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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SHAWWAL 5, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Speaker, MPs Indian serial Germany eyes Blatter departure slam Dashti’s child killer Iran business date set as FIFA visit to family confesses but Israel tops tries again of Mughniya5 to11 crimes differences25 with19 reforms New UAE law outlaws all Min 32º Max 47º forms of discrimination High Tide 03:38 & 14:36 Legislation seeks to promote tolerance, acceptance Low Tide 08:38 & 21:10 40 PAGES NO: 16585 150 FILS DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has outlawed religious or racial discrimination, the state news agency WAM said yester- Cuba flag flies in US as ties restored day, citing a royal decree by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. The law is aimed in part at countering Islamist mili- tancy, particularly the practice known as takfir, whereby hard- WASHINGTON: The Cuban flag was yesterday proudly line Muslims label followers of other schools of Islam unbeliev- hoisted over Havana’s newly restored embassy in ers, but it also outlaws insults against religions. The legislation Washington for the first time in 54 years as the two bars discrimination based on “religion, caste, creed, doctrine, nations resumed diplomatic ties, ending decades of hos- race, color or ethnic origin,” according to WAM. tility. In a historic ceremony attended by Cuban Foreign “The new law No. 02 of 2015 criminalizes any acts that stoke Minister Bruno Rodriguez, a large crowd cheered and religious hatred and/or which insult religion through any form of shouted “Fidel, Fidel” and “Viva Raul” as the flag was expression, be it speech or the written word, books, pamphlets or raised by an honor guard. They were referring to Cuba’s via online media,” WAM reported. “The law is intended to provide revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and his brother Raul a sound foundation for the environment of tolerance, broadmind- Castro, who is now the president of the communist-run edness and acceptance in the UAE,” the report said. Penalties Caribbean island. include six months to more than 10 years in prison and fines up to After the US and Cuba officially resumed relations at two million dirhams ($545,000). Authorities held out the possibili- one minute after midnight, an American official con- ty of amnesty for those who proactively turn themselves in. firmed to AFP that US Secretary of State John Kerry will The UAE, an oil-exporting confederation of seven Muslim visit Havana on Aug 14. He will be the first US secretary emirates ruled by hereditary dynasties and bordering Saudi of state to visit Cuba since 1945, sealing what will be a Arabia and Oman, is worried about political Islam, which major foreign policy legacy of President Barack appeals to religious conservatives while challenging its lack of Obama’s eight-year tenure. The historic turnaround democratic rule. It has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a ter- rorist organization - the Brotherhood denies any involvement in between two bitter adversaries has come at breakneck militant violence - and taken part in US-led air strikes on the pace after Obama and Raul Castro in December agreed ultra-radical Islamic State insurgent group in Syria. The UAE is to normalize ties. also concerned about efforts by Sunni Muslim jihadists to stoke The shift came after Washington acknowledged its sectarian tensions in the Gulf with recent blasts at Shiite Muslim policy of trying to affect change in tightly controlled mosques in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. communist Cuba through isolation and trade restrictions Militant violence is rare in the UAE, but Islamic State has had failed. At about 4:00 am (0800 GMT), the Cuban ban- urged Muslims in Gulf countries to target Western expatriates in ner first took its place in the columned marble entrance retaliation for attacks against it. While all UAE citizens are hall to the State Department, hoisted between the flags Muslims, most of them are Sunni. The country is also home to of Croatia to the left and Cyprus to the right. It was then hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim expatriates and is a pop- raised at the embassy in Washington, which until yester- ular destination for foreign tourists. Human rights organizations day had been operating as an interests section. WASHINGTON: Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez (second right) applauds as the Cuban flag is criticize the country for clamping down on free speech and Continued on Page 13 raised in front of the country’s embassy for the first time in 54 years yesterday. — AFP accuse it of using laws against terrorism to jail peaceful critics of the government. — Agencies UN endorses Iran nuke deal Mental, drug issues dogged US gunman

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee: A man who shot and killed five service members in Tennessee was first treated by a child psychiatrist for depression when he was 12 or 13 years old, a family representative said. The representative, who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity to avoid unwanted publicity, said 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized American citizen born in SURUC, Turkey: Bodies are seen on the ground after an explosion in this town Kuwait, also fought drug and alcohol abuse, spending not far from the Syrian border yesterday. — AFP time in Jordan last year to help clean himself up. The representative said rela- Suicide bomber kills tives of Abdulazeez believe UNITED NATIONS: Thomas Mayr-Harting (left), head of the delegation of the those personal struggles are at European Union to the United Nations, shakes hands with Iran’s UN Ambassador the heart of last week’s killings at Gholamali Khoshroo at the UN headquarters yesterday. — AP 31 in Turkey attack a pair of military sites in Chattanooga. “They do not know UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council Britain, China, France, Russia and the United of anything else to explain it,” yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution States, plus Germany. ANKARA: A suicide bomber attacked yes- tors of this brutality,” he said. “Terror must be said the representative, who has endorsing the historic deal on Iran’s nuclear US President Barack Obama welcomed terday a cultural centre hosting anti-Islamic condemned no matter where it comes been involved with the family program and cleared a path to lift sanctions the resolution and said he expected a hostile State activists in a Turkish town near the from.” The force of the explosion blew out since the shootings. The claim crippling its economy. It marks formal UN Congress to “pay attention” to the broad con- border with Syria, killing 31 people in an “act the windows of the building and set off a Muhammad fits a pattern of behavior by approval for the hard-won, groundbreaking sensus behind the deal. Obama said he of terror” blamed on the jihadist group. The blaze, witnesses said. Television footage Abdulazeez Abdulazeez that includes a agreement reached between Tehran and the hoped resolution would “send a clear mes- blast ripped through the centre in Suruc, a showed several people lying on the ground drunken driving arrest earlier permanent members of the Security Council, sage that the overwhelming number of town opposite the Syrian flashpoint of covered in blood and ambulances rushing this year and the loss of a job over a failed drug test. plus Germany, after 18 straight days of talks countries” recognize that diplomacy is “by far Kobane -which was itself later hit by a sui- to the scene. Several years ago, relatives tried to have Abdulazeez that capped almost two years of momentous our strongest approach to ensuring that Iran cide car bombing. Most of the dead were “The Turkish authorities have strong rea- admitted to an in-patient program for drug and alcohol negotiations. does not get a nuclear weapon.” university students who had been planning son to believe that the terrorist attack was abuse but a health insurer refused to approve the The passing of the resolution sets in In the Security Council, ambassadors said a mission to help Kobane residents, accord- perpetrated by ISIS,” a government official expense, said the representative. “He was medicated like motion a gradual process - conditional on the years of hard work on Iran should ing to a pro-Kurdish party official. told AFP, using another name for IS. If con- many children are. Through high school and college he Iran abiding by the deal-that can terminate become a blueprint for how the world deals President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a vis- firmed, it would be the first such attack by IS did a better job sometimes than others staying with it,” seven UN resolutions imposing sanctions on with other crises such as those in Syria and it to northern Cyprus, condemned the fighters against Turkey, a regional military the representative said. Abdulazeez had spent several Iran since 2006. The agreement with Tehran Yemen. “When our nations truly unite to con- attack as an “act of terror”. “On behalf of my power and NATO member. months in Jordan last year under a mutual agreement was reached last Tuesday in Vienna by the front global crises, our influence grows people, I curse and condemn the perpetra- Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 UN council’s five permanent members - Continued on Page 13 Aussie surf pro fights off shark

SYDNEY: Australian surf champion Mick Fanning’s punched it in the back. There’s a small depression fighting back tears. “When Sean was killed in the shocked mother feared she had lost another son in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I’m just car accident, I didn’t see it. I saw this just in front of after he was attacked by a huge shark in South totally tripping out. To walk away from that, I’m me. It was just terrible.” Africa, with the sport’s top names also left shaken just so stoked. Oh man.” Fanning was pulled from the water by a nearby Monday by the terrifying close call. The 34-year- His terrified mother was watching the drama rescue jet-ski that rushed to his aid. The World Surf old was competing in the final heat of a world tour unfold on television in Australia, and feared the League (WSL), which organised the J-Bay Open, event at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape worst.”I was so scared. I just thought when that said two sharks were spotted in the water near province on Sunday when a looming black fin wave came through that he’d gone,” mum Fanning and his rival - and close friend - Julian appeared behind him. In a churn of water and Elizabeth Osborne told the Australian Wilson, also from Australia. Despite the danger spray, Fanning, a triple world champion, was Broadcasting Corporation, adding that she went posed by the shark, Wilson furiously paddled knocked off his board as he battled to fend off the over to the TV “almost as though I could pull him towards Fanning to help and was hailed in animal in images being shown live. out ... to save him”. Australia yesterday for his courageous actions. His “It came up and got stuck in my leg rope,” he Fanning lost his brother in a car crash almost 17 mother Nola, also watching on television, told said in a television interview after miraculously years ago and his mother said it brought back the reporters: “I don’t know if he’s crazy or a hero.” The escaping unscathed. “I was kicking and screaming. memories. “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen hap- WSL cancelled the competition after discussions JEFFREYS BAY, South Africa: This screengrab shows Australian surfer Mick I just saw a fin. I didn’t see teeth. I was waiting for pen to any of my family because it was just there in with both surfers. Fanning being attacked by a shark during the Final of the JBay surf open on the teeth to come at me as I was swimming. I front of me,” she said of the shark attack while Continued on Page 13 Sunday. — AFP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 LOCAL Amir visits Army, Police, National Guard during Eid KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah visited the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior and the Kuwait National Guard during Eid Al-Fitr holiday. His Highness the Amir had earlier performed the Eid prayer at the Grand Mosque. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah accompanied him during the visits. Senior ruling family members and top state officials were present during the visits and reception ceremonies.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Chief of the Kuwait National Guard (KNG) His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah are pictured with KNG officials. —Amiri Diwan photos

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Deputy Prime Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah are pictured with Kuwait Army officials. Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah are pictured with Interior Ministry officials.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Amir speaks with His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali as His Highness the Crown Prince Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Deputy Prime looks on. Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah are pictured with Kuwaiti policewomen.

(From left) His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince His Highness the Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince His Highness the Amir, His Highness the Crown Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Defense Minister arrive to the Defense Ministry’s headquarters. Prince, His Highness the Prime Minister, the Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and Kuwait Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Kheder. Defense Minister, Kuwait Army and state offi- cials are seen during their highnesses’ visit to the defense ministry.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah is pictured with His Highness the Amir, His Highness the Crown Prince and other state His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah speaks with Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. officials arrive to the Grand Mosque to perform the Eid prayer. Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem.

His Highness the Amir and His Highness the Crown Prince receive greet- Iraqi Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Bahr Al-Uloom greets His His Highness the Amir greets His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness ings from ambassadors. Highness the Crown Prince. the Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Sheikh Jaber Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah and Sheikh Faisal Al-Saud Al-Sabah. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Citizens and expatriates performed the Eid prayer in mosques and open squares around Kuwait on the first day of the EidAl-Fitr holiday. The prayer is performed when the sun reaches approximately two meters above the horizon until it reaches its meridian. It consists of two ra’kat during which the takbir is pronounced six times. Three takbir are pronounced after the opening takbir and before the Quranic recital in the first rak’ah, while during the second rak’ah, the other three takbir are pronounced after the Quranic recital. The prayer is usually followed by a khutba (public preaching). — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Ramadan soap operas’ review: Season finale

By Nawara Fattahova Fahd to divorce her. A car then hits Fahd and Fawzy, injuring both of them seriously. KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing daily Faisal tells Fatma about her mistake of not reviews of three Kuwaiti soap operas aired on helping him during the fire made him realize Al Rai TV. Here are the reviews of the final two the value of his life even though he is paralyzed, episodes, number 29 and 30 of this year’s as before the fire he wanted to commit suicide Ramadan season, which aired on the last day of anyway. Faisal, Fayza and Fawziya tell Futuh the holy month and the first day of Eid Al-Fitr, they want to drop the case against their mother, respectively: but Futuh threatens them they can be impris- oned for two years for filing a malicious case. ‘Qabil lil Kaser’ Nurses from the psychiatric hospital come to Hadeel calls her mother telling her to return take Fatma. The medical committee of the psy- to the house and return the money of the suit- chiatric hospital asks her about the events that case, but her mother says she had spent it all, Futuh mentioned and decide she is mentally and the gold and jewelry were fake. So Hadeel stable. Nooriya is waiting for her at the hospital. suggests a solution - to give her the loan she Fawzy is transferred to a room while Fahd is took of KD 30,000 as if it’s the money of the bag. in the intensive care unit, and Fawzy visits him. Hadeel tells her father that her mother will Fawziya tells Futuh she wants to drop the case return the money to come back to the house, against their mother, but Futuh tells her if she but her father tells her he will reject her as his does so, she will take her daughter Fay as her KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for General Security Affairs Major General Abdulfattah Al-Ali visited secu- wife, but she can come to live in the house as he ex-husband authorized her to be his attorney rity departments at governorates during Eid Al-Fitr to convey greetings and check preparations during the holiday. Meanwhile, will remarry. The mother apologizes for her mis- during the time when Fawziya was taking the Assistant Undersecretary for Border Security Affairs Major General Sheikh Mohammad Al-Yousuf Al-Sabah visited the Sabah Al- takes, asking the father to forgive her, but he pills. Fayza is doing everything to abort the Ahmad Naval Base on the Eid occasion. tells her he will never take her as his wife again fetus. She falls in front of the hospital and when but she can stay in the house with her children. Fawziya is looking for her, she sees her ex-hus- Ali takes Jinan to his room at his uncle’s band and tells him she doesn’t want to see him house after her brother kicks her out. He asks after what Futuh told her. She then goes to her his uncle if he can stay there with Jinan and he mother and apologizes for signing the papers agrees without hesitating. Hadeel calls her of the case as Futuh forced her to do so by mother and tells her that Ali came with Jinan, threatening her. who took him from her and tells her that her Ghada fights with Farouq as he doesn’t want father will remarry. Ali apologizes to Jinan that to present her to his family and he wants her to his room is small, but she says she is happy to leave her job as a TV presenter. Taiba knocks at be with him where they are. the door and gives Ghada Farouq’s pills, and Jinan goes to a lawyer and signs a waiver for Ghada realizes she can’t live with him and Yousef and Wed, giving up all her property. won’t love him as much as Taiba, so he divorces Hadeel gives Ali the money and he accepts it, her. Futuh wants to take her sons to their as his financial situation is bad. She tells him father, but Nasser dies after running on the since Jinan waived all her money for her sib- stairs and falling. Fatma wins the case accord- lings, he should divorce her as he married her ing to the medical report that says she is men- for money only, but he tells her that he loves tally sound. She gives each of her children KD 1 Jinan. Hadeel cries and says she loves him too, million, and she waives the compensation she but he tells her to forget him. won in the case. Fatma also takes care of Futuh, Raja leaves the country, sells the store and who is now mentally ill. clears the bank account. Sulaiman comes home and doesn’t find her. He calls her but her phone ‘Thakira min Waraq’ is switched off. He tells Yousef that Raja left and Fawaz tells Mashael’s mother that her hus- stole all the money of the store in which she band and her son are sitting in a cafe with two was a partner with Jinan. women, and takes her to see them. When Bu Fahd marries his colleague Mariam. Fawaz goes with Mashael’s mother, her hus- Hadeel is paying her mother the rent of the flat band also comes and kicks Fawaz out. Then where she is staying and tells her she has to find Fawaz hears Mashael talking to Nawaf on the a cheaper one as her salary is not enough, as phone, telling him she will not let him marry she is also paying off the loan. Hadeel tells her Shouq as she has control over Fawaz. Mashael’s mother that she was the one who pushed Ali to father says he doesn’t care for her anymore, so marry Jinan, but her mother tells her that Ali she decides to reveal the secret she was hiding pretended being forced, but he fell in love with for many years, and tells her children their her, telling Hadeel to make problems for them. father is an orphan. Mashael’s brother is Jinan is pregnant and Hadeel comes to her shocked and goes to complain to his friends, room to tell her all this was her plan and that who fight with him and one of them stabs him. Ali doesn’t love her. But Jinan says she already Another one takes him to the hospital. heard this as Ali told her the truth when they When Najd comes to Ali’s house, she sees him were travelling. She said she was angry at the on the stairs with his cousin clutching his hand. beginning but she knows he loves her. Ali Then the cousin comes with Ali’s mother to the comes and finds Hadeel with Jinan, so she kitchen telling her she loves Ali, so the mother leaves. Jinan tells him what she said so they tells her that the charade has became a reality, may split up. Jinan is in pain and after taking and asks her if she wants to marry Ali, and she her to the hospital, the doctor said they agrees. So she tells Najd that she waited for her couldn’t save the baby and that they had to answer for long but she didn’t reply, so she remove her uterus. Hadeel tells her mother that wants her son to get married and tells her to Jinan lost her baby, so she tells Hadeel Ali can leave the house. Ali follows Najd but she leaves. now divorce her as she can’t have children and Shouq tells Nawaf she is worried about her marry Hadeel. But Hadeel reminds her of all the brother as he locked himself in his room and bad things she did, saying God is punishing her doesn’t want to talk to her or her mother, and now. Fahd visits his mother with Zahra to con- that she is afraid he will not agree on her mar- vince her to live with them in one house, which riage with Nawaf. Ali’s cousin tells Najd it was a they are willing to buy. trick and that she doesn’t love him or want to Wed delivers her baby. When Yousef and marry him, and that she did this to make Najd Hiba go to visit her in the hospital, they see feel jealous and tell Ali she loves him. Najd then Sulaiman coming so Hiba tells him to leave as tells Ali that she will marry him. When Shouq they don’t want to see him after all what he did. wears her wedding dress waiting for Nawaf to But he tells her he is desperate as he has take her, Fawaz cries asking her and his mother nobody else. to forgive him for all the bad things he did for them and they forgive him. He takes Shouq out- ‘Ummina Rwehit Al Jannah’ side to Nawaf and tells him to take care of her. When Farouq comes home with Ghada, The police arrest Fajer’s adoptive father. Taiba enters through the hallway of his office Ghanim takes Fajer for a drive. They stop at an and begs him to listen to her and take her as abandoned place and he tells her he suffered a his wife even if he doesn’t want to live with her. lot in his life because of her and that she has to Taiba apologizes to Ghada for the trick she pay for this. He then stabs her to death. played. Farouq agrees to retake her as his wife. Mashael goes to Shouq and Nawaf’s wedding After leaving the police station, Ghala asks and shoots Shouq in the head, killing her. LOCAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

Special Report

Labor force participation rate in Kuwait reached 72 percent Labor Force Survey 2014: Main Findings - Part I

KUWAIT: The Central Statistical Bureau’s Labor Market B. Economically inactive (outside the labor While the participation rate among male Information System released its most recent report, force): Economically inactive is defined as Kuwaitis were almost constant during the time peri- the Labor Force Survey 2014: Main Findings (October respondents aged 15 and older who were not od 2003 to 2014, that the participation rate among - December, 2014), just before the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, employed and not unemployed. female Kuwaiti women have risen relatively large which provides details, analysis and other statistical during this period (see Figure 4). information concerning Kuwait’s labor market. The C. Employment: Employment is defined as main findings include the fact that the labor force respondents aged 15 and older who: (i) Unemployment participation rate in Kuwait has reached 72 percent, worked for a company, the government or The unemployment rate in Kuwait reached 2.9 and that the highest participation rate of the labor someone outside of the household during the percent in 2014, compared with 2.5 percent in 2008 force in 2014 was recorded for the age group 25-34, last seven days; or (ii) worked for their own busi- and with 1.8 percent in 2003, where the unemploy- reaching 86.7 percent. The results also indicate that ness or for a business belonging to their house- ment rate among males reached 1.9 percent in the unemployment rate in Kuwait reached 2.9 per- hold in the last seven days; or (iii) did not work in 2014, compared with 2.8 percent in 2008, while for cent in 2014, compared with 2.5 percent in 2008 and the last seven days, but who were absent from females stood at 4.9 percent in 2014, compared with with 1.8 percent in 2003. They also show that in 2014, their usual work. 2.0 percent in 2008. 20.1 percent of the workers in Kuwait are working in On the other hand, the unemployment rate the government sector and 4.4 percent of them work D. Unemployment: Unemployment is defined as among Kuwaitis reached 5.0 percent in 2014 with in state-owned enterprises, compared to 59.6 percent respondents aged 15 and older who: (i) did 4.0 percent among males and 6.4 percent among who work in the private sector and 15.7 percent work not work for a company, the government or females, in contrast, the unemployment rate among in the household sector. someone outside of the household during the non-Kuwaitis reached 2.4 percent in 2014 with 1.5 last seven days; and (ii) did not work for their percent among males and 4.5 percent among Introduction own business or to a business belonging to their females. The accuracy and reliability of labor market infor- household in the last seven days; and (iii) did not It is noticed that while the unemployment rate mation is crucial for meaningful labor market analysis work in the last seven days, and were not absent among male Kuwaitis were almost constant during and research, and for labor market policy develop- from their usual work; and (iv) were looking for a the time period 2003 to 2014, the unemployment ment. The 2014 Kuwait Labor Force Survey (KLFS) col- job during the last four weeks; and (v) who were rate among Kuwaiti women have increased signifi- lected information on households about their labor available to start work if a job offer was received cantly during this period (see Figure 5). market activity. It provides estimates of employment within two weeks of the KLFS interview. With regard to career orientation of the unem- and unemployment which are among the most timely ployed Kuwaitis, the results indicated that about 44 and important measures of performance of the econ- E. Private Households: Private households include percent of the unemployed Kuwaitis do not accept omy. KLFS data are used to produce other standard both Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti households. These jobs in the private sector if offered for them and that labor market indicators such as the participation rate, households generally include individuals who 50 percent of them accept the opportunity to work youth unemployment, inactivity, status in employ- are related and who share meals together. regardless of whether they are in the private sector ment, etc. The KLFS also provides employment esti- or the government sector. (See Figure 6). mates by industry, occupation, public and private sec- F. Collective Households: Collective households tor, hours worked and much more, all cross-classifiable are defined as households with 6 or more indi- Employed Population by a variety of demographic characteristics. viduals, who are not related, living in the same The survey results showed that in 2014, 20.1 per- dwelling but don’t have financial arrangements cent of the workers in Kuwait are working in the Goals of the Kuwait Labor Force Survey 2014 of their expenses. All residents in collective government sector and 4.4 percent of them work in This survey aims to identify the following: households are non-Kuwaiti. In some cases, state-owned enterprises in exchange for 59.6 per- (A) Labor force participation indicators. these households were groups of friends or co- cent work in the private sector and 15.7 percent work in the household sector. (See Figure 7). Kuwaitis orientation differs from the non-Kuwaiti one in the choice of sector to work in it, while the majority of Kuwaitis (84.1 percent) are working in the government sector and that a small percentage of them (9.8 percent) work in the private sector, we find that the majority of non-Kuwaitis (69.4 percent) working in the private sector followed by 18.7 per- cent work in the household sector and the a small percentage of them (7.5 percent) are working in the government sector. (See Figure 8). The results also indicate that there is a significant difference between the employed Kuwaitis and employed non-Kuwaitis in terms of educational lev- el, while we find that the majority of employed Kuwaitis are of degree and above (43.3 percent), the educational level of the majority of the employed non-Kuwaitis is low, 35.6 percent of them the level of “primary and below “, and 32.3 percent of them Figure 1: Labor force Participation Rate by Sex are middle school graduates.

Individuals outside the labor force (B) Economically active population indicators. workers who lived together for convenience. In The results indicated that the percentage of per- (C) Employed population indicators. other cases these households included hundreds sons 15 years and over outside the labor force of the (D) Unemployment rates. of individuals who work for large oil companies. total number of persons 15 years and over in 2014 in (E) Non-economically active population indicators. Kuwait amounted to 28.3 percent, with 14.8 percent Main Findings for males and 46.2 percent among females. The per- Coverage Labor force participation rate centage for the Kuwaiti population is found to be The labor force survey 2014 covered all Kuwaiti Survey results showed that the labor force partici- 54.3 percent, with 45.8 percent for males and 62.4 and non-Kuwaitis individuals, aged 15 years and pation rate in Kuwait has reached 72 percent. The percent among females. In contrast, and for non- over, living in private households, as well as mem- results showed that the percentage of male partici- Kuwaiti population, the percentage is found to be bers of collective households, whether in apart- pation in the labor force to the total male within the 18.9 percent, with 5.8 percent for males and 38.7 ments or houses and gatherings workers belonging working age has reached 85 percent, as the propor- percent among females. to companies. The following were excluded from tion of female participation in the labor force stood On the other hand, results showed that 65.0 per- this survey: residents of hotels, individuals living at 54 percent. (See Figure 1). cent of individuals within the 15-24 age group are with private households temporarily for less than six On the other hand, the results indicated that the found outside the labor force compared to 13.3 per- months (visitors), non-Kuwaiti individuals who highest participation rate of the labor force in 2014 cent for individuals 25-34 years old and 15.2 percent reside permanently with the family and found out- recorded for the age group 25-34, reaching 86.7 per- of individuals 35-44 years old and 26.1 percent of side the country during the interviewer visit to his cent with 97.9 percent for males and 71.8 percent for individuals in the age group 45-54 years and 57 0.1 presence, even for less than six months, while the females, followed by the age group 35-44, which percent for individuals aged 55 years and over. survey covered Kuwaiti individuals who, during the amounted to 84.8 percent with 98.4 percent for On the other hand, the survey results reported interviewer visit, found out of the country for a peri- males and 65 percent for females. On the other that individuals outside the labor force are distrib- od of less than six months. hand, the percentage of the labor force participation uted according to the reason for staying out of the for the age group 15-24 years is found to be 35 per- labor force as follows: 14.5 percent due to old age or Concepts and Definitions cent with 41.4 percent for males and 28.5 percent for retirement, 40.2 percent are house wives, 39.9 per- The concepts and definitions used in the KLFS females. cent because of the study, and about 5.4 percent for are based on standard international definitions. The As for the labor force participation rate according other reasons. data as collected in the questionnaire can be used to nationality in 2014, the results show that the Finally, we note that, for the Kuwaiti population, and combined to calculate the standard indicators labor force participation of Kuwaiti ratio stood at the proportion of people 15 years and over outside of the labor force. 45.7 percent of all individuals 15 years and over with the labor force of the total number of persons 15 54.2 percent for males compared with 37.6 percent years and over decreases with increasing level of A. Economically active (inside the labor force): for females, while the labor force participation rate education. Economically active is defined as respondents of non-Kuwaitis reached 81.1 percent with 94.2 per- aged 15 and older who were either employed or cent for males compared with 61.3 percent for To be continued unemployed. females. (See figures 2, and 3). (Read Part II in tomorrow’s issue) LOCAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

News Speaker, MPs condemn Dashti’s in brief Expect ‘very hot’ visit to Mughniya’s family weather tomorrow

By Meshaal Al-Enezi ‘I visited a resistance hero’

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Meteorological Department at the By A Saleh Martyred hero Jahra blackouts Directorate General of Civil Aviation expected very hot On the other hand, MP Dashti explained that his visit to the MP Sultan Al-Shemmari strongly criticized Minister weather with light to moderate north westerly changing KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem family of the ‘martyred hero’ Imad Mughniya, as he referred to of Electricity and Water and Minister of Public Works to south easterly wind, adding that some clouds will strongly condemned the visit MP Abdul Hameed Dashti made him, was one to the family of a hero who had resisted the Ahmad Al-Jassar for blackouts reported in Jahra and appear during daytime tomorrow. The department also to the Mughniya family, noting that it was very provocative, Israeli occupation until he was assassinated “at the very same other areas over the past few days. “It is strange how predicted that by night, the weather would be relatively irresponsible and unacceptable. Speaker Ghanem noted that time when MP Turaiji and his likes of apparent and hidden MEW keeps silent about these blackouts,” He said. “The hot and relatively humid with light to moderate south such a visit does not help in enhancing national unity and soli- Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic State affiliates only fought people are fed up with such, almost daily blackouts easterly to light variable wind. darity and that the lawmaker alone ought to be held responsi- Israel with words and sophisticated talk,” he said. He urged during very hot weather.” He warned that he would ble for it. Turaiji to stop profiteering and pretending to be someone question Minister Jassar in parliament. Notably, another Stolen cables caused blackout Dashti was reportedly in Lebanon recently where he visit- else. “You are only trying to fish in murky waters but the blackout was reported yesterday noon in some areas in Ministry of Electricity and Water recently filed a ed the family of Imad Mughniya; a Hezbollah member who is Kuwaiti people are well aware of such attempts,” he said. Jahra. complaint with a Jahra police station accusing believed to have been responsible for the hijacking of the unknown robbers of stealing an overhead power ‘Jabriya’ Kuwait Airways plane in 1988, which resulted in the line along Salmi highway, which caused a blackout death of two Kuwaiti passengers on board. Mughniya died in Kuwaiti relief aid delivered at Salmi quarantine. Security sources estimated a car bomb in Syria in 2008. the stolen electrical cables’ value at tens of thou- MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji called for arresting and questioning sands of Kuwaiti dinars, adding that even the Dashti with regard to the visit. Meanwhile, MP Nabil Al-Fadhl to impoverished in Senegal wooden posts had been damaged. A case was filed condemned the visit, saying that for all Kuwaitis, Mughniya is pending further investigations. known as the man who took part in the hijacking of a Kuwaiti plane and the killing of Kuwaiti citizens. “Dr Dashti should not KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti embassy in Senegal super- have hurt Kuwaitis and victims’ families’ feelings!” he vised distribution of relief aid, presented by exclaimed. Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS), to families Illegal slogans Also commenting on the visit, MP Abdullah Al-Adwani of children suffering from cancer, as part of a A GCC (Gulf Cooperating Council) national was recently described the visit as provocative to all Kuwaitis. “I wish Dashti humanitarian mission lasting during the Eid Al- arrested after stickers carrying illegal slogans were found had visited the Jabriya flight victims’ families and kissed their Fitr holiday. on his vehicle. The man was referred to relative authori- heads instead! But he only represents himself,” he said. Kuwaiti Ambassador to Senegal Mohammad ties pending further investigations. MP Hamdan Al-Azmi meanwhile criticized what he Fadhel Khalaf personally oversaw delivery of the described as the government’s silence towards such an unac- supplies to local authorities, namely a charity ceptable provocative action of glorifying one of Kuwait’s patronized by the First Lady Marieme Faye Sall, worst enemies and visiting his family and forgetting all about in addition to a number of poor and impover- the Al-Jabriya flight hijack in the 1980s and the murdering of ished people, the Kuwaiti embassy said in a Kuwaiti citizens. “This is typical of Dashti,” he said, noting that statement. KRCS delivers such aid to the needy Three dead he only blamed those keeping silent about it. “What if some- in Senegal regularly twice a year, including the one visited the family of Al-Sadiq Mosque bomber and kissed holy month of Ramadan. The regular Kuwaiti them on the forehead... will they also keep silent?!” he won- support is estimated at KD 10,000, however in crash dered. He blamed Dashti’s supporters in both powers and Kuwait rushes in greater aid in catastrophic con- said, “You reap what you sow!” reminding them that Dashti ditions and draught. — KUNA had previously visited Bashar Al-Assad. By Hanan Al-Saadoun

KUWAIT: A citizen was killed in a car crash on Sixth Ring Road, while a Saudi national and an unknown person were killed in a car crash in Mahboula.

Weapons collection Weapons collection force carried out a campaign in search of unlicensed weapons in Um Al-Haiman.

Taxi driver mugged An Asian taxi driver told Fintas police he was mugged by three young men who took KD 330 from him, after asking him to take them to Sabahiya. The taxi driver said they pulled knives on him and took the money. Detectives are investigating.

Several fires in Kuwait Several fires broke out in various areas of Kuwait. Operations room received a call about a fire in a main transformer in Yarmouk. Industrial Shuwaikh and Farwaniya firemen responded to the fire and the blaze was put out in a short time. Another call was received about a fire in corrugated metal chalets and a car. Khaitan firemen responded to the scene and put out the fire. No injuries were reported. In a similar incident, a fire broke out in a corrugated metal room in Wafra area. Wafra firemen responded to the scene and put out the fire. No injuries were reported. Also, a fire broke out in a Firdous house and was put out by Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh firemen.

KFSD visit Kuwait Fire Services Directorate’s (KFSD) Deputy Director General for Prevention Affairs Brigadier General Khaled Al- Zaid visited several fire centers on the first day of Eid that included Ahmadi, Qurain, Salmiya, Salmiya sea rescue, Shuhada, Jahra, Farwaniya and military and airport centers. He was accompanied by Deputy General Manager for Fighting Affairs Brig Jamal Al-Bulaihees and Acting Director of Public Relations and Information Major Ahmad Al-Daihani.

Municipality campaign Kuwait Municipality’s Public Relations Department said the public services department carried out a campaign to remove violating ads on pedestrian bridges in the Hawally governorate. Five ads were removed in the campaign.

Gas production causes refinery smoke: KNPC

KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) attributed heavy smoke noticed from Al-Ahmadi Port Refinery to increased gas production of the gas liquefac- tion plant. Khaled Al-Asousi, KNPC Deputy Managing Director for allied services and the company’s spokesman, said heavy smoke was also caused by the operation of the fourth gas pipeline. Asousi said work was underway to reduce quantity of smoke, which would yield results in the coming hours. He added that refineries in the ports of Al- Ahmadi, Shuaibi and Abdullah were working normally, and the production was at its maximum limits. — KUNA TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 From the Arabic press

Crime Al-Jarida Report Why could Six persons arrested for ‘Selfie’ do it? liquor, drugs possession KUWAIT: Policemen made three separate arrests of six per- By Ali Khajah sons who had liquor and narcotic pills. In Mangaf, patrolling police spotted a car driven by an Asian man and believe the MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center) found four cartons of mineral water with him, only to dis- officials’ deal with the ‘Selfie’ production team was cover that they contained liquor. The man was sent to con- as follows: “You can freely deal with any topic, as we cerned authorities. In Fintas, three citizens and a Syrian I have no taboos that would limit your creation. Show were arrested while extremely drunk driving a car. In Jahra, a man driving a sports car near a mall was arrested with 75 people how they really are without beautifying facts narcotic pills. or misleading them.” Therefore, its result was the hit Ramadan TV show with the highest viewership rates. I think that none of the TV shows presented this Bedoon stabbed year during Ramadan was better than Al-Harbi, Al- A bedoon (stateless) man was stabbed during a fight Qasabi and company’s ‘Selfie.’ This team of stars man- in Adan. The fight was between the man and two Gulf aged to produce a rich, real to life show in a rather nice nationals who stabbed him then escaped. Attempted and acceptable manner without the unnecessary lin- murder charges were pressed against the two who are gered scenes, indecent lines nor exaggeration. being sought by detectives. They really touched on our real lives and discussed our public concerns, fears, problems and its corre- Fight sponding reasons. They tackled real life situations very Al- clearly in a way acceptable to all minds and eyes. A five-man fight broke out in Fahaheel before police arrived Well, why did ‘Selfie’ alone manage to do this? and stopped it. Three persons were injured and taken to Many writers can choose to write about the same Adan hospital under guard, while the other two were taken to the police station, where they explained that the fight topic, especially since the plot chosen was not new. It happened due to previous differences. All five are citizens. Al-Anbaa is everyday life to us. Many of our actors, actresses

Accident A Mysterious Phase Well, why did ‘Selfie’ alone A heavily intoxicated man broke his arm when the car he was driving collided with a concrete barrier on Sixth By Salah Al-Sayer manage to do this? Many writ- Ring Road near Saad Al-Abdallah. The man was taken to Jahra hospital. ow that the West and Iran have reached an In addition, the Islamic Republic of Iran has so ers can choose to write about agreement about Iran’s nuclear activities, the many experiences, acquaintances, resources, cultures the same topic, especially since Nregion will have reached a new, mysterious and markets that could act as a base to a huge GCC- Drug arrests phase that no one can pre- Iranian cooperation. the plot chosen was not new. It Hawally back-up patrols arrested a citizen and a bedoon in pos- dict what it would lead to. The coming mysterious session of hashish, shabu, drug paraphernalia and a blue flash Doubts and suspicions The Islamic Republic of Iran phases call for GCC states to is everyday life to us. light. Both suspects are ex-convicts in cases of theft and claim- cloud the whole region, adapt strategic planning especially in Iraq, Syria and and to wrap up many unfin- ing to be police and were sent to concerned authorities. In has so many experiences, and artists can perform the same roles. Most Yemen where incidents are ished matters (simply another incident, airport customs officers foiled the attempt of Ramadan shows have almost the same budgets, so two Ethiopian maids and a European national to smuggle so dangerous and call for acquaintances, resources, cul- because good intentions why ‘Selfie’ alone? three bags of marijuana and 20 kilograms of the banned stimu- suspicion and re-evaluation might be blown and gone lant ‘qat.’ Separately, a British national arriving from Amsterdam of some of the old, once tures and markets that could with the wind) in order to The only difference is the green light given to the was caught with three bags of marijuana inside his shoes. He accepted and undisputed act as a base to a huge GCC- face the worst possible sce- production team. I believe the MBC officials’ deal with was sent to Drugs Control General Department. facts. narios that had been haul- the ‘Selfie’ production team was as follows: “You can Iran is a Muslim neigh- Iranian cooperation. ing around the region for freely deal with any topic, as we have no taboos that boring country as well as a long, especially since some would limit your creation. Show people how they real- Indecent text partner in the Gulf basin regional developments ly are without beautifying facts or misleading them.” A female citizen accused an Egyptian man of indecent and we can say that the lifting of the international might last forever at a time when oil experts con- Therefore, its result was the biggest Ramadan TV show acts through messages sent by him over her personal sanctions makes us happy because it is for the firm that oil prices would remain low for many years with the highest viewership rates. The result was phone. Detectives were asked to arrest him for ques- greater good of the Iranian people that do have to come. absolutely remarkable as ‘Selfie’ dominated all Translated by Kuwait Times tioning. —Al-Rai every right to lead a peaceful, prosperous life. — diwaniyas (gatherings held in reception halls) and social media networks, which reflects how big viewer- ship this work attracted. Other GCC (Gulf Cooperating Council) drama shows focus on the very usual topic of drugs, fraud and love between rich and poor people, prison and ungrateful children all because a miserable censorship is being practised on them all. Our silly censor once changed a show’s title from ‘Manayer’s Luck’ to ‘Manayer’s Circumstances’ and changed another’s from ‘The Minister’s Besht’ to ‘The Manager’s Besht.’ It prevents mentioning Kim Kardashian’s name or referring to doctrines in any drama. It also refuses discussing secu- rity forces’ corruption or politics, with the result that all drama is being produced with very high budgets but with no result. Unleash artists. Give them freedom to reflect real life, because through TV screens, they get into our houses on a daily basis without even knocking. So, let us benefit from the topics they discuss so that their drama can all come out the way ‘Selfie’ did. —Translated by Kuwait Times

Al-Anbaa The salt of America NBK’s volunteers at NBK Ramadan tent. NBK’s Ramadan gifts. NBK concludes its annual social program for Ramadan By Saad Al-Mo’tesh do not know who first came up with the saying KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) concluded gram that comprises a multitude of philanthropic campaign represented a new concept of the private that ‘Lies are the salt of men.’ I also fail to under- its philanthropic Ramadan campaign which com- activities, was received this year with remarkable sector humanitarian and philanthropic involvement Istand what it means. Does it refer to lies men say prised a series of activities and events aimed at participation at NBK’s tent located opposite to the and had become one of the main pillars of NBK’s to fellow men or other types of lies? However, some- encouraging community engagement and solidari- Grand Mosque in Sharq area. Also, iftar meals corporate social responsibility endeavor. one told me that this saying refers to lies men tell ty and charity in Kuwait during the holy month of have been distributed to fasters at various Rushaid added that NBK Ramadan Social their wives! Supposing that such ‘salt’ has been only Ramadan. mosques and crowded areas in Kuwait via special Program included also visits by NBK’s Public given to men, one has to be aware it is only given to Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid, NBK Public convoys and under the supervision of many of Relations personnel and staff volunteers to NBK married men and that it is absolutely unacceptable Relations Manager, said that NBK’s Iftar Banquets, NBK staff volunteers. Children’s Hospital, as well as the distribution of from unmarried ones, who should choose another Abdulmohsen Al-Rushaid which comes within a well-mapped social pro- Rushaid stressed that NBK’s Ramadan Banquets Gerge’an. ‘ingredient’ to represent their own lies, but they should have to be more careful with the recipe. Kuwaiti officials accused It is alright guys if lies exist in your lives, because the greatest country in the world has been practicing of collecting bribes lies on a daily basis without fears from any other man or the world’s most beautiful women. The most KUWAIT: The FBI will hear the testimony of spiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt two former executives in the Lewis Burger Practice Act (FCPA). Based on the confes- International Construction Management sions mentioned in the litigation agree- It is alright guys if lies exist in Company, located in New Jersey, for their ment and details given in the accusations involvement in bribes of Kuwaiti officials to documents from 1998 until 2010, the com- your lives, because the greatest win government contracts. The hearing will pany and its employees gave $3.9 million in be held November 15, 2015, Al-Qabas daily bribes to foreign officials in several coun- country in the world has been reported yesterday. The charges are filed tries including Kuwait, India and Indonesia, against Richard Hersh (61), who lives in the in order to win government contracts. The practicing lies on a daily basis Philippines and, James McLang who company agreed to pay a fine of $17.1 mil- resides in Dubai. They are accused of con- lion to settle the case. —Al-Qabas recent US lie is the so-called IS. A news bar on one of the satellite TV channels recently showed that US offers its help to IS-stricken countries, ie, Kuwait, 30,000 govt workers on Tunis and France. They have dropped aid on IS troops in Syria and post Eid sick leaves Iraq more than once and claim such aid and weapons had been dropped by mistake. Though IS has been KUWAIT: Around 30,000 government employ- the sources added. In case of any manipulation in using GPS-equipped vehicles they stole from the ees applied to get sick leaves on the three post- any of the sick leaves, any private hospital granti- Iraqi army, US planes have been somehow missing Eid working days (Tuesday, Wednesday and ng such leaves would be referred to MOH investi- them. Moreover, the oil IS steals is sold right under Thursday), claiming to have appointments with gation, the sources said. CSC laws regulate sick the noses of the Americans daily. doctors at private and public hospitals, and urgent leaves within certain conditions. Well, if you are actually serious in the offer you informed sources at the Civil Services “However, the increasing number of those leaves made, a video recently spread on WhatsApp showing Commission (CSC) said. before and after official vacations calls for a IS claiming responsibility for Kuwait’s blast and nam- CSC undersecretaries requested checking all stand,” the sources asserted. In a related concern, ing the one responsible for as ‘Abul Qanader,’ whom I those sick leaves with the Health Ministry (MOH) security sources said that around 18,000 passen- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) distributed ‘Eid Al-Fitr’ gifts bet you can reach and bring to justice if you were as well as the names of doctors authorizing them gers had left Kuwait over the past few hours to cleaning and construction workers during the last week of Ramadan. It really serious, but I doubt it because your satanic role and the medical history of the concerned through the three land border exits; Nuwaiseeb, came as part of the bank’s ongoing humanitarian campaign that aims at is not over yet. —Translated by Kuwait Times employees and how often they got sick leaves, Abdali and Salmi. —Al-Anbaa helping outdoor labor forces cope with difficult working environments. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

Senegal puts ex-Chad 70 years after WWII, Japanese company apologizes to US POWs dictator Habre on trial for atrocities Page 12 Page 10

LONDON: A row of newspapers are on display, including a paper with a photo of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as a child giving a Nazi salute, in a shop on July 18, 2015. — AP Queen’s childhood ‘Nazi salute’ stirs British mania for monarchy Supporters rush to her defence

