, is looking to hand power back to Cruz: The dangers of not listening his Broad Front party predecessor, medical doctor Tabare Vazquez, the country’s president from 2005 to By Dr James J Zogby Christians and a total lack of awareness of ation of a social order that can build societies but feel that we reject them. It appears that 2010. And in Bolivia, Evo Morales, a virulent critic of their history and current needs. Like too many based on equal rights for all and reconciliation policymakers want to have it both ways. They the United States who became the country’s first y mother was fond of saying “if you of his colleagues, he can only see the Middle among all faith traditions. want to pass insensitive anti-Arab legislation indigenous president in 2006, is seeking a third term want someone to hear you, you must East through then lens of what is good for But Cruz wasn’t listening. He came to the and make outrageous statements about Arabs after winning a Supreme Court ruling allowing him to Mfirst listen to them” - know them, Israel. Because he comes out of the Christian event with preconceived notions and and Muslims - all for politically expedient ends stand again under a new constitution. understand the questions they are asking, and fundamentalist world and now operates in the prepackaged message. He was speaking at - and yet they are confounded by the Arab “If you had asked me about these elections a year be sensitive to their concerns. If you do this, bubble of Washington politics, he simply had Middle East Christians, using them as a prop reactions to these taunts and insults. ago, I’d have told you that in all three cases the ruling she would say, “you will be able to speak with no understanding of his audience and no to promote his own agenda. Unfortunately, he So it was with Ted Cruz on Wednesday parties were sure to win,” said Carlos Malamud, a Latin people and not at them”. What happens when desire to listen to them and learn from them. is not alone. For decades now, American night. Despite his reputation, he was set to America specialist at the Real Instituto Elcano in you don’t follow this simple rule of communi- Immediately upon leaving the event, he politicians have paid scant attention to the deliver a speech with which I am certain many Madrid. “But these past few months, in both Uruguay cation was on display during the “In Defense issued a statement to Breitbart (a far-right realities of the Arab World and the history and of his congressional colleagues would have and Brazil, the scenario has evolved considerably.” of Christians” conference that was held in website) calling the audience reaction “a needs of its people. Their awareness of the concurred. After all, they might say, what In Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America and Washington from Sept 9 to 11. shameful display of...ignorance and bigotry”. region has been framed by Israel and oil. One, could anyone find offensive in praising Israel seventh-largest in the world, the October 5 vote has Addressing an audience of 900 mostly He lamented that while he had wanted to lay they felt was necessary for their electoral and denouncing radical Islam - especially to been shaken by the shocking plane crash that killed Arab Christians, Senator Ted Cruz launched out a litany of examples of Christians and Jews ambitions, the other was important for our an audience of fellow Christians? But it was Socialist candidate Eduardo Campos last month. His into a passionate defense of Israel arguing persecuted by “Islamic radicals”, his efforts to economic well-being. Seeing the world not the message this audience needed or running mate, 56-year-old environmentalist Marina that “Christians have no better ally than the do so were upended by “bigotry and hatred” through this narrow lens produced a “willed wanted to hear, precisely because they are Silva, took his place and immediately emerged as a far Jewish State”. The audience booed. and “the corrosive evil of anti-Semitism”. ignorance” about broader regional realities. It suffering - and because many of them have greater threat to Rousseff, 66. The latest opinion poll Undeterred, Cruz continued, to more booing, was not just that politicians did not know suffered at the hands of Israel. Because he did- indicates Silva would win an October 26 runoff against “those who hate Israel hate America” and Ignorance and Bigotry about what Arabs were saying or what they n’t really want to help them, or care to know the incumbent 47 percent to 43 percent. “those who hate Jews hate Christians”. When In fact, in this entire sad and sordid affair, wanted, they did not want to know - since them or to listen to them they booed and Silva, an Evangelical Christian who appeals to both the audience would not stop, Cruz cut short the only ignorance and bigotry on display was they felt that there was no benefit in knowing. booted him off the stage. religious conservatives and the left, has vowed to be his remarks charging “some here are so con- that of the senator, himself. He cared not a bit There is a lesson in this, for those who care Brazil’s first “poor, black” president, scooping up unde- sumed with hate...if you will not stand with for the feelings of Arab Christians. Blinded by Foreign Policy Blunders to learn. And it’s not only about the impor- cided voters with the promise of a new direction for a Israel and Jews, then I will not stand with you”. his own lack of understanding and concern, This has created a dangerous state of tance of communicating. With the Israeli- recession-hit country swept by massive protests last He then walked off the stage. Cruz appeared to be more interested in scor- affairs. In the past four decades since the end Palestinian conflict simmering on low boil; year. “She has come to embody the face of change,” It is generally known that Ted Cruz can be a ing political points with his conservative base, of the war in Vietnam, we have spent more with violent extremists gaining ground in the said Andre Cesar of consultancy Prospectiva. demagogue, a quality that makes him than in taking the time to know what money, sent more weapons, fought more heart of the Arab East; with Lebanon on the In Uruguay, the race for the October 26 vote has immensely disliked by his colleagues. He is Christians in Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, wars, lost more lives, and have more interests brink, overwhelmed by refugees and in dan- also been rattled by an unexpected latecomer. Luis also considered to be quite bright and calcu- Egypt, and Iraq really feel and want. at stake in the Middle East than anywhere else ger of being engulfed the sectarian conflict Lacalle Pou, the son of a former president, defied fore- lating. And so as I have attempted to under- If he had listened to the six Patriarchs of in the world, and yet we still have too little brewing next door; and with ancient Christian casts to win the center-right National Party’s primary stand why he did what he did, two distinct Eastern churches (as President Obama did in a understanding of its people, their history and churches threatened with extinction - the in June, and has since shot up in the polls. The latest scenarios come to mind. It is possible that he lengthy meeting with the prelates on culture, and their needs. Because we have had president has announced that we are now gives him 28 percent of the vote, to 40 percent for went to the IDC conference to provoke a Thursday), all of whom also addressed the no understanding of Egyptians, Palestinians, about to reengage militarily in Iraq and Syria. Vazquez. The little-known 41-year-old has brought “Sister Souljah” moment - which he could then conference, he would have heard them speak Lebanese, Syrians, and Iraqis, we have Before we do, it is important that we not new energy to a race long seen as a cinch for 74-year- exploit with his supporters on the fundamen- of their history of coexistence with Muslims. engaged in tragic and costly foreign policy repeat the mistakes we made in Iraq and old Vazquez, who doesn’t use social networks, refuses talist right as evidence of his political courage. They, of course, are deeply concerned with blunders that have taken a terrible toll in Afghanistan. We need to be certain that we debates and “thinks the electorate is still the same as It is more likely that he had no clue about the the rise of extremism and horrified by the bru- human life and the prestige of our country understand the people and the cultural and 10 years ago,” said Ricardo Lopez Gottig of regional reaction his taunting remarks would receive tally violent excesses of those who are using a across this critical region. social dynamics at work in each of these coun- think-tank Cadal. and was, therefore, stunned by the audience distorted Islam to create the terror they use to In my polling, I find that Arabs like our val- tries before it’s too late and our efforts to help consolidate political power. But far from want- ues and culture, our science and technology, become yet another in a series of fatal errors Both the Brazilian and Uruguayan newcomers have reaction - and that it was only mid-stream that he decided that he could use the audience ing to pour fuel on the fires of a “clash of civi- our products and our people. What they hate that have marked our history of involvement been boosted by “a climate of disappointment, reaction to his political benefit. lizations” that pits Jews and Christians against is our policy, because they see its impact on in this region about which we know so little. fatigue, a general bad mood after a series of leftist In either case, Cruz displayed a shameful Muslims, the leaders of these Eastern church- their lives and the insensitivity it demon- NOTE: Dr James J Zogby is the President of governments,” said Adolfo Garce, a social scientist at insensitivity to the concerns of Middle East es seek the defeat of extremism and the cre- strates to their concerns. They want to like us, the Arab American Institute. Montevideo University.
Morales, the Exception Bolivia’s Oct 12 vote looks less volatile, with Morales Spain pressured to negotiate on Catalonia polling at 56 percent - far ahead of center-right rival Samuel Doria Medina’s 17 percent. Morales, 54, has By Elodie Cuzin Constitutional Court later overruled that claim. After that ruling, approved the referendum even though it opposes independence. also refused to debate his opponent. But with eco- demands for a political settlement “became infectious and got worse,” Rajoy has vowed to block the Catalan vote, but Mas said it is “impossi- nomic growth projected at five percent this year, he pain’s leaders refuse to let their country break apart, but as said Losada. ble” to do so. “This V is a very powerful message and very wide-reach- doesn’t need to. “Morales has never debated in his pre- Catalonia’s independence drive gathers steam, analysts say ing, and those in Madrid should listen to it,” said Mas after Thursday’s vious elections and that has always brought him suc- SMadrid may have to negotiate on a question affecting all of Scotland Holds the Key rally. “The time has come for them to sit down and negotiate.” cess. Why would he do it now?” said Marcelo Silva, a Europe. Hundreds of thousands of nationalists demanding a vote on Pro-independence Catalans are fired up by Scotland’s independ- Whatever happens on November 9, something may budge in the professor at La Paz University. independence from Spain staged a mass demonstration in Barcelona ence referendum on Sept 18. The region’s nationalist president Artur standoff once that sensitive date is passed, Losada said. The ruling But elsewhere in the region, the end of a so-called on Thursday, gathering in red and yellow shirts to form a giant “V” for Mas has called for Catalonia to hold its own vote on independence on Popular Party “has been gradually realising that something will have “golden decade” of strong economic growth has vote. Nationalists and political experts alike said this raised the ques- Nov 9. “The key to this is in Scotland,” said Vallespin. “If the ‘yes’ vote to be done with the constitution ... Now the question is how far-reach- brought an increasingly restless electorate, said Daniel tion of how long the Spanish government can resist without flinch- wins in Scotland, that will break the taboo over secession in western ing to make that reform,” he said. “There is a real demand that requires Zovatto, Latin America director at the International ing, and how Europe would tackle a potential wave of secession Europe.” Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says Catalonia cannot a political response,” he added. “Either you change, or you adapt, or it Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. After demands. be compared to Scotland, where the British government has explodes.” —AFP expanding by 5.9 percent in 2010 and 4.3 percent in “The problem is no longer just with Catalonia,” said Fernando 2011, the region’s economies are expected to grow Vallespin, a political scientist at the Autonomous University of Madrid. just 2.7 percent this year, according to the Economic “The question of how you solve it depends not only on Spain but on Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. the European Union. People are very worried about it.” Spain’s consti- “Part of the new middle class could slip back into tution, approved by referendum in 1978 three years after the death of poverty. Or demand a better quality of life, more pub- the dictator Francisco Franco, gave the country’s regions a degree of lic services,” said Zovatto. “The winds of change are autonomy, but not as much as some Catalans now want. “Nearly 40 starting to blow in the region.” —AFP years have now passed and that agreement needs to be revised,” said Anton Losada, a political scientist at Santiago de Compostela University. “There is a real demand in society for a change in the struc- ture of the Spanish state.” All articles appearing on these Basque Country and Beyond Thursday’s demonstration in Catalonia was joined by sympathetic pages are the personal opinion of delegates from Spain’s Basque Country. ETA militants waged an the writers. Kuwait Times takes no armed fight for independence there before declaring an end to it in responsibility for views expressed 2010. “Madrid must understand that the Catalans are not alone. We therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Basques are here, too,” said Hasier Arraiz, leader of Sortu, one of a new generation of Basque parties seeking independence by political ers to voice their opinions. Please means. “A ‘no’ to Catalonia would be a no to the Basque Country.” The send submissions via email to: opin- Basque Country failed in its own bid to hold a referendum on the [email protected] or via snail right to decide in 2008. “They are watching the Catalan issue from a distance,” said mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Florencio Dominguez, director of the Basque news agency Vasco The editor reserves the right to edit Press. “They have waged a strategy that seeks a reform of the state any submission as necessary. model, though not in a unilateral way like Catalonia is doing.” For its Catalans hold Catalan independence flags (Estelada) during celebrations of Catalonia National Day part, Catalonia formally declared itself a “nation” in 2006 but Spain’s (Diada) in Barcelona on Sept 11, 2014. —AFP p15_Layout 1 9/13/14 9:28 PM Page 1
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Yepes set for Kuwaiti shooters to take part Brook vows to fight on Argentina return in double trap competition after stabbing incident
BUENOS AIRES: Colombia’s 2014 World Cup captain Mario Yepes is set to GRANADA: Kuwaiti shooters will take part in the men’s double trap com- LONDON: Britain’s IBF world welterweight champion Kell Brook has told a return to Argentina to sign for San Lorenzo, the South American champions petitions of the World Championship currently held here and proceeding British newspaper he is determined to resurrect his career after being said. “Welcome Mario! Yepes has become a new San Lorenzo player. Welcome till September 20th. stabbed in the leg while on holiday. to the champions of (South) America,” the Saints said on their Twitter account The head of the team, Obaid Al-Osaimi, told KUNA the shooters are (@SanLorenzo) late on Friday. The 38-year-old central defender, who led The 28-year-old was attacked on the Spanish island of Tenerife in what looking forward to “rank among the first” winners, however he cautions he called “an unprovoked attack”, less than a month after his majority-deci- Colombia to the World Cup quarter-finals where they lost to Brazil, played for that the national championships will face strong competition. sion IBF title win over America’s Shawn Porter in California. River Plate from 1999-2002 before embarking on an European Elite shooters are taking part in the championship and very close The unbeaten Sheffield fighter said the attack took place in career. Media reports said Yepes, who in August turned down scores have been recorded, reflecting significant development of the an offer from Argentine rivals Independiente, was enticed to game worldwide, he said. his assailant’s apartment in the early hours of September 4 join Libertadores Cup winners San Lorenzo to play in the The Kuwaiti shooters will play in the double trap individuals and after a night of drinking went wrong. Club World Cup in Morocco in December. groups. This competition will be held for a single day and will involve “Without warning or caution, one swipe,” Brook told Former Paris St Germain and AC Milan defender Yepes, a 200 disks, in four rounds, each with 50 ones. Saturday’s edition of the Daily Mail. “I was a victim of an unpro- free agent after ending his contract with Atalanta, is wind- Six are to be qualified, after the four rounds, for the finals. Only the voked attack. Without warning, I was getting (hit with a) ing down his career. Yepes, won the Copa first and second winners in the individuals’ category will be entitled to machete by this guy to my leg. America with Colombia in 2001, has quit play in the 2016 Olympiad. “This guy was stood over me, shouting and swearing. international football as the country’s sec- All shooters will take part in the official training, to be held at King I am trying to scramble away. I was thinking about my ond-most capped player with 102 Juan Calos’ ranges later today. —KUNA appearances.— Reuters daughter, that I need to get away.—AFP Pressure on Head to get Treve Arc bid back on track
PARIS: Trainer Criquette Head-Maarek will leading up to the race. Jarnet, 47, has never Criquette, seeing how well Jarnet gets on with and extract the best from her.” the Arc.” The other two Arc trials are Group hope her bold decision to replace Italian leg- lost on her. He had the ride when she won the Treve, particularly in the mornings (training Her principal challenges may well come Two affairs and sees Dettori partnering last end Frankie Dettori on Treve will be vindicated French Oaks last year before she was bought gallops), feels it is an advantage which should from the English duo, both trained by John year’s Epsom Derby winner Ruler of the World, this Sunday and revive her bid of becoming by Qatari Sheikh Joaan Al-Thani for whom be taken,” said Herbert. Gosden, of Pomology and Sultanina. seventh behind Treve in the Arc last year, in the first horse since Alleged in 1977/78 to win Dettori is the retained rider, and Head-Maarek “We are all big Frankie fans but the Sheikh Pomology beat her stablemate in the Group the Prix Foy. His main rival should be Spiritjim, successive Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe’s. Treve felt it was time for a change. felt that if Criquette felt that strongly it was her Two Lancashire Oaks but since then Sultanina who will bid to bounce back from being failed to win on her two starts under Dettori “It was my decision, nobody else’s. I think it decision.” Jarnet and Treve will face nine rivals went on to win the Group One Nassau Stakes. stripped by French racing’s governing body this season and Head-Maarek felt veteran is the best decision for the filly and when I told today and the Frenchman believes that he can They could benefit from Treve being a little France Galop on Friday of the Grand Prix de St French jockey Thierry Jarnet had a better Frankie he was very good about it and under- get her back to her best. “I don’t know if she rusty as she has not raced since injuring her Cloud for testing positive for a banned prod- understanding with the filly and will be reunit- stood my point of view,” said Head-Maarek. (Treve) is especially difficult, but I know her by back in June. “Criquette has warned everyone uct. The Arc trial for three-year-old colts the ed with her in Sunday’s Group One Prix “Thierry did very well on the filly last year and heart and have been around her since her that the Vermeille is not the Arc, so she may be Prix Niel should be fought out between Andre Vermeille at Longchamp. there is nothing more to say.” Dettori may in debut,” he told The Guardian. “Maybe there is a slightly short of fitness on Sunday. Whatever Fabre’s surprise Group One Grand Prix de Paris It is a race Treve won last year, when ridden her words have been ‘very good about it’ but bit more feeling that passes between horse she does, she will come on for that run,” said winner Gallante and the Aidan O’Brien-trained by Dettori, on her way to winning the Arc nevertheless he was ‘upset’, according to and rider. “There are a lot of different things Herbert. “She’s in very good shape. She is a Adelaide, who is coming off an impressive win where Jarnet took the ride because the Italian Sheikh Joaan’s racing manager Harry Herbert. that can happen in a race. But she remains a very brilliant filly. I have no doubt she has in another Group One race the Secretariat was injured in an innocuous fall in the week “It is all tiny percentages at this level and filly with a lot of quality and you have to try trained on and can be a serious contender in Stakes in the United States.—AFP I’m getting closer to number one: Nishikori
TOKYO: Japan’s Kei Nishikori was given a added: “This is the most amazing welcome hero’s welcome by over 200 fans when he I’ve ever had.” arrived in Tokyo yesterday after becoming Already a superstar in Japan, Nishikori the first Asian man to reach a grand slam stopped to sign autographs and pose for final at the US Open. The 24-year-old’s photographs after arriving back in Asia for dream of claiming the holy grail of a first appearances at the Malasyia Open and the major title came to a shuddering halt in a 6- Japan Open.“To have so many well-wishers 3, 6-3, 6-3 thrashing by Serbian giant Marin come out like this is really gratifying and Cilic in last Monday’s final in New York. really underlines the scale of what I did. It But a defiant Nishikori, who has risen to doesn’t guarantee I will win a grand slam- eighth in the world after his swashbuckling and it’s too late this year now of course-but run at the year’s last slam, insisted he could I’ll train hard to get there.” push on and threaten the top of the men’s Nishikori, whose career has been blight- rankings. “It was obviously hugely frustrat- ed by injuries, almost pulled out of the US ing to lose the final,” Nishikori told a news Open after developing a cyst on his toe and conference at Narita airport after being with little time to get ready managed to mobbed by fans and being presented with overcome three top-10 players in New York, a bouquet of flowers. “But in terms of my two of them in five-setters. tennis career I’ve taken a very important “Getting through those tough matches step. It feels like I’ve moved a little bit closer and beat three players in the top 10 is the to realising my dream of becoming the stuff I can draw confidence from,” he said. world number one.” “Important I gained the confidence that I Nishikori, who stunned current world could deal with the physical demands and number one Novak Djokovic in the US still play my style of tennis. “The goal now Open semi-finals and sparked tennis fever will be for me to win a major next year for across Japan despite the time difference sure.” — AFP Top seed Lisicki to face Pliskova in HK final PERTH: Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt (R) and Chris Guccione (L) speak with each other in their match against Uzbekistan’s Farrukh Dustov and Denis Istomin during the Davis Cup tennis World Group play-off tie in Perth yesterday. — AFP HONG KONG: Top seed Sabine Lisicki will In another three-set match, Pliskova dis- face-off against Czech Republic’s Karolina patched Belgium’s Van Uytvanck, who put Pliskova in the finals of the WTA Hong up a hardy performance, in around two Kong Open after both players ploughed hours of play in the scorching heat. Hewitt, Guccione clinch through toughly contested semi-final Third-seed Pliskova had beaten China’s matches yesterday. Zheng Jie easily on Friday, but Van Germany’s Lisicki defeated former Uytvanck, who defeated the second seed French Open champion Francesca Daniela Hantuchova in the second round, World Group playoff Schiavone 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in the semi-finals had put up a strong fight. for the $250,000 WTA tournament at the Ranked 36 in the world, Pliskova set the southern Chinese city’s Victoria Park. tempo early in the match against Van PERTH: Lleyton Hewitt steered Australia back to the tie ahead of Sunday’s dead reverse singles. “We are complete opposite game styles, per- Lisicki, who defeated China’s Zheng Uytvanck, world number 91, but lost the Davis Cup World Group with a dominating Hewitt, who took his 15-year career Davis Cup sonalities, everything, in a lot of ways, but we Saisai 6-4, 6-3 on Friday, stumbled in the momentum in the second set. The Czech performance in the doubles win over Uzbekistan winning tally to 56 matches with 41 singles and team up really well though and we know what second set following a feisty performance ultimately won the match 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. in Perth yesterday. 15 doubles, has faced a barrage of enquiries as we’re going to get from one another on the by the unseeded Schiavone, but bounced “Now I’m in the finals, I would like to The 33-year-old warhorse, continually fend- to what his future holds, but he refuses to say. court,” Hewitt said of his doubles partner back to win the match in a decisive third win the title this year,” Pliskova, who lost ing off retirement questions, partnered Chris The grizzled veteran, who has undergone five Guccione. “We don’t play a lot of doubles set. her two finals appearances this year, told Guccione to a 6-3, 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 victory over the painful surgeries in five years in an effort to pro- together, but I feel in these one-off matches we “It was a great semifinals, not only for reporters after the match. Uzbek pair, Denis Istomin and Farrukh Dustov, to long his career including a knitting of the bone gel pretty well.” the crowd, but for us as well with long, fun Pliskova, who beat former world num- clinch the tie. The 28-time Davis Cup champions in his troublesome left foot, was his usual fero- Australia captain Pat Rafter said big-serving rallies. It’s always fun to play those kinds of ber one Ana Ivanovic at the US Open in were in an impregnable position after Hewitt cious competitive self in today’s doubles. Sam Groth would make his Davis Cup debut in matches and come out on top,” Lisicki told August, reached the finals for the February and youngster Nick Kyrgios won Friday’s open- The Aussie pair took just 100 minutes to roll one of Sunday’s reverse singles matches. reporters in a post-match press confer- PTT Pattaya Open and Nuremberg Cup in ing singles in straight sets. out their straight sets win in the doubles, shut- Australia were forced in a play-off to retain their ence. May of this year. She won the Malaysian The Australians, playing on their favoured ting the door on Uzbekistan, who were bidding status in the elite 16-nation World Group after a “I just got fired up, I really wanted to Open in 2013. grass surface, have not dropped a set so far in to reach the World Group for the first time. first-round loss to France in February. —AFP win, I really wanted to get to the finals “It’s going to be tough, but I’m really badly,” Lisicki said, adding that Schiavone looking forward to it,” Lisicki said of playing was a “great fighter”. Pliskova in the finals today. — AFP Khalifa Al Attiyah to take part in Cyprus rally 2014
DOHA: Qatari champion Khalifa bin the third stage-second day in spite championship for rallies 2014 will rally is considered also the ninth Nasser Al Attiyah resumes his inter- of the special performance he dis- start on 18th of the current month round of the European Rally national participations throughout played, “we learned the lesson well up to 21st of the same month, this Championship-ERC. the international Cyprus rally - fifth and we will try to make use of all round of Middle East championship mistakes at Cyprus rally to achieve for rallies - group N with his experi- the best results in the name of enced co-driver Adel Hussain-Avio Qatar throughout group N. ‚Ä®It’s 9. “About the nature of the partici- worth saying that the Qatari cham- pation, Al Attiyah first thanked the pion started his career in 2002 in head of QMMF Nasser bin Khalifa Al Formula 4 in UK, the same year he Attiyah for his special role in sup- competed in class T2 Qatar local porting motor sport either locally championship for rallies and man- or internationally, then he con- aged to achieve the first position, firmed his full readiness for the ral- then stopped up to the year 2005, ly, since it’s the most favourite rally after that he competed in Qatar to me, Al Attiyah said, because its local championship for rallies 2008 style is quite similar to my style, in with his Avio 6, the third position addition to my experienced co-dri- was his best result, then he stopped ver Adel Hussain, all these ele- again, in 2013, he resumed his ments would help us to occupy an career throughout QMMF with his advanced position.” experienced co-driver the Qatari Regarding his sudden withdraw- Adel Hussain, the most experienced HONG KONG: Germany’s Sabine Lisicki hits a return against Italy’s Francesca al from International Lebanon Rally one in the rallies world. “It’s worth Schiavone during their women’s singles semi-final match at the Hong Kong Open - fourth round, Al Attiyah justified saying that the international Cyprus tennis tournament yesterday. — AFP this by the fire accident occurred in rally 2014 - fifth round - Middle East p16_Layout 1 9/13/14 9:27 PM Page 1
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MADRID: Serbia’s centre Nenad Krstic (left) vies with France’s centre Rudy Gobert MADRID: An acrobat performs during the 2014 FIBA World basketball championships semifinal match France vs Serbia at the Palacio de los during the 2014 FIBA World basketball championships semifinal match France vs Deportes in Madrid on September 12, 2014. Serbia won 90-85. — AFP Serbia at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid on September 12, 2014. — AFP Serbia hold off France to reach final
MADRID: Serbia held off France 90-85 in the other Serbs had 10 points as they defeated Spain even though Nicolas Batum did score 35 15 after one quarter. Serbia opened the sec- quickly got the lead to the magical 10-point semi-finals of the 2014 FIBA Basketball World France, who had beaten hosts and major title points - 17 of those in the fourth quarter - and ond quarter with a 10-0 run for a 30-15 lead, barrier. And then Diaw, Batum and Evan Cup in Madrid on Friday to set up a title fight contenders Spain in the quarters. “What can I Boris Diaw had 13. and a 7-0 surge later in the quarter pushed the Fournier all nailed three-pointers to cut the against undefeated reigning champions the say about Milos? He’s our leader. He is one of The reigning European champions now margin to 18 points - 43-25. The Serbs were Serbian lead down to 65-61 with five minutes United States. Serbia won five world titles as the best point guards in the world. But this face off against Lithuania in the game for third leading 46-32 at the break - thanks to Teodosic to play. Bogdanovic came up with a big three- part of Yugoslavia as recently as 2002 but they was a great team performance,” said Nikola place, looking for their first-ever podium fin- scoring 10 points in the second period. pointer and layup to keep France at at bay and now have reached their first final since inde- Kalinic. In their first worlds as Serbia, the ish. France’s previous best showing was fourth France tried to get back into the game but then Teodosic’s three-pointer made it 77-68 pendence. They next play the United States Balkan giants reached the third place game in in 1954. France were able to stay with Serbia in they could not get enough defensive stops. with three minutes left. Batum, Diaw and who beat Lithuania 96-68 in Barcelona on 2010 but lost to Lithuania. But Sasha first five minutes before Teodosic really began Vincent Collet’s team cut the gap to 53-41 but Thomas Heurtel all knocked down three- Thursday. Djordjevic’s men have secured at least second to take control of the game. The playmaker Serbia continued to have an answer for every pointers to trim the gap to 82-79 but France Milos Teodosic led the way with 24 points place this time around. France were unable to had six points and one assist in an 11-0 run to France push and the advantage was 61-46 couldn’t stop Serbia at the other end as they while Bogdan Bogdanovic had 13 and three repeat their dazzling performance against give Serbia a 20-10 lead. The cushion was 21- after 30 minutes. France did not give up and coasted into Sunday’s final.—AFP High demand for the Rugby WCup tickets
LONDON: Some supporters had to wait for ing in a queue, so that’s pretty good and up to an hour online when tickets for next there haven’t been any technological year’s Rugby World Cup in England went on issues.” general sale on Friday. However, England Meanwhile Jevans warned fans not to Rugby 2015 chief executive Debbie Jevans buy tickets from unauthorized secondary insisted the computer system had worked websites which in some cases were adver- well but that demand was “high” with up to tising tickets for more than 10 times their 50,000 people waiting in a queue. value. One site was even offering a ticket Officials reminded fans that they could for the final at £8,870 ($14,428, 11,130 wait to submit their application until the euros) when the most expensive official sales window closes on September 29 price is £715. “We don’t know if that ticket because tickets will be distributed via a bal- exists,” said Jevans. “I am passionate that we lot rather than on a first-come-first-served have our tickets at face value and getting basis. “Applications have gone really well. to fans. I don’t like seeing tickets as com- The queue time was about an hour, which modities, I want to see them getting into is what we anticipated. There’s been good the hands of people who want to watch enthusiasm,” Jevans said. “We were able to the event.” Over-subscribed games will be have thousands of people on the site at the decided via a ballot after the sales window same time and it’s been going well. “People shuts on September 29. Prices for adults are applying for tickets across all 48 match- range from £15 for low-profile group es and that’s what made me really pleased. games up to £715 for the most expensive “At one point there were over 50,000 wait- seat for the final at Twickenham.— AFP Political football as competition starts SEOUL: Japan and hosts South Korea will get Cup experience: goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu, LA ROCHELLE: La Rochelle’s captain Uini Atonio (center) is tackled by Castres’s Ray Kockott (left) and Piula Faasalele (right) during the the Asian Games off to an unofficial start today Mainz 05 defender Park Joo-Ho and 6ft 5in French Top 14 rugby union match La Rochelle vs Castres on September 12, 2014 at the Marcel Deflandre stadium in La Rochelle, southwest- when the bitter rivals begin their bids for glory (1.95m) Ulsan Hyundai striker Kim Shin-Wook. ern France. —AFP in what could be a tense football competition. “He has great skills for a player his size. I think Former war-time aggressor Japan, the defend- he should really thrive against Asian oppo- ing champions, can expect a frosty reception nents,” said Lee of Kim Shin-Wook. Iran, whose La Rochelle overpower by home fans as they taste their first action in four titles remains an Asian Games record, are Incheon, five days before the opening ceremo- expected to be Japan and South Korea’s clos- ny. Officials will be braced for a repeat of their est challengers in the men’s competition. controversial London Olympics clash if both Twenty-nine countries will compete across Castres; Bobo runs riot Japan and South Korea, bracketed in separate eight groups, with the top two progressing to groups, reach the October 2 final. the knockout stages. Each squad is restricted In 2012, after South Korea won 2-0 to to under-23s and three over-age players. In the PARIS: Veteran Fijian winger Sireli Bobo ran riot this victory and we achieved it.” Collazo’s men Murimurivalu notched up a fourth try for the secure the bronze medal, Park Jong-Woo held women’s, Japan are grouped with three-time as he helped lift newly-promoted La Rochelle off could also thank the indiscipline of their visitors hosts after 55 minutes to extend their lead to 34- up a sign saying “Dokdo is our territory”, refer- winners China. They also can expect a chal- the bottom of the Top 14 table with a 41-16 vic- during a balanced first half, and their scrum-half 16. La Rochelle did not crack faced with Castres ring to a highly charged dispute over a group lenge from 2002 and 2006 champions North tory which piled more misery on Castres. Julien Audy who proved effective with the boot, attempts to break through and managed to pick of islands. Park was hit by a two-match ban but Korea, who have reached the last four finals. Castres, the 2013 champions and last season’s accounting for 19 of the hosts points on the up their first bonus point of the season two min- it did not stop rival groups of Korean and Japan coach Norio Sasaki, constrained by his Top 14 runners-up, are in huge difficulty since night. utes from time when Bobo’s dramatic 90 metres Japanese fans unfurling political banners European-based players’ club commitments, their opening defeat to Stade Francais, and now La Rochelle flyhalf Jean-Pascal Barraque run bore fruit to earn him a standing ovation. “We when the sides met at last year’s East Asia Cup. has picked some new faces alongside highly prop up the bottom of the table after five opened with a try after 12 minutes which was can’t deny we’re in a critical situation with just six A final between Japan and South Korea would decorated stalwarts like Aya Miyama.— AFP matches. duly converted by Audy as Castres multiplied points in four matches,” admitted Castres deputy mean a security headache for organisers in Bobo, 38, touched down two of his side’s four the errors to trail 19-9 at the break. Back from coach David Darricarrere. “But it’s not a reason to what would be a game brimming with emo- tries to the delight of the close on 15,000 specta- the locker room Bobo once again punished bury our heads in a bucket. We’re in for the long tion and national pride. tors at Stade Marcel-Deflandre on the atlantic Castres before Rory Kockott, who scored 11 of haul. “There are reasons to believe that the sky Apart from a gold medal, some players in coast. “With more conviction we showed that the visitors points, reacted with pride to set up will be clearer tomorrow. We must quickly regain the under-23 line-ups will be hoping to secure things can work,” said La Rochelle coach Patrice centre Thomas Combezou who touched down stability and confidence,” he added. La Rochelle a spot in their senior teams for next year’s Collazo. “There was battle, commitment. We won Castres’ only try on the night. However, the final move up to 10th in the 14-team table ahead of Asian Cup, where Japan are also defending because we did things in order. We went after glimmer for Castres faded when Fiji back Kini yesterday’s full program of games.—AFP champions. Korean patience would be sorely tested if Japan do the double by also winning gold in the women’s competition, where their “Nadeshiko” are the world, Asian and defend- Formula E: Prost, Senna start at ing Asiad champions. For Japan’s men’s coach Makoto Teguramori, the goal is simple: rein- forcing their status as the dominant force in opposite ends of the electric grid Asian football. “We want to show that Japan are Asia’s number one side,” Teguramori said. BEIJING: Two of motorsports’ most famous third on the grid after he clocked one minute ner, there is a crossing for pedestrians that “Our team is united and we can be flexible names start the first ever Formula E race for 42.454 seconds. Prost, 33, who races for the E changes the grid, and many other things, so with tactics,” he added. “We will be going for a electric cars at opposite ends of the grid in Dams Renault team co-founded by his father, each corner is actually very different, so that win in each match and I want to bring out the Beijing, with Nicolas Prost taking pole position crashed into the barriers on one of his four complexity during these laps makes it very dif- best in every player.” in Beijing and Bruno Senna second from last. laps, but said there was no damage to his car. ficult to race.” Frenchman Prost, the son of four-time F1 cham- He felt “fantastic” with his qualifying, he The first-ever Formula E race takes place in Back-to-back trophies pion Alain, went some way to meeting the said, in his first street race since 2005. “To be the shadow of the Bird’s Nest stadium in the Today’s eight matches constitute the first heavy expectations on his shoulders by clock- honest I was a bit worried, but in the end it Chinese capital. The series will see 10 races on competition of the Asian Games, which ing the best lap on the 3.453-kilometre circuit turned out OK,” he added. “I was very disap- different street circuits around the world encompass 36 sports offering 439 gold medals MANILA: Members of the Palestinian with a time of one minute 42.200 seconds. pointed with myself because my first lap was involving 20 drivers from 10 different teams, and close on October 4. Japan kick off their football team stretch as they take part But Senna, the nephew of Ayrton Senna, obviously very good but my second lap I was with British tycoon Branson and Hollywood campaign against Kuwait, while three-time in a training session during an invita- suffered a miserable afternoon after his car flying, I was much quicker, and I messed it up, actor Leonardo DiCaprio backing one team winners South Korea take on Malaysia in their tional tournament in Manila. The failed to start in qualifying, meaning he was to so I was a bit disappointed with myself but in each. While Senna did not take part in qualify- opening match today. The Koreans had to set- Palestinian team’s under-23 side will begin the race in 19th position. Prost was more the end it was enough and it feels just great.” ing because of a “battery issue” with his car, an tle for bronze four years ago and they haven’t also play at the Asian Games in Incheon than a tenth of a second ahead of second- Prost compared the track to an American street official at his team, Mahindra Racing, told AFP won gold since Seoul 1986, something coach this month. The Asian Games will be placed Brazilian Lucas Di Grassi, whose fastest circuit, while di Grassi said it was challenging that he would be racing. Nelson Piquet Junior, Lee Kwang-Jong will be keen to rectify. held from September 19 to October 4, lap was one minute 42.306. Di Grassi’s team- given that “each corner has its own peculiarity”. also the son of a former motor sport great, will His squad includes three players with World 2014. — AFP mate at Audi Sport ABT, Daniel Abt, will be “The tarmac changes in the middle of the cor- start the race in 10th spot.— AFP p17 2_Layout 1 9/13/14 9:26 PM Page 1
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 SPORTS NFL star Peterson turns himself in, posts bond
MINNEAPOLIS: NFL star running back multiple injuries to the boy, Houston’s CBS Adrian Peterson turned himself in to Texas radio 650 said. The league’s former most authorities early yesterday, hours after he valuable player was summoned by a grand was indicted on charges of hitting his four- jury in Texas, his lawyer said, reportedly on year-old son with a tree branch. ESPN.com charges of reckless or negligent injury to a said Peterson was booked into the child. The Vikings said it was “in the process Montgomery County, Texas jail around 1:06 of gathering information regarding the am (0606 GMT) and released about half an legal situation,” deferring questions to hour later after posting the $15,000 bond. Peterson’s lawyer Rusty Hardin. Hardin He has been indicted by a grand jury on acknowledged that the six-time Pro Bowl honoree was the subject of an investiga- tion and said he has been cooperating with officials.
