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SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 RAMADAN 26, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net 40 Indonesians US wins chicken Lithuanian teen missing as boat dispute Meilutyte sets Emsak: 03:32 sinks off Malaysia with China world record Fajer: 03:42 Dohr: 11:54 Asr: 15:30 Maghreb: 18:38 12 21 20 Eshaa: 20:03` Interpol raises alarm Max 46º Min 30º High Tide after prison breaks 09:14 & 23:52 Global security alerts prompt embassy closures Low Tide 03:38 & 19:37 40 PAGES NO: 15890 150 FILS PARIS: Interpol issued yesterday a global security alert Ramadan Kareem after jailbreaks linked to Al-Qaeda freed hundreds of militants, as the United States and other Western pow- ers planned to temporarily close certain embassies over Don’t curse time terror threats. Washington ordered its embassies across the Islamic world temporarily closed, while Germany, or any creature Britain and France were to shut their missions in Yemen for at least two days. By Hassan T Bwambale Interpol said it suspected Al-Qaeda was involved in recent jailbreaks across nine countries, including Iraq, very Muslim as well as Unitarians knows well Libya and Pakistan. The global police agency said the that associating partners with Allah or worship- jailbreaks “led to the escape of hundreds of terrorists Eping other than Allah is the gravest sin. and other criminals” in the past month alone and issued However, despite the fact that all Muslims try to avoid a security alert. It has also asked its 190 member coun- “Shirk” (polytheism and pantheism) as much as possi- tries to help “determine whether any of these recent ble, sometimes some of them fall into the trap of that events are coordinated and linked” and to immediately sin either intentionally or unintentionally, consciously convey any intelligence which could help prevent or unconsciously. another attack. Some erred beliefs of the period before the advent The Interpol alert comes the day after Washington’s of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): Abu Huraira narrated worldwide travel warning, citing unspecified plans by that Arabs before Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) Al-Qaeda to strike US interests in the Middle East or advent used to say: We are but destroyed by day and North Africa in August. Interpol, based in Lyon in central night; by this they attributed absolute power to those eastern France, noted that August is the anniversary of two natural phenomena. attacks in India, Russia and Indonesia. This week also Allah responded stating thus in the Glorious marks the 15th anniversary of the US embassy bomb- Quran: “And they said: there is nothing but our life in ings in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in this world; we die and live and nothing destroys us Tanzania that killed more than 200 mostly African citi- except time. They have no knowledge (of that claim) zens and injured thousands. they but conjecture. And when Our clear verses are Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin rehearsed and recited to them, their argument is this: Dempsey told ABC News that the threats were directed bring back our forefathers if at all you are telling the at Western interests, and were “more specific” than pre- truth. KUWAIT: People buy fish and seafood at the fish market in Kuwait City during the holy Muslim month of vious threats. While an exact target was unknown, “the Say (O Muhammad): Allah will give you life and Ramadan. For Muslims across the world Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, prayers and fasting. intent seems clear. then will cause you to die then He will assemble you — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 15 for the Day of Judgment that no doubt about but many people do not know.” (45:24-26) •Ad’Dahr can PAGE PAGE be translated as: epoch, era, eon, time, etc. When it is Drug crimes, robbery Suicide bombers attack construed as time, it could Continued on Page 15 on the rise in Kuwait Indian consulate; 9 die 10 ex-ministers Rouhani takes office as in new cabinet Ahmadinejad era ends KUWAIT: Kuwait Prime Minister Sheikh State for Youth Affairs; Abdul Aziz Al- Jaber Al-Mubarak is expected to Ibrahim- Minister of Public Works and announce the names of his fifth Cabinet Minister of Electricity and Water; Salem New president, vows ‘constructive’ foreign relations members today, informed sources said, Al-Othainah - Minister of communica- DUBAI: Hassan Rouhani took office as resisted the enemies of the Islamic justifying the delay in forming the new tions and Minister of Housing while Dr Iran’s president yesterday promising “con- Revolution.” Symbolizing the handover of Cabinet to what he described as ‘the Nayef Al-Hajraf remains the Minister of structive interaction with the world” after power, Khamenei took the presidential sovereignty ministries complex’ that Education and Higher Education. Fight for Sharia eight years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mandate from Ahmadinejad and handed needed much more meticulous selec- The sources added that the former marked by diplomatic confrontation and the document to Rouhani. tion. Finance Minister, Mustafa Al-Shamali ‘not democracy’ damaging sanctions. The politically mod- Khamenei then kissed Rouhani on the According to the sources, the new strongly refused the Oil Ministry portfo- erate 64-year-old cleric’s resounding victo- cheek and the new president kissed the Cabinet is expected to include: Sheikh lio. However, the informed sources ABU DHABI: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri ry at June’s election raised hopes of a leader on his shoulder, a sign of supplica- Ahmed Al-Humoud as First Deputy stressed that the political leadership has urged Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters negotiated end to the dispute over Iran’s tion. The start of Rouhani’s presidency Premier and Defense Minister. He will great confidence on Al-Shamali who to abandon democracy and seek to govern through nuclear program and an easing of the puts an end to the Ahmadinejad era dur- replace Sheikh Ahmed Al-Khaled. Sheikh they said is highly capable of handling the full implementation of Islamic law. In a 15-minute sanctions that have hit the OPEC country’s ing which Iran grew more isolated and Sabah Al-Khaled will be the Second the sensitive oil-related issues. The recording posted on Islamist websites yesterday, oil exports. came under wide-ranging United Nations, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister. sources highlighted that Minister Abdul Zawahri also criticized Islamists who had formed That could avert a possible new war in US and European Union sanctions over its Sheikh Mohammed Al-Khaled is nomi- Aziz Al-Ibrahim had expressed his wish- political parties in Egypt and supported the Egyptian the Middle East. Both the United States nuclear program. Rouhani faces enormous nated as the Minister of Interior while Dr es to remain in the same post and not to military in ousting former Egyptian President and Israel have said all options - including challenges, including inflation he put last Rola Dashti will be the Minister of return to Municipality. Mohamed Morsi. military action - are open to stop Iran get- month at 42 percent, unemployment, and Development and State Minister for the Furthermore, the sources said that no “I give this piece of advice to whoever supported ting nuclear arms. Supreme Leader political divisions between conservative, National Assembly Affairs. decision had been made yet concerning Morsi and I tell Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed moderate and reformist factions. Others include; Sherida Al-Maosherji MSAL’s Thekra Al-Rasheedi. “Discussions them first we have Rouhani’s election win in a statement read “Moderation does not mean deviating who will be the Minister of Justice and are still on concerning the Health min- to admit that legit- out to political, religious and military from principles and it is not conservatism Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs; MP istry”, the sources said, adding that the imacy doesn’t lie grandees assembled at a Tehran religious in the face of change and development. Essa Al-Kandari - Minister of Commerce that most powerful candidate for the in elections and site. Moderation ... is an active and patient and Industry; Anas Al-Saleh - Minister of Finance Ministry is the former Central democracy but it Khamenei praised the “selection of a approach in society in order to be distant Municipality; Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Bank Governor, Sheikh Salem Abdul Aziz lies in Sharia,” worthy individual who has more than from the abyss of extremism,” Rouhani said - Minister of Information and Minister of Al-Sabah. — Agencies Zawahri said. “Sharia is not three decades of service to the system of in a short speech after becoming presi- electing Morsi the Islamic Republic ... and who from the dent. president of a Ayman Al-Zawahri time of the revolutionary struggle ... has Continued on Page15 Diplomatic push to republic, a presi- dent of a secular and nationalistic state,” he added. The recording, posted two days after US Secretary of resolve Egypt crisis State John Kerry gave his seal of approval to Egypt’s new leaders saying that they had restored democra- Envoys seek to avert bloodbath cy, also lashed out against US policy and the Egyptian army. CAIRO: Allies of Egypt’s deposed presi- pro-Morsi camp said the bloc wanted a “The crusaders, the secularists, the pro-US army dent said yesterday they respected the solution that would “respect all popular and former Mubarak supporters and a few of those demands of millions who took to the desires”. The official, Tarek El-Malt, said who are linked to the Islamists have worked with Gulf streets against him before he was this was the message given at talks yes- money and US planning to overthrow Mohamed deposed, signaling new flexibility to terday with US Deputy Secretary of State Morsi’s government,” Zawahri said. More than 300 Western envoys trying to head off more William Burns and European Union people have been killed in Egypt since the army bloodshed. Islamist supporters of envoy Bernadino Leon, as diplomacy removed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood from Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elect- picked up pace a month to the day since power on July 3 in response to mass protests against ed president, also told Western envoys Morsi was removed. his rule. they reject any role for the army chief in Morsi was deposed by the military on The popular mood in Egypt had swung against any political deal and want a restoration the back of huge demonstrations against the Brotherhood after Morsi was accused of trying to of the constitution he suspended. his rule, ending a year in government by establish himself as a new dictator during his first They have clung to a demand that he his Muslim Brotherhood after decades year in office. Pro-Morsi supporters have been stag- be reinstated during a month of sit-in spent in the shadows under successive ing two main sit-ins in Cairo since his ouster asking to protests since he was forced out by the Egyptian autocrats. Almost 300 people bring him back to power. “What has happened is the army. But faced with the threat of a secu- have been killed in political violence in greatest evidence that taking democracy as a path to TEHRAN: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) endorses mod- rity crackdown, and pressed by US and the past month, including 80 protesters Islamic rule has failed,” Zawahri said. — Reuters erate cleric Hassan Rouhani (right) during an official ceremony yesterday, as for- European envoys, a spokesman for the Continued on Page 15 mer president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) sits by. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 LOCAL Arab forges documents to get hajj visas for 140 Man in custody with illegal pills KUWAIT: The interior ministry is currently hunt- control the fire and rescue a man who was Youngsters held ing an Arab expatriate who forged residency trapped inside the flat. 13 young citizens were recently arrested for visas and stuck them on the passports of 140 vis- assaulting another Kuwaiti youth in Rumaithiya, itors so they could get hajj visas at the Saudi Man assaulted said security sources, noting that the fight was consulate, said security sources. Case papers A citizen filed a complaint against his broth- over girls. indicate that the consulate had suspected 140 er-in-law accusing him of rushing into his passports of people applying to get hajj visas. diwaniya in Fahd Al-Ahmad and assaulting him Citizen injured After they were interrogated, they all led police over some family dispute. A 34-year-old citizen dislocated his shoulder Duo held with liquor, drugs to one person who owns a company and prom- in a fight between him and his friend on one side ised to get them the visa for KD 290 each. Vehicle damaged and six other citizens on the other. Case papers By Hanan Al-Saadoun liquor bottles were found as his girlfriend A citizen reported that his neighbor’s son indicate that the two friends were laughing loud- looked scared and confused. A case was filed. Psychotropic pills damaged his vehicles because he had some dis- ly while having sohour at a restaurant near Seif A citizen was arrested with the possession of putes with his father over parking rights. Palace, which provoked another diner who KUWAIT: A citizen was arrested along with Woman in mosque 30 psychotropic pills in Farwaniya, said security thought they were laughing at him. He called his Iranian girlfriend with the possession of 18 An imam reported finding a woman sources. Case papers indicate that the suspect Asian injured five of his friends over and the fight started. liquor bottles, said security sources. Case sleeping in the mosque where he leads started walking more quickly on spotting the A 40-year-old Asian cleaning worker was papers indicate that at a checkpoint at the prayers, said security sources, noting that police, which aroused their suspicion. On stop- injured in a fight with his cousins and fellow- Confused man Bidaa roundabout, Hawally security forces policemen rushed to the mosque where ping and searching him, the police found the workers because he refused collecting the left- A US citizen was arrested with the possession stopped the suspect and discovered he was the woman told them that she was Syrian pills. A case was filed and the suspect was over food in a mosque marquee to take it back of five bags of ice and a knife, said security wanted for owing a local company KD 30,000. and that her husband had a fight with her referred to relevant authorities. to their residence. sources. Case papers indicate that on seeing a Police officers also found some pills in his and kicked her out of the house. “I prefer police patrol in Salmiya, the suspect looked con- pockets and on searching his vehicle, the staying in the mosque”, said the woman. Salwa fire Narrow escape fused and tried to hide something under his seat A fire broke out on the third floor of a four- A 25-year-old citizen narrowly escaped death while approaching the checkpoint. He also floor building in Salwa inhabited by Asians, said when he lost control over his bike, said security claimed that the bags he was trying to hide were Kuwait commemorates security sources. Firemen from Salmiya and sources, noting that the man broke his left leg of incense. A case was filed and the suspect was Mishref rushed to the scene and managed to and sustained some bruises. referred to relevant authorities. anniversary of Iraq occupation KUWAIT: Kuwaitis commemorated Friday the the responsibility of the UN Assistance Mission 23rd anniversary of Iraq’s invasion and occupa- for Iraq (UNAMI), and put an end to the 1999 tion of their country, as Baghdad was exiting post of the High-Level Coordinator for those from Chapter VII of the UN Charter marking files. The two countries also agreed on a mech- new page of relations between the two coun- anism for the maintenance of the border signs. tries. It was on Aug 2, 1990, when Kuwaitis and Iraq is also paying compensations for Kuwait the whole world woke up to the news of the for damage caused by the 1990-91 seven- Iraqi army invasion of Kuwait and Saddam month occupation. The Council transferred Hussein’s shocking announcement that Kuwait those two humanitarian issues, under Chapter would be the 19th province of Iraq. VI, to UNAMI’s attention, taking into considera- Though a wide coalition of international tion the Kuwaiti conditions aimed at having forces have managed to overrun Iraqi forces the files constantly under Council review. and complete liberate Kuwait by Feb 26,, 1991, This year has also witnessed a series of the invasion left deep scars in the relations reciprocal visits between the top leaders of the between the two Arab neighbors till the two nations and the hammering out of several Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003. cooperation agreements. Since the ouster of Hussein, relations start- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- ed to improve and the new Iraqi government Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness VIVA inaugurates new branches in Shaab, airport and Kuwaiti leaders showed readiness to turn the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al- a new page. Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah had visited Iraq. KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and VIVA’s CEO said: “We are proud to include the company has rapidly established an unrivalled This year’s anniversary comes after a Kuwait and Iraq signed June 12, six agree- most developed telecom operator, announced new branch openings to VIVA’s achievements this position in the market through its customer cen- remarkable development in bilateral relations, ments and memorandums of understanding that it has added two new branches to its net- year. We have successfully reached the 2 million tric approach. VIVA’s quest is to be the mobile Kuwait’s support to Iraqi government efforts to following official talks between HH Kuwaiti work across Kuwait. VIVA’s 18th and 19th new subscribers since the beginning of our commer- brand of choice in Kuwait by being transparent, end Iraq’s Kuwait occupation-related obliga- Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber and his Iraqi coun- branches located in Al Shaab district and at cial operations and it is imperative for us to keep engaging, energetic and fulfilling. VIVA continues tions under the Chapter VII of the UN Charter. terpart Nouri Al-Maliki. Kuwait International Airport’s Departure Hall up with that growing demand for VIVA’s products to take a considerable share of the market by On June 27, The UN Security Council on The agreements cover a wide array of opened their doors to customers on July 30. and services. We will continue to ensure that all offering an innovative range of best value prod- voted unanimously to get Iraq partially out of domains, including education, scientific The new branch openings come in line with our customers get the best service available, and ucts, services and content propositions; a state of Chapter VII of the UN Charter, transfer the files research, aviation, economy, culture, transport company’s expansion strategy to serve a wider are served swiftly, efficiently and courteously.” the art, nationwide network and world-class of the missing Kuwaitis and property under and environment. —KUNA audience across Kuwait in addition to providing VIVA is the fastest-growing and developed service. VIVA offers internet speeds of more than excellence in customer service and unique and telecom operator in Kuwait. Launched in 100 Mbps, due to the implementation of the exclusive packages for its customers. December 2008, VIVA makes things Possible for most advanced fourth generation (4G LTE) net- 4,038 illegal residents Commenting on the opening on VIVA’s latest its customers by transforming communication, work in Kuwait resulting in superior coverage, branches, Eng. Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Badran, information and entertainment experiences. The performance and reliability. declared true identity KUWAIT: Some 4,038 illegal residents of state institutions, provides people who Kuwait (bedoons) have declared their true come forward with a number of benefits, in legal documentation up until July 31, since addition to a five-year cost-free residency the formation of a body tasked with their permit, added Al-Wehaib. affairs. These individuals are also granted serv- Over the June-July period, some 707 ices for free, namely education and health- people came forward to reveal their true care over a five-year period that is renew- identities, said the official from Kuwait’s able, a food subsidies card - that is only Central Apparatus for Illegal Resident granted to Kuwaiti nationals - and the pri- Affairs Col Mohammed Al-Wehaib. ority immediately after locals for employ- Out of these people were 3,062 from ment. Saudi Arabia, 529 from Syria, 265 from Iraq, The official called on those wishing to 30 from Jordan, 28 from Iran and 224 of make the step to visit either of the Central various nationalities. Apparatus for Illegal Resident Affairs’ offices The body, in cooperation with other in Ardhiya and Mubarak Al-Kabir. —KUNA

Kuwait participates in children’s festival KUWAIT: Kuwait has participated in the 12th International Children’s Festival, which took place in the Ukrainian town of Gurzuf, along with the participation of about a thousand children, representing 64 countries. Head of Kuwaiti delegation Dr Mishaal Al-Janoubi praised the festival’s activities, entitled “Let’s Change the World for the Better!” for children aged between 12 to 15, which concluded two nights ago, in a phone call yesterday. The Kuwaiti delegation held an exhibition within the activi- ties of the festival that included a short film about Kuwait’s cus- toms and traditions, in addition to a folklore dance performance, which won the admiration of the participating delegations, not- ed Al-Janoubi, also member of Supreme Advisory Committee in the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs. The participating Kuwaiti children also held a press conference, in which they gave an overview of Kuwait’s history, culture, and heritage as well as the most significant national holidays and the main state institutions, he added. Al-Janoubi added that the festival aims to strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between children of the world, in addition to identifying the values of the various coun- tries as well as their cultures, customs and traditions, and instill- ing love and respect between the young participants. The delegation included, along with Al-Janoubi, Mohammad Shamlan, and the children Abdullah Omar, Abdulrahman Al-Salama, Rakan Al-Ajmi, Abdullah Ahmad, and Abdullah Faisal. —KUNA Kuwait mourns death of ex-minister KUWAIT: The former Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education, and Minister of Health Anwar Abdullah Al-Nouri has passed away at the age of 72. Al-Nouri, who died late on Friday, served as minister of education and minister of higher education until 1990, after working as Secretary General for Kuwait University between 1966 and 1978. He also served as minister of health in 1996. Furthermore, he occupied several posts in the educa- tion, cultural, and financial fields as he was also a founding member for numerous scientific, educational, and social institutions in Kuwait and the Gulf. —KUNA SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 LOCAL US embassy closed for one day ‘for security reasons’ Citizens not getting warning messages

By Nawara Fattahova Some US citizens living in Kuwait complained warn against places of gathering of Americans, of not receiving all warning messages from the but in Kuwait there are not many places where KUWAIT: The American Embassy in Kuwait as American Embassy. “I think they have problem in Americans unlike in Qatar, Bahrain or Dubai. On well as in other Islamic and Arab countries will their system, which is not working properly. I some occasions, Americans gather in places be closed today (Sunday, Aug 4). The US State didn’t receive any notice, although I’m registered such as the towers in Mahboula, where I won’t Department website has published the follow- with the US embassy since about 9 years. This is go to attend any event. I’m not worried about ing statement: The Department of State has not the first time I haven’t received the message, the embassy, as I know that it’s very well instructed certain US Embassies and Consulates while my friend did. I think everybody should secured,” she stated. to remain closed or to suspend operations on receive the notices to be aware of the situation The Department of State also posted more Sunday, Aug 4. The Department has been and what’s happening,” fumed Natalie, an warnings. “As a matter of general practice, US cit- apprised of information that, out of an abun- American citizen living in Kuwait. izens should avoid areas where large gatherings dance of caution and care for our employees The official of the American Embassy didn’t may occur. Even demonstrations intended to be KUWAIT: The outgoing Ambassador of Brazil Roberto Abdalla visited the and others who may be visiting our installations, comment on the reason why all American citi- peaceful can turn confrontational and escalate indicates we should institute these precaution- zens do not receive the notices and assumed into violence. You should avoid areas of demon- Kuwait Times and discussed matters of mutual concern with Editor-in-Chief ary steps. that there may be some update which they strations, and exercise caution if in the vicinity of Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dr Ziad Al-Alyan. It is possible we may have additional days of didn’t apply for, promising to pass this complaint any large gatherings, protests, or demonstra- closings as well, depending on our analysis. to the officials in charge. tions,” it said. Accordingly, the US Embassy in Kuwait will be John, another American citizen living in The site also advised to: Review your personal Premier promises Cabinet closed on Sunday, Aug4. All US citizen services Kuwait, also didn’t receive any notice from the security plans; remain aware of your surround- appointments and visa appointments have been embassy, but read the information in the press. ings, including local events; and monitor local to win ‘majority approval’ cancelled and have been rescheduled on an He is not worried about any possible threat to news stations for updates. Maintain a high level individual basis. For further information, please the embassy or the situation in general. “The clo- of vigilance, take appropriate steps to enhance KUWAIT: Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Kandari remains the likely candidate to join contact the Consular Section at con- sure of the embassy is their business and they your personal security and follow instructions of Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah is focusing on the the Cabinet as the elected minister as the [email protected]. have their reasons. If the situation was danger- local authorities. period that succeeds the formation of his constitution stipulates. Other names men- According to an official at the American ous, the embassy would have informed us. I The department strongly recommend that US new Cabinet in which he plans to carry out tioned for the post include MPs Maasouma Embassy, the closure is only for a day (today). don’t feel worried about going to public places citizens traveling to or residing in Kuwait enroll changes whenever he sees necessary, a Al-Mubarak and Mubarak Al-Hurais. “The embassy is closed for security reasons with- or gathering with friends,” he pointed out. in the Department of State’s Smart Traveler parliament member said in a press state- The Cabinet is expected to be out further reasons to state as the statement of Natalie thinks that the statement of the US Enrollment Program (STEP). STEP enrollment ment Thursday night. “[Sheikh Jaber] Al- announced today before swearing in in the Department of State provides all informa- Department of State is related specifically to the gives you the latest security updates, and makes Muvarak said that he plans to adopt a simi- front of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- tion. We left the embassy on Thursday without Arabian Peninsula, so they may have some infor- it easier for the US embassy or nearest US con- lar approach of late Amir Sheikh Saad Al- Ahmad Al-Sabah tomorrow, one day before any extra police and security protection or pro- mation about possible attacks on embassies in sulate to contact you in an emergency. If you Abdullah Al-Sabah; who during his reign as the parliament holds its inaugural session. cedures. I’m not aware of any increased security this area and it’s not about Eid. “This statement don’t have Internet access, enroll directly with prime minister used to change or reshuffle Al-Jarida reported yesterday that a replace- at the embassy,” she told Kuwait Times. aims to tell American citizens to be careful. They the nearest US embassy or consulate. ministers if he noticed leniency or had ment for Defense Minister Sheikh Ahmad observation on their performance,” said MP Al-Khalid Al-Sabah was yet to be decided as Yousuf Al-Zalzalah following a meeting of Friday night, while former Central Bank with the premier as part of discussions to Governor Sheikh Salem Abdul-Aziz Al- form the new Cabinet. Sabah is “highly expected” to be appointed “The prime minister said that he is going as finance minister, according to sources to do the same - change a minister he finds familiar with the issue. him/her uncommitted to their role, or carry Meanwhile, Al-Qabas said that the out a reshuffle if he finds that a certain min- Cabinet formation is pending a final deci- ister is better fitted handling a different sion on ‘sovereign ministries’ (interior and portfolio,” he added. And while reiterating defense ministries), and also added that demands that ministers are selected on the Minister of Justice, Minister of Awqaf and basis of competency, Zalzalah quoted the Islamic Affairs Shareeda Al-Maosherji has prime minister as saying “expect to see a reconsidered his decision to exit the Cabinet that wins majority approval and Cabinet and decided to return. achievement on the executive and legisla- In other news, MP Husain Al-Quwaian tive authorities’ levels”. announced plans to submit a draft law to Meanwhile, Al-Rai quoted parliamentary amend the electoral law, saying in a recent sources that the next Cabinet formation statement that he held discussions with could influence the race for the parlia- specialized experts and consultants in ment’s speaker post with MPs Ali Al-Rashid, order to come up with a new system that Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Roudhan Al-Roudhan “achieves justice”. He further hinted that and Ali Al-Omair competing for it. The other lawmakers could join his efforts “to sources who preferred to keep their identi- come up with a system that provides a fair- ties anonymous said that MP Essa Al- er distribution of constituencies”. Drug crimes on the rise

KUWAIT: Kuwait featured a 20 percent ey-related crimes which include theft, decrease in felony and misdemeanor scams and forgery dropped by 13.7, while crimes in the first half this year compared cases of public interest that include enter- to the same period last year, despite ing restricted areas and offending a state recording a 31 to 38 percent increase in employee on duty dropped by 25 percent. drug-related, battery, assault and robbery On the other hand, the records show a charges. 35 percent increase in drug-related cases This was reported yesterday by Al-Rai that reached 2,723 in the first half of 2013, quoting statistics released by the research a 38 percent increase in assault and battery and information center in the Ministry of cases and a 31 percent increase in attempt- Interior. The records show that 9,845 crimes ed mugging cases. were recorded in the first six months of The records also indicate that nearly 2.5 2013 compared to 11,491 during the same million traffic tickets were issued during period last year. the first six months of 2013, recording a 62 According to the statistics, murder percent increase compared to last year. threats and unpremeditated injury cases Meanwhile, 155 bogus companies had dropped by 15.5 percent, while honor- their licenses revoked, 72 visa trafficking related charges that include libel, sexual cases have been referred to prosecution, harassment and alcohol-related crimes while 19,000 people were deported and dropped by 14 percent. Meanwhile, mon- 41,000 legalized their status.

Kuwait denies tapping phones KUWAIT: Kuwait’s communication min- Al Kuwaitiya. “The claims posted on istry has denied reports that it had microblogs of candidates and social tapped the phones of local political media are not true.” activists and former lawmakers. Overcoming frustration with voting in Social networks and microblogs car- short-lived parliaments, and braving ried claims that the ministry was moni- soaring temperatures and long hours of toring the phones of political activists fasting, Kuwaiti voters headed to polling and ex-MPs in order to monitor the stations for the sixth time since 2006 to alleged sale and purchase of votes ahead elect their 50 representatives in the leg- of the parliamentary elections held on islative house. Only two women, a Shiite July 27. The allegations said that the min- and a liberal, won seats in the polls istry wanted to provide the interior min- where the country’s largest tribes lost istry with evidence about irregular prac- several seats to smaller tribes following tices. the introduction of the one voter, one The interior ministry had pledged full vote concept in a development that legal action against those involved in the deepened the standoff between the gov- KUWAIT: Interior Ministry officials presenting prizes to winners of Quran recitation comptition yesterday. lucrative trafficking that would give can- ernment and the opposition. didates a high number of votes if voters Claims that political money was being were given financial rewards. “The min- used by candidates to influence the out- istry of communication did not ask any of come prompted the interior ministry to Boeing, KAC could reach deal soon the three mobile providers to tap tele- pledge a zero-tolerance policy and to phones,” ministry sources told local daily conduct several raids and make arrests. By A Saleh directors of football federations in Gulf states, tion of anonymity, the sources indicated that the which includes incomplete road projects connect- minister had put the decisions on hold pending KUWAIT: A team from Boeing is set to arrive in ing Basra International Airport and the Basra parliamentary results. The decision on the offi- Kuwait within a few days to negotiate with the Sports City which hosts the event. Iraq has time till cials’ future will be left to Hajraf’s successor, the Kuwait poll touted as Kuwait Airways Company (KAC) on the possibility October to convince Gulf federations that it is sources added. Meanwhile, other sources said of taking part in the national carrier’s fleet restora- capable of hosting the regional tournament. that Minister of Social Affairs and Labor has put tion plans. According to sources, Boeing is looking In other news, sources revealed that the on hold a report regarding violations committed ‘defeat of extremists’ to offer KAC aircraft purchase or rent deals after Supreme Kuwaiti-Iraqi Committee is set to discuss by boards of cooperative societies until the new KAC reached a similar agreement with Airbus ear- a recommendation to establish an open market Cabinet is formed. KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Shiite minority lost more to opposition boycott. Average turnout at lier this year. The sources who spoke on the condi- on the border between the two countries, adding than half of their seats and liberals made Kuwaiti polls is around 65 per cent. Some tion of anonymity hinted that KAC decided to that ‘the security aspect’ is the only real obstacle Emergency decrees slight gains in the Gulf state’s second polls in groups who had boycotted the previous include Boeing in its discussions after US Secretary that hinders the project. Meanwhile, sources MP Saleh Ashour called on fellow lawmakers eight months, in a major blow to polls chose to take part this time, in particu- of State John Kerry’s recent visit to Kuwait. The revealed that Kuwait plans to recommend estab- to reject emergency decrees used to pass the radicals.The final results, released early lar Bedouin tribes and liberal groups. source also added that the two sides are expected lishing an economic zone “to ease commercial and state budget and foreign aid, arguing that the Sunday by judicial authorities, showed Shiite “I think that the main success in this elec- to reach a deal soon. investment exchange” during the Arab-African state of urgency as the constitution stipulates is candidates winning just eight seats in the tion is the failure of Shiite and Sunni radicals Summit which the country hosts in November. not found in these cases. “The parliament is 50-member parliament. Shiite candidates to get re-elected,” director of Etijahat Research Logistics services “The Arab League and African Union will supervise required to know where the foreign aid that the had won a record 17 in the previous house and Studies Centre Talal Al-Kashti said. Kuwait is offering transportation services to the process of establishing the zone while a fund government announced is going, the countries elected in December but scrapped in a court At least two Shiite and two Sunni reli- teams set to take part in the 22nd Gulf Cup of will be established to support development of that benefit from it and its spending mechanism,” ruling last month. Shiites form around 30 gious radicals, who were accused of incit- Nations that Iraq hosts in Jan 2014, a committee in participating countries,” the sources said. Ashour said in a statement. He further indicated per cent of Kuwait’s native population of ing sectarian tension, failed in their bid for the Iraqi Parliament announced recently. “Kuwait that the state budget should be approved in one 1.23 million. re-election. “The composition of this par- has been very cooperative with Iraq and offered to MoE retirements parliamentary session “without detailed inspec- The official figures also recorded a signifi- liament is representative of various com- transport teams from the Kuwait airport to Basra Minister of Education Nayef Al-Hajraf plans to tion”. He proposed extending the current parlia- cant rise in turnout. According to figures ponents of the Kuwaiti society. where the tournament is held”, said MP Thuraiya sign orders to refer a number of senior ministry mentary term and holding at least two extra ses- posted on the information ministry website, Accordingly, I believe it will be very quiet ... Najm, Youth and Sports Committee member. The officials for retirement after a scandal over leaked sions to debate the emergency decrees that the voter turnout was 52.5 per cent, compared and will cooperate with the government,” logistics help could allow the Iraqi side overcome exam papers erupted during last June’s high government issued during the parliament’s to December’s record low of 40 per cent due said Al-Kashti. various issues raised during the latest meeting of school finals, said sources. Speaking on the condi- absence. LOCAL

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 Dar Al-Shifa Hospital organizes Ghabqa for employees

KUWAIT: Dar Al Shifa Hospital recently held its Zafairy - Medical Director and Head of Ophthalmogy staff who completed more than 15 years at the hos- expression of gratitude to their efforts that helped in annual Ghabqa at the Regency Hotel for all of its Department at Dar Al Shifa Hospital, wished the pital, were honored for their dedication and sincerity the hospital’s overall success and distinctiveness. doctors and head of units in addition to an exclusive guests a blessed Ramadan Kareem and commended to Dar Al Shifa Hospital. Narjis Al Yousifi - Board The celebrations also included a variety of fun- Ramadan Iftar for the staff in appreciation for their them for their ongoing dedication, commitment Member, Taleb Jeraq - Head of Higher Committee, as filled activities and competitions and prize distribu- continuous efforts and support. and outstanding service throughout the past year. well as Ahmed Nasrallah - CEO, presented to the tion to the winners to add to the entertaining At the beginning of the ceremony, Dr. Yousef Al During the ceremony, doctors, head of units and staff certificates and tokens of appreciation as an Ramadan spirit of the night.

26) Difference between Umrah and Hajj

A) During Umrah there is neither Arafah nor throwing of stone

B) There is no pacing between Safa and Marwa C) There is no circumambulating the Kaaba LOCAL

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 Gulf Bank puts Girgian smile on children’s faces

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank recently spon- the event. sored “Message from Special Need” Children were entertained by Bu event at the Al-Kharafi Activity Kids Tubailah and cartoon characters, Center held on July 24, under the specially arranged by Gulf Bank to patronage of Sabeeka Al-Jassir, distribute the Girgaian bags. Those Chairperson of the Al Kharafi who attended the event also Activity Kids Center. enjoyed several activities including The event began with a wel- Henna drawing, face painting and come speech by the Center’s hair braiding. organizer followed by an impres- Gulf Bank is committed to being sive operetta performed by the a key player in Kuwait’s social fabric children. Aisha Salim, Director at and continues to support such the Al Kharafi Activity Kids Center activities throughout the year, reit- expressed her gratitude to Gulf erating the Bank’s commitment to Bank for being the main sponsor of the wider community. Zain holds Ramadan Iftar with Kuwait Fire Department

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications compa- ny in Kuwait, organized a Ramadan Iftar for the Salmiya and Hawalli fire departments to share the blessings of the holy month of Ramadan with firefighters in recognition of the tremen- dous efforts they are exert- ing during the holy month. The Iftar was held with the presence of the depart- ments’ firefighters and key Zain officials who attended the Iftar gathering as a ges- ture of gratitude and appre- ciation to those noble fire- fighters. This initiative comes in line with its ongoing and yearly planned Ramadan activities that aim at spread- ing the kind community spir- it with people who save the lives of others on daily basis. Waleed Al-Khashti, Zain’s Corporate Communications and Relations Manager said: “Zain recognizes the great importance of those in charge of the security of our beloved Kuwait in various sectors. Firemen sacrifice their lives every day to save the lives of others rather than to be with their families during the Iftar meal. For this reason, we were determined to be present with them and share the blessings of Iftar and to thank them for their endless efforts.” Furthermore, Al Khashti noted that, “throughout the years, Zain has always been keen to organize a number of social and humanitarian initiatives during Ramadan to support the various sectors of the Kuwaiti society, enhancing moral and religious values.” Zain will continue to launch initiatives that reflect the religious as well as traditional humanitarian values and principles to enrich the art of giving and to increase bonding between individuals. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 LOCAL

In my view Local Spotlight How to rescue Shutting down Arab Spring diplomatic missions By Frida Ghitis evolutions devour their young. That lesson became well-known after the French Revolution, Rand it has proven itself true many times since then. Now the Arab Spring - whose very name summed By Muna Al-Fuzai up the idealistic, democratic expectations of the activists that launched it and the optimistic reception their movement engendered around the world - looks like it may well join the long list of popular uprisings that failed disastrously to meet those aspirations. It has turned out that mass movements would not swiftly [email protected] sweep away entrenched dictators and replace them with pluralistic democratic rule. hen an emergency message for US citizens The highly disciplined became public on Aug 1, 2013 over shut- Wting down the embassy in Kuwait today, Brotherhood won the first speculations were running high over the reason behind this decision. It seems a matter of concern wave of democratic elections, due to the nature of its contents. It was more than just a regular message that embassies send to their but its intentions differed citizens, but rather a warning to keep them alert and sharply from those of the cautious. The US Department of State has instructed certain US embassies and consulates to remain Tahrir protesters. President closed or to suspend operations on Sunday, Aug 4. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first The Obama administration has been “apprised of kuwait digest information that out of an abundance of caution and freely elected president, set care for our employees and others who may be visit- ing our installations, that indicates we should insti- on a course to give his Muslim The maestro prime minister tute these precautionary steps”. It is possible to have Brotherhood steadily expand- additional days of closings. Accordingly, the US By Mustafa Al-Sarraf ing control of the country. Embassy in Kuwait will be closed today. Therefore, all he political system in Kuwait as basis of competency. A prime minis- US citizen services appointments and visa appoint- mentioned in the constitution ter always takes full responsibility for ments have been cancelled and have been resched- In Tunisia, where a street vendor set himself on fire in is presidential with some fea- In a sense, the the success or failure of his cabinet uled on an individual basis. Dec 2010, igniting the region, someone has been assas- T tures of the parliamentary system. As because he accepted this job and The state spokeswoman refused to say to the sinating liberal politicians, raising tensions between the a result, the head of the state is the prime minister presented the head of state with a media where the threat has come from. But, reports Islamist-dominated government and an increasingly actual head of government as plays the role of a team he believed was the best to suggest it came from militant groups linked to Al- restless opposition. In Syria, what started as a peaceful explained in Article 52 of the consti- work with to achieve the required Qaeda in the Middle East. Also, the message did not uprising against the rule of President Bashar Al-Assad tution which states that the execu- maestro of an goals. offer the reasons for this shutdown except that it’s for has turned to civil war. More than 100,000 Syrians are tive authority is led by the Amir and From this standpoint, I believe the safety and security of its own. No information dead. Millions more have fled, further destabilizing a orchestra, who is Cabinet. Article 56 says in the mean- that the process of selecting the about security considerations or measures has been fragile region. Al-Assad, with the support of Iran, time that “the Amir, after traditional prime minister should not be associ- Hezbollah and Russia, has stopped the opposition’s responsible for mentioned . consultations, appoints the prime ated with the crown prince’s post. In While some have connected this act to evaluate momentum. The democratic movement has been invad- minister or relieves him of office. The musicians’ per- other words, the premier’s post ed by radical Islamists, including Al-Qaeda loyalists. The the security system, this has no grounds at all. In fact, Amir also appoints ministers or should be given to the most compe- most media reports tried to fo llow the news a fe w country is falling apart and could well end up as a failed relieves them of office upon the rec- formance and tent member in the ruling family for days back over threats that came from Al-Qaeda chief state, run by warlords and split along sectarian lines. ommendation of the prime minister”. the job; regardless of their position in making sure that Ayman Al-Zawahiri promising to free inmates at the There are serious troubles also in Libya, and few if This indicates that the head of the power hierarchy. And if a suitable any signs of democratic progress anywhere else, not in state has absolute executive powers, they play in har- person for the upcoming period is Guantanamo Bay prison. So it seems normal fo r Bahrain, Jordan or Saudi Arabia. Is the Arab Spring over? which he exercises through his minis- not found within the ruling family, diplomatic missions to shut down for a couple of Is there any hope for the people of the Arab Middle East ters as mentioned in Article 55. This mony with the the premier’s post should be days, possibly to observe the situation. In fact, what to enjoy true democracy, equality, respect for human means that the prime minister is the assigned to a qualified person from many missed is that not all US missions will be closed, rights, freedom of the press and of religion? All eyes are general coordinator and supervisor rhythm that he outside the ruling family under these but only some of those located in Middle East. now on Egypt, the Arab world’s most important country, of ministers’ work. sets. A successful circumstances. Many countries have civil disorder or the local a state whose political example has proven a regional In a sense, the prime minister There are no constitutional arti- security is not tough enough to ensure the safety of trendsetter over many decades. As in the other strug- plays the role of a maestro of an and skillful maes- cles that require that the prime min- both the embassy employees and visitors. I couldn’t gling Arab Spring nations, democracy here has also orchestra, who is responsible for ister becomes automatically eligible agree more that this decision is wise and well made. found toxic soil. But the cause is not hopeless. Despite musicians’ performance and making tro usually leads a for a future promotion to the crown Having said that, I think all visa sections should move the setbacks for revolution, something has changed in sure that they play in harmony with band that plays a prince’s position. And subsequently, out of embassy premises. The British, French, German the region, and it is in Egypt where the movement will the rhythm that he sets. A successful there are no article or laws that ban live or die. and many other foreign embassies have moved their and skillful maestro usually leads a very harmonious appointing someone from outside visa sections out of the embassy premises, so maybe It was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square where liberal groups band that plays a very harmonious the ruling family as prime minister if launched their movement for democracy, only to see note as noted in it is about time to consider such a step to reduce the note as noted in front of each mem- necessary, and under circumstances number of embassy visitors. their vision hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood. And it ber. Likewise, it requires a skillful that require selecting a person front of each I love Americans and this is no secret. I have many is in Egypt where last month they made a push to save prime minister to transform plans regarded as the most competent to their revolution from Islamists, only to be outplayed yet and ambitions written on paper into member. Likewise, bear the responsibility for the gener- of them as dear friends and so I appreciate their deci- again, this time by the military and its leader, Gen Abdel actual projects. al good. sion to shut down the embassy to ensure their safety Fattah Al-Sisi. The highly disciplined Brotherhood won The quality of prime minister it requires a skill- Such a scenario should not be a and security. I hope this closure will not last long. We the first wave of democratic elections, but its intentions selected depends on the nature of sensitive matter, nor should it be have enough fuss here already. differed sharply from those of the Tahrir protesters. the tasks his cabinet is set to chal- ful prime minister interpreted as a ‘concession’ from the President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected lenge. If the country is in need for to transform ruling family’s part. As explained president, set on a course to give his Muslim economic reform, the prime minister above, HH the Amir is the actual head Brotherhood steadily expanding control of the country. should have enough economic effi- plans and ambi- of government with powers to appoint kuwait digest The Brotherhood repeatedly broke promises and started ciency to be able to come up with a and dismiss the prime minister and his to create a country dominated by its loyalists, firing criti- comprehensive work plan. And if we tions written on ministers. We need a shift in approach Cleric-like cal newspaper editors, blocking opposing views from needed administrative reform, the paper into actual in the process of selecting ministers; the writing of the new constitution, naming prime minister should be one known and that from selecting on tribal and Satans! Brotherhood members as provincial governors, allowing for his administrative prowess and projects. sectarian bases to selecting solely on laws and practices that were disastrous, even deadly, for capability to select ministers on the the basis of competency. — Al-Qabas Christians, Shiites and women. Making matters much By Aqeel Faisal Taki worse, the economy started spiraling down, creating atan, the devil that disobeyed Allah, has turned enormous hardships for the Egyptian people. into a resourceful cleric. Once he was expelled Then the Tamarod (rebellion) movement gathered kuwait digest from Heaven and descended to Earth, he start- millions of signatures calling for the president’s resigna- kuwait digest S ed fooling and luring humankind. He grew a beard tion and new elections. On June 30, millions of and started talking about religion, explaining whatev- Egyptians took to the streets. Within hours, the military A positive A transitional er he likes, choosing what’s best to achieve his goals, put an end to the Muslim Brotherhood rule. Morsi has been held in an disclosed location since then, but the Amiri step period for Kuwait calling those opposing him as non-believers, dividing European Union’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, met followers of one religion into sects and groups, divid- ing these sects and groups into smaller ones to fight with him for two hours Monday. Egyptians by the mil- By Waleed Al-Rujaib By Prof Mohammad Al-Moqatei lions are exhilarated by the end of the Muslim each other, prohibiting and allowing whatever he H the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah’s Brotherhood experiment, intoxicated with gratitude to he National Assembly elections had several impor- likes and killing thousands of young people by send- the military, grateful for removing the president. Sisi’s initiative to pardon those sentenced to jail for tant messages that lead to the fact that it is time to ing them to fight the infidels while he sends his own profile is rising. He’s clearly in command and exploiting Hoffending him is a positive step, and there is Trenew the political class that led the country back- kids abroad to get the best education one can get. the popular adulation. no doubt that it has been welcomed positively by the wards, to failure and a state of continued fights. These This Satan who once called for marginalizing But is this what the Arab Spring was supposed to do, convicts, their families and the entire people of are elections that will form a transitional stage, because, women, glorifies them whenever he feels that his way replace an unelected dictator with a general and his Kuwait. and despite of the ills of the one-vote election system, it to certain interests goes through them. He fortified hand-picked prime minister? In a highly suspicious This step came following a long period of political showed the Kuwaitis’ will to differentiate good from bad. and immunised himself with the excuse of religion move, Sisi called for a mass demonstration in support of turmoil that created a state of instability and concern It also brought with it a mix of youth and qualities and is not to be questioned or debated while those the military, summoning his backers to the streets, even by transforming the approach of prosecuting young that adds a distinguished patriotic favor to the ‘redlines’ are mere outdated traditions and values. I as thousands of Morsi supporters continued a sit-in out- people who take part in peaceful protests against the Assembly, with a number that forms a safety valve to wonder how many Satans we have living among us violation of the constitution and demand enhancing side a mosque. On the day of the protest, as if to pro- preserve the constitutional and popular gains, and a and managed to convince people he is a religious the constitution that puts Kuwait back on track to voke the Islamists to confrontation, Morsi was charged bridge that takes Kuwait to a different era of thinking icon while he cannot be any farther from religion?! build a modern state and move towards a full parlia- with murder and espionage. With the strong show of and parliamentary action, similar to what existed in the The right religion is the one that tolerates all other mentary system through political reform projects. popular support, security forces took on the Islamists. In ‘60s and ‘70s of the last century. religions and doctrines. The right religion is built on And since the crisis Kuwait is going through is the clashes, which have been replicated in other cities, It will also impose a true political reform agenda that justice and equality and calls for good manners and political in the most part, the solution is required to scores of Brotherhood supporters have been killed. revolves around strengthening belonging and loyalty humane treatment of others. Looking around nowa- be a political one as well. Moreover, the solution must Liberal Egyptians are getting worried. Sisi’s own to the country, and form the idea of constitutional citi- days, we will find many disguised as clerics of various words should be cause for concern. He has defended contain all parts of the society on the basis of consti- zenry by eradicating polarizations, groups and tribal religions who are actually spreading corruption and the military’s outrageous “virginity tests” on female tutional nationalism, and address the issue with and sectarian loyalties that did not deal with matters turning paradises into hell. They fight all those who activists as a way to “protect the girls from rape”. The mil- national interest given top priority. This is necessary oppose or contradict their beliefs, pushing people to itary has promised a return to democracy next year, but especially given the lack of security surrounding us legislatively. This is a transition period because it is still burdened fight each other and forgetting about the freedom of al-Sisi has written about the need to introduce another and risks that require us to stay alert all the time, as belief. Many people, unfortunately, mistake them to version of Islamist rule to Egypt. Authorities are reviving well as the fact that further stubbornness is going to with some members who are linked to the agendas of some influential people who bought their seats for be real clerics, which helps shed more blood and Mubarak-era institutions of repression amid an atmos- lead to more tensions. claim thousands of children and young people’s lives phere of swelling nationalism and adulation for the mili- The Amiri pardon was a positive step which made cheap, despite the large amount of money, but it is able to go through this period by establishing the environ- and sometimes elderly people too merely to please tary. This is a steep, seemingly impossible, challenge for us optimistic that safety and stability can return. In this or that Satan who ‘represents’ religion for them. liberals. The military saved them, but it could easily bury ment so that the next Assembly fulfills Kuwaitis’ dreams the meantime, we hope that it is followed by drop- Because, for them, he looks like a person who is keen them. What they have in their favor is that the Arab when they wrote their constitution in 1962. ping all charges against those accused in political cas- on performing all religious rituals in public while he Spring introduced the concept of democratic legitimacy It is for sure a transitional period, because the gov- es and charges related to opinion - including ones turns a blind eye to the most important ritual, which into Egypt. A government that strays too visibly, for too filed as state security cases under which the accused ernment, with the way it selects its ministers, and the is ethics. long, will ultimately face the wrath of the people. What are charged with conspiring against the ruling sys- way it is formed and its dealings with the executive On the other hand, one may find a glimpse of activists should do, and the world should help them do, tem. authority’s affairs, is still going around the same orbit of hope in a real cleric trying to fix what those Satans is stress the fundamental values of liberal democracy This positive step is never going to be truly com- dealing, reacting and being led to emergent events or have ruined and corrupted by attempts to reject and publicly demand that the military affirm its own plete unless freedom-restricting laws are scrapped, political escalation with the silence method and avoid- hatred and accept differences of opinion, who try ele- acceptance of those values - which the Brotherhood was including those against peaceful demonstrations and ing initiatives out of fear of political cost, to a point vating good morals and bridging gaps between fight- criticized for violating - including freedom of thought, labor strikes in order to guarantee citizens’ right to where the maximum of a government’s goal is to leave ing parties. But where are they? Why have they aban- freedom of the press and equal rights under the law for express their objection to corruption or government things loose with contradicting policies and measures doned the field for Satan? Is it because of his capabili- all. The killing of Muslim Brotherhood supporters is a policies. There is no hope for development unless that delay everything in hope of time being the solu- ty to spread hypocrisy or because hatred and division shameful violation of those principles. Egypt needs to through political reform that starts with adopting full tion, although it is not so. are now dominating humankind? Let us reason up, develop democratic institutions, political tolerance, real parliamentary system and establishing political parties Issues and problems are resolved with the courage of reject our disputes and differences to unmask Satan’s political parties and politically educated citizens. It’s a on a nationalistic basis, followed by changing the elec- the decision. We hope the prime minister surprises us religious mask and go back to loving each other and tall order. But it’s the only way to keep the revolution toral system to one that is more efficient to guarantee with a new move in forming the government and its from devouring the ideals on which it was launched. fair representation of all parts of the society. — Al-Rai work! — Al-Qabas solidarity! — Al-Jarida SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

