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SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 SHAABAN 24, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Ban’s Kuwaiti Klose equals advisor fears record as civil war Germany draw in Iraq with Ghana 2 20 SUPPLEMENT INSIDE Barrak rejects summons to Max 48º Min 31º report for interrogation High Tide 07:16 & 20:29 Feb 2012 National Assembly is legal: Tabtabaei Low Tide 00:57 & 14:08 40 PAGES NO: 16204 150 FILS By Staff Reporters

KUWAIT: In a dramatic turn of events, prominent opposition leader Mussallam Al-Barrak said yesterday he has decided to decline a police summons for inter- rogation in a complaint filed by head of the Supreme Judicial Council Faisal Al-Marshed. Barrak said in a statement he received the summons two days ago and was asked to appear at the Criminal Investigation Department today at 9.00 am, and “after consultations with my legal team, I have decided to decline the sum- mons”. The former outspoken lawmaker listed several rea- sons for his action, raising a number of highly contro- versial and sensitive issues which could lead to police arresting and detaining him. Barrak claimed the sum- mons was against the law, “which stipulates that I should be told about the nature of the case filed and the name of the person who filed it”. “If I was sum- moned as a suspect, then the law stipulates that the Criminal Investigations Department should first sum- mon the complainant and hear his testimony before doing the same with the accused,” he added. The oppo- sition hardliner said that if the public prosecution issues a subpoena to summon him, he would react to it when it happens. Marshed filed a lawsuit against Barrak for remarks he made at a public rally on June 10 which were deemed offensive to the country’s top judge. Barrak repeated his claims again yesterday, saying that the judicial council does not have the legal powers to sue him. The former lawmaker also said that the judicial authorities are adopting a highly selective approach in the major case after deciding to start with him for remarks he made against Marshed instead of pursuing BEIT KAHIL: Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during a search for three missing Israeli teens in this village near the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. other accused people. Barrak said that the authorities — AP (See Page 8) have taken no action against people accused of crimes of state security, money laundering, having contacts with a foreign country and making financial deals with US Presbyterians divest in Israel protest Israel, but have spared no time to start legal proce- dures against him. WASHINGTON: The nearly 1.9 million-member Assembly moderator Heath Rada emphasized that the historically been seen as a “last resort” after “other engage- The opposition figure said that the judges who sued Presbyterian Church USA voted Friday after a contentious decision “in no way reflects anything but love for both the ment tools have failed.” him and who will be interrogating him are his foes who debate to divest from three companies that provide sup- Jewish and Palestinian people,” the church’s news service Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the boycott, divest- have already and publicly expressed their opinions plies to Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West said. The measure also included a reaffirmation of Israel’s ment and sanctions (BDS) movement, praised the vote as against him and accordingly, the legal procedures may Bank. The 310 to 303 vote at the influential Protestant right to exist, an endorsement of a two-state solution and a “sweet victory for human rights.” He said Presbyterian not be neutral and fair. denomination’s meeting in Detroit, Michigan, means the encouraged interfaith dialogue, The Times reported. It supporters of Palestinian rights have introduced divest- In the meantime, former Islamist opposition MP group will pull financial investments out of Caterpillar, also included a provision to encourage “positive invest- ment into the US mainstream and have given Palestinians Waleed Al-Tabtabaei described the political situation as Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions, the church’s offi- ment” to improve the lives of Israelis and Palestinians, the “real hope in the face of the relentless and intensifying highly complex and added that according to legal cial news service said. The church has about $21 million Times said. The close vote came after a week of intense cruelty of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler colonialism viewpoints, the opposition-dominated Assembly elect- invested in the three companies, a spokeswoman told The lobbying and “most contentious debate of this assembly,” and apartheid.” ed in Feb 2012 but later scrapped by a court order “is New York Times. the church’s news service said, noting that divestment has Continued on Page 15 still the legitimate legislative body”. Egypt court confirms Militants seize Iraq border town mass death sentences BAGHDAD: Shiite fighters paraded in assault might be fracturing, internecine clashes the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant MINYA, Egypt: An Egyptian court yester- watchdogs. Baghdad yesterday in a dramatic show of force killed 17 fighters in northern Iraq. Iraqi security (ISIL) already hold parts of the western day confirmed death sentences for more The 183 whose death sentences were aimed at Sunni militants who seized a Syrian forces yesterday announced they were holding province of Anbar, which abuts the Syrian bor- than 180 Islamists, including Muslim confirmed Saturday were convicted of border crossing, widening a western front in their own in several areas north of Baghdad, der, after taking all of one city and parts of Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie, after involvement in the murder of two police- an offensive threatening to rip Iraq apart. but officials said insurgents led by ISIL seized another earlier in the year. It is unclear what a mass trial that sparked an international men and the attempted murder of five Meanwhile, Washington readied a new diplo- one of three official border crossings with Syria. impact the latest move will have on the overall outcry. The court in the central city of others in Minya province on August 14, matic bid to unite Iraq’s fractious leaders and Militants took control of the area a day after 34 offensive, as militants already have free reign Minya initially sentenced 683 people to the day police killed hundreds of Morsi repel insurgents whose lightning offensive has members of the security forces were killed in along most of the 600-km border, neither side death, but yesterday commuted death supporters in Cairo clashes. They were displaced hundreds of thousands, alarmed the the border town, giving the fighters greater of which is controlled by government forces. sentences of four defendants to life in also found guilty of vandalism, attacking world and put Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki cross-border mobility into conflict-hit Syria. ISIL aims to create an Islamic state that will prison and acquitted 496 others, prose- public property, bearing arms and join- under growing pressure domestically and The takeover of Al-Qaim leaves just one of incorporate both Iraq and Syria, where the cutor Abdel Rahim Abdel Malik told AFP. ing illegal organisations, Abdel Malik overseas. three official border crossings with Syria in the group has become a major force in the rebel- Since the army ousted Islamist president said. Lawyers said most of those sen- And in a sign the broad alliance of jihadists hands of the central government. The third is lion against President Bashar Al-Assad. Mohamed Morsi in July last year, hun- tenced to death are on the run. “The and anti-government elements behind the controlled by Kurdish forces. Insurgents led by Continued on Page 15 dreds of his supporters and Badie himself defence lawyers were unable to attend have been sentenced to death in trials the trial and defend their clients. The roundly criticised by human rights court violated the defendants’ rights of defence and gave its decision quickly,” said one, Mohammed Tosson, adding they intended to appeal. Journalists were barred from attending the trial. The decision came after the court referred its initial April ruling to the country’s top Islamic scholar, as required under Egypt’s legal system. Defence lawyer Khaled Elkomy said the case was full of “flaws”. “The judge referred 683 defendants to the grand mufti because he believed that they were guilty... he then returned and acquitted most of them,” he said. “This shows that the judge did not even study the case properly.” In March, the same court reduced to life in prison 492 of 529 death sentences passed on another batch of Morsi sup- porters. Outside the court yesterday, as masked policemen stood guard, relatives reacted to the verdict, with some cele- brating and others mourning. “I swear that my brother has nothing to do with politics and the Muslim Brotherhood. He MINYA, Egypt: An Egyptian man reacts does not even pray,” said Ahmed, 40, of outside a courtroom yesterday after a his brother who was sentenced to death. court confirmed death sentences for Another man expressed relief. BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Iran’s goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi dives but fails to stop a goal by Argentina’s Lionel Messi during a Group F 183 Islamists. — AFP Continued on Page 15 World Cup match at the Mineirao Stadium yesterday. Argentina defeated Iran 1-0. — AP (See Page 19) p2 COPY_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:06 PM Page 1

LOCAL SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

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A jet-skier surfs in front of people on a beach in Salmiya area yesterday, as temperatures reached over 50 degreees Celcius in Kuwait. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat BOT amendments, bedoons on new Parliament agenda MPs to discuss Iraq developments

By A Saleh says are eligible to receive Kuwaiti citi- uates’ allowance which is estimated at 17,000 housing units every year. The zenship. KD 90 million. The budget also saw an team will include representatives from KUWAIT: Several important issues are The National Assembly is also expect- increase in the financial allocations paid the Public Authority for Housing Welfare, listed on the agenda for the parliament’s ed to debate results of investigations in to Kuwaitis sent for treatment overseas Kuwait Municipality and Ministry of session this Tuesday, including the sec- suspected irregularities in various proj- to KD 261 million, up from KD 150.2 mil- Electricity and Water in order to coordi- ond vote for amendments to the build- ects including the Jaber Stadium, Jaber lion in 2013/2014, after approving a total nate in freeing and preparing lands, said operate-transfer (BOT) law, a draft law to Causeway, the contract between Kuwait of KD 91 million in increases to monthly sources familiar with the news. naturalize 4,000 bedoons and develop- Oil Company and Shell as well as the payments of patients and their compan- Members from the Central Tenders ments in Iraq. Regarding the bedoons’ diesel smuggling issue. The parliament’s ions. The parliament is not expected to Committee will also be represented in naturalization proposal, sources revealed budgets committee met yesterday to dis- debate amendments to the Capital order to speed up tendering procedures that the draft law could be delayed to cuss the government’s expenses under Market Authority law; instead the draft for housing projects, the sources said. the next term after the government article five in the 2014/2015 budget, con- law is set to be postponed till the next They added that the team will first han- informed lawmakers that the issue will cerning unsorted expenses and transfer term, according to MP Mohammad Al- dle projects in north Mutlaa and south not be given priority as the Central payments. Jabri, the rapporteur of the financial Saad Al-Abdullah. Separately, the Civil Apparatus for Illegal Residents continues The panel announced following the committee. Commission Council meets today to dis- its job in sorting out the state’s commu- meeting that the support money that cuss several topics, including a report nity of stateless residents. The draft law Kuwait pays to national labor forces in Housing projects filed recently by the parliament’s human calls on the government to naturalize at the private sector has reached KD 555.7 In other news, the government plans resources committee on the indemnity least 4,000 bedoons every year, selected million, up from KD 461.8 million in to form a work team whose job is to of Kuwaiti employees in the public and from over 60,000 people that the state 2013/2014, due to introducing the grad- speed up the process of establishing private sectors. NEW YORK: Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq pictured with Ban Ki-moon on Friday. No Kuwaiti Ban’s Kuwaiti advisor support to ISIL fears civil war in Iraq

KUWAIT: Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled NEW YORK: Dr. Abdullah Al-Maatouq, a senior Kuwaiti Sulaiman Al-Jarallah denied Friday the existence of any aide of the UN chief, has urged for rapid international inter- Kuwaiti support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the vention in Iraq to avert possible flare-up of an endless Levant (ISIL). internal civil warfare. In press statements, Al-Jarallah discounted categori- Dr. Al-Maatouq, Representative of the UN Secretary cally any report claiming that some Kuwaiti entities General for Humanitarian Affairs, who also serves as an offer support to ISIL, saying that such a report would be advisor at Kuwait’s Amiri Diwan, said as he emerged from a “absolutely inaccurate.” “There is no financial funding meeting with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, held from inside Kuwait to ISIL or any other organization of late on Friday, that he discussed with the UN chief the its type. All reports purporting that miss the mark.” “Aid security and humane conditions in Iraq and Syria and the and assistance are provided for the Syrian people for necessity for speedy action to contain these two crises. humanitarian purposes only and if this aid reaches the The Secretary General, he added, expressed under- wrong hands, which would be unfortunate, the onus is standing and support for his opinion regarding dangers of not on the giver of the aid. the Iraqi crisis and its forecast impact on the neighboring “Commenting on the concerns raised recently by states as well as the necessity to “tackle the issues before some MPs about the existence of sleeping cells of ISIL further aggravation.” sympathizers in Kuwait and their demand to the gov- Dr. Maatouq quoted Ban as stressing on the necessity ernment to get ready to counter this danger, Al-Jarallah that major powers shoulder the responsibility of con- said “If there are elements that cooperate with ISIL or fronting possible spillover of instability across the Middle any other terrorist group this would be a danger not East. only for Kuwait but also for the whole region.” “ He went The UN Representative, in the remarks to KUNA, added on to say that “It is difficult to claim that there is no dan- that he feared civilians’ relocation on a much greater scale ger. We have to admit that Kuwait and the whole region as compared to the civilians’ plight in Syria and that he are facing a danger which requires serious vigilance, feared flare-up of an endless civil war in Iraq, adding that prudence and work to safeguard the home front in all the UN would address an appeal to the international com- Gulf cooperation Council member states.” Replying to a munity to tackle the tragic conditions in Iraq and for question about a division between Kuwaiti Sunnis and increasing relief aid to those in need. Shiites with regard to the stance of the developments in Moreover. Dr. Maatouq expressed hope that delivery of Iraq, Al-Jarallah said “We have never felt such a division aid supplies, that had been pledged at the two donors’ and it is not expected at all.” “ Kuwaiti Sunnis and Shiites conferences held in Kuwait, would reach 90 percent of the are boarding one boat and they are united in the face of total promised support by the summer end. “These funds any danger that threatens the security of Kuwait or any are insufficient, however they have been helpful in tackling other country in the region,” he said. some problems in Syria and (refugees’) host countries,” he “We are totally convinced that Kuwait is strong by its added. He also said that the talks with Ban dealt with these people, cohesion of the home front as wells with its KUWAIT: Kuwait Diving Team of the Voluntary Environmental Foundation completed the installation of ten two conventions, hosted by Kuwait on March 18 and June friends and its international relations. And this is our buoys with new shapes and specifications around the best coral sites surrounding Um Al-Maradem island. 18, and issues related to the humanitarian aspect of the view of the situation.” —KUNA Syrians’ plight.—KUNA Al-Quds University thankful for Kuwait’s generous support

RAMALLAH: Al-Quds University has backing for Palestine, its people, Ahmad named the honorary chair- named its 33rd batch of graduates Jerusalem and its university. man. The institute’s formation paved after His Highness the Amir (of “We do not forget the Kuwaiti aid way for establishment of the universi- Kuwait) Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- that resulted in laying the corner- ty, Abu Keshek said, indicating that Jaber Al-Sabah as a gesture of grati- stone of Al-Quds University due to the institute had been set up as an tude for Kuwait’s generous aid to the efforts by the late Amir His Highness authority to care for the martyrs and academic institution. Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah; refugees. The latest of group of graduates such support has continued under Cornerstone of the Arab-Kuwaiti was celebrated, on Friday, at a cere- reign of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Institute was laid at a ceremony in mony attended by the university Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.” Abu Dais, on Jerusalem’s suburbs, in chairman of the board of trustees, As to the support given by Kuwait 1966, under sponsorship of His Ahmad Qurai, and leading staff of the University, Qurai thanked in particu- Highness the (late) Amir, Sheikh institution in the West Bank city of larly the KU President, Abdullatif Al- Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, and the Ramallah. Bader, who backs higher level educa- late King Hussein of Jordan. In 1979, In a statement, Qurai praised the tion and scientific research in Arab Abu Keshek added, witnessed inau- Kuwaiti support for Palestine, namely countries and Palestine, in particular. guration of the sciences and technol- Jerusalem and the city university, President of Al-Quds University ogy faculty, with Kuwaiti funding. stating, “I extend my deep gratitude Imad Abu Keshek shed light on He likened the Kuwaiti generous to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Kuwait’s support since 1958, when hand “to the olive branch that was Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the board of trustees of the Arab- planted in the land where Prophet the sisterly State of Kuwait and their Kuwaiti Institute was established, Mohammad ascended to heavens generous people for their continuous with the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- and Jesus Christ was born.— KUNA p3.e$S_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:06 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 LOCAL Prices increase ahead of Ramadan Holy month a week away

KUWAIT: Prices of a number of commodities figs, fresh meat and some brands of frozen poul- summer month. popular during Ramadan have increased despite try, which have become dearer by 10 percent. According to the Public Authority for the holy month still being a week away, accord- Meanwhile the price of fresh lamb at livestock Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) Kuwait contributes to ing to a recent report. The increase was influ- companies reached KD 7 per kilogram, accord- rules, fishing for zubaidi (silver pomfret), a popu- enced by many factors, including political condi- ing to the source. The increases which ranged lar part of the Kuwaiti cuisine, is banned until tions in some countries, such as the case of between 5 and 10 percent were approved by the mid-July, which means that local zubaidi will not ‘Egypt donors’ success qamarrudin, a popular drink made of sweetened Kuwait Union for Consumer Co-operative be available in the market during the first half of By A Saleh financial contributions to Egypt, said apricot juice. Societies (KUCCS), the sources indicated. They Ramadan. the sources who spoke on the condition The product’s price jumped 350 percent due also pointed out that some suppliers have not On the other hand, shrimp, another favorite KUWAIT: The Egypt donors’ conference of anonymity. to the unrest in Syria, its main exporter, increas- offered free products to co-op societies and Kuwaiti food, will not be available throughout is expected to be held in September, as Kuwait, UAE, and Saudi Arabia are ing from 350 fils last year to KD 1.140 currently. supermarkets. the entire month since the PAAAFR regulations coordination and consultations are expected to contribute the most at the The daily quoted sources familiar with prices also indicate that fishing for shrimp in territorial ongoing, according to sources. conference - which is hoped to raise as at the majority of co-op societies and supermar- Fish ban waters is banned until Sept 1, 2014. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates much as $12 billion, according to the kets in Kuwait. According to the sources, the Ramadan is also expected to see an increase Consumers still have access to imported have already given their agreement to sources. change in price has also affected products such in the price of popular domestic seafood items zubaidi and shrimp that are allowed to enter by attend and contribute to the success of They added that contributions could as rice, which rose by 5 percent, as well as dried due to an existing ban on fishing during the air or the Shuwaikh Port during the ban period. the conference which was announced include, in addition to cash, invest- recently by Saudi King Abdullah bin ments and financing of vital projects in Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, the sources said. Egypt specified by its government. Saudi Arabia is contacting the The three Gulf nations continue to United States of America, Russia and send aid in the form of refined oil prod- Western countries in order to invite ucts until at least September, Egyptian them to the conference and make officials recently said. Financial support for national labor increases

KUWAIT: State financial allotments for support- However, the commission advised that certain ing national labor and social support have been restrictions must be effected to ensure equality increased in the 2014-2015 projected State among citizens seeking treatment abroad. budget, according to a leading MP yesterday. Elaborating, the head of the parliamentary MP Adnan Abdulsamad, the chairman of the committee added that projected subsidies for parliamentary budgets and final accounts’ com- petroleum and gas products increased from KD mittee, said in a statement the commission 625 million to KD 751 million, with an increase members held a meeting yesterday, examining of KD 126 million. Furthermore, the transfer’s projections in the fifth chapter of the budgets allotments for the public authorities and institu- for ministries and government departments tions hiked from KD 4974.8 million to KD 5176 (2014-2015), namely miscellaneous spending million, with an increase of 201.2 million due to and paid-up transfers. Projections in this section the increase of the social security, KD 138.4 mil- Burgan Bank rolls out leadership program of the budget rose to some KD 10 billion from lion, and increasing the allotted funds for the KD nine billion in the 2013-2014 budget, hiking Housing Care Authority, KD 91.7 million. KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the “Human Capital is our most valued asset; we tru- Kuwait Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - by KD 773 million (8.3 percent), MP The commission tackled allocations for con- launch of the ‘Driven from Within’ - the certified ly believe that it is our responsibility to build a Turkey, Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International Abdulsamad said, explaining that the bulk of ventions, projections of which dropped from Leadership program for the bank’s middle-man- culture that accelerates the build-up of tomor- Bank, in which Burgan Bank owns a majority the hike was for supporting the national labor, KD 73 million in the 20130-2014 budget to KD agers and supervisors in collaboration with the row’s leaders. We at Burgan Bank do not spare stake. Burgan Bank Group has one of the largest from approximately KD 461 million to KD 554 24 million in the 2014-2015 budget. It also American University of Kuwait. The 56 hours any efforts in investing on our people through regional branch networks with more than 231 million, increasing by KD 92 million due to inclu- advised the Ministry of Finance to set terms for leadership development program caters to 38 targeted and planned training and development branches across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, sion of the graduates’ bonus, amounting to KD these allotments. Burgan Bank mid-level managers and supervi- programs. “ Iraq, Tunis, Lebanon and Palestine. 90 million. Social care allotment increased from The ministry, the committee observed, con- sors. Burgan Bank constantly focuses on identify- The Bank has continuously improved its per- KD 201 million to KD 351 million, increasing by tinues to list huge funds for armament, despite The ‘Driven from Within’ Leadership opening ing, developing, and retaining its talented formance over the years through an expanded approximately KD 150 million, due to mounting invalidity of the relevant laws (since 2006), ceremony featured vital discussions on leader- employees and strives to maintain a working revenue structure, diversified funding sources, number of the beneficiaries, resulting from where in the 2014-2015 fiscal year KD 21 million ship with Burgan Bank’s Group Chief Executive environment in which skilled and dedicated pro- and a strong capital base. The adoption of state- issuance of the Decree Number 23 (2013), were listed, with controversial considerations. Officer Eduardo Eguren, Burgan Bank’s Unit fessionals can unleash their potentials and of-the-art services and technology has posi- granting financial support for 55-year-old Although allocations of the Ministry of Head of Private Banking Hameed Abdullah, as progress in their careers. tioned it as a trendsetter in the domestic market housewives. Moreover, specialized fund for stu- Defense rose from KD 1167.9 million to KD well as AUK’s President Professor Dr Nizar Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the and within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s dents’ scholarships rose from KD 200 million to 1302.2 million, with a hike of 11.5 percent, the Hamzeh. The discussion was a reflection on lead- youngest commercial Bank and third largest by brand has been created on a foundation of real 261 million, hiking by some KD 61 million. ministry continues to shift funds from a section ership and its required set of skills to better lead, assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus on the values - of trust, commitment, excellence and MP Abdulsamad added that the forecast of the budget to another, in violation of the rel- support, and inspire teams to achieve business corporate and financial institutions sectors, as progression, to remind us of the high standards financing for citizens’ treatment abroad evant governing rules. The commission made goals and harness customers’ satisfaction. well as having a growing retail, and private bank to which we aspire. ‘People come first’ is the increased from nearly KD 150 million to KD 241 an identical remark as to the Ministry of Justice, Halah El-Sherbini - Group Chief Human customer base Burgan Bank has five majority foundation on which its products and services million, hiking by KD 91 million due to the allo- allocations of which increased to KD 160.5 mil- Resources and Development Officer said: owned subsidiaries, which include Jordan are developed. cations for the patients and compatriots. lion from 153.7 million. —

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 LOCAL Wafra farmer killed in freak accident False charges lead to conmen’s arrest KUWAIT: A farmer was killed after a trac- The man was referred to the proper author- tor’s lever fell on him due to a fault in the ities while investigations are ongoing to vehicle’s hydraulic system. The incident identify and arrest his supplier. (Anbaa) took place at a Wafra farm Friday morning. The man crawled under the truck after the Forgery case lever became stuck, but a fault made the Investigations are ongoing to identify a lever fall on him, killing him instantly. Crime suspect who sold a worker a visa after forg- scene investigators were called to the ing a Kuwaiti man’s name on it to appear as scene after police arrived in response to an his employer. A Kuwaiti man answered the emergency call. A case was filed for investi- door to find a person asking him to renew gations. his visa. The Asian national told the man that he is his employee, and that he Conmen’s arrest searched for his address to find him Five people were arrested for commit- because his visa was about to expire. The ting at least 12 scams against landlords and man tried to explain to his supposed making millions of dinars. Investigations employee that there must have been some which led to the suspects’ arrest began mistake, until the worker showed him his after a man reported being forced to sign a civil ID which carried his name as his spon- cheque under physical assault. sor. The two then went to the Jabriya police Investigations with the man later revealed station where a forgery case was filed. that he faked the case based on a legal Investigations revealed the person had consultant’s advice. The man had reported- forged the entrance papers of the worker, ly paid over KD 250,000 in commission to and wrote the Kuwaiti man’s name on it as brokers who offered to help him find a buy- the sponsor without his knowledge. er for his house. The man discovered that the cheque he received from the alleged Suicide attempt brokers was fake, and that the supposed A Nepalese domestic worker survived a sale for which he paid the commission nev- suicide attempt in Hawally. The maid con- er happened. Realizing he was conned, the sumed cleaning solutions when her man went to a legal consultant who recom- employer and his family were out of the mended that he press false charges and house, according to preliminary investiga- claim that he was beaten up to sign the tions. The employer rushed the maid to check. Detectives managed to identify the Mubarak Hospital as soon as he arrived and conmen, including three Kuwaitis and two found her lying on the ground with an expatriates who work as legal consultants empty bottle of a cleaning substance near- Blood Bank honors Zain in a state department. The five were arrest- by. Police arrived to the scene to investi- ed and admitted responsibility for at least gate the incident. A suicide case was filed, KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications Minister of Health Dr Ali Al-Obaidi, the Assistant with the Central Blood Bankto encourage 12 crimes during questioning. and police plan to question the maid after company in Kuwait, announced yesterday that it Undersecretary for Public Health Dr. Qais Al- employees to donate blood and save lives. Zain she recovers. Drug abuse was honored by the Central Blood Bank for its Dowairi, the Director of Blood Transfusion affirmed that its contribution to organizing effective and continuous contribution in organ- Services Dr Reem Al Radhwan, and Blood internal blood drives falls under the company’s A supermarket cashier was arrested for Boy hospitalized izing blood drive campaigns. The honoring Transfusion Services Consultant Dr Abdulaziz Corporate Social Responsibility umbrella and selling banned substances to high school A six-year-old child was injured in a car came as part of the annual ceremony to cele- Al-Basheer. aims to raise awareness and good will amongst students. The arrest happened following accident in Fahd Al-Ahmad. The boy was brate the World Blood Donor Day under the The honoring ceremony came as part of the employees of the importance of donating life- investigations about the activity of a playing on the street behind his neighbor’s patronage and attendance of the Minister of several activities and awareness campaigns the giving blood. cashier who works at a Riqqa co-op society car, when the latter ran him over acciden- Health Dr Ali Al- Obaidi at the Crowne Plaza Central Blood Bank organizes annually to shed Zain confirmed that its support of blood branch for selling narcotics. The Egyptian tally, according to investigations. The child’s hotel. light on private-sector companies, groups, and drive campaigns shows its keenness in having a man was arrested with Tramadol pills, father took him to Adan Hospital, where he In a press statement, Zain mentioned that it individuals who greatly contribute to the field productive role in social and health activities. which were each split into four quarters. was admitted in the intensive care unit participated in the ceremony represented by of blood donation. Especially with those that contribute with sav- Questioning the man revealed that he after being diagnosed with a broken leg. the company’s Sales Director Ahmad Al-Kandari, The company explained that it is keen to ing numerous amounts of people that are in bought the pills from a trafficker daily, then The father did not press charges after his with the attendance of a number of prominent organize internal blood drive campaigns for need of blood, particularly people with rare sold them to high school students who neighbor explained that the incident was figures in the health sector, including the employees several times a year in collaboration blood types. abused the substance during their finals. accidental. Seven held for illegal entry

By Hanan Al-Saadoun Dajeej with five stab wounds that killed him. A security source said one of the vic- KUWAIT: Immigration detectives arrested tim’s colleagues informed authorities about seven Yemenis who entered the country the murder. Investigations are underway. illegally for begging. They confessed to entering from Nuwaiseeb land port, hiding Road accidents in trucks, then called another Yemeni who A taxi flipped over on Fourth Ring Road also entered the country illegally, to harbor near Yarmouk. The Asian driver was injured them and send them to mosques. They as well as one of his two Filipina passen- also said that they pay truck drivers to get gers. Meanwhile, a man was injured in a them into the country. Detectives are car accident on the Fifth Ring Road on working on locating others who entered Friday. Firefighters rushed to the scene the same way. after an emergency call at 10:56 am report- ing an overturned car. When they arrived, Body found they found a man stuck inside the car. The The body of a Pakistani expat was found man was taken out of the wreck and taken inside a fenced off area he guarded in to hospital for treatment.

KUWAIT: The seven Yemenis who entered the country illegally for begging. SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest Local Spotlight Crime against Indians in humanity Kuwait

By Labeed Abdal

By Muna Al-Fuzai National Unity [email protected] [email protected] ecent news about the kidnapping of 20 Rwomen in northeast Nigeria by militants believed to be members of the Boko uwait has a large expatriate community. Haram extremist group is concerning on many KAsians make up the majority of foreign work- levels. Not only does it provide a grim reminder ers, who constitute two-thirds of the Kuwaiti of the crimes committed by terrorists in the population, and Indians rank first among them. This African nation, especially against women and is no surprise. Kuwait has always maintained his- children, but it also adds to their damaging of torical, cultural and trade links with India. In fact, Islam’s image by falsely associating their crimes India has been a natural trading partner for Kuwaiti with the religion. merchants. The crime comes nearly two months after Indians constitute the largest expat community Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 school- girls, followed by more abductions targeting Al-Anbaa Sectarianism with 653,000 people who play a key role in the women said to be aged between 15 and 30 labor market in the domestic and business fields. I years. Those radicals force non-Muslim women personally enjoy excellent friendship with the Indian community and respect their dedication and sincerity to community members. I wish we digest It is truly disturbing to see mili- kuwait Kuwaitis enjoy the same patriotic sense for our country to avoid sinking in corruption. tants continue on their Second source of income I always believed that Indians had the lowest destructive path while work- crime rates. But recently I have noticed that some of them are suddenly either the victims or guilty of By Yousuf Al-Mujalhem ing in the dark, adding more crimes. The increasing news about them being part fuel to the fire of sectarian and o give you an example about how a person can The same idea can be applied on state expenses of thefts, assaults and damage to properties is a create a second source of income, let us take and the issue of budget deficit. We need specialists serious concern, and it made me wonder over the religious conflict T reasons. I’m fully aware that crimes could happen in the example of an employee who receives a KD to make thorough studies of the national budget in 1,200 monthly pay. He spends KD 700 on necessities order to determine the factors of waste, which are any community. such as food, clothes and rent, and KD 300 on luxu- many. For example, Kuwait has an army of employees For example, police are looking for an Indian man for helping absconding workers get jobs. Or to convert and demand ransoms for their ries including KD 200 for travel. who provide no added value, while some of them are that police are looking into the death of a 56-year- release, terrorizing families in poor villages. In The man spends KD 200 monthly as salaries and paid without even showing up to work. The expenses many cases, families of kidnapped women find expenses for two housemaids he hires, and KD 100 spent on marginal labor forces are also a burden on old Indian who worked for the Ministry of themselves reluctant to report crimes to local on expenses he cannot determine the nature of. Add the budget. There is also large squandering that hap- Electricity. We are not talking about high-ranking authorities out of fear of retribution. to that KD 150 that he loses or is stolen from him, pens in overspending on tenders and favoritism, as officials, but a laborer and another man who could It is truly disturbing to see militants continue then the total amount of his expenses reaches KD well as corruption and thefts. be guilty or not for helping violators of residency. on their destructive path while working in the 1,450 per month. This means that he has a KD 250 All of that makes me believe stopping squander- We don’t know the truth and if there is any wasta in dark, adding more fuel to the fire of sectarian deficit each month, which he needs to look for a sec- ing in the state’s budget and having more control this. and religious conflict, and prolonging struggles ond source of income to cover. over spending is the best way to create a second I know that the Indian Embassy in Kuwait takes that means further crimes committed. But instead of looking for a second job to make source of income in Kuwait. Finding an alternative these complaints seriously. Because it damages the When local authorities fail to maintain securi- ends meet, the employee could reconsider his source of income is a hard goal to achieve in the reputation of all Indians and the host country. ty, international intervention becomes necessary expenses. For example, he can cut the average he short term, as we find ourselves unable to compete There is a need to address such cases one by one through multinational peacekeeping forces in spends on luxuries by KD 100, and save another KD with other countries in the industrial, agricultural and and seek the roots of it. This takes two entities, the order to end the crimes and bring the perpetra- 100 by releasing one of his maids. He can save up to touristic fields. Furthermore, any increase in income Kuwait Ministry of Interior and Indian Embassy. tors to justice. I believe that this applies to the KD 100 as well by having more control over his will lead to an increase in spending, and further Probably a visit by the Indian ambassador and case of the militants in Nigeria, especially since expenses in general, and by that he can make at least budget squandering. media officials to newspapers would help clear the their crimes are considered terrorist acts. KD 50 each month in surplus. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas air over these shocking reports.

In my view Crackdown on Hamas

By Linda Gradstein

lmost a week after three Israeli teenagers President Mahmoud Abbas, has chosen Hamas Awere kidnapped, presumably by the Islamist over peace with Israel. Hamas movement, Israel has expanded its Abbas has come out sharply against the kidnap- crackdown to include “anything green” as one ping, and said he will continue security coordina- Israeli army officer referred to the traditional tion with Israel. The United States has asked both Hamas color. Some 300 Palestinians affiliated with sides to “exercise restraint” during what the State Hamas have been arrested in the past week, Department spokesman called “an incredibly sensi- including several Palestinian parliamentarians and tive and difficult circumstance on the ground.” more than 50 prisoners who had been released in Ghassan Al-Khatib said that Israeli troops raided a prisoner exchange for a captured Israeli soldier in Bir Zeit University, where he is a professor, in the 2011. middle of the night, confiscating computers and Israeli officials say that their main goal is to find “anything green,” including Palestinian and Hamas the teenagers, who they believe are still in the flags, Khatib said. The university recently held elec- West Bank. tions for the student council so there were flags “We don’t have any concrete information that and other brochures taken. they are alive and we don’t have any concrete “The Israeli actions will clearly reduce the information that they’re not alive” Israeli army Hamas profile, both political and operational, in spokesman Peter Lerner said. “Right now we’re the West Bank,” Joseph Alpher, a political analyst proceeding on the assumption that the boys are and former Mossad intelligence official told The alive and that they are Media Line. “But if there’s a being held in the West broader goal of separating Bank.” Some 300 Palestinians Hamas and Fatah it’s not Lerner said a total of affiliated with Hamas clear if it will succeed.” nine brigades (three Alpher said it is not pos- more than usual) have have been arrested in the sible to know if the searched more than past week, including teenagers are alive or not. 800 different locations “It is possible that some- throughout the West several Palestinian thing went wrong at the Bank. They have found parliamentarians beginning of the kidnap- hundreds of rifles and ping and they were killed,” machine guns, but he said. “But it is also possi- have yet to find out where the three Israelis are ble that the full court Israeli press is preventing the being held. captors from raising their head and making Lerner said a secondary goal of the widespread demands for a prisoner exchange. Hamas abducts army operation is to “take a toll on Hamas.” Israelis not to kill them but to trade them for pris- “We are targeting all levels of the organization, oners.” There are some 5000 Palestinian prisoners from the tactical to the operational to the institu- in Israeli jails today. In 2011 Israel traded 1027 tional to the leadership,” he said. Hamas prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli Lerner said that in the past year and a half, there soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held in Gaza for more had been 64 kidnapping attempts similar to the than five years. one that succeeded last week, and has riveted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli society. He said that Israel is convinced that called Mahmoud Abbas this week - the first time Hamas is behind the kidnapping, although there the two men have spoken directly in over a year. have been no claims of responsibility and no But Israel’s response to Abbas’s comments in Saudi demands presented. Arabia was lukewarm, with Israeli officials saying Palestinians warn that Israel’s crackdown on that actions are more important than words. Hamas could backfire. Some say that once the incident is resolved, “It seems they are taking advantage of this inci- especially if the boys are found alive with the help dent and trying to pursue several different agen- of the Palestinian security forces, it could be an das,” Ghassan Al-Khatib, a former Palestinian gov- opportunity to renew peace talks which failed ernment spokesman said. “They want to crack after nine months of intensive effort by US down on Hamas, expand settlements in the West Secretary of State John Kerry. Bank, and destroy the unity agreement between “Hamas was losing strength everywhere, espe- Hamas and Fatah.” cially in Gaza,” Ghassan Khatib said. “But our polls That unity agreement, signed last month, is show that a systematic decline in support for vio- meant to pave the way for Palestinian elections. lence. Most Palestinians are afraid of a possible Israel has sharply criticized that agreement, saying return to violence and losing the security of law that Fatah, which is headed by Palestinian and order.” —The Media Line SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 Mauritania president Asylum-seekers offered $10,000 to return home set to win new term

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WASHINGTON: It’s the fog of diplomacy. For ly to keep Assad in power in Syria.” years, Iran has been an archenemy of the United His concern was highlighted by the comments States. Now, with alliances blurred in the Mideast, this past week by Mohammad Nahavandian, the two countries are talking about how to stop chief of staff to Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani. an offensive in Iraq by Al-Qaeda-inspired insur- The aide suggested nuclear talks and Iraq’s crisis gents. How is it that adversaries that haven’t were connected. The State Department rejected trusted each other for 35 years could cooperate any linkage. Secretary of State John Kerry, head- on Iraq today? They are strange bedfellows, to say ing to the Mideast to discuss Iraq’s stability, has the least. In the Syrian civil war, the US backs the fueled talk about US-Iranian cooperation. He said opposition. Iran supports Syrian President Bashar early last week that the Obama administration Al-Assad. The US for three decades has consid- was open to discussions with Tehran if the ered Iran a “state sponsor of terrorism.” The US Iranians help end the violence in Iraq and restore says Iran bankrolls anti-Israel terrorist groups and confidence in the Baghdad government. other extremists intent on destabilizing the American and Iranian diplomats talked about Middle East. Iraq on the sidelines of nuclear negotiations in The US has threatened Iran with military Vienna in recent days. US officials have rejected action if Iran approaches the capacity to develop military cooperation with Iran and thus far, leg- nuclear weapons. But despite all the differences, islative aides said, the understanding in Congress the US and Iran are more engaged diplomatically is that no intelligence-sharing mechanism with at this moment than in years. After a break- Tehran has been finalized. But the comments had through interim agreement last year, the US, Iran officials and lawmakers in Washington and the and other nations are hoping to wrap up a deal Middle East abuzz. At a breakfast this past week with the next month that would curb Iran’s with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, nuclear program. Progress on nuclear talks is Kerry steered away from questions about how leading American officials to explore whether specifically the US might cooperate with Tehran, Iran can be a useful partner on interests long according to aides, who weren’t authorized to viewed as shared, such as fighting Sunni extrem- speak about private meetings and demanded ism and ensuring stability of Iraq. anonymity. Iran, like the Iraqi government, is Shiite. The They said the administration has given no insurgent group leading the assault in Iraq, the impression it will provide anything to Iran reveal- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is Sunni. But ing intelligence sources or methods. Congress’ BAGHDAD: An Iraqi Shiite fighter flashes the sign of victory during a parade yesterday in the capital. — AFP there is worry that Iran is trying to leverage its intelligence committees also are keeping tabs on Iran has called ISIL “barbaric”. But the US doesn’t The notion of intelligence cooperation with Tehran as such a bad idea. “We’re going to proba- helpfulness on Iraq into better terms in the what the administration decides to do. So far, the want to simply side with Maliki for fear of seem- Iran, however limited, has prompted a variety of bly need their help to hold Baghdad,” Graham nuclear negotiations. “I would be skeptical that State Department is not reporting any other ing to favor Shiite over Sunni. reactions on Capitol Hill, cutting across party lines said this past week as ISIL insurgents approached cooperating with Iran - particularly sharing sensi- recent meetings between the US and Iran President Barack Obama stressed the need for and traditional splits on foreign policy between Baghdad after taking several northern Iraqi cities tive intelligence information - would be in our beyond than the one in Vienna. an inclusive government in Iraq, and several law- hawks and doves. Among Republicans, House and battled for an oil refinery near the capital. overall interest,” Sen Mitch McConnell, the Senate makers have called for the Iraqi leader to step Speaker John Boehner, Sen John McCain of Democrats also are divided. Rep Nancy Pelosi minority leader, told AP. Dialogue down. Obama said Thursday that Iran could play Arizona, a leading hawk, and Sen Ted Cruz of of California, the House minority leader, and Sen “In fact, it’s hard for me to conceive of any lev- There are reasons both might be interested in a “constructive role if it is helping to send the Texas, a tea party leader, are opposed, though not Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the Senate Foreign el of Iranian cooperation that doesn’t lead to continuing the dialogue. Iran, as a Shiite power- same message to the Iraqi government that we’re all for the same reasons. McCain describes ISIL Relations Committee chairman, are among those future demands for concessions on the nuclear house, has considerable influence over Iraqi sending, which is that Iraq only holds together if among the “gravest” post-Cold War threats. Cruz against reaching out to Iran. The two countries program, or foment the return of Shia militias and President Nouri Al-Maliki, a Shiite who spent it’s inclusive and that the interests of Sunni, Shia says the danger from Sunni militants “pales by have cooperated before, notably when terrorist groups, which is harmful to resolving the years in exile in Iran. Iran also is threatened by the and Kurd are all respected.” If Iran comes to prop comparison to a nuclear-armed Iran.” Washington twice invaded Saddam Hussein’s sectarian disputes within Iraq,” McConnell said. Sunni extremists who have taken over Syrian and up Shiite domination, he said, “that probably But Sen Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Iraq. They’ve also collaborated on combating “Remember, the Iranians are working aggressive- Iraqi territory and are pressing toward Baghdad. worsens the situation.” usual partner of McCain, doesn’t see talking to drug flows. — AP p8_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:08 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Mauritania president set to win new term Opposition boycotts poll

NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritanians yes- his reorganisation of the military in Bamako. terday cast ballots in a presidential and security forces. election that incumbent Mohamed “The first point where Abdel ‘Electoral Sham’ Ould Abdel Aziz was expected to Aziz’s success is undeniable is But opposition critics argue that win handily as main opposition indeed that of security and stability the price of peace has been authori- rivals boycotted the vote in the in the country, driving away the tarian rule and have decided to boy- largely desert nation. The ex-army spectre of the terrorist threat,” said cott a vote that they regard as an general, who seized power in the Mohamed Fall Ould Oumeire, man- “electoral sham” over the way it is northwest African nation in a aging editor of the daily La Tribune. being organised. Main opposition August 2008 coup, has campaigned The mainly Muslim republic, sand- parties have never accepted Abdel strongly on his success in fighting wiched between the west coast of Aziz’s 2009 victory in an election armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda at Africa and the Sahara desert, is seen they said was marred by massive home and in neighbouring Sahel by Western leaders as a bulwark fraud. The ruling Union for the nations. Small queues snaked out- against Al-Qaeda-linked groups. In Republic (UPR) won a large majority side several polling stations in the 2010 and 2011, Mauritanian troops in parliamentary and local elections capital Nouakchott before voting carried out successful “preventative” last year, which were also boycotted got underway at 0700 GMT. raids on AQIM bases in neighbour- by the opposition. The National One 70-year old voter, who gave ing Mali, before the armed funda- Forum for Democracy and Unity his name as Brahim, said the coun- mentalists could carry out planned (FNDU) - an opposition coalition of 11 parties including a moderate Islamist movement - has rallied to denounce Abdel Aziz’s “dictatorial power” and are counting on a high abstention rate. Abdel Aziz will face four challengers who have high- lighted many of the country’s sensi- tive issues such as complex race relations between black Mauritanians and the dominant Arabs. The only candidate from the black African south is Ibrahima JEDDAH: Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in this Moctar Sarr, who argues that non- Saudi Red Sea port yesterday. — AFP Arab Mauritanians are “marginalised and victims of injustice”. Another contender is Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid, who heads a Saudis, Russia focus on movement to end slavery which, while officially abolished in 1981, persists as a deeply entrenched practice documented by rights crises in Syria and Iraq groups. Himself a descendant of slaves, Ould Abeid proclaims him- JEDDAH: Russia and Saudi Arabia highlighted the importance of “com- “without the formation of a national self “the sole candidate drawn from yesterday stressed the importance of batting terrorist organisations that unity government representing all disadvantaged levels of the people”. preserving Syrian and Iraqi territorial have exploited the crisis to find safe Iraqis without discrimination or Abdel Aziz’s spokesman El-Houssein integrity after talks in the Western haven on Syrian territory”. The exclusion”. “Any foreign intervention Ould Ahmed El-Hadi has hit back city of Jeddah. Riyadh and Moscow spokesman made no mention of dif- at this stage would only exacerbate against “racist and communitarian have opposing positions on the con- ferences on the conflict in Syria, say- the crisis and deepen sectarian speeches harmful to national unity”, flict in Syria, with Russia backing ing the ministers discussed the “dete- resentment,” the Saudi spokesman without directly naming any of the President Bashar Al-Assad and Saudi rioration of the situation in Iraq and said. The oil-rich Sunni Gulf kingdom NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel candidates. Arabia supporting the rebels seeking its consequences in the region”. has accused Iraq’s Shiite Prime Aziz casts his ballot at a polling station yesterday. —AFP The only female candidate is to topple him for more than three Sunni militants in Iraq, including Minister Nouri Al-Maliki of leading Lalla Mariem Mint Moulaye Idriss, years. But Foreign Minister Prince jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq the country to the current crisis by try, wracked by jihadist violence up attacks on Mauritania. 57, who has held several administra- Saud Al-Faisal and his Russian coun- and the Levant (ISIL), launched a marginalising its Sunni Arab minority. until 2010, “had found peace”. Abdel Aziz has also been heavily tive posts and seeks support from terpart Sergei Lavrov said they had major offensive on June 9, seizing Prince Saud took over the kingdom’s “That’s important and I want it to involved as head of the African fellow women and the youth. While agreed “to work together to apply swathes of territory. ISIL also operates oversight of its Syria policy from the continue because peace is irreplace- Union in efforts to end conflict in the country, which is nearly as big the Geneva I agreement that pro- in Syria, and seeks to carve out an head of Saudi intelligence, Prince able.” Kidnappings and attacks by neighbouring Mali, which lost half as Egypt, remains poor, it boasted a vides for a peaceful transfer of power Islamic state straddling the border Bandar bin Sultan, in February. The Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb its territory to Islamic extremists in growth rate of six percent in 2013. in Syria,” a Saudi spokesman said between the two states. Lavrov and latter, who was asked by Riyadh to (AQIM) were frequent when Abdel 2012, prompting a French interven- Mauritania has produced oil since after the meetings. Saud also said efforts should be made step down in April, was an ardent Aziz came to power, but he boasts tion to free the towns. He has also 2006 and is rich in iron ore as well as The ministers also said they were to “maintain the integrity of Iraq and backer of funding, arming and unify- he has turned his nation into a mediated between separatist fish caught off its Atlantic coast- keen to “preserve the independence the unity of all the components of the ing the rebels in Syria. His last public regional haven of peace thanks to Tuareg rebels and the government line.— AFP and territorial integrity of Syria”, the Iraqi people, who should benefit from assignment was a failed attempt in spokesman said in comments report- equality of rights and duties”. December to press Russian President ed by the Saudi state news agency However, Saudi Arabia said that Vladimir Putin to stop supporting SPA. Lavrov and Prince Saud also this would be difficult to achieve Assad.—AFP Israel steps up West Bank search for missing teens

RAMALLAH: Israel sent more troops to the occupied West Bank yesterday to search for three missing teenagers it says were abducted by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The military said it arrested 10 Palestinians yester- day and that some 1,350 sites in the West Bank had been searched so far and more than 330 Palestinians detained. The raids have triggered street clashes in the West Bank in which two Palestinians have been killed. Hamas, which refuses to recog- nise Israel’s existence, has neither claimed nor denied responsibility for the disappearance of the youths, who went missing near an Israeli settle- ment on June 13. Hundreds of troops were deployed around the city of Hebron on Saturday, a day after the army declared the area a closed military BEIT OLA: Palestinians sit outside their house looking at Israeli troops dur- zone, and appeared to be carrying out ing a search operation for three Israeli teenagers yesterday in this West searches, a Reuters witness said. Bank village near Hebron. — AFP Overnight in Ramallah, troops raided the offices of a media broadcast and Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the Fawzi Barhoum said on his Facebook production company, witnesses said. kidnapping of Gil-Ad Shaer and US- page Malki’s comments were “irre- An Israeli military spokeswoman said Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both sponsible”. Hamas controls the Gaza the soldiers found “electronic devices aged 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19. But the Strip, an area that, along with East and magnetic media used for terror- Western-backed leader has also criti- Jerusalem and the West Bank, ism” that she said belonged to Hamas, cised the extent of Israel’s recent raids, Palestinians want for a future state. without going into further detail. saying they amount to collective pun- The group rejects peace talks with Israel has also hit welfare organisa- ishment. Israel, which Abbas has held in the tions it accuses of aiding Hamas. The crisis has put pressure on a past. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Soldiers raided 30 such institutions on unity pact between Abbas’ Fatah par- Zuhri said in Gaza on Thursday that Thursday and 15 more yesterday, a ty and Hamas. Palestinian Foreign “regardless of who was responsible military spokesman said. Campaign Minister Riad Al-Malki told Reuters on (for the teenagers’ disappearance) ... group The Palestinian Prisoners Club Friday the deal would be threatened if we stress on the right of our people to said the army had arrested 37 people Hamas was responsible for abducting react to the agonies of our prisoners yesterday. Palestinian President the three youths. Hamas spokesman in the occupation jails”. —Reuters Somali journalist killed

MOGADISHU: A Somali journalist attack. Somali security forces sealed hospital in northern Mogadishu, died in Mogadishu yesterday after a off the area to investigate the inci- which is run by the Somali Red bomb believed to have been attached dent, the second killing of a journalist Crescent Society with support from to his car was remotely detonated, in Mogadishu this year. There was no the International Committee of the police and witnesses said. The victim, immediate claim of responsibility, but Red Cross (ICRC). That attack also prominent local journalist Yusuf Mogadishu has been hit by a string of involved a bomb being attached to a Keynan, was working with Mustaqbal attacks by the country’s Al-Qaeda- car. radio, a private Mogadishu FM station, linked Shebab rebels, who are fight- The National Union of Somali and also contributed to the Nairobi, ing to overthrow the war-torn coun- Journalists (NUSOJ) said it was “deeply Kenya-based UN humanitarian radio try’s fragile internationally-backed shocked” by what it called a “senseless Ergo. “It was a local journalist who was government. murder of the Somali humanitarian targeted in the attack. The bomb Recent Shebab attacks have target- journalist.” The victim was among the attached under the seat of his car ed key areas of government, or the winners of 2013 Somali Media Awards went off, leaving him dead,” Somali security forces, in an apparent bid to organised by NUSOJ and the United police official Abdi Garane said. “It was discredit claims by the authorities and Nations. “We condemn the heinous horrible. The severed dead body of African Union troops that they are murder of our colleague and call for the journalist was burned beyond winning the war against the Islamist prompt investigations into the case,” recognition inside his car. I don’t know fighters. On Wednesday a student NUSOJ Secretary General Mohamed why they have targeted him,” said doctor was killed and seven others Ibrahim said. “We demand the killers Hassan Idle, an eyewitness to the wounded in a bombing at Keysansey be brought to justice.” — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Housing boom at US campuses Demand, ageing buildings spur surge

WICHITA, Kansas: Universities across the nation are in “cool” living experience students want and the increased facility, in which students with similar academic interests dents on campus, but WSU only had 8 percent, he said. the midst of a campus housing boom, replacing ageing security their parents demand. Plus, many residence halls and career goals are grouped together on themed floors. His goal is to eventually reach 20 percent as a means of residence halls with gleaming facilities whose technology put up to house the spawn of baby boomers in 1970s and Changes are not confined to residence halls: More univer- building a culture to support the school’s core mission as and other comforts are aimed at attracting students who early ‘80s were cheaply built and are ready to be torn sities are now placing greater emphasis on overall campus a major aviation research university. “You get on average demand more from college life. Campus living for stu- down, Abramson said. “What we are seeing again is a con- life, providing nicer student unions and better recreational a higher retention rate, a higher graduation rate and dents today is a far cry from the cramped dormitories of fluence of colleges stuck with a lot of stuff they didn’t spaces unrelated to revenue-generating sports programs. more students who are familiar with Wichita and more generations past. New facilities are geared to handle lap- want, a demand suddenly from a new group of students Plus, parents are also demanding better security for their likely to stay here long term,” he said. — AP tops, smartphones and tablets and offer Wi-Fi connectivi- beginning to come in - and from their parents for a better children, Abramson said. ty and extra room outlets. Suites housing two or more student life - and that I think drove a lot of construction,” More than 70 percent of the people - with a shared bathroom instead of communal Abramson said. new residence facilities are ones - are also popular, and some of the new halls feature Each state finances construction differently, but stu- using video surveillance on computer labs, study centers, cafes and even a gaming dents who live in the new facilities ultimately pick up the the exterior and more than room. tab by paying higher housing rates. Many states, like half are using it inside, his Fifty-two new residence halls at private and public Kansas, use bonds to finance the projects - making them survey found. schools to house 19,000 students opened last year or will less dependent on lawmakers passing funding bills. The When John Bardo took open this year around the US, with a price tag of more boom seems to be spread evenly throughout the nation, over as Wichita State than $2 billion, according to Paul Abramson, an analyst according to Abramson’s survey: 14 in the Northeast, 13 in University president in with New York-based Intelligence in Education who tracks the Southeast, nine in the Midwest, 10 in the mountain 2012, it became clear to him college construction. Overall, the number of new resi- states and Texas and six along the West Coast. that the school needed to dence hall construction is up from 40 that Abramson The University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau hopes its lure more students to cam- counted a year ago for his annual May survey. $15 million dormitory project will retain more students in pus living. Other research The surge comes as US schools are simultaneously try- a city with a tight and expensive housing market. And colleges in similar urban ing to attract students with the comforts of home while Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau areas house between 18 fighting perceptions that tuition hikes and other expens- opened last summer a $24.5 million, suite-style housing and 30 percent of their stu- es are putting college out of reach for a growing number of Americans. But even as costs go up, demand for updat- ed residence halls and other amenities is motivating schools to keep spending. At Wichita State, a new $65 million residence hall and dining facility at the center of campus has a waiting list while openings are plentiful at the university’s older, low- er-priced halls. It’ll cost between $10,000 and $12,000 a year (including meals) to live in the new facility, com- pared to $6,800 a year for older residence halls. Honors student Derick Holmes, 18, has enough scholarship mon- ey to afford campus housing, even though his family’s home is just 10 minutes from campus. He’ll be living in the new, tech-outfitted building, which will house his honors program and a new cafe. “They have based it around the lives of college students today rather than 60 years ago,” Holmes said. The spurt of construction began about a decade ago and has continued to grow as colleges and universities compete for students - and their money - by offering the Want your own Scud missile?

SAN FRANCISCO: Ever dreamed of owning a Scud missile? Save your pennies, because one of the last privately owned Scuds in the United States will be auctioned to the public next month. The Scud-A (with inoperable missile) is among more than 100 military vehicles including armored person- nel carriers, Howitzers, and Panzer and Sherman tanks to be sold by Auctions America July 11 to 12 in Portola Valley, south of San Francisco. They are among 240 military vehicles and other equip- ment dating back as far as World War One that are believed to comprise the world’s largest private military collection, amassed by the late California engineer and history buff Jacques M Littlefield. They now belong to the Collings Foundation, which will use auction proceeds to fund a mili- tary museum in Massachusetts that will include 70 of Littlefield’s vehicles, including a Scud-B. “There’s something for everyone,” said foundation exec- utive director Rob Collings, who expects sales prices to range from $2,000 to as much as $2.6 million for a Panzerkampfwagen IV, a World War Two German tank that was later used by Syria in the 1967 Middle East War and captured by Israel. The Scud-A, a class of ballistic missile of Soviet provenance developed in the 1950s, will likely sell for close to $300,000, he said, without giving any details on how the missile was acquired or from whom. Collings and the auction company have received inquiries from friendly foreign governments seeking equip- ment for training purposes as well as from an unnamed king, unnamed billionaires and collectors. Some “grandpar- ents think it might be fun to have a tank for the grandkids to climb on,” Collings said. “They’re a neat piece of history.” Most vehicles still run, but have been modified so they cannot be used as weapons. A dozen, however - including three Howitzers - are considered “Destructive Devices” by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, meaning they could be used or easily converted as weapons. Purchasers must either eliminate destructive capabilities or register with the ATF, and comply with all other federal and state regulations, depending on where the vehicles end up. One other caveat from the auction cat- alogue: All lots are for off-highway use.— Reuters US to open family detention centers

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is actively look- ing for additional space to house families caught crossing the border with Mexico illegally, primarily for mothers with young children, officials said. Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the statement Friday amid a surge of migrants seeking to enter the United States from Central America. Mayorkas did not say how many people the new family detention centers would house or where they will be located. The government cur- rently operates only one such facility, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, with space for fewer than 100 people. Mayorkas said about 39,000 adults with children have been apprehended at the border since the start of the budget year in October. The administration has released an unspecified number of them into the US in recent months with instructions to report later to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices. Mayorkas, the No. 2 official at the agency and former head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, told reporters he didn’t know how many people have been released or subsequently appeared as ordered. Mayorkas said the administration will also send more immigration judges, ICE attorneys and other immigration officials to the region to help process migrants caught crossing the border illegally and, when possible, quickly return them to their home countries. Immigrants crossing the border illegally have overwhelmed US immigration agencies. More than 174,000 people, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been arrested in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley this year. The spike in border crossers - southern Texas is now the busiest border crossing in the country - prompted the Homeland Security Department earlier this year to start sending families to other parts of Texas and Arizona for processing before releasing them at local bus stops. Family detention has long been a contentious issue for Homeland Security. In 2009 the department was forced to shutter a large family detention center in Texas after legal challenges about the conditions of the facility.—AP p10 2_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:10 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL In Ukraine’s East, a daily struggle to survive Many civilians flee, others trapped by fighting SLAVIANSK: Clutching empty plastic bot- moved to Slaviansk, a city of 130,000, to “Kiev has shown it doesn’t care about tles, hundreds of people stand waiting for escape a war in Russia’s Chechnya region. anyone here. Every day more and more water in this besieged city, with the almost “Life was good here. Now I have to flee and people are signing up and we’ll stand to constant thud of artillery shells echoing in I have no clue where to go,” he said, squat- the end,” a rebel, who gave only his “nom the distance. More than two months after ting on the side of the road with his infant de guerre” of Snake, said as he guarded a pro-Russian separatists rose up in east granddaughter in his arms as they waited bank in east Ukraine’s main city, Donetsk. Ukraine, electricity and water have been for a bus to take them away to safety. “We know the Ukrainians are coming and cut off in this depressed industrial city, “Initially we’ll resettle in Stavropol in south- we’re polishing our weapons in readiness.” food is running low and half the popula- ern Russia, but where we’ll go from there I Estimates differ widely on the number of tion has fled. Many of those who remain don’t know ... all our lives are now in three people displaced. The United Nations put are getting desperate and local officials, duffel bags,” he said, pointing to a small it at 17,000 but Russia’s Itar-Tass news echoed by Russia, warn that a humanitari- pile of cheap luggage around him. agency quoted a Russian official as saying an disaster is looming in east Ukraine as on Thursday the number of Ukrainians liv- fighting intensifies between the rebels and Fighting takes its toll ing just across the border in Russia had government forces trying to prise them The uprising by the separatists, who swelled by 70,000 to 400,000 in just four out. “I never thought it would come to this,” oppose central rule by Kiev and seek union days. Among those that remain, roughly a said Lidia, a woman of 58, standing in line with Russia, began in April, the month after quarter of the Donetsk region’s 4.5 million near outside a water treatment plant in Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of population are suffering shortages of some Slaviansk, a strategic stronghold held by Crimea from Ukraine. The pro-Western or all basic supplies, an official of the self- the rebels. “I have a daughter, a grand- authorities in Kiev accuse Russia of orches- proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic daughter, a mother who is 92 and cannot trating the uprising in the east after the (DPR) said. “The biggest issue that we are move and I have to come here and fetch at ouster of a president sympathetic to unable to resolve on our own is the lack of SLOVYANOGIRSK: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) speaks to local least 40 litres of water every day. And that’s Moscow in February. The Kremlin denies it supplies - medical ones in particular,” residents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyanogirsk, near Donetsk. —AFP if we don’t bathe. Only for drinking and is behind the revolt. New Ukrainian Roman Lyagin, the DPR’s labor and welfare “We haven’t received our pensions since But with fuel running short and washing clothes for the kid and linen for President Petro Poroshenko has been minister, said in his office in the sand- April and we need to eat and pay bills and Ukrainian and rebel roadblocks controlling my mother,” she said. Talk in the queue is of working on a peace plan but has also bagged administration building in buy medicine. We have nothing to eat access to Slaviansk, travelling is difficult for politics and war, with some debating when intensified a military campaign to prise out Donetsk. In a nearby building, volunteers now ... We called the bank in Kiev to ask the city’s remaining 60,000 residents. The their nightmare will end. The queuing has the rebels since he was elected on May 25. sort through piles of clothes, diapers and how we can get our pension and they told lack of fuel poses a problem for Slaviansk’s become a daily chore since water ran out The rebels show no sign of surrendering linen brought to a makeshift aid centre by us that on their map Slaviansk does not ambulance service, which operates three more than two weeks ago. The lack of elec- but the fighting has taken its toll on them local rebel supporters. The base also doles exist,” said a pensioner who gave his name teams instead of the usual eight. “We’re tricity has even caused Slaviansk’s morgues and on civilians, further alienating east out cash and medicine to those in need, only as Vladimir. Ukraine stopped elec- working flat-out, sometimes 48 hours to close as they cannot keep bodies cold. Ukrainians and deepening the nation’s though it is running low on both. tronic payments such as pensions to straight regardless of the shelling - you can Local authorities say undertakers are dig- divide. The United Nations said this week banks in Slaviansk and neighboring never tell when it will start and stop,” para- ging graves under fire. Many people have 257 civilians had been killed since mid- Money running out Kramatorsk because of fears the rebels medic Zhenya said. As if to underline his had enough and decided to leave. April. The true toll is likely to be higher as Some living in the region are unaffect- would steal the money, but officials say point, a mortar bomb exploded a few hun- Pensioner Viktor Parhobin is among them, many places have not been accessible to ed, but those living in areas where fighting residents can still collect state funds at dred meters away, sending a plume of facing upheaval again 20 years after he international monitors. has raged are struggling more and more. banks in other towns. smoke into the air.—Reuters Albanian village gains peace, loses livelihood

LAZARAT: Albanian police declared victory bullets, explosives and 10 grenades. on Friday over drug producers who for Fourteen people were arrested and 130 more than 15 years had run the southern houses searched. The breakthrough came village of Lazarat as a personal fief, churn- on Thursday when an elite police unit, ing out marijuana on an industrial scale flown over the nearby Mt. Sopot by French- untouched by the NATO member state. made Puma army helicopter, made a two- Police in armored vehicles and vans moved hour trek to disperse a group of gunmen freely through Lazarat, manning check- operating an anti-aircraft gun that had points and collecting weapons after a five- slowed the police advance. Crime remains day advance through the village met at a major concern for Albania as it seeks to times by heavy machinegun fire and anti- join the European mainstream. Lazarat was tank grenades. a hangover of the chaos that racked Residents woke to a village rid of the Albania through the 1990s during a break- cannabis that is for many of them their pri- neck transition from the Stalinist rule of mary source of income. Police combed gar- Enver Hoxha. dens and, on some streets, ostentatious Village chief Dasho Aliko blamed the three-storey houses of beautiful hewn violence that met the police on fugitives stone. Sacks of confiscated weed burned, and outsiders. “My villagers complain about spirals of smoke visible across a village unfair arrests, damage to houses,” he told which for years had blighted Albania’s Reuters. “But the most important thing is efforts to shed the image of a Balkan ‘wild that there were no casualties thanks to the west’ since it threw off communism in professionalism of the police and the vil- 1991. “The unbreakable, criminal Lazarat is lagers.” Some villagers, however, were visi- no more,” Albania’s deputy police chief, bly unnerved by the police presence. Sokol Bizhga, told Reuters. He recalled a “When will they leave?” one asked a football match organized earlier this year reporter. Several admitted the cannabis DONETSK: A pro-Russian fighter holds roses after taking the oath of allegiance to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, on Lenin between the police and some Lazarat vil- trade had gone on for too long, but were square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine yesterday. — AP lagers as part of a confidence-building concerned at what would replace it as their campaign. main livelihood in spite of government “We were ridiculed in the media for los- efforts to promote clothing and shoe pro- ing the soccer match against them,” he said. duction. Albania is one of the poorest Ukraine rebel attacks put “Here we are - we won the last match.” The countries in Europe and has an official police crackdown, ordered by a Socialist unemployment rate of 18 percent. “How government that took power in September will the people make a living?” asked Aliko, ceasefire under pressure last year, appeared well-timed to win the village chief. “You tell me. This is the favour with the European Union, which will question everyone in Lazarat is asking him- decide at the end of June whether to make self.” The drugs trade had turned Lazarat Albania an official candidate for member- from a poor community of small, slate-roof Peace plan offers ‘corridors’ ship of the bloc, after years of hesitation. homes to a village that sprawls over a lush Cannabis seized in Greece, Italy and green valley, dotted with shiny new villas KIEV: Pro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian ministry said separately. No Ukrainian personnel so-called anti-terrorist operation is increasing,” Germany has been traced to Lazarat, the and prowling luxury cars. Police said most of posts on the border with Russia and a military base, were hurt and rebel losses were being established, Interfax quoted him as saying during a visit to source of around half of all cannabis pro- the ringleaders had escaped under cover of and tried to storm an airforce base overnight into it added. The rebels, who have seized strategic Saudi Arabia. Ukraine, for its part, expressed con- duced in Albania. night. On Friday, police officers were treated yesteray, government forces said, putting a points in major towns including Donetsk and set cern yesterday about an increase in Russian move- to coffee by some villagers. One elderly Ukrainian unilateral ceasefire under pressure. The up “people’s republics”, saying they want to join ments near the border. “The continuing concentra- Livelihood man, visibly amused by the scene, said wry- fresh action came just hours after the start of a Russia, said Ukraine has broken its own ceasefire. tion of Russian armed forces and their heightened Over five days, police destroyed more ly: “We’re all Albanians, brothers. The state ceasefire at 10 pm on Friday by Ukrainian forces, “I’ve spoken to our commander-in-chief, Igor activity near the border with Ukraine causes special than 80,000 marijuana plants and saplings was always going to show up one day, and it ordered by President Petro Poroshenko as part of Strelkov. He said that fighting resumed in the concern against a background of numerous facts and over 23 metric tonnes of cannabis. did. It went on long enough, but everything his plan to end the rebel insurgency in the east of morning. There is no ceasefire at all,” Pavel Gubarev, that confirm weapons and military equipment are They seized 11 heavy weapons, over 7,000 must come to an end.”— Reuters the country. A government forces spokesman said a prominent rebel leader, told Rossiya-24 TV chan- being supplied to the terrorists,” Ukraine’s Foreign the separatists used mortars and sniper fire to nel. Either Ukrainian troops were not obeying Ministry said in a statement. attack Ukrainian posts at Izvareno and Uspenka on Poroshenko, or “he is lying”, Gubarev said. the border, wounding nine Ukrainian officers. In Poroshenko, installed on June 7 as president after Rebels defiant other incidents, rebels with big calibre machine seven months of turmoil in the ex-Soviet republic, In Donetsk about 100 troops of the self-styled guns and grenade-launchers attacked a Ukrainian ordered government forces to cease firing to allow separatist Donetsk People’s Republic took an oath military position at Avdiyivka, near the main his 15-point peace plan to take root. The ceasefire of an allegiance, in an apparent sign of defiance to regional town of Donetsk, as well as a Ukrainian ends at 10 pm on June 27. The insurgency in the Porosheko’s peace plan. In a ceremony on the post at Kreminna. Russian-speaking east erupted in April after street town’s Lenin Square, armed fighters, some wearing Separatists controlling the town of Slaviansk protests in the capital Kiev toppled the Moscow- face masks, pledged they would “defend the also attacked Ukrainian forces on Karachun hill backed Viktor Yanukovich. Russia subsequently Donetsk People’s Republic to the last drop of overlooking the town with mortars and grenade- annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. blood.” “We swear, we swear, we swear,” they chant- launchers, the spokesman, Vladyslav Seleznyov, Poroshenko is gearing up for a diplomatic push ed in unison. Alexei, a miner, said he decided to said. “In all these episodes, the attacks of the (rebel) to sell his plan but his biggest challenge will be to take up arms last week: “I am 43. I have children. I fighters were deflected,” Seleznyov said. “There win over Russian President Vladimir Putin. had a job but I dropped everything to defend the were no losses to Ukrainian servicemen. The num- Relations with Moscow are at rock bottom and Kiev homeland.” ber of dead fighters is being established”. accuses Moscow of fomenting the unrest. A number of women, many in tears, rushed to Poroshenko, announcing the week-long ceasefire Poroshenko has offered an amnesty to separatists hug troops and give them flowers. “A great day, a on Friday night, urged the rebels to lay down their who disarm voluntarily as well as corridors to allow great day, we love our army. They will protect us arms and warned them that Ukrainian forces would fighters from Russia or pro-Russian Ukrainian sepa- from fascists,” said Nastya, 32, holding hands with return fire if attacked. ratists to leave safely for Russia. The Kremlin on one masked soldier. Across the square, far from the Friday denounced the ceasefire as an ultimatum crowd, Mykola, a 23 year-old student from Donetsk Air base rather than a peace offering and Russian Foreign said he despised the rebels. “They are stupid and Ukrainian forces also repelled two attacks by Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed concern about short-sighted and brainwashed by Moscow propa- around 50 heavily-armed fighters in the early Ukrainian military action. ganda and common people will continue to suffer.” LAZARAT: An Albanian police officer stands guard during an anti-drug operation in morning on an air defence base at Avdiyivka, “It is disturbing and raises concerns that, simul- He refused to give his full name fearing reprisals for Lazarat village, 230 kilometers south of the capital Tirana. — AFP which houses surface-to-air missiles, the defense taneously with this (ceasefire) announcement...the his pro-Ukrainian position.— Reuters Polish government under fire over bugging scandal

WARSAW: Poland’s centre-right government has dom. The scandal “will fundamentally influence Rostowski’s “decommission” would be “essential” to wrestle a laptop out of the arms of Wprost’s Mijatovic said in a statement Thursday. found its future called into question after leaked Polish politics and the opposition will attempt to for the central bank to support government poli- editor-in-chief have sparked international ire. The famously unflappable Tusk has so far audio recordings suggested it cut a deal with the extract maximum benefit,” leading Warsaw ana- cy. Rostowski was fired in November after six “It’s the first time since 1989 (end of commu- resisted calls for him to quit by PiS leader central bank to boost the budget and garner lyst Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski said. The crisis erupt- years on the job but the bank denied any deal nism) that this has happened and all journal- Jaroslaw Kaczynski. According to Warsaw politi- political support. The fallout led Prime Minister ed Sunday with the release of the secret record- was struck, saying Belka’s comments were taken ists are against you Prime Minister,” top Polish cal analyst Eryk Mistewicz, the leaks are a “vel- Donald Tusk to raise the spectre of snap elec- ings, which were allegedly taken in a Warsaw out of context. Analysts have dubbed the ensu- journalist Monika Olejnik said at a press con- vety coup d’etat. Political blackmail aimed at tions as polls show plummeting support for his restaurant in July 2013. ing political fallout as the country’s worst since ference. The Vienna-based OSCE rights watch- ousting the prime minister”. Opinion polls this party Civic Platform (PO) and increased backing They purportedly feature central bank chief the two-term Tusk took office seven years ago. dog slammed the raid, saying it was “conduct- week showed the PO down to 25 percent public for the opposition Law and Justice (PiS. Marek Belka telling Interior Minister Bartlomiej The next regularly scheduled elections are due ed without a previous court decision”. “These support, with PiS climbing to 32 percent. Rising Footage of government agents manhandling Sienkiewicz he would support the government’s next year. kinds of investigation methods are unaccept- voter dissatisfaction with Tusk became clear last journalists from the Wprost weekly magazine economic policy if then finance minister Jacek able as they have a chilling effect on inves- month when PO won the European Union parlia- that leaked the secret audio recordings has also Rostowski resigned. Tusk has denied sending his Press freedom tigative journalism and could stifle media ment elections by less than a percentage point raised alarm at home and abroad over press free- minister to meet Belka, who in the recording says Images of government agents attempting freedom,” OSCE media representative Dunja ahead of PiS.—AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

KABUL: Supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah shout slogans during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. — AP Afghan vote crisis deepens Abdullah supporters march through Kabul KABUL: Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah calls for the United Nations to mediate an end to the deadlock Abdullah marched through Kabul yesterday as fears grow of between Abdullah and the election authorities. “The disputes unrest erupting over alleged fraud in the election one week ago. and doubts arising during the election process are a natural Abdullah has boycotted the vote count, pitching Afghanistan thing,” Karzai added. “It is fine and calm in the country.” Reports into a political crisis as NATO combat troops withdraw from a 13- of the ongoing vote count suggest that Ghani is ahead in a sur- year war against Taleban insurgents. The former foreign minister prise comeback after finishing behind Abdullah in the first- accused his poll rival Ashraf Ghani, outgoing President Hamid round election on April 5. Abdullah has alleged that in several Karzai and election authorities of all committing fraud to deny provinces there were more votes than eligible voters, and said him victory. The protests began peacefully as hundreds of he now considers the Independent Election Commission “illegiti- activists shouted slogans and carried banners that read mate”. “Fraudsters should be put on trial” and “We will defend our vote The UN mission this week warned that if candidates abandon to the last drop of our blood”. “The election authorities are not the election process and appeal directly to supporters, it “could impartial,” Asar Hakimi, one protest organizer said. incite violence”. A smooth election was seen as a key benchmark for the US-led coalition that has fought against the Taleban and Calls for calm donated billions of dollars in aid since 2001. But NATO military “All the achievements of the past 12 years are at stake. We operations are winding down fast, and the dispute could wreck will continue protesting if the government and the election claims that a functioning state has been set up in place of the commission continue their hostility.” He said the “anti-fraud” ral- Taleban regime which was ousted in 2001 for sheltering Osama lies were not organized by Abdullah’s campaign, but the crowds bin Laden. appeared to be made up of Abdullah supporters. Many Kabul The election turmoil also risks spilling into ethnic unrest-a roads were blocked off due to the demonstrations, and security grim prospect for Afghanistan, where tribal loyalties are still fierce forces were out. An early morning suicide attack in the city tar- after the 1992-1996 civil war. Abdullah’s support is based among geted Masoom Stanekzai, a senior official at the government the Tajik minority and other northern tribes, while Ghani is a body responsible for exploring peace talks with the Taleban. Pashtun-Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group, which is strongest in Police said Stanekzai escaped the blast uninjured, but that one the Taleban heartlands of the south and east. Abdullah has called civilian was killed and three wounded. for his supporters to remain peaceful. “We expect our supporters In a move that could lessen tension, Karzai on Friday backed to observe Afghan laws,” he said on Thursday. — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 INTERNATIONAL The historians’ view: Causes of World War I