LONDON: A grainy 82-year-old image pouring of love and support from the claiming the ultimate trophy - the life of of a seven-year-old Elizabeth offering commonsensical mass of the British George VI,” Jobson said. what appears to be a brief Nazi salute people, who can see this for exactly The Sun said it had published the has touched some of Britain’s deepest what it is: the innocent actions of a sev- images to provide an insight into “the obsessions: a mania for monarchy and a en-year-old child.” warped prejudices” of Edward, who fascination with World War Two. Johnson, who last year published a renounced the throne in 1936 to marry Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling Sun biography of Winston Churchill, gave a Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced tabloid devoted seven pages to what it brief outline of delusions some in American socialite. Asked if Prime billed as a “world exclusive” but stressed British elite had in the 1930s about Minister David Cameron shared the 17-second black-and-white film Hitler’s true intentions ahead of a war Buckingham Palace’s disappointment at from the year Adolf Hitler came to pow- that would sap British power, wealth the publication, Cameron’s spokes- er did not reflect badly on the 89-year- and blood. “Some 82 years on from the woman said: “I don’t think the prime min- old monarch. shooting of that film, journalists are ister has anything really to add to the Under the headline “Their Royal exploring the attitudes of the royal fam- debate there has already been on this.” Heilnesses”, The Sun said the film ily towards Adolf Hitler’s regime in In the film, a copy of which The Sun showed the future Edward VIII instruct- Germany,” wrote media commentator said it had received from a source, ing his nieces, the present Queen Roy Greenslade in the Guardian. Elizabeth and her sister show little Elizabeth, and her three-year-old sister, apparent understanding of the salute’s Princess Margaret, how to perform the British royals significance as a sign of obedience to Nazi salute. Though it would emerge from the Hitler. Buckingham Palace is investigat- True to her reputation for avoiding war as an almost bankrupt former ing the possible source of the film, blatant displays of emotion or opinion imperial power trapped in a Cold War which came from the queen’s personal during her more than six decades on between Soviet Russia and the United family archive. The Sun quoted histori- the throne, Elizabeth has not deigned States, Britain’s role in defeating the ans urging an opening up of the Royal to comment publicly though Nazis remains a great source of pride for Archives, which it said could stay secret Buckingham Palace scolded The Sun. many Britons. for ever. Edward, whose pro-German Such is Elizabeth’s popularity and Royal bravery in the face of German sympathies would fuel decades of spec- influence that the story led the BBC’s bombing raids became a theme of ulation about his true loyalties, raises flagship radio news programme on British domestic propaganda during his arm, as does his sister-in-law, the Saturday and has elicited anger from the war: Elizabeth’s parents, George VI Queen Mother. Edward was succeeded supporters in a swathe of comment and the Queen mother, became sym- by his younger brother, George VI, across the domestic media. bols of British defiance. Elizabeth’s father. “It makes my blood boil to think that “When Buckingham Palace was An opponent of Russia’s Bolshevik anyone should use this image in any bombed on 13 September 1940, the rulers who killed Tsar Nicholas II in 1918, way to impugn the extraordinary Queen Mother famously said: ‘At least Edward visited Germany in 1937 and record of service of Her Majesty to this we can now look the East End in the met Hitler just months after the country,” London Mayor Boris Johnson face,’” Robert Jobson, royal editor of the Luftwaffe bombed the town of wrote in The Daily Telegraph newspa- Evening Standard wrote. Guernica during the Spanish Civil War per. “I hope that the Queen and her “It would go down in history as the and Jews had been banned from many family will be fortified by the huge out- day the Luftwaffe came closest to professions in Germany. — Reuters EU fails to reach migrant resettlement target BRUSSELS: EU ministers failed to the Mediterranean in April that left have made the crossing, the agree yesterday on how to redistribute nearly 800 people dead. International Organization for an agreed total of 40,000 Syrian and EU leaders then agreed on the fig- Migration said earlier this month. Eritrean migrants from overstretched ure in June but have been bitterly France and Germany agreed earlier Italy and Greece, officials said. divided over how to reach it, first in July to accept some 21,000 refugees They agreed to start relocating rejecting compulsory quotas and then and asylum seekers as part of EU more than 32,000 of them around the squabbling with each other over how efforts to deal with the flood of 28-nation EU but fell 8,000 short of to redistribute them. migrants seeking refuge from conflicts their overall target agreed by EU lead- Luxembourg, which holds the and poverty across North Africa and ers at a bad tempered summit in June. rotating six-month presidency of the the Middle East. ‘We have a solution for relocation EU, said the ministers agreed to relo- Other governments including in this year. For next year we are not cate 32,256 Syrians and Eritreans who those in central and eastern Europe yet exactly there, we will talk about had landed in Greece and Italy. objected to earlier EU proposals to this in October or November,’ German It added that they also agreed to establish mandatory quotas in meet- Secretary of State Emily Haber told relocate 22,504 Syrian refugees cur- ing the targets. reporters after the talks. rently living in camps outside the EU. EU sources said the countries that The European Commission, the More than 1,900 migrants have were most reluctant to admit migrants executive arm of the EU, originally died this year making the perilous were Hungry, Austria, Slovakia, proposed the 40,000 figure after an journey across the Mediterranean to Slovenia, the Baltic countries and unprecedented migrant shipwreck in Europe, while around 150,000 people Spain. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

Israel in ‘abusive arrests’ of Palestinian children: HRW

JERUSALEM: Human Rights Watch yes- were long-standing “abusive practices”. Israel’s army, when contacted by AFP, stones during the months of unrest that Khoula said. “While on the ground, they terday accused Israel of “abusive arrests” The rights group issued the accusa- had no immediate comment on the rocked Jerusalem before and after a kicked her and one soldier stepped on of Palestinian children as young as 11 tions as US Defence Secretary Ashton report. HRW said the military and justice deadly July-August war in the Gaza Strip. her neck.” In every case HRW document- and of using threats to force them to Carter began a visit to Israel. ministry responded to its accusations The Jerusalem riots, where security ed, the Palestinian families said Israeli sign confessions. “Israeli security forces have used and maintained that “security officials forces clashed with stone-throwing authorities “did not inform parents of the Israeli authorities failed to inform par- unnecessary force to arrest or detain had adhered to the law in all cases, Palestinians, were accompanied by a child’s arrest and interrogated the chil- ents of their children’s arrest or where- Palestinian children,” it said in a report including by informing the children of spate of killings of both Jews and Arabs. dren without permitting them to speak abouts, the New York-based watchdog giving details of the “abusive arrests” of their rights”. In the West Bank, 14-year-old girl to a parent or lawyer prior to the interro- added, drawing on accounts of several six children. In one case, 11-year-old Rashid S, Malak al-Khatib was violently arrested gation”. Three children “said they signed children detained during intense unrest “Forces have choked children, thrown who was arrested in Israeli-annexed east on suspicion of throwing stones at a confessions written in Hebrew, a lan- in east Jerusalem and the West Bank late stun grenades at them, beaten them in Jerusalem in November, said officers put road used by Jewish settlers, HRW quot- guage they do not understand, after last year. custody, threatened and interrogated a bag over his head, kicked him and ver- ed her mother as saying. interrogators threatened them”. HRW’s Middle East director Sarah them without the presence of parents or bally abused him in Arabic, according to “Four soldiers beat her with some- Children urinated on themselves out Leah Whitson urged the United States to lawyers, and failed to let their parents the rights group. thing like a baton” during Malak’s arrest of fear during the arrests, and had night- pressure its Israeli ally to end what it said know their whereabouts.” Rashid was accused of throwing until she lost consciousness, mother mares afterwards, it said. —AFP

Palestinian village of Susiya faces demolition by Israel

SUSIYA: Sitting under a fig tree to escape knocked down. the searing sun, Jihad Nuwaja looks out on In recent days, American and European the only land he knows - the dry expanse of diplomats have visited Susiya to express the Hebron hills in the southern West Bank. their solidarity with the villagers, who Within days, his home is set to be demol- number around 350 in total, living in about ished and he, his wife and 10 children 80 tents and lean-tos. Brightly painted chil- expelled. “It feels like the end,” says the 47- dren’s playground equipment, donated by year-old, pulling a fig from the laden tree international aid agencies, stands unused and testing its ripeness. “They will come in the blazing midday heat but is popular in and demolish our homes and we will have the evening. “We’re closely following nowhere to go. In the coming days, I will developments ... and we strongly urge the see one hundred children made homeless.” Israeli authorities to refrain from carrying Nuwaja’s family is one of handful living in out any demolitions in the village,” US State tents and prefabricated structures at Department spokesman John Kirby said on Susiya, a Palestinian village spread across Thursday, a rare public statement on the several rocky hillsides between a Jewish issue. “Demolition of this Palestinian village settlement to the south and a Jewish or parts of it and evictions of Palestinians archaeological site to the north - land Israel from their home would be harmful and has occupied since the 1967 Middle East provocative.” war. The saga over Susiya has been drawn The settler movement, which is influen- out over decades, but it reached a culmina- tial in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tion in May when Israel’s high court reject- right-wing government, is pushing for the ed an injunction seeking to halt the demolitions to be carried out promptly, planned demolition of the village. With saying there is no further legal impedi- appeals exhausted and Ramadan over, the ment. Local settler leader Yochai Damri bulldozing is expected any day. points to the archaeological site and evi- The Israeli general responsible for carry- dence of an ancient synagogue to argue ing it out came to tell the villagers as much that the Jews were there first. Israeli Vice last week. Israel’s 48-year occupation of the Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told Reuters West Bank, where Jewish settlements, the government was abiding by the court’s which most world powers regard as illegal, decision in the same way as when the judi- have expanded rapidly, has thrown up ciary ordered it to evacuate Jewish settlers. many such disputes. But Susiya stands out “If the Supreme Court has authorized the for the depth of its perceived injustice. decision to evacuate people, it’s something SANAA: Vendors salvage goods from under the rubble of their shops following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the Yemeni capital Many Israelis, from former defence ministry we should do. We have evacuated Israelis Sanaa yesterday. — AFP officials to settlement activists and the (settlers) as well as Palestinians that are group Rabbis for Human Rights, believe the staying on land that does not really belong Israeli government is making a mistake, to them, so it’s not something we are doing pointing to documents that show the with the Palestinians only,” he said. Wary of Death toll from Yemen rebel Palestinians own the land and have inhabit- international reaction, the Israeli responsi- ed and farmed the area since the 1830s. ble for overseeing the demolitions, Major General Yoav Mordechai, has said he is US opposition examining “alternative solutions”. But shelling doubles to 100 In the past, they lived in caves, but they Susiya residents say they haven’t been pre- were expelled from their original dwellings sented with anything and fear it is only a in 1986, after the archaeological site was matter of time. Saudi-led coalition target Houthi positions discovered, and the caves in their current “We are just waiting for the bulldozers,” location were destroyed in the 1990s and says Jihad Nuwaja, who was born in Susiya SANAA: The death toll in Yemen from the Shiite (the Saudi-led coalition campaign) started in anti-Houthi tribesmen and 10 Houthi fighters early 2000s after a series of confrontations, in 1967 and has rarely strayed from the hills rebel shelling of a town near the southern port March,” Boucenine told The Associated Press, killed in clashes. All officials and eyewitnesses including the killing of a settler. As a result, since, making a living from rearing goats, city of Aden rose yesterday to nearly 100, the adding that he fears “attacks on civilians will con- spoke on condition of anonymity because they they now live in tents and prefabricated harvesting figs and olives and making hon- head of an international aid group said, describ- tinue.” Sunday’s shelling in Dar Saad began after were not authorized to talk to reporters or buildings. But Israel did not grant them ey. “Living in caves and tents is not a com- ing it as “the worst day” for the city and its sur- the Houthi rebels lost control of much of the feared reprisals. permits to build the structures, therefore fortable life,” he said. “But soon it will get roundings in over three months of fighting. Aden district of Tawahi, according to officials Houthi officials declined to comment on the the high court has ruled that they can be even more uncomfortable.” — Reuters The rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies and witnesses. Tawahi is now under a security fighting. The spokesman of the Yemeni govern- started shelled the town of Dar Saad on Sunday lockdown, the officials said, as anti-Houthi forces ment in exile, Rageh Badie, said they appointed after earlier losing control of some of Aden’s search buildings looking for rebels, some of the head of the Resistance Council, Nayef al- Kurdish-US alliance against neighborhoods. The violence highlighted the whom had fled to the nearby mountains. Bakri, as governor of Aden. Al-Bakri served as bloody chaos of the civil war gripping the Arab Overnight, the Saudi-led coalition targeted deputy to the former governor, Abdulaziz bin IS stokes resentment in Syria world’s poorest country, which also has been the Houthi positions north of Aden and in Dar Saad, Habtoor, who fled the embattled city earlier this target of Saudi-led, US-backed airstrikes since killing at least 55 rebels, officials and witnesses year. Al-Bakri is joined by the exiled deputy min- BEIRUT: A close alliance between the US- favoured the Kurds and, in the process, has late March. said. ister of health and the transportation and interi- led coalition battling the Islamic State alienated important Arab constituencies,” Hassan Boucenine of the Geneva-based or ministers, who have flown into Aden two days jihadist group and Syrian Kurdish fighters Hokayem said. Doctors Without Borders said that by yesterday, Shelling continues ago from Saudi Arabia. Other exiled ministers has racked up successes, but also stirred his organization reported nearly 100 people The coalition also struck the home of Mehdi will follow suit over the next few weeks, Badie resentments that could hamper the cam- History of tensions dead, twice the casualty toll from the previous Meqlawa, a prominent supporter of former said. paign. Analysts warn that IS can only be Suspicion and tensions between Kurds day. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in a Sanaa suburb. Yemen’s conflict pits the Iran-allied Houthis defeated in Syria with support from Sunni and Arabs in parts of northern Syria have The shelling also wounded about 200 people, In the Yemeni capital, it also hit Houthi head- and troops loyal to the former president, Saleh, Arabs, many of whom are being alienated deep roots. From the 1970s, the Damascus said Boucenine, the head of the organization in quarters near the Souq Aziz market, killing one against an array of forces, including southern by what they see as US favouritism towards regime resettled Sunni Arabs in traditional- Yemen. Of the victims, 80 percent are civilians, person. separatists, local and tribal militias, Sunni Islamic the Kurdish minority. ly Kurdish areas in a bid to dilute Kurdish including many pregnant women, elderly and Rebel shelling continued yesterday in Taiz, militants as well as loyalists of exiled President In recent months, fighters from the nationalist sentiment and win support from children, he added. Yemen’s third-largest city, killing eight residents, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who is backed inter- Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) Arab tribes. “Yesterday was the worst day in Aden since while ground fighting raged on in Marib, with six nationally. — AP have repelled several IS attacks and Fierce competition for resources also deprived the group of its key border bas- created tensions between ethnic groups, tion of Tal Abyad. particularly during the drought years that US-led air strikes have been key to these preceded the Syrian uprising. In an IS camp, children told: Behead the doll advances, and Washington has praised the More recently, the Syrian opposition has Kurds as a reliable ally. But in areas where been angered by the Kurds’ failure to join SANLIURFA: The children had all been shown that the group claims to be reviving with its own heretics ripe for slaughter, the group sought to ties between Kurds and Arabs are already the uprising. Instead, Kurds have main- videos of beheadings and told by their trainers radical interpretation, though the vast majority of take another community’s youth, erase their past tense, the alliance is viewed with suspicion tained a tacit deal with the regime to stay with the Islamic State group that they would per- Muslims reject its claims. and replace it with radicalism. and anger. Osama Abu Zeid, a legal adviser neutral and focused on securing Kurdish- form one someday. First, they had to practice tech- “I am terribly worried about future generations,” Yahya, his little brother, their mother and hun- to rebel groups under the Free Syrian Army majority areas and building local gover- nique. The more than 120 boys were each given a said Abu Hafs Naqshabandi, a Syrian sheikh who dreds of Yazidis were captured when IS seized the banner, slammed Washington for playing nance as part of a dream of self-administra- doll and a sword and told, cut off its head. runs religion classes for refugees in the Turkish city Iraqi town of Sulagh in August. They were taken to favourites. “We reject this policy of support- tion. A 14-year-old who was among the boys, all of Sanliurfa to counter IS ideology. The indoctrina- Raqqa, where the brothers and other Yazidi boys ing parties based on ethnic or sectarian That policy has strained ties between abducted from Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority, said tion mainly targets Sunni Muslim children. In IS- aged 8 to 15 were put in the Farouq training camp. affiliation,” he said, accusing the US-led the main exiled opposition National he couldn’t cut it right. He chopped once, twice, held towns, militants show young people videos at They were given Muslim Arabic names to replace coalition of sowing mistrust. Coalition and the largest Kurdish group, the three times. “Then they taught me how to hold the street booths. They hold outdoor events for chil- their Kurdish names. Yahya asked that AP not use The Kurds “are seen as the darlings of YPG’s political wing, the Democratic Union sword, and they told me how to hit. They told me it dren, distributing soft drinks and candy - and prop- his real name for his and his family’s safety. the West,” said Emile Hokayem, a senior fel- Party. Relations have deteriorated further in was the head of the infidels,” the boy, renamed aganda. They tell adults, “We have given up on you, He spent nearly five months there, training low and Syria expert at the International recent weeks as the Kurds have clawed Yahya by his IS captors, told The Associated Press we care about the new generation,” said an anti-IS eight to 10 hours a day, including exercises, Institute for Strategic Studies. back large swathes of territory from IS, last week in northern Iraq, where he fled after activist who fled the Syrian city of Raqqa, the weapons drills and Quranic studies. They told him “They get intelligence, military support sparking a furious war of words. escaping the IS training camp. extremists’ de facto capital. He spoke on condition Yazidis are “dirty” and should be killed, he said. and weaponry, they get the media atten- The exiled opposition has accused YPG When Islamic State extremists overran Yazidi of anonymity to preserve the safety of relatives They showed him how to shoot someone from tion, while the Arabs would say they are fighters of “terrorism” and “widespread vio- towns in northern Iraq last year, they butchered under IS rule. With the Yazidis, whom IS considers close range. —AP suffering more, they are fighting IS and lations” against civilians, including looting older men and enslaved many of the women and they are fighting (President Bashar al-) and the ethnic cleansing of Arabs and girls. Dozens of young Yazidi boys like Yahya had a Assad.” “The US coalition strategy has Turkmen from captured villages.— AFP different fate: The IS sought to re-educate them. They forced them to convert to Islam from their ancient faith and tried to turn them into jihadi fighters. It is part of a concerted effort by the extremists to build a new generation of militants, according to AP interviews with residents who fled or still live under IS in Syria and Iraq. The group is recruiting teens and children using gifts, threats and brain- washing. Boys have been turned into killers and suicide bombers. An IS video issued last week showed a boy beheading a Syrian soldier under an adult militant’s supervision. Last month, a video showed 25 children unflinchingly shooting 25 cap- tured Syrian soldiers in the head. In schools and mosques, militants infuse chil- dren with extremist doctrine, often turning them against their own parents. Fighters in the street befriend children with toys. IS training camps churn out the Ashbal, Arabic for “lion cubs,” child fighters MOSUL: In this photo released on Jan 11, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified MAARUF: Members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) take position in a for the “caliphate” that IS declared across its territo- and is consistent with other AP reporting, an Islamic State militant, center, holds plastic bags classroom in the village of Maaruf near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh on ry. The caliphate is a historic form of Islamic rule full of stationery and other gifts as he distributes them to Iraqi young students, at a school July 16, 2015, as they battle Islamic State group jihadists. — AFP classroom, in Mosul, northern Iraq. — AP Al Sayer Group Kuwait

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YAVORIV: Ukrainian and US troops launched fresh His US counterpart Alfred Renzi said the participat- months. Washington and NATO have denounced such sels and another 30 jets and military helicopters drills yesterday near the war-torn country’s Polish bor- ing countries-most of them NATO member but also steps as both hostile and dangerous to civilian aircraft. would show off their capabilities near their tsarist-era der in a bid to show unity and resolve in the face of an such former Soviet nations as Moldova and The Kremlin counters that it is only doing what the base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. increasingly resurgent Kremlin. Azerbaijan-”will prove an ability to cooperate as one United States has been for decades-flexing its military The ships will be accompanied by Su-27 intercep- The annual Rapid Trident exercises involve 1,800 unified force for stability”. muscle in far-off countries to build a “unipolar world”. tor and Su-25 ground attack jets. It was not immedi- soldiers from 18 countries and last for just under two The launch of Rapid Trident was quickly followed ately clear if any senior Russian officials intended to weeks. Their immediate aim is to build resolve and Russia’s counter-strike by the Russian navy’s announcement that one of its oversee the festivities. cohesion within the ex-Soviet state’s outdated and Putin has always denied charges of orchestrating warships stationed off Ukraine’s Kremlin-annexed Both Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev woefully underfunded armed forces-caught in a 15- Ukraine’s separatist revolt to unsettle the pro-Western Crimean peninsula would conduct live rocket fire have stirred outrage in Kiev by visiting Crimea in the month east Ukrainian quagmire against pro-Russia leadership that rose to power in the wake of last year’s drills Sunday. past year. Yet the Western drills in Yavoriv-a village militias that has claimed more than 6,500 lives. ouster of a Moscow-backed president. “After a long interruption and in order to demon- lying just 15 kilometres (about 10 miles) east of But they also deliver a transparent message to the But the veteran Russian leader-immensely popular strate the navy’s combat capabilities, the Ladny frigate Poland-are upsetting to Moscow as well. Kremlin about Washington and its allies’ determina- at home for his patriotic fervour and increasingly iso- will attack a dummy target from an anti-submarine Russia accuses the United States of funding and tion to thwart any expansionist ambitions Russian lated abroad-has done little to hide that he sees much system,” Black Sea Fleet spokesman Vyacheslav arming the nationalist forces that spearheaded the President Vladimir Putin may have. of eastern Europe as part of Moscow’s traditional Trukhachyov told Moscow’s news agencies. pro-European protests in Kiev last year. “These joint manoeuvres... display a broad support sphere of influence. Russia marks its annual navy day Sunday and such Much of Moscow’s state media now portrays the for Ukraine in its struggle for freedom and sovereign- Russia set nerves jangling across Europe by send- activities are planned well in advance. But the scale of West’s military involvement in Ukraine as an effort to ty,” Ukrainian forces commander Oleksandr Syvak told ing its fighter jets shooting toward the skies of Baltic Russia’s celebration this year has been grander than intimidate Russia and deny its legitimate geopolitical the festive flag-raising ceremony. and Nordic nations with increasing regularity in recent most. Trukhachyov said that more than 30 naval ves- interests. — AFP McCain: Trump owes apology to veterans, not to him

WASHINGTON: Sen John McCain said yester- efforts to calm the intraparty storm. day Republican presidential candidate Trump has refused to apologize for dis- Donald Trump doesn’t need to apologize to paraging comments he made about McCain’s him for remarks about his captivity in military service. He’s also sought to use the Vietnam, but should tell veterans and their furor over his remarks to remind supporters, families that he’s sorry. especially those frustrated with Washington, Appearing in a nationally broadcast inter- that he’s not a typical politician. view, the Arizona Republican said, “When Mr. “You know the Republican Party - of Trump says he prefers to be with people who course I was one of their darlings when I was are not captured, the great honor of my life a contributor,” Trump said in an interview with was to be in the company of heroes.” But the The Associated Press. “I went from a darling to occasionally fiery McCain had a calm somebody that they’re not happy with demeanor, saying simply: “I am not a hero.” because I’m not a politician.” At another point in his interview on During a conservative forum in Iowa MSNBC, he said, “I’m in the (political) arena,” Saturday, Trump dismissed McCain’s reputa- suggesting he’s fair game for criticism as a US tion as a war hero because he was captured senator. in Vietnam and “I like people who weren’t In an opinion piece published yesterday in captured.” His rivals spent much of the week- USA Today, Trump said McCain had aban- end condemning his comments and suggest- doned the nation’s veterans and made ing he was unfit to serve as commander-in- America less secure through his votes in chief. “It’s not just absurd,” said Florida Sen. Congress. The real estate executive also Marco Rubio. “It’s offensive. It’s ridiculous. And lashed out at fellow GOP presidential aspi- I do think it is a disqualifier as commander-in- rants who have criticized his remarks, calling chief.” Numerous other GOP candidates, them “failed politicians.” Trump said he did including Jeb Bush, Rick Perry and Scott not need “to be lectured by any of them.” Walker, were similarly critical of Trump. The “The reality is that John McCain the politi- Republican National Committee also put its cian has made America less safe, sent our thumb on the scale, issuing a statement say- brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign ing “there is no place in our party or our coun- adventures, covered up for President (Barack) try for comments that disparage those who Obama with the VA scandal and has spent have served honorably.” DAKAR: Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre (C) is escorted by prison guards into the courtroom for the first proceedings of his trial by the most of his time in the Senate pushing Until now, Republicans have been largely Extraordinary African Chambers in Dakar yesterday. More than a quarter-century after his blood-soaked reign came to an end, former Chadian amnesty,” Trump wrote. “He would rather pro- cautious in their handling of Trump and his dictator Hissene Habre went on trial in a Senegalese court yesterday in what is seen as a test case for African justice. — AFP tect the Iraqi border than Arizona’s.” provocations. The op-ed comes as Trump is on the While officials privately fretted about the defensive for dismissing McCain’s reputation damage he could do to the party, they are Senegal puts ex-Chad dictator as a war hero because McCain was captured also worried about alienating voters drawn to in Vietnam and, “I like people who weren’t his celebrity, brashness and willingness to captured.” take on establishment Republicans. He’s Habre on trial for atrocities In a contentious appearance on the NBC’s emerged as one of the favorites early in a race “Today” Show Monday, Trump took issue with that is bound to see shifts in the standing of the media’s reporting on his comments about many of the candidates. McCain’s war record, made at a conservative Trump has made other eyebrow-raising Trial will be heard by Senegalese, Burkina Faso judges forum in Iowa. He insisted in a telephone comments since declaring his candidacy, interview with anchor Matt Lauer that he had most notably his assertion that Mexican DAKAR: Senegal prepared yesterday to begin the Historic placed him in pre-trial custody while four investi- said “four times” that he respected those cap- immigrants are rapists and drug dealers. trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, 25 Macky Sall, Wade’s successor who took office in gating judges spent 19 months interviewing some tured in war. In his appearance, McCain said Many GOP candidates were slow and halting years after he fled there following an eight-year April 2012, ruled out extraditing Habre to Belgium 2,500 witnesses and victims and analysing thou- he believed it was “totally inappropriate for in their response to those comments, under- bloodsoaked reign of terror at home. Once dubbed but vowed to organise a trial in Senegal. “This is the sands of documents. Around 100 witnesses will tes- Mr. Trump to say he doesn’t like to be with scoring a continuing struggle to hit the right “Africa’s Pinochet”, the 72-year-old has been in cus- first case anywhere in the world-not just in Africa- tify during hearings expected to last around three people who are captured.” notes on immigration when they want to tody in Senegal since his arrest in June 2013 at the where the courts of one country, Senegal, are pros- months, although 4,000 people have been regis- “I think the point here is that there are so appeal to Hispanics without alienating tradi- home he shared in an affluent suburb of Dakar with ecuting the former leader of another, Chad, for tered as victims in the case. Habre has said he does many men and women who served and sacri- tional GOP voters. his wife and children. alleged human rights crimes,” Reed Brody, a lawyer not recognise the court’s jurisdiction and vowed ficed - and happened to be held prisoner - But for a party that prides itself on its sup- Rights groups say 40,000 Chadians were killed at Human Rights Watch (HRW) told AFP. that he and his lawyers will play no part, although and to denigrate in any way that service, I port for the military, Trump’s comments between 1982 and 1990 under a regime propped up Brody said it was also the first time that the con- under Senegalese law he could still be forced to think, is offensive to veterans.” about McCain were an easy opening. McCain, by fierce crackdowns on opponents and the target- cept of “universal jurisdiction”-that a suspect can be turn up. “When we began this case, when we start- “The best thing to do is put it behind us the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, spent ing of rival ethnic groups he perceived as a threat to prosecuted for their past crimes wherever in the ed working with the victims-I started in 1999 — one and move forward,” McCain saideEarlier, GOP more than five years as a prisoner of war, his stranglehold on the central African nation. world they find themselves-had been implemented of the victims said to Human Rights Watch ‘since White House hopefuls shed their cautious enduring torture and refusing release ahead Delayed for years by Senegal, the trial will set a his- in Africa. “So there are a lot of historical aspects to when has justice come all the way to Chad?’,” Brody approach to Trump’s remarks in apparent of fellow captives. — AP toric precedent as until now African leaders accused this. But, for me, the most important kind of thing is told AFP. “The African Union saw the importance of of atrocities have been tried in international courts. that it is the survivors who have pushed for 25 being able to show that you can have justice in Senegal and the African Union signed an agreement years,” he added. Africa,” he added. in December 2012 to set up a court to bring Habre Habre will be judged by the Extraordinary UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid to justice. The AU had mandated Senegal to try African Chambers, set up by Senegal and the Ra’ad Al Hussein described the opening of the trial Habre in July 2006, but the country stalled the African Union in February 2013 to prosecute the as a “milestone for justice in Africa”. “This trial before process for years under former president Abdoulaye “person or persons” most responsible for interna- the Extraordinary African Chambers is of tremen- Wade, who was defeated in 2012 elections. Habre tional crimes committed in Chad during Habre’s dous significance in a number of ways,” Zeid said. was also wanted for trial in Belgium on war crimes rule. The trial will be heard by two Senegalese “This shows that leaders accused of serious crimes and crimes against humanity charges after three judges and one from Burkina Faso, who will serve as should not assume they can evade justice for ever. Belgian nationals of Chadian origin filed a suit in president of the process. Nowadays, there is a good chance their crimes will 2000 for arbitrary arrest, mass murder and torture. The chambers indicted Habre in July 2013 and eventually catch up with them,” he said. — AFP Syrians find sanctuary with Polish families

WARSAW: Magdalena Chudzicka, a mother of four, amounting to “several hundred thousand pounds”, solidarity and empathy by the fortunate to reach is rolling out her welcome mat. Her family is among spokesman Andrew Carey told AFP. “We’re now in out to rescue less fortunate people in harm’s way.” dozens in Poland opening their homes to Syrian confidential talks with other European countries as A widowed teacher from Damascus, Inshra al Christians fleeing war and Islamic State (IS) perse- part of our ‘Safe Havens’ project aimed at resettling Badawi says she survived regime aerial bombard- cution, part of a ground-breaking drive by the Christians under threat in the Middle East.” ments and the explosion of a booby-trapped car Catholic nation’s tiny Protestant community to save Britain’s Lord George Weidenfeld, a 95-year-old that killed 17 other pedestrians. lives. “The war in Syria is all over our TV screens, but Holocaust survivor rescued by British Protestants “Now, it’s like we’ve landed on another planet,” WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama speaks with Nigerian President until now we couldn’t really help,” said the 42-year- from the Nazis, has also pledged support via the she told AFP after she and her son spent their first Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in old who lives with her physician husband in Barnabas Fund, Carey said. In all, Estera has days with a Warsaw family. “We feel very welcome, Washington, DC, yesterday. Obama welcomes Nigeria’s freshly elected president Izabelin, a town just north of Warsaw. requested Poland grant entry to around 1,500 the food’s delicious. Above all, we’re safe.” Her host, after the country’s first ever democratic transition. — AFP “We’re expecting a family with children-we have Syrian Christians. Miriam’s Polish-born mother Stefania, said she did lots of toys,” she told AFP. “It’s like receiving Christ in Bill Frelick, director for refugee rights at Human not think twice about offering her home as a your home,” added the deeply religious graphic Rights Watch, told AFP he was “not aware of similar refuge. “‘Love thy neighbour as you love yourself’ Obama woos Buhari artist, explaining her motives. But not all her neigh- private sponsorship initiatives for Syrian refugees are words I do my best to live by,” she told AFP, bours support her decision to host refugees from in the EU.” “This is a laudable example of grassroots quoting a Biblical passage. —AFP after historic election the Middle East, she said. Surveys show a 70 per- cent majority are reticent in the country of 38 mil- WASHINGTON: Barack Obama welcomed Tough task ahead lion people. Nigeria’s freshly elected president to the But Buhari, who ruled as a military The Polish government only unlocked the door White House yesterday, lending a personal strongman between 1983 and 1985, returns to 158 Syrian Christian asylum-seekers after the endorsement after the country’s first ever to office facing a Boko Haram insurgency Estera Foundation-a Warsaw-based charity run by democratic transition. that has resulted in the deaths of at least the Protestant minority-secured funds for their Obama praised the March vote as “an 15,000 people and displaced 1.5 million. flights from the Middle East and guaranteed a affirmation of Nigeria’s commitment to Since 2009 the group has been trying to year’s worth of living expenses. democracy.” He said the people of the oil- establish an Islamic state in northeast “When the Polish government told me there rich and diverse nation “understand that Nigeria. Buhari’s visit was foreshadowed by a was no budget for Syrian refugees in 2015, I only through a peaceful political process uptick in terror attacks, including suicide realised I had to raise all the money to bring them can change take place.” bombings in neighboring Cameroon and over,” foundation chief Miriam Shaded told AFP. Obama-facing criticism for not including Chad. Rights groups say atrocities have been Despite a recent demand by Pope Francis for an the continent’s most populous country and committed both by Boko Haram and the immediate end to what he termed “a genocide” of biggest economy on a Africa tour later this Nigerian military. US laws banning the trans- Christians in the Middle East, Poland’s dominant week that will take in Kenya and Ethiopia- fer of weapons to countries suspected of Roman Catholic Church has not contributed, pre- turned on the charm, lavishing praise on rights abuses have sometimes pushed a ferring instead to work with Christians on the the former military ruler. wedge between the two allies. Obama’s ground in Syria and Iraq. “President Buhari comes into office with administration last year blocked the sale of a reputation for integrity and a very clear Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria, hamper- Solidarity The daughter of a Syrian-born Presbyterian pas- agenda,” he said. “And that is to make sure ing cooperation amid efforts to find the tor in Warsaw, Shaded says offers to host Syrian that he is bringing safety and security and hundreds of still-missing kidnapped Chibok Christians have come mostly from members of var- peace to his country.” Buhari reciprocated schoolgirls. Since being elected in May, ious Protestant churches, though some Catholics the praise, saying US pressure helped Buhari has indicated a readiness to address have also volunteered. The UK-based Barnabas WARSAW: A photo taken on July 10, 2015 shows Pastor Moner Shaded (R) translating as two ensure the elections were “free, fair and problems in the army he once ran as a gen- Fund, providing relief to persecuted Christians Syrian women (far right) speak with journalists at Warsaw Airport after over 150 of Christian credible.” “We will ever be grateful,” he said. eral and as Nigeria’s military ruler. —AFP worldwide, is covering the lion’s share of funding refugees from Syria arrived in Poland to find asylum from the war and ISIS fighters. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 Serial child killer in India confesses

NEW DELHI: Indian police said yesterday they are Indian capital. Many of the victims in that case- investigating whether a man arrested for the mur- dubbed the “house of horrors”-were children der and sexual assault of a six-year-old girl may abducted from the poor neighbourhood of Nithari have been a serial child killer after he confessed to nearby. Parents of the victims later said police had 14 more crimes. not taken them seriously when they initially report- Ravinder Kumar made the confession after he ed their children missing because they were poor. was arrested in New Delhi on Thursday, Deputy Police arrested Kumar after finding his identity card Commissioner of Delhi Police Vikramjeet Singh told at a construction site where they discovered the AFP. Singh said police questioned the 24-year-old body of the six-year-old victim, who had gone labourer after discovering he had been detained in missing last week. a separate assault case last year and released on Kumar, hooded and flanked by two police offi- bail. “We specifically arrested Ravinder Kumar over cers, told the NDTV news channel that he killed his the assault and murder of a six-year-old girl,” he victims after assaulting them while drunk. “I lose said. control over my mind after consuming excessive “After we realised that he had previously been alcohol... and must have assaulted and killed arrested in a similar case, we interrogated him... around 14 or 15 children,” he said. “I killed them to and he told us of at least 14 other cases.” A police avoid getting detected.” Police have sent teams to officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said the areas where Kumar claimed to have committed Kumar had confessed to the “assault and murder of the crimes, and have ordered a psychological pro- 14 or 15 children over the last few years”. file. But they said their investigations would take “We are in the process of ascertaining all his time. claims and separate teams are looking at every “We have the evidence to link him to his present NEW DELHI: Indian police officers escort Ravinder Kumar, who is accused of murdering and sexual claim,” the officer told AFP. The case has drawn arrest, but it could be a long investigation process assaulting a six-year-old girl, at a police station in New Delhi yesterday. Indian police said yesterday they comparisons with the gruesome discovery in 2006 for other claims as he has given a broad time frame are investigating whether a man arrested for the murder and sexual assault of a six-year-old girl may of the dismembered bodies of 19 people in sewage of his acts and also doesn’t know the exact area have been a serial child killer after he confessed to 14 more crimes. — AFP drains near a house in Noida, a satellite city of the where he committed those acts,” Singh said. — AFP

Stung by opposition, Modi seeks consensus on reform

NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra back his ambitions for the short session of Modi began work with unions and employers parliament that starts today, with govern- yesterday to build support for the biggest ment officials privately saying the main focus shake-up of labour laws in decades, in an will be on passing a law to enable a goods attempt to revive a reform agenda that has and services tax (GST). The GST law got the suffered setbacks ahead of a key parliamen- backing of a parliamentary panel yesterday. tary session. It is a change of tack for Modi, Passing it would in itself be a victory and go who is smarting from widespread opposition someway to reassuring investors who are to business-friendly land purchase rules he growing jittery that economic modernisation has tried, and so far failed, to push through is happening more slowly than they hoped parliament following an executive decree. under Modi. “I am confident that we will be able to “Unless there is clarity on reform proposals address the challenges ahead and proceed investors are not keen to pump in new mon- with reforms with everyone’s consensus,” ey,” said Deven Choksey, managing director at Modi said at the start of a two-day labour KR Choksey Securities. The proposed changes conference yesterday. Modi has had to scale- making it easier for government and busi- nesses to buy farm land are now likely to be implemented by states, not by the central government. Draft changes to India’s archaic labour codes include pro-business measures giving factories more leeway to lay off work- ers and will simplify thickets of rules, but also include measures to expand the social securi- ty net to the huge unorganised sector. The overhaul will probably not reach par- liament until later in the year, despite an earli- KABUL: Afghanistan National Army wounded soldiers lie on the ground as they receive treatment, in district of Baraki Barak in Logar province, east of er goal of tabling the amendments in the Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. A NATO airstrike hit two Afghan military checkpoints yesterday in a restive province east of the capital, Kabul, killing upcoming monsoon session. many Afghan troops in what an Afghan official describes as an accident due to bad coordination. — AP Modi’s government hopes the more con- sensual approach will pay dividends in the form of union support, and will help stave of a threatened national strike on Sept. 2. Over American ‘friendly fire’ tea at the weekend, Modi reportedly told union leaders that they would be included in discussions along with companies in the build up to the labour law shake-up. “The kills 10 Afghan soldiers government is talking in a positive manner,” said Baij Nath Rai, president of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, which is India’s largest union and affiliated to Modi’s party. Rai said the US carried out 106 military air strikes in June unions now felt the government was listening NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister to their concerns, such as a demand for a PUL-E ALAM: A US airstrike killed up to 10 Afghan almost 1,000 Afghan civilians killed during the first ly fire” incidents. A NATO airstrike killed five US troops Narendra Modi listens during the 46th higher minimum wage. “They are trying to soldiers yesterday at an army checkpoint in a Taleban- four months of the year, according to the UN mission and an Afghan soldier in an accident during clashes Indian Labour Conference in New Delhi understand us,” he said. — Reuters infested province south of Kabul, one of the deadliest in Afghanistan. with insurgents. The incident could have been avoid- yesterday. — AFP episodes of “friendly fire” from foreign forces in recent President Ashraf Ghani’s government has drawn ed if American forces had communicated properly years. The early morning raid in Baraki Barak district of criticism for failing to end growing insurgent attacks, and understood their aircraft’s capabilities, military Logar province comes as coalition forces increase air which critics partly blame on the protracted delay in investigators later said. Afghan soldiers are also some- Nepal quake forces ‘living goddess’ strikes on potential militant targets despite a draw- the appointment of a defence minister. times blamed for such incidents. In January, Afghan down of NATO forces after 13 years of war. The bomb- The crucial post has not been filled since Ghani soldiers accidentally fired mortars at a wedding party to break decades of seclusion ing marked the second such incident in the area since came to power last September. Foreign forces are that killed 17 women and children in the southern last December when a NATO air strike killed five civil- themselves known to sometimes fall victim to “friend- province of Helmand. — AFP PATAN: When a massive earthquake struck devotees lined up along Patan’s narrow streets, ians and wounded six others. “At 6:00 am (0130 GMT) Nepal in April, Nepal’s longest-serving “living eager to receive her blessings. today, two US helicopters attacked a checkpoint in goddess” was forced to do the unthinkable- The Patan Kumari is traditionally dethroned Baraki Barak,” district governor Mohammad Rahim walk the streets for the first time in her life, she once she begins to menstruate and, since Amin told AFP. “The checkpoint caught fire... and 10 Dozens hurt in Nepal told AFP in a rare interview. Bajracharya never started her periods, she con- Afghan army soldiers were killed,” he added, revising Still following the cloistered lifestyle she tinued to serve well into her thirties. down his earlier toll of 14. entered at the age of two, Dhana Kumari But in 1984, Nepal’s then crown prince Civilian and military deaths in coalition airstrikes charter protests Bajracharya also opened up about her unusual- Dipendra, who would go on to massacre his have been one of the most emotive and high-profile ly long 30-year reign, suggesting the pain of family 17 years later, stirred up a controversy issues of the war, often provoking fury from the gov- KATHMANDU: Clashes between police and hun- the discussion venues,” said Karna, from the region- her unceremonious dethroning in the 1980s which eventually ended her tenure. ernment.An American military official said he was dreds of demonstrators left dozens injured in cen- al Madhesi Nepal Sadbhawana Party. was still raw. Before the 7.8 magnitude April 25 “Why is she so old?” the 13-year-old prince “aware of an incident involving US forces in Logar tral and southern Nepal yesterday during protests Opposition parties have repeatedly sought to quake, Bajracharya had only ever appeared in reportedly asked when he saw Bajracharya dur- province this morning”. about the draft of a long-awaited new constitution, draw up borders along lines that could favour his- public while being carried in an ornate wooden ing a festival, prompting priests to replace her “This incident is under investigation,” he added. an opposition leader said. torically marginalised groups including the palanquin. The Himalayan nation’s living god- with a young girl. Thirty years later, the memo- Logar’s deputy police chief, Mohammad Wara, also Lawmakers tabled the draft in parliament last Madhesi community living in Nepal’s southern desses, known as Kumaris, live in seclusion and ry of her abrupt dismissal still stings. said 10 Afghan soldiers were killed and four others month after bickering parties struck an historic deal plains bordering India. rarely speak in public, bound by customs that “They had no reason to replace me,” she told were wounded but provincial army commander, to divide the country into eight provinces, paving Protesters in Rautahat district, home to a size- combine elements of Hinduism and Buddhism. AFP. “I was a little angry... Abdul Razid Safi, said the attack resulted in eight fatali- the way for a new federal structure. The parties able Madhesi population, threw bricks and stones But as the tremor hit, shaking the ground, I felt the goddess still resided in me.” ties. Amin said the targeted outpost was “not a suspi- were spurred by April’s devastating earthquake to in brief clashes with security forces at one meeting, reducing buildings to rubble and killing thou- cious area”. “The Afghan flag was waving at the check- reach agreement on the charter, which is intended said local police official Bhim Dhakal. “Police has sands, Bajracharya left her quarters in the his- Unchanged routines point in Baraki Barak when the Americans launched to end years of political limbo in the impoverished had to respond with 20 rounds of tear gas and toric city of Patan, south of Kathmandu, for the Forced into retirement, Bajracharya decided their attack,” he said. But the Afghan defence ministry country since a decade-long Maoist war ended. batons... to control the crowd and ensure a safe first time in three decades. And for the first time to continue living the life she had always said “armed insurgents had opened fire on the coali- But as the government yesterday began public environment for discussions,” Dhakal said. on foot. known, unable to abandon her duties or end tion forces’ helicopters”, though it did not say if that discussions on the draft, opposition lawmakers and Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better as “I had never thought about leaving the her withdrawal from the outside world. had prompted the friendly fire. their supporters-some hurling stones-expressed Prachanda, had to be escorted to safety in Siraha house like that,” she said, clearly still trauma- Every morning she wakes up, drapes an Following the attack, an Afghan army convoy dis- anger about a lack of detail on where and how the district after protesters hurled stones during a dis- tised by the disaster that claimed more than embroidered red skirt like the one she wore patched to the site was ambushed several times on its new internal borders will be drawn. cussion, said district police chief Ram Kripal Saha. In 8,800 lives. “Perhaps the gods are angry during her years as a Kumari, scrapes her hair way by Taleban militants, but they managed to “Clashes have occurred in several districts with the central district of Nuwakot a petrol bomb was because people don’t respect traditions as into a topknot and lines her eyes with kohl retrieve the dead bodies without any further casual- hundreds of our supporters and more than 50 have thrown at Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat’s much anymore,” Bajracharya, 63, added. As the curving upwards to her temples. ties, Amin said. US-led NATO forces ended their com- been injured,” Laxman Lal Karna, an opposition law- convoy while he was en route to his constituency disaster ripped through Nepal, shaking On special occasions, she uses red and yel- bat mission in Afghanistan in December, leaving local maker protesting against the constitution, told AFP. for public consultations, said his press adviser Bajracharya’s five-storey home, her family low powder to draw a third eye in the middle of forces to battle the Taleban alone, but a residual force “The police did not allow our party workers to enter Gajendra Bista. No one was injured.—AFP stayed indoors, waiting to see if the retired her forehead and takes to a wooden throne remains for training and counter-terrorism operations. Kumari would break tradition and walk out decorated with brass snake carvings. Despite the drawdown, the US carried out 106 mili- with them. “We couldn’t just leave the house Devotees are received, as when she was an tary air strikes in June, a sharp jump compared to the like everyone else, we had to think of her. We official Kumari, on Saturdays and during festi- previous month when it carried out 41 strikes. But didn’t know what to do,” said her niece, Chanira vals in a separate room in her red brick home that figure is still significantly lower than previous Bajracharya. reached by narrow stairs above two floors rent- years. Last year it carried out 2,363 air strikes com- “But when nature forces you, you do the ed out to a shop and financial cooperative. pared to a total of 305 raids in the first six months of unthinkable,” she added. Dhana Kumari “The priests did what they had to do, but I this year, according to military statistics. Bajracharya was enthroned in 1954 when she cannot abandon my responsibilities,” she said. was just two years old and reigned for three When Bajracharya’s niece Chanira was cho- Surging casualties decades as the Kumari of Patan. sen as a Kumari in 2001, she guided her Yesterday’s incident comes as Taleban insurgents The Kumari, a pre-pubescent girl from the through the process. step up attacks on government and foreign targets Newar community, is considered an embodi- Nepal has seen sweeping changes during during their summer offensive despite official efforts ment of the Hindu goddess Taleju. Selection Bajracharya’s lifetime, transforming from a to jumpstart peace talks. criteria is strict and includes a number of specif- Hindu kingdom to a secular republic, the for- Afghan officials sat down with Taleban cadres this ic physical attributes from an unblemished mer Kumari’s daily routine remains the same. month in Murree, a tourist town in the hills north of body to a chest like a lion and thighs like a deer. Her one concession to modernity is a fond- Islamabad, Pakistan, for their first face-to-face talks ness for television, especially current affairs aimed at ending the bloody insurgency. They agreed ‘Why so old?’ shows and Indian mythological dramas. to meet again in the coming weeks, drawing praise Unlike Kathmandu’s “living goddess” who Since the quake, however, she spends most from Islamabad, Beijing, Washington and the United must move to an official residence, the Patan of her time engrossed in prayer, according to KATHMANDU: Protestors from Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal shout slogans after storming Nations. While “friendly fire” incidents involving for- Kumari is allowed to live with her family, but Chanira. “It saddened her immensely... our into the national stadium where Deputy Prime Minister Prakash Man Singh was collecting eign coalition forces are a deeply contentious issue in can only emerge on feast days when she is astrologer had predicted last year that my aunt suggestions on a draft constitution in Kathmandu, Nepal, yesterday. Protesters demanding Afghanistan, UN statistics show that the Taleban are paraded through the city to be worshipped. would leave the house, and we were wonder- that Nepal be turned back into a Hindu nation scuffled with police yesterday and threw chairs responsible for most deaths. “I loved going out during the festivals the ing how that would ever happen,” she said. at the country’s deputy prime minister. — AP Civilians often fall victim to such attacks, with most,” said Bajracharya, remembering how “But we never expected this.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 US warns Kyrgyzstan that strained ties threaten aid BISHKEK: The United States warned Human Rights Defender Award con- lished by the US embassy in Bishkek. economic projects with the country. June 2010 when over 400 people were Kyrgyzstan yesterday that escalating ferred by the US Department of State on The worsening of relations with the Hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz killed. tension in their relations could threaten Azimjon Askarov, a journalist and US is taking place as the impoverished migrants work in Russia. International and local human rights a wide range of US-funded aid pro- activist, was “creating a threat to civil and mainly Muslim nation of 5.5 million Kyrgyzstan, which borders China and bodies have demanded his release from grammes in the Central Asian nation. peace and stability in society”. is being drawn deeper into the orbit of lies on a drug-trafficking route out of jail. Askarov alleged the police had tor- Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry on The Kyrgyz government also said it its former imperial master, Russia. Afghanistan, saw two presidents tured him, New York-based Human Friday handed a protest note to US might renounce the 1993 Bilateral Kyrgyzstan has just joined the deposed by popular revolts in 2005 and Rights Watch said. Visiting Kyrgyzstan Charge d’Affaires Richard Miles over the Agreement between the two nations. Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union, 2010, and remains unstable. last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- granting of a human rights award to a “We are studying the technical which critics see as Russia’s attempt to Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek, was con- moon urged the authorities to hold an dissident serving a life sentence for impact of such a decision, which could restore as much as possible of the for- victed of “organizing mass disturbances” impartial investigation into the ethnic “inciting inter-ethnic hatred” in the ex- put assistance programs that benefit the mer Soviet Union. Russia already has a and stirring up ethnic hatred leading to clashes and retry those convicted after Soviet republic. Kyrgyzstani people in jeopardy,” the US military airbase near the Kyrgyz capital the killing of a policeman during inter- the bloodshed, irrespective of their eth- The Kyrgyz government said the 2014 government said in a statement pub- and has undertaken several large-scale ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in nicity. — Reuters