‘Loving father’ “Adrian is a loving father who used his judgment as a parent to discipline his son,” Hardin said, noting the player had also been spanked himself as a child. “Adrian has never hidden from what happened. He has cooperated fully with authorities and voluntarily testified before the grand jury for several hours,” the lawyer said. “It is important to remember that Adrian never intended to harm his son and deeply regrets the unintentional injury.” Peterson’s other son, a two-year-old, died in South Dakota 11 months ago after allegedly being assaulted by a boyfriend of the boy’s mom. It was only a couple months before the boy’s death that Peterson had learned ATLANTA: Chris Kirk of the United States hits a bunker shot on the 15th hole during the second round of the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola he was his father. Peterson, who is in his at the East Lake Golf Club on September 12, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. — AFP eighth NFL season, was deactivated from Sunday’s home opener against the New England Patriots. Adrian Peterson of the He is one of the top running backs of all- Red-hot Horschel jumps Minnesota Vikings time, rushing for 10,115 yards in his first charges reckless or negligent injury to a seven years in the league. Peterson ran for child. The emerging scandal is only the lat- 75 yards on 21 carries in Minnesota’s sea- est to hit the world’s richest sports league. son opener last week, a 34-6 win at St into Championship lead The NFL is also reeling from the uproar Louis. He ran for 1,266 yards and 10 touch- caused by a surveillance video of former downs last season. Rice was cut from the Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice brutally Ravens and suspended indefinitely when ATLANTA: Billy Horschel, who won last week’s punching the woman who is now his wife the video surfaced months after the inci- BMW Championship, posted a second-round, in a hotel elevator. The charges against dent-but he was initially hit with a two- four-under 66 on Friday to seize a two-shot lead Peterson were in connection with disciplin- game suspension, a punishment roundly heading into the weekend at the Tour ing his four-year-old son. The Minnesota criticized as far too lenient. The NFL is con- Championship. Horschel entered the day tied Vikings running back allegedly hit the boy ducting an independent investigation into atop the leaderboard with FedEx Cup points with a tree branch as a form of discipline its handling of the incident, as some leader Chris Kirk and is now eight-under 132 over the summer. pressed for league boss Roger Goodell to after 36 holes. “I drove it actually really good The punishment allegedly resulted in resign.—AFP compared to yesterday,” said Horschel, who is number two on the playoff points list. “Got off to a hot start and then gave a couple shots away easily. NFL Players union votes for “My short game was a little dicey. I was able to hang in there and make some good swings HGH testing, new drug rules on the back side and shoot another four-under par round.” Any of the current top five players on MIAMI: The NFL Players Association is an historic moment for our players and the points list would capture the FedEx Cup title (NFLPA) has approved a new league drug our league,” NFLPA President Eric Winston with a win this week. There are others outside policy following a vote on Friday that will said in a statement after player representa- the top five who will need a win and some help. allow testing for human growth hormone tives voted for the changes. The 27-year-old Horschel finished tied for sec- (HGH) for the first time, starting this season. “We have collectively bargained drug ond two weeks ago at the Deutsche Bank The new policy also raised the threshold for policies that will keep the game clean and Championship, which was won by Kirk. Horschel positive results for marijuana and also re- safe, but also provide our players with an is the hottest player on the Tour right now as classified the punishment for use of unprecedented level of fairness and trans- Friday’s 66 was the 10th straight round he has amphetamine during the off-season, the parency. Players should be proud of their shot in the 60s. ATLANTA: Billy Horschel of the United States walks up the 17th fairway during the second NFLPA said in a statement. union for standing up for what was best for Horschel could do no wrong on the back round of the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola at the East Lake Golf Club. — AFP Previously the use of amphetamines the game.” The NFL had struggled to find nine. “That’s the way it’s been the last couple were considered performance enhancing agreement with the union over HGH test- weeks,” Horschel said. “I’ve been playing one join Kirk and Aussie Jason Day (67) in second (68) and Jim Furyk (69) are all tied for fifth drugs by the league but now their off-sea- ing since including the item in the collec- side better than the other and I actually proba- place. McIlroy is number four on the FedEx list. heading into the third round at four-under 136. son use will be penalized as ‘substance tive bargaining agreement signed in bly should have shot a lot lower on the front side McIlroy played well on the back nine. He made Rickie Fowler (68) is in sole possession of ninth abuse’. The policy is ‘retroactive’ and so August 2011. According to the NFLPA, the today. I had chances. “I was two-under after birdie on 17 and 18 to finish two shots back. at three under. Masters champion Bubba allows for some players who were banned agreement allows for testing for HGH in the three and threw a couple shots away easy, but “Great warm-up on the range and from the Watson, currently number three on the points for amphetamine use during the most 2014 season but their statement said “play- hey I’ll take those two nines again for two more first tee shot I felt a lot more comfortable out list, stumbled to a three-over 73 and he is eight recent off-season to have their suspensions ers have the right to “challenge any aspect days and see where it puts me.” Kirk carded a there,” McIlroy said. “I was comfortable with my shots back at even-par 140. Watson began the lifted. The league’s website, NFL.com, said of the science of the HGH isoforms test. The two-under 68 on Friday and is tied for second at swing. Comfortable with the shape I was hitting day one shot back of Horschel and Kirk. The that around 20 players could be instantly collection of blood specimens is prohibited six-under 134. World number one Rory McIlroy, the ball. I still hit a few missed shots out there, Barclays winner Hunter Mahan is fifth in points, affected by the deal. Denver Broncos on game days.” this year’s Open champion and PGA but nowhere as many as I did (Thursday).” Kevin but he shot a two-over 72 on Friday and is at receiver Wes Welker could have his Another new element in the deal will Championship winner, shot a five-under 65 to Na (66), Ryan Palmer (67), Cameron Tringale six-over 146.— AFP amphetamine ban revoked while Cleveland see the introduction of an independent Browns All-Pro receiver Josh Gordon may arbitrator to handle appeals of positive see his one year ban cut to 10 games, the tests. The league and the NFLPA will jointly website suggested. The policy must now select, approve and pay for the retention of be finalized between the league and union three to five arbitrators. The union said they negotiators although it could take a while had successfully rejected a bid by the to reach an accord after NFL spokesman league to issue discipline for the arrest of Greg Aiello admitted barriers remained. driving under the influence of alcohol, prior “We have not yet reached an agreement to adjudication. Instead a two-game sus- with the union on revisions to our drug pension will be issued upon conviction or programs. There continue to be significant plea agreement for violations of law involv- unresolved issues,” Aiello said on his veri- ing alcohol and driving. “We stood up and fied Twitter account after the NFLPA had fought for what was right,” NFLPA executive earlier hailed the breakthrough deal. “This director DeMaurice Smith said. — Reuters Rory has majors under his belt but what’s in a pocket ATLANTA: A little luck goes a long way as McIlroy thought he had seen everything in Rory McIlroy benefited from his ball landing golf until pocket-gate happened. “It hit up on in a fan’s pocket in the second round of the the tree and ricocheted straight into his pock- Tour Championship. McIlroy smacked his et,” McIlroy said. “I wasn’t going in there. I drive on the par-four No 14 into the trees on know how sweaty my pockets are. I’m not the right side of the fairway only to have it going into anyone else’s.” McIlroy, who already land into a spectator’s pocket. After an awk- has an Open Championship and a PGA ward back-and-forth exchange McIlroy even- Championship this year, finished with a five- tually got the ball from the gentleman’s pock- under 65 Friday and is tied for second two et by having the fan hand it to him. He shook strokes behind leader Billy Horschel heading the man’s hand laughing at their strange into the weekend at the Tour Championship. encounter. McIlroy called an official and got a He would be guaranteed the FedEx Cup and free drop and went on to make par. But not $10 million with a victory at the season finale. TAIPEI: This handout photo taken and released by the Asian Tour yesterday shows Miguel Tabuena of the Philippines hitting a shot during the before he shook the man’s hand a second The FedEx Cup “would be the icing on the third day of the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship at the Linkou International Golf and Country Club in Taipei. — AFP time after the Northern Irishman had blasted cake, really. I wanted to cap it off in style and his shot out the rough and nicely onto the I’ve given myself a chance to do that over the green. next two days,” McIlroy said.— AFP Filipino teen grabs third round lead in Taiwan
TAIPEI: Filipino teen Miguel Tabuena took Thai star Thaworn Wiratchant, who rushed with Thailand’s Prom Meesawat and two-time the third round lead with a seven-under-par to see a doctor suffering irregular heartbeats PGA Tour winner Daniel Chopra of Sweden on 65 at the Yeangder Tournament Players and trembling hands on Friday, posted 68 to a 208 total. Championship (TPC) in Taipei yesterday. tie in second place with India’s Anirban Overnight co-leaders Filipino Antonio Tabuena, 19, tied for the low round thanks Lahiri. Lascuna and Cameron Smith of Australia’s to two closing birdies to hold a one-shot lead The 47-year-old defending champion and slipped down following a disappointing 72 with a 10-under-par 206 total at the Linkou two-time Asian Tour winner mixed his card and 73, respectively. International Golf and Country Club. with two bogeys against six birdies, including Leading scores after round three (par 72): “I hit good quality shots on the front nine a 25 feet birdie putt on the 12th hole. 206 - Miguel Tabuena (PHI) 73-68-65 but didn’t make anything,” said Tabuena in “It was a mixed round to be honest. I’m 207 - Thaworn Wiratchant (THA) 70-69- comments released by the organisers. happy with where I am now. It is a very tight 68, Anirban Lahiri (IND) 73-66-68 “I went into the back and told myself to do leaderboard so anything can happen espe- 208 - Yeh Wei-tze (TWN) 72-71-65, Prom what I’ve been doing and the putts started to cially on this golf course. I’ve won twice here Meesawat (THA) 67-73-68, Daniel fall. I believe in myself so hopefully I will win but I won’t take anything for granted,” said Chopra (SWE) 71-68-69 my maiden title this week.” Thaworn. 209 - Antonio Lascuna (PHI) 68-69-72 EVIAN-LES BAINS: Norwegian Suzann Pettersen competes yesterday during the Tabuena shot three straight birdies from Taiwan’s Yeh Wei-tze, a one-time Asian 210 - Thanyakon Khrongpha (THA) 72- Evian golf Championships, a major tournament on the women’s calendar, in Evian- the 10th hole and added three more birdies Tour winner, opened with five straight birdies 71-67, Ryan Yip (CAN) 71-69-70, Cameron les-Bains, French Alps. — AFP to complete a back nine performance. before posting a 65 to share fourth place Smith (AUS) 70-67-73. — AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 SPORTS
Reeva Steencamp’s family shocked at Pistorius verdict
PRETORIA: The parents of Reeva begins on October 13. Barry looked at Pistorius and ran his Shock and relief rich in this country of staggering Steenkamp have reacted with shock and The father of the victim said he found hand over his head while her mother Speaking after the verdict, Pistorius’s inequality. “If he didn’t have money he disbelief after a judge acquitted star ath- it difficult to believe Pistorius’ version of June pursed her lips and shook her uncle Arnold said the damage done to would be in jail,” he said. “Real men lete Oscar Pistorius of her murder, con- the events. “There is still something head. “I just don’t feel that this is the the athlete’s career and life as a result of don’t do that.” John Magoma, a 34-year- victing him of the lesser charge of culpa- missing,” Barry Steenkamp told ITV right (verdict),” she said in a separate the trial had been “tragic.” “We always old standing outside the North ble homicide. “We were shocked. News. “I think there was more to the interview with America’s NBC News after knew the facts,” the family spokesman Gauteng High Court said: “the judge- Shocked. Disappointed,” June whole story, you know, coming up to the the final judgement was handed down said, “and we never had any doubt in ment is wrong, now the man is off the Steenkamp told Britain’s ITV News on actual shooting, the killing.” His trial had in Pretoria. The mother said her daugh- Oscar’s version of this tragic incident.” hook.” Friday. “You know your heart drops heard that in the early hours of ter had died a “horrible, painful, terrible He thanked Masipa for her verdict. “On Masipa also found Pistorius guilty on because you just want the truth,” she Valentine’s Day last year Pistorius fired death”. behalf of the family, we would really one of three other gun charges that said, referring to the death of her daugh- four hollow point pistol rounds into a “And I can’t believe that they believe like to show how deeply grateful we are were leveled against him-that of negli- ter. locked toilet door, hitting Steenkamp that it was an accident,” she said. to Judge Masipa who has found Oscar gently handling a gun that went off in a Earlier Friday, South African Judge and causing her head to “explode” and Pistorius was escorted by more than a not guilty of murder.” But lawyers and busy Johannesburg restaurant. He was Thokozile Masipa acquitted Pistorius of “amputating” her arm. Masipa, dismiss- dozen policemen wearing bullet proof crime-weary South Africans voiced sur- cleared on charges of illegally possess- murder, but found he acted “negligently” ing swathes of prosecution evidence as vests out of the courtroom and into a prise and even anger that Pistorius was ing ammunition and firing a gun in killing the blonde law graduate and inconclusive or irrelevant, ruled that on heaving crowd outside. Culpable homi- found not guilty of murder. through a car sunroof. Born without fashion model by firing at her through a the charge of murder “the accused is cide carries no mandatory sentence The National Prosecuting Authority fibulas-calf bones-Pistorius had his legs bathroom door. “Blade Runner” Pistorius found not guilty and is discharged. under South African law. But Masipa- said it was “disappointed” with the ver- amputated below the knee at 11 walked free on bail ahead of what could Instead he is found guilty of culpable who has a reputation for handing out dict, but had not yet decided on months of age and was fitted with pros- still be a stiff prison sentence. He had homicide”. stiff sentences-could decide to fine whether to appeal. “We respect the thetics which allowed him to play argued that he shot Steenkamp in the Pistorius stared straight ahead as the Pistorius or put him behind bars for court’s decision to convict the accused sports. He has taken numerous sprint- dead of the night after he mistook her conviction was read, showing little emo- more than a decade. “It all comes down on culpable homicide, which is in fact a ing titles in the Paralympics, and made for an intruder. The 27-year-old athlete- tion. But from the courtroom gallery to how she feels, how bad the mistake serious crime,” said spokesperson Nathi history in 2012 when he became the whose journey from disabled infant to there were sniffles and shallow breaths was,” said Johannesburg lawyer David Mncube. Outside the court Trevor, a 52- first double-amputee to compete at Olympic sprinter inspired the world-will as friends and family of 29-year-old Dadic. “It’s a very serious negligence year-old pastor from Pretoria, said the both the Olympics and the hear his punishment when sentencing Steenkamp wept. Steenkamp’s father crime.” verdict showed that justice favors the Paralympics.—AFP Celtic hold on for win over Dons
GLASGOW: Celtic earned their first victory Scepovic, signed from Spanish side in five matches as they held off a late Sporting Gijon, had the ball in the net in Aberdeen surge to defeat the Dons 2-1 at the 14th minute after Virgil van Dijk played Parkhead in their Scottish Premiership him in following a surging run but the clash yesterday. Serbian’s effort was ruled out for offside. The Hoops, inspired by the inclusion of Aberdeen were the only side to defeat captain Scott Brown in the starting line-up Celtic in the league last season and the as he returned from injury almost a month Dons soon started to create some chances ahead of schedule, made an impressive of their own when Mark Reynolds headed start with Jason Denayer giving them a sev- wide from a Nicky Low free-kick before enth-minute lead. Goodwillie fired well over after Brown’s The Glasgow giants added to their clearance fell to him at the edge of the box. advantage seconds into the second period The second half was only 23 seconds old when a Kris Commons strike took a wicked before a deflected Commons strike made it deflection off Shaleum Logan on its way 2-0 for Celtic, however. past Jamie Langfield. A chipped pass from Ambrose to Callum Celtic were dominating but a lack of McGregor took out four Aberdeen players concentration in defence allowed David and the winger picked out Commons in the Goodwillie to pull one back with his first box who saw his shot take a wicked deflec- goal for the Dons on the hour mark. tion off Logan on its way into the net. The goal handed Aberdeen the momen- Peter Pawlett brought out a great save tum and both Niall McGinn and Willo Flood from Celtic ‘keeper Craig Gordon with a ris- saw efforts stopped by Craig Gordon as ing strike before Commons clipped the top Celtic held on for their 19th consecutive of the bar with a curling effort at the other home league win over the Dons to move end. Aberdeen had been largely anony- into fourth spot. mous in attack in the second half but they The Hoops, who handed debuts to new came to life on the hour mark when signings Aleksandar Tonev and Stefan Goodwillie pulled one back for the Dons. Scepovic, hadn’t won a match since August Andrew Considine got up well to head 16 but any nerves in the home side were Logan’s cross back across goal to the back soon settled when Denayer handed them post where the unmarked Goodwillie was the early lead. lurking and the former Dundee United The ball broke to Efe Ambrose from a striker had the simple task of nodding in Commons corner and the Nigerian’s volley from four yards out. ANAHEIM: Collin Cowgill #7 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim runs past catcher Jason Castro #15 of the Houston Astros and scores a run on smacked off Denayer and then the bar The Hoops immediately brought on- a single by Kole Calhoun (not pictured) in the fifth inning at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Friday in Anaheim, California. — AFP before it crossed the line. loan Manchester City striker John Guidetti Commons should have put Celtic fur- into the fray for his debut but it was the vis- ther in front in the 11th minute when he itors who looked more dangerous going got on the end of Emilio Izaguirre’s cross forward and Gordon had to stop a fierce Giants shut out the but the forward sent his header wide from strike from McGinn before beating away an six yards out. effort from Flood. — AFP Ribery scores on return Dodgers with 9-0 win SAN FRANCISCO: Madison Bumgarner earned a Orioles 5, Yankees 0 (second game) with a victory over the skidding Chicago Cubs. The as Bayern go joint top share of the Major League lead with his 18th win as Alejandro De Aza had two RBI triples, Delmon Pirates (78-69) won for the seventh time in their San Francisco shut out the Dodgers with a 9-0 vic- Young added a two-run single and Bud Norris last eight games. They entered the day with a 1 BERLIN: Bayern Munich playmaker Franck Park. The Japanese midfielder returned to tory. Bumgarner struck out eight during the gem. threw seven shutout innings as the Baltimore 1/2-game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers for the Ribery scored in his first game this season as Dortmund from Manchester United last Pinch-hitter Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run home Orioles completed a sweep of doubleheader with second National League wild card and 2 1/2 the champions moved joint top of the month and his clever pass for Kevin run Brandon Crawford added a two-run homer in a victory over the New York Yankees. The sweep, games behind the St Louis Cardinals in the NL Bundesliga yesterday, while Shinji Kagawa Grosskreutz helped the hosts open the scor- the fifth to help Bumgarner win his fifth straight plus Toronto’s 1-0 loss to Tampa Bay, reduced Central. Gerrit Cole (9-5) pitched six solid innings also enjoyed a goalscoring return as Borussia ing after 34 minutes. Grosskreutz’s low cross start. Baltimore’s (88-59) magic number to five for to beat the Cubs for the second time in six days Dortmund saw off Freiburg. was swept in by Adrian Ramos for his second clinching the American League East champi- and raise his career record to 5-0 against Chicago. Mario Goetze put the defending champi- goal of the campaign. Red Sox 4, Royals 2 onship. He allowed three runs and five hits with one walk ons ahead in the first half before Ribery came The same three players were involved Second baseman Jemile Weeks doubled twice and six strikeouts. off the bench to seal a routine 2-0 win over when Dortmund stretched their lead four and scored two runs as the Boston Red Sox beat Phillies 3, Marlins 1 (10 innings) VfB Stuttgart at the Allianz Arena. minutes before half-time. This time Ramos Kansas City, knocking the Royals out of first place Cody Asche’s two-run home run off reliever Rays 1, Blue Jays 0 Bayern are now equal on seven points found Kagawa, who sidefooted home in what in the American League Central. The Royals’ defeat, Chris Hatcher sent the Phillies to a victory over the Nathan Karns pitched seven innings for his first with Bayer Leverkusen who were held 3-3 by was his 50th Bundesliga game. coupled with the Detroit triumph over Cleveland, Marlins. It was Asche’s first-ever walk-off home run. career Major-League win and Ryan Hanigan home- Werder Bremen on Friday night and are Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a dropped the Royals (80-66) a half-game behind the Miami shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria opened the red as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Toronto ahead on goal difference after three games. breakaway goal shortly after coming on Tigers, the defending division champions. The scoring in the sixth inning with an RBI single into Blue Jays. The loss ended a four-game winning The Bavarians scored the first goal of the before Oliver Sorg pulled one back for Royals have lost five of their last seven games, scor- right that scored first baseman Jeff Baker. streak by the Blue Jays (76-70), who had also won afternoon after 27 minutes when Goetze Freiburg. Dortmund are third on the ing 12 runs in the losses. nine of 11 games. The Rays (71-77), who had lost drove a shot through a crowd of players when Bundesliga table a point behind Bayer Mets 4, Nationals 3 their two previous games, needed only a third- a free-kick was only partially cleared. Leverkusen and Bayern. Elsewhere, Japanese Cardinals 5, Rockies 1 Center fielder Juan Lagares broke a tie with a inning home run by their catcher, Hanigan, as each In the second half Ribery, who has been striker Shinji Okazaki scored twice and Sami Adam Wainwright retired his last 16 batters and fifth-inning RBI double, when the New York Mets team had only two hits. suffering from a recurring knee injury, came Allagui also found the net against the team notched his 18th win as the Cardinals maintained finally beat the Washington Nationals. The Mets’ on and the French midfielder secured the he has just left as Mainz won 3-1 at Hertha their National League Central lead with a decision win snapped a 12-game losing streak against the Brewers 3, Reds 2 three points when he slotted under Sven Berlin. Okazaki gave the visitors the lead after over Colorado. Wainwright (18-9) allowed six hits Nationals at Citi Field, the longest home losing Lyle Overbay’s ninth-inning, bases-loaded RBI Ullreich with five minutes left. 36 minutes, finishing on the rebound after and a run in eight innings, walking none and fan- streak the Mets have ever endured against a single single gave the Milwaukee Brewers a 3-2 victory The only down side for Bayern ahead of a home keeper Thomas Kraft twice denied ning eight. The triumph enabled him to draw level opponent. The win was the eighth in the last 10 over the Cincinnati Reds. Reds right-hander Jumbo Champions League clash with Manchester South Korea midfielder Koo Ja-Cheol. with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, games overall for the Mets (72-76). The Nationals Diaz allowed a leadoff double to catcher Jonathan City in Munich on Wednesday was seeing Julian Schieber fired a great chance wide San Francisco’s Madison Bumgarner and (83-63) lost for the second time in their last six Lucroy in the ninth, and Lucroy moved to third on defender Holger Badstuber hobble off with a for Hertha before Allagui rounded off a lovely Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto for the major league games as their magic number for winning the a groundout by Aramis Ramirez. Diaz (0-1) then thigh injury. Meanwhile, Kagawa made a team move with twenty minutes left. It was lead in wins. St Louis (81-67) kept a 2 1/2-game National League East remained at nine. intentionally walked right fielder Ryan Braun and dream start to his second spell at Borussia the Tunisian attacker’s first game for Mainz advantage in the NL Central on second-place left fielder Gerardo Parra to bring up Overbay, who Dortmund after getting on the scoresheet in since rejoining them on loan from Hertha at Pittsburgh, a 7-3 winner over the Chicago Cubs, Pirates 7, Cubs 3 slapped Diaz’s first offering into the gap in left to their 3-1 win over Freiburg at Signal Iduna the end of August.— AFP and snapped a three-game losing streak. The Jordy Mercer had three hits and three RBIs and end it. Brewers starter Kyle Lohse worked 6 2/3 Rockies (59-88) lost their fourth in a row. National League batting leader Josh Harrison also innings and was charged with two runs on five hits had three hits as the Pittsburgh Pirates stayed hot and two walks with six strikeouts. — Reuters Tigers 7, Indians 2 J.D. Martinez had a two-run homer and a two- run triple to back a strong start by David Price in MLB results/standings the Detroit Tigers’ victory over the Cleveland Indians. The Tigers (81-66), who have won four of Baltimore 2, Ny Yankees 1 (11 innings); Baltimore 5, NY Yankees 0; Philadelphia 3, Miami 1 (10 innings); Pittsburgh 7, their last five games, began the day a half-game Chicago Cubs 3; Tampa Bay 1, Toronto 0; Detroit 7, Cleveland 2; NY Mets 4, Washington 3; Texas 2, Atlanta 1; Boston 4, behind first-place Kansas City in the American Kansas City 2; Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2; St. Louis 5, Colorado 1; San Diego 6, Arizona 5; LA Angels 11 Houston 3; League Central. The third-place Indians dropped 4 Seattle 4, Oakland 2; San Francisco 9, LA Dodgers 0. 1/2 games behind the Tigers. American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division Orioles 2, Yankees 1 (11 innings) (first game) W L PCT GB Washington 83 63 .568 - Baltimore 88 59 .599 - Atlanta 75 72 .510 8.5 Pinch-hitter Jimmy Paredes knocked in the win- Toronto 76 70 .521 11.5 NY Mets 72 76 .486 12 ning runs with a bases-loaded double in the 11th NY Yankees 75 71 .514 12.5 Miami 71 75 .486 12 inning against New York right-hander Adam Tampa Bay 71 77 .480 17.5 Philadelphia 68 79 .463 15.5 Warren, leading the Baltimore Orioles to a victory Boston 65 83 .439 23.5 Central Division over the Yankees in the first game of a split-double Central Division St. Louis 81 67 .547 - Detroit 81 66 .551 - Pittsburgh 78 69 .531 2.5 header. After a three-game sweep of the Red Sox Kansas City 80 66 .548 0.5 Milwaukee 77 71 .520 4 this week, Baltimore opened a 10-game homes- Cleveland 76 70 .521 4.5 Cincinnati 70 78 .473 11 tand with a chance to clinch the American League Chicago White Sox 66 80 .452 14.5 Chicago Cubs 64 83 .435 16.5 East. However, some of the excitement was damp- Minnesota 62 84 .425 18.5 Western Division Western Division ened when Major League Baseball announced LA Dodgers 83 64 .565 - before the game that slugger Chris Davis was sus- LA Angels 92 55 .626 - MUNICH: Bayern Munich’s French midfielder Franck Ribery (L) plays to score a goal Oakland 81 66 .551 11 San Francisco 82 65 .558 1 against Stuttgart’s goalkeeper Sven Ulreich (R) during the German first division pended 25 games for testing positive for ampheta- Seattle 80 66 .548 11.5 San Diego 68 78 .466 14.5 Bundesliga football match FC Bayern Munich vs VfB Stuttgart in Munich, southern mines. Left fielder Alejandro De Aza had two hits Houston 65 82 .442 27 Arizona 59 88 .401 24 Colorado 59 88 .401 24 Germany yesterday. — AFP for the Orioles. Texas 55 92 .374 37 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 SPORTS Pelle double deepens Photo of the day Newcastle gloom