PARIS: What led Europe at the height of its power 1912 and 1913, coupled with a flare-up of national- power had understood the nature of the war to Germany to enter it as quickly as possible. The oth- to plunge into such a self-destructive conflict? Two ist sentiment in both Germany and France. In Berlin, come, they would certainly not have embarked on er powers concluded from this that Germany-deaf historians, Gerd Krumeich of Duesseldorf University military leaders believed a war was coming and it so casually. Instead, they considered war a ration- to any attempts at making peace-wanted to go to and John Horne of Trinity College, Dublin, offer thought they could win only if it came soon-before al option, a risk certainly, but not one that would war. Russia, reassured by the support France had their explanations. What were the root causes of Russia was able to finish reinforcing its army. That transform the very nature of the world in which offered during the crisis, took the risk of a robust World War I? explains the key role played by Germany in trigger- they lived.” What triggered the outbreak of war? response in the hope of intimidating Vienna: for the ing the conflict.” first time it decided to introduce conscription while Gerd Krumeich Gerd Krumeich continuing to negotiate. But this conscription in “Without a doubt, the roots of the conflict lie John Horne “It seems clear to me it was the Germans who fact set in train the German war plan-the Schlieffen with the rivalries born of European nations’ imperial “For decades before 1914, an ideological rivalry pressed the ‘war’ button by refusing, throughout Plan-which meant that Germany, if threatened by ambitions. At the turn of the century, all believed set the dynastic and multi-ethnic empires of the crisis sparked by the assassination of Archduke Russia, would quickly attack and conquer France so that having an empire was vital for their develop- Eastern Europe against the principle of nationality, Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, to engage in any it could then turn all its forces on Russia, avoiding ment, even their survival in a world faced with rap- incarnated by the nation-states of Western Europe negotiation that would have allowed Serbia to the nightmare of a war on two fronts.” id industrialization and international competition. and founded on the principle of popular sovereign- withstand the aggression from Austria-Hungary. Germany-at that point Europe’s leading industrial ty. In the Balkans, emergent nationalism, especially The Austrian government decided to use the assas- John Horne power-was keen to acquire a colonial empire to that of Serbia, threatened Austria-Hungary in par- sination to subdue Serbia, which had become, “All those who accepted a Europe divided into match its economic dynamism. But it set about ticular. At the same time, the balance of power in since the Balkan wars, a worrying neighbor with two armed camps and the idea that war was an doing so in an aggressive way that was to upset the Europe was profoundly modified by the unification ‘pan-Serbian’ policies which threatened to pull acceptable tool of politics-if not a Darwinian neces- balance of powers on the continent. To Britain’s of Germany in 1871. apart the multinational Austro-Hungarian empire. sity-had their share of responsibility for the out- alarm, Berlin embarked upon an naval arms race, it This turned Germany into a great power while Germany, an ally of Vienna, saw the crisis as an break of war. But the role of the Austrians and squabbled with France over African territories, and French strength gradually declined. Colonial and excellent opportunity to test Russia’s intentions: if above all the Germans - without whose approval helped the Ottoman Empire Russia’s great rival-to economic rivalries exacerbated these tensions, but Russia came to the aid of Serbia against Austria- Austrian action was unthinkable - was fundamen- modernize its army. were not their main cause. The balance of power Hungary, it would be war-a war that Berlin thought tal. The question of who was ‘responsible’ for the These initiatives were countered by Germany’s gradually came to depend on the equilibrium it could win. If, on the other hand, the Russians war must nonetheless be seen in the context of the rivals, leaving it with a sense of frustrated ambition. between two armed alliances and on concerted allowed the Austro-Hungarian forces to wipe out conflicts and understanding of the European bal- Berlin felt encircled by the British, French and action by the great powers on both sides to pre- Serbia, Russia would emerge weaker from the crisis. ance of power at the time. It only became a funda- Russians-who themselves felt threatened by vent regional crises inflaming the entire continent. The German government’s calculations were mental issue after the conflict in view of the gulf Germany’s ambitions and closed ranks against it. This mechanism worked to limit the two Balkan driven by the military, who believed a European between the causes of the war and its outcome, That state of affairs fuelled an arms race during Wars in 1912-13. But in July 1914 it failed. If those in war was inevitable and that it would be better for which destroyed the pre-war world.” — AFP Asylum-seekers offered $10,000 to return home SYDNEY: Australia is offering asylum- Morrison was in opposition, he opposed seekers in its Pacific immigration camps Labor’s own reintegration packages and up to $10,000 (US$9,400) if they voluntar- now he is offering sums which are triple ily return to their home country, a report the amount,” Marles told the ABC. said yesterday, prompting outrage from Australia has toughened its policy on refugee campaigners. Fairfax Media asylum-seekers in recent years, with reported that those returning to Lebanon those arriving on unauthorized boats from detention centres on Papua New now refused residency in Australia even if Guinea’s Manus Island and the tiny Pacific they are deemed refugees. Instead they state of Nauru were offered the highest are held in detention camps on Manus amount of $10,000. Iranians and and Nauru and are expected to be reset- Sudanese were given $7,000 if they tled in those countries if their claims are dropped bids for refugee status, Afghans valid. Since the policy was introduced, $4,000 and those from Pakistan, Nepal more asylum-seekers have chosen to vol- and Myanmar $3,300, the report in The untarily return to their country of origin Sydney Morning Herald said. The Herald while the number of people attempting said under the previous Labor adminis- to reach Australia by boat has dried up, tration-in office until last September-the with no boats arriving for six months. payments were much lower, ranging Morrison’s spokesman said 283 people from $1,500 to $2,000. had voluntarily returned home from off- Immigration Minister Scott Morrison shore processing centers since shortly has not confirmed the figures, but a after the conservative government of spokesman said the “return packages” Prime Minister Tony Abbott won power in were “tailored to the circumstances of September. Refugee campaigners criti- each case”. “The process of voluntary cized the idea of the payments, and said return is conducted in direct partnership returning asylum-seekers could still face with the International Organization for persecution back home. “The idea that SANHE: Pakistani asylum seekers Mahdi Mangla (left), refugee Ahsan Ahmad (center) and Hameed Ahmad pray in an apartment in Sanhe, in Migration. It has been standard policy you would put people in a hell hole like China’s Hebei province, east of Beijing. — AFP and practice for more than 10 years.” Manus Island, treat them abysmally and Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard then try to bribe them to go back to the Marles said the government should be appalling circumstances they left shows Persecuted Pakistan’s Muslim ensuring that asylum-seekers’ claims just how morally bankrupt this govern- were being properly processed, not issu- ment is,” Greens party leader Christine ing “blank cheques”. “When Scott Milne said. — AFP minority seek refuge in China Ahmadi Muslims - most persecuted minorities SANHE: Fleeing discrimination and violence, cution of minorities every day,” he told AFP in a Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Its Beijing members of a Muslim sect have abandoned their rented apartment in Sanhe, a city outside Beijing office has only eight permanent staff to cover the homes in Pakistan to find an unlikely refuge in where clumps of high-rise apartment blocks over- world’s most populous country. “Sometimes I China. “Every day I heard the sound of guns,” said a shadow restaurants offering donkey meat burg- wonder how these individuals survive... the assis- 37-year-old surnamed Saeed of his former home ers. Two of his cousins were killed in the 2010 tance we provide is barely enough,” said Francis Lahore, Pakistan’s second city. “We prayed every attack, he added. Teoh, senior UNHCR protection officer. China day, because we felt something could happen to adopted a revised entry-exit law in 2012 which us at any time.” He is one of hundreds of people ‘Pakistan was dangerous’ entitles refugees to documentation, but refugees who have sought asylum in China in recent years, The Ahmadi refugees in Sanhe said they paid and UNHCR said it has yet to be enforced. “In often from conflict-stricken countries including middle-men up to $3,000 each for Chinese visas- China we have no such thing as political asylum,” Iraq and Somalia. more than twice the average yearly income in foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said The government tolerates their presence but Pakistan. Once in China, Saeed said, “You have to Thursday.The ministry said in a statement to AFP provides almost no support, while human rights do everything for yourself.” He lives off overseas that China has accepted nearly 300,000 Southeast groups have for years condemned Beijing for family donations and added: “I don’t expect any- Asian refugees since 1978, and returns entrants deporting tens of thousands of asylum seekers thing from the Chinese.” New arrivals receive no from Myanmar only when it is safe to do so. who enter it to escape oppression in North Korea benefits unless the UN grants them refugee status Rights groups have previously accused China and Myanmar. Around 35 of the almost 500 UN- after a gruelling 18-month series of tests and even of taking a harsh stance towards North Korean registered asylum seekers and refugees currently then China refuses to integrate them, denying asylum seekers in order to maintain good relations in China are Ahmadi Muslims-a sect which them the right to work while they wait for accept- with Pyongyang. Pakistan has long been an ally of believes their 19th century founder Ghulam ance from a third country, often for years. China, which has fought a border war of its own Ahmad to be a prophet, and that Jesus Christ died “In this kind of a situation, you can’t enjoy life with Islamabad’s arch-rival India. “Refugee issues aged 120 in Srinagar, in Indian-ruled Kashmir. much,” said Saeed. But teenager Laiba Ahmad, in China are tangled with some of the most politi- They are among the most persecuted minori- who arrived around two years ago with her moth- cally and strategically sensitive issues in the Asia- ties in Pakistan-a constitutional Islamic republic er and several siblings, had no doubts, even Pacific region,” said Lili Song, visiting researcher at which bans them from calling themselves Muslims though she does not have enough Chinese to Northwestern University’s Center for Forced BANNU: A young internally displaced Pakistani girl from the North Waziristan tribal or going on the Hajj pilgrimage to Makkah. In 2010 attend school. “I am happy here compared with Migration Studies. region gives oral rehydration solution (ORS) to a baby at the Women and Children militants stormed two Ahmadi prayer halls, killing Pakistan,” she said. “Pakistan was dangerous. We “There may also be concerns about attracting Hospital in Bannu yesterday. Pakistani helicopter gunships pounded militant targets 82 worshippers in gun and grenade attacks, before could not go outside without our brothers and more asylum seekers,” she added. Saeed left earli- in the country’s northwest, killing up to 30 rebels as the number of civilians fleeing targeting a hospital where victims were being fathers, if you are a woman especially.” er this week with his wife and two-year-old an expected ground offensive passed 200,000. — AFP treated. Ahmadi mosques and graveyards are reg- On a recent afternoon around 10 refugees daughter for a leafy suburb in the US, ahead of ularly desecrated. Even high-achieving Ahmadis gathered in Saeed’s flat for an English lesson. World Refugee Day on Friday. But others wait on. Pakistan gunships pound have been shunned, including physics professor Practising the present tense, they called out Yasir Chaudry, 24, a former air-conditioning engi- Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate. descriptions of their jobless lives. “We play football neer who left his wife in Pakistan, shares a crum- China is regularly condemned by the US State daily,” offered Ahsan Ahmad, 22, who fled Pakistan bling apartment with two other refugees who rise militant hideouts; 30 die Department for its restrictions on religious free- after mullahs attacked two of his uncles. “We offer in the late afternoon and fill their days surfing the BANNU: Pakistani helicopter gunships and Kohat and across the border into dom, which analysts say are key elements of the prayer daily,” said another student. Internet, watching DVDs, or throwing around a pounded militant targets in the country’s Afghanistan. The number fleeing is expect- tensions it faces in Buddhist-majority Tibet and frisbee held together with black masking tape. “All northwest yesterday, killing up to 30 rebels, ed to increase as more than 200,000 people mainly Muslim Xinjiang. But Saeed, who arrived Sensitive issues I have time to do is think, so I think about bad as the number of civilians fleeing an expect- are trapped in North Waziristan due to a four years ago, said: “From a security point of view, China signed up to the UN’s refugee protocol in things, like how my family is not together,” he said. ed ground offensive passed 200,000. The shoot-on-sight curfew which was extended China is good.” “There is almost no terrorism com- 1982, but does not have any mechanism to assess “I didn’t want to leave my country. These problems military said 30 insurgents were killed in tar- for one day after it expired on Friday. “More pared to Pakistan, where there is killing and perse- their claims, leaving it to the UN High all come into my mind.” — AFP geted air strikes yesterday in Khyber and than 200,000 people are still stranded in the North Waziristan Agencies, semi- tribal areas due to the shoot-on-sight cur- autonomous tribal regions on the Afghan few,” Arshad Khan, director general of the border which are an important base for the FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) 13 attackers killed in Xinjiang assault Pakistani Taleban. Disaster Management Authority said. “According to details at 0200 hours jet He said trucks loaded with food and BEIJING: Chinese police shot dead 13 people in or more explosive devices. The state news agency ing 40 before the car burst into flames and they aircrafts destroyed two hideouts close to water were being dispatched to the border Xinjiang after they drove into a police building and Xinhua described the vehicle as a truck and said the themselves died. Pak-Afghan border in Khyber killing 10 ter- of North Waziristan to help people fleeing set off an explosion yesterday, regional authorities attack happened in the morning, adding that authori- rorists,” it said in a statement. “At 0500 hours the expected ground offensive. “Thousands said, in the latest attack to hit the restive region. The ties were investigating and “local social order is nor- Targeting ordinary citizens three hideouts were destroyed in Hassu of people are still on their way and we are vast area in China’s far west, home to the mainly mal”. China’s most powerful body, the Politburo In another major incident in March, dubbed Khel in North Waziristan Agency killing 20 doing our best to facilitate them,” he said. Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has faced a series of Standing Committee, said in May that “cracking down China’s “9/11” by state media, attackers went on a stab- terrorists,” it added. Nearly 280 insurgents An AFP correspondent in Bannu saw hun- violent attacks in recent years. Beijing has vowed a on violent terrorist activities must be the focal point bing spree at a railway station in the southwestern city have been killed since the start of the oper- dreds of people walking on foot to the year-long crackdown on terrorism in recent weeks fol- of the current struggle”, Xinhua reported at the time. of Kunming that left 29 people dead and 143 wound- ation on Sunday, according to security offi- town. The government-run children hospi- lowing several high-profile attacks blamed on Authorities have announced hundreds of deten- ed. On April 30, the final day of a visit by Chinese cials, though it is not possible to confirm tal in Bannu is overcrowded with children Xinjiang militants, which since late last year struck tions or criminal punishments, including the sentenc- President Xi Jinping to Xinjiang, attackers armed with the number or identity of those killed. The suffering from diarrhoea. Due to lack of outside the region and targeted ordinary citizens ing of 55 people in late May for offences such as ter- knives and explosives killed one person and wounded military offensive began after a bloody and space at the hospital four to five children rather than government or security personnel. “Today rorism at a ceremony in a stadium attended by 7,000 79 at a railway station in the capital Urumqi. dramatic attack on Karachi airport last week were being accommodated in one bed. thugs crashed a car into the public security building people. This week China executed 13 people for “ter- The next month assailants in Urumqi threw explo- brought an end to months of largely fruit- Around half a dozen children lying outside of Kargilik county in Xinjiang’s Kashgar prefecture and rorist attacks” in Xinjiang and ordered the death sives and ploughed into a crowd at a market, leaving less government efforts to negotiate a the hospital were being treated with the set off an explosion. Police took decisive action and penalty for three others for a car crash last October in 39 people killed, along with four attackers, and more peace deal with the Tehreek-e-Taleban drip bags hanging from tree branches. shot dead 13 thugs,” the official Xinjiang government Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the symbolic heart of the than 90 wounded. Overseas rights groups blame the Pakistan. Registration points and camps have been website Tianshan reported. Chinese state. In that incident, the first major event unrest in part on cultural repression and harsh securi- The fighting has triggered a huge exo- set up to deal with the influx of people in Three police suffered injuries but there were no blamed on Xinjiang residents to take place outside ty measures against Uighurs while Xinjiang’s econom- dus of civilians from North Waziristan, both Bannu, but many prefer to travel on to stay other casualties, the report said, without providing the region, three family members drove onto the ic growth mostly benefits an influx of China’s ethnic into the Pakistani cities of Bannu, Peshawar with relatives in other areas. — AFP further details. It was unclear if the attackers used one popular tourist area, killing two people and wound- majority Han. — AFP

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By Dr James J Zogby

response to the presumed kidnapping of three Inyoung Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck back with a vengeance. While directly blaming Hamas for the act, he also declared the Palestinian Authority ultimately responsible. Netanyahu quickly launched “Operation Brother’s Keeper”- an anti- septic name for a full scale assault on the entire Palestinian population in the occupied territories. Obama plan leaves Iraq mostly on its own Hundreds of Hamas leaders have been arrested and now are being held without charge. Entire communities have By Lara Jakes Baghdad. The first US special forces soldiers and prime minister’s office in the heavily above all else. Iraqi officials say there is no been closed off, victims of illegal collective punishment. are to land in Baghdad soon, and a Navy fortified compound known as the Green indication that Maliki will step down, and Checkpoints have intensified. Within some cities, door to or years, the US has been clear about aircraft carrier and warships arrived in the Zone. the stalwart prime minister likely sees the door searches are underway. Homes have been Fits intent to step back from Iraq. The Arabian Gulf in the latest front of America’s The special forces will be deployed in new US military assistance as a slap in the destroyed and families dispossessed. Fear is widespread, restrained American military aid now military intervention in Iraq since 1990. teams of 12 to advise Iraqi military com- face that falls far short of airstrikes and oth- as is anger. being offered to defend Baghdad against a “It is in our national security interests mand centers and brigade-level headquar- er help that his government has been seek- By any measure, the kidnapping (and I am assuming ferocious Sunni insurgency reaffirms the not to see an all-out civil war inside of Iraq, ters in and immediately around the capital. ing urgently. that is what it was) was a wicked and stupid act. Wicked, Obama administration’s mantra that Iraq is not just for humanitarian reasons, but Much of their mission is to identify security Already, Maliki’s Shiite allies in neighbor- because attacking civilians, who happen to be in the still largely on its own. What hundreds of because that ultimately can be destabiliz- gaps and assess whether more US troops ing Iran have signaled they are willing to fill wrong place at the wrong time, is never acceptable. In no thousands of US troops, during more than ing throughout the region,” Obama told will be needed to help foster stability. They Iraq’s security void - a move that all but cer- way, can the action be justified as moral, responsible, or eight years of war, apparently could not reporters in announcing the restrained mil- are not expected to fight in any battles tainly would enforce crackdowns on Sunnis an act of resistance. achieve in training Iraqi forces to defend itary help. “But that does not foreshadow a directly. American aircraft, both manned and further push the country into civil war. Nothing can justify Israel’s flagrant violations of inter- the nation’s vast deserts and dusty towns is larger commitment of troops to actually and piloted remotely, will conduct surveil- Ken Pollack, a Mideast expert and former national law or their demonstrated contempt for human now being tasked to a few dozen teams of fight in Iraq,” Obama said. “That would not lance patrols over areas where the ISIL is CIA analyst now at the Brookings rights. But because the Israeli response was completely Green Berets and other special forces and be effective in meeting the core interests most active. Military officials described an Institution, said the new US military assis- predictable, the kidnapping must also be judged to have stepped-up surveillance. that we have.” around-the-clock surveillance effort to tance “is too small in number” to have been stupid and irresponsible. The perpetrators must be On Thursday, President Barack Obama Officials said the small size of the new locate the insurgency and, likely, advise much impact and raised concerns that the condemned for their callous disregard not only for the ordered 300 special forces soldiers to American military footprint in Iraq fits Iraqi troops on how to rout them. mostly Shiite Iraqi forces will not fully coop- lives of three youngsters they now hold, but for the suf- advise joint operations in and near Obama’s vision of what the US can accom- But with more than a half-million Iraqi erate with the American troops. fering they have brought to the Palestinian people. Baghdad, marking the first return of a US plish without sending in tens of thousands security troops in the country, there’s But Iraq is currently dependent on the There is another way in which Netanyahu is to blame fighting force since the military left Iraq in of conventional troops in a reprise of the almost no chance the small US teams will American-made weaponry and ammuni- for this horror. In a perverse way, he has established the 2011 after a war that killed nearly 4,500 war he campaigned to end. Given the rela- have any impact on more than just a tiny tion that it has gotten from the US over the logic which guides the behavior of the kidnappers. The American troops and more than 100,000 tive ease that the ISIL has defeated Iraqi fraction of them. And even the limited years - meaning Baghdad may, for now, Israelis have long made a practice of exchanging prison- Iraqis. The White House is not ruling out troops over the past two weeks and over- assistance will likely amount to nothing if have its hands tied if it tries to push ers. With thousands of Palestinians in their prisons, potential airstrikes against Sunni insur- run major cities in the nation’s north and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, a Shiite, Washington away. And though US officials including hundreds being held without charge, the gents as well, but no time soon, and is west, US officials said there was no expec- refuses to take dramatic steps to calm the are not planning to have the special forces Israelis often treat them as objects for barter. Not too deeply reluctant to do so. And Obama, who tation that the American aid will quell - or violence through political means - namely, teams call in airstrikes, they did not rule out long ago, Netanyahu presented Hamas with over one has little desire to return to the battle- even directly face - the Sunni insurgency. sharing more power with Sunnis who the possibility of calling in such attacks if thousand prisoners in exchange for a captive Israeli sol- ground of what he once termed as a “dumb Instead, Obama said protecting the increasingly are seeing the insurgency as a necessary. That will serve as a powerful dier. With Palestinian society closely following the weeks’ war,” is holding fast to his pledge that mostly Shiite capital in Baghdad was a top popular uprising against the government. incentive for Maliki to cooperate with long hunger strike of 100 administrative detainees (those American forces will not be sent into com- priority, and, initially at least, that’s where The Obama administration has demand- Washington’s demands without the US hav- held for prolonged periods without any charges or trial), bat. But faced with a costly and bloody US the US special forces will be based. They ed that Maliki quickly move to embrace ing to make any explicit promises. “At the one supposes that some might have assumed that the investment in Iraq - combined with a grow- will join about 275 US troops that were Sunni concerns, and some US officials have end of the day, the only leverage we have is way to end the torment of these captives was to create ing regional threat posed by the Islamic deployed this week to protect the suggested privately that the prime minister that Maliki may want greater American the conditions for another prisoner exchange. State of Iraq and the Levant - Obama could American Embassy in Baghdad, located a give up his post to send the strongest pos- support,” Pollack said. “How much does he While Netanyahu has declared with certainty that no longer ignore the distress signals from few blocks away from the Iraqi parliament sible sign that he seeks peace for Iraq want it?” — AP Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping, no evidence for this charge has been offered, and to a Hamas-hating Israeli public, no evidence appears to be needed. But guilty or not, Hamas has behaved badly before and after the kidnapping. Despite agreeing to a reconciliation pact Ukraine crisis forces US to bolster forces with the PA, they have continued to make irresponsible boastful statements maintaining their right to “armed By Peter Apps General Philip Breedlove, the head of the Russian equipment remains outdated. NATO states have more than 1,000. As with resistance”. (I am reminded of a quote from the late great US European Command, said the force had According to the London-based Russia, some of them are distinctly outdat- Tawfik Zayyad who once said “you may have the right, nly last year, the US European been told to prepare cuts of up to 20 per- International Institute for Strategic Studies, ed. In January, the US Army moved more but when you use it as badly as you have, you forfeit that OCommand was facing some of the cent, twice that of some other regions, Russia has some 845,000 military person- than 50 M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley right.”) deepest cuts of any region in the US although a congressional budget deal the nel, more than 2,500 main battle tanks and armored fighting vehicles into Germany Since the kidnapping, instead of behaving as respon- military. Now, after Russia’s annexation of following month watered down the cuts in thousands of armored personnel carriers specifically to be used by visiting troops sible partners in a unity government, Hamas got cagey. Crimea, the Pentagon finds itself focusing the military as a whole. and infantry fighting vehicles. Shortly for training. They would not condemn the act and instead, “a high on the continent in a way not seen in before annexing Crimea in March, Moscow In any emergency, the United States ranking Hamas official” told Al-Monitor, “Hamas truly decades. Earlier this month, US President Tanks and Troops mobilized about 150,000 personnel in its has long pledged several thousand per- does not know who stands behind the operation, Barack Obama said he would ask Congress For now, few military analysts or west- western military district. The United States sonnel to the NATO Response Force because there is a separation of duties between the mili- for an additional $1 billion to increase ern officials believe Russian President has some 67,000 military personnel in including a brigade combat team from tary and political branches of the movement. The politi- Washington’s military commitment to the Vladimir Putin intends to invade any NATO Europe, 10,000 of them part of the the Texas-based 1st Cavalry Division, a cians instruct the military to find a solution to the prison- continent. Last week, the US Air Force said state. Since 2008, Moscow has increased its Stuttgart-based Africa Command hospital ship, air-to-air refueling tankers er dossier, and the men on the ground have the freedom it had deployed two B-2 stealth bombers defense spending some 30 percent. (AFRICOM). After the annexation of Crimea, and escort ships. The United States sends to choose the time, place, and operational details.” to England, joining two B-52s sent earlier However, Russia’s estimated budget of $68 it sent 600 paratroopers from a brigade a smaller battalion-sized unit - roughly The kidnapping has been a godsend for Netanyahu. this month. The two aircraft are America’s billion annually is dwarfed by Washington’s based in Italy to Poland and the Baltic one-third the size of a brigade - twice a He was under increasing international pressure for his premier nuclear bombers. $600 billion and remains smaller than the States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. year for two months for exercises in continued illegal settlement expansion and his responsi- Washington has sent additional war- military spending of Britain, France and Washington has also said it will main- Europe. So far this year, such groups have bility for the collapse of the peace talks. His rejection of ships to the Black Sea and the Baltic, F-15, Germany combined. Still, the number of tain a presence of some 100 US Army been involved in drills in France and the Palestinian unity government was rebuffed by Europe F-16 jets and early warning AWACS aircraft forces Moscow can mobilize at speed often Special Forces in Eastern Europe. At the Germany - just the kind of deployment and the US. And he was on the ropes at home, after new to join ramped up NATO patrols near outstrips anything the United States or start of the year, the US Army had no tanks the United States believes is likely to revelations of his questionable spending habits and an Russian airspace and troops to train in NATO can field, although experts say much in the continent at all, although European become more common. —Reuters embarrassing defeat for his favored candidate in the Germany and Eastern Europe. With fight- recent Presidential contest. ing raging in eastern Ukraine between pro- With the kidnapping, Netanyahu has been reborn. Moscow forces and troops loyal to Kiev, Playing the victim card and confronting enemies is what he loves most and does best. The kidnappers have given Washington says Russia has put large num- the prime minister an undeserved second wind. No bers of troops on the border and may be longer “the obstacle to peace,” he has become “the preparing to deliver tanks and artillery to defender of his victim people.” the separatists. The PA’s unity government enterprise has also been At a time of budget cuts and when impacted by these events. Abu Mazen is clearly not Obama would rather focus its strategic responsible for this state of affairs, but try to tell that to gaze on Asia and the Middle East, average Israelis. resources are limited and few expect Dr James J Zogby is the President of the Arab American America to rebuild the permanent garri- Institute. son-type presence set up in Europe during the Cold War. While more military supplies will be placed in the European region, US units will be largely rotated through from All articles appearing on these existing European bases and elsewhere. pages are the personal opinion of Washington also wants European states to the writers. Kuwait Times takes no step up more. “Collective action doesn’t mean the United States puts skin in the responsibility for views expressed game while others stand on the sidelines therein. Kuwait Times invites read- cheering,” US National Security adviser ers to voice their opinions. Please Susan Rice told the annual conference of the Centre for a New American Security. send submissions via email to: opin- Although the United States has pledged [email protected] or via snail to strengthen the military capabilities of mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. non-NATO states near Russia such as The editor reserves the right to edit Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, officials say no decisions have been made on details any submission as necessary. and the real focus is on boosting NATO’s defenses. In November, US Air Force Pro-Russian fighters gather to take an oath in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine yesterday. — AP NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

Militants seize Iraq border town

Continued from Page 1 including Basra, Najaf and Kut, all in the Shiite heartland. The parades in Baghdad and clashes elsewhere came as Elsewhere, 17 fighters were killed in clashes Friday US President Barack Obama dispatched Secretary of State evening between ISIL and the Army of the Men of the John Kerry to Europe and the Middle East in a new push Naqshbandiyah Order (JRTN), another Sunni insurgent for unity among Iraq’s fractious political leadership. While group, in militant-held territory in northern Kirkuk Kerry is expected to travel to Iraq itself, it is not known province. The Sunni insurgents driving the offensive are when he will do so. Obama’s refusal so far to agree to Iraq’s made up of a broad alliance of other groups, such as loyal- appeal for air strikes on the ISIL-led militants has prompted ists of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein. Analysts Baghdad’s powerful Shiite neighbour Iran to claim say it is unclear if that grouping can hold together given its Washington lacks the will to fight terror. disparate ideologies. The battle for Tal Afar had entered its Meanwhile, Washington says Iran has sent a “small seventh day, Maliki’s security spokesman said yesterday, number” of operatives into its neighbour. Obama told CNN with government forces holding some neighbourhoods on Friday: “There’s no amount of American fire power but not all of the strategic northern town. He also said a that’s going to be able to hold the country together.” The number of security personnel had been killed and wound- president, who based his political career on ending the ed in the days of fighting with militants, but declined to costly eight-year US intervention in Iraq, has insisted that specify how many. Washington is not slipping back into the morass, but has In Baghdad, thousands of fighters loyal to powerful offered up to 300 advisers and left open the possibility of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr paraded with their weapons “targeted and precise military action.” in the Sadr City district, vowing to fight the offensive Washington already has an aircraft carrier in the Gulf which was launched on June 9. Rank upon rank of fighters, and is flying manned and unmanned surveillance flights dressed mostly in camouflage but some wearing black, over Iraq, while senior US officials say special forces being carried Kalashnikov assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, sent to advise Iraq could call in air strikes if necessary. The light machineguns and rocket launchers. Some of the unit US’s push for broader leadership came as Grand Ayatollah leaders carried Iraqi flags, while others held signs with Ali Al-Sistani, a revered cleric among Iraq’s Shiite Muslim messages including “We sacrifice for you, O Iraq,” “No, no to majority, called on people to band together against the terrorism,” and “No, no to America”. Fighters interviewed by insurgents before it was too late. UN aid agencies said they AFP stressed they were not against any specific religious were rushing supplies to Iraq to help more than one mil- sect, and that their aim was to defend the country. lion people displaced by the latest violence and unrest ear- Similar parades were held in large southern cities lier this year. — AFP US Presbyterians divest in Israel protest BAGHDAD: Iraqi Shiite fighters parade with weapons and national flags yesterday in the capital. — AFP Continued from Page 1 human rights is a core value at HP.” The HP systems used at checkpoints allow people to “get to their place of work or The American Jewish Committee, a policy and advoca- to carry out their business in a faster and safer way,” cy group based in New York, said the vote was “driven by Schlegel said. Motorola Solutions said it has long worked Egypt court confirms mass death... hatred of Israel.” In a statement on its Facebook page, the in the Middle East and “supports all efforts ... to find a Continued from Page 1 to appeal. Israeli Embassy in Washington denounced the resolution peaceful resolution” to conflict. It also said that its human “The verdicts in this case provide the latest example as “shameful.” “Voting for symbolic measures marginalizes rights policies are designed to ensure that its “operations “Allah revealed the truth. Allah acquitted my broth- of the Egyptian judiciary’s bid to crush dissent,” and removes its ability to be a constructive partner to pro- worldwide are conducted using the highest standards of er,” he said as those happy with acquittals chanted Amnesty International’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said in a mote peace in the Middle East,” the statement said. integrity and ethical business conduct.” “Allahu Akbar! Long live justice!” statement. “Clearly, Egypt’s judicial system is broken and In a statement ahead of the vote, Presbyterian Church Caterpillar, which described itself as “a values-based The mass trial comes amid a crackdown on Morsi’s no longer able to deliver justice. The death penalty is USA said it was considering divestment in Caterpillar company,” said it has “deep respect and compassion for all supporters that has seen more than 1,400 people killed being ruthlessly deployed as a tool to eliminate political because the company provides the bulldozers “used in the persons affected by the political strife in the Middle East since his ouster and more than 15,000 jailed. The crack- opponents.” Sisi won the May presidential election rid- destruction of Palestinian homes, clearing land of struc- and support a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian down has extended to secular-leaning dissidents who ing on a wave of popularity after leading Morsi’s ouster. tures and fruit and olive tree groves, and in preparation for conflict. “However, we believe it is appropriate for such a supported Morsi’s overthrow but then turned against Rights activists fear that under his presidency Egypt the construction of the barrier wall.” resolution to be reached via political and diplomatic chan- the military-installed regime that ruled before ex-army could see autocracy worse than under Hosni Mubarak, Hewlett-Packard, it said, “provides electronic systems at nels,” the company said in a statement. chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was elected president last who was ousted in 2011. Sisi has signalled he intends to checkpoints, logistics and communications systems to Two smaller US religious groups have divested in month. return Egypt to stability rather than encouraging demo- support the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, and has busi- protest of Israeli policies: The Friends Fiduciary Corp, which Badie, the Brotherhood’s spiritual guide, was this cratic freedoms. ness relationships with illegal settlements in the West manages assets for US Quakers, and the Mennonite week handed a death sentence by another court that Meanwhile, in a separate trial eight people were sen- Bank.” And Motorola Solutions “provides military commu- Central Committee. Last week, the pension board of the accused him and 13 others of inciting violence that tenced to life for torching an office of the Freedom and nications and surveillance systems in the illegal Israeli set- United Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant killed 10 people a Cairo mosque. In Jan 2010, Badie was Justice Party, the political party of the Brotherhood, in tlements.” At the 2012 General Assembly, Presbyterian USA group in the US, revealed plans to sell holdings worth elected the Brotherhood’s eighth chief since its founda- the Nile Delta city of Damietta, the official MENA news voted to boycott products made in the Israeli settlements about $110,000 in G4S, which provides security equip- tion in 1928 after a bitter dispute between ideologically agency said. It also reported that in another case the and to “begin positive investments in Palestinian business- ment and has contracts with Israel’s prison system. focused conservatives and reformists. The authorities same court sentenced 23 alleged members of the es.” However, the United Methodist Church had rejected insisted the initial death sentences were issued only Islamist movement in absentia to 15 years for participat- HP spokeswoman Kelli Schlegel said that “respecting church-wide divestment. — Agencies after “careful” consideration and said they were subject ing in a violent protest. — AFP p16 2_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:44 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 SPORTS

Valencia signs new contract Blatt to coach Cavaliers Keys unlocks first title CURITIBA: Ecuador captain Antonio Valencia has signed a new three-year CLEVELAND: The Cleveland Cavaliers announced David Blatt as their EASTBOURNE: Madison Keys broke through for the first title of her career contract to stay at Manchester United, the English Premier League club said new coach on Friday, handing the 55-year-old a three-year contract to as she beat experienced German fifth seed Angelique Kerber 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 to yesterday.Winger Valencia joined United five years ago and the new agree- become the first head coach to make the switch from the Euroleague to win the ATP-WTA Eastbourne International yesterday. ment means he will be part of new manager Louis van Gaal’s efforts to restore the National Basketball Association (NBA). Three years after first stepping onto a grass court, the 19-year-old from the team’s fortunes after they finished only seventh last season. Blatt, who resigned his post at Maccabi Tel Aviv last week, is the Cavs’ Florida became the first American to claim the title at Devonshire Park since “I am so happy to have signed a new deal and am looking forward to third coach in as many years, where he will be handed the task of leading Chanda Rubin in 2003. working with Louis van Gaal,” said Valencia, who led Ecuador to a 2-1 World them back into the playoffs after a four-year hiatus since the departure Kerber saved three match points in the final game as the losing 2012 Cup win over Honduras on Friday night. “There is great team spirit within the of LeBron James. “David is a great basketball coach and a special person,” finalist struggled to stay in the match, but Keys ended those hopes as she club and we are all determined to get back to winning ways.” Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said of the Boston-born Blatt in a earned the victory in just under two hours when Kerber hit the net with her Valencia, who is 28, gave a subdued display against Honduras. Ecuador statement. “His abilities to communicate, to build relationships with his 48th unforced error. coach Reinaldo Rueda suggested that the problems at players and to foster winning environments at several stops throughout “It’s incredible to be able to win here,” said a delighed Keys, who will United last season had affected his form. There had been Europe and across the highest levels of international competition speaks move into the world’s top 30 for the start of Wimbledon tomor- speculation in the British media that Premier Leagur rivals for itself. “He brings unbridled passion, energy and creativity to his craft. row. “Hopefully there will be many more to come,” added Liverpool were interested in signing Valencia, who has These qualities have enabled David to reach a level of success that is tru- the teenager. Keys had never before played a final, with a played 191 games for United, scoring 21 goals. United ly unique. “I have watched David’s work for many years. He has an uncan- pair of semi-finals at Sydney and Strasbourg her best previ- assistant manager Ryan Giggs welcomed the agreement, ny ability to adapt his system to maximize the talents of his teams year ous showings of 2014. praising Valencia’s attitude and contribution to the club. after year. That is why I am very confident he will make a smooth transi- She hammered 19 aces, 60 winners and broke twice from “Antonio is a very powerful player with great speed and tion to the NBA.”Blatt capped his 20-year career in Europe at Maccabi Tel 11 chances and the poised teenager said that while she versatility,” said Giggs. Valencia’s new deal includes an Aviv, who were 54-18 this season, winning the Israel League, Israeli Cup was full of anticipation as she played for a title, it did not option to extend it until June 2018. —Reuters and the Euroleague Championship. —Reuters affect her game.—AFP Cubs see off Pirates

