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NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia: The Saudi-led “Decisive Storm” air campaign targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen is over, a Crown Prince: Turmoil undermining security spokesman for the coalition said yesterday, but a new phase aimed at preventing the rebels from operating is KUWAIT: HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh beginning. The announcement suggested that the near- Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday warned ly month-long campaign of heavy airstrikes would be that grave political and security tensions in the region scaled down, but the spokesman, Brig Gen Ahmed Asiri, and the world at large “pose a threat to our existence, did not say they would stop. He said the coalition would undermine our security and draw attention away from continue to interdict rebel movements and protect civil- essential issues”. Sheikh Nawaf made his statements dur- ians, without specifying how. ing the opening ceremony of Kuwait’s heads of missions’ Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh, Asiri said conference yesterday at Bayan Palace under auspices of the campaign’s objectives have been met as the rebels’ HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. military capabilities had been destroyed, and that the The Crown Prince referred to regional events over operation would cease at midnight (2100 GMT). He says the past few years, known as the “Arab Spring”, which he the rebels, known as Houthis, no longer pose a danger said drove the region into sophisticated calculations. to civilians and that the new phase, called “Renewal of “But today,” he said, “we are ushering in a new stage to Hope”, will focus on rebuilding the country while deny- adjust our course making use of past experiences and ing the rebels operational movement, protecting civil- facing powers that target our security, stability and ians, and supporting evacuation and relief operations. interests.” He stressed the role of Kuwaiti diplomatic mis- “To implement this we will continue to have our sions overseas is to “convey to the world the bright operation,” he said. “Inside a city like Aden we will con- image of their country that enjoys democracy and free- tinue to protect civilians to prevent these militias from dom”, and whose diplomacy is based on constants of sustaining their operations,” he said, referring to the international legitimacy as well as enforcing the basis of southern port city which has seen fierce fighting in peace. recent weeks. Asiri added that Saudi Arabia’s ground According to Sheikh Nawaf, Kuwait’s heads of mis- and naval forces would continue to guard its border sions have to affirm to the world that their country is with Yemen and interdict any shipments to the rebels, keen on fulfilling its humanitarian commitments, and he did not rule out future airstrikes against them. responding to efforts by the international community Iran welcomed the announcement, saying it was a to defend and maintain human rights and back sustain- “step forward” to reaching a political settlement in the able development. country. “The establishment of a ceasefire and a stop to On Yemen, he said that the recent events in the the killing of innocent and defenseless people is a step country threaten security and stability of the region, forward,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh besides being a warning sign of grave consequences. Afkham said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency. He stressed the momentousness of the Gulf The US-backed campaign by Saudi Arabia and its Cooperation Council’s initiative and its executive mech- KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (center) is received at the airport yes- allies, mainly Gulf Arab countries, is aimed at crushing anism, approved by all Yemeni powers and the UN terday by HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (left), National Assembly the Houthis and allied military units loyal to a former Security Council. Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem (right) and other senior officials after he returned home after a private vis- autocrat, who have taken over Sanaa and much of Continued on Page 13 it to Germany and Morocco. — KUNA northern Yemen. Continued on Page 13 Jaber Stadium to be ready by yearend All approvals for Jaber Bridge secured By B Izzak and Agencies oil sector’s approvals, Minister of Public Works and Minister of Electricity and Water Egyptian poet KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Ahmad Al-Jassar said yesterday. The minis- State Minister for Youth and Sports Sheikh ter was responding to a question raised by Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah said yester- an MP regarding allegations that Jaber Abnoudi dies day that Jaber Stadium will be ready for Bridge has been constructed on an oil well opening by the end of this year, after sev- in Kuwait Bay. CAIRO: Egyptian poet Abdel Rahman Al-Abnoudi, eral years of delay. The stadium will follow Regarding the repeated incidents of widely known for his revolutionary verse and criti- high technical standards and safety meas- burnt out electrical transformers, Jassar cism of two toppled presidents, died yesterday at ures, said Sheikh Salman, responding to a said that the Ministry of Electricity and the age of 76, his wife said. Abnoudi, who under- parliamentary question on the matter dur- Water’s statistics showed a drop in the went brain surgery at a Cairo hospital just days ago, ing a National Assembly session yester- number of such cases, as the ministry has rose to prominence in the 1960s for his poems, day.The minister also said that the Cabinet been carrying out a campaign since 2008 some performed by legendary Arab singer Abdel has decided to refer all parties responsible on tackling such incidents, which result- Halim Hafez. In a career spanning four decades, for the stadium’s malfunction to the public ed in a decrease from 12 cases earlier to Abnoudi, known for his prosecution for investigation. only two in 2013. The ministry has no leftist views, published Meanwhile, the Public Works Ministry jurisdiction to where such electrical trans- TSURU, Japan: Central Japan Railway’s seven-car maglev train returns to the sta- several volumes of has secured all official approvals required formers can be installed, as the Municipal tion after setting a new world speed record in a test run near Mount Fuji yester- medieval poems on Arab for the construction of Jaber Bridge, for- Council is the sole body to decide, the day. — AFP hero Abu Zeid Al-Hilali merly called Subbiya Bridge, including the minister said. and his tribe that trav- elled through the Middle East and North Africa. Japan maglev train Born in 1939, Abnoudi’s fans affection- ately called him “uncle”. breaks speed record President Abdel Fattah Al- Sisi and Prime Minister TOKYO: Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev “The faster the train runs, the more sta- Ibrahim Mahlab offered train clocked a new world speed record ble it becomes - I think the quality of the Al-Abnoudi their condolences to yesterday in a test run near Mount Fuji, train ride has improved,” Yasukazu Endo, Abnoudi’s family. “Egypt smashing through the 600 km per hour who heads the maglev test centre south- and the Arab world have lost a great poet... his con- mark, as Tokyo races to sell the technology west of Tokyo, told reporters yesterday. JR tributions to poetry will remain a national and Arab abroad. The seven-car maglev train - short Central wants to have a train in service in symbol,” Sisi’s office said. for “magnetic levitation” - hit a top speed of 2027, plying the 286-km route between In recent years, Abnudi openly criticized former 603 km an hour, and managed nearly 11 Tokyo and the central city of Nagoya. The presidents Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi, seconds at over 600 kph, operator Central service, which would run at a top speed of both toppled after mass uprisings, but has support- Japan Railway said. The new record came 500 kph, is expected to connect the two ed Sisi. Abnudi’s wife, Nehal Kamal, said her hus- less than a week after the company record- cities in only 40 minutes, less than half the band would be buried in the canal city of Ismailiya, ed a top speed of 590 kph, breaking its present journey time in Japan’s already where he moved years ago. — AFP own 2003 record of 581 kph. The maglev speedy bullet trains. KUWAIT: The Jaber Stadium is seen in this recent file photo. hovers 10 cm above the tracks and is pro- By 2045, maglev trains are expected to pelled by electrically charged magnets. link Tokyo and Osaka in just one hour and About two hundred train buffs gath- seven minutes, slashing the journey time in ered for yesterday’s record-setting run, half. However, construction costs for the Ousted Morsi jailed for 20 years with the crowd cheering as the train broke dedicated lines are astronomical - estimat- through 600 kph per hour. “It gave me ed at nearly $100 billion just for the stretch CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sen- United States was more circumspect, with the broadcast live on state television. The judge chills. I really want to ride on the train,” an to Nagoya, with more than 80 percent of tenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to State Department saying it was concerned by acquitted the defendants of inciting murder elderly woman told public broadcaster the route expected to go through costly 20 years in prison for abuses against protest- the sentences. Fourteen others were convict- in connection with the deaths of a journalist NHK as the carriage rocketed past her. “It’s tunnels. Japan is looking to sell its ers but acquitted the Islamist leader of ed of the same charges, with most also sen- and two protesters during the Dec 5, 2012 like I witnessed a new page in history.” An shinkansen bullet and maglev train sys- charges carrying a possible death penalty. tenced by the Cairo court to 20 years in jail. clashes outside the presidential palace in AFP reporter who previously rode on the tems overseas, with Prime Minister Shinzo Morsi was convicted of ordering the arrest Morsi stood in a cage in court as judge Cairo. Morsi, dressed in a white prison uni- super-speed train said the experience was Abe acting as a travelling salesman in his and torture of demonstrators involved in Ahmed Sabry Youssef read out the ruling form, raised his fists when the verdict was like taking off in a plane, with the feeling of bid to revive the economy partly through clashes in 2012 when he was president, in a against him and other Brotherhood members, announced, an AFP correspondent reported g-force gathering as the speedometer is infrastructure exports. verdict Amnesty International denounced as a including senior figures Mohamed Al-Beltagy from the courtroom. pushed ever higher. Continued on Page 13 “travesty of justice”.The reaction from the and Essam Al-Erian. The sentencing was Continued on Page 13 LOCAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

KUWAIT: (From left) Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al- His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Mohammad Al-Sabah, His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Acting Prime Minister and greets Kuwait’s Ambassador to Bahrain Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah. Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. — Amiri Diwan photos Heads of missions’ conference opens under Amir’s patronage

KUWAIT: The 8th conference of Kuwait’s the UN honoring of HH the Amir as a to the international efforts for achieving heads of missions (COMs) abroad opened ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and Kuwait as a security and stability, especially on the yesterday at Bayan Palace under auspices ‘Humanitarian Center’ as an outcome of humanitarian level. He noted in that of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- the “balanced and wise foreign policy respect that Kuwait has hosted three con- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. HH the Deputy adopted” by the country, over the genera- ferences for Syria donors over three suc- Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- tions. cessive years, the last of which last march. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah gave an address at the beginning of the conference, which Grave ramifications Regional summits discussed the regional conditions and The Acting Prime Minister and Foreign By the same token, Kuwait over two their impact on local security. He also Minister pointed to the “critical and haz- years chaired the Third Africa Arab Summit underlined the role of the Kuwaiti diplo- ardous political and security conditions in and the 34th GCC Summit in 2013, in addi- matic mission overseas in conveying the the region, which were the outcome of tion to the 25th Arab Summit last year. The country’s image as a democratic state unrest over the past four years, bringing country is hosting the 42nd session of the globally. about chaos and grave ramifications.” He Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) added that Kuwait is hard at work with the Foreign Ministers Council in May. Leadership’s support international community to remedy the Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled underscored Addressing the opening ceremony, repercussions of the unrest, citing the ter- the support to the diplomatic corps by the Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister rorism phenomenon as an example. government chaired by HH the Prime Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Following the 7th HOMs conference in Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah. The opening ceremony Sabah voiced appreciation to HH the Amir Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister 2013, six new diplomatic missions have for sponsoring the 8th HOMs and confer- Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah been established, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled. was attended by HH Sheikh Nasser Al- ence, and HH the Deputy Amir and Crown makes his address. Thus, Kuwait came to have a total of 104 Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prince for attending. diplomatic missions through which “we try Prime Minister and Interior Minister This manifests support by the political on the world level. to extend bridges of cooperation with Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad leadership to the diplomatic corps and its Kuwait’s positive and constructive inter- friendly and sisterly countries.” Also since Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and role to defend the nation’s causes on the action with the global political, humanitar- 2013, Kuwait has received eight new Defense Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah international arena, following HH the ian and development issues has been a diplomatic missions and representation Al-Sabah and Acting Minister of the Amir’s sound directives as guidance, major factor for placing the country offices. Amiri Diwan Affairs, Advisor Mohammad His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled said. He stressed among the world pioneer states seeking According to Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Daifallah Sharar. Senior official from the Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah global security, stability and prosperity, he Kuwait’s balanced political method and Kuwait has realized an elevated global sta- Amiri Diwan and the Diwan of HH the greets Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan Dr leading economic and humanitarian role said. Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled referred to tus thanks to the country’s contributions Crown Prince were present. —KUNA Hamad Al-Duaij. Decisive Storm ‘necessary to protect Yemenis’ Yemeni FM speaks at embassy

KUWAIT: The Saudi-led Operation accept all relevant resolutions of the UN Decisive Storm is necessary to protect Security Council before the elapse of the Yemeni people from a dark tunnel the set ultimatum,” the foreign minister and save Yemen, Yemeni Foreign reminded. On the Arab Marshall Plan for Minister Riyadh Yaseen said. Yemen, he said the donor countries, on The majority of the Yemeni people top of which are the GCC member understand the military operations, states, had already set aside $8 billion launched on March 26, as well as posi- for the post-conflict reconstruction tions of all Arab and Muslim countries, process. and friends to save Yemen, Yaseen told a “Preparations are underway for news conference at the Yemeni embassy another session of the friends of Yemen Monday. conference. The previous sessions “We are pursuing militias which resulted in pledges of $10 billion to the change their positions on the ground reconstruction process which should very quickly and are thirsty for destruc- follow the completion of the political tion and killing of innocent civilians, process,” Yaseen noted. KUWAIT: Yemeni Foreign Minister namely in densly areas, and create prob- He named Yemen’s development Riyadh Yaseen speaks at a press lems and strike randomly with the project after King Salman bin Abdulaziz, conference at the Yemeni embassy objective of blaming the Decision of Saudi Arabia, in appreciation of the Monday. —KUNA Storm,” he said. The Houthi militias are King’s donation of $274 million to the striking civilians at the same time of the emergency aid for the Yemeni people. to no avail. The deal gave the Houthis airstrikes launched by the coalition, he “This will be a mega socio-economic more than what they deserve but they said. Yaseen said Kuwait was one of the development project to which all the stubbornly dug their heels in and resort- biggest supporters of Yemen, contribut- GCC states will contribute,” he said, not- ed to the power politics,” Yaseen ing to construction of schools, hospitals ing that the Yemeni people suffered explained. He affirmed that his govern- and infrastructure projects. Kuwait has from poor infrastructure over the last 33 ment is working on a roadmap for politi- been ‘actively’ participating in Decisive years due to the deposed corrupt cal solution that starts with an end to Storm, he said, coupled with humanitar- regime. the current hostilities. “The top priority ian supplies to the needy in different now is to establish safe havens to parts of Yemen, he said. Yaseen, who Set targets ensure provision of essential services, arrived in Kuwait Sunday, met earlier The minister expected that the including food and medical supplies for yesterday with Acting Prime Minister Operation Decisive Storm to achieve its the Yemeni citizens,” he went on. and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah set targets and come to an end soon. Yaseen refuted the misconception Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. “Since 2011, we have been working with that the Houthis control Yemen, affirm- the GCC states to reach a political solu- ing that they only control 30-35 percent Too late tion to the crisis in Yemen. We held sev- of the country but they try to make a Asked why the Iranian proposal to eral rounds of the national dialogue media fuss by shelling the densely-pop- mediate was rejected, Yaseen said the based on the GCC initiative and its exec- ulated areas. He added that the air proposal came too late and the Iranian utive mechanism. attacks of the coalition focus on the spe- stance was ambiguous. “Yemen’s condi- “We offered painful concessions to cific targets, such as the camps of the tions for dialogue are clear. The Houthi reach the Agreement on Peace and Houthi rebels and the troops loyal to Ali militia and the troops loyal to (ousted Partnership with a view to warding off Abdullah Saleh as well as their arms president) Ali Abdullah Saleh must the then looming specter of war, but all caches. —KUNA Saudi Crown Prince receives National Security President

RIYADH: Saudi Crown Prince and ing their meeting bilateral ties and Abdulaziz. They discussed the latest Deputy Prime Minister Prince Muqrin issues of common interest. Kuwaiti regional developments and reviewed Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received yester- Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sheikh fraternal relations between the two day Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- countries and ways of enhancing them Al-Sabah, President of Kuwait’s Sabah, Director of strategic studies in various fields. National Security Apparatus. and researches department at the The meeting was attended by Sheikh Thamer conveyed the greet- National Security Apparatus Sheikh Minister of Defense, Chief of the ings and appreciation of His Highness Sabah Al-Bader Al-Sabah attended the Royal Court and Special Advisor to the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- meeting. the Custodian of the Two Holy Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Crown Sheikh Thamer also met the Saudi Mosques Prince Mohammed bin Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Deputy Crown Prince and Second Salman bin Abdulaziz, Sheikh Thamer Jaber Al-Sabah to Prince Muqrin Bin Deputy Premier and Minister of Jaber Al-Sabah and several other Abdulaziz. The two sides tackled dur- Interior Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin officials. -—KUNA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 LOCAL British Embassy, Council celebrate Queen’s Birthday

KUWAIT: In celebration of Her Majesty British Council creates and provides inter- the Queen’s Birthday, the British Embassy national education opportunities for peo- Kuwait held a reception at the ple in the UK and Kuwait through creat- Ambassador’s Residence, attended by ing cultural and educational opportuni- Guest of Honor Minister of Information ties between people, which builds trust and Minister of State for Youth Affairs and mutual understanding. Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Also Hisham I Khalil, Marketing and present were current and former MPs, Communications Manager at British Ministers, Ambassadors, business leaders, Council Kuwait said, “As the UK’s interna- civil society actors, media personalities tional organization for cultural relations, and representatives from both the British we aim to build trust, increase engage- and local community in Kuwait. ment and share knowledge and expertise Addressing his guests, British through developing collaborative projects Ambassador Matthew Lodge thanked between partners in the UK and Kuwait. partners and guests for supporting this We’ve been actively working with the year’s celebration, and said: “We are here British Embassy and numerous partners in to celebrate the birthday of Her Majesty Kuwait to deliver English language, UK Queen Elizabeth II, born on this day in education, training programs and research 1926. I am honored to stand in the beau- opportunities to young Kuwaiti students tiful gardens of this historic residence as and Kuwaiti professionals. In Kuwait, last British Ambassador. For nearly 8 months, year we taught English to over 6500 stu- I have observed at first hand the close dents and delivered over 25,000 UK exam- relationship between our two countries inations. and have seen the depth and breadth of We have a very successful partnership the ties that connect us. Even if I were to with the Kuwaiti Higher Education institu- talk for hours, I could not cover the full tions as a subgroup lead of the Joint range of those ties. We are marking Steering Group. This year we will be cele- another anniversary here today, in addi- brating our 60 year anniversary in Kuwait KUWAIT: MPs vote during a parliament session yesterday. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat tion to Her Majesty’s birthday. The British by initiating a number of events and Council in Kuwait this year is celebrating activities to engage with the Kuwaiti com- its Diamond Jubilee - 60 years of opera- munity and reflect our work in Kuwait.” tion.” The reception was attended by over Maids’ recruitment firm This year’s theme reflects the UK’s 500 guests who were kept entertained by commitment to Education through the the musical talents of local English school great work of the British Council in sup- students, a military band, and a perform- referred to financial panel porting Kuwait’s educational sector. The ance by Anna Karadimitrova. MPs assign panels to review bedoons, school textbooks

By B Izzak and Agencies Bedoons’ plight MPs also raised the issue that a Agricultural law The national assembly also agreed large number of Bedoons have In other issues, the National KUWAIT: The National Assembly to ask its human rights committee to obtained passports of other coun- Assembly approved in the second agreed yesterday to refer a propos- discuss a report by the central agency tries and many of them turned out to and final round the agricultural law al to set up shareholding compa- of stateless or bedoons as several MPs be fake. MP Adnan Abdulsamad said in which strict rules for the distribu- nies to recruit domestic helpers to highlighted the plight of bedoons in that there are cases when the father tion of state land for the purpose of the financial and economic affairs Kuwait. Several MPs said that the is Kuwaiti, brothers are Kuwaitis while agriculture and animal breeding committee after the health and government has said that as many as only one brother is Bedoon and have been introduced. labor panel rejected the proposal. 34,000 bedoons qualify for Kuwaiti questioned why are these cases not The assembly rejected an The decision came amid strong attempt by some lawmakers to ease exchanges between MP Saadoun the restrictions which ban those Hammad, the head of the labor who benefited from government panel, and a number of MPs espe- land to sell it before the lapse of at cially MP Kamel Al-Awadhi, the least seven years. The new law also champion of the proposal. requires people to prove that they Hammad strongly objected to the utilize the land for the same pur- motion to take the proposal away pose they had obtained for and from the labor committee claiming there is no misuse. this was a violation of the constitu- Minister of Oil Ali Al-Omair, who tion and the assembly charter. But oversees the agriculture authority, KUWAIT: British Ambassador Matthew Lodge and Information Minister MPs voted against a proposal to welcomed the passing of the law Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah cut the ceremony’s cake. discuss the issue in the assembly and said it will be implemented on —Photos by Joseph Shagra on the basis of the health commit- all equally. A number of lawmakers tee rejection. however claimed that the law is MP Awadhi insisted that the being implemented on ordinary issue relates to establishing compa- people only. nies, which falls under the jurisdic- tion of the financial affairs commit- Fadhel’s immunity tee and where the proposal should Also yesterday, the National be debated. He said that the MP Nabil Al-Fadhel reacts during the session. Assembly accepted a request from recruitment of domestic helpers by the Public Prosecution to lift the existing offices has become citizenship and several years have yet resolved. immunity of MP Nabil Al-Fadhel in a extremely expensive and reached passed by without any solution. The National Assembly also agreed misdemeanor case. The move will KD 1,200 although the actual cost is Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad to ask the educational committee to allow the Public Prosecution to just under KD 400. The proposal Al-Khaled Al-Sabah said that it does not study reports that the education min- interrogate the MP, Kuwait News calls to set up public shareholding mean that all the 34,000 bedoons are istry plans to amend the school text- Agency (KUNA) reported. However, companies to be exclusively entitled to Kuwaiti citizenship, adding books for Arabic language and Islamic the National Assembly refused to responsible for the recruitment of that the government sticks to the education with the aim to remove mate- lift Al-Fadhel’s immunity in a felony maids at reasonable prices. implementation of the law. rial deemed promoting extremism. case. Saudi dairy company seeks to hike prices

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British Ambassador Matthew Lodge and Information Minister Sheikh KUWAIT: A major Saudi dairy products company threatened to Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah walk together at the venue. stop exports to Kuwait unless the ministry of commerce and indus- try approves a request it had made to increase its products’ prices by 10 percent, said informed sources. The sources added that according to the Saudi ‘Makkah’ newspaper, the company had been demanding such increases for years and that it recently started applying pressure and making threats. According to the sources, the Saudi company justified its demands over the strengthening dollar and loss of government subsidies that are lifted for exported products, which led to considerable losses. The sources said that the ministry of commerce was looking into the request and would respond to it within a month. KUWAIT: French Ambassador to Kuwait Christian Nakhle (center) is pictured Imam back with the honored officers; Army Major-General Khaled Al-Foderi and Vice The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs yesterday allowed Dr Admiral Jassem Al-Ansari. —Photo by Joseph Shagra Hamed Al-Ali to resume his duties as a mosque imam, but prevent- ed him from giving any sermons. The ministry also conditioned Army officers decorated that Ali will not hold any seminars or lessons in the mosque’s diw- naiya and that he would fully adhere to all regulations. with French national orders