appeal turned down after appearing to be felled by the Newcastle goalkeeper. The Southampton 4 breakthrough came in the sixth minute, with Pelle heading home a Ryan Bertrand cross after neat build-up on the Southampton left. Calamitous Newcastle defending allowed the Newcastle 0 home side to double their lead 13 minutes later. Mike Williamson’s weak back header fell straight to Pelle and although he shanked his attempted volley, it found Dusan Tadic, who SOUTHAMPTON: Italian striker Graziano drew Krul from his line before teeing up the Pelle scored twice as Southampton increased Italian to roll the ball into an empty net. To the pressure on Newcastle United manager cries of “You’re getting sacked in the morn- Alan Pardew with a 4-0 Premier League victo- ing!” directed at former Southampton man- ry at St Mary’s yesterday. An £8 million ($13 ager Pardew by the home fans, Newcastle million, 10 million euros) signing from pushed for an equaliser. Fraser Forster saved Feyenoord, Pelle scored twice in the first 19 twice in quick succession to thwart Moussa minutes to put Southampton in control Sissoko and the fit-again Jack Colback, while before Jack Cork and Morgan Schneiderlin Yoan Gouffran saw a shot hit Bertrand and found the net in the second half. It sent bounce agonisingly wide. Newcastle-beaten 4-0 at Southampton last Long’s collision with Krul obliged the season-to the foot of the table and means Irishman to leave the fray at half-time, with they have failed to win any of their first four Victor Wanyama coming on, but it did not league games for the first time since 2005. curb the hosts’ momentum and in the 54th While Sadio Mane was unable to make his minute they added a third goal. In attempt- Southampton debut after returning late from ing to shepherd a pass from Steven Davis international duty with Senegal, the hosts back to Krul, Williamson enabled Cork to nip had fellow new signing Toby Alderweireld in in and the former England Under-21 interna- their line-up and started strongly. Shane tional rounded the goalkeeper before tuck- Long was quick to put the visiting defence ing the ball home. Schneiderlin completed under pressure, charging down a clearance Newcastle’s misery in stoppage time with a from Tim Krul and then seeing a penalty fine curling shot. —AFP Mohammad Al Attar performs at the Red Bull Parkour Project 2014 in Rampur.— www.redbull.com Pain for Kane as Sunderland deny Spurs Diego Costa hat-trick
visitors took a second-minute lead. Emmanuel Adebayor was afforded time Sunderland 2 leaves Chelsea on top and space to accept Erik Lamela’s pass and shoot from 18 yards. Mannone saved well, but the rebound fell perfectly for Chadli to tuck home his third Tottenham 2 goal in four games from six yards. But Chelsea 4 Sunderland were level just 72 seconds later in a breathless beginning to the contest. Sebastian Larsson fed Adam Johnson on SUNDERLAND: After a turbulent week, a late the left and the winger cut between Eric Dier Swansea 2 Harry Kane own goal meant Tottenham and Etienne Capoue before beating Hugo Hotspur had to settle for a point in a 2-2 Lloris with an angled right-foot drive that Premier League draw at Sunderland yester- took a deflection off defender Younes Kaboul. day. Goals early in each half from Nacer Chadli and Christian Eriksen looked to have Eriksen pounces LONDON: Diego Costa scored a hat-trick to put Spurs en route to a fifth successive victory It proved to be a brief respite and leave Chelsea top of the Premier League and over Sunderland, who remain without a win Sunderland were soon on the back foot as the only team in the English top flight with a this season despite twice fighting back to they struggled to cope with 22-year-old perfect record as they came back from a goal draw. But Mauricio Pochettino’s side paid for Danish midfielder Eriksen. down to beat Swansea 4-2 at Stamford Bridge failing to take their chances, as substitute Mannone dived to his left to push a low yesterday. Kane found himself in the wrong place at the effort from Chadli round the post, before the John Terry’s 11th-minute own goal had given wrong time to divert a Jordi Gomez free-kick Italian goalkeeper blocked with his chest visitors Swansea-who kicked-off as the only oth- into his own net with eight minutes left. after Adebayor volleyed towards goal from er side in the Premier League with a played Amid speculation over the club’s future point-blank range. Mousa Dembele then saw three, won three record this season-the lead ownership, and news they will need a tempo- a speculative 30-yard effort take a deflection before Spain striker Costa equalised just before rary home for the 2017-18 season due to and hit the post with Mannone rooted to the half-time and then scored two more goals in the delays in the construction of their new stadi- spot. The half-time interval failed to halt second half. um, Spurs’ preparations had been far from Tottenham’s momentum and they deservedly Loic Remy then capped his Chelsea debut ideal. But they put their off-field issues aside went ahead again three minutes after the from the substitutes’ bench by adding a fourth and would have won with something to restart. Adebayor released Chadli on the left before Swansea’s Jonjo Shelvey scored a late spare, but for a resilient display from the and the winger’s low cross sparked confusion consolation goal to bring a measure of hosts at the Stadium of Light. in the Sunderland six-yard box. respectability to the scoreline. Spurs dominated an open first half that Patrick van Aanholt’s attempted clear- Despite being doubtful for this match with a saw both goals arrive in the opening four ance ran loose, and Eriksen reacted first to hamstring injury suffered on international duty LONDON: Chelsea’s Brazilian-born Spanish striker Diego Costa (R) hits a shot defended by minutes. Former Sunderland loanee Danny beat Wes Brown to the ball and stab home with Spain, Costa started ahead of Remy and Swansea City’s Korean midfielder Ki Sung-Yueng during the English Premier League football Rose had already forced a fine save from from a matter of feet for his first goal since Didier Drogba in the home side’s attack. match between Chelsea and Swansea City at Stamford Bridge in London yesterday. — AFP home goalkeeper Vito Mannone when the April.— AFP It appeared a prudent decision by Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho given that Costa had net by Terry. sidefoot high into the net. netted four times in his three opening Premier Rather than retreating and absorbing seem- Gomis could have drawn Swansea level League games. ingly inevitable Chelsea pressure, Swansea then when he found himself bearing down on But for around 44 minutes, the attacking play pressed for a second goal as Gomis twice went Thibaut Courtois, but while he lifted the ball belonged almost exclusively to Swansea. close, driving wide from 25 yards before skew- over the goalkeeper his shot went wide of the Swansea boss Garry Monk was last week award- ing a shot wide from another Taylor cross. post. ed the Premier League manager of the month Still inside the first 20 minutes, Routledge Then, two minutes later, in the 67th minute, award in recognition of having matched then curled just wide from the edge of the box. Costa had his hat-trick as Ramires, a half-time Mourinho by overseeing a return of nine points But on the stoke of half-time, Chelsea man- substitute, rolled a pass to within five yards of from nine available in August for the South aged an equaliser when Costa headed in a Cesc goal that the striker smashed past Lukasz Wales club. Fabregas corner, although Swansea duo Jordi Fabianski. Swans duo Nathan Dyer and Wayne Amat and Ashley Williams might have shown With the game in the bag, Mourinho brought Routledge showed how that start had come more interest in the ball than grappling with on Remy for his debut as Costa departed to a about by providing pace down the flanks at Terry and Branislav Ivanovic. standing ovation and a beaming grin from Stamford Bridge as Gylfi Sigurdsson drifted Roman Abramovich, Chelsea’s billionaire owner around in the space behind striker Bafetimbi Meaningful attack who spent £32 million ($53.1 million, 40.4 mil- Gomis. The first sign of danger came from a It was a goal Chelsea scarcely deserved but, lion euros) on bringing the former Atletico spectacular Routledge volley inside three min- with the first meaningful attack of a second half Madrid striker to Stamford Bridge. utes after Terry had only been able to deflect 11-minutes-old, Costa put the west London club Remy then impressed nine minutes after Dyer’s right-wing cross into his path. ahead. coming on by sweeping in a fourth goal from Then eight minutes later the hosts were reel- Eden Hazard and Fabregas exchanged passes Oscar’s pass. Swansea then grabbed a consola- ing as Ki Sung-yeung, the South Korean mid- in the left corner of the area and the latter man- tion goal their first-half display merited as fielder, weighted a pass out wide and left-back aged to get to the byline before sliding a pass Shelvey raced clear and calmly slotted past Neil Taylor’s low cross was diverted into his own across the face of goal that allowed Costa to Courtois from the edge of the area. —AFP SUNDERLAND: Sunderland’s Argentinian defender Santiago Vergini (L) is tackled by Tottenham Hotspur’s English midfielder Aaron Lennon during the English Premier League football match between Sunderland and Tottenham Hotspur at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland yesterday. — AFP Neymar scores twice, Foster howler helps Everton get off the mark Messi takes plaudits
coach for several years. Everton had been BARCELONA: Neymar may have opening game of the campaign and delighted with his performance His connection with Messi did not thrashed 6-3 by Chelsea before the internation- scored both goals in Barcelona’s 2-0 set up Sandro Ramirez to score in against Bilbao. always work as smoothly as hoped West Brom 0 al break and Sylvain Distin paid the price, with La Liga win at home to Athletic their 1-0 success at Villarreal on their After joining from Brazilian club last term but they linked up well on the French centre-back replaced by young Bilbao yesterday but it was Lionel second outing. Seeking to improve Santos, Neymar blew hot and cold in Saturday and Neymar said he hoped England defender John Stones in a move that Messi who again took the plaudits on last season’s second-placed finish his debut season in Spain but had an this would be his breakthrough year. seemed to stiffen the visitors’ rearguard. Lukaku thanks to a pair of brilliant assists. to Atletico Madrid, Barcelona have excellent World Cup before picking “I am very happy with today’s Everton 2 enjoyed a successful loan spell at West Brom Barca were struggling to break made a fine start and are the only up a back injury that ruled him out of match, it went perfectly, with two two seasons ago and he took just two minutes down a determined Bilbao side at the team with a perfect record of three the semi-final defeat by Germany. goals,” he said.— Reuters to show his old club the cutting edge that made Nou Camp until substitute Neymar wins in three games. Barca’s new him such a favourite at the Hawthorns. Albion struck in the 79th minute, running on coach Luis Enrique echoed Neymar’s WEST BROMWICH: Everton secured their first defender Jonas Olsson miscued a low clearance to a threaded Messi pass and scoring praise of Argentina captain Messi and Premier League win of the season as a blunder from a Leighton Baines cross straight to Lukaku with a precise low shot into the cor- noted his prolific scoring record from West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Ben and the Belgium striker took full advantage, ner. Four-times World Player of the means the goals he creates for team curling in from the edge of the area before Year Messi set up the Brazil forward mates are often eclipsed. Foster condemned his side to a 2-0 defeat yes- refusing to celebrate the goal as a mark of for his second five minutes later, drib- “Messi is the best not only terday. Roberto Martinez’s side had drawn two respect for the Baggies. Saido Berahino led the bling down the right and squaring for because of his goals but also for his and lost one of their first three matches, but response and he troubled Everton with an inci- an unmarked Neymar to pick his spot assists,” Luis Enrique told a news con- they ended that barren run in emphatic fashion sive raid that panicked Baines into a sloppy in the same corner. ference. “He does things in training at the Hawthorns. Romelu Lukaku’s early goal clearance towards Chris Brunt, who smashed a “Messi is the best in the world, a that I have not even seen... on the set the tone and Foster allowed a weak Kevin powerful effort into the side-netting. star,” Neymar, who came on for the Playstation,” added the former Barca Mirallas strike to trickle into the net in the sec- Mirallas almost doubled Everton’s lead just final half an hour to replace teenage and Spain midfielder, who took over ond half to seal the points for a team expected before half-time when the Belgian winger cut in Spain forward Munir el Haddadi, told from Gerardo Martino at the end of to challenge for a top four finish this season. from the left and drove narrowly wide from 25 reporters. “I am improving playing last season. “It is a pleasure and a While Everton are off the mark, winless yards. with him,” added the 22-year-old, privilege to have him in the team.” Albion slipped to second bottom of the table Moments later Everton forward Steven who started on the bench as he con- Neymar said he had been feeling after a second defeat for new manager Alan Naismith escaped without punishment from tinues his comeback from an ankle the effects of his trip to play for his BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Brazilian forward Neymar da Silva Santos Junior Irvine, who suffered a frustrating reunion with referee Anthony Taylor despite kicking out at injury. Messi struck twice in Barca’s 3- country in friendlies against scores during the Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Athletic the Merseyside club he served as a player and Albion’s Craig Dawson.—AFP 0 home win against Elche in their Colombia and Ecuador but was Club Bilbao at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday.— AFP Ribery scores on Diego Costa return as Bayern hat-trick leaves go18 joint top 19Chelsea on top SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
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LONDON: Arsenal’s English midfielder Jack Wilshere (2nd L) scores an equalising goal past Manchester City’s English goalkeeper oeJ Hart (R) bringing the score to 1-1 during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Manchester City at the Emirates Stadium in London yesterday. —AFP Arsenal denied by late Demichelis header
But Argentine defender Demichelis was who joined the club on loan after leaving midfield and Lampard was largely anonymous The momentum had shifted City’s way allowed a free header from an 84th minute Chelsea as a free agent, with the former before receiving the game’s first yellow card with Arsenal once again looking incapable of Arsenal 2 corner to ensure both teams go into their England midfielder replacing Yaya Toure who for a foul on Ramsey. matching their main rivals. Wenger, though, opening Champions League group games was rested following international duty with Jesus Navas’s pace down the right hand insists his side are more resilient this season next week having avoided defeat. the Ivory Coast. flank was the visitors’ most productive outlet and the way they responded after the break City finished the stronger with Samir Nasri Of the two new faces, it was Welbeck who and the winger almost drew an own-goal from supported the manager’s view. Man City 2 seeing a late effort ruled out for offside, but made the bigger impression early on with the Per Mertesacker when the Arsenal defender Wilshere sparked his side into life, winning both managers could make a case that their forward clearly brimming with confidence fol- spooned a low cross over his own cross bar. the ball in midfield before exchanging passes side was hard done by. lowing his two-goal display for England in That should have been a warning for with Ramsey, moving past Gael Clichy and Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will feel his Switzerland in midweek. Arsenal but it went unheeded with left-back clipping a right foot finish over Joe Hart for side have made progress after suffering a suc- Nacho Monreal again exposed to Navas’s pace the 63rd minute leveller. LONDON: Martin Demichelis’ late header cession of painful defeats against their top Arsenal swagger in the build-up to the 28th minute opening City’s response was muted and Arsenal saved Manchester City from a second succes- four rivals last season, but the Gunners have With Arsenal starting the game on the front goal. forced themselves ahead 11 minutes later sive defeat as the Premier League champions won only one of their first four league match- foot, it looked as though Welbeck would make Navas again broke on the right from when Sanchez latched onto Wilshere’s loop- rescued a thrilling 2-2 draw against Arsenal es. the perfect start when he latched onto a loose halfway before sending a low cross towards ing header to direct a brilliant volley past yesterday. Wenger handed a debut to Danny Welbeck ball from City’s David Silva only for his chipped Aguero and, having taken advantage of Hart. City, who had lost at home to Stoke imme- whose £16 million ($26 million) transfer from finish to rebound away off the inside of the Mathieu Flamini’s lapse in concentration, the City appeared to be heading for a second diately before the international break, Manchester United had lifted the mood post with Joe Hart beaten. Argentina striker pulled into space before fin- successive defeat, but Arsenal showed they appeared set to leave the Emirates Stadium among Arsenal supporters critical of Wenger’s The effort summed up Arsenal’s swagger ishing from close range. have not shed the tendency to self-destruct empty-handed when Arsenal staged a second failure to bring in a striker during the transfer during the opening 25 minutes with Sanchez, It was a familiar story for Arsenal who had when they left Demichelis unmarked at an half comeback with two excellent goals from window. Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey combining well enjoyed the majority of possession only to be Aleksandar Kolarov corner, allowing the cen- Jack Wilshere and Alexis Sanchez overturning Manuel Pellegrini, meanwhile, handed a behind Welbeck. exposed by the opposition’s more clinical fin- tre-back to head the leveller six minutes from Sergio Aguero’s first half opener. first Manchester City start to Frank Lampard By contrast, City were getting overrun in ishing. time. — AFP Villa down Liverpool Speroni denies Burnley first win of season Philippe Coutinho expected to carry the hosts’ creative threat. LONDON: A brilliantly saved Liverpool 0 Aston Villa were without captain Ron penalty by Crystal Palace goal- Vlaar, who had failed to recover from a calf Crystal Palace 0 keeper Julian Speroni denied injury, so Nathan Baker partnered Philippe Burnley their first win in this Senderos in defence, while on-loan season’s Premier League as the Manchester United midfielder Tom two sides fought out a 0-0 draw Aston Villa 1 Cleverley made his debut. yesterday. Liverpool began purposefully and cre- Burnley 0 ated the first opening in the seventh Speroni’s save from Scott minute when Javier Manquillo crossed Arfield late in the second-half LIVERPOOL: Gabriel Agbonlahor’s early from the right flank for the unmarked may have prevented Burnley goal gave Aston Villa an unexpected 1-0 Markovic, who weakly headed wide from a from taking all three points but the consolation for the new boys victory over Liverpool in the Premier good position. was that it was their second successive scoreless draw-they drew League yesterday that continued their However, it was the visitors who took with Manchester United a fortnight ago-and they became the first recent impressive record at Anfield. the lead from an Ashley Westwood corner side to keep Palace scoreless this season. Villa have not lost at the ground since shortly afterwards as Villa punished some Palace, with Scottish midfielder James McArthur making his December 2010 and despite being sloppy Liverpool defending. LIVERPOOL: Aston Villa’s French defender Aly Cissokho (R) challenges debut after his transfer from Wigan, started brightly enough with camped in their own half for long periods, Westwood’s cross was met by the head Liverpool’s English striker Rickie Lambert during the English Premier League they were arguably deserved winners. Scott Dann heading against the bar from Fraizer Campbell’s cross. of Senderos and the ball dropped for football match between Liverpool and Aston Villa at the Anfield Stadium in Agbonlahor scrambled home the decisive Campbell repaid manager Neil Warnock’s faith in starting him as Agbonlahor, who reacted quickest to bun- Liverpool yesterday. — AFP goal in the ninth minute of the game and he was Palace’s liveliest player throughout the opening half and dle home from close range. although Liverpool dominated the remain- inside the penalty area. ster down. went close twice himself first shooting just wide and then another der of the match, they only once forced The former Southampton playmaker Despite Sterling’s extra zest and energy, effort was well held by Burnley ‘keeper Tom Heaton. Coutinho rattles woodwork Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan to make a went close again when he arrowed a long- Rodgers added further firepower with the Burnley manager Sean Dyche started with a different XI for the Midfielder Westwood posed a threat save. range effort just past the post, while introduction of Rickie Lambert and Fabio first time this season as he selected record signing George Boyd. with his delivery from set-pieces and Villa Liverpool handed a full debut to mid- Alberto Moreno was sent clear on the Borini for Balotelli and Markovic. — AFP But they had very little to offer in attack with one of their most should have added a second goal when fielder Adam Lallana, while Mario Balotelli stroke of half-time, only to see his low cross Villa were content to sit on what they had effective players from last season Danny Ings subdued, and he Senderos got on the end of his free-kick, made his first appearance at Anfield with cut out. and look to hit Liverpool on the counter- limped off just before half-time. only to head over. fellow striker Daniel Sturridge ruled out by Villa packed men behind the ball in the attack, and the hosts grew increasingly Palace pressed and pressed in the second-half but produced lit- Liverpool dominated possession in the a thigh injury. second half and Rodgers reacted with the frustrated as the clock ticked down. remainder of the first half, but despite their tle apart from two efforts by Jason Puncheon while near the death Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers introduction of Sterling for Lallana just Coutinho seized on an opening with neat passing, they struggled to penetrate a Jonathan Williams poked the ball just wide. had spoken before the match about the after the hour. eight minutes to go and saw a low drive disciplined Villa back-line. The visitors should have claimed the three points as Lukas need to “protect” Raheem Sterling from The England international was quickly bounce back off the post with Guzan beat- Lallana seized on a knockdown from Jutkewicz was brought down by Palace captain Mile Jedinak but burn out. The in-form youngster was left into the action and Villa right-back Alan en, but Villa held on to secure a win that Jordan Henderson on the half-hour mark, Speroni proved equal to the task of sparing his side a painful defeat on the bench, with Lazar Markovic and Hutton was fortunate to only escape with a sent them up to second place behind lead- but Senderos made a vital block from just yellow card when he scythed the young- ers Chelsea. — AFP as he dived to pull off a fantastic save from Arfield.— AFP VIVA strategic partner of Ejabi Training Academy
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NAJAF: An Iranian national shops at a popular market in the holy Iraqi Shiite city of Najaf yesterday. Due to the ongoing fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) militants, the number of Iranian pilgrims visiting holy sites in Iraq has been decreasing for the past months, affecting the businesses. — AFP EU seeks billions of euros to revive economy Ministers focusing on five ideas among investment fund MILAN: The European Union sought ways yesterday to mar- and its jobless rate is almost double that of the United In Italy, Europe’s fourth-largest economy, credit to com- Investment Bank, the EU bank owned by European govern- shal billions of euros into its sluggish economy without get- States, with around 25 million people unemployed. panies has shrunk by more than 70 billion euros since mid- ments. ting deeper into debt, casting the net wide to consider Investment is the new buzz word among ministers, overrid- 2011 and is still contracting, central bank data shows. That “The European Investment Bank isn’t short of money. options from a pan-European capital market to a huge ing the German mantra of budget cuts. Germany is under problem is mirrored across Europe, holding back the recov- There’s a shortage of projects and if we can match the mon- investment fund. growing pressure from partners like France and Italy to ery because smaller companies provide two out of every ey with good projects, we’ll get there,” said Luxembourg’s Finance ministers from the bloc’s 28 countries are flesh- loosen the fiscal reins and use its overflowing government three private-sector jobs in the European Union. finance minister, Pierre Gramegna. Italy’s proposal is a pan- ing out a host of ideas circulating in European capitals. With coffers to ramp up public investment. European market, where smaller companies can raise capi- interest rates already at record lows, ministers need radical But German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble this Italian organic jam tal, building on its “minibond” legislation in 2012 that allows steps to help growth at a time of near record unemploy- week rebuffed calls for Berlin to spend more to boost the Indebted countries like Italy and France have little public unlisted companies to issue. ment. From Poland’s 700-billion-euro ($907 billion) euro-zone economy which showed no growth in the second money for businesses. Another hangover of the crisis is the That could be part of a EU capital-market union, building ‘European Fund for Investments’ to the European Central quarter as recovery stalls. In a speech in Milan, ECB President differing cost of financing across the euro-zone in a currency on the euro-zone’s banking union, but that will need to Bank’s plan to resurrect the EU’s market for asset-backed Mario Draghi described business investment as “one of the area that aimed to create the same financing conditions for closely involve London, the leading financial centre in securities, Europe’s ability to get credit flowing to small com- great casualties” of the financial crisis, saying it has fallen 20 all. At their meeting, ministers have four ideas in front of Europe. Twenty-six Italian family businesses, including one panies is central to its economic revival. percent since 2008. them: an Italian paper on new financing tools for compa- that makes organic jam, issued bonds in the past two “We’re thinking about instruments that facilitate invest- “We will not see a sustainable recovery unless this nies, a Franco-German proposal on how to boost private months, raising 1 billion euros combined, according to the ments,” Italy’s economy minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, said as changes,” he told officials on Thursday night. investments, a Polish proposal on creating a joint EU fund Italian treasury. he arrived for the gathering in Milan. “Resources (for invest- The incoming president of the European Commission, and the Juncker Commission’s call for the 300-billion-euro “This is not just about funding small companies per se, it ments) will come mostly from the private sector but of Jean-Claude Juncker, wants a 300 billion-euro ($410 billion) program. is about funding high growth companies,” said Nicolas course public sector resources will be instrumental in lever- investment program to revive the European economy. Poland wants a ‘European Fund for Investments’ that Veron, an expert on capital markets at the Bruegel economic aging them,” he said. Unlike in the United States, European companies rely on would be able to finance, through leveraging its own capital, think-tank in Brussels. “They start small but the ones you are The European Union’s economy, which generates about a banks to provide 80 percent of loans, but banks are reluctant 700 billion euros worth of investment. The fund could be a really interested in are the ones with the high growth poten- quarter of global output, grew by just 0.1 percent last year to lend following the worst crisis in a generation. special-purpose vehicle under the umbrella of the European tial.” — Reuters ‘Day of reckoning’ warning to Scottish businesses
EDINBURGH: The campaign battle over Scottish been as soft as we have been forced to be,” Sillars up while there is uncertainty over the future cur- independence took a bitter turn yesterday when said. When asked about the comments in a BBC rency and central bank of an independent a senior nationalist warned businesses such as BP radio interview yesterday, Sillars confirmed he Scotland. that they could face punishment for voicing con- had raised the prospect of nationalization but Deutsche Bank said a vote for independence cern over the impact of secession. With the fate said he had used the term to get media coverage would be a mistake akin to Winston Churchill’s of the United Kingdom on a knife edge, the eco- and that nationalization was not on the table. decision to return the pound to the Gold nomic future of Scotland has become one the A spokesman for BP declined to comment. A Standard or the failure of the Federal Reserve to most fiercely debated issues less than six days spokeswoman for the Scottish nationalists could provide sufficient liquidity to the U.S. banks, deci- before Scots decide on whether to break away. not be reached for comment. The boss of BP, Bob sions that helped bring on the Great Depression. Nationalists accuse British Prime Minister Dudley, has said that Scottish independence “These decisions - well-intentioned as they David Cameron of coordinating a scare campaign could cause his company “uncertainties” and that were - contributed to years of depression and by business leaders aimed at spooking voters he did not want to see Scotland drifting away. suffering and could have been avoided had alter- while unionists say separation is fraught with “The heads of these companies are rich men, native decisions been taken,” David Folkerts- financial and economic uncertainty. But former in cahoots with a rich English Tory Prime Minister, Landau, Deutsche’s chief economist, said in a Scottish Nationalist Party deputy leader Jim to keep Scotland’s poor poorer through lies and note to clients. “Foreign investors come to Sillars went much further than separatist leader distortions,” Sillars was quoted in Scottish media Scotland because they rely on a predictable Alex Salmond, warning that BP’s operations in as saying. “The power they have now to subvert investment environment. All of this comes from a Scotland might face nationalisation if Scots voted our democracy will come to an end with a ‘Yes’.” united Great Britain.” for secession on Sept. 18. In an extraordinarily strong attack on busi- Such is the gravity of the situation that “This referendum is about power, and when ness, Sillars also said banks such as Standard Life finance minister George Osborne, Britain’s sec- we get a ‘Yes’ majority we will use that power for would face tougher employment laws after a ond most powerful man, cancelled a trip to the a day of reckoning with BP and the banks,” Sillars, vote for independence. G20 meeting in Cairns which takes place the a nationalist rival of Salmond’s, was quoted by weekend after the vote. Bank of England EDINBURGH: ‘No’ vote posters are seen in a window during a Grand Orange Lodge of Scottish media as saying. Deutsch Bank warning Governor Mark Carney will leave the G20 meet- Scotland march in Edinburgh, yesterday. Thousands of members of the Protestant “BP, in an independent Scotland, will need to Major banks, oil companies and supermarkets ing early to be back in Britain in time for the vote. Orange order marched through Edinburgh in a show of strength against Scottish learn the meaning of nationalization, in part or in have said that a vote for secession would create The central bank has plans in place for a possible independence, as the final weekend of campaigning for the referendum got under- whole, as it has in other countries who have not concern: North Sea oil would have to be divided secession vote. — Reuters way with everything to play for. — AFP BUSINESS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 KFH Investment joins Sharjah’s $750m sukuk
KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) Member Emad Youssef Al-Maneea, said in a ed Sharjah A/A3. percent for others. Also arranging the Sharjah Investment announced that it had taken part in statement. Fifty percent of the demand on the $750-mil- first sukuk issuance were HSBC, the National arranging the Arab Gulf emirate Sharjah’s debut Through the sovereign sukuk issuance, lion sukuk came from the Middle East, 20 per- Bank of Abu Dhabi, the Sharjah Islamic Bank and issue of sovereign sukuk, worth $750 million. Sharjah is seeking to carry on with financing cent from the UK, 14 percent from Asia and 11 Standard Chartered. Sharja issued the sovereign sukuk (Islamic capital investment projects given priority in the percent from Europe (UK excluded) and five per- Ijara is an exchange transaction in which a bonds) with an ijara structure and the demand emirate, he added. The sukuk issuance implies cent from others. Banks’ share of the sukuk hit known benefit arising from a specified asset is was 10 times oversubscribed, reaching $ 7.8 bil- rising interest in Islamic finance as a sovereign 39 percent, and another 39 percent went to made available in return for a payment, but lion, drawing regional and international finan- source of financing, Al-Maneea added, noting investment funds, 18 percent for central banks, where ownership of the asset itself is not trans- cial institutions, KFH Investment CEO and Board that Moody’s as well as Standard and Poor’s rat- two percent for insurance companies and two ferred. — KUNA
EU’s Moscovici calls France’s missed deficit targets a ‘serious problem’
PARIS: Incoming European Economic and Financial Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said yesterday that France’s missed budget deficit targets were a “serious problem” that he will have to examine in his new role. France announced on Wednesday it was breaking the latest in a long line of promises to European Union partners to cut its public deficit. Moscovici, a former French finance minister under Hollande who will be scrutinised in Brussels over how he deals with his home country, has already said it would be out of the question to give France any sort of derogation, suspension or exception on its budget plans, but said he would look at whether there were exceptional circumstances. The French finance ministry said on Wednesday that the deficit would rise slightly to 4.4 percent this year, before easing to 4.3 percent in 2015 and only approaching the 3 percent EU ceiling in 2017, at the end of President Francois Hollande’s five- year term. “The 4.4 percent deficit is a serious problem, a prob- lem that will have to be dealt with and that will be up to me to examine,” Moscovici, who was put in charge of KUWAIT: Ayman Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager - Corporate Communications at VIVA with the Academy officials. the European Commission’s powerful economics port- folio on Wednesday, told BFM Business TV. French Finance Minister Michel Sapin insisted on Wednesday that Paris was not seeking to change or VIVA strategic partner of suspend the rules but wanted the deteriorating out- look for growth and inflation this year and next to be taken into account. Moscovici said talks with Paris should be based on objective data. Ejabi Training Academy “For example, Michel Sapin says there are exception- al circumstances. The role of the commission is to see within our rules if those exceptional circumstances are real or not,” he said. Supporting different educational youth initiatives He stressed that his nationality would not affect his decisions. “When you become a European commission- KUWAIT: VIVA, the fastest growing telecom operator in their ambitions. commitment. er, you remain as somebody with your nationality ... Kuwait, announced its sponsorship of Ejabi Training Academy, VIVA’s sponsorship of the Ejabi Training Academy program VIVA is the fastest-growing telecom operator in Kuwait. but at the same time you become somebody that one of the youth initiatives adopted by the Ministry of State is a continuation of its strategy which aims to support all Launched in December 2008, VIVA makes things Possible for defends the general interests of Europe.” Euro-zone for Youth Affairs. The training academy will commence from youth activities, and from its belief in the importance for its customers by transforming communication, information finance ministers will assess French plans to postpone Wednesday 10 September until 24 September 2014. youth to acquire skills and motivate them, as well as strength- and entertainment experiences. The company has rapidly promised budget deficit cuts only after they see the The Ejabi Training Academy program aims at honing the en the concept of positivity and instill national spirit, and the established an unrivalled position in the market through its draft of the 2015 French budget, the chairman of euro skills and training young people aged between 18-30 years development of their job performance which will produce a customer centric approach. VIVA’s quest is to be the mobile zone ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Friday. All over 14 days. The program will be overseen by trained profes- generation of leaders who are able to achieve their ambitions brand of choice in Kuwait by being transparent, engaging, European Union countries have to submit their draft sionals in order to enhance the role of youth positively in the in serving society. energetic and fulfilling. VIVA continues to take a considerable budget assumptions, including the size of the deficit, to development of their skills in various fields including planning VIVA will continue to looking for unique opportunities to share of the market by offering an innovative range of best the European Commission by mid-October. — Reuters and management / project development and marketing / contribute to the welfare of the society and help serve the value products, services and content propositions; a state of teamwork / leadership, which will enable them to achieve youth best and shed the light on its ongoing corporate social the art, nationwide network and world-class service. Bulgaria’s GERB party slams CB over Corpbank
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party, tipped to win bank governor. “We appeal to the central bank to pay taking too long to recognize the scale of Corpbank’s worth 3.5 billion levs ($2.3 billion). Prosecutors have a snap election next month, accused the central bank serious attention to all potential investors that have problems. charged its main shareholder, Tsvetan Vassilev, with on Friday of being too slow in offering a solution for expressed interest in capitalizing the bank so that the The collapse has also hit foreign investors. Holders of embezzlement. troubled Corporate Commercial Bank. GERB leader use of public funds may be as small as possible.” a $150 million Corpbank bond have threatened legal Vassilev, currently in neighboring Serbia, has denied Boiko Borisov urged the bank to hold serious talks with The central bank’s rescue plan for Corpbank-transfer- action against the state after the lender failed to make any wrongdoing. He was locked in a public feud with an potential investors willing to rescue the Balkan coun- ring healthy assets into a new, nationalised bank, and the final payment on it when it matured in August. influential businessman at the time of the run and has try’s fourth biggest lender, hit by a run on deposits. declaring the rest of it insolvent-has become snarled up An Alpha Research poll showed 31 percent of said the attack on the bank was a plot hatched by his June’s run has prompted the central bank to seize in pre-election political infighting ahead of the Oct. 5 Bulgarians blame politicians for Corpbank’s problems rivals. Vassilev has sought to overturn an international control and shut down its operations, pending the out- ballot. The failure of the plan prompted the regulator to and 29 percent say central bank controls were too lax. In arrest warrant, pledging to return to Bulgaria and work come of an audit due to be completed next month. The order a full audit of the lender, to be completed by Oct. an unusual appeal to save the lender, Bulgaria’s chief for the bank’s rescue, but yesterday a Bulgarian court bank crisis is Bulgaria’s biggest since the 1990s. 20. Analysts say no solution is likely before a new parlia- prosecutor has said it has operated for years with the rejected his appeal. Oman’s sovereign fund, which has a “We express our discontent about the way the ment is in place. protection of the state, which kept large deposits there, stake of about 30 percent in Corpbank, has teamed up Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) is managing the special Hundreds of angry Corpbank depositors have com- and under inefficient control by the central bank. with other undisclosed investors to ask the central bank supervision over Corpbank and Bank Victoria (a unit of plained to the central bank, demanding access to their An initial international audit at Corpbank indicated and the government to work together on a rescue plan Corpbank),” Borisov said in an open letter to the central accounts. Local economists accuse the central bank of malpractices and lack of sufficient information on loans that meets EU state aid rules. — Reuters
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MOSCOW/WARSAW: Russian gas giant percent on Sunday. Gazprom said yesterday it was not able to Gazprom had notified Romania of the supply Poland with the volumes of natural intended cuts on Friday. gas it was requesting and could only deliv- Poland’s state gas pipeline operator said er levels closer to daily minimum allowed that gas flows from the eastern direction under the contract. were stable on Friday compared to Gazprom gave no reason for its inability Thursday at about 20 million cubic metres to deliver the gas, but earlier this week said (mcm), but were still below what the Polish it was exporting gas subject to available gas importer PGNiG has requested. resources and pumping to storage facilities Gazprom is Poland’s sole gas supplier from in Russia. the east. The pipeline operator Gaz-System “They are requesting the maximum, and said also that despite the gap between we are only able to supply closer to the dai- PGNiG’s requests and actual deliveries, gas ly minimum,” a Gazprom spokesman told flows via Poland to Ukraine were not affect- Reuters asked about Poland’s requests for ed. gas. Energy analysts in Warsaw have said “The increased requests of PGNiG are Russia may be using deliveries to Poland to still not being met,” Gaz-System’s spokes- send Europe a tentative warning it will woman Malgorzata Polkowska said yester- retaliate if Brussels goes through with new day. “But Poland is receiving from all import sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine. The points more gas than its daily consump- West accuses the Kremlin of fomenting a tion. Gas is being sent to Ukraine without pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine; problems in amounts ordered by the something Moscow denies. client.” In Slovakia, the main entry point for Poland resumed natural gas deliveries Russian supplies to the EU, importer SPP to Ukraine on Friday after receiving a saw a roughly 10 percent decrease in gas pledge that Russia’s Gazprom would deliver supplies from Russia for a fourth day in a requested supplies. PGNiG said the gap row on Saturday, a spokesman said. between the PGNIG’s request and actual Romania’s Energy Minister Razvan deliveries from Gazprom was “certainly” Nicolescu said on Saturday Gazprom had smaller on Friday than on Wednesday when scrapped a plan to cut gas exports to it reached 45 percent, a PGNiG spokes- Romania by 9 percent on Saturday and by 5 woman said. — Reuters HAMI: Commuters driving on a road during heavy snowfall in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang region. China’s industrial production growth slowed Fed’s rate guidance sharply to 6.9 percent in August, its lowest level for more than five years, official data for the world’s second-largest economyshowed.—AFP on chopping block China Aug factory growth WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve slows to near 6-year low is facing perhaps its most pivotal meet- ing of the year next week, as it debates a potential overhaul of its guidance on interest rates and seeks to nail down a Growth in retail sales, investment also weakens plan for exiting its extraordinarily easy monetary policy. It remains to be seen BEIJING: China’s factory output grew at the al demand, especially from emerging markets, Data on Friday showed that credit levels in whether decisions will be taken on weakest pace in nearly six years in August while and the slowdown in the property sector that hit China appeared to improve in August after an either, but it is clear that details on a so- growth in other key sectors also cooled, raising demand for steel, cement and vehicles. alarming drop in July, but remained below aver- called exit plan are nearly complete, fears the world’s second-largest economy may China’s economy got off to a weak start this age. Bad loans are on the rise and banks expect while discomfort is growing internally be at risk of a sharp slowdown unless Beijing year as first-quarter growth cooled to an 18- more to go sour as the economy slows. That fol- over a pledge to keep rates near zero for takes fresh stimulus measures. The output data, month low of 7.4 percent. Beijing responded lowed trade data that showed China’s exports a “considerable time.” combined with weaker readings in retail sales, with a flurry of stimulus measures that pushed were buoyant but import growth unexpectedly Investors will parse the central bank’s investment and imports, pointed to a further the pace up slightly to 7.5 percent in the second fell for the second consecutive month in August, words closely for any clues on the timing loss of momentum as the cooling housing mar- quarter, but soft July and August data suggest posting its worst performance in over a year. of the first US rate hike in more than ket increasingly drags on other sectors from the boost from those steps is rapidly waning. eight years. Any major tweaks to its poli- cement to steel and saps consumer confidence. “The government must take forceful policy Beijing’s response cy statement could cause ructions in Industrial output rose 6.9 percent in August measures to stabilise growth,” said Li Huiyong, While most analysts expect Beijing to unveil financial markets as investors recalibrate from a year earlier - the lowest since 2008 when an analyst at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities in more steps in coming months in order to meet bets on benchmark rates in the world’s the economy was buffeted by the global finan- Shanghai. its 2014 growth target, the room for policy loos- biggest economy. cial crisis - compared with expectations for 8.8 ening is seen as limited after past stimulus pro- percent and slowing sharply from 9.0 percent in Hard landing? grams left local governments saddled with piles A strong run of US economic data has stalwart backer of the central bank’s July. “The August data may point to a hard land- Other activity indicators for August were also of debt and fueled rampant speculation, espe- led Fed Chair Janet Yellen and other top aggressive monetary policy easing, also ing. The extent of the growth slowdown in the mostly weaker than expected. Retail sales cially in the housing market. officials to acknowledge the possibility called for ditching the calendar-related third quarter won’t be small,” said Xu Gao, chief climbed 11.9 percent, lagging forecasts of 12.1 Bolder action now, such as an interest rate they may need to raise rates sooner than guidance, while Philadelphia Fed economist at Everbright Securities in Beijing. percent and July’s 12.2 percent, with growth in cut, may only result in more money going into they thought just a few months ago, President Charles Plosser, who dissented “The chances of cutting interest rates and car sales in particular off sharply, suggesting speculative and potentially destabilising activity although a surprisingly soft reading on against the language at the central bank reserve requirements have increased. I consumers are more cautious. rather the real economy, some analysts have jobs growth in August could provide bank’s last policy session in late July, reit- think they are more likely to cut interest rates.” Carmaker BYD Co Ltd , backed by billionaire noted. The last time China suffered a “hard land- some breathing room. erated his concerns yesterday. Some analysts believe annual economic growth Warren Buffett, recently warned profit may fall ing” was during the height of the global crisis, “The discussion itself is a testament Top economists at a number of Wall may be sliding towards 7 percent in the third by as much as a fifth in the first nine months of when economic growth tumbled to 6.6 percent to the underlying shift in monetary poli- Street firms, including Michael Feroli at quarter, putting the government’s full-year tar- the year. Fixed-asset investment, an important in early 2009. That is far short of the near collaps- cy,” said TD Securities analyst Gennadiy JPMorgan, Paul Ashworth of Capital get of around 7.5 percent in jeopardy unless it driver of economic activity, grew 16.5 percent in es which loomed over some developed Goldberg. He said ditching the “consider- Economics and Lewis Alexander at takes more aggressive action. Experts reckon the first eight months from the same period last economies, but still threw tens of millions of able time” phrase would open the door Nomura, now see at least even odds that output growth of around 9 percent would be year, lower than forecasts. Economists polled by Chinese out of work, alarming the Communist to a rate hike as soon as March, several the Fed will drop the “considerable time” needed to attain such a goal. Reuters had expected 16.9 percent growth, Party’s stability-obsessed leaders into action. months earlier than most investors cur- phrase. It could simply note that it can “Short of outright policy easing, China will slowing from 17.0 percent in Jan-July. Despite slower growth, the economy still creat- rently expect. be “patient” in determining when to likely miss the 7.5 percent growth target this Much of the broader decline appears linked ed 9.7 million new jobs in the first eight months The Fed has kept overnight rates near raise rates or could emphasize, as Yellen year, and a sharp economic slowdown will to the slowdown in the property market, which of 2014, a rise of over 100,000 from the same zero since December 2008 and has more did with a speech in August, that the endanger the undergoing structural reforms,” Liu is intensifying. Property investment data also period last year, said Guo Tongxin, another stat- than quadrupled its balance sheet timing of a rate hike could move forward Li-Gang and Zhou Hao at ANZ wrote in a note. released on Saturday showed further declines in istician at the bureau, trying to play down the through a series of bond-buying pro- if economic data comes in stronger than “As such, we reckon that Chinese authorities sales and new construction, while growth in significance of the dismal August indicators. grams designed to push down borrow- expected. should further relax monetary policy as soon as sales of housing-related goods such as home “It’s normal to see fluctuations in some indi- ing costs and boost investment and hir- The guidance is only one of the tricky possible to prevent growth momentum from appliances, furniture and building materials all cators. Currently, the employment and price sit- ing. Fed policymakers have said they do questions facing the Fed. Officials also decelerating further.” slowed. uation remains generally stable (and) structural not expect to raise rates until 2015, and need to finalize details on how they plan Reinforcing the tepid economic activity, Mortgage issuance in the first eight months adjustments continue to make progress,” Guo their meeting next Tuesday and to move rates higher and keep inflation China’s power generation declined for the first fell 4.5 percent from a year earlier, worse than a said in a statement. Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday looks certain to end with no from igniting, given the extraordinary time in four years, falling 2.2 percent in August 3.7 percent drop in January-July. Some would-be Monday that China cannot rely on loose credit to change in policy beyond a well- liquidity sloshing around the financial from a year earlier, and pointing to slackening buyers have complained of long delays in get- lift its economy, and reassured a business forum telegraphed reduction in the central system from their purchases of govern- demand from major industrial users. Jiang Yuan, ting loans as banks grow more cautious, while that Beijing would continue to roll out modest bank’s asset purchases. ment and housing-related debt. a senior statistician with the bureau, said the dip others may be holding off in anticipation of fur- “targeted” measures as policymakers look to But officials will release fresh eco- Minutes from their July meeting in August factory growth was due to weak glob- ther price declines. shore up growth. — Reuters nomic and interest-rate projections, show officials now generally agree on extending their forecast horizon through several important changes to a set of 2017. Those, coupled with even minute exit principles first published in 2011, changes in the Fed’s post-meeting state- including steps to prevent the Fed’s bal- Air France to cut flights by 50% tomorrow ment, could reshape expectations for ance sheet from shrinking before rates how soon and how fast the central bank rise. Most of them also now think the is likely to raise rates. Fed should hold on to most of the hous- ing-backed securities it has purchased. Growing stale Still under intensive discussion is how Fed officials from both ends of the to use a newfangled tool developed by policy spectrum have stepped up calls the central bank’s New York branch to recently to change what Cleveland Fed help sop up excess liquidity when the President Loretta Mester termed the Fed starts tightening policy. “stale” language on the likely timing of Minutes of the last meeting show it is the first rate hike. The Fed has said since increasingly likely the Fed will relegate March it expected a “considerable time” the new overnight reverse repurchase to elapse between the end of its bond facility to a supplementary and maybe buying, which is now slated for October, temporary role, in part due to worries it and its first rate hike. “I believe it is again could spark “runs” from more risky mar- time for the (Fed) to reformulate its for- kets in times of financial stress. ward guidance,” Mester said last week. Agreement on that matter could pave A few hours after Mester’s remarks, the way for public release of an exit blue- PARIS: Air France will reduce flights by about 50 percent Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a print as soon as next week. — Reuters from Monday as pilots begin a one-week strike over com- pany plans to cut costs to recapture market share from budget airlines, its chief executive said yesterday. Speaking to France Inter radio, Francois Gagey repeated that the strike, which could run until Sept. 22, would cost the airline between 10-15 million euros a day. Europe’s second-largest traditional carrier by revenue said in early September it would move ahead with a plan to open new bases in Europe under the Transavia brand to recapture market share from low-cost carriers and Middle East rivals. “On the basis of what we have now, I think we shall only be able to operate roughly 50 percent of flights,” Gagey said. “The passengers will be informed and we ask them, if possible, to change their tickets to avoid this period which is a little uncertain,” he said. Air France, which has issued a profit warning in recent months, is hampered by powerful unions in their efforts to lower costs. The main pilots’ unions have called for strikes from Sept 15-22. The airline has said it is open to negotiation on benefits tied to seniority and incentives for Air France pilots who transfer to Transavia, but will not yield to trade unions demanding that the labor con- COLOMBO: Pedestrians browse through paintings and crafts on sale in Colombo yes- tracts of Transavia pilots carry the same terms as those terday. The number of foreign tourists visiting Sri Lanka has swelled since the island flying under the Air France brand. “It will be 10-15 million ended a 37-year separatist conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009. — AFP euros in losses each day,” Gagey said. — Reuters SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 BUSINESS
Kuwait stocks advance amid speculation
BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT
KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week limited decline to the traded cash liquidity in the market. with mixed performance. The Price Index closed at On Wednesday session, the stock market was able to 7,487.95 points, up by 0.46 percent from the week realize some gains for its three indices, in light of the before closing, the Weighted Index decreased by 0.10 continued speculative operations that were present percent after closing at 491.90 points, whereas the KSX- during the session and included some large and small- 15 Index closed at 1,198.92 points down by 0.25 percent. cap stocks, among a continued decline to the financial Furthermore, last week’s average daily turnover liquidity. However, on the end of week session, the increased by 7.78 percent, compared to the preceding stock market witnessed a mixed performance in the week, reaching KD 24.09 million, whereas trading vol- three indicators, where the Price Index continued to ume average was 240.84 million shares, recording an increase supported by the purchasing operations exe- increase of 7.11 percent. cuted on some small-cap stocks, while the Weighted In light of a fluctuated and hesitant performance and KSX-15 Indices dropped in light of the sale opera- among the traders’ different views, the three stock mar- tions that were present during the session for profit col- ket indicators closed mixed by the end of the week, lection purposes, which caused the three indices to end whereas the Price Index continued its weekly increase the week with mixed performance. for the 11th consecutive week, among a continued ran- For the annual performance, the price index ended dom purchasing operations that targeted some small- last week recording 0.82 percent annual loss compared cap stocks, in addition to the quick speculative opera- to its closing in 2013, while the weighted index tions that were present as well, while the Weighted and increased by 8.62 percent, and the KSX-15 recorded KSX-15 Indices could not continue their increase, to end 12.21 percent growth. the weekly activity in the red zone, affected by the profit collection operations that targeted many of the large- Sectors’ Indices cap stocks, especially in the Banking and Six of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the green Telecommunications sectors. zone, while the other declined. Last week’s highest Moreover, the stock market initiated last week’s activi- gainer was the Consumer Services sector, achieving ty with a grouped increase for its three indices, among a 1.15 percent growth rate as its index closed at 1,185.38 noticeable growth in the trading activity, especially the points. Whereas, in the second place, the Financial traded liquidity that increased more than 50 percent, Services sector’s index closed at 1,041.45 points record- whilst the profit collection operations that the market ing 1.11 percent increase. The industrial sector came in witnessed in the next session pushed the three indices third as its index achieved 0.66 percent growth, ending to close in the red zone, to slightly decline, in light of a the week at 1,181.20 points. 1.14 percent. On the other hand, the Financials Services sector’s mixed daily variables of the trading activity. However On the other hand, the Consumer Goods sector The Financial services sector dominated total trade stocks were the highest traded in terms of value; with a during the mid-week session, the stock market wit- headed the losers list as its index declined by 2.76 volume during last week with 663.17 million shares turnover of KD 38.49 million or 31.95 percent of last nessed sort of a stable performance, although the stock percent to end the week’s activity at 1,320.86 points. changing hands, representing 55.07 percent of the total week’s total market trading value. The Banking sector market general direction was upward, as the Price and The Technology sector was second on the losers’ list, market trading volume. The Real Estate sector was sec- took the second place as the sector’s last week turnover KSX-15 indices realized some gains, though no change which index declined by 2.51 percent, closing at ond in terms of trading volume as the sector’s traded was KD 28.01 million represented 23.25 percent of the appeared on the Weighted Index, to end the session’s 1,001.49 points, followed by the Basic Materials sector, shares were 23.39 percent of last week’s total trading total market trading value. —Prepared by the Studies trading at the same level of the previous one, among a as its index closed at 1,262.94 points with a loss of volume, with a total of 281.64 million shares. & Research Department, Bayan Investment Co.