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JALALABAD: Security officials investigates the scene of an attack near the Indian consulate in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, yesterday. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in the botched attack yesterday on the Indian consulate in the eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. — AP Attack on Indian mission in Afghanistan Nine Afghans killed in attack

JALALABAD: Suicide bombers tar- geted in the war-torn country. militias formed during the Soviet geted the Indian consulate in the In 2008, a car bomb at the Indian occupation in the 1980s and the 1992- eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad yes- embassy in Kabul killed 60 people and 1996 civil war. terday, detonating an explosives- the embassy was again hit by a sui- The Haqqani network, a Pakistan- packed car and killing nine civilians, cide strike in 2009. In 2010, two guest- based group allied with the Taleban including seven children in a nearby houses in Kabul used by Indians were and closely associated with the mosque. attacked. Pakistani intelligence service, was A spokesman for the Taleban mili- India has been a key supporter of blamed for earlier attacks on Indian tant group immediately denied Kabul’s post-Taleban government, and targets in Afghanistan. responsibility for the blast that erupt- analysts have often pointed to the Jalalabad city is situated on the key ed outside the Indian mission and left threat of a “proxy war” in Afghanistan route from the Pakistani border the mosque, private houses, tailors between India and its arch-rival region-where many militants are and other shops in ruins. Pakistan. based-to Kabul, and it has been the “A car containing explosives hit a India reacted to the consulate location of repeated assaults in recent barrier near the consulate and deto- attack with thinly-veiled criticism of years. The International Committee of nated,” Ahmadzia Abdulzai, neighbouring Pakistan for failing to the Red Cross (ICRC) compound in the spokesman for Nangarhar province, of crack down on Pakistan-based mili- city was hit on May 29, with the which Jalalabad is the capital, told tants and their safe havens. Taleban rebels also denying any AFP. “There were three suicide “This attack has once again high- involvement. One Afghan guard died bombers in the car.” lighted the main threat to in that attack, which triggered wide- Nangarhar police chief Sharif Amin Afghanistan’s security and stability spread outrage as the ICRC is one of confirmed that the consulate was the stems from terrorism and the terror the most respected aid groups in intended target of the attack, which machine that continues to operate Afghanistan and has remained strictly created a large crater in the road as from beyond its borders,” the Delhi neutral during the war. survivors wearing blood-stained government said. In March, seven suicide bombers clothing ran for cover. Pakistan, which is widely seen as attacked a police base in Jalalabad, “Among the civilians killed were covertly supporting the Taleban, killing five officers. The previous seven children inside the mosque,” denies supporting militants active in month, a bomber rammed an explo- Amin said. The interior ministry con- Afghanistan and points to its own sives-laden car into the gates of the demned the bombing as “heinous” bloody fight against Islamist extrem- National Directorate of Security spy and said nine people had died in total, ists. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah agency and detonated bombs, killing with 21 other civilians wounded. Mujahid told AFP that their fighters two intelligence workers. Syed Akbaruddin, a spokesman for were not involved in yesterday’s strike. Nangarhar province has seen the Indian foreign ministry in New “We do not claim the responsibility for heavy fighting over recent days with Delhi, said that no officials were this attack,” he said. more than 20 Afghan policemen and injured in the attack-the first major The hardline Taleban have led a 12- dozens of Taleban insurgents killed strike in Afghanistan during the holy year insurgency against the Afghan when hundreds of fighters ambushed month of Ramadan that started on government since being overthrown a police and military convoy on Friday. July 10. in a US-led invasion for harbouring Al- The US State Department said it India, which has spent more than Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in was closing at least 22 US embassies two billion dollars of aid in 2001. But Afghanistan is beset by a or consulates yesterday, a work day in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime myriad of armed groups ranging from many Islamic countries, due to securi- fell in 2001, has previously been tar- Islamist rebels to criminal gangs and ty threats. —AFP Egypt coup shows democracy corrupt

CAIRO: Al-Qaeda’s leader said the Morsi’s supporters and Islamist allies dition - you be a slave for the West’s military coup that ousted Egyptian rejecting it. ideology, action, policy and economy,” President Mohammed Morsi provides “We have to admit first that legiti- he said. Al-Qaida and other Islamic proof that Islamic rule cannot be macy does not mean elections and extremists roundly reject democracy established through democracy and democracy, but legitimacy is the as a Western-imposed system, and urged the Islamist leader’s followers to Shariah (Islamic law)... which is above oppose it on the grounds that it puts abandon the ballot box in favor of all the constitutions and laws,” al- man’s laws above those of God. armed resistance. Zawahri said in comments addressed Turning to Egypt’s military, al- In a 15-minute audio message to Morsi’s supporters. Zawahri, who is Egyptian and grew up posted online late Friday, Ayman al- He condemned the Brotherhood in a Cairo suburb, accused the army of Zawahri also lashed out at the for having “tried its best to satisfy being a pawn of US interests. “The Egyptian military, the country’s secu- America and the secularists” by relin- Americanized army, was raised by lar and liberal elites as well as the quishing “jihad,” usually invoked by al- America’s aid, training courses and Coptic Christian minority, accusing Qaida to mean armed struggle. He exercises and their allegiance was them of conspiring against Morsi sole- also noted that Morsi’s government bought to fulfill the Americans’ orders ly because he was an Islamist. was overthrown despite its accept- and protect US interests as well as Egypt’s army ousted Morsi, the ance of Egypt’s landmark peace treaty maintain the security of its foster country’s first democratically elected with Israel and security agreements child, Israel,” he said. leader, on July 3 after days of mass with the United States - both of which He said Egypt’s secular camp for- protests demanding the president’s Islamic militants sharply oppose. got democracy, elections and the removal. The coup has divided the “You forgot that democracy is the peaceful transfer of power and resort- nation into rival camps, with an array West’s monopoly and it is allowed for ed instead to the “Americanized mili- of liberal and secular Egyptians sup- those who belong to the Islamists to tary to overthrow the Egyptian consti- porting the military’s move and benefit from its fruits only on one con- tution.”—AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Kerry backpedals after seeming to back Egypt coup

LONDON: US Secretary of State John neutral in the dispute while urging both everybody.” His Emirati counterpart said billion in the year is second only to the strong supporter of former Egyptian Kerry appeared to try to distance himself signs not to resort to violence. the international community did not Israeli military in Washington’s affections. strongman Hosni Mubarak for three Friday from comments he made that On Friday-against a backdrop of new want to see “anybody stopping Egypt In theory, however, US law forbids the decades until he was overthrown by a were seen as endorsing the Egyptian anti-American rallies in Cairo-his tone from (going) the way it should go, and administration from subsidizing any mili- street revolt-with belated military back- military’s overthrow of a civilian ruler. was more measured but his message far that’s only going to happen by all parties tary that carries out a coup against a ing-two years ago. Washington has struggled to articu- from clear. Meeting reporters in London, being in an inclusive dialogue.” civilian power. Pressure groups like Human Rights late a coherent position on the situation he said: “Egypt needs to get back to a Police fired tear gas in a Cairo suburb In order to get round this, and to First denounced Kerry’s statement, see- in Egypt, where the army stepped in to new normal.” on Friday to disperse protesters maintain leverage over an army that is ing in it a continuation of America’s his- depose president Mohammed Morsi fol- After talks with Emirati Foreign demanding Morsi’s reinstatement, a now the key player in the Egyptian dra- toric role in shoring up authoritarian lowing large-scale street protests. Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, security official and an AFP reporter said. ma, the White House and State Middle East regimes. On Thursday, during a visit to Kerry said Egypt “needs to begin to The protesters responded by saying they Department have tied themselves in “It is shocking that, in the aftermath Pakistan, Kerry further muddied the restore stability to be able to attract would march on the Egyptian army knots to avoid calling the takeover a of serious violence in Egypt in which waters by telling a television interviewer business and good people to work. And headquarters. The United Arab Emirates coup. But with Egyptian forces now scores of supporters of elected, deposed that Egyptian forces had acted to that’s a high priority.” has been a strong supporter of Egypt’s implicated in two mass shootings of president Mohamed Morsi were killed “restore democracy” in ousting the elect- Kerry added: “And we will work very, new military-installed regime. Along Morsi supporters and putsch leader after having been fired on by Egyptian ed leader. very hard, together and with others, in with ally Saudi Arabia, it has earmarked General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi assuming an security forces, Secretary Kerry would This infuriated Morsi’s supporters in order to bring parties together to find a $8 billion in aid to the new regime. increasingly prominent role as a national use the term ‘restoring democracy’ to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, and under- peaceful resolution that grows the The United States also provides aid to figurehead, this stance is starting to look characterize events in Egypt,” said mined previous US attempts to appear democracy and respects the rights of the Egyptian military, which with $1.3 a little shaky. The United States was a Human Rights First’s Neil Hicks. — AFP Syrian rebels seize anti-tank missiles in raid on army base UNICEF says civilians endangered in Homs

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels captured an ammunition A aerial picture, taken by a government to do so in safety and in dignity,” he said. depot north of Damascus from President Bashar drone shot down by rebels, showed the devasta- The conflict, that started with mainly peaceful al-Assad’s forces yetserday, activists said, seizing tion of the city which was once at the heart of protests against Assad’s authoritarian rule, a hoard of anti-tank missiles and rockets which the anti-Assad rebellion. Street after street descended into a sectarian war which has drawn will strengthen their firepower after a string of appeared empty and ruined, lined by shattered in regional powers. Nearly two million have fled defeats. Video footage of the raid showed delighted rebel fighters carrying out boxes of weapons from the arms cache in Denha, near the town of Yabroud, following an overnight attack. Still largely outgunned by Assad’s forces, who have gained ground around the capital Damascus and Syria’s third largest city Homs, the rebels have sought arms to tip the balance of power in the two-year conflict that has killed at least 100,000. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have sent weapons, although Western nations have not, and the rebels have also acquired a steady supply of weaponry, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, through their own raids on military bases. CATHAGE: Tunisian Prime minister Ali Larayedh (C) arrives ahead of a a meeting with One video released last week showed rebel various political parties at the Prime Minister’s office in Cathage yesterday. Tunisia’s fighters firing what appeared to be a vehicle- army pressed ahead with operations against Islamists in a remote mountain range borne anti-aircraft missile system captured from after a deadly ambush on its troops heightened a crisis sparked by a political assassi- the army several months ago. nation. — AFP Yesterday’s raid yielded French-made Milan anti-tank missiles, Russian Konkurs missiles and Grad rockets, according to video footage which Crisis-hit Tunisia showed the victorious rebels carrying off their haul through the dark corridors of the captured RAQQA: Syrian protesters gather to demand the release of Italian Jesuit priest Father Paolo hunt for jihadists complex. Dall’Oglio in the northern city of Raqqa, late on Friday. Syria’s main opposition group called for “Our return to Qusair just got closer,” shouted the immediate release of an Italian Jesuit priest who went to negotiate with jihadists and who is feared to have been taken prisoner. — AFP TUNIS: Tunisia’s army pressed ahead yes- front, a compromise still eluded opponents one fighter, referring to the former rebel strong- terday with operations against Islamists in and supporters of the government in their hold and border town which was captured two and abandoned buildings. the country and four million are internally dis- a remote mountain range after a deadly efforts to defuse a crisis triggered by the months ago by Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights placed. In the same border region near Yabroud ambush on its troops heightened a crisis July 25 assassination of opposition figure allied to Assad. said government forces bombarded al-Qusour, where the missile stocks were seized, Syrian jets sparked by a political assassination. Mohamed Brahmi that has been blamed on Following their victory in Qusair, south west one of the remaining rebel-held neighbour- killed at least six people in an air strike, Lebanese Authorities kept a tight lid on ground jihadists. of Homs, Assad’s forces took control of several hoods yesterday. security sources said. Some of the wounded had and helicopter raids Friday in the Mount Opposition parties have called on the nearby towns and villages and on Monday they In the northwestern Homs district of Al Waer, been brought into Lebanon for treatment. Chaambi area near the border with Algeria government to step down but failed to seized the Homs district of Khaldiya after weeks the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF Also yesterday, Syria’s main opposition coali- where Islamist militants, including veterans draw up a united stand on policy. Ennahda of urban warfare, tightening their siege on the warned that 400,000 civilians, who had moved tion appealed for the release of a prominent of a revolt in northern Mali, are suspected insists on its legitimacy to govern based on few remaining rebel bastions in the strategic their to seek shelter from the violence in central Italian Jesuit priest Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, a to be hiding out. the last elections in October 2011. city. Homs, were in danger. strong supporter of the rebels who went missing Eight Tunisian soldiers were found in the Both sides staged daily demonstrations “God willing, we will liberate Homs complete- UNICEF director Anthony Lake said clashes in the eastern city of Raqqa on Monday. area on Monday with their throats cut after over the past week, with Ennahda sending ly,” the fighter in yesterday’s video said. and rocket strikes in Al Waer meant the situation Activists said the priest, who had worked to being ambushed by militants. Meanwhile, out calls for a mass solidarity rally in the Homs lies on the main north-south highway there had worsened in recent days and appealed reconcile Kurdish fighters battling Islamist the interior ministry said a “religious capital’s Kasbah Square from 9 pm (2000 which links most of Syria’s main cities, and also to both the army and rebels to allow aid to get brigades, been been abducted by al Qaeda- extremist” was killed and another wounded GMT) yesterday. forms a link between Assad’s capital in in. “We call on all parties to facilitate immediate linked fighters. in two separate incidents while handling The government’s critics say it has failed Damascus and the heartland of his minority safe access to these families so we can provide The coalition said in a statement it “urges any explosives. to rein in radical Islamists, who have grown Alawite community in the mountains overlook- life-saving assistance, and to allow those families party which might be involved in his detention And police said a suspect package was in influence and stand accused of a wave of ing the Mediterranean. currently trapped in Al Waer who wish to leave to free him immediately”. — Reuters found in Tunis warning security forces to attacks since the 2011 uprising which top- withdraw from Mount Chaambi. The coali- pled long-time president Zine El Abidine tion government led by moderate Islamic Ben Ali. movement Ennahda has acknowledged Since Brahmi’s death-the second politi- Moroccans protest against that the country faces a growing threat of cal slaying after leftist leader Chokri Belaid terrorism, although it has yet to issue a call was gunned down in February-around 60 for the public to remain vigilant. politicians have pulled out of the National Interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Constituent Assembly that is drawing up pardon of Spanish paedophile Ali Aoui said on Saturday that his country Tunisia’s long-delayed new constitution. was not facing any “specific” threat of ter- Tunisian authorities have pointed to RABAT: Riot police broke up a protest by hun- King Juan Carlos, who visited Morocco last royal pardon be revoked and the Spaniard be rorist attack. links between the Chaambi militants, the dreds of Moroccans late on Friday against a royal month. brought back to jail. The government said the “The risk of an attack is the same in assassins of Brahmi and Belaid and Tunisia’s pardon for a Spanish paedophile serving a 30- “We are here to know who is responsible for man had been expelled to Spain. Tunisia as it is in France or anywhere else in main Salafist organisation Ansar al-Sharia, year sentence for raping and filming children as that pardon. It is a shame, they are selling our The Spanish Foreign Ministry confirmed on the world,” he told AFP. On the political which denies the accusation. — AFP young as four. children,” Najia Adib, president of Don’t Touch Saturday that the man was on Spanish territory In running clashes with the demonstrators, My Children association, told Reuters moments and said his name was Daniel Galvan Vina. baton-wielding police prevented them from after she and her teenage daughter had been Earlier, victims’ families had provided a different gathering in front of the Moroccan parliament in surrounded by riot police who struck them with spelling of his name. the centre of the capital Rabat, injuring several batons. According to the official Moroccan list of pris- Turkey appoints new people including journalists. The demonstration followed an online cam- oners released, as published by the Moroccan The convicted paedophile is among 48 jailed paign by outraged activists. Protests were also news website Lakome, Galvan is a nationalised military commanders Spaniards who were pardoned by King reported in several other cities in the North Spaniard born in Iraq. The Spanish Foreign Mohamed VI on Tuesday at the request of Spain’s African country. Protesters demanded that the Ministry would not confirm his place of birth. ISTANBUL: Turkey appointed new mili- trial is scheduled for tomorrow. Instead, Hamid Krayri, a lawyer for families of the vic- tary commanders yesterday in an over- General Hulusi Akar was given the job tims, said Galvan had been convicted 18 months haul of its top ranks that underlined the and, according to custom, would be ago by criminal courts in Kenitra, near Rabat, of government’s control over armed forces expected to replace General Necdet Ozel raping and filming children aged between 4 and which once dominated political life. as overall armed forces head in 2015. The 15. NATO’s second largest army is facing General Staff also announced on its web- “He is a retired Spaniard who owns two flats multiple challenges as conflict in neigh- site the appointment of Vice-Admiral here in Kenitra,” Krayri, who is a member of bouring Syria spills across the border and Bulent Bostanoglu as commander of the Morocco’s Human Rights Association, told a peace process with Kurdish militants navy, Lieutenant General Akin Ozturk as Reuters. He said he had filed a complaint against looks increasingly fragile. head of the air force and General Servet Galvan three years ago when activists showed Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who Yoruk as commander of the gendarmerie. him discs containing footage of the Spaniard chaired the Supreme Military Council The Council’s decisions were and his victims. meeting, has eroded the army’s power announced after approval by President The royal palace made no immediate com- since his Islamist-rooted AK Party first Abdullah Gul. Two years ago, a major ment, but the Justice Ministry said in a state- came to power in 2002. The secularist mil- upheaval in the military - when the chief ment on Friday that the pardon had been issued itary staged three coups between 1960 of staff and three other generals quit - based on Morocco’s national interests under the and 1980 and pushed the first Islamist-led allowed Erdogan to install a chief of staff friendly relations between the two countries. government out of office in 1997. The of his choice, General Ozel, and relations “That person is banned in Morocco’s territory, council decides on promotions and retire- between government and military have he cannot return,” Justice Minister Mustapha ments of top officers every year at its since improved. Ramid told Reuters on Thursday. The king, like three-day August meeting and had been A series of judicial investigations of some other Middle Eastern rulers, often pardons expected to make major changes at this military officers have undermined morale prisoners on special occasions, such as Throne week’s gathering. in the Turkish armed forces in recent Day on July 30, but the decision to release the The forced retirement of paramilitary years. Last September, a Turkish court Spaniards at the request of the monarch of a for- gendarmerie force commander General sentenced more than 300 military officers mer colonial power has riled many Moroccans. Bekir Kalyoncu, who had been the lead- to jail for plotting to overthrow Erdogan “It is a big mistake. We want the annulment of ing candidate to take over land forces, almost a decade ago in the so-called the king’s decision and apologies for the victim was the most unexpected of the Council’s Sledgehammer plot. families and the Moroccan people,” Abdelali decisions. Media reports said Ankara was Among defendants facing a verdict in Hamieddine, a member of the Islamist Justice opposed to Kalyoncu leading the coun- the Ergenekon trial on Monday is retired and Development Party (PJD), the senior partner try’s land forces as he was regarded as a General Ilker Basbug, chief of staff in Morocco’s coalition government, said during government critic and his name had between 2008 to 2010, who is accused of the protest. He said the government is not to cropped up in testimony in the trial of the being among the leaders of what was blame because the pardon came from the royal alleged Ergenekon conspiracy against prosecutors say is a shadowy arch-nation- RABAT: Angry protesters confront with police during a demonstration on Friday in Rabat- palace. “This is proof that our justice is a toy,” Erdogan’s government. A verdict on that alist group. — Reuters Morocco to protest the release of a Spanish paedophile, Daniel Fino Galvan who raped 11 local said Hamza Mahfoud, one of the protest organ- children was pardoned by the Moroccan King Mohammed VI. — AFP isers. — Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

Pilot ejects from jet off Virgina coast, rescued at sea

NORFOLK: Two Air National Guard fight- the air wing’s pilots are frequently called The Coast Guard said it was alerted to with the pilot that remained in the area, dude. When I saw his knee and saw how er jets clipped each other’s wings midair, upon to intercept aircraft that enter the pilot’s ditching by a distress signal according to the Coast Guard. That pilot he was handling it, the first thing in my forcing one of the pilots to eject into the restricted airspace or lose communica- from his ejection seat at about 10:30 p.m. relayed the information until the Coast mind was like, ‘How the hell do you get in ocean and be rescued by a Coast Guard tions in the Washington area. Those inter- An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter that was Guard helicopter could get close enough this raft and why are you so calm?’ His helicopter a few hours later off the Virginia cepts typically require aircraft to fly in based at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth to communicate directly. training kicked in obviously, because he coast, officials said Friday. close proximity. City, N.C. arrived around midnight, accord- Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Bret did everything right.” The other pilot involved in the collision The Air National Guard has not ing to the Coast Guard. It was faster to Fogle, the rescue swimmer on the opera- Fogle said he’s been a rescue swimmer was able to fly back to Joint Base Andrews, released the names of the pilots involved, send the helicopter instead of a small boat tion, said it was pitch black outside during for 13 years. This is the first time he or any- Md. Both jets were from the 113th Wing but Odle said both are experienced pilots. from Chincoteague, said Petty Officer the rescue, but the downed pilot followed one else he knows has rescued a pilot D.C. Air National Guard and were on a rou- One is a captain, and the other is a lieu- David Weydert, a spokesman for the Coast his training and lit rescue flares so he that’s had to eject into the water, but he tine training mission Thursday night when tenant colonel. The Coast Guard said the Guard’s 5th District in Portsmouth, Va. At could be found. He said the pilot’s said the Coast Guard regularly trains for the collision happened about 35 miles pilot of the jet who was rescued early the time of the rescue, seas in the area demeanor was calm when he reached such a scenario. He said the rescue was southeast of Chincoteague on Virginia’s Friday is in good condition. were about 4 feet high. him, even though his right knee was in an the highlight of his career. Eastern Shore. Odle said the other pilot has already Three other planes were also taking incredible amount of pain. He said putting “We’ll usually rescue civilian fisher- Capt. Michael Odle, chief of public been evaluated by medical staff and part in the training, and one remained in the pilot on a board so he could be lifted men or cruise ships,” he said. “To actually affairs for the air wing, said the single seat released. “We are extremely fortunate to the area to help guide Coast Guard res- into the helicopter felt like he was putting be able to get the opportunity to help F-16C Fighting Falcons collided when have lost only metal, and not the life of cuers to the downed pilot, Odle said. The the pilot’s knee through torture because it somebody out, to help this caliber of a their wings clipped each other. Odle didn’t one of our Airmen,” Brig. Gen. Marc downed pilot was wearing a life vest and was swollen to the size of a grapefruit and person for what he does for our country specify the exact maneuvers the pilots Sasseville, 113th Wing commander, said in had a handheld radio with him in his life appeared to be broken. and everything, is just a really neat feel- were going through, but he noted that a statement. raft that enabled him to communicate “He was actually just a very tough ing.” —AP Zimbabwean election official Numbers don’t add up for papal Mass crowd count

resigns over disputed poll RIO DE JANEIRO: If measured in spirit, there McPhail first chuckled when he heard the is hardly a soul who would question the suc- Vatican’s crowd estimate in an area of cess of Pope Francis’ Mass on giant Copacabana beach and adjoining streets Mugabe’s ZANU-PF says it won, MDC denounced fraud Copacabana beach last weekend. The count that encompassed about 497,000 square HARARE: A Zimbabwean election commissioner gate the vote, calling it “null and void” and “not when it comes to the flesh-and-blood num- meters (594,400 square yards). bers of faithful who actually attended is an By the Vatican’s count, the crowd density has resigned, citing doubts about the integrity of credible”. entirely different matter. throughout the entire area would have been results showing a big win for President Robert But he faces an uphill struggle to convince The Vatican said an historic 3.7 million 7.4 people per square meter, which wouldn’t Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party but dismissed as a the regional bodies, as their observers have people were at the Sunday event, an eye- allow for movement of any kind, let alone fraud-riddled farce by his main challenger. already endorsed the election as free and popping number that would have made it the jumping, arm waving, singing and danc- Mkhululi Nyathi said he quit the nine-mem- peaceful, while acknowledging minor prob- the second largest papal Mass ever. But ing seen at the papal events. Video and pho- ber Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) over lems. Western observers were kept out by number crunchers were splashing cold tos of the crowd also showed that while it the way it managed the presidential and parlia- Harare, and independent domestic monitors water on those jubilant estimates Friday, was packed close to the gigantic altar built mentary vote held on Wednesday. His resigna- have described the vote as deeply flawed by saying the real figure was not even half as on Copacabana beach, the faithful thinned tion is likely to add to the dispute over the elec- registration problems that may have disenfran- big. out along the 4-kilometer long beach. tion both inside and outside Zimbabwe. chised up to a million people. This includes the The problem was, the count released by A big crowd estimate would surely be a The vote, which looks certain to extend 89- lack of availability of an updated voters’ roll, as Vatican and Brazilian officials was a guessti- boon to the pontiff’s supporters, who would year-old Mugabe’s 33-year rule in the southern HARARE: Prime Minister of Zimbabwe required by law. mate that statisticians say grossly inflated argue that the multitudes gave him a popu- African nation, passed off peacefully and Morgan Tsvangirai addresses a media con- SADC observers have urged Tsvangirai to the crowd figures. The research director of lar mandate to battle entrenched Vatican received broad approval from African ference in Harare yesterday. —AFP accept the result. They expressed relief that Datafolha, one of Brazil’s top polling and sta- officials who don’t look kindly upon Francis’ observers. discuss his concerns in detail. Tsvangirai’s the elections have so far avoided the kind of tistic firms, said that based on the size of the drive to reform the church’s opaque and Africa’s oldest leader, Mugabe has governed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said violence that marred a disputed vote in 2008. crowd area and reasonable density esti- scandal-ridden bureaucracy. mates, he would put Sunday’s turnout at The bloated crowd figure also provided the former British colony, then known as on Friday it could take to the streets to chal- Then, 200 MDC supporters were killed by Rhodesia, since independence in 1980. ZANU-PF supporters. Western rejection of the between 1.2 million and 1.5 million people. cover for city officials in Rio, where logistical lenge ZANU-PF’s claim of a landslide victory, Vatican officials and organizers of World problems seen during the papal visit Mugabe’s main rival, Prime Minister Morgan made less than 24 hours after the polls had regional African verdict on the election could Tsvangirai, has denounced the July 31 election stir tensions with the continent. But accept- Youth Day, an event held every three years brought into question the city’s ability to closed on Wednesday. that draws young Catholics from across the host 2014 World Cup group stage and as a “huge farce”, alleging massive rigging by ance of Mugabe’s victory will be criticised in Results for the parliamentary vote released globe, weren’t bashful about telling the championship matches, not to mention the ZANU-PF. Zimbabwe’s largest domestic observ- so far by the ZEC show that ZANU-PF will have countries that say he is a despot guilty of rights press how many people turned out to see 2016 Olympics. er group has also called the elections “seriously a two-thirds majority that would allow it to abuses and ruining the economy. Francis. Those attending the papal events com- compromised” make constitutional changes. Zimbabwe state Britain, a sharp critic of Mugabe in the past, “It’s an old, old story that organizations, plained about the city’s woeful public trans- “While throughout the whole process I media is also reporting Mugabe is poised for a said it was concerned that Zimbabwe had not whether political radicals or the Vatican, port system, a lack of affordable hotel retained some measure of hope that the resounding win. enacted important electoral reforms before the always over guesstimate the size of turnout, rooms, the need for public toilets and a local integrity of the whole process could be sal- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has vote. they want their event to look as good as services industry not able to meet demands vaged along the way, this was not to be,” until Monday to release the official results of The U.S. government, which has imposed possible,” said Clark McPhail, an emeritus for things as simple as lunch. A miraculously Nyathi said in a resignation letter seen by the presidential vote. Tsvangirai has called on sanctions against Mugabe, said “a peaceful and professor of sociology at the University of high crowd count would make all that more Reuters yesterday. the African Union and the Southern African orderly election day does not by itself guaran- Illinois who has studied crowd counts for understandable and give local officials Contacted by telephone, Nyathi declined to Development Community (SADC) to investi- tee a free and fair outcome”. —Reuters four decades. breathing room. —AP Brazil police jailed for life for 1992 prison killings

SAO PAULO: Twenty-five police offi- focuses on the killings that took place ordered the death of the director of cers were sentenced to life in prison on each of the four floors of the prison the prison at the time, Jose Ismael yesterday for their role in the 1992 in Sao Paulo on October 2, 1992. Pedrosa. Carandiru prison massacre that left Prosecutors argue that the inmates From the prison, PCC bosses coor- 111 inmates dead. were executed, while the defense dinated a series of assaults on police The massacre, among the worst claims police officers were being stations and public buildings which mass killings to have taken place in threatened and fired in self-defense. left more than 170 people dead and Latin America’s notoriously over- Eighty-seven prisoners were paralyzed Sao Paulo for four days in crowded jails, inspired the formation wounded in the melee, but the police May 2006. of a powerful prison gang that carried were unharmed. Forensic evidence The violence later spread to other out scores of deadly attacks on police presented in the trial indicated that at cities, and scores of civilians suspect- in 2006. least 90 percent of the prisoners who ed of criminal activity were gunned Each officer was sentenced to 624 were killed died from gunshot down in a subsequent wave of police years in prison for using deadly force wounds to the head and neck, and reprisal attacks. Late last year, the PCC to quell a fight among inmates. The that many were shot while kneeling or was also blamed for a wave of police court found the officers guilty of lying down. killings and bus burnings. killing 52 prisoners. In the first phase of the trial, 23 The Carandiru prison was demol- Judge Rodrigo Tellini read out the police officers were found guilty and ished in 2002. With a population of sentence reached by a seven-person sentenced to 153 years in prison for 194 million, Brazil has 550,000 people jury, saying there had been a “clear the deaths of 13 inmates. behind bars in more than 1,000 jails, abuse of power” by the police. A The only person previously tried one of the world’s largest prison pop- lawyer for the police said they would for the massacre was the commander, ulations. Some 217,000 detainees are appeal the ruling, but admitted it Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes, who was awaiting trial, according to the United would be difficult to overturn the sen- sentenced in 2001 to 632 years in Nations. tences. prison. Guimaraes, a former state A UN panel invited by the Brazilian The ruling was reached after a deputy, appealed the sentence and government in late March blamed the week-long trial, the second part of a was absolved. problem in part on a judicial cul- process broken into four in which 79 He was found in 2006 shot dead in ture that sees incarceration as the first military police officers are accused of his Sao Paulo apartment. The mas- recourse, including when minors are killing Carandiru prisoners. sacre sparked outrage among involved. The case was brought to trial in inmates, and prosecutors said it was a As a result of excessive incarcera- April after more than two decades of key factor in the establishment of a tion, the commission said, “detention procedural delays. At the time of the criminal gang known as First facilities were usually overcrowded. In massacre Carandiru had 8,000 Command of the Capital (PCC) in some cases, the number of detainees inmates and was the largest prison in 1993. exceeded the capacity by 100 per Latin America. Each trial segment The PCC is believed to have cent.” —AFP

SAO PAULO: Demonstrators clash with the riot police in front of the Legislative Assembly in Sao Paulo on August 2, 2013 as they demand the resignation of Rio de Janeiro’s Governor Sergio Cabral, accused of corruption and arrogance, and Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, as well as the demilitarization of the military police and against the disappearance of 42-year-old construction worker Amarildo de Souza who has been missing for two weeks after he was picked up by police at Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha shantytown. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Marine in Iraq war case to teach marksmanship OCEANSIDE: Marine Sgt. Lawrence murder in the death of a retired Iraqi by his past. He says he loves his policeman - was an insurgent leader. ruling his trial in 2007 was unfair Hutchins called his wife as soon as he policeman in the village of Hamdania Marine brotherhood but not the insti- Prosecutors accused the squad of because his lead defense lawyer quit learned the military’s highest court in 2006. tution. And he says, he may never, planting a shovel and AK-47 to make it shortly before it began. But the mili- had ordered his immediate release Hutchins spoke to reporters Friday emotionally speaking, be entirely free. appear he was an insurgent. tary’s highest court at that time over- after overturning his murder convic- for the first time since his release last “This man’s death will stay with me The six other Marines and a Navy ruled that decision, saying the prob- tion in a major Iraq war crime. month. Under the military justice sys- for the rest of my life,” he said. corpsman in his squad served less lem was not grave enough to throw Reyna Hutchins’ response was one tem, the Navy can still order his case Hutchins lost his 20s to the war - first than 18 months locked up. out the conviction. Hutchins was of genuine disbelief: “Is it for real? Are to be retried or it can appeal to the in fighting it and then in serving more While Hutchins is not allowed to returned to the brig after eight we sure this time?” she asked. The 29- Supreme Court to intervene. It is than half of an 11-year sentence in the discuss that fateful day while it months working at a desk job at Camp year-old Marine couldn’t answer. He expected to announce its decision brig. remains in legal limbo, he said it was Pendleton. still doesn’t know himself whether he over the next few months. The son and grandson of Marines, among many horrible days. The day he went back into custody, truly is a free man. In the meantime, Hutchins must Hutchins, of Plymouth , Mass., enlisted “I was in war for 4 1/2 months,” he his wife found out she was pregnant Hutchins has had his conviction remain in the Marine Corps, even at the age of 21, right after 9/11. He said. “Before this happened, we had with their second child, a boy. His overturned twice in the past three though he wants out. He has been led an eight-man squad accused of been in firefights almost every day. I daughter is 8. His parents are losing years by military courts after rulings assigned his old job at Camp kidnapping retired Iraqi policeman tried to help an Iraqi individual who his childhood home over his $120,000 that there were errors in the handling Pendleton as a marksmanship instruc- Hashim Ibrahim Awad from his home had a bullet go through his throat as legal bill, he said. of his case. The latest ruling was made tor. He said his release after 7 1/2 years in April 2006, marching him to a ditch his wife sat next to him. Before the “It’s been 7 1/2 years,” he said. “I’ve on June 26 when the Court of Appeals in the brig has been “surreal,” and he and shooting him to death in Iraqi policeman was killed, there had missed my son’s birth, my family’s for the Armed Forces found Navy has felt anxious at times. He tells peo- Hamdania, a small village in Al Anbar been IEDs going off in the area.” He birthdays, Christmases. These things I interrogators violated his rights by ple he’s been on a long deployment. province. added that “all these things weigh on won’t get back.” He is spending as holding him in solitary confinement So he is free but not free. He wants Hutchins has said he thought the my conscience.” A lower court over- much time as possible with them now, for seven days after he was accused of to move forward but is still anchored man - who turned out to be a retired turned his conviction three years ago, not knowing his future. — AP Focus shifts to Obama if US Congress axes immigration bill Lobbying groups seen pushing for president to act WASHINGTON: If immigration reform sput- port going into immigration reform and if it steps that can be taken. ters in the deeply divided US Congress, sup- fails (in Congress), all of that effort and sup- “The importance of legislation is that it’s a porters are planning to push President Barack port will turn right back on the administration permanent fix,” said Ali Noorani, executive Obama to act on his own to help 11 million to do something for constituents that have director of the National Immigration Forum. illegal residents, lawmakers and immigration been hurting and are important to the presi- He also said Obama could not order a “path- advocates said. dent,” Meissner said. way to citizenship” for the 11 million but could Immigration law experts, some senators Senior Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, ease their short-term deportation fears. and House Democratic aides speculated that who voted for the Senate-passed bill, told Legal status leading to citizenship is a key if Congress cannot agree on a wide-ranging Reuters, “There are a lot of people speculat- demand of immigration groups as they seek immigration bill this year, Obama could use ing” about the demands for Obama to act uni- passage of legislation. his executive authority to stop deporting par- laterally if legislation fails. Executive branch action also would not ents of children living in the United States ille- Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who create more high-tech visas or new categories CHINO: In this undated file photo released by the California Department of gally. Many of those children have won tem- helped write the Senate bill, concurred, say- of temporary work permits. The Senate legis- Corrections, inmates sit in crowded conditions at the California Institute for Men porary reprieves on deportation and broaden- ing, “I have always suspected that’s a real pos- lation would accomplish those things, much in Chino, Calif. The US Supreme Court on Friday, paved the way for the early ing the protection to their parents would be a sibility.” But Hatch and Rubio both warned to the pleasure of U.S. business. release of nearly 10,000 prisoners by year’s end despite warnings by Gov. Jerry way of keeping immigrant families together. Obama against taking matters into his own Further complicating matters, Obama Brown and other state officials that a public safety crisis looms if they’re forced Navigating around Congress comes with hands, even if legislation fails. would have to make a political calculation to open the prison gates.— AP plenty of drawbacks, though, since anything Bill Hing, a University of San Francisco pro- before acting, assessing the potential impact Obama could do would not be as lasting as fessor who specializes in immigration law, of any administration directives on 2014 con- enacting a law. Furthermore, he could not use said in a telephone interview: “I think it’s gressional elections. Court okays early release his own powers to make sweeping changes, going to begin ... with just huge pressure on For now, backers of immigration legislation such as creating a pathway to citizenship for the administration to cut back on its Secure do not want to acknowledge this executive plan for California inmates the 11 million undocumented. Communities” program. branch avenue since it detracts from their Any such measures are certain to provoke a Controversial among city and county gov- message that Congress will manage to pass a SAN FRANCISCO: Despite warnings from without delay.” California officials, the nation’s highest However, inmate lawyer Don Specter, reaction from Republicans. But immigrant ernments, this federal program gathers finger- bill this year. court is refusing to delay the early release head of the Berkeley-based Prison Law groups would argue that some action from prints and other information from local law “I don’t want to even entertain that of nearly 10,000 California inmates by Office, said the ruling Friday did not bode the White House is better than putting up enforcement that can be used to identify thought,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a year’s end to ease overcrowding at 33 well for the overall appeal. He said the with existing conditions. undocumented people. Republican who helped write the Senate- adult prisons. decision underscores what inmates have Obama also could sidestep Republican Hing said the program has been aggres- passed bill, said of potential Obama action. In its decision Friday, the Supreme been arguing for years. opposition to legislation by helping a broader sively used by the administration and the Senator Charles Schumer, the leading Court dismissed an emergency request by “The conditions are still overcrowded,” spectrum of illegal residents who have been result has been the deportation of many for Democratic author of the bill said, “I’m not the Gov. Jerry Brown to halt a lower he said. “The medical and health care in the United States for prolonged periods, minor violations such as traffic infractions. even going to get into that,” and insisted he is court’s directive for the early release. Law remain abysmal.” Lawyers representing say 10 years or more, for temporary legal sta- After spending most of his first term as “more optimistic every day” of legislation enforcement officials expressed concern Brown had argued to the high court that tus if they have clean records. president refusing to use his executive powers passing the Republican-controlled House of about the ruling. releasing 10,000 more inmates would “You could make a persuasive policy argu- to ease deportations of illegal immigrants, Representatives. The justices ignored efforts already mean letting violent criminals out on the ment that those are the people who have Obama flexed his presidential muscles in mid- Even the White House tried to squelch under way to reduce prison populations streets and overwhelm the abilities of law most fully sunk roots into communities, most 2012. With his campaign for re-election gear- speculation. “The only way to fix this problem and “chose instead to allow for the release enforcement and social services to moni- convincingly demonstrating they’re con- ing up, he had his Department of Homeland is for Congress to pass comprehensive reform. of more felons into already overburdened tor them. tributing in the labor market,” said Doris Security temporarily halt deportations of There are no other options,” a spokesman said. communities,” said Covina Police Chief Kim “No data suggests that a sudden Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration undocumented children who were brought to Any steps by Obama likely would prompt Raney, president of the California Police release of inmates with these characteris- Policy Institute. “Many are paying U.S. taxes the United States by their parents, often at a an outcry from Republicans who would again Chiefs Association. tics can be done safely,” the state said in its and raising families in their adopted country.” very young age. Seeing the effectiveness of accuse him of trampling the Constitution by Brown’s office referred a request for filing. “No state has ever done it.” The pan- With Congress in a five-week recess and that executive action and the absence of suc- deciding which laws he was going to enforce comment to the California Department of el of federal judges has consistently reject- many Republicans balking at “amnesty” for cessful legal challenges, Obama could be and which ones he was going to ignore. That Corrections and Rehabilitation, where ed that argument. The judges, prisoners’ Secretary Jeff Beard vowed that the state lawyers and others say other states have those living in the United States illegally, emboldened to expand it with the stroke of was their reaction in mid-2012. would press on with a still-pending appeal marginally reduced inmate sentences chances are worsening for passing a compre- his pen. Presidential action may be the least “I think the White House has to be careful,” in hope of preventing the releases. without sparking an increase in crime. hensive immigration bill this year, even with desirable outcome for supporters of immigra- Hatch said. “They’ve been doing an awful lot A panel of three federal judges had The governor said the state has already the Senate’s bipartisan backing in June for tion reform, however, because it is a tempo- of unilateral legal action without authority previously ordered the state to cut its transferred thousands of low-level and such a measure. rary remedy that can be reversed by future and if that keeps up, the president is going to prison population by nearly 8 percent to nonviolent offenders to county jails, but “There’s a huge degree of effort and sup- presidents and because there are only limited find himself in real difficulty.” — Reuters roughly 110,000 inmates by Dec. 31 to that local officials in turn have been forced avoid conditions amounting to cruel and into releasing some inmates early to ease unusual punishment. That panel, respond- their own overcrowding issues. ing to decades of lawsuits filed by The Supreme Court’s ruling rejected Death of potential witness inmates, repeatedly ordered early releases Brown’s plea over the objections of after finding inmates were needlessly Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and dying and suffering because of inade- Clarence Thomas, who all said they would unrelated to Bulger: DA quate medical and mental health care have granted the state’s request. caused by overcrowding. Scalia, in a dissent joined by Thomas, Court-appointed experts found that wrote that the previous order by the WOBURN: Cyanide-laced iced prosecutors could file a murder results before they could say forced Rakes and his former wife the prison system had a suicide rate that three-judge panel was a “terrible injunc- coffee led to the death of a man charge later. more about how he died. Federal to sell him their South Boston worsened last year to 24 per 100,000 tion” that threatens public safety. Scalia who’d just found out he wouldn’t Authorities say Camuti bought authorities have said Bulger liquor store in 1984. — AP inmates, far exceeding the national aver- said the state’s evidence shows it has get to testify against reputed two iced coffees and added two age of 16 suicides per 100,000 inmates in made meaningful progress and that such Boston gangster James “Whitey” teaspoons of potassium cyanide state prisons. reductions in the inmate population are Bulger, authorities said Friday, but to the one he gave to Rakes to Brown had appealed the latest decision no longer necessary. linked the man’s death to a busi- drink. Investigators found out lat- of the panel and, separately, asked the US The legal battle goes back years. In ness associate who owed him er that Camuti had made Supreme Court to cancel the early release 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that money, not to Bulger. inquiries online about buying order while considering his arguments California had to cut its inmate population The body of 59-year-old cyanide, Ryan said. that the state is making significant to deal with unconstitutional prison con- Stephen Rakes of Quincy was She said Rakes drank the poi- progress in improving conditions. The ditions caused by overcrowding. It said found in the woods July 17, just a soned drink and Camuti drove high court refused Friday to stop the that further delay in reducing prison over- day after he learned he wouldn’t him around for hours before release but did not rule on the appeal crowding would further the substandard take the witness stand against itself. Corrections Secretary Beard said the delivery of medical and mental health care dumping his body in Lincoln, out- state would press on with that, so the and, by extension, lead to more inmate Bulger - a man he’d openly side Boston between Lexington “merits of the case can be considered deaths and injuries. — AP despised and blamed for seizing and Concord. control of his business to use as The prosecutor said Camuti headquarters for Boston’s Irish and Rakes were business associ- mob decades ago. ates who had known each other Woman gives birth in Bulger ran the city’s feared for years and had done multiple Winter Hill Gang before fleeing in deals. She said Camuti also owed Subway restroom 1994 after a corrupt FBI agent Rakes a significant amount of tipped him off he was about to money. RENO: It was just another day at work for “a blessing” that paramedics from the East be arrested. He was captured in Camuti also faces charges of Flora Vargas until a screaming woman burst Fork Fire and Paramedic District arrived in California two years ago and is on misleading police and unlawfully into her Subway sandwich shop in Nevada time to assist in the delivery. trial, accused of participating in disposing of human remains. A on Friday and announced she was in labor. “The head of the baby was already out 19 murders. judge ordered him held without After the pregnant woman raced for the when she went to the floor,” Vargas said. But authorities believe the sus- bail until a Tuesday hearing, and women’s restroom, assistant manager “The baby came out really, really fast. pect in Rakes’ death, 69-year-old his attorney didn’t return a mes- Vargas and her boss sprang into action, Fortunately, the emergency service people William Camuti, acted alone on sage. placing sandwich wrappers and trash bags got here really fast.” Paramedics transport- the afternoon of July 16 when he Surveillance video from the on the floor for sanitation. ed the mother and child to Carson Tahoe lured Rakes to his death by federal courthouse where Bulger With Vargas’ help, the mother gave birth Regional Medical Center, where hospital on the restroom floor in Minden, 40 miles spokesman Jon Tyler said he could only dis- arranging a meeting at a is being tried showed Rakes leav- south of Reno, a couple minutes later. close that both are healthy. Their names McDonald’s in Waltham to pitch ing July 16 after attending the tri- “It was a boy. A beautiful boy,” Vargas were not released. him a fake real estate deal, al, Ryan said. Rakes had been told The Associated Press. “He didn’t cry Vargas said the mother told her that she Middlesex District Attorney attending the trial every day. The when he came out. Then he cried, and I was 21 and had three other children. The Marian Ryan said. prosecutor said Rakes was wear- breathed easier knowing he was alive.”No mother was accompanied by a sister at the Camuti, of Sudbury, pleaded ing the same clothing when MASSACHUSETTS: William Camuti, 69, of Sudbury, Mass., stands customers were in the restaurant at the time, she added. not guilty Friday after his arrest found dead the next day without during arraignment Friday, in Concord District Court on attempt- time of the 9:30 a.m. birth, but the restau- East Fork Battalion Chief Ron Haskins on charges including attempted a wallet, identification, keys or a ed murder charges the poisoning death of Stephen Rakes, whose rant was open. The only employees inside said paramedics have delivered babies in murder. Authorities said the med- cellphone. There was no sign of body was found July 18, 2013, in woods on the side of a street were Vargas and the manager. Vargas odd places, but it’s the first birth on a ical examiner still is awaiting toxi- trauma to his body and authori- Lincoln, Mass., Rakes, who said he had been extorted by James helped calm down the mother and get her restaurant restroom floor that he can recall cology test results to determine ties said following his autopsy “Whitey” Bulger, had hoped to testify in the Bulger’s racketeering on the restroom floor, she said, and it was during his 30 years with the district.—AP Rakes’ exact cause of death, and that they’d have to await test trial. — AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Mass protest in Taiwan over young conscript’s death ‘I hope we can have truth and justice for Chung-chiu’