Jazzaf’s return to PAYS annulled KUWAIT: France decorated two armed in Kuwait were interested in further The court of cassation yesterday annulled a previous ruling forces officers with the national orders with cementing relations between the two made by the court of appeal ordering returning former PAYS chair- the rank of a commander in recognition of countries, including cooperation between man Faisal Al-Jazzaf to his post on grounds that he had committed their education and leadership services in armed forces in France and Kuwait. He said some administrative and managerial mistakes during his tenure the Kuwaiti Army. Army Major-General Foderi and Ansari worked closely with the and that this was reason enough to refer senior employees for Khaled Al-Foderi and Vice Admiral Jassem French advisors in the humanitarian field. compulsory retirement. Al-Ansari were decorated with the French Real Admiral Antoine Busan, Commander Diplomats in attendance gather for a group photo. national orders at a ceremony held by the of the French Naval Forces in the Indian French Embassy in Kuwait. Ocean, commended the military coopera- Academy seeks help French Ambassador to Kuwait Christian tion between Paris and Kuwait namely in fighting harassers Nakhle said in a statement that the officials the joint exercises. —KUNA By Meshaal Al-Enezi Kuwait eyes greater KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) asked for assistance from policewomen role for private sector and demanded deploying them at various colleges to help arrest young men harassing female students. KUWAIT: The Secretary General of the only the food and fuel subsidies but also the Supreme Council for Planning and state-financed overseas and domestic scholar- Nurseries warned Development Hashim Al-Rifaai said that Kuwait ships. Such subsidies distort the national econ- Following up the illegal nurseries’ issue, Ministry of eyes an influential role for the private sector in omy and do not serve the state financial situa- Social Affairs and Labor’s Assistant Undersecretary for the national economy. tion on the long run, he said. Social Development Ali Al-Roumi said that during an Rifaai stressed during a press conference On the efforts of the Supreme Council to inspection tour in Andalus, two nurseries have been given yesterday that there are strenuous efforts exert- help cut the time of paper processing at written warnings to stop receiving children, evacuate the ed to increase the private sector’s contribution Kuwait government bodies, one of the major buildings and completely close down. He also noted that to the economic development, especially obstacles to investment in the country, he stat- two other nurseries prevented inspectors from getting in. through the state mega development projects. ed that some of the recently-passed laws have On state subsidies, Rifaai stated that a spe- good effect on this regard. Moreover, the gov- Books distributed cial committee has been formed to consider ernment decision last year to suspend the off- In a bid to avoid any delay, the Ministry of Education has the financial burden of all kinds of state subsi- set program was also a great move that started distributing school books for next year to various dies and their impact on the national economy. encourages foreign investors to invest in Guests pictured during the event. schools, said informed sources. He clarified that the committee studies not Kuwait, he said. —KUNA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief Boat show Court HQs Zakat House KUWAIT: Up to 16 local companies took part in yes- KUWAIT: Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf CAIRO: Zakat House Director General Ibrahim Al-Saleh terday’s opening of a boat show for the general and Islamic Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane issued a decree expressed his institution’s readiness to offer all support public. The annual event attracted the sea-going to form a committee to prepare the final version of to the newly-minted Egyptian Zakat (Alms) House. In public interested in finding out the latest develop- the headquarters agreement between the State of statements on the sidelines of his participation in the ments in boats and yachts. The companies seek to Kuwait and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. fourth meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptians show their products for sale as Kuwaiti buyers show The decree stipulated that the committee would Zakat House, Saleh underlined the Kuwaiti Zakat interest on buying large boats, in light of projects to be headed by the Minister of Justice and includes House’s keenness to render the Egyptian counterpart a build boat docks and marinas that could accommo- as members representatives from the Ministry of success. To achieve this goal, he emphasized the need date large size boats and yachts. The show is open Justice, the Foreign Ministry and the Fatwa and for developing a comprehensive strategy to increase the through April 26. — KUNA Legislation Department. —KUNA resource of the Egyptian charitable institution. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team removed an oil pipe that washed ashore Khairan beach. The 70-meters long pipe contained large amounts of oil, which caused pollution near the southern beach of Khairan, the team said in a statement. — KUNA Kuwait participates in Dubai CBK sponsors Radisson Islamic Calligraphy exhibition DUBAI: Chairman of Kuwait Islamic Arts event showcases works of Vice President, Blu art competition Center (KIAC) Fareed Al-Ali is participating Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh in the 8th Dubai International Islamic Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Calligraphy Exhibition to be held from April including unique pieces reflecting remark- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of encourages students from different 14 to May 15. Al-Ali said yesterday that he able aesthetics and creativity in modern Kuwait (CBK) is sponsoring Radisson schools in Kuwait to develop their was invited to the event by the Dubai Arabic calligraphy. Blu’s 20th Annual Art Competition and artistic talent and creativity. The topic Culture and Arts Authority, which is organ- Moreover, it will display sections of the is inviting its My First Account and chosen this year highlights the impor- izing the exhibition, adding that he is par- Holy Quran of King Hussein bin Talal that @Tijari customers aged 10 to 18 years tance of protecting the environment ticipating with two paintings titled features engravings in Maliki Islamic style old to participate. Children from numer- by conserving water and saving ener- ‘Mashallah.’ calligraphy, which is being showcased in ous private schools in Kuwait will also gy. It should be noted that My First Ali also noted that he is running a work- coordination with Tiba traditional Islamic be participating. The theme for this year Account is a savings account designed shop on Kufic calligraphy for children in pri- Book Arts in Jordan. is “Conserve Energy and Water” and the for children aged 0 to 14 years old. The mary and intermediate schools as part of Over 70 specialized workshops for all twenty- five best paintings will each account contributes in a perfect way the event. The exhibition is showcasing ages are held as part of the event, patronized receive a KD50 cash reward. The last day for parents who want to secure a bet- thoroughly-detailed paintings of different by Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan to submit the paintings is May 5, 2015 ter future for their children and saving types of Islamic calligraphy, attracting all bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, to and must be delivered to the Radisson money for them from an early age. On tastes, the Chairman said. learn of different techniques used in the art. Blu Hotel. the other hand, @Tijari is a savings The Dubai exhibition presents one of The exhibition aims to present calligraphy as The award ceremony will be held account that can be opened with KD the largest collections of calligraphy mas- one of the most powerful art forms in the on the 9th of May 2015 at the 10 and it is designed for youth cus- terpieces by more than 50 accomplished Islamic heritage, as well as the regions cultur- Hashemi Ballroom. This unique com- tomers aged 15 to 21 years old with artists from across the Arab world. The al and social identity. — KUNA petition has been going on successful- the intent to help establish their ly for the past twenty years since it future and pave the way to success. Abdulrasool Salman opens arts gallery

KUWAIT: Minister of Information, Minister of State portraying his country’s culture and heritage. The nationally. Through his works he has sought to for Youth and Head of National Council for Culture, NCCAL looks to these efforts with “admiration and outline, in his own vision, the sense of belong- Arts and Literature Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah said appreciation,” he added, while reiterating the gov- ing to the nation and the relationship between that Kuwaiti formative artists have reached interna- ernment’s keenness on encouraging the cultural the creator and his creation. He has done this in tional acclaim. At the grand opening of Abdulrasool and art movements in the country. an unfamiliar way, he added, aiming to safe- Salman’s exhibition at the Kuwait Arts Associations, Abdulrasool Salman said meanwhile that the guard the social reality of the past in a present- the minister said that the Kuwaiti painter excelled in exhibition was his 17th both locally and inter- day portrayal. — KUNA

DUBAI: Chairman of Kuwait Islamic Arts Center (KIAC) Fareed Al-Ali with one of his works. — KUNA LOCAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Zain sponsors the 42nd Arab Labor Conference

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommuni- most important events in the Arab world, cations company in Kuwait, announced wherein it tackles a number of crucial its sponsorship of the 42nd Arab Labor issues facing the labor market like unem- Conference hosted by the State of ployment, social dialogue in light of the Kuwait from 18 ñ 25 April 2015, under current turbulences in the region, in the patronage of His Highness the Amir addition to the settlement of labor dis- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- putes and its role in the stability of labor Sabah. relations. The conference works to pro- The opening ceremony witnessed the vide adequate studies that contribute to attendance of several prominent figures, the social and economic development led by Deputy Prime Minister and across the entire region. Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Sabah Zainís keenness in sponsoring this Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Minister conference arises from its core objectives of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister that aim at shouldering the advance- of State of Planning and Development ment of the community as a whole on all Hind Al-Subaih, as well as representa- levels, indicating that through similar tives from government organizations sponsorships that company is reaffirm- KUWAIT: The panel members are seen during the lecture at Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST). — Photo by Joseph Shagra and experts in socio-economic develop- ing the principal of partnership and its ment from across the Arab world. overall approach in the community that Zain pointed out that the Arab Labor it operates in, especially through one of Legacy of Palestinians Conference, organized by the Arab Labor the largest conferences held in the Organization, is considered one of the region. forgotten in Kuwait GUST panel discusses role of this community By Faten Omar port their families after the Nakba, including Literature at Kuwait University, discussed teachers, civil servants and unskilled workers. Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani’s life in KUWAIT: An interdisciplinary panel at the By June 1961, when Kuwait declared its inde- Kuwait. She said that the trope of Kuwait runs Gulf University for Science and Technology pendence, its Palestinian community had through numerous stories by the Kanafani, (GUST) yesterday discussed how the histori- grown to some 40,000, about 12 percent of including his well-known novella ‘Men in the cal presence of Palestinians in Kuwait consti- the state’s entire population of 321,621,” Sun’. Using Deleuze’s clinical methodology, tutes a forgotten legacy, and how this is Ghabra said. “Kanafani in Kuwait: A Clinical Cartography” symptomatic of a wider form of amnesia maps Kanafani’s Kuwait stories symptomati- responsible in part for current concerns in Kuwait’s development cally to determine what the legacy of the Kuwait. Ghabra said the Palestinians helped shape Kanafani effect might be for contemporary Kuwait’s social, economic and political devel- Kuwait. “It considers what his textual con- The beginnings opment. They came to play a formative role in junction of affects and percepts did at the Prof Shafeeq Ghabra of the Department of the development of Kuwait - the length of time and whether they can do anything now. Political Science at Kuwait University talked their residence, the size of the community, Kanafani’s position as a seminal figure within about how the Palestinians came to Kuwait their dedication to work in both the public Palestinian national and resistance literature and what they have accomplished. “The first and private sectors and their consequent is well-recognized - however, his specific loca- Palestinian Arab immigrants to Kuwait arrived entrenchment in the bureaucracy, economy, tion in Kuwait at a key period of its develop- in 1936 at the invitation of its ruler Sheikh professions and the media enabled the ment is generally overlooked,” she explained. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and the positive Palestinians in Kuwait to develop into one of “His clinical diagnosis of the relationship impression they made inclined Kuwait to the most cohesive and active communities in between Kuwait and Palestinians in the 1940s accept further workers, including many dis- the diaspora. Ghabra added that approxi- and 1950s can provoke a reconsideration of placed by the 1948 war. Between 1948 and mately 180,000-200,000 Palestinians who had that early period, especially relevant in light 1960, tens of thousands of refugee and non- fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation were of post-1991 events. In addition to his writ- refugee Palestinians from the West Bank and not permitted to return. Kuwait’s Palestinian ing, his actual presence in Kuwait in the sec- Gaza arrived in Kuwait while the sheikhdom population has dwindled from a pre-invasion ond half of the 1950s expresses an early was still a British protectorate,” he said. strength of 350,000 to approximately 150,000 promise of Kuwait as an open and cosmopoli- “There were two groups of Palestinians now. tan place soon betrayed and today mostly that came to settle in Kuwait - the first group forgotten,” Naqeeb added. The seminar was were professionals like doctors, scientists, sur- Writer’s story organized by the Department of Humanities geons, administrators, etc, while the second May Al-Naqeeb, Associate Professor at the and Social Sciences at GUST and Saleh Al- KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State of Planning and group were poorer men who traveled to sup- Department of English Language and Nafisi was the moderator. Development Hind Al-Subaih visits Zain’s booth. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Anbaa Al-Jarida BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION We don’t We’re no better drop chemicals than them and barrel bombs By Hassan Al-Essa By Sami Al-Nisf fishing boat with around 950 people onboard, ost of those against the ‘Decisive Storm’ including women and children, sank off the operation are the very same ones who AItalian shores where they were heading to Mencouraged Nasser to go to war in 1967, escape hunger, terrorism and tribal wars in their Arab Assad to invade Lebanon in 1976 and Saddam to and African countries, which are the worst world- invade Iran in 1980, strike his own people with wide in terms of human standards. Those bodies in chemical weapons in 1988 and invade Kuwait in the Mediterranean represent one of many crises that 1990. They had a finger in every pie and got addicted recur in these deadly waters. Yet, such disasters were to defeats and twisted thinking to the extent that not the creation of fate. They were the result of pre- wisdom and victory taste very bitter in their mouths, meditated criminal acts committed not only by the especially if achieved by the people of wisdom in the owners of the dilapidated boats, but also by the Gulf, because for them, severe defeats under so- mafias and regimes that forced those victims to flee called revolutionary flags are far much better than their countries’ hell. evident victory under Arab Gulf ones. In addition, European countries that had previ- Such despicable hatred for whatever comes from ously colonized these countries and reluctantly the Gulf has its own hidden as well as known reasons received a few of those who managed to survive, and justifications. After promoting chaos and revolu- used their fighter planes to strike Gaddafi’s regime tionary leaders who only led the nation into more with the excuse of avoiding ‘civil war and a human devastation, defeats and non-constructive chaos Al-Jarida disaster’, as they claimed. So, where did Libya end that almost wiped it off the map, their twisted minds up? The same logic was used in the Yarmouk refugee realized that the success of GCC’s political, military, camp in Syria that once used to accommodate two educational, developmental, agricultural, industrial million refugees and now only houses less than and touristic experiences mean that the whole Arab 18,000. Those refugees were besieged by three fight- nation would benefit from these experiences and ing groups - IS, the Syrian regime and Palestinian rise after long years of hibernation. Therefore, they troops of different affiliations. had to deliberately degrade all GCC achievements Going to unhappy Yemen, the situation is not less and hail destructive thinking. Al-Jarida tragic than at the Yarmouk camp or than the refugee One of the reasons why our nation has been fail- ing is that our representatives to the UN and various Hate speech and self-destruction smuggling boats. Hunger, destruction, ‘proxy’ and international community organizations have let oth- tribal wars, in which Ali Abdullah Saleh and his ers phrase crucial international resolutions concern- groups play the role of ‘princes of corruption’ like so many of his likes across the Arab world, dominate ing them, such as when the British commissioner By Ghanim Al-Najjar Lord Carrington phrased the UN’s 242 resolution dur- the entire scene. Saleh once said that he who rules Yemen seems to be ‘dancing over snakeheads’, a ing the 1967 war and then got us all preoccupied atching all the killing and bloodshed that and wars are run by religion-less leaders who only thing which he managed to do for over 30 years. So, with a controversial discussion of whether Israel had has gone on and is going on around the believe in interest, domination and powers. We can if he himself was not a vicious and corrupt dancing to withdraw from ‘occupied Arab territories’ or from world makes me think that societies and easily find that people would suddenly start taking W snake, what else would he be?! ‘the occupied Arab territories’ until this very day! civilizations are created by hatred. The amount of doctrinal, racial, ethnic and even lingual sides out of Has anyone felt pain on seeing IS demolish and This time, the remarkable military victory so far hatred, its volume and its ability to move things is historic reservoirs of hatred, forgetting all about blow up over 3,000-year-old monuments in Iraq and achieved by Decisive Storm that changed all power much stronger than any other feeling. Despite peo- bright and good experiences with the ‘others’, who Syria? It seems as if they feared that people in the balances in favor of legitimacy without even drop- ple’s repetition of abstract talk about their religions, suddenly turn into enemies that must be terminated lands they ‘liberate’ might worship those idols ping or losing a single fighter was also followed by traditions and values that bind them together, we and hated till doomsday. And thus, policy turns into instead of worshipping their own terrorism. Well, it similar political and diplomatic victory at the find them turning into wild merciless beasts in times a process of conflict between hate-exchanging par- does not matter if they destroy Sumerian and Security Council where the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s of distress and crises, and if their own fangs are not ties and normal conflict reasoning would give way to Babylonian heritage, blow up a mosque or raze a his- efforts resulted in an Arab-tailored UN resolution covered with blood, they nevertheless rejoice when a series of stupid illusionary ones that are opted for toric Sufi shrine, because man is more important as issued under chapter seven to realize all the coali- enemy blood is shed, make sure it happens and work by absolute stupidity. long as he manages to survive the ‘halal’ decapita- tion’s demands. It was unanimously passed by the on watching it on the ground. They rejoice with People kill themselves with hatred of friends and Security Council and not by a majority because tion. death and mutilation of enemy corpses. neighbors. Daily life would then turn into endless Russia’s abstaining from voting was a clear and However, the sufferings of the poor people in History rarely immortalizes tolerance advocates as hatred and ‘hatred parties’ would dominate in a implicit approval, otherwise it would have used its areas liberated from IS by Shiite militias are not less very few of them, like Gandhi, Martin Luther King tyrannical manner. Hateful people become leaders veto right. than those caused by IS. It seem as if these poor peo- and Mandela have been remarkably mentioned by while those with balanced thinking regress and fade So, it is high time for those failure addicts to rea- ple have to be thankful for the blessings of the mili- modern history. However, their mention amongst away. That is why some of us Arabs should probably son if they have any minds or brains and realize that tias because they are less evil, just the way we now people only comes out of self-catharsis of sinful meet nowadays with support from the UN to discuss the Arab coalition fighters and bombers have not say that tyrannical regimes that ruled our countries hatred rather than attempts to tolerate and accept how to confront the speech of hatred that is becom- dropped any chemical weapons or banned barrel are far less evil than revolutions and civil wars. others. ing the spark to igniting all evils. bombs like those dropped by the people they sup- Anyway, we were brought up to so many sayings, Let us have a look around and see how battles —Translated by Kuwait Times port. —Translated by Kuwait Times such as, “Tyrants are better than lasting tumults”! Why write about these tragedies, then? Well, maybe this will help awaken us a little to realize that the world is much more beyond Kuwait and our oil- rich Gulf. Countries are being destroyed, lands burnt, houses pulled down and people related to us are dis- placed and living in hell after they were far better off than us in the old days. We are no better than the people of Aleppo, Idlib, Ramadi, Taiz or Benghazi - we might someday be in their shoes. So why are so many of us so snobbish about the whole issue, then? —Translated by Kuwait Times

Crime Report Ex-husband charged with battery

KUWAIT: A female citizen accused her ex-husband of barg- Burgan Bank hosts Turkish ing into her house in Sabah Al-Salem and beating and injuring her, said security sources, noting that the woman provided a medical report of her injuries. A case was filed and the suspect is being summoned for further investiga- Media Convention in Kuwait tions.

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently hosted an exclusive Chairman Majed Essa Al-Ajeel, Burgan Bank Group CEO of Kuwait as a financial center in the coming few years, Maid accuses employer’s son of rape media convention which consisted of meetings and Eduardo Eguren as well as Burgan Bank Turkey Chairman, to boost the exchange volume and investments between A housemaid accused her sponsor’s son of raping activities with a number of financial Turkish media per- and CEO. The two-day meeting involved an overview on both countries in the near future. her at the family house in Zahra when she went to his sonnel and senior executive management from Burgan the Kuwaiti economy as well as a topline look at the As a leading and responsible financial institution, bedroom to clean it in the afternoon, said security Bank Turkey. group’s performance, and investments. This was through Burgan Bank will continue maintaining a strong and sources. A case was filed and the suspect is being sum- A group of senior executives from Burgan Bank-Turkey a series of presentations led by various Burgan Bank close relationship with key financial media personnel moned for further investigations. accompanied Turkish media during their visit to Kuwait, Group officials, KIPCO senior management team as well across the region. It is worth mentioning that Burgan who attended business forums, toured around Kuwait as QPIC officials. Bank - Turkey is backed by a clear cut strategy that focus- and discussed business opportunities with executive Accompanied by the bank’s Group Corporate commu- es on the upside geo-economic growth potential Turkey Female driver harassed management from Burgan Bank Kuwait, Qurain nications department, the Turkish media officials were provides, along with the benefits of the bank’s wider A female citizen in her twenties reported that three Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC) and KIPCO. introduced to the Kuwaiti culture, history, people and group synergies across Kuwait, Jordan, Turkey, Algeria, reckless drivers, each in his own vehicle, forced her to The meetings were headed by Burgan Bank Group business operations which highlighted the development Iraq, Tunisia and Lebanon. stop along King Fahd Highway, and that one of them pointed a weapon at her while another smashed her vehi- cle’s windscreen when she rejected their attempts to talk to her. The girl, who barged into Adan police station in a hysterical state, added that she had to reverse and flee KILAW took part in JESSUP 2015 the three harassers. A case was filed and a search for the suspects is on. KUWAIT: Kuwait International Law School The Jessup International Competition is issues of secession of a part of a country with tition awards students an incredible lifetime (KILAW) is proud to welcome home its 5- the largest moot court competition in the its subsequent annexation by another coun- learning experience. The KILAW team worked member legal advocacy team from the 56th world, this year over 600 law colleges from try, state sovereignty over natural resources, for more than 6 months in anticipation of this Search for harassers Philip C Jessup International Moot Court more than 90 countries competed, with over and termination of a treaty between two event. In addition to the competition, KILAW A search is on for two suspects in a vehicle with Competition in Washington DC. This is the 130 teams participating at the international states. At the international rounds in students attended seminars chaired by world- GCC license plates for assaulting a pregnant expat fourth year KILAW has been represented at rounds in Washington DC. The competition is Washington DC, KILAW students had the renowned international law experts at the woman in Jahra after they failed to convince her and this international competition. This year the a simulation of a fictional dispute between opportunity to appear before global legal annual conference of the American Society of her friend to escort them to spend ‘some good time’ in KILAW team participated in the competition countries before the United Nations’ experts appearing in the role of judges and to International Law. They also visited the law return for whatever money they wanted. Case papers and for the previous three years it went as the International Court of Justice. Students are network with international law students from colleges of both Georgetown University and indicate that the two women had emerged from a Kuwait National team. KILAW international law required to present oral and written argu- around the world. The legal skill gained in the George Washington University, toured the Jahra building when the two suspects invited them to professors Marcia Denny and Ardit Memeti ments on a very complicated hypothetical preparation for and participation in this com- United States Supreme Court and Capitol a private party in return for money. However, the preg- coach the team. international case. This year’s case involved petition is unparalleled; as a result, the compe- buildings. nant woman’s friend called her husband while she photographed the suspects’ vehicle, which made them step out and brutally assault her in front of passersby. They then fled the scene. The woman was rushed to ICU in critical condition.

Home thieves caught Two Syrian men were arrested over robberies in over 5 apartments, said security sources. Case papers indicate that after receiving several similar reports from expats liv- ing in Hawally about their apartments being burgled while they were out, detectives first managed to identify one of the suspects living in Maidan Hawally, and on arresting him, he led the police to his accomplice, noting that he was responsible for selecting the apartments to rob. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Old loyalties, religious Foreigners tell of being ‘hunted like dogs’ in South Africa cohesion frustrating Islamic State in Libya Page 10 Page 8

MALDA: In this file photo, an Indian groom puts vermilion, the holy mark believed the sign of Hindu marriage, on the forehead of his underage bride during a mass marriage program in the village of Malda, some 360kms, northeast of Kolkata. —AFP 2,000 Indian girls

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"           " !  ban parents having tests to determine the gender of In another development, Police and social workers #$  #%         &      "     '# $      %#      &         "   '   unborn children, sex selective abortions remain a com- were on alert yesterday across a north Indian state to try mon practice in parts of India, and have resulted in a to prevent hundreds of child marriages from taking place  (          "      (               " decline in the number of girls compared to boys. on an auspicious Hindu day. Several raids were conduct-  “You have 2,000 girls who are killed in the womb ed on villages in the desert state of Rajasthan on the eve    "       " )  $   )             "   $  ) "      )    $    every day. Some are born and have pillows on their of Akshaya Tritiya following tip offs from locals, an official   *  *        )  +   + )      )  +   + )    ,           ,  )  ) faces choking them,” Maneka Gandhi told NDTV news and an activist said. District collector Kailash Verma said -     )  '                    -    '  )                  channel late on Monday. India’s 2011 census showed he halted one such wedding in Rajsamand district where              "" (.               ( ""   .  that while the overall female-to-male ratio has an impoverished family was making preparations to mar-  improved marginally since the last census a decade ago, ry their 15-year-old daughter. -     &   -    " /"         "/ "  &       0$      $0      #   1"        "1 #      fewer girls were born than boys and the number of girls “I spoke to her. She was not willing to get married and younger than six plummeted for the fifth straight told me that she wanted to carry on her studies but could 2   2        3    3         "          "                            decade. not gather the courage to oppose her parents,” Verma            4   4  $                 4        $   4      A May 2011 study in British medical journal The said, adding that 250 marriages were halted last year in $   2   " $2                   $ "  2  $      2            Lancet found that up to 12 million Indian girls were his district. Mangilal Khateek, her father, said he wanted -    &          " "     "   '  -        &     " "        "    '   aborted over the last three decades, resulting in a to marry his younger daughter at the same time as his       "  5 &       & 5 "          -     &        -   &  skewed child sex ratio of 918 girls to every 1,000 boys in elder one in a bid to save what little money he had. “I will                 "   "         " & &         & & "      #%    "         "  %#      2011, versus 962 in 1981. India’s traditionally male-dom- not marry her (now) after the collector said it was illegal & " 32$( 32$ " & 32$(  inated culture views sons as assets-breadwinners who and harmful to her health,” he said. will provide for the family, carry on the family name, Child marriage is illegal in India but remains common  and perform the last rites for their parents, an important in poor, rural communities in which it is seen as improv- -     -     &           &      "     #%       %#  "      '   '      "  "   ritual in many faiths. Girls, however, are often seen as a ing the financial security of both families. Rajasthan is           &   &    &  &   & &   6776     "     "                     liability, with families having to dig deep for a substan- among states with the highest number of married chil-         /"           "/      4"         "4 '             '   tial dowry to ensure a desirable match. In a culture that dren, according to India’s census figures. Akshaya Tritiya,         "  &          "     "            &           "   views pre-marital sex as bringing shame to the girl’s which in Sanskrit means “never diminishing”, falls this     .        .                        family, parents also worry about their safety. year on Tuesday and is considered a lucky day, with thou-            Gandhi said that the government’s “Beti Bachao Beti sands of weddings taking place. Police in Rajasthan have  Padhao” (Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter) been asking villagers to inform on fellow residents plan- campaign, which aims to reverse the declining number ning such celebrations. “A control room has been set up 8         8'       &        8  '8             '       &     of girls, had already shown results since its launch in and people are being encouraged to inform the adminis-   & 5         &         5   January. The initiative, which is being run in 100 districts tration and police about the child marriages,” police 4"           "4 *"   9      9  "*    5  5      "   5 5  55"  where the ratio of girls to boys is particularly low, aims superintendent of Jodhpur city, Harendra Kumar said. &      &             "  "    $          $  "     to better enforce laws that criminalize pre-birth gender Another raid was conducted in Jaisalmer district                                  selection and improve girls’ access to education. “We after a grandmother alerted authorities to the impend-  didn’t expect results to show for at least a year or two ing wedding of her 14-year-old granddaughter, activist  years, if at all, as it’s one of those mindset change Ashok Bhati said. A campaign was held in the lead up to things,” Gandhi said in her first television interview since Akshaya Tritiya, with priests, caterers and even wedding  taking office in May last year. tent operators under pressure to say no to families         She added that the campaign had led to an increase wanting to hire them for child weddings. “All the 40,000            in unwanted girl infants ending up in orphanages but tent dealers across the state have been asked to refuse                  said this was a positive response as it meant they had to erect tents for child marriages. This initiative will help  moved “from being killed to being thrown out”. “The in demoralizing the practice and send a good message,”  result is that hundreds of girl children are being thrown said Ravi Jindal, head of an umbrella group of tent deal-  into orphanages in these 100 districts. In Amritsar, they ers. Nearly half of all girls in South Asia marry before  have received 89 girls this month. In Tamil Nadu, they they turn 18, according to a UNICEF report released last said the same thing. In all the districts we have chosen, year. — Agencies INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Shocked Ethiopians mourn Christians killed by Islamic State ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia began three days of nation- people is like someone was killed in my family.” ry AD-as well as large numbers of Protestants. Islam there by the Christian king. Tesfaye described how his al mourning yesterday, with joint Christian and Almost two-thirds of Ethiopians are Christians, the also has an ancient history in Ethiopia, brought to the brother Balcha, an electrician, as well as his friend Muslim prayers for more than 20 Ethiopian Christians majority of those Orthodox Copts-who say they have country by some of the earliest followers of the Eyasu Yekuneamelak-also seen killed on the video-left killed by Islamic State militants in Libya. The murders been in the Horn of Africa nation since the first centu- Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), who were sheltered Ethiopia two months ago seeking work and a better have horrified Ethiopians and sparked global con- life, heading first for Sudan and then to Libya, in the demnation, including from Pope Francis who hope to making the crossing to Italy. expressed his “great distress and sadness”. “They are But the pair, who left Ethiopia without telling their animals, they are outside of all humanity,” said family, were captured by IS fighters before they could Tesfaye Wolde, who saw his only brother Balcha risk the dangerous sea crossing to Europe, where Belete executed on a video released by the militants. thousands have drowned in rickety boats. “I am very “I saw him kneeling, a masked man pointing a gun sad, I lost my brother, my one and only brother, but to my brother and his friend, with a knife to their there are many more Ethiopians who are losing their throats.”Abune Mathias, the patriarch of the lives - they are being dropped into the ocean,” Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, called the Tesfaye said. “Only God knows how this thing can be killings “repugnant”. “We have a duty to raise our stopped,” he told a small crowd who had come to voice to tell the world that the killing of the innocent offer their condolences, outside his brick house in the like animals is completely unacceptable,” he said. capital Addis Ababa. Joint prayers were held along with Muslim leaders, “They wanted to change their lives, improve led by Sheikh Mohammed Jemal, head of Ethiopia’s their condition-life is very difficult here,” said Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, who said the killing Mersha Mitku, a friend of both men. He said he of people like “chickens” had no place in Islam. knows at least 25 others who took the same route The IS video released on Sunday, showed militants to Libya. Six made it safely to Italy, but he has no in Libya holding captives who they described as “fol- news from the others. Europe’s southern shores lowers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church”. have been swamped with migrants fleeing war and A masked fighter in black brandishing a pistol makes hardship, hundreds of whom have died in a string a statement threatening Christians if they do not con- of tragic shipwrecks. An estimated 800 people vert to Islam. The video shows one group of about 12 drowned on Sunday off Libya in the men being beheaded on a beach and another group Mediterranean’s worst migrant disaster. More than of at least 16 being shot in the head in a desert area. 11,000 migrants have been rescued by Italian “If IS were religious, they would never have killed authorities since the middle of last week alone. human beings,” said Kedir Hussein, a Muslim who ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopians mourn for relatives and friends killed in Libya by the Islamic State group, as “Maybe this story will discourage some for some attended the joint prayers. “The death of these young they gather in streets of Addis Ababa yesterday. — AFP time, but not for long,” Mersha said. — AFP Old loyalties, religious cohesion frustrating Islamic State in Libya Militia exploiting Libya’s lawlessness