Fed change unlikely to blunt Dollar heads for equities’ appeal over bonds best run in 17 years LONDON: The US dollar headed for its some hesitation,” Swedish bank SEB said ninth straight week of gains yesterday, in a note to clients yesterday. The dollar some measure of how the economic for- index, a measure of the greenback’s val- WALL STREET WEEKLY OUTLOOK tunes of the United States and its major ue against a basket of six major curren- economic peers are diverging after six cies, remained on course for its longest NEW YORK: The recent wobbly stretch in strategist at EverBank Wealth Management ket,” said Quincy Krosby, market strategist at years of financial turmoil. streak of weekly gains since the first both stocks and bonds may persist for the in St. Louis, Missouri. Still, few expect such a Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey. Benchmark 10-year US Treasury yields quarter of 1997. short term if the US Federal Reserve next move would translate immediately into a While measures such as the forward price- rose to their highest in over a month, A range of political shocks to the sys- week lives up to expectations and signals long-term change in investors’ bullish view to-earnings ratio on the S&P 500 suggest while European stocks shrugged off tem, from turmoil in the Middle East to the days of near-zero interest rates are num- of stocks, especially relative to bonds. stocks are their priciest in nearly a decade, weakness in Asia to inch higher. fighting in Ukraine and a referendum on bered, but it is unlikely to tip valuation To be sure, signs of sooner-than-expect- other measures of relative valuation to A broad rise for the greenback was Scottish independence, have added to scales in favor of bonds any time soon. ed interest rate hikes could chip away at bonds remain skewed in favor of equities. the main bet of most major investment the backing for the dollar against a range Anxiety over the two-day Fed policy meet- investors’ optimistic view of stocks, which The S&P’s so-called earnings yield, the houses this year but it has taken a very of emerging and developed world cur- ing, centered on expectations the central scaled to new heights in no small part inverse of the price/earnings ratio and a long run of relatively good US numbers rencies. But the euro, hammered by bank will likely drop its pledge to keep inter- thanks to the Fed’s quantitative easing pro- common yard stick for comparing equity and a surge in concern over European worsening economic numbers and fur- est rates low for a “considerable time,” was a gram and decision to hold interest rates valuations against bonds, is roughly 6.3 per- and Japanese growth for the currency to ther easing of monetary policy by the primary driver behind stocks snapping a near zero percent for nearly six years now. cent. That is 3.7 percentage points higher deliver. Investors are convinced a Federal European Central Bank in the past five-week winning streak this week and But with bond yields still extraordinarily than the 10-year Treasury yield , currently Reserve meeting next Wednesday will month, has begun to find some support bonds absorbing their steepest losses in at low by historic standards, and unlikely to 2.6 percent, whereas the long-term spread rubberstamp a shift towards higher inter- in the last few days. least two months. rise drastically, many investors see equities between the two is about 1.5 percentage est rates next year suggested by a study Sterling was also looking more robust, Top economists at several firms say they as one of their few prospects for long-term points. by researchers from the US central bank helped by a poll that showed supporters see at least even odds the Fed will nix the growth. When measured against corporate junk this week. of preserving Scotland’s 300-year old phrase from its forward guidance, which Market watchers say it is unlikely the bonds, the bond market’s biggest competi- A 2 percent rise on the week in political union with England four points some traders may interpret as meaning that prospect of interest rate hikes will signifi- tor to stocks for asset flow, valuation math is response took the US currency to a six- ahead with less than a week to go before rate hikes could come as early as next cantly dampen investors’ taste for stocks or tilted even more heavily in favor of equities. year high of 107.39 yen on Friday. the Sept. 18 vote. The poll also helped March. prompt a large-scale reallocation of funds The average yield to maturity on junk bonds Against the euro it gained 0.2 percent on Britain’s top equity index rise for the first “If investors feel the Fed is becoming into bonds. is just 6.3 percent, according to Bank of the week at 1.2921, broadly flat on the time in six sessions, driven by Scottish- more hawkish, that’s actually a negative for “There’s no doubt that there will be some America/Merrill Lynch fixed income index day. based shares such as Royal Bank of all asset classes with the exception of the volatility in the short term, but at some data, but the long-term average junk yield is “The dollar generally remains firm but Scotland, soft-drink group AG Barr and dollar,” said Chris Gaffney, senior market point equilibrium will come into the mar- 9.4 percent. — Reuters the dollar index has started to show utility SSE. — Reuters SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 BUSINESS
Argentina faces new devaluation as dollar demand grows
BUENOS AIRES: Recession-hit Argentines are flocking flooded the streets, venting their wrath by banging pots capital markets. That has exacerbated its foreign curren- between a rock and a hard place. “If it raises the inter- to buy dollars, nervous over the government’s latest and pans. Rioting and the government crackdown that cy crunch. est rate, it will deepen the recession. If it doesn’t, it debt default and pressure from the business communi- followed left 33 people dead. Instead of retreating, the And with annual inflation of more than 30 percent will add fuel to the fire of exchange-rate pressure and ty to devalue the peso for the second time this year. memory has grown more raw in recent months as the and exports sagging, businesses are pressuring inflation,” said Belen Olaiz of consultancy Officially, a dollar is worth 8.42 Argentine pesos. government again defaulted on the debt it restructured Kirchner’s administration to devalue the peso again, Abeceb.com But it takes 14.26 pesos to buy one on the black mar- after the crisis. after an 18-percent devaluation in January. “We can’t The central bank’s reserves currently stand at $28 ket, a gap that only shows signs of widening. Despite persuading the vast majority of its creditors even export a piece of candy. Argentina is not competi- billion, down 45 percent from 2011. President Cristina Kirchner has tried to convince to accept 70-percent losses on the face value of their tive today,” said Hector Mendez, leader of the largest And the agriculture sector, traditionally a key Argentines to stop hoarding greenbacks and spend bonds, Argentina lost a court battle against two US employers’ organization, the Argentine Industrial Union. source of foreign cash, is in a funk over a 15-percent their pesos instead.”You have to invest in things you can hedge funds demanding full payment. A US federal Consumers are also suffering, cutting back purchas- drop in soy prices. Grain farmers are cashing in just touch and see. The rest is just fairytales,” she said recent- judge barred the country from paying its restructured es by 1.3 percent in the first half of the year as inflation $60 million a day at the central bank, down from ly. debt until it settles the $1.3-billion row, forcing it into a gutted their salaries. $150 million in July. Analysts say farmers are holding But her appeals have largely fallen on deaf ears in a new default on July 30. The economy shrank 0.2 percent in the first quarter back their soy crops hoping for higher prices. The country that still bears the scars of its 2001 financial cri- and shows no signs of recovering. vital auto industry, for its part, is unable to get sis, when the government froze $70 billion in deposits ‘Can’t even export candy’ enough dollars to import the parts it needs, exacer- in a bid to stop a run on the banks. After the 2001 default-the largest in history at the Auto, ag industries hurting bating poor sales that are down 25 percent so far this Limited to withdrawals of $250 a day, Argentines time, at $100 billion-Argentina shut itself out of global The plethora of woes has put the central bank year. —AFP Bosses charged with rebuilding Portugal’s BES bank resign
LISBON: The rebuilding of Portugal’s Novo Expresso said the executives had offered to Banco - the successor to Banco Espirito resign previously as they were against the Santo (BES) after a state rescue last month - central bank-ordered split of BES into a was dealt a blow yesterday with the resig- good bank that is now Novo Banco, and a nation of the three men handpicked by the bad bank that inherited the exposure to central bank in July to turn BES round. the Espirito Santos’ troubled web of busi- Chief executive Vitor Bento, finance direc- nesses. tor Joao Moreira Rato and deputy CEO Jose Bento said he and his team believed Honorio said they were leaving because Novo Banco was “a great institution, with their initial mandate to revive the bank dedicated people, loyal customers and a with private money had changed too much business that can strongly contribute to since the government bailout. lead Portugal through the recovery.” BES had to be rescued after the collapse Bento said his early announcement of of the business empire of its founding his intention to resign gave time to prepare Espirito Santo family, whose main holding a smooth transition to new management. firms are under creditor protection. Bank of Portugal officials were not immedi- The management resignations followed ately available to comment, but local a reported disagreement with the central media said the regulator was likely to bank over Novo Banco’s long-term strategy. announce Bento’s replacement this week- However, the three men denied any con- end. flict. Bento, a respected economist and busi- “Our decision to resign is due to the fact ness manager, was picked by Bank of that our mandate significantly changed Portugal Governor Carlos Costa to replace since we began our roles, in mid-July. Ricardo Salgado, the patriarch of the During our time at Novo Banco, we have Espirito Santo clan that founded the bank contributed to the stabilization of the bank, some 150 years ago. Salgado had resigned taken steps to normalize operations and under pressure from Costa. improve systems and launched a medium- Bento’s new management and the Bank term plan,” they said in a joint statement. of Portugal have said they suspect illegal Bento’s initial mandate was to save BES activity took place at BES, involving the TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech during the opening session of the high level round table talks in using private capital, before the central financing of the troubled family businesses the first World Assembly for Women, a gathering organized by the Japanese government and business groups to support Abe’s bank decided on Aug. 3 to step in with 4.9 using money borrowed from BES clients. campaign to promote a stronger role for women in the economy, in Tokyo yesterday. Abe has said Japan wants to boost the ratio billion euros ($6.4 billion), mostly in public The Bank of Portugal and the government of women in senior positions to 30 percent by 2020, up from 11 percent now, one of the lowest rates in the world. —AFP funds from the country’s bailout, to recapi- arranged 3.9 billion euros in public funds talize the “good bank” Novo Banco that it from the country’s international bailout for carved out of the troubled BES. Novo Banco and they want to sell the Weekly newspaper Expresso said earlier lender to recover the loans. Europeans move towards the executives objected to the central BES and Novo Banco have already bank’s plan to sell Novo Banco as soon as encountered difficulties as they try to possible and were reluctant “to run a proj- recover some of the Espirito Santo family’s ect that is not theirs”. massive debts, with some investors and a watered-down ‘Tobin’ tax “A process for a swift sale of the bank family holding company trying to block the has already been launched and is being sale of insurer Tranquilidade. managed by the Resolution Fund and the Earlier this month, auditor KPMG MILAN: European finance ministers struggled to poor countries. For now, there is little detail on what the tax Bank of Portugal. We now feel that the right warned of possible further losses on top of to agree a long promised financial transaction In the European version, the proceeds would would entail, but Sapin said the aim is to have a thing to do is to hand over the reins to a huge 3.6 billion euro loss reported by BES tax yesterday, with Germany urging a watered- go towards financing future bailouts, sparing proposal “by the end of the year”. In 2013, the another management team,” Bento said. in July. —Reuters down version amid resistance from France, the taxpayer from saving big banks caught out Commission floated a 0.1 percent levy on stock eager to protect its lucrative derivatives trading by over-speculation. and bond trades and 0.01 percent on the more sector. “The first step will only be small, that’s Many member states led by Britain, eager to complex derivatives, which it said would raise unfortunately true,” said German Finance protect its City of London financial hub, about 35 billion euros ($45 billion) a year. Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, an influential opposed the scheme, leaving 11 countries The banking lobby has been fierce in its backer of the scheme on the sidelines of including France and Germany, to go it alone. opposition to a transaction tax. “Even when an European Union minister talks in Milan. But with public attention turned away from the FTT is introduced in a limited number of mem- “Given the different situations in the differ- crisis, some of those countries, notably France, ber states in the EU, its effects will be detrimen- ent countries, we will probably only agree on a have cooled to the idea, preferring to enact a tal to the entire European economy,” the small first step, but a small first step is better watered-down version that would be less oner- European Banking Federation said in the runup than none,” Schaeuble said. ous on key types of financial trades. to the talks in Milan. Blamed for the financial crisis that had “Despite this overwhelming evidence sparked a global recession, public anger in ‘Tax the biggest risks’ against the merits of an FTT, the plan remains 2011 against bank traders ran high. This “It’s easy to call for taxes on things that don’t on the table,” the lobby group added. pushed the European Commission, backed by matter to you,” a senior European official told Germany’s Schaeuble said he was hopeful that Germany and France, to propose a tax on AFP, referring to countries pushing for a wide- a scaled-back tax could gain support and even- financial transactions. The idea was inspired ranging tax. French Finance Minister Michel tually attract more member states. by the ‘Tobin Tax’, named after Nobel laureate Sapin insisted that derivatives were still on the “I am very optimistic that, if we make the James Tobin, who proposed it in the 1970s as table but that the priority was to single out first step, we will create a knock-on-effect that a means of reducing speculation in global those “that posed the biggest risk and to tax leads to further steps and that could convince markets and redistributing Wall Street profits them,” he said. other countries to join in,” he said. —AFP Unemployment pushes young A man walking a street at Ayukawa port in Ishinomaki City after the nation’s 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The whaling town of Ayukawa on Japan’s north- east coast used to bustle with activity as fishermen brought their massive Swedes across Norway border catch back to port, supporting a community of nearly 14,000 people. —AFP OSLO: Sweden’s general election wing of an oil-rich economy and are 4,000 people, 75 percent of whom “All our young people had already campaign has spilled over into regarded as demanding and picky were Swedish, according to Vojvodic, been to Norway,” said Carola Persson Canada ratifies China deal, Norway as political rivals pursue votes towards unqualified jobs. a Swede himself. “Here, it’s easy to find at the Swedish Public Employment among the tens of thousands of most- “If an employer had to choose a job, working days are shorter and Service. Norway’s importance has may help smooth relations ly young Swedes emigrating to find between hiring a Norwegian fresh salaries are 40 percent higher, on aver- made Oslo almost a compulsory cam- work. from business school who’ll ask for age,” he said. paign stop for the Swedish political The Swedish economy and its AAA 500,000 kroner (some 61,000 euros, leaders ahead of the September 14 OTTAWA: Canada has finally ratified a foreign Garratts or to a Harper tour. “The Chinese side is credit rating might be envied by most $79,000) and a Swede with 10 years of Subsidized exile general election. Jimmie Aakesson, investment protection agreement with China after willing to work with the Canadian side to promote European countries, but unemploy- experience who’d be happy with Soederhamn, a Swedish munici- leader of the anti-immigration a two-year delay in a step that may help ease ten- economic and trade cooperation to a new level, ment among people aged 15 to 24 400,000, it wouldn’t be a hard choice,” pality with 12,000 inhabitants, even Sweden Democrats, was there to sions between the two countries and smooth the and further advance the development of China- has been oscillating between 20 and said Nino Vojvodic, the founder of a gave subsidies to encourage young argue that the reason so many way for a possible visit to China by Prime Minister Canada strategic partnership,” said embassy 25 percent over the past years-about recruitment agency. unemployed people to cross the bor- Swedes have to emigrate is that for- Stephen Harper. spokesman Yang Yundong. three times higher than overall job- Since its creation ten years ago, he der. The incentives, which enticed 150 eigners are taking their jobs back International Trade Minister Ed Fast announced The Chinese ambassador, Luo Zhaohui, said in lessness. “In Sweden, they require claims his agency has doubled its size young residents, expired at the begin- home. “When Sweden grants twice as the ratification on Friday and said the agreement, an article last month that there were no difficulties experience to hire you. But how can annually and found jobs for a total of ning of the year. many residence permits as it creates designed to give investors greater legal certainty, that could not be overcome. What China watchers we get experience if nobody gives us jobs, that’s what you get,” he said. would come into effect on Oct. 1. It was signed in are looking for is whether Harper will make a bilat- a first chance,” said Angelica Bergh, However, Malin Sahlen, an economist September 2012. Relations between Ottawa and eral visit to China for a few days after attending a one of the 80,000 to 100,000 Swedes Mexico fines Chinese who has written a book on the issue, Beijing have been strained by China’s detention Nov. 10-11 Asian regional summit in Beijing, an who have moved to Norway looking believes that the reasons for the high last month of Canadians Kevin and Julia Garratt on idea both sides had informally discussed. for a better future. Bergh, 25, is about retail project $1.1m unemployment are different. She suspicion they stole state secrets and for threaten- “Seeing as we’ve ratified this thing in good to become the deputy operations argues that low-qualification jobs are ing national security. The Garratts, who ran a cof- faith, one would hope that the Chinese would see head of a cafe chain in Oslo, where she MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities imposed on Friday a $1.1 million rare in Sweden’s economy and that fee shop in Dandong on the border with North their way clear to resolving our concerns over the started two years ago as a waitress. fine against a controversial and massive Chinese shopping center high protection of employees on per- Korea, deny the charges. arrest of the Garratts, which would then make it “What is cool here is that you can project for causing damages to the ecosystem near the Caribbean manent contracts make employers The Canadians were detained less than a week possible for the prime minister to have the three- quickly climb the ladder,” she said. resort of Cancun. The environmental protection prosecutor’s office resort to hiring temporary workers, after Canada accused Chinese hackers of breaking day tour in China,” said Brock University professor Close to full employment, Norway had already slapped a $500,000 fine on Dragon Mart last month which tends to create frequent gaps into a government computer network, a charge Charles Burton, a former Canadian diplomat who is seeking foreign workers to meet because it lacked proper environmental impact authorizations. of unemployment when those work- Beijing denied. served two tours in China. “The prime minister labor shortages, and neighboring This time, the agency issued a fine of $208,000 and ordered the ers change position. A Canadian government official, however, dis- appears to have taken a personal concern in this Sweden, with its cultural and linguistic Chinese-funded project to pay almost $900,000 to repair the damage. “According to Eurostat, 14 percent missed any connection between the Garratts and matter and really feels that it’s important to be similarities, seems like a perfect fit. The $180 million project, financed by the Chinamex company, has of the jobs in Europe are low-paid, and the foreign investment protection agreement resolved, or otherwise he’s unlikely to spend time Swedish waiters, nurses, dentists, been criticized by environmentalists because 418 hectares (1,032 that figure is only 3 percent in (FIPA), noting that the agreement was important with the Chinese leadership.” engineers and au pairs have become acres) out of the total 557 on which the mall is to be built is located on Sweden,” she said. Johan Hoegsten, on its own merits for promoting trade. Canada’s main opposition New Democratic common on the other side of the bor- land designated as a nature reserve. 36, spent the last 16 years in Norway “Announcing the FIPA, and consular issues, are Party criticized the agreement, saying it would der. Companies see them as hard- The project stalled initially after authorities refused to issue a construc- after falling through the cracks in his separate things that are dealt with separately,” said give Chinese companies in Canada the right to sue working and relatively cheap employ- tion permit but got going after several rounds of legal appeals. The mall, native Sweden. “I dropped out of the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. if federal or provincial governments legislated ees, in contrast with young which would be the second largest Chinese retail complex in the world school, so I never managed to enter The Chinese embassy declined to say whether environmental standards that affected their invest- Norwegians, who grew up under the outside China, is scheduled to be inaugurated in November. —AFP the labor market,” he said. —AFP the ratification could lead to freedom for the ments. —Reuters SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 BUSINESS Toyota, Lexus garners top awards in 2014
KUWAIT: Lexus was ranked best in a strong emphasis on innovation, design dent of global automotive at J D Power. real-world brand loyalty,” said Sargent. Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) and a refreshed model line-up that “However, some of the changes that “Also, we see that brands with lower among all nameplates for a third consec- enhances the brand’s appeal to younger automakers implemented for the 2011 dependability are likely to be shut out of utive year in the recent J D Power US and more adventurous buyers. Lexus model year have led to a noticeable a significant piece of the market, as Automotive ratings of 2014 whereas and Toyota received seven awards in this increase in problems reported”. Over the many consumers will not even consider Toyota models received high ranks for category for the Lexus ES; Lexus GS; past 5 years period Toyota and Lexus purchasing one of their vehicles because quality and customer satisfaction. Lexus LS (tie); Lexus RX; Scion xB; Toyota vehicles have been able to successfully of concerns about its likely reliability.” The gap between Lexus and all other Camry; and Toyota Sienna. improve their brand dependability rat- The APEAL and VDS is used extensive- brands is substantial, with Lexus averag- “Until this year, we have seen a con- ings, as the number of problems for ly by manufacturers and suppliers world- ing 68 problems per (PP)100 vehicles in tinual improvement in vehicle depend- Toyota per 100 vehicles reduced from wide to help them design and build bet- comparison with other brands. Lexus has ability,” said David Sargent, vice presi- 128 in 2010 to 114 in 2014, while that of ter vehicles, which typically translates Lexus went down considerably from 115 into higher resale values and customer to 68. loyalty. It also helps consumers make In the automotive Performance, more-informed choices for both new Execution, and Layout (APEAL) Study and used vehicle purchases. which examines how satisfying a new Lexus received the third highest rank- vehicle is to own and drive, Toyota ing in initial quality among all name- Highlander received award for the top plates. Initial quality is determined by midsized SUV. The consistent apprecia- the number of problems experienced tion and growth of Toyota in the first half per 100 vehicles, with a lower score of this year is backed by the success reflecting higher quality through exam- Toyota’s new design direction in terms of ining problems experienced by vehicle passionately developing products to owners during the first 90 days of owner- connect with consumers. ship. Lexus ES, GS and LS and Toyota Avalon, Camry and Corolla were the top to create exciting and fun driving experi- Dependability leads to loyalty ranked models in this category. While ence and this has resulted in a quantum “By combining our customer research Lexus has been making significant jump in customer satisfaction while giv- with trade-in data, we see a very strong advancements in the competitive luxury ing them the peace of mind of Toyota correlation between dependability and car market, Toyota is always committed ownership. 5,000 students undertake BMW’s road safety e-learning course
DUBAI: 5,000 students from the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have completed BMW Group Middle East’s online road safety program that promotes improved driving habits and the use of seat belts. The course was developed last year following a BMW survey that highlighted a worrying practice in the UAE where many young drivers or passengers do not use seatbelts. Just one third of the course respondents said they always wore a seatbelt and despite 44 per- cent of students having been in a car accident, a staggering 72 percent of them admitted they ‘only sometimes’ - or even never - buckle up. In addition 85 percent of surveyed students admit- ted to thinking seatbelts are just as likely to harm them as to help. “It is testament to BMW Group Middle East’s commitment to road safety that 5,000 students have engaged in a course of this type and we are quietly confident that driving habits will Burgan Bank unveils new improve as a result of our efforts and invest- ments,” said Leanne Blanckenberg, Corporate Communications Manager, BMW Group Middle Yawmi draw of KD 125,000 East. Endorsed by Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) the innovative, bespoke online KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently re- ners throughout the week. The Yawmi course has been rolled out to more than 18,000 launched its Yawmi Account offering cus- Account Quarterly Draws requires cus- Emirati students studying at HCT and is now part tomers more chances to win higher tomers to maintain a minimum amount of of the Universities curriculum. The BMW Group ‘Stay Alert. Stay Alive.’ cam- rewards, entitling one lucky customer to KD500 in their account for 2 months prior “The e-learning course has been highly suc- paign was launched in the UAE in 2010 with a win KD 125,000 cash prize every three to draw date. Additionally, every KD10 in cessful and is going someway to educate our focus on educating the public about the impor- months. Having now extended the success- the account, will entitle customers to one students on road safety best practices. The tance of using appropriate safety restraints while ful daily draw to a new quarterly draw as chance of winning. course is not only informative; it is also interac- travelling by car, particularly those for children. well, ensures Burgan Bank’s continuity of For more information about the newly tive which further helps to convey the reality of The campaign was a resounding success with exploring wider avenues to enhance its enhanced Yawmi account, customers are not driving in a responsible manner. At HCT we more than 3,000 child safety booster seats dis- products and services for its loyal cus- advised to visit their nearest Burgan Bank believe our role is to educate the next genera- tributed to parents throughout public aware- tomers while encouraging new account branch, or call the bank’s Call Center at tion on both an academic and social level; road ness events and strategic partnerships, with fur- holders to benefit for its rewarding offers. 1804080 where customer service represen- safety is one of the most pressing issues for us ther roll-out across the wider GCC. Phase Two The first Yawmi account Quarterly draw tatives will be delighted to assist with any and we believe our partnership with BMW comprised road safety awareness days at various will be conducted on December 2014 to questions on the Yawmi account or any of Group Middle East is making a difference,” added HCT colleges to tangibly display to university announce the lucky winner of the KD the bank’s products and services. Dr. Kamali, Vice Chancellor of the Higher students the devastating effects of not practic- 125,000 cash prize, while the daily draws Customers can also log on to Burgan Bank’s Colleges of Technology. ing safe driving. In addition, further child boost- will continue announcing its five daily win- www.burgan.com for further information. While the ‘Stay Alert. Stay Alive.’ campaign has er seats were distributed to the general public included all aspects of road safety, it is the seat- visiting BMW Group showrooms to continue the belt crisis which the BMW Group feels is one of message of road safety to parents and their chil- Indian real estate, an emerging the most crucial in helping to prevent deaths on dren, taking the total up to 4,500 since the cam- the UAE’s roads. The pioneering road safety e- paign launch. To date ‘Stay Alert. Stay Alive.’ has NRI investment destination learning platform hopes to see some major garnered widespread acclaim and recognition, breakthroughs. winning numerous awards and accolades. KUWAIT: The real estate sector in India is (NRI) and persons of Indian origin (PIO) can undergoing a self-organization from being a invest in property in India. NRIs can acquire highly unorganized sector. This has been one residential/ immovable property in India, rent of the most crucial factors for India gaining its it out, transfer or sell it. They can also take the status as a highly favored investment destina- rental income and capital investment in the tion through FDI and funds. property outside India, subject to the foreign India has a huge market potential. Based exchange regulations. The NRI/PIO may use on purchasing power parity, it is the fifth his own funds to acquire immovable proper- largest economy in the world; ranking even ty; other than the option of availing home above countries such as France, Italy, the loan from bank for this purpose. The NRI’s United Kingdom, and Russia. It has the third ‘own funds’ refer to the money received in largest GDP in the entire Asia and is also the India by way of inward remittance from over- second largest among emerging nations. seas out of income earned overseas, personal The estimated size of organized Indian real savings outside India. These funds can be estate sector accounts for $12 billion of India’s remitted through Non-Resident External economy and has the potential to touch $90 (NRE) or Non-Resident Ordinary (NRO) or billion in ten years’ time. Relaxation of FDI Foreign Currency (non-resident) (FCNR) bank rules has brought about capital gains in every accounts. Moreover, they can remit sale pro- sector of Indian economy and the govern- ceeds outside India for up to two such prop- ment has made and is continuing to make erties without any RBI approval. Remittance further efforts in liberalizing the guidelines for subsequent properties requires RBI’s and norms for investment through FDI, mak- approval. In case the property is acquired ing them more NRI friendly. from rupee funds held in India, the remit- Indian real estate prices in general are on tance depends on the holding period of the the upswing in all markets across sectors property. since last two years. Meanwhile the trend to Indus India Property Exhibition 2014, own exclusive properties such as beach hous- which will be held in Kuwait on 19 and 20 es, homes in the hills and near religious cen- September, at the Holiday Inn Salmiya, from ters as second homes is growing fast. 10.45am to 8.30pm, will allow NRIs looking Returns from real estate investments in for investment in Indian real estate to access India have consistently performed well and first-hand information on upcoming and cur- even outperformed the other investment rent real estate projects across India. The exhi- options. However, with easy home loan avail- bition will present a range of property Mindshare’s ‘The Art of Original ability by financial institutions in India, real options, from residential apartments, plots estate has emerged as the best of all the and bungalows, to commercial properties. available prospects for NRIs and those look- Special exhibition / festival offers are being Thinking’ comes to Dubai ing forward to returning to India permanent- extended by majority of the participants for ly. The policies set out by the government NRIs in Kuwait booking their property during DUBAI: Mindshare, which is part of WPP, is a box and garner immense success in a diverse creative team members. Picstash CEO Niall regarding property investment and repatria- the exhibition. global media agency network helping clients to array of professions. Harbison gave advice on living memorably; simi- tion, has made opportunities of investments The exhibition is brought to you by Indus make collaborative and adaptive decisions The first speaker was none other than Perry larly, entrepreneur Tom Oliver shared his best in India even more favorable. Under the pres- Fairs & Events (India) Pvt Ltd in association across their paid, owned, and earned marketing McCarthy, the Formula 1 daredevil who skyrock- practices towards maximizing personal creativity ent relaxed conditions, Non-resident Indians with Response Events & Exhibitions, Kuwait. in real-time. The agency brought yet another eted to fame after being revealed as “The Stig,” for a more fulfilling life. innovative event to the region with “The Art of the mysterious character of BBC’s “Top Gear.” The “We always strive to introduce cutting-edge Original Thinking,” a one-day event held at driver and author presented “Believing in the events that reflect our values and position,” says Fairmont The Palm Dubai on August 30. Impossible,” inspiring attendees to follow their Mindshare MENA CEO Samir Ayoub. “Original The exciting event was coordinated in appre- dreams through innovative thinking. Founder of thinking is at the core of everything we do. ‘The ciation of Mindshare’s most outstanding per- Orcasci and Imaginatik Mark Turrell discussed Art of Original Thinking’ not only provided fasci- formers, who have consistently demonstrated how patterns of behavior form, an immensely nating stories and valuable expertise from a their dedication and innovation in their work. valuable lesson for media and marketing experts panel of world-renowned leaders in many fields, Attended by senior team members and star per- to better understand the popularization of but generated a lively dialogue among formers from Mindshare MENA, “The Art of trends. Marketing expert and former JWT Global Mindshare’s management and rising stars across Original Thinking” brought together an impres- Creative Director Gordon Torr introduced the region. We are thrilled to bring this stimulat- sive selection of high-profile figures that are “Managing Creative People,” a valuable explana- ing event to our people, as we care about their revered for their abilities to think outside the tion of how to bring the best out of your most development and career growth.” technology SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 China demand to fuel HK iPhone grey market