CHICAGO: Starlin Castro hit a three-run homer, Cosart (7-5) gave up six hits in winning his bottom of the ninth inning lifted Minnesota over and Edwin Jackson got the better of Charlie third straight start. He walked one and struck out the Chicago White Sox. Morton, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 6-3 victory two, retiring 12 straight at one point. Cosart Kurt Suzuki had three hits and an RBI, and the over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday. topped the Rays last Saturday in Houston, the Twins picked up closer Glen Perkins (3-0), who Chris Coghlan added a solo shot as the Cubs Astros’ last victory before losing four in a row. gave up two runs in the top of the ninth to blow opened a 10-game homestand with their fourth The pitching matchup against David Price (5- his third save in 21 chances. win in five games. Last-place Chicago is 18-13 7) was a rematch of Cosart’s major league debut Daniel Webb (4-1) walked Eduardo Escobar since May 17. Jackson (5-7) pitched five innings at Tampa Bay last July 12 in which he took a no- and Sam Fuld with one out in the ninth and and earned his first win in four matchups this year hit bid into the seventh inning and finished with Escobar beat the throw home with a beautiful against Morton (4-8). He allowed three runs on eight shutout innings and a win. slide to win it. Gordon Beckham and Jose Abreu Jordy Mercer’s fifth homer and five hits. It was his The Rays scored an unearned run in the ninth homered for the White Sox. The Twins led 4-2 in second win in six starts. off reliever Chad Qualls, who got his ninth save. the ninth, but Paul Konerko delivered a pinch-hit, Pittsburgh rookie Gregory Polanco opened Yunel Escobar hit an RBI single with two outs RBI-single and Adam Eaton tied the game with a the game with a single, extending his hitting before Ryan Hanigan struck out. double down the left field line. streak to 10 games. He is the first NL player to begin his career with such a streak since Juan BLUE JAYS 14, REDS 9 MARINERS 7, ROYALS 5 Pierre’s 16-game run for Colorado in 2000. The Edwin Encarnacion hit two three-run homers, Brad Miller homered off Royals closer Greg Pirates have lost four of five since a four-game and Toronto pulled off the second-biggest come- Holland to break a ninth-inning tie, and Seattle winning streak. back in franchise history, rallying from an early beat Kansas City despite blowing an early five- eight-run deficit to beat Cincinnati. run lead. Charlie Furbush (1-4) inherited a bases- MARLINS 3, METS 2 Toronto hit four homers during its comeback, loaded, one-out jam in the eighth, but the Left fielder Marcell Ozuna cut down the including the two by the major leagues’ leader. Mariners reliever retired Mike Moustakas on a potential tying run at the plate in the eighth and Encarnacion started the comeback by connecting popup. Furbush then struck out Alcides Escobar CHICAGO: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Ike Davis (center) looks at home plate umpire Bob Davidson ninth innings — including Kirk Nieuwenhuis to in the third inning off Mat Latos and finished it to keep the game tied 5-5. Miller’s homer off after Chicago Cubs catcher John Baker (right) tagged him out at home during the second end the game — to help Miami beat the New with his 23rd homer off Sam LeCure during a five- Holland (0-2) came on the fifth pitch of his at-bat. inning. —AP York Mets. run ninth inning. Logan Morrison drove in another run later in the game winning streak by the Dodgers. Trailing 5-3, extended his hitting streak to 10 games for the Ozuna threw out Nieuwenhuis, who was try- Brett Lawrie and Juan Francisco also homered ninth. Fernando Rodney allowed two singles, but Alexi Amarista opened the San Diego ninth with Rangers, who have lost three straight. ing to score on Chris Young’s fly ball to left field. for Toronto, which piled up 16 hits and nine bounced back to earn his 19th save. Morrison hit a single off Kenley Jansen (0-3) and scored on Richards (7-2) struck out seven and didn’t He also got David Wright to end the eighth after walks. The Blue Jays overcame a 10-run deficit to a two-run homer for Seattle, which overcame a Carlos Quentin’s pinch-hit double. Venable tied allow an extra-base hit. Saunders (0-3) gave up 10 the Mets cut the deficit to 3-2. beat Boston 13-11 in 12 innings in 1989. subpar start from Hisashi Iwakuma to end the the game when his double scored pinch-runner hits and three walks, losing for the fourth time in Adeiny Hechavarria drove in two runs for the With the score tied at 9, Aroldis Chapman (0-2) Royals’ five-game winning streak at Kauffman Andrew Cashner. Venable took third on Rene five starts against his former team. Mike Trout Marlins. Henderson Alvarez (4-3) pitched 6 1-3 came on to pitch the ninth and walked leadoff Stadium. Mike Zunino added a solo shot, and Rivera’s sacrifice and scored on Cabrera’s deep fly went 0 for 3 with a walk, snapping his 13-game scoreless innings, allowing seven hits without a hitter Colby Rasmus. Erik Kratz doubled off the Robinson Cano drove in two runs, extending his to right. Dale Thayer (3-2) pitched the ninth for hit streak. walk and struck out five. In his past six starts, he is wall in left field to break the tie, then came hitting streak to 21 games. the victory. Yasiel Puig, who had two RBIs for the 2-0 with a 0.68 ERA. Steve Cishek allowed a dou- around on Melky Cabrera’s single. Dustin Dodgers, left in the eighth inning with a mild left ATHLETICS 4, RED SOX 3 ble to Nieuwenhuis to open the ninth, but earned McGowan (4-2) pitched a perfect eighth, and DIAMONDBACKS 4, GIANTS 1 hip muscle strain. Seth Smith homered twice, Coco Crisp drove in Kyle Blanks with a two-out his 17th save in 18 chances. Casey Janssen earned his 13th save in 15 chances. Josh Collmenter fought his way through five doubled and walked for the Padres. It was Smith’s single in the eighth inning, and Oakland beat Mets starter Daisuke Matsuzaka (3-1) allowed It was the first time the Reds blew an eight- innings, Aaron Hill drove in two runs, and Arizona sixth career multi-homer game. Boston. Josh Donaldson hit a three-run home one run and six hits in 5 1-3 innings. He struck out run lead and lost since May 20, 2010, at Atlanta. sent San Francisco to its sixth straight loss. The run, his first in two weeks, to help the A’s extend four. New York had a two-game winning streak The Reds gave up a season-high nine walks and Giants still lead the NL West, but have lost nine of ANGELS 7, RANGERS 3 their winning streak to four games. Oakland (46- snapped. 15 hits. 10 to see a lead that was once 9 1-2 games dwin- dle to less than four. The last-place Garrett Richards pitched six innings of four-hit 28) owns the best record in the majors. YANKEES 5, ORIOLES 3 BRAVES 6, NATIONALS 4 Diamondbacks extended their misery behind a ball, David Freese drove in two runs, and the Los Boston reliever Andrew Miller (2-5) hit Blanks Angeles Angels beat Texas for their seventh win and Alberto Callaspo with back-to-back pitches Carlos Beltran hit a three-run homer with two The Atlanta Braves survived closer Craig gritty effort by Collmenter (5-4) and by knocking in eight home games. with one out in the eighth. After Nick Punto outs in the ninth inning, lifting the New York Kimbrel’s two-out blown save in the ninth inning around Tim Lincecum (5-5) Josh Hamilton and Erick Aybar had RBI singles struck out looking, Crisp lined a 2-2 pitch to right, Yankees over Baltimore for their fourth straight by scoring twice in the 13th, topping Washington Paul Goldschmidt had two hits off Lincecum, in the fifth inning as the Angels opened a six- and Blanks easily scored. Sean Doolittle pitched win. Beltran connected off Zach Britton (3-1) right to flip-flop the standings atop the NL East. raising his average to .577 against the two-time game homestand with just their fourth win over the ninth for his 10th save. The A’s closer also after Brian McCann hit an RBI single. The Yankees Evan Gattis, who earlier extended his hitting Cy Young Award winner. Addison Reed worked a the AL West-rival Rangers in 18 meetings. extended his scoreless streak to 23 1/3 innings, struggled with runners in scoring position until streak to 19 games, singled in the go-ahead run perfect ninth to close out his 17th save and CJ Cron homered in the third, and Hamilton the longest active mark in the AL. the ninth. Brett Gardner led off the ninth with a off Jerry Blevins (2-3). Andrelton Simmons fol- Arizona’s third win in 10 games. Collmenter had and Howie Kendrick scored on Brad Snyder’s Oakland only managed two hits off Boston single. After Derek Jeter struck out looking and lowed with an RBI groundout. lost two straight starts, allowing six runs in six throwing error in the fourth inning as the Angels starter Felix Doubront and had stranded eight Jacoby Ellsbury flied out, Mark Teixeira walked. The Braves moved back into first place by one- innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers his last built a 7-1 lead against Joe Saunders, who runners before Crisp delivered the game-winner. McCann then singled home a run, setting up half game. Atlanta was struggling before arriving time out. He allowed a run and four hits, struck remained winless in six starts for Texas. Fernando Abad (2-2) pitched one inning for the Beltran’s first walkoff homer since 2008, for the in D.C., but the club is 20-7 vs. Washington since out four and walked four. Lincecum allowed four Michael Choice homered and Elvis Andrus win.—AP New York Mets. It was the Yankees’ first win in the start of last season, including the first two of runs and seven hits in six innings. their last at-bat this season. David Huff (1-0) gave this four-game set. Ryan Buchter (1-0) pitched the up Steve Pearce’s RBI single in the ninth but got 12th to get the win in his major league debut, BREWERS 13, ROCKIES 10 MLB results/standings the win. and Jordan Walden worked the 13th for his sec- Jean Segura homered twice and Ryan Braun ond save. Anthony Rendon tied the game with a had three hits in his 1,000th career game, helping Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 3; Detroit 6, Cleveland 4; NY Yankees 5, Baltimore 3; Atlanta 6, Washington 4 (13 TIGERS 6, INDIANS 4 two-run shot when the Nationals were down to Milwaukee hold off Colorado. Khris Davis also Innings); Toronto 14, Cincinnati 9; Miami 3, NY Mets 2; Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1; Seattle 7, Kansas City 5; Minnesota JD Martinez hit a three-run homer, Victor their last out. It was the first homer allowed by homered and Carlos Gomez extended his hitting 5, Chicago White Sox 4; Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1; Milwaukee 13, Colorado 10; Arizona 4, San Francisco 1; LA Martinez added a two-run shot, and Detroit held Kimbrel this season. streak to 16 games as the Brewers scored their Angels 7, Texas 3; Oakland 4, Boston 3; San Diego 6, LA Dodgers 5. on to beat Cleveland. Rick Porcello (9-4) pitched most runs of the year and tied a season high with American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division six scoreless innings for the Tigers, and Joe PHILLIES 5, CARDINALS 1 19 hits. Marco Estrada (6-4) gave up seven runs W L PCT GB Atlanta 38 35 .521 - Nathan worked the ninth for his 15th save. Victor AJ Burnett scattered seven hits for his first and a career-most 10 hits, yet still earned the win. Toronto 42 33 .560 - Martinez homered off Corey Kluber (6-5) in the complete game of the year and Philadelphia won In their first game since being no-hit by Washington 37 35 .514 0.5 NY Yankees 39 33 .542 1.5 Miami 37 36 .507 1 fourth inning. JD Martinez’s home run came in its season-high fifth in a row, beating St. Louis. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, the Rockies got Baltimore 37 35 .514 3.5 Philadelphia 34 38 .472 3.5 the eighth off John Axford. The Tigers took a 5-0 The Phillies’ winning streak has come on the their league-leading offense back on track with a Boston 34 40 .459 7.5 NY Mets 33 41 .446 5.5 lead into the bottom of the eighth, but Asdrubal road. They have won nine of 11 overall. St. Louis 16-hit evening, which included homers from Tampa Bay 29 46 .387 13 Central Division Central Division Cabrera hit a three-run homer and Carlos Santana has dropped three in a row after winning five Justin Morneau, Corey Dickerson and Brandon Milwaukee 45 30 .600 - Detroit 38 32 .543 - had a solo shot off Ian Krol. Joba Chamberlain straight. Burnett (5-6) threw 111 pitches in his Barnes. Christian Bergman (0-2) was roughed up St. Louis 39 35 .527 5.5 Kansas City 39 34 .534 0.5 retired the final hitter of the inning and then 24th complete game. He struck out three, walked as he surrendered up seven runs in three innings. Cincinnati 35 37 .486 8.5 Nathan struck out Michael Bourn with a runner one and hit two batters. He also contributed an The righty departed soon after taking a liner off Cleveland 37 37 .500 3 Chicago White Sox 35 39 .473 5 Pittsburgh 35 38 .479 9 on to end the game. RBI double and scored. Jaime Garcia (3-1) pitched the left forearm. Minnesota 34 38 .472 5 Chicago Cubs 31 40 .437 12 into the sixth inning, giving up four runs on seven Western Division Western Division ASTROS 3, RAYS 1 hits and two walks. He lost his third start in a row PADRES 6, DODGERS 5 Oakland 46 28 .622 - San Francisco 43 30 .589 - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Jarred Cosart to the Phillies. Everth Cabrera’s sacrifice fly capped a three- LA Angels 39 33 .542 6 LA Dodgers 40 35 .533 4 pitched eight shutout innings to beat Tampa Bay run ninth inning that gave San Diego a victory Seattle 38 36 .514 8 Colorado 34 39 .466 9 again, and rookie George Springer’s two-run TWINS 5, WHITE SOX 4 over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was the Padres’ Texas 35 38 .479 10.5 San Diego 32 42 .432 11.5 homer helped Houston to the win. Brian Dozier’s RBI-single with two outs in the third consecutive win and it snapped a three- Houston 33 42 .440 13.5 Arizona 32 45 .416 13

VIVA announces Phelps enjoys winners in World Cup #VIVAvespa campaign mixed success SANTA CLARA: KUWAIT: Michael Phelps con- Earlier, Phelps clocked 48.80 sec- VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most developed tinued his comeback from retirement onds in the 100m freestyle, beaten telecom operator, announced Norah Marzouq Al Otaibi and with a tie for victory and a second- easily by Olympic champion Adrian, Ebtisam Mubarak Hussein as the second two lucky customers place finish at a US Grand Prix Series who touched the wall in 48.17. to win Vespa scooters with World Cup designs. meet in Santa Clara, California on Phelps was still happier with the Ayman Salem Al Mutairi, Senior Manager Corporate Friday. freestyle result over his fly, given how Communications said: “On behalf of VIVA, I would like to con- While certainly not back to his he and coach Bob Bowman had tar- gratulate the lucky winners Norah Marzouq Al Otaibi and dominant best since hanging up his geted more improvement. Ebtisam Mubarak Hussein and thank each and every customer goggles following the 2012 London “Bob and I are both kind of who made the effort to enter the draw. VIVA will continue to Olympics, Phelps tied for first in the annoyed about going 52.1,” Phelps demonstrate its commitment towards its customers by deliver- 100 metres butterfly with Tom Shields said in a post-race interview that was ing unique products and services and designing exciting offers but had to settle for second behind posted on Swimming World maga- Nathan Adrian in the 100m freestyle. zine’s website. that will allow VIVA to further engage with them”. In his third meet since taking near- “It’s the third time we’ve done it VIVA invites its customers to participate in this exciting ly two years out of the sport, the 28- this year. We’d like to make a bigger draw campaign which is applicable for existing and new post- year-old Phelps competed in multiple breakthrough. “I wanted to go under paid (Voice and data) and prepaid (voice only) customers who finals in the same session for the first 49 and I wanted to go under 52... I got pay their bills through VIVA’s website, VIVA’s application or by time on his return to competitive half of that.” Phelps is scheduled to calling the Call Center at 102 giving customers a chance to win swimming. swim the 200m freestyle late yester- a brand new World Cup Vespa scooter. The most decorated Olympian of day and the 200m individual medley The draw campaign started on 22 May and will last until 14 all-time (22 medals, 18 gold) matched today. “We’ll see how I’m going to feel July 2014, where postpaid and prepaid customers will earn Shields with a time of 52.11 seconds tomorrow morning,” he said after get- one point for every KD5 spent on their bill payment or to share top spot in the butterfly, fin- ting through his first double finals recharge usage. Each point will count as one entry into the ishing the faster of the two but session. “I think it was a pretty good unable to edge his way in front. The day.” The women’s headliner of the draw, so the more points accumulated by a customer, the pair’s time was the joint-second meet, Missy Franklin, finished second more chances they will have of winning. The upcoming draws fastest by an American this year in the 100m freestyle behind Simone will take place on 26 June, 3 July, 10 July and 14 July 2014. behind Ryan Lochte. Manuel. —Reuters p17 2_Layout 1 6/21/14 11:43 PM Page 1

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 SPORTS Federer: I feel much better than Wimbledon 2013

LONDON: A year after having his “butt Though he did not let on then, the enough to win the entire thing last year. come in, my backhand, everything is his trips to the slams even more, even if it kicked” at Wimbledon, a fitter and health- Swiss master now admits the bewitching “I had too many hiccups leading into working to my liking. means coming face-to-face with upstarts ier Roger Federer was back at the All racket skills that had wowed fans from Wimbledon and probably ... winning “For that reason I feel I’m a bit more like Stakhovsky who are waiting for the England Club yesterday eager to kick London to South Africa and Melbourne Halle (just before Wimbledon) ... I think relaxed mentally because I know it is chance “to tell my grandkids that I kicked butt himself over the next fortnight. to New York temporarily lost their magic masked the problems I was playing with, there. I clearly want to do better than last the butt of Roger Federer”. Little-known Ukrainian Sergiy in June 2013. “It’s a pleasure being the way I was playing,” added Federer. year, there’s no doubt about it.” “I see him and we always joke about Stakhovsky enjoyed more than 15 min- healthy and really fit and eager to give it “There were certain things I wanted to Since that surreal day last June, it is the match ... and that we can only face utes of fame after he condemned the a go again,” said Federer, dressed impec- do but I couldn’t figure out or couldn’t do not only Federer’s racket-wielding abili- each other in the final this year so it’s all seven-times champion to a brutal sec- cably in a white RF embossed pullover it,” added the Swiss fourth seed who will ties that have undergone a transforma- good for both of us. Well for me at least,” ond-round defeat last June. and track pants. open his campaign for a record-extend- tion. He now has his childhood idol laughed the popular Swiss. That result not only ended Federer’s “I feel I have a very good chance again ing 18th grand slam title against Italian Stefan Edberg in his corner, having hired “As you get older you appreciate remarkable run of reaching 36 consecu- this year,” he told reporters. “I hope to Paolo Lorenzi. the Swedish great as a part-time coach, everything even more. You enjoy it more tive grand slam quarter-finals or better utilise my fitness. I’m really coming in and has double the amount of children because you know you might not have dating back to 2004, it was also the first with a much better feeling than maybe EVERYTHING WORKING after his wife delivered a second set of another 15 Wimbledons left. “So you’re time in eight years he had lost to a rival in the last year, for instance. “This year I feel all the options are twins. With his 33rd birthday seven even more ... happy to be part of this ranked outside the top 100. “I don’t know if my game was good there. Return, serve, serve and volley, weeks away, Federer says he now savours great experience every time.” —Reuters

Langley leads Travelers

CONNECTIVITY: Scott Langley, in his PGATour.com. second year on the PGA Tour, shot a “Going into this weekend, I’m not five-under-par 65 to take the halfway going to talk about what it would mean lead at the Travelers Championship in to win. I need to keep my head down Connecticut on Friday. and just play golf.” Langley reeled off The left-hander overcame a double eight birdies, a bogey and a double bogey to post an 11-under 129 total, bogey in ideal morning conditions. “I one stroke ahead of fellow Americans really only made one mistake,” he said, Harris English and Michael Putnam and referring to his double bogey at the South Korean K.J. Choi on a crowded par-four second, his 11th hole, where leaderboard after the second round. he took four strokes from just off the Putnam’s 63 was the best round of green. the day at the TPC River Highlands in “My iron play has been really solid, Cromwell, which has hosted the PGA giving myself a lot of short putts for Tour event formerly known as the birdie. I had really good tempo, which Greater Hartford Open since 1984. led to consistency with my ball-strik- Langley is determined to avoid a ing. “The name of the game out here is repeat of his final round meltdown less putting (and) I putted quite well.” Nine than three weeks ago at the Memorial strokes separated the 77 players who tournament, where he shot a closing 79 made the cut. In an event lacking AUSTRIA: Williams driver Felipe Massa of Brazil steers his car during the first free practice session at the race track in Spielberg. —AP after starting the day in second place. much star power, a couple of proven “There was a lot going on (at the winners were within striking distance, Memorial) and I probably didn’t handle notably Dustin Johnson, three strokes it as well as I could have but I learned a behind, while Matt Kuchar trailed by Massa on Austrian pole lot from it,” the 25-year-old told four. —Reuters SPIELBERG: Brazilian Felipe Massa celebrated spun on his final attempt. “It was just two not Red Bull Ring from junior series last season, his first Formula One pole position since 2008 as very good laps. Or one-and-a-quarter-laps - I something most of their established Formula Wie surges clear in Pinehurst Williams stunned leaders Mercedes yesterday didn’t finish my second one,” he told the BBC. One rivals lack. and swept the front row of the Austrian Grand “My first lap was looking good and I went wide The last time two Williams drivers lined up Prix starting grid. Finland’s Valtteri Bottas quali- in the second to last corner - I think that lap together on the front row was in Germany 11 PINEHURST: Michelle Wie stamped her the US Open as an American is one of the fied in second place for the Mercedes-powered would have done it. “We’re going to be strong years ago - the year Austria was last on the cal- authority on the US Women’s Open at most important tournaments, but at the former champions with championship leader tomorrow, it’s going to be very, very hard from endar - and qualifying was a great turnaround the halfway stage when she raced into a same time Sunday is a very, very long Nico Rosberg only third fastest for the Mercedes where we are, but of course I’ll do everything I for the family-run outfit. Last season, Williams three-shot lead over fellow American time, far away.” factory team. can to try and get some good points for the scored only five points and finished ninth overall Lexi Thompson after the second round in It was the first time this season that Mercedes team. It’s damage limitation I guess.” but this year they have already bagged 58 and Pinehurst, North Carolina on Friday. LI HAPPY had failed to take pole and Sunday’s race will be are threatening to overtake fifth-placed On a day when 11-year-old Lucy Li Wie has been in the public eye for Williams’s first start from the front of the grid VETTEL UNHAPPY McLaren. played respectably but missed the cut, more than a decade. In 2004, she came since Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado in Spain in Red Bull’s quadruple world champion “I am so happy with what has happened former child prodigy Wie birdied her final within one stroke of making the cut 2012. “Williams are back to the top, they are back Sebastian Vettel fared even worse, qualifying today, with us, our team, it was such a great two holes, rolling in a curling 15-footer at against the men on the PGA Tour at the to fight. I am pleased for me and the team as 13th at a home circuit for the team. “I’m not hap- moment. It is a long time since I last had a pole the last with her stooped cross-handed Sony Open in Hawaii. well,” declared an emotional Massa whose last py, let’s put it that way,” said the German, who position,” Massa told reporters. putting style for a second consecutive Her career stalled for a few years, but pole was with Ferrari at his home grand prix will move up a place because Force India’s Bottas also celebrated his best ever qualifying two-under-par 68 at Pinehurst No. 2 this season she is second behind Lewis before finishing that season as runner-up. Mexican Sergio Perez drops five from 11th for performance. “It’s a great result for the team. Course. on the LPGA money list thanks to a victo- “After a long time I hope this is just the begin- causing a collision at the previous race in We’ve made progress throughout the year and She posted a four-under 136 total, ry and a bunch of top 10 finishes. ning of great possibilities. I hope to be in this Montreal. now we get this result. The hard work is all pay- while Thompson also shot 68 to end the Long-hitting Thompson reeled off position again,” added the Brazilian who suffered “I think anything is possible tomorrow but ing off,” said the Finn. day the only other player under par, set- three successive birdies on her back nine near-fatal head injuries in a freak accident in surely we are not as quick as we’d like to be.” “It will be a different story tomorrow I think. ting the stage for a possible battle with to vault up the leaderboard.”Today went Hungary in 2009. Australian team mate Daniel Ricciardo, winner of We have a big, big job to keep the Mercedes cars Wie for the second successive major. very well for me,” Thompson said. “I didn’t Britain’s Lewis Hamilton, Rosberg’s team mate the race in Canada, qualified ahead of Vettel yet behind us - and some of the other cars - Ferrari Thompson won the Kraft Nabisco really get stressed out about the bad and closest championship rival who is 22 points again and will start fifth with Ferrari’s Fernando and Red Bull - can do well also.” behind the German after seven races, had a Alonso fourth. Rosberg, who had qualified on pole for the Championship in April, while Wie fin- shots, just went to the next one.” nightmare session. Denmark’s Kevin Magnussen qualified sixth last three races, sounded relaxed.”I still think we ished second after the pair started the Li, meanwhile, was far from overawed The 2008 world champion will have to fight for McLaren while Russian newcomer Daniil are the quickest team and car at the moment,” final round tied for the lead. on the biggest stage of her young life as back from ninth place after his first flying lap of Kvyat starts seventh for Red Bull’s sister team said the German. “It is more difficult than start- First round leader, American Stacy she carded a second straight 78 that the revamped Red Bull Ring was disallowed Toro Rosso. ing on the front row, of course, but I think it is Lewis, carded 73 to slip four strokes included a triple and a double bogey. because he exceeded track limits and he then Both rookies have experience of racing at the possible to overtake on this track.”—Reuters behind with South Korean Yang Amy (69) “I’m really happy with how I bounced and Australian amateur Minjee Lee (71). back from those big numbers,” said Li, “Yesterday I was thinking if I just did this the second youngest player ever to com- again, that would be nice,” Wie told pete in a US Women’s Open. reporters. “I learned you have to be patient. It’s All Blacks beat England “It’s a grind out there. (I’m) really been a great week. I did a good job stay- grateful for the par putts that I made and ing patient and going to the next shot some of the birdie putts that I made.” and not caring about what happens.” HAMILTON: Julian Savea scored a hat-trick of deficit to 15-6 before Billy Vunipola was harshly smothering All Blacks defence. Wie, 24, has been playing in the US Open The cut fell at nine-over 149. Former tries as New Zealand produced a clinical, high- adjudged to have committed a high tackle on Savea then completed his hat-trick almost since 2003, so she understands that the champion Cristie Kerr was among those paced first half performance to set up a 36-13 Cruden and given a yellow card by Jerome two minutes after the final hooter had sounded halfway lead does guarantee anything. to bow out. The Women’s version of the win over England and seal a record-equalling Garces. as the hosts kept the ball alive, with Barrett “Being in contention, having the club- event is being played on the same course 17th successive test victory at Waikato Stadium Scrumhalf Smith then ran the perfect support adding the conversion. house lead for now, I’m just really excited where German Martin Kaymer won the in Hamilton yesterday. lines to cross twice as the All Blacks again cut “Very disappointed in our first 40, it wasn’t for the weekend,” she continued. “I think men’s US Open last week. —Reuters Scrumhalf Aaron Smith scored two tries as through the England defence with ease and great but credit to New Zealand, they were very the All Blacks produced a first half that coach established an imposing 29-6 halftime lead. clinical in that first half and really exposed us in Steve Hansen called ‘as good as you can get’. “The first half was about as good as you can some areas,” England captain Chris Robshaw Flyhalf Aaron Cruden kicked nine points and get,” Hansen said. “The wheels fell off the train a said. his replacement Beauden Barrett added a late little bit (in the second half) but the rest of the “Second half I thought we were much better, conversion as the hosts clinched the three-test game we will take a lot of positives out of.” but unfortunately it wasn’t our day. “A lot of les- series 3-0. England winger Yarde crossed shortly after sons have been learned. A lot of guys stepped Flyhalf Freddie Burns slotted two first half the break as the visitors finally imposed them- up in this series so there are a huge amount of penalties and converted Marland Yarde’s second selves and while they had several opportunities positives but we are disappointed to finish the half try for the visitors who impressed on their to score were unable to breach a desperate way we did.”—Reuters tour with their combativeness and willingness to play a wide game. The victory ensured Steve Hansen’s side equalled the record amongst Tier One Nations jointly held by the 1965-69 All Blacks and the 1997-98 South African teams. The team had been on the cusp of equalling the mark twice in the past four years only to be held to a 18-18 draw by Australia in 2012, ending a 16-game winning streak, while the Wallabies also ended a 15-game winning run in 2010 with a 26-24 victory. They have the opportunity to eclipse the record, coincidentally against Australia in Sydney on Aug. 16 in their opening Rugby Championship match. After tight clashes in the first two matches of the series, the All Blacks stamped their authority on Waikato Stadium in the first 20 minutes as their forwards sucked in England’s players to narrow the defence then cut their backs to shreds out wide.

SUPER SAVEA Savea crossed the tryline three times in that opening quarter but was only awarded two tries with the final pass on his potential third drifting forward after yet another clinical interplay between the pack and backline. “I thought the boys’ skills were outstanding in the first 20 min- utes and we really put the pressure on,” All Blacks captain Richie McCaw said in a televised inter- view. “Over the first couple of games we had been wanting to put a better performance out there and I think we did that (on Saturday). “I thought across the park, although it wasn’t PINEHURST: Michelle Wie watches her tee shot on the 13th hole during the second perfect, there were some brilliant performances.” HAMILTON: New Zealand All Blacks fullback Ben Smith (left) competes for the high ball with round of the US Women’s Open golf tournament. —AP Burns slotted his second penalty to reduce the England’s Freddie Burns (center) during the third rugby union test match. —AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

Valencia gives Ecuador new life

CURITIBA: Ecuador moved into second place in However, Honduras can also still qualify should have taken the lead as Valencia timed his FAN FERVOR World Cup Group E as two goals from Enner despite losing both their games so far should run onto Frickson Erazo’s long ball forward per- Valencia handed them a 2-1 win over Honduras they heavily defeat the Swiss and Ecuador lose fectly but couldn’t find the target when left with in Curitiba on Friday. to France. just Noel Valladares to beat. Honduras’s first Honduras had looked on course for And Honduras boss Luis Suarez clear chance of the game came just before the their first ever World Cup win when insisted they have to believe anything half hour mark when Victor Bernardez headed Carlo Costly fired them in front on 31 is possible against Switzerland. wide when unmarked at the far post. minutes, but “It would be worse if we were Four minutes later, though, Costly did net his Valencia levelled eliminated and this game didn’t country’s first World Cup goal in five games from close range mean anything. This chance still stretching back to their inaugural appearance at exists and we have to try,” he said. the finals in 1982 as he beat Jorge Guagua to a “Now more than ever we have to high ball before slamming home left footed. fight for the country. If a vic- The Hondurans’ lead was short-lived as with- tory means qualification in three minutes Juan Paredes’ deflected effort then great, but if it does- fell perfectly for Valencia to bundle home his n’t at least we second goal of the tournament. have Honduras ended the half the stronger side as Bernardez’s powerful free-kick was just turned three minutes later. And the Pachuca striker moved alongside Karim Benzema, Robin Van Persie, Thomas Mueller and Arjen Robben as the tournament’s joint top scorer on three goals when he headed home the winner from Walter Ayovi’s free-kick 25 minutes from time. “Scoring at a World Cup has been something I have dreamed of since I was a child and thanks to the coaching staff and my teammates that has come true,” said Valencia. “The golden boot is not something I am thinking about. The most important thing is qualifying from the group and if that comes thanks to more goals from behind by me then all the Alexander better.” Dominguez and Jerry Ecuador now Bengston rightly had a goal lead Switzerland ruled out for handball after on goal differ- given Costly’s initial header had ence with everything come back off the post. both sides until the end.” After the break it was locked on After a nervy Ecuador’s turn to feel aggrieved three points opening from both sides with referee Williams as he again after two the game began to open up was unmoved when Felipe games midway through the half and Caicedo tumbled under a chal- behind Honduras felt they had a strong lenge from Maynor Figueroa. group penalty appeal waved away by However, that decision mat- leaders Australian referee Benjamin Williams tered little in the end as Valencia France on when Costly went down under pressure netted the winner when he rose six. from Juan Paredes. highest to meet Ayovi’s sweet Moments later it was Ecuador who delivery. —AFP

CURTIBA: Ecuador’s Jorge Guagua (right) and Ronaldo fitness Honduras’ Carlo Costly challenge for the ball during leaves Portugal the Group E World Cup soccer match. —AP in disarray

MANAUS: Lingering doubts about the fitness of world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo have left Portugal in disarray ahead of their World Cup Group G clash with the United States in Manaus today. Already reeling from a crushing 4-0 defeat to Germany in their opener, Portugal face almost certain elimination if they lose to US. Russia bar Belgium’s But their preparation for the game could not be going much worse. Although the Portugal camp insist the Real Madrid forward is fit, Ronaldo has been seen sporting an path to WCup last 16 ice pack on his knee at training sessions and leaving early RIO DE JANEIRO: as his team-mates continued to train, while he was far Having come from decided that he’d spend two days work- from his scintillating best against the Germans. ing separately with (physiotherapist) behind to beat Algeria in their opening Much media speculation has focused on whether or game, Belgium can reach the World Cup Lieven Maesschalck and the (medical) not he will play against the US, or indeed if he does, knockout phase by beating Russia at Rio staff. He should be back on the pitch for whether or not he will be fully fit. But fellow forward de Janeiro’s fabled Maracana today. training with the squad yesterday.” Helder Postiga was adamant that too much is being read Marc Wilmots’s ‘golden generation’ Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard, cre- into an ice pack. looked destined to make a meek ator of Mertens’s winning goal against entrance into the tournament after Algeria, is also expected to be fit despite “I personally think that the Cristiano Ronaldo talk is a falling behind to a Sofiane Feghouli sustaining a bruised toe during that bit too much so I imagine how he must be feeling about penalty in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday, but game. that,” Postiga said. late goals from substitutes Marouane Should Russia lose, Capello’s side “But regarding his physical condition, he’s been training Fellaini and Dries Mertens got them off to would find themselves on the brink of at his maximum and if it’s not listed in the clinical informa- a winning start. elimination ahead of their final game tion of the Portuguese (football) federation it’s because With Russia having been held 1-1 by against Algeria on Thursday. he’s fit to play.” South Korea in their Group H opener, the Russia needed a 74th-minute goal But Ronaldo is just one of Portugal’s problems as they last 16 is already within sight for Belgium, from Aleksandr Kerzhakov to rescue a will be missing several other players. Real centre-back who are seen as dark horses to win the point against South Korea after goal- Pepe has been suspended for one match after his stupid tournament after going through qualify- keeper Igor Akinfeev’s blunder had and needless red card against Germany for headbutting ing unbeaten. Belgium centre-back allowed Lee Keun-Ho to break the dead- Thomas Mueller, who went on to score a hat-trick. Nicolas Lombaerts, who plays for Russian lock. Given his volatile nature, that may be a blessing in dis- side Zenit Saint-Petersburg, knows better It was a low-key opening for a team guise in a tournament where one error can prove hugely than most what to expect from Fabio who pipped Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal costly. Fabio Coentrao has been ruled out of the tourna- Capello’s side, and he expects his team- to an automatic berth in European quali- ment with a torn thigh muscle while forward Hugo mates to have a physical edge. fying, but Spartak Moscow midfielder Almeida has a pulled hamstring and reserve goalkeeper “Capello places lots of importance on Denis Glushakov has urged his side to Rui Patricio pulled a thigh muscle. It is hardly the ideal organisation,” said the 29-year-old, whose put it behind them. “We should forget preparation to face buoyant USA, who began their cam- side are appearing at a first major tourna- the first game because it’s in the past and paign with a last-gasp 2-1 win over Ghana, avenging ment since 2002. we have to focus on the game against defeats to the Black Stars at the last two World Cups. “We’ll have to pay attention on the Belgium,” he said. Yet Portugal coach Paulo Bento believes that his side turnovers. Russia are not very physical. “We have a huge responsibility on our are simply better than their opponents.”The best version Our size should be an advantage. shoulders, so we have to try to do our of Portugal can beat the United States. We respect the “They’ve only got two players taller than best to get the three points to get a USA as a very good team,” he said. six foot (1.85 metres). They’ll try to hurt chance to qualify. “We know the Belgian “They have grown up over the last years so we have to us by keeping the ball on the ground.” players are really good and they have top respect them but we believe in ourselves, we believe in Lombaerts is on standby to play in case players playing in the best clubs in our work, in our quality, so we have to be responsible, we Belgium captain Vincent Kompany is Europe.” Glushakov’s position in the team have to be in the best condition to win this match and we unable to shake off a minor groin com- is under threat from Dynamo Moscow believe it.” plaint. midfielder Igor Denisov, while The US are not without problems of their own as striker The Manchester City defender missed Kerzhakov’s goal in Cuiaba has strength- Jozy Altidore is out of the game due to a hamstring injury, training on Thursday and Friday, but ened his claim to a starting berth. although US Soccer believe he could be available later on Wilmots is confident that he will be able Russian media reports, meanwhile, in the tournament. to take part in late yesterday’s eve-of- suggest that CSKA Moscow playmaker There is better news when it comes to Clint Dempsey, match session at the Maracana. “Vincent Alan Dzagoev will replace Zenit’s Oleg the opening goalscorer against Ghana who broke his nose felt something in the last few minutes Shatov in the number 10 role. “We have in that match. He is likely to line up against Portugal wear- against Algeria and couldn’t sprint at 100 to play better against Belgium,” says ing a protective face mask. Centre-back Matt Besler, who percent,” the Belgium coach told a press defender Sergey Ignashevich. “It’s impos- like Altidore had to come off in the first half against Ghana conference at the team’s base in Mogi sible to play worse than we did against due to a hamstring problem, is another who should be fit das Cruzes, near Sao Paulo, on Friday. “We Korea.” —AFP to play.—AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

FAN FERVOR Messi breaks Iranian hearts

BELO HORIZONTE: No time for tears A stunning injury time strike from Lionel as Korea loom Messi spared Argentina’s blushes as they qualified for the last PORTO ALEGRE: Coach Vahid Halilhodzic has told Algeria now is 16 of the World Cup with a not the time for tears ahead of today’s date with South Korea hard fought 1-0 win over Iran where defeat will spell yet another premature ending to a World in Belo Horizonte. Cup campaign. Argentina had been thankful to The Algerians, desperate to end a seven-match World Cup three fine second-half saves from winless run, are pointless and bottom after a 2-1 loss to Group goalkeeper Sergio Romero just to be lev- el heading into stoppage time, whilst Iran H favourites Belgium. had also had a strong penalty appeal waved With the notable exception of their stunning away when Pablo Zabaleta appeared to 1982 upset of Germany aside, the story of foul Ashkan Dejagah inside the area. their World Cup experiences does not make However, despite having endured a quiet happy reading for the proud Algerians. game by his standards, Messi produced a The north Africans have never made it moment of magic when his side needed it most past the first round, and Sofiane to register his second goal of the tournament. Feghouli’s penalty against Belgium was Argentina now lead Group F with maximum their first goal in the competition in 28 points from two games and will be confirmed as years. group winners should Saturday’s late game between With the stakes high, Bosnian-born Nigeria and Bosnia Hercegovina fail to produce a win- Halilhodzic told his men to man up. ner. “They made the game very difficult for us,” admitted “Now is not the time for crying, this Argentine boss Alejandro Sabella. match is decisive,” the 62-year-old noted “Messi was marked very tightly, but he showed persever- disciplinarian said. Victory meanwhile in ance, patience, attitude and always looked for the goal. He Porto Alegre for South Korea would put never gave up.” them on the verge of qualifying. Iran coach Carlos Queiroz also praised Messi’s match-defining Pacy Korea produced a solid debut in contribution, but claimed his side had also been undone by Serbian Friday’s 1-1 draw with Russia, a perform- referee Milorad Mazic’s decision not to award a penalty when his side ance that gave coach Hong Myung-Bo’s were on top in the second-half. “Messi was fantastic, but the referee wasn’t,” said the former Real team encouragement after a lacklustre Madrid coach. “I don’t understand it, he had to have seen it was a penal- build-up. Korean defender Park Joo-ho is ty. He was five metres away, there is no way he couldn’t have seen it. “I predicting a tight tussle. “I don’t think either have the right to say this and I only hope I am now not punished for team will have a lot of attacking chances,” he telling the truth.” said. Sabella had resorted to the 4-3-3 system preferred by Messi with the “If we can score on the chances that we do four-time World Player of the Year joined by Gonzalo Higuain and Sergio get, we should have a good shot at winning.” Aguero in attack. Korean striker Ji Dong-Won suggested the However, despite enjoying the vast majority of possession in the first- signs were positive for the 2002 semi-finalists half, La Albiceleste struggled to create chances from open play against a who are appearing at their eighth consecu- well-organised Iranian defence. tive World Cup but who have only made it The first opening fell to Higuain from a fine pass by Fernando Gago, past the first round twice since 1986. but Iranian ‘keeper Alireza Haghighi bravely smothered the ball at the “I watched the game between Napoli striker’s feet. Algeria and Belgium,” the Bundesliga- Angel di Maria and Messi from a free-kick then fired over from the based forward who was on the bench edge of the area, but Argentina were having some joy from set-pieces for Russia said this week. and Marcos Rojo and Ezequiel Garay should have done better when they “Algeria’s attacking players are failed to hit the target from close range from fine deliveries by Messi. quick and each has their own qual- Iran were also dangerous from set-pieces, though, as they could even ity. Algeria are not an easy target. have gone ahead before the break when Jalal Hosseini headed just over “If we play the match (against from a corner. It was the Asian side who threatened again at the start of the second Algeria) like we did with Russia, period as Reza Ghoochanneijhad forced a fine low save from Romero then our chances are good.” with a flashing header at the near post before Dejagah’s appeals for a Defender Kim Young-gwon penalty were turned down when he tumbled in the area under pressure believes the opening run-out will from Zabaleta. have proved beneficial to the Messi then had his first clear chance of the game as he raced onto young Korean squad. “We didn’t Javier Mascherano’s pass but curled the ball just wide of the target. have a lot of players with World Cup Romero was forced to come to his side’s rescue again moments later he experience, but after getting the first got fingertips to a fine header from Dejagah to turn the ball behind and match out of the way, I think we have the Monaco stopper denied Reza once more as Iran threatened to nick all regained our confidence,” he said. three points on the counter-attack two minutes from time. Korea will be looking to the likes of Instead it was Argentina who snatched victory at the last as Messi created Son Heung-min, elected man-of-the- the half yard of space he needed on the edge of the area before leaving match against Russia, to put in another Haghighi with no chance as he curled the ball just inside the far corner on his sparky effort in attacking midfield. favoured left foot. —AFP Son, one of three Koreans who will miss the finale against Belgium if they pick up a second booking, picked out Feghouli as one of Algeria’s dangermen. “Feghouli showed great form with Valencia this season and De Rossi in fitness race proved to be a threat on the field. Knowing that, we have to make sure he doesn’t become a threat,” said the Bayern Leverkusen star. as Italy look to Uruguay As Feghouli, one of nine players against Belgium born in France, concedes, the pressure is on. “It will be historic if we qualify, we have to fight like lions,” said RECIFE: Italy’s World Cup woes are set to Fears that Italy are suffering from the La Liga winger, who represented his country of birth at under deepen with reports that midfielder fatigue, having also had to prepare for a 18 and 21 level, before switching allegiances to Algeria. “We have Daniele De Rossi could miss their Group D Costa Rica side already used to playing in quality players, we’ll do everything to go through,” the 24-year-old decider against Uruguay yesterday after hot and humid conditions, were borne out told his club’s website. Algeria captain Madjid Bougherra said there being forced to undergo tests on his right by the players comments after the game. were positives to extract from their first game. “Despite the loss we calf. The four-time champions made a solid “In the second half we suffered, the have a solid team and don’t forget we put Belgium, one of the best start to the tournament thanks to a 2-1 win heat made it difficult to remain lucid,” said sides in Europe, under pressure.”—AFP over England but Azzurri hopes of making Italy midfielder Claudio Marchisio. “But we the last 16 are now delicately balanced fol- didn’t concede a second goal so we’ve lowing a shock 1-0 defeat to Costa Rica. maintained our chances of qualifying.” With Costa Rica already qualified, Italy With England already eliminated, Italy and Matches on TV need a draw against Uruguay in Natal if Uruguay-who both have three points-will they are to avoid the fate of England, who battle for the second qualifying spot. (Local Timings) were eliminated by Friday’s result in Recife. But because Uruguay have a worse goal De Rossi, meanwhile, could miss the difference, they need to beat Italy if they FIFA World Cup game after finishing Friday’s clash with a are to repeat their exploits of 2010 when sore right calf which required him to they reached the semi-finals. Azzurri coach undergo an MRI scan. Cesare Prandelli admitted many of his Belgium v Russia 19:00 Team doctor Enrico Castellacci is players lacked freshness against Costa beIN SPORTS 1 HD expected to announce later Saturday Rica. With Uruguay also used to playing in beIN SPORTS 2 HD whether the Roma midfielder will be ruled such temperatures, he said “maintaining beIN SPORTS 11 HD out or not. order” on Tuesday will be crucial. beIN SPORTS 13 HD The loss of De Rossi, considered one of “I saw a lot of players who were tired, the pillars of Italy’s side, would prove a not just (Andrea) Pirlo,” said Prandelli beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR blow ahead of a match that Italy can ill responding to a question about the lack of South Korea v Algeria 22:00 afford to lose four years after suffering the impact from the experienced Italy mid- embarrassment, as defending champions, fielder, whose pinpoint passing had unset- beIN SPORTS 1 HD of first round elimination. tled the English in the opening game. beIN SPORTS 2 HD Uruguay appear to have the momen- “Among the problems we have to now beIN SPORTS 11 HD tum having bounced back from a 3-1 address is trying to maintain better order defeat to Costa Rica in their Group D open- on the pitch so that we can allocate our beIN SPORTS 13 HD er with a 2-1 win over England thanks to a resources better.” He added: “I’ve said it beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR double from Liverpool striker Luiz Suarez. before. We’re not as explosive as the teams “Right now, we have to focus solely on from Latin America. Tomorrow what we need to do against Suarez and “It’s going to be an especially challeng- United States v Portugal 1:01 company,” said Italy forward Antonio ing match. We played them last year in the beIN SPORTS 1 HD Cassano after making his World Cup debut Confederations Cup and after we played as a first-half replacement for midfielder well for 35 minutes, they took over. beIN SPORTS 2 HD Thiago Motta. The Azzurri were a pale “But right now, we have to chase all beIN SPORTS 11 HD shadow of the side that looked so in con- negative thoughts away. We have to pre- beIN SPORTS 13 HD trol against England in hot and humid pare from a mental and psychological beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR Manaus last week. point of view.” —AFP Massa on Messi breaks 17Austrian pole 19Iranian hearts SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