CAIRO: Islamic State’s executions of Christians show the group is exploiting Libya’s lawlessness but tribal and political loyalties and the absence of a sectarian divide mean it is unlikely to grow as rapidly there as in Iraq or Syria. On Sunday, the militant group published a video purported- ly showing the execution of 30 Ethiopian Christians in two locations in eastern and south- ern Libya, two months after it beheaded 21 Egyptian Copts there. The video suggests Islamic State, which con- trols much of Syria and Iraq, has managed to fur- ther expand in the North African country after establishing a limited presence in the eastern town of Derna as well as in western and central JERUSALEM: Workers place new carpets at the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. — AP Libya. It is benefiting from chaos in oil-produc- ing Libya, where two governments allied to Replacing carpet at Jerusalem armed factions are fighting each other on sever- al fronts four years after the fall of Muammar shrine reveals religious rift Gaddafi. With neither side able to dominate, a security vacuum exists. But Islamic State may JERUSALEM: It began as a routine remodeling ties surrounding the site, which is considered struggle to expand as it has in Syria and Iraq project: Muslim authorities replacing an old car- Judaism’s holiest spot and Islam’s third holiest. because Libya has no Sunni-Shiite divide the pet worn thin by masses of worshippers at the The Dome of the Rock enshrines the large group could exploit to draw in supporters. Dome of the Rock, the iconic, gold-topped shrine rock slab where Muslim tradition says the Libyans are Sunni Muslims. that overlooks the Old City of Jerusalem. But there Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. Jews The militant group also lacks strong ties to is no such thing as routine remodeling when it believe the rock may be where the holiest part large Libyan tribes, and must compete with for- comes to the most contested piece of real estate of the two ancient Temples stood as early as mer anti-Gaddafi rebel groups that have carved in Jerusalem, where the presence of a mere screw- about 3,000 years ago - and where religious out their own fiefdoms based on regional, tribal, driver can threaten to ignite religious tensions. Jews pray a third Temple will one day be built. ethnic and political ties. “These groups are ulti- The carpet has sparked a verbal holy war The adjacent Western Wall, believed to be one of mately self-serving and self-interested,” said over the hilltop compound, which is revered by the last remnants of the Temple complex, is the Jews and Muslims whose competing claims holiest site where Jews can pray. Palestinian offi- Geoffrey Howard, Middle East and North Africa often spill over into violence. Israeli archaeologi- cials reject Jewish historical ties to the site. The analyst at Control Risks. “IS’s advances are likely cal authorities say the repairs were carried out competing claims have spilled over into vio- to pose a threat to their own political and eco- behind their backs, and an Israeli government lence. In 1999, the Muslim authorities who nomic agendas, as well as their control over ter- minister urged an immediate halt to the work, administer the site dug an enormous hole 12 ritory and strategic assets.” That has left Islamic claiming it might cause irreparable damage. meters (40 feet) deep as part of construction for State splintered into small units that can launch Frustrated Israeli researchers say previously an underground prayer area, dumping 10,000 high-profile attacks but whose grip on territory undocumented ancient floor designs were dis- tons of earth in a nearby valley and an east is not firm enough to build up social services, as covered when the old carpets were peeled off, Jerusalem dump. the group has done to win over local people in but they didn’t get a chance to document the places like Iraq’s Mosul. designs before workmen covered them up with ‘Archaeological crime’ Unlike in Iraq and Syria, Islamic State insur- the new carpet. The director of the Israeli Antiquities gents have not occupied any oilfields in Libya to Authority at the time called it an “archaeological generate revenues, and selling oil outside official ‘Something is hidden there’ crime.” For years, Dvira and veteran Israeli channels would anyway be more complicated in And some researchers claim the Bible’s deep- archaeologist Gabriel Barkay have been leading Libya than in the two other Arab countries. With est secrets may lie beneath some of the newly a team of archaeologists and volunteers in oil storage facilities located in coastal areas, exposed floor designs. “Something is there. I combing through the dirt for historical finds. Libyan oil is exported by sea. Some Libyan war- don’t know what. But something is hidden The initiative, called the Temple Mount Sifting ring factions have tried to sell oil independently there,” said Israeli archaeologist Zachi Dvira, who Project, is conducted under the auspices of the from ports under their control but a UN embar- studies the site. Officials with the Waqf, the Elad Foundation, a group that also purchases TRIPOLI: A general view shows the damaged wall of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital, Muslim authority that administers the Al Aqsa Arab homes in contested parts of East Jerusalem go has deterred foreign shippers. Cross-border Tripoli yesterday, after a bomb exploded outside the building during the night without caus- Mosque compound, which includes the Dome and helps move Jews in. Critics say this national- oil smuggling would also be difficult as Islamic ing injuries, a security source said. Several accounts linked to the Libyan branch of IS claimed of the Rock, reject the Israeli accusations. Sheikh ist agenda should not mix with archaeology. State controls no Libyan land border. the attack on Twitter. — AFP Azzam Tamimi, the head of the Waqf, said the Israel’s state comptroller wrote a scathing work is long overdue and has defiantly pro- report in 2010 about the Muslim authorities’ Foreigners joining Gaddafi made local tribesmen promises of citi- internationally recognized premier Abdullah al- claimed that he was forbidding any Israeli illicit work projects at the compound and Videos showing executions and portraying zenship and development projects but never Thinni have made air strikes near the central city involvement. “Our work in Al Aqsa is transpar- Israel’s failure at enforcing supervision there. Christians as “crusaders” could help Islamic State delivered. Southern tribes make a living by of Sirte on forces loyal to the rival government, ent,” he told The Associated Press. “We are only Israeli officials kept the report classified out of attract more fighters from abroad or from local smuggling anything from subsidized petrol, which controls Tripoli. But they have spared mili- putting down carpet and felt. Nothing more, concern that its publication could harm the militant groups such as Ansar Al-Sharia. “They flour and weapons to African emigrants heading tants inside Sirte, where Islamic State has taken nothing less.” sensitive relationship with Jordan. Tens of want to send a signal to Libyan jihadists that for Europe across Libya’s porous sub-Saharan over government buildings. The work quietly began more than a month thousands of worshippers attend weekly they are the really tough guys,” Mattia Toaldo, borders. In January, Islamic State posted a Forces loyal to Tripoli have meanwhile moved ago, and Israel facilitated the renovation project, Friday prayers, and the carpets have been policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign recruitment video in a Tuareg language, calling heavy guns to the outskirts of Sirte but not said Jamal Al Quda, a member of a group of replaced before - most recently 12 years ago, Relations, told the Reuters Global Oil Forum. on aggrieved tribesmen to join with their prom- launched a full assault on the Islamists fighting Jordanian carpet layers who received Israeli at a time of heightened violence when Israeli “The attraction of Tunisian and Sudanese ised caliphate. Analysts say recruiting in the Thinni’s forces in the east, although there have visas for the job. A packing list dated March 11 antiquities officials were granted limited jihadists gives Islamic State a big potential.” But south would help Islamic State co-operate with been smaller clashes outside the city. While from an Egyptian carpet company to the access to the site. Past renovation projects the biggest security headache for Western pow- other militant groups, such as Tuaregs fighting in Thinni misses no opportunity to warn about Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv lists 80 bales of were done quietly behind the scenes. Leaked ers would be an Islamic State expansion into Mali or Nigeria’s Boko Haram as it tries to take its Islamic State’s expansion, Tripoli officials tend to carpeting for the Marwani prayer area located at photos posted on social media sites - com- Libya’s southern Sahara, the apparent location battle to Libya’s neighbors Chad and Niger. The downplay the group as Gaddafi loyalists with lit- the compound, and the prayer area encircling bined with the political influence of Israeli for part of Sunday’s video. militants also benefit from the reluctance of tle power. “The terrorist groups cannot terrorize the rock slab inside the dome. Jordan’s King nationalists monitoring the site - drew extra Libya’s warring governments to tackle them, the main cities. They only sneak into small Abdullah II financed the project, according to attention and fueled the latest controversy. Neither Libyan government holds much sway analysts say, as each wants Islamic State to keep towns,” said Amina Mahjoub, an Islamist member Waqf. Israel captured Jerusalem’s Old City from Last week, Israel’s housing minister, Uri Ariel in the remote area bordering Niger, Chad, Sudan Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war, but under a of the nationalist Jewish Home party, sent an and Algeria, which has been long neglected. the other busy. War planes belonging to the of the Tripoli-based rival parliament. — Reuters longstanding agreement, Jordan remains the alarmed letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin custodian of the area’s Muslim holy sites. Netanyahu about the carpeting project. “There On a recent afternoon in a small cave under- is no need to elaborate on how important this neath the shrine’s rock, Al Quda dribbled Israeli site is, where every modification, every excava- Young Israelis shunning all-purpose glue from a large tin onto an intri- tion with heavy equipment can cause irrepara- cate stone tile decoration on the cave’s marble ble harm to the foundations of the Temple,” Ariel floor. He said it was necessary to affix the base wrote. Photos that were leaked to Facebook Orthodoxy over dogma layer of thin dark felt before rolling out the car- from the off-limits restoration site showed a pet above it. Some Israeli archaeologists are number of geometric floor patterns never JERUSALEM: They were already in their 20s the attire of sidelocks, skullcaps and long black coats, integrate into the secular-and elitist-university sys- alarmed about the glue used but Al Quda said before documented by archaeologists, said first time they ever heard about dinosaurs or even he is now dressed in sporty casual wear. Nothing in tem with extremely limited skills. In maths, he had the glue wouldn’t damage the floor. “It comes Frankie Snyder, a researcher with the Temple tried their hands at maths and English. Now a his appearance or speech gives a clue that this the ability of a 10-year-old, his English went no fur- off my hand,” he said, rubbing his fingers. The Mount Sifting Project. group of young Israelis who left the closed world of computer enthusiast who loves to have a beer with ther than the alphabet and he had absolutely no cryptic geometric designs have sparked the Some apparently date to when the Crusaders ultra-Orthodox Judaism are demanding answers his friends spent the first 21 years of his life as an idea about history, geography or science. imagination of some researchers about what controlled the complex in the 12th century, she from the state which funded their strictly religious ultra-Orthodox Jew, cut off from modern thought What helped him was getting involved with a secrets may lay beneath. said. “I’m worried about damage of the original education in Jewish seminaries, known as yeshivas. and learning. group called “Out for Change”, which counts floors,” said Barkay, the archaeologist. “The pat- Despite years of studying, all they were exposed to around 300 members-all of them former ultra- Ark of the Covenant terns were never properly documented.” Israel was religious texts and their interpretation, leaving No room for doubt Orthodox. Formed with the express aim of taking Ancient Jewish traditions say the gold-cased Hasson, the director of the Israeli Antiquities them clueless about the basics of the national cur- In the yeshiva world, he says, everything is legal action against the state, the organization also Ark of the Covenant, which contained the Ten Authority, said once the government body riculum. designed “to ensure that no doubt, however small, runs courses for people who want to integrate into Commandments, may have been hidden away learned about the renovation, it made arrange- “I once heard them talk about the theory of evo- can sneak in” that could challenge blind faith. Yet modern society. But its members are mainly in a chamber when the First Jewish Temple was ments with the Waqf to send an archaeologist to lution, very furtively, in the yeshiva when someone nagging doubts did crop up for this young semi- engaged in a lawsuit seeking damages from the destroyed some 2,500 years ago. It’s an Indiana document some of the floor patterns, but others said certain people think they are descended from narian-and they never went away. “It happened state, which provides 75 percent of the funds for Jones-type mystery that touches upon a holy already had been covered by the maroon and the apes,” said 26-year-old Yaakov Fink, a former that one Saturday night after the end of shabbat I ultra-Orthodox education without demanding any grail for biblical enthusiasts. While Jerusalem beige carpeting. “We got to part of them. We religious scholar. “It triggered a gale of laughter simply couldn’t bring myself to go back to the supervision over what its 400,000 students learn. may be the most excavated city in the world, the didn’t get to it all. I won’t ask anyone to pull up and the rabbi said that anyone who believed that yeshiva-and I never did understand why,” he said. “What did we study in the yeshiva? The Torah Dome of the Rock and its hilltop plaza are an the carpets to document it,” Hasson said. “We must be a monkey,” said Fink, who now studies psy- Although leaving the ultra-Orthodox world was and its commentaries and that’s about all,” Fink said, archaeological gold mine that has never been will wait for the next opportunity. We’re sure to chology. In place of the trademark ultra-Orthodox hard, there was worse to come as Fink struggled to referring to the first five books of the Bible. —AFP properly dug because of the political sensitivi- be here over the next 2,000 years.” — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 US cracks down on female teachers who abuse students 800 school employees prosecuted for sexual assault

NEW YORK: A “Saturday Night Live” skit is a shift in the culture where boys and their about a male student having sex with his parents are feeling empowered to come female high school teacher painted the forward to say that something has been relationship as every teen boy’s dream, but done.” drew a firestorm of criticism on social In recent weeks, a Stamford, media. The reaction to the comedy sketch Connecticut high school English teacher, reflected a growing view among law Danielle Watkins, 32, whose case was pros- enforcement and victims’ advocacy groups ecuted by a female state’s attorney, was that it is no laughing matter when a sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for woman educator preys on her male stu- having sex with an underage male student. dents. In Michigan, a female judge sentenced In US schools last year, almost 800 Madison High Spanish teacher Kathryn school employees were prosecuted for sex- Ronk, 30, to up to 15 years in prison for ual assault, nearly a third of them women. having a sexual relationship with a 15-year- The proportion of women facing charges old boy, saying “the law does not recognize seems to be higher than in years past, a double standard.” when female teachers often got a pass, said In New Jersey, a female prosecutor said Terry Abbott, a former chief of staff at the the most lenient plea deal she would offer US Department of Education, who tracked Nicole Dufault, 35, a Columbia High School the cases. This year’s numbers are already English teacher accused of sexual relation- slightly ahead of last year with 26 cases of ships with six teenage boys, was 15 years in female school employees accused of inap- prison. There are contrary examples, such propriate relationships with male students as Pennsylvania’s Erica Ann Ginnetti, 35, the in January compared to 19 cases the previ- Lower Moreland High School math teacher ous January. who had sex with a 17-year-old student Female educators who sexually abuse and was sentenced to 30 days in jail by a their students are facing tougher prosecu- male judge who said, “What young man tion in part because there are more women would not jump on that candy?” That was police officers. There is also a greater after a female prosecutor reportedly said in awareness among prosecutors, judges and court that the victim’s senior year became a the general public that students who are nightmare, his grades plunged and he still victimized by an authority figure, regard- struggles with social interactions. LOS ANGELES: In this photo, students are served breakfast at the Stanley Mosk Elementary School in Los Angeles. — AP less of gender, experience trauma with life- long consequences. “Law enforcement is ‘Hot’ teacher increasingly feminized, and women are But the Twitter furor ignited by the April much less prone to the old attitude: ‘Oh, “SNL” skit in which a male judge fist-bumps this is just some kid who got lucky,’” said a boy who had sex with his “hot” teacher Mexico govt investigates David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes indicates how attitudes are changing. Against Children Research Center. “They “Appalled by the #SNL sketch glorifying recognize the issues involved and they go sexual abuse of a male student by female alleged police massacre after women who violate the statutes.” teacher. Sends the worst message &mini- Depression, low-self esteem and difficul- mizes real experiences,” tweeted Heather ty maintaining future relationships are Timmis @hnt108. An SNL spokesperson MEXICO CITY: Mexican prosecutors and federal happened that day in Apatzingan,” he told ing came hours later, when officers opened fire among the long-term consequences that declined to comment. There is no central police internal affairs are investigating claims reporters. on a dozen vehicles carrying people who were male victims face, according to experts. US reporting system for tracking female that officers killed 16 unarmed civilians in The National Security Commission said chasing a police convoy, hoping to free their Those problems are sometimes compound- teachers who prey on male students, January, authorities said Monday, in the latest Saturday that it had given prosecutors a video it comrades, the report said. Officials arrested at ed by confusion and guilt over whether according to federal education officials, but abuse allegations to hit security forces. Interior received anonymously that appears to show “an least 44 people that day. The violence erupted as they are actually victims since their adoles- Abbott has been charting the crimes from Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong spoke a day excessive use of force or abuse of authority by the authorities planned to dissolve Michoacan’s cent bodies involuntarily respond to physi- news coverage. after a media report concluded that federal federal police officers” in Apatzingan. But the “rural force,” a unit comprised of vigilantes who cal contact. His research showed that female teachers police opened fire on people wielding nothing federal government’s special security envoy to were deputized after they rose up against the far more often than male teachers use social more than sticks on January 6 in Apatzingan, a Michoacan at the time of the deaths, Alfredo Knights Templar drug cartel. ‘Seismic shifts’ media to lure students, creating an electron- city in the troubled western state of Michoacan. Castillo, defended his January account. “I’m at Child abuse experts agree it appears ic “paper trail” that may aid prosecutions. The report by prominent journalist Laura peace and completely certain” of his account, ‘Awful case’ female teachers are being prosecuted more School districts are increasingly moving to Castellanos, published Sunday by the magazine Castillo, who stepped down two weeks after the President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administra- vigorously than in the past. The crackdown ban private social media contact between Proceso and the news website Aristegui Noticias, shootings, told Milenio television. He said what- tion is already under fire over an alleged army is the result of “two seismic shifts,” said teachers and students, sometimes in an contradicts official accounts that nine people ever appears in the video was “probably taken massacre of gang suspects in central Mexico Christopher Anderson, executive director effort to prevent inappropriate relationships. died in the crossfire of a shootout between out of context.” Castellanos’s report, based on 39 last year, and the presumed slaughter of 43 stu- of Male Survivor, the largest US advocacy “Social media enables the behavior to start,” police and former rural militiamen. “We hope anonymous witness accounts, videos and audio dents at the hands of a municipal police- organization for male sex-crime victims. Abbott said. “There is no way that a teacher that the attorney general’s office will draw its recordings, said officers opened fire in two inci- backed drug cartel in southern Guerrero state. “One is a recognition that it does not mat- is going to walk up to a kid in the hallway own conclusions and make them known,” Osorio dents. The allegations in Apatzingan could become a ter who the perpetrator is or what the cir- and say, ‘Hey, would you like to see a naked Chong said, adding that the police was cooper- In the first event, the report said, officers shot new challenge for Pena Nieto, whose populari- cumstances are. A teacher has absolutely picture of me?’ They won’t do it. But they will ating and conducting an internal investigation. at some 100 people who were demonstrating in ty has plummeted below 40 percent after the no business engaging in sexual contact do that on social media. It’s like it erases “We are waiting for the results of the investiga- front of city hall at 2:30 am, with some police September disappearance of the 43 students with a student,” Anderson said. “The second what used to be that barrier.” — Reuters tion and, with that, we will know what really shouting “kill them like dogs!” The second shoot- sparked protests.—AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Foreigners tell of being ‘hunted like dogs’ in South Africa BLANTYRE: Foreigners fleeing xenopho- ‘Be killed or go home’ they had sought shelter. “Many of them bic violence in South Africa yesterday South African authorities have vowed were distressed when our teams went to told of how they escaped marauding to crack down on mobs who have been the camps but they are now happy to be death mobs and vowed never to return attacking foreigners from Zimbabwe, back home,” foreign ministry spokesman to the country where they had sought a Malawi, Mozambique and other African Joey Bimha said. Zimbabwean President new life. Holding her one-year-old countries in both the economic capital Robert Mugabe has expressed “shock daughter in her arms, Agnes Salanje Johannesburg and Durban. Defense and disgust” at the violence, but those from Malawi said she “faced death” dur- Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said who return to the country also face a dif- ing the wave of anti-immigrant violence yesterday the army would be deployed ficult future, given Zimbabwe’s mori- that has claimed at least seven lives. “We in parts of Johannesburg to prevent any bund economy. could have been killed as these South further violence. Foreigners are often the Africans hunted for foreigners, going focus of resentment among poor South Zulus accused from door to door,” Salanje, who was a Africans who face a chronic jobs short- The first Mozambicans returned on domestic worker in the Indian Ocean age. Chisomo Makiyi, 23, who worked at Friday, with 109 people accommodated port city of Durban said. a clothes factory in Durban, is still puz- over the weekend at a transit camp Nearly 400 Malawians arrived zled about why she was attacked. “Had I where they were given tents, blankets overnight in the city of Blantyre in the not run away to safety, I would not be and hot food. They said that the unrest south of the country, where they were here,” she said, on arrival in Malawi after started when Zulus attacked “Shangaan”. met by government ministers and offi- a three-day journey from Durban that The Shangaan tribe lives on both sides cials. The attacks on foreigners have took six different buses. “I just don’t of the South Africa-Mozambique border sparked anger and protests against know why all of a sudden they start hat- but “Shangaan” is also sometimes used South Africa across the rest of the conti- ing foreigners and giving them two by South Africans as a loose term for for- JOHANNESBURG: The hands of displaced foreign nationals are photographed nent. Salanje, who was paid $200 a choices-be killed or go home. eigners. “They say we take their jobs, and as they stand outside a shelter for displaced foreigners in east of month, said she escaped the attackers “My life is more important than a that our men take their wives,” Victoria Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday. — AP after being “tipped off by a good neigh- good salary,” she said, vowing to never N’Gonhamu, 29, who worked in Durban bor and we ran to a mosque to seek return to South Africa, despite being as a maid said. his speech, which was widely seen as South African and international newspa- shelter.” “I will not go back. It is better to paid $280 a month there, “which back Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini has inciting the attacks. Meanwhile, a magis- pers. Reacting to the violence, the be poor than be hunted like dogs home would be a dream.” Zimbabwe, denied whipping up xenophobic hatred trates’ court in Johannesburg yesterday biggest hospital of Botswana, the because you are a foreigner,” she said. “I which has at least one million citizens in a speech last month when he blamed adjourned a case of four men accused of Princess Marina, said it had halted rou- lost everything. I only managed to grab working in South Africa, said 400 arrived immigrants for rising crime and said stabbing to death a Mozambican man in tine referrals to medical fatalities in a few clothes for myself and my baby by bus at the border late on Monday they must leave South Africa. The king broad daylight. Graphic photographs of neighboring South Africa due to safety Linda.” after leaving camps in Durban, where insisted the media had misrepresented the killing were published in many fears.— AFP