Manila to base jets, frigates near China-claimed waters

MANILA: The Philippines plans to station ing from where to acquire two new fighter jets and frigates on a former US frigates. naval base facing the South China Sea, Subic Bay currently serves as a commer- where it is engaged in a maritime row with cial port and tourist site facing onto the China, a defence official said yesterday. South China Sea where China is locked in a They will be located in Subic Bay, some dispute with the Philippines as well as 200 kilometres (125 miles) from a shoal off Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan over the northern Philippines controlled by conflicting territorial claims. Chinese forces, said Arsenio Andolong, the Andolong said the South China Sea dis- defence department’s public affairs chief. pute was “one of the considerations that The Armed Forces of the Philippines was envisioned when the (lease agree- “will use portions of Subic for the new ment) was signed”. assets coming in like the FA-50 (jets) and He also said the “proximity” to the new vessels that are arriving,” Andolong Scarborough Shoal-a rich fishing ground told AFP. that was occupied by Chinese ships after a “They (the Subic facilities) are ideal: it standoff with the Philippines in 2012 — has a deep-water port, the runways are was another. perfect for the FA-50,” he added. The Philippines has been building up its Manila said last week it would reopen weak military and improving defence ties Subic Bay-one of the US’s largest overseas with close ally the US as its territorial dis- bases until it was shut down more than two pute with China has increased. decades ago-and station Filipino military Andolong said US ships could continue assets there for the first time. to make port calls and hold military exercis- Andolong said the military has leased es there as they have been doing in recent part of Subic Bay for 15 years and plans to years, but brushed aside speculation Subic use it as a base for new equipment that will would become a US base again. be bought over the next few years as part Last year, Manila signed an agreement of a modernisation programme. giving the United States more access to The first pair of a dozen FA-50 fighter Filipino military facilities, but the deal has jets are scheduled to be delivered this year been postponed because of a legal chal- and the other 10 will arrive within two lenge now being heard by the Supreme years, he added. The military is still evaluat- Court. —AFP Malaysia blocks UK-based

whistle-blower website LOS ANGELES: Yukio Okamoto, Outside Board Member of Mitsubishi Materials and former Special Advisor to Japan’s Prime Minister, left, and Hikaru Kimura, Senior Executive Officer Mitsubishi Materials, offer an apology as they hold hands with 94-year-old US prisoner war,of James KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities gations deliver further evidence.” Murphy, at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Sunday. Some 12,000 American prisoners were shipped to Japan and forced to work at said they had blocked a UK-based website The Sarawak Report, which can still be more than 50 sites to support imperial Japan’s war effort. — AP that had published corruption allegations accessed by overseas servers, carried a against Prime Minister Najib Razak, but the report early this month alleging it had evi- portal vowed yesterday to press on with its dence that Najib had received $700 million exposes. from entities involved with 1MDB. 70 years after WWII, Japanese The Sarawak Report website has recent- The Wall Street Journal also ran a story ly published reports alleging financial mis- alleging that a probe into 1MDB had found management involving Najib and debt- hundreds of millions of dollars transferred company apologizes to US POWs laden state investment vehicle 1Malaysia to Najib’s personal bank accounts. Development Bhd (1MDB). 1MDB has denied any wrong doing and The Malaysian Communications and Najib has dismissed the allegations as ‘Happy to have lived long enough to hear apology’ Multimedia Commission announced on “political sabotage” and an attempt to LOS ANGELES: He was forced to toil in enemy clicked throughout the dimly lit museum the- the Mitsubishi representatives. “I entered the Sunday it had blocked the site for carrying undermine his leadership.Both Najib and mines as a prisoner of war, but James Murphy ater, with giant American and Japanese flags room with a heavy heart, seeking forgiveness,” “unsubstantiated content”. 1MDB have also said that previously leaked wasn’t angry or bitter. He was just happy to have projected side-by-side behind them. said Yukio Okamoto, outside board member for Without specifying which content was documents had “reportedly” been tam- lived long enough to hear the Japanese apology Mitsubishi. deemed unacceptable, the commission pered with, and that the documents cited he had sought for seven decades. Liberated Murphy said that after 70 years it was “the warned the reports could have major con- by the WSJ had not been verified 1MDB Murphy, a POW during World War II and now Other POWs subjected sat in the audience first time we’ve heard those words. They touch sequences. “Such content could disrupt was launched in 2009 by Najib, who still 94 years old, accepted an unprecedented apolo- along with many members of Murphy’s family. the heart.” Murphy was gracious and beaming peace and order, and in the bigger picture chairs its advisory board. Critics say it has gy from Mitsubishi Materials Corp. on Sunday on Stanley Gibson, whose late father worked along- throughout the ceremony, expressing little bit- could destabilise the nation and the econo- been opaque in explaining its dealings. behalf of his fellow POWs, few of whom remain side Murphy in the mines, overcame his fear of terness or sorrow on what he called a happy day. my,” the statement said. It is reeling under an estimated $11 bil- alive, in a ceremony that was both solemn and flight to come from Scotland to Los Angeles for He stressed that the apology was not half-heart- The website, run by Clare Rewcastle lion debt, which has weighed on the ring- joyful. “This is a glorious day,” said Murphy, who the ceremony to represent his family after hear- ed, qualified or self-aggrandizing for Mitsubishi. Brown, a former BBC journalist and sister- git currency amid allegations of misman- stood tall and slender in a gray suit at the cere- ing about it in news reports just a few days earli- He said the apology “admits to wrongdoing, in-law to ex-British prime minister Gordon agement and murky overseas transactions. mony and looked much younger than his 94 er. On the stage was a photo of the two men makes sincere statement showing deep Brown, issued a defiant statement in The Centre for Independent Journalism, years. “For 70 years, we wanted this.” being liberated from their captors. remorse,” and offers assurances that the wrongs response to the blocking. Malaysia, (CIJ), called yesterday on the Saying they felt a “deep sense of ethical “Considering what my father went through it will never be repeated. “This is a blatant attempt to censor our country’s internet regulator to “respect the responsibility for a past tragedy,” Mitsubishis was the least I could do,” Gibson said. The “I know that we can trust those words,” exposures of major corruption through the right to freedom of expression and to cease executives presented the apology privately then Japanese government has twice apologized to Murphy said. Others, including one Mitsubishi development fund 1MDB,” said a statement its blocking of Sarawak Report”. publicly to Murphy, of Santa Maria, California, at U.S. POWs used as forced laborers during World representative, struck a sadder tone over how posted on the Sarawak Report’s Facebook “CIJ renews its calls for a focus on inves- the Museum of Tolerance at the Simon War II. But Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate long the apology took. “We also have to apolo- page. tigating the actual issues at hand, and Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. dean at the center whose primary focus in the gize for not apologizing earlier,” Okamoto said. “Sarawak Report will not be impeded in rejects further regulation and censorship Hikaru Kimura, senior executive officer for past has been Holocaust education, said he and Japan’s government issued a formal apology any way by this action in bringing out on the internet as a way to manage the Mitsubishi, said through a translator that the the event’s other organizers believe the apology to American POWs in 2009 and again in 2010. future information as and when its investi- issue,” it said. —AFP company offered a “most remorseful apology” to is unprecedented from a major Japanese com- But the dwindling ranks of POWs used as slaves the about 900 POWs who suffered “harsh, severe pany. Cooper, Murphy and others who spoke at mines and industrial plants have so far had lit- hardships” while forced to work in Mitsubishi urged more Japanese companies to come for- tle luck in getting apologies from the corpora- mines and industrial plants. ward to express their own remorse. tions who used them, sometimes under brutal Murphy, who worked in Mitsubishi’s copper conditions. Murphy said that if he could talk to mines in the war, called the apology sincere, Private apology his fellow POWs who didn’t survive long enough humble and revealing. He stood and shook The ceremony was preceded by a private he’d tell them to “rest quietly, it’s over. We did get hands with Kimura and others as cameras apology that ended with a long, deep bow from our apology.” — AP Chinese lawyer being denied legal counsel BEIJING: A prominent Chinese rights lawyer took as long as 21 days for approval,” Meng over the court system, prompting criticism that whose trial is drawing near on charges of inciting wrote. China is still ruled by the will of the party, rather ethnic hatred and provoking trouble has been The lawyers protested, but to no avail, and than law. Most recently, Chinese authorities have denied access to lawyers for nearly a month, his they submitted another meeting request in late rounded up dozens of rights defense lawyers, wife and one of his attorneys said yesterday. June, Meng wrote: “Nearly one month has passed, accusing them of being rabble rousers, trouble- Meng Qun, wife of Pu Zhiqiang, raised the but there has not been one word.” makers and fame-seeking opportunists. Foreign concern in an open letter addressed to the lead- Meng said she was told by the director of the governments and international rights groups ership of the Beijing detention center where her detention center that only leaders from the ruling have condemned Beijing’s crackdown on lawyers, husband is being held, urging authorities to hon- Communist Party can decide on the matter. who are known for their insistence that the letter or China’s own rules to allow Pu access to lawyers. Beijing says it has been pushing for rule of law, of the law be followed and that the government One of Pu’s attorneys, Shang Baojun, con- but also has emphasized the party’s leadership be held accountable. — AP firmed that Pu last met his lawyers on June 23 and verified the authenticity of Meng’s letter. Pu is widely believed to be politically perse- cuted amid Beijing’s crackdown on civil society. The charges stem from his online posts that questioned China’s ethnic policies in the wake of deadly violence involving ethnic minority Uighurs, and others that mocked several political figures. He was taken away in May 2014 and was indicted on May 15 this year, after one year in detention. Shang said he expects a Beijing court to hold Pu’s trial soon, because by law Chinese courts have three months from the indictment to hold a trial and issue a verdict, but the authorities have not yet announced a date. In her open letter, Meng said that Pu is enti- tled to meet his lawyers after the indictment but that the lawyers have been asked - contrary to China’s own rules - to submit a meeting request. Even after the lawyers put in a meeting request, This March 9, 2009 US Navy photo shows the military Sealift Command ocean sur- the detention center has failed to accommodate HONG KONG: In this May 14, 2014 file photo, anti-Beijing protesters, holding pictures of veillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) one of five ocean surveillance ships that a meeting within 48 hours, as stipulated by human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, protest outside the Chinese liaison office to demand Pu’s are part of the 25 ships in the Military Sealift Command Special Mission Ships China’s rules, Meng said. release, in Hong Kong. Pu, a prominent Chinese rights lawyer whose trial is drawing near on Program. Impeccable directly supports the Navy by using both passive and active “The lawyer put in a request on June 2, and charges of inciting ethnic hatred and provoking trouble has been denied access to lawyers for low frequency sonar arrays to detect and track undersea threats. — AFP the meeting was arranged only on June 23. It nearly a month, his wife and one of his attorneys said yesterday. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 Saudi outreach to Hamas part of wider effort against Iran RIYADH: Saudi King Salman’s meeting support for rebels against Syria’s Confrontational Mood Anger over the plight of Palestinians unfavourably. They recall how Riyadh on Friday with Hamas leader Khaled President Bashar Al-Assad and waging “Saudi Arabia is in a confrontational and the failure of Arab governments to offered sanctuary to its members during Meshaal was part of an effort by Riyadh war against Yemen’s Houthi militia. The mood against Iran and its in the business create a state has for decades driven a 1960s purge in Egypt, and how they to shore up Arab unity in the face of a Saudis have for years regarded Hamas of gathering as many allies as possible. much opposition to the region’s rulers, later backed a 1990s Islamist opposition perceived threat from Iran that it with intense suspicion because the So if they reach out to Malaysia or reach particularly among Islamists who frame movement against the ruling Al Saud. believes has become more urgent since Palestinian militant group is both a tradi- out to Hamas, it’s the same. It’s to create the Palestinian cause in terms of Muslim Prince Nayef, the late veteran interior last week’s nuclear deal. Saudi Arabia, a tional ally of Iran and also an offshoot of as many allies as possible,” said Jamal solidarity. minister, elder full brother of King conservative Sunni Muslim monarchy, the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement Khashoggi, head of al-Arab news chan- Meanwhile, by putting longstanding Salman and father of the current crown has grown more aggressive this year in Riyadh has often seen as a threat. nel, owned by a Saudi prince. By building differences over political Islam on the prince, once described the movement as countering Shiite, revolutionary Iran Although the Brotherhood, like Saudi ties with Hamas, Riyadh might reduce backburner, Salman is strengthening ties “the source of all our problems in the across the region, believing its influence Arabia, is Sunni, Riyadh distrusts it tensions with Brotherhood allies and with both Turkey, whose ruling AK Party Arab world”. While many of his living rela- to be the main cause of instability and because it combines a call to conserva- make it harder for Iran to present itself as is linked to the Brotherhood, and Qatar, tives still the see the group’s secretive insecurity in Arab states. tive religious values that might appeal to the region’s main defender of Palestinian which has given the group sanctuary. political activities and religious creden- Riyadh fears the agreement Tehran the kingdom’s citizens with demands to resistance, and Saudi Arabia as covertly Improved cooperation between the trio, tials as an insidious threat to their rule, it struck with six world powers to release it replace dynastic rule with elections. supporting Israel. the three countries most involved in sup- is Iran that they see posing the more from sanctions in return for more intru- Salman’s predecessor Abdullah put the It also improves the chances Riyadh porting Syrian rebel groups, was credited immediate danger. sive inspections of its atomic facilities Brotherhood on a list of terrorist organi- can help mediate a rapprochement earlier this year for opposition victories Riyadh hopes its new formula of toler- will free Iran to increase its support for sations and backed Egypt’s crackdown between Hamas and the main in Aleppo and the outskirts of Damascus. ating the movement’s activities outside Saudi Arabia’s enemies in Arab countries. on the group, a policy that caused ten- Palestinian party, Fatah, potentially end- Gulf countries, coupled with its support “It’s part of the grand strategy of coun- sion with Turkey and Qatar, its two main ing a split that has obstructed a push for Insidious Threat for Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, tering Iranian influence. It’s the main allies in fighting Iranian influence in Syria statehood and led to recriminations Profound splits between the Middle will keep both countries engaged in its issue for Saudi Arabia and it’s more and Iraq. Salman, while stopping short of around the region. During last year’s East’s Sunni states over political Islam wider struggle against Iran. urgent after the nuclear deal,” said befriending the Brotherhood, has Gaza war between Israel and Hamas, linger, however, with both Egypt and the “The understanding with the Muslim Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst close to worked to reduce tensions with the Saudi Arabia waited three weeks before UAE, core members of Saudi Arabia’s Brotherhood now is that it will not be the Saudi Interior Ministry. movement’s own allies, strengthening condemning the Jewish state’s offensive coalition against the Houthis in Yemen, active inside Saudi Arabia or interfere in Since Salman became king in January, Riyadh’s ties with Ankara and Doha and and some newspapers close to the ruling resolutely opposed to the Brotherhood. Gulf states. It’s important that they he has tried to build a Sunni coalition reaching out to Islah, the Islamist group’s family blamed the Palestinian group for Saudi Arabia’s ruling princes themselves understand these new rules of the against Iran’s regional allies, boosting offshoot in Yemen. provoking the fighting. continue to look on the movement game,” said Alani. — Agencies Mental, drug issues dogged US gunman Aussie surf pro fights off shark

Continued from Page 1 attack. The representative said sion following the episode, the represen- Continued from Page 1 at all,” he said. While attacks occur peri- Craig Lambinon, spokesman for the Abdulazeez had owned guns for years, tative said. Some close relatives learned odically across the world, Australian National Sea Rescue Institute in South with his parents to help him get away going back to when he was a child shoot- of the charge only days before the Fanning will split the prize money seven-time world champion Layne Africa, told ENCA television news that from drugs, alcohol and a group of ing at squirrels and targets, and called shooting, the person said. Bassam Issa, with Wilson. The two will share second Beachley said she had never even seen he believed “it is probably the first time friends who relatives considered a bad himself an “Arab redneck” or “Muslim red- president of the Islamic Society of place. “Mick’s composure and quick a shark during her decades in the water, that an incident like this at a surfing influence, the representative said. neck”. A year after graduating from col- Greater Chattanooga, said he knew acting in the face of a terrifying situa- highlighting the rarity of such events. competition has been caught on cam- Counterterrorism investigators contin- lege with an engineering degree, nothing of Abdulazeez’s problems, tion was nothing short of heroic and “I’ve been surfing for more than 40 era”. Australian Prime Minister Tony ue to interview Abdulazeez’s acquain- Abdulazeez lost a job at a nuclear power despite knowing his father well through the rapid response of our Water Safety years, I have never seen a shark or been Abbott, himself a keen surfer, said see- tances and delve into his visit to Jordan, plant in Ohio in May 2013 because of the mosque. But, he added, that is not personnel was commendable,” it said in intimidated by a shark - intimidated by ing a shark so close to a surfing contest looking for clues to whom or what might what a federal official described as a surprising. Drinking alcohol and using a statement. Eleven-time world champi- dolphins and whales, but not sharks,” was terrifying. have influenced him and set off the failed drug test. Recently, Abdulazeez had drugs is strictly forbidden in the Islamic on Kelly Slater was on the beach when she said in Sydney. “When we go into “I think all of us, we go out into bloodshed. begun working the night shift at a manu- faith. “In our culture, if a son or daughter the attack happened. “I’m lost for words this environment we understand that the waves and we love to see dolphin FBI spokesman Jason Pack declined facturing plant and was taking medica- is having those sorts of problems, they to be honest. We almost just watched this could potentially happen. But we fins, but if there’s any doubt about tion to help with problems sleeping in keep it a secret because of the shame,” comment on whether investigators were our friend get eaten by a shark and I’m have never seen this (in a pro event), what kind of a fin it is, it’s pretty the daytime, the representative said, and Issa said. “As a parent, you always want pursuing mental health records for just blown away that there’s no damage this is unprecedented.” scary,” he said. — Agencies Abdulazeez. But FBI Special Agent Ed he also had a prescription for muscle to be able to say your child is making Reinhold told reporters at the most relaxants because of a back problem. you proud, not that they are struggling.” recent news conference about the case It’s unknown what substances were A former college professor who saw UN endorses Iran nuke deal that agents were looking into all aspects in the man’s system at the time of the Abdulazeez at their mosque six days of his life and had not yet turned up any killings, but toxicology tests should pro- before the killings said the young man Continued from Page 1 great prize to the most dangerous coun- ventional weapons and for eight years connections to Islamist terrorist groups. vide an answer. After returning from his didn’t seem different after returning from try in the world,” Israeli ambassador to for missile technology. If Tehran violates Abdulazeez opened fire at a military time overseas, Abdulazeez was arrested Jordan last year or during their final exponentially,” said US envoy the United Nations Ron Prosor said after any of its commitments, the council can on a charge of driving under the influ- encounter. recruiting office and a Navy-Marine oper- Samantha Power. “It should motivate us the vote. The resolution charges the UN initiate proceedings to reinstate its ations center a few miles apart on ence in the pre-dawn hours on April 20. “I just saw the same friendly guy as nuclear watchdog, the International panoply of sanctions. The so-called A police report said he told a before,” said Abdul Ofoli, who teaches to do far more.” “We turn not simply a Thursday, killing four Marines. A sailor page but a whole chapter in the work of Atomic Energy Agency, to “undertake “snapback” mechanism can put old sanc- wounded in the attack died Saturday. Chattanooga officer he also was with electrical engineering at the University the Council by creating a new reality,” the necessary verification and monitor- tions back in place if world powers feel While Abdulazeez sometimes expressed friends who had been smoking marijua- of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where ing of Iran’s nuclear commitments”. Iran has not met its commitments under misgivings about US policy in the na. The report said Abdulazeez, who had Abdulazeez graduated in 2012. Ofoli, said Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin. Mideast, his feelings didn’t seem extreme white powder on his nose when he was who sponsors the university’s Muslim The nuclear deal has been touted as an Those commitments include limiting the the Vienna deal. and there was no indication he was stopped, told the officer he also had Student Association, said Abdulazeez opening for greater contact between number of centrifuges for its fissile If a protest is made via a joint com- involved with terrorist groups while in sniffed powdered caffeine. wasn’t very involved with the group to Iran and the leading nations over com- material. The resolution demands that mission, the UN Security Council would Jordan, the family representative said. The arrest was “important” because his knowledge and rarely said much in mon interests, particularly on tackling Iran “cooperate fully” with the IAEA. have to vote on whether to continue the There was also no easy explanation for Abdulazeez was deeply embarrassed class but was a good student. “He was the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. As soon as the council receives IAEA sanctions lifting. It leaves Iran under the why he targeted military sites in the and seemed to sink further into depres- brilliant,” said Ofoli. — AP Iranian ambassador Golamali Khoshroo confirmation that the nuclear program is threat of renewed sanctions for 15 years told the Security Council that Tehran was entirely peaceful, the seven UN sanc- - 10 under the Vienna agreement ready “to engage in good faith” with its tions resolutions against Tehran will be endorsed by the UN, and the P5+1 com- neighbors in the region. “This is the time terminated and replaced by the terms of mitting to another five years of tight Suicide bomber kills 30 in Turkey attack to start working together against our Monday’s resolution. Sanctions to be lift- monitoring. most common and important chal- ed include a ban on the trade of goods In the United States, a Republican- Continued from Page 1 In Kobane, a suicide bomber deto- been accused of tolerating or even aid- lenges, which include above all violent or services linked to Iranian nuclear majority Congress has 60 days to review nated a car bomb at a checkpoint, ing IS in the early stages of its exis- extremism,” he said. activities, and the freezing of financial the deal. The blast took place as an anti-IS killing two members of Kurdish securi- tence as a useful ally against Syrian But the deal has been rejected by assets of designated Iranian officials and The Congress can pass a motion of group based at the cultural centre was ty forces, according to Rami Abdel President Bashar Al-Assad, whom Israel and some Arab countries in the companies. But embargoes on the sales disapproval, but President Barack Obama preparing to announce a mission to Rahman, director of the Syrian Erdogan wants ousted. Middle East have raised concern that the and exports of conventional weapons can then veto that. An override of the Kobane. Observatory for Human Rights. Kobane Officials fiercely dismiss the criti- deal will strengthen Iranian influence in and ballistic missile technology will veto requires two-thirds approval in both Alp Altinors from the pro-Kurdish has been a symbol of resistance cism that Ankara is not doing enough the region. “Today you have awarded a remain in place - for five years for con- the House and Senate. — AFP HDP party said the group from the against the jihadists since IS fighters to halt the flow of militants across the Federation of Socialist Youth were driven out by Syrian Kurdish 911-km border and say Turkey has Cuba flag flies in US as ties restored Associations was made up of about forces in January. Turkey’s Kurds were deported more than 1,500 IS suspects 300 people, mainly university students frustrated at the time at Ankara’s and banned nearly 15,000 people from Continued from Page 1 both nations have cautioned that this is message to dissidents and others from across Turkey. “They were plan- refusal to intervene to quash the IS 98 countries from entering. Ankara has only a beginning, warning that overcom- around the world that the United States ning to build parks in Kobane, hand insurgents, who have seized large categorised IS as a terrorist group since At the US embassy in Havana howev- ing decades of enmity is not easy. accepts the Cuban form of government er, where some 360 people including 30 “Cuba needs the United States as an today as a legitimate form of govern- out toys for children and paint school parts of Syria and Iraq over the past Oct 2013. But Turkey has been a reluc- Americans are employed, there were few economic engine for its troubled econo- ment,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” walls,” he told AFP. “The town is in year. tant member of the anti-IS coalition outward signs yesterday of its new sta- my and hopes to attract new foreign Another tough issue is compensation for chaos. Almost all the shops are closed But in recent weeks, security forces led by the United States and refused to tus. No US flag will fly over the building investment and human capital to American property seized after the 1959 in Suruc,” local resident Mehmet Celik have arrested dozens of IS militants give its NATO ally the green-light for on Havana’s waterfront Malecon until update its socialist model, but without Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. told AFP. and sympathisers in the most signifi- the use of Incirlik air base in the south Kerry arrives. US charge d’affaires Jeffrey undergoing political reform,” analyst Ted Some 5,911 lawsuits have been opened Russian President Vladimir Putin cant action by Ankara against the for bombings against jihadist targets. DeLaurentis will stay in post in Havana Piccone from the Brookings Institution in the United States seeking an estimat- condemned the “barbaric act” and said jihadists. “It’s now obvious that the In January, Kurdish forces backed by until a new ambassador is confirmed, told AFP. “Building confidence and trust ed $7 billion to $8 billion. On Havana’s in a statement: “Fighting terrorism Turkish government has upgraded the rebel groups and US-led air strikes had with his Cuban counterpart Jose will be critical to the ability to move for- side, Raul Castro has urged Obama to requires an active cooperation from threat posed by ISIS to among the top pushed IS out of Kobane after four Cabanas also staying in place in ward,” he added. use his executive powers to “dismantle” the whole international community.” ones it is facing,” a Western diplomat months of fierce fighting in a hugely Washington.In another historic move, One of the biggest areas of con- the economic embargo in place for more EU enlargement commissioner told AFP last week. Turkey has also symbolic defeat for the Islamists. The Kerry received Rodriguez for talks yester- tention remains human rights, with than 50 years, calling it the main stum- Johannes Hahn said in a Twitter mes- boosted its border defences, stationing Islamists made a surprise raid on day - the first time a top Cuban diplomat Washington pressing for an improve- bling block toward normalization. sage: “Tragic consequences of Syrian tanks and anti-aircraft missiles there as Kobane last month but the fighters has visited the State Department since ment in freedoms of expression, religion Washington also wants to ensure the conflict felt in a neighboring country.” well as bolstering troop numbers. were driven back by Kurdish forces. 1958. and the press in the Caribbean island return of several American fugitives Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet The build-up has fed speculation Suruc, once a centre of silk-making, is The move has been hailed by nation. Some Republicans have been wanted in the United States. Tough Davutoglu is sending three ministers that the government is planning to home to one of the biggest refugee Cubans, hoping to see an easing of sharply critical of what they see as US negotiations eased one stumbling block to the southeastern region following intervene in Syria to push IS jihadists camps in Turkey housing Syrians who tough economic conditions. “It’s a day to haste to cozy up with Cuba. Senator and with the Cuban security presence out- the bombing, his office announced. back from the border and halt the have fled the bloody four-year conflict be celebrated, it’s an important day that 2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio, side the US embassy in Havana already “We are calling on everyone to show advance of Kurdish forces who have at home. The camp shelters about will bring new opportunities,” said 18- the son of Cuban immigrants, vowed on reduced. And while American diplomats common sense in the face of this ter- made gains against the extremists. 35,000 refugees out of a total of more year-old Cuban Adriel Gonzales, who Sunday to end diplomatic ties with an would still have to provide notification rorist attack targeting our country’s Davutoglu has however ruled out any than 1.8 million refugees taken in by had the honor of raising the Cuban flag “anti-American communist tyranny”. of their travel, they will no longer have unity,” the interior ministry said. immediate action in Syria. Turkey has Turkey since 2011. — AFP outside the US embassy in Havana. But “This recognition somehow sends a to seek permission. — AFP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Caroline Varin he return of oil from Iran following the land- mark nuclear energy deal with world powers Tcould create fresh tensions within OPEC but may reinforce the cartel’s output strategy, analysts say. Tehran and major powers - Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - clinched a historic agreement in Vienna on Tuesday aimed at ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear bomb, and which paves the way for the removal of sanctions and the gradual return of Iranian oil to the global market next year. The accord puts strict limits on Iran’s nuclear activities for at least a decade. In return, sanctions Search for justice lags boom in Ivory Coast that have slashed the oil exports of OPEC’s fifth- largest producer will be lifted and billions of dollars in frozen assets unblocked. The Islamic republic’s By Joe Bavier those who did the killing will pay for their crimes. When The government’s handling of previous investigations exports could reach a potential 2.4 million barrels pro-Gbagbo mercenaries attacked his neighbours that has contributed to the reticence. Julien Kpahi last saw his per day (bpd) in 2016, from 1.6 million bpd in 2014, our years after the civil war ended in Ivory Coast the March day in 2011, Assie saved himself and his 5-year-old brother loaded into an army truck early one morning in according to data from economist Charles Robertson economy is booming, but for men like Yaboua Assie, daughter by playing dead as the bodies piled up on top of 2012 after an attack on a camp for war-displaced civilians at investment bank Renaissance Capital. Fwho lost two young daughters in one of the con- him. “It’s war. They say to let it go. And we let it go,” he says. outside the town of Duekoue. Witness accounts implicat- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting flict’s most notorious massacres, the justice they seek “When something is ruined, it’s ruined.” ed government soldiers and pro-Ouattara traditional Dozo Countries - whose 12 members including Iran pump remains as elusive as ever. The killings took place in a hunters in the raid, which took place a year after Gbagbo one third of global oil - is mindful that Iranian oil grassy lot behind the government offices in the small A Pointless Spectacle? fell. The government has never acknowledged any role in could worsen a global supply glut and depress oil town of Blolequin, an event Assie relives almost nightly in In Abidjan, commercial capital of the world’s largest the violence. prices further. OPEC decided at its last meeting in his dreams. “When I close my eyes, I’m here in this court- cocoa exporter, the completion of a long-awaited third Months later, a survivor led Kpahi to a well where he Vienna in June to maintain output levels, extending yard,” he says, gazing around the walled compound, which bridge across the lagoon last year marked a symbolic end said his brother’s body had been thrown. Under pressure its Saudi-backed strategy to preserve market share was meant to be a refuge for those fleeing the 2011 war. to a decade of stagnation following an earlier 2003-2004 from human rights groups, authorities opened an investi- and fend off competition from booming US shale. Oil He stands at the edge of a rectangular depression that civil conflict. The return of the headquarters of the African gation, removed six bodies from the well and brought prices sank last week, hit by the Iran nuclear deal and until recently was a mass grave containing the remains of Development Bank, which had moved to Tunis in the wake them to Abidjan for autopsy. Kpahi has heard nothing the strong dollar, raising jitters among some OPEC 45 massacred civilians. Two were his daughters: one 12, of that conflict, is seen as a sign of a return to stability. since. Three years later, his brother’s remains have yet to be members who next meet on Dec 4. London Brent oil the other six months old. The bodies were exhumed by an An opinion poll last month by the Washington-based returned. “I have no hope it will lead to anything,” said slid to about $56 per barrel and New York’s West investigative unit charged with prosecuting rights abuses International Republican Institute showed public support Kpahi, who was recently prevented from visiting the well Texas Intermediate dropped to around $52 a barrel. during the conflict, in which campaigners say 3,000 peo- for Ouattara. Two-thirds of respondents said the country by UN peacekeepers. “For me, it’s pointless ... It’s a specta- ple were killed. The war started when then-president was heading in the right direction, and more than three- cle.” quarters approved of the job being done by the president. Divisions in Cartel Laurent Gbagbo refused to quit despite losing an election to Alassane Ouattara in late 2010. Yet the same polls underlined one of the main failures of First Step Poorer OPEC members Angola, Algeria and Four years later, with Ouattara in power, Ivory Coast is his first term: slow progress towards healing Ivory Coast’s For Human Rights Watch researcher Jim Wormington, Venezuela - whose budgets are heavily reliant on oil forging ahead - its economy forecast to grow 9 percent deeply divided society. this month’s indictments of pro-Ouattara commanders revenues - may again argue for less output to sup- this year - but the quest for justice has lagged behind, The National Truth and Reconciliation Commission set were a promising sign but only a first step. Among those port prices, analysts say. Richer Gulf producers, led hampered by lack of government support, rights groups up in the wake of the conflict recorded the lowest formally accused are Lieutenant Colonel Cherif Ousmane, by OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, remain eager for the say. Gbagbo was extradited to the International Criminal approval rating of the 14 institutions included in the poll the deputy head of Ouattara’s presidential guard, and cartel to preserve valuable market share and force Court in The Hague charged with crimes against humanity. at just 37 percent. And just 18 percent of the country’s citi- Lieutenant Colonel Losseni Fofana, another senior com- out high-cost US shale producers with lower oil price His top political and military supporters were jailed. zens believe justice had been served to all Ivorians follow- mander. “To prove its commitment to impartial justice, the levels. “Clearly there is a divide between the coun- Dozens, including his wife Simone who is also wanted by ing the post-election crisis. “The slow judicial process and government should provide the judiciary with the support tries on this new policy of seeking new market the ICC, were convicted in Ivory Coast this year. dubious impartiality cast a shadow on reconciliation and it needs to finish the investigations and bring the cases to share,” Ann-Louise Hittle at consultancy Wood By contrast, Ouattara’s military backers have received mid- and long-term stability prospects,” said Gilles Yabi, an trial,” he said. Mackenzie told AFP. “So it could be a contentious top posts in the army, despite allegations they too were analyst and founder of the West Africa-focused think tank In Duekoue’s Carrefour neighbourhood, there are plen- (OPEC) meeting and there could be pressure for an responsible for civilian massacres. With elections in Wathi. ty who doubt this will happen. On March 28, 2011, hun- emergency meeting before December.” October, Ouattara is keen to face down accusations of ‘vic- Scepticism has bred resistance to the exhumations in dreds of people were killed in an area predominantly Faced with stubbornly low prices, Algeria’s energy tor’s justice’ from sections of Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular some quarters. Justice Minister Mamadou Gnenema inhabited by Gueres, an ethnic group seen as among minister Salah Khabri indicated to state news agency Front party and opposition groups. The president has Coulibaly, who views them as critical to building criminal Gbagbo’s staunchest supporters. Here, no amount of eco- APS last week that an emergency OPEC meet could pledged no one will be above the law. Last week, rights cases, questions the motives of those opposed to the nomic progress will convince the war’s victims to turn the be needed. “The real problem starts when OPEC groups revealed that around 20 former rebels serving in process. “Some think we are looking to incriminate Gbagbo. page. And residents like Georges Doue, 51, who lost seven members begin to fight for quotas amid oversupply the army had finally been indicted for alleged crimes com- If they are pro-Gbagbo, they’ll act in bad faith,” he told members of his family in the massacre, have little faith the and market share disputes,” said Jassem al-Saadun, mitted during the crisis. Reuters. “Others think we are looking for proof of their own government will investigate the killings. “There’s no trust,” head of Kuwait’s Al-Shall Economic Consultants. “If But the families of many victims have little faith that involvement in the crimes and they try to block things.” he said. —Reuters Iran, Venezuela, Algeria and Libya-all of which need to pump more - enter into a dispute with the Gulf pro- ducers, then it could be the end for OPEC,” he warned. Danske Bank analyst Jens Naervig Pedersen said Why Libya coastguard struggles with migrants such countries had been “really hit” by low oil prices. But he added: “Their collective power is probably not great enough to turn the mind of Saudi Arabia and By Ulf Laessing uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. force and police. Then the situation degen- Niger. As well, most countries have closed the core members of OPEC in the Middle East.” That has left its 1,800 km of coastline vul- erated and we cut off all ties. Until there’s a their embassies in Tripoli since they do not few weeks ago, a sailor in Libya’s nerable. In 2013, the European Union set recognised single authority, that’s likely to recognise the government there, leaving Global Demand Key coastguard scooped up Luchiya up an aid program with an annual budget be how things will remain,” said a migrants unable to get travel documents. In June, OPEC’s collective output ceiling was left at AMhreteab and her two small chil- of Ä26 million ($28 million) to train Libya’s spokesman at Italy’s defence ministry. In the Qarabouli centre, the migrants 30 million bpd - where it has stood for three and a dren after the boat taking them to Italy coastguard, and airport and land border The European Union was also helping spend their days lying side by side, dozing half years - despite an oil price collapse between sank off Libya’s northern tip. Mhreteab, 30, officers. But that program has been aban- to build up a coastguard. Trainers focused on mats. Three times a day the doors are June 2014 and January that slashed precious rev- had fled Eritrea and is pregnant. She and doned, and Libya’s coastguard remains on delivering basic sea skills such as wear- opened for guards to bring rice and veg- enues. The organisation appeared to shrug off calls her five-year-old daughter Dina and three- ineffective. It has just six boats, including ing life vests and rescue drills. But it too etables, and occasionally meat. There is no from some members, including Iran, for a “reason- year-old son Yosan now live on a mat in two small inflatables not designed for use pulled out last summer when fighting budget for a doctor; a charity sends a able” oil price of between $75 and $80 per barrel. Oil the courtyard of a Libyan detention centre. on the open sea. The force was rebuilt over Tripoli broke out. Ayoub Qassem, health worker once a week. Simon Najwa, is forecast to languish at an average of just above $62 They eat rice and vegetables three times a after 2011 by recruiting former rebel fight- spokesman for the Libyan navy, said the a 27-year-old Eritrean medical graduate, per barrel next year, according to French bank Natixis. day, Mhreteab explained, her ripped black ers, who had very little experience on the training had been of limited help. Without had been living in the Qarabouli centre for Hittle cautioned that low price levels could slow abaya stretched across her growing tum- water. Officials have even recruited local modern boats and equipment such as three weeks, after the coastguard stopped down US shale energy production and make room my. “I don’t know what to do next.” fishermen to help. The captain of the main radar, even well-trained sailors were limit- his boat off the coast of Tripoli. Naiwa said for returning supplies from Iran - provided that glob- All the passengers in Mhreteab’s boat Tripoli coastguard boat is a fisherman ed in what they could do. he had left Eritrea because he had been al energy demand does not falter. “When we look at were saved that day. But often Libya’s 12- whose family runs a restaurant. Even European diplomats said the drafted into the army shortly after gradu- fundamentals (of supply and demand) in the next metre inflatable patrol boats are too slow Because the country is split, the coast- training had changed little. Up to half the ating from medical college. year, with prices at this level we do expect to see a or too small to rescue everyone. The boats guard’s command centre in Tripoli, home budget was spent on protection and He had crossed into Khartoum and much slower growth in US oil supply,” she said. “So have no satellite phones. The radio of the of one self-declared government, has no accommodation for trainers and officials, then his family had paid smugglers $1,600 there might actually be some room for Iranian pro- coastguard’s central command in Tripoli is contact with officials in the eastern part of who lived in a high-security compound for him to be transported to a farm near duction to start up, as long as oil demand growth often shut off. Some days, coastguards the country. The people-smugglers are and luxury hotel. Colonel Rida Essa, com- Tripoli. “I don’t want to go back to Eritrea,” holds up and continues.” —AFP help bury the dead in piles of sand on the richer and better equipped than Libyan mander of the coastguard in Misrata, said said Naiwa, adding that he needs to go to beach. Split between two rival factions border control, police or coastguard offi- the coastguard still struggles with corrup- Europe so he can repay his family for which both claim to run the country, Libya cials. Sadiq Al-Sour, head of the investiga- tion. Some officials will turn a blind eye to financing his trip. Mhreteab’s journey also can sometimes seem as powerless as the tions department at Libya’s state prosecu- boats packed with migrants, he said. took months. She too travelled to tens of thousands of impoverished tor in Tripoli, said he knew the identities Khartoum, where she agreed to pay All articles appearing on these migrants who use it as a launch-pad for a and whereabouts of several smugglers, but Seeking Europe $2,000 to travel on a crowded truck for 10 pages are the personal opinion of better life in Europe. simply did not have the forces to conduct When the coastguard picked up days into Libya. After two months in a the writers. Kuwait Times takes no European nations want to stop the searches or carry out arrests. “Libya needs a Mhreteab’s boat, the migrants on board detention centre - where she discovered responsibility for views expressed human smugglers, and have asked Libya strong coastguard, helicopters and secure resisted, disappointed that they would not she was pregnant - she and 50 other peo- to secure its borders and coastline. But borders in order to combat illegal immigra- make it to Europe. Many of the migrants ple were transported to a farm in Libya therein. Kuwait Times invites read- interviews with coastguard officials, prose- tion,” he said. “If not, we can’t stop it.” who are rescued off the coast of Tripoli where they waited another two weeks. ers to voice their opinions. Please cutors, police, and border authorities, in end up 10 km inland in a detention centre Then one night, she was told to get up send submissions via email to: opin- addition to migrants waiting to depart, Left Alone in Qarabouli. Last month, 400 people from with her children and walk to the shore. [email protected] or via snail show that the war-torn country has nei- After the 2011 uprising, Italy agreed to across Africa were being held there, guard- Barely had they set sail when the ther the means nor the will to stop the spend millions on training Libya’s border ed by police. The centre is run by the Libyan coastguard rescued them, and mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. flow of migrants. Nowhere is that power- guards. But it suspended its cooperation Tripoli government. Libya used to send brought them to Qarabouli. “This place is The editor reserves the right to edit lessness - and Europe’s failure - more obvi- two years ago when Libya became too most people back to their own countries, very bad where we stay. But I don’t want any submission as necessary. ous than in the country’s coastguard. unstable. “There was an agreement for but fighting between tribes in the south to go back to Eritrea. I would be arrested. I Libya’s navy was destroyed in the 2011 training to help create a state security has cut off the main exit route by land to want to go to Europe,” she said. —Reuters TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SPORTS

Enrique bemoans long haul Two Spanish Sun back in shape LOS ANGELES: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique would rather the team did not have to fly off on riders killed in BEIJING: China’s world and Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang is almost back in shape long-distance tours before the regular season but understands they are important for the club’s ahead of this month’s world championships, state media quoted his coach as saying. marketing strategy. Luis Enrique and his squad, missing resting Copa America participants like Laguna crash forwards Lionel Messi and Neymar, arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday and play their opening “Sun is almost back to his peak. Judging from his training, he is about 90 or 95 percent of International Champions Cup game against MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy in Pasadena on his peak form,” said coach Zhang Yadong, according to the official LAGUNA: Two Spanish motorcycle racers have Xinhua news agency. Tuesday. died after crashing in a support race for the “Honestly I prefer not to go on tours,” Luis Enrique told a news conference at the team’s hotel. world superbike championship at California’s Sun, who is expected to compete in the 200, 400, 800 and “It’s nice to come but there are aspects that are uncomfortable, for example the Laguna Seca circuit. 1500 metres freestyle events, said he was aware of the jet lag,” the former Barca and Spain midfielder added. “But the club has Bernat Martinez, 35, and Daniel Rivas challenge ahead. “When I was little, I watched Michael commitments and the competition is interesting. You could do the same Fernandez, 27, succumbed to their injuries in Phelps compete in five or six events at a worlds, so I in Europe but we have to accept it.” hospital after a multi-bike accident in the second want to try it as well,” he said. After taking on the LA Galaxy, the Spanish and European champions MotoAmerica Superbike/Superstock 1000 race at While Sun and fellow Olympic champion Ye Shiwen meet English Premier League sides Manchester United in Santa Clara on Mazda Raceway on Sunday. “I really don’t have will be spearheading the team at the championships in Saturday and Chelsea in Landover on July 28. They then return to Europe to any words to describe what we all feel,” said Kazan, Russia, London Games 200m butterfly champion, play Serie A club Fiorentina in Florence on Aug. 2. Luis Enrique, who led Wayne Rainey, a former triple 500cc motorcycle Barca to a treble of Champions League and Spanish league and Cup titles in world champion and president of MotoAmerica, Jiao Liuyang, and world champion Liu Zige, would miss his debut season, defended Barca’s decision to allow the likes of Messi and in a statement issued on Sunday night. “First and the trip, Xinhua said. Neymar to miss the tour, despite pressure from sponsors. “The foremost, is the loss to the families and loved Liu failed to make the cut while Jiao has been suffering players need holidays and we are not going to change that for ones. Our sincere condolences goes out to each from a stomach problem, the report added. The swim- commitments like a tour,” he said. “Everyone wants to see the and every one of them as well as the ming competition at the championships begins on Aug. top players but they need to rest, which is vital.—Reuters MotoAmerica family.”—Reuters 2. — Reuters Dodgers blank Nationals, Mets win