TAIPEI: More than 100,000 Taiwanese people took to the streets yesterday in protest over the death of a young conscript who was allegedly abused in the military. Singing a Taiwanese take on the revolutionary song “Do you hear the people sing?” from the hit musical “Les Miserables”, pro- testers rallied at a square near PHNOM PENH: In this July 28, 2013 file photo, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun the presidential office in Taipei, Sen shows his ballot at a polling station in Takhmau town, south of Phnom Penh, mostly dressed in white-a colour Cambodia. The two rival parties claiming victory in Cambodia’s general election symbolising truth in local culture. reached an agreement yesterday with the state National Election Committee to It was the second mass protest investigate polling irregularities, a move that could smooth the way to ending since Corporal Hung Chung-chiu the country’s political deadlock. — AP died of heatstroke on July 4 — apparently after being forced to exercise excessively as punish- Cambodia to set up ment for taking a smartphone onto his base-just three days before the end of his compulsory poll investigation year-long military service. About 30,000 people demon- PHNOM PENH: The two rival parties claiming opposition’s participation. He said the failure strated outside the defence min- istry in the capital on July 20, victory in Cambodia’s general election of opposition lawmakers to take their seats TAIPEI: People stage a protest for Taiwanese soldier Hung Chung-chiu who died in early July after reached an agreement yesterday with the could result in their forfeiting them to the rul- according to Citizen 1985, an being forced to perform a vigorous regime of calisthenics in sweltering heat, in front of President state National Election Committee to investi- ing party. activist group that organised the gate polling irregularities, a move that could “There will be no deadlock for the new protests. “We estimate a bigger Office in Taipei, Taiwan, yesterday. — AP pave the way to ending the country’s political National Assembly and the forming of new turnout today on the eve of tice ministry to spare no effort to “unbearable, cruel and abusive”, higher ranking officers were deadlock. NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha government. I will be the prime minister for Hung’s funeral than the previous investigate the case and review resulting in his death from multi- indicted with lesser charges. announced an agreement in principle to form the fifth five-year term of the government,” protest. We hope the govern- the current system to prevent ple organ failure triggered by Analysts have said Hung’s an independent investigative body after Hun Sen told villagers in Kandal province, ment will hear the people’s anger any unhumanitarian actions and heatstroke, prosecutors said. He death has dealt a blow to the meeting with senior members of the ruling which borders Phnom Penh, the capital. at its handling of the case,” Liu abuse of power,” Premier Jiang Yi- was sent to solitary confinement defence ministry’s plans for a Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition While the establishment of the investiga- Lin-wei, a spokesman for the huah told reporters. and ordered to do the exercises professional military. The min- Cambodia National Rescue Party. tive body is unlikely to have any substantive group, told AFP. He also promised to meet the as a punishment for bringing a istry wants to phase out its The ruling party contends that provisional effect, it could serve as a way for the two par- “I want to thank everyone for activist group’s demands to set camera-phone to camp and for decades-old compulsory 12 results show it won 68 parliamentary seats to ties to reach a face-saving accord and avoid your efforts and I hope we can up a committee to probe military defying his superiors on some months of service by the end of the opposition’s 55 in the July 28 election, possible chaos if Hun Sen takes office without have truth and justice for Chung- wrongful imprisonment cases duty assignments, according to 2015, replacing it with four while the opposition claims there was wide- the opposition’s acquiescence. chiu with all your help,” Hung’s and to review the military tribu- the indictment. months of military training for spread cheating and that it won a 63-seat If the body agrees that there were flaws in nal system. Amid mounting pub- Hung’s family said he was men aged over 20. majority. Prime Minister Hun Sen, in power the election process, it could initiate reforms mother told the crowd. for 28 years, has made clear that he believes for which the opposition could take credit, Organisers claimed 200,000 peo- lic anger, defence minister Kao repeatedly refused water during The government hopes volun- the final results, due in mid-August, will favor keeping its promise of fighting a long-haul ple joined the protest, while the Hua-chu stepped down earlier the punishment despite being teers will then enlist for a longer him and that he will have another five-year struggle for democracy. government’s estimate of the this week, while 18 military offi- close to collapse and that he had period of military service, making term in office. With his overpowering influ- Hun Sen, for his part, could stake a claim crowd size was 100,000. cials have been charged over previously filed complaints about for a better trained, more highly ence over the state apparatus and the judici- of being willing to compromise, giving the “I am mourning for Hung Hung’s death, including the for- other abuse meted out by superi- skilled military. Taiwan currently ary, he is almost certain to have his way. appearance of being reasonable rather than Chung-chiu and I want the truth. mer commander of his brigade. ors. has around 275,000 service per- There had been speculation that opposi- an intransigent autocrat. The gesture might I hope there won’t be any more They were indicted on charges Prosecutors did not specify sonnel among a population of 23 tion lawmakers might try to block the forma- appease foreign critics such as the United abuse and death like his in the ranging from abuse leading to what jail terms they were seek- million, down from a peak of tion of a new government by failing to take States, which strongly called for such an military,” said protester Jenny Tan. death and involuntary ing. Legal experts say the most 600,000 during the Cold War. their seats in the 123-seat National Assembly investigation. The opposition has charged President Ma Ying-jeou has apol- manslaughter to imposing illegal severe charge is of abuse leading In the six months to June the and denying the body a quorum, which some that more than 1 million people may have ogised for the incident and punishment on a subordinate to death, which is punishable by military recruited just 1,847 peo- interpret to mean the presence of at least 120 been unable to vote in the election because vowed to seek justice for the vic- and offences against personal life imprisonment. Citizen 1985 ple — 31 percent of its target of members. their names were not put on voting rolls tim and punish those responsi- liberty, according to military has criticised the indictment as 5,887. The defence ministry had However, Hun Sen said Friday that the despite having registered. There are also ble. prosecutors. “hasty and sloppy”, saying only planned to recruit 17,447 people constitution allows the assembly to open and charges of people being registered despite “The cabinet has requested The 24-year-old had been sub- one sergeant was charged with before the end of February next appoint a new government without the being ineligible.—AP the defence ministry and the jus- jected to exercises that were fatally abusing Hung, while other year. — AFP Thai PM ‘worried’ over potential for violence

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister for those involved in several bouts of nents-including the People’s Army-and Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday political violence that have convulsed pro-government groups such as the expressed fears that violence could the nation since a 2006 coup toppled powerful “Red Shirt” street movement, erupt during planned anti-govern- Thaksin. Yingluck called for talks to diffuse fes- ment protests in Bangkok this week- The Thai government has already tering political tensions. end, following unrest at multiple ral- invoked a special security law to con- “Although there is only a one per- lies in the capital over recent years. trol the protests and more than 1,600 cent chance of success, I want the con- The self-styled “People’s Army”-a police were deployed Saturday to pro- flict to end in this generation,” she said. coalition of ultra-royalist groups who tect key government buildings, while Thailand has been scored by deep loathe the Puea Thai ruling party and thousands more were put on standby. political divisions which have often its exiled figurehead Thaksin “As Prime Minister and a Thai citizen I spilled into violence since the over- Shinawatra has vowed to protest in worry that the rally could lead to vio- throw of Thaksin, a deeply divisive fig- Bangkok yesterday, possibly for several lence,” Yingluck said in a weekly televi- ure who lives in self-exile but still days. It is targeting a government- sion broadcast, addressing increasing draws loyalty among the kingdom’s backed bill, due to enter parliament on fears of unrest. poor, rural working class. August 7, which proposes an amnesty In a direct appeal to her oppo- The contentious amnesty bill would scrap charges against protesters involved in incidents from the September 2006 coup until May 2012 — barring the leaders. If passed, its opponents fear Yingluck’s government will manipulate the bill to grant her brother an amnesty, paving the way for his return by waiving his two-year jail sentence on corruption charges. “Our goal is to overthrow the Thaksin regime-which is the rule by Thaksin for Thaksin, and to replace it with the rule by the people for the people,” said People’s Army spokesman Thaikorn Polsuwan. “We come to demonstrate peacefully, unarmed and under the constitution,” he added. On its Facebook page the People’s NARATHIWAT: Thai bomb squad members inspect the site of a roadside Army said the rally will start on Sunday bomb blast which injured four Thai soldiers in an attack by suspected afternoon at a major park in the city’s separatist militants in Thailand’s restive southern province of commercial centre. Protesters Narathiwat yesterday. A nine-year-old insurgency has claimed more Saturday erected tents outside than 5,500 lives in the Muslim-dominated south, where many local Lumphini Park, according to Police people complain of a long history of discrimination by Thai authorities Major General Piya Uthayo who said in the Buddhist-majority nation. —AFP the special security law did not extend to the zone. — AFP India PM appeals for ‘productive’ parliament NEW DELHI: India’s premier protests over alleged government lawmaking agenda is its landmark appealed yesterday to the opposition graft, and was one of the least pro- food security measure to give ultra- to make the next session of parlia- ductive on record. cheap grain to over 800 million peo- ment “productive” after the last one The session opens as India faces ple it sees as key to its hopes of elec- was cut short by heated rows over testing times-hit by a capital flight tion for a third term, in polls due by allegations of government corrup- with investors worried about slow May 2014. tion. growth, a massive deficit, stalled eco- The left-leaning government put “The government is willing to dis- nomic reforms and a slew of graft the populist food scheme, aimed at cuss any issue,” embattled Prime scandals that have paralysed the addressing widespread malnutrition, Minister Manmohan Singh said in political process. into effect using an emergency New Delhi ahead of the scheduled Leading news magazine India decree-but it needs passage through opening of the monsoon session Today called the session a “last parliament to become law. tomorrow. “I hope it will be a con- chance” for Singh, widely accused of The government expects support structive and productive session of being an indecisive underachiever. for the food welfare measure, with the parliament-a lot of legislative agenda Singh “has got his choice cut out for opposition expressing broad backing- is pending,” Singh told reporters. him: do or be damned”, the magazine mindful of the fact criticism could The last session ended two days said. steer India’s legions of poor towards early, gridlocked by opposition Top of the Congress government’s Congress as elections near.— AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Human rights situation in China is at a historic best BEIJING: Beijing says the human rights Uzra Zeya criticized China on Friday. version charges after he campaigned for Zeya said the U.S. raised specific cases is biased and distorts the situation. situation in China is at a historic best, Zeya, who led the US delegation at peaceful democratic change in China. of individuals who are imprisoned, “China opposes US intervention of rejecting comments from a senior US the talks, said US diplomats “conveyed Chen’s relatives have been harassed in detained or under house arrest, includ- Chinese judicial system through individ- diplomat that the rights situation is dete- our deep concern about attempts to their hometown in Shandong province. ing activists Xu Zhiyong, Gao Zhisheng ual cases and wishes the US would riorating in China, with relatives of control and silence activists by targeting Liu’s wife has been placed under house and Ni Yulan, several Tibetan, Uighur and respect China’s judicial sovereignty and activists increasingly being harassed and family members and associates of the arrest in Beijing and her brother recently Mongolian activists, as well as Liu and his stop its practice of badgering with indi- policies in ethnic areas becoming more activists.” was sentenced to 11 years in prison over wife. Zeya said the Americans were able vidual cases,” the Foreign Ministry said. repressive. “This is a worrisome trend, and one a business dispute, a stiff penalty in what to get some information on the cases, Wang Dong, associate professor at In a statement issued late Friday, which we have raised at senior levels supporters say is a vendetta against the but she did not reveal details. Peking University’s School of China’s Foreign Ministry said that the with the Chinese government,” she said, family for Liu’s activism. On Friday, a Chinese journalist, International Studies, said having a dia- Chinese are enjoying unprecedented adding the dialogue fell short of Zeya said US officials questioned the Xiaoshu, was forcibly taken out of Beijing logue is better than no talks, even rights but added those rights must be Washington’s expectations. Rights pattern of arrests and extralegal deten- for his public support of Xu. though the two sides have sharp differ- exercised within China’s law. watchers have been alarmed by the tar- tions of China’s public interest lawyers, Xu, who champions building a ences and there was no breakthrough in The remarks came after the annual geting of relatives of high-profile dissi- Internet activists and others who chal- stronger civil society through his New the latest dialogue. US-China Human Rights Dialogue was dents, including blind lawyer Chen lenge official policies in China. “We know Citizens Movement, he is in police deten- “It’s a way to increase mutual under- held Tuesday and Wednesday in the Guangcheng, who exposed abuses in that such actions are contrary to China’s tion on suspicion of gathering people to standing,” Wang said, adding the talks southwestern city of Kunming, and after the enforcement of China’s one-child international obligation and, indeed in disturb public order. Beijing has repeat- have led to more common ground Acting Assistant Secretary of State for policies, and Nobel Peace laureate Liu most cases, China’s own laws and consti- edly rejected U.S. criticism of China’s between Beijing and Washington than Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Xiaobo, imprisoned since 2009 on sub- tution,” she said. human rights record, saying Washington two decades ago. —AP 40 Indonesians missing off Malaysia after boat sinks Survivors floated for 15 hours in sea

KUALA LUMPUR: Rescuers were ple were rescued on Friday. the water and alerted the authorities, in the relatively affluent country. searching for 40 missing Indonesians “The accident happened two days who spotted the fourth man. None of They fill low-paying jobs shunned including women and children yester- ago so we are trying our best,” Amran the men, aged between 26 and 31, by locals on plantations, construction day after a boat carrying them home to told AFP. “But chances (of finding more were wearing life jackets. sites and in factories. Many Indonesians celebrate the end of the Islamic fasting survivors) are slim.” “Only four of those on board were try to leave the country during month of Ramadan sank off Malaysia. It is thought the Indonesians chose rescued by fishermen and MMEA after Ramadan to return home to celebrate Two ships, four speedboats and two to travel on the boat because they floating 15 hours in the sea,” Amran Eid al-Fitr with their families. The holi- helicopters were dispatched to scour were working illegally in Malaysia and said, adding the wooden boat’s condi- day begins on Thursday. the seas off Malaysia’s southern Johor wished to bypass border controls on tion was “questionable” based on the Authorities said last month they state but were unable to spot any of their trip home. The boat sank roughly survivors’ accounts. were beefing up patrols to prevent ille- gal immigrants from travelling across the waterway separating Malaysia and CASIGURAN: A handout photo taken on August 2, 2013 and released by the Indonesia. The Indonesian consulate in Philippine Navy shows twenty seven fishing boats staging a festive “sail Johor was quoted by national news agency Bernama as offering help to pass” to welcome the Philippine Navy’s newly acquired frigate, BRP Ramon illegal immigrants who want to return, Alcaraz (PF16), at 1.2 nautical miles west off Casiguran, Aurora, after cross- saying they could be issued temporary ing the Pacific from the US for almost a month. The ship is part of the mod- travel documents and even get funds, ernisation program of the Philippine Navy and will be used to patrol the urging them not to risk a boat ride. nation’s waters. —AFP In mid-July, an Indonesian woman died and seven people went missing after their wooden boat overturned, Philippines acquiring French also off Johor state and heading to Batam island. Twenty-seven vessel for South China Sea Indonesians, all without valid docu- ments, were rescued. MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it is These new ships wpuld arrive in the first Aegile Fernandez, an official with purchasing a surplus French Navy vessel to quarter of 2015, the statement added, with- migrant labour rights group boost its forces in the South China Sea where out specifying their cost. Isorena also Tenaganita, urged authorities to imple- it has an ongoing territorial dispute with recalled that the Philippine coastguard was ment “concrete measures” to stop such China. already set to acquire 10 multi-role patrol journeys-including further stepping up The 26-year-old “La Tapageuse” vessel is boats under an aid programme with Japan. patrols and prosecuting boatmen and likely to be the first of several French ships The announcement came as a second- officials found taking bribes to allow that will be acquired by the Philippine coast- hand US Hamilton-class cutter acquired by the trips. guard as it contends with increasingly the Philippine Navy sailed into the country’s “It’s been happening year after year, assertive Chinese forces. waters, where it will also help in patrolling and we have not learned from this les- The 54.8-metre (180-foot) patrol ship will the South China Sea. son... You should not close one eye,” she cost six million Euros ($7.97 million) and is Tensions have risen in recent years over told AFP. “They (the migrants) are in a due to arrive in the country by April next China’s increasingly-forceful claims to almost very vulnerable situation.” Malaysia is year, a coastguard statement said. all of the South China Sea, even up to the also a transit point for asylum seekers The ship, which is armed with two can- coast of its neighbours like the Philippines. JOHOR: Passengers who were rescued from an overturned boat show their burn wounds at the fleeing unrest in their home countries, non and two machine-guns, was inspected These tensions have worsened since Chinese Maritime office in Tanjung Sedili, Johor, southern Malaysia yesterday. Forty Indonesians such as Myanmar. before acquisition and is good for 20 more government vessels seized the Scarborough believed to be illegal immigrants seeking to return home went missing after a boat carrying Many of them sneak into Malaysia years of service, the coastguard said. Shoal, a South China Sea outcrop just 230 them sank off the coast of Malaysia, a maritime official said yestetday. —AFP via boat or land and then try to reach “This French vessel is multi-functional and kilometres (140 miles) east of the main Australia in boats via Indonesia in the it would be a major contribution to our fleet, Philippine island of Luzon, last year. those missing, said Amran Daud, an three hours into its journey from He added authorities were still hope of a better life there. Australia particularly in our search and rescue opera- The Philippines has also complained official with the Malaysian Maritime Tanjung Sedili on the state’s east coast investigating what caused the boat announced a new policy last month to tions,” coastguard chief Rear Admiral Rodolfo about the presence of Chinese navy vessels Enforcement Agency (MMEA). to Indonesia’s Batam island, with its to sink. Shipping accidents off send asylum seekers to its Pacific Isorena was quoted as saying in the state- near the Manila-controlled Second Thomas The boat, thought to be carry- passengers hoping to return for Eid al- Malaysia’s coast are common as neighbour Papua New Guinea in order ment. Shoal in the Spratly Islands. The Philippines ing 44 passengers, sank in heavy Fitr, the most important Muslim holi- thousands of people from poorer to discourage such journeys after a The Philippines is also “finalising” with the has one of the most poorly-equipped mili- seas Thursday night around 13 day, Amran said. regional neighbours, such as record number of boatpeople arrived French government the purchase of four taries in the region and has been trying to nautical miles (24 kilometres) off Fishermen found three of the sur- Indonesia and Myanmar, risk jour- in 2013 — more than 17,300 — and brand-new 24-metre and one 82-metre mul- beef up its armed forces in the face of the the coast, he said, adding four peo- vivors clinging onto a plastic drum in neys in flimsy boats to work illegally there were a spate of drownings. - AFP tipurpose vessels, Isorena said. maritime disputes. —AFP Nauru agrees to settle refugees for Australia One missing after CANBERRA: The tiny country of Nauru burned during a riot last month. yesterday became the second Pacific Nauru President Baron Waqa would island nation to agree to settle refugees not say how many refugees his tiny boat sinks in HK who attempt to reach Australia by boat, nation - which has fewer than 10,000 in a deal aimed at deterring asylum seek- people and covers just 21 square kilome- ers that was quickly attacked by critics. ters (8.1 square miles) - would accept. Nauru signed the agreement two “We will stand by Australia in making HONG KONG: One person was missing after a weeks after Papua New Guinea made a sure that this works, and not only that, boat sank in Hong Kong waters yesterday, after similar deal with the Australian govern- that all of the refugees or asylum seekers a fatal ferry crash last October put the spotlight ment in return for foreign aid. Prime that come through our camp will be on the city’s maritime safety. Minister Kevin Rudd hopes to deter an treated humanely and with human rights Following reports that three men were unac- escalating number of asylum seekers upheld,” Waqa said. counted for, two were subsequently pulled who travel to Australia in rickety fishing Both Nauru and Papua New Guinea from the sea “unconscious”, a police spokes- boats from poor, often war-torn home- are signatories to the UN Refugee woman told AFP as a search and rescue opera- lands through other countries such as Convention, but rights groups doubt tion continued. Indonesia and Malaysia. they have the financial resources to fulfill Rudd is soon expected to call an elec- their obligations. Sen. Christine Milne, “There was a wooden boat that sank. There tion for as early as Sept. 7. The surge in leader of the influential Australian Greens were eight people on the boat,” a government asylum seeker boat arrivals in recent Party, which argues that Australia should spokesman told AFP, citing information from years is a major political issue that is welcome all asylum seekers, attacked the the fire department. hurting the governing center-left Labor latest deal. The vessel, described by authorities only as Party in opinion polls. “There’s no way that Nauru can “a work boat”, sank in the waters of the Tsing Yi When the Papua New Guinea deal was absorb a large number of people in a district at around 2:15 pm local time, the signed on July 19, Rudd warned that no resettlement program, and tellingly the spokesman said, adding that the fire depart- asylum seekers in boats would ever be prime minister didn’t say exactly how ment had sent boats to search for the missing. accepted by Australia. Rights groups con- many he expected to be resettled on Cable News Television reported the boat was demned the policy as an abrogation of Nauru, and neither did the president of eight metres (26 feet) in length, with footage Australia’s responsibilities as a signatory to Nauru because, frankly, it’s absurd,” Milne showing two of those rescued wearing respira- the United Nations’ Refugee Convention. said. tors while fire boats and helicopters searched However, the boats have continued to Opposition immigration spokesman the area around where the vessel sank. arrive, carrying around 100 asylum seek- Scott Morrison said the deal was aimed Maritime safety fears were exposed in Hong ers a day. “No matter where people at winning Labor the election. He Kong when a collision between a passenger fer- smugglers try to land asylum seekers by described the likelihood of refugees set- ry and a pleasure boat carrying around 120 boat in Australia, they will not be settled tling in Nauru as “remote.” The govern- people to watch National Day fireworks claimed in Australia. This is our core principle,” ment argues that many asylum seekers 39 lives in October last year. The accident was Rudd told reporters yesterday. from countries such as Iran are economic the city’s worst boating disaster in decades. “Those seeking safe haven will have migrants seeking a better standard of liv- An inquiry into the crash found a “litany of the opportunity to settle and reside in ing rather than true refugees. errors” and “systematic failings” in the marine Nauru,” he said. Nauru and Papua New Immigration Minister Tony Burke said department’s safety standards. Guinea both host Australian-run immi- Australia could strike similar agreements Fatal boat accidents are rare in Hong Kong This undated photo released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency gration detention camps where asylum with other countries in the Asia-Pacific despite its crowded waters, which often see (KCNA) yesterday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (L) in an undisclosed loca- seekers’ refugee claims are assessed. region to resettle refugees. “I’m prepared high-speed hydrofoils vying for space with tion attending a photo session with war veterans and commanding officers who took Those in Nauru have been living in tents to say there are other countries who have tourist junks, luxury yachts and a century-old part in the military parade held in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean since the accommodation blocks were raised this with us as well,” he said. —AP public ferry system. —AFP War armistice last week. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 INTERNATIONAL In Mexico, legend rises with dead drug lord sightings MEXICO CITY: Three years after “We are corroborating it. He was Tierra Caliente (Hot Land) — the epi- Moreno had left at dawn. mented migrant. Mexican drug lord Nazario Moreno was allegedly killed by the federal police, center of clashes between police and “He didn’t do any proselytism,” the He founded La Familia after return- declared dead, doubts abound about but during the previous government,” a the cartel. vigilante said. Instead, he displayed ing to his native Michoacan and his his demise, with stories of him indoctri- current government spokesman told The resurrection of Moreno would left-wing politics and revealed that he cartel, which vowed to impose “divine nating recruits every Sunday and host- AFP. probably suit the drug kingpin, a self- was now known as Ernesto Villa justice,” made its presence known in ing a feast last year. La Familia began to crumble after styled “messiah” who wrote the “Gospel Moreno, in honor of Argentine guer- 2006, when it rolled five human heads Even though his body was never his disappearance, leading to the cre- of La Familia”-a sort of gang bible with rillero Ernesto “Che” Guevara and down a bar’s dance floor. recovered, the government announced ation of an offshoot christened as the rules barring its members from con- Mexican revolution hero Pancho Villa. After his alleged death, Servando on December 10, 2010, that “El Chayo” Knights Templar, whose brutality suming drugs or alcohol. But Moreno told the group that his Gomez, alias “La Tuta,” created the was killed after an hours-long gunfight prompted civilians in Michoacan to A leader of a vigilante group said he men were “very good at killing Zetas,” Knights Templar, taking inspiration with federal police near the city of form vigilante forces and the govern- was among 60 people invited by he said, referring to members of a rival from La Familia’s religious image by Apatzingan, in the western state of ment to deploy thousands of troops in Moreno to a dinner in a house in the cartel. adopting the red cross of Christian cru- Michoacan. May. small town of Aguililla in September Juan Manuel, an 18-year-old who saders and painting it on the side of At the time, then government secu- Several residents of Michoacan 2012. says he was recruited by the cartel to cartel cars. “The Craziest One” is not the rity spokesman Alejandro Poire cited insist that Moreno is now leading the “It’s the kind of invitation that you be a hitman at age 13, said that first Mexican drug capo whose death is “several elements and information Knights Templar, who were accused of can’t turn down,” the vigilante said. The Moreno and other Knights Templar shrouded in doubt. obtained” in the operation to declare killing a vice admiral in an ambush last guests arrived on time for the food, leaders meet to indoctrinate their men Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias “The that the head of La Familia Michoacana Sunday, days after clashes with police music and dancing. “El Chayo” showed every Sunday. Lord of the Skies,” is said to have died in cartel was dead. that left four officers and 20 gangsters up three hours later, with armed men “El Chayo has very large weapons,” 1997 while undergoing plastic surgery But the new government of dead. providing security at the house while said Juan Manuel, who said he recently but some in Mexico believe he is still President Enrique Pena Nieto, who While the government vows to paci- others monitored the only road lead- left the cartel and last saw Moreno two alive. Last year, the navy said marines took office in December, is now check- fy the state, a federal police officer in ing to the town. months ago. had killed Zetas cartel leader Heriberto ing whether the man also known as the area said official intelligence states The guests were ordered to turn Moreno began his criminal career Lazcano, but his body was stolen from “The Craziest One,” who would be 43 that the capo is hiding in the rough off their cellphones and were for- selling marijuana in the United a funeral home hours later and has years old today, is really dead. mountain terrain of a region known as bidden from leaving until after States, where he lived as an undocu- never been recovered. —AFP Heavy rains claim 6 Second S Lankan dies after lives in S Pakistan troops fire on villagers COLOMBO: A second Sri Lankan pro- footage showed troops with automatic The main opposition United tester died from wounds suffered when weapons, some clad in body armour, National Party also condemned the troops fired on villagers demonstrating firing into crowds. shooting and said the attack against Death toll feared to rise against contaminated water supplies, “Evidence clearly establishes that unarmed civilians was a sign the coun- police said yesterday, as tensions deplorable levels of force, including live try was heading for a military dictator- ISLAMABAD: Heavy rains in southern including motorbikes were gathered three kids were drowned in Chighor remained high in the area. bullets, were used on the unarmed vil- ship. Pakistani city Karachi has claimed at under it to shelter themselves from Nullah area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Heavily armed police and Special lagers,” the Lawyers Collective said in a A resident said the protest erupted least six lives including two children in heavy rains wounding at least twelve (KPK) province of northern Pakistan Task Force commandos were still in the statement. Thursday because locals felt police had different incidents yesterday. people. on Friday. Moreover, two young girls the village of Weliweriya following “The legal fraternity urges the gov- ignored the longstanding complaints At least three people were killed in The rain was accompanied by pow- were killed in flash floods in Buhni Thursday’s shooting and locals report- ernment to control its military and that the glove factory was discharging Malir Town, Defence morh and er breakdown in parts of Karachi and Nullah area where two people were ed people were fearful of leaving their ensure that they are used for legitimate chemical waste. Paposh Nagar areas of Karachi due to the city’s public health facilities killed in Chitral area of the KPK houses. purposes only.” Local media rights Dipped Products Ltd, a publicly electrocution caused by heavy rain. A received several who had been province. “People are afraid to go outside of group, the Free Media Movement, said quoted company that maintains the child died as the roof of an apartment injured during rain-related incidents. According to local media reports, their houses because of the security security forces also launched an “inhu- manufacturing plant, said Friday it was three people were killed as flash forces’ presence,” A. Siridamma, the sen- man attack” against journalists covering confident the water issue was unrelat- floods washed away a car while cross- ior Buddhist monk in the area just out- the protest Thursday, beating up some ed to their operations but were cooper- ing a causeway in Bagh district of side the capital, told reporters. journalists and smashing cameras. ating with authorities “for an early set- Criticism of the army’s use of force The military said it had named a tlement of the matter”. Pakistan side Kashmir while another has mounted since the shootings. The five-member board of inquiry to probe Security forces were standing guard man was drowned in a nearby village. independent Lawyers Collective on the allegations against the troops. “The at the plant yesterday. Sri Lankan It was further reported that two Saturday condemned the crackdown board has been asked to go into all authorities are under separate pressure young men drowned in floodwater in against the peaceful protest by villagers aspects, including whether proper from Western powers to deliver on village Hajira near Rawalakot district who were demanding clean drinking norms have been followed in dealing promises to investigate allegations of of Kashmir. water for thousands of residents of with the situation, who ordered the war crimes and ensure ethnic reconcili- The Meteorological Department has Weliweriya. troops to deploy and on what basis,” ation more than four years after militar- forecasted scattered rain with thunder- One man died Thursday night from spokesman Brigadier Ruwan ily crushing Tamil separatists. showers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the shooting while another man who Wanigasooriya told AFP. Last month, EU lawmakers urged Kashmir and Upper Punjab during next was injured died overnight in hospital, Locals in Weliweriya, 20 kilometres Colombo to ensure accountability in 24 hours that would raise the danger of police said, raising the death toll to two. (12 miles) northeast of Colombo, were the face of what the UN calls “credible floods. *In Karachi, Pakistani police Dozens more protesters were wounded protesting against runoff from a rubber allegations” that up to 40,000 civilians when police opened fire on hundreds glove-making plant that they say has were killed during the final battles in say unknown gunmen ambushed and of demonstrators. Local television polluted their groundwater supply. 2009. —AFP killed four police officers in their patrol vehicle in the restive southern port city of Karachi. PESHAWAR: People and vehicles pass on a road flooded by heavy ter- Senior police officer Tahir Naveed ritorial rains in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday. About a dozen of peo- said yesterday the four officers were ple have been killed and many others injured in flash floods trig- on night duty near a bridge in the gered by heavy territorial rains in Pakistan, as authorities warned eastern neighborhood of Faisal the situation may worsen further. —AP Colony. He said investigators found their bodies inside their vehicle, which collapsed in the Gulzar Hijri area The death toll is feared to rise, as had been sprayed with pistol and rifle where another child got killed of many wounded are reported to be in bullets. Naveed said the overnight drowning in a ditch in Sakhi Hasan critical condition. According to Inter attack seemed intended to demoral- area of the city yesterday. Services Public Relations (ISPR), the ize the police force. Heavy showers struck the city for army has been called on for the res- Karachi is home to multiple con- relatively shorter period of time caus- cue operations in many areas of flicts that frequently turn violent, ing high damage and turning many Karachi. including gang wars and ethnic and roads slippery caused a traffic accident Earlier, at least thirteen people political rivalries. Islamic militants are killing one person in Qayyumabad area including five children lost their lives said to use the city as a hiding place of Karachi. Moreover, the roof of a in last 24 hours as the flood strikes the and a source of funds obtained Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) station northern Pakistani region after heavy through bank heists, extortion and kid- also collapsed just when many vehicles rains. According to rescue officials, napping for ransom. —Agencies Jailed Vietnam blogger ends hunger strike after 5 weeks HANOI: A Vietnamese dissident jailed for criticising the country’s rulers has ended a hunger strike after five weeks when judicial authorities agreed to accept his complaint about poor treatment, his son said yesterday. Nguyen Van Hai, better known as Dieu Cay, resumed eating on July 27 after the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the prosecutors office, agreed to look into his claim of abusive treatment. The hunger strike has focused attention on Vietnam’s harsh treatment of activists and bloggers, who face intim- idation and long prison terms for what authorities call abuses of their constitutional right to free speech. SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri government employee, front, Hai, 61, refused food and water for 35 days in what was shouts slogans as he is detained during a protest in his second hunger strike over the prison’s failure to for- Srinagar, India, yesterday. Police yesterday detained ward his petitions. He was jailed for 12 years for “anti- dozens of government employees demanding regulariza- state propaganda” last September. tion of contractual jobs and an increase in salary. —AP “It’s not about my father. His hunger strike was for all prisoners of conscience,” said Nguyen Tri Dung, his 27- year-old son, who said he saw Hai for just seven minutes Maoists strike near on Friday. Communist Vietnam has taken a tough line on dissent, Buddhist site in India with arrests and convictions on the rise in the past three years. Bloggers are increasingly targeted as the number PATNA: Maoist guerrillas blew up a railway track in an of web users soars to a third of the one-party state’s 90 eastern Indian state, disrupting rail traffic near Bodh Gaya, million population. Buddhism’s holiest site, a railway official said yesterday. The United States wants closer trade and military ties The blast came after Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar, with its former enemy as it seeks to strengthen alle- which attracts Buddhists and other visitors from all over giances in Asia and temper China’s influence, but the world, was hit by multiple small bomb blasts last Vietnam’s crackdown on critics is proving to be a major month. The government called the blasts a “terror attack” stumbling block. after nine bombs exploded but there has no claim of Two weeks ago, US President Barack Obama pressed responsibility for the explosions. visiting counterpart Truong Tan Sang on human rights In the latest attack, Maoist rebels blew up a portion of but chose his words carefully, mentioning both “progress” railway track in Gaya district late Friday night, an officer of and “challenges that remain”. Sang said the two “have dif- the East Central Railway, Amitabh Prabhakar, told AFP. “No ferences on the issue”. one was injured but rail traffic was disrupted for a few Vietnam’s state-controlled media ran video footage hours,” he said. and photographs this week of Hai receiving medical care Last month, more than 50 Maoist guerrillas ambushed a in an apparent effort to counter human rights groups police patrol in Bihar, killing the district police chief and concerned about his treatment. In several cases, media four others. referred to the hunger strike as a “rumour” and reported The revolutionaries, described by the government as Hai had been eating. the country’s most serious internal security threat, have Dung last week told Reuters his father appeared waged a decades-long battle across central and eastern gaunt, pale and dazed during his previous visit to the states to overthrow local and national authorities. The prison in Nghe An province on July 22, when he saw him rebels say they are fighting for the rights of the poor and for five minutes. —Reuters landless farmers in India. —AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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By Sarah Chayes

his is a great time to be a white-collar criminal.” An assistant US attorney I know startled me “Twith this remark in 2002. The bulk of her FBI investigators, she explained, had been pulled off to work on terrorism, which left traditional crime investigations sorely understaffed. Little has changed since then. For more than a decade, the US government has been focused on one type of threat above all others: terrorism. This obsession has not only been used to justify an ero- sion of Americans’ privacy, it has opened them to other dangers and, paradoxically, made it easier for terrorists to achieve success.

Let me explain During the years I worked in the Pentagon, 2010 and 2011, officials there were responding to what many Russia-US ties damaged, not wrecked by Snowden understood to be an implied directive from the com- mander in chief: to bring the risk of terrorist attack on US By Olga Nedbaeva, Victoria Loguinova States already have a chequered history of The Kremlin had repeatedly argued that it Russian strongman returned to the Kremlin soil to 0%. The entire apparatus swiveled toward that sin- cyclical ups and downs in relations and the did not invite Snowden to come to Russia and for a third term in May 2012. Until now, they gle goal. And it wasn’t just the Pentagon. Since 2001, the ussia’s awarding of asylum to US leaker blow of the Snowden row may not be termi- his arrival on June 23 at Moscow’s have only held brief meetings on the side- Central Intelligence Agency has evolved to resemble a Edward Snowden dealt a new blow to nal, analysts said. “A cancellation of the meet- Sheremetyevo airport from Hong Kong was lines of international summits. Fyodor paramilitary organization, with most of its effort directed Ralready bruised relations between ing between Obama and Putin would be evi- completely unexpected. “Russia did not need Lukyanov, editor of the journal Russia in at killing individual suspected terrorists. Moscow and Washington but it remains in dence of a serious complication in relations,” the Snowden problem but it happened,” said Global Affairs, said it was still possible that But the single-minded focus on that task has led to their interest to prevent the row from erupt- said Maria Lipman of the Carnegie Centre in Valery Garbuzov of the US-Canada Institute in Obama could undertake the Moscow visit myopia elsewhere. I have repeatedly watched members ing into a Cold-War style crisis, analysts said. Moscow. “But it would be wrong to say that Moscow. although he would risk domestic criticism. of the intelligence community, in their drive to target Washington immediately rebuked Moscow relations are collapsing,” she added, noting “The Russian leadership had to react-it “Putin has tried to distance himself from the individuals, overlook other critical aspects even of violent for granting one year asylum to a man the that one of Obama’s priorities remained would have been inhumane to hand him over Snowden affair and has always emphasized extremism, including how the groups’ structures evolve, United States wants to put on trial for leaking agreeing more arms cuts with Russia. “There but giving asylum also complicates relations,” that Russia is a victim of circumstances,” he how they are financed or what underlying grievances details of a vast US intelligence program. is a risk that Obama could lose interest in rela- he said. In a strong sign that contacts have said. He said that any “retaliation from the fuel them. Because of the fixation on killing specific ter- The White House said it was “extremely tions with Russia but even in this case it is not not been ruptured, US ambassador to United States will only have symbolic charac- rorist leaders, the intelligence community is neglecting disappointed” and, perhaps more significant- fatal,” she said. Moscow Michael McFaul met Ushakov Friday ter”. Republican US Senator John McCain had other critical phenomena, such as developments in ly, said the decision had called into question Putin has tried to distance himself from for talks on issues including the “new status” said after the granting of asylum to Snowden China, the governance deficit in Arab countries or the the need for a planned bilateral summit the entire Snowden affair, declaring on July of Snowden as well as Syria and missile that it was time to “fundamentally rethink our use of Africa by transnational criminal networks. between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama in 17 that “relations between states are much defence, the American embassy said. Obama relationship” and take tough action against Demanding zero risk of terrorism at home, moreover, September. The dispute could barely come at more important than squabbles surrounding is due to visit Russia in any case in early Moscow. But Lipman said that Putin’s state- makes it easier for terrorists to succeed. If the bar is set at a worse time in Russia-US relations with the work of security services.” Minutes after September to attend the G20 summit in Saint ments on the Snowden affair had shown that zero, then a single successful attack means the terrorists Washington deeply critical of rights violations the asylum decision was made public on Petersburg. the Kremlin chief still had an interest in pre- have triumphed. And it is likely to produce the kind of under Putin’s rule and the two sides at odds Thursday, Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yury But he had been expected to come to serving relations with Russia. “Other solutions dramatic overreaction that, according to Osama bin over the conflict in Syria. Ushakov rushed to describe the Snowden Moscow for a separate one-on-one meeting were sought, including sending him to anoth- Laden’s own writings, is Al-Qaeda’s ultimate aim: disrupt- Yet in over two decades since the collapse issue as “rather insignificant” and arguing it with Putin which would be the first bilateral er country. Putin did not strive for Snowden ing the US economy, obtaining a disproportionate psy- of the Soviet Union, Russia and the United should not affect relations. summit between the two men since the to come to Russia,” she added. —AFP chological impact and eroding the trademark values and liberties of US society. Given the other threats that are being ignored, the Middle East talks will require public support question arises as to whether the doubling down on ter- rorism is truly aimed at protecting Americans. White-col- Dr James J Zogby ment’s agreement to free 104 Palestinian long-term prisoners. If course. At the same time, the President cannot be the only actor lar crime, for example, is not victimless. Directly and indi- left uncontested, the harsh rhetoric created in response to this in this effort. Those who embrace a different and better future for rectly, it endangers us all. As David Gomez suggested in here are plenty of reasons to be cynical about US Secretary “confidence building” gesture, may sabotage its implementation Israelis and Palestinians need to come together and be strength- Foreign Policy recently, more FBI focus on fraudulent of State John Kerry’s relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace or at the very least make it the last such gesture. The question is, ened in their resolve to face down those who oppose peace. banking practices in the early 2000s might have warded Ttalks. The personalities and the politics involved do not will those who support an agreement not only be willing to meet An initial step the President can take is to convene Jewish and off the most catastrophic economic meltdown since the immediately inspire confidence. Nevertheless, I choose not to be these new challenges, but be able to make up for lost ground due Arab Americans who support peace urging them to work togeth- Depression. negative, partly because it is always easy to sit on the sidelines to past failures and decades of hostility and mistrust? So we can er in support of a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If Resources have been drained from myriad other risks and take potshots. The more important consideration is because agree that the negotiations led by Secretary Kerry must be pri- the negotiations are to bear fruit and if the product of these too. The number of automobile accidents, say, could be peace is so essential to the lives and futures of the peoples of the vate, but alongside this effort US, Israeli and Palestinian leadership efforts is to have any chance for success, it must have a support- reduced with increased availability of public transport. A region and to American interests in the Middle East, that any good must be bold in changing the public discourse and challenging base both in the US and in Israel and Palestine. For peace to suc- lack of resources for improving infrastructure has faith effort deserves support and a chance to succeed. the opponents of peace. ceed, there must be a constituency that works for peace. The arguably resulted in greater damage from recent natural Secretary Kerry has insisted that the talks be held in private Here is where President Obama can play an especially critical relaunched peace effort led by Secretary Kerry may or may not disasters. But these risks don’t seem to capture political with no leaks, hype, or “spin”. While it makes sense to protect the role. His speech in Cairo and his more recent visits and remarks in succeed. If it does, it will not be because the negotiators, alone, leaders’ interest the way the possibility of a terrorist negotiations from the relentless pressures of the media and other Jerusalem and Ramallah were important, but these speeches can- did their work. It will succeed only if both societies are prepared attack does. forms of external interference, a cautionary note is in order. There not be the end of his involvement. They should be repeated at to accept the results of their efforts. If they fail to reach an agree- One explanation might be that it’s not really us most is an intimate relationship between Israeli and Palestinian public critical moments during the next few months. Israelis and ment, or if they conclude one, but find that the ground under of these officials are concerned with protecting. It is their opinion and the successful outcome of any peace negotiations. In Palestinians need to be presented a vision of an alternate future, them has been eroded by mistrust and fear, we will not get anoth- own reputations. The last thing they want is for an attack the end, no matter how clever or skillfully arranged the formula one that is so attractive and compelling that they will be drawn to er chance, for at least a generation, to find the way forward toward to occur on their watch, so they have slighted other pri- for compromise, it must pass the test of being accepted by both it. They need to have this future vision so that they can embrace it peace in the Holy Land. That is why it is so important that both orities to provide nearly infinite resources for counter- sides. with hope and contrast it both with the present unacceptable societies, and Americans who support peace, must be engaged terrorism; they have overridden principles that used to When we have polled both Israeli and Palestinian publics in reality and the future that lies before them if they do not change now - before the opponents of peace get the upper hand. govern the treatment of detainees and search-and- order to see where compromise can be found, our efforts come seizure practices. up short. Too often what we find is that the most Israelis indicate a Ultimately, they have mobilized the vast national willingness to give in any peace agreement falls far short of the security structure to protect not US citizens, as they Palestinian minimum requirements for a just settlement. The France asks Hollande: claim, but their own tenures and legacies. “You can’t have negotiators, if they are worth their salt, know this. They, therefore, 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent pri- address each issue not merely as an abstract problem to be vacy,” pronounced President Obama in an initial reaction solved, but as a matter which must, in the end, be accepted by Recovery - what recovery? to revelations about U.S. government surveillance of their respective publics. Concretizing this imperative, both Israeli Americans’ telephone communications and worldwide and Palestinian leaderships have pledged to submit the product By Ingrid Melander higher heating costs tied to unseasonably cold weather - a online traffic. “We’re going to have to make some choices of the negotiations to a referendum. This makes it especially clear one-off that was sharply reversed in June as the sun came as a society.” that both societies must be ready and willing to endorse any com- acing TV cameras on the sun-dappled lawn of the Elysee out. A more telling insight into French consumer morale is Indeed. But the question is whether we are making promise arrangement for peace. Palace earlier this month, Francois Hollande berated the the nation’s holiday choices: according to the Protourisme the right ones. It’s time to regain some balance. A fright- Ignoring the vital role that will be played by public opinion in FFrench for their notorious pessimism and told them a survey group, nearly one in two French will cut their holiday ened public needs its leadership to work to bring panic this process, therefore, can doom the entire effort from the start. long-awaited economic recovery had already arrived. It was budget this summer while no fewer than 70 percent of hotel within the bounds of reason, not play to it. No one denies Peace, like any political compromise, must be grounded in the part of the president’s unashamedly upbeat drive to give and camping nights sold in July were at a discount. that terrorism is a real and ongoing threat that must be possible. As I have noted, our polling establishes that, at this point, what he calls a “jolt of confidence” to Europe’s second largest addressed. No one denies the tragedy of lives that have peace does not appear to be possible. Paralleling the negotia- economy: things will start looking better if only you believe HITTING BOTTOM? been cut short or wrecked by terrorist attacks. But those tions, the real work that must be done is to expand the range of they are. Yet for the ordinary person in the street right up to The outlook is equally uncertain from blue-chip French tragedies are no more bitter than deaths due to other the possible by changing public attitudes on both sides. the boardrooms of France’s biggest companies, the outlook companies, whose latest financial results this month showed preventable threats. It is time for the United States, and This imperative becomes all the more urgent when we see still looks a lot less comforting than it does from the mani- that the strongest growth is coming from outside France. its political leaders, to begin getting over it.—MCT how at any sign of progress the opponents of peace immediately cured gardens of the Elysee. “There’s less and less work and Retailer Carrefour noted a gentler decline in same-store sales step up their efforts to poison the well of public discourse. Just more and more people fighting for it,” said Nicolas, 42, self- at its core French hypermarkets through the second quarter recall how after the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, even employed for the past month after he had to shut down the but said it was too early to call it a trend. France’s second- before the ink had dried, the LIKUD activated their networks in the kitchen installation company he launched 13 years ago. biggest private broadcaster, M6, saw a continued contraction All articles appearing on these US and pushed Congress to pass legislation to negatively encum- “Things are not getting better, on the contrary, the crisis is in the TV advertising market in the second half while top pages are the personal opinion of ber any Palestinian aid program that might have created there to stay,” he said as he took a break from work at a fast- broadcaster TF1 restated a sales target it had already reduced Palestinian confidence in the process. food venue in central Paris. to reflect the weak economy. “France probably reached bot- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Or how after the WyeAgreement was signed in Washington, Backing Hollande’s assertion that France has already left a tom at some point at the end of last year or beginning of this responsibility for views expressed Ariel Sharon, who opposed the agreement, urged his supporters shallow recession behind it, recent figures have shown a rise year but I’d be very careful about the speed of recovery,” said therein. Kuwait Times invites read- to “take the hilltops” and establish settlement outposts in sensitive in industry morale to its highest in over a year and industrial Deutsche Bank European economist Gilles Moec. areas of the West Bank. Or how Hamas, in response to each step output is better than expected. Manufacturing activity The INSEE statistics office estimates the 2-trillion-euro ers to voice their opinions. Please forward in the peace process, stepped up its campaign of violence shrank at its lowest rate in 16 months in May, according to ($2.7 trillion) economy grew 0.2 percent in the second quar- send submissions via email to: opin- in an effort to take the process a step backward by embarrassing Markit’s purchasing managers index (PMI), adding to the evi- ter after shrinking 0.2 percent in each of the previous two [email protected] or via snail the Palestinian leadership and creating fear and mistrust among dence that France may have bottomed out after national out- quarters. Official second-quarter output data is due on Aug. mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Israelis. put contracted for two quarters in a row. 14. But it considers the economy will still marginally contract We can be sure that the opponents of peace will be active this Hollande pointed to May’s bounce in consumer spending, overall this year, after being largely flat most quarters since a The editor reserves the right to edit time, as well. Even a casual reading of the recent press and politi- the traditional driving force in France’s economy, as grounds previous recession four years ago, only once growing by any submission as necessary. cal commentary on both sides makes this so very clear. Look, for for optimism. But in fact much of the rise was simply due to more than one percent in that period.— Reuters example, at the hysteria being created in Israel over the govern- NEWS SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

KHARTOUM: Sudanese men sit on raised sleeping beds with some of their belongings, as flood waters cover a street yesterday in Khartoum. Following heavy rains the past few days, there has been flooding throughout the Khartoum area, where drainage is poor. — AFP Once rare stomach illness becoming widespread

WASHINGTON: Donna Heller thought she had can- Garden and Red Lobster restaurants. Those make up many people who have the disease and don’t know it. ing patterns, as well as lab testing foods that they cer. But multiple visits to the doctor after a month around half of the cases. The illness is rare - roughly 150 cases are reported in suspect. with debilitating nausea and diarrhea didn’t yield any The rest of the illnesses - many of them in Texas - the United States annually. Scientists only identified it For its part, the FDA says it has a 21-person team in answers. Convinced she was dying, she met with her are still a mystery, state and federal officials say. The in the early 1990s. In comparison, there are tens of its Maryland headquarters and specialists in 10 field lawyer to get her will in order. Then she saw a televi- source of this outbreak has proved particularly hard thousands of lab-confirmed cases of salmonella food offices across the country working to identify the sion report about an outbreak of cyclospora possibly to trace. Doctors have to test specifically for cyclospo- poisoning in this country each year, and officials source of the outbreak. Food often goes through sev- linked to bagged salad mix. ra and many don’t because it is relatively rare. So they believe there are hundreds of thousands more that eral stops - potentially in several countries - before it The stomach illness matched all her symptoms and may not order the correct tests, at least not at first. are not confirmed. reaches a grocery cart, and trying to trace it is “labor- is easily treatable with antibiotics. She told her doctor The parasite is so tiny that it’s often difficult to con- The cyclospora parasite is native to the tropics and intensive and painstaking work, requiring the collec- she suspected that could be the cause, and tests firm that a person has the illness, according to the tends to come into the United States on imported tion, review and analysis of hundreds and at times showed she was right. “It went so long and nobody Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tests produce. For example, Guatemalan raspberries were thousands of invoices and shipping documents,” the was able to give me answers,” said Heller, a 54-year- often have to be repeated with fresh samples. the source of five outbreaks in Canada and the United FDA said. old teacher in Crowley, Texas. “It didn’t seem like any- Heller said initial tests from her doctor showed up States in the late 1990s. Two of those outbreaks Heller says she doesn’t know what food might body wanted to take you serious because there are so as inconclusive, but she later received a call from the involved more than 1,000 illnesses each, said Ynes have caused her illness, but she said she was eating many stomach problems that resemble each other.” CDC telling her she definitely had the illness. Doctors Ortega, a cyclospora expert at the University of out a lot near her home 13 miles south of Fort Worth A mysterious outbreak of the parasitic illness usu- or labs may not notify state health departments as Georgia. around the time she fell ill in late June. She said she ally found abroad is growing, with more than 400 quickly as they would for a more common foodborne Officials say part of the problem is that the disease finally went on the correct antibiotics this week and is confirmed cases in 16 states. FDA officials said Friday illness like salmonella. And there are different rules in takes a week on average to show up, and diagnosis starting to feel better, though her symptoms aren’t they had discovered the source of some of the illness- different states about whether cyclospora has to be has often been delayed, making it hard for victims to gone completely. She said the illness has taken an es, but not all of them. The agency said that the ill- reported to federal health authorities. remember what they ate. CDC spokeswoman Moran emotional toll. “I literally, through the course of all nesses from Iowa and Nebraska are linked to salad All those obstacles are making it harder for state says the agency also is interviewing people who this, have been brought to tears probably 10 different mix from a Mexican farm that was served at Olive and federal officials. It also means there are probably aren’t sick as controls to get more information on eat- times, just so defeated,” she said. — AP