HONG KONG: Wealthy mainland Chinese looking for iPhone 6 models a week before its release, with to buy the new iPhone 6 next week could expect to mainland Chinese customers making up half of the pay an eye-watering $2,500 for the handsets in orders. Those customers could easily turn a profit Hong Kong, following Apple’s decision to delay the by reselling the phone on the return home, he said. launch in China. “There have been reports saying that the iPhone Hong Kong has long been a hub for resold and 6 prices could reach over 20,000 yuan to 30,000 refurbished phones, and delighted vendors there yuan ($3,260 to $4,890) in China, so the Hong Kong were coping with a flood of pre-orders from the price isn’t all that expensive,” Yiu said. Apple-obsessed mainland. Lau Chi-kong, who runs the G-World store, The price, say sellers in the southern Chinese agreed. “Because it is not being sold in mainland city, is a bargain-the phones can then be resold on China first, there will be a lot of mainland customers the mainland, where fans could pay up to 30,000 coming here to buy it, so there will be less stock yuan ($5,000) for a new handset. and it can be sold at such a high price,” he said. Apple this week unveiled the two latest models In the US, the new iPhone 6 will start at the same in its iPhone series, both of which boast a larger price of existing iPhones at $199, while the iPhone screen, in a bid to recapture its role as a technologi- 6 Plus will be at $299 with a two-year contract. cal trend-setter. Apple is attempting to adapt to consumers’ The phones will be made available in 10 coun- apparent preference for bigger displays with the tries-including Hong Kong-from September 19, but 4.7-inch iPhone 6 screen and the 5.5 inch 6-Plus. In Apple has not yet stated when they will be avail- Asia, arch rival Samsung has long been releasing able on the mainland, despite it being one of the hugely popular lines of larger handsets. US tech giant’s largest markets. Apple’s products are wildly popular in China, Massive queues and frantic trading were seen where a teenager sold his kidney and used the outside Apple stores in the southern Chinese city funds to buy an iPhone and iPad in an incident on previous iPhone launches, with resellers buying widely reported in 2012. Netizens have been pining units from hundreds of new iPhone owners to sell for the latest iPhone model on Weibo, China’s ver- on later at inflated prices on the legal but unautho- sion of Twitter.“Take my money and take my cards, rized “grey market”. At Sin Tat Plaza, a bustling mall just hand me the mobile phone,” one Chinese neti- crammed with mobile phone stores in the city’s HONG KONG: A man stands at the counter of a shop advertising the upcoming sale of Apple’s new iPhone zen posted.”I’m getting a pay rise in September. I Mongkok district, posters and replica models of 6 in Hong Kong. Exorbitant resale prices for the new iPhone 6 are expected to reach more than $2,500 in want to buy an iPhone 6. I don’t have to sell a kid- both iPhone 6 models are already on display on vir- Hong Kong, but are not expected to put off customers from mainland China who want to get their hands ney,” another added. tually every corner. on the latest Apple gadget. — AFP Beijing’s Ministry of Industry and Information “The demand in the mainland is bigger for the Technology does not list the iPhone 6 as having iPhone 6 compared to the iPhone 5s because there customer for 300 units of the iPhone 6. where the iPhone 5s was available for sale last year, received government approval. Pre-ordering in are bigger changes made to it,” Arthur Chung, who The 128-gigabyte gold version of the larger and the then newly introduced gold iPhone 5s Hong Kong started on Friday, with all models runs a phone reseller shop at the three-storey shop- iPhone 6-Plus could be resold for over HK$20,000 model was particularly popular. unavailable within two hours. The larger iPhone 6- ping centre, said. ($2,580), Gary Yiu, the manager of the nearby Plus model was sold out in less than an hour. Apple Chung said he will order phones from the United iGeneration mobile phone store, told AFP. ‘Just hand me the phone’ said the devices would be available in at least 115 States to match a pre-order made by a mainland Mainland China was among the first countries Yiu said his store received scores of pre-orders countries by the end of the year. — AFP
Larger Apple iPhone shipments delayed amid record orders
NEW YORK: Customers may have to wait In addition, Chinese customers may also have three to four weeks to get their hands on to wait until the year-end before they can buy Apple Inc’s iPhone 6 Plus, after a record num- the iPhone 6. Apple is yet to set a release date ber of orders for the company’s latest smart- for China, the world’s biggest smartphone phones strained available supply. The new market. iPhone 6 goes on sale on Sept. 19 in the The company unveiled its latest iPhones United States but the company began taking along with a watch and a mobile payments online orders on Thursday. While the larger service on Tuesday. AT&T’s chief executive of 5.5-inch “Plus” models now display a wait mobile and business, Ralph de la Vega, told time of up to a month, the 4.7-inch version investors at a conference in New York that remains available for delivery on Sept. 19, iPhone 6 orders have so far surpassed orders Apple’s website showed. last year and the year before. Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Corp, “It is such a great thing to wake up in the also showed shipment delays of up to six morning to know that you have hundreds of weeks on their respective websites. Apple thousands of orders already before you even said the pace of orders has so far outstripped have a cup of coffee,” said the executive. any of its previous iPhones. Apple’s iPhones tend to incite the kind of “Response to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus initial buying frenzy unknown to many other has been incredible, with a record number of brands, partly because of the company’s well- pre-orders overnight. Pre-orders are currently honed marketing tactics. On secondary mar- available online or through the Apple Store kets online, the rights to a pre-ordered App,” spokeswoman Trudy Muller said. Apple iPhone 6 Plus are worth as much as double routinely grapples with iPhone supply con- the unsubsidized sticker price. One eBay auc- straints, particularly in years that involve a tion for an unlocked 128-gigabyte gold ver- smartphone re-design. The latest iPhones sion of the 5.5-inch phone, for example, was come with larger screens and some analysts bidding at $1,625 on Friday afternoon, com- had anticipated that production issues may pared with a face value of $949. keep a lid on initial runs. One post on the New York City edition of DETROIT: An Acura RLX sedan 2014. An Acura RLX sedan demonstrated an unusual way to tow another car this week: the vehicles were not physically Craigslist sought $10,000 the privilege to “be attached. The second car drove itself, following instructions beamed over by the first. Supply chain issues one of the first & few people to own this mod- Its suppliers had scrambled to get enough el and before the rest of the world.” screens ready because the need to redesign a New iPhones tend to get listed at stratos- Cars that drive themselves key component had disrupted panel produc- pheric prices on various online retail sites tion, supply chain sources told Reuters last from the United States to China, on the month. assumption that there’s big demand from start to chat with each other It was unclear whether the hiccup could people who must get their hands on the limit the number of phones available to con- phone from day one. That in turns fuels a sumers, the sources said at the time. Apple grey market of dealers who buy in bulk for A new stage in automation happening faster declined to comment on supply chain issues. resale. — Reuters DETROIT: An Acura RLX sedan demonstrated an All the razzle-dazzle technology promised by installed, the price tag remains stiff, although recent unusual way to tow another car this week: the vehi- automakers and regulators “shouldn’t take our eyes studies have shown car buyers are willing to pay cles were not physically attached. The second car off the prize-cars that don’t crash,” Jon Lauckner, GM’s about $3,000 to have hands-free driving capability. drove itself, following instructions beamed over by chief technology officer, said at the Intelligent The Chrysler Group, a unit of Italy’s Fiat SpA, is the first in a feat of technology that indicates a new Transport Systems World Congress in Detroit this charging nearly $3,500 for a technology bundle on its stage in automation is happening faster than many week. new 2015 Chrysler 200C sedan that includes adaptive expected. Citi analyst Itay Michaeli said the convergence of cruise control, which automatically applies brakes Systems that enable vehicles to communicate connected and automated technologies also has the and throttle to keep a vehicle a safe distance behind with each other have been developed in recent years potential to reduce vehicle emissions and fuel usage, the one ahead; lane departure warning with lane in parallel with features that enable cars to drive and bring down vehicle operating and insurance keep assist, which automatically redirects a vehicle themselves. Manufacturers and suppliers now are costs. Active safety, including hands-free driver assis- that is drifting out of its traffic lane; blind spot and putting the two together in novel ways, with broad tance and accident avoidance, was a common thread cross path detection, which helps the driver monitor implications for vehicle safety and convenience. of many technical discussions and technology the presence of vehicles, and automatic park assist. General Motors Co, Honda Motor Co, which owns advances on display at the ITS show, which attracted GM’s Cadillac brand hasn’t said how much its new Acura, and other automakers are working with tradi- 10,000 engineers, scientists and researchers, ending Smart Cruise system will cost when it debuts in about tional suppliers and startup firms. Tech giants Google, on Thursday. Automakers are starting to put more of two years. The system is designed to enable hands- with its pioneering work on driverless cars, and Apple, the new technologies on the road “to get some expe- free driving on the freeway with automatic steering, which is working with automakers to embed greater rience and see how the market reacts in advance of braking and throttle, as well as using GM’s OnStar sys- connectivity in their cars, are accelerating the change. the government requiring it,” said Jeff Owens, Delphi tem to provide location, weather and traffic informa- “It is the mix of big companies-Apple, Google, the Automotive chief technology officer. tion to the automated systems. automakers and the data aggregators-that starts to Price is still a big question. Some advanced sys- But drivers should not expect to take a snooze. create momentum. Two years ago, it was different. It tems could cost two to three times more to develop “We are talking about ‘automated’ driving features, was a promise. Today, it’s reality,” said Laurens than early adopters are likely to pay, several industry not autonomous driving,” with Smart Cruise, warned Eckelboom, executive vice president of business insiders estimated in conversations at the show. spokesman Jim Cain. “We will have strategies in place development at Parkmobile, a smart-parking startup Even with just a few semi-automated systems to keep the driver alert and engaged.” — Reuters whose investors include BMW AG and Ford Motor Chairman Bill Ford’s venture capital firm Fontinalis NANCY: A person presents the newly developed connected and interactive soles Partners. “Digitsole” in Nancy, northeastern France. The inventor from Nancy has made possible A “truck platooning” application by Peloton Should online accounts with his connected soles to control with your smartphone how hot you want to feel in Technology, a startup based in California’s Silicon your shoes, while precisely measuring the distance traveled. — AFP Valley, is intended to save fuel and reduce collisions. die when you die? As with virtual towing, a “platoon” of two heavy trucks use wireless communication and computer- WASHINGTON: Should your emails, web albums To become law, the legislation would have to controlled braking and acceleration to keep in close and other online accounts die when you do? Or be adopted by each state’s legislature. It would JPMorgan hackers accessed formation on the highway, according to a description should you be able to pass them down to a fami- trump “terms of service” agreements by tech by the company, which expects to start selling the ly member much as you would a house or a box companies that prohibit people from accessing servers but stole no money technology late next year at $2,000 per truck plus a of letters? an account that isn’t theirs. share of the projected operating savings. A leading group of lawyers says that families “This is something most people don’t think of should immediately get access to everything until they are faced with it. They have no idea BOSTON: Hackers accessed dozens of servers had been the victim of a cyberattack and was The total price tag for widespread adaption of online unless otherwise specified in a will. They what is about to be lost,” said Karen Williams of at JPMorgan Chase & Co in a cyberattack working with U.S. law enforcement authori- such features could be steep. The National Highway are urging state lawmakers to enact their pro- Beaverton, Oregon, who sued Facebook for launched in June, though no money was tak- ties to determine its scope. The Times said the Traffic Safety Administration estimates automakers posal so loved ones don’t get shut out as access to her 22-year-old son Loren’s account en, the New York Times reported on Friday, attack began in June, was detected in July will need to spend billions of dollars to install safety American lives move increasingly online. after he died in a 2005 motorcycle accident. citing people familiar with the investigation and that the bank last week briefed financial systems that automatically assist drivers and could be “Our email accounts are our filing cabinets Facebook and other tech companies have into the case. regulators on the extent of the damage. The mandated by 2020, when the industry expects the these days,” said Suzanne Brown Walsh, a been reluctant to hand over their customers’ pri- “We are confident we have closed any report said that hackers accessed information first self-driving cars to start easing onto roads. Cummings & Lockwood attorney who led the vate data, and many people say they wouldn’t known access points and prevented any on about 1 million customer accounts. It cited effort. But “if you need access to an email want their families to have unfettered access to future access in the same way,” the paper one source as saying that hackers had not Who is liable? account, in most states you wouldn’t get it.” The their life online. But when confronted with quoted JPMorgan spokeswoman Kristin gained access to financial information or There are other risks and issues including reliabili- Uniform Law Commission, whose members are death, families say they need access to settle Lemkau as saying. She added that the bank Social Security numbers, and may have only ty, cybersecurity and legal liability. appointed by state governments to help stan- financial details or simply for sentimental rea- had “not seen any unusual fraud activity” been able to review names, addresses and “What happens if a self-driving car gets into an dardize state laws, on Wednesday endorsed the sons. What’s more, certain online accounts can since the intrusion was discovered and said phone numbers. accident? Who is liable for the damages? Will the plan for “digital assets.” It would give loved ones be worth real money, such as a popular cooking there was no evidence that they have taken Bank spokeswoman Trish Wexler told human ‘copilot’ be at fault or will the car’s manufac- access to - but not control of - the deceased’s blog or a gaming avatar that has acquired cer- any proprietary software or had a blueprint of Reuters she could not elaborate on Lemkau’s turer?,” the Center for Insurance Policy and Research digital accounts unless a will says otherwise. tain status online.—AP the bank’s network, according to the Times. statements to the paper or otherwise com- wrote last month, citing “a long list of safety and legal JPMorgan disclosed late last month that it ment on the report. — Reuters issues to iron out before self-driving cars hit the road.” SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Cuba’s Ebola aid latest example of ‘medical diplomacy’
HAVANA: Cuba’s pledge to said members of the team had Cuba sent some 25,000 doctors deploy a 165-strong army of doc- “previously participated in post- and health workers to 32 nations tors and nurses to help fight the catastrophe situations” and had in the region. In 2004, former Ebola outbreak is the latest all volunteered for the six-month President Fidel Castro and late example of the Communist coun- mission, which begins in early Venezuelan President Hugo try’s decades-old tradition of October. Chavez launched “Mission “medical diplomacy.” Since 1960, Miracle,” a program offering free when Cuba dispatched a team of ‘Foreign policy cornerstone’ eye surgery that has benefited doctors to help with the after- “Medical diplomacy, the col- some 2.8 million people across 35 math of an earthquake in Chile, laboration between countries to countries, according to Cuban the Caribbean island has sent simultaneously produce health official sources. more than 135,000 medical staff benefits and improve relations, to all corners of the globe. The has been a cornerstone of Cuban Earthquake assistance latest batch being sent to help in foreign policy since the outset of At the same time, Cuba’s west Africa’s Ebola crisis are part the revolution fifty years ago,” “medical brigades” have helped of a 50,000-strong foreign legion said US researcher Julie Feinsilver victims from devastating earth- of Cuban doctors and healthcare in a study for Georgetown quakes in numerous countries workers spread across 66 coun- University. “It has helped Cuba including Algeria, Mexico, tries in Latin America, Asia and garner symbolic capital-goodwill, Armenia and Pakistan. Cuba has Africa, according to Cuba’s Health influence, and prestige-well also trained several thousand Ministry. beyond what would have been doctors and nurses from no fewer Cuban Health Minister possible for a small, developing than 121 developing nations. The Roberto Morales Ojeda told country, and it has contributed to biggest deployment has seen reporters in Geneva on Friday making Cuba a player on the 30,000 Cuban health profession- some 62 doctors and 103 nurses world stage,” Feinsilver wrote in als sent to oil-rich Venezuela, a were being sent to Sierra Leone her study “Fifty Years of Cuba’s key regional ally. In Brazil, mean- to tackle the outbreak. World Medical Diplomacy: From while, some 11,456 Cubans are Health Organization director Idealism to Pragmatism”. working in hard-hit areas suffer- general Margaret Chan wel- “In recent years, medical ing from staffing shortages. comed the Cuban aid, the largest diplomacy has been instrumental Together with educational and DAKAR: Men walk past Ebola prevention posters in a suburb of Dakar. —AFP offer of a foreign medical team in providing considerable materi- sporting services, the export of Yet while the qualifications some politicians in Peru, Brazil, overseas. Despite the thousands from a single country during the al capital-aid, credit, and trade-to medical professionals is worth and dedication of Cuba’s foreign Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay and of health workers abroad, Cuba’s outbreak. “Money and materials keep the revolution afoat.”Cuba’s around $10 billion annually to legion are regularly lauded by Honduras have criticized the domestic healthcare remains one are important, but those two medical diplomacy accelerated Cuba, making it the most impor- countries benefiting from their “army in white coats” sent by of the best staffed networks in things alone cannot stop Ebola after the devastation wrought by tant source of income for the services and organizations such Cuba. At the same time, Havana the world, with 82,065 doctors, virus transmission,” said Chan. Hurricanes George and Mitch island, outstripping money as the WHO, they are not always has also been criticized for with- one for every 137 people, accord- “Human resources are clearly our across the Caribbean in 1998. In earned from foreign remittances viewed so positively by local holding too big a chunk of the ing to the National Statistics most important need.” Morales the aftermath of the disaster, and exports of nickel. health workers. Trade unions and salaries of workers employed Office. —AFP
Taiwan executive detained as food safety scandal deepens
TAIPEI: The head of a Taiwanese company announced that a string of additional prod- at the centre of a widening food safety ucts, including snacks and cookies from scandal has been detained for selling hun- several top selling brands, were to be dreds of tons of “gutter oil” that caused pulled from sale. mass product recalls, authorities said yes- The Japanese fast food chain Mos terday. Yeh Wen-hsiang, chairman of Chang Burger’s Taiwanese branch said in a state- Guann Co, was taken into custody early ment yesterday that it had suspended the yesterday on suspicion of fraud, officials sale of five types of hamburgers for con- said, deeming him a flight risk and fearing taining tainted oil. Premier Jiang Yi-huah he could collude with other suspects or has apologized to the public and promised destroy evidence. Investigators found that to enhance food safety controls in the wake in the six months from February, Chang of the fresh scandal, the second to hit Guann had purchased 243 tons of tainted Taiwan in less than a year. Last December a oil-collected from cookers, fryers and Taiwanese factory owner was sentenced to grease traps-from an unlicensed factory 16 years in prison for selling olive oil adul- and mixed it with lard oil for sales to its cus- terated with cheap cottonseed oil and a tomers islandwide. A total of 782 tons of banned coloring agent, after the authori- such oils had been produced. Chang ties recalled tens of thousands of bottles of Guann was already fined Tw$50 million tainted cooking oil. ($1.67 million) by the authorities for illegal- The food safety scare has also spread to ly selling poor-quality lard oil-a clear oil Hong Kong, where the authorities said local pressed from pig fat. chains had withdrawn from sale pineapple Hundreds of tons of mooncakes-tradi- buns and dumplings feared to have con- tionally served at this time of year-along tained gutter oil from Taiwan. In Macau, with pineapple cakes, bread, instant noo- the city’s Food Safety Centre said 21 bak- dles as well as steamed buns and eries and food manufacturers had bought dumplings have been removed from oil from Chang Guann through a local shelves in Taiwan since the case surfaced importer. Taiwan’s health ministry has said last week. More than 1,000 restaurants, it has yet to fully assess the health risks of bakeries and food plants had used the gutter oil. It has ordered tests to see tainted oil, according to the Food and Drug whether samples contain heavy metals. Administration. Many have apologized to Local health experts have warned that customers for having unknowingly used cooking gutter oil at high temperatures tainted oil. On Friday, health authorities could produce carcinogens. —AFP CONAKRY: A health employee checks the temperature of a man at the entrance of the Conakry harbor, as part of the measures against the ebola epidemic. —AFP Profit motive big hurdle for Ebola drugs: Experts ‘Money has stood in the way of erasing the curse’
PARIS: For nearly four decades, mention of the Ebola are investing in a vaccine-GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and than 2,400 people, about half of the confirmed infec- virus has evoked death and terror, yet a simple factor- (Johnson & Johnson subsidiary) Janssen.” tions. The outbreak has caused social dislocation and money-has stood in the way of erasing the curse, economic disruption, and bred fears in neighboring experts say. Despite its evil reputation, Ebola breaks Deaths in Africa countries and Europe that the deathly disease could out only rarely in brief if murderous spurts in impover- Sylvain Baize, in charge of the Viral Haemorrhagic spread there too. The two treatments and two vac- ished African countries. That tiny-and poor-market Fevers Reference Centre at France’s Pasteur Institute, cines furthest advanced in the research pipeline are means the disease has been a very low priority for Big said Ebola had claimed fewer than 2,000 lives in still at the very earliest testing stages to see if they are Pharma, given the hundreds of millions of dollars it can almost 40 years, a minute toll compared with other safe and if they work. On August 12, the UN’s World take to devise a new drug or vaccine. diseases. “If these 2,000 deaths had occurred in indus- Health Organization (WHO) gave the green light to Today, after years of low-key progress with the trialized countries, things may have been different, using experimental drugs, saying it would be ethical Pentagon as main funder, the search for vaccines and but it was 2,000 dead in the middle of Africa, so given the extent of the Ebola crisis and the fact that TAIPEI: Opposition lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and drugs for Ebola has been thrown into higher gear and, nobody cared very much,” Baize said sardonically. no cure or vaccine so far exists. Human trials typically Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) display placards demanding Premier Jiang Yih- for now, the profit factor has been put to one side. Ebola’s extraordinary lethality was another reason take several years under an exhaustive, three-phase hua (not in picture) to apologize for the gutter oil scandal before his speech dur- “Until this west African epidemic, Ebola was not a pub- why it never became a top target for research, he vetting procedure. On September 5, the WHO voiced ing the new session at the parliament in Taipei on September 12, 2014. Taiwan lic health problem and (was) a really rare disease,” says said. “It has to be confined in a top-security P4 labora- hopes a vaccine would be available in November for fined a leading supplier more than $1.6 million for selling hundreds of tons of Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of tory, of which there are very few in the world, so there frontline health workers. If this fast-tracking process Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-discovered the are not many people who in fact can work on it,” yields results, it raises the next question: Who will pay ‘gutter oil’ and sparking a food safety scare that gripped the island and spread Ebola virus in 1976. “There was very little interest in all Baize said. The recent shakeup has been spurred by to manufacture the drug and distribute it? “Ebola is a to Hong Kong and Macau. —AFP quarters, not just pharma,” Piot said in an email to AFP. an epidemic in four west African countries-Guinea, classic orphan disease,” said Annette Rid, a doctor of “Things have changed now, and two major companies Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone-that has killed more bioethics at King’s College London, adding that pub- lic funds, charities and institutional donors would US judge orders HIV-positive have to stump up the seed money. “Once it is established that a therapy or vaccine is man to stop infecting others effective, stockpiles need to be established in those African countries where Ebola is likely to re-emerge,” LOS ANGELES: A US judge has ordered a man per reported. In a statement, the health depart- said Piot. “This can be funded by the international with HIV to stop infecting others after he ment said it issues cease-and-desist orders community, and done under the aegis of the WHO.” passed on the AIDS virus to eight sexual part- about once a year but has only sought legal Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of ners in four years, officials said yesterday. Local enforcement of such an order once in the past, Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said he was authorities in Seattle had issued two case-and- in 1993. “In the case in question, we felt legal increasingly optimistic that Big Pharma would play a desist orders over the last few months but then enforcement was the best way to assure the role, given the scale of the crisis. “I think there was took the extremely rare step of bringing the health of the patient and public,” it said. King previously no incentive, but now that everyone sees case to court, where it was confirmed by a County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector that it is a big problem, we are getting more and judge. “We’re not trying to criminalize sexual ordered the man to comply with the July order more companies involved,” he said. behavior here,” Dr Matthew Golden of the on September 4, saying he must attend coun- Seattle and King County public health depart- seling and all appointments by public health Carrots for Pharma ment told the Seattle Times newspaper. “We are officials. Seth Berkley, head of the GAVI Alliance, a public- trying to protect the public’s health. And we’re If he fails to do so, the judge could order private partnership designed to bring vaccines to trying to make sure that everyone gets the care escalating fines and throw him in jail, according poor countries, said a panoply of tools existed for they need, including the person involved in to the Times. The department said that its “pri- harnessing the profit motive. “You can directly this.” The man, identified only as “AO,” tested mary goal is to ensure that all HIV-infected per- finance the vaccine technology transfer, you can positive for HIV in 2008. He received counseling sons, including the person for whom we incentivize companies by funding them directly, you but went on to infect eight sexual partners recently sought enforcement of a health order, CONAKRY: A man washes his hands at the entrance of the Conakry harbor, as part of the can create an advanced market commitment with between 2010 and this year, according to court know their HIV status and receive the medical measures against the ebola epidemic. The epidemic, the worst-ever since the virus was supplemental funds to try to make it a good deal for documents cited by the Times. care they need.” “All of our work related to the In June this year, officials served a cease- case in question has been designed to ensure first identified in 1976, has killed more than 2,400 people and infected twice that num- business, you can create a long-term plan for buying the vaccines as an incentive,” he said. “There is a and-desist order requiring him to attend more that an HIV infected person receives needed ber, according to a new toll released by the World Health Organization. Placard reads: range of mechanisms there and it could be done counseling, and another in August specifying medical care and adopts behaviors that protect ‘Beware, Ebola is a reality, take precautions’. —AFP rather quickly.” —AFP that he must seek HIV treatment, the newspa- both him and his sex partners,” it added. —AFP SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Whale huddle braces for clash over Japanese hunting
PARIS: Nations will square off in Slovenia next tentious issues and the positions of the coun- celled its 2014/15 season but has vowed to whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean in the next season (2015-16).” Japan has not week over the fate of hundreds of whales in tries at the meeting remain far apart,” Ryan restart the campaign. Commercial whaling is around Antarctica, invoking the scientific submitted a formal motion to the IWC, but the crosshairs of Japanese and Greenland Wulff, deputy United States commissioner to banned under a 1986 IWC moratorium, which exemption, which the ICJ found it abused. New Zealand has filed a draft resolution that hunters accused of sidestepping a commer- the IWC, told AFP. In a statement pointing to has seen a rebound of many species hunted Much of the catch ended up at restaurants would place a heavier onus on Tokyo in future cial killing ban. The stage is set for fiery stormy waters ahead, the IWC said it had to near-extinction well into the 20th century. and fish markets in Japan, where the tradition to prove that any Antarctic hunt is truly for debate among International Whaling moved “complex” issues to the top of the It allows killing only for “purposes of scientific of eating whale meat is declining. IWC figures science. There is, however, nothing that pre- Commission (IWC) members, touching on agenda to “allow maximum time for the 88 research” and for aboriginal communities in show that in 2013 and during the 2013/14 vents Japan from going ahead without the issues of national sovereignty, aboriginal member governments to find ways of reach- North America, Russia, Greenland and the Antarctic summer, Japanese hunters took 252 commission’s blessing. rights and the conservation of Earth’s bounty. ing consensus”. Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the minke whales in the Antarctic and 92 off its Wulff, whose country backs the New Trigger issues are Tokyo’s plans to relaunch The commission’s 65th meeting runs in the Grenadines with a tradition of eating whale own coast, as well as 100 sei, 28 Bryde’s, three Zealand resolution, said scientific whaling was its Antarctic whale hunt despite a ruling of Adriatic resort of Portoroz from Monday to meat. minke and one sperm whale in the northwest “simply not necessary”. “Any scientific ques- the UN’s highest court, and a bid for Thursday-its first since the International Court Pacific. A Japanese fisheries agency official tion that you need to ask that is required to Greenland’s subsistence whaling quota to be of Justice (ICJ) in March ordered a stop to Japan will ‘explain’ told AFP that in Slovenia, his country would conserve or manage a stock, population or enlarged. “We are dealing with some con- Japan’s annual Antarctic hunt. Japan can- Japan continued hunting minkes within a “explain its plan to resume research whaling species of whales can be addressed through non-lethal means,” he said. Conservationists say minkes, the main target for commercial and subsistence whalers, is one of few species seemingly in decline, though not yet endangered. In Portoroz, Japan will also elab- orate on plans for “small-scale commercial whaling in its coastal area,” with a target of 17 minkes, the fisheries official said. These are also opposed.
Denmark under fire Denmark, meanwhile, is under scrutiny in its bid for a larger quota for aboriginal subsistence whalers in Greenland, an autonomous, Danish- dependent territory. Critics say some of the catch ends up on tourists’ plates in local restau- rants. “We have concerns that the proposal is commercial,” said Kitty Block of conservation group Humane Society International (HSI). At the last IWC meeting, in 2012, the quota sought for Greenland was rejected after a bust- up between Denmark and fellow EU members. But whaling went on regardless. IWC figures show nine fin-, eight humpback-, and 181 minke whales were caught off the Greenland coast in 2013. The latest proposal has the back- ing of Japan and the United States, which with Europe is keen to bring Denmark back under IWC control. Another topic for debate is a southern hemisphere proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary, which requires 75 percent of votes to pass, and has failed before. “Conservation countries don’t hold a three- quarters majority,” said Block.