WASHINGTON: Zack Greinke extended his scoreless PHILLIES 8, MARLINS 7 streak to 43 2/3 innings, striking out a season-high 11 Jeff Francoeur’s two-run homer in the bottom of the through the eighth and leading the Los Angeles Dodgers ninth inning lifted the Philadelphia Phillies over the Miami over the Washington Nationals 5-0 on Sunday. Greinke’s Marlins. Ryan Howard and Freddy Galvis also homered for string is the longest in the majors since Orel Hershiser set the Phillies. Philadelphia ace Cole Hamels was roughed up the major league record of 59 shutout innings in 1988 with for the second straight outing, giving up five runs and the Dodgers. Greinke (9-2) leads the big leagues with a eight hits in three innings. The left-hander, considered to 1.30 ERA. He scattered three singles, walked one and threw be a top candidate to be dealt at the trading deadline, 119 pitches in eight innings. gave up a career-worst nine runs in 3 1/3 innings in his last This was his sixth straight scoreless start, all of them outing. lasting at least six innings. Last Tuesday night, Greinke AJ Ramos (0-2) walked Carlos Ruiz to lead off the ninth started the All-Star Game and gave up a leadoff homer to and Francoeur homered to give the Phillies just their sec- Mike Trout, but that run doesn’t count in the regular-sea- ond sweep of the season. Hector Neris (1-0) pitched a son statistics. Max Scherzer (10-8) gave up one run in six scoreless ninth to earn the win. innings. BREWERS 6, PIRATES 1 METS 3, CARDINALS 1 Rookie Taylor Jungmann pitched seven strong innings Ruben Tejada hit a sacrifice fly in the 18th inning as the and Khris Davis hit a two-run double as the Milwaukee New York Mets outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals despite Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates for a sweep. stranding 25 baserunners. Jungmann (5-1), added to the Brewers’ roster in early The Mets went 1 for 26 with runners in scoring position, June, won his third straight decision. He gave up one run yet still won the majors’ second-longest game this season. and five hits. Pittsburgh had won 13 of 16 going into the Boston beat the Yankees in 19 innings in April. It took 5 All-Star break before losing three straight at Miller Park. hours, 55 minutes for the Mets to top the NL Central-lead- Jeff Locke (5-6) allowed three runs in 7 1/3 innings. ing Cardinals and avoid a three-game sweep. Tejada hit a Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer was carted off the field bases-loaded fly for the lead and Eric Campbell drove in after colliding with Carlos Gomez while trying to make a another run with a squeeze bunt. The game was scoreless tag in the second inning. Mercer couldn’t put pressure on until before both teams got a run in the 13th. Carlos Torres his leg and was helped onto the cart. (3-4), the seventh Mets pitcher, was the winner. Carlos Martinez (10-4) was pressed into relief and was the WASHINGTON: Los Angeles Dodgers’ Andre Ethier (16) scores as Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer GIANTS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1 Cardinals’ eighth pitcher. (31) covers the plate after a wild pitch during the fourth inning of a baseball game—AP Madison Bumgarner and four relievers scattered nine hits and Justin Maxwell homered, helping the San ASTROS 10, RANGERS 0 Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks. Astros ace Dallas Keuchel struck out a career-high 13 in Baltimore’s six-run fourth inning against Justin Verlander - boost their 2015 total to 80. Bumgarner (10-5) pitched five innings for the win, seven scoreless innings, leading Houston over the Texas as the Orioles routed the Detroit Tigers. Jesse Chavez (5-9) struck out nine in six innings for his allowing a run and four hits with three strikeouts and a Rangers. Adam Jones also homered for the Orioles, and JJ Hardy second highest total of the year. Smolinski followed walk in his first start since July 10. The Giants won their Keuchel (12-4), the starting pitcher for the American added a two run double. Verlander (0-3) allowed seven Butler’s third-inning home run with a solo drive off Tommy sixth straight game and swept their second straight three- League in the All Star Game last Tuesday night, retired 18 runs and eight hits in 3 2/3 innings, another ugly start for a Milone (5-2) for his first clout with the A’s. Reddick hit his game series. Patrick Corbin (1-2) took the loss on his 26th straight batters during one stretch. The Rangers piled up a Detroit rotation that has suddenly become a weak link. third career grand slam in the fifth against J.R. Graham. birthday, and the Diamondbacks have dropped six total of 29 hits in the first two games of the series, but Both teams finished with 14 hits. Miguel Gonzalez (8-6) straight. couldn’t do anything against Keuchel. He leads the AL with allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. The Tigers (45- BLUE JAYS 4, RAYS 0 a 2.12 ERA. 46) fell below .500 for the first time since they were 1-2 ear- Marco Estrada pitched eight shutout innings to outduel CUBS 4, BRAVES 1 Luis Valbuena had four hits and four RBIs, and Colby ly in the 2013 season. Chris Archer, and Chris Colabello and Jose Bautista each hit Jake Arrieta pitched seven dominant innings and Jorge Rasmus and Preston Tucker had two-run homers. two-run homers as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Soler homered to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta Yovani Gallardo (7-9) yielded seven hits and tied a sea- ROYALS 4, WHITE SOX 1 Bay Rays. Braves. Arrieta (11-5) gave up three hits, three walks and son-high with five runs in four-plus innings for his third Danny Duffy took a shutout into the ninth inning in the The Blue Jays snapped a streak of four straight series struck out 10, throwing 73 of his 112 pitches for strikes. straight loss. longest outing of his career as the surging Kansas City losses. Estrada (7-5) allowed just two hits through the first Over his last six starts, the right-hander is 5-0 with a 0.96 Royals beat Chris Sale and the Chicago White Sox. seven innings, with both runners erased trying to steal. ERA. Shelby Miller (5-6) struck out eight and allowed four YANKEES 2, MARINERS 1 Lorenzo Cain and Paulo Orlando homered as Kansas Archer (9-7), who is winless in four starts, allowed two runs hits, four walks and three runs - one earned - in six innings Mark Teixeira homered with two outs in the eighth City (55-35) moved a season-high 20 games above .500. and five hits in seven innings. for the Braves. Atlanta has lost seven of eight. After James inning as the New York Yankees rallied for a victory over The AL Central leaders took three of four in the weekend Russell walked Perez with two outs in the ninth, Jason the Seattle Mariners for a series win. series and have won 11 of 14 overall. INDIANS 5, REDS 3 Motte gave up Simmons’ RBI single, but he retired pinch- On a steamy day with a game-time temperature of 92 Duffy (4-4) gave up rookie Tyler Saladino’s leadoff drive Yan Gomes drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in the hitter Jonny Gomes on a groundout to end it. — AP degrees - a thermometer in the photographers’ well down in the ninth for his first career homer. Joe Blanton then tiebreaking run in the 11th inning as the Cleveland Indians the first-base line read over 100 - both Cy Young Award came in and got the last three outs for his first career save beat the Cincinnati Reds. winning starters, CC Sabathia and Felix Hernandez, were in his 278th major league game. Sale (8-5) was tagged for a Jason Kipnis added a sacrifice fly in the 11th for done after six impressive innings with the score tied 1-all. season-high 11 hits in 6 1/3 innings. The All-Star lefty gave Cleveland, which scored its first four runs on walks. MLB results/standings Teixeira connected on a 1-2 pitch from former closer up four runs, struck out six and walked one. Pedro Villareal (1-3) gave up singles to Mike Aviles, Fernando Rodney (2-4), who had a new copper-colored Michael Bourn and Brandon Moss to open the 11th and NY Yankees 2, Seattle 1; Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 0; Baltimore beard and hairdo. Dellin Betances (6-2) walked two in the ATHLETICS 14, TWINS 1 load the bases. He then walked Gomes for force in the 9, Detroit 3; Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 3 (11 innings); LA eighth, but got Mark Trumbo to pop out to end the threat. Jake Smolinski homered twice for four RBIs and Josh Indians’ go-ahead run and Kipnis followed with his sacrifice Dodgers 5, Washington 0; Philadelphia 8, Miami 7; Andrew Miller finished for his 20th save in 20 chances. Reddick hit a grand slam as the Oakland Athletics slugged fly. Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 1; Kansas City 4, Chicago White past the Minnesota Twins. Marc Rzepczynski (2-3) pitched two-thirds of an inning Sox 1; Houston 10, Texas 0; NY Mets 3, St. Louis 1 (18 ORIOLES 9, TIGERS 3 Billy Butler and Josh Phegley hit two-run homers for the to get the win, and Zach McAllister got the last two outs innings); Oakland 14, Minnesota 1; San Francisco 2, Arizona Jonathan Schoop hit a three-run homer - part of A’s, who cleared the fences a season-high five times to for his first career save. 1; Chicago Cubs 4, Atlanta 1.

American League Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Yankees 50 41 .549 - Baltimore 46 45 .505 4 Tampa Bay 47 47 .500 4.5 Toronto 47 47 .500 4.5 Boston 42 49 .462 8 Central Division Kansas City 55 35 .611 - Minnesota 50 42 .543 6 Detroit 45 46 .495 10.5 Cleveland 44 47 .484 11.5 Chicago White Sox 42 48 .467 13 Western Division LA Angels 50 40 .556 - Houston 51 43 .543 1 Texas 43 48 .473 7.5 Oakland 43 51 .457 9 Seattle 42 50 .457 9

National League Eastern Division Washington 49 41 .544 - NY Mets 48 44 .522 2 Atlanta 43 49 .467 7 Miami 38 54 .413 12 Philadelphia 32 62 .340 19 Central Division St. Louis 58 34 .630 - Pittsburgh 53 38 .582 4.5 Chicago Cubs 49 41 .544 8 Cincinnati 40 49 .449 16.5 Milwaukee 41 52 .441 17.5 Western Division LA Dodgers 53 40 .570 - San Francisco 49 43 .533 3.5 San Diego 43 49 .467 9.5 Arizona 42 48 .467 9.5 Colorado 39 51 .433 12.5 ST. LOUIS: New York Mets’ Kevin Plawecki (22) races the ball to first base as St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark Reynolds receives the throw during the 11th inning of a baseball game. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SPORTS Spieth set for Triple Crown

ST ANDREWS: Only the second Monday finish in Open history was underway at St Andrews with Jordan Spieth poised to become just the second man to win the year’s first three majors, while an Irish amateur was seeking to pull off one of the greatest upsets ever. Early indications were that it could be another day of low-scoring at the Old Course with several of the early starters getting to five- or six-under. Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald and Brendon Todd all made charges up the leaderboards, but they knew that ultimately their efforts would be in vain. Rain was forecast to move into the area by mid-afternoon, as the leaders set off but it was not expected to be heavy enough to bother them. The 21-year-old Texan Spieth has taken the golfing world by storm this year, winning the Masters in April and the US Open last month, and he is now on the cusp of making it three straight majors. Only Ben Hogan, 62 years ago, has man- aged to pull off the “Triple Crown” and even Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods came up short when both were in their prime. It is a massive challenge and it is one that Spieth underlined on Sunday, his third round of 66 leaving him just one shot behind the leading trio. Spieth said that he is fully aware of what is at stake and he will settle for nothing less than win- ning. “At this point it’s free rolling. I’m going to play to win, and I’m not playing for a place. I don’t want to place third tomorrow. I want to win,” he said. “And so I’m going to play my game, obviously with patience, to stay in the mix, if it’s not all there at the beginning, and if it is, I’m going to continue to play that way to try and get out in front. I’m going to have to play aggressive golf.” The only players in front of him are Louis Oosthuizen, the 32-year-old South African who won at St Andrews the last time the Open was held there in 2010, Australian shot-maker Jason Day, still seeking his first win in a major, and the surprise package, Irish amateur Paul Dunne. OPELIKA: Scott Piercy holds up the trophy after winning the Barbasol Championship The 22-year-old from the coastal town of golf tournament. —AP ST. ANDREWS: United States’ Jordan Spieth birdies the 16th hole during the final round at the Greystones, south of Dublin, had been expected British Open Golf Championship.—AP to fall away from the leaderboard as many non- pros have done before him over the years. Piercy breezes to victory But instead, he held firm, leading on his own Choi captures LPGA title at one stage before settling in for a joint share of AUBURN: Scott Piercy showed why he is playoffs heading into the Barbasol. His the lead alongside Oosthuizen and Day. the highest-ranked player in the field best previous finish this season was a sec- SYLVANIA: Chella Choi parred the first playoff Defending champion and world number two Admitting to some sense of disbelief at being Sunday, firing a six-under 65 to capture ond at the Sony Open in Hawaii. He also hole to defeat fellow South Korean Jang Ha-Na Lydia Ko birdied four of her first eight holes and in such an elevated position, Dunne was the Barbasol Championship for his third has two top 10 finishes at the Shriners Sunday for her first US LPGA Tour title at the led by as many as two strokes midway through nonetheless disarmingly candid about his career win on the USPGA Tour. Hospitals Open and the Houston Open. Marathon Classic and likely send her father into the round before falling back with a bogey at achievement. The 36-year-old American finished the Piercy wasted no time distancing him- retirement. 13. A birdie at 17 moved the 18-year-old New “It’s surreal I’m leading The Open, but I can week at 19-under 265 to breeze to a three- self from playing partner Barnes as he Choi forced the playoff with overnight leader Zealand star into a tie at the top on 13-under, easily believe that I shot the three scores that I stroke victory over runner-up Will Wilcox, drained birdies on his first two holes en Jang with a five-under par 66 that included five but both Jang and Choi birdied 17 to get to 14- shot,” he said. “If we were playing an amateur who had a 67. “I struck it awesome. I am route to five birdies on the front nine. He birdies without a bogey. “The first time win is under and Ko was unable to birdie the last to event here, I wouldn’t be too surprised by the really excited,” Piercy said. Piercy, who sank three birdies in a four hole stretch on hard, but the second and third is easier. get into the playoff. scores I shot. missed five months last season after the back beginning at the par-five 13th. Hopefully this is a turning point for me,” said Ko finished with a 67 for 271, equal third with “It’s just lucky that it happens to be in the undergoing elbow surgery, had won pre- The Las Vegas native really showed his Choi. Choi’s father has caddied for her since she China’s Feng Shanshan who also carded a 67. biggest event in the world. Hopefully I can do it viously at the 2011 Reno-Tahoe Open and swagger on the par-fives Sunday as he joined the LPGA Tour seven years ago. He said South Koreans Kim Hyo-Joo and Baek Kyu- again tomorrow, but whether I do or not, you the 2012 Canadian Open which begins birdied all three. Piercy said he enjoyed he wouldn’t retire until she won, and now she Jung and American Brittany Lang shared fifth know, I’ll survive either way.” next Thursday. one of his best hitting days since he has. “I wanted to work with my father for my first place on 11-under 273. World number one Park The last amateur to win the Open title was the Amateur Robby Shelton tied for fourth turned pro in 2001. win. So my father worked with me until now,” In-Bee moved within two strokes of the lead legendary Bobby Jones in 1930 when amateur with Ricky Barnes and South Korea’s Kim “I hit 17 greens and almost all the par- she said. Choi finished 72 holes on 14-under with birdies at the seventh and eighth, but players were common. These days the target is Whee at 270. Shelton shot a 67, Kim post- fives in two shots. It is pretty hard to lose 270, tied with Jang-a rookie also in search of a didn’t find another birdie in a round capped by usually just to make the cut. ed a 69 and Barnes, who was the co-leader when you do that,” he said. Wilcox was first LPGA title whose three-under 68 was a bogey at 18. A shot further back from Spieth is two-time after the third round with Piercy, shot a 70. unable to catch Piercy despite sinking marred by a double-bogey six at the par-four Park settled for a one-under 70 for 274, former winner Padraig Harrington of Ireland, who Andrew Loupe (65), Boo Weekley (67), birdies on numbers 17 and 18. He capped 11th. where she was joined by Spain’s Azahara Munoz had Sunday’s second best round of 65. Nine play- Austin Cooke (67) and Australia’s Mark his round in dramatic style by pouring in a Jang fought back gamely with three birdies and American Angela Stanford. Choi’s victory- ers were grouped on nine-under, just three shots Hensby (70) shared sixth place at 271. Six 58-foot putt on the 72nd hole. after the setback, but the 23-year-old ultimately after 28 prior top-10 finishes-was foreshadowed off the lead, including Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose, players tied for 10th at 272. That touched off a fist-pumping cele- couldn’t pull off a wire-to-wire win at Highland by some excellent golf at last week’s US Retief Goosen and Adam Scott. There were 15 players within four shots bration as his four-under 67 allowed him Meadows Golf Club. Women’s Open. Choi fired the lowest third- The last and only previous time The Open fin- of the leaders heading into the final round to retain his US Tour card for next season. Her approach at the first playoff hole, the round score in US Women’s Open history, a six- ished on a Monday in 1988 produced a thriller but for the first time in the last four US “The fact I kept my card in 13 starts is awe- par-five-18th, found the rough behind the green under 64 in which her 29 on the front nine at with Seve Ballesteros edging Nick Price and Nick Tour tournaments there was no playoff to some,” said the 29-year-old American. leading to a bogey, leaving Choi to claim the Lancaster Country Club was a nine-hole record Faldo. This year looks likely to produce a climax determine the winner Sunday. “That is something I can hang my hat trophy with a par. for a US Women’s Open.—AFP that is every bit as compelling.—AFP Piercy is ranked 42nd in the FedEx Cup on.”—AFP

Dousary clinches Paralympics spot

By Abdellatif Sharaa sports in Kuwait. Al-Dousary who was speak- ing upon his return from Croatia, where he KUWAIT: President of Kuwait and Arab took second place in the special needs shoot- Shooting Federations Eng Duaij Khalaf Al- ing World Cup tournament, said the achieve- Otaibi congratulated the chairman and board ment was due to the major support from the members of Kuwait Handicapped Shooting club under the chairmanship of Shafi Al-Hajri. Club on the qualification of Shooter Atef Al- He hoped to continue his good achievements Dousary to the Paralympics. He also appreciat- at the local tournaments so that he can be ed the efforts of the supporting team. ready for Brazil. Al-Otaibi expressed his satisfaction at the Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of Kuwait improvement of the handicapped shooters Handicapped Sports Club Nasser Al-Ajmi laud- level, as he also lauded the support of Sheikh ed the support of Information Minister, State Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah for constructing a range for 10m pistol and Al-Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah of the shooter rifle at the handicaps sports club. and removing all obstacles so that he could Eng Al-Otaibi said the champion should train at the shooting club which contributed hold a camp at the shooting club to prepare to him having an outstanding performance for the Paralympics, and there will be coopera- despite the short period of practicing the tion and coordination with the officials at the sport. handicapped club to facilitate all the technical The shooter was received at Kuwait needs shooter Adel Al-Dousary needs. International Airport by Assistant Secretary Meanwhile, shooter Atef Al-Dousary said General Mansour Al-Sharheed, Board Member his qualification to the paralympics to be and Public Relations Committee Chairman held in Rio de Janeiro next year, is a major Khaleef Al-Qahas and club official Shafi Al- achievement for him and the handicapped Sahali. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SPORTS Outplayed and out-fought, England face selection headache

LONDON: Stick with a team that has been thrashed by Australia or ring the changes? That’s the dilemma facing England’s selectors when they meet on Tuesday to select a team for the third Ashes test following a 405-run humbling at the hands of Australia in the second test at Lord’s that finished prematurely on Sunday. “There are some good players on the outside and we’ve got a selection meeting,” said England’s coach Trevor Bayliss, an Australian appointed shortly before the start of the five-match Ashes series. “I’m not going to speculate on what exactly will happen until Tuesday.” That didn’t stop just about every England cricket fan from speculating on Monday after England collapsed to 103 all out in its second innings, chasing a massive 509 runs to win after four days in which Australia rediscovered its lost form after losing the first test in Cardiff. For some fans, it’s a question of how many players to drop. The bowlers were generally spared from criticism on Monday, but a list of batsmen - including opener Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance, Ian Bell and Jos Buttler - are all in the firing line. Buttler has been successful as a wicketkeeper so will probably be spared although he only managed 13 and 11 at Lord’s. England’s real problem is the top order. “Eight times in the last seven tests England has been 50 or less for 3 after 15 overs,” said ex-captain and opener Mike Atherton, pointing out a problem that threatens to cripple England. Captain Alastair Cook has rediscovered his form this year. He was in the runs in the home series against New Zealand and scored 96 at Lord’s in the first innings, England’s highest scorer in the game. But apart from a century against New Zealand, Lyth has failed and Cook’s quest for a convincing opening partner continues. There has not been a settled partner since Andrew Strauss retired three years ago. Bayliss said players LONDON: Australia’s players celebrate in this file photo. —AP needed confidence. “What you’ve also got to do is give the players that are in there as much confidence as possible as well,” he said. Ganguly to help advise way “They are obviously good players and the reason they are in the team is because they are thought of as the best play- ers in England at the moment.” Ballance has scored heavily in the past, but Australia ahead after IPL suspensions appear to have exposed a fundamental flaw in his com- plete lack of foot movement, a rare fault in an international batsman that has been concealed by an impressive eye for NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board has committee. The BCCI said in a statement “It is for the BCCI to consider terminat- pended teams. the ball. brought in former national team captain that “the committee will share its recom- ing the teams and the Supreme Court judg- Chennai, a two-time champion and the And veteran batsman Ian Bell, one of England’s classiest Sourav Ganguly to help put the Indian mendations with the governing council (of ment is clear on that. The BCCI can do that,” runner-up this year, is led by India captain players until recently, has only managed 128 runs in his last Premier League back on track after two of the IPL) within a timeframe of six weeks Justice Lodha said. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and features New six games for England. At 33, there are calls for Bell to be its teams were suspended by a Supreme after consulting all the key stakeholders.” The working group’s immediate aim will Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, West put out to grass. Court-appointed committee last week. The committee has been formed amid be to advise the BCCI on the format of the Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo and South England may fiddle with the batting order, promoting The Board of Control for Cricket in India, local media reports that some BCCI officials IPL since it is now reduced to six teams. Africa batsman Faf du Plessis. in-form batsman Joe Root to No. 3 from his present posi- which runs the IPL, yesterday named the are in favor of tougher punishment for the A six-team league would decrease the Rajasthan, the inaugural IPL champ in tion at 5, where he has found himself struggling with the 43-year-old Ganguly in a working group two teams. number of matches in the six-week season 2008, is led by Australia’s Steve Smith, and tail. that will examine the two-year suspension The Justice Lodha committee, which from 60 to 34, and would mean re-negoti- includes India batsman Ajinkya Rahane, Bayliss also weighed into the debate about English verdict on Chennai Super Kings and also announced life bans on Chennai team ating contracts with broadcasters and the and New Zealand pace bowler Tim Rajasthan Royals over corruption-related principal Gurunath Meiyappan and remaining franchises because the tourna- Southee. pitches after Australian bowlers found life in a wicket charges during the 2013 season. Rajasthan co-owner Raj Kundra for betting ment is based on a revenue sharing model. The IPL scaled back to eight clubs from where England could get almost no bounce or movement. IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla, BCCI secre- on IPL games or being in contact with ille- The committee is expected to advise on 10 after expansion club Kochi Tuskers was “We’ve got no control over what the wickets are like, but tary Anurag Thakur, treasurer Anirudh gal gamblers, had said last week that the whether two new teams should be brought scrapped for an alleged breach of contract certainly a flat wicket plays into the Australians’ hands,” said Chaudhary and legal adviser Usha Nath BCCI was free to even ban the teams per- in - for a 10-strong league in 2019 - and on in 2011 and Sahara Pune Warriors withdrew Bayliss. Banerjee will be the other members of the manently. how to assimilate players of the two sus- in 2013.—AP “We want to win this series and for anyone to win a series you have to take 20 wickets per match,” he said. “A flat wicket suits not only their batters but also the bowling attack they’ve got, more so than it does ours.” While Woods vows to England was collapsing on Sunday, Jonny Bairstow was busy scoring a century and showing he is in the form of his life for his county Yorkshire. Bairstow averages over 100 this find a way back season and is the favorite to be given another chance for ST ANDREWS: Tiger Woods has vowed to battle on against England. —AP the dimming of the light after another desperately disap- pointing showing at the British Open. The game’s once predominant force packed his bags and headed for home after finishing seven shots adrift of the cut Bangladesh mark and tied for 147th place out of 156 starters at St Andrews. That came a month after he slumped out of looks to Chambers Bay and the US Open in a similar gloomy fashion just a month ago. They are just the latest humiliations in a year that has seen Woods mired in by far the worst slump of a pro- impress in tests fessional career which started 19 years ago. Woods had sympathetic support from the knowledgeable CHITTAGONG: Emboldened by its first ever ODI series St Andrews golf fans as he trudged his way off the course late victory over South Africa, Bangladesh now wants to Saturday evening. They had cheered, admired and lionised impress in the longer version of cricket when the two- him in 2000 when he won his first Open Championship by a match test series starts today. whopping eight strokes, and five years later when he tri- Bangladesh showed it still has a way to go before it umphed by five shots at an Old Course he calls his favourite can compete in the test format, when it played place in the world. There is much head-shaking and hand- Pakistan and India after the World Cup. It lost against wringing now over the way things have gone. Woods himself Pakistan and drew a weather-affected series against had no real answer as to what he needs to do next, short of NEWTON: Ryan Hunter-Reay celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the IndyCar Series auto race at Iowa sticking to his guns. “Keep going. Keep going forward,” was all India. However, Bangladesh’s stunning comeback in the Speedway. —AP ODI series - winning 2-1 after a crushing loss in the first he could offer. “I play in a couple weeks in (Washington) D.C., so looking forward to playing the Quicken Loans, and hope- match - could see the team carry that form into the first fully win that event so I can get into a place that I know very test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. Iowa Speedway a ‘crown well.” In fact the last time Woods was in that (winning) place “(Test cricket) is a different format but the way we was at the 2013 WGC Bridgestone-Invitational at a time when came back against South Africa in the ODI series is a he was still ranked first in the world. Since then it has gone testament of our progress,” said Bangladesh test cap- jewel’ for IndyCar Series from bad to worst, first with a succession of injuries and then tain Mushfiqur Rahim. “Our players have been in good with changes to his swing pattern that for the moment just do rhythm and so it’s our best opportunity.” NEWTON: In the wake of the Iowa Corn major role in that, because the fans that owner Michael Andretti. “It’s part of the not seem to be working, although he insists that things are Bangladesh had won four successive ODI series over 300, social media was once again attend the races are among the most tradition of IndyCar racing and this is a heading in the right direction. Coming into St Andrews he the past eight months following a first-ever appear- buzzing about the show the Verizon intelligent and dedicated IndyCar fans very important track. I think it’s very genuinely felt he could win his 15th major title and move to ance in the World Cup quarterfinals. But its test statis- IndyCar Series put on at Iowa Speedway. on tour. The evidence for that comes important to keep it on the schedule within three of the all-time record held by Jack Nicklaus. The tics are dismal. For the past several installments of from people who follow the series to and I hope they’re going to be able to reality though was very different to his expectations. It has played 91 tests, winning just seven - all against the yearly open-wheel visit to the 7/8- every track, stay in all those cities and do it.” “I’m just not scoring. Every opportunity I have to make a Zimbabwe and a second-string West Indies side in mile track in Newton, close racing and interact with those fans. Longtime Small said he’s had multiple conver- key putt or hit an iron shot in there stiff with a short iron and 2009. “To achieve anything is a big challenge,” thrilling finishes have enthralled fans motorsports journalist and unabashed sations with IndyCar about 2016, even get some momentum going, I haven’t done that,” he said. Mushfiqur said. “We have done so well in the one-day and delighted sponsors who shell out critic of racing, Robin Miller, has one in which the series brought him an “I haven’t gotten anything out of my rounds. I’ll hit good cricket, the new challenge for us is to replicate that in millions of dollars to promote races. But changed his tune over the years on offer for a date for next season. shots, I’ll string together some good shots and good holes the tests. Almost the same players play in the tests as unlike their NASCAR counterparts where Iowa Speedway stacks up in the The ball is squarely in Small and his and put myself in position to make a run, and I don’t do it.” well, so why aren’t we able to put in similar perform- where the schedule rarely changes, the IndyCar mix. If you asked him in 2007, staff’s court, as it were, to figure out a Woods at least has one major left to play this year - the ances?” scheduling for the IndyCar Series leaves he couldn’t have wanted IndyCar to go way to make it work for 2016. Even if PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin next month Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha urged some doubt year-to-year about stops on elsewhere more. But he stood on pit there’s a desire for the race to return, - to try and save something from the wreckage of a year that their tour - the Indianapolis 500 road Saturday night and said on live tel- Small has to be a businessman first and also saw him split with longtime girlfriend, champion skier his players to be unfazed by the South African pace notwithstanding. evision Iowa Speedway provides some a fan second, because he still has a bot- Lindsey Vonn, in May.—AFP attack, which will be bolstered by the presence of Dale So after another nearly unanimously of, if not the best racing all season. tom line to consider. Iowa Speedway Steyn and Vernon Philander. popular event, is IndyCar’s future firm at “This has become one of the four or still is not removed from the financial “The biggest challenge will be their bowlers,” Iowa Speedway? To ask track President five best stops on the whole circuit,” pits it was in before NASCAR purchased Hathurusingha said. “We want to play aggressive crick- Jimmy Small, it’s likely, if not certain. Miller said. “In terms of racing, it’s always the track in November 2013, so finan- et, believe in ourselves. We have to play big moments “IndyCar is, hands down, the best one of the best races. In terms of fans, cially sensible decisions need to be intelligently as well.” race here. We want to keep it here. It’s a they get it; it’s probably first or second. made. South Africa is looking to maintain its success on the part of our vision to raise the overall People wear T-shirts, they watch televi- “You can’t overlook all the elements road. It last lost a series away from home nine years profile of motorsports. I can’t imagine it sion, they watch other races, they come involved in bringing in a racing series,” ago, in Sri Lanka in 2006. not being here,” Small said on Saturday. up and talk to me intelligently about Small said. “Between ticket sales, spon- It has since played 14 away series, of which seven “They were the first sanctioning body to racing. sorship and everything else we do here, have been in the subcontinent, winning 10 and draw- take a chance on us, first major race to “I think what you’ve got here, is I it’s really important that we continue ing the other four - in India and the UAE. happen here at Iowa Speedway, and think IndyCar has figured out this is one the tradition on that side of things too. South Africa has won all eight of its tests against there’s a lot of significance involved in of our crown jewels and they ought to “We took over this business, we’re Bangladesh. Seven of those wins came by an innings their presence. keep this thing.” happy to be here and we’re here for the margin while the other was by five wickets inside four “This race, this series is really impor- IndyCar racers and team owners con- long term, but we have to make really tant to have here for a number of rea- sistently praise the track and fans for the good business decisions, too. It’s really days. sons.” Where a series sees a venue fit same reasons Miller mentioned. They tough out there and we’re doing every- “The way Bangladesh have played in the ODIs, they into its plans and where the venue sees don’t want to lose a trip to the Midwest, thing we can to make this a more hos- have been an in-form team and I am sure they will be the series fitting into its plans don’t either, which has historically been the pitable place and bring fans back that taking plenty of confidence in the tests,” South Africa always match up. foundation of open-wheel racing in the maybe have been turned off in the past.” captain Hashim Amla said. “But test cricket is a different As of this race weekend, IndyCar, by United States. Between that at the tradi- It’s those fans, and how many of them format ... One of the strengths of the South African all accounts, sees Iowa Speedway as an tion of ovals in IndyCar, it’s more than show up for the IndyCar race weekend, team is that we don’t put a lot of emphasis on what the important and vital part of its schedule appreciated. that provide a positive from Iowa opposition can do. We mainly focus on our own because ovals are still a major part of “I think it’s really important because Speedway’s perspective on bringing the ST. ANDREWS: United States’ Tiger Woods tips his cap in strengths.” —AP the plan. The track and region have a we don’t want to lose ovals,” said team- series back.—AP this file photo. —AP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SPORTS

FRANCE: Team Sky with Britain’s Luke Rowe, Wout Poels of the Netherlands, Ireland’s Nicolas Roche, Britain’s Ian Stannard, Australia’s Richie Porte, Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic, Britain’s Geraint Thomas, and Britain’s Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey (from front to rear) leads the pack during the Tour de France cycling race. —AP Thomas survives crash as Plaza wins 16th stage

GAP: Britain’s Geraint Thomas survived a terrify- ed with typical dry humor. “It was a hard right and “It was a matter of who breaks the latest, he victory drags on. he had snatched back a morale-boosting 28sec ing crash on a hair-raising descent as Ruben Plaza I was just following the wheel and then all of a (Barguil) was willing to take great risks, he took Colombian Jarlinson Pantano was third at on what has otherwise been a disappointing won yesterday’s 16th stage of the Tour de France. sudden Barguil went into me. “I feel alright for out Geraint Thomas and almost took out himself.” 36sec while Eritrean Daniel Teklehaimanot earnt defence of his title as he sits eighth overall. Chris Froome finished in an elite group of now. I guess the doctor will ask me my number A French TV commentator following on a his best finish at the Tour, finishing seventh. “It’s Nibali, known for his daredevil descending, favourites to maintain his 3min 10sec lead over and date of birth soon,” he added, jokingly claim- motorbike said Thomas looked “groggy” but fine the most important win of my 15 years as a pro- was clear of the drama behind him but Thomas Nairo Quintana but his teammate Thomas came ing to think his name was Chris Froome. as he remounted. That drama happened almost fessional,” said the 35-year-old Plaza. showed great bravery in carrying on and only los- close to disaster on the 201km ride from Bourg- “A nice Frenchman pulled me out but I lost my 20 minutes back from Spaniard Plaza’s stage vic- Sagan took the defeat well: “Maybe my time is ing 38sec by the finish-an incredible effort given de-Peage to Gap. Young Frenchman Warren glasses as well. They don’t even make them any tory as the Sky-led peloton had shown no interest coming.” Behind the breakaway, Van Garderen’s he had to change bikes after clambering back up Barguil lost control on a dangerous corner and more.” Barguil blamed the crash on American in chasing a 23-man breakaway. BMC team had picked up the pace of the peloton onto the road. bumped into Thomas who was knocked over a Tejay Van Garderen, claiming the BMC man had Lampre’s Plaza attacked with 18km left on the coming into the final climb before Alberto The big loser, though, was Frenchman Tony sheer drop, hitting his head on a lamppost as he bumped into him before he lost control. final climb-an 8.9km-long second-category Contador’s Tinkoff-Saxo outfit pushed hard on Gallopin, who started the day ninth but seemed went over the edge. “I’m sorry. Just before the bend, Tejay Van ascension with an average gradient of 5.6 per- the ascent. to lose his bottle on the descent and lost 3min Incredibly, the tough Welshman climbed back Garderen touched me with his shoulder and my cent. He crested the summit, 12km from the fin- Contador himself attacked near the top of the 39sec to drop out of the top 10, with Barguil ben- onto the road and after a swift change of bikes, finger slipped off the brake,” said the 22-year-old. ish, with around a minute’s gap to nine chasers as climb, but Froome managed to reel him back in, efitting. he carried on, losing only 38sec by the finish and But Van Garderen saw things differently. the breakaway group had splintered. only for reigning champion Vincenzo Nibali to In the breakaway group, Australian Adam holding onto his sixth place overall. “Warren was trying to come over the top of me. I Peter Sagan led the chase and came home take the opportunity to accelerate away himself. Hansen was the first to strike out for home inside “I’m OK, I just hit my head on a lamppost but was trying to keep my position and stay safe,” said second at 30sec-taking his fifth runners-up spot The Italian had eeked out a 15sec gap to the the final 50km before Austrian champion Marco I’m alright,” said the chirpy 29-year-old, who react- the 26-year-old, third overall at 3min 32sec. on a stage this year as his two-year wait for a Tour rest of the favourites at the top and by the finish Haller caught him.—AFP Yang out to stop Cuenca’s quest

MACAU: Undefeated “Ik” Yang Lian Hui will Roach-trained fighter Manny Pacquiao on on Saturday seek to become only the sec- points in May in the richest fight in boxing ond Chinese fighter to win a professional history. world title but to do it will need to prevent “I am more Mayweather than Marciano,” Cesar Cuenca’s march into the record said Cuenca. “Mayweather has had only books. The unheralded Argentine light wel- two knockout victories over the past 10 terweight has built up a record of 47 wins years. He fights his fight and he fights to and no defeats in his home country over a win. That is my philosophy too.” career spanning 13 years. Roach will be absent from Yang’s corner That puts the number one rated Saturday, a long-standing back problem International Boxing Federation contender that needs surgery preventing the Hall of just one win behind Floyd Mayweather and Fame trainer making the long trip from Los two off Rocky Marciano’s all-time 49-0 Angeles to the southern Chinese city. record in the pantheon of the world’s Filling in for Roach will be Australian Justin undefeated fighters. Fortune-a former heavyweight who once But against him being mentioned in the lasted five rounds against the great Lennox same breath as those two ring greats is the Lewis-and he was quick to dismiss Cuenca’s fact he has only four times gone the cham- chances. pionship distance of 12 rounds and has just “Only two KOs in 47 fights? Let’s face it two knockouts on his resume. this guy couldn’t break an egg,” Fortune Saturday will be the first time the man told AFP. Yang said he wanted to win the from Chaco, north-eastern Argentina, has belt for Roach. fought outside of his home country and he “I am sad he cannot be with me now,” will be up against a knockout specialist in Yang said. “I want to honor him with this Yang when they face off for the vacant IBF fight. I can’t wait to see the look on junior welterweight world title at Macau’s Freddie’s face when I walk into his gym Cotai Arena. with the belt.” TORONTO: Brazil’s Natalia Azevedo performs during the rhythmic gymnastics ribbon competition in the Pan Am Games. —AP The explosive puncher from the north- Victory for Yang will make him just the eastern Chinese city of Dalian has stopped second Chinese fighter to win a profession- his opponents 13 times in an 18-fight al world title and the first in a major weight US, temperatures and undefeated career and battered the sea- category. China’s Xiong Zhaozhong cur- soned Thai Patomsuk Pathompothong (30- rently holds the little-recognised WBC mini- 3) in a six-round knockout on his last mum weight (105lb, 48kg) belt. appearance at the same Macau venue in Former five-division world champion ticket sales on Pan Am rise March. Cuenca (47-0, 2 KOs) is undaunted Nonito Donaire (34-3, 22 KOs) from the by Yang and says he deserves to be ranked Philippines and 2012 US Olympian and with the greats, despite detractors saying undefeated super lightweight prospect TORONTO: The heat and the United crown. The 15-year-old could add he lacks the power to knock out his oppo- Jose Ramirez (14-0, 11 KOs) feature in the States charge up the Pan American two more titles to her haul on nents. standout bouts on Saturday’s undercard. Games medal table both continued Monday with the club and ribbon “No one ever did me any favours. I “Filipino Flash” Donaire, looking to get on Sunday, as officials celebrated a finals. “I want to become the best earned my number one rating by beating back on the world title trail after losing victory by surpassing the one million world-class gymnast that I can everyone who has been put in front of me,” belts in the last two years to the great tickets sold mark. become,” said Zeng, who won a the 34-year-old Cuenca said. Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba and The united States, who passed bronze in the individual all-around at “Lots of fighters claim they train to go Jamaica’s Nicholas Walters, takes on Canada on the medal table on last year’s Youth Olympic Games. “As the distance but I really do. Yang is going to France’s Anthony Settoul (20-3, 8 KOs) in a Saturday, padded their lead by much as I love getting the medals, I be in very deep and very uncharted 10-round super bantamweight bout. adding eight gold medals to push haven’t really been focusing on waters.” He confidently added that people Ramirez will fight an eight-round super their total to 59 and 160 overall as medals. “It’s more about myself and should be comparing him with lightweight contest against Japan’s Ryusei the hosts settled into second on 54 showing what I can do.” The high Mayweather, who beat another Freddie Yoshida (26-7, 13 KOs).—AFP gold and 142 overall medals. point of the day for Canada came on Brazil are third followed by the trampoline where 2012 Olympic Colombia, who surged past Cuba champion Rosie MacLennan success- and Mexico into fourth courtesy of fully defended her Pan Am gold and three gold medals on the golf course. Keegan Soehn won the men’s. Having spent the first week of the Canada ended the day with a dra- July 10-26 multi-sport fest leading matic 10th inning 7-6 decision over the medal standings, Canada gave the United States to defend their Pan locals plenty of reason to open their Am baseball title. wallets and come out and cheer. Canada and the United States will The Americans, however, cashed also play for women’s basketball in on Sunday striking triple gold at gold after contrasting semi-final the canoeing venue and double gold wins. Linnae Harper drained two in rhythmic gymnastics and equestri- clutch free throws with 7.7 seconds an eventing. With temperatures left to give the United States a 65-64 again nudging into the mid-30s comeback win over Cuba while Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), Canada got Canada demolished Brazil 91-63. the day off to a sizzling start with Colombia ruled at the golf course Evan Dunfee winning the men’s sweeping all three gold medals, 20km race walk ahead of compatriot Marcelo Rozo winning the men’s Inaki Gomez while Mexico’s Maria title, Mariajo Uribe the women’s and Gonzalez took the women’s title. No the team gold. Argentina cruised to athlete was hotter, however, than two golds on the final day of the sail- American Laura Zeng who added ing competition, while Guatemala, TORONTO: Miles Evans, of the United States, spikes the ball past hoop and ball apparatus gold to her Ecuador and Puerto Rico also Ruben Mora Romero, of Nicaragua, during a beach volleyball game at ‘Ik’ Yang Lian Hui all-around rhythmic gymnastics clinched titles.—Reuters the Pan Am Games yesterday. —AP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 SPORTS Nigeria take slim lead over Congo

JOHANNESBURG: Wild finishing restricted six minutes later as Ajayi sneaked unno- dominant Nigeria to a 2-1 victory over ticed into the six-yard box and nodded Congo Brazzaville at the weekend in a dra- home a cross after Etor Daniel beat out-of- matic 2016 Rio Olympic Games football position Mafoumbi to the ball. qualifier. Nigeria attacked relentlessly, seeking Villain-cum-hero Junior Ajayi scored more goals and a tie-clinching lead ahead both goals for the Nigerian ‘Dream Team’ of the early August return match in Atlantic early in the second half before a capacity city Pointe-Noire. 40,000 crowd in south-east city Port They had a legitimate penalty appeal for Harcourt. hand-ball rejected by the Kenyan referee But Moise Nkounkou snatched a poten- and Congolese Junior Makiesse was lucky tially crucial away goal on 66 minutes to to escape with a yellow card after a horrific leave the third-round tie on a knife edge. foot-up foul. Celebrated France-born Congo coach Congo halved the deficit against the run Claude Le Roy is hoping to take a team to of play as Nigerian goalkeeper Daniel the Olympics for the first time after a suc- Emmanuel cleared the ball with his leg and cess-filled career with various African coun- Nkounkou dashed in to score. tries. Zimbabwe were fortunate to escape In other first legs, Algeria defeated Sierra with a draw after South Africa created more Leone 2-0, Morocco edged Tunisia 1-0 and chances on an artificial Rufaro Stadium Zimbabwe and South Africa drew 1-1 in a pitch in Harare. competition restricted to under-23 foot- Keegan Dolly gave the visitors a 67th- ballers. A combination of woeful shooting, minute lead that was cancelled when brave defending and excellent goalkeeping Walter Musona converted a penalty seven by Congolese giant Christoffer Mafoumbi minutes from time. Abdelhakim Amokrane kept the Port Harcourt match goalless until scored twice within 21 minutes of the half-time. kick-off as Algeria achieved a convincing Ajayi was guilty of the worst miss, blaz- victory over Sierra Leone at Stade ing over from close range at a stadium Mustapha Tchaker in Blida near Algiers. named after Adokiye Amiesimaka, a retired Far superior Morocco pipped Tunisia in Nigerian football star who was among the Rabat thanks to an Achraf Bencherki crowd. penalty on the stroke of half-time at Stade ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter is photographed while banknotes thrown by British comedian Simon Brodkin hurtle through the air dur- But the striker atoned three minutes Moulay Hassan. The seven third-round ing a press conference following the extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee at the headquarters. —AP after half-time when he poked a loose ball winners advance to a November 28- into the net after Mafoumbi failed to grasp December 12 tournament with hosts a low Godwin Saviour cross. Senegal and the top-three finishers quali- Rattled Congo were two goals behind fying for the Rio Olympics. —AFP FIFA sets election date as Blatter rules himself out