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FORTALEZA: Ghana’s forward and captain Asamoah Gyan (center) scores during a Group G football match between Germany and Ghana at the Castelao Stadium during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. — AFP Klose encounter in another cracker German equals Ronaldo’s World Cup record FORTALEZA: Miroslav Klose equalled Brazilian leg- half with a leg injury while Ghana’s Kevin-Prince from Sulley Muntari and Christian Atsu, Ghana Mertesacker, playing his 100th game for Germany, stab home from a yard out after Benedikt end Ronaldo’s record of 15 World Cup goals with made way for Jordan Ayew early in the second- switched off at the start of the second. to flick a header beyond Neuer. Hoewedes flicked on Toni Kroos’s corner. the equaliser for Germany in their 2-2 Group G half. Thomas Mueller picked out Goetze running Nine minutes later things got even better for Both sides had late chances to win the game as draw with Ghana in Fortaleza yesterday. With the USA playing Portugal in Manaus into the box and the Bayern Munich midfielder Ghana as Muntari dispossessed Germany captain Jordan Ayew headed over with the German Mario Goetze had given Germany the lead today, the result breathes life back into Ghana’s stopped unconvincingly to head goalwards with Philipp Lahm in midfield and slid the ball through defence again all at sea. At the other end, only a before goals from Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan hopes of reaching the last 16. the ball going straight down onto his knee before to Black Stars captain Gyan to smash the ball past superb Kwadwo Asamoah tackle denied Mueller turned the game on its head and threatened to The Germans could be knocked from top of the rebounding past Ghana goalkeeper Abdul-Fatawu Neuer. before Ozil also went close, while Gyan pulled a cause a major upset for the Black Stars. group and must beat Jurgen Klinsmann’s Stars and Dauda, who like his two centre-backs had been The Black Stars broke out in some impressive late shot wide in a frantic finish. But Klose had the last laugh with a poacher’s Stripes in Recife on Thursday to be sure of reaching ball-watching. The lead lasted only three minutes dance moves in celebration wafter Gyan’s goal. The bad news for Germany may not end with goal a yard out 19 minutes from time. The duel the knock-out stages. before Harrison Afful crossed into the box and Ghana were running riot and Germany hanging on just the result as Mueller required extensive treat- between the Boateng brothers failed to materialise Having at times bossed the first half, and only Ayew, on his 50th appearance for the Black Stars, by their fingernails but an inspired substitution by ment at the end of the game after crashing into as Germany right-back Jerome missed the second been denied by two fantastic Manuel Neuer saves climbed above Shkodran Mustafi and the static Per coach Joachim Loew brought Klose into the fray to central defender John Boye’s shoulder. — AFP Football-mad Indian couple off to 9th final KOLKATA: Their World Cup love affair began more than three decades ago in Spain. Now 81-year-old Pannalal Chatterjee and his wife Chaitali, 72, are once more heading from cricket- mad India to the ultimate football fiesta. “This may be my last one, but I am so happy at getting the chance to watch a tournament in Brazil,” Pannalal said during a stopover in Singapore on his way to what will be the cou- ple’s ninth World Cup. “It’s always been my dream to watch the World Cup in Brazil. It’s the Mecca of football,” he told AFP by phone. The Chatterjees, who live in the eastern city of Kolkata, are life- long football fans and Pannalal has been involved as a volun- teer administrator for the sport in eastern India since the early FORTALEZA: This combination of photos shows Germany’s Miroslav Klose flipping to celebrate after scoring his side’s second goalduring the Group G World Cup soccer match between 1970s. They got their first taste of top-level football in 1982 Germany and Ghana. — AP when a friend whom they were staying with in London got them tickets for the tournament in Spain, when a young Diego Maradona first garnered global attention. Farmer’s son who can’t play? Meet CR7’s cousin “Such was the excitement of the tournament that I was determined from then on not to miss any World Cups in the CAMPINAS: He is tall, Brazilian and he’s related to About 100 years later Ronaldo, one of the world’s away by stadium security. future,” said Pannalal. Cristiano Ronaldo. He is, however, terrible at football. most recognisable celebrities, arrived in Campinas, now Although he is no Ronaldo lookalike, Rogers’s height Four years later, the Chatterjees were in Mexico when Meet Rogers Aveiro, a distant cousin of the Portuguese a bustling city of one million, for the World Cup. and features suggest a family link is credible. And his Maradona captained Argentina to victory and lifted the Jules superstar and, for a few weeks at least, living just a short Ronaldo trained in front of thousands of fans this cousin Lais is known for her resemblance to Ronaldo’s Rimet trophy at the Azteca stadium. drive away. week in the stadium built on land once farmed by his sister Katia. “The final between Argentina and West Germany was By pure chance, Portugal have set up their Brazilian relatives the Aveiros. And, they say, he and the rest of “I’ve heard that I look like her but I’ve never seen her. unforgettable. The Argentinians won 3-2 and there was so World Cup base in Campinas, home of a farming family the Portugal team are staying in a hotel built with bricks But I think it’s quite cool. It would be nice to meet her much excitement,” he said. which claims a shared ancestry with the Real Madrid supplied by a business owned by the extended family. and Ronaldo,” says the 19-year-old. While Maradona remains the ultimate hero of Chaitali, her husband is a staunch fan of Brazil and speaks proudly of the forward. Their only son Rogers, 36, lacks the hair gel and The personable Rogers, wearing a Ronaldo shirt and “Ronaldo’s my favorite player,” she adds. “He’s the time Pele agreed to pose with them for a photo. the swagger of his illustrious relative, as well as the rip- Madeira cap, says his friends tease him about the family best player in the world and we’ve got the same blood, The couple, who have no children and live off Pannalal’s pling torso-and, by his own admission, the footballing connection. “My friends and relatives all laugh at me he’s family.” The Aveiros’ feelings for Portugal run deep. monthly pension of 7,500 rupees ($125) from his time as a ability. “I’m a horrible player,” he says. because I’m such a bad player, not like Ronaldo who’s Rogers and his parents Armando and Sandra support shipping clerk, scrimp and save all year round to be able to But backed by a family tree matching their roots to the best in the world now,” he says at the comfortable both Brazil and Portugal at the World Cup, and Madeira afford their trips every four years. “For the last four years, I those of CR7 — full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos family home near Campinas. memorabilia dots the house. have been holding back from eating my favourite fish and Aveiro-the Aveiros are quietly adamant about their Well off and not seeking the limelight, the family has Rogers said it would be “awesome” to meet and play many days my stomach has been half-empty to make sure blood ties. never tried to contact the Real Madrid star. Rogers with Ronaldo, even if he’s not the most gifted footballer. that we have enough money for this tournament in Brazil,” he Their story goes like this: two forebears of Ronaldo wanted to watch the public training session, but But the level-headed farmer’s son said Ronaldo, the said. Chaitali also manages to make a bit of money by making and Rogers were brothers, Francisco and Jose, living in couldn’t get a ticket. football and marketing phenomenon with the world at sarees and the couple have a special World Cup fund which Portugal’s Madeira in the late 1800s. “They ran out after about five minutes,” he says. Not his feet, is not even his favorite player. they top whenever they can can. Jose’s son emigrated to Brazil early last century and for him the antics of Andressa Urach, a contestant on Instead, he prefers somebody closer to home. “At the In order to make ends meet in Brazil, the couple have tak- found success as a farmer in the fertile Campinas area the “Miss BumBum” bottom-beauty pageant TV show moment I like Hulk from Brazil. He’s a stronger sort of en some of their own food, including packs of potato chips about 55 miles (88 kilometres) north of Sao Paulo. and a self-avowed lover of Ronaldo, who was escorted player,” Rogers says. — AFP and packets of tea. — AFP Russia dips into pension fund in about-turn for Putin

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AMRITSAR: Indian passengers travel on a train in Amritsar in this photo. Railway passenger fares increased by 14.2 percent, with freight charges rising by 6.5 percent. — AFP Protests in India over steep rail fare hike Angry demonstrators block railway tracks, burn Modi effigies NEW DELHI: Angry demonstrators reporters. the increased fares would put an blocked railway tracks and burned effi- Modi’s effigy was also burnt in the “additional burden” on the middle- gies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra southern city of Hyderabad by sup- class and the poor, who are already Modi yesterday to protest a steep hike porters of the Communist Party of facing the brunt of high inflation. “This in train fares, seen as the government’s India (Marxist), which is part of the comes at a time when the prices of first tough step towards reforming a opposition. Rail passenger fares were onions and potatoes have skyrocket- sluggish economy. Modi’s govern- increased Friday by 14.2 percent and ed. As an opposition party, we ment, which came to power a month freight rates by 6.5 percent with effect demand an immediate rollback of this ago after overthrowing the ruling from June 25, the steepest in the last hike,” Maken said. Congress, has pledged to revive the 15 years. Railway Minister Sadananda However, in an editorial yesterday, economy after it grew at just 4.7 per- Gowda said he was “forced” to take the the leading business daily Economic cent last year-the lowest in nearly a step in order “to meet all the necessary Times welcomed the “courage” shown decade. The hike is seen as the first expenditure”, hinting at the financial by Modi’s government in raising the dose of the “bitter medicine” that Modi crunch the state-controlled network is fares. It said the move was justified, recently warned was needed to revive facing. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley given the high fuel costs and “railways’ the economy, Asia’s third-biggest. also defended the hike in a Facebook desperate need for more revenues”. In northern Uttar Pradesh state, post yesterday. “India must decide The previous government led by left- scores of flag-waving protesters whether it wants a world class railway leaning Congress did not revise the blocked railway tracks in Allahabad or a ramshackled one... the only way fares in an interim budget announced city, forcing the Ganga-Gomti passen- railways can survive is when users pay just before the elections in April-May. ger train to halt. for the facilities that they avail,” he Prominent industry body FICCI said “an And in the capital New Delhi, hun- wrote. increase of this magnitude in one go dreds of supporters of the opposition ‘Desperate’ measure would not have been necessitated” Congress party set fire to an effigy of The Indian railway system, one of had tariffs been increased gradually Modi before police fired water cannon the world’s largest, is still the main over the years. “We of course hope and to disperse the crowd. “It is a massive form of long-distance travel in the expect that there will be a concomi- hike. If they continue to take steps like huge country. But years of financial tant improvement in both the quality this, I am sure people of the country neglect and populist policy of subsi- and safety of services offered by will punish the government,” Arvinder dizing fares have hit the network hard. Indian Railways (post the fare hike),” it HYDERABAD: Indian activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxists (CPI-M) burn an effigy representing Prime Singh Lovely, a Congress leader, told Congress spokesman Ajay Maken said said in a statement. — AFP Minister Narendra Modi during their protest against the price hike in railway fares yesterday. — AFP Family friendly workplaces Spain to slash taxes to would boost the economy WASHINGTON: The United States could ment rate are offset by concerns over a boost nascent recovery boost its sagging labor force participa- 62.8 percent labor force participation tion rate and get more people back to rate - the lowest rate in 36 years - a sign work - if more businesses had family that some workers have become discour- Government unveils tax reform proposal friendly policies such as paid maternity aged and dropped out of the labor force. and paternity leave, the White House said The White House argues family structures MADRID: Spain announced it would cut income The government said it would reduce the zone average of 40.4 percent, according to in a report on Friday. “Trying to balance have changed dramatically in recent tax and reduce corporate tax to 25 percent for number of income tax bands to five from seven European Union data released earlier this week. breadwinning and caregiving responsi- decades, but workplaces have not. More large companies by 2016, aiming to speed up a and cut rates on each band, while also reducing Rather than directly boosting tax revenue by hik- bilities without the support of work-fami- than 40 percent of mothers are the nascent economic recovery. The cuts are part of a corporate rates for large companies to 25 percent ing taxes, the latest reform aims to widen the tax ly policies designed to help families navi- household breadwinners, while the num- proposed bill that is Prime Minister Mariano from 30 percent over the next two years. base by reducing available tax breaks and make gate these complexities is leaving too ber of stay-at-home dads has doubled in Rajoy’s main structural reform this year and also The lower income tax rates mean 20 million the most of the economic turnaround, the gov- many families stressed, exhausted, and the last 25 years, and fathers are working included reducing tax breaks to lift the country’s income-tax payers will have about 5 billion euros ernment has said. Tax revenue was up by 5 per- burdened by work-family conflict,” the more hours on housework and childcare, tax revenue, currently one of the lowest in Europe. in additional disposable income over the next two cent in January to May compared to the same White House said. the report said. The government said the plan will boost gross years, Montoro said. Spain has been in and out of period last year, Montoro said, despite relatively The report was timed ahead of More people have to care for young domestic product by 0.55 percent over the two recession since a 2008 property crash which has low growth and near-zero inflation. Monday’s “summit on working families” children as well as older relatives. A years 2015 and 2016, but it has been roundly criti- left one in four workers unemployed and has put With Rajoy facing voters next year, and his con- in Washington, where Obama will pro- third of workers have chosen not to cized by unions and economists as details of it thousands of companies out of business. The servative People’s Party (PP) suffering tumbling mote policies such as raising the mini- take a job because of family conflicts, were revealed over the last few months. Unions burst housing bubble sent revenues from the support in the polls after years of austerity meas- mum wage and expanding access to the White House said. “The lesson is say tax cuts are merely a populist measure ahead once lucrative construction and real estate sectors ures, the reform has been slammed by some as childcare. Republicans have said the pro- clear: if we want to increase the pace of of elections next year while some economists say tumbling and helped push the public deficit to political opportunism which could backfire. “The posals would hurt jobs, but Obama, who economic growth we should make it growth is not yet strong enough to justify tax cuts near-unsustainable levels. Over the last three fiscal reform is based on a scenario of strengthen- is seeking to boost Democratic fortunes easier for more men and women to par- and the move risks hurting the government’s abil- years, the government has passed a slew of ing economic recovery, of which we have serious before the midterm elections in ticipate in the labor force,” the report November, argues the measures would said. The United States is one of only ity to meet its budget deficit targets. unpopular tax hikes and deep spending cuts to doubts,” the head of Spain’s second-largest union help the economy. The US economy has three countries that does not offer “The moment has come for the Spanish to be bring down the public shortfall and convince UGT, Candido Mendez said this week. Spain’s showed signs of recovery since the reces- mandatory paid parental leave policies, recompensed for the efforts that they’ve made,” nervous financial markets it can control its economy is forecast to grow 1.2 percent this year sion ended in 2009, with unemployment the report said, and only about a tenth Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro said at a press finances. after shrinking, or stagnating, since 2009 and the at a five-and-a-half year low of 6.3 per- of employers in the private sector conference following the weekly cabinet meeting. government has targeted getting the budget cent in May, the most recent measure. choose to offer paid leave for family cir- “The moment has come to strengthen economic Tax revenue up deficit below the official EU ceiling of 3 percent of But the benefits of the low unemploy- cumstances. — Reuters growth, stimulate savings, investment and job cre- Spanish tax revenue as a percentage of GDP in output by 2016. The deficit stood at 6.6 percent of ation.” 2012 stood at 32.5 percent compared to the euro gross domestic product in 2013. — Reuters SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 BUSINESS Historical review of the housing policy

Al-Shall Weekly Economic Report

Public Administration The pillars of public administration in the country are its three powers: government, National Assembly and the Judiciary. The responsibility of these powers is legislation, supervision and to settle disputes in accordance with the con- stitution and law. At present, all of them have become involved in dispute. That case reflects the last chapter of conflict and dis- agreement. No one of these authorities is above suspicions and neither is capable to practice its role or responsibility in the public administration of the country. Who is right and who is wrong is not the issue at this moment. What is important is the serious vacuum in the authority. In similar cases, every danger- ous and horrible object expands and steps in this vacuum and keeps expanding. A month ago, on the 25th of May 2014, we warned against this serious internal situation. And within a month, not only did internal conditions deteriorate, but the conditions in the nearby territory deteriorated too. When the immunity of one country weakens due to its weak authorities and the internal strife, the region’s problems find space to stretch out within that vacuum. Mismanagement was left to take its full range. Corruption was left to aggravate. Loyalties were bought out by extravagance to cover both, problems evolved from tiny seeds into crises and warn of disasters, and the whole environment is a crisis incuba- tor. Efforts diverted from construction to wasting potentials by extinguishing existing fires and more serious likely ones. Talk about development and reform is not useful any more. What happened lately in Iraq did not unfold its worst yet. It is the result of faulty and failing internal policies that aimed at monopolizing power. These policies were left to aggravate and the results came disastrous in par with the errors and sins. It is a repeated scenario of the spring of the eastern bloc states and the Arab Spring countries. We stated within the previous report that the first step of rescue inside is admitting the bad condi- tions and that they are getting worse day after day, then the beginning of planting hope in reform equal to the pain from the conditions. Reform by the traditional method is irrelevant but by an essential change. The situation warrants adopting decisions that restore cohesion in the society and guarantee the stability of that cohesion. The matter needs decisions that bring back the State’s between the present housing policy and the need to export oil ures are not the end. The Bank will allocate 400 billion Euros for lion in march 2013 to KD 170.3 million as the item of estimated respect and prestige to the three powers of the state. Less than to finance other priorities. The capital expenditures need for the cheap long term lending for banks, or 4 years, under a condi- distributions to depositors rose by about KD 788 thousand, or that, only panic remains from the disappearance of a state to power generation plants to supply the horizontal housing tion of expanding their lending to the private sector. Draghy by 1.8%, to KD 43.9 million (KD 43.1 million for the same period disagree on. expansion and the energy used as fuel in these plants will be went further by submitting the probability of adopting mone- last year). Item of general and administrative expense increased The only thing we can do is warning based on analyzing deducted from oil revenues and from the quantities assigned tary facilitation-printing money-similar to the USA, UK and by KD 12.5 million, or by 38.7%, to KD 44.7 million (KD 32.3 mil- experiences of the world around us and our historical experi- for export. Japan if conditions do not improve. Both Denmark and Sweden lion for the same 2013). The item of staff costs increased by ence. We sincerely hope that our fears are baseless though its That would have a negative impact on all that we men- preceded the Euro-zone in imposing a negative interest and for 18.9% to KD 43.9 million (KD 37 million for the same period last consequences, if true, are extensive and unbearable. While tioned above. Emphatically, we shall conclude the impossibility the same justifications. But the matter needs some time in year). While the provisions of impairment by about KD 25.8 mil- there is another opportunity in the traditional states, time will of continuing the same housing policy without unbearable sac- order to be in a position to judge the efficiency of the proce- lion, or by 63.8 %,(KD KD 14.7 million for the same last year). not offer another opportunity for states whose wealth relies on rifice in all other priorities including job opportunities. The real dure. The ultimate remedy might be branding, ie printing mon- Therefore, the net profit margin before estimated distribution one provisional source. The time factor is essential in the deci- problem remains not in proving the impossibility of the case ey, which Germany, the largest Euro economics and its treasury, to depositors dropped by 37.2% in the first quarter of the cur- sion of changing the provisional wealth into permanent at this but in marketing for that. We provided the housing policy as an hates. rent year, versus 36.5% in the same period last year. dangerous level we had reached. No building could be con- example only for the absence of adopting any necessary and Our purpose behind reviewing the European experience is The bank assets rose by KD1.113 billion, or by 6.9%, to structed on quagmire, like the current moving sands of Kuwait. preventive policies under the weak governing powers all of two folds. The first is that each crises has its costs, some KD17.253 billion (KD16.140 billion in the end of 2013). If we which are in a state of defense. inevitable and some are avoidable, although Kuwait paid the compare the increase in total assets with the total assets in the Housing Policy necessary and the unnecessary of those costs. The second is first quarter of 2013, it will score KD 2.322 billion, or by 15.5%, as The Negative Interest In this report we shall not provide a historical review of the cloning the precautionary thinking methodology. They do not it scored KD 14.932 billion). Item of short term murabaha housing policy in the country. We however would like to stress Post-2008 crisis, the global economic growth suffers from believe in managing the damage scale when it occurs but to increased by KD 627.6 million, 25.8%, to KD 3.059 billion (17.7% that seven plans from 1976 until 2011 aimed at addressing its three negative characteristics: high level of risks, weaker growth control its size before occurring. They have a scenario for con- of total assets) versus KD2.432 billion in the end of 2013 (15.1% requirements. All failed and the accumulated shortage until the than all recovery periods in the history of crises -except the frontation at present but they have another scenario if indexes of total assets) and by KD 1.741 billion versus KD1.319 billion in end of 2011 reached 91.5 thousand applications. The seven 5- 1929 crisis- and it does not address the issue of increased prove its limited success. A look at Kuwait’s financial policy the same period last year (8.8% of total assets). Item of cash and year plans-over 36 years- which started on 1976 until 2011 tar- unemployment rates. This rise in unemployment rates rein- asserts that those who design it are irrelevant to future and the balances with banks and financial institutions increased by KD geted on building 246 thousand housing units, at an annual forces the feature of the post-crisis growth, i.e. the widened gap monetary policy has weak impact due to a loose financial poli- 455.3 million and scored KD 1.526 billion (8.8% of total assets) average of 6.8 thousand units. What was actually achieved was between those who own and those who are deprived. Latest cy. versus KD 1.070 billion in the end of 2013 (6.6% of total assets) 136 thousand units (ie an annual average of 3.8 thousand), at figures of the European Monetary Union Zone point to all these and by KD 581.5 million in the end of 2013 (6.6% of total assets), KFH Financial Results 44.7% shortage compared to the planned. The gap of the target risks. The situation in France, the second largest economy in the and scored KD 944.2 million (6.3% of total assets) in march shortage increases to 63.8% after endorsing the 8th five-year zone, did not improve and added to the risks of the third and Kuwait Finance House (KFH) announced results of its finan- 2013. plan which targeted on building 130 thousand housing units , fourth economies, namely, Italy and Spain. Unemployment is cial operations for the first quarter of the current year, which While the item of receivable decreased by KD 72.4 million, however, only 171 additional units were built in two years. stable, high and close to 12%. The growth in the first quarter is indicate the bank achieved net profits -after deducting taxes- 1.1%, to KD 6.428 billion (37.3% of total assets) vis-a-vis KD After 38 years, the unsustainable housing policy still the weak at around 0.2% and inflation is low at 0.5% while the tar- by about KD38.5 million, which is up by KD450 thousand, or by 6.500 billion in the end of 2013 (40.3% of total assets) and housing policy. There are some who come every now and then get is 2%. 1.2%, versus KD 38 million for the same period in 2013. After decreased by KD 322.3 million, 4.8%, compared with KD 6.750 promising to meet all the requirements within a few years and Reducing the deposit interest for one night at the European deducting the non-controlling interests, the profit relevant to billion (45.2% of total assets) the same period last year. Figures in the same traditional method, ie by horizontal expansion Central Bank (ECB) from zero to -0.1% is a penalty on the one the bank shareholders scored about KD26.1 million (KD23 mil- indicate that the bank liabilities (without including the equities) throughout the country. Everyone knows the constraints: land, hand to force banks to expand lending and on the other, lion for the same period in 2013), a rise by 13.3%, or KD3.1 mil- increased by 1.181 billion, 8.9%, and scored KD 14.516 billion finance, electricity and water, and the constraints of the remain- though covertly, is a tool to weaken the euro exchange rate. lion. (KD 13.334 billion in the end of 2013) and these figures would ing the financial resources to create jobs and for health and With the reduction of the main interest rate from 0.25% to Total operations incomes increased by KD1.3 million, about be bigger if we compared total liabilities with the same period education, etc. In other words, everyone knows that it is unsus- 0.15%, they hope that this would help to avoid a period of weak 0.6%, to KD224.4 million (KD 223 million for the same period of last year and would score about KD 1.984 billion, growth rate tainable method. But scoring short-term political points has or negative inflation to stimulate growth. last year) due to rise in the item of investment incomes by at 15.8% as it scored KD 12.532 billion. become more important. In any other place of the world, cities The Fear from negative inflation occurs due to the likeli- KD7.5 million to KD 35.3 million (KD27.8 million the same peri- Results of analyzing the bank’s financial statements calcu- are built around an economic activity and they disappear when hood of consumers refrain from consumption and consequent- od last year). Likewise, item of other incomes increased by KD lated on annual basis indicate a drop in the return on average that activity no longer exists. In our country, an artificial eco- ly the refrain of investors from investment which will force 6.3 million to about KD19.9 million (KD13.6 million for the same equities relevant to the banks shareholders index (ROE), which nomic and unreal activity, like the exchangeable but costly down growth rates and push down wages and increase unem- period last year). While the item of share of results of associate scored about 6.1% (6.9%). Return on average bank assets index services, is transferred just to justify building those cities. ployment rate. In modern economic literature, all recollect and joint ventures decreased by KD 6.3 million to KD 150 thou- (ROA) dropped slightly to 0.9% (1%). Return on capital index To reach a sustainable result, the only way is to do what has Japan’s experience for two decades during which it paid unwar- sand (KD6.5 million). Item of gain on foreign currencies (ROC) also dropped to 40.1% (52.4%) comparing with the same become traditional and repeated, i.e. to design exchangeable ranted costs to maintain the peculiar Japanese way of thinking. dropped by about KD4.3 million to KD4.9 million (KD9.2 million period 2013. While the EPS increased to 6.1 fils (6 fils in the matrix between various priorities then decide what is possible The conditions did not improve until ‘Abe’ Revolution, or the so- for the same period of last year). same period 2013). Price multiplier/earnings per share (P/E) and sustainable from these priorities and of what size and form called ‘Abenomics’ or Abe Economics named after its present On the other hand, the operational expenses and estimated scored 37.2 times (33.5 times in the same period last year). Price in order to have balance among priorities and present them in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. distributions to depositors increased by KD 26 million and high- multiplier/book value (P/B) scored 2 times (1.7 times in the open discussion. To give one example, let us take the exchange Mario Draghy, ECB’s Chairman announced that those meas- er than the rise in total operations incomes, from KD 144.3 mil- same period last year). EXCHANGE RATES

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Syrian Pound 2.900 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Nepalese Rupees 3.880 Singapore Dollar 0.221771 0.227771 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 South African Rand 0.020285 0.028785 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001871 0.002451 Japanese Yen 2.761 Australian Dollar 267.50 264.50 Thai Bhat 9.680 Taiwan 0.009275 0.009455 Indian Rupees 4.764 Canadian Dollar 262.65 265.65 Turkish Lira 134.045 Thai Baht 0.008320 0.008870 Pakistani Rupees 2.868 Swiss Franc 320.80 318.80 Srilankan Rupees 2.167 Euro 388.78 389.78 Arab Nepali Rupees 3.009 US Dollar 282.10 285.10 Singapore Dollar 225.420 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.743942 0.751942 Sterling Pound 476.98 479.98 Egyptian Pound 0.036594 0.039694 Hongkong Dollar 36.489 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000080 Bangladesh Taka 3.638 Bangladesh Taka 3.631 3.901 CURRENCY BUY SELL Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Philippine Peso 6.466 Indian Rupee 4.787 5.087 Europe Thai Baht 8.661 Jordanian Dinar 0.394793 0.402293 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.163 2.598 Belgian Franc 0.007353 0.008353 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Nepali Rupee 2.996 3.531 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 British Pound 0.466036 0.475036 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Pakistani Rupee 2.863 2.790 Czech Korune 0.006213 0.018213 UAE Dirhams 76.87 77.34 Moroccan Dirhams 0.024413 0.048413 GCC COUNTRIES Danish Krone 0.047541 0.052541 Bahraini Dinar 750.84 752.91 Nigerian Naira 0.001196 0.001831 Euro 0.379159 0.387159 Saudi Riyal 75.470 Egyptian Pound 39.44 40.04 Omani Riyal 0.728773 0.734453 Norwegian Krone 0.043192 0.048292 Qatari Riyal 77.763 Jordanian Dinar 401.50 407.15 Qatar Riyal 0.076996 0.078209 Romanian Leu 0.081630 0.81630 Omani Riyal 735.190 Omani Riyal 733.64 740.94 Saudi Riyal 0.074803 0.075503 Bahraini Dinar 751.690 Qatari Riyal 77.90 78.45 Slovakia 0.008101 0.018101 Syrian Pound 0.001754 0.001974 UAE Dirham 77.074 Saudi Riyal 75.36 75.76 Swedish Krona 0.038280 0.043280 Tunisian Dinar 0.169198 0.177198 Swiss Franc 0.308324 0.318524 Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.138248 0.145248 UAE Dirhams 0.076041 0.077190 Egyptian Pound - Cash 38.601 Yemeni Riyal 0.001276 0.001356 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.550 Dollarco Exchange Co. 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Hit by plummeting investment and The National Welfare Fund and its sister, the Siluanov said, adding that the money had been and the government has so far managed to cov- capital flight after Putin’s decision in March to $87 billion Reserve Fund, were created by former earmarked exclusively for projects that also er the shortfalls from its budget. But it expects annex Crimea from Ukraine, the $2 trillion econ- finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who is credited involved foreign investment. that it will be unable to do so beyond the end of omy is on the brink of recession. US and EU sanc- with restoring public finances to health after the the decade, as the population continues to age. tions have been limited in scope, but there are chaotic 1990s. The funds helped Russia to sur- No specifics In the meantime, growth has stalled. The gov- signs foreign investors are holding off for fear of vive the 2008-2009 global financial crisis relative- Last year, the Fund’s investments in all foreign ernment expects the economy to expand by at worse to come. ly unscathed, by providing about $100 billion of currencies brought a 9.9 percent return in rouble most 0.4-0.5 percent this year, and the World To revive the economic growth that was the support to state companies. Last November, terms and 3.35 percent from dollar deposits in Bank and the IMF say a recession is likely if main driver of Putin’s popularity in the previous when risk aversion towards emerging markets the US. Kudrin said late last month that he did Russia is subjected to the deeper sanctions that decade, the government has resorted to some- began threatening the economy and some offi- not oppose increasing spending from the Fund the EU and United States have threatened over thing that Putin only last year vowed not to do: cials called for more of the reserves to be mobi- slightly, but that he could see hardly any projects its role in the crisis in Ukraine. tap the $87 billion National Welfare Fund. The lized, Putin said the National Wealth Fund was a that met the required standards of quality and Russia, which expects a small budget surplus fund has been built up from windfall oil revenues security cushion not to be toyed with. “Those profitability. He warned that the government this year, could potentially increase federal and is intended to help finance a growing state who supposed that we should allow ourselves to should not invest “when the economics of the spending. But that is limited by a budget formu- pension deficit; but a government decree last spend the entirety of this fund are deeply mis- projects are still unknown, no trust has been la, while the National Wealth Fund is adminis- week raised the share of the fund that could be taken,” he said then. established, and private investors are still not tered outside the annual budget. Aleksashenko used for direct investment such as infrastructure But the economic fallout of the Ukraine crisis present”. So far, there are no specifics on foreign says increasing the budget deficit would be the projects to 60 percent from 40 percent. appears to have prompted a government investment in the projects, but few doubt that most logical substitute at a time when private The move deals a blow to the Finance change of heart. Net capital flight is $80 billion in Russia needs a growth stimulus, and the move investment is largely absent. “(It is) also more Ministry, which manages the extra energy rev- the year so far, compared to $64 billion in the represents a victory for Economy Minister Alexei transparent as you include those expenditures enues and had previously insisted on a 40-per- whole of 2013. Capital investment in tangible Ulyukayev’s advocacy of bigger spending. into the budget,” he said. That, however, is cent cap with the rest invested conservatively, goods, which grew in double digits in most of Analysts at the state-owned VTB Bank said the unlikely to happen. The Finance Ministry only mostly in foreign currency and foreign sovereign the first decade of the millennium, was down 2.6 move was likely to “support a recovery in invest- recently won a heated battle to defend the limit- debt. But the real victims could be ordinary pct in May, year-on-year - the latest in a series of ment and, more broadly, economic growth, start- ing spending budget rule, leaving the Wealth Russians whose pensions the fund is intended to monthly falls that have extended the 0.2 percent ing in 2015 (maybe late 2014)”. At the same time, Fund as the only readily accessible source of cover in the future as the population ages and decline seen in the whole of 2013. Last month, economists warn that there is a risk of money funds. the state budget can no longer keep up. Putin surprised markets by suggesting that the being lost along the way. “Infrastructure spend is “A little more, a little bit more and we can for- Pensioners remember how Putin restored order state-run gas producer Gazprom could boost its about all that is left - but is incredibly inefficient get about the National Wealth Fund,” to the pension system after its near collapse in capital with billions of dollars from the fiscal in Russia, as evidenced by the Sochi Olympics. Aleksashenko said. Ash at Standard Bank echoed the 1990s, and they make up his strongest voter reserves - a notion the Finance Ministry has ruled The $50 billion spend was three to four times the view of many Western analysts that Russia base. out for now. more than the London Olympics, and I would above all needs “meaningful economic reforms” But in a country where every fifth dollar of Then came last week’s decree to tap the hazard a guess that a lot of this leaked out via to make it more attractive for both domestic spending on state procurements is officially National Wealth Fund by giving roughly $9 bil- graft,” said Timothy Ash, head of emerging mar- and foreign investment. “But this means chang- acknowledged to end up stolen, and state com- lion each to two state institutions, the Russian ket research at Standard Bank in London. ing the whole model of development, from the panies come up with elaborate schemes not to Direct Investment Fund and the state nuclear In a report last month on Russia’s fiscal policy, power vertical to something else, and that is a return federal funds, the promised return on corporation Rosatom, to spend on projects rang- the International Monetary Fund criticized the risk to Putin’s grip on power; he is above all a those investments may never materialize. “We ing from roads to railways and nuclear power Finance Ministry for not providing “any risk conservative with a small ‘c’, and does not like should not be taking money away from the stations, both inside and outside Russia. In the analysis around (the wealth funds’) investment radical change,” Ash said. “So raiding the future generations for which the Fund was, strict- first days after the announcement, the Finance strategy”. The main risk, analysts say, is that National Wealth Fund is a sign of desperation in ly speaking, created,” said former central banker Ministry made no comment. Asked this week by Russia, which has a generous retirement age by my mind, and suggests little prospect for mean- and Finance Ministry official Sergei Reuters why he had agreed to raise the fund’s global standards - 55 for women and 60 for men ingful reform. The Finance Ministry knows this Aleksashenko, a critic of Putin. “We are on track cap on direct investment, Finance Minister Anton - may not have the money to pay pensions to a very well.” — Reuters