Auschwitz bookkeeper admits ‘moral guilt’ at Holocaust trial

LUENEBURG: A 93-year-old former book- Jews during the Holocaust, are guilty of keeper at Auschwitz who is accused of crimes. Until recently, the answer from the being an accessory to mass murder told a German justice system was no. In past years, German court that he felt morally guilty for prosecutors in Frankfurt decided not to pur- his work at the Nazi death camp, describing sue the case against Groening and other in detail the grisly killings he had witnessed concentration camp workers, saying there there. Oskar Groening, in what could be one was no causal link between their actions of the last big Holocaust trials, is accused of and the killings that occurred around them. assisting in the murder of 300,000 people Prosecutors in Hanover disagreed, although he did not kill anyone himself. “In emboldened by the case of Ivan Demjanjuk, moral terms, my actions make me guilty,” who in 2011 was convicted of being an Groening told the court in the northern accessory to mass murder despite there town of Lueneburg at the start of the trial. being no evidence of him having commit- “I stand before the victims with remorse ted a specific crime during his time as a and humility,” he said. “On the question of guard at the Sobibor extermination camp. whether I am guilty in legal terms, you must “It is certainly not an easy trial for us,” the decide.” Groening was 21, and by his own judge Franz Kompisch told the court. “This admission an enthusiastic Nazi, when he is a trial which is attracting and creating a was sent to work at Auschwitz in 1942. His lot of attention and setting off emotions.” case is unusual because unlike many of the The charges against Groening relate to the other SS men and women who worked in period between May and July 1944 when concentration camps, he has spoken openly 137 trains carrying roughly 425,000 Jews in interviews about his time at the camp in from Hungary arrived in Auschwitz. At least occupied Poland. Wearing a sleeveless 300,000 of them were sent straight to the beige sweater over a white shirt, the white- gas chambers, the indictment says. haired Groening was calm and composed, Groening described some of the mur- leaning back in his chair and looking at ders that he witnessed at Auschwitz. On his papers, as prosecutors read out the indict- first day on the ramp where Jewish prison- ment. ers exited the trains, he saw an SS colleague He laughed when his lawyer asked the grab a crying baby and slam its head CATANIA: This image shows Tunisian national Mohammed Ali Malek (left), and Syrian national Mahmud Bikhit, the captain and a crew member judge to speak louder so that Groening against a truck until it was quiet. “I was so of a capsized migrant boat, following their arrest on suspicion of people trafficking in Catania yesterday. — AFP could hear him. At one point, taking a sip of shaken. I don’t find what he did good at all,” water, he joked: “I’ll do that like I drank the Groening said, telling the court that he later vodka at Auschwitz”. His job was to collect went to his commander to request a trans- Migrant boat captain, crew the belongings of deportees after they fer from Auschwitz. He also told of an inci- arrived at the camp by train and had been dent in late 1942 when he witnessed naked put through a selection process that result- Jews being herded into a converted farm ed in many being sent directly to the gas house near the camp. A fellow officer shut arrested; death toll hits 800 chambers. He inspected their luggage, the door, put on a gas mask, opened a can removing and counting any bank notes that and poured its contents down a hatch. were inside, and sending them on to SS “The screams became louder and more Boat skipper facing mass murder charge offices in Berlin, where they helped to fund desperate but after a short time they CATANIA: The captain of a migrant boat that ments who are now under intense pressure to coastguard. Italian officials believe there could the Nazi war effort. “By sorting the bank became quieter again,” Groening said. “This capsized in the Mediterranean’s deadliest disas- address the humanitarian crisis on their south- be up to one million more would-be immigrants notes he helped the Nazi regime to benefit is the only time I participated in a gassing,” ter in decades was arrested yesterday on suspi- ern shores. to Europe waiting to board boats in conflict-torn economically,” said Jens Lehmann, a lawyer he added, before correcting himself: “I don’t cion of causing the deaths of an estimated 800 Libya. Many of them are refugees from Syria’s for a group of Auschwitz survivors and rela- mean participated, I mean observed.” In an people. Prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Catania Wheelchair survivor civil war or persecution in places like Eritrea. tives of victims who are joint plaintiffs in the extensive interview with German magazine said they believed Tunisian national Mohammed The first of the 27 survivors who disembarked Others are seeking to escape poverty and case. Der Spiegel in 2005, Groening said he felt Ali Malek, 27, was responsible for steering mis- in Sicily in the early hours did so in a wheelchair. hunger in Africa and south Asia and secure a “nothing” when he saw Jews being taken to takes and the reckless overcrowding which led All of them were deeply traumatized, said better future in Europe. Demjanjuk case decisive the gas chamber. “If you are convinced that to the horrifying shipwreck off Libya on Sunday. Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for the UN High The case goes to the heart of the ques- the destruction of Judaism is necessary, Crew member and Syrian national Mahmud Commissioner for Refugees. “They are exhaust- Australia’s example tion of whether people who were small then it no longer matters how the killing Bikhit, 25, was also arrested in a probe into a ed, they have nothing left,” she said. “They are in Despite the prosect of further loss of life, a cogs in the Nazi machinery, but did not takes place,” he said, describing his feelings catastrophe that has evoked chilling compar- a state of shock, they look completely lost.” Most number of EU governments are reluctant to actively participate in the killing of 6 million as a young SS officer.—Reuters isons with the slave trade and allegations of cal- of the survivors and the victims appear to have expand search-and-rescue operations, arguing lous disregard on the part of European govern- been young men but there were also several that they only encourage migrants to attempt ments. The captain was held on suspicion of children aged between 10 and 12, she added. the crossing. That view was endorsed by multiple murder, causing a shipwreck and aiding “We have not yet been able to ask them about Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who said illegal immigration. Bikhit faces potential this but it seems certain that many of them will Europe should follow his government’s lead by charges on the latter count. Both men were to have had friends and family who were lost in the deploying military forces to turn migrant boats be put before a judge later. Hundreds of the vic- wreck.” back to Africa. “The only way you can stop the tims, including an unknown number of children, At talks in Luxembourg on Monday, EU minis- deaths is in fact to stop the boats,” Abbott said. will have died in hellish circumstances having ters agreed on a 10-point plan to double the Australia’s policy has drastically reduced the been locked in the hold or the middle deck of resources available to maritime border patrol number of asylum-seekers arriving on its soil the 20-metre boat which keeled over in pitch mission Triton and further measures will be dis- and deaths at sea. Critics say this has been darkness after colliding with a Portuguese con- cussed at a summit of EU leaders tomorrow. achieved at the expense of the country breach- tainer ship answering its distress call. Critics say Triton is woefully inadequate and are ing its international asylum obligations. The Catania prosecutors said the collision had demanding the restoration of a much bigger Ideas being looked at by the EU including try- been caused by steering mistakes by the captain Italian operation suspended last year because of ing to capture or destroy people-smuggling and the panicked movements of the hundreds cost constraints. The survivors, who hailed from boats and a pilot scheme for the fast-track return of passengers. “On the basis of what has Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Somalia, Eritrea and of migrants to their home countries. Italy is emerged, no blame can be accorded to the crew Bangladesh, were all recovering yesterday at studying the possibility of mounting “targeted of the merchant ship which came to rescue and holding centers near Catania on Sicily’s eastern interventions” against Libya-based people in no way contributed to the fatal event,” they coast. smugglers-but experts are skeptical about the said in a statement. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Sunday’s disaster was the worst in a series of likelihood of this ever happening. More than Renzi has described the traffickers who packed migrant shipwrecks that have claimed more 1,000 people have been arrested in recent years their human cargo into the boat as akin to 18th- than 1,700 lives this year - 30 times higher than in connection with trafficking operations but century slave traders. The UN human rights chief the same period in 2014 - and nearly 5,000 since Italian officials acknowledge most of them are LUENEBURG: Former Nazi death camp officer Oskar Groening sits outside during a Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the horror at sea had the start of last year. In that time nearly 200,000 small fry and that the gangsters making multi- break of his trial yesterday in Lueneburg, northern Germany. —AFP been produced by a “monumental failure of migrants have made it to Italy, mostly after million dollar profits from the trade are still compassion” on the part of European govern- being rescued at sea by the Italian navy and mostly at large. — AFP In exile, Syrian Armenians feel echoes of genocide

BURJ HAMMOUD: For thousands of Syrian her voice breaking. Melkonian is safe now, liv- sands of Turks and Armenians lost their lives as the tragedy, many Armenians who fled Syria but fled last year after her husband was Armenian refugees in Lebanon, the slaughter ing in the Armenian district of Burj Hammoud Ottoman forces battled the Russian Empire for say they feel as though they are still living it. wounded by mortar fire. “I want to live in and expulsion of their ancestors a century ago with her daughter and son-in-law, and her control of eastern Anatolia during World War I. They draw parallels between the experi- peace, but all I’ve known is war,” she says. is less a historical event than an ongoing trau- grandchildren. ences of their forefathers and incidents like ma. Though their community is just one of But her husband remains in Aleppo, reluc- ‘Guilty of genocide’ the targeting of the Syrian Armenian town of ‘A double wound’ many caught up in Syria’s brutal conflict, tant to leave everything behind, like so many In Burj Hammoud, Lebanese and Syrian Kasab and the destruction of an Armenian Alexan Keuchkerian, a member of Syrian Armenians say their fate has been par- Armenians who fled their homes in 1915. The Armenians have no qualms about labeling the church in Deir Ezzor province that contained Lebanon’s Armenian Hunchak party, is at pains ticularly painful because it echoes the tragedy facts of the tragedy that began 100 years ago tragedy a genocide and holding Turkey the remains of victims of the 1915 massacre. “I to note that all Syrians, not just Armenians, are often termed the Armenian genocide. this month remain bitterly disputed. Armenia responsible for it. The streets are spray-painted feel that we’re seeing history repeating itself,” suffering. More than 220,000 people have Maggie Melkonian fights back tears as she and Armenians in the diaspora say 1.5 million with profanities directed at Ankara and sten- says 30-year-old Maral Giloyan. “We are been killed in the conflict, and nearly half the describes fleeing to Lebanon from her home of their forefathers were killed by Ottoman ciled graffiti reading “Turkey, guilty of geno- exhausted. For all these years, we have not population has been displaced, with more in the Sulamaniyeh district of Syria’s Aleppo forces in a targeted campaign. They say the cide”. In the run-up to the centenary, placards been able to feel comfortable, to relax.” than a million refugees settling in Lebanon. city more than two years ago. “Just as our campaign was ordered by the military leader- and banners have been hung reading “We Giloyan is a refugee twice over. Her family left “But for Syrian Armenians, this is a second ancestors had to leave without anything, we ship of the Ottoman empire to eradicate the remember and demand”, a reference to a long- Iraq’s capital Baghdad in 2005, fleeing the vio- forced migration, it’s a double wound,” he says. had to do the same,” she says. “We’re living a Armenian people from Anatolia in what is now standing call for Turkey to acknowledge the lence that followed the US-led invasion. They “The pain is being repeated.” Members of his second genocide now, our houses are all eastern Turkey. But Turkey takes a sharply dif- murders as “genocide”. As the Lebanese settled in Aleppo, where Giloyan married a own family are among the recent arrivals from gone... Our people are dying again,” she adds, ferent view, saying that hundreds of thou- Armenian community plans events to mark Syrian Armenian man and had three children, Aleppo.—AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Pakistan hangs 15 Clashes kill two soldiers, five rebels LAHORE: Pakistan hanged 15 people rights groups say many convictions in Bogh area, some 80 kilometers north yesterday, officials said, the largest Pakistan are highly unreliable. The of Gwadar. “Two soldiers were mar- number of people executed on the country’s antiquated criminal justice tyred and an insurgent was killed and same day since an unofficial moratori- system barely functions, torture has another captured in a clash with secu- um on capital punishment was lifted often been used to extract confes- rity forces,” Ahmed said. in December. Prime Minister Nawaz sions and police are rarely trained in Provincial home secretary Akbar Sharif lifted a de facto moratorium on investigation, rights officials say. There Hussain Durrani confirmed the clash. capital punishment on Dec 17, a day are more than 8,000 Pakistanis on Sarbaz Baloch, a spokesman for the after Pakistani Taleban gunmen death row. Baloch Liberation Army rebel group, attacked a school and killed 153 peo- claimed responsibility for attack on ple, most of them children. The Clashes in southwest the airport in a call to journalists. killings put pressure on the govern- In another development, two para- Separately, insurgents attacked secu- ment to do more to tackle an Islamist military soldiers and five insurgents rity forces in the Mashqay area of insurgency. Initially, it was only people were killed in gunbattles yesterday in Awaran district, with troops killing convicted of militant offences who Pakistan’s restive southwestern four insurgents, security officials said. were executed but officials later said province of Baluchistan, officials said, Earlier this month the Baluchistan any prisoner on death row whose highlighting the challenges to a huge Liberation Front claimed an attack in appeals had been rejected could be Chinese investment project. The first the province that left 20 construction executed. The inspector general of clash was in Gwadar district, where workers from elsewhere in Pakistan DHAKA: People attack the convoy of Bangladesh’s main opposition leader Khaleda Zia yesterday in Dhaka. — AFP prisons in Punjab province, Farooq Beijing has taken over a deepwater dead, the bloodiest separatist inci- Nazir said 14 people who had been seaport that will be the starting point dent since 2006. Resource-rich convicted of “heinous crimes” had of a $46 billion “economic corridor” of Baluchistan is the largest of Pakistan’s Bangladesh opposition fury been hanged in the province. roads, pipelines and rail links to four provinces, but its roughly seven One person was hanged in Kashgar in western China. million inhabitants have long com- Baluchistan province, an official there Insurgents fired rockets at the air plained they do not receive a fair over attack on Zia’s convoy said. The executions brought the traffic control tower of Pasni airport in share of its gas and mineral wealth. number of people hanged in Pakistan Gwadar district late on Monday, caus- Rebels began their fifth insurgency DHAKA: Bangladesh’s opposition accused pro-government with Zia at the time of the attack. since December to 95, the Justice ing some damage but no casualties, against the state in 2004, with hun- supporters yesterday of trying to kill their leader Khaleda Zia Police confirmed they were investigating reports of a shoot- Project Pakistan legal aid group said, paramilitary Frontier Corps dreds of soldiers and militants killed after her car was shot at and stoned by a mob while campaign- ing and acknowledged Zia had not been accorded close pro- citing media reports. The moratorium spokesman Manzoor Ahmed said. in the fighting since then. The des- ing in Dhaka’s mayoral elections. Although Zia emerged tection. “Khaleda Zia did not get any police protection during on executions had been in place since Security forces mounted a search after perately poor province is also riven unscathed from Monday evening’s attack, which took place as campaigning because she or her party never sought protection a democratic government took power the attack and this culminated in a by sectarian strife and Islamist vio- she stopped to tour a shopping district, supporters voiced from us,” Jahangir Alam Sarker, a deputy commissioner of from a military ruler in 2008. Human gunbattle with insurgents in the Zarin lence. — Agencies alarm at the lack of protection from the official security forces. police, told the Dhaka Tribune newspaper. The BNP has previ- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina meanwhile accused her arch rival ously accused the security forces of being behind attacks on its of making an unnecessary “drama” out of the incident which members, including an apparent assassination attempt against has added to the tensions in the volatile capital ahead of Zia’s advisor Riaz Rahman who was shot at in his car. Lanka opposition wants polling on April 28. Zia, a two-time former premier who leads the Bangladesh ‘Drama’ Nationalist Party, is hoping that a strong showing in next week’s Moudud Ahmed, another of Zia’s top lieutenants in the BNP, anti-graft chief sacked polls will add momentum to her long-running campaign to said Monday’s attack was “planned and aimed to kill her”. “This force new national elections. After recently ending a lengthy is a reflection of the government’s fascist and undemocratic COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main opposition demanded yes- ond day over the summons, holding up passage of stint holed up in her headquarters, Zia has been campaigning mentality,” Ahmed said in a statement. Hasina’s camp however terday the country’s anti-graft chief be sacked for sum- Sirisena’s promised reforms to roll back the president’s hard in the elections-the first her party has participated in since responded derisively to the accusations. “Khaleda Zia is staging moning former president Mahinda Rajapakse to answer powers, which were strengthened during the former it boycotted parliamentary polls in January 2014. Television drama... She should stop such activities for the sake of a free, bribery allegations amid renewed uproar in parliament. strongman’s rule. Hundreds of Rajapakse supporters footage showed how scores of people attacked Zia’s convoy in fair and transparent election,” she was quoted as saying by The Opposition lawmaker Bandula Gunawardane told parlia- blocked a main road to parliament, demanding investiga- the Karwan Bazaar district, smashing the windows of a number Daily Star. Bangladesh has been plagued by political unrest in ment the director general of the Commission to tions against him be dropped. Speaker Chamal Rajapakse of vehicles with a combination of rocks, metals rods and staves. the last two years, fuelled in part by Hasina’s controversial Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, told parliament that investigators would now visit the walkover re-election. Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe, should be dismissed for her former president, rather than insisting on him appearing Convoy attack Death sentences handed down to leaders of an Islamist par- “arbitrary action”. before the commission on Friday to answer questions. Fazle Elahi Akbar, a retired general who heads the BNP ty allied to the BNP over their role in the former East Pakistan’s Wickramasinghe has summoned Rajapakse to appear After calling snap elections, Rajapakse was defeated chief’s private security team, said shots were fired at Zia’s bullet- 1971 independence war also fuelled the unrest. Scores of peo- on Friday following a complaint that he paid a bribe of by his former ally, largely due to voter anger over corrup- more than 600 million rupees ($4.6 million) to a lawmak- tion and cronyism claims. But Rajapakse’s party and its proofed car while she was inside but stopped short of calling it ple have been killed in firebomb attacks on vehicles since the er from the then-opposition to defect ahead of the presi- allies still hold a majority in the parliament. Leader of the an assassination attempt. Several of her own security personnel start of the year when Zia called a transport blockade as part of dential election in January. “Today, 113 lawmakers signed house Lakshman Kiriella withdrew a political reform bill were injured in the violence, although none seriously. “Her car her efforts to force the government to hold fresh elections. a petition asking the speaker to take action to remove that was due to be taken up and said it would now be was hit by a bullet fired from a pistol from a reasonably close Bangladesh has a long history of deadly political violence, Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe,” said Gunawardane, who is re-presented next week. Parliament was also adjourned much of it centered around the families of Zia and Hasina who range,” Akbar said, saying there were bullet marks on the vehi- from Rajapakse’s faction. New President Maithripala till Monday. However, Sirisena has promised to dissolve cle. “If it penetrated it would obviously hit her. She survived are known as the “Battling Begums”. Hasina’s father, Sirisena has launched a series of corruption investiga- parliament and call a general election as early as because she was in a bullet-proof car.” The BNP said that police Bangladesh’s first post-independence leader, was assassinated tions against Rajapakse’s inner circle since ousting him at Thursday in a bid to strengthen his numbers in parlia- in the area had stood idle during the violence. “We are extreme- by a group of army officers in 1975. Zia’s husband, a hero of the the election after a decade in power. ment and bolster his mandate for sweeping democratic ly concerned and we hope the government would take appro- independence war who went on to become president, was also Rajapakse’s opposition disrupted parliament for a sec- reforms. — AFP priate measures to ensure her security,” said Akbar who was assassinated by disgruntled officers six years later. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 US couple jailed over ‘sadistic’ Bali suitcase murder News DENPASAR: A US couple were given long said judges decided to give her a lighter in Brief jail terms yesterday for the “sadistic” mur- sentence as she needed to care for her der of the woman’s mother, whose body baby daughter, who was born last month. Saudi man beheaded was found stuffed in a suitcase outside a for killing housemaid luxury hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island. Bali shocked RIYADH: Saudi authorities executed a citizen yesterday Tommy Schaefer, 21, was found guilty of Von Wiese Mack’s badly beaten body after convicting him of sexually harassing and brutally the premeditated murder of Sheila von was discovered in a taxi outside an upmar- murdering his Indonesian maid. Shayea Al-Qahtani was Wiese Mack on the resort island and jailed ket resort on Bali last August. After her found guilty of killing the maid by beating her with a for 18 years. His girlfriend and the victim’s killing, the couple-from the Chicago area- cane and pouring boiling water over her, the interior daughter, 19-year-old Heather Mack who fled to another part of Bali where police ministry said. His execution in the southwestern was pregnant at the time of the crime, was arrested them. Schaefer confessed to the province of Abha was the 63rd in the kingdom so far found guilty of assisting in the murder and killing during his trial but claimed he was this year. That compares with 87 in the whole of 2014 in given a 10-year prison term. Schaefer wept defending himself during an argument what Amnesty International has called a “macabre spike” in the Bali court as judges recounted har- with von Wiese Mack, who was unhappy in the kingdom’s use of the death penalty. The London- rowing details of the case, in which he beat that her daughter was pregnant. based human rights group ranked Saudi Arabia among the 62-year-old victim to death with a fruit Prosecutors alleged that Schaefer the top three executioners in the world last year. The bowl during a blazing row in the five-star “blindly hit” von Wiese Mack with the fruit interior ministry has said that the death penalty pro- resort, before he and his girlfriend dumped bowl in a fit of rage after she directed a vides an important deterrent. Drug trafficking, rape, the body in a taxi. racial slur at him. Schaefer is black. While murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable “The defendant’s actions disturbed the her mother was being murdered, Mack hid by death under the kingdom’s strict version of Islamic public and can be considered sadistic,” said in the bathroom and the couple then sharia law. Judge Made Suweda as he sentenced stuffed the body into the suitcase togeth- Schaefer. The case sent shockwaves across er, according to her indictment. The pair the tropical holiday island that welcomes were tried separately. Handing down the Suicide bomber kills millions of foreign visitors each year. verdict in Schaefer’s case, Suweda said he BALI: Heather Mack of Chicago, carries her baby daughter inside a cell after her ver- 10 in Somali capital Schaefer’s jail term was the same as that was “legally and convincingly” guilty of dict trial in Bali, Indonesia yesterday. — AP MOGADISHU: At least 10 people were killed when recommended by prosecutors. He escaped premeditated murder. Mack’s baby girl a suspected suicide bomber rammed a car laden a death sentence, the maximum term for Stella is staying with her in Bali’s notorious ing a cell with 10 other women. “I loved my Muslim-majority Indonesia famed for its with explosives into a busy restaurant in the centre premeditated murder in Indonesia. Kerobokan jail, where prisoners live in mom with all my heart and miss her every palm-fringed, pristine beaches. Foreign vis- of capital Mogadishu yesterday, police said. The Heather Mack, who hid in the bathroom cramped, insanitary conditions and drug day,” she said. The case involved a lengthy itors sometimes run into trouble on the attackers targeted a small restaurant at lunch hour while Schaefer attacked her mother, was abuse is widespread. investigation, with assistance from the US tropical island, although they normally fall that is popular with government officials, about 1 found guilty of the lesser charge of assist- In an interview with the Chicago Tribune Federal Bureau of Investigation. Locals and foul of Indonesia’s tough anti-drugs laws, kilometer from the presidential palace in the heart ing in the murder. Prosecutors had recom- newspaper in February, Mack said she was foreigners alike were horrified at the rare which include the death penalty for smug- of Mogadishu. The explosion also hit a small tea mended a 15-year jail term but Suweda “petrified” and revealed that she was shar- murder on Bali, a pocket of Hinduism in gling narcotics. — AFP shop next to the restaurant and sent a huge plume of smoke above the city which lies on the Indian Ocean. “The death toll is sure to rise,” said Police Colonel Osman Ibrahim at the scene. Police said was Chinese and US the attack was a suicide bombing. No group has claimed responsibility but previous bombings in navies in sporting Mogadishu have been carried out by the Islamist Al Shabaab rebel group. “A policeman opened fire to confrontations stop the car bomb but it was all in vain. The police- man died and the car bomb rammed into the gate in the busy restaurant,” added Major Farah Hussein, ZHANJIANG: US and Chinese sailors faced off on Chinese soil yes- another police officer at the attack site. terday, in sporting clashes between their giant militaries aimed at building trust against a backdrop of tensions over Beijing’s asser- tion of its territorial claims. The contests-the hosts claimed a 3-1 Plane forced to turn victory at football, but the visitors dominated on the basketball back over coffee spill court-came as the USS Blue Ridge, the flagship of the US Navy’s BELGRADE: Blamed initially on ‘engine failure’, it 7th Fleet, paid a rare visit to the base of China’s South Sea Fleet. emerged yesterday that a government jet carrying Its frigates are charged with defending Beijing’s claim to Serbia’s president to Italy last week was forced to turn almost all the South China Sea, against several Southeast Asian back when the co-pilot spilled coffee on the instrument neighbors. Chinese officers toured the hulking visiting command board. Advisers to President Tomislav Nikolic described ship, docked beside People’s Liberation Army vessels in Zhanjiang being “thrown around the cabin” when the plane-a 34- in the southern province of Guangdong, and later eyed up their year-old French-built Falcon 50 - began tumbling US counterparts over lunch. On the Blue Ridge’s main deck, US through the air on Friday. The plane landed safely back personnel patrolled with M-16 rifles a stones’ throw from the in Belgrade, but Nikolic was forced to cancel his official palm-fringed Chinese shore, while on land staff from both navies visit to meet Pope Francis in the Vatican, and his advisers swapped jokes and rebounds. put the incident down to yet another malfunction on The Chinese and US militaries-the world’s largest and most the ageing, incident-prone aircraft. One adviser told powerful respectively-have been increasing exchanges even as Reuters that she would “never step foot on that plane Beijing’s assertion of its South China Sea claims, most recently again,” saying the fall had lasted “for what seemed like through rapid building of artificial islands, rings alarm bells in an eternity”. An investigation determined that the co- Washington. US Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the US pilot, Bojan Zoric, had spilled coffee on the instrument Pacific Fleet of which the 7th Fleet is a part, said yesterday: “China ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping (center) shaking hands with National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq (left) as Senate Chairman Mian Rabbani looks on at the Parliament House in Islamabad. — AFP board “due to ongoing turbulence”. “I began wiping the is responsible for the rise of tensions and provocations in the board and accidentally activated the ‘emergency slat’ South China Sea.” “I don’t think that there’s a likelihood of a major button,” which automatically turned off the automatic force-on-force conflict in the South China Sea today,” he added pilot and the plane began losing altitude, Zoric said in while visiting the Indonesian capital Jakarta. “But I have to be Security fears linger at the report by Serbia’s Civil Aviation Directorate. ready for that.”