ZURICH: FIFA chiefs yesterday recommended ning announcement that he would stand down. secure television and marketing contracts for proposals to reform the scandal tainted world “I had, with my conscience, to do something football tournaments. Swiss authorities are in football body and a special election on February for FIFA,” Blatter said after an executive commit- parallel investigating the award of the 2018 and 26 to replace president Sepp Blatter who finally tee meeting which set the new election date. 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respective- declared he will not be a candidate. FIFA had been engulfed in “a tsunami”, he ly. On a dramatic day Blatter was showered with acknowledged at a press conference delayed by Candidates for the FIFA presidency have until fake dollar bills by a British comedian at the start British comic Simon Brodkin-who is a notorious October 26 to put their names forward. So far of a press conference at which he fielded ques- prankster and most recently disrupted rapper only Brazilian football great Zico has officially tions about the corruption storm that has Kanye West’s performance at the Glastonbury declared himself. But Platini, the UEFA president, engulfed FIFA. Festival-as he threw fake dollars at him before is considered the favorite to take over if he The veteran FIFA president-who has been in being hauled away by security guards. Blatter decides to stand. charge since 1998 — hailed the reforms being hailed the moves toward reforms that govern- “He has been pleased to hear a lot of words of recommended but refused to fall in line with ment leaders around the world as well as foot- support from some of the world’s leading foot- one of the key proposals and declare his salary. ball administrators have demanded. ball decision makers,” said UEFA spokesman He was also repeatedly asked about whether A task force led by an independent chairman Pedro Pinto. he would stand for office again and finally said: “I would look at measures including “enhanced The 60-year-old Frenchman has been boost- will not be a candidate for the election in 2016 centralized integrity checks for executive com- ed after getting verbal support from four of the SPAIN: Barcelona’s new president Josep Maria Bartomeu (right) shakes hands with and there will be an election for a new president. mittee members, the introduction of term limits, six regional confederations that make up foot- FC management board member Ramon Adell after being elected as president of FC I cannot be the new president because I am the higher standards of governance at all levels of ball’s world body, the source close to the UEFA Barcelona at the Camp Nou Stadium. —AP old president.” football structures including confederations and leadership told AFP. Potential candidates are already planning member associations as well as individual disclo- Only the Confederation of African Football campaigns for the most high profile job in sports sure of compensation,” a statement said. (CAF) — led by Blatter ally Issa Hiyatou-and the Enrique: Messi needs to rest politics. French favorite Michel Platini will Some sponsors have called for a figure of the Oceania confederation is not backing Platini. announce within a fortnight whether he will stature of former UN secretary general Kofi The UEFA president has been a vociferous throw his hat into the ring, according to a source Annan to head the reform group. Blatter called critic of Blatter as the corruption scandal has LOS ANGELES: The logistics of Barcelona’s They will play Fiorentina in Florence on close to the UEFA president. the reform proposals “important” but refused escalated. In a statement, Platini welcomed the North American tour are tough enough, August 2 as part of the same International “He (Platini) is seriously considering running. several demands by journalists to disclose his proposed FIFA reforms but gave no indication coach Luis Enrique makes no apologies for Champions Cup exhibition tournament. “As He will make a decision in the next two weeks salary. about his election plans. “We must now make letting stars including Lionel Messi skip the a trainer, the truth is I would rather not do maximum and then make an announcement,” The executive meeting came just two days sure that the reforms outlined today will be pre-season excursion. tours,” Enrique admitted. the source said. after a former FIFA vice-president, Jeffrey Webb, undertaken in a swift and effective manner,” he The Spanish giants landed in Los Like many other managers, he finds the A US corruption investigation which led to appeared in a New York court and denied taking said. Platini backed Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, a Angeles on Sunday to begin preparations travel demands and other details take time the arrest of seven FIFA officials in Zurich on May millions of dollars of bribes. Webb, from the former FIFA vice president from Jordan, when he for a three-match tour that opens with a away from training. “Even though the coun- 27 has left world football reeling and sparked Cayman islands, was among the seven people stood against Blatter in May. The prince could game against Major League Soccer’s Los tries can be great and it can be great to widespread demands for radical change. Blatter, detained in Zurich. again be a candidate in February’s election. Angeles Galaxy at the Rose Bowl today. travel, things like the change of time zones who has been FIFA president for 17 years, won a US authorities have charged 14 people in all- Chung Mong-Joon, another former FIFA mem- Enrique and captain Andres Iniesta were can have repercussions and you can have fifth term as president two days after the police soccer officials and sports business executives- ber from South Korea, is also considering a fresh off the bus from the airport when fewer trainings and that can affect the raid. But on June 2 he produced his equally stun- over more than $150 million in bribes paid to run.—AFP they met with the media, the team having team negatively.” Although the tour been cheered upon arrival at their hotel by includes such potentially distracting side- a gaggle of Barcelona fans. lines as meetings with NBA superstar Kobe Asked if he owed those fans a chance to Bryant as well as with members of the NBA see players like Argentinian superstar champion Golden State Warriors, Enrique Liverpool defeat Adelaide Lionel Messi and Brazilian Neymar, Enrique and Iniesta are both keen to get the focus said his first duty was to get those players on the field. some much-needed time off. “As far as training goes, the beginning is ADELAIDE: James Milner scored again as “That’s simple to answer,” he said. “We very important,” Iniesta said. “That is what Liverpool downed Adelaide United 2-0 yesterday to win both their pre-season have to give a certain minimum number of counts because you have not trained for a games in Australia before the new days of vacation for players to recover from long time.” The team travelled shortly after English Premier League season. the re-election of Josep Maria Bartomeu as a season that is seemingly eternal,” said England midfielder Milner, who joined Enrique, who has excused Messi, Neymar, president of the club by their members. on a free transfer last month from goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, midfielder Javier Incumbent Bartomeu saw off rival Joan Manchester City, was on target in the Mascherano and fullback Dani Alvez from Laporta in an election that Bartomeu called 67th minute for the second time in four the tour after they competed in the Copa early, when tensions within the club were days for Liverpool in Australia. America. running high because of poor relations Milner, capped 53 times by his coun- “The bottom line is, these players need between Enrique and Messi. try, scored Liverpool’s winner in a 2-1 vic- to rest.” After taking on the Galaxy, the Enrique declined to address the election tory over Brisbane Roar on Friday. Fellow Champions League winners will travel on Sunday, while Iniesta said he hoped the new recruit Danny Ings sealed the victory north to take on Manchester United at the resolution would allow the club to focus on with Liverpool’s second goal in the 88th home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers on trying to repeat the stellar feats of last sea- minute to cap a strong all-round per- Saturday. They complete their US swing son, when they won the treble of formance by the Merseyside giants against English champions Chelsea on July Champions League, La Liga and Copa Del before 53,000 at the Adelaide Oval. “I 28 in suburban Washington DC. Rey.—AFP thought the performance was very good tonight against another well-organised team,” said Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers. “The pressure and intensity in US teams eye games in Cuba the game was excellent. “Young players understand and know if they work hard WASHINGTON: Restoring full diplomatic to play some games there.” Not since the and show the correct personality they’ll relations between Cuba and the United Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers get a chance. States could lead to Major League Baseball played each other in Cuba in 1959 have “Joe Gomez looks like he could be a pre-season games on the Communist two US clubs faced off there, although the Liverpool player for many years. I know island by next year and a safer pipeline for Baltimore Orioles played a home-and- it’s pre-season but he has shown all the Cuban talent. Major League Baseball com- home series with Cuba’s national team in qualities and temperament and he’s only missioner Rob Manfred said exhibition 1999. 18. “Jordon Ibe, I think this could be a big games in Cuba ahead of next April’s start of Cuban baseball officials visited the season for him. He’s only 19.” Liverpool the 2016 season “would be my best guess, United States earlier this month as their fully stretched Adelaide’s defence, with based on the state of the conversations team prepared for the Pan American Gomez sweeping along the left flank and with the government,” according to the St. Games in Canada, telling Major League the lively Divock Origi a constant threat. Louis Post-Dispatch. Baseball’s website they are happy about Adelaide did not mount a genuine attack As a trade embargo and diplomatic the opportunities for baseball now that until 25 minutes into the game. They can shutdown since the 1960s between Cuba barriers are breaking down. credit two super low saves by goalkeeper and the United States nears an end, US offi- “This is an important and symbolic time Eugene Galekovic for keeping the game cials hope to use baseball to make inroads for us to be here and we are happy we are scoreless at halftime. much the same way US officials used table here while it’s happening,” said Cuban Galekovic produced another top-shelf tennis to bridge cultrual gaps with China in baseball commissioner Heriberto Suarez stop in the 59th minute with a spectacu- the 1970s. Pereda. lar mid-air parry to deflect an Adam “Cuba is a great market for us in two “We are all very pleased with the Lallana strike. But eight minutes later ways. Obviously, it’s a great talent market. progress the countries are making.” Since Galekovic was finally beaten when Milner It’s a country where baseball is embedded US sanctions were imposed on Cuba, 95 scored after a sweet passing movement. in the culture,” Manfred told the Miami players have found their way to Major Milner slid onto the end of a curling Herald. League Baseball, including stars Yasiel Puig Ibe cross to poke the ball in with his “I can envision a situation, assuming this of the Dodgers and Aroldis Chapman of the right foot, although replays suggested he may have been offside. Ings made it is consistent with the government’s policy Reds, but that has required defecting, often safe for Liverpool when put through by on Cuba, where we could have ongoing in risky journeys run by shady characters a Nathaniel Clyne pass. The former exhibition game activity in Cuba. through third countries and done for the AUSTRALIA: Tarek Elrich of Adelaide and Nathaniel Clyne of Liverpool vie for the ball during the Burnley forward got a touch around the “We’re going to follow the government’s promise of money from future rich baseball international friendly football match between Adelaide United and English Premier League side flailing Galekovic to roll the ball into the lead on when it makes sense for us to try deals.—AFP Liverpool .—AP net.—AFP Piercy breezes Liverpool defeat to16 victory Adelaide19 TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 Outplayed and out-fought, England face selection headache Page 17

EAST RUTHERFORD: Mexico’s goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa (13) stops a shot on goal by Costa Rica’s Joel Campbell (12) during the extra time period of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match. —AP Mexico, Panama in Gold Cup semis

EAST RUTHERFORD: Mexico and Panama American regional football championship when event for Costa Rica, which reached the World Cup Jones and Radanfah Abu Bakr answered to keep Penedo then went back inside the woodwork advanced to a Gold Cup semi-final showdown with they meet again on Wednesday in Atlanta. quarter-finals last year in Brazil. Trinidad and Tobago going. and dove to his left on Peltier’s shot. Penedo lifted triumphs Sunday, one thanks to a dramatic save That winner earns a berth in next Sunday’s final Costa Rica coach Paulo Wanchope said he did Marvin Phillip saved the seventh-round shot of his right hand and deflected the ball off the cross- and the other on a penalty kick after a controversial at Philadelphia against the winner of Wednesday’s not feel as if his job was in jeopardy after the defeat. Alberto Quintero to put the Canaleros on the edge bar and out, dooming the Soca Warriors’ dreams of call. other semi-final between Jamaica and holders “I do not feel out of the team by being eliminated,” of elimination but Trinidad and Tobago’s Daneil matching their Cup-best run by reaching the 2000 Mexican captain Andres Guardado scored the United States. he said. “My players should be proud of how they Cyrus booted his next shot over the crossbar to last four. lone goal from the spot in the 124th minute to lift After more than two hours of goal-less football, played. Some of them were exhausted.” extend the drama. “The key moment was when “Every moment has its sensation and own emo- Mexico over Costa Rica 1-0 while Panama goal- Guatemalan referee Walter Lopez whistled a hotly Panama and Trinidad and Tobago were even at (Cyrus) took his kick and if they made it they win,” tion,” Penedo said. “Each one is divine in the keeper Jaime Penedo denied Lester Peltier in the contested foul on Costa Rica’s Roy Miller following 1-1 through extra time, Luis Tejada giving Panama Penedo said. “The referee told me that and I moment.” ninth round of penalty kicks as the Canaleros Mexican striker Oribe Peralta hurling himself onto the lead in the 37th minute but Trinidad and thought ‘Ugh,’ but then he missed and we went on Panama advanced to a third consecutive semi- advanced 6-5 over Trinidad and Tobago after a 1-1 the ground trying to reach a crossing pass. Tobago equalizing on a Kenwyne Jones header in to win and now we can all smile.” final, having lost to the United States in 2011 before draw. “I’m happy with the effort of the players,” the 54th minute. And while Panama advanced, it Penedo, the 33-year-old Los Angeles Galaxy beating Mexico in 2013, only to fall to the “I feel real joy because today was a real blessing Mexican coach Miguel Herrera said. “We were supe- took a save-or-lose situation in the seventh round netminder who was voted 2005 and 2013 Gold Americans in the final. to be able to advance to the next round,” Penedo rior. We made an important step.” of penalty kicks for them to escape. Cup Goalkeeper of the Tournament, made two Sunday marked the fourth match in a row in said. After losing 2-1 to Panama in last year’s semi- The phantom foul brought Guardado to the Each team missed two of its first three penalties. saves in the penalties session, the decisive one set which Panama took the lead only to surrender the finals, six-time champion Mexico will seek revenge spot and he blasted the ball into the left side of the Armando Cooper and Harold Cummings each up by teammate Valentin Pimentel’s goal to start equalizer in the second half, having advanced from and an eighth trip to the finals of the biennial North net for the victory, delivering the only loss of the scored for Panama to open rounds but Kenwyne the ninth round. the group stage on three 1-1 draws. —AFP Jones ready to Women’s Ashes fight for place at United still excite SAN JOSE: Manchester United defender Phil skipper Edwards Jones is relishing the prospect of having to fight for his starting place after a wave of high-calibre LONDON: England captain Charlotte Edwards believes the new signings at Old Trafford and the possibility 2015 Women’s Ashes is the most “eagerly anticipated” series of of more to follow. The England international her near 20-year international career. believes the arrival of Matteo Darmian, The 35-year-old made her England debut when the players Memphis Depay, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin has left United poised to were amateur, paid for their own kit and took the field wearing challenge for silverware after a two-year trophy skirts. However, the woman’s game has changed significantly drought. since Edwards first played for England in 1996 and when they But the recent additions to Louis van Gaal’s face Australia in the first one-day international at Taunton, squad have effectively narrowed Jones’s south-west England, for the start of the multi-format Ashes, it options as the 23-year-old aims to cement his will be the first time the two sides have met as fully profession- place in United’s new-look starting line-up. al sides. “The 2015 Women’s Ashes is possibly the most eagerly Darmian’s signing has shunted him down anticipated series that I have ever been involved with during the pecking order at right-back while the glut of my international playing career,” said Edwards. midfield options means he is unlikely to have “The excitement throughout the England squad is tangible- any future as a holding player in front of the we have been preparing hard for this for a long time now, and back four. It means Jones has only one realistic everyone is ready for the action to get under way in Taunton. position to aim for-the right side of central “Australia are currently Women’s World Cup and World T20 defence-and even that could be in jeopardy if champions, but we have won the Women’s Ashes back-to-back United’s reported pursuit of Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos comes off. Nevertheless, Jones is in 2013 and 2014, so the series is sure to be closely contested, adamant that he welcomes the internal jostling and we will be doing everything we can to make it three in a for a starting berth. “It’s great,” Jones said. row.” The format has been changed from the last Ashes, with “That’s what you relish as a footballer. You the points for winning the lone Test match reduced from six to want to test yourself against the best players four, with all the limited-overs games providing two points for you can play with. “We’ve got that this year and I victory. Australia, in common with their men’s team, have not look forward to it. won a series in England since 2001, and captain Meg Lanning “Competition’s healthy, it’s good for players. said: “Cricket contests between Australia and England have a If one player’s doing well it makes the other per- special place in the hearts and minds of the players and public son want to do well. “That’s exactly what you and we, like the Australian men’s team, hope that we can need, especially at a club like Manchester SEATTLE: Manchester United’s Adnan Januzaj (left) is fouled by Club America’s Erik Pimentel (center) and Javier Guemez during the second inspire the next generation of players and fans and do our United. half of a match in Seattle. Manchester United won the match 1-0. —AFP nation proud in our respective Ashes series. “England are our “We’re always going to sign top players fiercest rivals and we anticipate a competitive series that will because we’re a top club.” Jones lined up along- sided player. Jones would not be drawn on pos- immediate impact of United’s new signings, League, he added: “That’s the aim. We’ve got the go down to the wire.” side Dutch international Daley Blind in United’s sible partnerships United could field this sea- and warned the squad was confident of chal- squad now to be able to do that and there’s no back four in the opening game of their four- son. “Listen, it’s up to the manager who plays lenging for the title. reason why we can’t.” The three one-day internationals during the series will match US tour on Friday in Seattle, with van week in, week out,” he said. “I’m just going to try “They look bright, they look sharp, they’re United play the second match of their tour also count towards the ICC Women’s Championship, which Gaal later explaining he would seek a centre- and do my best and hopefully that’ll be good great lads and fantastic additions to the squad,” against the San Jose Earthquakes at San Jose’s provides the qualifying framework for the 2017 World Cup in back pairing a right-sided player and a left- enough.” Jones meanwhile enthused about the Jones said. Asked about targeting the Premier Avaya Stadium today. —AFP England.—AFP Toshiba bosses blamed for $1.2 b accounting scandal Page 22

Foreign investors Business try to tap into Iran Page 25 TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 French farmers block The man who cost Greece billions town over food prices Page 23 Page 22

ATHENS: People line up to withdraw money at a national bank branch in Athens. Greek banks reopened after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop mass cash withdrawals crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to widespread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country’s creditors. — AFP Greece starts repaying ECB, IMF loans Banks reopen, first repayments start

ATHENS: Greece reopened its banks and started government and officials say new elections may money without an ATM card. Bankers said there the bailout aimed at keeping Greece afloat but of votes a government can have to win a confi- the process of paying off billions of euros owed to be held as early as September or October. may be minor disruptions after the extended faces hurdles with factions in his party. Although dence motion is 120 out of 240, the minimum international creditors yesterday in the first signs “Things are better than the last few weeks. interruption to services but said they expected the Greek parliament approved the bailout pack- quorum in parliament for a vote to be valid. of a return to normal after a deal to agree a new Thank God we didn’t end up with the drachma!” services to resume largely as normal. age on Thursday, the 40-year-old prime minister Dropping below 120 would be a symbolic blow package of bailout reforms. Customers were said 62-year-old pensioner Maria Papadopoulou. “I don’t expect major problems, our network was forced to rely on votes from the opposition but whether it would actually push Tsipras to step queued up outside bank branches open for the “I came to pay bills and my taxes today. Last and the network of our competitors are ready to after 39 rebels from Syriza refused to back the down is unclear given that he would have the first time in three weeks on Monday after they week I couldn’t and all of this is very tiring for the serve our clients,” said a senior official at Piraeus government by voting against or abstaining. A support of the pro-European opposition parties if were closed to save the system from collapsing older people like me.” Limits on withdrawals will Bank, one of the big four lenders. “There might be second vote will be held tomorrow on measures a confidence vote were called. under a flood of withdrawals. Increases in value remain, however-at 420 euros per week instead lines because many people will want to withdraw including justice and banking reforms and a simi- “What worries me is that some people still added tax agreed under the bailout terms also of 60 euros per day previously-and payments and money from their deposit boxes,” the official said. lar outcome is expected. The voting arithmetic is think that there would be no austerity if we were took effect, with VAT on food and public transport wire transfers abroad will still not be possible, a Athens initiated procedures to pay 4.2 billion euros finely poised, however. Together with his coali- out of the euro. This argument is absolutely false,” jumping to 23 percent from 13 percent. The stock situation German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in principal and interest to the European Central tion partners from the right-wing Independent State Minister Nikos Pappas, one of Tsipras’ clos- market remained closed until further notice. on Sunday was “not a normal life” and warranted Bank due yesterday after European authorities Greeks party Tsipras has 162 seats in the 300-seat est aides told the leftist Efimerida Ton Syntakton The bank closures were the most visible sign swift negotiations on a new bailout, expected to agreed last week to provide emergency funding parliament. But Thursday’s rebellion cut his sup- newspaper. Acceptance of the bailout terms and of the crisis that took Greece to the brink of leav- be worth up to 86 billion euros. assistance, It is also paying 2.05 billion euros to the port to just 123 votes, meaning he is likely to reopening of the banks have marked a new stage ing the euro earlier this month, potentially under- “Capital controls and restrictions on with- International Monetary Fund in arrears since June need opposition votes again. for Tsipras after months of difficult talks. The mining the foundations of the single European drawals will remain in place but we are entering a 30, when Greece became the first advanced econ- Some officials in the government have sug- bailout terms, which are tougher than those currency. Their reopening followed Prime new stage which we all hope will be one of nor- omy to default on a loan to the IMF, along with 500 gested that if support from lawmakers from with- rejected in a referendum earlier in July, include Minister Alexis Tsipras’ reluctant acceptance of a mality,” said Louka Katseli, head of the Greek bank million euros owed to the Bank of Greece. in the coalition dropped below 120 votes, early tax hikes, pension cuts, strict curbs on public tough package of bailout demands from association. Greeks will be able to deposit snap elections would have to be called while the spending, an overhaul of collective bargaining European partners, but a revolt in the ruling cheques but not cash, pay bills as well as have Vote tomorrow bailout was still being negotiated. Their argu- rules and a transfer of 50 billion euros of state Syriza party now threatens the stability of his access to safety deposit boxes and withdraw Tsipras is eyeing a fresh start and swift talks on ment is that under Greek law, the lowest number assets into a special privatization fund. — Reuters

White House official Obstfeld Burgan Bank Group reports named IMF’s chief economist WASHINGTON: The International Greece was no longer in default on Monetary Fund named Maurice its loans after remitting about two net income of KD37.4 million Obstfeld, one of US President billion euros ($2.2 billion) to make Barack Obama’s top economic up for missed debt payments. “I can advisers, as its new chief economist confirm that Greece today repaid Operating income grew by 10.4% to reach KD144.1 million yesterday. Obstfeld, a professor at the totality of its arrears to the the University of California, IMF.... Greece is therefore no longer Berkeley, will replace outgoing IMF in arrears to the IMF,” said KUWAIT: Burgan Bank Group yesterday announced fication strategy continues to pay off through a bal- economist Olivier Blanchard. “His spokesman Gerry Rice in a state- its first half results for the financial year 2015. anced approach to diversifying our revenue outstanding academic credentials ment. Greece’s ongoing IMF sup- Burgan Bank Group reported net income of KD37.4 streams and to steadily grow our international and extensive international experi- port program was frozen on June million for the first half of the year reflecting a 12.3 operations which now contribute to 55.5% of the ence make him exceptionally well- 30 when the country, in the middle % growth from the same period in 2014. Compared group’s revenue making Burgan Bank the most placed to provide intellectual lead- of tense negotiations with to the same period last year, Burgan Bank Group diversified in Kuwait. We have confidence in our ership to the IMF at this important European Union creditors on more juncture,” said the Fund’s managing funding, failed to make a key pay- continues to register consistent growth with oper- strategy and we are definitely heading in the right director, Christine Lagarde, in a ment on outstanding loans from ating income up to reach KD 144.1 million from in path,” Al Ajeel said. statement. the Fund. KD130.5 million in 2014 while Operating Profits “On behalf of the board, I take this opportunity “He is known around the globe It missed a second payment on before provisions reached KD 80.2 million from KD to thank our customers and shareholders for their for his work on international eco- July 13 as the negotiations for 72.8 million in 2014reflecting a growth of 10.2%. On continued confidence, loyalty, and support. I would nomics and is considered one of the bridge funding ahead of a huge annualized basis, Loans and advances grew by 5.7% also like to thank our executive management team most influential macroeconomists third bailout program for the cash- to KD4.5 billion while customer deposits grew by for their leadership and the excellent execution of in the world.” Obstfeld, 63, has been short nation were being finalized. 7.4% to KD4.9 billion. the corporate strategy, and to our staff for their on leave from Berkeley since mid- The repayments were finally made Asset quality remains stable and on comfortable continued support and commitment,” concluded Al 2014 to serve on the White House possible by a short-term loan of levels, the Non-Performing Assets (net of collater- Ajeel. The consolidated financials encompass the Council of Economic Advisers. He 7.16 billion euros granted by the Majed Essa Al Ajeel, Chairman of Burgan Bank will start at the Washington-based European Union on Friday. The gov- als) to gross facilities ratio stands at 1.7% and cover- results of the Group’s operations in Kuwait, and its IMF on September 8, where a key Group ernment also needs to make a 4.2 age (net of collateral) stands at 259%. Majed Essa Al share from its regional subsidiaries, namely Jordan task will be helping with the Fund’s billion euro payment to the Ajeel, Chairman of Burgan Bank Group said: “Once “Our performance do not only highlight our con- Kuwait Bank, Burgan Bank - Turkey, Gulf Bank huge, troubled rescue programs for European Central Bank yesterday. again, we have managed to grow smartly amid sistent growth over the last 5 years in harsh condi- Algeria, Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International Bank, Greece and Ukraine, and more Rice said that now that Athens is no pressures of global markets and the geopolitical tions for the Banking industry locally, regional and in which Burgan Bank owns a majority stake in. broadly, keeping a close eye on the longer arrears, the IMF “stands scene and amid unchanging conditions. Our focus globally, but also highlights the solidity of our Burgan Bank Group has one of the largest regional slowdown in the global economy. ready to continue assisting Greece on operational performance and prudent approach growth structure. We have managed to build an branch networks with more than 235 branches Meanwhile, the International in its efforts to return to financial at optimizing the group’s operations have proven adaptable risk-savvy model, resilient to slowdowns, across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Monetary Fund said yesterday that stability and growth.” — Agencies the success of our model.” shakeups, and threats,” added Al Ajeel. “Our diversi- Lebanon and Palestine. TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 BUSINESS Angry French farmers blockade town over food prices

CAEN: Hundreds of angry French farm- and food industry heads promised to ers blocked access to the northern town raise prices on meat and dairy after a of Caen yesterday, demanding a hike in meeting with farmers last month. But milk and meat prices. Dairy and beef farmers say they have yet to benefit farmers arrived on the outskirts of the from the price hikes in supermarkets, Normandy town on Sunday aboard triggering a wave of strikes across the some 330 tractors and other farm vehi- country. cles, according to local officials. Many Samuel Bidert, of the Young Farmers were armed with buckets full of earth group taking part in the protest, said he and manure, some of which they was currently paid 300 euros ($325) per dumped in front of businesses-includ- ton of milk, but that he needed 370 ing an abattoir, a distribution company euros “to live in dignity without and a meat-processing plant-which they depending on my wife, and 340-350 to accuse of being part of the problem. pay my costs without receiving a salary”. “Angry farmers” and “You are letting President Francois Hollande called over us die” were among the banners on dis- the weekend for France’s distributors “to play, as the tractors organized a go-slow offer consumers quality and farmers a on one of the main roads through the good price”. Le Foll said he would meet Normandy and Calvados regions. “It’s the farmers in Paris on Thursday after one of the biggest mobilizations for sev- speaking with pricing experts, but the eral years,” said Sebastien Debieu, secre- unions are calling for a sit-down with all tary general of farmers’ union FDSEA. the food industry bosses. “Meetings in “We will continue the blockage until Paris that don’t lead to anything do not (Minister of Agriculture Stephane) Le interest us,” said Jean-Yves Heurtin, Foll comes to Caen,” he said. Retailers regional head of the FDSEA.— AFP US housing sector picks up

WASHINGTON: New US home construction the 0.4 percent gain in May. There were and new building permits both jumped in broad-based increases across the economy, June, demonstrating rising strength in the including advances in gasoline, food and housing market, the Commerce Department shelter. Energy prices rose for a second reported. New construction was up 9.8 per- straight month in June, by 1.7 percent. CALVADOS: Farmers block a ring road during a protest in the French town of Ifs near Caen yesterday. Hundreds of angry French farmers blocked cent from May to an annual pace of 1,174,000 Gasoline prices at the pump rose 3.4 percent access to the northern town of Caen, demanding a hike in milk and meat prices. — AFP units, with the greatest strength in multiple after a 10.4 percent surge in May. After stay- unit buildings. Permitting rose 7.4 percent to ing flat for two months, food prices rose by an annual pace of 1,343,000 units, the gain 0.3 percent in June driven mainly by a sharp also most marked in buildings with five or increase in egg prices. With farmers forced to more units. slaughter millions of chickens and other birds Cashing in on Pope’s visit to Philadelphia For the first six months of the year, hous- due to an avian flu outbreak, egg prices ing starts were 10.9 percent higher than the soared 18.3 percent in June, their biggest NEW YORK: For enterprising dwellers in “I assume, because there are still cheaper some might want to offer their homes for per- year-before period, while permits, an indica- jump since August 1973. Philadelphia, the pope’s maiden visit to the US alternatives out there, it will take a little bit to sonal gain,” said Kane, saying they had no con- tor of future construction, were up 16.2 per- Stripping out food and energy, core CPI means one thing: mega bucks and listing their get this property booked, but I’m willing to wait,” trol over the rental fees. Few hosts seem trou- cent. A geographic breakdown of construc- rose 0.2 percent, up from 0.1 percent in May. apartments on Airbnb for thousands of dollars a he said. Meg Kane, a spokeswoman for the bled by what the pope might make of turning a tion activity still showed pockets of weakness. Year-over-year, the CPI was up 0.1 percent in night. Pope Francis may be a legendary critic of World Meeting of Families, where the pope will spiritual event into a business opportunity. “I While construction has been strongest in the June after holding at zero in May. Core CPI unfettered capitalism, but his September 26-27 give mass, said there are 11,500 hotel rooms in think he would probably say, ‘hey, you know Northeast so far this year, up 30.3 percent, was up 1.8 percent from a year ago, accelerat- visit has fueled a free-wheeling, money-making the city and 65,000 more within a 60-mile radius. what, we’re all humans here. You should help building slowed by 8.2 percent in the ing slightly toward the Federal Reserve’s 2.0 opportunity in the finest free market tradition. Rooms are still available. Pilgrims can also out your brother’,” said Eric, who like Pope Midwest in the first half of the year. Home percent target. “The uplift in core inflation Debt-burdened students and house-proud stay with host families, hostels, camping Francis is from Argentina. “But it’s also capital- building in the West grew 18.6 percent and, in pours further fuel on expectations of US professionals are keen to cash in on the two mil- grounds and retreats, she said, declining to com- ism. I think, at its finest. And in that respect, if the South, 9.2 percent. (interest) rates rising by the end of the year,” lion Catholics expected to attend what has been ment on Airbnb specifically. “We live in a free- there’s somebody willing to pay it, then that’s said Chris Williamson, chief economist at dubbed one of the biggest religious events held market economy and we can understand why fine. That’s what the free market is.”—AFP Consumer inflation Markit. “Recent comments from Fed Chair in the US. Eric, 26, a student in medical school Meanwhile, US consumer prices rose Janet Yellen point to the growing likelihood with dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon, put broadly in June, bringing the annual inflation of interest rates starting to rise later this year, his newly renovated, three-bedroom loft duplex rate back into positive territory, government stressing that the Fed is keen to start the on the website for a cool $10,000 a night. “It Toshiba bosses blamed data released recently showed. The Labor process of normalizing monetary policy after seemed like a nice, easy way to make a chunk of Department said its consumer price index more than six years of near-zero interest change,” he said, touting $1,000 per person per for accounting scandal (CPI) rose 0.3 percent in June, a notch below rates,” he said.—Agencies night as the “going rate” for his area and that his pad can easily sleep 10. “Two blocks from con- vention center where Pope will be visiting,” TOKYO: Top executives of Japanese con- five years to March because it overstated shrieks his advertisement in capitals. glomerate Toshiba were systematically earnings and postponed reporting neces- Eric and his two roommates have more than involved in overstating more than $1.2 bil- sary costs, NHK said. $500,000 in college debt between them. Any lion in profits, the firm’s independent panel The Nikkei business daily said it may sep- pope windfall, he said, will go toward paying off has warned in a report to be released yes- arately book an additional 70 billion yen in loans. “As it gets closer, if we don’t get any bites terday, according to local media. The firm extra losses, which would expand its down- with the laughable amount that we’re charging, has hired an outside team of investigators ward revision by a combined 230 billion maybe we’ll drop it a little bit,” Eric said. He plans to look into its accounting irregularities, yen. The Securities and Exchange to crash with friends, or possibly his girlfriend. It which were unveiled after the nation’s secu- Surveillance Commission is considering ask- doesn’t matter where. “If someone’s going to pay rities watchdog probed its balance sheet ing the government to impose penalties on me that amount of money, I would sleep in the earlier this year. Toshiba said last week the Toshiba on suspicion of misstatement, the street!” he said. But he is a tenant and, like other third-party panel, headed by a former Tokyo Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said. Toshiba would-be hosts interviewed by AFP, did not prosecutor, would release a summary of the President Hisao Tanaka is expected to resign want to give his last name for fear of being bust- report at around 9:00 pm (1200 GMT). The over the scandal on Tuesday when the firm ed by landlords opposed to short-term sublets. accounting irregularities are believed to plans to hold a news conference, the Nikkei Airbnb says listings have increased tenfold and have affected its mainstay infrastructure- said. bookings nearly threefold in Philadelphia since related, semiconductor, television and per- Tanaka and former president and current this time last year. sonal computer businesses. vice chairman Norio Sasaki are among those Willing to wait Toshiba, which makes various products behind the profit-padding, local media said, Drawing a wider net than two-bedroom from batteries to nuclear reactors, has as they allegedly put excessive pressure on apartments listed in the city center, Airbnb already admitted that some of its business- subordinates to achieve profit targets. claimed the average price for booked and avail- es would need to go under the microscope, Sasaki, who served as Toshiba president able listings for the weekend of the Pope’s visit although the extent of the problems-and between June 2009 and June 2013 - cover- was $125. But Mark, 30, who works in the finan- who is responsible-remains unclear. But ing most of the period during which the cial industry, is advertising his brand new, three- public broadcaster NHK, quoting unnamed company allegedly inflated the profits-will bedroom home “just steps away” from the pope sources, said the panel had concluded that also resign over the scandal, according to for $5,000 a night for a minimum of two nights. the firm had committed “organized wrong- reports. Toshiba has said it was revoking its His listing shows an airy home with designer fur- doings” over the scandal with the involve- earnings forecast-a 120 billion yen net profit niture, polished hardwood floors, a fully ment of its top managers. The panel is on sales of 6.7 trillion yen-for the past fiscal WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen listens during a hearing equipped kitchen and a stunning roof deck expected to warn that the firm needs to year and would not pay a dividend. It has before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in complete with outdoor seating and fabulous downgrade its operating profit by more not given a date for the release of its revised Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on ‘The Semiannual Monetary Policy views. Mark said he listed the home two weeks than 150 billion yen ($1.2 billion) over the results.— AFP Report to the Congress.’ — AFP ago and is hopeful of getting a deal. EXCHANGE RATES

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Lockheed Martin to buy iconic helicopter maker Sikorsky

NEW YORK: Lockheed Martin said yesterday it over-year, to $7.5 billion, but its operating profit will buy Sikorsky Aircraft, the storied US maker of was down by more than half at $219 million. the Black Hawk helicopter, in an all-cash $9 bil- Sikorsky was founded in 1925 in New York by avi- lion deal with United Technologies. “Sikorsky is a ation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, an aeronautic engi- natural fit for Lockheed Martin and complements neer who left Russia for the United States after our broad portfolio of world-class aerospace and the Bolshevik revolution. Now headquartered in defense products and technologies,” said Stratford, Connecticut, Sikorsky has more than Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin chairman, 15,000 employees. “It looks as though this would president and chief executive, in a statement. represent more than a bolt-on for Lockheed The purchase of the UTC unit marks Lockheed’s Martin, as it would be a significant revenue biggest deal since the company merged with booster,” said analyst Chris Lange at 24/7 Wall St. Martin Marietta Corporation in 1995, a transac- tion valued at $10 billion at the time. UTC sharpens focus The 90-year-old Sikorsky Aircraft manufac- “Exiting the helicopter business will allow UTC tures a range of military helicopters, including to better focus on providing high-technology the famous Black Hawk, used by 25 nations for systems and services to the aerospace and build- multi-mission support, and the Seahawk, used in ing industries and to deliver improved and sus- marine operations. Its Marine One helicopter tained value to our customers and shareowners,” fleet is used to transport the US president, and said president and CEO Gregory Hayes in a sepa- last year Sikorsky won a $1.2 billion contract to rate statement. UTC businesses include Otis ele- build the next-generation of Marine Ones. vators, Pratt & Whitney engines, and aircraft Although best known for military helicopters, equipment and systems. The company had $65.1 Sikorsky also makes commercial helicopters and billion in net sales in 2014. fixed-wing aircraft for surveillance and transport UTC said the net proceeds from the Sikorsky missions. sale would be used to buy back additional Lockheed said the effective cost of the acqui- shares. Lockheed separately reported Monday sition would be about $7.1 billion because the second-quarter net earnings of $929 million, up companies had agreed to structure the transac- from $889 million in the year-ago quarter, with tion as an asset purchase, generating a tax bene- a sharp jump in cash from operations to $1.3 fit of some $1.9 billion. The Bethesda, Maryland- billion. In addition to announcing the Sikorsky based company said the acquisition was expect- acquisition, Lockheed said it was launching a ed early in the first quarter of 2016 at the latest, strategic review of its government IT infrastruc- contingent on regulatory approvals. According ture services business and its technical services to Lockheed, the purchase will have no impact business. The company raised its 2015 forecast on dividends or plans to pare share count to for earnings per share to $11.00-$11.30 from its below 300 million by end-2017. Lockheed, which April estimate of $10.85-$11.15. Dow member employs about 112,000 people worldwide, had UTC fell 0.6 percent to $110.09 in morning NEW YORK: Marine One, a Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King carrying US President Barack Obama, lands on net revenue of $45.6 billion in 2014. trade, while Lockheed rose 1.7 percent to the South Street heliport on lower Manhattan in New York. The United Technologies Corporation Sikorsky’s 2014 sales jumped 19 percent year- $204.62.—AFP announced yesterday it is selling its helicopter manufacturing subsidiary Sikorsky for $9 billion to defense group Lockheed Martin. —AFP Greece counting the cost

By Paul Taylor no doubt that the Greek economy, which had Syriza was elected. Greece’s creditors may end begun a fragile recovery last year after shrinking up lending Athens three times the amount he Greek crisis is not over, but it is entering by 25 percent, has suffered massively in the six planned last year. The political cost is harder to calmer waters for a while following the months since he was elected. Yet he remains calculate because some of it still lies ahead of Tagreement to seek a third bailout and the popular at home, has faced down a far-left us. But there’s no doubt that months of fraught approval by the Greek and German parliaments rebellion in his Syriza party, reshuffled his cabi- crisis management has been extremely divisive of that flawed deal. Greek banks reopen for the net and if early elections were held, he might and damaging for the euro- zone. Europe’s cur- first time in three weeks today, people will be well win again. rency area is finding it ever harder to come up able to withdraw a bit more money and many Various figures have been published for the with new last-minute fixes because domestic prices will go up as a result of the value-added financial cost of his decision to reject a bailout politics are tugging in opposite directions. tax increase. Athens has been lent the money to last month, call a referendum to endorse his True, some of the “software patches” added redeem bonds held by the European Central refusal, then turn on a dime and accept even to the currency area since the crisis erupted in Bank today and pay off its arrears to the stricter conditions for a rescue that keeps his 2010 helped avoid major contagion from International Monetary Fund. This would other- weakened country in the euro zone for now. The Greece to other euro zone sovereigns this time. wise have been the day of no return when IMF put the additional financing need at 25 bil- Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus have been Greece could have defaulted on the ECB, forcing lion euros for the two weeks of bank closure. through wrenching adjustments and are more FRANKFURT: Brokers sit in front of their screens at the stock exchange in Frankfurt it to end liquidity support that is keeping Greek But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Jan robust, despite deep social wounds. But the am Main, western Germany yesterday as focus remained firmly on Greece, where banks alive. Strupczewski’s thorough economic analysis political will to complete the architecture of a banks reopened after a three-week shutdown imposed to prevent a run on ATMs So it’s a good moment to count the financial concludes that by one measure, the last year of stronger monetary union is in ever shorter sup- from crashing the financial system. — AFP and political cost, to Greece and to the political turmoil may have cost Greece 60 billion ply. So there’s a good chance that Europe will let European Union, of the last few months. Our in- euros, or a third of its national income. this latest crisis go to waste without adopting depth portrait of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras This began with former Prime Minister the political or economic reforms to underpin Distraction of Greece aside, is and his behaviour during the crisis runs this Antonis Samaras’s decision not to complete the the euro. And when the next crisis strikes, as it morning. It’s called “the man who cost Greece previous bailout program and to go for early undoubtedly will, the ability to hold the euro all well with world economy? billions”. Whatever you think of Tsipras, there’s elections instead. The bank run started before area together will be weakened.—Reuters LONDON: The race is on between the US and the past. Meanwhile, Yellen told Congress British central banks to be the first major that risks remain, notably from spillover from economy to raise interest rates after a long the Greek and Chinese crises. But she added: period of unprecedented monetary generosi- “The importance of the initial step to raise the Renault-Nissan alliance posts ty. It won’t happen immediately but both federal funds rate target should not be Janet Yellen, who chairs the US Federal overemphasized.” Reserve, and Bank of England Governor Mark Paul Mortimer-Lee of BNP Paribas noted record €3.8 billion in synergies Carney signaled in the past week that higher that Yellen expects the path of rate normal- rates are close. Not everything in the world ization to be “gradual”, steepening or easing Sales, marketing and other functions increase contributions economy, however, is as sanguine as the US depending on how data pans out. Part of the and British economies would appear to be. reason for this caution - beyond the outside DUBAI: The Renault-Nissan Alliance posted Common Module Family (CMF) Cross production In the euro-zone, European Central Bank uncertainties of China’s economy crashing record synergies of €3.80 billion in 2014, up from Common Module Family is the Alliance’s The cross production of vehicles is also a President Mario Draghi has promised rock- and the euro zone unwinding - is that eco- €2.87 billion the previous year. Purchasing, engi- unique system of modular vehicle architectures bottom interest rates for the foreseeable nomic data has not been universally positive. major driver of manufacturing synergies. Cross neering and manufacturing were the biggest and an increasing source of synergies CMF future and pledged to see through the bank’s Britain, for example, has seen prices bump production is expected to accelerate across the contributors. The launch of the Alliance’s first enables Renault and Nissan to build a wider monthly 60 billion euro asset purchases until close to deflation and the jobless rate rise for Alliance following the rollout of the Alliance Common Module Family (CMF) vehicles, as well range of vehicles from a smaller pool of parts, September next year. In Asia, China’s policy- the first time in more than two years, Production Way (APW) at all plants around the makers are struggling to contain stock market although it is in much better shape than it as the recent convergence of four key units, while at the same time increasing customer world by the end of 2015. The APW manufactur- mayhem that could still undermine attempts was. helped drive synergies in all three areas. choice and quality. Small vehicles are based on ing system is the result of best practice sharing to reverse a growth slowdown. The central In the United States, manufacturing is Synergies are generated from cost reductions, CMF-A, while mid-sized vehicles utilize CMF-B, throughout the organization and allows plants bank is now set to pump $48 billion into the expanding but is highly vulnerable to a cost avoidance and revenue increases. Only new and the largest vehicles use CMF-C/D. to make better use of their capacity by enabling country’s biggest lender. strengthening dollar. Retail sales fell in June synergies (not cumulative) are taken into In February 2014, Nissan launched an all-new them to produce both Renault and Nissan vehi- Japan is still embarked on a massive quan- and May was revised downwards, real weekly account each year. Accounting for synergies version of the popular Qashqai crossover in cles. In 2014, Nissan began production of the titative easing asset-buying program and has wage earnings have slipped lately, and infla- helps Renault and Nissan determine if they are Europe. The Qashqai is built on CMF-C/D and is Rogue crossover in Renault’s plant in Busan, just cut its growth outlook. Elsewhere, coun- tion remains weak at just 0.1 percent year-on- meeting their performance objectives. More sig- the third CMF model for Nissan. In 2013, Nissan South Korean, to meet stronger-than-expected tries as diverse as Sweden, South Korea, year. It still may be growing at around 3 per- nificantly, the net savings and revenue enhance- demand in the US. The AVTOVAZ plant in Guatemala and Azerbaijan have cut rates over cent, though. As for the euro zone, it is still ments enable both automakers to offer higher- Togliatti, Russia, is the Alliance’s biggest produc- value vehicles to customers around the world. the past three to four weeks. Group of Seven struggling to keep Greece within its fold for tion base in the world with capacity of nearly “Our Common Module Family system contin- economy Canada, Washington’s closest devel- fear of suggesting the currency project may one million vehicles per year. The plant pro- ues to drive synergies in all major areas, from oped trading partner, surprised by easing this not be as permanent as advertised. Growth is duces vehicles under four brands - Lada, purchasing to vehicle engineering and power- past Thursday. In all, 37 central banks around ticking up, but expected at only 1.5 percent Renault, Nissan and Datsun. The Alliance owns a the world have eased monetary policy so far this year. The ECB’s Draghi was relatively calm trains,” said Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance. “At the same time, majority stake in the joint venture that controls this year to boost growth, fight deflation or about the state of the bloc’s economy at his AVTOVAZ, Russia’s largest automaker. both. Influential though they are, the Fed and last news conference but only talked about the recent convergence of four key functions at launched the Rogue SUV in the United States BoE are outliers. interest rate hikes over the coming “years”. He Renault and Nissan-Engineering, Manufacturing and X-Trail crossover SUV in China. Earlier this Engineering & Supply Chain Management, year, Renault launched its first CMF vehicles: the Contribution from other business areas also went out of his way to say: The Alliance is increasingly benefitting from Caveat emptor “If any factors were to lead to an unwar- Purchasing and Human Resources-is accelerat- New Espace and the Kadjar. Both vehicles are synergies in other areas, such as sales and mar- So are Yellen and Carney right to be signal- ranted tightening of monetary policy, or if the ing the momentum.” Renault and Nissan con- built on CMF-C/D as well. In 2015, Renault will keting. For example, thanks to the Alliance, ing at least an end to near-universal easing? outlook for price stability were to materially verged the four functions on April 1, 2014. While launch the Kwid in India. The Kwid is the first Clearly they believe that domestic growth, change, the Governing Council will Renault and Nissan remain separate companies, Alliance car built on the CMF-A architecture and Renault and Nissan are able to offer customers job creation and inflation are on trend to war- respond....” The message underlying all this is each function is led by a common Alliance exec- will be produced at the Renault-Nissan plant in an extensive range of vehicles around the rant it. But their views are couched in caution. that the United States and Britain may just be utive vice president. Thanks to the convergence, Chennai. Datsun will launch a vehicle on the world. In 2014, the Alliance signed global con- Carney, for example, has said that interest getting their heads above water but big risks the Alliance expects to overachieve on its goal same platform in 2016. By 2020, the Alliance tracts with several fleet customers, including rates will rise only gradually from their record remain and there is not a lot overly positive of generating €4.3 billion in annualized syner- expects 70 percent of its vehicles to be built on multinational food-products corporation low of 0.5 percent, and to lower levels than in going on elsewhere in the world. —Reuters gies by 2016. That’s up from €1.5 billion in 2009. CMF architectures. Danone. North Korea economy grew 1%