Shell offers $51 million in compensation for oil spills LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell is ready to offered before and has been flatly refused pay up to 30 million pounds ($51 million) by our clients who found it insulting and in compensation for two oil spills in derisory, nothing has changed this view.” Nigeria in 2008 after a London court The London High Court on Friday rejected rejected a larger claim, sources involved in the claimants’ attempts to expand the the case said yesterday. Around 15,000 res- scope of the compensation, ruling that the idents of the Bodo community in the pipeline operator could not be held Niger Delta represented by law firm Leigh responsible for damage caused by oil Day appealed in 2011 to a London court theft. for more than 300 million pounds in com- A trial is planned to start in May 2015 in pensation. Claimants say that the two Nigeria, but Shell urged the claimants to spills resulted in the leakage of 500,000 reach a settlement beforehand. “From the barrels of oil but Shell estimated the vol- outset, we’ve accepted responsibility for ume at around 4,000 barrels. Shell has the two deeply regrettable operational already offered some compensation for spills in Bodo,” Mutiu Sunmonu, Managing the spills. The sources said a Shell offer Director of the Shell Petroleum from September 2013 to settle the case for Development Company of Nigeria Ltd 30 million pounds remained on the table. (SPDC), said in a statement. “We hope the The lawyer representing the claimants on community will now direct their UK legal Friday rejected the sum. representatives to stop wasting even more “Shell have consistently sought to time pursuing enormously exaggerated underestimate the damage whilst paying claims and consider sensible and fair com- only lip service to an apology. These spills, pensation offers,” Sunmonu said. Massive which are some of the largest oil spills in oil theft, sabotage of infrastructure and history, have devastated a community of leaks from ageing pipelines are cutting NANGARHAR: Afghan farmers plant rice at a paddy field on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province yesterday. Agriculture is many thousands of people and ravaged into the profits of oil majors operating in the main source of livelihood and subsistence for roughly 75 percent of the Afghan population even though it only comprises about 20 the environment,” Martyn Day said in a Nigeria, as well as damaging the public percent of the country’s GDP. The economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001 largely because of the statement. “The offer of £30m has been finances of the African nation. — Reuters infusion of international assistance. — AFP QE part of ECB toolkit Focus now on current stimulus FRANKFURT: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said large-scale asset purchases are part of the central bank’s toolkit, but for now it would focus on its latest set of stimulus measures. Draghi told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf in an interview published yes- terday that the euro-zone recovery was still weak, uneven and vulnerable and that interest rates would stay low over a longer period. HAGUENAU: An employee of German multinational group Siemens checks Asked what needed to happen before the ECB would start buying assets to give banks more money measuring devices during a visit of Siemens France president of the Siemens site to lend, also known as quantitative easing (QE), of Haguenau, eastern France. — AFP Draghi said “that would be the answer to a deteriora- tion of inflation expectations over the medium term.” France backs GE bid for “At the moment, however, we are focusing on the measures announced on 5 June,” Draghi was quoted as saying. The ECB’s target for medium-term inflation industrial jewel Alstom is below, but close to 2 percent, a far cry from the cur- PARIS: France has stepped firmly into the battle over Alstom, saying it favors General rent level of 0.5 percent, which has sparked concern the euro-zone could enter a Japan-style deflationary Electric’s 12.35 billion euro ($16.8 billion) bid and will take a 20 percent controlling spiral of falling prices, slowing growth and waning stake in the French industrial jewel. Alstom’s board must decide quickly whether the consumption and investments. group should enter into exclusive negotiations with GE before the offer expires on At the June policy meeting, the ECB cut interest Monday. Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg said Friday he had sent a letter of rates to record lows - the deposit rate below zero - NICOSIA: A woman uses the ATM as a man passes outside a branch of Bank of Cyprus in intent to GE head Jeff Immelt laying out the terms of the alliance, chosen over a rival and launched a series of steps to boost lending to downtown capital Nicosia, Cyprus. Cyprus made its return to the international markets offer from Germany’s Siemens and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. French Prime companies. Draghi said after the meeting the ECB Minister Manuel Valls also hailed the sweetened GE offer, which includes a govern- could still do more if necessary. Buying government Wednesday in its first public bond issue since last year’s painful rescue deal that saved it ment veto over sensitive nuclear energy technology. bonds “is indeed possible within our mandate, name- from bankruptcy. — AP The firebrand French economy minister blamed EU competition rules for thwarting ly if the purchases are aimed at ensuring price stabili- Asked how long interest rates would remain low, he if needed. “In order to be credible, we also had to be a deal with Siemens, accusing Brussels of blocking the creation of European industrial ty,” Draghi told the paper. “Quantitative easing can said: “We have prolonged banks’ access to unlimited sure that we could actually use the instrument. We giants. Under the proposal, the French state would take a controlling 20 percent stake include not only government bonds, but also private liquidity up to the end of 2016. That is a signal. Our were not bluffing, most certainly not,” he said. in power-to-rail group Alstom by buying two-thirds of the shares owned by French sector loans. We will discuss that when the time program in support of bank lending to businesses Turning to euro-zone politics, Draghi said “far group Bouygues as a show of “patriotic vigilance”, Montebourg said. A nuclear and comes,” Draghi said. will continue for four years. That shows that interest more is necessary for a perfect monetary union” and steam unit backed by Paris is also planned, which would give the French government rates will remain low over a longer period.” Thereafter suggested to subject structural reforms to union- veto rights on nuclear plant security and technology. Perfect monetary union rates would increase when the recovery firmed up. wide discipline, too. “In the case of the budget Shares in Alstom rose 1.1 percent to close at 28.00 euros in response to the news. But he emphasized that the ECB had not seen any A key step that took the sting out of the European agreements, sovereignty has been shared among GE confirmed that Immelt was reviewing the offer. The future of Alstom has been at deflation in the sense of prices declining across the debt crisis was Draghi’s signature policy - the OMT member states. That should also be done with the centre of a transatlantic tug of war for several months after President Francois whole spectrum in the euro-zone, with households bond-buy plan he launched in 2012 to back up his respect to the labor market, competitiveness, Hollande’s Socialist government objected to the US giant buying the jewel of French and firms postponing consumption and investment pledge to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. bureaucracy, agreements on the internal market,” engineering, and encouraged a rival offer by Siemens and Mitsubishi. Early on Friday, because they are waiting for lower prices. The recov- Even without deploying the tool, markets calmed Draghi said. “You could grant greater powers to the ery was still vulnerable, however, and Draghi warned Siemens and Mitsubishi improved and simplified their linked offers, increasing their down. Draghi said he was, like many others, surprised European Commission, or to the member states that disruptions in the global economy could “quick- within the European Council, or you could create valuation of Alstom’s energy division to 14.6 billion euros ($19.9 billion), less than a by the magnitude of the effect the program has had. ly change the situation.” Persistently low inflation also “We were all surprised,” he said, adding that the pro- new European institutions. That is not for me to day after GE had made several changes to make its bid more attractive. — AFP made adjustments more difficult, Draghi added. gram despite not being used so far could be activated decide,” Draghi said — Reuters SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 BUSINESS

KSE ends in red zone; Price Index down 4.19%

BAYAN WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) ended last week zone. For the annual performance, the price index ended in the red zone. The Price Index closed at 6,940.24 points, last week recording 8.07% annual loss compared to its down by 4.19% from the week before closing, the closing in 2013, while the weighted index increased by Weighted Index decreased by 3.23% after closing at 4.13%, and the KSX-15 recorded 7.90% growth. 471.30 points, whereas the KSX-15 Index closed at 1,152.83 points down by 3.25%. Furthermore, last week’s Sectors’ Indices average daily turnover decreased by 5.77%, compared to All of KSE’s sectors ended last week in the red zone. the preceding week, reaching KD 21.18 million, whereas Last week’s highest loser was the Real Estate sector which trading volume average was 129.85 million shares, index declined by 6.17%, closing at 1,181.77 points, The recording an decrease of 7.73%. Financial Services sector was second on the losers’ list, The stock market indicators combined to close in the which index declined by 5.96%, closing at 937.33 points, red zone for the second consecutive week, especially the followed by the Telecommunication sector, as its index Price Index, which declined below the 7,000 level for the closed at 742.19 points at a loss of 4.64%. The Basic first time since more than a year, in light of the large drop Materials sector was the last loser as its index closed at recorded by many of the large-cap and small-cap stocks. 1,193.69 points at a loss of 0.97%. On the other hand, the strong selling operations lead the stock market for a capital loss of approximately KD 1 bil- Sectors’ Activity lion during the last week only, as it declined by 3.13% The Financial services sector dominated total trade when compared to the previous week, after it reached volume during last week with 261.12 million shares KD 29.79 billion by the end of the week, affected by the changing hands, representing 40.22% of the total market price drop of many stocks in light of the harsh selling trading volume. The Real Estate sector was second in trend witnessed by the market as a result to the investors’ terms of trading volume as the sector’s traded shares worries due to the political tensions, which negatively were 32.49% of last week’s total trading volume, with a affected the three indices, and in turn recorded steep total of 210.93 million shares. On the other hand, the losses compared to the preceding week trading. Banking sector’s stocks were the highest traded in terms Moreover, the listed stocks of the Real Estate and the of value; with a turnover of KD35.81 million or 33.81% of Financial Services sectors were affected the most by the last week’s total market trading value. The Real Estate selling operations during the last week, whereas both sec- sector took the second place as the sector’s last week tors recorded most of the losses among the different mar- turnover was KD18.82 million represented 17.77% of the ket sectors, which ended the weekly trading in the red total market trading value.

Canon acquires Milestone Standard Chartered Bank, DEC ink MOU DUBAI: Dubai Economic Council (DEC) and DUBAI: Canon, world leader in imag- Milestone Systems: “Milestone is Standard Chartered Bank have signed a MOU ing solutions yesterday announced it extremely excited about the huge stipulating that Standard Chartered Bank will has signed an agreement to acquire potential that being part of a global advise, arrange and facilitate trade and Denmark-based Milestone Systems group will provide. Canon respects investment flows between the public and pri- A/S, a world leading provider of open how we built our business with our vate sectors based in Dubai, UAE and the platform video management software, partners and supports our strategy of USA, based on the $5 billion MOU signed ear- via its subsidiary Canon Europa NV. providing open platform solutions and lier between US-EXIM Bank and DEC last year. The new combination will create a for- therefore the need to remain a stand- Standard Chartered Bank has been chosen midable player in the fast growing net- alone company within the Canon for its expertise in facilitating trade and work video surveillance market by Group. We feel this step is right for tak- investment flows across Asia, Africa and the combining the strengths of Canon’s ing both our business and support for Middle East as well as the understanding, his- innovative imaging technology with suppliers and partners to a new level.” tory and scale of the bank’s participation in Milestone’s best in class video manage- Milestone is the world leader in facilitating flows between Dubai and the rest ment software expertise. Canon has a video management software, with of the world. This MOU will open up avenues clear ambition to drive future growth strong consultancy and training serv- for trade facilitation and project financing in through diversification and has identi- ices and a major focus on innovation. the fields of infrastructure, water and sanita- fied network video surveillance as a This creates strong synergies with tion, power and renewable energy, down- strategic new business area. Bringing Canon’s customer focus and R&D cul- stream oil and gas infrastructure and refiner- Milestone into the Canon Group will ture. As part of the Canon Group, ies and telecommunication for Dubai, bring- significantly enhance Canon’s software Milestone will be able to accelerate its ing about continued growth in Dubai, as well capabilities in this sector. business and development of new as developing sustainability in the long term Rokus van Iperen, President & CEO, products. In addition, Milestone will for the local community. Canon Europe, Middle East and Africa, be able to use Canon’s business and During the signing ceremony held in the explains: “Canon is aiming to take a consumer channels to expand its headquarters of Standard Chartered Bank in leadership position in network video global market presence. Dubai, HE Hani Al Hamli, DEC Secretary- surveillance and we are making an Milestone’s successful Open General, commented, “I am very pleased to important strategic investment today Platform business model is essential be cooperating with Standard Chartered to realise our objective to expand in to its future success and Milestone Bank to help our businesses move forward in this market. Together with Milestone, will continue to provide open plat- Dubai. The success of Dubai has been made we can accelerate our growth by deliv- form solutions to the market, while possible by the visionary leadership of HH ering new advanced products and operating as a standalone company Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, solutions for new sectors, through within the Canon Group. Canon fully Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE new channels, to offer greater cus- supports Milestone’s open platform and Ruler of Dubai and the collective contri- Group Executive Director and Chief Executive We are greatly honored and deeply humbled tomer value. We are very excited strategy and respects their strong bution of our partners” Al Hamli unveiled that Officer of Standard Chartered Bank in Europe, to partner with Dubai Economic Council to about working with such a talented partnerships. Following the comple- the agreement made with Standard Middle-East, Africa and Americas comment- execute the impressive vision of HH Sheikh and innovative company and we wel- tion of the acquisition, Milestone’s Chartered Bank stems in DEC’ initiative to ed, “Throughout our 56 years of history in Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice come Milestone into the Canon management will remain in place and turn Dubai into a hub for global financial United Arab Emirates, we have always strived President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Group.” they are committed to making this alliances to sustain the economic develop- to contribute to social and economic devel- Ruler of Dubai and continue with the trans- Lars Thinggaard, President & CEO, transition a success. ment in the emirate. opment, financing trade and investment formation of Dubai and United Arab Speaking alongside Al Hamli, V Shankar, flows across Dubai and United Arab Emirates. Emirates.” BUSINESS SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 Super rich develop passion for classic cars and property GENEVA: From Spanish shopping cen- which ultra-high net worth individuals ters available at bargain prices to made up 0.9 percent - rose by 2 mil- drinks, art and classic cars, so-called lion last year, and the group grew alternative investments are gaining nearly 14 percent richer. appeal to the world’s rich as returns Property spree elsewhere wane, wealth managers say. Real estate investments are also an The super rich - typically those with a increasing draw for such clients and fortune of $30 million or above - have some see the prolonged property increasingly been straying from invest- slumps in some corners of Europe ing in conventional financial products, such as Spain as an opportunity. some private bankers noted, as low “Some Latin American clients want to interest rates reduce the lure of cash invest ... in the current Spanish mar- piles or bonds. ket,” said Alvaro Morales, who heads The proportion of so-called “pas- Santander’s international private sion investments” in portfolios has banking business. “It’s any commercial gone up about two to three times in centers, buildings, offices ... it’s some- the past five years, according to thing they are buying for rental Alexander Classen, who runs the inter- income,” Morales said, adding clients national arm of British private bank from the region wanted to diversify Coutts. “Clients have become increas- with investments in other countries. ingly sceptical about traditional Real estate investments make up investing,” Classen told the Reuters between 20 and 30 percent of the Wealth Management Summit in portfolios of Santander’s private bank- Geneva. “And ... they started witness- ing clients, Morales added. ing some of the returns they can Spanish house prices have slumped achieve in real estate, in old watches ... about 40 percent from their 2007 peak while having fun at the same time.” and are still falling, while banks which To be sure, combining investing got lumbered with properties on their with hobbies is far from a new trend books are increasingly keen to sell among wealthy families, whether they them, even at discounts. Retailers, are patrons of painters as in the manufacturers and traders of luxury VIENNA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to thousands of fellow Turks living in Austria. — AP Renaissance or are members of a new- products are also taking note of mil- er wave of Asian money snapping up lionaires’ shifting investment tastes. vineyards in France. “All this type of Owners, an online trading and valua- Iraq upsetting Turkey luxury is part of the portfolio of a very tion business whose website features rich person,” said Manuela D’Onofrio, some fine drinks offered at 26,600 head of global investment strategy at pounds ($45,400) for 12 bottles, this the private banking arm of UniCredit, month launched a platform aimed at economic rebalancing adding she had one client who had as wealth managers, so they can offer many paintings by Italian master their clients a portfolio tracking serv- Canaletto hanging in his apartment as ice under their own brand. Lira could weaken, current account deficit may widen the Metropolitan Museum Posters she In their investments and in their pri- had in her own. vate lives, however, most of the ISTANBUL: Fighting in Iraq may slow Turkey’s the oil price has become the key risk indicator ing already high inflation and narrowing the But there are also signs these bets world’s rich are still shunning very gradual economic rebalancing, analysts say, for emerging markets,” he said, adding that his large current account deficit even more diffi- have been paying off in recent years. exotic avenues, wealth managers said, with higher oil prices set to push up inflation bank had decided to sell the lira “to hedge the cult,” said William Jackson, a London-based An index created by Coutts to track adding they still spent money on more and the collapse of a key export market mounting geopolitical risks”. economist at Capital Economics. “It seems dif- the profitability of 15 passion invest- traditional luxuries such as yachts and weighing on Turkey’s efforts to narrow its Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said this ficult to justify further interest rate cuts. And if ments such as jewels and art showed houses. “One of the things we have yawning current account deficit. A weaker lira month that he expected the country’s energy the central bank does lower rates, the lira in January these had returned 77 per- not seen, and it seems to be picking and high interest rates have helped moderate import bill to reach $61 billion in 2014, com- might become more vulnerable to a sell-off,” cent since 2005, compared with a 53 up in the US, is ... space travel,” said domestic demand and bolstered exports in pared with $56 billion last year. On Tuesday he he said. The lira has weakened 3.5 percent in percent return in the MSCI All Country Norman Villamin, chief investment recent months. That has reduced the current acknowledged that developments in Iraq the past two weeks, underperforming other Equity Index, in dollar terms. Classic officer for Europe at Coutts & Co. “I account gap, Turkey’s main economic weak- could slow Turkey’s progress in narrowing the emerging markets currencies, as investors cars were the best performers over haven’t talked to any of my clients ness, and helped the economy get back on an current account gap this year. The deficit worry over the fallout from the Iraq violence. that period. The number of million- who’ve said, ‘I’m getting ready to go to even keel after a credit-fuelled boom. shrank to $16.37 billion in the first four It was trading at 2.1421 to the dollar by 1200 aires in the world, meanwhile - of space.” — Reuters But the lightning advance of Islamist insur- months of this year and stands at just under GMT. gents in Iraq threatens to dismember Turkey’s $57 billion on a 12-month cumulative basis. Jackson forecast the currency could weak- second-biggest export market and its main oil en to 2.25 to the dollar by the end of the year. supplier. Oil prices rose close to a nine-month Oil inflation A Reuters survey predicted the lira would high above $115 a barrel on Friday on con- The inflationary impact of rising oil prices weaken slightly to 2.22 per dollar in 12 cerns that heavy fighting could limit oil sup- also poses a dilemma for Turkey’s central months time. The central bank cut rates for plies from Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest pro- bank, which meets to set interest rates next the first time in a year last month, despite ducer. Turkey buys 90 percent of its crude oil Tuesday. Central bank governor Erdem Basci high inflation, after calls for such a move from from foreign producers, helping swell a cur- said on Monday the bank could cut rates as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, eager to main- rent account deficit that hit $65 billion in soon as next week if it is convinced the infla- tain growth ahead of an August presidential 2013. tion outlook is improving significantly. election in which he is expected to run. A Economists estimate every $10 rise in oil Economists doubted whether this was the Reuters survey of 20 economists forecast a 50 prices triggers a 0.5 percent increase in case, however. The annual inflation rate stood basis point cut in its main one-week repo rate Turkish inflation and a $4 billion rise in its cur- at 9.66 percent in May, well above the central next Tuesday as well. With its one-week repo rent account deficit. “Turkey is clearly on the bank’s year-end forecast for 7.6 percent and rate at 9.5 percent, Turkey has the second- frontline, geographically, and from a balance its 5 percent medium-term target. The bank highest interest rate among the “fragile five” of payments perspective,” wrote Benoit Anne, has repeatedly said it expects inflation to start economies of Brazil, India, South Africa, head of emerging markets strategy at Societe falling from June. Turkey and Indonesia seen as prone to heavy Generale, in a note to clients this week. “To me “The latest developments will make reduc- investment inflows and outflows. — Reuters

Gold edge lower Argentina wants ‘just and LONDON: Gold edged lower as investors took profits equitable’ deal on debt NEW YORK: Clothing sits on display inside an American Apparel store in New after it posted its biggest daily rise in nine months, but York City. — AFP was still set for its biggest weekly gain in four months due BUENOS AIRES: Argentine President support of the restructuring several years to conflict in Iraq and a softer dollar after the Federal Cristina Kirchner signaled her willingness ago of nearly $100 billion of defaulted Reserve’s comments. The Fed on Wednesday sounded Friday to enter negotiations on the coun- debt. Most creditors accepted large write- American Apparel finds comfortable about the outlook for inflation despite try’s debt, as the country faces a potential downs of the bonds, but the court ruling recent signs of a pick-up in price pressure. That dashed default at the end of the month. But a US means Argentina now must pay the hold- CEO Dov misused funds some expectations the US central bank might have to federal judge ordered Buenos Aires to outs 100 percent of the debt’s face value start lifting interest rates earlier than expected. pay holdout hedge fund bondholders in $15 billion in total. With that payment NEW YORK: An internal investigation at Charney’s father is on American Apparel’s “The FOMC has been quite a boost for gold, with buy- the United States, not Argentina. now needed by June 30, Argentina says it American Apparel Inc has found that its payroll and that his mother, although not ing mostly concentrating on the futures and options mar- Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof could be forced to default on all its debt. ket, but the effect is already waning and in the longer CEO Dov Charney violated company poli- an employee, is a retail and design contrib- has proposed that Argentina initiate Since the Supreme Court ruling on cies, ranging from misusing company funds utor to the company. Charney’s employ- term I don’t see changes in the macro environment that can justify a consistent move higher,” Credit Suisse analyst steps to carry out a debt exchange inside Monday, the country has sent mixed sig- to failing to stop the discrediting of at least ment contract entitled him to “vacation the country. nals, that it would turn to a “Plan B” to one former employee who had accused benefits and reimbursement of reasonable Karim Cherif said. Spot gold had dropped 0.1 percent to $1,318.11 an ounce by 1431 GMT, after jumping 3.3 per- But US District Judge Thomas Griesa move the restructured debt away from him of sexual harassment, a person close to and necessary business expenses,” accord- ruled that the move was “in violation” of US law, and avoid paying the holdouts, the matter said. The company’s board oust- ing to a company filing in April. His father, cent in the previous session. The metal has gained about 3.2 percent for the week. US gold futures for August the court, and that “Argentina is prohibit- and also that it would negotiate over the ed the 45-year-old Charney as chairman on Morris Charney, received $238,000 in archi- delivery were up 0.4 percent at $1,318.80 an ounce. ed from carrying out the proposal.” Four issue. Kirchner said Friday she wants Wednesday, citing unspecified allegations tectural consulting and director fees from The dollar, which fell after the US Federal Reserve’s days after the US Supreme Court decided Argentina’s lawyers to ask Griesa, who of misconduct. It suspended him as presi- the company in 2013, the filing showed. comments that it could keep interest rates low in the against Argentina in its fight against originally handled the case, to set condi- dent and chief executive officer, and plans A spokesman for American Apparel longer term, was up 0.2 percent against a basket of main hedge fund bond holders, Kirchner said tions for a negotiated settlement that to fire him for cause, following a 30-day declined to comment. A representative for currencies, although still heading for its biggest weekly her country has “the right and the need would respect both US and Argentine period stipulated in his contract. Jones Day was not immediately available loss since early May. A weaker US currency makes dollar- to participate in a negotiation that is just laws. On Wednesday, Griesa questioned The company’s independent directors for comment. The company, which only has denominated assets like gold cheaper for foreign and equitable.” Argentina’s willingness to pay and hired law firm Jones Day in mid-March to a market value of $120 million, has been investors. “At this point, gold appears overdone,” UBS “We want to honor 100 percent of the whether, after a decade fighting the hold- lead the investigation, said the person and struggling with weak sales and heavy debt. strategist Edel Tully said. “Strategic buyers are remaining creditors, the 92.4 percent who renegoti- outs, resisting negotiations and stalling a separate source familiar with the matter. It While the industry lauded Charney for his on the sidelines; this is a move that is currently dominat- ated in 2005 and 2010, and those that on meeting court rulings, it was truly will- ed by short-term traders.” Gold also rose on the conflict in is unclear what events prompted the board creativity, the company has been under fire didn’t. We only ask them for conditions ing to deal. “You can talk about negotia- to initiate the investigation, which is ongo- for lax financial controls and concerns Iraq, which lifted crude oil prices to nine-month highs earlier in the week. The metal is usually seen as an hedge that are fair,” she added. The top court’s tions. But I believe there has to be a legal ing. The probe revealed that Charney, who about the strength of its management decision set the clock ticking for the mechanism to prevent what I’m talking founded the hipster clothing brand, was team. In recent years, Charney has fought against oil-led inflationary pressures. Silver rises country to pay back “holdouts,” who about, because we do not want another using company funds to book flights for his off a series of sexual harassment lawsuits. In refused to join the majority of creditors in charade,” he said.— AFP parents, the person said. He also sometimes one of the most high-profile cases, Morales But physical demand for gold was soft. Traders said provided corporate apartments to friends claimed she was held as a teenage sex what little demand they had seen earlier in week had been erased by Thursday’s price jump. “Demand was and stayed in them himself when he wasn’t slave, forced to perform sexual acts during slightly better when prices had steadied around $1,270 on company business, according to this an eight-month period, including oral sex in but with this move above $1,300, we have seen a pull person. Charney’s Manhattan apartment just after back,” said a trader in Hong Kong. Private-sector gold The investigation’s findings also includ- she turned 18. demand in China, which last year surpassed India to ed that Charney had known about but A lawyer for American Apparel said in become the biggest consumer of the metal, will be flat to failed to stop a blog created by an 2011 that it was Morales who had stalked slightly lower this year, an official from the China Gold American Apparel employee that displayed Charney and was trying to “shake down” Association said on Thursday. naked photographs of former saleswoman, the company. In 2012, a New York judge Silver rose 1.1 percent to its highest level since mid- Irene Morales, who had sued him, the per- ordered her $250 million claim to be arbi- March at $20.96 an ounce after jumping 4 percent in the son said. A person familiar with Charney’s trated. The status of the arbitration pro- previous session. Platinum fell 0.8 percent to $1,455.75 an thinking said that any use of photographs ceedings could not be immediately deter- ounce, after gaining 1.6 percent in the previous session. of the former employee by American mined. American Apparel is in talks to hire Palladium dropped 1.6 percent to $820.77 an ounce, as Apparel was only done to counter her dam- an investment bank, expected to be bou- investors monitored a five-month mining strike in major aging allegations and the strategy was tique Peter J Solomon, one of the people producer South Africa that looked set to drag on. South approved by other company officials. close to the matter said. The bank, which African platinum union AMCU has made “unaffordable” ROSARIO: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner waves at the new demands beyond a deal struck with producers last This person said that Charney believed could not be immediately reached for com- crowd upon her arrival at the Flag Monument in Rosario, 300 km north of week, mining firms said on Wednesday, dashing hopes of any use of apartments was not material and ment, will provide capital if the company’s an end to the country’s longest and costliest mining Buenos Aires, to celebrate Flag Day on June 20, 2014. Fernandez de Kirchner was normal business practice. In terms of lenders declare it in default on some of its strike. — Reuters said Argentina will try to negotiate a bond service payment due June 30 in New the travel charges, this person said debt, the person said. — Reuters York. — AFP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 BUSINESS

Ooredoo launches ‘Shamel’ New Post-paid Portfolio KUWAIT: Ooredoo in Kuwait announced yester- call discounts, inclusive local talk time, Nojoom day the launch of Shamel, its new and revamped reward points, and vouchers worth up to 130 KD post-paid plans. The new plans boast a number for purchasing latest handsets from Ooredoo. of features, including roaming packs, internet The prices of the plans range from KD 2 to KD and calls, as well as the ability to carry forward 58.Customers can join Shamel plans by visiting unused minutes from the previous month. One any Ooredoo store or authorized dealers. of the newest features in the plan is carrying Head of Communications, Brand and unused minutes, which is a service introduced Customer Experience Riham Al-Ayyar said: “We, for the first time in Kuwait. Unused minutes are at Ooredoo, believe in customization. No single automatically carried to the following month, plan fits all customers’ needs, so we provided which means users can have more value for their several plans that offer diverse services and fea- money and not waste any of their unused min- tures. Customers can choose the one that fits utes. The plan also features the ability to transfer their needs and budget.” Ooredoo is a leading internet credit to other users, which is also intro- international communications company deliver- duced for the first time in Kuwait. ing mobile, fixed, broadband internet, and cor- Shamel plans aim to give customers more porate managed services tailored to the needs benefits, focusing mostly on freedom, flexibility of consumers and businesses across markets in and giving customers the best value for their the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. money. These plans include everything a cus- It has a customer base of more than 95 million tomer may need, such as internet, international and reported revenues of $9.3 billion in 2013.

Final week to participate in China sends oil rigs NBK Rolls-Royce competition to South China Sea Best photo awarded KD100 Prepaid Card Gift KUWAIT: Seven days left to win National Beijing steps up oil exploration in tense region Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) Rolls-Royce com- petition on Instagram. This week, NBK announced the third winner in this com- petition with a KD 100 NBK prepaid gift card. NBK launched the Rolls-Royce competition due to the high anticipa- tion of its Annual Summer Campaign that will give away this year a presti- gious, custom-made, Rolls-Royce phan- tom car. Through this competition, NBK’s social media followers can have the chance to experience the customization NBK’s official Instagram account. They through all channels and views social factor of NBK’s summer campaign are required to download the Rolls- media networks as important aspects which the winner of the grand prize will Royce Phantom application on their for supporting the lifestyle and bank- enjoy in reality. Followers of NBK page smart phones, customize their car and ing habits of NBK clients. For more on Instagram still have the chance to upload it on their Instagram account, information regarding banking trans- participate in this competition. A com- hash tagging #NBKPhantom. NBK actions, events and competitions mittee from NBK will choose every week greatly values social media as an easy check out National Bank of Kuwait offi- the best photo to win a KD100 prepaid mean to communicate with customers cial facebook page NBK - Official Page gift card. and build a strong and lasting relation- or follow NBK on Twitter @NBKPage, Participants must be followers of ship. NBK is keen to support customers and on Instagram @NBKPage. Al Muzaini Exchange Co sponsors 116th Philippine Independence Day

KUWAIT: Al Muzaini Exchange Co, Kuwait’s leading network branches that spans over 60 branches located HANOI: Vietnamese protesters chant anti-China slogans in Hanoi. China said it is moving a second oil rig closer to exchange and Remittance Company, hailed its sponsorship across Kuwait. To ensure customer satisfaction, arrival and Vietnam’s coast. — AP of the 116th Philippine Independence Day event a grand departure sections of the Kuwait International airport and success. Organized by the Alliance of Filipino Organizations the Sheikh Saad airport guarantee 24 hours 7 days a week BEIJING: China has sent four more oil “For these normal activities there is “The increase in oil rigs will inevitably in Kuwait, the recent event was a culmination of enjoyable full service. rigs into the South China Sea in a sign no need for over-reading or to make jab a sensitive nerve for Vietnam and performances by famous artists and entertainment that Al Muzaini Exchange Company provides customers a that Beijing is stepping up its explo- any particular links,” Chinese Foreign the Philippines,” Zhuang said. portrayed the country’s traditional roots. broad range of services that includes issuing checks and ration for oil and gas in the tense Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying State oil behemoth CNOOC Ltd, a As part of its well-established social responsibility strat- collection of checks drawn on foreign banks and the sale region, less than two months after it told a daily briefing in Beijing. “Please subsidiary of CNOOC Group, has said egy, this sponsorship highlights Al Muzaini’s ongoing mis- and purchase of foreign currencies and remittances (to all positioned a giant drilling platform in don’t worry, there won’t be any prob- it had four new projects scheduled to sion to support diverse segments and build stronger multi- parts of the world), DHL related services while also benefit- waters claimed by Vietnam. The lem.” In Washington, the US State come on stream in the western and cultural ties to improve community welfare in Kuwait. ting from Western Union’s varied services that are on offer. announcement comes at a time when Department said it did not have eastern South China Sea in the second Additionally, Al Muzzaini helped expose individual creativi- For further information on any of Al Muzaini Exchange many countries in Asia are nervous at enough information about the place- half of 2014. It was unclear if the four ty and rising talents to the wide audiences. Al Muzaini Company’s services customers are urged to visit their near- Beijing’s increasing assertiveness in ment of the rigs and so would with- rigs were part of those projects, but Exchange Company, a pioneer and leader in the foreign est branch, call the company’s call center on 188818, or log the potentially energy-rich waters, hold judgment but repeated its long- the company has long said that in a exchange business in Kuwait for over 70 years now with on to the company’s website www.muzaini.com. where sovereignty over countless standing view that it would be trou- bid to boost production it wanted to islands and reefs is in dispute. bled if they were in disputed waters. explore in deeper waters off China. Coordinates posted on the website of “If a rig were placed in disputed CNOOC has said it would increase by China’s Maritime Safety Administration waters, that would be a concern,” up to a third its annual capital spend- Qalaa Holdings - lead sponsor of showed the Nanhai number 2 and 5 State Department spokeswoman Jen ing for 2014, to almost $20 billion. rigs had been deployed roughly Psaki told reporters in Washington. That, combined with output declines Green Investment Conference between China’s southern Guangdong “We certainly have a national interest at major offshore fields in Bohai Bay in province and the Pratas Islands, which in the maintenance of peace and sta- eastern China, made it inevitable that KUWAIT: Senior staff from Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on will also slash the country’s present-day sulfur emissions are occupied by Taiwan. The Nanhai 4 bility in the region.” Chinese state oil firms would push the Egyptian Exchange; formerly known as Citadel by nearly a third and reduce our carbon footprint by pro- rig was towed to waters close to the into the South China Sea, analysts Capital), and its subsidiaries joined other private sector ducing diesel to Euro-V specifications, the cleanest-burn- Chinese coast. CNOOC eyes deepwater said. leaders for the inaugural Green Investment Opportunities ing diesel fuel in the world,” El-Sharkawy added. Earlier this week, the maritime All four rigs are listed as being “It does not surprise us that more Conference, a national gathering on the environment and In addition to El-Sharkawy, Qalaa’s participants at the body gave coordinates for a fourth rig, operated by China Oilfield Services Ltd rigs are being deployed into the the economy. The conference is taking place in El-Gouna, gathering include Gen. Maged Farag, the Chairman of the the Nanhai 9, which would be posi- (COSL), the oil service arm of state-run South China Sea - especially over the on Egypt’s pristine Red Sea coast, under the auspices of National Company for Multimodal Transport (NMT), a tioned just outside Vietnam’s exclu- China National Offshore Oil Company summer, which is a high-drilling-activ- the Ministry of State for the Environment. Qalaa Holdings, Qalaa subsidiary in the transport industry; NMT operates sive economic zone by Friday. Wang (CNOOC) Group, according to COSL’s ity period,” said Scott Darling, head of an African leader in infrastructure and investment with river transport vessels and ports along the Nile River in Ching-hsiu, deputy director of 2013 annual report. Three are deepwa- Asia Oil and Gas Research with subsidiaries in energy, cement, agrifoods, transportation Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Gen Farag was joined at Taiwan’s Land Administration ter platforms and one is a jackup rig JPMorgan in Hong Kong. Roughly 60 and mining, is a proud sponsor of the event. the conference by senior staff from GlassRock (a producer Department, said Taipei claimed an used in shallow water. Reached by percent of CNOOC Ltd’s existing pro- The conference is establishing a framework by which of green insulating materials) and GlassWorks (whose exclusive economic zone around the telephone, COSL Chief Executive Li duction in China comes from its age- ideas on sustainable and green development can be real- product portfolio includes coated and reflective float Pratas Islands, but declined to com- Yong said he had seen the maritime ing fields in Bohai Bay. Anti-Chinese ized. Participants discussed scientific methods of imple- glass). Also joining the Qalaa executives was Ahmed ment on the rig deployments. China, announcement but declined to com- violence flared in Vietnam last month menting a green economy and explored the practical Gaber, Chairman of Tawazon, a subsidiary of Qalaa operat- which regards Taiwan as a renegade ment. A CNOOC spokesman also after a $1-billion deepwater rig owned strides taken by the private sector (and Qalaa Holdings ing in the energy segment; Tawazon is a leading solid- province and claims about 90 percent declined to comment. The Global by CNOOC Group was parked 240 km specifically) to combat climate change through green con- waste management company and producer of refuse- of the South China Sea, said the rigs Times, a popular tabloid published by off the coast of Vietnam. Hanoi says struction, sustainable transport, renewable energy, waste derived fuels. Speaking at the opening day of the confer- were in waters close to Guangdong the Communist Party’s official People’s the rig is in its 200-nautical-mile exclu- recycling, and alternative fuels. The conference investigat- ence, Mohamed Mashhoor, Managing Director of Nile province and Hainan island. The Daily, quoted Zhuang Guotu, director sive economic zone and on its conti- ed how endeavors in these fields will help grow the econ- Cargo (a Qalaa Holdings subsidiary), discussed the eco- Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei of the Center for Southeast Asian nental shelf. China has said the rig was omy, develop the community, and protect the environ- nomic and environmental advantages of river transporta- and Taiwan also have claims to parts Studies at Xiamen University, as calling operating completely within its ment by drawing from the pool of experience available tion projects. of the sea. the rig deployment a “strategic move”. waters. — Reuters across Egypt and the Arab world. Other Qalaa speakers included Hisham Wagdy, “Economic growth, job creation and a healthier envi- Managing Director of TAQA Power (a subsidiary of TAQA ronment are by no means mutually exclusive,” said Ahmed Arabia, Egypt’s leading independent energy distribution El-Sharkawy, a Managing Director at Qalaa Holdings. “This company), who discussed renewable energy sources and means that Qalaa Holdings not only designs industrial and alternative fuels as a key component of Egypt’s energy infrastructure projects to have as little impact on the envi- and environmental security policies. The inaugural day of ronment as possible, but also actively looks for opportuni- the conference was concluded by Amr Al Samak, head of ties to create profit-making ventures that are pro-environ- the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), who ment. “Take, for example, the Egyptian Refining Company. thanked Qalaa Holdings for its efforts in supporting and It is not just a $3.7 billion refinery that will create jobs and sponsoring the conference and furthering the cause of sharply reduce our nation’s reliance on diesel imports: It environmental investments in Egypt. Al Danah second quarterly prize draws to take place on June 26th

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has announced that the second major ing them to save money. Customers increase their chances Al Danah draw of 2014 is scheduled to be held on of winning by keeping as much money as they can in their Thursday, 26 June 2014 and will be for cash prizes of Al Danah account, for as long as possible. KD250,000, KD 125,000 and KD25,000. The draw will be In addition to the unique prize draws, the Al Danah held in the presence of a representative from the Ministry account also offers the special Al Danah ATM Deposit-Only of Commerce and Industry. To take part in the Al Danah Card to helps account holders deposit their money easily draws, customers must have an Al Danah account contain- and quickly, and the Al Danah Calculator, which helps cus- ing at least KD 200. Customers can open a new Al Danah tomers calculate their winning chances from their current account at any one of the 58 Gulf Bank branches in Kuwait. Al Danah account balance. For further information on the Customers who already have an account can increase Al Danah account and prize draws, visit one of Gulf Bank’s their chances of winning by increasing their deposits. This 58 branches, or call Gulf Bank’s Customer Contact Center will also increase their chances of winning one of the two on 1805805. General information about the Al Danah OHIO: Zack Adams delivers food to customers at Corky & Lenny’s Restaurant & Deli in Woodmere Village, Ohio. KD1,000 prizes, which are drawn each working day. Gulf account, as well as Gulf Bank’s other products and services, Recent good news on manufacturing and hiring has boosted confidence in the economy. Manufacturing is Bank’s Al Danah draw account offers its customers the can also be found at the Bank’s website at www.e-gulf- expanding at a healthy pace and the service industry continues to grow, according to surveys released by the biggest cash prizes in Kuwait, while at the same time help- bank.com. Institute for Supply Management earlier this month. — AP technology SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

German carmakers consider black box recorders

FRANKFURT: German carmakers are considering the Germany’s regulation, technological know-how, and expert for automotive matters at German insurer ever we want,” Thomas Weber, head of development use of aircraft-style “black box” data recorders in self- legal framework. “Whether cars should have a black Allianz. Who gets to gather vehicle data and how, at Mercedes-Benz told a conference on innovation driving cars, a contentious idea in a country worried box is one of the items being discussed,” a person though, is highly controversial in a country haunted last month, a comment which observers took to be a about surveillance, but potentially a crucial step in familiar with the deliberations, who declined to be by a history of surveillance from the Gestapo secret thinly-veiled swipe at Google. “The fact that we take getting the new technology on the road. named, told Reuters. With 90 percent of accidents police and East Germany’s STASI. these issues more seriously than some other compa- Mercedes-Benz and BMW are among automakers caused by human error, engineers at automakers are More recently, revelations by former U.S. intelli- nies is an opportunity for German industry,” he said. to have developed autonomous or semi-autonomous convinced cars should be given more leeway to inter- gence contractor Edward Snowden that Chancellor Germany’s Auto Industry Association VDA is hold- cars, along with technology firm Google. But while vene and help drivers in a dangerous situation, much Angela Merkel’s cell phone and mass internet traffic ing talks about whether it is possible to reach a com- some features, such as assisted parking, are commer- in the same way computers help pilots land planes. was being monitored, prompted calls for even tighter mon position on how to deal with vehicle data rights, cially available, legal questions are hampering the But a crucial issue to resolve, and one being debat- privacy safeguards. Weber said. The roundtable hopes its stance on data roll-out of other technologies, such as automatic ed by a subgroup of the roundtable, centres on liabili- security and other matters will form a template for a overtaking on motorways, and fully self-driven cars ty. German law does not distinguish between a car in KEEPING FIRMS AT BAY “European position” which other manufacturers can remain prototypes. Installing an aircraft-style data an accident which was driving semi-autonomously or Information about the location and speed of a car adapt. To promote its views, it has already held pre- recorder could help to address some of these ques- completely without driver input, even though there is could also be attractive to advertisers and communi- sentations at the United Nations and European Union. tions by giving manufacturers and insurers clarity an enormous difference technologically, and from the cations companies who could use the data for their Its position on data appears to be gaining traction. over who is liable when an autonomous car gets into level of driver involvement. own commercial purposes. “Ultimately the person who generates the data, the a crash. The issue is being debated by Germany’s To determine whether a car, its driver, or a third- German carmakers say they want to take a restric- driver, should have the final say over how it is used,” “roundtable on autonomous driving”, a group hosted party was primarily responsible for an accident, insur- tive line on how data from autonomous and semi- Allianz’s Stadler said. Earlier this month, Peter by government officials. ers and carmakers want to collect car data, including autonomous cars is used, a move that could make it Mertens, Senior Vice President, Research and The group aims to ensure Germany does not lose its speed and inputs from sensors, cameras and the harder for software and telecom companies trying to Development at Volvo Cars, told a conference: “Our its edge in car manufacturing and includes automak- driver. Insurers could also use the data to draw up make inroads into the auto industry. view of autonomous driving is not to gather personal ers, lawyers, privacy advocates and insurance execu- policies. “We could create insurance premiums more “We accept that personal data belongs to the cus- data and use this for business. Our vision is to make tives tasked with identifying shortcomings in tailored to a certain risk profile,” said Martin Stadler, an tomer, and that we are not entitled to do with it what- driving safer.”— Reuters