Rouhani takes office as Ahmadinejad era ends Diplomatic push to resolve Egypt crisis Continued from Page 1 has been very difficult for us.” Continued from Page 1 negotiation. There have been contacts between different figures. Rouhani has said he will appoint ministers from all There is no desire to use force if there is any other avenue that has “In the international arena we will also take new steps political factions, based on their ability, but hardliners shot by security forces on July 27. Morsi is in custody at a any potential for success,” he said. Those avenues had not yet been to promote the Iranian nation towards securing national have demanded the conservative-dominated parliament secret location, under investigation on a raft of charges including exhausted, he said, “but I have not seen any real return or any con- interests and removing sanctions. Although there are reject nominees associated with the “sedition”, their term murder. crete progress frankly”. many limitations, the future is bright and promising,” he for the months of protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s Malt said the pro-Morsi camp rejected any role for army chief Interior Ministry spokesman, General Hany Abdel Latif, mean- said. disputed 2009 re-election. Parliament’s confirmation of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the man behind the overthrow of while appeared on television and promised Morsi supporters a “The orientation of the government is Iran’s economic such candidates would be “a betrayal of the people and Egypt’s first freely elected president and who has laid down a safe exit from their protest camps. He said they were being salvation, constructive interaction with the world, and a the system,” Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of the influen- “road map” to elections and a return to civilian rule. “I respect and manipulated by the Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders. “Your contin- restoration of morality.” Rouhani’s first test is persuading tial hardline daily Kayhan, wrote in an editorial this week. hold in regard the demands of the masses that went out on June ued sit-ins have no legal or political use. You have a safe exit, you 30, but I will not build on the military coup,” Malt told Reuters, say- will be politically integrated,” said Abdel Latif, wearing a white parliament to approve his list of proposed ministers, A source close to Rouhani confirmed to Reuters that he ing any solution must be based on a constitution already revoked dress uniform. which he is expected to present on Sunday after he takes will nominate Mohammad Javad Zarif, a US-educated for- by Sisi. The military had earlier threatened to remove them by force. his oath of office in parliament. mer ambassador to the United Nations, as his foreign min- Asked whether the delegation had told the envoys that Morsi But on Friday, following appeals from religious leaders as well as “Rouhani will certainly appoint more competent men ister. Another likely pick is Ali Jannati for culture minister, must be reinstated, Malt said that would be worked out in the foreign governments to avoid a bloodbath, the interim govern- and women to key economic ministries and institutions. an influential post which oversees domestic and foreign details. “This is part of the political initiatives,” he said. “We did not ment said it would blockade the camps but not storm them. “If He will also follow saner economic policies,” said Shaul press in Iran and vets cinema, theatre, literature and other get into the details of the political initiatives.” If Morsi’s opponents you think you’re upholding the Muslim Brotherhood, your safe Bakhash, an Iran historian at George Mason University in arts. Jannati has served as ambassador to Kuwait and his insist he should not be part of the solution, Malt said, then “the exit from the squares will allow the group to return to its role with- Virginia. “But the economic problems are staggering ... father is Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a hardline cleric. steadfastness and sit-ins of the millions in the streets for five in the democratic political process,” Latif said, addressing Morsi’s Above all, without a serious easing of sanctions, it is diffi- During Ahmadinejad’s presidency, press freedoms were weeks requires that Sisi must also not be in the political equation”. supporters. “You are brainwashed, subject to psychological cult to see how Rouhani can get the economy moving curtailed, newspapers shut down, and this year about a Egypt’s army-installed government also struck a more concilia- manipulation. You are being used as a political bargaining chip.” again.” dozen journalists were arrested in a crackdown on the tory tone, promising Morsi supporters “safe exit” from two Cairo The crisis in the Arab world’s most populous country has Ahmadinejad defended his time in office, telling state press. protest camps. It urged them to rejoin the political process. Burns, posed a dilemma for the United States and other Western gov- television late on Friday his administration was the least In an interview with the reformist Bahar newspaper Leon and US Ambassador Anne Patterson also met with Egypt’s ernments, which had advocated democracy following the over- corrupt in history, and blaming sanctions for economic last week, Jannati sought to distance himself from his interim foreign minister, Nabil Fahmy, for almost an hour yester- throw of strongman Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 but grew day morning. A Foreign Ministry statement said Fahmy reiterated increasingly uncomfortable with Morsi’s Islamist leanings. Many problems. “We promised to have clean hands; I say with father’s views and indicated he would support more free- the interim government’s commitment to the “road map”. It also Egyptians shared that concern and frustration grew over Morsi’s confidence that this government is the cleanest govern- dom for artists. “Intellectual matters are not hereditary,” wanted to achieve national reconciliation, including all political failure to get to grips with social and economic problems. The ment,” Ahmadinejad said, according to the Mehr news Jannati said, according to Bahar. “I am hopeful that given forces “as long as they refrain from all forms of violence and incite- new interim government gained the United States’ seal of agency. “The enemy has introduced heavy sanctions and my views on the fields of music, art, and film, the cultural ment to it”. approval on Thursday when US Secretary of State John Kerry the nation has faced problems. We have made our utmost and artistic atmosphere in the country will soften so that Fahmy told reporters after the meeting that there had been said the army had been “restoring democracy” when it toppled effort but we couldn’t resolve all the pressures. This issue artists can breathe more easily.” — Reuters some contact with the Brotherhood. “I wouldn’t use the word Morsi. — Reuters Interpol raises alarm after prison breaks Don’t curse time or any creature Continued from Page 1 on militant Islamist forums in which Al-Qaeda chief Continued from Page 1 Al-Hadith Al-Qursiare the words of Allah revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which are not recorded in the Ayman Al-Zawahiri accused the United States of “plot- imply a day or a week or a month or a year or a period of Glorious Quran. The meanings are from Allah and the wording The intent is to attack Western, not just US, interests,” ting” with Egypt’s military, secularists and Christians to time. from Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). “Time” in the afore-quoted Dempsey said in an interview for the program “This overthrow Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Materialist philosophers state that time and matter are Hadith refers to the following: day, week, month, year, century, Week”. In his first public comment on the July 3 military eternal backward and forward; The race lasts until time centenary, eon, epoch, etc. As a precaution, the State Department said it was coup, the Egyptian-born Zawahri said: “Crusaders and destroys it. By this belief, they are very far away from believing Question: Al-Dahr means: closing at least 22 US embassies or consulates on secularists and the Americanized army have converged in the Day of Judgment. As such, whenever someone is afflict- (A)Time, epoch, eon, era, etc. Sunday, a work day in many Islamic countries. Germany ... with Gulf money and American plotting to topple ed by any calamity or catastrophe, they are quick to blame it (B) Jinx and Britain later announced that their embassies in Mohamed Morsi’s government.” Zawahri, who belonged on either time or circumstances or environment. (C) Good health Yemen would be closed today and tomorrow, while to the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad group and is Those atheist philosophers denied the Creator and held France said its mission there would stay shut for “several believed to be hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan, criti- the view that the world would return to its original form once days”. US President Barack Obama ordered his national cized Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement for going every 36,000 years. The claim that every after those years Courtesy TIES Center, a leading non-political NGO pro- security team to “take all appropriate steps to protect soft on applying strict Islamic law. everything would restart its life cycle, which would repeat for moting relations between Westerners and Muslims the American people,” a White House official said. Unnamed US officials told The New York Times that infinity. Abu Huraira narrated that Prophet Muhammad through dialogue, friendship and cultural exchange. For He had been “updated on a potential threat occurring the warning was prompted after US officials intercepted (PBUH) quoted Allah as saying: “I sought a loan from my ser- more information. www.tiescenter.net in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula” and would electronic communications during the week among sen- vant but he refused to give Me. Moreover, he chose to abuse me saying: what a disappointing and frustrating time (week or continue to be updated through the weekend. “Current ior Al-Qaeda operatives who discussed strikes on US month or year, etc.)! I am the time in that I created it and I information suggests that Al-Qaeda and affiliated organ- interests in the Muslim world. “This was a lot more than manage all my creatures.” (IbnJareer - Ad-Durr Al-Manthour, izations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the the usual chatter,” one senior US official briefed on the volume 5) region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to information told the Times. The United States has been Cursing time or any of the creatures of Allah because of the conduct attacks in the period between now and the end especially cautious about security since an attack on its misfortune that you assume it has brought to you is tanta- AUGUST 4, 2013 of August,” the State Department said in the worldwide consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 last year. mount to cursing Allah. Abu Huraira narrated that the mes- travel alert for US citizens. The assault blamed on Islamist militants killed four senger of Allah reported that Allah says in Al-Hadeeth Al- The attacks were possible “particularly in the Middle Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens. Qudsi• that: “Son of Adam annoys Me; he says: what a frustrat- East and north Africa, and possibly occurring in or ema- Republicans have accused the Obama administration of ing and disappointing time! No one among you (when in dis- nating from the Arabian Peninsula.” The alert warned of failing to ensure adequate security at the Benghazi con- tress) should say: what a frustrating disappointing time! For I “the potential for terrorists to attack public transporta- sulate. Under Obama, US forces in 2011 killed Al-Qaeda’s am the time; I cause the alternation of its day and night and tion systems and other tourist infrastructure.” Hours after fugitive leader Osama Bin Laden in a secret raid on his when I want I will constrict and take hold of them.” (Muslim the US alert was issued, an audio recording was posted hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. — AFP 3/2,246) SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 SPORTS

Lugano joins West Brom Olympians to march Federer out of Masters LONDON: Paris St Germain’s Uruguay centre back Diego Lugano has joined in gay parade MONTREAL: Former world number one Roger Federer has pulled out of next English Premier League side West Bromwich Albion, the two clubs said on week’s Montreal Masters, organisers said on Friday. Friday. “I am very happy to join West Bromwich Albion for the next two sea- VANCOUVER: Canadian Olympians will march in the Vancouver Pride Federer, who recently said he was experiencing back trouble, did not give a sons,” Lugano said on his Twitter feed. British media said the fee was one Parade this weekend in a display of solidarity with the gay community reason for his withdrawal from the first big tournament of the north American million pounds ($1.53 million) for the 32-year-old, who has 85 caps and that would land them in jail or kicked out of next year’s Sochi hardcourt swing. helped Uruguay win the 2011 Copa America. Olympics. “I am disappointed not to be playing in Montreal next week. It is a great tour- He had spent the last six months on loan at Malaga Alpine skier Mike Janyk and snowboarder Mercedes Nicoll, both nament with amazing fans. I look forward to competing there in the future,” after failing to make an impact at PSG where he members of Canada’s 2006 and 2010 Olympic teams, will join thou- twice former champion Federer was quoted as say- played only 12 league games in 18 months after sands of marchers in the 2010 Olympic city, adding their voices to the ing on the event website (www.rogerscup.com). joining from Fenerbahce in 2011. growing outrage over Russia’s anti-gay laws. The Swiss, who turns 32 next week, has suf- Lugano is Uruguay’s second-highest capped Foreign competitors and spectators at the 2014 Sochi Olympics will fered surprise defeats in his last three tour- player and has captained his country 77 times - have to abide by a new Russian law banning “gay propaganda.” naments. Beaten by the 116th-ranked more than any other player. Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko said on Thursday any athletes Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round at He is West Brom’s third close-season signing or visitors to the Winter Olympics found breaking the law would “be Wimbledon, the 17-times grand slam cham- with the club having secured French striker Nicolas held accountable”. Anelka on a permanent deal and Macedonian full- pion also lost to Federico Delbonis in the Foreigners can be deported from Russia, in addition to being fined Hamburg semi-finals and 55th-ranked Daniel back Goran Popov on another season-long loan. up to 100,000 roubles ($3,000) or held for up to 15 days. “This is a tough league. You need as many good Brands on home soil in Gstaad. “Seeing what’s going on in Russia it does feel really cool to at least Federer, who has slipped out of the world’s players in your squad as you can get - and stand up and hopefully have a few people take notice of that,” Janyk Diego is undoubtedly one of those,” West top four for the first time since 2003, has won told Reuters. “The opportunity came up to go in the Pride parade as an Brom manager Steve Clarke said on the just one title this season, on Halle’s grass in the Olympian and I thought, oh that’s a great idea and then all this other club website (www.wba.co.uk).— Reuters build-up to Wimbledon. —Reuters

MLB results/standings Dodgers tame Cubs

LA Dodgers 6, Chicago Cubs 2; Baltimore 11, Seattle 8; Atlanta 6, Philadelphia 4; Colorado 4, Pittsburgh 2; Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1; Arizona 7, Boston 6; St. Louis CHICAGO: Mark Ellis extended his hitting streak to 13 games before both he and manager Don 13, Cincinnati 3; NY Mets 4, Kansas City 2 (11 innings); Miami 10, Cleveland 0; San Mattingly were ejected, and the Los Angeles Francisco 4, Tampa Bay 1; Washington 4, Milwaukee 1; Minnesota 4, Houston 3 (13 Dodgers matched an 89-year-old club record innings); LA Angels 7, Toronto 5; Texas 8, Oakland 3; San Diego 7, NY Yankees. with their 12th straight road victory, beating the Eastern Conference National League Chicago Cubs 6-2 on Friday. Ellis doubled and scored in the third before Atlantic Division Eastern Division being tossed when he and Mattingly argued a W L PCT GB Atlanta 65 45 .591 - called third strike in the fourth, but the Dodgers Boston 66 45 .595 - Washington 53 56 .486 11.5 still improved to 12-2 since the All-Star break. Tampa Bay 64 45 .587 1 Philadelphia 50 59 .459 14.5 The NL West leaders remained unbeaten on Baltimore 61 49 .555 4.5 NY Mets 49 58 .458 14.5 the road since a loss at San Francisco on July 6 NY Yankees 56 52 .519 8.5 and matched the 1924 Brooklyn Robins for the Miami 43 65 .398 21 Toronto 50 59 .459 15 longest streak in franchise history. Central Division Central Division Nick Punto added two hits and drove in two Pittsburgh 65 44 .596 - runs, and Adrian Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig each Detroit 62 45 .579 - St. Louis 64 44 .593 0.5 added a pair of hits and scored a run for the Cleveland 60 49 .550 3 Cincinnati 60 50 .545 5.5 Dodgers. Kansas City 54 52 .509 7.5 Los Angeles took control early, scoring two in Minnesota 46 60 .434 15.5 Chicago Cubs 49 60 .450 16 the third and two more in the fourth while build- C’ White Sox 40 67 .374 22 Milwaukee 46 63 .422 19 ing a 5-1 lead and chasing All-Star Travis Wood Western Division Western Division (7-8). That was enough for Hyun-Jin Ryu (10-3), who became the first Dodgers rookie to win 10 Oakland 63 46 .578 - LA Dodgers 59 49 .546 - Arizona 56 53 .514 3.5 games since Kazuhisa Ishii in 2002. The left-han- Texas 61 49 .555 2.5 der matched a season high by allowing 11 hits in LA Angels 50 58 .463 12.5 Colorado 52 59 .468 8.5 5 1-3 innings but held Chicago to just two runs. Seattle 50 59 .459 13 San Diego 51 59 .464 9 He also struck out six without a walk. Houston 36 72 .333 26.5 San Francisco 49 59 .454 10 ROCKIES 4, PIRATES 2 In Pittsburgh, Jhoulys Chacin allowed one run on six hits over eight innings and Colorado snapped a four-game losing streak with a win Orioles get past Mariners over Pittsburgh. Chacin (10-5), who has won seven of his past BALTIMORE: Chris Davis hit his major Cruz, among 14 players facing suspen- nine decisions, stayed in the game after taking a league-leading 40th home run and Nate sion as part of MLB’s Biogenesis investiga- sharp line drive off the bat of Starling Marte in CHICAGO: Relief pitcher Carlos Marmol No. 49 of the Los Angeles Dodgers delivers during the tion, hit his 26th home run in the second McLouth contributed his first career grand the fifth inning. ninth inning against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. —AFP slam to a power display that carried the inning. Profar put the Rangers ahead 6-2 Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki had a solo homer including three solo homers. He struck out eight Fernandez needed with four hits and four RBIs. Baltimore Orioles past the Seattle Mariners with his fourth homer in the fourth. and an RBI single, and Todd Helton had a two- and walked one. Ubaldo Jimenez (8-6) worked four innings for 11-8 Friday night. The Rangers, who were six games run single 16 years to the day after making his Darin Ruf, Delmon Young and Chase Utley Cleveland, allowing five runs - two earned. Ryan Flaherty also homered and had a behind first-place Oakland in the division major-league debut in the same city. homered for Philadelphia. Ethan Martin (0-1) career-high three hits for the Orioles, who earlier this week, are only 21/2 games back Pirates rookie Gerrit Cole (5-5) needed 102 was charged with six runs on eight hits overall PADRES 7, YANKEES 2 never trailed but had to withstand four after the win. pitches to make it through 5 1-3 innings, allow- and his first career loss. In San Diego, Everth Cabrera, facing a 50- homers by Seattle. Tommy Milone (9-9) allowed six runs - ing three runs on three hits and two walks with game suspension, tied his career high with four McLouth connected off Brandon Maurer including both homers - and nine hits in 3 six strikeouts. NATIONALS 4, BREWERS 1 hits and Logan Forsythe hit one of San Diego’s to make it 11-6 in the sixth, and that was 2-3 innings. Jason Frasor (2-2) tossed 1 1-3 In Milwaukee, Jordan Zimmermann earned three solo homers in a win over CC Sabathia and enough offense to fend off the Mariners, scoreless innings of relief for the win. CARDINALS 13, REDS 3 his career-high 13th win and Bryce Harper New York. who closed the gap in the eighth with solo In Cincinnati, David Freese set the tone with a homered to lead Washington to a win over Cabrera is among 14 players facing discipline. shots from Kendrys Morales and Michael ANGELS 7, BLUE JAYS 5 bases-loaded double in the first inning, and Milwaukee. Monday appears to be the deadline for the play- Morse. Jim Johnson worked the ninth to In Anaheim, Kole Calhoun punctuated Daniel Descalso hit two of St. Louis’ three Zimmermann (13-6) went six innings and ers to accept suspensions for their ties to the earn his 38th save and secure the win for his first four-hit game with his first career homers in a win over Cincinnati. struck out four, but walked a season-high four. Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic. Chris Tillman (14-3). homer, a tiebreaking two-run shot in the The Cardinals have emerged from a deep hit- He worked out of jams in the first and third Cabrera had an RBI triple among his hits and Davis drove a pitch from Aaron Harang eighth inning that lifted Los Angeles over ting slump by scoring 13 runs in each of their innings, each time stranding Rickie Weeks at scored a run. Andrew Cashner (8-5) held the (5-10) over the right-field wall and onto Toronto. last two games. It’s the first time this season third. The Brewers finished 0 for 9 with runners Yankees to two runs and seven hits in seven Eutaw Street to give Baltimore a 5-3 lead in JB Shuck’s triple drove in Chris Nelson they’ve had double-digit run totals in consecu- in scoring position. innings. He struck out two and walked none. the third inning. The solo homer traveled with the tying run in the eighth for the tive games. Shelby Miller (11-7) limited the Reds’ Washington scored a run in the fifth off Sabathia (9-10) allowed five runs in 5 2-3 innings an estimated 442 feet and gave Davis a slumping offense to two singles over the first Angels, who rallied against All-Star reliever Alfredo Figaro (1-3). Harper made it 2-0 in the and is 0-4 in his last five starts. major-league high 101 RBIs. Steve Delabar (5-2) for their second straight five innings before Joey Votto hit a three-run sixth with his 16th homer of the season. Rafael He is the fifth Oriole to hit 40 homers in homer in the sixth. Soriano pitched the ninth for his 27th save. win over Toronto. METS 4, ROYALS 2 a season, joining Brady Anderson (50), Bronson Arroyo (9-9) matched his season Nelson had two RBI singles before his In New York, Eric Young Jr. homered with two Frank Robinson (49), Jim Gentile (46) and high by giving up seven runs in only 3 2-3 INTERLEAGUE leadoff double in the eighth, and Shuck fol- outs in the 11th inning and New York overcame Rafael Palmeiro (43). innings, his shortest outing of the season. MARLINS 10, INDIANS 0 lowed with a triple to right after Jose a blown lead to end Kansas City’s winning streak Bautista misjudged the ball. Calhoun then In Miami, Jose Fernandez pitched eight TIGERS 2, WHITE SOX 1 BRAVES 6, PHILLIES 4 innings and struck out 14, the most by an NL at nine. Young slammed a 3-1 pitch from Luis homered to right. Mendoza (2-6) over the right-field fence for his In Detroit, Doug Fister pitched eight Dane De La Rosa (5-1) pitched the In Philadelphia, Brian McCann and Chris pitcher this season, to help Miami snap Johnson hit consecutive homers in a five-run first career game-ending hit and just his second impressive innings, Austin Jackson home- eighth for Los Angeles, and Ernesto Frieri Cleveland’s eight-game win streak. fifth inning to lead Atlanta over Philadelphia for Miami’s All-Star became the first major league home run of the season. red and Jose Iglesias drove in a run in his struck out the side in the ninth for his 26th its eighth straight win. pitcher to strike out at least 13 in consecutive The Mets led 2-0 on a first-inning homer by Detroit debut to lead the Tigers over save. Chicago. McCann’s 16th homer, a two-run shot, gave games since Randy Johnson in 2004. He’s the David Wright, but New York’s beat-up bullpen The White Sox lost their eighth straight, the Braves a 4-2 lead just two batters after Justin first rookie to do so since Kerry Wood in 1998. couldn’t protect it as Kansas City scored single TWINS 4, ASTROS 3 Upton tied it on an RBI single. Johnson’s homer Fernandez (8-5) set a Marlins record for the runs in the eighth and ninth innings to tie it. while AL Central-leading Detroit has won In Minneapolis, Brian Dozier’s third hit of 10 of 11. Fister (10-5) allowed a run and gave the Braves a 5-2 lead. most strikeouts in consecutive starts. He had 13 Carlos Torres (2-2), New York’s scheduled the game scored Clete Thomas in the 13th seven hits, striking out two. Joaquin Benoit Kris Medlen (8-10) earned the victory, going Sunday in a win over Pittsburgh. starter for Saturday, worked two innings for the inning to lift Minnesota to a win over pitched a hitless ninth for his 11th save in six innings while giving up six hits and four runs, Logan Morrison provided all the support win in the 4 hour, 7 minute marathon. —AP Houston. 11 chances. Right-handed pitcher Kevin Correia Iglesias, acquired from Boston this week pinch-hit in the 13th to sacrifice Thomas to in a three-team deal, started at third base second base. Dozier followed by punching in place of Miguel Cabrera, who experi- Zain concludes Ramadan enced soreness after running and was a single to right field to snap Minnesota’s scratched pregame. Hector Santiago (3-7) four-game losing streak. allowed two runs and six hits in seven The Twins trailed 3-2 entering the ninth after All-Star closer Glen Perkins gave up an penalty tournament innings. He struck out seven. RBI double to Matt Dominguez. But RANGERS 8, ATHLETICS 3 Dozier’s single off Chia-Jen Lo tied the KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications Tournament is a clear representation of the com- tiatives and programs, interested parties are In Oakland, Nelson Cruz shook off talk of game, and Dozier came through again off company in Kuwait, announced today the end of pany’s commitment to youth and community advised to visit the company’s website at a suspension to hit a tying two-run homer, Dallas Kuechel (5-6) to win it with two outs the Zain Penalty Tournament in collaboration building. www.kw.zain.com, or visit its social media and Jurickson Profar added another two- in the 13th. Dozier had two hits and Ryan with the united sports company mala3ibna. The To find out more about Zain’s Ramadan ini- channels. run shot as Texas gamed ground on Pressly (3-2) pitched two innings of relief tournament’s final took place at Al Shaab Park’s Oakland in the AL West. for the win. —AP Goal football pitch, where Zain awarded the top three teams of the tournament with prizes in the presence of a large and enthusiastic crowd. Zain awarded players Abdullah Al Shaikhan and Abdulwahab Al Ansaari, members of Shaikhan team, with a cash prize of KD 2,000 for winning the tournament, in addition to reward- ing the second and third placed teams. Zain also honored the former Kuwait national team player Yousif Suwaid with an award for his outstanding football achievements. International player Bashar Abdullah also participated in the award presentations. More than 460 teams registered to partici- pate in the tournament, which offered a great opportunity to discover new talents and excep- tional potential at grass roots level as approxi- mately 1,000 players from all age groups partici- pated in the event. Zain’s generous Ramadan corporate social responsibility program covers many aspects that are central to the company’s corporate values BALTIMORE: Kyle Seager No. 15 of the Seattle Mariners is tagged out at second base including education, sports, youth, and health, in the seventh inning by JJ Hardy No. 2 of the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park. —AFP and its organization of the Zain Penalty SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 SPORTS Chiefs retain Super Rugby title

HAMILTON: The Waikato Chiefs showed “It’s been an awesome couple of sea- won a penalty in front of the posts five a huge amount of character to come sons and a great group to be part of. Big minutes after the restart, extended it to from 10 points down in the final 15 min- ups for what we have done.” For much of a 10-point cushion. utes and beat the ACT Brumbies 27-22 to the evening, though, it looked like the Cruden chipped three points off the claim the Super Rugby title for the sec- Canberra-based Brumbies might just lead after 48 minutes but he hit the post ond year in a row in Hamilton yesterday. become the first foreign team to win the with his next penalty attempt and the Flanker Liam Messam and replace- title on New Zealand soil. Brumbies stormed back. ment back Robbie Robinson scored tries Kicking for territory and targeting the Lealiifano put through a grubber kick four minutes apart deep in the second breakdown, the visitors raced out to a 9- which winger Clyde Rathbone somehow half and flyhalf Aaron Cruden added 17 0 lead in the first 20 minutes on the back latched onto to take the ball to the points with his boot to rescue the home of three Lealiifano penalties. Chiefs’ line with lock Sam Carter just fail- side from a potential upset. The hosts, though, got over their slow ing to convince the TV review official The Brumbies, trying to become the start and started to ramp up their attack that he had forced the ball down over first team to win the title having played with Cruden punishing the Brumbies for the line. A fifth Lealiifano penalty just their semi-final on another continent, their increasingly regular infractions in before the hour mark gave the visitors a had led 22-12 in the 65th minute cour- the tackle area. 22-12 lead but man of the match tesy of a converted try and five penalties Cruden missed his first attempt at Messam signalled the late resurgence from centre Christian Lealiifano. goal but nailed the next three to draw when he closed the gap with the Chiefs’ The Chiefs are the fourth team to win the teams level at 9-9 after 32 minutes first try, coming off a five-metre scrum to back-to-back titles and join the Auckland and it looked like the Chiefs would take crash over the line. The next score came Blues, Canterbury Crusaders, Bulls and the momentum into the break. four minutes later and was the best of HAMILTON: Chiefs celebrate their win after their Super 15 rugby match Brumbies as multiple winners of the But three minutes later, home the night with the Chiefs taking the ball between the Chiefs and the Brumbies at Waikato Stadium . —AFP southern hemisphere’s annual provincial scrumhalf Tawera Kerr-Barlow, under from deep in their own half to the 22 The Brumbies’ desperation trumped ond year in a row. competition. “I think it was a real tough pressure from George Smith, threw a metre line before Robinson cut through the fatigue of their 23,000-km odyssey to “We led from the start and for them final,” said Chiefs co-captain Craig Clarke, pass over the head of hooker Hika Elliot the defence and raced to the line to South Africa and back for their semi-final to come from behind speaks loads for one of string of senior players moving on and Lealiifano pounced, racing 40 touch down. victory over the Bulls and they ham- this Chiefs team,” Brumbies skipper Ben at the end of the season. metres to touch down in the corner with Cruden had missed his first conver- mered away at the home side’s defence Mowen said. “They are an outstanding “We have to pay credit to an awe- Cruden trailing in his wake. sion attempt but nailed the second to in the dying minutes. champion side and thoroughly deserve some Brumbies team for a hell of a per- The Wallabies centre converted his put the home side in front at 24-22, a It was to be in vain, though, and the this title. Congratulations on what they formance, especially after all the travel- own try to give the Australians a 16-9 lead he extended with his fifth and final cowbells of the locals rang around the have built here in the last two years. It’s ling they’ve done. halftime lead and, when lock Scott Fardy penalty seven minutes from time. Waikato Stadium in triumph for the sec- what we aspire to.” —Reuters Woods takes control after flirting with 59

AKRON: Tiger Woods came close to bummed. “Would it have been nice the 10th raised hopes of a possible yard 16th where he had to lay up in shooting only the sixth 59 on the to shoot 59? Yeah. I certainly had 59 as the crowds swarming both two after his drive ended up PGA Tour with an electrifying dis- the opportunity. I had two good sides of the fairways swelled in against the grain in the first cut of play in Friday’s second round at the chances at 15 and 17 to do it. number and became even more rough. WGC-Bridgestone Invitational “But the par putt at 18 was even vocal in their excitement. “You defi- “I’m very happy I was able to before he ran out of steam with five bigger,” Woods said, referring to the nitely could hear it,” said the 14- post that (61),” Woods said after holes to play. 26-footer he sank from the back times major champion. “They were parring the last two holes in light Needing two more birdies for fringe to keep his card bogey-free, into it.” rain. “I just kept thinking, you know, the magical number which has nev- prompting him to raise his right Woods scrambled to salvage par whatever lead I had, let’s just keep er been lowered, Woods narrowly arm skyward with a pointing finger at the 14th where his tee shot increasing this lead. “And it’s at sev- missed a nine-footer at the 15th in celebration. sailed right into a treeline on the en now, I believe. So not too bad and a six-footer at the 17th on the Defending champion Keegan way to a nine-under-par 61 at Bradley and Englishman Chris Firestone Country Club Wood carded matching 68s on the ST ANDREWS: South Koreaís Park Inbee tees during the 2013 Women’s British Open His sizzling score equalled the challenging South Course to end Golf Championship at the Old Course in St Andrews. —AFP course record, which he had previ- the day tied for second, with Swede ously tied in the second round in Henrik Stenson (70) and American 2000, and gave him a commanding Bill Haas (68) a further stroke back Park falls 8 shots behind seven-shot lead with a 13-under at five under. total of 127. England’s former world number ST. ANDREWS: Inbee Park caught the bad morning when it’s lovely. But that’s the Woods, who has triumphed a one Luke Donald (69) and last end of the draw at St. Andrews, made way it is.” record seven times in the elite year’s Masters champion Bubba worse by not having her best golf. Before Her problems started on the opening World Golf Championships (WGC) Watson (69) were among a group she can think about a chance to make his- hole, when her approach over the Swilcan event at Firestone, is bidding to win knotted at four under but the tour- tory as the first golfer to win four profes- Burn rode the wind and bounced beyond his fifth title on the PGA Tour this nament would now appear to be in sional majors in the same season, Park the green some 50 feet from the flag. Her year as he builds momentum for Woods’ hands to win or lose as he faced a more immediate concern Friday chip only got halfway there, and she two- next week’s PGA Championship. heads into the weekend at one of afternoon in the Women’s British Open - putted for bogey. “I had a lot of control today from his favourite venues with a seven- how to make up an eight-shot deficit Park was never under par at any point in tee to green and obviously the way shot advantage. against Na Yeon Choi. her round. A birdie on the sixth was offset I putted, I felt I was in total control Huge galleries watched Woods “I’m so far back,” Park said after a birdie by a three-putt bogey on the 10th. A birdie of my game,” the American world as he made an explosive birdie- on the final hole to salvage a 1-over 73. on the 12th was followed by a bogey on number one told reporters after eagle-birdie start on a warm, blus- “We need some tough conditions.” The last the 13th, in part due to a bad break. On totalling only 22 putts. tery afternoon. He hit a superb time there was talk about a Grand Slam in the toughest driving hole on the back “Obviously things like that don’t approach to three feet at the par- AKRON: Tiger Woods looks on from the 13th tee during the this area of Scotland was 11 years ago, nine, Park hit her best tee shot - only for it happen every day, and it’s fun four first, drained a 20-foot eagle Second Round of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone across the Firth of Forth at Muirfield, where to roll into a sand-filled divot. Her when it all comes together and I putt at the par-five second, then Invitational. —AFP Tiger Woods was going for the third leg of approach came up just short of the green, was able to take advantage of it, rolled in a 12-footer at the par-four the slam. A nasty storm that arrived with- and she hit putter down the slope and 10 especially on a golf course like this. third to forge two ahead of the other side of the cart path. From after two days.” The five players out warning blew him off course to an 81 feet past the cup. “This is not exactly an easy golf chasing pack in a field of 73 players. there he hit a low, slicing shot to who have shot 59s on the PGA Tour in the third round and that was the end of Her approach to the 17th ran up the left course. As you can see, six under is Woods did well to save par at the back of the green, chipped are Americans Al Geiberger (1977 it. side of the Road Hole Bunker and left her in second (place), so the guys aren’t the sixth, sinking a 22-foot putt eight feet past the hole and made Memphis Classic), Chip Beck (1991 This wind at St. Andrews was the about 60 feet, and she hit another poor lag tearing this apart.” Asked whether after his tee shot had ended up the putt. Las Vegas Invitational), David Duval strongest of the week, though nothing out - short and 8 feet to the right - leading to he was at all disappointed to fall behind a tree, before collecting However, he was unable to (1999 Bob Hope Classic) and Paul of the ordinary. Choi played four groups her second three-putt of the round, and short in his bid to fire his first 59, another birdie at the seventh to make further inroads, squandering Goydos (2010 John Deere Classic) behind Park and turned in a command fourth of the tournament. Woods replied: “Absolutely not, reach the turn in five-under 30. his birdie opportunity at the short as well as Australian Stuart Appleby performance, making six birdies for a 5- At least she still had 36 holes - and plen- nope. 61 is pretty good. I’m not Four consecutive birdies from 15th and settling for par at the 667- (2010 Greenbrier Classic).—Reuters under 67 that gave her a one-shot lead ty of hope - remaining to get back in the over Miki Saiki of Japan going into the race. It was tough for everyone in the after- weekend. Saiki set the Old Course record noon - except for Choi, who had a score for the Women’s British Open with a 66 in that looked as if she were on the New the morning, where the only nuisance was Course - and Park isn’t ruling herself out. Johnson wins Pocono pole a few bursts of showers. Neither is anyone else. Choi’s 67 was 8.4 shots better than the “The tough, gritty players can win this,” LONG POND: Jimmie Johnson needed multiple plan behind it all. They’re welcome to try it. went later,” he said. “I think we would have had a average score of those who played in the Stacy Lewis said after a hard-fought 72 left attempts to make it through pre-qualifying They’re welcome to experience the stress that better racetrack that was 10 degrees cooler, at afternoon, and one of only three rounds in her five shots behind. “Anybody under par inspection, then set a track record with a lap of goes with it. My heart was pounding out of my least.” the 60s. Conditions were so demanding is not out of this.” 180.654 mph to win the pole Friday at Pocono chest trying to get in the car and beat the clock. I Johnson had the car to beat last week in that when Choi was asked to give details of Morgan Pressel took another step Raceway. Kyle Busch? He could only think the don’t wish that kind of stress on anybody. ... It’s Indianapolis until Newman spoiled the day with her six birdies, the South Korean couldn’t toward locking up a spot on the Solheim five-time Sprint Cup champion and crew were not what I want to go through.” Maybe not. But it a surprise win. Johnson’s crew botched the final recall much further back than the 17th Cup team with a 70 in the morning, leav- up to no good. worked at Pocono. Johnson seemed poised to pit stop that allowed Newman to pull away. hole. ing her two shots out of the lead. She now Johnson went 29th instead of his scheduled win the pole last week at Indianapolis until “It absolutely stung. It wasn’t fun for any of “Five hours out there, this kind of can think squarely about the Women’s 24th spot, and the later start under the clouds as Newman topped him on the last qualifying us,” Johnson said. “But the best thing we could weather, it’s hard to remember,” she said. British Open, and perhaps adding a second the track got faster may have given him an attempt of the day. This time, he would not be do is get back to our jobs and, fortunately or It’s a round Park would like to forget, one major to the Kraft Nabisco Championship advantage over the cars that went out under the denied as NASCAR saw its 11th track qualifying unfortunately, forget about Indy and move on. that will make her quest even more diffi- she won in 2007 as an 18-year-old. Nicole sun. Johnson had inspection issues last month at record set this season by the Gen-6 car. The faster we move on from that the better we cult to add to her trio of majors this year. Castrale, also making a last-ditch effort to New Hampshire and used another late start to Joey Logano’s old mark of 179.598 mph was are going to do here.” Greg Biffle, Marcos “A little bit of everything wasn’t working make the Solheim Cup team, shot 34 on qualify third until his time was scrapped after topped by six drivers, including Logano. Ambrose, Denny Hamlin and Aric Almirola com- well out there today,” Park said. “I don’t feel the tough back nine for a 70 and was in the No. 48 failed inspection. Johnson also set the track record at Martinsville plete the top 10. Reigning series champion Brad like I played horrible today. A little bit the group at 7-under 137 that included Jee Are Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus just Speedway this season. He now has 31 poles in Keselowski is 11th. Keselowski is winless this sea- unlucky with the draw, not playing in the Young Lee and Suzann Pettersen. —AP working around the rules? Or can they simply 420 career Cup starts. “Track records are cool,” son, stuck in 13th in the standings and in danger not get the car in tune in time for inspection? Johnson said. “It makes all the drivers and teams of not making the Chase for the Sprint Cup “A lot of these other teams figure out how to smile.” Just not an irked Kyle Busch. “I wish we championship.—AP Romero leads Reno-Tahoe Open play by the rules,” Busch said. “It seems like there’s one that’s sometimes late. Quite often, TORONTO: Argentine Andres Romero fired Stuart Appleby and Rod Pampling. Wi more than the rest.” a six-under 66 to take a wafer-thin one returned a seven-under 65 that featured Busch will start second and Carl Edwards point lead over American Gary Woodland five birdies and an eagle at the par five third. Ryan Newman, last week’s race winner at after two rounds of the Reno-Tahoe Open 13th. Appleby signed off with a 67 while the Brickyard, starts fourth. Kurt Busch is fifth. on Friday, in the PGA Tour’s only event using Pampling made the biggest move of the Johnson is tied with Matt Kenseth with a the Stableford scoring system. day with an eight-under 64 that included series-high four wins this season and he leads Romero, without a PGA Tour win in five nine birdies and a single bogey and added the points standings as he chases his sixth years, mixed nine birdies with a single up to a second round score of 17. championship. Johnson is in position to go for bogey and a double-bogey on Reno’s American Shaun Micheel, who returns to the season sweep at Pocono, where he won Montreux Golf and Country Club layout for Oak Hill Country Club next week where he from the pole in June. Johnson took that pole midway total of 22 points. picked up his one and only PGA Tour victory after the field was set on points because rain Under the modified Stableford scoring winning the 2003 PGA championship, will washed out qualifying. system, points are awarded on each hole for get a couple of extra days’ practice after Johnson took the top spot this time after a being under-par, with birdies earning a missing the cut set a six points. second pass through inspection. NASCAR deter- player two points and eagles five. Micheel, who has played in just four PGA mined the tow on his Chevrolet was off by one- A bogey costs a player one point, double Tour events this year missing the cut in all thousandth of an inch - just enough to make bogeys and worse three points. No points four, had rounds of 73 and 72 and four Busch suspicious. are won or lost with par. Woodland began points. Northern Irishman Padraig “There’s been some times this year where the day one point back of first round leader Harrington, a three-time major winner those guys go through four, five, six times and Josh Teater and ended the day in the same including the 2008 PGA Championship, they’re always late,” Busch said. “Every time position returning a two-under 70 good Canadian Mike Weir, the 2003 Masters they’re late, they’re always fast. Maybe we need enough for seven points and a two-day champion and American Todd Hamilton, to be late.” Johnson, never one to exchange in a total of 21. the 2004 British Open winner were verbal spat, brushed off Busch’s comments. “It’s Sitting three off the pace on 19 points among the big names to make the week- only (a few) spots, now. It didn’t make a differ- LONG POND: Smoke rises from the car of Brian Kaltreider after crashing his race car on the last are South Korea’s Charlie Wi, and Australians end.—Reuters ence,” he said. “I wish there was some master lap of an ARCA Series auto race. Corey LaJoie won the race. —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 SPORTS Isner to face Tursunov Photo of the day in Washington semis

WASHINGTON: John Isner hit 18 aces 20th-ranked and eighth-seeded Isner, side of the men’s draw pits top-seed- and never faced a break point during who won the hard-court title at ed and two-time champion Juan a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 victory over Marcos Atlanta last week, will face unseeded Martin del Potro of Argentina against Baghdatis of Cyprus on Friday that put Dmitry Tursunov of Russia for a berth No. 3-seeded Tommy Haas of the American in the Citi Open semifi- in Sunday’s final. Germany. Del Potro, winner of the nals. Isner won for the 10th time in his The 61st-ranked Tursunov over- 2009 U.S. Open, grabbed 15 consecu- past 11 matches as he gets ready for came 13 double-faults with the help tive points during one stretch and the U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 26 on of 15 aces to beat a cramping Marinko defeated No. 7-seeded Kevin hard courts similar to those used in Matosevic of Australia 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4). Anderson of South Africa 7-6 (0), 6-3. Washington. “I’m in a good rhythm Saturday’s match against Isner - Like Isner, del Potro did not face a and I’m serving well,” said Isner, who who won the longest match in tennis break point in the quarterfinals. The 35-year-old Haas defeated No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3). Defending women’s champion Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia returned to the semifinals by beating top-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 7-6 (0), 3-6, 6-3, and now will play No. 3 Ekaterina Makarova of Russia. No. 4 Alize Cornet of France meets 64th-ranked Andrea Petkovic of Germany in the other semifinal. Makarova played only four points - winning all of them - and moved on when her quarterfinal opponent, Monica Niculescu of Romania, stopped after one game because of a left wrist injury. Cornet eliminated No. 5 Sorana Cirstea 7-6 (5), 6-2, and Adam Malysz prepares for his ride at the Start of Silk Way Rally, Russia. www.redbull.com Petkovic advanced with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over 79th-ranked Paula WASHINGTON: John Isner serves against Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus dur- Ormaechea of Argentina. ing the Citi Open at the William HG FitzGerald Tennis Center. —AFP Petkovic is a former top-10 player whose career was sidetracked by Razzano stuns Kvitova has 49 aces and was broken only once history, 70-68 in the fifth set at injuries, including a stress fracture in in three matches this week. “I’d like to Wimbledon in 2010 - will be only her lower back and ankle and knee think I can hold my serve no matter Tursunov’s second semifinal of the operations. “I’m just so grateful for the CARLSBAD: Wild-card entrant Virginie Stosur of Australia, a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 win- opening-round loss in Grand Slam what’s under my feet, but I do think season, and his first at Washington second chance,” Petkovic said. “I really Razzano stunned third-seeded Petra ner over second-seeded Agnieszka event at the 2012 French Open. this (surface) helps my serve.” The since 2006. The semifinal on the other think of it as a second chance.”—AP Kvitova 6-7 (6), 7-5, 7-6 (8) on Friday in Radwanska of Poland. After winning a tight second set, the Southern California Open quarter- In the other quarterfinals, top- Razzano was serving at 5-3 in the finals. seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus third set when she wasted three Razzano, the Italian ranked No. 131 routed Poland’s Urszula Radwanska 6- match points on two hitting errors in the world, squandered four match 1, 6-2, and seventh-seeded Ana and a double fault. “In my head, I nev- Doping, injury rob points and had to stave off two match Ivanovic of Serbia beat fourth-seeded er lost,” Razzano said. “I stayed positive points from Kvitova in the third-set Roberta Vinci of Italy 6-1, 6-7 (1), 6-2. and never thought I could lose.” tiebreaker before Kvitova double- In the second match of her doubles In the third-set tiebreaker, Kvitova worlds of stardust faulted to end the match at 3 hours, comeback on the WTA Tour, Martina jumped out in front 5-2 before 35 minutes. “I think I was nervous,” Hingis and Slovak partner Daniela Razzano battled back to even the Razzano said. “I’m human. I’m not a Hantuchova lost to Americans Raquel score. Razzano saved one match point LONDON: A year after athletics was es a knee injury but, according to Diamond League last weekend, robot. Sometimes you feel stress. I Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, falling when Kvitova committed an unforced at the heart of London 2012 the Kenya’s former Olympic champion despite a dire start. “I think I was just tried to focus on the points.” 4-6, 7-5, 10-3. Hingis, the former top- error, then dropped her fourth match sport’s biennial world champi- Kip Keino, several of the country’s race rusty,” he said. “I think the The match was the second longest ranked Swiss star, was playing her first point at 7-6. After another unforced onships is in danger of losing its lus- other leading athletes are also opt- rounds at the world championships on the WTA Tour this year behind one WTA event in nearly six years. error by Kvitova on the Czech’s second tre after a series of doping and ing to sit out the championships to should help out just to get my legs between Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Razzano’s win over the seventh- match point, Razzano hit a forehand injury withdrawals have robbed the stay fresh for potentially more lucra- freer.” Anastasia Rodionova that lasted 3:42 ranked Kvitova was the Italian’s first winner to set up match point No. 5, Moscow event of much of its star- tive appearances in the Diamond Gatlin, who handed Bolt a rare at Charleston in April. over a top-10 player since she handed which ended with Kvitova’s eighth dust. League and city road races. defeat over 100 in June, looks his Razzano will face fifth-seeded Sam then-No. 5 Serena Williams her first double fault.—AP True, Usain Bolt is still on board Also missing will be Britain’s closest rival and Jamaican Nesta flying the flag and will ensure mas- Olympic heptathlon champion Carter, whose 9.87 in Madrid on July sive interest but after Tyson Gay and Jessica Ennis-Hill who has failed to 13 makes him the second-fastest Asafa Powell were ruled out through recover from an Achilles tendon man in the field, should also feature doping violations and reigning injury, with Russian world champion but realistically they are competing 100m champion Yohan Blake pulled Tatyana Chernova also out injured. for silver. out injured, it seems only a repeat of All of which focuses the spotlight Another Jamaican, 2012 Olympic his false start in Daegu two years even more brightly on Bolt and the bronze medallist Warren Weir, looks ago can prevent the Jamaican tak- likes of American sprinter Allyson the only man capable of getting ing the title. Felix, 20-year-old 400 metres sensa- close to Bolt over 200 and he com- Should Bolt fail again, the tion Kirani James, Britain’s double pleted his competitive preparations International Association of Olympic distance gold medallist Mo with a London win in 19.89 but Athletics Federations (IAAF) faces Farah and Tirunesh Dibaba, also again the champion would have to the nightmare scenario of twice- seeking the 5,000/10,000 double. have an off day to open the door. banned doper Justin Gatlin being In 2009, Bolt matched his Beijing While the United States is strug- crowned world champion to cap off Olympic heroics and went even gling to reclaim its hegemony in the an horrific summer doping deluge faster by winning the 100m and flat sprints, it remains dominant that has again dragged the sport 200m in world records that still over the hurdles where David Oliver, into the gutter. stand. Two years later in South Korea Aries Merritt and surprise national Olympic 1,500 metres champion it all went horribly wrong when he trials winner Ryan Wilson will Asli Cakir Alptekin is one of dozens false-started and was disqualified attempt a first US sweep of a global of Turkish athletes to fail recent tests from the 100, opening the door for 110 hurdles final since the 1960 while host nation Russia has more Blake. Olympics. than 40 currently serving bans - as He roared back to take the 200 Australia’s Olympic sprint hurdles well as several more back in action and relay golds and, providing he is champion Sally Pearson has timed having served their time for posi- fully fit, there seems little possibility her return to form just right as she tives. of him missing out on another dou- won her first Diamond League race Olympic champion and world ble and probable treble. of the season at London after a 800 record holder David Rudisha will Bolt warmed up with a comfort- wretched injury-hit season. be watching from home as he nurs- able 9.85 win at the London Farah’s leap to dominance over the longer distances came after he worked relentlessly to develop his last-lap speed and the evidence was there for all to see when he broke Steve Cram’s 28-year-old British 1,500m record when recently finish- CARLSBAD: Virginie Razzano of France serves the ball to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during their quarter final ing second to Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop, round at the Southern California Open. —AFP favourite to retain his world title. Only Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, the world record holder Granollers wins Kitzbuehel title with 3:26.00, American Bernard Lagat and Algerian Noureddine KITZBUEHEL: Marcel Granollers won his fourth ATP title Monaco broke Granollers’ first service game with a win- Morceli have run faster than Kiprop’s after overcoming a disastrous start yesterday, defeating ner off the net cord and added two more breaks to take the 3:27.72 Monaco run and with second-seeded Juan Monaco of Argentina 0-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4 opening set in 23 minutes. Olympic champion Taoufik in the bet-at-home Cup final. “I didn’t play well at all in the beginning. He was very Makhloufi out injured, he starts a The 53rd-ranked Spaniard won his first title since also solid from the start,” said Granollers, who won only nine strong favorite. beating Monaco two years ago in Valencia, Spain. points in the set. “When you’re close to winning a title, you It will be an emotional outing for Becoming the first Spanish winner here since Alex Corretja get nervous.” Granollers saved two more break points early Russian pole vaulter extraordinaire in 2002, Granollers improved to 4-2 in career finals. in the second set, helping him to settle, and broke himself Yelena Isinbayeva, who will retire “It’s a very special feeling to win here,” said Granollers, at the first opportunity to lead 5-3. after the event. The 31-year-old who had failed to go beyond the quarterfinals of an event “He had chances in the second set as well and I was twice Olympic champion failed to this season but ended Robin Haase’s two-year winning run lucky he couldn’t take them,” Granollers said. “From then on medal in the last two world champi- in Kitzbuehel in the semifinals. it became a different match.” onships and has struggled for form Monaco was seeking his ninth career title and second of Granollers had a 4-0 lead in the deciding set. He missed LINZ: US 1500 meters World champion Jenny Simpson runs in Linz, this year but would love to go out the year, after winning in May in Duesseldorf, Germany. The three match points at 5-2 but converted at the fourth Austria, where the US national athletics team has their training camp on a high — something around five 31st-ranked Monaco, who won here in 2007, dictated the chance on Monaco’s serve when the Argentine sent a back- ahead of the athletics world championships to be held in Moscow from metres. The championships run pace in the opening set with strong forehands from the hand volley long. “Marcel deserved to win,” Monaco said. August 10-18. —AFP from Aug.10-18. —Reuters baseline, sending Granollers from one corner to the other. “In the end, he just played better than me.” —AP Rio Games try to avoid turmoil