Dangerous ambiguity China-Pakistan corridor ‘Grave-robbing’ monk The South China Sea is a vital strategic waterway and close detained and disrobed encounters between the two powers’ ships have led to fears of a BANGKOK: A 65-year-old Buddhist monk being clash. In their most serious maritime incident for years, the US Pakistani, Chinese officials ink over 50 accords held by police is accused of looting graves for skulls guided missile warship Cowpens had to make a sharp turn to to be used in black magic rituals, authorities said avoid colliding with a Chinese naval ship that cut in front of it in ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi has a historic development opportu- Liberation Front claimed an attack in yesterday. The monk, who was disrobed on April 19, the South China Sea in 2013, according to the Pentagon. Jinping said yesterday a $46 billion nity. Prime Minister Sharif has crafted the province that left 20 construction allegedly raided two cemeteries near the northeast- The two navies “interact, often daily. So building this relation- economic corridor offered Pakistan a the vision of the Asian tiger dream. It workers from elsewhere in Pakistan ern city of Udon Thani with accomplices. Police ship is key”, Lt Charles Banks of the 7th Fleet told AFP, adding that “historic development opportunity”, outlines a great blueprint for Pakistan,” dead, the bloodiest separatist incident accuse the monk and two younger disciples of dig- naval officials on both sides would discuss the implementation of but security fears linger over the proj- he told lawmakers. since 2006. Siddiq Baloch, editor of ging up skulls to be used in rituals-which may a “Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea” during the five-day visit. ect which involves major construction the Balochistan Express newspaper, include making amulets said to protect the wearer “Ambiguity can lead to confusion and mistakes,” he said, as US sol- in some highly unstable areas. Rebel fears said the rebels want to scare off and confer power. “The monk took five skulls, diers in black vests and day-glo trainers teamed up with Chinese Pakistani and Chinese officials on But away from the handshakes and investors and developers who are including of siblings-an eight-year-old girl and a six- sailors. “It’s to build good relations,” said Terrence Phillips, a Monday signed a series of more than backslapping, there are real security working with the Pakistani govern- year-old boy-who died from drowning,” Santhan boatswain’s mate on the Blue Ridge and a centre on the basket- 50 accords to inaugurate the China- concerns over much of the plan, ment-such as the Chinese. “There is Intharajak, commander of Kumpawapi Police ball court. “Sport is about international camaraderie for every- Pakistan Economic Corridor, which which relies on developing Gwadar- the thinking that by doing this, they Station in Udon Thani province said. “He has been body.” A female Chinese Navy engineer, who said she was not will create a network of roads, railways control of which was passed to a want to disrupt the working of the conspiring to steal skulls and moving, destroying authorized to give her name, ran to take a photo with Phillips and and pipelines linking China’s restive Chinese company in 2013. The port economy, disrupt the administration, and desecrating corpses,” said Santhan, adding that said: “When we play basketball it’s very friendly.” The US Navy still west to the Arabian Sea through lies near the mouth of the Gulf of challenge the administration in the the maximum penalty is five years in jail. According eclipses China’s fleet in terms of firepower-Washington currently Pakistan. The project is part of Oman, east of the Strait of Hormuz area,” he said. to police the monk denies the charges, instead say- has 10 aircraft carriers to Beijing’s one. An 11th carrier, the Gerald R Beijing’s “Belt and Road” plan to through which much of the Middle Suppressing the rebellion by force ing he visited the cemeteries at night to talk to spir- Ford, is scheduled for delivery next year, according to the US expand its trade and transport foot- East’s crude production passes. But in Baluchistan’s desolate and sparsely- its in an attempt to foresee lottery numbers. Rituals Navy’s website. Chinese media, meanwhile, have quoted officials print across Central and South Asia. It linking Gwadar to the rest of Pakistan populated landscape, much of which led by monks claiming to foresee the numbers are as saying a second carrier is under construction. China has had will give China easier access to Middle and on to the western Chinese city of is desert and mountains, has proven common among people in Thailand especially in double-digit military budget growth and President Xi Jinping Eastern oil via the deepwater port of Kashgar, 3,000 kilometers away, difficult. Abdul Malik Baloch, the rural areas, Santhan said. vows to build a “strong navy” capable of “fighting and winning Gwadar in southwest Pakistan. would involve major infrastructure Baluchistan chief minister, said strenu- battles”. The Chinese aid also aims to boost work in Baluchistan. This is one of ous efforts were under way to try to The base in Zhanjiang was lined with posters repeating Xi’s Pakistan’s long-underperforming Pakistan’s most unstable provinces negotiate with the rebels. “I am trying call. “The South China Sea has become a greater source of tension economy, which the IMF projects will and has been dogged for over a to convince them, but still there are in the US-China relationship since 2010,” said M Taylor Fravel, a grow 4.3 percent this year, and tackle decade by a bloody separatist insur- not convinced,” he said in the provin- professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the its long-running energy crisis. Beijing gency. Ethnic Baluch rebels, who cial capital Quetta. “This is my honest same time, the two sides have stepped up military exchanges, and Islamabad have long enjoyed oppose Gwadar’s development while opinion, this is the only way-to start which were set to continue Tuesday evening at a drinks reception close ties and Xi’s speech on Tuesday, the province is not independent, have talking and bring the insurgents to on board the Blue Ridge. “The fact that these exchanges are occur- the first by a Chinese president to a in the past blown up numerous gas the table.” Xi wrapped up his two-day ring faster and more broadly than before underscores that the US- joint session of parliament, was full of pipelines and trains and attacked visit yesterday before travelling on to China relationship has both elements of cooperation and compe- the flowery rhetoric that typifies their Chinese engineers. Indonesia for an Asian-African sum- tition,” Fravel added.-—AFP official exchanges. “Today Pakistan Earlier this month the Baluchistan mit.— AFP 3 dead as wild weather lashes Australian state

SYDNEY: Three people died as the Australian Sydney’s iconic Bondi beach. Sea swells also Bureau of Meteorology said 172 millimeters en house being swept away by flash floods, state of New South Wales was lashed by a hampered shipping as the region around (6.8 inches) of rain had fallen in Sydney in 24 although it was not clear if this was linked to “once-in-a-decade” storm yesterday with Australia’s biggest city suffered its second day hours-the city’s wettest period since 2002. the deaths. homes washed away, thousands hit by power of gale-force winds of up to 135 kilometers The destructive winds blanketed parks, Indian villagers eat food as they stand in water dur- cuts and sand drifts sweeping inland off per hour (83 mph) and torrential rain. The pavements and roads with sand from beach- ‘Just horrendous’ ing a protest in the village of Khandwa some 300kms es including Bondi, while trees were uprooted The Dungog Chronicle said four houses south-west of Bhopal. — AFP and crashed onto cars and power lines blew had been washed away and the two men down. Dozens of flights were delayed and a and one woman who died, all elderly, were Protesting Indian farmers cruise ship was stuck at sea outside Sydney trapped in their homes as floodwater surged stand in chest-deep water Harbor. New South Wales state Premier Mike through the town. “The water came out of NEW DELHI: Farmers in central India continued yester- Baird said 4,500 calls had been made to emer- nowhere, it just rose that quick,” Jarod Rits, day to stand in murky, chest-deep water for the 11th gency services. “There is no doubt this is a 18, told the newspaper. “The water was just a straight day in an unconventional protest over a land very severe storm event, indeed it is a once in roar, really, just rushing through the streets.” dispute. Around 30 farmers have vowed to keep up their 10-year event,” he said. “We have lost some Another resident who gave his first name as protest by standing in their fields which have been inun- homes. There is a number of roofs taken off. David told the Australian Broadcasting dated with water by a nearby dam in Madhya Pradesh We have also lost life. It is a huge storm event Corporation the town “has been smashed”. state, despite concerns over their health. “I will not move that is wreaking havoc across NSW at the “The town is a mess. People have got noth- out of the water even if I die. I am standing on my land, moment.” ing... it’s just been horrendous,” he said. Police which has been turned into a lake. The government has New South Wales police said three people advised Dungog residents and others in sur- cheated us,” Raja Ram, one of the farmers said. “We want died in the country town of Dungog, 215 kilo- rounding areas to move to evacuation cen- the water level to be decreased immediately and the metres (133 miles) north of Sydney, which tres, or stay with family and friends. return of our land,” Ram said in Khandwa district, 300 was soaked by 312 millimeters (12.3 inches) Baird said the State Emergency Services kilometers from state capital Bhopal. Television footage of rain in 24 hours. “During the morning a (SES) had carried out 47 flood rescues. “There showed the group of men and sari-clad women looking woman and two men were located deceased have been multiple persons trapped in vehi- miserable as they held up banners against the state gov- within the Dungog township. The circum- cles, being trapped in buildings and being ernment’s decision to buy their land on the Narmada stances surrounding their deaths are still to trapped on top of buildings while trying to river for a dam. Some of the protesters have developed SYDNEY: Joggers struggle against sand whipped up by strong winds at Bondi Beach skin infections and a few are running high fevers, in Sydney yesterday. — AFP be determined,” they said in a statement. take refuge from floodwaters,” SES deputy Video footage posted online showed a wood- chief Steven Pearce told reporters.—AFP according to an activist involved in the protest. NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Cows cross a reservoir near the boundary of a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka’s Udawalawe National Park yesterday. The national park was created to provide a sanctuary for wild animals displaced by the construction of the Udawalawe Reservoir on the Walawe River. — AFP

Crown Prince: Turmoil undermining... Japan maglev train breaks speed record Continued from Page 1 Charter, he said, noting that the country is taking part with other GCC and fellow Arab states in countering the aggres- Continued from Page 1 Barack Obama’s multi-billion-dollar national high-speed The initiative was encountered by intransigence from the sion and attempting to restore legitimacy in Yemen. HH the rail project. Abe said Japan would not charge licensing Houthi militias that encroached on legitimacy through mili- Deputy Amir and Crown Prince pointed to Security Council He is due in the United States this weekend, where fees in the US for the train, a strong incentive for tary power. resolution No 2216 adopted on April 14 as a reflection of he will be touting the technology for a high-speed rail Washington to select the system for a high-speed rail Kuwait’s stance on Yemen has been based on the GCC international support to the GCC’s move. He also delivered link between New York and Washington. Last year, Abe line between Washington DC and Baltimore. The pro- and Arab joint defense agreements and Article 51 of the UN greetings from HH the Amir to the senior Kuwaiti diplomats. took US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on a posed 60-km link will represent the first phase in the US test ride. “This technology is something that will bring government’s plan to connect the capital and Boston. great benefits to Japan and hopefully the United States Japan started its study on the maglev train system as a one day,” Kennedy said after the ride. national project in 1962, and succeeded in running at a Saudi-led coalition ends Yemen military... The maglev train is a contender for US President speed of 60 kph a decade later. — AFP Continued from Page 1 failures have accumulated and caused mental and emo- tional imbalance for that country,” Rouhani said. The Ousted Morsi jailed for 20 years The ground fighting and the airstrikes have pushed remarks came a day after the US Navy said aircraft carri- Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, to the brink of er USS Theodore Roosevelt was steaming toward the Continued from Page 1 following the 2011 ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni collapse. The fighting has also taken on the appearance waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other Mubarak in a popular uprising. But after just a year in of a proxy war between Iran, the Shiite powerhouse American ships that are prepared to intercept any Defence lawyers said they would appeal the convic- power, Morsi was himself toppled by then-army chief and backing the Houthis, and Sunni-dominated Saudi Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthis. tions while rights groups voiced alarm at the ruling, the now President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi following mass street Arabia. The deployment comes after a UN Security Council first in a series of trials Morsi is facing. protests. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood has been blacklist- Earlier yesterday, the coalition pounded Houthis and resolution last week imposed an arms embargo on “This verdict shatters any remaining illusion of inde- ed and targeted in a government crackdown that has their allies, killing 20 fighters in the western city of Ibb Houthi leaders. The Navy has been beefing up its pres- pendence and impartiality in Egypt’s criminal justice sys- seen hundreds killed and thousands thrown in jail. Other as the civilian death toll rose to 38 from airstrikes the ence in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea tem,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty’s deputy Brotherhood leaders have been sentenced to death and day before in the capital, Sanaa, officials said. The rebels in response to reports that a convoy of about eight Middle East and North Africa director. She called for a full yesterday’s decision to acquit Morsi on the incitement to targeted in Ibb were assembling to head to Aden as Iranian ships is heading toward Yemen and possibly car- retrial or the ex-president’s release. US State Department murder charge left some surprised. reinforcements in the battle against forces loyal to rying arms for the Houthis. Navy officials said there are spokeswoman Marie Harf said Washington would “review “We were expecting them to be convicted of murder,” the basis” for the court’s decision, and that it was “con- Ramy Ghanem, a lawyer for an anti-Morsi protester who President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the about nine US warships in the region, including cruisers cerned by these sentences”. “All Egyptians, regardless of was wounded in the clashes, told AFP. “But the sentences country from Aden to Saudi Arabia last month, security and destroyers carrying teams that can board and political affiliation, are entitled to equal and fair treatment are not bad. We were expecting life in prison, but then 20 officials said. search other vessels. before the law, including full respect for their rights to due years is not very different,” he said. A life sentence in Egypt In Sanaa, the death toll from airstrikes Monday tar- Later in the day, the official Saudi news agency process,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. is 25 years. Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sen- geting rebel depots and weapon caches in the Fag Atan reported that King Salman has ordered the country’s Leading Egyptian cleric Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, tenced to death in speedy mass trials which the United mountains overlooking the city rose to 38, medical offi- National Guard to take part in the Yemen operation. who lives in pro-Brotherhood Qatar, criticized the ruling. Nations has called “unprecedented in recent history”. cials said. The strikes flattened houses and sent villagers There were no further details on the scope of the “The judiciary in Egypt is no longer one of the three The Muslim Brotherhood condemned yesterday’s ver- fleeing for their lives. The rebel-controlled Interior deployment but it appeared to be another step toward (branches of) power. Instead, all the powers and the dict. “The illegitimate powers are trying to impose their Ministry said 84 people were killed across the country in a possible ground invasion. The SPA news agency quot- country itself are now run by the military,” he said in a tyranny through invalid sentences. This oppression will Monday’s airstrikes. The casualty figures could not be ed National Guard Minister Prince Miteb bin Abdullah as statement. Displaying a four-finger salute symbolizing backfire as the revolution and public anger continue,” it independently confirmed. All officials spoke on condi- saying he was “honoured” by Salman’s “decision that resistance to the state’s crackdown on Islamists, defen- said in a statement. The Brotherhood had called for pro- tion of anonymity because they were not authorized to National Guard forces take part” in the operation. He dants in a makeshift courtroom on the outskirts of Cairo Morsi protests yesterday but there were no reports of speak to the media. signalled the “complete readiness of all National Guard chanted “God is Greatest” after the verdict was read. major rallies. The movement has failed to mobilize sup- Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of arming the Houthis - a forces to carry out this role alongside other military Amr Darrag, a Morsi-era minister, said the Brotherhood porters for several months following the government claim both Tehran and the rebels deny, though the bodies” in Saudi Arabia. The force is to “take part in would remain a powerful force, with younger members crackdown. Morsi is facing two other trials in which he Islamic Republic has provided political and humanitari- defending the security” of the kingdom, SPA reported, taking up leadership roles made vacant by the state’s could face the death penalty, including on a charge of an support to the Shiite group. For its part, Shiite Iran without elaborating. crackdown. “The overall attitude of the Brotherhood (is) spying for foreign powers. Verdicts in those two cases are has long accused Saudi Arabia of supporting Sunni mili- The National Guard is a parallel army in Saudi Arabia more revolutionary because the generation taking it over due on May 16. tants, including the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. separate from the armed forces run by the defence min- is young and more revolutionary and they saw what kind Sisi has vowed to “eradicate” the Brotherhood, an 85- In remarks yesterday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani istry. Recruited from tribes that have traditionally of an Egypt we’d have if they don’t do what they have to year-old movement that topped successive polls do,” he told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul. Morsi’s between Mubarak’s fall and Morsi’s presidential election said the airstrikes in Yemen were prompted by the backed Saud dynasty rule, it is a pillar of support for the son, Osama, said his father plans a comeback despite the victory in May 2012. The authorities designated it a “ter- Sunni kingdom’s failures elsewhere, causing what he royal family. It is led by Miteb, the son of the late King jail sentence State news agency MENA quoted a security rorist group” in Dec 2013, making even verbal expres- called a “mental imbalance”. Abdullah and educated at the elite Sandhurst military source saying Morsi was taken by helicopter back to Borg sions of support punishable by stiff jail terms. The crack- Speaking to reporters before heading to Indonesia, academy. The guard is a trained army of 100,000 men, al-Arab prison near Alexandria, where he has been held down has sparked a fierce backlash including from Rouhani mocked Saudi Arabia by calling it a country divided into infantry units, mechanised brigades, spe- for more than a year. jihadist groups, who have claimed a string of deadly with dashed dreams in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. “All the cial units and military police. Egypt’s first freely elected leader, Morsi came to power attacks on security forces. — Agencies WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Ben Hirschler and Martinne Geller

boom in “nutraceuticals” - food and drinks with potential health benefits - is paving the way for a Arush of deals, as food and drug companies com- pete to dominate a market expected to be worth $280 billion by 2018. Consumers have been encouraged to eat smarter by an obesity epidemic and a burst of fit- ness-focused technology like gadgets and apps to track exercise and calorie intake. Now companies supplying goods like probiotic yoghurt, advertised as being healthier for the gut, and omega-3 biscuits, thought to improve brain and heart function, have seen demand rise sharply. “It’s only a matter of time before the fight spills over into corporate takeover wars,” consultancy KPMG pre- Europe’s populists may be peaking dicted in a report released yesterday. Bankers said mov- ing into nutraceuticals was an obvious move for both food and pharma companies given the blurring line By Paul Taylor “Those kinds of parties are probably better off stay- sibility with railing against aid for Greece, especially if between their sectors. “The space is ripe for M&A and I ing outside and trying to exert influence,” said Tim Athens needs a third bailout package, will be a big think you are going to see more,” added Jeremy t may sound counter-intuitive after the Haughton, an expert on European politics at challenge. Fed up with the political wilderness, the 52- Johnson, managing director of North Carolina-based Eurosceptic Finns Party grabbed second place in Birmingham University in England. Janis year-old feels he made a mistake by turning down a Bourne, which advises on deals. IFinland’s general election, but a surge by anti- Emmanouilidis, director of studies at the European cabinet seat four years ago. “It is important that the Food companies are likely to take the lead, chasing establishment protest groups sweeping Europe may be Policy Centre in Brussels, is less convinced that the party moves to a next stage,” Soini told Reuters. “The healthy products to improve their profiles while drug peaking. With the exception of Greece, where a five- populist wave has peaked, arguing that events could power is in the government.” companies, rocked by patent expiries and the rise of year depression propelled far left, anti-bailout Syriza to give it new vigour. “A Greek default, if it happens, Another test looms in Spain later this year when the biotech medicines, look to divest units, forecast Bourne victory in January, radicals are unlikely to win power would definitely be a game-changer in a number of ruling centre-right People’s Party and opposition cen- Partners, which estimated the market to hit $280 billion outright in any other European Union state this year, countries. The populists would say ‘I told you so’,” he tre-left Socialists, both tarnished by mass unemploy- in 2018 - double that of 2011. M&A activity so far has opinion polls suggest. A nascent economic recovery, said. ment, austerity and corruption scandals, face a two- been relatively small, but the pace is picking up. Bourne falling unemployment in many countries, cheaper fuel Others argue that if Greece implodes, European vot- pronged insurgency from left-wing Podemos (We Can) counted 185 mergers and acquisitions involving private and the centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens). Podemos, led by and public nutraceutical companies in 2014, up from 95 and low interest rates should help mainstream centre- ers will think twice about voting for parties like Syriza. in 2011. right and centre-left parties regain some lost ground in Mass drownings of illegal migrants trying to reach pony-tailed political scientist Pablo Iglesias, is close to “It’s an industry which has seen a lot of interest and is time for national elections. Europe in the southern Mediterranean could also give Greece’s Syriza and was born out of street protests by likely to see a lot of deals,” said one consumer industry In Britain, anti-EU insurgents who gave mainstream right-wing populists fresh wind by polarising debate young unemployed “indignados” (the angry). It briefly banker, adding that many smaller companies were look- parties a kicking in last year’s European Parliament about migration, notably over sharing the resettlement overtook the two mainstream parties in opinion polls ing to deals with bigger players to help them reach their elections are struggling with the full glare of electoral of migrants across the EU. More attacks by Islamist mili- this year after surging into the European Parliament. potential customers. While the concept of nutraceuticals scrutiny. The UK Independence Party is on course to tants in Europe like January’s Charlie Hebdo shootings But it came a distant third in the key southern is not new - the term was first coined in 1989 - KPMG win 14 percent of the vote on May 7 but will capture a in Paris could also fuel such political groups. Andalucia regional election last month and polls show head of life sciences Chris Stirling believes the current handful of parliamentary seats at best. In other coun- its support slipping from the upper 20 percent range. focus on health will spur more tie-ups as firms seek to tries such as in France, populist parties seem to have Majorities Harder Ciudadanos, led by 35-year-old Albert Rivera, is gaining exploit increased consumer awareness. “The consumer hit a ceiling, barring some extraordinary crisis. “Voters Even before the 2008 financial crisis, mainstream ground by preaching moderation and clean govern- arms of pharma companies are going to have to look at are more inclined to indulge themselves and cast centre-right and centre-left parties were losing voters ment. this area hard because there is so much public interest,” protest votes in secondary elections where the stakes and members as traditional class-based affiliations fade he said. “They need to get on the bandwagon.” are less decisive,” said Christian Lequesne of the in an era of individualism, opening the way for upstarts ‘Detoxify’ Sciences-Po institute in Paris. amplified by social media. A splintering political spec- In France, Marine Le Pen, whose National Front Complementary Skills Fringe groups have already won a victory of sorts by trum makes stable parliamentary majorities increasing- topped the poll in the European elections, has worked Each industry can contribute considerable expertise dragging mainstream parties onto their ground, partic- ly hard to find. In Britain, where a centre-right coalition hard to “detoxify” the movement’s extreme-right to a merger, while also needing to extract very specific results. Food companies are highly skilled at low-cost ularly on immigration, European integration and euro established in 2010 broke with a tradition of alternat- image. She has just won a power struggle with her supply but want products that offer an edge - and a zone bailouts. The growth of rightwing protest parties ing single-party rule since World War Two, pundits see father, party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, forcing him to price premium - in the face of changing eating habits in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland has already little chance of either Prime Minister David Cameron’s bow out of regional elections this year after he repeat- and a brutal retailer price war. Drug companies, mean- prompted governments to toughen their line on any Conservatives or David Miliband’s opposition Labour ed comments belittling the Nazi Holocaust. But while, have deep research expertise and understanding further financial aid to Greece. German officials say one Party winning an outright majority. Lequesne said she was unlikely to gain critical mass in of regulatory processes that food manufacturers can reason Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has struck Regional parties such as the Scottish Nationalists her 2017 presidential bid as long as she advocates leav- only dream of. Many of them have opted to maintain a such a gruff posture with Athens is to ward off a and the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionists may ing the euro and the EU and closing France’s borders to strong consumer health business to blunt the inherent domestic challenge from the Eurosceptic Alternative end up as kingmakers and some experts forecast an imports, scaring middle class voters worried for their risks of their drug research side. for Germany, which has won seats in the European unstable minority government possibly triggering savings and property. Recent history shows that There have already been several recent deals on the Parliament and state assemblies but not yet in Berlin. another election soon. Finland’s election on Sunday novice populists can burn out fast if they rush into food side, including Mondelez International’s February In Britain and France, mainstream conservatives was a test case for the fortunes of protest parties, government as junior partners without being able to purchase of a gluten- and allergen-free snack company have played up the fight against illegal immigration, which face a dilemma when they have to choose transform policy. Hard-right anti-immigrant parties and Hershey’s January deal for a maker of high-protein so-called “benefit tourism” within Europe and radical whether to compromise with mainstream politicians. founded by the late Joerg Haider in Austria and the meat snacks. But no big food company has yet done as Islam, partly to try to wrest those issues away from Timo Soini’s Finns party may enter government for the late Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands fell apart and much to blend food and medicine as Nestle. In 2011 the Nigel Farage’s UKIP and Marine Le Pen’s National Front. first time as junior partner to election winner Juha came off worst after joining ruling coalitions respec- company formed its Nestle Health Science unit, which But with none outside Greece likely to win power Sipila’s Centre party, having softened its anti-euro rhet- tively in 1999 and 2002. Yet in both countries, succes- has since invested in companies that make products oric since bursting onto the scene four years ago. The sor groups with a similar anti-immigration, anti-Islam such as drinks for people with metabolic disorders and a alone, the radicals face a choice of joining coalition medical food sold for the dietary management of governments and moderating their demands - which Finns actually lost two percentage points of voting and Eurosceptic agenda have since risen in opposi- Alzheimer’s disease. can cost them support - or eschewing power to stay share and won one fewer seat than in 2011. tion, forcing the established parties to change their Late last year, Nestle restructured the unit to focus on shouting from the outside. How the charismatic Soini balances cabinet respon- discourse on those issues. —Reuters consumer care, medical nutrition and novel therapeutic nutrition. Nestle Chief Executive Paul Bulcke said last week the unit was now in “an excellent position to lead the development of nutritional therapies that transform the way people, patients and healthcare professionals Young prince leads Saudi war in Yemen manage health”. “It’s a promising and interesting new opportunity for Nestle,” he told the company’s annual By Ian Timberlake chief of the royal court he holds “a posi- “He has a reputation for being shareholder meeting. tion of immense power in an absolute aggressive and ambitious, as might be On the pharma side, major names like e wields enormous power and monarchy,” wrote Bruce Riedel, a former expected,” Riedel said of the prince, GlaxoSmithKline , Abbott, Pfizer and Johnson & leads a war against rebels in Central Intelligence Agency officer who whose father also served as defence min- Johnson all have nutritional brands and dietary sup- neighboring Yemen for his father directs the Brookings Intelligence Project ister. The war in Yemen, which the UN plements that could play an expanded role as the H King Salman, but Saudi Arabia’s defence in Washington. He said Prince says has left hundreds dead and thou- nutraceutical market evolves. Alliance Boots, now part minister is still in his early 30s. Just weeks Mohammed oversees the kingdom’s sands wounded, has raised Prince of Walgreens Boots Alliance , gave a glimpse of the future in November when it announced the purchase after he was appointed to the key post in security in conjunction with Interior Mohammed’s profile even higher. of PhD Nutrition, which makes protein powder and January, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, Newspaper photographs have shown nutrition bars.—Reuters assumed huge responsibility when the who headed a crackdown on Al-Qaeda a the defence minister receiving his for- kingdom sent its armed forces into con- decade ago, and Prince Miteb bin eign counterparts and, in one case, lean- flict. The young prince has overseen Abdullah - minister of the National ing over and clasping the hand of a nearly a month of air strikes by a Saudi- Guard, a parallel army. wounded Saudi soldier. All articles appearing on these led regional coalition against the Yemeni On Twitter, which is widely used in the pages are the personal opinion of rebels. Eight Saudi troops have also died ‘Aggressive and Ambitious’ tightly controlled Islamic kingdom, in skirmishes along the border. According to a biography from the Prince Mohammed has won praise. “All the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Prince Mohammed, part of a new gen- MiSK Foundation, which Prince are impressed by him, he is irreplace- responsibility for views expressed eration of Saudi rulers, also heads the Mohammed established for youth devel- able”, one user wrote. Another called him royal court, is special adviser to his 79- opment, he had “a professional career of “a strong and brave personality”, therein. Kuwait Times invites year-old father and sits on two key politi- 10 years” and was active in business and although a detractor spoke of “the reck- readers to voice their opinions. cal and economic councils. “He is the philanthropy before entering public less Saudi who has no experience in war”. strong man in Saudi Arabia,” a Western service. In 2009 he became special advis- The air raids are aimed at reversing the Prince Mohammed Please send submissions via email diplomatic source said. “Look what this er to his father who was then the gover- advances of Iran-backed Shiite Houthi to: [email protected] or man is controlling,” including access to nor of Riyadh, before heading his court rebels and their allies and restoring the in charge of the day-to-day operations,” the king. “He oversees everything impor- from 2013 after Salman was named authority of President Abedrabbo said Nawaf Obaid, a visiting fellow at via snail mail to PO Box 1301 tant which is going on in this country.” crown prince. In April last year Prince Mansour Hadi, who has fled to Riyadh. Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves The exact age of Mohammed, who Mohammed became a state minister and Prince Mohammed is reputed to enjoy Science and International Affairs who last sports a full dark beard, is uncertain. A cabinet member, before his appointment good relations with his armed forces, year authored a proposal for a Saudi the right to edit any submission biography from the Saudi embassy in as defence minister and chief of the royal which comprise about 300,000 soldiers, defence doctrine. Prince Mohammed’s as necessary. Washington does not give his birth date. court on Jan 23, the day Salman became sailors and airmen. “There is a remark- star could rise even further, according to Analysts and local media have reported king upon the death of his predecessor able fluidity between the political leader- the diplomatic source, “as long as the war various ages but none higher than 35. As Abdullah at the age of about 90. ship and the senior officer corps who are runs well”. — AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 SPORTS