Deutsche Telekom in talks with Netflix over collaboration

FRANKFURT: Deutsche Telekom is in talks with US video Netflix, whose internet-based delivery of movies and TV streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing series such as “House of Cards” has disrupted pay-TV markets alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. in the United States and elsewhere, wants to grow its inter- German monthly Manager Magazin cited people familiar national business to reach new customers and increase its with the matter as saying the talks were far advanced but no buying clout with content providers. deal had been clinched and that Netflix was also in touch It is already in more than 40 countries, mostly in Latin with other German telecoms groups. Netflix in May unveiled America, and has entered Britain, Ireland, the Nordics and plans to launch in both Germany and France this year, in the the Netherlands in the past two years. biggest test so far of its global expansion strategy. In Germany, it would compete with Amazon’s Prime Manager Magazin said Deutsche Telekom was open to Instant Video, ProSiebenSat.1’s Maxdome, Sky Deutschland’s accommodate Netflix’s expansion even though the service Snap and Vivendi’s Watchever. would compete with the German company’s own web- Germany has the highest number of broadband house- based TV offering called “Entertain”. Deutsche Telekom holds in Europe, with 29.1 million in 2013, according to esti- declined to comment. mates from SNL Kagan. — Reuters Warming up to tablets with keyboard covers

By Anick Jesdanun porates a spare battery. The cover also sponsive after being idle, requiring me to nearly doubles the weight to about 2.6 remove the cover and reconnect it. WINNEMUCCA: It took some travels pounds. But that battery offers a hard sur- The touch pad for Microsoft’s new 12- across the country for me to appreciate a face underneath the keys and makes it feel inch Surface Pro 3 is better than Lumia’s. tablet with a keyboard cover. I’ve long as though you’re typing on a real laptop. The new Surface starts at $799 and needs asked, “Why not just get a laptop?” I didn’t The hard surface also makes it possible to the $130 cover to be useful for heavy typ- see any benefits in turning a tablet into hold the setup with one hand, just like a ing. The models that start shipping Friday something it is not. real laptop. are mid-range configurations that cost a The device I warmed up to isn’t I appreciated having the Lumia’s key- few hundred dollars more. There’s no cel- Microsoft’s Surface tablet, although I’ll have board cover to look up driving directions lular version available. Microsoft bills the more to say on the new model that comes from the cramped back seat during a drive new Surface as a laptop replacement, so This undated image provided by Facebook shows the social network’s interactive map for the World Cup. Facebook out Friday. Rather, it’s the first tablet from down California’s Pacific Coast. Typing on a I’ve tried to use it as such over the past users will be able to keep track of their favorite teams and players throughout the tournament in a special World Cup Nokia, whose phone and tablet business tablet’s touch-screen keyboard would have month. The new Surface has a kickstand section on the site called ‘Trending World Cup.’ — AP Microsoft just bought in April. been awkward, and pulling out a full- that is fully adjustable, making it feel like a laptop that can open at various angles. The Lumia offers one resting position Facebook, Twitter, Google only, giving me some neck pain as I write this review with it. But the Surface’s keyboard feels flimsy, as though it’s made of cardboard. It score during World Cup attaches to the tablet only with magnets, so either the screen or the keyboard will NEW YORK: Twitter and Facebook lit up in a World Cup WHO’S TALKING ON FACEBOOK? flop down when held with one hand. frenzy this week as millions of people around the world Watching the US beat Ghana on Monday, men aged The Surface, like the Lumia, also lacks took to social media to share in the ups and downs of the 25 to 34 were posting about the match the most, fol- several slots commonly found in laptops, matches.Defending champion Spain’s stunning elimination lowed by men ages 18 to 24, then men 35-44. Women including one for SD memory cards from Wednesday after a 2-0 defeat to Chile generated a lot of between 25 and 34 came next. As for countries, the cameras. The Surface has only one USB buzz, though not as much as the Cup’s opening match top 5 countries with the most posts were, in order, the port, making it difficult to attach both a between Brazil and Croatia. US, Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand and England. In all, 10 printer and an external storage drive. The Google, meanwhile, tracked more than 641 million million people generated 15 million “interactions” on Lumia doesn’t have any, but its keyboard World Cup-related searches. In the week leading up the US Facebook, which include posts, comments, likes and cover has two. You can get four additional team’s game against Ghana on Monday, there were 10 shares. USB ports and an Ethernet port for the times more searches for the World Cup in the US than for Why Thailand, you ask, considering it’s not in the tour- NEW YORK: In this May 20, 2014 file photo, Panos Panay, Microsoft’s vice presi- Surface with a $200 docking station, but the NBA Finals, which were in progress at the time. Here’s a nament? The country’s military junta, in an effort to dent for surface computing, introduces the Surface Pro 3 tablet device at a that makes it more of a desktop, not a look at how the World Cup fared online this week: “return happiness to the people,” negotiated a deal with media preview in New York. The device has a screen measuring 12 inches diag- laptop. the tournament’s broadcaster to allow all the games to onally, up from 10.6 inches in previous models. Microsoft says it’s also thinner Beyond the specs, using the Surface TWEET DELUGE be shown for free. Previously, the broadcaster had only and faster than before. — AP just doesn’t feel the same as using a There were 4.9 million tweets sent out Monday during planned to show 22 of the 64 matches for free. MacBook. It came apart when I placed it the US team’s match against Ghana. That compared with The Lumia 2520 came across as just fledged laptop would have been uncom- on a sofa’s armrest to watch video. And 12.2 million during the opening game last week between GOALS ON GOOGLE? another Windows tablet when it was fortable. while the Surface is fine for typing on a Brazil and Croatia, the most tweeted-about match so far. In Google is sharing some World Cup stats that look at released last fall. My attitude changed once On the flight to California, my 13-inch flat surface, it’s not as comfortable as a comparison, there were 19.1 million tweets sent about this what people are searching for during the matches. In I attached its optional, $150 keyboard cov- MacBook laptop was too big when the jerk‚ laptop on a lap, even with the kickstand year’s Oscars, but that was within a 12-hour window sur- anticipation of yesterday’s Germany vs. Ghana game, for er. The tablet itself starts at about $600 and ” I mean passenger ‚” in front of me reclined improvements. Its touch pad is decent, rounding the award show. All 32 participating World Cup example people in Germany were searching for Ghana includes 4G LTE cellular capabilities. all the way back. The 10-inch Lumia was but I still find myself switching to the lap- teams have Twitter accounts‚” latecomer Iran joined just in player Kevin Prince Boateng 20 percent more than for his Open the cover to reveal a keyboard just the right size. And on a train from top when I need a lot of mouse controls. time last week as @TeamMeliIran. brother Jerome Boateng‚” even though Jerome plays for with six rows of real, movable keys. The California to Colorado, the tablet with the And though the Lumia and the Germany. bottom of the tablet goes into a slot just cover was easier to carry to the car with the Surface are lighter than a 13-inch THE LITTLE GUY Germans were also searching for caipirinhas more above the top row. The top of the tablet is snack bar. I was able to type fast and well MacBook Air, it’s only by about a third of Notice anything different on Google Maps this week? often than people in Brazil, perhaps because Brazilians secured with a plastic grip built into the with the Lumia’s keyboard cover. a pound for the Lumia and half a pound Look a little closer. That’s right, the little yellow guy that already know how to concoct their national cocktail, cover. Unfold the cover all the way to get Unfortunately, the touch pad itself for the Surface once you add the key- guides users through the Street View feature (“Pegman,” as made from cachaca, sugar and lime. In Brazil, which tied the touch pad for mouse controls. doesn’t sit on a hard surface, making the board. Both are good tablets on their he’s called), has been dressed up in black shorts and a with Mexico on Tuesday, searches for a Mexican TV char- The cover is bulky and feels like a hard- cursor hard to control, especially on a lap. own, but fall short of being laptop white T-shirt and is holding a soccer ball. While you’re at it, acter called the Crimson Grasshopper soared after cover book when folded because it incor- And the keyboard is sometimes unre- replacements.—AP you can also look inside all the World Cup stadiums using Mexico fans dressed as “El Chapul√≠n Colorado” to sup- Street View. port their team. — AP Ka-ching! Scholarships for slaying video game foes

CHICAGO: Note to parents: All those hours your kids spend dents who are drawn by scholarships for traditional sports. blazing a trail of destruction in video games may not be a The school is even hiring a coach for its team. complete waste of time, after all. Starting this fall, the scholarships will cover up to 50 A small private university in Chicago is offering hefty percent of tuition and 50 percent of room and board. That’s scholarship for players of one game in particular, League of worth up to $19,000 per student. Robert Morris says it is Legends, which has become one of the most popular among the first in the nation to offer such substantial games for organized team competitions. Robert Morris scholarships of this type. University Illinois announced its new program this month League of Legends players control warriors battling it and said it recognizes the growing legitimacy of what are out in a science fiction-like setting. Dispelling any doubt known as “eSports.” The school says it also wants to give about its popularity, a League of Legends championship credit to those with a competitive spirit who don’t neces- sold out the Staples Center in Los Angeles last October. The sarily want to play traditional sports such as basketball or game is very challenging and demands a well-thought football. strategy, Andrew Dixon, a Robert Morris senior, told WLS- Associate Athletic Director Kurt Melcher, who will be in TV. charge of the school’s new varsity eSports program, said “You have the physical - you have like football and bas- Friday that he expected a certain amount of surprise and ketball and all that - this is a very mentally taxing game, attention, but was surprised by just how much feedback especially when you’re being pitted against five other indi- he’s getting. viduals,” he said. “It’s interesting. There’s two sides: There’s the gamers Dixon, who is from the Chicago suburb of Lockport, is side, who feel like they’ve been vindicated or liberated,” he also on the university’s volleyball team and sees similarities said. “Then there’s the hardcore athletes side, who say, between the virtual and the real sporting worlds. ‘What do you mean? That’s not a sport.’” Melcher said “Even when you lose, you’re able to go back and evalu- League of Legends is a competitive game that demands ate your game play,” Dixon said. “A lot of times you’re able team strategy and mental prowess, and spending money to record matches and review them, kind of like watching LOS ANGELES: In this Oct. 4, 2013, file photo, the teams of China’s Royal Club (left) and South Korea’s SK Telecom T1 com- to recruit the best will deliver the types of committed stu- game film.”— AP pete at the League of Legends Season 3 World Championship Final in Los Angeles. — AP SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Ebola spread due to relaxation of efforts Problems of communication continue GENEVA: The recent rapid spread of Ebola in Q: Were the right measures implemented? might be Ebola, they will go see friends in one three countries in West Africa has come in part A: The most important things are monitoring town or another and that’s how the disease because efforts to contain the deadly virus have and communication. States are getting better spreads. been relaxed, Pierre Formenty, a World Health and better but the problems of communication Organisation specialist, said yesterday. continue. The medical corps on their own can- Q: Why is it important for the authorities and not stop this epidemic. It is only with the help of humanitarian agencies to communicate with Question: We have around 530 cases of hem- the population that we can fight this epidemic the populations? orrhagic fever, mostly from the Ebola virus, in and stop it. A: One case can restart an entire epidemic. So the region, compared to 225 at the end of these dramatic measures, which are not put in April. How do you explain this leap? Q: What are the specific features of this epi- place for other diseases like meningitis or SPANISH TOWN: An attendant wheels on a gurney, a body wrapped in plastic, inside the Answer: We have had since March 21, when demic? measles, are hard for the populations to under- hospital morgue in Spanish Town. The poorly equipped hospital facility is one of the A: The epidemic is pretty much identical in stand. In n area where the quality of health servic- main sites in Jamaica where bodies of people who died violently or under mysterious cir- the epidemic was declared in Guinea, a first wave that has started to diminish. Since the start the three countries. What’s really important in es are not optimal, the populations have strug- cumstances are autopsied. —- AP gled to understand why we were asking them to of May we have had a sort of resurgence with an this epidemic is that the majority of cases are cases of human-to-human transmission, by con- make such an effort and probably we have not increase in the number of cases and notably also tact, especially during care, but also during been able to explain both the disease and the with an epidemic which has spread to Sierra As homicides surge, funerals because it is particularly when victims means of control to the populations. Leone and Liberia. We are seeing a second wave are deceased that Ebola is present around the forensics stall in Jamaica of cases for West Africa. body. Q: What is the latest assessment of the WHO? A: As of June 17, we had 528 cases of Ebola, SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica: Corpses, the Seven years later, Jamaica has steadily Q: How do you explain this new peak? Q: How did the epidemic spread? including confirmed, probable and suspected suspected victims of violent deaths, are improved some aspects of its forensic A: When the epidemic started, it was a little A: The epicentre of this epidemic is in the cases. Included in these 528 cases are 337 dead. wrapped in plastic bags or covered loosely investigations, including securing more under-estimated, so that the states took a while forested border zone around the town of All the deaths are confirmed, probable or suspect- in stained sheets. There is no air condition- specialized microscopes to evaluate ballis- to really prepare themselves. At the end of April, Gueckedou (in the south of Guinea) and now it ed cases of Ebola. At the level of the international ing and the room quickly becomes swelter- tics. But officials say the cost of building a we started to see a decrease in the number of has spread to the district of Kailahun in Sierra community, Doctors Without Borders, WHO and ing as the tropical sun beats down on the morgue must be considered against com- cases and we maybe saw a relaxation by the Leone and the district of Lofa in Liberia. It has other international partners have mobilised 100 metal roof. A black fly buzzes around the peting budget demands. teams in the three countries, and this relaxation been spread most of all by people who travel to to 160 international experts who are on the room amid the smell of decay. Under a system revamped several years allowed things to restart. In addition, there were Conakry or Monrovia for healthcare. These peo- ground and who are working hard. In Conakry, for A Jamaican forensic pathologist and his ago, just over a dozen private funeral some problems with the affected populations ple travel a great deal. As soon as they are sick patients admitted (to hospital) we have been able sweating assistants can merely shrug at the homes around the island have government which were sometimes not fully listened to. with the symptoms, even if they know that it to reduce the mortality rate to 40 percent. — AFP primitive conditions. contracts to collect and store corpses “What can I say? The lack of resources is awaiting autopsies. Several mortuaries also definitely a challenge,” Dr. S.N. Prasad provide space and equipment several times Kadiyala said as he waited for police offi- a week for the country’s three forensic cers to show up so he could start autopsies pathologists. on a recent morning inside a hospital com- Pathologists and some morticians say plex in gritty Spanish Town, on the edge the funeral homes are paid so little - just $6 the Jamaican capital. to $10 per body per day for storage - that Jamaica has had one of the highest they have little interest in keeping the homicide rates in the world for years, but corpses at the correct temperature because its capacity to deal with the wave of killings of the high cost of energy, about five times has not kept pace. While the Caribbean the cost in much of the United States. country has made some gains in the gath- ering and processing of evidence, one of its Big backlog biggest challenges is simply finding a place “The remuneration from the govern- to store and study the dead. ment is not commensurate with what the The island has not had a national private funeral homes put into it,” said morgue since the 1970s despite wide- Joseph Cornwall, director of the House of spread agreement that autopsies are often Tranquility, an established Kingston funeral performed in facilities so inadequate that home that stores bodies for the govern- investigations are placed in jeopardy, said ment. He said his business keeps the Hayden Baldwin, who has worked as foren- corpses to be autopsied at the right tem- sic consultant to Jamaica’s police force. perature, but Kadiyala believes funeral homes often don’t do so. Lack of support Activists and some politicians say offi- “I have never seen such deplorable con- cials could resolve the protracted problem ditions and lack of support from a govern- if they wanted. ment to resolve these issues,” said Baldwin, “Whatever the government really wants a retired Illinois state police officer and to do, they usually find the money. What director of Forensic Enterprises, Inc. of we lack is the political will to get this done Orland Park, Illinois.In a report on global because it mostly impacts on poor, disen- homicides released earlier this year, the franchised people,” said Yvonne McCalla U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime listed Sobers, a prominent human rights activist. Jamaica as having the world’s sixth highest The country’s health ministry declined homicide rate. About a decade ago, it had comment. the highest. The island of 2.7 million people But Angela Patterson, special services LOS ANGELES: Jabari, a western lowland gorilla is recovering after receiving treatment for a severe case of valley fever at the Los Angeles Zoo. —- AP has seen 1,000-plus killings every year since director for Jamaica’s police force, said the 2004, mostly in slums far from the beach situation has steadily improved since 2010, resorts. when there was a big backlog of bodies Relatively few murders are solved. The awaiting autopsies. She said contracting Gorilla on mend from valley fever at zoo conviction rate for homicides is 5 percent, with established funeral homes helps the LOS ANGELES: Jabari, a western lowland Curtis Eng, the zoo’s chief veterinarian. After consulting with veterinarians across the according to a 2013 U.S. State Department government get autopsies done quickly, report. generally within two to three days of being gorilla living at the Los Angeles Zoo, is on the Several months ago, the 16-year-old gorilla country and physicians who treat humans with Political leaders have vowed over the requested. mend after receiving treatment for a severe was put on posaconazole, a potent and expen- the disease, zookeepers initially placed Jabari on years to construct a modern public “That is a significant achievement,” case of valley fever. sive medication that he washes down with a medication that needed to be administered morgue, especially after the botched 2007 Patterson said. The great ape has had the fungal infection grape juice. He may end up taking it for the intravenously after he was sedated. death investigation of Pakistan cricket Desmond McKenzie, a former Kingston for about three years and had lost about a fifth rest of his life, at a cost of roughly $17,000 a “Jabari was immobilized 25 times over a coach Bob Woolmer, who died unexpect- mayor who has led calls to build a morgue of his body weight, the Los Angeles Times month. period of about two months in 2012 to get him edly while the island hosted the sport’s for years, said that’s not enough. The oppo- reported. In late 2011, Jabari developed symptoms to start feeling better,” Eng told the newspaper. World Cup. That year, Peter Phillips, then sition lawmaker believes the lack of But after giving Jabari a checkup on consistent with a bad cold: persistent cough, In humans and animals alike, valley fever is national security minister, said the urgency displayed by successive adminis- Thursday, veterinarians said he has regained fever, runny nose, loss of appetite and lethargy. contracted by breathing fungal spores that are Woolmer case “brought into focus the need trations is illogical for a nation with such much of that weight, and is back up to a rela- When he didn’t respond to antibiotics, exten- released into the air when soil is disturbed. The for the most up-to-date forensic capabili- high levels of gun crime. tively normal 360 pounds. sive testing revealed he was suffering from val- illness is prevalent in the desert areas of ties possible, including most importantly “The simple fact is the government has “The good news is that Jabari has finally ley fever, a fungal disease similar to pneumo- California and Arizona, but it’s rarely contract- the construction of a new public morgue.” failed miserably,” he said. —- AP turned the corner and is doing very well,” said nia. ed in the Los Angeles area. —- AP

Parents of California Food safety a new frontier for legal pot victims angered by DENVER: The marijuana in those pot brownies isn’t the ‘broken’ health system only thing that can potentially make consumers sick. The industry and regulators are taking a closer look at how CALIFORNIA: The families of three college students stabbed to pot-infused edibles are actually made. death by a 22-year-old before he gunned down three more vic- The thriving edible marijuana industry In Colorado is tims said the US health and legal systems valued the rights of preparing for new testing requirements - due to take in the mentally ill over those who become their victims. effect in October - to make sure the products are safe to Police said Elliot Rodger, the son of a film director, stabbed eat and drink. the students in his apartment on May 23, before shooting and While consuming too much of an edible has been con- killing three more victims in the town of Isla Vista near the cam- nected to at least one death and a handful of hospital vis- pus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. He then its since retail recreational sales began in January, officials shot himself. say there have been no reports of anyone getting a food- “The system is clearly broken. It should have protected our borne illness from edibles. sons, who were so innocent and trusting,” Henry Hong, the Still, activists, producers and officials agree that safety father of Cheng Yuan “James” Hong, one of the victims, told the testing is long overdue for a sector of the new pot market Washington Post in a joint interview with other victims’ parents that, according to one industry estimate, has seen the sale published on Thursday. of at least 8 million pieces this year. Food safety testing is necessary “to building any sort of The parents are also angered over a lack of information credibility for the industry ... to create that public confi- released to them by police, by what they characterize as several dence that we’re not just a bunch of stupid kids throwing missed opportunities for authorities to intervene, and marijuana into cookies and putting them on the market,” expressed incredulity that Rodger could have overpowered said Jazzmine Hall-Oldham, general manager of Bakked, their sons by himself, the newspaper reported. which makes cannabis concentrates and pot-infused The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department said in a chocolate bars. statement it “owes it to the victim’s families and to the public to With federal help in regulating production nonexistent DENVER: Chef Alex Tretter carries a tray of cannabis-infused peanut butter and jelly cups to the oven for not prematurely release information before we have all of the because the drug is illegal under federal law, state and baking, at Sweet Grass Kitchen, a well-established gourmet marijuana edibles bakery which sells its confec- facts in this case.” local governments have had to assemble a patchwork of tions to retail outlets, in Denver. —- AP Police officers had visited Rodger just weeks before the health and safety regulations for foods with cannabis. killing spree, following a concerned call from a county mental as E. coli and salmonella - don’t take effect until the fall. such inspection has occurred. The results of that inspec- health worker, and asked him about disturbing videos he had In Washington state, where retail sales are expected to tion haven’t been released, and there will likely be no mar- Microbiological screening posted online. However, they did not check the videos or look begin the week of July 7, regulations call for samples of all ijuana-infused brownies, cookies or other edibles on pot- The agency that regulates Colorado’s marijuana indus- for weapons, concluding after a ten-minute meeting he was marijuana sold for consumption to clear a “microbiologi- shop shelves when sales begin. try, the state Department of Revenue, requires pot manu- not an immediate threat to himself or others. cal screening,” whether it’s in edible, smokeable or con- facturing facilities to meet the same sanitation require- Rodger later wrote a lengthy manifesto that he sent to his centrate form. Safety inspections ments as retail food establishments, including adequate The state’s Liquor Control Board has adopted limits for In Colorado, for now it’s a case of buyer-beware when parents, therapist and several others, minutes before launching hand-washing and refrigeration. how many “colony forming units” of molds, bacteria and eating foods including cannabis. his shooting spree. In it he said that he was afraid the police But the question of whether the state’s 51 licensed yeast are considered acceptable, with zero tolerance for In Denver, where most of Colorado’s edible-pot pro- would disrupt his plot during that encounter. recreational edible-pot makers meet those standards is any presence of salmonella or E. coli. ducers are located, health officials have been meeting Rodger was seen by a variety of healthcare professionals, left to local health departments, said agency spokes- Commercial pot kitchens in Washington must pass a with the businesses to explain new city requirements that according to the county sheriff. woman Natriece Bryant. State regulations requiring them state Agriculture Department inspection before people edible marijuana processing facilities get inspected at “They knew he had problems. Why couldn’t they do more?” also to pass tests for common food contaminants - such who make edibles can be licensed, and so far, only one least twice a year, the same as restaurants. — AP said Kelly Wang, the mother of George Chen, according to the Post. The third victim was David Wang. —- Reuters

WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

Sebamed participates on health awareness day

t has been our commitment to be in direct touch with Nursery recently. Ithe public as it is the only way to communicate and Sebamed was on hand during the event with keen understand their needs and requirements, while at interest in providing mothers with information on skin- the same time offer them the best there is in advice and care during the hot summer days and how to deal with products. One of the most efficient means to reach the child associated skin problems. Activities included public is participating in open health awareness days instructions on fire safety given by Sergeant Khalid Al- that are organized by health centers and organizations. Misbah as well as recreational and educational acts in The latest activity was held at the Imagination Bilingual which children participated enthusiastically.

Kuwait National English School secondary graduation ceremony

he Kuwait National English School successful- positive experience and successes at Kuwait Madame Chantal Al Gharabally, concluded by con- Tly celebrated the Secondary Graduation National English School, the Head Girl showed her gratulating class 2014 and thanked them for their Ceremony on Friday June 06, 2014 at 7:15 pm gratitude to the many members of staff who had outstanding success in the Company in the Al Farabi School Theatre. Students who have assisted her throughout her life at the school. The Entrepreneurial Program (Job Shadow), completed their Secondary Education at Kuwait Head of Secondary wished all the graduates the International Debates and the United Kingdom National English School received their Diploma. best and commended them on their hard work Numeracy Challenges during which Kuwait Three long service members of staff received and dedication throughout the years and stressed National English School students obtained 13 gold the Chairman’s Award: The Head of Early Years, the the need to maintain high academic standards. certificates, two Silver and two bronze certificates. Head of Primary and the Head of Secondary. Kuwait National English School is fully accredited Madame Chantal thanked the class of 2014 for giv- Eloquent speeches were given by members of by the Council of International School (CIS), New ing meaning to her life which is dedicated to stu- the Kuwait National English School Student England Association of Schools and Colleges dents and to provide an education leading Council (Ms Sundus Al Jazzaf & Ms Nashami Al (NEASC), British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) towards the road of excellence. Qabandi), KNES Alumni (Ms Dima Kheir), the Head and the British Schools Overseas (BSO) and we will KNES seeks to foster all forms of talent not just of Secondary and the School Director Madame continue standing out in Kuwait British and academically related subjects. The graduating stu- Chantal Al Gharabally. The Head Boy spoke of his International education. The School Director, dents (Faisal Al Adwani and Nashami Al Qabandi) contributed to the evening program by singing Counting Stars by One Republic, when I was your man by Bruno Mars and (Theme Song) Hall of Fame by The Script. Dominika Korunich (Year 12) perform one of her own composition (Entitle: Just like you) which was enthusiastically received by an appreciative audience. All Year 11, 12 and 13 KNES students graduated and each received their Diploma and a gift from Gharabally Al Gharabally (Chairman) and Director Madame Chantal. The Student of the Year Awards 2014 went to the school Head Girl. The Council of International Schools (CIS) Awards for International Understanding were given to Dominika K. Korunich (Year 12). The Graduation ceremony concluded with the traditional cutting of the “Class 2014 Graduation Cake” by the Head Boy, the Head Girl, the School Prefect, Madame Chantal Al Gharabally (School Director) and Gharabally Al Gharabally (School Chairman). Kuwait National English School would like to wish the Class of 2014 a happy and prosper- ous future. It has been our privilege watching you develop over the years and reaching your full potential. WHAT’S ON SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

Lebanese Embassy honors its employees

he Lebanese Ambassador in Kuwait Dr Khodr Helweh & Embassy members hosted a farewell lunch to the following staff: Mrs Renee Barakat - 39 years of service and Mounir Haidar- 34 years of service and Mrs Rania Khatib Soweid - 20 years of Tservice. On this occasion his Excellency thanked the staff & presented trophies in recognition of their efforts, commitment as well as their years of services in the Lebanese Embassy - Kuwait.

Al-Qadiri holds reception party for Slovakian ambassador

ohammed Al-Qadiri along with Al-Baqsami presented the ambassa- Mhis wife artist Thuraya Al- dor and his wife one of her paintings as Baqsami, held a reception party a token of long friendship and good at their residence in Mishrif on the occa- souvenir from Kuwait. The party was sion of the departure of the Slovakian attended by ambassadors and members Ambassador Dr Ivan Lancaric conclud- of diplomatic circles along with digni- ing his term as an ambassador to taries. Kuwait.

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Olikhon Shukurow Margrita Edwards Ajyal Bilingual School holds annual ceremony

he annual closing ceremony of Ajyal Bilingual School was held at Jumairah hotel, as part of Ajyal Educational Company activities. The ceremony was Tattended by Chairman of the Board Talal Khalifa Al-Jerri, directors and media. TV PROGRAMS SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

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News 07:00 Tastiest Places To Chowdown 17:40 Are We Alone? 23:00 My Dog Ate What? 10:00 Hit List-PG15 ‘THIRD PERSON’ REVIEW 10:35 Outcasts 13:05 E!ES 07:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:20 Close Encounters 12:00 Bowfinger-PG15 11:30 Outcasts 14:05 Keeping Up With The 07:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 19:45 Close Encounters 14:00 Santa Paws 2: The Santa 12:20 Last Woman Standing Kardashians 08:15 Food Network Challenge hird Person,” the latest interlocking 20:10 Redesign My Brain Pups-FAM 13:15 Doctor Who: Best Of The 15:00 Keeping Up With The 09:05 Siba’s Table drama from “Crash” writer-director 21:00 How The Earth Works 16:00 Hit List-PG15 “T Doctor Kardashians 09:30 Have Cake, Will Travel Paul Haggis, is as uninvolving as the 21:50 Uncovering Aliens 18:00 Delirious-PG15 14:00 Doctors 16:00 Giuliana & Bill 09:55 Have Cake, Will Travel detached moniker suggests. 22:40 Sci-Trek 02:30 The Big C 20:00 Cellmates-PG15 14:30 Doctors 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 10:20 Barefoot Contessa - Back To It attempts to serve up deep truths about love 23:30 Sci-Trek 03:30 The Neighbors 22:00 Butter-18 15:00 Doctors 18:00 E! News Basics 04:00 Seinfeld and loss, but only manages to be precious and 15:30 Doctors 19:00 Fashion Police 10:45 Extra Virgin 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring overheated. It’s hard to imagine it provoking the 16:00 Doctors 19:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 11:10 Siba’s Table Jimmy Fallon same passionate debates as the Oscar-winning 16:30 Our Queen 20:00 Keeping Up With The 11:35 Cooking For Real 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers “Crash,” which divided cinephiles with its depic- 17:20 Doctor Who: Best Of The Kardashians 12:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 01:00 Celeste And Jesse Forever- 08:00 Seinfeld tion of racism in Los Angeles. Doctor 21:00 Keeping Up With The 12:25 Unique Sweets PG15 00:00 Violetta 09:30 Last Man Standing Say what you will about that movie, at least it 18:05 Great Expectations Kardashians 12:50 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 03:00 World War Z-PG15 00:45 The Hive 10:00 Melissa & Joey had vitality and interesting characters. The same 19:00 Hunderby 22:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On Basics 05:00 Midnight In Paris-PG15 00:50 Art Attack 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring cannot be said of “Third Person,” which originally 19:25 The Job Lot 22:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 13:15 Hungry Girl 07:00 Hyde Park On Hudson-PG15 01:15 Art Attack Jimmy Fallon debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year. 19:50 Zen 23:00 Worst Thing I Ever... 13:40 Hungry Girl 09:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 01:40 Wolfblood 12:30 Seinfeld As a struggling author, Liam Neeson keeps 21:20 Silent Witness 23:30 Chelsea Lately 14:05 The Next Food Network Star 11:00 Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds 02:05 Wolfblood 13:30 Breaking In taking off his glasses in front of his laptop to 23:00 The Mimic 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Away-PG 02:30 Violetta 14:00 The Neighbors show his tortured creative process, while Mila 23:25 The Cafe 15:20 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:45 Mud-PG15 03:15 The Hive 14:30 Last Man Standing 23:50 Being Erica 15:45 Chopped 15:00 Gambit-PG15 Kunis cries buckets of tears and James Franco 03:20 Art Attack 15:00 Melissa & Joey 16:35 Siba’s Table 17:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 furrows his brow, but still we don’t care. Olivia 03:45 Art Attack 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 17:00 Siba’s Table 19:00 Olympus Has Fallen-PG15 Wilde is especially ill-served as Neeson’s emo- 04:10 Jungle Junction 00:05 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 18:30 The Neighbors 17:25 Guy’s Big Bite 21:00 Promised Land-PG15 tionally elusive lover, who delights in reading his 04:25 Jungle Junction Basics 19:00 Last Man Standing 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:00 The East-18 diary out loud (where she’s written about in the 04:35 Jungle Junction 00:30 Aarti Party 19:30 Melissa & Joey 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives third person - get it?) and running starkers 00:30 Celebrity MasterChef 04:45 Jungle Junction 00:55 Siba’s Table 20:00 The Goodwin Games 18:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To through a Parisian hotel; poor Kim Basinger is 01:30 Antiques Roadshow 05:00 Art Attack 01:20 Hungry Girl 20:30 The Crazy Ones Basics reduced to teary phone scenes with her 02:25 Antiques Roadshow 05:25 Art Attack 01:45 Guy Off The Hook - Special 23:00 The Big C 19:05 Extra Virgin 23:30 The Goodwin Games estranged husband, Neeson’s blocked writer. 19:30 Siba’s Table 00:30 Chernobyl Diaries-18 None of these talented actors can rescue the 19:55 Cooking For Real 02:00 Jesse Stone: Benefit Of The tepid melodrama. The movie primarily revolves 20:20 Chopped Doubt-PG15 around three couples: Neeson’s Pulitzer Prize- 21:10 The Next Food Network Star 04:00 Batman: The Dark Knight winning novelist Michael, holed up in the hotel 22:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 01:00 Castle Returns Part Two-PG15 and trying to finish his latest work while con- 22:25 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 02:00 Sons Of Anarchy 06:00 Vehicle 19-PG15 ducting an affair with Wilde’s Anna; fashion 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 03:00 Nip/Tuck 08:00 From Prada To Nada-PG15 design thief Scott (Adrien Brody) who meets 10:00 Sky Force-FAM 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 04:00 Bones troubled gypsy Monika (Moran Atias) in Rome; 12:00 Hitchcock-PG15 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 05:00 Criminal Minds and Julia (Kunis), a former soap opera actress 08:00 Warehouse 13 14:00 Rise Of The Guardians-PG 16:00 From Prada To Nada-PG15 working as a chambermaid while she tries to get 09:00 Criminal Minds visitation rights with her son by a famous painter 10:00 Castle 18:00 Parental Guidance-PG 20:00 Peeples-PG15 (Franco) in New York. 11:00 Bones Michael and Anna, a journalist aspiring to be a 12:00 Emmerdale 22:00 Evidence-PG15 novelist, play cat and mouse games with each 01:15 Take On The Twisters 12:30 Coronation Street 02:00 Seven Dwarves 14:00 Warehouse 13 other to the amusement of hotel workers; shady 02:55 Emmerdale 16:00 Emmerdale Scott strikes up a conversation with Monika in a 05:00 Breathless 16:30 Coronation Street 00:00 Futbol Mundial bar called Americano while muttering about 05:55 The Hungry Sailors 18:00 Warehouse 13 00:30 International Rugby Union how he can’t wait to leave Italy. It isn’t long 06:45 Big Star’s Little Star 19:00 Rake 03:00 International Rugby Union before he’s drawn into Monika’s scheme to get 07:35 Murdoch Mysteries 20:00 Sleepy Hollow 06:00 Trans World Sport her daughter back. 11:35 Seven Dwarves 21:00 Witches Of East End 06:30 Futbol Mundial As for Julia: She’s clearly got issues, and is just 12:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 22:00 Grimm 07:00 Golfing World as desperate to see her son. 14:05 Take On The Twisters 23:00 Nip/Tuck 07:00 Live NRL Premiership There’s a lot of effective cross-cutting 15:00 Big Star’s Little Star 08:00 NRL Premiership between the locations, to the point where it’s 15:55 Breathless 09:00 Total Rugby unclear in which city the action is taking place. 16:45 Take On The Twisters 09:30 International Rugby Union This murkiness, it later becomes clear, was inten- 17:35 Blandings 10:00 NRL Premiership tional. 18:05 Shetland 12:00 International Rugby Union Michael, we discover, has a lot riding on his 19:00 Big Star’s Little Star 12:00 Live NRL Premiership next book and a tendency to exploit his personal 19:55 The Hungry Sailors 02:00 Good Morning America 14:00 Trans World Sport life in his writing. Not for nothing is he accused 20:50 Breathless 06:00 Good Morning America 15:00 International Rugby Union of being “a man who can only feel through the 21:45 The Syndicate 07:00 Emmerdale 15:00 Live PGA European Tour 22:35 Lewis characters he creates.” 10:00 Emmerdale 17:00 World Match Racing Tour These hints about his ruthless creative habits 18:00 Golfing World 15:00 Live Good Morning America are the most interesting aspect of “Third Person.” 19:00 PGA Tour Highlights 19:30 Inside The PGA Tour Alas, they are overshadowed by histrionic story- 20:00 Live PGA Tour telling, be it characters tossing phones or watch- 20:00 PGA European Tour es in water in fits of pique or heavy-handed mus- 00:00 Wild Untamed Brazil Highlights ing about the color of trust. (White, in case you 01:00 Inside IPL were wondering.) 00:00 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire 21:00 NRL Premiership 02:00 Inside IPL 23:00 AFL Premiership Highlights “Third Person” might be the movie for those 03:00 Hard Time Hunter-18 eager to see a spectacular cry face from Kunis or 02:00 Dead Man Running-PG15 04:00 Family Guns Brody in a comically gaudy Italian shirt. The rest 05:00 D-Day Sacrifice 04:00 Twister-PG15 06:00 Stealth-PG15 may wish they had sped off in one of Monika’s 06:00 Somewhere In China 01:00 Futbol Mundial Italian roadsters long before all the pieces click 07:00 Hunter Hunted 08:00 Metal Tornado-PG15 01:30 PGA European Tour 09:30 The Da Vinci Code-PG15 into place. 08:00 Wild Untamed Brazil 06:00 World Match Racing Tour “Third Person” is an intricately constructed but 09:00 Inside IPL 12:00 Swamp Shark-PG15 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 unaffecting bore. Kinder people might call it an 10:00 Inside IPL 14:00 Metal Tornado-PG15 07:30 Futbol Mundial 11:00 Hard Time 16:00 Chinese Zodiac-PG15 08:00 Live NRL Premiership “interesting failure,” but to earn that label it 12:00 Family Guns 18:00 Swamp Shark-PG15 10:00 NRL Premiership would need to be interesting. — Reuters 13:00 The Border 20:00 Resident Evil: Damnation-18 12:00 Trans World Sport STEALTH ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 14:00 Somewhere In China 22:00 Gangs Of Brooklyn-18 13:00 Champions Tour Classifieds

SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

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

You may find yourself becoming less interested in recognition at this time. An absorbing project should have your attention much of this morning. You may become more interested in your own inner changes. This is not a time to start Compare, ask questions and use your intuition before plopping down any large sums of any great new projects. You may wish to consolidate what you now have; pull back a bit. money. You really should do quite well with your investment choices for next week, but There will be an interest in your own psyche, religion and spiritual ideas now. In summa- today you may choose to gain some good recommendations from a family member. The ry, here is a natural breaking point in life, a time to let go of what occupied your energies good life and all that is fine and luxurious may be what you aim for now. Others may find for the last years and create a new attitude. You bring order and organization to areas you especially witty today. A good sense of humor will lift many spirits. Get out and min- where new development is taking place. You can teach and help others to do this as well. gle with friends and neighbors. The mood is upbeat. This is a nice day that should just You have a natural talent for finding your way past the pitfalls of life. You may be setting flow along. In particular, you will do well in activities that include children, young people dates for travel soon-your plans will be successful. and your home and surroundings.