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s World Cup starts in system. The week kicked off when the pontiff’s ball’s world governing body, required only was expected to grow from $2.8 billion to as venues were older structures being remod- just over 10 months, and the three-year count- motorcade made a wrong turn, his car eight stadiums. much as $4 billion. This is the budget to run eled, and the other half was split evenly down for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics is start- swarmed over by thousands of faithful and Olympics organizers have yet to announce the games themselves, money coming from between temporary structures and new, per- ing to roll. security agents were left chasing him helpless- their budgets, but public spending could be sponsors, ticket sales and merchandising. On manent structures. This should be a great moment for Brazil ly. “Errors with the pope’s arrival and the break- similar to the soccer tournament- or higher. Friday, Gryner said $700 million in public mon- Just days after the Confederations Cup end- and for Rio, the city at the center of the festivi- down of the subway ... reinforce suspicions Leo Gryner, chief operating officer of the ey may be needed to balance the operating ed, IOC President Jacques Rogge said the ties. Yet fierce protests at the Confederations about the country’s ability to be a good host,” Rio organizing committee, told The Associated budget. He said any shortfall comes from infla- Olympics would have a role in spurring long- Cup in June, a warm-up for the World Cup, and the newspaper said. Press in an interview he expects the capital tion, Brazil’s slowing economy and the ability term infrastructure for Rio. The pope did his bit a chaotic visit to Rio last month by Pope Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes termed the organi- budget - a mix of public and private money to sell local sponsorship - a key source of rev- to help, blessing the Olympic and Paralympic Francis have some questioning if Brazil - and a zation for the pope’s visit “closer to zero than aimed at building supporting infrastructure enue. “Right now as our budget stands we flags with holy water - as well as visiting slums city largely known for beach life and samba - 10,” though he offered a higher grade as the for the Olympics - could be 35 percent above need this $700 million,” he said. Both the capi- in a move that accented the disparity between can buckle down and pull off sports’ two pope departed. the $11.6 billion listed in the original bid. He tal and operating budgets are expected to be the country’s rich and poor. mega-events. The country is spending about $13.3 billion said the growth was partly due to inflation and announced later with year, with early esti- “We’ll have to explain very clearly to all the Rio’s main newspaper, O Globo, raised the of largely public money for the World Cup. The the value of the Brazilian currency. In addition, mates typically growing as the games public that the investments made for the issue in an editorial during the pope’s visit, flashpoint for protesters has been 12 new or the original bid did not include a $4 billion approach. Aware of FIFA’s image problem, Olympic Games (are) going to give a sustain- which was plagued by massive traffic jams, remodeled stadiums, four of which seem sure extension of Rio’s subway system, he said. Gryner promised “no white elephants” for the able legacy for generations to come,” Rogge power outages and an overloaded subway to become unused white elephants. FIFA, foot- Gryner said the Summer Games budget Rio games. He said about 50 percent of the said. —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 sports19 Missy & Katie show news isn’t bad at all

BARCELONA: The news from back that, any thoughts of Alex Rodriguez, or wait in line. I kept putting it off, so I meet. But she never stays down for favorite to take home another gold - home sounds so discouraging. A-Rod Ryan Braun or Riley Cooper melt right just decided to get it after worlds.” long. Just like that, Franklin got back to and maybe another record. But and his cohorts awaiting their fate in away. Franklin is the more famous of the what passes for normal in her world - Ledecky seems to be taking it all in another wretched doping scandal. A Franklin is 18, a recent high school two, coming off her four gold medals the ever-present smile, the perpetually stride, like all these medals and records former MVP already benched for the graduate who’ll head off in the fall to at the London Olympics last summer. bouncy personality, the unlimited are no big deal. baseball season after finally coming Cal. She hasn’t decided what career But, as so often happens with athletes sense of optimism. She always seems Her coach, Bruce Gemmell, points clean - well, sort of - to using pharma- she wants to pursue. Medicine is a pos- outside the major US sports, that fame so dang upbeat that some internation- to what happened after the Olympics. ceuticals that gave him an edge on the sibility. She’s interested in marine biol- tends to wane until the next Summer al journalists have wondered, quite “She went home, slept in her same field. An NFL player sent off to sensitiv- ogy, too. And she’s always wanted to Games. The folks back in America may naturally, whether it’s all just an act. room, mom was still making meals ... ity training after shouting a racial slur become an elementary school teacher. not have even noticed - with pennant Unless she’s pulling an amazing con mom and dad were still driving her to at a concert. But there’s plenty of time to sort that races and NFL training camps and all job, apparently that’s just her. practice and driving her to school,” We all could use a reason to cheer. out. the aforementioned nastiness - that Ledecky is more reserved than Gemmell said. “I think the biggest Well, there are two of them at the Ledecky is only 16, getting ready for Franklin is on the cusp of an even Franklin, but her confidence and poise change in her life in the past year was world swimming championships. her junior year of high school. She greater performance at the biggest has clearly grown since last summer, her brother went off to college. The Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky. enjoys history, hanging out with swim meet outside the Olympics. when she seemingly coming out of rest of it was pretty much what she By all accounts, these teenagers friends or just watching the news with She won gold in her first four nowhere to capture an Olympic gold had been doing. There’s a lot of benefit make good grades in school, mind her mom, showing an increasing inter- events, a streak that finally ended medal in the grueling 800 freestyle. to that.” Franklin followed basically the their parents, eat their vegetables, say est in all that’s going on in the world. Friday night when she finished fourth Her races in Barcelona have been same path after the Olympics. She “yes sir” and “thank you” at all the right She’s just starting to think about where in the 100-meter freestyle. But she’s even better. Ledecky broke the world went back to Colorado for her senior times, don’t post ugly messages on she might want to go to college. Her still got two more events to go, and a record in the 1,500 freestyle by a year of high school and lived, for the social media, and aren’t exactly in a most pressing priority at the moment good shot at winning them both. That whopping 6 seconds, landing a spot most part, like a normal kid rather than mad dash to cash in on their athletic is getting a driver’s license when she would put her in some pretty rarified on ESPN’s “Plays of the Day” with a little a four-time Olympic gold medalist. excellence, defying a world that gets home from Barcelona. territory indeed. At the moment, help from USA Swimming and their Sure, she walked some red carpets and screams out, “Get it while you can!” “I could’ve gotten my permit in Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz are the followers on Twitter. She nearly broke got to meet Justin Bieber. But she also They’re a refreshing break amid a December,” Ledecky said. “But I kept only swimmers to win six golds at another record while winning the 400 went on retreats with his classmates, summer of scandal. “How is everyone?” saying, ‘Ohh, I’ll get it next week.’ Then either the Olympics or the world free and, along with Franklin, helped attended the prom, joined clubs, Franklin says to the assembled media I’d have a swim meet the next week championships. the US capture gold in the 800 free passed out cookies and hot chocolate at the beginning of each day, always and I’d be resting up, and I didn’t want Franklin acknowledged being “a lit- relay. Ledecky has one event left in during finals week, and competed on with a big smile on her face. Just like to go out and get germs from the DMV tle bummed” about her first loss of the Barcelona, the 800 free, and she’s a big her school’s swim team. —AP Frenetic Lochte inspires golden day for the US

BARCELONA: American Ryan Lochte pro- terfly. “It was so painful, I don’t want to do that duced one of the most inspired day’s swim- again,” Lochte, one of the most popular ath- ming in world championship history to claim letes with the 9,000-strong crowd, told his second and third golds of the week and reporters. “But no matter the outcome in the set a personal best in qualifying for the 100 first and second races I had to pull it together butterfly on Friday. for Team USA,” he added. He has played second fiddle to compatriot “When you get together for a relay you Michael Phelps for the majority of his career don’t care about the pain, you don’t care but with the most decorated swimmer in his- about anything like that. “You just get up tory now in retirement, Lochte seized his there and put together a good race for the moment to help make it another glittering other guys.” Lochte’s exploits outshone a fine day for the United States at the Palau Sant performance and an act of redemption for Jordi in Barcelona. Cate Campbell of Australia. Digging deep into his energy reserves and The 21-year-old was forced to miss the 100 ignoring the pain on the day before his 29th metres freestyle at the London Olympics last SPAIN: The players of the world champion team of Spain pose with their medals birthday, he cruised to victory in the 200 year because of illness but she scorched to SPAIN : US swimmer Ryan Lochte leaves the during the victory ceremony for the women’s water polo gold medal.—AP metres backstroke, adding to Thursday’s gold victory on Friday ahead of Sweden’s Sarah swimming pool after the final of the men’s in the 200 individual medley. Sjostrom and Olympic champion Ranomi 100-metre butterfly swimming event in the An hour later he was back in the pool quali- Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands. Campbell’s FINA World Championships. —AFP Spain wins water polo fying for late yesterday’s 100 butterfly final gold matched the one claimed by her compa- with the fastest time of his career and just triot James Magnussen in the men’s version the last world championships in Shanghai two BARCELONA: Spain beat Australia 8-6 going into the final but never got closer over half an hour later he crowned a stunning on Thursday. years ago, Efimova touched in a time of two Friday to become the first host country than down 4-3 in the second quarter. day’s work with a key contribution to the U.S. “Oh gosh, did that just happen? I can’t minutes 19.41 seconds, with Pedersen, who to be crowned world champion in Earlier, Hungary claimed the bronze after victory in the 4x200 metres freestyle relay. believe it,” she told reporters. “I am beyond set a world best of 2:19.11 in her semi-final on women’s water polo. beating Russia 10-8. He is the first swimmer to win two world words. This never happens to me, I always Thursday, taking silver in 2:20.08. While Spain, which won the silver medal at Spain got going with a goal by center championship golds in one day on three sep- have words. I’m just so, so relieved. “I knew I Lochte shone, his teenage compatriot Missy the 2012 Olympics, never trailed at forward Maria Godoy and went into half- arate occasions, taking his tally of world titles could put together a good race but having a Franklin suffered her first setback of the week Barcelona’s Bernat Picornell pool in front time with a 5-3 lead after driver Roser to 15 compared with 26 for Phelps. good race under pressure is a lot harder. when she could only manage fourth in the of their raucous home fans. Tarrago scored with a long shot with the His triumph in the 200 backstroke was his “Australians are back top of the world when it 100 freestyle having won all four of her finals It was Spain’s first gold medal and shot clock winding down. third in a row and he is only the second man comes to sprint freestyle.” before Friday. 11th in total at the worlds. Spain was led “Winning in front of 4,000 people is to win three straight titles in the event after In Friday’s other two finals, Daniel Gyurta of The 18-year-old has claimed two relay titles by captain Jennifer Pareja, who scored indescribable,” said Tarrago. “That sup- compatriot and world record holder Aaron Hungary became the first man to win a treble and golds in 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke two goals including a late penalty to port made us push hard to win. We could Peirsol. Lochte is also the first swimmer to win of 200 breaststroke world titles when he and if she manages a fifth triumph in her clinch the title. not lose again in the finals like the five world championship gold in one relay. claimed a third consecutive gold with a cham- remaining two events she would match a feat “I’m flipping out, I’m so happy,” said achieved only by American Tracy Caulkins in Olympics.” Spain beat Olympic champion Friday’s victory was the fifth in succession for pionship record. Pareja. “This is possibly, no, not possibly, 1978 and Australian Libby Trickett in 2007. United States in the quarterfinals and the US in the 4x200 freestyle since 2005 and Gyurta, 24 and the Olympic champion in this is the best moment of my sporting No woman has won more than five golds Hungary in the semifinals. their eighth in 15 championships since the London last year, clocked two minutes 07.23 life. The final in London was incredible, inaugural edition in Belgrade in 1973. seconds, beating the previous record of at a world championships - East German but when you win and are world champi- Pareja won Spain’s third sprint of the Kristin Otto won six at the 1988 Seoul night to start the second half, and Lochte swam a blistering second leg to 2:07.31 set by Australian Christian Sprenger in on it’s beyond incredible.” overhaul early leaders Russia, giving his team 2009. Russia’s Yuliya Efimova overhauled Olympics. Franklin goes in the 200 backstroke moments later teammate Laura Lopez Australia, the bronze medalist from a healthy lead they comfortably held. Phelps favorite and world record holder Rikke final, one of her favorite events, late yesterday fired in her second goal. —AP the London Games, was undefeated is the only other swimmer with five golds in Pedersen of Denmark to win gold in the and is due to swim for the United States in one world championship event, the 200 but- women’s 200 breaststroke. Silver medallist at today’s 4x100 medley relay.—Reuters QPR off to winning start

LONDON: QPR made the perfect start to their Reading, also looking for a quick return to One play-offs last season, were playing non- bid for an immediate return to the Premier the Premier League, beat Ipswich 2-1 at the league football just 10 years ago. But the tiny League as the Championship promotion Madejski Stadium. Former Reading midfielder Somerset club had no trouble adapting to favorites defeated Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Jay Tabb gave Ipswich a 16th-minute lead but their new lofty status as Edward Upson’s 20- yesterday. a Cole Skuse own goal put Reading level a yard strike in the 88th minute clinched the Harry Redknapp’s team have endured a minute before half-time. points at The Den. turbulent time since last season’s relegation, And with 16 minutes to go Danny Guthrie Bournemouth, who came up from League with several star players expressing their scored the winner for the Royals with a spec- One alongside Yeovil, were also celebrating a desire to leave and the Hoops boss falling out tacular solo goal. Watford began to erase the win as a brace from Lewis Grabban earned with owner Tony Fernandes over the failure to painful memories of last season’s play-off final them a 2-1 home triumph over Charlton. sign former England defender Wayne Bridge. defeat with a 1-0 win at Birmingham. Leicester battled back to beat Middlesbrough But the west London club still retain Gianfranco Zola’s side missed out on a 2-1 at the Riverside Stadium thanks to goals enough talent to be many experts’ choice to place in the Premier League in agonising fash- from Danny Drinkwater and Jamie Vardy. go up as champions and they lived up to that ion as former Watford striker Kevin Phillips Nottingham Forest defeated Huddersfield 1- billing after a slow start on the opening day of converted an extra-time penalty that gave 0 at the City Ground, with Henri Lansbury’s the second tier season. Crystal Palace a 1-0 win at Wembley. But the 52nd minute goal giving the hosts three points LONDON: A file picture taken on March 7, 2013, shows Tottenham Hotspur’s Wednesday shocked Loftus Road when Hornets remain one of the main contenders from their first game for just the second time in Welsh footballer Gareth Bale (right) in action in this file photo. —AFP Atdhe Nuhiu, a 6ft 6in Austrian striker signed for promotion after a host of pre-season sign- seven seasons. from Turkish side Eskisehirspor last month, ings and they made the ideal start as Troy Leeds bagged a late winner in their 2-1 vic- Bale bids goodbye slammed the visitors ahead 19 minutes into Deeney’s 11th-minute strike sealed the points tory over Brighton, while Blackpool beat newly his debut. at St Andrews. Newly-promoted Yeovil promoted Doncaster 3-1 at the Keepmoat as Real deal looms But QPR equalised five minutes before half- marked their first-ever second tier fixture with Stadium. Earlier, Bolton came from behind to time when former Manchester City defender a dramatic 1-0 win against Millwall. Gary rescue a 1-1 draw at local rivals Burnley in the LONDON: Tottenham take on Monaco late ahead of their opening league game Nedum Onuoha turned home Junior Hoilett’s Johnson’s team, promoted via the League opening game of the season. —AFP yesterday without Gareth Bale, who misses against Real Betis on August 18. shot. the pre-season friendly in the Principality The 24-year-old is set to become the And former Everton striker Andy Johnson through injury ahead of a likely defining most expensive player of all time, an hon- quickly put Redknapp’s men ahead with a week for his forecast world record transfer or currently held by Cristiano Ronaldo, close-range volley after Chris Kirkland had to Real Madrid. The Wales superstar bid “an who moved from Manchester United to saved Joey Barton’s shot. emotional farewell” to his teammates in Real for 94 million euros ($125 million, £82 FA Cup final hero Ben Watson was on the London on Friday, autographing their million) in 2009. Levy is reportedly holding mark as Wigan, another of the teams relegat- shirts before they left for Monte Carlo, out for a transfer fee in excess of £105 mil- ed from the Premier League last term, swept according to a report in The Sun. lion while Real are looking to strike a deal to a 4-0 win over 10-man Barnsley at Oakwell. The Spurs forward sits out Saturday at around £85 million with a makeweight, Watson, who was the Wembley match-win- evening’s match, and may also miss Wales’ possibly Fabio Coentrao, thrown in. ner against Manchester City in May, put friendly against Ireland in Cardiff on On Friday, Arsenal manager Arsene Wigan 1-0 up with a fine first-half finish and August 14, with a minor hamstring prob- Wenger claimed Bale’s proposed mega lem. As Bale works on his fitness, transfer made a mockery of UEFA’s three more goals after the break sealed a Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy will sit Financial Fair Play rules. “It makes a joke of comprehensive victory for new manager down for his first face-to-face talks with it. It’s quite amazing that in the year where Owen Coyle. Grant Holt, making his debut Real Madrid president Florentino Perez in the Financial Fair Play comes in, the foot- after leaving Norwich, netted 10 minutes after Miami next week, possibly on Wednesday, ball world has gone completely crazy,” the the interval to make it 2-0 before Barnsley lost The Times suggested. Frenchman said. “You wonder what kind of Dale Jennings to a 66th-minute sending off, Real are in Florida, where Levy has a impact and effect it has on the football and Wigan then added further goals in the holiday home, for a pre-season warm-up. world. It looks like it has made everybody last 10 minutes through Leon Barnett and They are keen to see Bale at the Bernabeu worse than before.” —AFP Shaun Maloney. Nedum Onuoha Woods takes Isner to face control after Tursunov flirting with 59 in Washington semis

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MANCHESTER: England's Alastair Cook plays a shot off the bowling of Australia's Nathan Lyon during day three of the third Ashes Test match eldh at Old Trafford cricket ground yesterday. — AP Australia on top despite Pietersen’s ton

MANCHESTER: Kevin Pietersen’s first century of ing 187. Pietersen on 33 and Bell on four. The 33-year-old this Ashes series helped see England to within It was his highest Test score against England Pietersen then attacked Nathan Lyon, dancing sight of avoiding the follow-on in the third Test and the highest by any Australian in an overseas down the pitch to drive the off-spinner for two six- SCOREBOARD against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday. Test since nightwatchman Jason Gillespie’s es in successive balls as he went to fifty. Bell fol- At the close of the third day, England were 294 extraordinary 201 not out against Bangladesh sev- lowed suit by driving Lyon for six. MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Scoreboard at stumps on the third day of the third Ashes for seven-still 233 runs behind-after Pietersen had en years ago. Pietersen might have been out for 62 when Test between England and Australia at Old Trafford yesterday: made 113. Matt Prior was six not out and Stuart At the start of play, England captain Cook was Australia opted against reviewing an lbw appeal Australia 1st Innings 527-7 dec (M Clarke Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Root), 2-49 (Bresnan), 3- Broad nine not out, with England now needing 36 not out and Jonathan Trott two not out. from all-rounder Shane Watson turned down by 187, S Smith 89, C Rogers 84, M 64 (Trott), 4-110 (Cook), 5-225 (Bell), 6-277 just 34 more runs to make Australia bat again in a However, Trott fell for five when he edged a good umpire Tony Hill that DRS indicated was out. Starc 66 no, B Haddin 65 no; G Swann 5-159) (Bairstow), 7-280 (Pietersen) match the tourists, 2-0 down with three to play, length ball from fast bowler Ryan Harris low to Australia took the new ball with England 198 for To bat: G Swann, J Anderson had to win to stand any chance of regaining the Clarke at second slip. four off 81 overs but, three balls later, Bell drove England 1st Innings (overnight: 52-2) Ashes. Pietersen, arguably England’s most talented Starc down the ground. Bowling: Harris 26-9-50-2; Starc 26-5-75-3 The hundred was Pietersen’s 23rd in 97 Tests- batsman, was fortunate not to nick his first ball, an Bell’s three off Siddle then saw him to a 93-ball A. Cook c Haddin b Starc 62 (1nb); Lyon 26-8-77-0; Watson 15-7-26-0; J. Root c Haddin b Siddle 8 but first at this level at Old Trafford-and left him excellent delivery from Harris, and only got off the fifty. But Bell, bidding to become the first England Siddle 25-6-53-2; Smith 2-0-6-0 T. Bresnan c Haddin b Siddle 1 two shy of the England Test century record of 25 mark after just digging out a yorker from the same batsman to make hundreds in four successive Australia: Shane Watson, Chris Rogers, J. Trott c Clarke b Harris 5 held by Alastair Cook. bowler. Ashes Tests, was bowled by a brilliant Harris deliv- Usman Khawaja, Michael Clarke (capt), It came almost a year to the day since Meanwhile left-hander Cook completed a 138- ery that nipped back to clip the top of off stump. K. Pietersen lbw b Starc 113 Pietersen’s Test hundred against his native South ball fifty including seven fours. But shortly before Pietersen, however, completed an impressive I. Bell b Harris 60 Steven Smith, David Warner, Brad Haddin Africa at Headingley, after which he was briefly lunch left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc had Cook 165-ball century by uppercutting Starc behind J. Bairstow c Watson b Starc 22 (wkt), Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Nathan dropped from the England side for sending texts caught superbly for 62 by diving wicketkeeper point for his 10th four in an innings also featuring M. Prior not out 6 Lyon, Ryan Harris allegedly critical of then England captain Andrew Brad Haddin, who held a right-handed chance off two sixes. S. Broad not out 9 Match position: England are 233 runs behind Strauss to Proteas players. a genuine glance. But he was dismissed when, playing down the Extras (lb7, nb1) 8 Australia with three first Together with Ian Bell, who made an elegant Then Bell, on four, survived an appeal for a catch wrong line of a ball from Starc (three for 75) that Total (7 wkts, 120 overs, 519 mins) 294 innings wickets standing. 60, Pietersen put on 115 for the fifth wicket and 52 by Haddin off Starc with the ‘Snicko’ device, not pitched on middle stump, he was given out lbw by for the sixth with Jonny Bairstow (22). part of the Decision Review System that has caused Hill. Pietersen reviewed and, while there there was The Ashes-holders resumed Saturday on 52 for so much controversy this series, indicating he had the tiniest hint of an edge on Hot Spot, part of the two after Australia had declared at 527 for seven got a thin edge. DRS, third umpire Kumar Dharmasena upheld Hill’s Meilutyte sets world record on the back of captain Michael Clarke’s command- At lunch, England were 119 for four with verdict. — AFP BARCELONA: Lithuanian teenager Ruta SCOREBOARD Meilutyte claimed her second world record India whitewash Zimbabwe of the week when she beat Russian Yuliya Efimova’s previous best in the women’s 50 BULAWAYO: Scoreboard after the fifth one-day interna- metres breaststroke at the world champi- BULAWAYO: Leg spinner Amit Mishra’s six- his very first delivery and then ran through the tional between Zimbabwe and India at the Queens Sports onships yesterday. Club in Bulawayo yesterday. wicket haul took India to a comprehensive Zimbabwean lower order with embarrassing Meilutyte, who swam faster than anyone one-day series whitewash in Zimbabwe as they ease. Zimbabwe innings before her in the semi-finals of the 100 V.Sibanda c Karthik b Unadkat 5 breaststroke on Monday, clocked a time of beat the hosts by seven wickets in yesterday’s Sean Williams was the only batsman to put H.Masakadza b Jadeja 32 fifth one-day international in Bulawayo. up resistance for Zimbabwe, hitting 51 from 63 B.Taylor c Raina b Sharma 0 29.48 seconds in her semi-final to beat Efimova’s mark of 29.78 set in qualifying ear- Mishra’ figures of six for 48 saw Zimbabwe balls as he provided a partial recovery from 45 T.Maruma c Karthik b Mohammed Shami 4 S.Williams c Kohli b Mishra 51 lier yesterday. SPAIN: Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte bowled out for just 163, and also took his wick- for four. M.Waller c Sharma b Mishra 8 “Two world records is a dream come competes in the women’s 50-metre E.Chigumbura lbw Mishra 17 et tally in the series to 18 - a new record for a With the hosts once again struggling with true,” Meilutyte, who took gold in the 100 breaststroke swimming event in the T.Mutombodzi c Raina b Mishra 4 final on Tuesday, told Spanish television. “I’ve five-match series. the lateral movement on offer to the bowlers N.Mushangwe b Mishra 16 FINA World Championships. — AFP As they had for much of a one-sided series, up front, seamers Mohit Sharma, Jaydev been really close to the world record and I K.Jarvis not out 12 fourth in Friday’s 100 freestyle. India made light work of the Zimbabwean tar- Unadkat and Shami Ahmed claimed a wicket B.Vitori c Kohli b Mishra 4 really wanted it and I’m really happy,” the 16- Extras (lb-4, w-3, nb-3) 10 year-old added. Her fifth triumph means she has get, knocking off the runs in 34 overs to record apiece before left-arm spinner Jadeja forced Total (all out, 39.5 overs) 163 Efimova was swimming in the next lane matched a feat previously achieved only by their first whitewash away from home in a five- Hamilton Masakadza to play on for 32. Fall of wickets: 1-13 2-23 3-37 4-45 5-72 6-122 7-126 8- to Meilutyte in their semi-final and finished American Tracy Caulkins in 1978 and match contest. Although Williams gained reward for some 133 9-155 10-163 in 29.88. The Russian owned the record for Australian Libby Trickett in 2007. Bowling: M. Sharma 6-0-25-1 (w1), J. Unadkat 6-1-8-1, R. Although fast bowler Kyle Jarvis returned sensible batting through the middle overs, he around eight hours. “It’s hard to comprehend but I’m so excit- Jadeja 10-0-42-1, Mohammed Shami 7-1-27-1 (w2), S. ed because 200 back is my favourite race so to the Zimbabwean line-up to claim two wick- continued to lose partners at regular intervals Raina 2-0-9-0, A. Mishra 8.5-0-48-6 (nb3) Meanwhile, American teenager Missy Franklin captured a record-equalling fifth it was so fun to get out there,” Franklin told ets in the first 11 overs of the Indian innings, as Malcolm Waller pulled Mishra’s first ball to India innings C.Pujara b Jarvis 0 gold medal at a single world championships Spanish television. Ajinkya Rahane made 50 after coming in for his mid-on. Mishra then trapped Elton S.Dhawan c Taylor b Jarvis 41 when she won a second consecutive 200 Asked what her limit might be, she first game of the tour and Ravindra Jadeja hit Chigumbura lbw and had Tinotenda A.Rahane b Waller 50 metres backstroke title in Barcelona yester- added: “I don’t know, I don’t think I can 48 not out to see India to another crushing Mutombodzi caught at second slip in his sixth R.Jadeja not out 48 day. choose. “I’m so flattered I had so many D.Karthik not out 10 win. over, before getting rid of Williams in his sev- The 18-year-old clocked a time of two opportunities for all these races and it’s so Extras (b-4, lb-2, w-12) 18 exciting to be able to swim so many times Rahane batted steadily in his 66-ball knock enth. Total (for three wickets, 34 overs) 167 minutes 04.76 seconds, a championship Did not bat: V. Kohli, S. Raina, A. Mishra, Mohammed record, with Australia’s Belinda Hocking tak- here. “It’s an honor and a privilege and I before he was bowled by part-timer Malcolm With Natsai Mushangwe bowled and Brian Shami, M. Sharma, J. Unadkat ing silver in 2:06.66 and Hilary Caldwell of enjoy every single time I get in the water.” Waller, while Jadeja started slowly before Vitori undone by Mishra’s googly, the legspin- Fall of wicket: 1-0 2-55 3-126 Canada bronze in 2:06.80. Franklin set the world record to win 200 opening up to hit two sixes in the second half ner had bettered Sri Lankan Ajantha Mendis’ Bowling: K. Jarvis 8-3-18-2, B. Vitori 5-0-41-0 (w2), E. Franklin already had golds this week in backstroke gold at the London Olympics last of his innings. Man of the series Mishra was the record of 17 wickets in five matches at the 2008 Chigumbura 4-0-11-0 (w1), N. Mushangwe 6-0-26-0 100 backstroke, 200 freestyle and the 4x100 year and also claimed the world title in (w2), T. Mutombodzi 5-0-29-0 (w1), S. Williams 2-0-18-0 Shanghai two years ago.—Reuters clear star of the show though, as he struck with Asia Cup. — AFP (w1), M. Waller 4-0-18-1. and 4x200 freestyle relays and she came Market to shift into lower gear as earnings, data fade Page 22

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BEIJING: This Feb 9, 2004 file photo shows a man cycling past chicken feet on sale in a market in Tongxian, a suburb of Beijing. — AP US wins chicken dispute with China WTO ruling could be boost to US poultry exporters

GENEVA/WASHINGTON: The said in a statement on its website United States won a long-running yesterday. Both sides, it said, “have trade dispute with China on Friday some viewpoints that could win when the World Trade Organization the support of the panel of India row over poverty, policy found Beijing had broken global experts,” a reference to dispute rules by imposing anti-dumping panels, made up of independent duties on US chicken broiler parts. trade experts. extends to Harvard, Columbia The US complaint, first raised in Sept China and the United States 2011, was widely seen as one of a have had a series of trade spats at NEW DELHI: Indian government fig- India’s budget deficit is already sures and with the populist ratio- percent in 2004-2005. In absolute string of tit-for-tat disputes between the Geneva-based WTO. Beijing ures showing that poverty has been around 5 percent of GDP and is seen nales provided by the likes of Sen, terms, its estimates show the num- the world’s largest economies, and first said it might impose the chick- cut by a third since 2004 has set off a as a major contributor in drooping the expenditures on such track II ber of poor dropped to 359 million followed a US ban on imports of en duties in September 2009, just row between the country’s main investor sentiment. “It is certainly an policies are set to go up this year.” from 419 million. The government, Chinese cooked chicken. The ruling weeks after US President Barack political parties on whether the data achievement,” said Nobel laureate Sen, Bhagwati and Prime Minister by contrast, says the number of poor could be a boost to US poultry Obama’s decision to slap an emer- is accurate, and a slanging match Amartya Sen of the reduction in Singh all studied economics at dropped to 269 million in 2012 from exporters. The US complaint cited gency 35 percent tariff on Chinese- between two of the world’s best- poverty. “Is it a fantastic achieve- Britain’s Cambridge University in the 407 million in 2005. However, it uses damage done to exporters like made tires to stop a market-dis- known economists on the implica- ment? No, because the poverty line 1950s. Many economists say the about 5,000 rupees ($83) per month Pilgrim’s Pride, Tyson Foods Inc and rupting surge. China challenged tions for policy. The debate boils is low.” Congress party-led government has for a five-member family as its pover- Keystone Foods, a brand held by the tire tariff at the WTO, and lost. down to what path India should take A Harvard University professor of delayed decisions on opening up the ty line for urban areas, an amount Brazil’s Marfrig Alimentos SA. Within a week of the United States in coming years as slower growth economics and a confidant of Prime insurance and pension sectors for critics say would barely cover food An official with the US Trade saying it wanted to litigate the puts further poverty reduction at risk Minister Manmohan Singh, Sen is foreign investment, tax and other costs, let alone shelter, clothing and Representative’s office estimated broiler dispute, China slapped anti- in the world’s second-most populous widely seen as a major influence on reforms and that the inertia has other necessities. that the United States has lost about dumping duties on more than $3 nation. The opposition Bharatiya the Congress party’s jobs and food squandered gains of high growth Many international economists Janata Party (BJP) backs growth-ori- programs. Jagdish Bhagwati, profes- before the 2008 global crisis. The BJP, agree that India has reduced poverty, $1 billion in broiler product sales billion worth of US cars. Those ented reforms that would include a sor of economics and law at which pursued high-growth policies but it still has a long way to go. “Our since the duties were imposed by duties are now the subject of a sep- curb on public spending, while the analysis shows that while targeted China in 2010. Since 2010 the arate WTO complaint by the United ruling Congress party believes subsi- poverty-programs are important for Chinese Ministry of Commerce has States. US Trade Representative dies and a range of social welfare reducing poverty, a good investment had anti-dumping duties on Tyson, Michel Froman said he hoped the projects have lifted millions out of climate is very useful,” said Rana Keystone and Pilgrim’s Pride ranging latest win would “discourage fur- penury. Hasan, principal economist at the from 43.1 percent to 80.5 percent, ther violations” of the WTO rule Neither of these parties has a Asian Development Bank. “Good and a “weighted average” duty of book. “This decision sends a clear commanding lead in opinion polls investment climate is not only good 64.5 percent on imports from 32 message that the Obama ahead of general elections due by for business, it is also an important additional US companies. “China’s Administration can fight and win next May, so they will be competing means for making growth more pro- prohibitive duties on broiler prod- for American farmers, businesses, fiercely for the votes of the poor. poor in India.” India’s achievements, ucts were followed by a steep and workers in the global trading India’s Planning Commission said last however, compare poorly with other decline in exports to China - and system,” Froman said. China had week that 138 million people - more Asian nations. In China, for instance, now we look forward to seeing justified its duties on chickens by than the combined population of poverty levels fell to 12 percent in China’s market for broiler products saying US imports were unfairly Britain, Spain and Australia - had 2010 from 60 percent in 1990, restored,” US Agriculture Secretary subsidized and dumped on the climbed out of poverty between fis- according to the World Bank. Many Tom Vilsack said at a press confer- Chinese market, causing material cal 2004/05 (March-April) and of India’s poor scoff at the idea that ence. injury to China’s domestic industry. 2011/12. That left the official number they are better off than they were in of poor among a population of 1.2 2004. “In the past five years, nothing The United States had been the But the United States challenged ALLAHABAD, India: A young Indian child uses a rubber tyre to float in the largest exporter of broiler products the “opaqueness” of how China billion at 269 million. “The reduction has changed in my life,” says Nitai of the poverty level across the coun- flooded River Ganges under the Shastri bridge yesterday. — AP Karmakar, a resident of the eastern to China, but the duties cut its conducted its anti-dumping case, try is a clear manifestation and Columbia University, says Sen is an when it was in power from 1998 to city of Kolkata. The 31-year-old, who exports by some 80 percent. US including the calculations it used to endorsement of the pro-poor poli- apologist for Congress and its brand 2004, says the Planning makes about $84 a month washing chicken exports to China in 2012 conclude whether or not US chick- cies and the policy of inclusiveness of welfare spending at the cost of Commission’s figures on poverty are cars of residents in a housing colony, were 95,000 tonnes valued at $113.5 en was being sold at a fair price in of the UPA regime,” said Bhakta reforms. “Sen is not simply wrong; he fixed, and aimed at giving Congress a says he is not able to marry because million. China has 60 days to appeal. China. The trade group’s panel Charan Das, a spokesman of also poses a serious danger to eco- pre-election boost. “The government he cannot feed another person. “We’re going to press China to re- found that China’s basis for finding Congress and its United Progressive nomic policy in India,” Bhagwati only wants to showcase their Palani, a security guard in the open the market,” a USTR official dumping was “flatly inconsistent Alliance (UPA) coalition that has been wrote in a newspaper column. “The achievements with artificial figures southern city of Chennai, says he said in a technical briefing on the with WTO rules,” the USA Poultry in power since 2004. UPA government is now poised to before elections,” BJP spokesman takes care of his wife, two children case. China’s Ministry of Commerce and Egg Export Council said in a Critics say the numbers have been damage the economy, and to harm Prakash Javedkar said. “So far as the and an 80-year-old mother on an suggested it would explore possi- statement. “The WTO agrees with massaged to look good and any the poor ... because its near-paralysis BJP is concerned we want a decent income of $67 a month. “We just bilities for an appeal and said both the US argument that China had gains are pitiful compared to coun- on track I reforms has meant that living for the poor. We want their about manage our expenses and Beijing and Washington had points arbitrarily calculated costs, and from tries like China or Indonesia. revenue growth has slowed too, empowerment, not simply allevia- sometimes borrow to make ends of view that could win the support there allowed itself to impose anti- Congress party policies, which making it more difficult to finance tion of poverty.” meet,” said the 49-year-old. “But we of experts. “China will conduct a dumping duties,” the USTR official include guaranteed employment for the track II reforms on health, educa- According to the World Bank, cannot budget for times when kids serious evaluation and conduct fol- said. China’s Ministry of Commerce 100 days a year and plans to provide tion and PDS (public distribution sys- about one in three Indians were fall sick and we unexpectedly end up low-up work according to dispute did not immediately comment on subsidised grain to 800 million peo- tem) expansion for the poor. “At the poor, or living on less than $1.25 a spending on doctors’ visits and medi- resolution procedures,” the ministry the WTO ruling. — Reuters ple, are also a huge financial drain. same time, owing to electoral pres- day, in 2009-10 compared to 41.6 cines.” — Reuters SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 BUSINESS Navigating municipal bonds after Detroit

NEW YORK: When Detroit became the lot? The total amount of municipal debt online brokerage account, but it’s not workers. In its bankruptcy filing, the city its bonds. Even if you blindly stashed biggest city in US history to file for bank- outstanding is $3.72 trillion, according to exactly like buying stocks. They’re traded proposed trimming pension benefits most of your savings in muni-bond ruptcy last month, it turned public atten- the Federal Reserve’s latest report. That “over the counter.” That means there is and paying bondholders a fraction of funds, it’s unlikely that you loaned much tion to the municipal-bond market, may sound enormous, but it’s less than a no formal, centralized exchange with what they’re owed. It also wants to treat to Detroit. Mutual funds tracked by the where cities and states go to borrow fifth of the total $21.7 trillion US bond one agreed-upon price for a security. retired city workers and bond investors investor service Morningstar have $2.5 money. Was this sleepy, often-over- market. Corporations have borrowed Instead, you have to buy them through a as equals. Both groups plan to fight the billion in bonds tied to the city. That’s looked area of the financial world actual- more money, owing $5.9 trillion to bond- dealer, and the prices may vary. “You can city’s proposal, for very different reasons. 0.003 percent of their muni-bond hold- ly dangerous? Like other cities, Detroit holders. And the federal government has call up five dealers and get five different The retirees argue that Michigan’s state ings, according to the Fed. borrowed from investors to pay for more publicly traded debt than both prices,” said Daniel Berger, senior market constitution protects their pensions. So I don’t need to worry about losing roads, sewer lines and an array of other groups put together: $11.9 trillion. For strategist at Thomson Reuters, “although Investors who hold the city’s general- my money? Despite the high-profile projects. Now Detroit says it can’t afford the sake of comparison, the value of the the prices would be closer than you obligation bonds expect not only to rank problems of cities like Detroit, municipal- to pay bond investors all of their money entire US stock market is $18.7 trillion, think.” Dealers are supposed to offer “fair first in the lineup of creditors but also to ities rarely miss an interest payment. The back. according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. and reasonable” prices. They make mon- be paid in full. Laws often require local rating agency Moody’s counted five Even if you don’t own any muni What’s the appeal? It’s mainly the tax- ey from the difference between what governments to pay bondholders before defaults last year. Cities were behind bonds, it’s important to understand what free income. The federal government they paid and what they get from a sale. they pay anybody else. three of them: Stockton, Calif., Oakdale, they are and how they work. They’re taxes interest payments from savings What kind of return can you expect? Government borrowers generally California and Wenatchee, Washington. what your city uses to keep itself run- accounts, corporate bonds and other When there’s little risk, there’s little stick to their promised interest payments Since the Great Recession hit in late ning, but it can be tough to cut through investments, but doesn’t touch income reward. Thanks to their solid credit histo- as long as residents keep paying taxes. 2007, a total of 26 municipal borrowers the jargon and heated claims surround- from muni bonds. To somebody in the ry, municipalities pay very low rates to Even when trouble strikes, bondholders have defaulted on their debts, according ing Detroit’s bankruptcy. To help, here’s a top tax bracket, a New York State bond borrow money. A type of muni called a usually get all their money back. In 1994, to Moody’s, and nearly all of them were look at the nuts and bolts of what paying 3 percent is equal to a corporate “general obligation” bond is considered for example, the bankruptcy of Orange hospitals and housing projects. finance types call munis: who owns bond paying 4.97 percent. Who owns especially safe. They’re backed by a city’s County, California, shook financial mar- Corporations are much more likely to them, how they work and just what they them? They’re mainly held by individu- full faith and credit, which essentially kets, raising fears that bond investors miss an interest payment. An average of are, anyway. als, who buy them outright or through means a city will take extreme steps to would spurn local government borrow- 0.12 percent of all municipal borrowers What are municipal bonds, exactly? mutual funds. Individuals hold 44 per- repay them - even if it has to cut police ers. But Orange County’s bondholders default within 10 years, according to a Cities, states, towns and other local gov- cent of all munis, and mutual funds have and fire protection for its citizens or raise eventually got all of their money back, Moody’s study of defaults between 1970 ernments sell municipal bonds to raise another 25 percent, according to the taxes. according to the rating agency Moody’s. and 2012. Nearly 12 percent of borrow- money for school renovations, sports Fed. Banks and insurance companies The average yield on a top-rated, 10- One of Detroit’s problems, though, is ers in the corporate bond market default stadiums or other projects. A fire district own much of the rest. year general-obligation muni bond is that its population and property values over the same span. might need a few hundred thousand Buying municipal bonds directly 2.71 percent, according to Thomson have plunged, shrinking the city’s tax How has the municipal market react- dollars for a new truck; a state might tends to be the province of wealthy peo- Reuters data. For a 30-year muni, it’s 4.22 base. Bond investors worry that if Detroit ed to Detroit? Interest rates on some need a few billion to build highways and ple who have the most to gain from the percent. That’s a bit more than the pay- manages to pay them less than the full bonds have crept up since the news hospitals. When investors buy a muni tax exemption. “Tax-free bonds have out on US government debt, and the tax amount they’re owed, it would set a broke, so some cities and towns will bond, they’re lending to a local govern- been the best game in town for people break makes the benefit bigger for precedent for other cities to follow. “This have to pay more to borrow from bond ment. In return, they get a regular inter- who are well off and don’t want to pay investors. The 10-year Treasury note fight could last for years,” said Richard investors. Many investors, though, see est payment and the promise of all their taxes,” said Mark Schwartz, a former yields 2.62 percent. The 30-year bond Larkin, director of research at Herbert J Detroit as an isolated incident. For the money back at the end of the bond’s life. bond lawyer and investment banker yields 3.70 percent. Sims & Co. “Bond investors ain’t going to bond market to really freak out, said That could be one year later or as many who has a law practice in Bryn Mawr, What’s going on in Detroit? Detroit sit back quietly.” Schwartz, the former bond lawyer, as three decades later. Pennsylvania. How can I buy them? You owes billions to bondholders and bil- Will it affect me? Probably not, unless “you’re going to need a lot more Have local governments borrowed a can usually buy munis through your lions more in pensions to retired city you worked for the city of Detroit or own Detroits.” — AP