‘No side does’ Questions will likely be asked of Norway and Iceland, whose governments issue com- mercial permits under an objection or reserva- tion registered against the moratorium. Norway caught 594 minke whales last year, and Iceland 35 minke and 134 fin whales. Parties including the United States are push- ing for the commission to take on a bigger conservation role, given that there is actually little “legal” whaling to control. “There are so many environmental threats in addition to the direct killing that Japan, Norway and Iceland ISHINOMAKI: Sushi shop owner Katsuji Furuuchi (left) and his son make up whale sushi from a sliced whale meat in Ayukawa, Ishinomaki City. The whaling town of Ayukawa do: environmental degradation, pollution, ship on Japan’s northeast coast used to bustle with activity as fishermen brought their massive catch back to port, supporting a community of nearly 14,000 people. —AFP strokes, there are so many impacts on these animals,” said Block.—AFP Colorado activists want rules on pot edibles implemented fast
DENVER: Activists in Colorado have called for pot edibles “be shaped, stamped, colored, or juana is infused into, sprayed onto, and injected the fast implementation of rules requiring mari- otherwise marked with a standard symbol indi- into over 200 kinds of edible products includ- juana-infused edibles be clearly distinguishable cating that it contains marijuana” and is not for ing candy, liquids, granola, cookies, and crack- from regular products when removed from consumption by children. Group co-founder ers, and that edibles account for about 40 per- their original packaging. Colorado and Diane Carson said in a statement that the pur- cent of the state’s retail pot market. Washington this year became the first US states pose of the legislation was to address the The topic has been particularly controversial to allow recreational sales of the drug to adult, “incredible risks, uncertainties, and confusion” given the potential of products such as brown- and much of the public debate has since cen- surrounding products that she said are too ies and candy for attracting children and pot tered on regulations for edibles such as pot often presented in a “highly deceptive” way. novices, with possibly dangerous conse- cookies, chocolates and drinks. Members of “We want to reduce the number of acciden- quences. Colorado lawmakers in May charged Smart Colorado, a non-profit aimed at inform- tal ingestions, especially among children, and the task force, which is comprised of pot indus- ing young people about the risks from marijua- give teenagers and adults the tools and sup- try representatives, health professionals and na, told a state law enforcement meeting in the port they need to protect themselves,” she said. law enforcement officials, with drafting new city of Golden that there were many examples Last month a state task force unveiled pro- rules after two deaths possibly linked to pot- of accidental pot consumption, including by posed rules to limit potency levels in marijuana infused foods made headlines. In a bid to raise children. edibles, require clearer labeling and health standards, a national marijuana industry group A bill sponsored by Smart Colorado, which warnings, and assure youngsters cannot get last month launched the first ever food safety passed with bipartisan support, requires that their hands on them by making child-proof basics course for producers and retailers of pot ISHINOMAKI: A shopkeeper seen at her souvenir shop of seafood such as whale by Jan. 1, 2016 the state adopt rules requiring packaging mandatory. The activists say mari- edibles. —Reuters meat in Ayukawa, Ishinomaki City. —AFP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Professor Mohammad Al-Moqata’a between assistant deans professor Yousri Alassar and Dr. Saleh Attendees of the academic staff meeting. Aloteibi. Annual meeting of KILAW academic staff members
ith the beginning of the first semester 2014/2015, new professors and thanking old ones for their exerted students and teachers according to clear and specified Arabic and international universities, referring to the ex- twelve new academic members joined KILAW, six efforts in the previous academic year. Such efforts rules based on trust, respect and the sense of responsibili- deans working in the school; namely, professor Badriah Wof who are professors, making the total number enhanced KILAW’ academic status, winning the satisfaction ty. On the other hand, professor Siham Alfreeh - head of Alawadi, professor Mustafah Salamah, professor David of the academic staff to seventy-seven from seventeen of the Academic Accreditation Committee, and getting the academic and social development office - talked about the Morgan, professor Osama Alfooli, professor Siham Alfreeh, Arab, European, American, and Asian countries in addition institutional accreditation by the PUC. This honor of having importance of persistent development of syllabi to professor Ali Kahwaji, Dr. Badr Alkhaleefah, professor Mjdi to the national Kuwaiti professors. The academic staff the trust of the PUC gives the school the initiative to double improve the level of Arabic language. However, in his turn, Shihab, professor Ameen Dawwas, professor Ghannam members enjoy unique experience, as twelve of who are the educational and academic accomplishments, as well as professor Osama Alfooli - executive director of KIRLC - pre- Mohamamd Ghannam, and finally professor Mohammad ex-deans of faculties of law, twenty professors. These mem- meeting the hoped objectives of the coming period, espe- sented an idea about the Kuwait International Research Al-Moqata’a. bers are supposed to deepen the status of KILAW as an aca- cially with the close graduation of senior qualified students. Legal Center (KIRLC) as well as KILAW magazine which The meeting was close by open discussion between demic institution, making its prominent status among In their turn, professor Yousri Alassar - assistant dean for work under the umbrella of KILAW. Professor Osama invit- professor Mohammad Al-Moqata’a and the assistant deans Kuwaiti private institutions. academic affairs - Dr. Saleh Alotaiebi - assistant dean for ed the academic staff to take part in the center by present- - professor Yousri Alassar and Dr. Saleh Aloteibi and the With the beginning of the academic year, it is very com- students’ affairs, Dr. Mohammad Alibraheem - general reg- ing their own research, and legal studies in addition to academic staff, especially the new ones. The discussion mon to start the semester with a general meeting with istrar, who presented a brief summary of the regulations their ideas regarding KILAW’s second legal conference enti- focused on many issues that help build clear and specific KILAW dean and president professor Mohammad Al- and procedures followed in KILAW to facilitate the educa- tled “The Right to Privacy”. He added that KIRLC has basis to help develop KILAW academic performance as one Moqata’a , who initiated the meeting by welcoming the tional process, and help regulate the relations between resaved about 37 research papers from different regional, team year after year. OICC Kuwait holds convention, elects new office-bearers
he Overseas Indian Cultural Congress committee organizing Secretary Sankaran Pillai The general body unanimously elected the (OICC), Kuwait held its members’ conven- Kumbalath, delivered the keynote address. The following as the office-bearers and executive Ttion recently at the Indian Community convention felicitated district committee presi- members. The list was approved by the KPCC. School, auditorium, Salmiya. Kerala Pradesh dent and general secretaries. The KPCC general Varghese Puthukulangara (President). Congress Committee general secretary N secretary distributed approved membership Mohammed Ali Hilal, Rajan Daniel, M K Pothen, Subramanian inaugurated the convention and cards to the members with KPCC president’s Sherly Abraham (global committee members). reminded the members that the Congress cul- signature. Abey Varikadu, Chacko Georgekutty, Vijay ture of secularism is not a thing of the past, but Coordination committee General Convener Karayil, Hameed Keloth and Samuel Chacko it is a deep-rooted feeling of every true Varghese Puthukulangara welcomed the (Vice-Presidents). Joseph Thankachan, B S Congress member. guests and the gathering and global commit- Pillai, Joy John Thuruthikkara, Varghese More than 1,500 members representing 14 tee member Abey Varikad gave vote of thanks. Joseph, Binu Chempalayam, Premson district committees attended the convention. Following the convention, Subramaniyan Kayamkulam, Bacan Joseph (general secre- OICC Coordination committee Chairman M A addressed a press meet and announced OICC’s taries). Nizam M A, Manoj Chennapetta, Joy Hilal presided over the meeting. OICC Global future plan, OICC Kuwait’s national committee. Karavaloor, Anuroop Kumar, Alex Cherian, Suresh Mathur and Roy Mathew Kaithavana (secretaries). Rajiv Naduvilemuri (treasurer) , Rishi Jacob (asst. treasurer), Jobin Jose, (Chairman -Youth Wing), Tony C Mathew (con- vener -youth wing), Rafiya Beevi Anas (Chairperson - Womens Wing) , Manoj Nandiyalath (Chairman -Employment Wing), Nixon George (Chairman - Cultural Wing), T P Pothen (Convener-Cultural Wing), Hareesh Tripunithura (Chairman -Welfare Wing), Arshad Ahmed (Convener -Welfare Wing), Mathew Chennithala (Chairman -Sports Wing), Jose Ninan Chengannur (Convener -Sports Wing) Gireesh Ottappalam (Chairman -Media Wing), Gergi George (Convener -Media Wing), Sanil John (Auditor) and Praveen Attukal (Secretary - Office in charge). P N Kumar, Joby Scria, George Punnioose, Joy Vakathanam, P K Varghese, Biju Keecheril, Oommen P Alex, Reji Koruthu, Ani K John, Jalin Triprayar, Raveendranath, Koshy Boss, Idicula Mathew, Vipin Mangattu, Mani P Chacko, Anish Kumar T M, Ramakrishnan Kallar, Saji Mandalathil, Anil Varghese, Kunnath Peter, Abdul Rahman (Punchiri), Tom Jose Idayodi, Shoukath Ali, John C Thomas and, M C Jacob (executive members). KPCC strictly instructed all members and announced to the public that OICC Kuwait committee will have only one authorized office-bearers as announced on August 22, 2014 under the leadership of Varghese Puthukulangara and his team. KPCC president V M Sudeeran sent official apprecia- Wishing our darling Aaryan a very Happy 1st birthday. May the Lord bless you tion to designated president Varghese abundantly. You are our little bundle of joy. Best wishes for good health and Puthukulangara. happiness comes from your daddy, mummy and your near and dear ones.
Second annual Aware Center - calendar of events KD 720 bank guarantee needed to bring Military Logistics Guided Tour: House Of Mirrors Headquarters Hajj is an international pilgrimage to 15 Sep 2014, 5 pm. 27 Sep 2014, 9:30 am. Mecca that attracts up to three million female domestic Kuwait summit The House of Mirrors is home to the This tour is a marvel of innovative archi- Muslims annually. The speaker will discuss workers from India family of the late renowned artist, Khalifa tecture displaying modern technology its historical significance, describe the major oving, maintaining and sustaining naval, air Al-Qattan. His wife has spent vast amounts combined with traditional artisan crafts- rites that comprise the pilgrimage, and he Government of India has made it and ground forces officially supported by the of time creating scenes on the walls, the manship from Tunisia, Syria, Morocco, share some of the sentiments that Muslims mandatory for employers in Kuwait MKuwait Armed Forces, represented by the floors & even the ceilings to showcase Egypt & contributions from Kuwaiti experience in this trip of a lifetime. This 30- Logistics & Supply Authority (J4), the 2nd annual what can be done with broken pieces of designers. This tour meets directly at the minute PowerPoint presentation will be fol- Twishing to bring female domestic Military Logistics Kuwait summit will take place on 23 mirror & glass when accompanied by an Arab Organization Headquarters. Cameras lowed by National Geographic’s 45-minute workers from India to submit a bank guar- and 24 September 2014 at the Radisson Blu, Salwa. artists’ touch. Enjoy a cup of tea, an artful are welcome. Limited Seats. Advance documentary film entitled, “Inside Mecca” antee of $2,500 equivalent to KD 720 as a snack & a guided tour to view the splen- reservations are required at which presents an intimate look at the security deposit with the Embassy of India dors of this ‘bedazzled’ home. Cameras are [email protected] Registration annual pilgrimage by following three pil- in Kuwait with immediate effect. welcome. Deadline: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 grims from very different backgrounds as Fee: KD 3 per person. This is an adult they embark on a spiritual journey that is Henceforth, the employers in Kuwait What’s On - Submission Guidelines only tour for 8 participants. Guided Tour: Bait Al Othman Museum both deeply personal and widely universal. bringing female domestic workers have to Advance reservations are required at 29 Sep 2014, 5 pm. deposit a bank guarantee of KD 720 [email protected] Inaugurated by the Amir of Kuwait, Aware Eid Al-Adha Festival (equivalent to $2,500) in favor of Embassy All photos submitted for What’s On His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad 09 Oct 2014, 5 pm. of India along with the documents submit- The AWARE Center would like to invite Diwaniya: Places to Visit in Kuwait Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, on April 8, 2013, this ted for attestation by the embassy. The should be minimum 200dpi. 16 Sep 2014, 7 pm. Museum hosts rare historical items & Westerners in Kuwait to our Eid Open House Articles must be in plain text and Kuwait’s only good for shopping malls antiques for old Kuwaiti houses. Festival which is will be held at our premises in bank guarantee provided by a bank in should include name and phone and restaurants, right? Some people say Decorating the walls of its Art Gallery Surra on Thursday, October 9 from 5:00p.m. Kuwait needs to be valid till such time the there’s nothing to do here! However, may are paintings & belongings of Kuwaiti This event is free of charge and will be fol- female domestic worker remains in Kuwait. numbers. Articles and photos that be there are places of interest to visit that Artists. There are also the crafts & lowed by a dinner buffet. This Festival provides The Embassy will attest agreements for fail to meet these requirements will you don’t know of. Therefore, come along Kuwaiti dhow models on display. Fee: an opportunity for the Western Guests to employment of female domestic workers to AWARE’s Diwaniya to discover known KD 2 per person. Children below 14 experience Eid in Kuwait through various not be published. and hidden places of interests that you years & Pets are not allowed. Limited activities like: Culture Clothes, Cultural in Kuwait once the above condition of could visit after which you could send an Seats. Advance reservations required at Paintings & Items for Sale, Henna, Hajj Bank Guarantee is fulfilled. This measure is Please send them to Instagram postcard to friends & family say- [email protected] Documentary, Arabic Calligraphy. Your RSVP is being taken to safeguard the welfare of [email protected] ing, “From Kuwait with love. kindly requested at [email protected]. female domestic workers in Kuwait. Aware Short Lecture and Documentary Address: Surra, Block 3, Hamad Al Roomi Guided Tour: Arab Organization 30 Sep 2014, 7 pm. Street, Villa 84. E-mail : [email protected] WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Lu&Lu Hypermarket delights customers with ‘Festival of China 2014’
u&Lu Hypermarket, the multi-dimensional the Embassy of China in Kuwait, Zhu Lian, inaugu- and other products. ‘Festival of China-2014’ is sections at all the outlets of the Hypermarket are entertaining interactive activities to celebrate the and multi-national retail trend-setter in the rated the event in the presence of Regional made all the more colorful with special Chinese featuring sizzling Chinese food counters; a thor- many cultural events of the local and expat com- Lregion, is holding its latest promotion, Director Mohammad Haris accompanied by the decoration and displays festooning all the outlets ough treat for food lovers throughout the ten munities in the country. ‘Festival of China-2014’, from Wednesday, 10 management team at the Hypermarket’s Al Rai of Lu&Lu Hypermarket. The inauguration was fol- days. Taking into account the large mix of interna- Lu&Lu Hypermarket, which symbolizes quality September to Saturday, 20 September at all their outlet at 7pm on 10th September. The promotion lowed by a resplendent Chinese traditional dance tional communities in Kuwait and intending to retailing, is immensely popular with discerning outlets in Kuwait. introduces a full collection of Chinese products, that also included the colorful and energetic leave no stone unturned to please this ethnic mix, shoppers across the region, and is indeed a place The Economic and Commercial Counselor at including food, garments, electronics, footwear Chinese dragon dance. To top it all, the hot food Lu&Lu Hypermarket has been coming up with the world comes to shop. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
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While Evans deserves 17:00 Love And Honor-PG15 06:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska credit for wanting to reveal a more serious, thought- 07:00 Wild Namibia 19:00 Chasing Mavericks-PG15 A ful side to himself than the Marvel universe will allow, a 21:00 Trespass-PG15 08:00 Blowdown tepid homage (in title and form) to Richard Linklater, Ethan 23:00 Maniac-R 09:00 Mega Factories Hawke and Julie Delpy’s “Before” trilogy may not have been 10:00 Shark Men the best idea. It’s tough to see this late-festival Toronto pre- 11:00 Inside 00:00 Drop Dead Diva miere (picked up by Radius-TWC for a 2015 release) gaining 12:00 Is It Real? 01:00 Good Morning America any real critical or commercial traction. Dear Captain 13:00 Untamed Americas 03:00 Dracula 00:00 Angels Crest-18 America: Don’t quit your day job just yet. Saddled with a 14:00 Nat Geo Amazing! 04:00 Sons Of Anarchy 01:45 Reviving Ophelia-PG15 fundamentally dull, obvious script credited to “Rain Man” 15:00 Megaship 05:00 Good Morning America 03:30 Meet Joe Black-PG15 scribe Ron Bass and three other writers, Evans casts himself 16:00 Inside 9/11: The War 07:00 Emmerdale 06:30 Things We Lost In The Fire- as Nick, a trumpet player on the eve of a career-making Continues 07:30 Coronation Street PG15 audition who just happens to be busking in the resonant 17:00 The War Generals 09:00 Franklin & Bash 09:00 The Last Harbor-PG15 corridors of Grand Central Station when the beautiful, flus- 18:00 Inside Combat Rescue 10:00 Emmerdale 11:00 Earth-PG15 tered Brooke (Alice Eve) passes through in a blur, rushing to 19:00 Megaship 10:30 Coronation Street 13:00 Veronica Guerin-PG15 make the 1:30 am train to New Haven but alas, not quite fast 20:00 Inside 9/11: The War 12:00 24: Live Another Day 15:00 Down The Shore-PG15 enough. So Evans’ hipster knight in flannel armor offers to Continues 13:00 Drop Dead Diva 17:00 The Last Harbor-PG15 help this clearly distressed damsel, whose purse has been 21:00 The War Generals 14:00 Live Good Morning America 19:00 Rachel Getting Married-PG15 stolen and whose cell phone is conveniently bust. Long on 22:00 Inside Combat Rescue 16:00 Franklin & Bash 21:00 Texas Killing Fields-PG15 charm but short on cash, Nick can offer Brooke only maxed- 23:00 Inside 17:00 24: Live Another Day 23:00 W.E.-18 out credit cards and a protective arm around her shoulder 18:00 Drop Dead Diva as they set off through the Manhattan mean streets in 19:00 Franklin & Bash search of her errant Prada bag. Thus the stage is set for a 20:00 24: Live Another Day long night of walking and talking amid the pre-dawn neon 21:00 Drop Dead Diva 02:00 The Call-PG15 and manhole steam. They’re like many a couple one might 22:00 Dracula 00:00 Wilfred 04:00 The Lone Ranger-PG15 pass in New York en route to the subway after a late night 23:00 Sons Of Anarchy 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 06:30 Lincoln-PG15 out-except that Evans requires you to spend a very long 90 Stewart 09:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of minutes in their none-too-interesting company. 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John Meatballs 2-PG After some initial hesitation (on her part), these two Oliver 10:45 Jobs-PG15 wayward souls begin to bare themselves to one another. 00:00 Dredd 13:00 Hyde Park On Hudson-PG15 01:30 Eastbound & Down 02:00 Grave Encounters She’s an art buyer in town to close a deal, while hubby is 02:00 Hello Ladies 15:00 Straight A’s-PG15 away on business (read: monkey business) in Atlanta. He’s 04:00 Batman: The Dark Knight 17:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of 02:30 Brickleberry Returns Part Two still on the rebound from a bad breakup-he was about to 03:00 Hot In Cleveland Meatballs 2-PG propose, she called it quits-and has spent the night avoid- 06:00 Knockout 19:00 Limitless-PG15 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 08:00 The Grandmaster ing a friend’s wedding reception where he might bump Jimmy Fallon 21:00 Django Unchained-18 into ... sorry, dozed off there for a sec. Various low-key 10:00 Olympus Has Fallen 23:45 Machete Kills-18 05:30 Men At Work 12:00 The Saint hijinks ensue, including Nick’s ill-fated attempt to rescue 06:00 My Name Is Earl 14:00 Knockout Brooke’s pesky purse from the clutches of some Chinatown 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 16:00 Flight Of The Intruder black marketeers, a mildly amusing scene in which the cou- 08:30 Men At Work ple pose as the musical entertainment at a posh hotel par- 18:00 The Grandmaster 01:00 The Ugly Duckling And Me 09:00 Hot In Cleveland ty, and a visit to a storefront psychic (the great John Cullum, 20:00 Olympus Has Fallen 02:30 Justice League: The 10:00 Enlisted by far the liveliest presence here) who knows exactly what 22:00 Into The Blue Flashpoint Paradox 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring folks want to hear. But mostly, the script labors to keep 04:15 Emperor’s Secret Jimmy Fallon these travelers together (and away from credit lines and 06:00 Dragon Hunters 12:00 My Name Is Earl phone chargers) as they prattle on about their hopes, their 08:00 Luke And Lucy: The Texas 13:00 Men At Work fears, all the wrong decisions they’ve made in their thirty- Rangers 15:00 Enlisted something lives, and the meaning of the word “depays- 10:00 Happily N’Ever After: Snow 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 00:00 Grave Encounters-18 ment.” For those who don’t know, it’s French for “a screen- White Stewart 02:00 Batman: The Dark Knight writer’s heavy hand.” From the minute Hawke’s Jesse and 11:30 Puppy In My Pocket: The 16:00 The Colbert Report Returns Part Two-PG15 Delpy’s Celine first spied each other on board that Vienna- Movie 16:30 My Name Is Earl 04:00 Knockout-PG15 bound train some 20 years ago now, they seemed like two 13:00 Justice League: The 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 06:00 The Grandmaster-PG15 vibrantly real, complex individuals sharing a passionate Flashpoint Paradox 18:00 Hot In Cleveland 08:00 Olympus Has Fallen-PG15 connection of body and mind. —Reuters 14:30 Krazzy Planet 18:30 Baby Daddy 10:00 The Saint-PG15 GRAVE ENCOUNTERS ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 16:00 Ben 10: Race Against Time Classifieds
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (11/09/2014 TO 17/09/2014)
SHARQIA-1 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 7:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 11:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 10:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:45 AM THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 2:30 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 12:05 AM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 4:30 PM MARINA-3 LIFE OF CRIME (DIG) 6:30 PM FANAR-2 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 1:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 8:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 1:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 3:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 10:15 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 3:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 5:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:05 AM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 5:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM FINDING FANNY (DIG) (HINDI) 7:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 9:45 PM SHARQIA-2 THU+FRI+SAT TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 12:05 AM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 1:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 7:00 PM MATRIMONIAL TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 3:30 PM NO THU+FRI+SAT AVENUES-1 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 5:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 9:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 2:00 PM Seeking marriage propos- TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 7:45 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 11:00 PM HERCULES (DIG) 4:00 PM als for Tamil CSI Christian JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 1:00 AM NO FRI+SAT girl, 29, 5í5”, working as TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 12:15 AM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM Doctor (MBBS, MD) in MoH FANAR-3 HERCULES (DIG) 7:00 PM Kuwait, wheatish complex- SHARQIA-3 SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (DIG) 12:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 10:00 PM ion, kindly contact: email: AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 12:45 PM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (DIG) 2:45 PM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 7:00 PM [email protected] AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 2:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 4:45 PM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM (C 4758) INTO THE STORM (DIG) 4:45 PM LIFE OF CRIME (DIG) 6:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 1:00 AM 14-9-2014 IF I STAY (DIG) 6:45 PM HERCULES (DIG) 8:45 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 8:45 PM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (DIG) 10:45 PM AVENUES-2 Sunni Shaikh Muslim par- INTO THE STORM (DIG) 10:45 PM SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (DIG) 12:45 AM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 12:45 PM ent invite alliance for their AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 12:45 AM FANAR-4 INTO THE STORM (DIG) 3:00 PM daughter MBA 24/163, from SITUATION VACANT ACCOMMODATION NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 5:15 PM respectable family of well settled boys. Email: Wanted a Filipino driver Guy from America, new in MUHALAB-1 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 2:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 7:30 PM Kuwait, want to share with NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 4:15 PM SONE3A FI MASR (DIG) 9:45 PM [email protected] for a single Kuwaiti busi- (C 4757) ness man, knowledge of all family or mix house, near NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 2:15 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 12:05 AM the coast. Contact: LIFE OF CRIME (DIG) 5:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 8:15 PM 11-9-2014 Kuwait areas. Contact: 99574355. (C 4754) 65607334 / 51580185. NO FRI+SAT+MON JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM AVENUES-3 (C 4755) POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 4:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 12:15 AM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 1:45 PM FRI+SAT+MON THE NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 4:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 7:00 PM FANAR-5 JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 6:15 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 8:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 1:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM No: 16285 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 11:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 4:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) THE NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 1:00 AM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 3:30 PM NOVEMBER MAN (DIG) 1:00 AM MARY KOM (DIG) (HINDI) 6:30 PM MUHALAB-2 POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 6:30 PM 360º- 1 HERCULES (DIG) 1:30 PM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 9:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 1:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 3:30 PM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 10:00 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 3:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 5:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 12:30 AM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 5:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 7:45 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 7:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 9:45 PM MARINA-1 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 9:30 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 11:45 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 12:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 11:30 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 2:30 PM MUHALAB-3 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 4:30 PM 360º- 2 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 1:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 6:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 2:15 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 3:45 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 8:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 4:30 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 6:00 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 10:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 6:45 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 8:15 PM AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (DIG) 12:30 AM IF I STAY (DIG) 9:00 PM JAWAZA MIRI (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 11:15 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 12:45 AM MARINA-2 NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 1:00 PM 360º- 3 FANAR-1 INTO THE STORM (DIG) 3:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 1:00 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 1:30 PM INTO THE STORM (DIG) 5:00 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 3:30 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 3:30 PM NO GOOD DEED (DIG) 7:00 PM POWER (DIG) (Telugu) 3:30 PM IF I STAY (DIG) 5:45 PM TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (DIG) 8:45 PM THE EXPENDABLES 3 (DIG) 6:30 PM
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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)
There is much sexual appeal at this time. If you are not involved with a loved This is a very lucky day for making plans or decisions and finding your way one you could find the phone ringing off the wall these days. You could be through just about any problem you may discover. You feel successful and most influential in talking with others. This is a time to take risks and dare to be a little able to contend with difficulties. Let yourself dream today. Your dreams and ideals are the unconventional. You will prosper through new insights, inventions and an independent number-one component for action in your birth chart. You might take some time to reflect point of view. However, you should be careful if you decide to shop today-compare prices. on your own situation, just how you feel about yourself. These days do not come too often- You may find yourself appreciating everything you see, which could lead to overspending do not ignore this opportunity to let your imagination loose. Your imagination is crucial to or indulging too much. You may find yourself involved in competitive sports with friends your functioning. Perhaps a good book or movie will take on that more-than-real dimen- later today and may enjoy the winning edge. Ask about trophies because their might be a sion. Family and friends are congenial and helpful. Your emotions and the feelings of those trophy from last year and it just might be a fun item to show off. around you may be very clear. This is a productive day.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
You go out of your way to be gentle as you communicate with seniors or You actively support your community and have much energy for improving young people. People respect your viewpoint and guidance. When you are critical it could your surroundings or life situations as well. You are very motivated to be taken harshly, especially with young people. With your insights, you will find some improve and to help others do the same. There could be some hard feelings if you become problems of the past can be easily worked through. Do not take chances or risks just now- too aggressive-especially from young people. Take some time with the young people be satisfied with the ordinary. At heart, you have a deep sense of responsibility and this around you to become involved in some games or sports. You can demonstrate great sen- seriousness is genuine and felt by others. You seem to gravitate to those things which last sitivity to the needs of others just now because you listen. You are in a good position to and hold true. You manage to get down to the bare necessities of a matter. Law, religion communicate concerning groups and society in general. Law, politics, education, travel or and philosophy subjects of the most resolute kind hold your interest. There are many con- religion may come into play today. You find it easy to solve the problems that present versations around these subjects today. themselves and others benefit from this ability of yours.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You may appear very relaxed today. Everything seems to be working togeth- Friends and young people gather around you today-fun is in the forecast. er and you may find yourself expressive and able to communicate well. You appreciate your particular situation and enjoy support from those Keeping your attitude positive may create some wonderful insights. A time of sudden jolts around you. There is an opportunity to show your appreciation to others. You may decide and realizations into some of the most sensitive and vulnerable areas of your inner self and to take part of your day to organize your affairs or rearrange your living situation. Information that you have been examining and thinking about will now begin to take ACROSS 4. The striking of one body against another. psychology is available. There are breakthroughs regarding communications in a relation- ship. This is a time during which you reach new levels in understanding life and death. shape and prove useful to you. This next period is one of action and embarking on new 1. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the 5. The basic unit of electric current adopted Your own inner psychology and vulnerabilities are open to you at this time-almost as if in a projects. You will feel more and more confident and outgoing-a sense of confidence grows Middle East that remains dry except during under the System International d'Unites. waking dream. A renewed interest in exploring the realm of dreams and imagination finds strong. You may enjoy a good movie or book or feel like escaping from day-to-day realities rainy season. 6. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant you getting to the heart of your secret and sensitive areas. for a while this evening. You can appreciate an imaginative approach. 5. An early French settler in the Maritimes. white flowers and yielding a durable timber 12. An honorary degree in science. and resinous juice. 15. Starch resembling sago that is obtained 7. (law) A defense by an accused person pur- from cuckoopint root. porting to show that he or she could not have Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. An infective disease caused by sporozoan committed the crime in question. parasites that are transmitted through the 8. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh. Your taste in art and appreciation are heightened at this time. If you are You will enjoy today as you should find everything running in a smooth man- ner. You may be inspired to appreciate the beauty in your life and in those bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. 9. A self-funded retirement plan that allows planning to entertain, or be entertained, you have picked a great time. This is the perfect day to just enjoy expressing yourself, perhaps by writing out your plans or around you. At the same time, everything will seem to take on an added value and impor- 17. A constellation in the southern hemi- you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward enjoying your talents. You may have some new ideas: a breakthrough in thinking. You find tance. Be careful that you do not overspend or indulge too much just now. Enjoy. There is sphere near Telescopium and Norma. your retirement. yourself at your most imaginative. Right now you have an opportunity to transcend the the possibility of new visions or sudden insights into your dreams. You may decide to 18. Gather, as of as crops. 10. The branch of computer science that deal everyday thoughts and soar into more eternal musings. Obtaining and exchanging infor- remake your philosophy or religion. There are breakthroughs in compassion and relation- ship. You could be moody and dreamy at this time. Your emotions and feelings could reach 19. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle). with writing computer programs that can mation takes on emotional significance. Being more involved with neighbors or siblings this evening satisfies a deep emotional need. Catching up on family affairs is an important heights that are close to ecstatic. It is easy for you to find the proper motivation to fulfill 20. Obvious and dull. solve problems creatively. pastime this evening. Hugs and smiles are easy to find. your dreams. Air travel is in your future . . . Plan early! 22. A woman of refinement. 11. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in 24. The elementary stages of any subject (usu- the Orient). ally plural). 12. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 25. Island in West Indies. 13. A steep rugged rock or cliff. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 26. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as 14. Herb of the Pacific islands grown through- You may be asked for your advice and guidance today. You are able to cut Your thoughts and ideas today may not mesh with the plans and methods a cambium. out the tropics for its edible root and in tem- through the red tape and get at what is beneath and behind a problem very of someone you love. A compromise will make everyone happy. You may 29. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to perate areas as an ornamental for its large quickly. Your friends know that although your outer personality may look tough and self- also have the opportunity to sit with children or help with groups of children this after- centered, you are more sensitive to the needs and feelings of others than you seem. You noon. You have more than just the gift of gab. Your words and ideas can transport and destroy men and animals or food. glossy leaves. enchant listeners, carrying them beyond the world as they know it to be at the present and 30. Congenital absence of the uterus. 21. A power unit equal to the power dissipat- are at your mental best with sharp ideas and clear thoughts. This is an excellent time to make decisions and take care of mental work. Take a little trip, or get outside this after- moving into the world as they wish it could be. You create change and help others to cre- 33. A public promotion of some product or ed when 1 abampere flows across a potential noon. You may want to break your routine and try something new or different at this time. ate change and in most positive ways. Your sense of what connects all of life is felt in your service. difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of A new hobby or completing an old project around the house may be quite satisfying this speech and in the way you communicate. You will enjoy helping a friend. Your wry sense of 34. The highest level or degree attainable. a milliwatt). evening. Insights into day-to-day problems are possible now. humor delights everyone. Good fortune is coming soon. 38. An elegantly dressed man (often with 23. God of death. affected manners). 27. Be unsuccessful. 39. A very poisonous metallic element that 28. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. has three allotropic forms. 31. Large high frilly cap with a full crown. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 42. A French abbot. 32. A gradual decline (in size or strength or Travel is at the top of your list today, at least for the planning stages. An This is a day for thinking and ideas. You may feel like talking a bit more than 44. Electronic equipment that provides visual power or number). easy overnight visit with a relative or a time to put heads together and plan a future trip is usual, exploring new ideas or getting happily lost in a conversation. There images of varying electrical quantities. 35. Annual or perennial herbs with large fun and insightful and has something to offer everybody. If you work well together in the will be an urge to communicate. Also, perhaps a short trip or a special phone call is in 46. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan. leaves that resemble the leaves of cabbages. planning of a trip, you will work well together in a travel situation. You are good in busi- order. Your high degree of mental concentration makes you an excellent student and if you 47. A state in southeastern United States. 36. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a ness and may be open to the earning of money on most any day, whether you are work- are not involved in any sort of educational achievement you may want to do so now. This ing or not. Although this may not be a workday for you, you could find yourself either could be something as simple as taking a class in scuba diving or a writing class up to 48. Having help. smooth light brown finish made from e.g. wanting to look at property, wanting to sell property or wanting to purchase property. updating your working skills. You are able to excel in speaking, writing and all types of 49. An engineering university in Cambridge. Manila hemp. Family members appreciate your input and you may find yourself advising family on wise communication skills. Your ambitions go hand in hand with communication and using the 50. A city and port in northern Jutland. 37. Improved or corrected by critical editing. investments. You are appreciated! Happy birthday! mind, and the two should never be far apart. Friends want to play this evening. Enjoy! 53. Capable of being added or added to. 40. Payment due by the recipient on delivery. 56. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat 41. (linguistics) Of speech sounds. trimmed off. 43. A genetically engineered anti-TNF com- 57. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic ele- pound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of Word Search Yesterday’s Solution ment. receptors that bind TNF. 58. The chief source of beryllium. 45. Brightest star in Centaurus. 61. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track 51. Having lips or parts that resemble lips. along which vehicles can roll. 52. The magnetic field strength 1 cm from a 64. Little known Kamarupan languages. unit magnetic pole. 68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 54. The capital and chief port of Qatar. from aba cloth. 55. Muslim name for God. 69. A city in west central Washington on an 59. Any of various hard resins from trees of the arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle. family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus 73. Of the blackest black. Agathis. 74. An intense and irresistible love for yourself 60. Having a horizontal surface in which no and concern for your own needs. part is higher or lower than another. 76. A woolen cap of Scottish origin. 62. In bed. 77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 63. A place for the burial of a corpse (especial- juice. ly beneath the ground and marked by a 78. The first light of day. tombstone). 79. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike 65. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake part of an organism. Chad. 66. Rounded like an egg. DOWN 67. Avatar of Vishnu. 1. Having or producing a comfortable and 70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially agreeable degree of heat or imparting or in Turkey). maintaining heat. 71. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a 2. A particular geographical region of indefi- playful or provocative way. nite boundary (usually serving some special 72. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of purpose or distinguished by its people or cul- intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and ture or geography). yielding a yellow dye. 3. Two items of the same kind. 75. A state in midwestern United States. Yesterday’s Solution
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he ‘Gravity’ actor praised his fiancée in a touching speech as he collected an award at the Celebrity Fight Night in Florence, Italy. As George took to the stage at the event on Sunday he addressed his future wife Tand said: “I would just like to say to my bride-to-be Amal that I love you very much and I can’t wait to be your husband.” According to E!, the human rights lawyer was very touched by the public display of affection from her handsome fiancÈ. An eyewitness said: “She seemed so touched and overwhelmed and at that moment they looked right at each other and it was as if there was no one else in the room.” It was also at the Italian gala, which was held in support of the Andres Bocelli Foundation and The Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, that the 53-year-old star let slip that he would be getting married in Venice in a “couple of weeks”, after it was reported that the couple would have their romantic ceremony in Lake Como. He told the crowd: “I met my bride-to-be in Italy, and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice, of all places.” Amal was recently spotted at the Alexander McQueen headquarters, prompting speculation that she would be using the same wedding dress designer as the Duchess of Cambridge - who wore a dress designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of the brand for her wedding to Prince William in April 2011. Scarlett Johansson flew back to NYC to give birth MJ’s family treasures up for auction large number of items that belonged to the late King of pop - who died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 - and his family Ahave been put up for sale by a company named Vintage Associates, who obtained the property from a major collector of Michael Jackson memorabilia, who has been declared bankrupt, the New York Daily News newspaper reports. Included in the auction are Michael’s sis- ter Janet’s old bras, master recordings of Jackson 5 music that has never been released, business and court files, toys owned by Michael and his siblings and even La Toya Jackson’s old toys. Peter Siegel of Gotta Have It! Collectibles - the auction house handling the sale - said: “Some of the items are ordinary items that could come out of any household - but when it has the provenance of being from the Jackson household, that’s history.” In addition to the court documents from a 1987 restraining order Michael sought against a woman claiming to be the Billie Jean from his 1983 hit song of the same name, is a black tuxedo that was worn by his pet chimpanzee Bubbles. The online auc- tion comes to an end on September 19 on the auction house’s website GottaHaveIt.com. The bids for most items begin at $100 with the exception of the unheard Jackson 5 tapes which have a starting price of $1,000, he 29-year-old actress, who moved to Paris last year to live with her French fiancé, Romain Dauriac, 32, decided to return to despite the records not being sold with copyrights to her hometown in the US in the final stages of her pregnancy, as she wanted her mother, Melanie Sloan, to be by her side publish the songs. Siegel added: “This is a great way for Twhen she welcomed daughter Rose Dorothy into the world recently. A source said: “She knew she would feel more comfort- the general public to own a piece of Jackson family his- able in the United States.” The insider added: “Scarlett’s thrilled to have a girl. She doesn’t want to let the baby out of her arms.” tory for as little as $100. The Golden Globe nominee, who will voice snake Kaa in the 2015 animated film ‘The Jungle Book’, is planning to return to work soon and her fiancé, who is an advertising executive, has assured her he will take care of their daughter and support her 100 per- cent. The insider added to Us Weekly magazine: “Romain is happy to take care of Rose while she’s on set.” The ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ star, who was previously married to Ryan Reynolds, has kept a low profile during the last few months. But the source said: “She enjoyed pregnancy.”