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

The world is a sacred place to you and you have an absolute commitment You could make a career out of group or community work. Anything involv- to spiritual ideas. Intuition is a fact of life and you are sensitive, kind and gentle to those ing attempts to bring large-scale and humanitarian dreams and ideas into reality will be close to you. You are a romantic, with a tender heart. You always work for a real future, easily handled by you. Your ideals and inner vision keep what is best for everyone, ever doing what has to be done. You love all that is musical and artistic and may enjoy the on your mind. You are charming and always manage to enchant others with your words company of your musical friends this afternoon. You have a sensitivity to all that is psy- and manner. You bring a sense of the beyond and mystical to any conversation. You are chic. You have real faith. Your friends, partners and relationships mean a lot to you. They like a fish in water when people are watching-you have a natural social charm. Political are a primary source of strength and you look to them for support and encouragement. and lucky too! You have a natural sense of what is right. Law or education could be where You are indeed a social being and will no doubt weave this fact into your lifestyle. This you will find your enthusiasm the highest. Clear decisions affecting others could be made evening you may have time to work on an important to-do list. now. Others show you their appreciation.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You are original when it comes to home and surroundings. This could also You are a strong supporter for family and family happiness. You enjoy nur- manifest in unusual ways of supporting yourself. You may have new ideas turing others and helping people to solve problems, particularly within a about the past, history and young people. You find it easy to create an unusual environ- ACROSS 5. An intensely radioactive metallic element family unit. Your profession may or may not be in psychology, but you are good at getting ment and enjoy surrounding yourself with what is new and different. You are beginning 1. (Of persons) Highest in rank or authority or that occurs in minute amounts in uranium to the root of difficulties and helping to find ways to rise above them. Today you just to better understand those around you that have seemed difficult in the past. You can enjoy hanging out with your family and learning about all the changes and growth they office. ores. appreciate the difficulties of others and you usually are very understanding. You value a experience. It may be difficult to hang on to money just now but you don’t need to spend giving attitude. Politics would be good for you but so would some sort of volunteer activi- 5. Document giving the tax collector infor- 6. Resembling or characteristic of or appro- any money for now anyway. An invitation to a special affair will give you an opportunity ty with homeless or disadvantaged individuals. Home is your favorite place to be tonight. mation about the taxpayer's tax liability. priate to an elegy. to dress up an old outfit. You may be surprised to hear compliments on your “new A call from a special attraction is sublime and may go on for a long time. 11. A telephone connection. 7. Closely constrained or constricted or con- clothes.” secret admirers may give themselves away tonight. Happy birthday! 15. A man who is the lover of a girl or young stricting. woman. 8. A member of the Uniat Church. 16. (of spatial position) In or brought into line 9. A widely distributed system consisting of Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) with or into proper relative position. all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal 17. A shade of blue tinged with green. particles etc, except for certain white blood Your dreams and visions are the number-one component for action in your Today you find all sorts of fun ways to work with your mind. Your sharp per- ceptions make finding new solutions easy. You may even be having a little 18. Found along western Atlantic coast. cells. chart. Your imagination and creativeness are crucial to your functioning. This is a time of good fortune when things open up in a very natural way for you. Do not fun with those who do not think you will either find the right answer or create a new solu- 19. Armor plate that protects the chest. 10. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the tion. You are able to teach or help others to be more original when it comes to the words expect to change or accomplish goals overnight. Concentrate on balance and work at 21. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size rare earth group. or thoughts. There are puzzles and games and fun ways to create your own puzzles and creating a balance one day at a time. Opportunities abound and you may find yourself games . . . This would be a good challenge for those family members that are bored. You or scale. 11. A member of the Taracahitian people of wanting and able to do almost everything. Warning here; easy does it. Relationships are are able to enjoy and value your own life situation and there are notably good feelings 24. A alloy of tin with some copper and anti- central Mexico. very important during this time and can make a positive influence on your career and toward a friend or loved one now. Someone is waiting for you to respond to a serious mony. 12. Jordan's port. workplace. You could feel great support from those around you today. request. Your heart knows the answer . . . Share the words gently. 26. Of or concerning Qatar. 13. Of or relating to or associated with the 27. A small digital computer based on a moon. microprocessor and designed to be used by 14. Club consisting of a heavy stick (often Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) one person at a time. bamboo) bound with iron. You work with real imagination and understanding in the most personal There is an urge to strike out on your own in a new direction, to take on new 29. Large burrowing rodent of South and 20. Beet lacking swollen root. challenges no matter what the risks. You can be bold, perhaps headstrong and private areas of the mind: depth psychology. Religion, politics and philosophy are a Central America. 22. The elementary stages of any subject and impatient. You go where angels fear to tread, perhaps. A short trip or visit with friends natural. You enjoy communication with fair, just, frank and broad-minded persons. You may help to bring your saturday into a better focus. Hey, why not take a hot air balloon 30. The outermost (and toughest) of the 3 (usually plural). are sociable and sports-minded. You dare to dream big. You like new philosophies and rideit would certainly quench your thirst for adventure and can be a relatively safe endeav- meninges. 23. Short and fat. long novels, and may find yourself in bookstores this saturday. You are very imaginative or. You are probably very witty and prefer an unusual method of communicating to others. 31. A period marked by distinctive character 25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alka- when it comes to your health, the food you eat and how you take care of yourself. Quick Your sense of the unity behind things spiritual and psychological is clear and felt by those or reckoned from a fixed point or event. li earth group. to get the picture, you may find yourself helping others see the benefits that proper care around you. You are, no doubt, a romantic, at home in the world of dreams and images. can bring. Not everyone needs the same health techniques that you might find beneficial You enjoy playing with your friends or family today. 33. A fraudulent business scheme. 28. Any system of principles or beliefs. for yourself. Share, but within reason. 36. A public promotion of some product or 32. In bed. service. 34. A river in north central Switzerland that 40. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on runs northeast into the Rhine. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) a skewer usually with vegetables. 35. A unit of conductance equal to the recip- 42. According to the Old Testament he was a rocal of an ohm. Easy does it today. Anytime you make changes-your pattern of living or Neighborhood affairs and relationships could come on the scene. pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel 37. (Old Testament) Jonah did not wish to personality-you could cause others to unconsciously test your sincerity. When your pat- Communication efforts are rewarded and positive strokes from others make this a good (9th century BC). become a prophet so God caused a great terns, habits or directions change, some of the people around you will also change. Chin day. You may seem wiser than your age and probably treat your elders with great respect. storm to throw him overboard from a ship. up! You will be able to work through any hot spots that come up at this time. You are bril- You are disciplined and perhaps too sober. You may find yourself analyzing and psychoan- 45. Chief port of Yemen. liant when it comes to insights of the mind, psychology and motivation-yours or others’. alyzing life’s predicaments. You are very innovative in your approach to home, family, the 49. (biology) Having branches or flower 38. (Greek mythology) The Muse of lyric and Your analytical powers are superb and you enjoy finding new avenues of inner growth. domestic scene and can really see how to get into traditional values. You have natural heads that bend downward. love poetry. You also enjoy hearing about people from all over the world and a volunteer group brings insight into sensations, feelings and just living life. You like to relax by gardening, cooking 51. Marked with stria or striations. 39. Either of two muscles in the shoulder many opportunities for those spiritual insights you seek. This evening would be a good and being with family. You can really enjoy the humdrum of the day. You might enjoy a time for a creative hobby. watermelon party this afternoon. There is plenty of laughter. 53. The process of taking food into the body region that move the shoulders and arms. through the mouth (as by eating). 41. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa. 56. A Greek island in the southeast Aegean Yesterday’s Solution Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast. 43. The part of the nervous system of verte- WORD SEARCH PUZZLE 57. A card game for 2 players. brates that controls involuntary actions of 60. A conspicuous constellation in the north- the smooth muscles and heart and glands. ern hemisphere. 44. Boas and pythons. 62. Historical and literary materials relating to 46. Be earlier in time. Judaism. 47. Title for a civil or military leader (especial- 64. Produced by aphesis. ly in Turkey). 68. Any of various systems of units for meas- 48. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver uring electricity and magnetism. Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic 69. Capable of melting. inhabitants. 72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 50. Of or relating to the intima. from aba cloth. 52. The cardinal number that is the sum of 73. An alliance made up of states that had one and one and one. 54. Unknown god. been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet 55. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991. of the rare earth group. 74. Accumulated on a surface of a solid. 58. Dwarf Mediterranean annual long culti- 75. According to need (physicians use PRN in vated for its aromatic seeds. writing prescriptions). 59. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure 76. Explosive consisting of a yellow crys- to sunlight. talline compound that is a flammable toxic 61. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation. derivative of toluene. 63. In addition. 77. Small South American marmoset with 65. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry silky fur and long nonprehensile tail. and Pipturus albidus. 78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 66. A United Nations agency created to assist juice. developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments. DOWN 67. A stick that people can lean on to help 1. A French abbot. them walk. 2. Gather, as of as crops. 70. A United States unit of weight equivalent 3. A member of an American Indian peoples to 2000 pounds. of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles. 71. Electrical conduction through a gas in an 4. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel. applied electric field. Yesterday’s Solution

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Gossip Harrison Ford feels ‘like a battered’ old car

he ‘Star Wars’ actor - who was recently injured on the set of the sci-fi ning, jumping and falling, I always try to keep myself from being hurt. So I saga - compared himself to a classic motor and admitted he brings it know what will work and what won’t.” Meanwhile, he also admitted he nev- Ton himself due to his dedication. Speaking to the Daily Express news- er expected his big screen career to last as long as it has done. He said: “I paper, he quipped: “I am like a battered old Ford. “And I keep on coming honestly never thought my acting would last thing long. All I’ve done is try back for more. If it doesn’t look real on the screen than an audience does to get scripts which interest me and make sure I prepare as well as I possi- not believe what it sees.” The star - who was talking about his stunts before bly can. “After that, it’s a matter of hoping that people like what they see his latest injury occurred - insisted he is starting to know how to stop him- and keep on going back. It’s not an ‘art’. I simply enjoy it as a great job.” self from getting too badly “hurt”. He explained: “Although i do my own run-

Lily Allen gives her Glastonbury ticket allocation to villagers

he ‘Hard Out Here’ singer is set to perform at the iconic music festival next week and she didn’t want to give her free passes to people who T“never really appreciate it”. Speaking to DJ Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1’s Breakfast Show, she explained: “I get a certain allocation, and because I am on the Pyramid [main] stage you get more. “My husband has been in charge of ticket allocation. I have quite a lot of blaggy friends who hit me up for stuff all the time and never really appreciate it. I have all the calls, blasted ‘Can we have some tickets?’ “He has given them all to our villagers. There’s, Lady Gaga like, 25 kids from Canham who have never been to Glastonbury and who are going to have such a shock, and all my showbiz mates are like, ‘Er?’ “ The 29-year-old singer has also revealed she has been to the festival every year except one, and would swap Christmas for the chance to be there. by PETA for dressing up her dog She said: “I go in hard. I was six-weeks-old the first time I went. I mean I would trade Christmas for Glastonbury. “I didn’t go once. But yeah I’ve been every year, even when I was preggers.” he ‘Applause’ hitmaker has come under posted photos on Instagram which showed heavy criticism from the animal charity the pup wearing a heavy necklace on its face. Tfor her treatment of pet pooch Asia, PETA have been joined by other animal rights who has been seen wearing weighty jew- groups in criticising Gaga for her actions. ellery and earrings. PETA said: “Lady Gaga Dog’s Trust veterinary director Paula Boyden may choose to decorate herself with elabo- added: “We are shocked to see the pictures of rate and even uncomfortable outfits, but Asia his puppy adorned with heavy jewellery. doesn’t get to make that choice. “Although it “Dressing dogs in pseudo-human clothing seems pretty clear that Lady Gaga loves Asia, not only ridicules and makes a spectacle of we think Asia - and all dogs - are adorable them but treats them as a fashion accessory without all the added flair.” Their comments rather than a living animal.” come after the 28-year-old pop star - famous for her extravagant and outrageous style - Demi Lovato ‘can’t believe’ her father has been dead for a year

he 21-year-old singer, who was devastated when “I’m handling it okay, my father and I didn’t have the most Patrick Lovato passed away on June 22, 2013 after bat- ideal relationship. But at the end of the day, he’s still my dad Ttling cancer, posted a touching tribute to him on and I grew up with him and he’s a wonderful person. It’s diffi- Twitter on Friday. The ‘Heart Attack’ hitmaker tweeted: “Can’t cult...I’m handling it okay.” She later said: “My dad suffered believe it’s already been a year.. Wish I could’ve hugged you from severe mental illness so at least there’s peace in know- one last time.. RIP Daddy, I love you.” She also posted a col- ing he’s not suffering anymore.” lage of photographs of herself and Patrick from when she was a little girl. Demi previously admitted laying her dad to rest was “the hardest thing” she had ever done, but felt an “overwhelming sense of peace” after his funeral. She tweet- ed at the time: “Today I put my Daddy to rest.... hardest thing I’ve ever done.. But I know great things will come of this... “There’s an overwhelming sense of peace knowing my dad is no longer battling his demons anymore and that makes me so happy.” The singer, who was raised by her mother, Dianna, and stepfather, Eddie De La Garza, after her parents split in 1994, had a strained relationship with Patrick at times, but after his death she said:

Selena Gomez’s intruder pleads no contest to felony stalking

he Cruz - who was arrested twice in one week for trespass- returned to her home again and attempted to jump the fence ing at the 21-year-old singer’s $3 million mansion in into her yard. He was then charged with felony stalking and vio- CCalabasas, California earlier this year - was ordered to seek lating the original restraining order. Meanwhile, new pictures treatment in a mental health facility. The 20 year old must under- have emerged of Selena, who sought treatment in rehab in go a total of 180 days of treatment, but he is not required to stay January, resting her head on her on-again, off-again boyfriend at the facility after 30 days, according to gossip website Justin Bieber’s shoulder during a break at a recording studio this TMZ.com. The judge also issued a 10-year restraining order, week. A source said that the ‘Spring Breakers’ star’s family are requiring Cruz to stay at least 200 yards away from the ‘Come & “worried about her reconciliation” with the 20-year-old Get It’ hitmaker at all times. The stalker was first arrested on Canadian singer, whom she first began dating in 2010, because March 30 for trespassing and was initially charged with a misde- they think he is a bad influence. meanour and slapped with an emergency protection order. But just hours after being released from police custody on April 4, he lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt built their daughter private skateboard park

he couple, who have six children, hired a team of She’s a skateboarder. We did graffiti lessons and skate- builders to construct the huge facility with a series boarding.” The couple also have five other children Tof ramps, dips and metal grinds in the backyard of together, Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, 9, and five-year- their mansion in Los Feliz, Los Angeles for Shiloh’s eight old twins, Knox and Vivienne. Brad originally purchased birthday on May 27. A source told Celebdigs.com that the the 5,338-square-foot property for $1.7 million in 1994, workers began transforming their beautiful garden into but has since bought four neighbouring homes and the skateboard park, which includes a ramp that’s made turned it into a lavish estate for their huge family. The to look like an abandoned pool, last month. Asked about duo also own mansions in Italy, New Orleans, Malibu and Shiloh’s birthday, the ‘Maleficent’ actress previously told New York. E! News: “We did a lot of things. She’s very into skating.

Kesha thinks her boyfriend is ‘really a sweet human being’

he ‘Timber’ hitmaker, who sought treat- first attracted her to her hairy beau, the blonde ment in rehab for an eating disorder ear- beauty also told ‘On Air with Ryan Seacrest’ Tlier this year, admits she feels very lucky today (20.06.14): “I do [like dirty boys], not like to have New Jersey writer Brad Ashenfelter in physically covered in dirt, but I just like them to her life and is “really happy.” The 27-year-old be beardy [with] long hair and look like a little star said: “He’s really, a really sweet human homeless. “I like guys who look like they don’t being. I’m very happy to have him in my life ... groom themselves. I’m not into guys who are That’s way too much information for America very high-maintenance. I don’t want them to to know. But, I’m really happy with my beard.” take longer to get ready than me.” The couple, who were introduced by her hair- stylist, were first photographed together in April, but a source close to the singer revealed they have “actually been together a long time” and Brad “did visit her during treatment, he’s been alongside her through it all.” Asked what

Orlando Bloom buys a $4.875 million Jennifer Lopez’s bachelor pad he ‘Lord of the Rings’ star - who split from Australian supermodel ex-boyfriend still Miranda Kerr in October after three years of marriage - decided to Tmove into a fourth-floor, three-bedroom loft in Tribeca, New York City so he and his estranged wife can easily continue to co-parent their three-year-old son, Flynn. A source told the New York Post that the living at her house British star’s new place, located in the same historic building as Taylor Swift’s lavish $19.9 million penthouse apartment, was thrilled when his asper Smart, who recently split from the ‘Booty’ hitmak- Jas Prince er after two-and-a-half-years of dating, has agreed to offer was accepted, as he fell in love with the cast-iron columns, Cmove out of her Los Angeles mansion before she exposed brick walls, open chef’s kitchen and wood-beamed ceilings in returns from a whirlwind promotional tour for her new album, the property. His new place is in the same neighbourhood as the dumps her fiance

‘A.K.A.’ A source told UsMagazine.com: “[Casper] is still living at Christina Milian apartment he began renting after his split from the former Victoria’s her house. [He is] supposed to be moved out by the time she Secret model. The 37-year-old actor is still on good terms with Miranda, gets back to LA.” The 27-year-old dancer was spotted looking 31, who lives on the Upper East Side of the city, but she recently admit- at a new $630,000, three-bedroom home on Lopez Street, ted she is still trying to get over him. She said: “We all have bad days which coincidentally matches the 44-year-old star’s last name, he ‘Dip It Low’ hitmaker, who has a four-year-old daughter, Violet, with ex-husband The- and negative emotions but I’ve realised it’s important to sit with it and on Friday. The insider also revealed he is “looking to rent a Dream, called off her engagement to the CEO of Rap-A-Lot-Records earlier this month let it pass, and if it doesn’t pass, choose a thought that will help it pass. house very close to where he is currently living with Jennifer.” Tand has moved out of their shared house in Los Angeles. A spokesperson for the former Focus on what it is that you’re grateful for. Having perspective is key.” The former couple are still on good terms. A source previously ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant’s family confirmed she is single again to UsMagazine.com. said: “Casper still really loves Jen a lot, and she loves him. They The 32-year-old singer was spotted moving her stuff out of their house on Thursday and also are still close.” Following their split, the “generous” ‘On the hinted she was ready to move on when she shared a photograph of a quote on Instagram last Floor’ hitmaker told Casper to keep all the expensive gifts she week, that read: “There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and peo- bought him during their time together because she wanted ple who create it. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and him to have some lasting mementos from their relationship. A focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too source said: “He gets to keep all the gifts that Jennifer bought short to be anything but happy. Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living.” The duo him, including the customised truck that she gave him for his started dating in 2010, just months after her split from The-Dream, and Christina first stepped 25th birthday. “Jennifer has always been very generous and out with a huge diamond engagement ring in April 2013. She initially played coy about Casper has bags of things to move out.” whether they were preparing to get married, but gushed about their romance in September. She said: “I’m definitely in love with someone. I’m in a very happy relationship, a very stable relationship, which is great, and he’s very supportive. We’re definitely looking into the future.”

Kelly Clarkson says newborn daughter ‘greatest thing on the planet’

he 32-year-old singer, who welcomed her first child, River Rose, into the world with her music manager husband, Brandon Blackstock, last week, introduced the tot to Ther fans for the first time on Twitter. Along with an adorable picture of little River, dressed in white and napping in a red pram, she wrote: “Here is our beautiful baby girl River Rose; 6lbs 6oz, 18 inches, and the greatest thing on the planet.” Kelly also announced her daughter’s arrival on the social media site last week and said she was on cloud nine. She tweeted: “Our baby girl River Rose Blackstock arrived on June 12th! Thank you every- one for all of your well wishes! Brandon and I are on cloud 9!! (sic).” The ‘Stronger’ hitmaker married Brandon, who has two children from his first marriage, Seth, seven, and Savannah, 11, in a low-key ceremony in Tennessee last October and previously admitted she couldn’t wait to become a mother. Shortly after announcing her pregnancy last year, she also pre- dicted she would have a baby girl before finding out the gender. She said at the time: “I’m totally gonna have a girl. I’m manifesting it. And when I have a girl, you’re gonna be like, ‘That chick knew it!’ “ lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

(L-R) Edwin Corda - Store Manager M&S Views Kuwait, Mokhtar Hashem -Regional Manager M&S - GCC, Levant & Egypt, Ibrahim Qarmeesh - Store Manager M&S Avenues Kuwait. M&S unveils sizzling new summer ‘14 collection

arks & Spencer launched their summer’ 14 collection tropical printed bikinis and colorful beach maxis. Vibrant yel- offers a range of clothing in warm, exhilarating palette to shades of orange, yellow and blue. A range of colored denim for the soaring temperature of Kuwait at The View. lows, parakeet, lime green, blue curacao and lemon zest in renew the summer wardrobe. and chinos is complemented by cotton tees and tanks in pret- MThe fashion soiree was attended by popular fashion neon shades accent the colour pallet. Clean and bold patterns, Whether trying out the season’s oriental inspired prints, ty pastels and neutrals for the season. bloggers, socialites, and stylish shoppers. The show featured including modern color blocking, nautical stripes, and tex- pastel separates or marvelous monochrome shades, you can All the style staples have been given a colourful twist in the new collection encapsulating work wear, outwear, casual tured florals are prominent in the collection. Proportions are find an outfit that will match your occasion and mood, mean- time for the summer. Plus there are fab accessories, from wear and swimwear for modern stylish women. toyed with as abstract prints and bohemian layering fuse ing the day-to-night dressing is fixed in a flash”, Mrs Chahin statement jewellery to oversized clutches and bold bright The exclusive Marks & Spencer line-up showcased simple together in a graphic explosion of sleek femininity. added. handbags. Embrace the warm weather with Marks & Spencer’ silhouette in contemporary colour palette, punchy primaries Mariam Chahin, Regional Marketing Manager, Marks & The staple pieces for that sophisticated minimalist look top to toes must haves for the season. and the hottest catwalk trends in fashion forward pieces. Spencer Al-Futtaim said, “The launch of Marks & Spencer sum- includes wearable chic separates fused with slick tailored knee The collection is now available in Marks & Spencer’s stores Inject some easy-breezy summer style to your wardrobe as mer collection focuses on quality wardrobe staples, designed length skirts in vibrant prints and neon hues. Keep cool in the across GCC. the fresh new summer clothing ranges from pretty dresses, to be mix n matched and worn for different occasions. Whilst sweltering summer months and enjoy the relaxed casual style structured blazers and cropped trousers in pastels to bright capturing the universal values of the season, the collection with Marks &Spencer’s linen outwear available in sugary

LC Waikiki to launch first ever store in UAE US building arts college draws Turkey’s leading fashion chain young blood to ancient trades n the bowels of what was once a jail in Yearning for the Human Touch pparel Group, the global fashion and leading fashion brand of Turkey; is becoming Charleston, South Carolina, Cody James, As with the slow food and craft beer lifestyle retail conglomerate based in much more international by adding new I22, is carving limestone blocks into a movements, appreciation for traditional ADubai, has been awarded the fran- countries to its operations. Currently we are mantelpiece for one of the city’s historic building skills has been revived in a world of chisee for LC Waikiki, Turkey’s leading fashion operating in 20 countries with very promising homes. inexpensive flat-pack furniture and cookie- chain. Apparel Group, which already repre- results. Entering UAE market is an important The 19th-century jail that housed Union cutter houses. sents more than 50 brands across 900 stores, milestone for us. If we call the World “a store”, prisoners during the Civil War serves as “I think craft is just another indicator of a is looking to open its first UAE based store at UAE would be the “shopwindow”, said, Yenal James’ classroom at the American College of cultural shift, that nostalgia we have for the Al Wahda Mall, Abu Dhabi. Gokyildirim, International Retail Managing the Building Arts - the only US institution human touch,” said Patrick Webb, adjunct LC Waikiki specializes in clothes and acces- Director of LC Waikiki. that confers bachelor’s degrees in centuries- professor of plaster. “We want our products sories for men, women and children of all The UAE’s retail sector has shown rapid old trades. to come from someone.” ages. Originating from France and fostered in growth over recent years, with a number of The college, licensed by the state in 2004, Mantelpiece carver James, from New Turkey, LC Waikiki is a Turkish multi-cultural international brands vying for a share of the offers a four-year academic program in Palestine, Indiana, had set out to learn car- fashion brand with global appeal. The brand’s lucrative market. AT Kearney’s recent 2013 applied science for architectural stone carv- pentry, but instead fell in love with stone. “I growing distribution and market coverage is Retail Apparel Index ranked the UAE second ing, timber framing and carpentry, masonry, was blown away by how the stone is carved,” accompanied by a distinctive strategy - to after China in a list of booming retail markets. ornamental plaster work and forged archi- he said. Students don’t have to look far for provide high-quality clothing at great value. The index identifies the world’s top 10 devel- tectural iron work. inspiration and hands-on experience. LC Waikiki now has more than 450 stores oping countries ranked in the AT Kearney Ten years on, and having sent graduates The college purchased the Old in countries around the world and is looking Global Retail Development Index in terms of around the world to apply their skills at his- Charleston District Jail, built in 1802 with to expand within the Middle East. Plans also market attractiveness, retail development, toric castles and cathedrals, it is trying to Romanesque Revival details added later, include launching stores in other markets and country risk for their clothing retail indus- boost its prestige, quadruple enrollment and from the city and used a federal grant to such as Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar. The tries. make students eligible for federal loans by convert it into classrooms, workshops, draw- brand currently operates across countries The Middle East region remains an attrac- winning accreditation from the National ing and drafting studios, and offices. such as Romania, Egypt, Bulgaria, Morocco, tive retail apparel market with the UAE rank- Association of Schools of Art and Design. Students “not only work in the building, Poland and Russia in addition to its domestic ing (#2), Kuwait (#4), and Saudi Arabia (#6) in Although a decision on accreditation was they work on the building,” said college outlets. the Index. recently deferred for two years to give the development officer Stephen Hanson. “As LC Waikiki, we are proud to enter the college more time to address finances and Charleston’s historic houses and nearby UAE Market, with Apparel Group. LC Waikiki, a record-keeping standards, school officials plantations are also used as a laboratory for say they are determined to continue the restoration as well as new work. Further process. afield this summer, students are helping to “They have applauded our progress and restore the Gothic-style Lincoln Cathedral in have consistently said we are doing a good England and 16th-century Schloss job with academics,” Pamela Niesslein, a con- Hundisburg, a German castle damaged by sultant for the school, said of the accredita- Russian soldiers in the 1940s, college presi- tion application. “This is a lot like starting up dent Colby M. Broadwater III said. a company, and we face all the challenges Graduates find plenty of opportunities to that any new company faces.” put their new-found ancient skills into prac- The school, which currently has about 50 tice, finding jobs at construction, restoration students, was started as a nonprofit after and product companies. Charleston officials and benefactors found They have also worked at the Museum there were few skilled workers available to of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw repair hundreds of 18th- and 19th-century and at the Coubertin Foundation, an buildings that were damaged when advanced building arts academy outside Hurricane Hugo slammed into the city in Paris. — Reuters 1989. “The collective knowledge about main- taining our historic treasures in America is dying out,” Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said. (Left to right), Yenal Gokyildirim (International Managing Director - LC Waikiki, S “The college is a very important national ini- Vural Altay - Turkish Ambassador in UAE, Nilesh Ved - Chairman Apparel Group tiative.” lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 2014

Rotana family of brands head to GCC

bu Dhabi based, Rotana, the leading hotel of Global Sales. Sudanese capital, following the Al Salam Rotana management company in the region with a Cementing its position as the largest hotel oper- property in Khartoum. The hotel is set to open its Aportfolio of properties across the Middle ator in the UAE, Rotana has signed five new hotels doors by 2019 with 221 rooms. Rotana has also East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe is in Dubai, which will increase the company’s total signed on a 249-room project in the Tanzanian cap- preparing for a tour of the GCC as part of its annual number of properties in the emirate to 20. The ital Dar es Salaam. sales mission. With 37% of Rotana’s room revenue company is looking ahead to a 2017 opening in the The opening of these new hotels in these four generated from the GCC region, the Rotana sales busy Creek district of a 280 room combined in two markets falls in line with our strategic goal to oper- team are heading to the GCC region for one week hotels, a 2018 opening in Al Barsha of a 163 room ate 100 hotels by 2020. These are in addition to the road show to promote its Family hotels. property under the “Arjaan Hotel Apartments by properties announced earlier which will open in The sales mission kicks off in Kuwait. In addition Rotana” brand, and a 528 room Hotel under the Turkey, Erbil, Jordan and Qatar. to showcasing its portfolio of properties in the “Rotana Hotels & Resort” brand, combined with a The Rotana brand is driven by passion, personal region, the sales team will promote and sell new 100 room property under the “Arjaan Hotel warmth, and the delivery of consistent quality and existing products to the GCC market such as Apartments by Rotana” in the Wafi area, also set to standards, combined with a keen understanding of Rotana properties in the United Arab Of Emirates, open by 2018. The new properties will bring regional markets, commitment to research, and Kuwait, Makkah, Sharm El Sheikh, Salalah, Amman, Rotana’s total number of rooms in the UAE to significant investment in systems and people. Doha , Lebanon, Sudan and Iraq. 13,269. Development of the brand is rigorously planned This annual trip will certainly help us to develop Rotana also announced its plans to enter the and meticulously managed across all operations - our strategic account relationships, where our Iranian market with four properties, all of which simultaneously evoking confidence and trust effort and focus is effectively used. The sales mis- will be opened under the company’s alcohol-free among property owners, and creating satisfying sion will help us to open new avenues and oppor- brand “Rayhaan Hotels & Resorts” by Rotana. The experiences for corporate and leisure travellers tunities for each of the individual hotels in the first two hotels are set to open in the city of alike. region and for the regional sales offices. The GCC Mashhad - a 362 room hotel in 2017 followed by a commands the largest outbound and inbound 275 room hotel in 2018. In Tehran, Rotana will travel market in the region, both in terms of vol- launch two further Rayhaan properties by 2018 - a ume and value, and we want to increase our mar- 5-star hotel will house 194 rooms and a 4-star hotel ket share. We are very keen to attract new tour will include 210 rooms. operators and hopefully loyal guests to our Brands The new hotel signed in Sudan will mark the commented Andy Nightingale, Corporate Director arrival of the second Rotana property in the

Chinese company demands edits to ‘Transformers’

Beijing property developer said yeesterday it has termi- pend or stop screenings of the movie, which is due to open in “Transformers” merchandise authorized by Paramount and tract it signed with the two Chinese partners and a contract nated cooperation with the new “Transformers” movie, Chinese cinemas June 27. hold an exhibition of the movie’s filmmaking equipment on its that Paramount signed with them. Awants Paramount Pictures to make edits to it and is ask- Pangu says it provided at least 10 million yuan ($1.6 mil- premises for at least eight months. The Chaoyang District People’s Court in Beijing, where a ing China to suspend screenings of the blockbuster film. lion) in funding and that its Chinese partners never delivered The Pangu statement, however, did not say whether lawsuit has reportedly been filed, as well as the State The company owns the Pangu Plaza, a dragon-shaped on pledges to hold the movie premiere at Pangu’s hotel and Paramount was aware that its Chinese partners were making Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television hotel, office and mall complex that stretches the length of half feature images of its property in trailers and movie posters. such promises. It said the hotel hosted senior executives from did not answer calls on Saturday. a dozen football fields and is featured in “Transformers: Age of Instead, the movie’s worldwide premiere was held in Hong Paramount and Jiaflix as well as the movie’s director Michael Other scenes in the movie that were shot in China feature Extinction,” the latest installment of the hit franchise. Kong on Thursday and was attended by stars including Mark Bay and its crew, for whom the company facilitated the shoot- the Great Wall in Beijing and the southern factory hub of The Beijing Pangu Investment Co. Ltd. said in a statement Wahlberg and the good-guy robot, Optimus Prime. ing of the Pangu Plaza and surrounding areas. Guangzhou, where a nefarious tycoon played by Stanley Tucci emailed to The Associated Press that Paramount and two The film’s debut in the southern Chinese metropolis ahead Paramount did not immediately respond to an emailed collaborates with Chinese actress Li Bingbing’s biotech CEO Chinese associate partners failed to fulfill their obligations in a of its launch in New York next week is the latest sign of request for comment while calls to the Chinese partners character to produce robots based on the metal Transformers sponsorship deal. “The loss of rights and interests not only Hollywood’s increasing focus on China’s booming film market. named in Pangu’s statement - Jiaflix China and the Beijing are made of. Four other minor roles were filled through a tal- caused the Pangu company’s original business plan to fail, China is the world’s second-largest film market, with box- Chengxin Shengshi Sports Culture Development Company ent search on Chinese TV. — AP incurring huge losses, more seriously, it has affected Pangu office revenues up by nearly a third in the first quarter after Ltd. - rang unanswered. Plaza’s image and reputation,” the statement said. rising 27.5 percent last year to $3.6 billion. In a separate statement later Saturday, Pangu said it was Pangu said it is suing its Chinese partners for contract contacted by executives from Paramount and the U.S. parent fraud and demanding that Paramount delete scenes from the ‘Transformers’ merchandise company of Jiaflix - which provides movie-streaming services movie that feature images of its logo or properties. It said it The property developer also said its Chinese partners told in China - after it announced the contract termination. Pangu has also asked the Chinese government’s film regulator to sus- Pangu it would be allowed to manufacture and sell said there were significant discrepancies between the con-

A child stands on a barricade fence looks at a replica model of Transformers character Bumblebee on display in front of From left, American actor Stanley Tucci, Chinese actress Li Bingbing, American actors Kelsey Grammer, Mark Wahlberg, Qianmen Gate, as part of a promotion of the movie “Transformers: Age of Extinction” in Beijing, China yesterday. A director Michael Bay, actress Nicola Peltz, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and actor Jack Reynor pose for the photog- Beijing property developer said it has terminated cooperation with the new ‘Transformers’ movie, wants Paramount raphers before their news conference for their movie “Transformers 4: Age of Extinction” in Hong Kong Friday. Pictures to make edits to it and is asking China to suspend screenings of the blockbuster film. — AP photos Chinese company demands edits to ‘Transformers’

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Competitors taking part in the Colour Me Rad 5km run in Heaton Park, Manchester, northern England, yesterday. Spectators throw coloured powders at the runners during the race producing a colourful spectacle at the finish. — AP

Malaysia’s tiny, strutting serama fowl gains fans World’s smallest chickens with puffed-out chest

arching imperiously with a puffed-out chest taped to the bird-which is allowed. Oils are applied to and soldier’s ramrod posture, Mohamad enhance the sheen of plumage that can range widely MHatta Yahaya’s tiny chicken strutted its rich in one bird from red to white to black. yellow plumage for a stone-faced judge. A 2004 regional bird-flu outbreak gave breeders a “Yes my hero, puff out your chest!” Mohamad Hatta scare, as the Malaysian government culled hundreds cried out above the din of fellow fowl-owners as his of serama along with other fowl to contain the conta- $10,000 bird pranced to victory in a “beauty contest” gion, though there were no reports of flu-infected for serama chickens outside the capital Kuala Lumpur. serama. “Many owners hid their birds in the jungle, The breed-among the world’s smallest chickens trying to save the species,” said Ahmad Fauzi. with adults weighing less than 500 grammes (17 oz) Subsequent poultry import restrictions in the — has been a favoured pet in its native Malaysia for region have hampered breeding and trade, forcing decades. But its popularity has spread to as far as many enthusiasts to smuggle Malaysian chicks and Europe and America, with enthusiast clubs proliferat- eggs, as the country’s serama are considered high- ing as owners celebrate the decorative breed’s dis- quality, he said. But demand continues to outstrip tinctive characteristics. supply, and champions can fetch up to $10,000. These include attractive and richly coloured “Breeding is difficult and to get good-quality birds is plumage and a unique bearing marked by a protrud- extremely hard,” said Fauzi Osman, a breeder from ing, heart-shaped chest and wings that hang straight northern Malaysia. “So die-hard enthusiasts like those to the ground, giving the pigeon-sized bird the air of from Indonesia will get someone to smuggle a goose-stepping soldier on military parade. baby chicks for about $200 each.” — AFP While the Asian bird-flu outbreaks of recent times A Serama chicken ahead of a beauty contest at Kampung Pandan in Kuala Lumpur. and subsequent poultry restrictions have hamstrung breeding efforts, the serama has been sustained by Many Malaysians eat serama, believing them an Korea and elsewhere. The world federation has a the efforts of ardent enthusiasts who will pay up to aphrodisiac that also fights asthma. But the bird’s membership of 35,000 and is growing by 10 percent several thousand dollars for a prize bird. attractiveness and good-natured, manageable dispo- per year. sition has pushed it up the pecking order of ‘Part of my family’ Malaysian pets. “These beautiful tiny birds gives you Pampered contestants “There are people who want to buy my bird. But I great pleasure to own,” said Norzamini Tukiban, a 54- But Malaysia remains the serama heartland and am not selling it. It is part of my family,” Mohamad year-old banker who heads the district chapter of contests are held almost weekly. About 200 peo- Hatta said. Believed to be a cross between the Malaysia’s serama association. ple turned out at an open-air community hall just Malaysian wild fowl and Japanese bantam, the sera- “They are warm and tame and this allows you to outside Kuala Lumpur for a recent contest as driv- ma first emerged decades ago as a decorative pet for hold them, making serama birds adorable household ing tropical rain thundered down outside. Malaysia’s state sultans before gaining a broader pub- pets.” Ahmad Fauzi Mohamed, president of the Lifting the diminutive competitors onto lic following beginning in the 1980s. Malaysia branch of the World Serama Federation, esti- viewing tables, judges scored contestants Its name is thought to derive from “Rama”-a term mates there are about 250,000 serama in Malaysia. on posture, feather quality, colour and referring to Thailand’s royalty. Some believe the breed There are nearly as many overseas, he said, and temperament. Hours of grooming pre- originated as a long-ago gift from a Thai king to a serama clubs have sprouted across Southeast Asia, cede shows, including embellishing Malaysian sultan. the United States, Canada, Belgium, Holland, South plumage with additional feathers

A judge watches as a Serama chicken struts down a judging table In this picture taken on May 17, 2014 Malaysian man Along prepares his In this picture taken on May 17, 2014 a during a beauty contest. — AFP photos prized Serama chicken ‘Tokun’ ahead of a beauty contest at Kampung prized Serama chicken ‘Aramas’ struts Pandan in Kuala Lumpur. Marching imperiously with a puffed-out chest down a judging table during a beauty con- and soldier’s ramrod posture, Mohamad Hatta Yahaya’s tiny chicken test at Kampung Pandan in Kuala Lumpur. strutted its rich yellow plumage for a stone-faced judge.