Market to shift into lower Bayt.com report gear as earnings, data fade Can money buy happiness? Wall St Week Ahead his question, long pondered over by philoso- claim to be dissatisfied with general safety and securi- phers, psychologists and sociologists has more ty, 91 percent with stability of political environment, NEW YORK: With earnings season Trecently become a subject for empirical study 87 percent with cost of living. Yet, respondents in winding down and the employment by economists, corporations and governments alike. Lebanon fare better when it comes to their personal report out of the way, the US stock By testing survey data accumulated over time, and life, with 41 percent saying that they are extremely market is likely to shift into a lower from different countries, it has been made possible to satisfied with the freedom they have to socialize, 35 gear next week. The earnings season revisit this question with renewed understanding of percent with freedom to follow one’s own beliefs, and so far has been largely positive with happiness or life satisfaction factors. A recent survey 26 percent with opportunities to socialize. more than half of the companies that by Bayt.com and YouGov, entitled ‘The Bayt.com GCC respondents, on the other hand, have much have reported beating estimates. But Happiness and Wellbeing in the MENA’, July 2013, higher levels of satisfaction on most attributes seen cuts in outlooks from a number of bell- tried to do exactly just that; to understand the levels as key to happiness, aside from cost of living and wethers, including Intel and Caterpillar, of happiness and satisfaction in the MENA region. The overall employment opportunities. The survey reveals mainly due to increasing concerns over research digs into people’s perceptions to know more that Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman are China’s growth, have raised fears about about their overall satisfaction with their personal among the happier countries in the region. This satis- the third and fourth quarters. “It has and professional life, but also with their current faction can be attributed to the fact that people feel sort of become a trend now to go into health and well-being, and life in general in their safe and secure in these countries that provide a solid earnings season with low expectations, country of residence. infrastructure, access to healthcare facilities, opportu- so beating those expectations is not a In the process of finding a conclusive answer to nities to socialize, entertainment venues, and a stable big deal,” said Tim Ghriskey, chief the question of whether or not money can buy happi- political and economic environment. investment officer of Solaris Group in ness, ‘The Bayt.com Happiness and Wellbeing in the Respondents in North Africa express high dissatis- Bedford Hills, New York. “The market is NEW YORK: Specialists work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. —AP MENA’ survey clearly reveals that happiness in the faction with the availability of key aspects such as starting to really look at outlook cuts MENA differs greatly across different factors and general infrastructure, public transport facilities, and guidance more than earnings mates, more than in the past four quar- but the unemployment rate fell to 7.4 ters but below the historical average. percent, its lowest since Dec 2008. On among countries. While some countries express a opportunities to socialize, and entertainment itself.” high level of satisfaction vis-‡-vis their personal life avenues. Respondents in Egypt, particularly, are The market is also likely to trade Negative outlooks for the third quarter Tuesday, the president of the Chicago from S&P companies have outpaced Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Evans, is but a somewhat dissatisfaction in their professional affected by the cost of living and lack of political sta- sideways next week after the Dow and life, other countries are perfectly happy with both. bility, which are the major sources for dissatisfaction the S&P 500 marked record closing positive outlooks by 3.7 to 1 so far in scheduled to speak at a press break- this earnings season, according to fast, while Richard Fisher, head of the And, while some countries provide a good infrastruc- and stress. However, the survey reveals Egypt as gen- highs for a second day on Friday. For ture, a general feeling of safety and security, career erally satisfied. This satisfaction can be attributed to the year, both the Dow and the S&P Thomson Reuters data. Last quarter, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, is to deliv- the ratio was 6.3 to 1, but on average er a speech on the economy in advancement opportunities, and a stable of the polit- the fact that the social structure is supportive of 500 are up more than 19 percent. The ical environment, others lag behind. maintaining relationships, which then reflects on a S&P 500 index has passed through two since 1996, the ratio stands at 2.1 to 1. Portland, Oregon, on Monday. In light of the above, ‘The Bayt.com Happiness and positive attitude on most other personal fronts. century marks this year - 1,600 and So far this earnings season, just 75 Elsewhere, the Bank of Japan holds Wellbeing in the MENA’ survey results varied quite a In general, employment opportunities and cost of 1,700. The last time the broad market companies have given guidance and its monetary policy board meeting on deal across the three main regions in the MENA (the living are the two elements that respondents in the index covered more round numbers in about 50 more companies are expect- Wednesday and Thursday. The BoJ is a year was in 1998 when it touched ed to give their outlook in the coming expected to keep monetary policy on GCC, Levant and North Africa). For example, while 8 MENA say they are least satisfied with. It turns out the 1,000, 1,100 and 1,200, according to weeks. During last quarter’s earnings hold as its unprecedented quantitative out of 10 respondents in Jordan indicate that the phrase ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’ doesn’t quite Howard Silverblatt, senior index ana- season, 127 S&P companies gave guid- easing and government stimulus grad- number one cause of stress in Jordan is - as across the capture the entire relationship between people, mon- lyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. ance. The market will be closely watch- ually spread through the economy. rest of the region - the increasing cost of living, 74 ey and happiness. Money actually can buy happiness, Of the 391 companies in the S&P ing remarks by US Federal Reserve pol- Among companies due to report earn- percent are quite satisfied with general safety and or at least a lesser amount of stress. And the one 500 that have reported earnings for icymakers next week for more clues on ings next week, CVS Caremark posts security, the ability to maintain healthy personal rela- place that money and happiness are significantly the second quarter, 67.8 percent have when the US central bank might begin second-quarter results on Tuesday. tionships (65 percent), and the availability of utilities linked is when a person is unable to afford to meet topped analyst expectations, in line to reduce bond-buying stimulus , McDonald’s Corp is to report July (57 percent). their basic needs. This is where the role of govern- with the average beat over the past despite mixed signals from the jobs restaurant sales on Thursday. Also on Lebanon is another country that is considered one ments and companies themselves come into play to four quarters, data from Thomson market. The latest jobs report on Friday Thursday, Dean Foods Co, the top US of the less happy countries when it comes to many create employment opportunities that allow resi- Reuters showed. About 55 percent showed non-farm payrolls rose by dairy company, posts quarterly factors related to country of residence; 76 percent dents to maintain a decent lifestyle. have reported revenue above esti- 162,000 in July, below expectations, results. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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WASHINGTON: Back in January 2010, Missouri and Florida the week before. president never misses a chance to talk President Barack Obama set a lofty goal Actually, the number of overall manu- about the importance of manufacturing,” of doubling US exports in five years. With facturing jobs has changed little over the said Chad Moutray, chief economist at just 18 months to go to 2015, that target past 12 months. Those 500,000 “new” the National Association of seems to be slipping beyond reach and manufacturing jobs have been cited Manufacturers. He also praised the has vanished from White House talking before by Obama, going back to his administration’s efforts to push two new points. Blame tepid US manufacturing acceptance speech at the Democratic free-trade pact negotiations, one with growth, the lingering weak global econo- National Convention last September. The Europe and the other with Asian trading my, and a stronger US dollar, which lack of a significant progress since then partners. But, Moutray added, “We’ve had makes it harder to sell American goods underscores how hard it will be to reach really disappointing numbers so far this and services overseas. Monthly export his goal of doubling US exports by the year. Hopefully, they’ll start to turn numbers have been mostly stagnant this end of next year. Obama’s boasts of job around as we move into the second half. year. And only a scant 6,000 manufactur- gains also ignores the millions of jobs, ... Next year, it’s going to be almost ing jobs were added last month, accord- including hundreds of thousands manu- impossible for us to meet the president’s ing to Labor Department jobs statistics facturing ones, that were lost in the early goal of doubling exports.” released Friday. months of his presidency and in the final A new industry report on the level of “The goal of doubling exports keeps year that George W. Bush was president. manufacturing activity showed an expan- getting harder to achieve, not easier,” Obama cherry-picked his starting point, sion in July. But the improvement likely said Alan Tonelson, research fellow at making it the 2010 employment trough. won’t move the needle much toward the US Business and Industry Council, He is proposing lowering the corpo- Obama’s export target. “The more prod- which represents about 2,000 mostly rate tax from 35 percent to 28 percent. As ucts we make and sell to other countries, family owned manufacturing compa- a special incentive for manufacturers, he the more jobs we support right here in nies. “We’re actually backsliding, not would set a rate of 25 percent for compa- America,” Obama said on Jan. 27, 2010, in MOORESVILLE, North Carolina: In this June 6, 2013, file photo, US President making progress.” Obama and adminis- nies “that bring jobs back to America.” In his State of the Union address. “So Barack Obama gestures while speaking at Mooresville Middle School. — AP tration officials counter by asserting exchange, he wants to pair changes in tax tonight, we set a new goal: We will dou- lion. New trade numbers are out next “I feel like the wind is at our backs. that 7.2 million jobs - 500,000 of them laws with new domestic spending. ble our exports over the next five years, week. White House officials agree trend Like a lot of things in life, good things in manufacturing - have been added Republicans balked at those strings an increase that will support 2 million lines don’t look good. But they emphasize happen when you seize opportunity, since job losses bottomed in March attached. The worst recession since the jobs in America.” big-picture improvements. “You can look when you have a trend going your way 2010, two months after Obama set his Depression began in Dec 2007 and offi- For all of 2009, US exports totaled $1.6 at the export slowdown in one or two and you seize and expand on it,” doubling-exports goal. “Over the past cially ended in June 2009, although the trillion. Doubling that would suggest ways. You can say, ‘Well, job growth hasn’t Sperling said. Treasury Secretary Jack four years, for the first time since the unemployment rate continued to rise for reaching a level of $3.2 trillion exports for been as good in the last 12 months.’ But Lew suggests economics is “kind of col- 1990s, the number of manufacturing six more months. It hit 10 percent in late all of 2014. US exports did rise to $2.2 tril- what I would say is that we haven’t creat- lective psychology. When people feel jobs hasn’t gone down. It’s gone up. 2009 before a slow descent to 7.4 percent lion in 2012. But then came slowdowns in ed 500,000 (manufacturing) jobs like this better about the future, they act better Now we have to build on that progress,” last month. Europe, China and Brazil. In May, the most since the ‘90s,” said White House econom- and the economy picks up. When peo- Obama said this week in Chattanooga, “We applaud the president’s discus- recent trade figures available, monthly US ic adviser Gene Sperling, using that famil- ple worry, it also has an effect on the Tenn., after similar stops in Illinois, sion about manufacturing. I think the exports slipped 0.3 percent, to $187.1 bil- iar job-creation number. economy.” —AP Red Sox owner enters Old tobacco playbook $70m Boston Globe deal BOSTON: Businessman John Henry, the gets new use by e-cigs principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from its record $1.1 billion price two For now, almost anything goes decades ago. The impending purchase from The New York Times Co marks RICHMOND, Virginia: two-year deal to become the offi- Henry’s “first foray into the financially Companies vying for a stake in cial e-cigarette of the World unsettled world of the news media,” the the fast-growing electronic ciga- Series of Poker. Blu, which was Globe said yesterday. The deal will give rette business are reviving the acquired by No. 3 US tobacco Henry the 141-year-old newspaper, its decades-old marketing tactics company Lorillard Inc. last year, websites and affiliated companies, it said. the tobacco industry used to also has sponsored an Indy car The Times announced in February it was putting the Globe and related assets hook generations of Americans and the 2013 Bonnaroo music up for sale four years after calling off a on regular smokes. They’re using festival. Its website features a car- previous attempt to sell it. The company’s cab-top and bus stop displays, toon character nicknamed “Mr CEO said at the time selling the Globe John Henry sponsoring race cars and events, Cool” boasting the benefits of its would help the company focus attention is the gold standard in the industry.” The and encouraging smokers to “rise e-cigarette - evoking the days of on The New York Times brand. Times Times bought the Globe from the family from the ashes” and take back Joe Camel. spokeswoman Eileen Murphy confirmed of former Globe executive Stephen Taylor their freedom in slick TV commer- Decades ago, celebrities like the planned sale of the Globe and other in 1993 for what it said was the highest cials featuring celebrities like TV actor Spencer Tracy, baseball media properties to Henry. The Times said price paid for an American newspaper. personality Jenny McCarthy. The player Joe DiMaggio and even the all-cash sale, expected to close in 30 to The price Henry is paying is less than 7 Food and Drug Administration future President Ronald Reagan 60 days, includes BostonGlobe.com, percent of the 1993 price. plans to set marketing and prod- shilled for brands like Lucky Strike Boston.com, The Worcester Telegram & The Globe and other newspapers have uct regulations for electronic cig- and Chesterfield. Now, NJOY fea- Gazette, Telegram.com, the direct mail faced difficulties in recent years as readers arettes in the near future. But for tures rocker Courtney Love in an marketing company Globe Direct and the have fled to the Internet and advertisers now, almost anything goes. expletive-laced online ad and company’s 49 percent interest in Metro have cut spending on newspapers and “Right now it’s the wild, wild counts singer Bruno Mars among Boston, a free daily newspaper for com- moved more ads online. Still, the Globe is west,” Mitch Zeller, director of the its investors. Actor Stephen Dorff muters. a journalistic institution in New England FDA’s Center for Tobacco is featured in Blu’s TV commer- Henry, in a statement published by the and was lauded for its coverage of the Products, said in a recent inter- cials. In Blu’s latest campaign, Globe, cited the “essential role that its deadly Boston Marathon bombings in view with AP. Electronic cigarettes McCarthy, who was recently journalists and employees play in Boston, April. A 2009 round of cost-cutting, involv- are battery-powered devices named a host on the talk show throughout New England, and beyond”. ing pay cuts, helped put the Globe on bet- made of plastic or metal that heat “The Boston Globe’s award-winning jour- ter financial footing and prompted the “The View,” says she can use the e- nalism as well as its rich history and tradi- Times to call off a planned sale. In late a liquid nicotine solution, creat- cigarette “without scaring that tion of excellence have established it as 2011, the Globe started charging for ing vapor that users inhale. Users special someone away” and can one of the most well respected media access to its online version at get their nicotine without the avoid kisses that “taste like an companies in the country,” Henry said. BostonGlobe.com, which helped to boost thousands of chemicals, tar or ashtray” when she’s out at her Henry, who also owns the English Premier circulation revenues. odor of regular cigarettes. And favorite club. The commercials League soccer club Liverpool FC, said he The Times company doesn’t separate they get to hold something are set to start airing nationwide would reveal details about his plans for Globe revenue from The New York Times shaped like a cigarette, while this week. the Globe in the next few days. Globe edi- revenue in its financial statements. But the puffing and exhaling something Tobacco marketing has been (Above) A 1949 Chesterfield cigarette advertisement features future tor Brian McGrory said the newspaper’s Globe had an average weekday circulation that looks like smoke. increasingly restricted. TV com- US President Ronald Reagan. (Below) A screen grab shows the new Blu Red Sox coverage and its editorial deci- of 230,351 in the six months through So far, there’s not much scien- mercials for cigarettes were Ecigs advertisement featuring Jenny McCarthy. — AP sions won’t be affected by the sale. “We September, according to the Alliance for tific evidence showing e-ciga- banned in 1970. Later legal settle- have no plans whatsoever to change our Audited Media. The newspaper’s increase rettes help smokers quit or smoke ments and new regulations took Red Sox coverage specifically, or our in digital subscriptions more than offset less, and it’s unclear how safe ads off billboards and banned sports coverage in general, nor will we be declines in print. But the total is still down they are. But the marketing tac- event sponsorships. Cigarette asked,” McGrory told the newspaper. “The significantly from the nearly 413,000 it tics are raising worries that the marketing can’t use celebrities or Globe’s sports reporting and commentary boasted in Sept 2002.— AP devices’ makers could tempt cartoons. While they must young people to take up some- include health warnings, compa- thing that could prove addictive. nies can still advertise cigarettes Firms help immigrants The industry started by selling e- and smokeless tobacco in maga- cigarettes on the Internet and at zines that don’t have a large obtain US citizenship shopping mall kiosks. It has rock- youth readership. The electronic eted from thousands of users in cigarette ads push the same SANTA ANA, California: For immigrants work- specializes in employment-based issues. 2006 to several million worldwide themes as old cigarette ads: ing toward the American Dream, some employ- Since last year, 19 companies have signed who have more than 200 brands Sophistication, freedom, equality ers are now helping them reach their dream of up to participate in the effort by the to choose from. Some e-ciga- and individualism, said Timothy becoming Americans. Health clinics, hotels and Washington-based National Immigration rettes are stocked in prime selling de Waal Malefyt, a visiting associ- a clothing factory are pairing up with immigrant Forum to help more people become citizens. space at the front of conven- ate professor at Fordham advocates to offer on-site citizenship assistance The focus of the so-called Bethlehem Project is ience-store and gas-station coun- University’s business school and as one of the perks of the job in greater Los on low-wage workers, who often face addition- ters - real estate forbidden to the former advertising executive. Angeles, Miami, Washington and Silicon Valley al hurdles to naturalization such as long hours devices’ old-fashioned cousins. That’s the problem, tobacco as they aim to make naturalization more con- and extensive commutes and who may lack Analysts estimate sales of e- opponents say. “The ads, themes venient for the 8.5 million legal immigrants eli- the cash to hire an immigration lawyer to help cigarettes could reach $2 billion and messages are precisely the gible to become US citizens. them complete the paperwork.Uruguayan The effort is billed as a win-win for both native Yolanda Oruc said she could have by the end of the year. Some say same (as those) used by the employee and employers: Workers avoid legal become an American citizen three years ago the use of e-cigarettes could pass tobacco industry for decades that fees and having to shuttle to and from law but didn’t have the money for attorney’s fees. that of traditional cigarettes in made those products so appeal- offices to complete applications; companies When the 52-year-old who restocks hotel room the next decade. Tobacco compa- ing to young people,” said Matt create a deeper bond with immigrant workers mini bars learned that her employer had ny executives have even noted Myers, president of the Campaign and there’s little cost as nonprofits pick up the brought in immigration experts to help her fill that e-cigarettes are already eat- for Tobacco-Free Kids. “For an having with consumers for over alternatives”. Many companies tab. “You create some sense of loyalty,” said out the papers for free, she jumped at the ing into traditional cigarette sales. industry that wants to project four years,” said Jason Healy, the restrict sales to minors but only a Leonie Timothee, human resources manager at chance and naturalized in July. “I didn’t have a The debate over marketing tac- itself as helping to solve the founder and former president of couple of dozen states have laws InterContinental Miami, a luxury hotel that has way to become a citizen because I didn’t have tics is intensifying as the nation’s tobacco problem, they’re behav- Blu and now a brand spokesman. banning it. And while some are helped six employees apply to naturalize since the money,” said Oruc, who works at The Betsy largest tobacco companies roll ing just like the tobacco industry “There’s the potential here that e- limiting offerings to tobacco and last year. “It is going to be a part of you for the Hotel in Miami’s South Beach. out their own e-cigarettes in a in its worst days.” cigs could do a tremendous menthol flavors, others are sell- rest of your life, and to know your place of For starters, companies host a free informa- push to diversify beyond their tra- Reynolds American Inc, owner amount of good, more good than ing candy-like flavors like cherry employment helped you, assisted you in tion session run by a nonprofit to let employ- ditional business. People are of the nation’s No. 2 tobacco anything anyone has done on the and strawberry - barred for use in becoming a citizen - I think that’s a great deal.” ees know about the process of becoming a citi- smoking fewer cigarettes in the company, has said it plans to use anti-smoking side since anti- regular cigarettes because of the In most cases, immigrants can apply to become zen. The agencies then hold one-on-one meet- smoking was invented.” Healy worry that the flavors are used to an American citizen after having a green card ings to help fill out the necessary paperwork. face of tax hikes, smoking bans, TV ads to promote a revamped for five years and passing English and civics Some employers go further and front the gov- health concerns and social stig- version of its Vuse brand elec- said that as long as the market- appeal to children. tests. But they often take longer to do so ernment’s $680 naturalization application fee ma, though higher prices have tronic cigarette that it launched ing remains responsible, it One of the toughest issues the because they can’t afford the application fees, and deduct the funds from pay checks, said helped protect cigarette revenue. last month. Altria Group Inc, own- should continue. But he said, FDA may eventually have to deal fear their English isn’t good enough or simply Jennie Murray, manager of the Bethlehem Companies like NJOY and Blu er of the nation’s biggest ciga- “there’s always going to be idiots with is whether lightly regulating don’t know enough about the process, studies Project. The effort is funded in part by the New Ecigs are advertising on TV, for- rette maker, Philip Morris USA, that want to push that bound- electronic cigarettes might actu- have shown. While high-tech companies fre- Americans Campaign, which is a broader push bidden for cigarettes for more has declined to detail its market- ary.” ally be better for public health quently sponsor foreign workers for visas or to encourage citizenship through workshops, than 40 years. LOGIC has placed ing strategy for its first electronic There are a few limitations on overall, if smokers switch and e- green cards, most companies haven’t gotten training sessions and the development of a mobile billboards on taxis in New cigarette under the MarkTen marketing. Companies can’t tout cigarettes really are safer. If that’s involved in the naturalization process. Their mobile app to help immigrants determine if York City. Swisher International brand set to launch this month. e-cigarettes as stop-smoking true, it “sure looks like the good involvement usually ends at getting work they’re eligible to become Americans. Overall, Inc, maker of Swisher Sweets The makers of e-cigarettes aids, unless they want to be regu- would far outweigh the bad,” papers unless the employee needs to travel about $500,000 has been donated to jumpstart cigars, is sponsoring race cars defend their strategy. “It’s huge lated by the FDA under stricter Zeller said. “But we need the evi- extensively overseas or obtain national security the project named for Bethlehem Steel, which promoting its e-Swisher electron- for us in that it allows us to con- rules for drug-delivery devices. dence to know how this is going clearance only available to a citizen, said in 1915 offered its immigrant workers free ic cigarettes and cigars and has a tinue a conversation we’ve been But many are sold as “cigarette to play out.” — AP Angelo Paparelli, an immigration attorney who English-language instruction. —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 BUSINESS

Indices recoup part of large June losses

BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week in the red zone. The price index closed at 8,087.82 points, down by 0.09 per- cent from the week before closing, the weighted index retreated by 0.48 percent after closing at 462.10 points, whereas the KSX-15 index closed at 1,068.16 points decreased by 0.62 percent. Furthermore, last week’s average daily turnover decreased by 20.85 percent, com- pared to the preceding week, reach- ing KD 25.70 million, whereas trading volume average was 246.05 million shares, recording decrease of 32.65 percent. Kuwait Stock Market indices were index closed at 1,215.69 points with a able to compensate part of its June 0.44 percent decrease. large losses, supported by the pur- On the other hand, last week’s chasing trend of the stock market highest gainer was the Technology during the month, which included sector, achieving 1.47 percent many large-cap and small-cap stocks, growth rate as its index closed at and was positively reflected on the 1,120.81 points. Whereas, in the sec- market indices, whereas the Price ond place, the Consumer Services Index succeeded in returning to the index closed at 1,199.43 points 8,000 point level that was lost during recording 1.45 percent increase. The June, supported by the activity that Health Care sector came in third as its accompanied many of the small-cap index achieved 1.16 percent growth, listed stocks, which in turn witnessed ending the week at 1,182.74 points. strong purchasing and quick specula- tive operations, and positively Sectors’ Activity impacted the Price Index during The Financial Services sector dom- most of the trading periods. inated total trade volume during last In addition, the stock market week with 518.15 million shares received support from the purchas- changing hands, representing 42.12 ing power that targeted a large num- percent of the total market trading ber of the leading and blue-chip volume. The Real Estate sector was stocks in the market, especially the second in terms of trading volume as banks and companies’ stocks that the sector’s traded shares were 37.92 expected to have positive results for percent of last week’s total trading the first six months of the 2013 finan- volume, with a total of 466.45 million cial year, which in turn influenced the ed stocks volume recorded its lowest and cautious states in trading, wait- price index ended last week record- Gas sector headed the losers list as shares. performance of the Weighted and level since last December. ing for the listed companies’ semi- ing 36.29 percent annual gain com- its index declined by 1.65 percent to On the other hand, the Real Estate KSX-15 indices in particular. On the other hand, the stock mar- annual financial results, where only pared to its closing in 2012, while the end the week’s activity at 1,254.81 sector’s stocks were the highest trad- Moreover, the stock market was able ket was affected by the sale-for-profit few have announced theirs so far, weighted index increased by 10.64 points. The Consumer Goods sector ed in terms of value; with a turnover to realize such gains despite the drop operations, which lightened the mar- and most of the others should be percent, and the KSX-15 recorded was second on the losers’ list, which of KD 42.93 million or 33.41 percent in the trading indicators during the ket gains and limited its increase in announcing in the coming few days, 5.85 percent increase. index declined by 1.33 percent, clos- of last week’s total market trading month, in terms of the volume of some sessions, however did not suc- especially that the legal declaration ing at 1,232.47 points, followed by value. The Financial Services sector stocks or the value to trading, where ceed in pushing it to close in the red period given for the listed companies Sectors’ Indices the Financial Services sector, as its took the second place as the sector’s the market liquidity recorded its low- zone on the monthly level. to announce its results is about to Seven of KSE’s sectors ended last index closed at 1,168.79 points at a last week turnover of KD 38.65 mil- est level since last November in one Furthermore, the stock market is cur- end in two weeks. week in the Red zone, while the oth- loss of 1.11 percent. The Industrials lion represented 30.08 percent of the of the month’s sessions, and the trad- rently witnessing a general watch For the annual performance, the er 5 recorded increases. The Oil and sector was the least declining as its total market trading value. Credit growth hits fastest pace since 2009 NBK ECONOMIC UPDATE KUWAIT: Bank credit remained strong in May. Credit million, maintaining the relatively healthy growth is still down 17.3 percent from a year ago. saving and foreign currency deposits declined (KD gains were led by the non-financial business sectors, seen in the sector. Year-on-year growth accelerated • Non-financial business activity saw a big jump in 148 million, KD 76 million respectively). which maintained a streak of healthy monthly gains. to 18 percent boosted by strong demand and a May (KD 181 million), further supporting the recent • As a result, broad money (M2) expanded strong- Household borrowing also remained strong. We healthy household sector. The coming months are accelerating growth trend. Y/y growth reached 4.9 ly in May adding KD 664 million (2.1 percent), with expect credit to register growth of 7 percent or more likely to see this trend continue. percent. Gains during the month were primarily in y/y growth accelerating to 10.8 percent. The narrow- in 2013, the strongest showing since 2009. • Borrowing for the purchase of securities saw a the “other” category. Construction and real estate er measure (M1) increased by a smaller KD 236 mil- • Total bank credit rose by a strong KD 290 million noticeable drop in May, the largest in more than also recorded noticeable gains. lion. in May to KD 27.8 bn, with year-on-year (y/y) credit three years. The decline coincided with a correction • Private sector deposits saw yet another big • Deposit rates on dinar time deposits remained growth accelerating to 6.4 percent, the fastest pace in the KSE index. Facilities for the purchase of securi- jump in May. Deposits were up a total of KD 584 mil- steady at current low levels. Average rates for the 1- since late-2009. Monthly credit gains thus far this ties dropped KD 51 million, with y/y growth falling lion, exclusively in local currency. But contrary to month, 3-month remained unchanged at 0.56 per- year have averaged around KD 200 million, double to -1.4 percent. Meanwhile, credit to non-bank finan- recent trends, the bulk was in time deposits, which cent, 0.75 percent. The 6-month and 12-month its average for the comparable period last year. cials was up a small KD 6 million in May, in contrast added a noticeable KD 652 million. Sight deposits deposit rates fell 1 bp and 2 bps and averaged 0.95 • Personal facilities (ex-securities) rose by KD 104 to the deleveraging trend seen in this sector. Credit were also up a good KD 156 million. Meanwhile, percent and 1.14 percent respectively. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 BUSINESS Canon introduces latest imageRUNNER ADVANCE

KUWAIT: Nasser Mohamed Al Sayer Communications Co (NASCO), Canon’s business part- ner in Kuwait, introduced the much awaited second generation imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform to Kuwait’s robust IT channel community. The event held in conjunction with the annual business iftar gathering in Salmiya was attended by over 80 mem- bers of the IT dealer and channel community. At the event, Kuwait’s channel community wit- nessed first-hand how the new series of scalable A3 multi-functional devices (MFDs) were better designed to help organisations in the country to address its current business challenges with smarter ways of working. Built on the success of its predecessor the new imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform provides customers with a unique set of capabilities for improved access control, personali- sation, service efficiency, as well as mobile and cloud connectivity, through a new suite of powerful standard and optional software applications. “Organisations in the region are under increas- ing pressure to be more agile and productive, while at the same time reduce operational costs. The new to-mobile functionality. Canon is also certified as Nasser Mohamed Al Sayer Communications Co. generation of imageRUNNER ADVANCE directly Google Cloud Print-Ready thanks to a new soft- Key features that were previously optional, such addresses these challenges by enabling smarter ware application for imageRUNNER ADVANCE, as searchable scan file formats and secure hard ways of working through increased personalisation, which makes it possible to print from a variety of disk erase, now come as standard offering unparal- usage control as well as cloud connectivity and web-enabled devices. In addition, Canon’s Cloud leled value for money. In addition, Canon’s simple mobile working,” said Hendrik Verbrugghe, Connect feature allows users to print from and serverless log-in solution - Universal Login Marketing Director, Canon Middle East. scan to Google Drives using an imageRUNNER Manager - is available on all new imageRUNNER “The event was also a good opportunity for us ADVANCE MFD, while eCopy Scan to Cloud allows ADVANCE devices to offer user-level personalisa- to reiterate our commitment to the country’s grow- customers to scan, covert and send to cloud-based tion, usage tracking and access control. Abdulkareem Ahmad ing Tier 2 IT channel network and also get a sense of services. “Canon’s products, solutions and profes- In addition to these features, attendees were understanding of the response to our innovative sional services make its customers more produc- impressed with the iW360, a new publishing tool Al-Sharhan wins new portfolio of Office Imaging Products (OIP). This tive. The new platform strengthens Canon’s ability that comes with the new platform. The solution is in-line with our “closer to customers” business to provide a complete imaging solution to organi- allows important documents to be finished in- KD 125,000 in Jawhara draw strategy, which is working closely with our partners, sations of all sizes. Small businesses in Kuwait will house. Canon’s unique iW Desktop Quick Printing and drive further growth by better understanding benefit from enterprise level capabilities such as Tool, which sits on the desktop, provides quick KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Al Jawhara account offers numerous the needs of the market and customers,” added heightened security, effective control of print costs access to preview documents, applies finishing announced the winner for July’s KD benefits to NBK customers. Not only is it an Verbrugghe. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE plat- and powerful document publishing tools, while templates and creates PDFs. For more advanced 125,000 Al Jawhara monthly prizes, interest-free account with regular deposit form features a set of simple, server-less mobile enterprise customers and large organisations can capabilities, Canon’s iW Desktop provides easy Abdulkareem Ahmad Eissa Al Sharhan. The and withdrawal privileges, but also entitles solutions that are perfect for smaller businesses. In utilise a scalable imaging solution with advanced drag and drop functionality to combine and create draw was held under the supervision of the account holders to enter the weekly, addition to the Canon Mobile Printing application, security, integration and fleet management at its documents, before editing, personalising and pre- Ministry of Trade and Industry. NBK re- monthly and quarterly Al Jawhara draws. Canon’s mobile PRINT & SCAN solution adds scan- heart,” said Nabil Iskandrani, General Manager, viewing for a professional finish in minutes. launched Al Jawhara account offering cus- Each KD 50 in an Al Jawhara account enti- tomers more chances to win bigger prizes; tles the customer to one chance in any of KD 5,000 weekly, KD 125,000 monthly and the draws. All prizes are automatically cred- a grand prize of KD 250,000 quarterly draw. ited to the winners’ accounts the day after Abdulkareem Ahmad Eissa Al Sharhan, the the draw. The more money held in your Al winner of July`s KD 125,000 draw Jawhara account, the greater your chances expressed his happiness in winning Al of winning. Al Jawhara accounts are avail- Jawhara monthly prize. “Winning KD able to both Kuwaitis and Expats and can 125,000 came as a complete surprise. I truly be opened at any one of NBK’s branches thank NBK for its great services and offers around Kuwait. For further information and for always being number one in the kindly visit www.nbk.com, or call Hala market,” he said. Watani at 1801801. Shop on the go with the new ‘X-cite’ mobile app KUWAIT: X-cite by Alghanim Electronics ucts they are searching for and enjoy a reinforces its online presence in Kuwait and pleasant shopping experience. On the app brings to its customers the best in online customers can also locate the nearest show- shopping; the ‘Xcite’ Mobile App. The shop- room and share products with friends over ping app is available on the App Store and social media and email. Ordering on the Google Play for customers to enjoy what X- ‘Xcite’ app is safe and secure; all purchases cite has to offer on-the-go. Customers can are routed through secure servers. Payment now browse and shop from a wide range of options include KNET, credit cards and pay electronics and home furnishing products on delivery. Delivery and installation is with ultimate convenience and ease. The available to all locations in Kuwait within 48 Cartoon Network’s ‘Creative ‘Xcite’ mobile app provides customers with hours. Downloading the ‘Xcite’ app on your many benefits such as access to bargain iOS or Android device is easy. Simply search daily deals, product reviews, videos and for ‘Xcite’ on the official iTunes or Google Generation’ competition ends product specifications. Play stores, and then follow the instructions The ‘Xcite’ mobile app is a fully fledged to download the app to your device. The KUWAIT: Cartoon Network Arabic 10 schools engaging with more bilingual online store with features that ‘Xcite’ app is available on Android devices, provides children entertainment at than 8,000 students and gathering allows the customer to easily find the prod- iPhone, iPad and is Retina Display ready. the highest level with fun and more than 1,000 entries. interactive activities while also “The focus of Safety as a theme encouraging creativity and imagi- for children is a great idea. This nation with an educational aim. competition definitely raised aware- The competition, which recently ness on the importance of safety in took place for the second year, is a child’s day to day life. The children designed to promote creativity and look forward to next year’s competi- interactive activities among school tion,” commented Evon Tadross, a children in an educational and fun teacher at Al Safar School in Kuwait. way, was held in schools across the “We were delighted by the number United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, of colourful and creative entries Kuwait and Qatar for students that were generated from the com- aged 4 to 12. The initiative encour- petition and the number of stu- aged children to indulge in their dents that were engaged”, said Tal imagination by creating their own Hewitt, Vice President and General stories using Cartoon Network Manager Turkey, Middle East and characters and will be judged Africa. “This year we built on the based on 3 age brackets; 4 to 6, 7 importance of Safety which is very to 9 and 10 to 12. important in any child’s life. At Students, parents and teachers Cartoon Network we educate chil- across the region took part in high- Generation was a great success visited 81 schools, engaged with dren and engage with them in their lighting the theme ‘Safety’ and the filled with positive feedback from 62,500 students and gathered activities. Providing children with a importance of incorporating it into students, parents and schools; more than 13,000 entries. In platform to learn, have fun and their everyday life. Creative regionally, Cartoon Network Arabic Kuwait, the competition reached enjoy themselves is our goal.” Glaxo case shines light on China’s medical bribery BEIJING: Huang Dongliang says his uncle Peking University’s Guanghua School of “There are many farmers and people matter which is selected, in order to give the lion to settle charges its salespeople made was being ignored by his low-paid cancer Management. without medical insurance, and it’s they who hospital an incentive to sell more drugs, they improper payments to health care workers specialist at a Chinese government hospital. The ruling Communist Party has prom- suffer greatly,” said Liu Junhai, head of the will all find ways to make contact with doc- in China and other countries. So the family gave the doctor a “hongbao”, ised higher health spending as part of efforts Commercial Law Research Institute of the tors,” the hospital director, Ye Guanrui, was Estimates of how much outside money the traditional red envelope used for gifts, to spread more of China’s prosperity to its ruling party’s Renmin University. Huang said quoted as saying. “In a hospital with 1,000 doctors and others receive range from 30 with 3,000 yuan ($480). “We could feel an poor majority. But with a population of 1.3 that after his uncle was diagnosed with lung staff members, one-third will take kick- percent to up to 10 times their salaries, obvious difference” after that, said Huang, billion, the cost of a full-scale overhaul will be cancer last October, he went to the bigger backs.” according to Peking University’s Liu. He said who lives in the southeastern city of daunting for Beijing. The government faces nearby city of Xiamen, which had a reputa- A half-dozen physicians and hospital he and colleagues have tried to gather data Quanzhou. “The doctor started to do more other financial demands while economic tion for “better medical ability and attitude”. employees approached by AP declined to but hospital employees refuse to cooperate. checkups, to give suggestions and advice growth is slowing. Under the current system, “The doctor barely said anything useful after talk about medical bribery, even on condi- Despite the scrutiny directed at foreign drug and offered a detailed chemotherapy plan.” the state-set price to see an oncologist or 12 or 13 days in the hospital,” he said. “Then tion of anonymity, due to its sensitivity. In suppliers, their Chinese rivals probably are Such informal payments pervade China’s other specialist is as little as 8 yuan ($1.25) - my cousin sent 3,000 yuan to get the doctor the GlaxoSmithKline PLC case, police say more active at spreading around such pay- dysfunctional health system. Low salaries less than the cost of a hamburger and too lit- to pay more attention to my uncle.” employees of the British company paid doc- ments, said Liu. “In general, people would and skimpy budgets drive doctors, nurses tle to cover a hospital’s expenses. Complaints about medical corruption tors, hospital administrators and officials of say domestic companies actually practice and administrators to make ends meet by An experienced physician might earn have fueled public frustration at doctors, the government and medical groups to this informal payment approach almost as a accepting money from patients, drug suppli- 6,000 yuan ($980) a month. That top level is nurses and hospitals. Distraught families encourage use of its medications. Four common marketing strategy,” he said. “For ers and others. Accusations last month that about average for an urban Chinese worker at that pay extra are dismayed if a patient sick- employees have been detained. Police say multinationals, this is not a common market- GlaxoSmithKline employees bribed Chinese a time when a 100-sq-m (1,000-sq-ft) apart- ens or dies. That has erupted in a spate of they are suspected of laundering money ing tool.” doctors to prescribe its drugs brought inter- ment in Beijing can cost more than 6 million stabbings and other violence against hospi- through travel agencies to conceal the pay- The financial strain of health care on fam- national attention to the flow of illicit money. yuan ($1 million). To fill the gap, hospitals add tal employees. Last year, 39 staff members of ments and evade Glaxo’s internal anti- ilies is so great that it is distorting China’s But to China’s public, the practice has long surcharges to drug prices and assign employ- a hospital in the southern city of Gaozhou bribery controls. economy. Until recently, few had health been common knowledge. Many blame a ees sales quotas. Doctors and other employ- and five salespeople for drug companies Glaxo has tried to distance itself from the insurance and families saved a big share of system in which the country’s hospitals near- ees accept money to move patients up wait- were implicated in a kickback scheme that scandal, saying the employees acted with- their income to pay for medical emergen- ly all are state-run but get too little money ing lists for surgery or to let them see the inflated medicine costs for patients, accord- out its knowledge and violated its policy. cies. That left less for consumer spending, from Beijing. Most of China’s 2.3 million doc- physician they prefer. Doctors, administrators ing to the newspaper Shanghai Evening Also last month, a rival drug manufacturer, hampering the Communist Party’s efforts to tors are hospital employees and are barred and others take kickbacks from pharmaceuti- Post. AstraZeneca PLC, said police visited its office nurture self-sustaining economic growth from adding to their income by taking on cal companies to use more expensive drugs The hospital director was fired and 382 in what the company believed was an inves- based on domestic consumption instead of second jobs. “Physicians are way underpaid or use them more often. Bribes can also dis- employees returned 5.8 million yuan tigation of one of its sales representatives. exports and investment. The latest scandal and they need to find a way to survive,” said tort treatment by encouraging overuse of ($950,000) in improper payments, the report Last year, New York City-based Pfizer Inc could increase pressure on Chinese leaders Gordon Liu, a health care economist at expensive drugs or procedures. said. “For the hospital’s 35 drug suppliers, no agreed to pay the US government $60 mil- to speed up promised health reforms. —AP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 BUSINESS Get a chance to win a Fiat 500C with ABK

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Zain selects eServGlobal to supply mobile money solutions

KUWAIT/PARIS: Zain Group, a pioneer Zain already provides mobile com- the mobile-money arena across our in mobile telecommunications in eight merce services in several of its opera- region.” markets across the Middle East and tions and this agreement will comple- Furthermore, Gegenheimer noted, North Africa, announces its selection of ment and enhance existing services as “This agreement along with other eServGlobal, for the provision of an end- well as support the roll-out of appealing ground-breaking products and services to-end mobile money solution that will and much needed mobile-money solu- in the pipeline will empower customers be deployed across group operations. tions in other markets. Notably, in sever- to move about freely with their mobile Paris based, eServGlobal is an innova- al of Zain’s markets, over 90% of the phones transacting on goods and serv- ASAR: M&A in Kuwait strong ices. Our aim is to create an eco-system whereby mobile money solutions pro- in response to opportunities vide our customers with increased secu- rity and flexibility, reducing the need to KUWAIT: ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners carry cash.” (ASAR), Kuwait’s leading and most Zain selected eServGlobal for this prominent corporate law firm, and one trans-affiliate implementation following of the region’s top tier firms states that a formal tendering and strict selection mergers and acquisitions (M&A), if well- process, based on the unmatched ben- orchestrated, represent one of the most efits and proven reliability of significant means for companies to eServGlobal’s many mobile solutions achieve scale, harness synergies, devel- that appropriately fits Zain’s strong port- op capabilities or enter new geogra- folio of customers across the Middle- phies, as well as achieve new corporate East and Africa region. “Together with growth objectives. the Zain Group, we have conceived a Ezekiel Tuma, Partner at ASAR said: next-generation mobile financial servic- “So far this year, no particular sector has es solution which will set the standard stood out as performing especially well, for holistic mobile money services,” said but there is sufficient confidence in vari- Paolo Montessori, CEO, eServGlobal. ous sectors to see high-value deals “Our technology perfectly comple- completed with relative regularity. For ments the Zain Group’s objective to pro- instance, our firm is presently engaged Ezekiel Tuma vide innovative, world class services in in M&A transactions involving entities in developments of note with respect to transactions including a substantial all the areas that it operates. We are the manufacturing, retail and construc- M&A include the New Companies Law merger and acquisition deals involving proud to be working with Zain to enrich tion sectors. Given the improving but of 2012 (as amended) which is already entities in the retail, manufacturing, tive software vendor specialising in population does not have access to the lives of users by putting secure still fragile economic conditions, this influencing the structures of ongoing finance and construction sectors. mobile money and value-added servic- banking facilities. financial services at their fingertips.” should be regarded as quite an achieve- transactions. We are also watching With dedicated offices in Kuwait and es for the telecommunication and finan- Scott Gegenheimer, CEO of Zain Zain currently utilizes eServGlobal’s ment. The current state of events is developments regarding the Protection Bahrain, coupled with its associated cial services industries. The comprehen- Group, said, “The positive economic and recharge solutions and this agreement quite distinct from what we observed in of Competition Law of 2007, given the offices and relationships, ASAR provides sive solution that Zain will gradually roll- social impact of financial inclusion for consolidates the strength of the rela- 2012, where most of the M&A activity appointment of board members of the clients across an extensive range of out across its operations and offer to its many of our customers where banking tionship. eServGlobal supplies mobile we observed was in the services sector. Competition Protection Agency. Under industry sectors with comprehensive customers encompasses a complete services are scarce will be abundant. We money services to operators and service Tuma added that: “We have also not- the Protection of Competition Law and legal advice and support for their busi- mobile money platform, providing serv- embrace the opportunity to launch new providers worldwide as well as support- ed that potential acquirers appear to be Regulations, entities engaged in M&A ness activities in Kuwait, across the GCC, ices such as electronic top-up, mobile services that improve the livelihoods of ing a substantial installed base of avoiding acquisitions of listed compa- transactions that lead to controlling or and beyond. wallets, mobile banking, online pay- the communities we serve, and through recharge customers. The PayMobile nies. According to feedback we have increasing existing control of market ASAR has been consistently rated as ments, salary disbursements, peer-to- eServGlobal’s comprehensive solution, platform is currently deployed in more received, this is largely attributable to share will require the approval of the the leading corporate and commercial peer money transfer, micro finance, air- we will be able to offer life-enhancing than 25 customers and used every day the Capital Market Authority Laws and Competition Protection Agency.” law firm in Kuwait by many of the time top-up, bill payment and payment mobile services and cement our posi- by more than 250 million prepaid sub- Regulations which require that a person ASAR has been at the forefront of world’s leading and reputable legal at a merchant. tion as an innovative market leader in scribers worldwide. acquiring 30 percent or more of a listed M&A deals across Kuwait, in which the guides such as the Chambers Global company’s shares extends the offer to firm has advised on an impressive num- Guide, International Financial Law all shareholders to acquire the remain- ber of transactions. These include advis- Review, and the Legal 500. In 2012, ing shares of such company. In due ing Automak Automotive with regard to ASAR was named as the “Best Law Firm course as the market becomes more the subscription for its shares by a lead- in Kuwait 2012” by the International accustomed to takeover procedures ing private equity fund, and acting for Financial Law Review (IFLR), the market- and processes, and as the economic Fairfax Middle East Holdings in its acqui- leading guide for financial law firms conditions continue to improve, the sition of a 39.2 percent stake of a lead- worldwide. The firm also won the “Best current trend will likely change.” ing listed insurance company. ASAR is Equity Deal in the Middle East” award by Tuma further observed that: “Other presently engaged in several M&A IFLR during the same year. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, UMS partner on Middle East edition DUBAI: United Media Services International FZ LLC (UMS) and Bloomberg Businessweek recently announced their agreement to publish Abdulaziz Al-Saraf from Marketing Management with Service Center employees. English-language and Arabic editions of Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East. This partnership will allow Bloomberg Burgan Bank launches youth Businessweek to continue to expand its reach among globally-minded business leaders in one of the most important and center at Kuwait University emergent economies in the world. The agreement also reinforces UMS’s leader- KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced that tration hall. To help the new students to free prepaid card and an ATM card which ship position as one of the region’s fastest it has launched the Youth Service Center better understand the process of trans- entitle them to discounts at select mer- growing publishing, advertising, public at Kuwait University. The bank’s team ferring their university allowance. chandisers. To find out more about relations and media distribution compa- will be available to welcome new regis- Burgan Bank’s Youth Account was Burgan Bank’s Youth Account as well as nies. tering students, and provide a range of launched for young individuals, around the latest promotions, customers are The first issue of the English-language services, while also highlighting the key the ages of 15 to 25, who seek to attain a required to visit the service center or edition of Bloomberg Businessweek features and benefits that Burgan Bank’s successful future. There is no limit to their nearest Burgan Bank branch or con- Middle East, which will publish twice per Youth Account offer. The new Youth open an account, and no minimum bal- tact the call center on 1804080. For more month, will hit newsstands on 1 October. 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Twitter threats highlight blight of online trolls

LONDON: If Twitter is the chirping chatterbox of the about hatred of women and hatred of women who calling for the social networking site to establish a single received from One Direction fans after running a cover Internet, trolls are its dark underground denizens. The speak up.” Online trolls don’t just target women, although “report abuse” button has more than 100,000 signatures. story on the boy band that some fans found insufficiently collision of the two is driving a debate in Britain about women come in for a specific kind of abuse, says Claire Lawmaker John Whittingdale, the head of reverential. Many of the comments were obscene, intem- the scale of online hatred and the limits of Internet free Hardaker, a lecturer at Lancaster University in northwest Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said perate and violent - but few people suggest the tweeters speech. The furor erupted this week after several women England who researches aggression, deception and the group was planning to summon Twitter bosses to should be prosecuted. went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly manipulation online. appear before it in the fall, “to determine whether they Padraig Reidy of civil liberties group Index on violent abuse they receive on Twitter from trolls - online Trolls pick out one defining characteristic to attack are doing as much as they can or whether they should do Censorship cautioned that the “report abuse” button was bullies and provocateurs who send abusive or disruptive their victims, she said. “If you are a Muslim, it’s all more.” Twitter insists it takes the issue seriously and is no quick fix - it could itself be abused by governments to messages, often for their own amusement. Islamophobia. If you are gay, it’s all homophobia. If you planning to expand an abuse-reporting button, already silence their opponents or by celebrities to muzzle their Many regard trolls as an annoyance to be ignored, but are a woman, it’s all misogyny.” Hardaker said that while available on its iPhone app, to other platforms. critics. He said stopping “real harassment, threats and there are growing calls for action when their abuse cross- the stereotypical image of a troll is of a man in his late “We absolutely do work with law enforcement on incitement” would involve cooperation by Twitter, police, es over into threats. Police are investigating a threat of teens or early 20s, they are a surprisingly disparate group issues like these,” Del Harvey, Twitter’s senior director of prosecutors and users of social networking sites. rape and murder made to Labour Party lawmaker Stella - 30-something women and men in their 60s have been trust and safety, told the BBC’s “Newsnight” program. “We often think that just because things are happen- Creasy by a user with the Twitter name @killcreasynow. caught trolling. The motivation ranges from revenge to “These sorts of threats are against the rules. We suspend ing online there is a technical solution to make the Web a The crude and graphically violent tweet was one of many entertainment to boredom. While it seems a solitary accounts when they’re reported to us. We’re working to better place,” Reidy said. “But it’s going to take real Creasy received after she tweeted in support of feminist activity, there is an online community of trolls who use make it easier to report those accounts. We think this is engagement.” Anti-trolling campaigners have already campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. Criado-Perez was sent sites like the anarchic forum 4Chan used to swap con- really important.” taken matters into their own hands - retweeting abuse in a torrent of invective after she campaigned, successfully, gratulations and criticism and egg one another on. Some say Twitter can’t, and shouldn’t, police the order to expose the problem to the light. for novelist Jane Austen to appear on a British banknote. And while the technology is new, the impulses are as Internet. While the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that First A group of women in Britain has coined the #every- Two men have been arrested in connection with the old as time. “We have long been entertained by watching Amendment protections of freedom of speech apply to daysexism hashtag to chronicle the extent of misogyny Twitter threats, but have not been charged. violence happen to other people,” Hardaker said. “It isn’t the Internet, restrictions on online expression in other many women still face. Last month it was used to draw Such abuse is neither new nor confined to Britain. that the Internet has turned us into monsters. It has pro- Western democracies vary widely. attention to dozens of tweets calling Wimbledon American writer Lindy West wrote earlier this year about duced this online Colosseum where we can go and In Germany, where it is an offense to deny the women’s tennis champion Marion Bartoli “fat,” “ugly,” a receiving a slew of sexual threats after she appeared on a throw people to the lions ourselves.” Holocaust, a neo-Nazi group has had its Twitter account “slut” and even more offensive terms. TV debate about rape jokes. But the subject has received The relative anonymity of the Internet makes online blocked. In Britain, hundreds of people are charged each Sometimes such “naming and shaming” can be an unprecedented level of public exposure this week, abuse hard to stop. Many trolls change online identities year for sending menacing, indecent, offensive or remarkably effective. This week a Twitter troll sent an sparking debates on British radio and television news frequently and use software that masks their ISP address, obscene messages. People have been convicted for mak- abusive and sexually explicit tweet to Mary Beard, a programs and articles in national newspapers - even the making them hard to track down. Police are sometimes ing offensive comments about a murdered child and for Cambridge University classicist and television presenter. tabloids. Creasy and Criado-Perez are among a growing reluctant to spend major resources on what can be seen posting on Facebook that soldiers “should die and go to Beard retweeted it to her 43,000 followers, and soon a group who have decided to face down the abusers, as minor online crime. British campaigners are calling for hell.” Some civil libertarians are wary of criminalizing even second Twitter user was offering to supply the mailing retweeting their messages in an attempt to “name and Twitter to do more to block bad behavior. The site’s rules more online activity. address of the offender’s mother so she could see what shame” the offenders, and reporting the most threaten- explicitly bar threats of violence, but users currently have They argue that most online talk is just that - talk, nev- her son had written. He quickly became contrite. “I was ing messages to police. to fill out an online form to report abuse, a process some er intended to translate into action. GQ magazine recent- wrong and very rude,” he wrote. “Hope this can be forgot- “This is not about Twitter,” Creasy told the BBC. “This is say is time-consuming and unwieldy. An online petition ly reprinted some of the blood-curdling threats it ten and forgiven.” — AP US seeks tighter control over Apple in e-book case Tough new restrictions