Saudi spitter ban reduced Pakistan confident of Murray pleased with Queen’s SYDNEY: Saudi Arabia’s Nasser Al Shamrani has had his ban for spitting at hosting Zimbabwe LONDON: World number three Andy Murray has welcomed the choice of the and head-butting Western Sydney Wanderers defender Matthew Spiranovic Queen’s Club grass courts to host Britain’s Davis Cup quarter-final against after the Asian Champions League final reduced on appeal to the Court of LAHORE: Pakistan are poised to host top-level international crick- France from July 17-19. Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The prolific Al-Hilal striker was handed an eight- et for the first time in six years with a short limited-overs series Britain, who were beaten in the last eight by Italy last year, will take on match ban by the Asian Football Confederation for the incident, which hap- against Zimbabwe next month. Australia or Kazakhstan in the semi-finals if they beat the 2014 runners-up. pened in November after his club were beaten by the Australian side 1-0 over Pakistan has been forced to play designated ‘home’ matches in “Queen’s will be a perfect venue,” Murray said on the Lawn Tennis the two legs of the final. CAS stayed the punishment in March and late on the United Arab Emirates since March 2009 following an attack by Association’s website (www.lta.org.uk) yesterday. “I’ve been playing at Queen’s Monday reduced the ban to two matches for the head-butt and four matches militants on a Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore. for the spitting offence with a further two-match ban suspended for a proba- for 10 years now, so I feel very at home there as do the rest of the British team. However, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) president Shaharyar tionary period of two years. The original ban, six for the spitting and two for Fingers crossed it’s a memorable summer for British tennis.” the head-butt, was the minimum Al Shamrani could have received for the Khan said he was assured of the tour by Zimbabwe counterpart Murray has a special fondness for the London venue, having offenses. The AFC had attempted to delay the announcement of Wilson Manase on the sidelines of an International Cricket Council won the Wimbledon warm-up tournament there three times their initial verdict to avoid embarrassment when they presented meeting in Dubai last week. “He (Manase) told me they are coming in his career. Queen’s will be hosting a Davis Cup tie for the Al Shamrani with their Player of the Year award, only for the news and they are coming with their full team, but for a week,” Khan told first time since 1990 when Britain were thrashed 5-0 by to leak out. An appeal to the AFC failed but the regional body reporters in Lahore. “They will send a security team to assess the France. Britain reached the last eight with a 3-2 victory over allowed him to compete in the Asian Cup with Saudi Arabia in situation, following which they will confirm the tour. “So they will the United States in Glasgow last month, Murray spearheading January after restricting the ban to just ACL League come in middle of May and our efforts will be to host matches in their efforts by beating John Isner and Donald Young in his sin- matches. Al Shamrani served two matches of Lahore and Karachi.” gles matches. The hosts have also received a boost by the ban before CAS granted the stay and The matches would have international status and the ICC had Slovenian-born Ajaz Bedene taking up UK citizenship at he returned to score his 26th goal in the also granted Pakistan special dispensation to use local umpires to the start of April, the world number 94 immediately ACL as Al Hilal beat Iran’s Foolad 2-0 earlier officiate in them, PCB chief operating officer Subhan Ahmad becoming Britain’s number two ranked player. —Reuters this month. —Reuters added. —Reuters Summer sports suspend membership in protest

SOCHI: Summer Olympic sports suspend- snubbed Vizer by deciding not to hold an ed their membership in the umbrella body executive board meeting during the for international federations yesterday after SportAccord convention in Sochi. The its leader launched a blistering attack on board has met during all the previous the IOC. The council of the Association of annual conferences going back to 2003. Summer Olympic International Federations Major sports do not necessarily need said it decided unanimously to break off SportAccord to represent them because ties with SportAccord pending a review “we are already organized” in other associa- and clarification of its role and governance. tions that do not have a strong presidential The move came a day after SportAccord figure playing politics, Diack said. head Marius Vizer blasted the International There is a place for a larger body such as Olympic Committee and its president, SportAccord, Diack said, “but it must be an Thomas Bach, in a speech at the opening of organization in which, I think, everyone the conference in Sochi. With Bach looking knows that we are (on) the same level.” on, Vizer accused the IOC of lacking trans- Another sticking point was Vizer’s pro- parency, ignoring the federations and posal for federations to unite their world blocking his plans for new multi-sport com- championships under the SportAccord petitions. umbrella, a clear challenge to the Olympics. The summer sports association said it Diack said the move would usurp power considers Vizer’s position “not compatible from the individual federations. with the role and mission of ASOIF as a “The gentleman (Vizer) was complain- major stakeholder of the Olympic move- ing, was saying he was going to organize ment.” The issue will be discussed at the the world championships of all the sports,” ASOIF general assembly in Sochi today. Diack said. “So I go: ‘What, I am going to ASOIF represents the 28 sports on the pro- disappear?’” gram of the Summer Olympics. Among its Along with the IAAF, at least 14 federa- members is the judo federation, of which tion presidents, including FIFA’s Sepp Vizer is also the president. Blatter, signed letters of protest at Vizer’s The council said it respects “any decision comments. Another influential federation taken individually by its member interna- head, world swimming president Julio tional federations” regarding their relation- Maglione, condemned Vizer’s comments. ships with SportAccord. “What President Bach is doing has the full Track and field’s governing body, the support of all of us,” Maglione told The IAAF, has formally withdrawn from Associated Press, adding that Vizer is “a SportAccord, as well as the international good person but I don’t agree with what he shooting federation. IAAF President Lamine says.” “We must consider where we go with Diack said Tuesday that Vizer resembled “a SportAccord, where we go as international chief or dictator coming from nowhere” federations,” Maglione said. “The interna- CHICAGO: Jason Kipnis No. 22 of the Cleveland Indians is forced out by John Danks No. 50 of the Chicago White Sox during the third inning. — AFP and telling major sports federations what tional federations are independent and to do. SportAccord represents more than they make their own job.” 100 Olympic and non-Olympic federations. Maglione also said a rift had also White Sox stop Indians Vizer, who is demanding more power for opened between SportAccord leadership his organization, was re-elected Monday to and many of its federations over Vizer’s a four-year term as SportAccord president. decision to announce it would organize the CHICAGO: Melky Cabrera capped Chicago’s four-run ROYALS 7, TWINS 1 starter got a hit, including Despaigne (2-0), who led Vizer has been at odds with the IOC for first international Beach Games in Sochi in ninth inning with an RBI single off Cody Allen, send- Edinson Volquez dodged trouble for seven off the third with a single. It was more than enough several years, ever since he first took over 2019. The event would be better organized ing the White Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Cleveland innings as Kansas City scored two runs on wild for the Cuban right-hander, who allowed just two SportAccord and sought to establish a by the Association of National Olympic Indians on Monday night. pitches before pounding bumbling Minnesota. runs on six hits in 6 2-3 innings “United World Championships” every four Committees, Maglione said, adding that it Six consecutive batters reached safely before Alcides Escobar returned from a sprained knee to Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa struggled in his years for all the sports. could be held in Asia or in his native Cabrera drove a fastball into left-center for the score a run, and Kendrys Morales and Paulo Orlando 2015 debut, lasting two innings. The left-hander The plan has not materialized. The IOC Uruguay. — AP game-ending hit. Alexei Ramirez doubled home two drove in a pair each as the Royals finally figured out missed the first two weeks of the season with a left runs and Gordon Beckham had a tying RBI single. Twins nemesis Kyle Gibson. groin strain and was activated from the disabled list David Robertson (1-0) worked a perfect ninth for his The right-hander gave up four runs in five-plus before the game. first win with the White Sox. Allen (0-2) recorded just innings. Gibson (1-2) had earned the win in his first one out in his first blown save in four chances. four starts against Kansas City, including a dominant ATHLETICS 6, ANGELS 3 Chicago had managed just four hits before the performance in a 3-1 victory last week at Target Stephen Vogt hit a go-ahead three-run homer, big finish. Trevor Bauer pitched seven sparkling Field. Volquez (2-1) was more than his match Marcus Semien also went deep against Matt innings for Cleveland, which has dropped seven of Monday night at Kauffman Stadium. He allowed five Shoemaker and Oakland won the opener of a four- nine. Ryan Raburn and Brett Hayes homered, and hits while striking out five with only one walk, wig- game series. Michael Brantley had an RBI double. gling out of jams whenever he got into them. Athletics right-hander Kendall Graveman was staked to a 5-3 lead in his third major league start, RED SOX 7, ORIOLES 1 REDS 6, BREWERS 1 but lasted just three-plus innings. Manager Bob Justin Masterson benefited from five unearned Anthony Desclafani pitched eight shutout Melvin pulled him after he walked Erick Aybar and runs as Boston beat Baltimore in a soggy Patriots’ innings and Zach Cozart and Joey Votto homered to C.J. Cron to open the fourth and ran his pitch count Day game shortened by rain. The first pitch was lead Cincinnati. Desclafani (2-0) held Milwaukee hit- up to 73. Dan Otero (1-1) retired the next three bat- thrown at 11:04 a.m. under cloudy skies on the less until Adam Lind’s double with two outs in the ters and gave up just one hit over a career-high four Massachusetts holiday after Boston Marathon run- fourth. Hector Gomez’s fifth-inning single was the innings. He has not allowed a run in 13 career ners already were on the course that passes close by only other hit off Desclafani, who struck out five and appearances against the Angels, spanning 19 2-3 Fenway Park. Rain began falling steadily in the ran his scoreless innings streak to 15. innings. Tyler Clippard got the last three outs for his fourth and intensified, and the game was called Desclafani and Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta (0- first American League save and 35th of his career. after a 1-hour, 42-minute wait. With the score tied at 2) were locked in a scoreless battle through five Shoemaker (2-1) threw 68 pitches in three-plus 1, Boston scored four runs in the third when Wei-Yin innings. The Reds got to Peralta in the sixth. Brayan innings, giving up five runs and seven hits. Chen (0-1) walked four and made an error, and third Pena drove in the game’s first run with a sacrifice fly baseman Manny Machado committed another error. and Cozart followed with a three-run homer. Votto ASTROS 7, MARINERS 5 Masterson (2-0) allowed one run, three hits and added a two-run homer in the seventh off Peralta. Luis Valbuena hit two solo home runs, including three walks in five innings with six strikeouts. Ryan Braun homered with one out in the ninth for a go-ahead eighth-inning shot, to help Houston the Brewers. beat Seattle. Valbuena, who started the scoring with CUBS 5, PIRATES 2 a blast in the first inning, opened the eighth with a Kris Bryant turned his tiebreaking two-run dou- PADRES 14, ROCKIES 3 homer to right on 1-1 pitch from Danny Farquhar (0- ble into a homer with some heads-up baserunng, Matt Kemp had three hits and four RBIs as San 1). It was his fifth this season. It was the first home and the star rookie had three hits and three RBIs to Diego scored nine runs in the first two innings and run allowed by a Mariners reliever this season. Jed lead Chicago. went on to win for the fifth time in six games. Lowrie added an RBI single in the inning. Colby CANADA: Ondrej Pavelec No. 31 of the Winnipeg Jets blocks a shot on goal in first- Bryant’s double off Arquimedes Camninero (0-1) Derek Norris had three of San Diego’s 17 hits, Will Rasmus also had his second home run on a 2-0 pitch period action in Game Three of the Western Conference quarterfinals against the hit off the base of the left-center field fence in the Venable homered and Odrisamer Despaigne got his from starter Hisashi Iwakuma in the fifth. Tony Sipp Anaheim Ducks. —AFP seventh inning and snapped a 1-all tie. He advanced first major league hit. (1-0), who worked the seventh and eighth, picked to third base on the throw home, and raced across For the second time this season every Padres up the victory. — AP the plate when catcher Francisco Cervelli missed the Ducks ground Jets throw for an error. Bryant, who tied the game with an RBI single in MLB results/standings WINNIPEG:, Manitoba: Rickard Rakell New York, which dominated for two peri- the fifth, is 6 for 14 (.429) with four RBIs in four scored at 5:12 of overtime to lift the ods then held on late to take a 2-1 series games since his much-anticipated callup from Anaheim Ducks over the Winnipeg Jets 5-4 lead. Game 4 is today in Pittsburgh. Patric Triple-A Iowa on Friday. He was a spring training Boston 7, Baltimore 1 (7 Innings); Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh 2; Detroit 2, NY Yankees 1; on Monday in Game 3 of their playoff Hornqvist scored his third career playoff sensation, hitting nine home runs in 40 at-bats for Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 1; Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3; Kansas City 7, Minnesota 1; San series. Anaheim leads the series 3-0. goal for the Penguins, but Pittsburgh the Cubs. Jake Arrieta (2-1) allowed only one run Diego 14, Colorado 3; Oakland 6, LA Angels 3; Houston 7, Seattle 5. Jakob Silfverberg scored and added two couldn’t overcome another slow start. and three hits in seven innings for the win while American League National League assists for the Ducks in regulation. Ryan Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves, but the striking out seven and walking none. Eastern Division Eastern Division Kesler, Corey Perry and Cam Fowler also Penguins couldn’t back up their strong play W L PCT GB scored for Anaheim. Bryan Little, Tyler in Game 2. TIGERS 2, YANKEES 1 NY Mets 10 3 .769 - Boston 8 5 .615 - Myers, Lee Stempniak and Blake Wheeler JD Martinez and Yoenis Cespedes hit consecutive Atlanta 8 4 .667 1.5 Baltimore 7 6 .538 1 scored for Winnipeg, which was hosting its WILD 3, BLUES 0 RBI singles in the seventh inning, and Joba Washington 6 7 .462 4 NY Yankees 6 7 .462 2 first NHL playoff game since 1996. Devan Dubnyk made 17 saves and Jason Chamberlain got Jacoby Ellsbury to hit into a crucial Philadelphia 4 9 .308 6 double play in the eighth, helping Detroit beat New Tampa Bay 6 7 .462 2 For the third straight game, Winnipeg Pominville and Zach Parise scored second- Miami 3 10 .231 7 York. CC Sabathia (0-3) faced the minimum number Toronto 6 7 .462 2 blew a third-period lead and in the process period goals as Minnesota earned a victory Central Division of hitters through the first six innings, but with two Central Division became the first team in NHL history to over St. Louis in Game 3 of their Western St. Louis 8 3 .727 - out and a man on second in the seventh, the Detroit 11 2 .846 - lose the first three of a series when leading Conference series. Mikael Granlund had Chicago Cubs 7 5 .583 1.5 Yankees intentionally walked Victor Martinez. JD Kansas City 10 3 .769 1 at the second intermission each time, two assists, Nino Niederreiter added an Cincinnati 6 7 .462 3 Martinez followed with a sharp single that shortstop Chicago White Sox 5 7 .417 5.5 according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Game empty-netter and the Wild had the edge in Pittsburgh 6 7 .462 3 Didi Gregorius was unable to keep in the infield, and Minnesota 5 8 .385 6 4 is today in Winnipeg. every way, without being drawn into a sin- Cespedes’ single scored Martinez. Cleveland 4 8 .333 6.5 Milwaukee 2 11 .154 7 gle trip to the penalty box. The Yankees had men on first and third with one Western Division Western Division RANGERS 2, PENGUINS 1 St. Louis’ Jake Allen stopped 21 shots, out in the eighth when Chamberlain relieved Houston 7 6 .538 - LA Dodgers 9 3 .750 - Henrik Lundqvist stopped 23 shots and with the over-capacity crowd taunting him Alfredo Simon (3-0). Ellsbury’s hard grounder went Oakland 7 7 .500 0.5 San Diego 9 5 .643 1 New York regained control of its first-round with chants of his last name throughout right to second baseman Ian Kinsler, and the double LA Angels 5 8 .385 2 Arizona 7 6 .538 2.5 series against Pittsburgh Penguins with a the game, but the Blues lost on the road in play ended the threat. Joakim Soria pitched the Seattle 5 8 .385 2 Colorado 7 6 .538 2.5 win in Game 3. the playoffs for the ninth straight time. ninth for his fifth save. Texas 5 8 .385 2 San Francisco 4 10 .286 6 Carl Hagelin and Chris Kreider scored for Game 4 is in Minnesota today. — AP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 SPORTS

Challenge Cup in Kuwait enters decisive stage

KUWAIT: The Ice Hockey Challenge Cup of Asia Harald Springfeld gave a memento to Asia, Kuwait enters its decisive stages with Sheikh Jaber. three important matches for all participat- Meanwhile, Chairman of the Higher ing teams. Kuwait will meet Oman, seeking organizing Committee Fuhaid Al-Ajmi said its third consecutive win, yet though Kuwait’s team is now close to winning the Kuwait’s players are more experienced, yet Challenge Cup due to its outstanding per- they should not take it easy as the Omanis formance. He said Kuwait organized the showed good skill in their previous match- Cup before in 2011 and was so successful es. In the second match Singapore will try that it gained the confidence of the IIHF to to stay on the winning path after losing to host it once again. Kuwait in the first match and are expected He said that Kuwait aims to reach inter-

to beat Malaysia in waiting for the result national level as the game has developed, between Oman and Kuwait. The third and the establishment of a hockey school match will see Kyrgyzstan against India. where 400 players are enrolled. He said Honarary President of Kuwait Winter there are plans to form a ladies team in Games Club Sheikh Jaber Bandar Al-Jaber addition to an U-18 national team. Al-Sabah held a luncheon in his Al-Reyah Al-Ajmi lauded Information Minister, Chalet, in Mina Abdallah for participating State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh delegations and members of the organiz- Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- ing committee. Sheikh Jaber welcomed Sabah and Chairman of PAYS Sheikh the delegations in Kuwait and wished Ahmad Al-Mansour who support the them a pleasant stay in Kuwait, as Director Winter Games and extends all support of IIHF Ice Hockey Game Development in needed. GCC golf tourney for men and ladies kick off today

KUWAIT: The 19th GCC men’s golf tournament, 8th for Youth and 1st for ladies will kick off today at 7.00 am, at Sahara golf field with the partici- pation of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar in addition to Kuwait, under the patronage of Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah.