Chloe Grace Moretz thinks Brooklyn Beckham is passionate he 17-year-old actress, who started dating the 15-year-old British heartthrob over the summer, says she is impressed by how serious he is about following in his famous Tfather David Beckham’s footsteps by becoming a professional footballer. The ‘If I Stay’ star told the October issue of Teen Vogue magazine: “What I find really interesting about Brooklyn-and what I really love about that kid-is that he is passionate about what he wants, which is to be a pro soccer star.” She added: “He’s very serious about it. And I enjoy someone who is on my level with the seriousness kind of thing.” A source previously revealed that David and wife Victoria Beckham are happy their eldest son is dating Chloe, but always make sure there is a chaperone present when they spend time together. And the ‘Kick-Ass’ beauty admits her older brothers are equally protective. She said: “My brothers will follow [my boyfriends] on Instagram and Twitter. It’s a sort of [cyber warning] that says, ‘I’m here. I’m on top of you.’ “ The couple started dating three months after being introduced by mutual friends at Paris Fashion Week and were first spotted skateboarding together in Santa Monica, California in June. An insider also previously revealed they enjoyed low-key dates at popular spinning gym Soul Cycle in Brentwood, Los Angeles over the summer. The source said: “They cycle next to each other and are very cute. Always look to be cheering each other on with smiles. They also both seem very competitive, but in a fun way.”
Sugar Ray Leonard Mila Kunis is considering teaches Usher to box he R&B singer is playing the legendary boxer in upcoming movie ‘Hands of Stone’ which is a biopic about Leonard’s most famous a home birth Topponent, Hall of Fame pugilist Roberto. Usher has revealed Leonard he 31-year-old actress, who is expecting her first child got him in the ring to show him the basics of the fight game and the two with fiancé Ashton Kutcher imminently, is reportedly have become almost as close as “brothers”. Speaking in issue 19 FAULT Teager for her labor and delivery to be as relaxed as Magazine, Usher said: “I spent time with him in Atlanta, and in Los Angeles. possible, and is still thinking about getting a doula to help We boxed together; we chilled. He became a great friend of mine, almost her give birth to their daughter at their $10 million man- like a brother to me.” Usher stars in the movie with Edgar Ramirez - who sion in Beverly Hills. A source said: “She wants to give birth plays Duran - and Robert De Niro, who portrays Duran’s trainer Ray Arcel. at home.” The ‘Black Swan’ star is also eager to give birth The pop star is pleased to have landed the role as he wants to diversify his naturally. The insider said: “Mila wants to give their baby career, something that was one of his main motivations for accepting a the very best, and she thinks that includes an all-natural position as a coach on ‘The Voice’ USA. Usher - whose new single ‘She Came childbirth. “She wants there to be as little medical interven- to Give it to You’ is out on September 28 - said: “Part of the reason why I did tion as possible!” The actress originally wanted Ashton’s sis- ‘The Voice’ was so people would get a chance to get a different perception ter-in-law, who is a trained doula, by her side, but their plan fell through, so she may still consider welcoming her of me.” Speaking about what he learnt on the show, he added: “The more I daughter at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, know about life, the more I know about people, the greater the person I which is just minutes away from her home. The source am, the more understanding I have about how to make music and how to added to Life & Style magazine: “Mila had chosen Ashton’s do things that will grow us as people.” The singer was photographed by brother’s wife as a doula, but now they are separated, and Sinisha Nisevic for FAULT magazine and was styled by Sammy and Judy she isn’t replacing her.” (aka The Kids). lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 GOSSIP
Kirsten Dunst believes she would be thinner if she was single
he 32-year-old actress - who is currently in a relationship with Garrett Hedlund - thinks she has gained weight since she started dating her fellow actor. She told Net-a-Porter’s TThe Edit: “I’ve got a little bit more of a tummy now, so although I own about 20 pairs of jeans, I’ll wear the same three for a year because the rest are from when I was skinnier. “I guess if I wasn’t comfortable and in a relationship I’d be thinner. When you’re with someone, you eat so much more and you chill out for a bit-but I don’t criticize myself more than is healthy, because there’s such a lot of that, isn’t there?” The ‘Upside Down’ star also slammed some women and magazines for their negative portrayal of the female body image. She said: “Whether it’s girls among themselves or magazines, it’s all about women tearing apart other women. “I don’t get why that’s so prevalent right now.” Meanwhile, Kirsten has admitted she is ready to settle down with her beau. She added: “Thirty-three is a good age to have your first baby. I’m in baby mode because two of my really good friends are pregnant right now.”
Hilary Duff still really cares about Mike Comrie
he ‘Chasing the Sun’ singer, who announced she had amicably separated from the former professional ice hockey player in January after three years of mar- Triage, says they haven’t filed for divorce because they are still working on their relationship. The 26-year-old star, who has son Luca, two, with Mike, told KIIS 106.5’s ‘The Kyle & Jackie O Show’ in Australia: “We’ve uncoupled, for now. I mean, if there wasn’t a chance for getting back [together], I think we would’ve filed for divorce. We’re not putting any... I talk about this so much, I really don’t want to talk about it anymore. But we are like... I just talked to him this morning! We really care a lot about each other.” But the blonde beauty insists doesn’t get upset by all the specu- lation about their marriage. She said: “In my experience, there’s truth to what’s writ- ten. Usually, I find there’s truth to a lot of the stuff somewhere.” Meanwhile, the for- mer Disney star admits she was shocked that her ex-boyfriend Aaron Carter declared his love for her on Twitter in March. Asked about the ‘Crush On You’ singer, whom she dated when she was just 13, Hilary told BuzzFeed: “I don’t know how I feel. I mean, that was so long ago, and obviously I’m still married, and I have a baby and we kind of just... don’t know each other. So, yeah...”
French Montana is trying to win Ryan Phillippe learnt what Khloé Kardashian back he 29-year-old rapper was recently dumped by the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ beauty, love is from daughter Tbut reportedly “won’t really accept” their eight- month romance is over. A source close to the 30-year- he ‘Secrets & Lies’ star’s daughter Ava - his child with ex- old reality TV star told E! News that the former couple wife Reese Witherspoon - turned 15 on and he made a are still in contact, as the Moroccan star is trying to Tnumber of emotional Twitter posts recalling what hap- save their relationship, “but eventually they will be pened on the day she was born. Ryan revealed it was not an totally broken up.” The source added: “For all intents easy trip for him to make to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los and purposes, Khloé is single again. “Khloé thinks he’s Angeles to be by Reese’s side for the birth because he was a great guy but it just wasn’t working out.” The fashion shooting a movie in Utah and had to be flown to the hospital mogul ended her four-year marriage to Lamar Odom by helicopter. The actor tweeted: “It was 15 yrs ago today, was in December after months of rumors he cheated on my last on The Way of the Gun. A helicopter waited off set to Ethan Hawke knew Robin her and was addicted to cocaine. She quietly began transport me from the ‘Mexican brothel’ in Utah to Cedars-Sinai dating the ‘Pop That’ hitmaker earlier this year, but in Beverly Hills. With my stomach in knots, exhausted & dirty, decided to break things off because she grew weary covered in syrupy fake blood & shards of candy glass the heli of his “needy, obsessive” behavior and slowly began found the pad and I was taken to an area to sterilize myself. I Williams was in pain distancing herself from him. But Khloé’s decision has made it to my then wife’s bedside w/ two hours to spare before nothing to do with rumors French was using her to my baby girl first entered the world ... 15 years ago I learned he 43-year-old actor revealed his co-star in ‘Dead Poets Society’ - who commit- boost his profile and sales of his latest album. The what love truly is. (sic)” Ryan reached the milestone age of 40 ted suicide last month after a battle with depression - had been in pain since he insider said: “That stuff never bothered her because today (10.09.14) but he was not as enthused with his birthday Twas young. Speaking to CBC Q Radio’s Jian Ghomeshi, Ethan said: “Even at 18, it she doesn’t care what as he was with Ava’s. Referring to his own special day, he tweet- was obvious that he was in a tremendous amount of pain. “I don’t know to what people think. She’s just ed: “Death’s cold grip draws one year closer...” Ryan and Reese extent his whole life... Anybody who was watching knew. A lot of people aren’t decided to move on.” The also have a 10-year-old son Deacon and the former couple watching, actually, because he’s so funny and so light.” Meanwhile, Ethan praised his duo spent a lot of time in share joint custody of their kids. They married in June 1999 and fellow actor for his “sensitive heart”. He added: “He moved us all. There was a very seri- the Hamptons, New York split in October 2006, formally divorcing in June 2008. Ryan also ous mind there. He was also so sentimental, just this big, sensitive heart. “When we together over the sum- has a three-year-old daughter Kailani with his ex-girlfriend, lose a great, great clown - that’s what he was - there are people who are scared of mer and French is model-and-actress Alexis Knapp. Reese, 38, is now married to that word a little bit, but he was a light for the world.” Ethan spoke of “immediate sad- expected to frequently talent agent Jim Toth and they have a 23-month-old son ness” on hearing about the death of his long-time friend. He said: “I feel like there’s an appear on her upcoming Tennessee together. immediate sadness that is pervasive in the whole community when somebody who reality E! show, ‘Kourtney made all of us so happy reveals themselves to have been in tremendous personal and Khloé Take the pain. “The happiness wasn’t reciprocal. We didn’t make him happy. That somehow Hamptons.’ rings to all of us.”
Jessica Simpson’s husband wants another baby
he ‘With You’ hitmaker, who married former NFL star Eric Johnson near Santa Barbara, California in July, previously claimed she was done having children and was happy with Ttheir daughter, Maxwell, two, and son, Ace, 14-months. But a source close to the couple says they are now “working feverishly on having another child”. The star posted an adorable pic- ture of herself with a friend’s baby on Instagram recently, with the caption: “I love you Jack, but I do not want another!! (sic)” But the insider insisted: “Eric always wanted more kids and he’s finally convinced her. “She realized that the best moments of her life have been with Eric and the kids. She’d be thrilled to announce that another baby is on the way.” The blonde beauty recently gushed about being a mother. She said: “I’m lucky to have found the best man [fiance Eric Johnson] to start my family with. We are so blessed.” But she added to In Touch magazine: “Eric and I are calm and supportive. We take parenthood one day at a time, but sometimes we have to reassure each other and say, ‘We’ve got this.’ I can’t lie, I’m happy to be done with pregnancy right now!” —Bangshowbiz lifestyle SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Everything about Vogue’s Anna Wintour in 73 questions
nna Wintour, the indomitable editor in chief of Vogue’s said what she misses most about Britain, her native country, is admits she’s never had a smartphone, that her guilty pleasure American edition, has revealed personal details, includ- the humor. As the camera follows the fashion world icon is watching the TV series “Homeland,” that she prefers coffee to Aing her morning wake up time and her aversion to self- through the office giving her thoughts for the upcoming issue, tea, and that she’d love to visit India. Her greatest regret? “I ies, in a cheeky video for the magazine’s web site. Recorded in Wintour is peppered with more questions, which she answers don’t have one.” The least true rumor about herself? “They’re all Vogue’s luxe New York offices, Wintour was the latest to partici- readily, if succinctly. “I rarely carry a bag,” she says when asked true.” But asked to take a selfie with the interviewer’s phone, pate in the magazine’s “73 Questions” series. Her installment three things always found in her purse. Wintour refuses. “I have never taken a selfie and I don’t plan to coincided with the end of New York Fashion Week, where she She will never get used to people wearing black from head start now.” — AFP was seen in the front rows of all the top shows. In a floral dress to toe, she is petrified of spiders, she detests horoscopes, and and wearing her signature oversized black sunglasses, Wintour “sadly, I can’t sing,” she says. The high-powered editor, 64,
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Hot-air balloons fly over buildings on the outskirts of Minsk during the International festival of aeronautics. — AFP photos Nicole Kidman ‘in shock’ after father’s sudden death
ustralian actress Nicole Kidman is in shock after the sud- visiting his daughter Antonia and her family, Singapore’s Straits den death of her father in Singapore, her publicist said Times said. He was at the restaurant after exercising in the Ayesterday as her husband Keith Urban wrote of the cou- morning. The Singapore Civil Defense Force said paramedics ple’s “deep state of grief”. Antony Kidman, 75, died after suffer- received a call at about 8:10 am on Friday requesting medical ing from an apparent heart attack at an exclusive social club in assistance at the club and that members of public performed Singapore, local media and emergency services said. Nicole CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Kidman’s publicist Leslee Dart said the Hollywood actress and A Singapore source told AFP on Friday that Kidman was pro- her family were “in shock by the sudden death of her father”. nounced dead at the hospital shortly after arriving. Antony “She appreciates the outpouring of support and kindly requests Kidman was a clinical psychologist and director of the health privacy during this very difficult time,” Dart told the Australian psychology unit at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. The Associated Press in a statement. family were last seen together in Sydney in January for the 50th Nashville singer Urban cancelled a concert in the United wedding anniversary of the senior Kidman and his wife Janelle, States and said he was returning to Australia with Kidman. “We Australian media reported Friday. Nicole Kidman, 47, most are in a deep state of grief at the passing of Nic’s father and are recently starred in “Grace of Monaco”, a biopic of Grace Kelly, the heading to Australia to be with family,” Urban said in a state- American film actress and Princess of Monaco. — AFP ment on Facebook. “We want to thank everyone from the bot- tom of our hearts for their love, prayers and support through This file photo shows Nicole Kidman this devastating loss.” (left) arriving for her wedding to Antony Kidman was believed to have collapsed at a restau- Keith Urban with her father Antony rant at the upmarket Tanglin Club, where he was staying while in Manly. — AFP
Rare, flawless ‘Blue South Asian women step out of Moon Diamond’ goes Bollywood, into serious dramatic roles trio of films stepped beyond Pakistani woman fleeing a marriage her hus- want to see masala films with women wear- on display in LA Bollywood song-and-dance to show band had arranged for their 10-year-old ing almost nothing dancing and gyrating on rare blue flawless 12-carat diamond, one of the ASouth Asian women grappling with daughter. the screen,” she said. “Masala films” refers to world’s rarest gems, was the newest attraction at the male-dominated sport, child marriage, and After years in the funding wilderness, the mixing of genres in mainstream South ANatural History Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, sexual desire of people with disability in their Norway’s Sorfund came on board, helping Asian film. adding a vibrant sparkle to the museum’s gem collection. premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. While the film garner additional backers. “Our local Filming in a remote part of the disputed The “Blue Moon Diamond,” was purchased in its uncut the stories told vastly different tales, all film industry is in shambles and financiers Kashmiri region had to be halted at one point rough form for $25.6 million by diamond manufacturer sought to challenge their home audiences under threat of a fatwa issued by a local reli- Cora International in February this year, and will be on loan and provoke change. Two of them used gious authority. For director Shonali Bose, an in the Los Angeles museum until January 2015. The deep established Indian stars to do it. In “Mary outburst from her cousin and the death of her blue stone has been categorized as an extremely signifi- Kom,” former Miss World Priyanka Chopra teenage son inspired “Margarita, With A cant find because of its unique color, clarity and size. It is plays the real-life title role of a five-time world Straw,” about a young woman with cerebral internally flawless, with no inclusions. champion boxer taking on bullying boys and palsy who explores her budding sexuality in a “You get many different vivid blues, but this blue is an then corrupt officials while also juggling mar- film Bose expects will shock Indian viewers. absolutely phenomenal color, the saturation is off the riage and motherhood. The film will have a wide domestic release charts,” said Suzette Gomes, chief executive officer of Cora Chopra, a Bollywood superstar, did not but must first make it past censors who will International. “I have never, in all my time in diamonds, use a stunt double for the fight scenes and screen lesbian scenes. “I deliberately pushed seen a color like this.” The stone has also piqued the inter- took on a punishing training regime to give the envelope with that because that is some- est of scientists, raising geological questions of its origins. her petite frame a more athletic form. She thing which is so completely never talked Eloise Gaillou, a mineral sciences expert at the Natural said the film resonates in part because of about or expressed,” she said in a interview. History Museum, said diamonds come from 90 miles (145 recent high profile cases of sexual violence “You’re not supposed to fulfill your own km) below the Earth’s surface, thus giving some insight that caught world attention. “It’s a time where needs. That’s considered bad.” into what is happening in the Earth’s mantle. the country is coming together to say ‘we That the character is also disabled adds “The origin of the color blue is boron, a light element protect our women and we give them rights’ another layer, said leading actress and that has not much to do so deep inside the earth,” Gaillou and the women are coming together and say- Bollywood star Kalki Koechlin. “It’s pushing said. “Blue diamonds are rare because boron doesn’t hap- ing ‘we’re tough, we’re strong, we’re not borders, not just about disability but about pen very often down there, so it’s going to tell us more going to take this sitting down’,” she told the way we think in terms of community and about the why, how, and maybe the when as well,” she Reuters. caste in India and how we place people in dif- added. The Natural History Museum’s minerals collection The biopic was bankrolled in part by Indian Bollywood film actress Priyanka ferent boxes quite conveniently.” — Reuters has about 3,000 gemstones out of nearly 150,000 speci- Sanjay Leela Bhansali, a major Bollywood Chopra poses during a promotional event mens of rocks, minerals and meteorites, many sourced player, and has faced criticism in India for of the Tata Salt ‘Maine Desh ka Namak from California. — Reuters overly dramatizing the life of a national icon. Khaya Hai’ campaign, which features the The priceless 12 carat “Blue Moon Meanwhile, first-time feature film director story of boxer Mary Kom, and the promo- Diamond” is displayed at the Natural Afia Nathaniel struggled to find local financ- tion of the film ‘Mary Kom’ in Mumbai, History Museum in Los Angeles. — AFP ing for her film “Dukhtar” (Daughter), about a India. — AFP Everything about Vogue’s Anna Wintour in 73 questions
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Woman incarnate Bardot hits 80
arefree sensuality oozed from every pore as Brigitte tricks,” the French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir noted Bardot, who turns 80 today, mamboed her way to with approval. “She does what she wants, and that is what Cfame, leaving men weak at the knees and drawing a is so troubling.” Saint-Tropez, the quiet French fishing vil- generation of liberated young women in her wake. Half a lage that Bardot adored and where she still lives, mush- century on, the big wispy hair and hourglass silhouette roomed into a jet-set hub. immortalized by the 1950s sex symbol still inspire design- Bob Dylan is said to have written his very first song ers the world over, though the real-life Bardot has long about Bardot as a teen, and John Lennon is said to have abandoned the limelight in favor of animal rights activism. suffered so bad from jitters that he took LSD before meet- “She was an idol for a generation of women,” said Marie- ing her. Bardot’s fame saw contemporaries adopt her style Dominique Lelievre, author of a recent biography on “BB”, en masse, and the way she was hounded by paparazzi as Bardot became known. inspired Louis Malle’s film “Private Life”. “She was monstrously famous, and the myth only grew The Bardot style “remains widely copied,” said her biog- bigger since she ended her career before she was even 40.” rapher, who believes Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Kylie In 1956, Bardot set the screen alight in “And God Created Minogue and Madonna all borrowed from her seductive Woman”, shot by her then husband Roger Vadim and the wiles at one point or another. best-known of the 50-odd movies-many of them flops-of Bardot refused to allow Madonna to adapt her memoirs her short career. The classic scene in which she dances for the big screen however, because the star would not an impassioned Mambo in a flowing skirt slit to the give up wearing fur. Her fashion legacy was on display waist brought onto the big screen a new level of again this month at Diane Von Furstenberg’s show in New unbridled sexual energy — and quickly earned the York, complete with blue-and-white striped fishermen’s wrath of US censors. tops, ballerina shoes, checks and bee-hives. For defenders of the strict morals of the 1950s, Bardot, with her babydoll face, pouty lips, hour- ‘Lurch to far-right’ glass figure and liberated attitude, was a threat. “A myth? That is a word I have been stuck with but “A girl of her time, free of any sense of guilt, of which means nothing,” Bardot told the magazine Marie- any social taboo,” was how Vadim described Claire in 2010. Two years later however, she was asked in an her. With age, Bardot has lurched to the far- interview which French actress could play her in a film. “No right, increasingly prone to illiberal remarks on one. Not one could do it. What do they lack? My personali- gays, and immigrants, but she was long an ty,” was the stinging reply. icon for a free-thinking, free-loving young These days Bardot shuns the fashion and film worlds, generation. Invited to meet then president and proudly refuses to resort to plastic surgery. But her ani- Charles de Gaulle, she turned up in pants and mal rights activism has kept her firmly in the public eye, a jacket-unheard of in bourgeois French circles through high-profile campaigns to save seals, elephants or at the time. Bardot herself was raised in a tradi- stray dogs. As has her swing to the political far-right. As she tional Catholic household-but her good-girl turns 80, Bardot’s reputation has some spots, notably her upbringing gave way well before 1968 to a association with the far-right and controversial comments “Bohemian” lifestyle that was to include four on gays, and immigration that have led to five convictions husbands, assorted lovers, and a dress code far for inciting racial hatred “That damaged her image,” said from the sophistication of Hollywood stars of the Lelievre. — AFP time.
‘Does what she wants’ “She goes barefoot, and turns her back on elegant grooming, jewels, perfumes, make-up, on all these