NEW YORK: Apple Inc is headed for a show- in this case might be damage to its reputa- brought much-needed competition to the e- down with the US government and dozens tion, not financial harm. book market and now the government is try- of states, which on Friday urged that tough Amazon.com Inc commands about 65 ing to undermine them.” new restrictions be imposed on the company percent of the US e-books market, while Albert Greco, a book-industry expert at for illegally conspiring to raise e-book prices. Apple’s share has been estimated in the sin- Fordham University’s business school, said The changes proposed by the US gle digits. The governments’ plan, which the proposal “does not address the long term Department of Justice and 33 US states and needs court approval, would require that issue of book pricing in the United States.” territories are designed to stop Apple from Apple end its contracts with the five publish- The plan also requires Apple to hire a full- committing further antitrust violations after ers and be banned for five years from enter- time internal antitrust compliance officer, and US District Judge Denise Cote said on July 10 ing contracts that would effectively raise use a court-appointed external monitor to Apple had a “central role” in a conspiracy with prices of e-books sold by rivals. ensure its compliance with the proposed five major publishers to raise e-book prices. The publishers are Lagardere SCA’s final judgment for 10 years. But the proposed changes extend beyond Hachette Book Group Inc, News Corp’s Government officials said the changes e-books, potentially limiting Apple’s ability to HarperCollins Publishers LLC, Pearson Plc’s would permit Apple to compete “vigorously negotiate for such content as movies, music Penguin Group (USA) Inc, CBS Corp’s Simon & and lawfully” in the e-books market. and TV shows, and increasing regulatory Schuster Inc and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Apple countered that the changes seek oversight of other business areas such as the Holtzbrinck GmbH’s Macmillan. All settled unnecessary relief for harm already remedied company’ App Store. In a court filing, Apple with US regulators. under the settlements with the publishers. It SHANGHAI: Construction workers prepare the final steel beam to be put in place in a ceremony for the called the proposed injunction a “draconian Apple would also be unable to cut deals urged Cote to reject the injunction entirely or topping out of the Shanghai Tower in Shanghai yesterday. Work on the main structure of the world’s sec- and punitive intrusion” into its business that with providers of movies, music and TV pro- approve a “narrower and more modest” alter- ond tallest skyscraper was completed as a crane placed the steel beam 580 meters (1,900 feet) above the would hurt consumers and competition, and grams for its iPad tablets and iPhones that native. Federal and state officials accused ground as the building formally overtook Taiwan’s 509 meter tall Taipei 101 building to become the was “wildly out of proportion” to the harm it would likely increase the prices at which Apple of conspiring with the publishers in tallest tower in Asia. — AFP was meant to address. rivals might sell such content. late 2009 and early 2010, as the iPad was “The resulting cost of this relief - not only Officials also want to make it easier for being launched. World’s second tallest in dollars but also lost opportunities for consumers to compare e-book prices by They said the conspiracy caused some e- American businesses and consumers - would requiring Apple for two years to let Amazon, book prices to rise to $12.99 or $14.99 from be vast,” it said. Federal and state regulators Barnes & Noble Inc and other rivals provide the $9.99 that Amazon charged. Evidence building tops out in China disagreed. “Under the department’s pro- links to their own stores within their iPad and damaging Apple’s case included emails from posed order, Apple’s illegal conduct will iPhone apps. Steve Jobs, its late chief executive, that the SHANGHAI: Work on the main structure of the tral Chinese city of Changsha, which they say will cease, and Apple and its senior executives Industry experts said the proposal, if officials said reflected a desire to boost world’s second tallest skyscraper was completed be completed in April. will be prevented from conspiring to thwart adopted, could solidify Amazon’s dominance prices. “Taking advantage of the publisher yesterday, as the final beam was placed on the But reports in state-run media late last month competition,” said Bill Baer, head of the in the e-books market. defendants’ fear of and frustration over Shanghai Tower. said construction on the tower had been called off, Justice Department’s antitrust division. “Why isn’t the DOJ forcing Amazon to play Amazon’s pricing,” Cote concluded, “Apple A crane placed the steel beam 580 meters because the building had not gained full local gov- Cote will weigh the arguments at an Aug. fairly? This is the question the publishing seized the moment and brilliantly played its (1,900 feet) above the ground in Shanghai, China’s ernment approval. 9 hearing in her Manhattan courtroom. A industry wants answered,” said Mark Coker, hand.” In their settlements, the publishers commercial hub, as the building formally overtook The Broad Group called the reports inaccurate damages trial might follow. Despite Apple’s founder of Smashwords, an e-book publisher agreed to pay more than $166 million for Taiwan’s 509 meter tall Taipei 101 building to and said they had not been asked to halt construc- protests, analysts have said the bigger issue and distributor that works with Apple, Barnes consumers’ benefit. None admitted wrong- become the highest tower in Asia. tion in a statement sent to AFP this week. for the Cupertino, California-based company & Noble and other companies. “Apple doing. — AP Globally it is second only to the Burj Khalifa in Work on the Shanghai tower began in 2008, and Dubai, which stands at 830 meters. The tower, its construction was partially backed by Shanghai’s which costs an estimated $14.8 billion yuan ($2.4 city government. billion), will reach over 630 meters when it is finally Concerns were raised last year when long cracks UK multitaskers finished. began to appear in the ground close to the build- “It’s a landmark and it will change the skyline of ing, prompting fears that ground around the tower take to Twitter Shanghai,” Xia Jun, of Gensler, the US firm which was subsiding. But Ding Jiemin, an architect who designed the tower, told a press conference on collaborated on the tower’s design, played down to swap TV talk Saturday following a “topping out” ceremony. fears on Saturday. “I don’t think the importance of an architecture “These problems were just during construction LONDON: Tweeting and texting while watching lies entirely in its height,” he added. The structure period, it will not affect the security of the architec- TV is supplanting the traditional water-cooler stands alongside China’s previous tallest building, ture,” he said. China is home to three of the world’s chat about the previous night’s viewing among the 492 meter Shanghai World Financial Center- 10 tallest buildings, according to research group increasingly media-savvy Britons, the country’s and is due to open next year, by which time it may Emporis-which did not count the Shanghai Tower. telecoms regulator has found. have been surpassed as the tallest building in The Shanghai Tower’s final beam was decorated “Just a few years ago, we would be talking China. Chinese firm Broad Group have announced with red ribbons and flags, and carried a banner about last night’s TV at work or at school. Now, plans to construct an 838 meter tower in the cen- which read: “Team of hoisting heroes”. —-AFP we’re having those conversations live while watching TV - using social media, text and instant messaging,” James Thickett, director of research at regulator Ofcom, said. Govt requests for Twitter Just over half of adults own a smartphone and 24 percent of households has a tablet com- users’ data on the rise puter, Ofcom said in its annual Communications Market Report. It said some 53 percent of con- sumers weekly use such devices in “media multi- SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter is under increasing pres- the Patriot Act, a law enacted after the Sept 11 tasking” - watching television while engaging sure from governments around the world to release attacks. US companies are prohibited from acknowl- with another form of media. TOKYO: A boy writes a Chinese letter for “study” with a calligraphy robot, which mimics user’s private information, with requests rising 40 per- edging the existence of data requests made under In addition, 24 percent of adults did “media- the exact brush strokes of a master calligrapher, at a science workshop for elemenatry cent in the first six months of the year, the microblog- those statutes. meshing” every week in 2012, which involves children at Keio University in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 30, 2013. The motion ging company said yesterday in its semi-annual trans- Transparency reports such as the one published watching TV while using other media devices in copy robot, developed by Japan’s Keio University associate professor Seiichiro Katsura, parency report. semi-annually by Twitter have been a particularly con- a way that relates to a programme - for example, can recreate master works and the users can experience the same pressure and the same The United States made three-quarters of the tentious issue in Silicon Valley in the wake of a series by talking about it on the phone, tweeting about gestures of brush works by master painters or calligraphers.—AFP 1,157 data requests during the six-month period, of leaks in June by former security contractor Edward it or using an app that engages directly with the according to the San Francisco-based company’s Snowden, who alleged that major service providers programme. report. Governments usually want the emails or IP including Google Inc, Facebook Inc and Microsoft Andy Murray’s Wimbledon tennis victory last Starbucks turns to Google addresses tied to a Twitter account. Corp systematically pass along huge troves of user month was a striking example of media-mesh- In one well-known case, a French court ordered data to the National Security Agency. ing, as 1.1 million people worldwide tweeted 2.6 for free WiFi in US cafes Twitter in February to turn over information about an The companies, which have denied the scope of million times with hashtags that related to the anonymous account that posted anti-Semitic tweets. Snowden’s allegations, have asked the US govern- match, 80 percent of which were sent from SAN FRANCISCO: Google has said it has that the Utah city of Provo will be the third Twitter, which had initially resisted by arguing that ment for permission to reveal the precise number of mobile devices. been signed on to provide free high-speed US city to get its experimental high-speed the data was stored beyond French jurisdiction in its national security requests they receive in order to The increase in usage of smartphones such wireless Internet service at all Starbucks cafes Fiber Internet service that promises to move California servers, ultimately complied in June. publicly argue that their cooperation with the gov- as Apple Inc’s iPhone and Samsung Electronics in the United States. data at a gigabyte-per-second. Efforts to censor Twitter content have also risen ernment has been relatively limited. The negotiations Co Ltd’s Galaxy has corresponded with a further Google will roll out WiFi service to the cof- The Google Internet service is spreading sharply, the company said. “Over the last six months, between the companies, which include Twitter, drop in voice calls to the lowest point since fee giant’s 7,000 US cafes during the coming to Austin, the Texas home of a South By we have gone from withholding content in two coun- remain ongoing, but firms including Microsoft and Ofcom’s predecessor Oftel began regulating 18 months, replacing telecom titan AT&T as Southwest festival beloved by technology tries to withholding content (ranging from hate Facebook released in June some approximate figures telecoms in the 1980s. Internet provider. trendsetters, after a successful pilot program speech to defamation) in seven countries,” said of how many users have been affected by the data Text message usage has also fallen, with 54 “When your local Starbucks WiFi network in Kansas City. Twitter legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel. dragnet cast by US intelligence. percent of adults saying they use texts to com- goes Google, you’ll be able to surf the web at Google has established a pattern of pro- Twitter was censored the most in Brazil, where In the first half of the year, authorities in Japan, municate daily, a drop of 5 percentage points speeds up to 10x faster than before,” Google viding a low-speed version of Google Fiber courts issued orders on nine occasions to remove a another large Twitter user base, made 87 requests from 2011. Many say they send fewer texts due Access general manager Kevin Lo said in a free to residents, who pay one-time installa- total of 39 defamatory tweets. while UK agencies filed 26. The majority of the to the availability of instant messaging services blog post. “If you’re in a Google Fiber city, tion fees, and then offering options such as The report did not include secret information requests come in the form of court-issued subpoenas, such as Blackberry Ltd’s Messenger, WhatsApp we’re hoping to get you a connection that’s high-speed Internet and online television for requests within the United Sates authorized under Twitter said. — Reuters or Facebook Inc. —Reuters up to 100x faster.” Google in April announced monthly subscription rates. —- AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE NZ finds botulism in dairy food stuff Scare triggers recall of dairy items in 7 countries WELLINGTON: New Zealand authorities have Romano, the managing director of Fonterra’s uct samples were put through intensive testing triggered a global recall of up to 1,000 tons of New Zealand milk products, said his company over the following months. It said that on July dairy products across seven countries after supplies raw materials to the eight companies 31 it discovered the presence of a strain of the dairy giant Fonterra announced tests had and it is up to them to inform their consumers bacteria that can cause botulism. turned up a type of bacteria that could cause of what products might be tainted. Romano said Fonterra hasn’t received botulism. New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary The company did acknowledge its chief reports of anybody getting sick and added that Industries said yesterday that the tainted prod- executive, Theo Spierings, planned to fly to the problem hasn’t affected any fresh milk, ucts include infant formula, sports drinks, pro- China yesterday, in part to deal with the fallout yoghurt, cheese or long-lasting heat-treated tein drinks and other beverages. It said coun- from the botulism scare. New Zealand’s milk. New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary tries affected beside New Zealand include Ministry for Primary Industries said yesterday Industries said it was working with the compa- China, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam that New Zealand company Nutricia had used ny to investigate. Spierings, the chief executive, and Saudi Arabia. Fonterra said its customers some of the tainted product in its Karicare line said in the release that food safety was the were urgently checking their supply chains. of formula for infants aged over 6 months. company’s top priority. “We are acting quickly,” One New Zealand company has locked down Nutricia had locked down all five batches of he said. “Our focus is to get information out five batches of infant formula and China is ask- infant formula it believed contained the tainted about potentially affected product as fast as ing importers to immediately recall products. product, the ministry said. But it advised that possible so that it can be taken off supermarket Fonterra is the world’s fourth-largest dairy parents should buy different Nutricia products shelves and, where it has already been pur- company, with annual revenues of about $16 or alternative brands until it verified the loca- chased, can be returned.” billion. The news comes as a blow to New tion of all tainted Nutricia products. China’s Earlier this year, Fonterra announced it had Zealand’s dairy industry, which powers the product quality watchdog issued a statement discovered trace amounts of the agricultural country’s economy. New Zealand exports about urging importers of Fonterra dairy products to chemical dicyandiamide in some of its prod- 95 percent of its milk. Consumers in China and immediately start recalling the products. ucts, prompting a ban on the chemical’s use on elsewhere are willing to pay a big premium for The General Administration of Quality New Zealand farms. Rabobank’s 2012 Global WAIKATO: In this photo, Fonterra’s Hautapu dairy factory is seen in the New Zealand infant formula because the coun- Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine also Dairy Top 20 report ranked Fonterra as the Waikato, New Zealand. — AP try has a clean and healthy reputation. Chinese told quality agencies around China to step up world’s fourth-largest dairy company by rev- consumers have a special interest after tainted inspections of milk products from New enue behind NestlÈ, Danone and Lactalis. The local milk formula killed six babies in 2008. Zealand. Romano said the problem was caused company is a cooperative, partially owned by The Centers for Disease Control describes by unsterilized pipes at a Waikato factory. He thousands of farmers. Tracking the source of botulism as a rare but sometimes fatal paralytic said three batches of whey protein weighing In 2011 the company collected 15.4 billion illness caused by a nerve toxin. Fonterra said it about 42 tons were tainted in May 2012, liters (4.1 billion gallons) of milk in New stomach bug outbreak has told eight of its customers of the problem, adding that Fonterra has since cleaned the Zealand, representing about 90 percent of the which dates back more than a year, and they pipes. The New Zealand ministry says the taint- country’s total. In 2008, six babies in China died WASHINGTON: Is an outbreak of a nasty tion between states and the federal govern- were investigating whether any of the affected ed product has been mixed with other ingredi- and another 300,000 were sickened by infant stomach bug over? Depends on who you ment. Cases are confirmed when a sick per- product is in their supply chains. Fonterra said ents to form about 1,000 tons of consumer formula that was tainted with melamine, an ask. Iowa officials say that almost 150 son gives a sample to his or her doctor and those companies will initiate any consumer products worldwide. The company said in a industrial chemical added to watered-down cyclospora infections in their state were that sample is tested. If it is positive, it will product recalls. release it identified a potential quality problem milk to fool tests for protein levels. Fonterra at linked to a bagged lettuce mix and the eventually be reported to a state health At a news conference yesterday, Fonterra in March when a product tested positive for the the time owned a minority stake in Sanlu, the threat is over. Federal officials at the Centers department. The states then gather that repeatedly refused to divulge the companies, bacteria Clostridium. Many strains of the bacte- now-bankrupt Chinese company at the center for Disease Control and Prevention and the data and coordinate with the CDC to look countries or specific products affected. Gary ria are harmless, the company said, and prod- of the scandal.—AP Food and Drug Administration aren’t so for common strains that could link the ill- sure, saying it is too early to say if the out- ness to a specific product. State and federal break is over. There are almost 400 illnesses officials interview the victims and closely US law requires total in 15 states. Here are some answers to question them about what they ate around frequently asked questions about the infec- the time they fell ill - often a difficult task, as tions and the outbreak: it is hard for most people to remember cord blood everything they ate over an extended time. Q: What are cyclospora infections? from teen moms A: Cyclospora infection, or cyclosporiasis, Q: Why is this particular outbreak so is caused by parasites that are spread when hard to trace? JACKSON: If a girl younger than 16 gives birth and people ingest food or water contaminated A: Cyclospora infections are rare in this won’t name the father, a new Mississippi law - likely the with feces. People who are exposed usually country so state health departments aren’t first of its kind in the country - says authorities must col- become sick after about a week and have as accustomed to tracing them as they are lect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove bad diarrhea and other flu-like symptoms more common US foodborne illnesses like paternity as a step toward prosecuting statutory rape that can last from a few days to a month or salmonella and E. coli. It is also difficult cases. Supporters say the law is intended to chip away longer if untreated. It’s common to feel tired because cyclospora usually doesn’t show up at Mississippi’s teen pregnancy rate, which has long and relapse is possible. It’s not generally until a week after a person has eaten the been one of the highest in the nation. But critics say contagious and can be treated with antibi- tainted food, so it’s harder for people to that though the procedure is painless, it invades the otics. Deaths from the infection are rare. remember what they ate. In this outbreak, medical privacy of the mother, father and baby. And the Food and Drug Administration says its questions abound: At roughly $1,000 a pop, who will Q: Who is usually at risk? investigators have been trying to trace the pay for the DNA tests in the country’s poorest state? A: People who live or travel in tropical or paths of the food eaten by those who fell ill. Even after test results arrive, can prosecutors compel a subtropical countries are most at risk, Food often goes through several stops - potential father to submit his own DNA and possibly according to the CDC. The infections are rare potentially in several countries - before it implicate himself in a crime? How long will the state in the United States but have been linked in reaches a grocery cart, and the FDA said the keep the DNA on file? the past to imported fruits and vegetables. process is “labor-intensive and painstaking Republican Gov. Phil Bryant says the DNA tests could work, requiring the collection, review and FORT WORTH: The Fort Worth Zoo show off a new female Asian elephant lead to prosecution of grown men who have sex with Q: I heard it is linked to bagged salad. analysis of hundreds and at times thousands calf. — AP underage girls. “It is to stop children from being raped,” Should I stop eating bagged salad? of invoices and shipping documents.” The said Bryant, who started his career as a deputy sheriff in A: It’s not clear. The illnesses are in 15 agency said it has a seven-person team in its Baby elephant makes most the 1970s. “One of the things that go on in this state states, but only two of those states, Iowa Maryland headquarters and specialists in 10 that’s always haunted me when I was a law-enforce- and Nebraska, are saying that it is linked to field offices across the country working to of childhood in Texas zoo ment officer is seeing the 14- and 15-year-old girl that is bagged salad mix. The CDC and FDA say identify the source of the outbreak. raped by the neighbor next door and down the street.” they don’t yet have enough information to FORT WORTH: The Fort Worth Zoo’s new year history. Zoo spokeswoman Katie But Bear Atwood, legal director for the American Civil say what is causing the illnesses. Iowa offi- Q: What else do we know about this baby elephant is already a big hit with Giangreco says Belle weighed 330 Liberties Union of Mississippi, said it’s an invasion of pri- cials have said they believe the affected sal- outbreak? children who visit the zoo. Their youthful pounds at birth is gaining two pounds vacy to collect cord blood without consent of the moth- ad has already spoiled and is no longer in A: Not much. Iowa officials have said the fascination was enhanced Tuesday when per day. She says Belle “is curious and full er, father and baby. She also said that an underage girl the supply chain. They have said they salad mix wasn’t grown in Iowa or Nebraska zoo officials added a child’s inflatable of personality, learning new things every who doesn’t want to reveal the identity of her baby’s believe the salad was served in restaurants, but won’t say where it was grown or sold. pool to the elephants’ enclosure for day, learning what her trunk is for, learn- father might skip prenatal care: “Will she decide not to was in the food service chain and also sold The Iowa officials say that because there is Belle’s enjoyment. Belle could be seen ing to use her legs.” Belle’s mother, Rasha, have the baby in a hospital where she can have a safe, at stores, but they won’t say where the salad no immediate threat, they are not required rolling in the pool. Bell was born July 7 is helping in that instruction. Asian ele- happy, healthy delivery?” mix came from. Nebraska officials said the to say where the food came from. Food safe- and is just the second Asian elephant to phants have been listed as endangered The law took effect July 1 but hasn’t been used yet. salad mix in question included iceberg and ty and consumer advocates disagree, saying be born at the Fort Worth Zoo in its 104- since 1976. — AP Cord blood samples would have to be taken immedi- romaine lettuce, along with red cabbage the public has a right to know the source ately after birth, and the state medical examiner is set- and carrots that came through national dis- even if the tainted food is out of the com- ting administrative rules for how the blood will be col- tribution chains. mercial chain. Scientists to cook world’s lected and stored. Megan Comlossy, health policy asso- ciate for the National Conference of State Legislatures, Q: Am I at risk in this current out- Q: What can I do to prevent contract- first in-vitro beef burger said she thinks Mississippi is the first state to enact a law break? ing an illness like this? authorizing the collection of blood from the umbilical A: Probably not, but federal officials A: Short of growing all of your own food, LONDON: A corner of west London will Shadow, said the meat industry con- cord - a painless procedure - to determine paternity. aren’t ready to declare it over. The state offi- it may be unavoidable. All foods - including see culinary and scientific history made tributes about 18 percent of global green- Bryant’s staff says the idea for the law came from cials say it appears to have passed, but a those labeled local, natural or organic - have tomorrow when scientists cook and serve house-gas emissions and this proportion public meetings conducted by the governor’s teen CDC spokeswoman says “it’s too early to say the potential to be exposed to safety haz- up the world’s first lab-grown beef burger. is expected to grow as consumers in fast- pregnancy prevention task force - a group that focuses for sure whether it’s over, and thus too early ards on the farm, in transit or in the store. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle developing countries such as China and mostly on promoting abstinence. Statistics put the to say there’s no risk of still getting sick.” Sometimes all it takes is one rogue animal stem cells, the first example of what its India eat more meat. According to the state’s teen pregnancy rate among the highest in the BelÈn Moran of the CDC says the agency “is that broke through a fence or one employee creator says could provide an answer to World Health Organization (WHO), annual country. In 2011 - the most recent year for which statis- still conducting an investigation and work- who didn’t do proper handwashing to infect global food shortages and help combat meat production is projected to rise to tics are available - there were 50.2 live births in ing to determine if the conclusions from food. If irrigation water is infected, that can climate change, will be fried in a pan and 376 million tonnes by 2030 from 218 mil- Mississippi per 1,000 females ages 15-19, according to Iowa and Nebraska help explain the sicken people too. Sometimes pathogens or tasted by two volunteers. lion tonnes in 1997-1999, and demand the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nationwide rate was 31.3. And more than half increased numbers of cases in other states.” parasites can be washed off the surface of The burger is the result of years of from a growing world population is Mississippi’s 82 counties reported at least one pregnan- The last reported illness began July 18, and food but other times they are deep inside, research by Dutch scientist Mark Post, a expected to rise beyond that. there have only been seven reported illness- so anyone who eats it is at risk of becoming cy by a 10- to 14-year-old girl in 2011, according to an vascular biologist at the University of Post cites FAO figures suggesting Associated Press analysis of state statistics. es since July 6. Fifteen states have so far sick. What you can do is make sure you prac- Maastricht, who is working to show how demand for meat is expected to increase reported illnesses: Arkansas, Connecticut, tice safe handling and preparation. The FDA The governor’s staff also said it heard disheartening meat grown in petri dishes might one day by more than two-thirds by 2050. Animal information from Chancery Judge Janace Harvey Goree, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, recommends always washing hands, uten- be a true alternative to meat from live- welfare campaigners applauded the Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, sils and surfaces with hot, soapy water whose district covers four counties in central stock. The meat in the burger has been arrival of cultured meat and predicted a New York, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. before and after handling food. You should Mississippi. In an interview with the AP, Goree said she also thoroughly wash all fresh produce made by knitting together around 20,000 great future for it. “In vitro technology will was disturbed to learn that several middle school girls Q: How does the government trace the before you eat it. Those measures should strands of protein that has been cultured spell the end of lorries full of cows and had become pregnant in recent years in Holmes County, source of illnesses like this? significantly reduce your chances of getting from cattle stem cells in Post’s lab. The tis- chickens, abattoirs and factory farming,” where she lives. In the poor, mostly rural county, middle A: It takes a lot of legwork and coordina- sick. —AP sue is grown by placing the cells in a ring, the People for the Ethical Treatment of school and high school students are on the same cam- like a donut, around a hub of nutrient gel, Animals (PETA) campaign group said in a pus in some places. “Most often, it is not middle school Post explained. To prepare the burger, sci- statement. “It will reduce carbon emis- boys that are getting the middle school girls pregnant,” entists combined the cultured beef with sions, conserve water and make the food Goree said. As a chancery judge, Goree oversees child Traumatised baboon other ingredients normally used in burg- supply safer.” support cases. “When you’re seeking child support quite ers, such as salt, breadcrumbs and egg A study published in 2011 comparing often in these situations, they don’t identify the father mystery at Dutch zoo powder. Red beet juice and saffron have the relative environmental impacts of var- and so quite often you don’t know until way down the been added to bring out its natural ious types of meat, including lamb, beef road that the person who is the father is a relative or the THE HAGUE: Zoologists are baffled by the “I’ve heard lots of theories but nothing colours. “Our burger is made from muscle and cultured meat, said the lab-grown boyfriend ... of someone else in the household,” she said. strange behaviour of a troop of baboons at a that holds water,” Landman said. These cells taken from a cow. We haven’t altered product has by far the least impact on the The governor said he worked with Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, on the cord blood bill. The final Dutch zoo which have become inexplicably include that the baboons saw a predator, them in any way,” Post said in a statement environment. Hanna Tuomisto, who con- version passed the Senate unanimously and the House withdrawn, apparently fearful of an unseen either a real one or an image of one on a visi- on Friday. “For it to succeed it has to look, ducted the study at Oxford University’s threat. “They became panicked at the end of tor’s T-shirt, or that they felt an earthquake or 98-17. The issue of cost received little debate. The bill’s feel and hopefully taste like the real Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, main sponsor, Republican state Rep. Andy Gipson, said the day on Monday, they were hysterical, not other natural disaster. “The craziest sugges- thing.” found that growing meats in-vitro would jumping around but behaving strangely,” tion was that it was caused by a UFO,” said the US Supreme Court has ruled that DNA left on use 35 percent to 60 percent less energy, objects, such as saliva on a disposable cup, can be test- zoologist Wijbren Landman of Emmen Landman. “They’ve been observed to be dis- Viable alternative? emit 80 percent to 95 percent less green- Dierenpark in the northern Netherlands told concerted in the wild if they’ve had a run-in ed as evidence in a criminal case. He said he thinks Success, in Post’s view, would mean house gas and use around 98 percent less AFP on Friday. “On Tuesday and Wednesday with a predator, but not this type of behav- umbilical cord blood fits that description. not just a tasty burger, but also the they just sat in the trees or on the ground, iour,” he said. land than conventionally produced ani- “We’re not taking blood from the baby,” Gipson said. hardly moving or eating,” Landman said. Despite the lack of an explanation for the prospect of finding a sustainable, ethical mal meat. “We’re not taking blood from the mother. We’re taking The 112 east African monkeys also turned behaviour, the baboons have at least started and environmentally friendly alternative While tomorrow’s fry-up will be a world blood that is discarded ... literally discarded.” Gipson said their backs on visitors. The zoo said it was the to eat a little. “Yesterday evening some of to meat production. According to a 2006 first and only an initial proof-of concept, he doesn’t believe a man who fathers a child with an fourth time in 20 years that the baboons them started eating little bits of apple and report by the UN Food and Agriculture the Dutch scientist reckons commercial underage girl should have a reasonable expectation of have behaved this way. Nevertheless, such we gave them pellets with vitamins and min- Organization (FAO), industrialized agricul- production of cultured beef could begin privacy. “Most cases would involve a suspect who is behaviour has not been seen elsewhere, erals,” Landman said. “They’re not yet 100 ture contributes on a “massive scale” to cli- within the next 20 years. “What we are pretty well identified,” he said. either in captivity or in the wild. The zoolo- percent but they’re improving. “We’ve asked mate change, air pollution, land degrada- going to attempt is important because I Democratic state Rep. Adrienne Wooten voted gist said he has no idea what happened on experts for their opinions, if they’ve ever tion, energy use, deforestation and biodi- hope it will show cultured beef has the against the bill, saying it will mostly hurt poor women Monday to traumatise the baboons, who seen anything like it or have an explanation, versity decline. answers to major problems that the world and could lead a prosecution “fishing expedition to find were all born in captivity and live on an but that hasn’t turned anything up yet,” he The report, entitled Livestock’s Long faces,” he added. — Reuters out who the father is.” —AP island in the zoo. said. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE

“We are physicians from different specialties with a specific interest in public health advocacy and eases and conditions and to rectify the misconceptions they may have. Since our group consists of promotion. We, also, aim to increase awareness among the Kuwaiti public regarding a variety of dis- multiple physicians we decided to write under the pen name of L’homme en Blanc.” Nigeria: Doctors treat The magic pill to control obesity?

lead-poisoned children besity, an excessive accu- People with a BMI of 30 or mulation of fat that may more, or those who have a BMI LAGOS: The Nigerian village that suffered one of the climate change, he said. At the peak of the gold rush, Tirima said, more Olead to serious health between 27 and 30 and suffer world’s worst recorded incidents of lead poisoning is Managing five landfills with some 13,000 cubic than 1,000 itinerant miners and followers were implications, is the fifth leading from a medical condition as a now habitable and doctors can start treating more meters (nearly 460,000 cubic feet) of highly contami- camped around the village - deep in the countryside, risk factor for global deaths. In result of their obesity, weight loss than 1,000 contaminated children, a doctor and a sci- nated soil, and teaching villagers how to mine safely beyond the reach of paved roads and electricity and 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults medicines may be recommend- entist from two international agencies said Friday. For are major challenges to prevent new contamination, quite cut off in the rainy season when dirt roads were overweight (35 percent of ed. Currently, there are two med- some, it already is too late to reverse serious neuro- he said. “That’s a big, big worry. But I am joyful that for become impassable. Despite its remote location, the adults were overweight and 11 ications available for weight loss logical damage, said Dr Michelle Chouinard, Nigeria the kids who will be born in Bagega, we have at least booming economy attracted people from Burkina percent were obese),an extreme- assistance, and each of them has country director for Doctors Without Borders, told The removed one of the major strikes against them Faso, Mali and Niger to Bagega, which also drew ly high number for a condition a different mechanism of action. Associated Press on Friday. Some children are blind, because they have so many strikes against them many locals as a regional commercial center with a that is preventable. WHO esti- The first of these medications others paralyzed and many will struggle at school nutritional problems, diseases...” said Tirima, who is primary and high school, a hospital and weekly mar- mates that at least 2.8 million reduces the amount of fat your with learning disabilities, she said. the field operations director in Nigeria for ket. In addition, cattle herders and nomads came here adults die each year as a result of body absorbs from the foods you Doctors Without Borders uncovered the scandal in TerraGraphics International Foundation. to water their animals at a reservoir so dangerously being overweight or obese or of eat, while the second one acts as 2010 but nothing was done until this year about the The Moscow, Idaho-based foundation advised contaminated it killed goats and cows. a health burden related to obesi- an “appetite suppressant” by worst-affected village, Bagega, because the federal Nigeria’s northern Zamfara state government and The entire human population of 6,000 to 9,000 was ty such as diabetes, heart disease, increasing the levels of brain government did not provide a promised $3 million, oversaw the 5 1/2-month cleanup, or remediation, of exposed, including some 1,500 children under the orcancer. chemicals that trick your body the group said. The poisoning caused by artisanal Bagega that ended two weeks ago. There, people age of 5. Human Rights Watch said the death toll of The concept of weight man- into thinking it’s full. mining from a gold rush killed at least 400 children, were exposed to mindboggling rates of lead contami- 400 was only an estimate as villagers initially tried to agement seems simple enough; If you are considering starting yet villagers still say they would rather die of lead poi- nation: Some residential soil with up to 35,000 parts hide the deaths, fearing the government would stop since what tilts the scale to over- these drugs, you should discuss it soning than poverty, environmental scientist Simba per million of lead and the processing area with over their illegal mining. The group said it was the worst weight is an imbalance between with your doctor. After evalua- Tirima told the Associated Press Friday. Villagers make 100,000 parts per million, Tirima said. The United epidemic of its kind in modern history. The govern- energy intake (food consump- tion, s/he may give you a pre- 10 times as much money mining as they do from States considers 400 parts per million safe for residen- ment released money for the cleanup in February, tion) and energy expenditure scription for a short term course farming in an area suffering erratic rainfall because of tial soil. Doctors Without Borders began prescreening in (physical activity). To lose weight, (as they are not recommended March and found that nearly every one of 1,010 chil- energy expenditure needs to sur- for long term use) of these med- dren tested need therapy, Chouinard said. Of them, pass energy intake; however, the ications and follow up your 267 are severely contaminated and will get chelation - execution of this concept is a lit- progress. Additionally, you where medication binds the lead to a child’s blood tle more difficult to achieve. should be aware of possible side and helps them to eliminate it faster from their sys- A balanced healthy diet and effects when taking these drugs, tem. All the children had more than the international an active lifestyle has always such as: constipation, insomnia, standard maximum of 10 micrograms per deciliter of been the best combination for headache, and/or abdominal lead in their blood. Some had as much as 700 micro- battling extra weight; however, cramping. It should be noted that grams per deciliter, she said. The children will have to many individuals may struggle to the above mentioned medica- be treated for one to two years, she said. The more lose weight and/or keep the tions are approved for use to basic methods used to get at gold helped cause the weight off. Moreover, people enhance weight loss, in contrast poisoning. Some women used hammers to beat open who suffer from obesity may to the numerous dietary supple- rock ore. Others used some of the 60 grinding mills at additionally be afflicted with any ments available, of which none a processing area adjacent to the village and water of its co-morbidities, such as dia- are recommended as their safety reservoir, Tirima said. betes, high cholesterol, hyper- is still unknown. Many took the rocks that carried high concentra- tension and/or heart disease. Obesity is becoming a pan- tions of lead into their homes for processing. The poi- These co-morbidities affect anin- demic and weight control is soning was facilitated because the particular lead dividual’s quality of life; therefore, becoming a daily struggle but compounds are very toxic and easily absorbed into it is essential to control weight in despite the availability of weight the body, unlike other forms of lead, Tirima explained. order to combat these preventa- loss medications to assist us in His TerraGraphics Foundation has trained dozens of ble conditions.Once an underly- this struggle, there is no alterna- Nigerians to clean up any future contamination. ing medical condition that may tive to the convention of a Government officials initially reacted by trying to be influencing weight has been healthy balanced diet and an enforce a ban on illegal mining. When that did not ruled out(e.g. hypothyroidism or active lifestyle. Remember to work, they promised to find other sources of income polycystic ovary syndrome) an always discuss any medications for villagers, but nothing has happened in a country overweight individual,following a you consider taking with your where corruption is endemic. Tirima pointed to healthy diet and an exercise regi- physician first to make sure you mounting evidence linking lead poisoning to crime men, may additionally consider are a candidate for that treat- waves and said he fears for the community when adjuvant medications to help ment. Stay healthy Kuwait! GUSAU: A photo shows local health workers removing earth contaminated by lead from a family them lose weight. — L’ Homme en Blanc compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria.—AP their poisoned children grow up.— AP WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

SEND US YOUR INSTAGRAM PICS hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let Wother people see the way you see Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- tos, email us at [email protected] A colourful Eid al-Fitr at Hotel Missoni Kuwait Announcements ith Eid Al Fitr just around the corner, Hotel Missoni Kuwait Wannounces integrated packages Indian Embassy to suit all members of the family. sets up helpline The Hotel Missoni offers guests 169 he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has rooms including 63 suites, all with views set up helpline in order to assist of the Gulf and equipped with a host of Indian expatriates in registering luxurious touches including screens from T Bang & Olufsen, espresso machines, and any complaint regarding the govern- indulgent bath products., Known for its ment’s ongoing campaign to stamp out distinctive bold colours Hotel Missoni illegal residents from the country. The Kuwait’s impressive suites also come embassy said in press release yesterday equipped with magic mirrors that trans- that it amended its previous statement form into television screens. Free high- and stated if there is any complaint, the speed is also available throughout the same could be conveyed at the following hotel. (as amended): Operations Department, Luna restaurant offers an internation- Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: al buffet offering seafood and, sushi in which includes 11 treatment rooms for addition to several live cooking stations. 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It massage, body rituals and hammam, as This unique restaurant comes complete well as a gym lounge for men and anoth- said the embassy has been in regular with beautiful panoramic views of the contact with local authorities regarding er for women. Enjoy the taste of true Espresso at Arabian Gulf and Kuwait City and as it is The hotel also provides 20% discount the ongoing checking of expatriates. The located on the eighteenth floor. vouchers for guests wishing to visit the embassy has also conveyed to them the Vergnano Cafe at Olympia Complex For the children there will be a large Scientific Center, which is located just concerns, fears and apprehensions of the feast at the kids club on the second floor, half a kilometer from the hotel. The community in this regard. The authorities he superior quality of the blends espresso to everyday life at home. as well as games, face painting, toys and Scientific Center features an aquarium, in Kuwait have conveyed that strict comes from the meticulous selec- Espresso is now available in Kuwait, gifts and cartoon characters as well as a entertainment in form of three environ- instructions have been issued to ensure Ttion of the best raw materials avail- through Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya Est. Tel: magician. ments that mimic reality offering a scien- Guests can beat the summer’s heat by that there is no harassment or improper able, and from an extraordinary produc- 22413795/98. Espresso Vergnano can be tific journey of the lives of animals and taking a splash in the distinctive swim- treatment of expatriates by those under- tion process. Cafe Vergnano is the first to ordered through www.taw9eel.com birds and marine life. introduce an innovation that brings all the Espresso Vergnano capsules are compati- ming pool with its Missoni stripes or taking checking. “The embassy would like head to the Six Senses Spa and the gym, to request Indian expatriates to ensure passion and pleasure of the perfect ble with other espresso machines. that they abide by all local laws, rules and regulations regarding residency, traf- fic and other matters,” the release read. It would be prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other relevant documents such as driving license, etc. In case an Indian expatriate encounters any improp- er treatment during checking, it may be conveyed immediately with full details and contact particulars to the embassy at the following phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclusively for the above-mentioned purpose only.

Issue of online visa by Indian embassy oreigners requiring visas for India need to apply it online from 16th Celebrate Eid Al Fitr with F June 2013. Applicants may log on to the Public portal at ww.indianvisaonline.gov.in. After suc- Movenpick Hotel & Resort Al Bida’a cessful online submission, the hard copy, so generated, has to be signed by the s the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, a ment of international buffets with gourmet choices fol- applicant and submitted with supporting colourful celebration awaits you with amazing lowed by mouth-watering selection of Arabic sweets documents in accordance with the type of AEid Al Fitr offers. and the tempting crepe corner. visa along with the applicable fee in cash Enjoy a city break at the M?venpick Hotel & Resort Al Children can enjoy the spirit and joy of Eid with our Bida’a during Eid and take advantage of very special selection of exciting activities such as face painting, at any of the two outsource centres at and discounted rates. thrilling magic shows, to mention just few of the various Sharq or Fahaheel. It is essential that While at the hotel you can relax in your cosy room, surprises awaiting them. applicants fill in their personal details as feast upon our delicious buffet breakfast which is “Offering special promotions and packages to cater exactly available in their passports. included and unwind by the pool. to every taste is our token of appreciation for the con- Mismatch of any of the personal details Guests can also tantalise their taste buds with our tinuous support of our valued guests. We traditionally would lead to non-acceptance of the diverse sumptuous buffets ranging from the colourful partake to this joyful season because life is better when application. Fees once paid are non- freshly caught seafood buffet, the delicious cuts pre- shared.” Said Maged Gubr, the hotel’s General Manager. refundable. All children would have to pared at our live cooking stations and the rich assort- obtain separate visa on their respective passports.

8th Expo Pakistan KTMCC conducts ‘Homeland to commence in September he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held from September 26 to 29 in Family Conference’ T Karachi. Held annually, Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair in the uwait Town Malayalee Christian country showcasing the largest collec- Congregation’s (KTMCC) has conducted a tion of Pakistan’s export merchandise Kone day ‘Homeland Family Conference” at and services. one of the best well-known resorts, The Lake Foreign Exhibitors also use the event Palace, Punnamada, Kerala, India. A large num- to launch their products. Expo Pakistan ber of people who associated with KTMCC, cur- 2012 was visited by delegates from 52 rently settled down in India and who are on vacation attended the conference. Thomas countries and generated a business of Chandy M.L.A presided over the conference and over $ 518 million. A 16 member delega- M. Mathews inaugurated same. Chandy praised tion from Kuwait including reputable the Rulers of Kuwait for giving the freedom for companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took worship and the opportunity for all expatriates part in the last exhibition. to work in Kuwait. Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under Rev. Abraham George, Thomas Chandi, K.P. the auspices of the Trade Development Koshy, C.P. Abraham, Pr. Thomas Mathew gave Authority Pakistan. Details about the the felicitation message. Shaji Joseph and Team lead the singing session. event can be viewed During the conference KTMCC honored its ex- www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further infor- members who crossed 70 years by awarding mation and details of sponsorship can be special Mementos. M. Jacob the Convener of obtained from the office of Commercial HFC and Mr. Roy K Yohanan Secretary of KTMCC Secretary, Pakistan Embassy, Jabriya and Shaji Cherian John, Treasurer of KTMCC (25356594) during office hours. made necessary arrangements of the confer- ence. The conference was a great re-union to its members after a long break and every one enjoyed and appreciated the ‘Homeland Write to us Family Conference”. KTMCC is the mother Congregation of all the Send to What’s On major Malayalee Christian Congregations in Kuwait for the past 61 years. It consists of five upcoming events, birthdays or Congregations viz. Mar ThomaSyrian Church of Malabar, Church of South India, St. Thomas celebrations by email: Evangelical Church of India, Pentecostal Church [email protected] and Brethren Assembly. KTMCC gather every Fax: 24835619 / 20 Wednesday 7.30 pm at NECK Kuwait to worship Lord and all are welcomed to the service . WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013 Embassy Information

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EMBASSY OF INDIA The Embassy of India will remain closed on Thursday, August 15th, 2013 on account of Independence Day.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF UK As of July 22, the British Embassy’s Visa Application Center (VAC) will be extend- ing opening hours to be from 08:00 to 15:00 (previously from 09:30 to 14:30). This will generate more appointments in addition to the ones created from the Iftar opening time Ramadan football tournament from 20:00 - 22:00. This step comes in response to the increasing number of applicants during ational Guard Officers’ Club administration held Deewaniat Al Mijren team at 5-6 against the team of shield to family of the late Faisal Al Jareed. In apprecia- summer. the late Colonel Faisal Al Jareed Ramadan the late Faisal Al Jareed. tion of his services during his service to National Nchampionship football tournament which last- After that and at the instruction of Brig Mohammad Guard, and also held a “qirqian” party for the club n n n n n n n ed for three days which ended in the winning of Al Farhan, the club administration gave a memorial members officers families. EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an interview or a trip inside the Embassy. The children must be under 14 years of age, and additional requirements do apply, but the service means parents will no longer have to schedule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti passports. To take advan- tage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.ht m) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous passport, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS-160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS-160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non- traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For children of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More infor- mation is available on the U.S. Embassy web- site: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html

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EMBASSY OF VENEZUELA Working hours of the Embassy of Venezuela during the holy month of Ramadan 09.00 till 13.30. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