LAS VEGAS: At left, in a May 4, 2013, file photo, Floyd Mayweather Jr. exchanges punches with Robert Guerrero (not shown) in a WBC welterweight title fight. At right, in a Nov. 12, 2011, file photo, Manny Pacquiao exchanges punches with Juan Manuel Marquez (not shown) during a WBO welterweight title fight in Las Vegas. — AFP Pacmania sweeps Philippines ahead of Mayweather clash

MANILA: Manny Pacquiao’s face is on shirts, Mickey Mouse are flying off shelves. as it aims at enhancing Gulf sports. He expressed Meanwhile Chairman of the HOC Abdelaziz dolls and postage stamps, his life story is playing “On fight day everyone wants to be seen pleasure that Kuwait hosts the GCC golf tourna- Al-Mulla said the participating delegations com- in movie houses and millions are getting ready wearing something that will symbolise their ment for men, youth and ladies, especially with mended the grounds that were well prepared to party as the Philippine boxing hero’s “fight of support,” Joy Saransate, manager of a Pacquiao- the participation of an elite group of players. prior to the start of the tournament. the century” nears. Pacmania is sweeping the owned Team Pacquiao memorabilia shop in He said we hope that the tournament con- He said competition between Gulf teams will Southeast Asian nation of 100 million people Manila, told AFP. Government agencies have The first round will witness strong competi- tribute to the development of the golf game be in the interest of all as it raises the technical ahead of the May 2 Las Vegas bout against even been swept up in Pacmania, with the state tion between participating teams especially that after being approved as an Olympic game start- level of players in addition to polishing the skills unbeaten Floyd Mayweather to decide who is postal authority this week releasing half a mil- each will be keen to collect as much as possible ing from the upcoming Olympics in Rio de of the youth and ladies. He expected competi- the best boxer of their generation. lion stamps of a fighting Pacquiao. “This... is a fit- points during the first day to make it easier to Janeiro, Brazil 2016. tion to be fierce until the last day as the techni- “The mood is upbeat. Of course, it’s the fight ting tribute to his exceptional character and reach top places. Sheikh Salman praised the efforts of the cal level of all six teams are high . of the century,” Manila film producer Lucky ability that truly unites the nation whenever he Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud welcomed the Higher Organizing Committee, as well as the He said the Kuwaiti team is in its three cate- Blanco told AFP. Blanco is a co-producer of the fights,” postmaster-general Josie de la Cruz said. participating Golf brothers and lauded such GCC Golf Organizing Committee in order to gories (men, youth, ladies) is well prepared and Pacquiao film: “Kid Kulafu”, now showing at Pacquiao, a sometime actor, politician and gatherings which he described as distinguished ensure the success of the tournament ready for the competition. scores of theatres across the country and a high- professional basketball player on the side, also profile scene-setter for the world’s richest fight. released a video last week of a new song: “I Will For many, the 36-year-old Pacquiao, winner Fight for the Philippines”, to be used for his ring of an unprecedented eight world champi- entrance in Las Vegas, that is getting wide- World champ a marked man onships in different weight divisions, symbolises spread publicity in the media. their hope of escaping the grinding poverty that Whetted by saturation newspaper and tele- afflicts one in four of his countrymen. vision coverage, and primed by training clips WAREMME: World champion Michal at Fleche before Liege proved a race too far for the final of three ascensions up the infamous The movie tells the story of the runaway high fed through his official social media sites, Kwiatkowski will be a marked man when the such a young rider and he trailed in 92nd. Mur de Huy climb, which includes a section school dropout who, years before becoming a Filipinos are clearing their schedules to make 205.5km Fleche Wallonne Ardennes Classic race Kwiatkowski, though, has gone from strength to with a 26 percent gradient. It’s also important ring legend, sold doughnuts on the streets and sure they will be able to watch the fight. It will gets underway today. strength since then and after winning Strade to be in the right position at the foot of the stacked shelves with “Vino Kulafu”, a cheap be shown live on pay-per-view television, while The 24-year-old Pole comes into the race off Bianche last year in March, he ended the season climb or else you risk being boxed in and Chinese wine brand. Years later, as he became one local networks also struck an unprecedented the back of a sensational victory at Sunday’s by winning the world title in September. Last forced to follow the wheel in front while wait- of the world’s richest sportsmen and one of the deal to air it without ads and on a slightly- Amstel Gold race. Not since Philippe Gilbert in year at the infamous Mur de Huy finish to the ing for a gap to open up. most famous Filipinos, a Manila television network delayed basis on free television. However, in 2011 has anyone managed to triumph in all three Fleche, he didn’t quite time his attack right, The Fleche has almost always been won on would give the left-hander another name: “The keeping with tradition throughout his career, Ardennes Classics in the same season but going too soon and being easily overhauled by the Mur but organisers have thrown a spanner in National Fist”. Pacmania always sweeps the many Filipinos will prefer to watch the fight in Kwiatkowski has ridden into form at just the right Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, who was second the works this year with a climb just 5km before Philippines ahead of his fights, but the intensity public places, including at gyms and parks time and would seem a good bet for just such a behind the Pole at Amstel. Huy that is almost as brutal. dropped in recent years after Pacquiao lost an across the country or in restaurants and water- feat. The Etixx-Quick Step rider’s in bullish mood Valverde will likely be the main competition Both are 1.3km long and although at an aver- unprecedented two straight bouts. He then had ing holes. A popular pizza chain in Manila is tak- to boot. “For sure, winning Amstel Gold Race in once again as not only did he demonstrate his age gradient of 9.6 percent, the Mur is tougher, three wins, reviving excitement and hopes ing reservations for 200 seats at $16 each so fans the rainbow jersey (of the world champion) form on Sunday, but he is the defending cham- the Cote de Cherave at 8.1 percent does at least Pacquiao still has what it takes to be the world’s can cheer their hero on while swigging beer and best. But Mayweather is the opponent his fans munching on buffalo wings. means a lot to both me and the team, and it is pion and a two time winner on the wall of Huy. offer an opportunity to produce an initial selec- have always wanted him to fight. “Pacquiao fights always pack them in, but another example of how strong we are as a col- He was also in good form last month at the tion of potential winners, or maybe even a this time we expect even more people to come lective,” said Kwiatkowski. Tour of Catalonia, winning three stages and tak- chance to breakaway for the win. SOUVENIR FRENZY because of the quality of the opponent,” restau- “I built up really well for this race, and winning ing second overall behind Richie Porte. The pace is bound to crank up before the Millions of Filipinos will don Pacman para- rant manager Hershey Ebalo told AFP. (there), which was my goal, I cannot describe my Valverde is in his element at the Ardennes peloton hits the Cherave and anyone caught phernalia to cheer their idol on live television Blanco, the Pacquiao film producer, said he emotions. It’s really big for me at this point in my Classics having won in Liege twice as well and behind at that point will have no chance of get- screens during the fight, which will take place expected the streets of the Philippine capital, a career.” Last year he followed up a fifth placed fin- claiming 11 podium finishes across the three ting back in the mix by the time the leading on a Sunday morning in the Philippines. sprawling metropolis of 14 million, to be empty ish in Amstel with third at both Fleche and Liege- races. Last year he simply timed his attack per- group reaches the Mur. Previous winners such as Baseball caps, T-shirts, $68 boxing gloves signed on fight day, with criminals also taking a day off. Bastogne-Liege. fectly while others had launched theirs too Spanish pair Joaquim Rodriguez and Dani by Pacman himself, and $565 vinyl dolls of “Definitely there will be no crime on the streets, That was a marked improvement on the year soon. As ever with the Fleche Wallonne, win- Moreno, or even Gilbert, may be looking at that Pacquiao boxing against the Disney character just like in past Pacquiao fights,” he said. — AFP before when he took fourth at Amstel and fifth ning is all about timing your effort just right on section to launch an attack. — AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 SPORTS

Kuwait Open Tennis tourney a huge success

By Abdellatif Sharaa the national teams. He said that players was first and Abdelreda Al-Ghareeb runner showed higher technical level as the tourna- up. In the professional men singles Ali KUWAIT: Kuwait Sixth Open Tennis ment gave them the opportunity to play Abdelreda Al-Ghareeb won first place and Tournament concluded Monday under the with players of high caliber. Abdelhameed Al-Shatti second. patronage and presence of President of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber thanked the In U17 juniors Tamim Al-Hallaq was first Kuwait and Arab Tennis Federations Sheikh ambassadors and members of the diplomatic followed by Hussein Jamal. U13 beginners Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Abdallah Al-Jaber Al- core in Kuwait who participated in the tour- Ahmad Khamis followed by Ali Al-Shatti. Sabah. The final match and closing ceremo- nament. He gave special thanks to organizing In the girls U18 Fareeda Al-Ayyat first fol- ny was also attended by Chairman of the committee and the officiating team led by lowed by Benisa. GCC Organizing Committee, Secretary Abdelraouf Al-Abdelsalam. Answering a In women’s singles first place went to General of Kuwait Tennis Federation question about the awaited tennis complex Sarah Behbehani followed by Latifa Al- Abdelreda Al-Ghareeb, Czech Ambassador to to be built in Kuwait he said that all obstacles Sayyed Omar. In the men’s above 45 Kuwait, Deputy Chairman of the Board of have been smoothed out and a new investor Mohammad Tooniya ended in first place and KTF Abdelsamad Al-Aryan, KTF treasurer, has taken over and started work. He said the Majdi Khamis second. In the pioneers singles Director of the Tournament Faleh Al-Otaibi, complex is expected to be ready in two years. Avrim Garcia first and Ringan Ravi second. member of the Board Ali Al-Daihani and He said the complex will include three cov- In the doubles match the team of Yarmouk Sports Club Deputy Chairman of ered main courts besides ten open ones, a 5 Mohammad Al-Ghareeb and Mohammad the Board Younis Al-Ibrahim. star hotel and shops, adding that it will state Seddiq defeated Ali Al-Sheikh and Abdelaziz Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber expressed his of the art when it is completed. Maayouf to take first place. pleasure on the success of the tournament Final results of the tournament were as In the diplomats singles first place went enjoyed since its start because of the num- follows: to the Czech Ambassador and second place ber of participants, particularly members of In the men’s singles Nasser Al-Obaidly went to his Belgian counterpart. Hamilton still has work to do in Europe

LONDON: After winning three out of four races and taking a 27-point lead in the stand- ings, Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has a new challenge as he and Mercedes pre- pare for the start of the European season. A third world title, which would lift the Mercedes driver level with boyhood hero Ayrton Senna and British great Jackie Stewart, looks increasingly likely but Europe will play a big part in deciding that. Although Hamilton said after Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix that he felt more comfort- able and ‘powerful’ in the car than last year, when he won 11 races, he actually has no more wins at this stage than he did in 2014. The biggest difference is better reliability, and the failure so far of team mate Nico Rosberg to raise his game. In 2014, Hamilton started the season with a retirement in Australia through no fault of his own and then won in Malaysia, Bahrain and China. He also started three of the four on pole position. Rosberg, meanwhile, won the opener in Melbourne and followed it up with three sec- ond places. That meant that it was the German, not Hamilton, who headed to Spain in the overall lead-albeit by a mere four points. This season, Hamilton has started every race on pole and won in Australia, China and Bahrain while finishing second to Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in Malaysia. Rosberg, by contrast, has chalked up two second and two third places. The German needs to lift his game quickly, just as he did last year after Hamilton reeled off four wins in a row before being beaten in Monaco, Canada, Austria, Germany, Hungary and Belgium. The title battle was, of course, kept alive somewhat artificially due to the awarding of double points for the final race in Abu Dhabi but that unloved experiment has now been scrapped. Formula One’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who was a big advocate of what others saw as a gimmick, said before the start of this season that he feared Hamilton could ITALY: Serena Williams of the United States returns the ball in this file photo. — AP consequently have the championship won by Monza in September. Serena says not ready But to do so, or at least wrap it up with sev- eral races to spare, the Briton will need to win for claycourt season yet those races that eluded him last year- although Germany has since dropped off the calendar. NEW YORK: Twice French Open champi- not. “So I have to play and be ready to hit “I don’t think it moves me up a gear, I’m CHICAGO: Khris Middleton No. 22 of the Milwaukee Bucks goes up for a shot against Joakim on Serena Williams said her struggle to a thousand shots if necessary.” Williams, already in a pretty good gear,” Hamilton said Noah No. 13 of the Chicago Bulls during the first round of the 2015 NBA playoffs. — AFP beat Sara Errani in the Fed Cup on 33, won her 19th singles grand slam at on Sunday as he contemplated the return to Sunday had been a real “eye-opener” as the Australian Open and her dominance Europe and the Spanish Grand Prix on May 10, the claycourt season gets into full swing. has raised talk of her claiming all the Bulls see off Bucks followed by Monaco on May 24. “Last year World number one Williams eventual- majors this year. The French has been her obviously I was catching up (after the blank in ly prevailed 4-6 7-6(3) 6-3 against the least successful of the four though CHICAGO: Jimmy Butler set a playoff career- WARRIORS 97, PELICANS 87 Australia) and then here I didn’t qualify on dogged Italian to take her career record despite claiming the title in Paris in 2002 high for the second straight game with 31 Klay Thompson scored 26 points and pole but did get the win. over her to 8-0 but the American was not and 2013. points as Chicago beat Milwaukee 91-82 on Stephen Curry had 22 points and six assists as “This weekend I got the pole and did the impressed. Her doubles defeat on Sunday blotted Monday to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round Golden State regrouped from an early deficit to job. Now I’ve got to improve when I get to The U.S. were beaten 3-2 as Williams an otherwise flawless Fed Cup record series. After scoring 25 points in Game 1, Butler take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series. Barcelona, I don’t want to be back where I was and Alison Riske were thrashed 6-0 6-3 in and left the U.S. facing a battle to get was at his best down the stretch, scoring 14 The top-seeded Warriors fell behind by 13 last year.” the doubles rubber by Errani and Flavia back amongst the elite nations next year. points in the fourth quarter. Chicago’s Derrick points in the first quarter after a strong start Monaco, a race Senna won six times, is a Pennetta, meaning they were relegated “We have to work harder,” U.S. captain Rose scored all of his 15 points in the second by the Pelicans’ Anthony Davis and Eric particular favourite and target. Hamilton won to World Group II. Mary Joe Fernandez said. “We came close half after dominating in the series opener. Gordon. A big burst before halftime pushed there with McLaren in 2008 but local resident the Warriors ahead, and they did just enough “Today has been a big eye opener,” today and need to just keep plugging Pau Gasol added 11 points and 16 rebounds Rosberg will be going for a hat-trick after vic- and Mike Dunleavy Jr. scored 12 points for the in the closing moments to put away the Williams said afterwards. “I’m totally not away. tories in 2013 and 2014. “I’ve come second third-seeded Bulls. Khris Middleton led the pesky Pelicans. Game 3 is tomorrow in New as ready for the claycourt season as I “The good news is that we have a lot twice and fourth once. That’s not good, espe- sixth-seeded Bucks with 22 points, and Michael Orleans. Davis had 26 points and 10 thought I was. Now I’m in the mindset of, of players in the top 100 and, hopefully, cially as Senna won it so many times,” said the Carter-Williams scored 12. Game 3 is tomorrow rebounds, and Gordon scored 23 points for ‘You know what, I’m not on hard court.’ we can get two wins next year and get champion. “So I’ve got to get on it.” — Reuters at Milwaukee. the Pelicans. — AP I’m playing like I’m on hard court and I’m back into the World Group.” — Reuters WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 SPORTS Ooredoo concludes employees’ football tournament

KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, a member of the captain Saad Al-Houti. er. The awarding ceremony was attended by to see the employees enjoy their time with Alza’eem came in second. Thamer Al-Hajeri international Ooredoo Group, announced the The winner of the final game was Retail Ooredoo General Manger and CEO Mohammed friends and family in a fun-filled atmosphere, from Sales won best player, Mohammed end of its first employees’ football tourna- Team A, scoring three goals against one goal by bin Abdulla Al Thani, COO Hani El-Kukhn, CEO away from the routine work environment.” Almulla from Sales won best goalkeeper, ment on Saturday. The tournament culminat- Alza’eem. Aside from awarding the two winning consultant Hamad Alnuaimi and Chief of The tournament stems from Ooredoo’s main Abudllah Al-Khattaf from Customer Care won ed in an awarding ceremony attended by teams, Ooredoo awarded the best player, best Human Resources Saleh Al-Houti. Commenting values: To care, connect and challenge. top scorer, while Essa Haider from Technology guest of honor former Kuwait National Team goal keeper, and fair play award, and best scor- on the event, CEO Al Thani said: “I was delighted Winning first place was Retail Team A, while won the fair play award.

Banned Butt to appear Nishikori eases into before corruption unit KARACHI: Disgraced former Pakistan Test want to play domestic cricket,” Butt told AFP. captain Salman Butt said yesterday he was If allowed to play domestic cricket, Butt Barcelona 3rd round due to appear before the anti-corruption will become eligible to return to interna- unit of the game’s governing body next tional cricket after his ban expires on week to try to have his spot-fixing ban September 2 this year. If the ICC agrees with BARCELONA: Defending champion Kei Nishikori Meanwhile,a red hot Novak Djokovic is being Nadal, who has triumphed at the French Open in relaxed. The 32-year-old opener was the PCB’s assessment that Butt has not com- cruised into the third round of the Barcelona tipped to end Rafa Nadal’s stranglehold at Roland nine of the last 10 years, told reporters at the banned for ten years with five years sus- pleted his rehabilitation process-which Open with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Russian Teymuraz Garros in June but the Spaniard dismissed the Barcelona Open. pended conditionally, along with includes giving lectures to youngsters on Gabashvili yesterday. threat as being no different to those he has faced “It is difficult to win everything all the time. Mohammad Asif (seven years with two sus- the perils of corruption and a confession The Japanese top seed was making his season before. The Serbian world number one has been Djokovic was as good then in 2011 as he is now. pended) and Mohammad Aamer (five years) that he was the instigator of the deal-it may debut on clay but was largely untroubled by the an unstoppable force in recent weeks, winning 17 He had an impeccable year in 2011 as well as he is in a spot-fixing case in England in 2010. mean that the five years of his ban that world number 85 as he broke early in each set matches on the bounce and becoming the first having in 2015.”I have to congratulate him. The trio and their agent Mazhar Majeed were suspended become activated. and faced just one break point on his own serve man to win the season’s first three Masters title. “The rest of the players have to accept that at were also jailed in Britain for receiving mon- Butt said he has been fighting for the before sealing victory. Nishikori will face either He comfortably beat Nadal on his beloved red the moment he is the world number one with all ey in return for arranging deliberate no- last 24 months. “I am pleased that the anti- Portugal’s Joao Sousa or 15th seed Santiago clay in last week’s Monte Carlo Masters semi- he has achieved this year,” added Nadal, who has balls during the Lord’s Test against England. corruption unit of the ICC has summoned Giraldo in the last 16 tomorrow. Seventh seed finals, and the nature of Djokovic’s 6-3 6-3 maul- had a patchy year after making his comeback in The deal was struck by an undercover me for a meeting, which may take place on Roberto Bautista Agut and fellow Spaniard ing means plenty are backing him to complete January following another lengthy injury and ill- reporter of the now defunct tabloid News of April 28 where I will get a chance to have Tommy Robredo also booked their places in his collection of grand slam titles this year by win- ness break. “This year I have to do things right, get the World in a sting operation which shook my assessment,” he said. round three with straight sets victories over ning his first French Open. back to a very high level to face him on the court,” the cricket world. At the time of his ban Butt was seen as a Thomaz Belluci and Mikhail Kukushkin respec- But as far as Nadal is concerned, 2015 is no dif- Nadal said. “Tennis-wise, I feel a lot better than a In January this year Aamer was allowed long-term prospect to remain captain, hav- tively. Second seed Rafael Nadal will begin his ferent to 2013, 2012 or even 2011. “Djokovic was few weeks ago. I am going to try to get as far as I to play domestic cricket in Pakistan after the ing led Pakistan to a series-levelling win quest for a ninth title in Barcelona against Nicolas good in 2011, in 2012, 2013 as well as in 2015. can and to play as well as I can, topping the level I International Cricket Council (ICC) revised over Australia in their neutral-venue series Almagro or Paolo Lorenzi today. Sometimes you win more and some you win less,” showed in Monte Carlo.” — Reuters its anti-corruption code allowing banned in England in 2010. players to make an early return to domestic Prior to that series Pakistan were cricket a few months before their bans blanked 3-0 by Australia in their last four expire. But the Pakistan Cricket Board said series in 1999, 2002, 2004 and earlier in Butt and Asif had not completed the reha- 2010. PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said bilitation processes necessary to allow the last year that several current Pakistan relaxation to occur, a claim he contests. players have reservations about playing “I am fighting to get the relaxation as I alongside the banned trio once they are have complied with all the regulations. So I cleared. — AFP Imran replaces Sohail for Bangladesh Tests

KARACHI: Pakistan’s injury setbacks con- with batsman Sohaib Maqsood also ruled tinued yesterday as paceman Sohail Khan out before the tour started because of an was ruled out of the Test series in arm injury. Leg-spinner Yasir Shah mean- Bangladesh and was replaced by another while injured his thumb in a practice match fast bowler Imran Khan, an official said. in Bangladesh, while paceman Ehsan Adil Sohail, 30, suffered back spasm two days suffered a hamstring injury. before the team’s departure and was initial- Shah will remain part of the Test squad, ly ruled out of the ongoing three-match but Adil will return home. Left-arm spinner one-day series. Zulfiqar Babar replaced Shah and Umar Gul Yesterday the Pakistan Cricket Board replaced Adil for the one-day series. (PCB) announced he would not recover in Pakistan trail the three-match series 2-0 time for the two-match Test series. “After with the final match in Dhaka today. consulting with the PCB medical depart- Another paceman Rahat Ali was also ment it was confirmed that Sohail has still sidelined with a hamstring injury but the not been able to recover sufficiently so the team management said he is expected to selection committee was unanimous on recover for the two Test series. The first Test Imran as replacement for him,” chief selec- starts in Khulna from April 28. Pakistan tor Haroon Rashid was quoted as saying in Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan a press release. said Monday he was unhappy over the Imran, 27, played three Tests against spate of injuries. He said he would be ques- Australia and New Zealand last year and tioning the team management over the took seven wickets. Pakistan have been issue and wanted to know why half-fit play- badly hit by injuries on the current tour ers were selected for the tour. — AFP SPAIN: Japanese tennis player Kei Nishikori (right) gives his rackets to his coach in this file photo. — AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 SPORTS How Simeone painted Madrid red MADRID: In the dying moments of tlemen, this is something much more Diego Simeone’s second Madrid derby in important that these boys have shown charge of Atletico, a banner was lowered you, that if you believe and you work, behind the goal his side was defending you can achieve.” to display a stinging message: “Wanted: The remnants of Atletico’s historic A dignified rival for a decent derby”. ability to come up on the wrong side of The display by the Real Madrid ultras destiny were still to dog them, though, in had more truth to it than the usual the Champions League final in Lisbon chutzpah exchanged between rival fans. against Real last May. It had been 13 years since Atletico had One minute away from winning a beaten Real, a run that would stretch into first-ever European Cup, just as they had a 14th year and 25th match when Real’s been 40 years ago in their only previous reserves won out once more at the final against Bayern Munich, they con- Vicente Calderon five months later. ceded with barely a minute remaining. Suddenly, though, on an unseason- Real went on to romp to a 10th ably cold Madrid May evening, the tide European Cup 4-1 in extra-time with began to turn in the Spanish capital. Simeone being sent off for storming on Having waited for so long for a derby to the field to confront Raphael Varane as win, Atletico did so in style by beating tempers flared. Real in their own backyard at the Yet, it is a testament to the change in Santiago Bernabeu to win the Copa del mental strength around the club that Rey in what proved to be Jose rather than be beaten down by that Mourinho’s last competitive game in experience, Atletico have rolled off a sev- charge. en-game unbeaten streak in the derby In 14 derbies in less than two years themselves this season, which leaves since, Atletico have won six to Real’s four Wednesday’s Champions League quar- and added the Spanish Supercup and an ter-final, second leg, tantalisingly poised unthinkable La Liga title to their trophy after a 0-0 first-leg stalemate last week. haul in just over three years since “Atletico is a very different club now,” Simeone took over. Moreover, three of said Fernando Torres on his return to his the five trophies won under the boyhood club in January. ‘El Nino’ had Argentine have been garnered by over- never scored at the Bernabeu in six years coming the vast gap in financial wealth in his first stint at Atletico; he did so between Atletico and their neighbours, twice in his first visit in his second spell as well as Spanish football’s other power- as Atletico dumped Real out of the Copa SPAIN: Atletico’s Arda Turan (centre) and teammates exercise during a training session in Majadahonda. Atletico Madrid will play Real Madrid house, Barcelona. Simeone has revolu- del Rey just days after his return. today in a Champions League quarter-final second leg soccer match. — AP tionised a club that once used to revel in However, as much as Simeone and his their label as “El Pupas” - the jinxed ones. players publicly try to deny it, there remains unfinished business from Injury-hit Real tasked with ADORING MASSES Lisbon. Simeone himself acknowledged Even the club’s own marketing cam- ahead of last week’s first leg that victo- paign used to be based around a con- ries in the league, Cup or Supercup can- breaking down Atletico wall fused young boy asking his father “why not be compared to Europe’s premier do we support Atleti?” club competition. MADRID: Real Madrid have the unenviable task told Madrid’s website. “I want to continue like quarter-final in 18 years, but midfielder Raul Now they have the charismatic leader Now, presented with the chance to of beating city rivals Atletico Madrid at the this, using my characteristics to help the team Garcia refuted the suggestion they have less to that means their faith is no longer blind. land a knock-out blow to an injury-hit eighth attempt this season if they are to achieve important objectives. lose than the holders. On Atletico’s league title parade last sea- Real in the competition they cherish the progress to a fifth consecutive Champions “We are all dreaming of getting through this “I don’t think we have less pressure. It is the son, Simeone addressed the adoring most, another date with destiny awaits League semi-final. round and if I can score as well then it would be quarter-finals of the Champions League and the masses with the symbolic message: “This Torres and the rest of Simeone’s men at The European champions have failed to over- great. The most important thing is to win and two teams want to go through.”Time will give is not just a league title, ladies and gen- the Bernabeu today. — AFP come Atletico in seven games since beating Los get through this very difficult game, but we are more value to what we are achieving. Now it Rojiblancos in last season’s Champions League in our own stadium with our own fans. I think it seems normal to be in the quarter-finals, to get final, including last week’s 0-0 draw in the first- could be a great game.” to the semis would be very important.” leg at the Vicente Calderon, and have also been However, Real will be faced with arguably the Garcia maintained the Atletico party line of struck by a series of injuries and suspensions to best defence in Europe on Wednesday. Atletico recent weeks in insisting there is no thirst for key players. have conceded just once in their last eight revenge after losing out in heartbreaking cir- Luka Modric and Gareth Bale will miss out Champions League games and have shutout cumstances to Real in the Lisbon final last May. after limping off with knee and calf injuries their local rivals in four of their previous seven However, he also dismissed the idea that respectively in the 3-1 win over Malaga at the meetings this season. Atletico now have a mental hold over Carlo weekend, whilst Marcelo is banned and Karim “Atletico are an intense team that are very Ancelotti’s men having beaten them over two Benzema faces a race against time to be fit due good at the back,” added Rodriguez. “There is legs in the Spanish Supercup and the Copa del to a knee problem. Given those absences, the always pressure. We have to manage it and we Rey already this season. return to fitness and form of James Rodriguez is are going to do everything we can to win an “Lisbon is forgotten. We don’t live in the past. a huge boost for Los Blancos. The Colombian 11th European Cup.” By contrast, Atletico have a We would have loved to have won, but it doesn’t World Cup star has scored twice in four games clean bill of health with striker Mario Mandzukic change anything. If we had won, we would still after a two-month injury layoff due to a broken expected to shake off an ongoing ankle problem want to go through now. “We have to forget the foot to take his tally to an impressive 14 in his to start alongside the in-form Antoine previous games this year too. They only serve to first season at the Bernabeu. Griezmann up front. know that we are doing the right things. We “Before I was out I was scoring goals, playing Diego Simeone’s men remain the under- always say the games that have already been at a good level and now I think it is the same,” he dogs in just their second Champions League played don’t matter.” — AFP Juve have semis in sight against goal-shy Monaco