SEOUL: North Korea’s economy expanded by 1.0 ic activity that has grown steadily in recent years, said. The service industry made up 31.3 percent of percent in 2014, the South Korean central bank creating a consuming class with demand for prod- the North Korean economy last year, up slightly said, with a drought expected to hobble growth in ucts such as cosmetics, smartphones, fruit juices from 30.0 percent in 2013. one of the world’s most isolated countries this year. and foreign clothes, according to residents and vis- All sub-indices under services saw gains, includ- After suffering a contraction in 2010, North Korea’s itors. The increase in economic activity last year ing retail sales, food and accommodation as well as economy grew, albeit at relatively low levels for was attributed mainly to growth in services and logistics and communications, according to the four straight years. In 2013, GDP grew by 1.1 per- building while farming, mining and manufacturing Bank of Korea. Construction was up 1.4 percent, cent. The slightly faster expansion last year was saw slower growth, the central bank said. rebounding from a 1.0 percent decline in 2013, marked by growth in services and signs of rising The Bank of Korea put North Korea’s gross with an increase in buildings offsetting declines in private consumption, the Bank of Korea said in an national income (GNI) at 34.2 trillion won ($29.85 road and plant construction. A central bank official annual report. A drought could dent economic billion). On a per capita basis, South Korea is 21 said construction activity was focused on satellite activity this year, as North Korea has said it is the times richer. North Korea, a country of 24.7 million cities surrounding Pyongyang last year, including worst it has seen in 100 years although Seoul has people, is one of the most isolated countries in the in North Hamgyong Province. The same data said it seems to be easing. world. It is heavily sanctioned under UN resolutions showed total North Korea trade at $7.6 billion, up Impoverished North Korea does not release for its nuclear and missile tests dating back to 2006. 3.7 percent from 2013. Exports fell 1.7 percent on- economic data and South Korea’s central bank is Ties with South Korea were cut back sharply after year while imports jumped 7.8 percent on the only government entity that provides official Seoul suspended most commercial projects and increased demand for machinery and textiles. More estimates of the North’s economic performance. aid in 2010. Services rose 1.3 percent in 2014 on- than 90 percent of North Korea’s trade is with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras The statistics do not include black market econom- year, up from 0.3 percent in 2013, the Bank of Korea neighboring China.—Reuters TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 BUSINESS Gold price sinks to more than 5-year low

LONDON: Gold slumped yesterday to the lowest point chief Janet Yellen reaffirmed expectations of an inter- yellow metal to a new milestone five-year low,” added China had foreign currency reserves of $3.69 trillion in nearly five and a half years, weighed down by est rate hike by year-end. A stronger greenback makes analyst Jameel Ahmad at traders FXTM yesterday. as of the end of June, the world’s largest trove. The reports of massive selling in China, dealers said. The dollar-denominated commodities more expensive for “Gold dropping so sharply is a surprise and while PBoC announces those figures on a quarterly basis. precious metal tumbled to $1,072.35 in Asian deals, buyers using weaker currencies. That tends to dent the reports that China gold reserves were half the The gold reserve figure-announced late Friday-comes striking the lowest point since February 11, 2010, and demand and, in turn, pull prices lower. expected level might have inspired additional selling as China works to internationalize its tightly controlled breaching the key psychological barrier of $1,100. “The Prices were hit Friday by news that China’s official pressure, it is the repeated comments of commitment yuan currency. Beijing is also seeking to have the yuan price slide was triggered by high selling volumes on gold reserves rose almost 60 percent over the past six from the Federal Reserve that they will begin raising US included in the basket that makes up the IMF’s “special the gold exchange in Shanghai,” said Commerzbank years, according to the first official data on the subject interest rates at some point this year that have continu- drawing rights” reserve currency. The central bank said analysts in a research note to clients. since 2009. The central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) ously pressured gold in recent months.” Other precious it would adjust its gold holdings according to its Dealer Nick Rose, at trading firm TradeNext, agreed said bullion holdings rose 57 percent to 1,658 tons as of metals also forged multi-year lows yesterday. Silver reserves and investment needs. Zhang Qi, an analyst at that the latest price slump was sparked by Chinese the end of June, from 1,054 tons in April 2009, the last dived to $14.54 per ounce, the lowest level in nearly six Haitong Securities, told AFP on Monday China’s gold to sellers offloading large quantities of the metal. Gold time a figure was released. “Markets have commenced years. Platinum sank to a six-year trough at $946.25 an foreign currency reserve ratio remained much lower had already slid on Friday on the back of the strong the week with an unexpected start following a spectac- ounce, while sister metal palladium slid to $603.95 per than other countries, adding: “The internationalization dollar, which soared last week after US Federal Reserve ular drop in gold during the Asian session that sent the ounce-last witnessed on November 11, 2012. of the renminbi is irreversible.” —Agencies

Oil drops on concerns of glut in refined products LONDON: Oil dropped yesterday as signs of a (bpd) compared with 7.737 million bpd in April, growing glut in refined products outweighed a despite record-high output of over 10 million bpd. fall in Saudi crude exports and slower US rig In the United States, drillers cut seven oil rigs last activity. Crude prices have fallen for three weeks week following two weeks of increases, according in a row on expectations of increased oil sales to a closely watched report by oil services compa- from Iran following a deal to ease sanctions ny Baker Hughes Inc. However, as refineries against the OPEC producer. Brent crude for around the world continue to operate at near September was down 35 cents at $56.75 a barrel maximum levels to benefit from strong profit by 1100 GMT. The benchmark fell nearly 3 per- margins, there are signs a glut in the crude oil cent last week and is down more than 10 percent market may be shifting to refined products. so far this month. US crude futures for August “The big fall in US rig counts since last were down 13 cents at $50.76 a barrel. The September has not had a negative impact on August contract expires today. The dollar’s domestic production and the reduction in Saudi strengthening added further pressure as it makes crude oil exports is due to domestic refinery dollar-priced commodities more expensive for demand as the Kingdom is turning into a signifi- investors using other currencies. cant product exporter,” analysts at PVM wrote. Saudi Arabia’s crude exports fell in May to their Refined product inventories at Europe’s lowest since December, with official data showing Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp storage hub rose daily shipments at 6.935 million barrels per day to an all-time record last week. —Reuters

ATHENS: Fishmongers man their stalls at Athens’ central fish and seafood market yesterday. Greek banks reopened yesterday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to wide- spread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country’s creditors. —AFP Dollar hits 3-month high on rate view, pans gold European shares rise, reversing fall in Asia

LONDON: The dollar jumped to three-month highest since April 23 against a basket of major 17 percent on merger talk. highs yesterday, extending its recent gains as currencies and was last up 0.1 percent on the expectations of rising US interest rates gathered day. The euro fell to its lowest since late May on Euro-zone banks up pace, while gold prices plunged to their lowest the EBS trading platform but last traded up 0.1 In Asia, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific in more than five years. The greenback posted percent at $1.0840. The yen dropped 0.1 per- shares outside Japan slipped 0.5 percent. its best weekly performance in about two cent to 124.20 to the dollar. Japan’s stock market was closed for a holiday. months last week, after Federal Reserve Chair Gold dived, touching a five-year low as the Yields on southern euro zone government Janet Yellen reiterated that US interest rates will US interest rate outlook and its consequences bonds - those considered most vulnerable to probably rise later in the year. Data on Friday for the dollar led sellers in China dumped the the Greece crisis - fell on signs of a return to nor- showing a pickup in US consumer prices and metal. “The Asian market missed the action on mality as investor appetite for riskier assets housing starts also helped the rally. The Friday when US players were already attempt- grew. Spanish and Italian 10-year yields both strength of the dollar weighed on gold, which ing a break of $1,130, a major support level, and rose about 7 basis points, to 1.89 and 1.87 per- plunged as much as 4 percent. Platinum fell as has pushed prices much lower today,” ABN cent respectively. German 10-year yields, which much as 5 percent to its lowest since February Amro analyst Georgette Boele said. “Last week usually rise on increased appetite for risk, fell on 2009. was an important week: you got Yellen, a three- the prospect of hefty redemptions and bond Global equities held close to Friday’s three- month high in the dollar and good US econom- coupon payments by month-end. Crude oil week highs and European shares approached ic data ... there is a chance that we see more prices edged lower after posting their third con- seven-week peaks. Greece-related fears contin- downside in coming days.” Spot gold last traded secutive weekly loss last week on expectations ued to recede as the country’s banks reopened at $1,112.30 an ounce, having fallen as far as of increased oil exports from Iran after a deal to for the first time in three weeks after a deal to $1,088.05, its weakest since March 2010. The ease sanctions on Tehran. Brent crude was last start talks on a new international bailout. US pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 equity index down 38 cents a barrel at $56.72 as lower Saudi stock index futures pointed to a modestly high- rose 0.5 percent to its highest since late May. exports and slower US rig activity did little to er open on Wall Street. The dollar reached its Amsterdam-listed chemicals company OCI rose ease concern about oversupply. —Reuters Greece parliament passes tough austerity measures

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KUWAIT: The market focus is gradually turning back from opened the week at the 122.00 level against the US Dollar. revised 1.0 % increase. Small business optimism index risk events, like Greece and China, to policy divergence The currency weakened, reaching a low of 124.24 sup- also suffered coming at 94.1 compared to expectations between major central banks. This week, the US dollar ported by the prospects that BOJ would maintain their QE of 98.5. received a major boost from Fed chair Janet Yellen’s program until they reach their 2% inflation price target. In upbeat comments in her testimony before Congress. the commodities world, the big news was the landmark US jobless claims drop While it is still unclear whether the Fed will hike rate in deal reached on Iran nuclear program. This news, along The number of Americans filing new applications September or December, Yellen’s comments confirmed with reports that Saudi Arabia raised their crude output to for unemployment benefits dropped more than that it would happen this year. Meanwhile, Bank of the highest level on record, caused oil prices to come off. expected last week. Initial claims for state unemploy- England’s governor Mark Carney also said last week that a ment benefits dropped 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted rate hike might happen earlier given the performance of Yellen: rate rise likely 281,000 for the week ended July 11. It was the 16th the UK economy especially improvement in the labor Last week, the Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman straight week that the four-week moving average of market and wages. Janet Yellen testified on “Monetary Policy and the State of claims held below 300,000, a threshold normally asso- On the foreign exchange side, the US Dollar started the Economy.” In her semiannual testimony in front of con- ciated with a firming labor market. the week on a strong note against its major counterparts gress, Yellen repeated her view that the Fed will likely hike as the index rallied to a seven week high of 97.97 support- interest rates later this year if the US economy expands as Europe and UK ed by a set of positive economic indicators coming out of expected. Meanwhile, she expects economic recovery to The Greek Parliament Passed Tough Austerity the US, giving the Fed more room to start raising interest strengthen over the remainder of this year and the unem- Measures: In Europe, the Greek parliament passed aus- rates this year. The Euro opened this week at 1.1105 and ployment rate to decline gradually. In addition, she noted, terity measures demanded by lenders to open talks on rallied slightly towards 1.1196 where it found major resist- “economic growth abroad could also pick up more quickly a third financial rescue package worth up to 86 billion ance. The currency then started losing steam and than observers generally anticipate, providing additional euros to keep Greece in the Euro-zone. In exchange for dropped sharply reaching a low of 1.0828 towards the support for US economic activity,” and, she’s optimistic the multibillion-euro bailout package, Greece has end of the week. The drop in the Euro is due to both the that the US economy also might snap back more quickly accepted reforms including substantial pension adjust- strength of the US dollar and at the same time, market as the transitory influences holding down first-half growth ments, increases to value added taxes and tight limits participants seem to be using the Euro as a funding cur- fade and the boost to consumer spending from low oil on public spending. It has also agreed to sequester 50 rency in carry trades which is putting further downward prices shows through more definitively. billion euros of public assets in a special privatization pressure on the currency. fund to act as collateral on the deal. On Thursday, the The pound was also in focus last week, gaining after US retail sales Euro-zone finance ministers gave a provisional green both the BoE’s Carney and Miles sounded more hawkish, US retail sales unexpectedly fell in June as house- light to negotiations on a new bailout package for reiterating that normalization and rate hikes in the UK holds cut back on purchases of automobiles and a Greece and on how to supply it with quick cash, ahead should begin ‘soon’ and saying that waiting too long to range of other goods, raising concerns the economy of a big payment to the European Central Bank due tighten would be a mistake . The currency stated the week might be slowing again. The Commerce Department next week. However, several countries still have to take at 1.5503, moved to a low of 1.5449 and closed for the said retail sales slipped 0.3 % last month, the weakest up the agreement in their own parliaments before the week near its highs at 1.5608. In Asia, the Japanese Yen reading since February, after May’s downwardly go-ahead for negotiations is given. BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

Uber locks horns with NY city hall over fleet expansion

NEW YORK: The ride-booking app Uber hour to 8.5 miles per hour. City hall says cal innovation over the past years,” the is fighting New York’s city hall, which the New York’s streets cannot necessari- company said. wants to keep in check a fleet of vehi- ly handle a “tide of new vehicles.” “Uber technology has helped expand cles that already far outnumbers the Big Months of talks with Uber have gone service to those who were previously Apple’s trademark yellow cabs. Townhall nowhere. underserved.” City hall has hit back hard. in the largest US city could vote as early “Uber-a $40 billion corporation-is as next week to limit increases in what it Ideological clash spending millions on a misleading polit- calls new for-hire vehicles (FHV) pend- City hall blames what it calls an “ide- ical campaign to convince New Yorkers ing a study on their impact on traffic, ological clash.” David Plouffe, a former that it doesn’t need more oversight and in particular traffic jams. The limita- aide to President Barack Obama and from the City,” First Deputy mayor Tony tion could be severe: an increase of just now chief strategist for Uber, made a Shorris said this weekend. “Meanwhile, one percent per year for companies special trip to New York this week for there are serious questions about how with more than 500 vehicles, and five meetings with city officials. Tensions got Uber treats its customers, its workers, percent with those with between 20 even worse. In recent days, Uber has and whether it is flooding New York and 499 vehicles. “What is good for Uber gone all out with TV ads and a cam- City’s already heavily-crowded streets may not be good for New York City,” said paign of emails and petitions accusing with thousands of more vehicles.” Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for city hall. Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio of Germany, London and Paris have He cites figures: more than 20,000 Uber “pushing the agenda of his big taxi faced the same problem, city hall says. vehicles now operate in New York, com- donors.” “I think it is less about traffic The war against the ride-booking app pared to 13,587 yellow taxis. congestion than it is about political con- looks set to drag on: in San Francisco, WASHINGTON: File photo shows an UBER application as cars drive by in And 2,000 new permits for for-hire tributions,” Plouffe told reporters. The the company was just fined $7.3 million Washington, DC. An administrative judge has recommended that the ride-sharing vehicles are granted every month, and price of a medallion-the city-issued giant be fined $7.3 million and be suspended from operating in California. The for not turning over internal information the FHV fleet, of which Uber cars are license required to operate a yellow controversial private car company must pay the heavy fine or appeal within thirty about rides, including handicap accessi- just a part, has shot up 63 percent in cab-has dropped 23 percent since 2013, days and risk a suspension of its license to practice in California, where its head- bility. The issue is becoming political, size since 2011. To back up its argument when it topped $1 million. Uber’s ads quarters are located. — AFP too, as the campaign for the 2016 presi- against unleashing more Uber cars, city feature drivers from minority ethnic her- dential election is taking shape. hall cites such issues as quality of life, itages and say the mayor’s proposals says one of the ads. Uber users have endure if the bill limiting expansion of Republican presidential hopeful Jeb public health and businesses’ ability to will destroy more than 10,000 jobs. received an email asking them to sign a for-hire vehicles wins approval. “New Bush has defended Uber as providing a thrive. It notes that average traffic The ads also depict families in petition denouncing the mayor’s plans. York overall would not see a reduction “pretty vital service.” Democrat Hillary speed in Manhattan has gone down Queens or the Bronx, boroughs where it And a “de Blasio” tab has been added to in congestion from capping for-hire Clinton has stressed that the sharing nine percent between 2010 and 2014, is hard to find a taxi. “Vital services for the Uber app to show users the extra vehicles using Uber, but instead would economy raises questions about pro- going from 9.3 miles (15 kilometers) per thousands of New Yorkers may vanish,” waiting time that they can expect to halt progress made through technologi- tecting people’s wage levels. — AFP US bank profits withstand hit from China and Greece Banks report higher second-quarter earnings

NEW YORK: Large US banks reported mostly high- imposed since the 2008 financial crisis to rein in Banks have eliminated thousands of jobs, shut- er second-quarter earnings this week even as a risk. These include the so-called “Volcker Rule,” tered bank branches and exited non-strategic ven- pullback in trading revenues due to crises in which takes effect on July 21 and prohibits banks tures. Citigroup said it has reduced its North Greece and China dented results. The biggest hit from using their own funds to make some specula- American branch count by 15 percent over the last came at Goldman Sachs, where revenues in bonds, tive trades. Analysts say bond trading could be year. With the exception of Goldman Sachs, large foreign exchange and commodities trading fell 28 especially vulnerable to further pullback in the banks “seem to be putting the period of large liti- percent in the second quarter. “Obviously Greece months ahead due to a plan by the US Federal gation charges behind them,” said a note from has been in the headlines continuously and that Reserve to raise zero-level interest rates later this Zacks Equity Research. “Underlying loan demand is certainly weighed on spread-sensitive parts of the year. improving, as is the outlook for investment bank- business like credit and mortgages,” said Goldman ing, with momentum on the advisory side of the Sachs chief financial officer Harvey Schwartz. Boost from cost-cutting business helping offset weakness on the fixed- “And so it’s not surprising that we saw reduced Despite the hit from trading, four of five large income trading side,” Zacks said. “These modest TEHRAN: German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (left) meets Iran’s client activity in the quarter.” He said volatility in US banks either met analyst expectations on earn- improvements in business coupled with tight cost President Hassan Rouhani (right) at his office in Tehran yesterday. — AP the Chinese stock market since mid-June also had ings, or exceeded forecasts, in some cases by a controls should keep bank profits in the positive rattled investors. JPMorgan Chase, the biggest US wide margin. The biggest jump came at Citigroup, column in an otherwise very unhelpful interest rate bank by assets, cited Greece as a key factor in a 10 which reported $4.8 billion in profits, up from just backdrop.” Germany eyes Iran business percent decline in bond, foreign exchange and cur- $181 million in the year-ago period. The 2014 quar- JPMorgan, BofA and Citigroup reported increas- rency trading. Bank of America saw a nine percent ter had been marred by a $3.7 billion legal charge es in some key consumer lending categories, or, in but Israel tops differences drop in this category, while Citigroup’s fell one per- to settle mortgage securities litigation. The great some cases, gains among the company’s core cent. “The quarter was dominated by EMEA exception was Goldman Sachs, which saw earnings clients. Lending to consumers is expected to TEHRAN: A German delegation led a much Energy remains prime target (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) with a bond drop by almost half, to $1.05 billion from $2.04 bil- become more profitable for banks in a rising inter- anticipated international push for new busi- The country’s oil ministry in the next few sell-off and economic and political uncertainty, lion, due to a $1.45 billion legal charge. To boost est-rate environment. Large banks currently pay ness in Iran yesterday, but a top official visiting months plans to unveil more attractive terms including Greece,” said JPMorgan chief financial profits in the wake of the trading pullback, banks near-zero interest on money they borrow and then Tehran put Israel at the top of their differences. for contracts involving international firms. officer Marianne Lake. are cutting costs and boosting lending to con- charge clients two-three percent, a gap known as The remarks by Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s After mentioning Israel, Gabriel said there was “This uncertainty slowed the momentum we sumers. Citigroup expenses fell 30 percent from the net interest margin. A move by the Fed to lift economy minister and Chancellor Angela a need to “discuss difficult issues openly, in a saw in the first quarter.” Bank executives said fewer the 2014 year-ago period, or seven percent if the rates to 0.25-0.50 percent could permit banks to Merkel’s deputy, underscored that despite last spirit of partnership and respectfully” and bank clients are willing to step in and provide key effects of huge legal costs were excluded. Bank of charge four-five percent on lenders, said Gregori week’s nuclear deal between Iran and world “nothing needs to change in that friendship liquidity to facilitate trading. Banks have also cut America’s expenses fell 25 percent, or six percent if Volokhine, president of Meeschaert Capital powers any discussions on wider policy in the even if we hold different views”. But during a back on activities following US regulations its large 2014 legal charge is excluded. Markets.— AFP Middle East are likely to run into difficulties. 20-minute speech he also highlighted other Iran does not recognize Israel-the biggest differences with Iran, including human rights, opponent of the West’s diplomatic outreach women’s standing in society, competition law on the nuclear issue-and officials routinely call and efforts to combat corruption. Mentioning Iran nuclear deal Foreign investors for destruction of the leaders of “the Zionist the free establishment of business contracts, regime”. The nuclear deal has been touted as Gabriel added: “We want to discuss this with a mixed economic an opening for greater contact between Iran you as friends. And we believe that it will be a try to tap into Iran and the leading nations over common inter- fruitful dialogue. I am convinced that econom- win for Russia ests, particularly on tackling the jihadist Islamic ic freedom also needs individuality and the LONDON: A few investors are racing to estab- Cheap valuations State group in Iraq and Syria. Gabriel, accom- development of individual freedoms.” MOSCOW: The landmark deal on Iran’s nuclear program lish funds for Iran following last week’s nuclear Some 780 million shares traded on the panied by dozens of German business leaders, Transparency International ranks Iran as that Russia helped steer through marathon talks is a diplo- deal with world powers, and many others are exchange on July 12, the latest data available on said the accord struck in Vienna “established one of the most corrupt countries in the world. matic fillip for Moscow which will boost trade with Tehran tapping into multinationals already present in its website, representing about $64.2 million. the foundation” for boosting security in the Gabriel’s comments on Israel drew a quick but could also hit much-needed energy revenues, analysts the $400 billion economy. The agreement has Iran mirrors Saudi Arabia in that both are diverse, Middle East, but Israel should fall within such response from foreign ministry spokeswoman said. Iran and the P5+1 group-Russia, the United States, made some seek a foothold in Tehran’s $100 geopolitically important markets with attractive discussions. Marzieh Afkham, who said such longstanding China, Britain, France and Germany-struck an agreement on billion stock market even before sanctions are demographics and stable populations, said Asha And while Germany is willing to re-engage differences with Germany had not affected Tuesday that would progressively lift economic sanctions lifted, although others are taking a more cau- Mehta, portfolio manager at Acadian Asset with Iran on economic matters it would not other “constructive contacts”. “The main part of against Tehran in exchange for limitations on its nuclear tious approach. Classified as an upper-middle Management in Boston who runs $500 million preclude leaders in Tehran having to “bear new the dialogue is about the prospect of bilateral program. income country, with a population of 78 million in frontier market assets for institutional responsibilities, at home and abroad”, said the cooperation and naturally we will express our As an Iranian ally, Moscow appears to have been central and annual output higher than that of Thailand investors. vice chancellor. “You must understand that for concerns about the region, including existing in securing the deal and experts say it could help burnish or the United Arab Emirates, Iran is set to be the Yet with issues of access and other trading us Germans, the security of the state of Israel is threats, including threats of the Zionist regime Russia’s international image that has taken a beating over biggest economy to rejoin the global trading logistics yet to be worked out for direct invest- also of great importance,” he said. “I under- and the roots of the crises in the region,” she the crisis in Ukraine. US President Barack Obama pointedly and financial system since the break-up of the ments, international companies already doing stand how difficult the debate is and we in added. praised his counterpart Vladimir Putin for his help, a rare Soviet Union over 20 years ago. business in Iran will stand to benefit, at least in Germany also believe that the Palestinians Tens of thousands of people gathered in hint of goodwill between the two men locked in a standoff Brokerage Renaissance Capital predicts $1 the short-term until restrictions fall away, said have a right to their own state. That must be Tehran on July 10 for annual Quds (Jerusalem) over Russia’s meddling in its ex-Soviet neighbor. “Russia’s billion will flow into Iran in the first year after Joana Arthur, equity product manager for our shared international goal. “Good relations Day demonstrations in support of the biggest victory in the deal is one of prestige,” said Sergei sanctions end, although that is not likely to London-based Ashmore, which has approxi- with Germany also means at the same time Palestinians. As is customary at such gather- Seregichev, a Middle East scholar at the Russian State happen for months and may not occur in one mately $1.2 billion invested in frontier strategies. that we must not question the security of the ings, the crowd chanted “Down with Israel” Humanitarian University. go. London-based boutique First Frontier Larry Seruma, portfolio manager of the $434 state of Israel.” and carried placards that declared “Zionist sol- “Who made Iran agree with the United States? It was Capital Ltd. is in the process of setting up a million Nile Global Frontier fund, said that he Gabriel’s comments came minutes after diers kill Muslims”. They also burned Israeli and Russia. Without Russia, there would have been no deal.” And sanctions-compliant fund dedicated to Iran, expects Iran will eventually become a “destina- Iranian officials had laid out their plans to US flags. Such spectacles are cited by Iran’s once Iran’s sanctions are lifted, Russia-which has seen its hoping to allow investors to take a position in tion” for his fund. In the meantime, he is holding attract foreign business back to Tehran once opponents as reasons for not doing business own economy suffer due in part to Western sanctions over Tehran’s bourse before sanctions are lifted. on to companies such as South African mobile sanctions are lifted under last week’s nuclear in Tehran, but international trade is expected Ukraine-could likely be first in line to win lucrative contracts “This is a market where everyone is totally network firm MTN Group Ltd, which owns 49 deal. Those include favorable tax conditions to boom if the nuclear deal is successfully in key sectors such as energy and transport. “Iran will have underweight and there will obviously be a lot percent of Irancell, Iran’s second-largest mobile and faster processing time (15 days) for appli- implemented. Iran’s market of 78 million peo- to develop the sectors that struggled under the sanctions,” of money going in, hot money at first but then phone operator. cations from foreign businesses wanting to do ple and educated workforce is long seen as said Andrei Baklitsky, director of the nuclear non-prolifera- also others,” said First Frontier’s co-CEO, MTN Group told investors in April that it business in the Islamic republic. Iran has said it untapped, and its energy sector is considered tion program at Russia’s Centre for Policy Studies. “It will Richard Adley, who plans to launch the fund in expected to repatriate about $1 billion in accu- needs tens of billions of dollars of investment a juicy target. With the fourth-largest oil need foreign companies to come and invest. Russian com- the next couple of months and aims to have mulated dividends and a loan repayment from and western technology to revive projects in reserves and the second in gas, Iran has the panies, such as Russian Railways and Lukoil, are looking to 100 million euros invested by year-end. “And its Iranian unit that had been frozen by interna- its oil, gas and petrochemical industries, which biggest combined energy deposits in the take part in this.” then there is a big valuation gap there, Iran has tional sanctions once a nuclear deal was final- world.—AFP have suffered in recent years under sanctions. The head of oil giant Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, said in April a lot of catching up to do when you look at ized. Multinational mobile phone companies, the company was eager to return to Iran as soon as sanc- other frontier or emerging markets,” said Adley, car makers and hospitality firms are seen as the tions are lifted. A number of Western oil companies have who estimates valuations at a very cheap five most primed to benefit from the lifting of sanc- also expressed a similar interest. Russia will take on a lead- to six times earnings. First Capital are not tions. Bank of America Merrill Lynch said it sees ing role in developing Iran’s civilian nuclear energy sector, alone. In April, British-based Charlemagne Turkey and the United Arab Emirates as likely experts said. The Kremlin has said the new deal would help announced it had teamed up with a Tehran- beneficiaries from Iranian foreign trade, which “large-scale plans of peaceful nuclear cooperation” between based firm, Turquoise Partners, to establish could increase to $200 billion by 2020 from $80 the two countries. State atomic energy corporation funds that will invest in Iranian securities. billion now. Rosatom has helped build Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power Others, like MENA Capital CIO Khaled Abdel Higher imports are likely going to come from plant and is planning to build more reactors in the country. Majeed, are also getting ready to invest, but the machinery, vehicle, iron, steel, food and con- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the negotia- worry that a dedicated country fund carries sumer goods sectors, BAML said. Dubai’s real tions had called for the immediate lifting of an arms too many risks at this point. Instead, Majeed is estate and hospitality sector could also see an embargo against Iran. Although the deal states that the aiming to invest part of his firm’s funds under influx of Iranian cash and visitors. Specific com- current embargo will remain for another five years, Lavrov management in Iranian shares - once the sanc- panies that could benefit in the short-to-medi- said that deliveries could still be possible with the UN tions are lifted. “At the moment it may be very um term, highlighted by BAML, are Dubai real- Security Council’s approval. In April, Russia lifted a self- marketable, but at some point it will become estate company Emaar Properties, Turkish oil imposed ban on selling the S-300 air defense systems to too expensive,” he said, adding that the firm refiner Tupras, Italian oil services company Iran. A Kremlin aide said last month that Russia and Iran was starting its search for suitable local part- Saipem, and Saudi Arabian food and packaging were preparing a contract for deliveries of the air defense ners in Tehran. “And there is also a lot of risk in distribution company Savola Group. Among systems and there has been no official comment on how the deal that has been agreed, and the regime automakers, Turkey’s Tofas Turk Otomobil the deal will affect these plans. “There will be fierce compe- itself is not stable enough to last another 50 Fabrikasi and Dogus Otomotiv could get a tition for Iran’s energy industry, and later in the arms indus- years.” Both Renaissance Capital and the invest- boost, as well as French carmakers Renault and try,” Seregichev said. “I think Russia will mostly strike at the ment consultancy Ecstrat have reported a Peugeot. Iran’s urgent need to upgrade its fleet sharp pick-up in demand for Iran-related of planes could bring a potential bonanza for BRASILIA: In this photo, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez (right) talks with her energy sector because of its vast international experience research from asset managers preparing to Brazil’s Embraer, Europe’s Airbus and Boeing of Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, during a Mercosur Summit at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, in the field.”—AFP make the leap. the United States. —Reuters Brazil. Mercosur is a South American trade group. — AP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 BUSINESS Google shareholders revel in record one-day windfall Investors rewarded Internet company

SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s stock has roared out ty delivered by Google’s new chief financial offi- lured Porat away as CFO at investment bank of a long slumber to produce the biggest share- cer, Ruth Porat. In prepared remarks and in Morgan Stanley to take the same job at Google. holder windfall in US history as investors reward- responses to analyst questions posed in a late Porat, known for astute budget management, ed the Internet company for promising to curb Thursday conference call, Porat repeatedly didn’t start working at Google until late May, but its spending on risky projects. A 16 percent stressed that Google intends to control its costs she has already quickly justified her pay package surge in Google’s publicly traded stock translat- more diligently. of roughly $70 million. “People are feeling pretty ed into an additional $65.1 billion in shareholder The words placated investors who had good about Google now,” said S&P Capital IQ wealth, on paper at least. That barely topped the become increasingly frustrated with Google’s analyst Scott Kessler. “People are saying, ‘Wow, previous record one-day gain of $65 billion by penchant for spending on projects that had little look at what we are already seeing with Ruth Cisco Systems Inc. in April 2000 after the com- or nothing to do with its man business of there. Let’s see what happens when she has time puter networking equipment maker had suf- Internet search and advertising - areas that the to make a really positive impact.’” fered a steep drop in the previous week, accord- company has long dominated. The expansion Google’s Class A shares gained $97.84 to ing to S&P Dow Jones Indices. More recently, into more experimental areas, such as self-dri- close at $699.62 to leave the company with a iPhone maker Apple Inc. posted a $46.4 billion ving cars, Internet-beaming balloons, and market value of about $469 billion, according to one-day gain in April 2012 after its quarterly Internet-connected eyewear, had been con- S&P Dow Jones Indices. That’s still a distant sec- Hyundai Tucson, Accent receive earnings wowed Wall Street. tributing to a pattern of Google’s operating ond among US companies to Apple, whose mar- Google’s gigantic run-up came after the expenses increasing at a faster clip than its rev- ket value stands about $747 billion. That’s still as JD Power Initial Quality Awards Mountain View, California, company reported enue growth. Google’s Class C shares rose 16.1 percent to quarterly earnings that topped analyst estimates Although Google has still been making plen- $672.93. The biggest beneficiaries of Google’s KUWAIT: Hyundai has reaffirmed its posi- for Elantra and Santa Fe. The Hyundai for the first time since late 2013. The company’s ty of money, many investors believed the com- rousing rally were Page and Brin, whose already tion as one of the world’s leading auto- overall score was 95 problems per 100 inability to hit the targets that steer investors pany needed to clamp down on expenses. vast fortunes each climbed by more than $4 bil- motive manufacturers thanks to presti- vehicles, 17 problems fewer than the had raised doubts about Google that had Google CEO Larry Page and fellow co-founder lion Friday. Google’s 57,000 employees already gious awards from international awards industry average. The 2015 Hyundai caused its stock to lag the rest of the market Sergey Brin, who wield voting control over the also were feeling richer, too, because they all body JD Power. As part of the company’s Tucson was awarded for the highest ini- since the end of 2013. Investors were even more company, resisted the demands until having an receive stock as part of their compensation 2015 Initial Quality Study which surveyed tial quality in the small SUV segment and impressed with a message of newfound austeri- apparent change of heart in March when they packages. —AP 84,000 customers, the Hyundai Tucson the 2015 Hyundai Accent earned the and Accent have been reported fewer highest honor in the small-car segment problems with their vehicles than any for the second year in a row. other small SUV or small car, respectively. Overall Hyundai ranked fourth among SUV sales all brands in the JD Power 2015 US Initial “SUV sales accounted for 21.9 percent Quality Study (IQS) and second among of our total sales during 2014 (74,419 non-premium automakers, putting the units) therefore the international recogni- Korean brand ahead of its Japanese coun- tion from our customers is invaluable and terparts. “Nothing motivates us more than something we are incredibly proud to receiving the verification of quality from have achieved,” added Kim. “It is also worth our customers,” said Jin (James) Kim, Vice noting that the Accent was our second President and Head of operations in Africa bestselling model last as it recorded a and the Middle East. “The overall owner- boost of 9 percent totaling 79,013 units ship experience of the people who buy sold, so it is great to see that our key mod- our cars is based on our modern premium els are receiving this type of recognition.” brand direction which provides vehicles This year’s results mark the fourth time with innovative technologies, while ensur- Hyundai has finished among the top four ing highest levels of initial and long-term brands overall. The 2015 IQS is based on quality and services they can rely on.” responses from more than 84,000 pur- IQS, now in its 29th year, serves as the chasers and lessees of new 2015 model- industry benchmark for new-vehicle year vehicles surveyed after 90 days of quality measured at 90 days of owner- ownership. The study is based on a 233- ship. In total, Hyundai had four models question survey designed to provide man- ranking in the top two in their segments, ufacturers with information to facilitate including segment awards for Tucson the identification of problems and drive and Accent, and second-place finishes product improvement. EU, US free trade talks pick up pace

BRUSSELS: EU and US officials said they home an agreement.” Garcia Bercero said had picked up the pace in talks on the the European Commission, the executive world’s biggest free trade accord, arm of the EU which conducts the nego- Sivagnanam appointed Vice President, although they did not discuss the main tiations on behalf of the 28-nation EU, sticking point-investment protection. understood the concerns voiced over Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade ISDS. Marketing Sales & Service Ford, Lincoln and Investment Partnership (TTIP) began “We will be able to put through a pro- optimistically in 2013 but have gotten posal in many ways different from the DUBAI: Ford Motor Company announces that customers want and value, while pro- bogged down on growing reservations existing ISDS regime. We will now be the appointment of Kalyana Sivagnanam to viding outstanding service.” in the EU, especially over US demands working to finalize a proposal once we the newly-created position of Vice Shivi moved to Dubai two years ago to that private companies be allowed to have gone through discussions with President, Marketing Sales and Service, help the company open its Middle East & take governments to court to seek member states and the Parliament,” he Middle East & Africa for Ford and Lincoln. Africa regional headquarters in Dubai. He redress. said. EU Trade commissioner Cecilia Designed to replicate the success of Ford’s will continue to report to Benintende, and regional structures, Shivi, as he likes to be brings more than 11 years at Ford to the Earlier this month, the European Malmstroem earlier this year proposed addressed, will be based in Dubai and will role. Prior to joining the Company, he held Parliament said the Investor-State creating an international investment lead the Sales, Marketing and Customer various roles including General Manager, Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system-a fea- court to hear disputes. Mullaney said the Service operations for Ford and Lincoln Marketing Manager, Regional Manager, ture in other US trade deals-undercut United States also understood the issues throughout Middle East and Africa. “I’m and Retail Strategy Manager in the auto- democratic oversight and should be raised, which had come up previously in delighted to have someone with Shivi’s motive components, consumer electronics replaced by a public court procedure. EU its own consultations on ISDS. “The US strategic knowledge and global experience and the television industry. In his new chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero side is very much looking forward to the to lead marketing, sales and service for position, Shivi will concentrate on meeting and his US counterpart Dan Mullaney time, in the very near future, to get” the Ford and Lincoln in the Middle East and customers’ demand while remaining told reporters after the 10th round of EU proposal, he said. Africa,” said Jim Benintende, President, Ford focused on delivering the experience in TTIP negotiations in Brussels that both Both Garcia Bercero and Mullaney Middle East & Africa “Shivi and the team sales and after sales that the region sides were committed to pushing ahead stressed that the week’s talks had gone will continue to bring more vehicles to MEA demands. with the talks. well, with each side filling out their posi- “We have worked this week with tions on key sectors such as services- strong political wind in our wings,” Garcia which account for about two-thirds of China economic growth Bercero said, citing recent solid support activity in a developed economy-and for the accord in the US Congress, from public procurement and regulatory US President Barack Obama and from the compatibility. “We have an opportunity G7 group of top industrial countries. “We to conclude TTIP in the Obama term remains unchanged 7% had no discussion on investment protec- (which ends January 2017) but there is tion or ISDS,” he said, when asked if the still a lot of work to do,” Mullaney said. subject had come up. Mullaney, who cit- TTIP is touted as the world’s biggest ed the recent European Parliament deci- trade deal, creating a colossal market of ASIYA CAPITAL INVESTMENT WEEKLY ANALYSIS sion as an endorsement for moving 850 million consumers and accounting ahead, said “both sides now have clear for more than half of global economic KUWAIT: Economic growth in China reforms. Monetary and fiscal stimu- good gauge of fiscal stimulus. In the 3.6 billion but outpacing the aver- guidance to get TTIP done and to bring output. —AFP remained unchanged at 7% in the lus intend to sustain short-term first quarter, contribution to GDP age issuance in 2014. These figures second quarter of 2015. The figure growth and avoid a hard-landing experienced a severe drop, from 3.5 suggest that the transmission caught most analyst by surprise, as scenario, whereas reforms refer to a percentage points to just 1.2. The mechanism of monetary policy further deceleration was widely collection of heterogeneous policy evolution of fixed asset investment might be working for the time Distributed offshore expected. Key monthly indicators measures designed to alter the eco- indicators in the second quarter being, partly translating into higher such as fixed asset investments, sug- nomic structure and boost potential suggest that the weakness of invest- consumption and contributing also engineering teams benefit from gested a weaker growth rate, with growth. The size of the fiscal stimu- ment’s contribution to GDP contin- to hold investment. However, part the yearly average growth shrinking lus can be assessed by taking a close ued in the second quarter. of the latest recovery in consump- the extended info mobility from 13% in Q1 to 11.5% in Q2. look at the budget balance of the The impact of monetary stimulus tion, seen in the GDP component as However, other indicators experi- well as the latest evolution of retail KUWAIT: Distributed offshore engi- substantial upgrade to this industry- enced a more moderate decline or sales, may also be the result of high- neering users of SACS V5.7 are benefit- leading offshore structural analysis even a slight improvement. er consumer confidence, whose ing from the extended information software and includes increased inter- Industrial production and retail index increased from 106 to 110 in mobility provided through the soft- operability with MOSES and integra- sales average growth rates 2015. ware’s integration with the ProjectWise tion with AutoPIPE for pipe load man- remained stable in the first two Stimulus seem to be successfully project delivery solution as well as agement. These capabilities enable col- quarters and registered an uptick in holding economic growth, at least enhanced integration with both laborative workflows among offshore the last months of Q2, suggesting for the time being. The 7% growth MOSES and AutoPIPE. SACS software structural engineering and naval archi- that growth may gain traction. target of the Chinese government is for the structural analysis and design of tecture teams. Overall, Chinese GDP growth is con- still challenging, but it seems more sistent with monthly indicators. attainable after the release of the offshore structures, including oil, gas, Team sharing of SACS project files Consumption, closely tied with retail second quarter’s GDP figures. and wind farm platforms, is part of across distributed offices and smooth sales, is the largest source of growth However, achieving this target will Bentley’s offshore product line. flow of data within a project and across in China, explaining about half of depend on the continuation of an Bentley’s VP of Offshore and Marine project sites are enabled by using the Chinese GDP growth in the last expansive fiscal and monetary Phil Christensen said, “Our offshore Bentley’s ProjectWise. Sharad Jain, lead two years, and gradually gaining stance, and their combination with users almost invariably work in highly structural engineer, L&T-Valdel, said, “In importance. Moreover, the evolu- crucial economic reforms, some of geographically distributed engineering the present industry dynamics, effec- tion of imports and exports suggest government. may be analyzed by tracking inter- them expected to harm growth in teams. In this release we have integrat- tive cost management is the only that the external sector also con- The evolution of yearly growth est rates and lending indicators. the short term. Authorities must ed the collaboration capabilities of mantra for competitiveness and sus- tributed positively to growth in Q2, rates of public expenditure and rev- Interbank rates seem to have react- keep combining short-term expan- ProjectWise into SACS to facilitate shar- tainability. Engineering software has offsetting weakness in investments. enue suggests that the expansion- ed to interest rate and reserve sionary policies with liberalizing ing of SACS project files.” emerged as the principle tool to However, doubts on the efficacy ary stance is ongoing. Investments requirement ratio (RRR) cuts, and reforms in several economic sectors The Bentley offshore engineering reduce the engineering cycle time and of government’s stimulus remain. are a key focus of government inter- are at the lowest level since 2009. to prevent a sharp deceleration of product line also includes MOSES, soft- achieve desired results. For offshore China’s economic policy can be clas- vention, therefore its contribution to Overall, issuance of new yuan loans the economy and set the founda- ware for hydrostatic and hydrodynamic structural design, that software is sified in three main block: fiscal GDP growth and the evolution of has remained strong in Q2, worth tions for a sustainable growth in the analysis. The latest release of SACS is a SACS.” stimulus, monetary stimulus and fixed asset investments are also over 3 billion yuan, down from Q1’s years to come. technology TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 Reddit wrangles reins from users at a risk

SAN FRANCISCO: Reddit became one of badly, someone is going to eventually take on constrictions that Reddit is consider- anti-harassment policy. Other content Pao Takes the Heat the most visited websites in the world on away your privilege,” independent Internet ing placing on the kinds of content that Reddit is thinking of banning includes Reddit moderator Matthew Amadea the backs of users devoted to the online technology analyst Rob Enderle said of can be posted. The move comes in the spam, people’s private information and said during a forum on KQED public radio bulletin board where people could post moves to clamp down at Reddit. “You can’t wake of the departure of Ellen Pao, who anything that incites harm or violence, or in San Francisco that he signed the a peti- just about anything. Reddit benefits from a behave with impunity indefinitely.” headed the company until disgruntled could be considered abusive or bullying. tion demanding Pao’s ouster because of free workforce of volunteers who moder- users demanded her departure. “Reddit is the Internet, and it exhibits all ramped-up commercialization under her ate discussion forums known as “subred- ‘The Trolls are Winning’ A number of people on the site posted the good, the bad and the ugly of the administration. “Reddit was founded as a dits”, on topics running a gamut from sci- Reddit is grappling with a challenge sexist and inflammatory comments about Internet,” Pao said in her editorial. “It has site completely run by users and would ence and religion to white supremacy and faced by social networks including Pao. “Balancing free expression with priva- been fighting this harassment in the not sell out,” Amadea said. “When you woman-bashing. Facebook and Twitter when it comes to cy and the protection of participants has trenches.” commercialize it, you are putting more US President Barack Obama and billion- stifling nastiness while avoiding alienat- always been a challenge for open-content Pornography and content that ads into it and you are pushing some sort aire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are ing users on whom its fortunes depend. platforms on the Internet,” Pao said this “offends the sense of decency” will be of an agenda.” among those who have taken part in Ask “Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be week in an editorial published in The sectioned off in a previously-established Reddit, which boasted about 170 Me Anything (AMA) question-and-answer a bastion of free speech, but rather as a Washington Post. “But that balancing act Not Safe For Work (NSFW) zone that million users before the turmoil in sessions that are an attention-getting sta- place where open and honest discussion is getting harder. The trolls are winning.” Reddit users will be able to opt into at recent months, describes itself as a ven- ple at the online bulletin board. Yet, since can happen,” Huffman said in a message their discretion, according to Huffman. ue for real-time journalism and “the its launch a decade ago in Massachusetts, announcing his recent AMA. Reddit is a Revenge Porn Banned “Basically, Reddit got the huge number front page of the Internet”. About three users have taken the Reddit reins, straying for-profit business operated as a sub- Early this year, Reddit banned non- of users it now wants to monetize by quarters of those using Reddit are said at times into “dark” lanes littered with hate- sidiary of Advance Publications. consensual pornography referred to as using ‘free speech!’ as an excuse to let to be young men. “The site lends itself ful, offensive and borderline illegal con- Its forums are moderated by volun- revenge porn because it typically involves every user run wild,” a user with the to a kind of boyism that, at best, could tent. teers who tend to be passionate about former romantic partners who have not screen name Mrs Eccentric commented. be off-putting to women,” David Reddit co-founder Steve “spez” the bulletin board being an online venue given permission for sharing content. Efforts to now clean Reddit up and make Weinberger, a senior researcher at Huffman stepped back in as chief execu- for saying whatever users want no matter Reddit last month ditched five subreddit it more attractive to advertisers are “mak- Harvard University’s Berkman Center for tive this week and set out to tame the wild how inane, outrageous or offensive. In his forums, including one devoted to making ing the users scream bloody murder,” the the Internet and Society, said during the side of the site. “If you are going to behave AMA, Huffman reached out for feedback fun of fat people, under terms of a new post contended. KQED forum. —AFP Apple Watch needs time Wearables underperform the hype