08:00 Departures 09:00 Crime Stories 21:00 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 23:40 Food Wars 09:00 Off Limits 10:00 Nightmare In Suburbia 22:00 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 10:00 World’s Greatest Motorcycle 11:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 22:30 E! News 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Rides 12:00 The FBI Files 23:30 Chelsea Lately 00:55 Unique Eats 11:00 Hotel Impossible 14:35 Border Security 13:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 00:00 Opening Act 01:20 Unique Eats 12:00 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 15:05 Auction Hunters 14:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 00:55 Style Star 01:45 Charly’s Cake Angels Cookbook 15:30 Auction Kings 14:30 Snapped: Women Who Kill 01:25 THS 12:30 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 16:00 Superhuman Showdown 15:00 Cold Case Files Cookbook 16:55 Yukon Men 16:00 Fred Dinenage: Murder 13:00 Bizarre Foods America 17:50 Mythbusters Casebook 14:00 International House Hunters 18:45 Sons Of Guns 17:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 14:30 International House Hunters 19:40 Deconstruction 18:00 The FBI Files 00:00 World’s Greatest Motorcycle 03:10 Cooked 15:00 Inside Luxury Travel - Varun 20:05 How It’s Made 19:00 The FBI Files Rides 03:40 Cash In The Attic Sharma 20:35 Auction Hunters 20:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 01:00 Off Limits 04:30 Bargain Hunt 16:00 Globe Trekker 21:00 Flip Men 21:00 Crimes That Shook Britain 02:00 Departures 05:15 Daily Cooks Challenge 17:00 World’s Greatest Motorcycle 21:30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00 Private Crimes 03:00 Globe Trekker 05:45 Design Star Rides 22:25 What Happened Next? 22:30 Prenup To Murder 04:00 Inside Luxury Travel - Varun 06:30 Cooked 18:00 Off Limits 22:50 What Happened Next? 23:30 The Haunting Of... Sharma 23:20 Mythbusters 07:00 Food & Drink 05:00 Bizarre Foods America 19:00 Departures 00:15 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 07:25 Hairy Bikers’ Bake-ation 06:00 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 20:00 Dirt Biking New Zealand 01:10 What Happened Next? 08:15 Homes Under The Hammer Cookbook 21:00 America’s Wildest Roads 09:10 Bargain Hunt 22:00 Departures 01:35 What Happened Next? 03:00 Mary & Martha-PG15 06:30 Essential 09:50 Antiques Roadshow 23:00 Inside Luxury Travel - Varun 05:00 Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven 07:00 Globe Trekker 10:45 Extreme Makeover: Home Sharma Seas-FAM Edition 07:00 Tinker Bell And The Secret Of 11:25 MasterChef Australia The Wings-FAM 12:15 Come Dine With Me 09:00 My Own Love Song-PG15 13:00 Hairy Bikers’ Bake-ation 14:20 Gadget Show - World Tour 11:00 The Dragon Chronicles: Fire & Blanchett the 13:55 Bargain Hunt 14:45 How Tech Works Ice-PG15 14:40 Cash In The Attic 15:10 Moon Machines 12:45 We Bought A Zoo-PG 15:25 Antiques Roadshow 16:00 Future Weapons 15:00 Barnyard-PG star as Woody 16:15 Extreme Makeover: Home 16:55 Kings Of Construction 17:00 My Own Love Song-PG15 Edition 17:45 Unchained Reaction 19:00 New Year’s Eve-PG15 17:00 Homes Under The Hammer 18:35 Investigation X 21:00 You Got Served: Beat The Allen returns 17:55 Planet Cake 19:30 Moon Machines World-PG15 18:25 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 20:20 How The Universe Works 23:00 Cowboys & Aliens-PG15 18:50 Baking Made Easy 21:10 Gadget Show - World Tour 01:00 Outlaw Country-PG15 19:15 New Scandinavian Cooking he might be one of the finest actresses of her 21:35 How Tech Works generation but Cate Blanchett believed she 22:00 Moon Machines 19:45 Come Dine With Me 22:50 How The Universe Works 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home Smight never have the chance to work with Woody 23:40 Gadget Show - World Tour Edition Allen. So when the Oscar-winning Australian star was 07:00 No Surrender-PG15 21:20 Antiques Roadshow presented with the chance to become the latest in 00:05 How Tech Works 09:00 Battle For Terra-PG 00:30 Patent Bending 22:15 Bargain Hunt Allen’s long line of iconic leading ladies, Blanchett did 11:00 Spooky Buddies-PG 23:00 Homes Under The Hammer 01:00 The World’s Strangest UFO 13:00 This Means War-PG15 not hesitate for a second. “We’re all the same, when you Stories 23:55 Cash In The Attic get Woody’s call, you take it and you’ve already said yes 15:00 Waiting For Forever-PG15 00:40 Come Dine With Me 01:50 The World’s Strangest UFO 17:00 Joyful Noise-PG15 before you know what it is. You just hope it’s a good Stories 01:30 MasterChef Australia 19:00 Young Adult-PG15 02:20 Design Star one,” Blanchett recalled. 21:00 The Memory Keeper’s “I had given up hope of ever working with him, I Daughter-PG15 thought he wasn’t interested.” Any possible uncertainty 23:00 How I Spent My Summer about the quality of the remarkably prolific Allen’s lat- Vacation-PG15 00:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner est effort, “Blue Jasmine,” evaporated immediately how- 01:00 Joyful Noise-PG15 01:20 A Haunting ever. The film, which stars Blanchett as a wealthy New 02:10 Couples Who Kill 03:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives York socialite desperately struggling to adjust to new 03:00 Deadly Women 03:25 Food Wars circumstances after her husband (Alec Baldwin) is 03:45 I Almost Got Away With It 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives mired in a financial scandal, has been talked about as 04:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 04:00 Batman: The Dark Knight JOYFUL NOISE ON OSN CINEMA 04:15 Unique Eats one of Allen’s best in years. 05:20 A Haunting 04:40 Chopped Returns Part One-PG15 Blanchett’s towering performance has already seen 06:10 Nightmare Next Door 06:00 Mandie And The Secret 05:00 Super Rugby 05:30 Iron Chef America 20:00 Johnny English Reborn-PG15 22:00 Malibu Country her installed as early front-runner to add a best actress 07:00 Mystery Diagnosis Tunnel-PG 22:00 Hit List-PG15 07:00 Darts 22:30 The Neighbors 06:10 Food Network Challenge 07:50 Street Patrol 08:00 Frankenweenie-PG 00:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 09:00 Rugby League Challenge Cup 23:00 The Office 07:00 Unwrapped Academy Award to the Oscar she picked up for her por- 08:15 Street Patrol 10:00 The Wild Girl-PG15 02:00 Johnny English Reborn-PG15 11:00 NRL Premiership 00:30 The Daily Show 07:25 Unwrapped trayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s 2004 08:40 Real Emergency Calls 12:00 Damsels In Distress-PG15 13:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 01:00 The Colbert Report 07:50 Andy Bates American Street Howard Hughes biopic “The Aviator.” 09:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 14:00 Do No Harm-PG15 16:00 NRL Full Time 01:30 Seinfeld Feasts “No one has started 2013 Oscar talk quite like Cate 09:30 True Crime With Aphrodite 16:00 Frankenweenie-PG 16:30 Futbol Mundial 02:00 Seinfeld 08:15 Unique Sweets Blanchett’s unanimously acclaimed performance in Jones 18:00 People Like Us-PG15 17:00 Darts 02:30 Friends 08:40 Reza’s African Kitchen Blue Jasmine,” was the verdict of respected Hollywood 10:20 Solved 20:00 Love And Other Impossible 09:00 Henry’s Crime-PG15 19:00 Super Rugby Highlights 09:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean industry blog Deadline.com. Blanchett, who would join 11:10 Disappeared Cookbook Pursuits-PG15 11:00 Money For Nothing-PG15 20:00 AFL Premiership Highlights the likes of Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Mira Sorvino 12:00 Mystery Diagnosis 22:00 Bernie-PG15 21:00 PGA Tour Highlights 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 13:00 Here-PG15 and Penelope Cruz as actresses who Allen has helped 12:50 Street Patrol 00:00 Do No Harm-PG15 15:15 Henry’s Crime-PG15 22:00 PGA European Tour 10:20 Extra Virgin 13:15 Street Patrol 02:00 People Like Us-PG15 17:00 Dog Day Afternoon-PG15 Highlights 10:45 Kid In A Candy Store to win an Oscar, said she was mesmerized by “Blue 13:40 Forensic Detectives 19:15 Toast-PG15 23:00 Super Rugby Highlights 13:00 Doc Martin 11:10 Unwrapped Jasmine” immediately. 14:30 True Crime With Aphrodite 21:00 Blue-Eyed Butcher-PG15 15:00 Moving On 11:35 Unique Sweets “The minute I read the script it was fantastic,” Jones 23:00 Coriolanus-PG15 16:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 12:00 The Next Iron Chef Blanchett recalled at a press conference in Beverly Hills. 15:20 Real Emergency Calls 04:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 01:00 Troy-18 17:00 60 Minute Makeover 12:50 Have Cake, Will Travel “It’s impeccably structured, it’s absurd and tragic, often 15:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 06:00 True Justice: One Shot, One 18:00 Emmerdale 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To simultaneously.” But for all the Oscar buzz, the opportu- 16:10 Disappeared 01:30 Web.Com Tour Life-PG15 19:00 Coronation Street Basics nity of working with Allen-in what is his 43rd film-was 17:00 Solved 03:30 NRL Full Time 08:00 Thor-PG15 20:00 Coach Trip 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 17:50 Forensic Detectives 04:00 World Cup of Pool reward in itself, according to Blanchett. “I feel privileged 10:00 Rise Of The Planet Of The 20:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland Basics 18:40 True Crime With Aphrodite 00:00 Futbol Mundial 05:00 World Cup of Pool to be playing the title role in a Woody Allenfilm,” she Apes-PG15 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 14:05 Tyler’s Ultimate Jones 00:30 NRL Premiership 06:00 Golfing World says. “He’s influenced the popular culture in ways that 12:00 True Justice: Violence Of 23:00 Durham County 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 02:30 Super Rugby Highlights 07:00 Golfing World we can’t even know.” Action-PG15 00:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:20 Nightmare Next Door 03:30 AFL Premiership 08:00 Trans World Sport 14:00 Thor-PG15 01:00 60 Minute Makeover 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite Allen-who once confided in an interview that “My 21:10 Couples Who Kill 06:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 09:00 World Cup of Pool 16:00 Iron Sky-PG15 02:00 Emmerdale 15:45 Chopped heart is in it more when I’m writing for women”-has 22:00 Killer Kids 07:00 Cricket 10:00 World Cup of Pool 18:00 True Justice: Violence Of 16:35 Barefoot Contessa - Back To delivered another superb female character study in 22:50 Deadly Affairs 10:00 Super Rugby 11:00 Ladies European Tour Action-PG15 Basics “Blue Jasmine” according to Blanchett. “If you think 23:40 I Almost Got Away With It 12:00 Darts World Match Highlights 20:00 Imago Mortis-PG15 17:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To about all of those extraordinary female creations he’s 14:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 12:00 Web.Com Tour 22:00 Hanna-PG15 Basics 15:00 PGA Tour Highlights 14:00 Golfing World drawn with such wonderful actresses, he’s fascinated 00:00 Virtuosity-PG15 17:25 Reza’s African Kitchen 16:00 PGA European Tour 15:00 Trans World Sport and loves women-their exuberance, their intelligence, 02:00 Imago Mortis-PG15 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Highlights 16:00 World Match Racing Tour 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives their fears, their phobias,” Blanchett said. 17:00 AFL Premiership 17:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 06:00 Austin And Ally 18:40 Guy’s Big Bite Blanchett’s own character, a woman set adrift from 19:30 NRL Full Time 00:30 Born To Kill 20:00 Golfing World 06:25 Suite Life On Deck 19:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean her privileged moorings, is a case in point. “I think he 20:00 Futbol Mundial 01:30 Private Crimes 21:00 World Cup of Pool 06:45 Shake It Up Cookbook (Allen) despised and revered Jasmine and I think he 20:30 Live Cricket 02:00 Casanova Killers 22:00 World Cup of Pool 07:10 A.N.T. Farm 19:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes was fascinated by her,” Blanchett says. Blanchett, no 08:00 Kung Fu Panda 2-PG 23:30 PGA European Tour Weekly 03:00 Paranormal Cops 23:00 Rugby League Challenge Cup 07:35 Jessie 20:20 Chopped stranger to working with A-list directors such as 10:00 Alpha And Omega-PG 04:00 Panic 9-1-1 07:55 Good Luck Charlie 21:10 Chopped 12:00 Mr. Destiny-PG Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and David 05:00 Crime Stories 08:20 Good Luck Charlie 22:00 Charly’s Cake Angels 14:00 The Tooth Fairy 2-PG Fincher, admits she wasn’t sure what to expect on set 06:00 The FBI Files 08:45 Doc McStuffins 22:25 Charly’s Cake Angels 16:00 Alpha And Omega-PG 09:00 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 22:50 Unique Sweets with the 77-year-old auteur.—AFP 07:00 Snapped: Women Who Kill 00:00 Darts 00:00 NHL 18:00 Judy Moody And The Not 09:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 23:15 Unique Sweets 07:30 Snapped: Women Who Kill 02:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 02:00 Mass Participation Bummer Summer-PG 09:30 A.N.T Farm 08:00 Cold Case Files 03:30 Adventure Sports 09:55 A.N.T Farm 04:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 10:15 Jessie 05:00 NHL 10:40 Jessie 07:00 WWE Vintage Collection 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 08:00 WWE NXT 11:25 Good Luck Charlie 09:00 Ping Pong World 11:50 Good Luck Charlie 10:00 US Bass Fishing 12:15 Shake It Up 11:00 NHL 12:35 Shake It Up 13:00 WWE Smackdown 13:00 Austin And Ally 15:00 Triahlon UK 13:25 Austin And Ally 16:00 Adventure Sports 13:45 A.N.T. Farm 16:30 Porsche GT 3 Cup 14:10 Jessie 17:00 Porsche GT 3 Cup 14:35 Shake It Up 17:30 WWE Vintage Collection 15:00 That’s So Raven 18:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 15:25 Good Luck Charlie 19:00 UFC 15:50 Jessie 22:00 Mass Participation 16:10 Shake It Up 23:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 16:35 A.N.T Farm 17:00 Austin And Ally 17:20 That’s So Raven 17:45 Suite Life On Deck 15:00 The Mob Doctor 18:10 Good Luck Charlie 16:30 Coronation Street 18:30 Shake It Up 19:00 Warehouse 13 18:55 Austin And Ally 20:00 Bones 19:20 Jessie 21:00 Castle 19:40 A.N.T. Farm 22:00 Breakout Kings 20:05 A.N.T. Farm 23:00 Grimm 20:30 Shake It Up 02:00 Breakout Kings 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 21:15 Austin And Ally 21:40 That’s So Raven 22:00 Jessie 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 03:00 Friends 22:50 Good Luck Charlie 03:30 Raising Hope 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 04:00 Seinfeld 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 00:00 Hannah Montana Leno 00:20 Hannah Montana 06:00 All Of Us 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 06:30 Arrested Development 01:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 08:00 Seinfeld 01:30 Emperor’s New School 09:00 Last Man Standing 01:50 Emperor’s New School 10:30 Arrested Development 02:15 Replacements 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 02:35 Replacements Leno 12:00 All Of Us 12:30 Seinfeld 13:00 Seinfeld 13:30 Arrested Development 14:00 Raising Hope 14:30 Style Star 15:30 The Daily Show 15:00 Keeping Up With The 16:00 The Colbert Report Kardashians 16:30 All Of Us 16:00 Keeping Up With The 18:30 The Simpsons Kardashians 19:00 Modern Family 17:00 Ice Loves Coco 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 17:30 Ice Loves Coco Leno 18:00 E! News 21:00 The Daily Show 19:00 Fashion Police BARNYARD ON OSN MOVIES HD 21:30 The Colbert Report 20:00 E!es IRON SKY ON OSN ACTION HD Classifieds

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

CHANGE OF NAME

I, Sahana, holder of Passport No: F 1472571, hereby change my name to SHAIKH SAHANA. (C 4457) Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), left, and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” — MCT 4-8-2013 112

‘Breaking’ up is hard to do for cast, fans I, Kaliyamurthy Murugan ive months after scoring his second Emmy for playing tor- devotees who have clung to every brutal twist and turn of holder of Indian Passport tured junkie Jesse Pinkman on AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” Aaron White’s hellbent mission to build a drug empire, no matter what No. H 1118509 hereby THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY FPaul paraded around a massive soundstage at the cost to friends and family. Last season’s episodes contained change my name to Raj Albuquerque Studios, carrying another kind of prize on his a kaleidoscope of calamity - an attack on a police station with Murugan. FOR CIVIL INFORMATION back. With a playful grin, the pencil-thin Paul was giving his giant magnets, a breakneck heist of a train in the desert, the Prayer timings bride-to-be, documentary filmmaker Lauren Parsekian, a piggy- gunning down of an innocent boy who unwittingly witnessed (C 4472) Automated enquiry about back ride as other members of the “Breaking Bad” cast and crew the robbery and White’s murder of henchman Mike Fajr: 03:39 began preparing a night of shooting that would stretch past Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks). I, Uppalapadu Ramachandra the Civil ID card is Shorook 05:08 midnight. Eventually, the couple approached Bryan Cranston, Now as the saga of White’s journey from “Mr. Chips to (old name) holder of Indian Duhr: 11:54 who stars as Walter White, the cancer-stricken chemistry teacher Scarface,” as creator Vince Gilligan puts it, winds down, major Passport No. H 1841853 my Asr: 15:30 turned lethal criminal mastermind and Pinkman’s partner in questions remain: How large will the final body count be? And 1889988 name was changed to Maghrib: 18:40 crime. will Walter White, who first turned to crime after his cancer diag- Isha: 20:06 Cranston eyed Paul’s passenger: “Well, this makes sense, nosis to provide money for his survivors but then betrayed his Uppalapati Ramachandra. In Aaron,” he joked. “I’ve been carrying you for the past six years!” family, poisoned innocent children and wreaked havoc future any transactions do as The banter was illustrative of the loose camaraderie of the com- throughout New Mexico, be punished for his crimes? Will his Uppalapati Ramachandra. pany, far from the distractions of Hollywood. Though there was cancer, which had been in remission, return? (C 4473) No: 15890 a lot of work ahead, there were no signs of fatigue or pressure. Said Jake Wilbanks on the Whatculture! blog: “The prediction 30-7-2013 Executive producer Michelle MacLaren, directing the episode, that I’ve heard made a thousand times over is that Jesse is going was in good spirits as around 50 actors and technicians moved to end up killing Walt, but that’s the most predictable ending into position. there could be, and ‘Breaking Bad’ is anything but predictable.’” But on this February evening, it was anything but business The ultimate outcome has made the end of “Breaking Bad” SITUATION VACANT as usual at the home base of the show, which has grown in five perhaps the most anticipated TV finale since the curtain seasons from a low-profile cable entry series to one of prime dropped ambiguously in 2007 on “The Sopranos.” While sitting Driver needed for Kuwaiti time’s most elite and honored dramas. Production was gradually within the cradle of celebrated shows that have centered on family. Age over 35 - full winding down - the scenes being filmed were for the show’s charismatic antiheroes such as “The Sopranos,” “The Shield,” time or part time. Call final episodes, which will start running Aug. 11. “Dexter,” “Mad Men” and “Sons of Anarchy,” TV scholars say 60623330. (C 4474) The approaching finish line gave the proceedings an extra “Breaking Bad” is a standout because of its foundation of an 3-8-2013 emotional charge. One scene being rehearsed was a tense con- Everyman who does the wrong thing for the right reasons. frontation that would be filmed the following week in a remote Said Barbara Miller, collection curator for the New York- desert area that was also the site of White’s maiden voyage into based Museum of the Moving Image, which just opened an FOR SALE meth manufacturing inside a recreational vehicle during the extensive “Breaking Bad” exhibition: “Walter White is really first episode. someone that people can relate to. They feel empathy for him. Mitsubishi Lancer 2009, sil- Just a few minutes after kidding around, Paul and Cranston He’s always been human in his motivations, even though he ver color, GLX - km 82000, slipped into “Breaking Bad’ mode for a scene in which Pinkman made horrible choices.” The buildup to the finale has KD 1650. Tel: 66729295. and White (aka the deadly drug kingpin “Heisenberg”) are talk- approached Hollywood blockbuster proportions. Film (C 4470) ing on the phone. Though the actors weren’t physically facing Independent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted each other, the explosiveness of their conversation, flavored a standing-room-only live reading of the drama’s pilot episode Nissan Maxima 2004, gold- with words of violence and rage, exposed two characters very directed by Jason Reitman. And in what is certain to be a some- en color, very good condi- much on the brink. The white-hot exchange between the mes- what chaotic scene, the final episode airing Sept. 29 will be tion. KD 1,150, Tel: merizing duo is but one guarantee that the series is not going screened that evening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Paul is 50994848. (C 4471) gently into the good night - which will be welcome news to the planning to attend. —MCT 29-7-2013

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CROSSWORD 271 STAR TRACK

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

You are able to solve problems and guide others through some weird You may be especially dynamic and assertive today. There are lots of energy happenings. The unexpected pops up from time to time and today just may be one of and drive available to accomplish anything you want. You may be representing your company those unorganized times. You have the intuitive insight that will be best put to use in inter- in public surroundings today in some form of advertisement, display or presentation. Ambition esting situations. Using your rational thinking for guidance, you will gain a clear vision of and achievement are qualities you hold in special regard. This is a time for getting ahead, a time whatever action is needed. There are breakthroughs regarding inner growth as well as for combining business and pleasure and a time for enjoying your career with its rewards. The compassion and communion. Attention settles on home, security and family values. You social graces pave your path to success this afternoon. Put your skills to work in some way to find new opportunities for adventure. This evening you may find your own life influenced represent your company in the best light. Use opportunities today to network. You find yourself when you encourage a young person to continue her or his education and start working through other people. You may meet someone new and fun today. toward his or her goals.

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

There is something gentle, regular, steadfast and determined about you There will be an opportunity to overcome a language barrier. Today’s today. You are accepting and nurturing—providing a nest or place for family members to gath- aspects bring you charisma, originality and favorable notice. A good conversa- er and be close with each other. You care and always enjoy being helpful with your loved ones. tion with those you love is possible during the day. You could be preparing for out-of-town Remember that sometimes a listening ear is all that is necessary. Allow someone else to have company much of the afternoon. You are at your most elegant, particularly in social situations. the neat ideas or the last word—for today. While there are good parts to being in control there This is a good time to have friends or family in your home to visit or for entertaining. Your are also negative points to ponder when one person is the decision maker. Allowing someone enthusiasm is high and your energies move in positive directions. Pay special attention to your else to be in control may bring you just as interesting experiences and a relief of duty. This is a diet and make plans to improve your exercise habits. After your company leaves, or they settle good day and close relationships can become even closer. A new type of cooking perks your in for the evening, enjoy a long walk with your mate to relax. You may become tempted to take interest this evening. part in a marketing test; read the fine print.

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

There are optimism, faith and a tendency to take chances at the deepest A communications breakdown may have you jumping to make life a little emotional levels. This is a time of exploring your feelings and a kind of restless- more pleasant in a situation today. Sensitivity to the needs and wants of others ness for new emotional experiences. If you are looking for thrills, consider the rides at a park, and an appreciation for their frailties, as well as your own, makes you more cautious and con- but if you are looking for emotional swells, consider volunteering for a city community group servative. A natural sense of what is right brings you a great deal of popularity. People ask your ACROSS DOWN where you could lend comfort to others. At this time you may find you strongly feel this advice often. Family, home, relatives and real estate play a big part in your life now. You want to 1. The elementary stages of any subject (usu- 1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of emphasis on communication, expression of ideas and the connections between things, places belong and be included in decisions—by asking questions you will be able to decipher situa- ally plural). the Old World. and people. There is much mental and physical activity. Tutoring and lecturing could be includ- tions and express your own feelings. You are lucky today. Like a fish in water when in the lime- ed here. You love to express yourself and enjoy being surrounded by an audience. You are very light or in a group, you have an innate social charm. You find opportunities to show off your fun 5. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissec- 2. Of or relating to or containing barium. side tonight. tion and surgery. 3. A group of biological taxa or species that magnetic and dynamic. 12. A diagrammatic representation of the share features inherited from a common earth's surface (or part of it). ancestor. 15. A strong wind moving 45-90 knots. 4. The compass point that is one point south 16. A narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) of southeast. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) CAPRICORN that counteracts the effects of narcotics (espe- 5. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastro- cially the effects of poisoning by morphine). A conversation with loved ones today may bring up such beloved subjects as the Your mind is quick and you are full of sharp insights. There is a feeling that pod mollusk usually having an external anything is possible if you set your sights high enough. You will locate the right 17. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit enclosing spiral shell. psyche and the psychological. You are intuitive and enjoy debates and discussions. You are able to carry out ideas and bring your dreams into real-life phenomena. You are very commu- people to help you with some project today. You have optimism, faith and a tendency to take juice. 6. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of chances at deep emotional levels. You are on top form when it comes to mental activities and 18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in nicative as well as curious and may find you enjoy writing, teaching, lecturing or just talking with oth- felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and er similar thinking individuals. Coffee with a friend at a bookstore this afternoon brings back memo- this could be a time for real breakthroughs in the idea department. Your dreams, visions and Arabia or North Africa. Iran and the Caucasus. ideals propel you in your activities. This is a time of good fortune when things open up in a very 19. Surveying instrument consisting of the ries of past friends and talk of show business individuals or music popularities. Continued education 7. Small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic or a new class in a favored subject is a subject you enjoy discussing. You are always searching new natural way. Relationships in general get a boost. Harmony is deeply satisfying and a get- upper movable part of a theodolite including plants. things to learn and hearing about experiences of others. Plans are formed for future visits. together with friends and loved ones this evening puts a fun ending to a very full day. Perhaps the telescope and its attachments. 8. An honorary law degree. you are learning to truly relax. 20. The state of matter distinguished from the 9. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia solid and liquid states by. and Australia cultivated for its large edible 21. At or near or toward the center of a ship. root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 22. Pasture grass of plains of South America 10. The final stages of an extended process of and western North America. Fun times with friends, family or both can be enjoyed today . You could negotiation. You have the energy and opportunity to accomplish whatever you want to 24. (informal) Of the highest quality. feel great support from those around you, or circumstances may dictate your taking action. 11. A facial expression of contempt or scorn. accomplish today. There is much energy and drive. If you can, play some music that will keep 25. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. You feel healthy, natural and highly energetic. You love a social life—friends and relation- 12. Molten rock in the earth's crust. you going at a steady beat. By the time you finish your projects, you will feel as though you 28. Distinctive and stylish elegance. ships play a major role in your makeup. You could decide to take a short trip to a nearby city 13. American Revolutionary patriot. only started—time flies. A little roof repair here, a little yard work there, a few chores and your 30. Alternatively, a member of the family for an auction, entertainment, special sale, etc. Close bonds, such as with family or friends, ready to hop into a pool or hammock for the rest of the afternoon. You have great insight into Nymphaeaceae. 14. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 are very important to you. You like beautiful surroundings, everything that is calm, tasteful matters of personal freedom. You can usually come up with brilliant ways to express, or act out days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites and harmonious. You are very giving and flattering in relationships, able to adjust to any sit- 32. A solid food prepared from the pressed ideas. New methods of lovemaking, raising kids, caring for animals are yours. You are outspo- from Egypt. uation. Reflective and tactful, you are able to please others. This is one of those days that are curd of milk. ken, very dramatic, impressive and even regal. You may relax with a mate tonight, a little wine, a 23. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan fun and satisfying for all. 36. (Greek mythology) A youth beloved of little cheese. Hero who drowned in a storm in the River. Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see 26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB her. gun. 40. English pianist (1890-1965). 27. A unit of pain intensity. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. A fastener for a door or lid. 29. Available source of wealth. 45. English monk and scholar (672-735). 31. A small cake leavened with yeast. You have information today that you had not known about before—a This morning is a good time to do a little exercise in order to become 46. In addition. 33. An expression of greeting. missing piece of the puzzle, so to speak. You clear up some questions between you and a focused and grounded for the busy day ahead. You may find that others want you to respond 47. A tax on employees and employers that is 34. A city in western Germany. loved one or friend this morning and the rest of the day just moves along quickly. Attention to their needs in rapid order. Easy does it!!! Let us get priorities straight. You will probably be used to fund the Social Security system. 35. 30 to 300 gigahertz. to family relationships, domestic chores and romance is favored today. This is a time of coordinating events and supervising as well—this could involve children, professional respon- 49. Covered or soaked with a liquid such as 37. Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or heli- exploring your feelings and learning about sharing. Events may line up in your favor and sibilities or entertaining guests. Make guidelines known and all will be successful. Take pictures fair play can be realized. You are willing to listen to others, take cues and then reflect and and encourage picture taking. This is a time of making beautiful memories. Take time to play water. um for scientific experiments. and enjoy your loved ones this afternoon. A friend, who has been out of touch, mysteriously 50. The part of the small intestine between build upon that information. Others find you gentle, steady and kind. Remember, you have 38. Swelling from excessive accumulation of to take time to involve yourself in family or neighborhood activities later today—this will reappears today. You will find the highlights of his or her story quite interesting. Laughter and the jejunum and the cecum. serous fluid in tissue. build those firm foundations. shared stories are fun, 52. The highest level or degree attainable. 39. (British) A local tax on property (usually 54. Informal terms for a (young) woman. used in the plural). 55. (aeronautics) Designating an airship hav- 42. The branch of computer science that deal ing a shape maintained only by internal gas with writing computer programs that can Word Search Yesterday’s Solution pressure and without a supporting structure. solve problems creatively. 58. The blood group whose red cells carry 43. A large number or amount. both the A and B antigens. 44. Committee formed by a special-interest 59. The network in the reticular formation that group to raise money for their favorite politi- serves an alerting or arousal function. 60. People having the same social or econom- cal candidates. ic status. 48. Bar temporarily. 61. Any of the short curved hairs that grow 51. Dam to make a millpond to provide power from the edges of the eyelids. for a water mill. 64. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella 53. An infective disease caused by sporozoan winterana used as a condiment and a tonic. parasites that are transmitted through the 67. A genus of plants with pods that ripen bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. underground (see peanut). 56. Soft blue-gray mineral. 71. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 57. (Old Testament) The first of the major from aba cloth. Hebrew prophets (8th century BC). 72. Heater that removes ice or frost (as from a 62. The capital and largest city of Yemen. windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an 63. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by airplane). the placenta. 75. A group of southern Bantu languages. 65. In bed. 76. Any federal law-enforcement officer. 66. A quantity of no importance. 77. Oldest known reptiles. 68. Used in combination. 79. (computer science) A coding system that 69. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of incorporates extra parity bits in order to his family). detect errors. 70. Not in good physical or mental health. 80. A federal agency established to regulate 73. An accountant certified by the state. the release of new foods and health-related 74. 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he 32-year-old reality TV star, who welcomed her first child, North, whose real name is Sean Combs, a tearful Kris said: “You did make me cry... with partner Kanye West in June, made a short video appearance on Thank you Kimmy . . . That made me cry... Thank you Kimmy, thank you Ther mother Kris Jenner’s talk show ‘Kris’, where she admitted she was Sean.” Kris also revealed her daughter is loving motherhood and has been having too much fun with the tot to leave her house. She said: “Hey mom, I “eating really well and working out and nursing and trying to get back to a just wanted to say congratulations on your new show. I’m sorry I couldn’t happy place”. be there in person, but I’m just loving life a little bit too much at home right now. “But I watch you every single day and you are so amazing. You really are born to do this. I just want to say I love you and have an amazing show.” Kim’s surprise appearance was masterminded by Diddy, who set up the video a preview of his new network, Revolt. Addressing the rapper,

he 23-year-old singer accidentally hit herself in the face with her microphone while she was belting out Thit song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ during her ‘Red’ show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, causing permanent dam- age to her pearly whites. Speaking to Rolling Stone a few days after the incident, Taylor explained: “Tonight I was par- ticularly hung up on not chipping another tooth like last show in Pittsburgh, definitely. It had a tip on [the tooth] and it doesn’t anymore. “I try to be really quick with the microphone, so I’m not standing there just waiting to sing with my mic right next to my face, so I really quickly pulled my mic up to sing and basically uppercut punched myself in the tooth.” Taylor is no stranger to embarrassing stage malfunctions, and was memorably left red-faced when her skirt blew up to reveal her big white underpants in front of a sell-out crowd in St. Louis in 2011. The ‘Everything Has Changed’ hitmaker was also mortified when Kanye West stormed the stage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards as she was being presented with the Best Female Video prize. The rapper cut her off, grabbed the mic and launched into an angry rant about why Beyonce should have won instead of Taylor. he 22-year-old pop star and her friends got their groove on at the Gramercy Park Hotel’s Rose Bar till the early hours of the morning. Rita Tand her pals downed shots and danced all night before leaving at around 4 am. When they exited the venue, the ‘Radioactive’ singer and her friends were chased by a bar worker leaving everyone confused as to what was going on. hile the 27-year-old actress has a reputation for being unprofes- Initially it was thought there was a problem with their payment, but the bar girl sional on set, her co-star from movie ‘The Canyons’, Nolan Funk - was actually running after Rita to return a credit card someone had left behind Wwho plays her love interest - insists working with Lindsay was to cover the sizeable drinks tab. A source told the New York Post newspaper: “fun”. He told HollywoodLife.com: “She’s a blast. She can be a lot of fun. “They were dancing and drinking until 4 am. When they left, a waitress chased Even though we’re not on screen a lot together, the scenes that we do them out of the bar and knocked on the car window.” Rita’s representative have are really important. We really made a point of making sure there added: “She would never leave without paying.” The sexy star was in ‘The Big was a believable chemistry there.” While he enjoyed working with Lindsay, Apple’ this week shooting scenes for her upcoming DKNY adverts. who was recently released after a court ordered 90 days in rehab, Nolan previously insisted she is very similar to her character in ‘The Canyons’, a troubled young woman with a history of substance abuse. He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: “Lindsay definitely gave me a lot to work with. As an actor I think the least interesting thing about an actor is their personal life, but Lindsay plays a character who has gone through so much with sub- stance abuse, lots going on in their personal life, and she gives a great performance. “There was so much controversy about Lindsay, and then with [porn star] James Deen being cast, too, but we’re all so proud of the movie. It’s getting great buzz from serious film people so I’m excited for everyone to see it.” The noir thriller - which was written by Brett Easton Ellis and directed by Paul Schrader - follows a group of young, ambitious, sexually-charged people in their 20s living in Los Angeles.

he 31-year-old actor - who battled a drug problem since he was a teenager and first entered rehab at Tthe age of 19 - died from a heroin and alcohol over- he 37-year-old actor is engaged to the stunning ‘Rush’ star and claims people must think he is blackmailing dose on June 13 and in a special episode to be aired on her because they believe she is too beautiful for him. He told Maxim magazine: “You know, being beautiful is October 10, Cory’s character, Finn Hudson, will be killed off. Tactually only like fifth or sixth of the things that are amazing about her. She’s really hilarious. And she loves Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly told reporters at basketball! “I think people look at us and wonder what kind of information I have on her to get so lucky. Like, I must the Summer Television Critics Association tour: “[October have video of her taking a bomb into the White House.” Jason also hit out at the paparazzi, admitting it can be frus- 10] is the episode where Cory’s character will be written off trating when they follow him and Olivia everywhere. He said: “It is annoying when I want to go for a walk with my and will deal directly with drug addiction and with the cir- fiancee and there are three guys with cameras waiting outside my apartment. The biggest bummer is coming out cumstances surrounding Cory’s death.” However, when of the ocean on vacation and seeing some photographer crouched behind a tree.” Jason is preparing for the release asked if Finn will die from an overdose, he said: “No. I can’t of ‘We’re The Millers’, his third movie with Jennifer Aniston and praised his co-star for being “vulnerable” and playing confirm that at all. we’re going to speak to that issue with a stripper. He said: “Playing a stripper in this one, she looks amazing. It’s such a vulnerable thing for somebody to the PSAs [Public Service Announcements]. Creator Ryan do. I mean, I never take my shirt off even on ‘Saturday Night Live’. Murphy will film PSAs with the cast, to air during the episode, where they will speak about drug addiction. Although Cory had been to rehab in March following a relapse, Kevin admitted his death came as a shock. He said: “He was not a problem. It was an accident that happened to somebody struggling with an addiction.” He also praised the actor’s girlfriend and co-star, Lea Michele, for being a “pillar of strength” following Cory’s death. He said: “She was the first one to say I want to get back to work.” Meanwhile, he confirmed that money raised from music sales from the episode would be used to start a fund for Cory. lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

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he 44-year-old Tsinger quit the show in 2012 after two seasons but is considering returning for a third stint after opening talks with Fox. A source told People: “Jennifer is very close to signing a deal with Fox to return to ‘American Idol’ next season. “Both Fox and Jennifer are very happy about this and want it to happen very much. “She couldn’t return last year because she had committed to a world tour. But now that the tour is over, she has more time to raise her family, do movies lthough Selena, 21, insists the on/off couple are and pursue television projects.” Although it was claimed Jennifer had opened talks with NBC off at the moment, she admitted they still like to about rival show, ‘The Voice’, insiders insist that was never an option. The source added: “Jennifer Aspend time with each other whenever they can. never had discussions with NBC about being a judge. She was approached by NBC about performing She said: “I’ve known him for a really long time and but had to turn it down because of scheduling conflicts.” After Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj quit the we enjoy each other’s company every now and then. show earlier this year, Jennifer admitted she was open to the idea of a return as she is so emotionally But I’m definitely single and enjoying being that.” attached to the series. She said: “I don’t know what’s happening over there. I don’t know. We will see. I’m Selena has turned to her friend Taylor Swift for always open to the infinite possibilities that the universe has to offer. So you never know. “I was emotional advice on how to keep her personal life private, as about [leaving]. I just had such a good time there. It fit ... I felt like family [and] I get emotionally attached.” Taylor has been through a number of high profile romances with stars including Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas and John Mayer. She said: “Taylor’s been one of the strongest people I’ve ever known and she’s been through a lot. Honestly I think if any- thing I aspire to be her in her personal life and how she handles herself publicly.” Right now, Selena is more concerned with her new baby sister, Gracie, who was born in June, than her love life. She said: “It’s crazy. There’s a 21-year age gap, which is OK, but it’s actually really amazing because we won’t be fight- ing over boys or clothes, so I’ll be able to be a cool aunt in a way.”

he 33-year-old blonde beauty - whose relationship with George TClooney recently ended after just over two years together - is look- ing for a guy who is easy going that she can have fun with. She told ‘The Talk’ co-host Sharon Osbourne: “I just want someone who is authentic and genuine, who has integrity. [Someone who] can really make fun of them- selves, live life, be spontaneous. She joked: “Let me know if you know someone like that, please!” Stacy reit- erated that her and George’s split was amicable and she is now excited about meeting someone new. The for- mer WWE wrestler: “Relationships end, it’s just part of life. I always say that when one door closes, another opens, and I’m just really excited for the next chapter in my life.” Stacy previously admitted there is “no real story” about the end of her relationship with Hollywood hunk George, but wished she had a juicer tale to tell. She said: “For me, it’s just what it is. There’s no real story. I almost wish I had a story because it would make it so much easier, because everyone’s so interest- ed. To me, it’s not really that big of a he HIV/AIDS campaigner and actress visited a that defeats AIDS. “The moment is right now.” The deal.” Youth Ambassador Project funded by the Youth Ambassador Project trains men and women, TGlobal Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & between the age of 18 and 30, in KwaZulu Natal Malaria at the Malangeni Thusong Centre, in the province to disseminate HIV prevention messages KwaZulu Nata province of her native South Africa by engaging with young people in schools, support where she praised young people as the key to help- groups, churches, at sport events and going door- ing eradicate the disease. She said: “When I see the to-door to meet people in their homes. Along with enthusiasm and dedication of these young people, her work as a HIV/AIDS campaigner, in 2007 the who are making such a vital contribution to pre- actress founded the Charlize Theron Africa venting the spread of HIV with support from the Outreach Project (CTAOP), which supports commu- Global Fund, I am fired up with hope and optimism. nity-engaged projects targeting African youth. We have made great strides in the fight against the disease in a short number of years and we are get- ting closer to finally defeating this pandemic. With the necessary funding, we can be the generation

he actress played titular heroine Buffy Summers in reasons is that the story works better over time.” ‘Buffy’ Joss Whedon’s classic TV show between 1997 and made stars of Sarah, Alyson Hannigan and David T2003, and she would consider reprising her vam- Boreanaz in the 1990s and led the way for blood-suck- pire-killing role on the big screen depending on the ing movies and TV shows such as ‘Twilight’ and ‘The script. She admitted: “If there was ever the right story, we Vampire Diaries’. After taking a long break from the small would do it.” However, the 36-year-old actress points out screen following ‘Buffy’, Sarah attempted to make a TV that ‘Buffy’ was originally conceived as a movie - which comeback in 2011’s ‘Ringer’, but the drama was axed after featured Kristy Swanson in the lead role - in 1992 but just one season. The blonde beauty - who has two chil- flopped at the box office, and she worries that the show’s dren, Charlotte, three, and 10-month-old Rocky, with complex storylines wouldn’t translate well into a two- husband Freddie Prinze Jr. - will next star in sitcom hour film. She explained to E! News: “Joss and I always talk ‘The Crazy Ones’ with Robin Williams. - Bangshowbiz about [a movie]. But the thing with ‘Buffy’ is that ‘Buffy’ was a movie, and it ultimately didn’t work as a film. And I mean, we had such miles to overcome when we were try- ing to do a TV show based on a movie. And one of the lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

t took 45 seconds, but it was enough. Australian site if they hurry. Shipping fees are older. Get ready for the booties, the scooter, Newborn Prince George, carried from the extra. the sun hat. Firms can get overwhelmed by Ihospital to the royal car, appeared in a cot- And there’s a factory run from China of the attention, which comes fast, hot and for a ton swaddle with the tiny birds on it. Mums- 10,000. So hold on. People just want to be a limited time only. “You had better hold on,” to-be around the world wanted to know: Who part of things says Cele Otnes, a professor of Otnes advised companies in the limelight. are you wearing? The answer shows what it is marketing at the University of Illinois at “And put on another shift.” like when a small company gets swept into the Urbana-Champaign and co-author of the Moya-Jones, a native of Australia who start- maelstrom of attention that comes from upcoming book “Royal Fever: The British ed in the swaddle business because she could- touching the golden hem of the House of Monarchy in Consumer Culture.” She said the n’t find what she wanted in stores, didn’t antic- Windsor. rush to buy whatever the royals wear gives ipate the royal wave. Even though aden + Once the photos of the swaddle hit the admirers a chance to participate in a big, hap- anais have wrapped the babies of celebs like Internet, style bloggers and fashion writers py event. Beyonce, the spotlight that turned on her identified the would-be king’s new clothes as “This is history,” she said. “If you can’t be company with Prince George was altogether being from New York-based aden + anais. there, if you can’t have a royal baby yourself, different. After all, her privately held company Within four hours of George’s appearance, the you can buy the swaddle.” The royals do grant isn’t huge - founded seven years ago, it has 65 website crashed. The next day, the site crashed warrants - a mark of recognition of those who full-time employees and about as many part- again. In nine days, the company had 7,000 supply goods or services to the Royal time staff. In addition to swaddles, aden + orders - a 600 percent increase in sales on that Household. Fortnum & Mason has one for anais makes sleeping bags, bibs, blankets and item. example, for being a “Grocer & Provision sheets, and Moya-Jones doesn’t want to put so The company never even issued a press Merchant” to the monarch. But there are no much emphasis on Jungle Jam swaddles that release. Anyone who wanted to know the royal adverts. customers who want other products feel they manufacturer simply had to type “royal swad- Nonetheless the royals remain marketing are being ignored. dle” into Google, and up it came. Raegan gold. They have always been trendsetters. And then there’s the shock factor - even if it Moya-Jones, the chief executive of aden + Even Queen Victoria once promoted a ball to was a happy shock. The company didn’t send anais, was about to start a meeting when a help the Spitalfields silk industry, Otnes said. the royals their product and expect them to colleague brought in the picture. She couldn’t More recently, Princess Diana’s every ruffled This file photo of Prince George of Cambridge shows him in a car seat as his parents, Britain’s use it. That’s just not done. Moya-Jones only believe it. collar or bow-lined stocking could set off the Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge leave St Mary’s Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing, in learned after she saw pictures that Kate “I thought it was photo-shopped,” she said. cash registers. London where the Duchess gave birth. — AP reportedly picked out the muslin swaddle per- The company is still digging out from under a But Prince George is the first heir to the sonally at a London store. “That’s the nicest pile of orders for the swaddle, part of the throne born in the Internet age. New mums thing,” she said. “At the end of the day, the Jungle Jam pack of four that costs 44.95 and dads can see what Kate and Wills and - white dress Kate wore in the couple’s engage- And now there’s George, who isn’t even duchess is a first-time mum, like all of us once pounds ($68). The average daily visits to its site now baby George - are wearing and buy it ment photo - sold by UK retailer Reiss - or wearing clothes yet but has managed to get were.” — AP were off the charts: In Britain, they were up instantly. This goes way beyond commemora- Topshop’s black dress with a Peter Pan collar blankets out the door. And it isn’t just the ones 1,960 percent; in Australia, up 892 percent; in tive china, tea towels and other trinkets - the that she wore for a video appeal. from aden + anais. Little George first appeared Japan 791 percent and in the US, up 458 per- traditional sort of souvenir that shoppers can Fashionistas follow Kate’s every move. in a white crocheted blanket from G.H. Hurt & cent. pick up at the Buckingham Palace gift store. Every blouse, shoe, and bag the future queen Son of Nottingham, England. They are So just be prepared to wait if you want to There’s even a name for it: the Kate Effect. It of England wears is fodder for style bloggers swamped with orders, too, after photogra- similarly swaddle your little prince or princess. started with the sapphire blue wrap dress and a money-spinner for retailers. She’s been phers zeroed in on the firm’s label, blew it up Jungle Jam is sold out for now in Britain and designed by Daniella Helayel that the then- democratic about it - choosing stuff that is and posted it on the net. the United States. Desperate swaddle Kate Middleton wore to announce her accessible to the average person and support- And yet, this is just the start. Otnes said that searchers can find them on the company’s engagement - and just kept going. Take the ing British products in a big way. the trend will just continue as George gets

n unexpected flash of skin under a sheer fabric can be sexy and sophisticated on a date, at a party, even in the Aoffice. But with anything much more than a sliver, it’s easy to cross the too-much-of-a-good-thing line. And there’s no tak- ing it back. Just ask Tom Mora, women’s design director at J. Crew, who’s created sheer beach cover-ups stylish and elegant enough to be worn as tops and dresses. But, he says, wearer beware: “You should wear a slip, or a cami and brief. They are great pieces but their real intent is for a swimsuit to be under- neath.” He adds, “I don’t want to go into a restaurant and see some- one in a completely sheer top.” At least there, you can look down at your plate. What about the office when sheer fabrics do what they are supposed to do and draw the eye to a particular place? Remember what your mom said: “Eye contact,” advises Audrey In this photo, a 1964 portrait of Barbra Streisand by fashion Slater, fashion director at Redbook magazine. “This trend is defi- and celebrity photographer Milton H Greene is seen. nitely peaking this year, she says, “but it’s not a trend for every- one, anytime and everywhere.” For the past few seasons, designers have been crafting strate- gic sheer panels into their collections, with Vera Wang carving out bodices and Marchesa putting sheer blouses under corsets. J. Crew has made regular offerings of chiffon and cotton voile, ens of thousands of negatives of Marilyn Monroe and and Ann Taylor reinterprets the menswear-inspired button-shirt other stars by celebrity photographer Milton Greene using lace and georgette. It’s not just a warm-weather look, Thave sold at auction for $1.8 million. The archive either, with retailers planning peek-a-boo styles for fall, too. includes 3,700 negatives and slides of Marilyn Monroe. All the The collective eye has adjusted and embraced these looks as material was sold with copyright. Profiles in History auction more delicate alternatives to bare skin, and as a feminine touch house says the highlights included a collection of color trans- to more structured silhouettes. But maybe some women have parencies of the Hollywood siren with Laurence Olivier from gotten a little too comfortable, which could make the people the movie “The Prince and the Showgirl.” It sold for $42,000. A around them uncomfortable. Slater says she’d much rather see a group of transparencies of Monroe from the movie “Bus Stop” sheer panel or inset than a whole sheer garment. She definitely fetched $39,000. The seller is a US photography collector who doesn’t want to see the bra of any of her peers and colleagues purchased the archive 10 years ago. The items came from the across a desk, but a sheer panel at the yoke from the bustline to Greene estate. The buyers weren’t identified. Like his contem- neckline that shows bra straps “is an acceptable strategy.” poraries Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Greene is credited Lisa Axelson, creative director at Ann Taylor, says she loves with elevating fashion photography to fine art. — AP the look of a gown with a fully sheer or lace back, but it’s a spe- cial occasion look, a really special occasion. For daily life, she’d recommend an elongated pencil skirt that hits below the knee with a sheer blouse that has a matching camisole. Navy would be a lovely color. For an evening work-related event, she likes a black lace blouse with a full-coverage black bra under it and black trousers. There always has to be balance to the outfit, and that’s never more clear than with something sheer, Axelson says. If there’s sheerness to the top, the bottom should be modest, while a sheer hemline is best complemented by a demure top. Mora suggests having a boyfriend blazer or slouchy cardigan handy, also for contrast - or the unexpected meeting you might be called into. Charles Benton, senior director of design of contemporary brand Bebe, would like to see more women imitate the sultry style of Sophia Loren, who has been playing with sheer illusion This product image released by Ann Taylor shows a model fabrics, especially black-on-black combinations, on her bomb- wearing a sheer lace blouse. shell figure since the 1950s. She wore illusion sleeves with what was otherwise a sweetheart black cocktail dress to the Golden Globes in 2010. He thinks the resurgence of that style is largely due to a Dolce & Gabbana collection for spring 2012, which was indeed inspired by La Dolce Vita. Still, Benton observes, it’s sexy without going too far. “Sexy can have an aggressiveness, but A 1955 portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe by fashion and there still needs to be a little bit of pretty. This isn’t really a place celebrity photographer Milton H Greene is seen. — AP photos for a sports bra.”—AP

ichael Ansara, a television and movie actor whose roles included a Klingon Mon “Star Trek,” has died. A longtime friend and spokesman for Ansara says the actor died Wednesday at his home in Calabasas, Calif. after a long illness. He was 91. Besides the “Star Trek” role, Ansara appeared on dozens of TV shows, including “Broken Arrow,” “Law of the Plainsman,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Hawaii 5-0” and “Murder, She Wrote.” His film credits include “Julius Caesar,” “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” “The Greatest Story Ever Told” and “The Comancheros” with John Wayne. Ansara was predeceased by his son, Matthew, with former In this Jan 21, 1969 file photo, Michael Ansara and Barbara Eden wife Barbara Eden. He is survived by his wife of were among several Hollywood couples at the Inaugural Ball in 36 years, Beverly, a sister and a niece and the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom, in Washington. — AP nephew. — AP This Feb 11, 2013 file photo shows fashion from the Fall 2013 collection of Donna Karan New York during Fashion Week in New York. — AP photos lifestyle SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 2013

This photo shows models waiting for the final results during the 23rd World Super Model title finals at the contest run by This photo shows models the World Model Organization in Tianjin. The competition, won by Mira-Antanasova Meleva of Bulgaria saw 40 models parading on the catwalk. from 20 different countries compete for the crown which was held for the first time in China. — AFP

Mira-Antanasova Meleva of Bulgaria celebrates after winning the 23rd World Super Model title at the contest.

omedian Ellen DeGeneres will make its biggest egos. Last year, MacFarlane, the her second appearance as an creator of animated sitcom “Family Guy,” got ack White denies making any threats against court filings. A spokeswoman for Auerbach said us in together.” CAcademy Awards host next year, mixed reviews for his song and dance rou- his estranged wife in a court filing Friday he had no comment. White’s July 16 email to He added, “He gets yet another free reign to organizers said on Friday, in a move widely tines, including one about on-screen female Jthat responds to her request for a temporary Elson exposed White’s feelings about Auerbach follow me around and copy me and push him- seen as a less provocative choice for nudity, and jokes that were often aimed at restraining order. British singer and model Karen for the first time. According to Elson’s filing, self into my world.” Elson also said in her request Hollywood’s highest honors after a ribald the expense of the biggest stars in atten- Elson was granted the temporary restraining White wanted to move their son out of a class for the temporary restraining order that White performance by Seth MacFarlane. dance. order pending a hearing. She showed the court with the child of another entertainer that White berated her for attending the wedding of anoth- DeGeneres, the star of her own daytime talk “Choosing DeGeneres, known for her an email from the former White Stripes frontman felt had “ripped off” his music. In one email, er of his “rivals” that he also felt was ripping him show “Ellen,” first hosted the Oscars in 2007, kindler, gentler humor, signals that the that expresses unhappiness with Elson’s plans White calls Auerbach a derogatory name and off. — AP becoming only the second woman to fill Academy’s next awards show will have a for their children’s schooling and takes a swipe says he didn’t want to spend the next 12 years that exalted role alone, after Whoopi decidedly different tone than the 85th at rock ‘n’ roll rival Dan Auerbach of The Black sitting in kids’ chairs “with people trying to lump Goldberg. “I am so excited to be hosting the Academy Awards,” trade magazine The Keys. Oscars for the second time,” DeGeneres said Hollywood Reporter wrote. In his court filing, White denies his wife’s in a statement. “You know what they say - DeGeneres also earned praise for her per- claims and says his wife went back on a verbal the third time’s the charm.” formance as the host of TV’s Emmy awards in agreement to settle the divorce without media- “I’d like to thank @TheAcademy, my wife 2001, which was twice delayed because of tion. White has asked the court to establish a Portia and, oh dear, there goes the orches- the Sept 11 attacks, memorably lightening temporary parenting plan and said he does not tra,” the comedian added on Twitter. The the somber mood by asking, “What would oppose the temporary restraining order except Oscars, which are broadcast globally, often bug the Taleban more than seeing a gay for communications about the children. White’s look to a host’s star power to attract a larger woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?” The attorney said the singer also was upset over TV audience. Recent shows have averaged announcement of DeGeneres as host also Elson’s decision to keep their two children 37 million to 40 million viewers domestically. comes on the heels of Hollywood marketing longer than he agreed to during a recent trip. DeGeneres, 55, earned an Emmy nomi- executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs being elected “The reason for filing this response is that Mr. nation for her performance in 2007 in which as the first African American president of the White does not want to be portrayed as some- she departed from traditional Oscar hosting 6,000-member Academy, which has made thing he is not, violent to his wife or children,” decorum and ventured into the audience for an effort to diversify its ranks after coming wrote White’s attorney, Cathy Speers Johnson. spot gags, at one point handing director under fire for being too male, old and white. White also provided the court with emails from Martin Scorsese a script of her own. “There Trade publication Variety saw the choice of Elson in which she said she and the children are few stars today who have Ellen’s gift for DeGeneres as a continuation of the loved him and missed him and that he was a comedy, with her great warmth and human- Academy’s “Year of the Woman,” writing that great father. ity,” said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who the Oscars “will put women in the driver’s In one of the emails submitted by Elson, produced the 84th Academy Awards show seat.” Disney-owned ABC will broadcast the White lashed out at Auerbach, whose bluesy last year. Oscars on March 2. — Reuters rock duo is often compared to The White Stripes. It’s not a comparison either rocker enjoys, but ‘A decidedly different tone’ their careers have been linked by fans and critics The choice of DeGeneres suggests the for years. Both now live in Nashville and they Academy is turning to a more amenable even shared album of the year nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards. host who has shown in the past to be skilled In this file photo, musician Jack White (left) and Karen Elson arrive on the red carpet for the Royal at poking fun at Hollywood without rankling A spokeswoman for White said Friday the singer’s only comment would come through World Premiere of the 22nd James Bond film, “Quantum of Solace” in London. — AP

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