SAN FRANCISCO: Is Apple Watch a dud? Nearly So far no smartwatch, even a fashionably three months after the launch of Apple’s fash- sophisticated offering by Apple, has hit the Long-Term Play ionably smart wrist wear, some analysts say it’s market accompanied by uses so compelling Measuring Apple’s success in the sector for not a mainstream mega-hit. But others see that people swarm to snap them up, according now could come down to how much profit it promise in its popularity with Internet-savvy to Gold. “Why do I spend $400 for a screen on makes per smartwatch and how big a chunk of young people. Media outlets last week jumped my wrist that allows me to do basically the the market it commands, analysts said. Kantar on a study by research firm Slice Intelligence same thing than my phone does?” he asked research indicated that iPhone owners are suggesting that, based on a large sampling of rhetorically. more interested in wearable computing overall email receipts in the United States, orders for and more willing to spend money on gadgets, Apple Watch have plunged 90 percent since Wearables Without a Cause signalling that Apple could be more successful the week that the wearable computing gadget This is not just a challenge facing Apple. in the sector than rivals. Eight analysts consult- made its debut. Rather, it is a gauntlet thrown down before ed by AFP anticipated that Apple Watch sales The estimate did not factor in data about every maker of smartwatches or other forms of this quarter would range from three million to Apple Watch sales at real-world stores. It what has become known as “wearable comput- five million units, and most expected sales by remains to be seen whether the famously tight- ing”, according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech the end of the year to tally slightly less than 20 WARSAW: Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CD Project Red company which lipped technology company will provide created computer game “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” is pictured at the insights into Apple Watch sales when it releases headquarters of the company on June 2, 2015. —AFP a quarterly earnings report on Tuesday. While not sounding an alarm, BMO Capital Markets analysts put out word to investors that they Polish video game ‘The were “disappointed” and reduced their estimate for Apple Watch sales in the coming year. They reasoned that the product was “nice to have Witcher’ enchants world but not a necessity, and is a bit hard to use.” Richard Windsor at Edison Investment WARSAW: Poland’s new ambassador is a Every year around 100 Polish games hit Research said that even if Slice is way off the scar-faced hit man armed with two swords the global market,” he said. mark about the drop in Apple Watch orders, it and potions against monsters and dragons. was clear the smartwatch has sold far below His name is Geralt, hero of a Polish role- ‘Sky’s the Limit!’ even conservative expectations. “My single playing video game bewitching the world. The Warsaw-based “11 bit” studios has biggest disappointment when the Apple Watch “The Witcher” is the brainchild of Warsaw- the hallmarks of an IT start-up. Around 40 launched was Apple’s failure to come up with a based CD Project Red, one of a growing video game developers sit in the open- compelling use to which the device could be number of cutting-edge Polish IT firms out plan office located in a 1970s building by a put,” Windsor said. “I think that this failing is the to dominate global gaming. It sold four noisy expressway in an industrial part of single biggest reason why the device is under- million copies of the game worldwide at town. They are all men, most of them performing and why wearables in general con- euro 60 ($67) a piece in the couple of bearded, and under 30. Dressed in faded T- tinue to massively underperform the hype.” weeks after its May release. The earlier two shirts and jeans, they are busy coding, instalments in the Witcher series have sold drawing and testing ideas next to walls Go-To Gift some eight million copies since hitting the covered in project sketches, cartoons, and However, Cantor Fitzgerald experts believe market in 2007 and 2011. calendars with game release dates. Apple Watch will be a “go-to gift” during the “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the Their last project, “This War of Mine”, was year-end holiday season and become the best best games ever made,” said website the first role-playing video game to show selling new product in Apple’s history. Apple Gamespot of the game that is the top seller war from the perspective of civilians trying Watch was the first new product line intro- in most of the 109 countries where it was to survive in a besieged city, as opposed to duced by the culture-changing company WASHINGTON: This April 10, 2015 file photo shows the Apple watch Sport. —AFP released. “They created the largest open elite soldiers. The game, which came out behind iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Macintosh com- world in the history of video games and late last year, won dozens of prizes and puters since 2010. Global Equities Research filled it with realistic dialogue and charac- topped a weekly sales chart compiled by managing director Trip Chowdhry has estimat- analyst Carolina Milanesi. “It’s a market issue for million. ters that are full of life,” said leading Polish the digital video games distribution plat- ed Apple could sell 20 million to 25 million of wearables,” Milanesi said. “It makes your life eas- The figure would eclipse sales posted my game developer Pawel Miechowski of the form Steam. “We’re hearing that our game the watches in the final three months of this ier, it might help you with fitness, but it doesn’t big-name makers of Android-powered smart- game’s creators. “Plus the graphics are stag- has opened the eyes of many people in year. serve a basic need of communication, which is watches. Apple could clinch 56 percent of the gering,” the 32-year-old told AFP. Russia,” said Miechowski. “Because of the Jack Gold, President of J Gold Associates, a what the phone does.” global smartwatch market this year, according The series was even mentioned by US propaganda, they don’t realise that there research firm, said that it would be no surprise And while people in the United States can to research firm IHS. “This is a long-term play,” President Barack Obama during a visit to are civilians in these war zones who have to if Apple Watch sales momentum fell after the get smartphones at steeply discounted prices if Gold said of Apple Watch. “It’s going to take Warsaw last year, after he received the sec- survive under extreme conditions. Our hype of it hitting the market subsided. “The they sign telecommunication service contracts, another year or two, not just for Apple but for ond instalment as a symbolic gift to smash game was a kind of catharsis for them.” Apple lovers are going to buy things as soon as such discounting is not done with smartwatch- the market, to understand what it is that con- dated stereotypes of Poland as a dreary, At one point in May, the various ver- they come out,” Gold told AFP. “The rest of the es, the analyst noted. Given those factors, it is sumers really want these smartwatches to do grey, ex-Communist country of vodka and sions of The Witcher took up three of the market though, the mass market, really waits unrealistic to expect smartwatches or other for them. “Apple will have to make some adjust- horse-drawn carts. “I confess, I’m not very 10 slots on the Steam chart, while another for more definition around ‘What can this do for wearables to rack up the kinds of sales seen by ments and I think it’ll become more popular good at video games, but I’ve been told that Polish game - “Dying Light” by the me?’” smartphones, according to Milanesi. over time.” —AFP it is a great example of Poland’s place in the Techland studio in the western city of new global economy,” he said at the time. Wroclaw - came in at spot number five. CD Project Red cofounder Marcin “The success is a result of our national Iwinski attributes the success of Polish character, among other things: for us noth- Billionaire pledges $100m to video games to Eastern European sensibili- ing’s impossible. This determination to ty: “We bring something new to the table, make something that no one else has a breath of fresh air, creativity.” The coun- made yet is crucial in video games,” said try’s video-game industry is one of the Miechowski. “We learnt how to make video find intelligent life in space biggest in Europe, according to Daniel games step by step, and how to reach Sadowski, cofounder of the Nitreal Games players with a universal message,” added studio and an instructor at the Polish- Iwinski. “With The Witcher 3, we made one SAN FRANCISCO: Wondering if we million annually is spent on SETI, al million, and to search 10 times scopes, including at Australia’s Japanese Academy of Information of the best games in the world and now are alone in the universe has said Dan Werthimer, an adviser to more sky than in the early 1990s. Parkes Observatory in New South Technology. “There are around 500 inde- we’re aiming for the top. The sky’s the lim- engaged minds through the ages. Milner’s project and the astrophysi- But any signals the scientists detect Wales and the Radio Astronomy pendent video game studios in Poland. it!” —AFP Add to the list Russian billionaire cist who directs the SETI@home will likely have been created years Observatory in Green Bank, West Yuri Milner, who announced yester- project affiliated with the University ago, perhaps even centuries or mil- Virginia. Milner plans to book about day that he plans to spend $100 of California in Berkeley. Today, due lennia earlier. Radio signals take two months a year at each site, a million to explore the idea. Using to technology improvements, four years simply to travel between boon to scientists who normally Hackers threaten to leak some of the world’s largest radio including in computing power and Earth and the nearest star outside might get two days a year on the tel- telescopes, a team of scientists escopes. Ashley Madison clients handpicked by Milner will oversee The team, led by scientists such an initiative he calls Breakthrough as Peter Worden, who until earlier Hackers claim to have personal details of “Life is short. Have an affair”, has been plan- Listen, a 10-year search for radio sig- this year directed the NASA Ames more than 37 million cheating spouses on ning to raise up to $200 million through an nals that could indicate the exis- Research Center, will organize the dating website Ashley Madison and have initial public offering on the London Stock tence of intelligent life elsewhere in radio signals they find, make the threatened to release nude photos and sex- Exchange. “We apologize for this unpro- the universe. data public, and examine the data ual fantasies of the site’s clients unless it is voked and criminal intrusion into our cus- “It’s the most interesting techno- for patterns. The goal lies less in shut down, blog KrebsOnSecurity reported. tomers’ information,” Avid Life said, adding logical question of our day,” Milner understanding the signals than in Ashley Madison’s Canadian parent, Avid Life that the hackers left behind posts and said in an interview, noting that he establishing whether they were cre- Media, confirmed the breach on its systems images on the website detailing their became fascinated by the notion of ated by intelligent life rather than and said it had since secured its site and was demands. The unauthorised posts have extra-terrestrial life after reading natural phenomena. Scientists say working with law enforcement agencies to since been removed. astrophysicist Carl Sagan’s the fact that humans have devel- try to trace those behind the attack. The breach comes about two months “Intelligent Life in the Universe” as a oped radio signaling makes it a good The hackers, who call themselves The after dating site Adult FriendFinder was 10-year-old in Moscow. His funds to bet that others may use it as well. Impact Team, leaked snippets of the com- compromised. That site has an estimated 64 bankroll the project came from “It doesn’t tell you anything about promised data online and warned they million members. The Impact Team, in a savvy early investments in startups the civilization, but it tells you a civi- would release customers’ real names, pro- screengrab showing on the Krebs blog, say such as Facebook Inc. Milner’s moti- lization is there,” said Frank Drake, files, nude photos, credit card details and it had taken over Avid Media systems vation is his belief that other civiliza- LONDON: Russian entrepreneur and co-founder of the who with Carl Sagan sent the first “secret sexual fantasies” unless their including customer databases, source code, tions could teach us how to handle Breakthrough Prize Yuri Milner (left), and British scientist physical message into space in 1972, demands were met, Krebs said. Avid Life did financial records and emails. “Shutting challenges such as allocating natural Stephen Hawking attend a press conference yesterday. —AFP the Pioneer plaques on board the not disclose what information was stolen. down AM (Ashley Madison) and EM resources. “If we’re alone, we need to Pioneer 10 US spacecraft. An adviser The hackers demanded the closure of (Established Men) will cost you, but non- cherish what we have,” he said. “The telescope sensitivity, $100 million our solar system. to Breakthrough Listen, Drake is also another of Avid Life Media’s sites, sugar-dad- compliance will cost you more,” the hackers message is, the universe has no will go much farther than in the ear- In 10 years, with his $100 million, chairman emeritus of the SETI dy site “Established Men”, but did not target said. They said users who had paid a fee to backup.” ly 1990s, the last time SETI had sig- Milner figures scientists can listen Institute. In addition to checking for the company’s “CougarLife” site, which Avid Life to have their personal data perma- Scientists said the project dwarfs nificant funding, scientists said. for radio transmissions in the Milky radio signals, Breakthrough Listen caters for women members looking for “a nently deleted had been lied to and the anything else in the field, known as The advances allow scientists to Way galaxy, plus the 100 nearest will hunt for light-based signals using young stud”. company had retained records, including the Search for ExtraTerrestrial monitor several billion radio fre- galaxies. One of the biggest costs a telescope at the Lick Observatory in Ashley Madison, which uses the slogan credit card information. —Reuters Intelligence. Globally, less than $2 quencies at a time, instead of sever- lies in booking time at radio tele- California. —Agencies TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Experts urge shift in HIV treatment at global summit

VANCOUVER: AIDS researchers released HIV diagnosis being an almost-certain a call to action Sunday for a worldwide death sentence, it became possible for shift in HIV treatment, to providing med- an infected person to live a normal life ication immediately after diagnosis while on treatment. “Vancouver is going instead of first watching for signs of ill- to make history again,” said conference ness to appear. “Immediate antiretroviral co-chair and researcher Julio Montaner. (ARV) treatment more than doubles an “Because prevention will be definitely individual’s prospects of staying healthy established at this conference as the and surviving,” said the Vancouver new standard of care.” Other research Consensus, a statement signed by lead- will show it is possible to decrease HIV ing AIDS scientists and officials at the transmission rates by 95 percent. “We opening of the International AIDS now have the opportunity of ending the Society (IAS) conference, in this western pandemic,” said Montaner, challenging Canadian city. politicians to support treatment. Scientists said new research to be “Leaders of the world, you’re either presented at the conference shows with us or against us. We know the evi- immediate treatment prevents infected dence. It’s up to you as to whether you people from passing on the infection, will be counted as doing the right thing.” while other reports showcase that pre- He read out a letter to the conference ventive therapy “can effectively protect from the Vatican promoting treatment people at risk of infection through pro- and prevention. “If the pope gets it, phylactic use,” said the statement, everybody else should,” Montaner told a signed by heads of the International news conference prior to the conference AIDS society, UNAIDS and funding agen- opening Sunday night. Michel Sidibe of cies. The last global AIDS meeting in UNAIDS said investments in HIV diagno- Vancouver, in 1996, marked a break- sis and treatment pay off, and noted the VANCOUVER: (Left-right) Michel Sidibe of UN AIDS, Julio Montaner of the British Columbia Centre for through: research showing that triple- world had beat its goal of having 15 mil- Excellence in HIV and Chris Beyrer, President, International AIDS Society address the media at a press confer- combination antiretroviral treatment lion of the world’s 35 million people ence in Vancouver, Canada. —AFP worked. diagnosed with HIV in treatment by The findings meant that instead of an 2015. —AFP Global conference pushes plain cigarette packaging Ministers aim to stub out high smoking rates

PARIS: Ministers from 10 countries gathered in co” and that “the generation that is born today Australia was the first to introduce plain pack- Paris yesterday to launch a common drive to should be a generation without tobacco”. aging legislation in 2012 with Ireland, France and introduce plain cigarette packaging with the aim She told French radio that smoking killed Britain following shortly afterwards. In Australia, of stubbing out high smoking rates among young 78,000 people each year in France and that eight some studies have shown that the rate of young people. Representatives from nations as far afield million smokers worldwide would die each year smokers has dropped following the introduction as New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and by 2030 if nothing were done. According to the of plain packaging. The tobacco industry counters Uruguay issued a joint statement saying that “sig- World Health Organization, one person currently that high tobacco excise duty is the reason for the nificant scientific proof justified ... plain cigarette dies every six seconds due to tobacco-nearly six decline. Britain and France are poised to intro- packaging”. million people each year. “My target, with plain duce plain packaging from next year. France has The ministers said plain packaging had been packaging, is not long-term smokers but prevent- one of the highest rates of under-16 smokers in SPACE: Photo shows an artist’s impression of Rosetta’s lander Philae (back shown to “reduce the attractiveness of the prod- ing young people from starting to smoke and for Europe and, in addition to the plain packaging uct for consumers, especially amongst women these people the plain packaging has an impact,” measures, Touraine also announced last year that view) on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Philae has fallen and young people” as well as increase the effec- said the minister. Several countries have recently smoking would be banned in playgrounds and in “silent” on the surface of a comet zipping towards the Sun, said ground con- tiveness of health warnings on packets. Hosting passed legislation to introduce plain cigarette cars with passengers under 12. Tobacconists in trollers on July 19, 2015 who fear it may have shifted out of radio reach. —AFP the conference, French Health Minister Marisol packaging-laws that have met with fierce opposi- France staged protests in several regions against Touraine said the aim was “a world without tobac- tion from the powerful tobacco lobby. the measures. —AFP Comet probe Philae ‘silent’, ground control concerned

PARIS: Europe’s comet-riding robot lab option for now. “At the moment, we don’t Philae has fallen “silent”, said ground con- move it, because we don’t want to irritate trollers yesterday who feared it may have it,” said Braun. “We want to understand shifted on the rough, alien surface, out of the situation before changing anything radio range. The latest data suggested the which might result in a worse situation.” probe, perched on a comet streaking There has been an added complication: towards the Sun, may no longer be in line Rosetta has had to be moved into a fur- of contact with its orbiting mothership, ther orbit as its star-reading navigation Rosetta, which relays its messages to system was being confused by the dust Earth, they said. “In the telemetry particles streaming out of the comet. received, we have observed signs that Philae could have moved and that its ‘Not given up’ antennas are thus perhaps more con- Philae touched down on November 12 cealed or their orientation might have last year after a 10-year journey piggy- changed,” said project leader Stephan backing on Rosetta. The landing was Ulamec of the German Aerospace Center bumpy-the tiny lab bounced several (DLR). The washing machine-sized lander times on the craggy surface before end- may have been dislodged by the gas and ing up near a crater rim on uneven ter- dust blasting from Comet rain, deprived of sunlight to replenish its 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it draws battery. Philae had enough onboard ever closer to the Sun. power to send home data from about 60 The data also indicated one of Philae’s hours of tests conducted with eight of its two transmission units appeared not to 10 instruments, before going into stand- be working properly, and a receiver was by mode on November 15. But the lan- damaged, said a statement from the der’s power pack is being recharged as European Space Agency (ESA) which 67P zips toward the Sun at nearly 34 kilo- described the lander’s status as “uncer- meters per second. tain”. “At the moment we have some con- Scientists had hoped for another MONTGOMERY: Tal Cohen (from left); his wife Giedre Cohen, 37, of Calabasas, Calif; Carrie Richardson, 34, and Mary Salter, of cerns about this,” DLR spokeswoman opportunity to switch on Philae’s instru- Montgomery, Ala chat during a break at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Washington. —AP Manuela Braun told AFP. “We are trying to ments, including a drill for collecting a understand.” Philae, which touched down sub-surface sample. Comets are frozen on 67P on November 12 last year, went balls of dust, ice and gas left over from Families affected by Alzheimer’s into hibernation three days later, and the Solar System’s formation some 4.6 woke up again on June 13 for intermittent billion years ago. Some experts believe communications with Earth. It has since they smashed into our infant planet, pro- seek better treatment called home eight times, the last on July 9 viding it with precious water and the when critical data was uploaded from chemical building blocks for life. ESA and WASHINGTON: Alzheimer’s has ravaged genera- imental drugs, as AIDS patients once did? to measure toxic levels of Alzheimer’s hallmark Philae’s prodding and probing of its alien the DLR stressed they have “not given tions of Dean DeMoe’s family - his grandmother, “It’s time to ease our anguish,” said Tal Cohen amyloid and tau proteins; MRI scans to detect home. up” on Philae. “There have been several father, siblings - all in their 40s and 50s. DeMoe of Calabasas, California. At age 37, his wife, Giedre, shrinking brain regions; and two standard memo- But since then, the robot probe has times when we feared that the lander himself inherited the culprit gene mutation and already is in the mild-to-moderate stage of ry assessments. The combination isn’t ready for gone “back to ‘silent mode’,” said the DLR would not switch back on, but it has at 53, the North Dakota man volunteers for a drug Alzheimer’s. He emerged hopeful that researchers doctors’ offices, but should help drug companies statement. Efforts are being made to con- repeatedly taught us otherwise,” said study he hopes one day will end the family’s bur- are considering creative ways to speed that tell who to enroll in early-stage treatment studies, tact Philae, possibly by adjusting Ulamec. Comet 67P is approaching peri- den. International scientists gathering in access. “We don’t have any more time to wait and she said. Scientists at VU University Medical Rosetta’s orbit to try and find a better helion-its closest point to the Sun at Washington for a conference this week express see,” he said. Alzheimer’s usually strikes older Center in Amsterdam found another protein, connection. about 186 million km (116 million miles) cautious optimism that they may finally be on the adults, affecting about 1 in 9 people age 65 or named neurogranin, in spinal fluid. It may signal But moving the lander itself is not an — on August 13.—AFP right track to fight Alzheimer’s, a disease that over. Less than 1 percent of cases worldwide are that connections called synapses are dying, mak- already affects more than 5 million people in the the autosomal dominant form, caused by inherit- ing it harder for brain cells to communicate. United States and is expected to more than dou- ing a gene with a particular mutation that trig- ble by 2050 as the population ages. gers the disease well before the senior years. Second DIAN study 8,000 HIV patients at Families like DeMoe’s with the very rarest form Children of an affected parent have a 50 per- Researchers at the University of Alberta, of Alzheimer’s, young and inherited, hold crucial cent chance of inheriting their family’s bad gene. Canada, are beginning to hunt a saliva test for risk in East Ukraine clues to fighting this brain-destroying disease in But if they do, they almost always get sick about earlier markers of cognitive decline. But knowing everyone. On Saturday, researchers for the first the same time their parent did. Many of these who is destined for Alzheimer’s and approximate- time brought together dozens of these families - families are part of the Dominantly Inherited ly when it will strike makes rare families such as VANCOUVER: Some 8,000 people with check points. The looming crisis is cen- patients, patients-to-be and their healthy loved Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study that monitors DeMoe’s especially critical for research. A second HIV in war-torn eastern Ukraine face a tered in the mostly Russian-speaking ones - from as far as Australia and Britain to meet the health of family gene carriers and their DIAN study now is testing whether either of two critical shortage of medicine and their Lugansk and Donetsk regions. The area face to face. They shared advice about when their healthy relatives in several countries. Recently, it experimental drugs might give those gene carri- supply will run out in mid-August once housed 25 percent of Ukraine’s children should undergo gene testing to learn showed that silent changes in the brain can pre- ers more symptom-free years by fighting buildup unless a blockade is lifted, a UN AIDS HIV-positive population, but thou- their own fate, and they got an unusual opportu- cede the first memory problems by 20 years. of sticky amyloid in the brain. That study soon will envoy has warned. Speaking to AFP sands have ready fled, said nity to grill government and drug company offi- expand to test additional drugs. “The goal here ahead of the International AIDS Society Kazatchkine. cials about why it’s taking so long to find a good High-risk people really is to get drugs approved to help everyone,” (IAS) conference, which opened The 8,000 who remain are mainly treatment. Now scientists think the best hope against said Dr Randall Bateman of Washington Sunday, Michel Kazatchkine called on injection drug users whose addictions Alzheimer’s is to treat high-risk people long University in St Louis, who oversees the DIAN key nations to intervene as soon as are being treated with opioid substitu- Downstream effects before symptoms appear, aiming to at least stall drug study. possible. “I am calling on the United tion therapy (OST), and who are also “Finally, I got to talk to other people who are the disease if not prevent it. On Sunday, Dean DeMoe came to the meeting with his States, Germany, France, Ukraine and taking antiretroviral drugs to keep going through the same thing,” said DeMoe, of researchers at the Alzheimer’s Association wife, healthy sister and two of his three children. Russia to do something,” said their HIV infections under control. He Thompson, North Dakota, who with four other International Conference reported possible new He wishes researchers could have revealed if those Kazatchkine, the UN Secretary General’s said the treatments are already paid for siblings inherited the family’s bad gene. One sis- ways to predict who will get sick with the more drugs are working, but they won’t know for sever- special envoy for AIDS in Eastern and the aid group Doctors Without ter was spared. His wife, Deb, said he experiences common late-onset Alzheimer’s - vital to testing al years. Meanwhile, his two oldest children, in Europe and Central Asia. Borders has pledged to deliver and early memory changes known as mild cognitive such treatments - and a single test probably won’t their 20s, had gene testing as part of health-track- He said 8,000 patients are “caught in oversee treatment. But Ukraine will not impairment, but DeMoe still holds a job with an be enough, said Johns Hopkins University neuro- ing research but chose not to be told the results the political crossfire between the allow the drugs to be shipped and oil company and said, “I don’t dwell on it.” Families’ scientist Marilyn Albert. until they are older or protective drugs come Ukrainian government and Russian- argues the opioids require armed con- first question: Why not try to fix the gene defect Tracking about 350 people starting in middle along. His teenager thinks she will make the same supported fighters” because they need voys, said Kazatchkine. Russia bans the that causes this form of Alzheimer’s instead of tar- age, Albert’s team found a combination of tests choice. DeMoe pins his hopes on the drug study. both antiretroviral treatments and opi- use of opioids to help wean addicts off geting its downstream effects? Why, asked others, predicted development of mild cognitive impair- “It might not do good for me,” he said, “but it’s oids, which are now blocked at border drug addiction. —AFP can’t desperate families get faster access to exper- ment within five years. They include a spinal tap important for my family and for everyone.” —AP TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Bowel Cancer: The importance of early diagnosis

KUWAIT: Bowel cancer develops from Common symptoms young. Other factors thought to increase in some areas). Every two years, patients ed, but if the cancer involves the lymph a malignant tumor situated anywhere The symptoms of bowel cancer vary risk include smoking, obesity and eating are asked to send a stool sample to the glands, chemotherapy is recommended, in the large bowel (colon) or back pas- and can include: Diarrhoea or loose excessive red meat, animal fat and sugar. laboratory and if blood is detected, a which can last for six months. Surgery sage (rectum). Bowel cancer is the stools for over three weeks; Blood in a A reduced risk has been found in those colonoscopy is offered to see ifthere are can also be used to remove certain can- fourth most common cancer in the UK, stool; Weight loss; Tiredness and breath- who exercise and eat more fibre and early signs of cancer. Bowel cancer cers that have spread to the liver or lungs, with over 41,000 new cases diagnosed lessness (this can occur in those cancers pulses. There are also some medical con- screening reduces the risk of dying from although this is not always possible. each year. Bowel cancer is most com- which bleed, causing anemia). If you are ditions that increase the risk of bowel bowel cancer by 16 per cent, emphasiz- mon in the over 60sand is rare in peo- suffering from any of these symptoms, it cancer and these include: ulcerative coli- ing the importance of participating. Meet the specialist ple younger than 40 years old. Survival is very important you see a bowel spe- tis, Crohn’s disease and diabetes. Lee Dvorkin MD, FRCS (Gen Surg) is a is improved if the cancer is discovered cialist for further investigation. How do you treat bowel cancer? Colorectal Surgeon dealing with benign early, with a 93 percent survival rate How is bowel cancer detected? The best treatment for bowel cancer is and malignant bowel diseases. He is an with early detection. However, if the Who is most at risk? The two most common investigations an operation to remove the cancer and expert in key hole surgery and spends a cancer has spread to other parts of the The biggest single risk factor is age. to diagnose bowel cancer are its surrounding lymph glands. These lot of time teaching and training other body, very few people survive five More than eight out of 10 bowel cancers acolonoscopy (a camera examination of operations are performed by keyhole sur- surgeons. His other areas of practice years from diagnosis. The majority of are diagnosed in people aged 60 or over. the large bowel) and a CT scan. In the gery, with around less than a week’s stay include gallstone surgery and hernias. If cases develop from pre-cancerous- The chance of getting bowel cancer also UK, some patients are diagnosed in hospital. For cancer in the rectum, you would like to make an appointment polyps (tiny growths in the bowel) goes up if there is a strong family history, through the NHS Bowel Cancer radiotherapy is sometimes used to shrink with Mr Lee Dvorkin, please call The which, if left untreated, can develop ie having several relatives with bowel Screening Program, which is offered to down the tumor, before surgery. Often, Wellington Hospital’s enquiry helpline into cancer. cancer, especially if they are particularly everyone aged 60-69years old (75 years surgery is all the treatment that is need- on: +44 (0)20 7483 5148 What you don’t know, - you cannot change

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Being uprooted by disas- to a background paper issued for a 45- UNFCCC goal of 1.5 C. Exactly how to flee their homes due to floods, storms and earth- ed to play a strong role in the future by increasing ter is not limited to poor countries. “The largest nation meeting that began in Paris yes- reach a particular outcome-whether 2 C quakes last year, a problem likely to worsen due to the frequency and intensity of such hazards.” case we found is in Japan, where some 230,000 terday. The five-page document was or 1.5 C-has also yet to be determined. climate change, but which could be eased by bet- UN scientific experts say greenhouse gas emis- people are still displaced today following the prepared by France, which will host the ter construction, a report said yesterday. Asia is sions are stoking extremes such as heat waves and Tohoku earthquake and the tsunami disaster in year-end conference tasked with forg- Review particularly prone to natural disasters, accounting heavy rains. As well as extreme climate events, 2011, including thousands displaced from the ing a global agreement on climate The proposed Paris accord will for almost 90 percent of the 19.3 million displaced rapidly growing and poorly built settlements in area around the damaged Fukushima nuclear change. depend on voluntary national pledges in 2014, led by typhoons in China and the areas vulnerable to natural disasters are putting plant,” Zamudio said. for reducing carbon emissions. China, Philippines, and floods in India, the Norwegian more people at risk, Zamudio said, citing areas More than 50,000 people in the United States Ambition the United States and the European Refugee Council said. around cities such as Mexico City, Mumbai, still need housing assistance following Hurricane This is the term for agreeing the Union (EU), which together account for “Disaster-related displacement is on the rise Karachi and Port-au Prince. Extreme weather has Sandy in 2012, he said. The vast majority of people scale of curbs in greenhouse-gas emis- more than half of global carbon dioxide and threatens to get worse in coming decades,” struck Haiti and Cuba with different results. More fleeing disasters remain within their own country, sions that drive warming. The UN (CO2) pollution, have already submitted Alfredo Zamudio, director of the NRC’s Internal than 300,000 people died in the 2010 quake in but may still face “an emerging anti-migrant senti- Framework Convention on Climate theirs. But the sum of global commit- Displacement Monitoring Centre, told a news Haiti, where 60,000 still live in tents, said William ment, particularly in the developed world”, Swing Change (UNFCCC) has embraced a goal ments is unlikely to immediately meet briefing. Since 2008, an average of 26.5 million Lacy Swing, director-general of the International said. “This simply adds to the number of people of capping the rise in Earth’s mean tem- the 2 C objective. As a result, some people have been displaced every year by disas- Organization for Migration (IOM), which collected who will be, in many cases, moving without prop- peratures at a maximum of 2.0 Celsius countries are insisting on a stringent ters, the report said, and although 2014 figures data for the report. er papers and therefore subject to being criminal- (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial lev- review process to progressively ramp were lower than that, the NRC said there was a ris- “Cuba is extremely well-prepared for disasters: ized, or sent home forcefully, deported or other- els. Poor countries and low-lying small up ambition and monitor progress. ing long-term trend. “Our historical analysis reveals hurricanes, typhoons, whatever happens. They wise. “This is simply a further complication and island states, which will be hit first and Others object. —AFP you are 60 percent more likely to be displaced by have a shelter system, they have a public educa- exacerbation of this global phenomenon of disasters today than you were in the 1970s,” tion system. Everyone knows what to do when migration in our time.” —Reuters WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

Ambassador of Canada to Kuwait Martine Moreau Ishtiaq Malik Reception Canadians host business event

he Canadian Business Council - CBC hosted an ed this event, it has been incredibly fortunate to have the addressed the gathering and spoke about the huge hoped to continue. International Business Ramadan Night. The event was support of several other prominent business councils and trade potential existing in Kuwait for the business coun- Members of the International Business Community Tsupported by the American Business Council Kuwait - groups here in Kuwait. cil’s to tap. including the Italian, Spanish, Turkey and Greek counter- ABCK, British Business Forum - BBF and Australian Business Addressing the gathering, Martine Moreau offered sin- Ms. Jacky Perkins UK Deputy Head of Mission addressed parts attended the function. Group - AusBG. cerest thanks and gratitude to fellow local business associ- the audience and appreciated all the efforts from the par- Malik thanked CBC EC members Basil Toutoungi, Dr. Ishtiaq Malik, President of the CBC, welcomed the gath- ations for supporting this evening. Their leadership and ticipating business councils and group. David McHardy and Nadia Hammouda for their active par- ering and thanked Canadian, American, British and staff have invested their time in helping the CBC raise Each of the council representatives also spoke on the ticipation in the success of this event. Also appreciation Australian communities for attending the Business Nigh. awareness & promote this evening amongst the various occasion expressing their support and good wishes. goes to Lorie Beverly from ABCK, Sheeba Pius from BBF and Malik thanked the Ambassador of Canada to Kuwait business communities and for this CBC is most grateful. Graham Kenny - BBF Chairman, Ibrahim Alhamad - AusBG Angelina Lantaca from the CiK. They all worked very hard Martine Moreau for the support and cooperation extended Gatherings such as this allow for all to get acquainted and President, Jack Montgomery - ABCK Vice Chairman to raise awareness about this event and helped CBC by the Canadian Embassy to the council. Malik also share experiences. H.E. appreciated the role played by the thanked all and assured support from their business throughout various aspects of the planning process. thanked Australian Ambassador Warren Hauck for joining council in promoting trade relations between Kuwait and councils and group for such future joint events. The attendees discussed business of their mutual this event. Canada. AUSA Kuwait Chapter President Randy Williams interest and suggested to continue such business gath- In addition to a large number of CBC members attend- Australian Ambassador to Kuwait Warren Hauck also welcomed the idea of such joint gatherings and erings in future.

Children celebrate Eid at amusement parks Many families took their kids to various amusement parks and the Entertainment City where they enjoyed playing various games and had a wonderful time with peers during the Eid holidays. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 WHAT’S ON

Families visit Kuwait Zoo during Eid Many families took their kids to visit Kuwait Zoo during Eid holidays where children enjoyed watching various animals and played some of the games availabe there. —Photos by Joseph Shagra TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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Arrival Flights on Tuesday 21/7/2015 Departure Flights on Tuesday 21/7/2015 I, Thimmisetty Palle Murali Airlines Flt Route Time Airlines Flt Route Time CHANGE OF NAME S/o T.Narayana holder of QTR 1084 Doha 00:05 AIC 976 Goa/Chennai 00:05 Indian Passport BBC 143 Dhaka 00:05 RBG 556 Alexandria 00:05 I, Kalimuddin S/o No.J3509759 residing at JZR 562 Sohag 00:20 THY 772 Istanbul 00:15 Fakhruddin Dadukawala Thimmisetty Palle Village, JZR 239 Amman 00:20 JAI 573 Mumbai 00:25 MSR 615 Cairo 00:30 holder of Indian Passport Post C.M. Rachapalle, Kodur JZR 267 Beirut 00:30 No. Z1851119 issued at FDB 069 Dubai 00:55 FDB 072 Dubai 00:30 Mandalam, District Kadapa, JAI 574 Mumbai 01:30 PIA 206 Lahore 00:40 Kuwait on 09/05/2010 and Andhra Pradesh, India. I JZR 539 Cairo 01:30 KLM 411 Amsterdam 00:55 having Indian residence at would like to change my PGT 858 Istanbul 01:40 JZR 502 Luxor 01:10 vajihi Mohalla VPO Partapur name from Thimmisetty DLH 635 Frankfurt 01:35 RJA 642 Amman 01:45 Teh. Garhi Distt Banswara Palle Murali to Thimmisetty ETH 620 Addis Ababa 01:50 BBC 144 Chittagong/Dhaka 01:35 THY 773 Istanbul 02:05 Rajasthan India, change my Murali. (C 5007) GFA 211 Bahrain 02:15 ETH 621 Addis Ababa 02:50 name to Kalimuddin KKK 6507 Istanbul 02:15 JAI 525 Abu Dhabi/Chennai 02:55 Fakhruddin Dadukawala. UAE 853 Dubai 02:25 PGT 859 Istanbul 02:55 OMA 643 Muscat 02:35 (C 5010) SITUATION WANTED KKK 6508 Istanbul 03:10 15-7-2015 THY 768 Istanbul 02:50 OMA 644 Muscat 03:35 QTR 1076 Doha 03:05 THY 769 Istanbul 03:40 Khan Maniknawar Looking for job as driver, 11 ETD 305 Abu Dhabi 03:05 UAE 854 Dubai 03:45 I, Majid RJA 644 Amman 03:10 R/o House No. 85, Indira years experience in Kuwait, RJA 645 Amman 03:55 knowing all areas. Please MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 ETD 306 Abu Dhabi 04:05 Nagar Chimbel, Chimbel KAC 1544 Cairo 03:35 QTR 1077 Doha 04:05 Tiswadi North Goa 403006 contact: 55748362. PGT 860 Istanbul 03:45 MSR 613 Cairo 04:15 has changed my name from (C 5006) THY 1464 Istanbul 03:55 PGT 861 Istanbul 04:45 Majid Khan to Majid Khan MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 THY 765 Istanbul 04:55 Maniknawar, father’s name JZR 555 Alexandria 04:15 JZR 561 Sohag 05:00 THY 770 Istanbul 04:40 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 from Makbal M to Makbul ACCOMMODATION THY 6376 Istanbul 05:05 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 Khan Maniknawar, mother’s DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 THY 1465 Istanbul 05:55 name from Sakila Banu to Partition room available KAC 416 Jakarta/Kuala Lumpur 06:00 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 Sakila Banu Maniknawar, for immediate occupancy KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 THY 6376 Dubai/Istanbul 06:35 hereafter in all our dealings for single or couple Filipino BAW 157 London 06:35 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 & documents we will be in Sharhabel street, JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 Hawally. Please contact JZR 240 Amman 07:05 know by the above JZR 503 Luxor 07:20 51080902. KAC 382 Delhi 07:30 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 changed names. (C 5008) (C 5009) KAC 206 Islamabad 07:45 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:50 BAW 156 London 08:30 QTR 1086 Doha 07:55 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:50 THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY KAC 302 Mumbai 07:55 QTR 1087 Doha 08:55 FOR CIVIL INFORMATION KAC 154 Istanbul 08:10 KAC 1801 Cairo 09:00 JZR 256 Beirut 09:05 KAC 334 Trivandrum 08:15 Automated enquiry JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 352 Kochi 08:15 KAC 513 Tehran 09:15 about the Civil ID card is UAE 855 Dubai 08:25 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 KAC 362 Colombo 08:30 KAC 619 Doha 09:30 1889988 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:05 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:30 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:10 JZR 482 Istanbul 09:45 KAC 284 Dhaka 09:25 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:45 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 Prayer timings IRA 675 Lar 09:40 KAC 101 London/New York 10:00 KAC 350 Kochi 09:40 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:00 Fajr: 03:30 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 IRA 674 Lar 10:40 Shorook 05:01 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 Duhr: 11:54 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 Asr: 15:29 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 JZR 562 Sohag 11:25 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:25 Maghrib: 18:47 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:30 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 Isha: 20:16 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 SAW 701 Damascus 12:35 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 JZR 241 Amman 12:40 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 RBG 554 Alexandria 12:10 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 Kuwait THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 IZG 4171 Shiraz 13:30 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 KAC 514 Tehran 13:45 SAW 702 Damascus 13:35 MSR 575 Sharm el-Sheikh 13:55 MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 AXB 393 Kozhikode 13:55 THY 767 Istanbul 14:10 KNCC PROGRAMME FROM LAST DAY OF KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 IZG 4172 Shiraz 14:30 RAMADAN TO WEDNESDAY (22/07/2015) QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 KAC 741 Dammam 14:40 GFA 221 Bahrain 14:20 MSR 576 Sharm el-Sheikh 14:40 FDB 057 Dubai 14:20 SHARQIA-1 AXB 394 Kozhikode 14:55 HATCHED 11:45 AM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 HATCHED 1:45 PM KAC 788 Jeddah 15:00 FDB 058 Dubai 15:05 HATCHED 3:30 PM OMA 645 Muscat 15:05 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:05 POUND OF FLESH 5:15 PM ABY 127 Sharjah 15:35 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 DARK PLACES 7:30 PM KAC 1802 Cairo 15:35 KAC 673 Dubai 15:20 POUND OF FLESH 9:45 PM UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 SVA 501 Jeddah 15:45 DARK PLACES 12:05 AM NIA 251 Alexandria 15:50 JZR 188 Dubai 15:50 RJA 640 Amman 15:55 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:55 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:00 SHARQIA-2 OMA 646 Muscat 16:05 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 11:15 AM JZR 535 Cairo 16:05 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:15 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 1:30 PM FDB 051 Dubai 16:10 NIA 252 Alexandria 16:50 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 3:45 PM QTR 1072 Doha 16:20 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 16:50 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 6:00 PM JZR 257 Beirut 16:30 RJA 641 Amman 16:55 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 8:15 PM KAC 562 Amman 17:00 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 10:30 PM SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 FDB 052 Dubai 17:10 HAYATI MOUBAHDILAH 12:45 AM UAL 982 IAD 17:25 JZR 512 Sharm el-Sheikh 17:15 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 QTR 1073 Doha 17:25 KAC 742 Dammam 17:45 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 SHARQIA-3 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 TERMINATOR GENISYS 12:30 PM JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 THE GALLOWS 3:00 PM JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 HABIB AL ARAD - 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CROSSWORD 967 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) You’re all business today and aren’t interested in sharing your feel- Sorry, Aries, you need to save your daydreaming for the night since concentrating ings with anyone. Because you’re naturally so susceptible to the well-being of oth- on your work needs to be your top priority today. Spacey Neptune is like a fly in ers, you’re afraid of opening the proverbial emotional door while the evocative your ointment, captivating you with fascinating visions that have no practical use Moon is hiding out in your 12th House of Privacy. Unfortunately, your coworkers in the present moment. Even if you wish you could extend your weekend, it’s pru- might take your aloofness personally, wondering what they did wrong. But your dent to get an early start and finish your tasks before others have a reason to com- need for personal space isn’t up for discussion; you just don’t want to show your plain. You might grumble a bit at first, but you will be much happier later on if vulnerability now. Keep your nose to the grindstone and let people judge you for you’re free to pursue your dreams without worrying about chores left undone. your actions rather than your words.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) As long as you don’t let too many distractions pull you off track today, You prefer to keep what’s most important to yourself unless you’re you can take great comfort from the orderliness imposed by the meticulous Virgo talking with someone who can truly understand your passion. As much as you Moon. You are being given an opportunity to plant your roots in the ground, set- long for the support of your peers, you’re tentative when it comes to sharing ting the stage for personal growth. Although you can dream about the future in your creative urges now because you’re afraid that someone might belittle your great detail, your smartest strategy now is to tend your garden in the present ideas. The solution to your dilemma is not to go quiet; the key is to find the right moment. There will be plenty of time later on to anticipate the harvest. Don’t waste person to confide in today. Connecting with like-minded souls who are walking energy searching for greener grass when you need to be doing the hard work similar paths empowers you to move mountains on your way to manifesting that’s right beneath your feet. your dreams.

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

You might have a precise plan to achieve today’s objectives, but a misunderstanding at work leads to confusion about your next task. Asking others You might be unsure about your evolving direction because the Cancer New Moon for their input is tricky business because they are not giving you much information rattles your 8th House of Transformation, evoking a sense of discomfort by pushing ACROSS 2. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar. to go on. It’s as if they want you to figure out everything on your own. Fortunately, you to explore feelings that you would rather forget. Don’t belittle a friend’s melo- 1. Worthless or oversimplified ideas. 3. Formerly the basic unit of money in you don’t really need anyone to tell you what to do because you have a secret drama by judging it so trivial that you don’t have to get involved. Your willingness 4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people Hungary until it was replaced by the forint in weapon at your disposal now. If you sit still and quiet your mind, your inner voice to partake in a meaningful dialogue may be exactly what’s required to take a rela- of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas. 1946. of intuition will offer you the solution in a moment of brilliant clarity. Sometimes tionship to a new level of intimacy. 12. A colloid that has a continuous liquid 4. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including wisdom comes from within. phase in which a solid is suspended in a liq- common garden spiders and barn spiders. uid. 5. A family of North American Indian lan- 15. The compass point midway between east guage spoken in southwestern United States. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) and southeast. 6. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Cancer (June 21-July 22) 16. Distributed equitably in limited individual Earth's orbital motion. portions. 7. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring Your cautious approach to the future often saves you from landing in Responsibility is relentlessly calling, demanding that you put your plans for the future on temporary hold while you manage a minor relationship 17. Any of various primates with short tails or in the air. trouble. However, coyly playing games while deciding what to disclose and what no tail at all. to withhold sends mixed signals today. People don’t know how to respond when crisis today. Although you’re bewildered by the emotional dynamics, you proba- 8. The sound made by a pigeon v 1. bly recognize that it will be a much simpler affair to handle the situation now 18. A high-kicking dance of French origin 9. Reports of the work of a society or learned they can’t figure out your intentions. However, sharing your concerns can widen your perspective if you’re open to the feedback you receive. Others won’t be blind- before it festers into something ugly. Nevertheless, your dreams won’t go away performed by a female chorus line. body etc. sided by your actions if they are involved in your process from the start. Delay com- just because you are busy putting out fires. Thankfully, reshuffling your priorities 20. A musical form that is often the last 10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). might be the trick that allows you to balance all the variables in your life. movement of a sonata. mitting to a final plan until you’ve weighed and balanced all the alternatives along- 11. Someone who admires a young woman. side all the consequences. 21. Large brownish-green New Zealand par- 12. British writer of short stories (1870-1916). rot. 13. An organization of countries formed in 22. A system of principles for philosophic or 1961 to agree on a common policy for the Aquarius (January 20- February 18) scientific investigations. sale of petroleum. Leo (July 23-August 22) 23. Experiencing motion sickness. There’s no reason to engage in a power struggle over allocating 14. An accidental hole that allows something resources now, even if you’re worried about completing a big project. Instead of 25. Genus of Indonesian and Malaysian tim- (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape. wasting precious time in a petty dispute over things you can’t control, just con- ber trees rich in resin. 19. A waiter at a drive-in restaurant. tinue to work diligently and keep your mouth shut for the sake of harmony. 26. Extremely pleasant in a gentle way. People might think there’s something wrong just because you’re not acting like 24. A token that postal fees have been paid. your extroverted self these days. However, nothing could be further from the truth Thankfully, it’s not difficult to acquiesce on the details because you’re already 27. A Loloish language. 29. (India) Usually in combination. thinking about the bigger fish that must be fried later on. Nothing will be 28. A region of Malaysia on northwestern even if you can’t be coaxed out of your lair today. Although you’re known for your 30. A river that rises in northern Colombia social prowess, you need time alone to recuperate from last month’s dramas and gained by allowing anyone to redirect your focus today. Keep your eye on the Borneo. and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco celebrations. Tell others it’s their turn to shine now but not to worry; your star will prize and everything will turn out fine. 32. Panel forming the lower part of an interi- in central Venezuela. soon return to burn even brighter than before. or wall when it is finished differently from the 31. Knocked unconscious by a heavy blow. rest. 33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 37. God of death. River. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. 34. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal 42. Imagined as in a play. of a farad. It’s nearly impossible to be efficient when you believe you’re not get- Everyone seems to be in a more serious mood than you today, but it’s probably 43. The month following February and pre- 35. Being one hundred more than two hun- ting the full story. It’s as if people are keeping you out of the loop because they ceding April. not in your best interest to rock the boat. Unfortunately, you could work yourself dred. don’t want to distract you from your work. However, your concentration wavers if into a state of frustration if you try to share your playful creativity with the world. 44. A radioactive element of the actinide 36. A white metallic element that burns with you start to think that you don’t know the whole truth. Stop obsessing; you can do series. Nevertheless, it’s still prudent to follow the low-key tone set by others so as not a brilliant light. your best work now by shifting your focus inward without worrying about anyone to ruffle any feathers. Happily, respecting people’s need for peace and quiet 45. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak 39. A state in northwestern North America. else. Paradoxically, your self-reliance deepens the bonds between you and your tree. doesn’t have to detract from your enthusiasm. You can still sing your song with- 40. Powdery starch from certain sago palms. peers when they realize your determination is golden. out shouting it from the rooftops. 48. A Nilotic language. 41. Capital and largest city of Colombia. 49. Type genus of the Anatidae. 46. A chord whose notes are played in rapid 51. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and biva- succession rather than simultaneously. lent metallic element. 47. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth. Word Search Yesterday Solution 52. A contorted facial expression. 50. Characterized by dignity and propriety. 54. A large number or amount. 53. United States neoclassical architect 56. The fourth or lowest deck. (1847-1909). 58. Of or relating to or characteristic of the 55. An enclosed space. Republic of Chad or its people or language. 57. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element 59. A river in north central Switzerland that that resembles manganese chemically and is runs northeast into the Rhine. used in some alloys. 61. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown 60. An Indian side dish of yogurt and wood of teak trees. chopped cucumbers and spices. 63. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab. 62. A colorless and odorless inert gas. 67. Roman general who commanded the 64. The United Nations agency concerned fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC). with civil aviation. 71. Any of a number of fishes of the family 65. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity. Carangidae. 66. Capital city of the Apulia region on the 72. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed Adriatic coast. syllables. 68. United States feminist (1885-1977). 75. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was 69. Large burrowing rodent of South and formed by an explosion. Central America. 76. The sense organ for hearing and equilibri- 70. An Arabic speaking person who lives in um. Arabia or North Africa. 80. Fiddler crabs. 73. Relating to a recently developed fashion 81. Payment due by the recipient on delivery. or style. 82. The childhood of a girl. 74. Enlarged prostate. 83. A workplace for the conduct of scientific 77. Before noon. research. 78. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 79. Being one hundred more than three hun- DOWN 1. A tributary of the Rio Grande. dred. Yesterday’s Solution

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Gossip Emeli Sande meli Sande has delayed her album schedules because they know it’s going to er-of-one Adele is reportedly plotting her release so it doesn’t clash with Adele’s wipe the floor. “Emeli’s album is coming out comeback including a string of arena tour Ethird record. The ‘Read All About It’ hit- next year now. It sounds amazing.” The 28- dates for early-2016 following the release of maker didn’t want her second LP to be over- year-old singer - whose real name is Adele her highly-anticipated third LP. A source delays shadowed by the 10-time Grammy Award Emily Sande - has previously admitted to revealed: “Adele is planning another huge winner’s new record, set to become avail- feeling she needed to change while launch- tour following the release of her album in able in September, so has decided not to ing her career in order to differentiate her- September.”Her label has already been in release it until next year. The singer’s pro- self from the star, who has sold almost seven touch with promoters about locking down ducer Naughty Boy told The Sun newspaper: million albums in the UK. She said: “Her venues, but everything is being kept top album “They can’t go against each other. Nobody name was just everywhere so I thought if I secret for now.” wants to. “Adele’s album is coming in really want to distinguish myself, I need to release September and labels have cleared their choose a different name.” Meanwhile, moth- 50 Cent Ora not demands planning special politics dressing ita Ora doesn’t want to be a politician. The ‘Poison’ hitmaker has been named as an hon- room for Rorary ambassador of Kosovo, her home coun- try, but has insisted she has no plans to leave music for politics. She said: “I’m not a politician. I’m going to do what I’ve been doing as a musician and be sneakers aware, give a positive message. I’m not trying to step on anyone’s toes. “What we’re trying to do is blur the social/cultural barriers we have, because right now with social networks, there really isn’t any barrier within the countries, like Brazil and Kosovo. It’s almost like all of our problems have merged into 0 Cent demanded a special dressing room just for his trainers Banks, Tony Yayo, Young Buck and Kidd Kidd. 50 Cent - whose real one. What I’m trying to do is make our generation at The 02 in London. The ‘Candy Shop’ hitmaker - who filed for name is Curtis James Jackson III - said: “The O2 Arena was crazy last be aware of what, politically, we can do as a team to 5bankruptcy last week - performed with his hip-hop group G- night! UK fans have some of the most amazing energy, which is why change our future.” And the 24-year-old beauty Unit at the London venue on Friday and requested an entire room I can’t wait to come back to the UK in November.” The ‘P.I.M.P’ rapper believes young people should be encouraged to be kept empty for his shoes. A source told Metro newspaper: “Fiddy will play Glasgow’s SECC Arena on November 4, Manchester Arena engage in the political world more too. She added is obsessed with his trainers and always wears a fresh pair. “When on November 6 and Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena on November 7. to the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Sometimes people he’s on tour he brings so many pairs with him to choose from for the Tickets go on general sale from Friday July 24 while presale tickets vote more for a singer to win an award than for show, he requests an extra dressing room just for his sneakers.” The are available from Wednesday July 22. their prime minister. If parliament would have me, 40-year-old star has now announced a UK tour and will perform a I’d talk to them.” Meanwhile, Rita previously admit- further three dates alongside members of G-Unit including Lloyd ted she found it very “emotional” being given the honor. She gushed: “It was a very emotional day for me because we’ve been waiting as a nation for this for such a long time. So I think to hear it in real life it just really hit a nerve.” Joss Stone: I Lydon’s genius song don’t watch TV oss Stone doesn’t own a TV. The 28-year-old singer has revealed that despite being among the richest British musicians under the age of 30, Jshe enjoys living a simple life and has no interest in watching television. inspired by toilet She shared: “I don’t have a telly. I did buy a little one from Tesco a few months ago because my boyfriend wanted one but it disappeared. I never even ohn Lydon has written a “genius” song switched it on.” In fact, Joss claimed she’s never heard a Taylor Swift song and inspired by his broken toilet. The Public doesn’t even know what Rita Ora looks like, but is happy living the life she’s Image Ltd frontman got into a row with his chosen to live. She reflected: “I don’t know whether I’m out of touch or just in J touch with different things. I’m not actually convinced that television keeps wife about a plumbing problem and their dis- pute sparked an idea that became ‘Double us in touch with the world. “But maybe that’s just me. I think if you really Trouble’, a track on his group’s new album ‘What want to connect with people, you have to go out there and actually be with The World Needs Now’. He explained to NME: them.” Meanwhile, Joss recently held up production on her new album, “The toilet was broken and we had to get it ‘Water For Your Soul’, to ensure a packet of wild flower seeds was attached to repaired and from a basic family row it turned every disc. She told the Mail on Sunday newspaper: “I had said that was what into quite a genius idea for a song. “It’s uplifting, I wanted but I discovered that once everything was ready there were no like a good argument can be. I like getting some- flower seeds. I wasn’t going to let them go out without them.” thing off my chest, not harbouring any resent- ment. “It’s the most powerful thing you can do, especially when there’s resolution at the end of it. Absolutely.” Despite his decades in the music “We’re a great bunch of people that really do like industry, the former Sex Pistols star believes the each other. And that helps. “I always thought that wants to be new album is his best-ever work. He said: “The being in a band meant animosity was the driving Lamar record is excellent. “To my mind, this is the best force, but that turned out not to be true. “I thing I’ve ever done.” And the veteran rocker learned that when we got back together in 2009 compared to Dylan believes the key to PiL’s lasting success is the and the energy has remained ever since, vibrant.” closeness between himself and bandmates Lu endrick Lamar wants to be compared with Bob Dylan, Jimi Edmonds, Scott Firth and Bruce Smith. He said: Hendrix and The Beatles. The 28-year-old rapper’s latest Kalbum, ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’, has received widespread criti- cal acclaim and he hopes the record will go down in history as a classic. He told NME magazine: “I wanted this record to be talked about the same was Bob Dylan or The Beatles or Jimi Hendrix are talked about.”When my time has come, I want it to live longer than me, for the grandkids and their kids.” The ‘Alright’ hitmaker Bieber doubted career in music previously sparked controversy with remarks he made following the police killing of Michael Brown that sparked civil unrest last summer - when he called for black people to have more respect ustin Bieber never thought he’d have a the world to see it, and growing up, I actu- for themselves - but he insists he would never “apologize” for any career in music. The ‘As Long As You ally used to busk on the street. I’d play my of his actions because whatever he does is his destiny. He said of JLove Me’ hitmaker - who was discov- guitar, sing, and people would throw mon- the row: “I don’t care. My life is already written. Everything I’m ered through YouTube in 2008 - has admit- ey in the case. “That was really fun, and I Jonas doing is a rerun of what God already played out for me - I don’t do ted he never thought about becoming a actually got enough money to bring my wants babies no apologies. “Everything I said, I meant - period. Those who get musician for a living. He said: “Honestly, it mom to Florida to go to Disney World, it, they understand. Those are the people that need it. “If you was never something that I was going to do because I always wanted to go but we nev- to be made to his music don’t, then obviously you’re not going through that, so you don’t for a living. At 13 you’re not even thinking er had enough money.” really care.” about that, you know? “I was just playing ick Jonas wants people to make babies to his music. The for fun and uploading videos on YouTube ‘Chains’ singer has cultivated a sexier image since because I wanted to show my family. That’s Nembarking on a solo career away from his Jonas Brothers when [my manager] Scooter [Braun] found siblings and bandmates and would be “really proud” if he heard me.” And the 21-year-old singer cites a couple had conceived while playing his album as a sound- Michael Jackson and Boyz II Men as his track to their bedroom antics. Asked if he has heard of “any main musical inspirations growing up. He babies being made” to his music, he said: “Not yet but I’m down added: “I listened to a lot of Michael for that.”I’d be thrilled if there were some babies made to my Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I music. I’d be really proud, it would be an honor.” The ‘Jealous’ hit- loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was maker admits he initially worried that his fans wouldn’t always that kid who just wore whatever and “embrace” his new musical direction, but he is delighted with did whatever. “And my mom always sup- the response so far. He said “The album features songs about ported that. So I always looked up to things that are relevant and important to me, and at this point Michael because he was never afraid to just in my life, some of that has to do with some sexier topics.”It was be himself, never tried to be anything that a big concern that maybe people wouldn’t embrace what I was he wasn’t.” The star also opened up about doing now, but they’ve connected with it very quickly. I feel his early days in music, where he earned very blessed.” To go alongside his more mature sound, Nick has enough money busking to take his mother posed for some raunchy photoshoots but is conscious not to to Disney World in Florida. He told pose for too many sexy pictures as he doesn’t want to “annoy” Interview magazine: “I grew up in a really people. He told heat magazine: “I was very conscious of the fact rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 that, if I stripped off every time, it could become annoying. “I’ve people. There’s a big festival thrown in the really tried to be aware of that. I don’t want that to be what town. A lot of people travel from all over people think of when they hear my name. It’s just a piece of the puzzle, not the whole thing.” lifestyle TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

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Fisher ‘to write Star Wars book’ arrie Fisher is to write a book about ‘Star Wars’. cal, raunchy script about what making ‘Star Wars’ was so as soon as she hands it over they’ll option it to stu- The 58-year-old actress - who starred as Princess really like.” Carrie had several on-set bust-ups with ‘Star dios, with Disney and Lucasfilm getting first read.” CLeia in the original trilogy - has kept detailed Wars’ creator George Lucas over his desire for her to Carrie is set to reprise the role of Princess Leia in ‘Star notes of her on-set experiences and is set to transform wear a bra under her costume, and such stories are Wars: The Force Awakens’, which will open in them into a book. A source explained: “Carrie kept thought to be perfect for the new book. The source December. diaries throughout the filming and has a note of every- told The Sun newspaper: “They think it could be really thing. “Now she’s making her memoirs into a book funny, as nobody would expect it to have been so wild about ‘Star Wars’, movie execs want her to write a satiri- between cast and crew. “Carrie’s written scripts before,

Sam Mendes: Freeman set for Directing Bond movie ‘ambiguous’ Captain is ‘lifestyle choice’ America role am Mendes says directing a James Bond movie is a artin Freeman’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’ char- “lifestyle choice”. The 49-year-old filmmaker - who is acter is “ambiguous”. The 43-year-old actor has Scurrently at the helm of the franchise’s latest install- Mrevealed details about his role in the upcoming ment ‘Spectre’ - has insisted he has no plans to direct the Marvel film - set for release next May - and claimed the movie’s sequel. Speaking of the “enormous undertaking” audience won’t know “whether he’s good or bad”. Martin that is a Bond movie, he shared: “I don’t think I could go told Bad Taste: “He works for the American government. He down that road again. You do have to put everything else works in conjunction with the superheroes, and certain on hold. [It] really is more a lifestyle choice than a job. “This agencies that help to tame the superheroes’ power, I sup- is a bigger movie than ‘Skyfall’. It’s shot in more places - we pose. So you’re not quite sure which side he’s on. It looks a were in Mexico City and Tangiers and northern Sahara and little bit like he’s playing one game when actually he’s play- Rome and the Alps and London.” Sam also revealed the ing another. “It’s the kind of character I like because it’s film’s title song had been finished and insisted fans would- ambiguous and because you don’t know whether he’s n’t have to “wait long” to hear the track. He told BBC Radio’s good or bad. I like that area that isn’t black or white, I like Test Match Special: “I can say that the song’s been recorded the grays, because I think there’s just more fun to be had in and it’s fantastic and I’m very excited about it. You won’t not playing one obvious line.” ‘Captain America: Civil War’ have to wait long.” Meanwhile, ‘Lay Me Down’ hitmaker picks up where ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ left off, as Captain Sam Smith - who was once rumored to have been given America - played by Chris Evans - leads the new team of the honor of recording the track - has insisted it “definitely” Avengers in their continued efforts to save the world. won’t be him. He said: “It’s definitely not me. People seem Martin and Chris will be joined in the film - directed by to think I’m doing it but I have no idea what’s going on. I Anthony and Joe Russo - by all the ‘Avengers’ stars, includ- heard Ellie Goulding was going to do it, it’s definitely not ing Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Bettany, me. “I would do it if I was asked. I would do it in a heart- Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, as well as Marvel’s beat. And I could do it and it would be great, but I’m not a most recent character ‘Ant-Man’, played by Paul Rudd. The star and for that you have to be a big star. You have to be eagerly-awaited movie will also see the debut of Marvel’s someone in America.” new Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland.

ichael Cera will voice Robin in ‘Lego omic book writer Grant Morrison Batman’. The ‘Juno’ star has signed on Diane Keaton: Grant Morrison thinks Zack Snyder’s version of Mto appear as Batman’s partner-in- Michael CWonder Woman betrays the char- crime in the animated film, which is Warner acter’s roots. Grant, 55, is currently writ- Bros.’ spin-off of 2014’s critical and commer- Woody Allen blasts Gal Gadot’s ing his graphic novel ‘Wonder Woman: cial smash, ‘The Lego Movie’. The 27-year-old Cera for Earth One’ and said he didn’t want to do actor’s ‘Arrested Development’ co-star Will the “warrior woman thing” with the char- Arnett will voice Batman, with many other is a miracle Wonder Woman acter, like the Snyder-directed ‘Batman v people from the team behind the first film Lego Batman Superman: Dawn of Justice’ movie returning for the production. Safekeepers for iane Keaton has hailed Woody Allen a “miracle”. The appears set to do. He told Nerdist: “I can the Lego screen brand Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Roy 69-year-old actress and the famous director, 79, understand why they’re doing it, I get all Lee and Christopher Miller will produce the Dstarred together in the 1977 hit movie ‘Annie Hall’ - that, but that’s not what [Wonder film while ‘The Lego Movie’s animation super- about a comedian (Woody) and out-of-work singer (Diane) Woman creator] William Marston want- visor Chris McKay has been brought on board who fall in and out of love - nearly three decades ago and ed, that’s not what he wanted at all! ... to direct. Skilled writer Seth Grahame-Smith Diane was stunned to hear that her former lover and friend “You see the latest shots of Gal Gadot in has also penned the script for the movie, hav- was working on yet another star-studded film. She said: ing recently been announced as the screen- the costume, and it’s all sword and shield “It’s not possible!”He’s really astonishing. He’s one of the and her snarling at the camera. Marston’s writer for the much-anticipated ‘Beetlejuice 2’. most astonishing people in showbusiness, ever. He’s had Meanwhile, Michael - who is known for his Diana was a doctor, a healer, a scientist. more power over his movies than anyone for a longer roles in ‘Superbad’, ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ “So I went back to those roots and just and ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’ - is also amount of time than anyone. He’s a miracle.” Woody has built it up again.” Meanwhile, Gal recent- currently working on Seth Rogen’s star-stud- won four Oscars and nine BAFTAs in his career spanning 50 ly rubbished claims she’s not suited to ded animated ensemble ‘Sausage Party’ years and is yet to slow down - having drafted Joaquin the role of Wonder Woman because she alongside Paul Rudd, James Franco and Salma Phoenix and Emma Stone for his latest movie release doesn’t have a large enough bust to play Hayek, due to be release next August. ‘Irrational Man’ and Bruce Willis, Blake Lively and Kristen the superhero. However, Gal insisted Elsewhere, he has personally acquired the Stewart for his new, currently untitled, picture that starts she’s not majorly fussed by the criticism, film rights to Charles Portis’ 1985 novel filming in August. Diane told The Independent newspaper: saying she’s learned to laugh it off. She ‘Masters of Atlantis’, following a man who “I used to say to him that he was the cockroach you said: “Well, they said that I was too skin- becomes embroiled in a quasi-religious cult, couldn’t kill! This guy is stronger than you think. Most peo- ny and my boobs were too small. I’m which he aims to write, star in and direct. ple look at him and think, ‘Oh, he’s Woody Allen, he’s shy.’ really lucky nothing in my life was He’s a rock!” instantaneous. “When I was younger I would take criticism really hard. But now it mostly amuses me. The true Amazons had one boob so it wouldn’t bother them in their archery. So it’s not going to be like I’m a real Amazon. We always try Armitage to make everyone happy but we can’t.” and Moss Kravitz

ichard Armitage and Carrie-Anne too ‘urban’ for Brain Moss will star alongside Chloe Grace RMoretz in ‘Brain On Fire’ The ‘The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies’ star and for Batman ‘The Matrix’ actress are the latest cast mem- On Fire bers to be announced for the Charlize oe Kravitz was too “urban” to star in ‘The Theron-produced real-life drama, which is Dark Knight Rises’. The ‘Mad Max: Fury scheduled for release in 2016. The film is an ZRoad’ actress has revealed she wasn’t able adaptation of New York Post journalist to audition for a small role in the blockbuster Susannah Cahalan’s critically-acclaimed film. She explained: “In the last Batman movie, memoir, ‘Brain On Fire: My Month Of they told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a Madness’, and follows her own experiences small role they were casting because they of being diagnosed with an unknown ill- weren’t ‘going urban’. “It was like, ‘What does ness, which led people to believe she was that have to do with anything?’ I have to play psychotic and a danger, according to The the role like, ‘Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s going on wit chu?’” Despite this, in the past, Hollywood Reporter. It has been revealed Zoe’s acting talents have made some filmmak- that Richard will play the father of ers rework their characters to have her take up Susannah, Tom Cahalan, while Carrie-Anne the role. Speaking of 2007’s ‘The Brave One’, she will play the role of the mother, Rhona Nack. said: “[My] part was written for a white Russian Meanwhile, Chloe - one of Hollywood rising girl. I auditioned, and they changed the role for stars - will play the movie’s central character me.” And the 26-year-old beauty had admitted who begins to hear voices and experience she didn’t identify with black culture as a young seizures, which eventually leads to insanity. girl. She shared to Nylon magazine: “I identified As for the production, ‘Glassland’ filmmaker with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn’t Gerard Barrett will be directing from identify with black culture, like, I didn’t like Tyler Vancouver, and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’s’ Perry movies, and I wasn’t into hip-hop music. Charlize will be taking on producing duties “[But] black culture is so much deeper than that through her own production company ... Then I got older and listed to A Tribe Called Denver & Delilah. Quest and watched films with Sidney Poitier, and heard Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. I had to un-brainwash myself. It’s my mission, espe- cially as an actress.”— Bang Showbiz lifestyle TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

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llen DeGeneres shares the “same values” as Gap. The 57- year-old chat show host and her lifestyle brand ED have Eteamed up with the retailer on a new children’s collec- tion named GapKids x ED and she’s revealed she loves work- ing with them because of their principles and standards. She said: “Gap has always encouraged people to be themselves, and I love that they have the same values that I have: to be true to who you are and to wear cute pants. “I know from my own experience that nothing makes you feel better than being who you are and celebrating what makes you unique. I think if we shine a light on real girls doing incredible things, that’ll encourage other girls and boys to do incredible things, and that’ll encourage even more people to do incredible things, and eventually the world will be a more incredible place.” Pieces from the collection - which are mod- eled by a pro-Skateboarder, a young entrepreneur, a profes- sional drummer, and a 9-year-old engineer of prosthetic hands - will feature lightning bolts to depict power and speech bubbles to represent words of encouragement. Although the collection focuses on clothing for girls, there will also be a small assortment of apparel for boys and adults. Ellen said in a statement: “I think it’s important to teach boys at a young age to respect girls and their ideas. It’s like Aretha Franklin spelled, R-E-S-P-E-C-D. By the way, we have some really amazing boys clothes in the collection. We In this July 19, 2015 file photo, Filipinos dance during a Zumba class as they attempt to break a Guinness world record in sub- believe in equal opportunity cuteness.” The collection will be urban Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines. Guinness representative Alan Pixley announced that Mandaluyong city in available on gap.com and in GapKids stores worldwide in the Philippines now holds the new world record for the title largest Zumba class with a total participant of 12,975. — AP August.— Bang Showbiz Ellen DeGeneres New York Fashion week

Models display creations of Perry Ellis during the New York Fashion Week Men’s in New York. — AFP photos Models display creations by Grungy Gentleman.

Rihanna Lily-Rose is contributing Depp is creative director of new face Stance of Chanel

Lily-Rose Depp ihanna has signed up as contribut- Rihanna is currently the creative direc- Rihanna ily-Rose Depp is the new face of MailOnline: “Sixteen-year-olds are not men- ing creative director of Stance. The tor for sportswear label Puma and Chanel. The 16-year-old model - who tally, emotionally or intellectually able to 27-year-old singer has teamed up enjoyed a design partnership with high Lis one of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ cope with the pressures that these model- R actor Johnny Depp’s two children with ex- ing situations place them in. I would not with the US-based sock brand and street chain River Island. The ‘Diamonds’ partner Vanessa Paradis - appeared in the allow my daughter to become a model at released two limited-edition sets of over- hitmaker is also due to launch her own promotional video for the luxury brand’s that age. “I don’t think children are ready to the-knee and crew socks emblazoned fashion label $CHOOL KILLS soon, and is new eyewear range wearing a pair of pearl- take on the pressures at that age. Research with a print entitled Murder Rih Wrote. planning on making fashion her “focus” studded sunglasses and sporting a dark red shows that even 16-year-olds who think Only 1,500 sets have been produced, all rather than music. lip. The label’s fashion designer, Karl they are grown up find it difficult to handle of which are individually numbered, and The ‘SOS’ singer’s company Roraj Trade Largerfield said: “[Lily-Rose is a] baby doll in pressures of grown ups. Rihanna is “happy” to be working on the LLC registered and trademarked a world imbued with sweetness and femi- “We know the effects, by and large, are project. ‘$CHOOL KILLS’ in New York under the ninity. Lily-Rose is ravishing, she is a girl not good.” Lily-Rose is certainly not the first The ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker said: “I’ve had categories ‘leather products’ and ‘cloth- from the new generation with star quali- model to kick off her career at such a a great relationship with Stance for a ing products’ in May. A source previously ties.” It’s no surprise Lily has a good rela- young age, however, as supermodel Kate long time and ˝I am happy to be working said: “$CHOOL KILLS will be an acces- tionship with Karl as her mother Vanessa Moss was famously discovered by an agent with them on such a fun and creative sories range covering everything from has been an ambassador for the brand when she was just 14 years old. Chanel’s project. This is an exciting new venture.” tote bags to purses and, later on, fash- since the early 90s. latest eyewear collection will be available The brand will be stocked on Asos from ion.”She still loves the music and it’s what However, her father has been criticized in September. — Bang Showbiz September 1, which is when the full launched her, but this is her focus right for allowing his teenage daughter to “pose extent of the creative partnership will be now.”— Bang Showbiz seductively” for the luxury brand. Child psy- revealed. chologist Dr Michelle Elliott told lifestyle TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015

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This loft decorated by Flynn demonstrates the designer use of electric, vintage pieces to make a space feel unique Designer Brian Patrick Flynn creates relaxed interiors for his clients by meticulously editing all furnishings down and collected. to a mix of shapes, scale, materials and finishes. Sweat the details like doorknobs and handles n many homes, these hardware items are mostly modern kitchens or for adding dark contrast to an ignored. Interior doors may have mismatched, otherwise light and bright space. The matte finish Iinexpensive knobs that were installed at different helps camouflage any scratches or smudges you’d times. Drawers and cabinets may have functional but deal with on glossy black pulls and knobs.” Another unappealing knobs or bars. dramatic favorite of Flynn’s: unlacquered iron. It’s a small thing, often overlooked amid major items like furniture and paint colors when you’re dec- Upgrades and changes orating a room. But don’t underestimate the power of Burnham and her staff recently gave a preteen household hardware. These small items - doorknobs, girl’s bedroom a more grown-up look by “changing drawer pulls, cabinet-door handles - are “the jewelry” the vibe from kind of old-fashioned to Bohemian.” that can add style and sparkle to any space, says New Their changes included a new set of striped, bone- York-based interior designer Young Huh. Just as the inlay knobs from Anthropologie that gave the furni- right necklace can turn a simple dress into a fashion ture a funky appeal. The same approach can make statement, a striking new set of knobs on an old cabi- grown-up furniture look just right for a baby or child’s net, or vintage crystal doorknobs can bring a huge room: If you are turning a guest room into a nursery, dose of style to your home with minimal expense, she Burnham says, change the cabinetry hardware to says. something “sweet or pink or shiny,” or choose knobs In many homes, these hardware items are mostly shaped like birds or other animals. ignored. Interior doors may have mismatched, inex- If you’re shopping, Huh suggests hunting for an pensive knobs that were installed at different times. affordable piece of furniture and then making it look Drawers and cabinets may have functional but unap- more expensive by adding dramatic hardware. The pealing knobs or bars. range of available styles is enormous, and shopping Swapping these items out is often easy, and Los for new or vintage items online is easy. Even if you’d Angeles-based designer Betsy Burnham says her prefer to buy in person, Burnham says a bit of online clients are frequently surprised at the visual impact of research “makes your creativity kind of percolate a lit- something as simple as carefully chosen hardware. tle bit.” Last summer, she added door pulls made of rope tied “Just pay attention to dimensions,” she warns, in small nautical knots to the built-in cabinets at a because you “may not realize that in person, an inch- California beach house, inexpensively adding a dash and-a-half sphere is quite large.” Measure the size and of personality to the space. location of the holes left behind by your current hard- Here, three interior-design experts - Huh, Burnham ware, she says. If you buy replacements that don’t and designer Brian Patrick Flynn of Flynnside Out match, drill new holes and fill the old ones. And amid Productions - offer advice on choosing the right hard- all the focus on style, do choose hardware that is easy ware and using it to coordinate the look of a home. to grab and use. Designer Brian Patrick Flynn decorated this living room with Designer Flynn added cool, coastal charm to this Los Angeles soft neutral tones including mossy green and pale pink, and Trends Consistent or contrasting bedroom by packing it with casual, forgiving fabrics such as he kept the furniture light and casual by sticking with breath- One of the most popular styles now is lacquered or Take note of all the hardware and metals in a linen and cotton. The bold blues and vibrant pinks are bal- aged brass. “Ten years ago,” Huh says, “it was all about room, including lamp bases, and decide whether you able fabrics such as cotton and linen. — AP photos anced with a use of neutral sand tones. nickel: brushed nickel, shiny nickel. Now it’s the resur- want them to match or whether you’d like to inject gence of brass.” Designers are using “bold tones, and some dramatic contrast. Either method works, as long Get crafty Stretch your fabric across the door and attach it with things that look worn,” she says, by installing unlac- as it’s done deliberately. “If you don’t do it conscious- “In addition to pulls and knobs, I think nailheads staples. Finally, place nailheads over the staples and quered brass that tarnishes over the course of a year, ly,” Huh says, “then it could all look really messy.” can make a huge impact in a space,” Flynn says. “After secure in place with a mallet or hammer. or paying extra for “pre-antiqued” brass that already “You don’t want to have shiny brass in one case updating cabinets and drawers, I’ll also give closet or “Although it may seem small, hardware can make has a colorful patina. and unlacquered in another and nickel hardware on interior doors a unique look by adding a nailhead bor- the biggest impact of all elements in a space,” Flynn Flynn uses a lot of brass, especially “satin or something else,” she continues. “Having similar tones der around the perimeter. This can elevate a basic hall says. “With so many styles and finishes to choose from antique finishes, because they’re more sophisticated is a good way to start. When you feel more expert, closet into an architectural feature.” You can buy nail- and so many available price points, there’s no reason and less formal than polished, glossy styles.” In addi- then mix metals.” In a kitchen, “your finishes should heads at a craft store, or roofing tacks from a hard- not to update hardware regularly to give a room a tion, “a newer option I’m seeing and totally love is probably match,” Burnham says. “You wouldn’t want ware store. Then cut fabric batting to size and use fresh new look.”— AP matte black hardware,” he says. “This is excellent for the finishes to be fighting just a little.” spray adhesive to cover the door with the batting.

Knotted rope drawer pulls add a casual, nauti- Striped drawer and door pulls neatly echo the A closet door by Brian Patrick Flynn demon- Photo provided by Burnham Design, sleek, Photo provided by Burnham Design, vintage- cal style to a simple white dresser in a guest chevron-patterned mirror in this residential strates the designer’s love of turning contrac- half-moon metal drawer pulls that evoke look ceramic and silver-toned faucet and room designed by Burnham Design. bathroom designed by Burnham Design. tor grade materials into high design with the Chinese design are a perfect complement to white ceramic cabinet door pulls are a perfect- addition of fabric, satin brass pulls and the assorted international knickknacks on this ly casual, unpretentious match for the plaid perimeter outlines with brass nailheads. built-in cabinet designed by Burnham Design. window shade and wood-paneled walls in this residential bathroom. — AP photos How to balance gorgeous style with relaxing comfort t’s a difficult compromise: Many of us want our homes to Go soft Personal pieces “you’ve just got to edit it all with a keen eye and a strong empha- look as stylish and carefully designed as the ones we see in Choose “seating that is comfortable enough to spend Relaxed rooms include items that have personal meaning, sis on mixing shapes, textures, sheens and patterns.” Huh agrees: Idecorating magazines. But we also want them to be com- the entire day lounging,” Huh says, with plenty of pillows, such as heirlooms that might be worn or tattered by time. “Attention to detail will keep a room from looking sloppy.” fortable and easy to enjoy. “A relaxed lifestyle is something peo- throws and ottomans. Use slipcovers rather than struc- “Homeowners love when I incorporate special pieces that they ple want more and more, and their homes are reflecting that,” tured upholstery, and opt for durable, touchable fabrics already own into their ‘new design,’” Jackson says. “Whether it’s a Functional style says New YorkCity-based designer Young Huh. like washable cotton, stonewashed linen or soft burlap. familiar wooden box placed in the bookcase or a framed black Think about how you’ll be using a space, and then choose fur- “The old rules of formal living, and therefore decorating, are For even more softness, layer smaller rugs ontop of a and white photo from eras past, items of sentimental value that niture that will work for you. If you’ll be watching movies, consider disappearing. People want to have dinner parties with mis- larger one. To add a burst of style, Los Angeles-based mingle with more modern and fresh accessories easily make a a sectional sofa where the whole family can camp out together. If matched dishes, and candles and flowers that are casually and interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn suggests choosing room feel special. A well-curated collection of books adds won- you’ll entertain often, consider swivel chairs that make conversa- imperfectly arranged. They’re looking to enjoy themselves some bold, graphic stripes rather than solid-colored fab- ders and layers of personality to a room, too.” tion easier. It’s all about your convenience: Locate side tables more and impress less,” Huh says. Designer Kate Jackson, based rics. Vintage items are “like buying that perfectly comfortable worn where you’ll put down drinks. And if you’ll be reading, place light- in Rhode Island, gets the same message from her clients. “I am “Relaxed interiors don’t always involve soft, muted col- pair of jeans without having to break them in for years,” Huh says. ing exactly where you’ll need it. You might even want to rethink a typically asked to create a space that can be used more by fami- ors and neutrals. They can be packed with color and still “Imperfect, worn things in a room make you feel that you can room’s purpose: “I’ve had clients ask me to repurpose their formal ly and friends,” she says, and to “lose whatever formality lives be laid back and casual,” says Flynn. “I’m a huge fan of an touch everything and can withstand the wear and tear of a life dining rooms to create a relaxed space that can be used on a daily there.” all-white backdrop with tons of saturated color intro- that’s being fully lived. “With personal mementoes and hand-me- basis,” Jackson says. — AP How do you pack a room with gorgeous style but also make duced with old objects like canvas flags, old maps, and downs, consider scale - not too many huge items or too many it a place where you can comfortably kick back? Some advice even torn and tattered handmade rugs,” he says. “When small ones - and combine colors or styles that work well together. from interior designers on achieving that perfect middleground the bold color is introduced with texture and character, it “When you’ve got a bunch of meaningful items which aren’t - gorgeous, relaxed style: adds a collected feel, almost like a sense of history.” from the same period or in a common color scheme,” Flynn says, Fisher ‘to write Star Wars book’

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A Nepalese Muslim boy reacts to the camera as he waits to offer prayers on Eid Al-Fitr at a mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday. Millions of Muslims across the world are celebrating the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. — AP

AC/DC’s Phil Rudd accused of breaking court booze ban C/DC drummer Phil Rudd was back in court in New I’m not your headmaster, I’m not your father, I’m a judge,” and threatening his life. He allegedly offered the associate Zealand yesterday, accused of ignoring an alcohol Ingram said at the time. “NZ$200,000 ($130,000), a motorbike, one of his cars or a Aban imposed when he was convicted earlier this He added: “The temptations of the rock star lifestyle have house”. When police raided Rudd’s waterfront mansion in month of threatening to kill an employee. The 61-year-old caused your downfall.” Rudd made no comment to reporters November, they found 0.478 grams (0.017 ounces) of rocker appeared in Tauranga District Court after spending as he left the court wearing a leather jacket with AC/DC methamphetamine and 91 grams (3.21 ounces) of cannabis. most of the weekend behind bars following his arrest on emblazoned on the back. However, his position with the leg- He pleaded guilty to drug possession and threatening to Saturday night at his North Island mansion. He entered no endary band appears tenuous as he has been replaced on kill, receiving a sentence of eight months home detention, plea to a charge of breaking the conditions of his home the current “Rock or Bust” world tour by Briton Chris Slade. which he is appealing. Australian-born Rudd initially faced detention sentence by allegedly possessing and consuming His conviction also means Rudd will face difficulty travelling another charge of “attempting to procure murder”, but it was alcohol. internationally once his sentence is complete. dropped after prosecutors decided there was insufficient Rudd was granted bail to reappear on August 3 and Rudd’s legal woes stem from threats made to his former evidence. Rudd first joined AC/DC in 1975 and left in 1983, ordered to undergo random drug and alcohol testing. security chief last year. He was allegedly upset about poor only to return 11 years later. He was part of the AC/DC line- During his sentencing on July 9, judge Thomas Ingram organization at a function to launch his solo album “Head up inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and File photo shows former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd leaves warned Rudd he would be jailed if he did not curb his wild- Job” in August, calling an associate four weeks later to say he that won a Grammy for best hard rock performance with the the District Court after being sentenced to 8 months home man ways. “I stone cold guarantee that’s where you’ll end up. wanted the ex-employee “taken out”, then phoning the man band for “War Machine” in 2010. — AFP detention in Tauranga, New Zealand. — AFP

Meet the women from ‘U.N.C.L.E.’

ou might say Alicia Vikander and The actresses made their first trip to Elizabeth Debicki danced their way into Comic-Con in San Diego earlier this month to Y“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Both are former promote the film and Vikander was taken by ballerinas who drew on dance backgrounds for the enthusiastic fandom. “That’s what I love their roles in Guy Ritchie’s latest action romp. “I about this place!” said the actress, who was know I used it when I was creating my charac- born in Sweden. “Because everyone is the ter,” Debicki said. “She’s a villain, but I always had sweetest. Everyone is walking around with this idea that she sort of almost floated.” smiles on their faces, and so passionate. Perry “Buddy” Buie Vikander, 26, and Debicki, 24, star alongside Dedicated fans. It’s really amazing being here Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer in “The Man and seeing that.” Asked what kind of conven- From U.N.C.L.E.,” Ritchie’s slick take on the tion might lure her across the world, Vikander Songwriter, music beloved 1960s TV series. Vikander is a feisty car laughed. I’m such a nerd when it comes to mechanic who gets caught up in a caper with a interiors, so I would probably go and look at CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Cavill) and KGB oper- chairs in another country,” she said. “But I don’t producer ‘Buddy’ Buie ative Illya Kuryakin (Hammer). Debicki is the vil- think that a chair convention would be with as lainess they’re trying to take down. much passionate people as Comic-Con.” “I’d be dies in Alabama Both actresses said Ritchie’s film set was a at the refrigerator convention,” Debicki joked. collaborative and relaxed environment, “Coming from a dance background, I would erry “Buddy” Buie, a songwriter and producer who though Debicki is convinced “Guy’s brain probably travel out really far and wide to see a helped form the Atlanta Rhythm Section and then fuel works at a different pace (than) most human company I really wanted to see. If Pina Pits success with the lyrics he wrote for the band, has beings’.” She and Vikander were both surprised Bausch’s company were in a forest some- died. He was 74. Buie died Saturday, said Chip Chapman, own- by the final film. “He cut it in a way that only where...” “I’m there!” Vikander said. “The Man er of Chapman Funeral Home in Eufaula, Alabama, which is Guy can, and he added a soundtrack that only From U.N.C.L.E.” opens Aug 14. — AP Guy could imagine,” the French-born Debicki handling arrangements. A memorial service is planned for 1 This photo provided by Warner Bros Pictures shows, Henry Cavill, left, as Napoleon Solo, pm CDT today at First Baptist Church in Eufaula, the funeral said. “So we both had the same experience when we watched the film, like, ‘Oh, that was and Elizabeth Debicki as Victoria in Warner Bros Pictures’ action adventure ‘The Man from home said. U.N.C.L.E.,’ a Warner Bros. — AP Singer Rodney Justo, one of the band’s original members, what we made.’” remembers how Buie brought him and other musicians together to form the Atlanta Rhythm Section in the early 1970s. “He calls me one day, and he says ‘I have an idea Rodney, and I’d like you to be a part of it,’” Justo recalled on Sunday. “He said ‘I want to get all the top musicians in the Want to speak Australian? Just abbreviate South, put them together and build a super group.” “Atlanta Rhythm Section was Buddy’s dream,” Justo added. ravelling to Australia and want to fit in? Or just trying to Hawkins, a pastor who works with young adults. Another ans. There is less confusion with the word beer, but as he “He wanted a band that he could produce, manage, write understand your mates from Down Under? The Sydney essential would be understanding what Australians call a notes that “if you drink it out of the tin can, it’s a ‘tinny’”. songs for and to be a vehicle for his songs.” The band had wide Tpastor behind a video that has gone viral explaining pub. “There’s a few options: you can just call it ‘the local’. So, Hawkins said he had been surprised by the huge influence, and “they helped define the Southern Rock genre the local lingo might be able to help. Josh Hawkins put the ‘Heading down to the local for a bevvy’ (that’s a beverage),” response to the video, which was retweeted by Gillard who with other bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd,” according to Buie’s three-minute clip entitled “How to speak Australian: said Hawkins. described it as “hilarious!” However, she noted it omitted biography in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Though Buie is Abbreviate Everything” on YouTube a week ago and since “But also you can call it the ‘tav’, that’s short for tavern, the “chuck a sickie” which means to take a sick day off work. known for his work with the Atlanta Rhythm Section, he has then it has been viewed more than 130,000 times and even ‘bowlo’, that’s short for bowling club, or the ‘arrie’, that’s short “She’s probably the queen of Aussie slang actually,” he admit- also written or co-written numerous hits performed by artists drawn praise from former Australian prime minister Julia for the RSL,” he added in reference to the Returned and ted. “Some of the stuff that she comes out with is what we such as Carlos Santana (the song “Stormy”); Gloria Estefan Gillard. Services League of Australia, which has hundreds of estab- like to call a bit bogan (uncouth). I think she’s said in the (“Traces”); and Garth Brooks (“Mr. Midnight”), according to the Hawkins said yesterday the key to speaking Aussie is to lishments around the country that serve the country’s veter- past... ‘Yeah, come down with the family, have a gawk, have a Alabama Music Hall of Fame. shorten words where possible-a practice which means that gander at what’s going on’. “So that basically means have a Buie, a native of Dothan, Alabama, was once Roy Orbison’s even Australia itself is condensed to “Straya”. “There wasn’t a look and enjoy whatever it was she was talking about.” road manager, Justo said. Over the years, Buie created many of lot of thought behind it to be honest,” he told AFP of the Hawkins said there were many words he had to leave out, his songs in a small fishing trailer on a creek in the Eufaula video. “I just thought that it would be interesting to see how and obviously swear words were not acceptable. But for their area, according to the biography, which credits him with writ- many abbreviations we could come up with ... that everyday next video he’s considering names. “We don’t call anyone by ing or co-writing hundreds of songs. Eddie Owen, a longtime Aussies use.” Simple words such as football, biscuit and their actual name. It’s either a variation of their last name or music promoter in the Atlanta area, said “I don’t think there chocolate become “footy”, “biccy” and “choccy”-and the gen- something out of left field. So I would be known as ‘Hawko’ are many ‘native’ Atlantans over 40 that weren’t influenced by eral response has been amazement at how many common because my last name is Hawkins.”— AFP his songs and work.” Though he was involved in many aspects words are shortened in everyday use. of the music business, “Buddy wanted to be a songwriter- “For anyone who’s visiting, an essential is ‘G’day, how ya that’s his thing,” said Justo, 70, who first met him more than 50 going?’. You can have a full conversation with just that,” said years ago.—AP