MONACO: Juventus head to Monaco today for ly well against us,” Juve’s veteran French interna- those who played in Turin were not 100 percent. the second leg of their Champions League quar- tional left-back Patrice Evra told Canal Plus. “I But the Champions League game will be differ- ter-final looking to clinch a place in the last four think the second leg will be different and ent. The stadium will be full,” insisted the for the first time in over a decade. Juventus will have a greater control of the Portuguese coach. An immovable force at the top of the match. “I was really proud of Monaco when they The question remains as to whether they can European game in the 1990s, when they reached beat Arsenal because I saw them playing with- score the goals needed to go through. After all, three consecutive finals, including beating Ajax out fear. Some of the Monaco players say that Monaco have netted just three times in four in the 1996 showpiece, Juve were also they are better away from home because the Champions League home games this season. AUSTRALIA: Mu Kanazaki (left) of Japan’s Kashima Antlers fights for the ball with Champions League runners-up in 2003, losing to stadiums and the atmosphere are different.” At least they can call on one of the tightest Yusuke Tanaka (center) of Australia’s Western Sydney Wanderers during their AFC AC Milan. But they have not got beyond the last defences in Europe, although in midfield it Champions League football match. — AFP eight since, failing to translate their domestic HOME ADVANTAGE? remains to be seen whether captain Jeremy dominance to the European stage. Nevertheless, Evra knows that as well as anybody, having Toulalan (hamstring) and the powerful Geoffrey while they close in on a fourth consecutive Serie spent four years in the Mediterranean Kondogbia (ankle) will recover from injury in Guangzhou lead A crown, they are now primed to secure a spot in Principality, helping Monaco reach the time to feature. Further forward, Jardim must the semi-finals in Europe after Arturo Vidal’s Champions League final in 2004 before eventu- decide whether to select the experienced penalty gave them a 1-0 victory against the ally moving on to Manchester United. Dimitar Berbatov or the exciting Anthony Martial Principality club last Tuesday. Monaco are third in Ligue 1 and have lost just in attack, or go with both. charge into last 16 Crucially, Juventus did not concede an away one of their last 18 league games, but too many Allegri, meanwhile, is expected to stick with goal in that game, meaning Monaco will now be draws at the Stade Louis II, where the lack of the 3-5-2 formation that helped Juventus beat SYDNEY: Guangzhou Evergrande led a But Kashima pressed relentlessly for obliged to come out and attack at home, some- atmosphere and crowds that rarely reach the Lazio 2-0 in Serie A at the weekend. trio of teams into the AFC Champions the equaliser and they got their break- thing which is not their forte. 10,000 mark remove any sense of a home advan- Paul Pogba is still out injured but Andrea Pirlo League last 16 yesterday but Western through on 66 minutes, when Shoma Doi Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim has admitted tage, have held them back. will play in central midfield after returning from Sydney Wanderers’ title defence was left curled home a priceless goal which kept his team are better suited to playing away from That was the case on Saturday, when they a five-week injury lay-off in time for the first leg, hanging by a thread. them in the competition. home, when they can hit teams on the break, as managed just one shot on target, and that only and playing 70 minutes against Lazio. Fabio Cannavaro’s Guangzhou needed Kashima kept on coming and they they did so devastatingly in London in the last after a defensive error, in a disappointing 1-1 “I haven’t decided which formation I will use. only a 0-0 draw against FC Seoul to quali- were rewarded with a deserved win 16 when they defeated Arsenal 3-1, that result draw with Rennes. If the team defends well, I think it doesn’t really matter if we have three or four at the back,” fy top of Group H and reach the knock- when Kanazaki converted Shuto allowing them to progress on away goals Injuries and tiredness persuaded Jardim to despite losing 2-0 at home. rotate his squad in that game, a decision which Allegri said. “I’m happy about the success the outs alongside Suwon Samsung and Al Yamamoto’s penetrating cross in the first “I was not surprised by Monaco because we did not pay dividends. “I rested three or four team is enjoying. The lads deserve praise Hilal. minute of injury time. didn’t underestimate them, but they played real- players but the others were injured. Some of because they’ve shown a lot of maturity.” — AFP But the Wanderers suffered a harsh A home win against FC Seoul in a fort- blow when Mu Kanazaki scored in injury- night’s time would send Kashima time to secure a 2-1, come-from-behind through, while Western Sydney need to win which dragged Kashima Antlers off win at Guangzhou and hope Kashima the foot of the table. and Seoul draw. With one group game left, against In Group G, Brazilian substitute Kaio Guangzhou, the Australian side are now grabbed a late winner as Suwon elimi- bottom of Group H, a point adrift of FC nated Urawa Red Diamonds 2-1 and Seoul and Kashima and with their grip advanced to the knock-out rounds. on the title slipping. The Wanderers won Zlatan Ljubijankic put Urawa ahead the competition in a fairytale debut last after 69 minutes, but Ko Cha-Won head- year and they seemed to have kept their ed the two-time Asian Club unconvincing trophy defence alive with Championship winners level before Nikita Rukavystya’s strike on 24 minutes. Kaio’s clincher two minutes from time. Beijing Guoan could have joined Suwon in the knockout rounds but they lost 1-0 at home to Australian champions Matches on TV Brisbane Roar, through Andrija Kaluderovic’s goal in the first half. (Local Timings) Despite the defeat, the Chinese side remain three points ahead of Brisbane UEFA Champions League and will go through if they avoid defeat on their visit to Suwon for their final Real Madrid v Atletico 21:45 game. Meanwhile, former Asian champi- beIN SPORTS 1 HD ons Al Hilal advanced from Group C after Monaco v Juventus 21:45 the Saudi club beat Lokomotiv 2-1 thanks to second-half goals by Nawaf Al beIN SPORTS 2 HD Abid and Abdullah Zori. — AFP ITALY: Juventus’ players take part in a training session on the eve of the UEFA Champions League football match Monaco vs Juventus. — AFP Pacmania sweeps Injury-hit Real Philippines tasked with ahead of breaking down Mayweather clash Atletico wall

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GERMANY: Bayern’s Mario Goetze (left) and Porto’s Ricardo go for a header during the soccer Champions League quarterfinal second leg match. (Inset) Bayern’s head coach Pep Guardiola instructs his players. —AP Bayern thrash Porto to reach semis

MUNICH: Robert Lewandowski scored “Many people thought we couldn’t do it, 7-0 in Munich in the last 16, Bayern pro- Lewandowski hit the woodwork with nine strike on 36 minutes took a deflection as the twice yesterday as Bayern Munich powered but we are FC Bayern Munich,” said duced more clinical finishing in the first-half. minutes gone and the opening goal came hosts went 4-0 up. into the Champions League semi-finals for Lewandowski. “We knew we had to step on The Germans kept alive the dream of just five minutes later. Lewandowski added his second five min- the fourth year in succession with a 6-1 sec- the gas, but to go five goals up at half-time repeating their 2013 treble of Champions Spain defender Juan Bernat, a constant utes before the break to make it 5-0 with 50 ond-leg routing of ten-man Porto. is really crazy.” The game’s tempo dropped League, Bundesliga and German Cup threat on Bayern’s left wing, swung in a cor- minutes still to play. Mueller passed off to Needing to over turn a two-goal deficit after the break allowing Porto captain crowns by going into Friday’s semi-finals ner and Thiago, who scored their away goal the Polish striker, who took a couple of after last Wednesday’s shock 3-1 first-leg Jackson Martinez to score a consolation draw. They can pick up their first silverware at Porto, headed home at the near post. touches to create space, then drilled the ball defeat at Porto, Bayern produced a devas- goal. Porto finished with ten men when of the season on Saturday if they beat The crucial second goal came from low into the corner. tating first-half display to claim five goals defender Ivan Marcano received a second Hertha Berlin at home to have the Bayern’s centre-backs as Holger Badstuber, With the game effectively over as a con- and eventually won the tie 7-4 on aggre- yellow card just before Xabi Alonso crashed Bundesliga title confirmed for a third year in for Dante in the only change from the test, Martinez gave Porto some late hope gate. “It couldn’t have gone better,” beamed home a free-kick-their coach Julen running. The victory was all the more side who lost at Porto, headed on a corner when substitute Evandro’s cross was head- goal-scorer Thomas Mueller. Lopategui was also sent from the touchline. impressive as it came without injured star and Boateng powered the ball home on 21 ed home from close range on 73 minutes. “Sometimes it’s fun to play with your The scoreline matches Porto’s record away wingers Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben, minutes. Lewandowski compounded Marcano’s foul on Thiago led to the free- backs against the wall. “We all had hopes, defeat in Europe when they lost 6-1 at AEK while Germany captain Bastian Porto’s misery as Philipp Lahm’s cross from kick which Alonso drilled home on 88 min- but no one expected that.” Lewandowski Athens in the defunct European Champion Schweinsteiger stayed on the bench. the right was flicked on by Mueller and the utes to cap Bayern’s rousing night. The the now has 22 goals in all competitions while Clubs’ Cup in 1978. Bayern attacked from the outset, enjoy- Polish striker was on hand to power home exitement got to their coach Pep Guardiola Mueller, Jerome Boateng and Thiago Having routed AS Roma 7-1 away in the ing 75 percent possession early on, and his header. With Bayern scoring at will, who ended up splitting his trousers while Alcantara also grabbed first-half goals. group stages and mauled Shakhtar Donestk rarely allowed Porto into their half. Fabiano was wrong-footed when Mueller’s screaming sideline instructions. — AFP Neymar brace eases Barca past poor PSG

BARCELONA: Barcelona cruised into their seventh Champions League semi-final in eight years as a double from Neymar handed them a 2-0 win over Paris Saint- Germain to seal a 5-1 aggregate victory yesterday. Just as in last week’s first leg in Paris, the Brazilian opened the scoring after a sensational assist from Andres Iniesta. Neymar then capitalised on some shoddy defending to head home his 30th goal of the season from Dani Alves’s cross. Barca will now take their place alongside Bayern Munich in Friday’s draw for the last four, the ties to be played next month. “I am very happy with the season I am having and we need to continue like this to achieve our objectives. We need to keep going and get to the final,” Neymar told Television Espanola. “In my first goal Iniesta did everything. All I had to do was dribble past the goalkeeper and score.” Only once in European Cup history had a side come back from losing the first leg at home 3-1 and there was little doubt about the outcome as Barca dominated proceedings from the SPAIN: Barcelona’s Neymar (left) drives the ball past PSG goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu to score the opening off. goal during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match. — AP The opener arrived on 14 minutes as Iniesta collected the ball inside his own half, spun past three PSG chal- before the break, though, as he was exposed by more the scoreline, but unlike Barca’s star front three of Messi, lenges and then rolled the ball through to Neymar, who shocking defending from the French champions as Alves Suarez and Neymar, who now have 95 goals between calmly rounded Salvatore Sirigu before slotting home. PSG was given plenty of time to pick out his compatriot and them this season, they were wasteful in front of goal. briefly threatened to respond as Zlatan Ibrahimovic had a the unmarked Neymar powered a header into the bottom Marco Verratti passed up the best chance when he goal rightly ruled out for offside against his old club on his corner for his fifth goal in four games against PSG this sea- pulled his shot wide when well-placed at the edge of the return to the side from suspension. son. Barca boss Luis Enrique could afford the luxury of area, whilst Ter Stegen did well to repel Ibrahimovic’s However, Barca were soon back in command as Lionel withdrawing Iniesta and Sergio Busquets at the start of piledriver 18 minutes from time. Messi had one final Messi fired just over from Luis Suarez’s knockdown before the second period for Xavi and Sergi Roberto respectively chance to move ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo as the leading SPAIN: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi (left) fights for the Sirigu was forced into a flying save to turn away Alves’s with one eye on Saturday’s Catalan derby away to scorer in Champions League history, but the Argentine’s ball with PSG’s David Luiz during the Champions powerful drive before clutching Neymar’s follow-up effort. Espanyol. With the hosts taking their foot off the gas, PSG goal drought in the competition stretched into four League quarterfinal second leg soccer match. -— AP There was nothing the Italian could do 12 minutes did at least have the chance to add some respectability to games as his shot flashed just wide. — AFP Abu Dhabi to invest over $25bn in offshore oilfields

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JAKARTA: Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa Mohamed (second left) receives a bell as a token with the next WEF forum to be held in Malaysia, as Chief Executive Officer of Bank Mandiri Budi Gunadi Sadikin (center) and Executive Director of Lippo Group Indonesia John Riady (second right) applaud during the closing ceremony of the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Jakarta yesterday. — AFP Gulf Bank posts 12% rise in net profit in Q1 2015 Operating profit up by 15% • Total assets at KD 5,394 million KUWAIT: Gulf Bank yesterday announced a net profit of KD 9.8 million for the first quarter of 2015 which is a 12 percent increase over the Saudi falls back, KSE same period in 2014. Over the same period, the Operating profit before provisions increased by 15 percent to KD 27.2 million drops after tax news from KD 23.6 million, mainly due to an increase in net interest income by 9 percent. The bank’s key metrics have also witnessed MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS strong growth which contributed to the over- all improvement in the performance of the DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s stock market pulled Gulf Business magazine reported on bank. The Capital Adequacy under Basel III is back further yesterday after telecommunica- Monday that the firm had set up a joint ven- at 15.2 percent against the regulatory require- tions operator Mobily posted a surprise first- ture with Saudi Arabia’s Naif Al-Rajhi ment of 12.5 percent. The bank’s non -per- quarter loss, while Kuwait fell on news of Investments to develop real estate projects in forming Loans (i.e ‘NPL’) ratio also continued to potential tax reform. Other Gulf markets were the kingdom. Also, Emirates247.com news improve to 3 percent at the end 1Q2015 positive. website yesterday quoted a Union Properties decreasing from 6.5 percent at the beginning The main Saudi index slipped 0.3 percent manager as saying the firm would start con- of last year. The NPL coverage ratio also to 9,559 points as Mobily was the main drag, struction of a 430 million dirham ($117 mil- increased to 290 percent at the end 1Q2015 tumbling 6.8 percent. The firm, whose scan- lion) project in Dubai this month. against the 187 percent coverage at the begin- dal over the restatement of its 2014 earnings Another property firm, DAMAC, rose as ning of 2014. led to the departure of its chief executive ear- much as 3.6 percent to a new intra-day high Commenting on the results, Omar Kutayba lier this year, missed analysts’ forecasts widely of 3.43 dirhams early in the session but then Alghanim, Gulf Bank’s Chairman said: “With as it swung to a 199 million riyal ($53.1 mil- retreated and closed 6.3 percent lower ahead the announcement of our first quarter results, I lion) net loss in the first quarter of 2015. of a board meeting which was to discuss first- Two analysts surveyed by Reuters had quarter results and dividend policy. can firmly state that Gulf Bank is a strong and Gulf Bank’s Chairman Omar Alghanim Gulf Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno forecast Mobily would make a quarterly profit Dubai-listed shares in Bahrain’s Gulf safe bank. Our goal in 2015 is to maintain the the first quarter of the year. Our results are a small, medium size enterprises development. of 470.1 million riyals and 515.0 million riyals. Finance House surged 5.6 percent as they financial discipline and investing in the bank’s reflection of the hard work and dedication of Saudi petrochemicals were also weak after resumed trading after a capital reduction The Board has given us a clear mandate: grow infrastructure to ensure we have robust inter- the Gulf Bank team. We were recently recog- several disappointing earnings reports. Saudi which may open the way for future divi- nal controls in place at all levels of the opera- nized as the Best Retail Bank in Kuwait by the via innovation and better products and servic- International Petrochemical Co (Sipchem) dend payments. Also, the firm said on tions. I am also proud that the bank has Asian Banker for the fourth time. Gulf Bank es. Make Gulf Bank a reference in the region. slipped 0.1 percent after reporting a 17.3 per- Sunday that it would maintain a listing in embedded the Risk Adjusted Return on also won “Best Customer Experience Overall To that end we are deploying our best efforts.” cent increase in first-quarter profit to 80.6 mil- Kuwait, along with those in Dubai and Capital (RAROC) and value creation as a frame- Branch” from Ethos Integrated Solutions and The international rating agencies Moody’s lion riyals; analysts polled by Reuters had on Bahrain, but would delist from London. work for measuring the performance of each the “Best Car Loan” and “Best Customer Service and Standard and Poor’s have in their assess- average forecast 98.3 million riyals. Meanwhile, courier Aramex fell 1.1 per- business group. Our next focus is improving (Retail)” from Banker Middle East. ments, affirmed the Bank’s asset quality, solid Alujain, another firm whose assets are cent after reporting a 10 percent rise in even further our clients experience via innova- “But there is more to come. Both retail and revenue generating capacity and deployment mostly in petrochemicals, tumbled 4.8 per- first-quarter net profit, in line with analysts’ tion.” wholesale banking are determined to provide of risk management systems and practices cent after swinging to a 16.8 million riyal loss forecasts and its own guidance. The stock César Gonzalez-Bueno, Gulf Bank’s Chief even better services and products. The first together with comfortable liquidity metrics. in the first quarter from a profit of 14.8 million had surged 5.5 percent to a fresh nine-year Executive Officer said: “I am pleased to report result of that was the SME Fund launch in The bank has a ‘Positive’ outlook from both riyals a year earlier. high of 3.64 dirhams in the previous ses- the positive results Gulf Bank has achieved in cooperation with the Kuwait National Fund for these agencies. But property stocks were positive after sion. Emaar Economic City posted a 70.9 percent Abu Dhabi’s index edged up 0.5 percent increase in first-quarter profit on higher sales and developer Aldar Properties was the Lower oil prices cooling Abu Dhabi property and lease income. The stock rose 0.8 percent. main support, surging 4.0 percent. The firm The Saudi stock index faces major technical announced the launch of three new devel- DUBAI: Lower oil prices are likely to cause Abu Dhabi’s gross domestic product, JLL estimates. While UAE Abu Dhabi’s Urban Planning Council approved 76 resistance in the 9,572-9,745 point area, opments in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Qatar’s residential property sector to stabilize in 2015 follow- authorities have pledged to continue spending on projects and master developments covering about 11 where the 200-day average roughly coincides benchmark added 0.5 percent, buoyed by ing a two-year price boom as sentiment weakens and economic development, and have plenty of money to million square metres of gross floor area across the with the March peak, and has been strug- banking stocks. Masraf Al-Rayan, the coun- government spending in some areas slows, industry continue doing so despite the oil price plunge, some emirate during the first quarter, CBRE wrote. gling in that area for three days. Kuwait’s try’s second-largest bank by market value, consultants say. state spending may become more cautious. The drop index underperformed the region and fell 0.7 added 0.9 percent after posting an 18 per- A slew of new residential units was released in in crude prices has therefore led “to a softening of sen- LIVING COSTS percent after Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh cent increase in first-quarter net profit and 2009-12, just when demand was hit by the global timent and there will be less (state) spending this year But while the supply of higher-end homes is said on Monday that the cabinet was study- beating analysts’ expectations. financial crisis, creating oversupply and sending prices than in the last two years,” David Denley, JLL’s regional ample, Abu Dhabi has a shortage of affordable hous- ing proposals to introduce the same tax rates Net profit for the three months to March tumbling. The sector then rallied in 2013-14 because of director, told an industry conference yesterday, predict- ing, Denley added. for local and foreign companies. This suggest- 31 was 511 million riyals ($140.4 million) broad economic growth and the United Arab Emirates’ ing this would hurt property demand and lead to “mid- The price spike in 2013-4 has meant “many resi- ed last month’s resignation of the commerce compared to analysts’ average forecast of status as a safe haven in the Middle East. Housing cycle stability”. dents are becoming increasingly concerned over the minister, who first revealed the plan, had not 484.4 million riyals in a Reuters poll. prices across the UAE capital’s freehold markets rose “It will be relatively flat this year, maybe the year escalating cost of living, particularly as utility rates derailed it - though it remains unclear Another Qatari lender, Doha Bank, jumped about 24 percent in 2014 after an increase of 31 per- after, and we can then think about growth again,” he are also on the rise,” CBRE said. whether the cabinet can really push through 3.0 percent after reporting a 5.2 percent cent in 2013, consultants Cluttons estimate. said. “We still think there will be growth this year, but in Such concerns led Aldar Properties this week to any politically sensitive step to tax local firms. increase in first-quarter profit, while ana- But the rental market has been more sluggish, with single digits.” launch Meera, a development of 400 units near the lysts had expected a decline. It made 420.2 rents rising 2 percent in the first quarter of this year ver- Abu Dhabi has about 244,000 residential units; over city centre for households with relatively moderate UAE, EGYPT million riyals, well above the average esti- sus the preceding three months, according to a report the past six to seven years, about 10,000 units have monthly incomes of 20,000-30,000 dirhams ($5,450- Dubai’s index rose 0.7 percent on its mate of 377.3 million riyals. Egypt’s index from CBRE. “Over the past year average rental growth been handed over each year and a further 8,000 units 8,175). “Previously we did have products in that cate- strongest trading volume in 14 months as slipped 0.2 percent, its fifth decline in a row, has been relatively consistent, ranging between 2-3 annually will be completed over the next few years, JLL gory, but were targeting corporations where we built developer Union Properties surged 10.7 per- although the pace of its decline slowed sig- percent for each of the past four quarters,” CBRE wrote. estimates. “If you talk about the actual schemes that staff accommodation,” Talal al-Dhiyebi, chief develop- cent to 1.45 dirhams, its highest close since nificantly compared with Monday’s 1.9 per- Abu Dhabi has reduced its dependence on oil, but have planning consent, there’s scope for there to be ment officer at Aldar, Abu Dhabi’s largest developer, November. cent drop. — Reuters the energy sector still accounts for more than half its another oversupply situation,” Denley said. said. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 BUSINESS Abu Dhabi to invest over News in brief

$25bn in offshore oilfields Kuwait oil price up 14 cents to $58.01 pb KUWAIT: Kuwait oil price rose 14 cents on Monday ADNOC seeks to boost output to 3.5m bpd by 2018 and stood at $58.01 per barrel compared to $57.87pb on Friday, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said yesterday. In international oil markets, price of ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi plans to invest over $25 billion in Qasem Al-Kayoumi, manager of ADNOC’s offshore division and ZADCO oil fields was 1.2 million bpd and “in 2017-18 the crude forward deals dropped from the highest the next five years on boosting its oil production capacity of the exploration and production directorate, told that figure will go close to, I would say around 1.6 million level it reached this year, however it retained the from offshore fields, a senior official of Abu Dhabi National reporters. bpd.” highest gains per week this year. Brent crude jumped Oil Co said yesterday. Speaking at the Middle East Petroleum and Gas confer- One of the main UAE fields being developed by Exxon is 9.6 percent, during the week, posting the highest The plan is part of the United Arab Emirates’ strategy of ence in Abu Dhabi, he also said the investment plan for off- the giant Upper Zakum, for which the plan is to boost pro- gains per week since middle of October, 2009. increasing its crude oil output potential to 3.5 million bar- shore drilling activities was $2.5 billion per year. ADNOC duction capacity to 750,000 bpd by 2017-18; this may be American crude posted the fifth consecutive gain rels per day by 2017-18. The UAE’s actual current produc- plans to drill around 160 wells per year in the next couple raised further to 1 million bpd by 2024. Kayoumi said per week, climbing by 7.9 percent, the highest since tion is around 2.8 million bpd. of years, Kayoumi said. “It is a considerable increase - the ADMA-OPCO was in an early phase of preparing for the late February 2011. “We want to build capacity from production and from number of rigs has built up considerably in offshore, it renewal of its offshore concession, due to expire in 2018. number of wells and infrastructure. Our current plan as could be more than a 50 percent increase.” “We hope that this concession will be renewed with our ADNOC (is to reach) 3.5 million bpd and to sustain it,” He also said current production for the ADMA-OPCO (existing) partners and future partners.” —Reuters Dubai courier Aramex Q1 net profit rises 10% DUBAI: Dubai courier Aramex reported a 10 percent UAE bank ADCB rise in first-quarter net profit yesterday, in line with ana- lysts’ forecasts and its own guidance. The company made a net profit of 86.6 million dirhams ($23.6 million) Q1 net profit in the three months to March 31, up from 78.7 million dirhams in the year-ago period, it said in a statement. rises 31% EFG Hermes and SICO Bahrain had forecast Aramex’s first-quarter profit at 84.9 million dirhams and 83.1 mil- lion dirhams respectively. First-quarter revenue rose 9 DUBAI: Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) posted a percent year-on-year to 930 million dirhams. The couri- 31 percent increase in first-quarter net profit yester- er’s chief executive, Hussein Hachem, said in February day, beating analysts’ forecasts, boosted by strong that the company would likely post an annual profit returns from fees and lending. increase of 10 percent in 2015 and was targeting at It made a net profit attributable to equity share- least two acquisitions this year as part of its growth holders of 1.25 billion dirhams ($340.3 million) in the strategy. three months ended March 31, versus 953 million dirhams in the corresponding period of 2014, it said in a statement. Five analysts polled by Reuters on Dubai’s Noor Bank launches average forecast net profit for the quarter of 1.08 bil- $500m 5-yr debut sukuk lion dirhams. DUBAI: Dubai’s Noor Bank has launched a $500 mil- The fourth-largest lender by market value in the lion, five-year debut sukuk issue that will price later United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the fourth bank in the yesterday, a document from lead arrangers showed. country to report earnings so far this quarter, with all The transaction was set to price at a spread of 130 registering double-digit profit growth. basis points over midswaps, at the tight end of final Driving ADCB’s earnings growth was higher fees guidance of 130-135 bps over midswaps. Initial pric- from corporate and retail banking, which lifted over- ing guidance of around 140 bps over midswaps was all net fee and commission income by 32 percent to given earlier yesterday. The lender, which is issuing 375 million dirhams in the first quarter from the cor- sukuk with a wakala structure, had obtained orders responding period of last year. worth about $1.9 billion, an earlier document Banks in the UAE have fallen back on fee income growth as tough competition has pressured profit showed. The bank, which counts state funds margins in the lending market. Still, the bank said Investment Corporation of Dubai and Dubai Holding total net interest and Islamic financing income among its owners, has chosen Standard Chartered as gained 19 percent to 1.64 billion dirhams over the global coordinator and Al Hilal Bank, Barwa Bank, Citigroup, Dubai Islamic Bank, Emirates NBD, Qinvest same time period. This was aided by a 7 percent year ABIDJAN: An agency of the Guaranty Trust Bank in Abidjan where several banks have settled in on year increase in total lending, which stood at and Sharjah Islamic Bank as joint lead managers for recent years. Demographic growth, emergence of a middle class and stabilization of public finance the issue. 141.1 billion dirhams at the end of March.—Reuters attract many banking investors for whom Africa is the last reservoir of growth. —AFP Yemen conflict keeps Oman electricity to meet Brent oil around $63 investors on bond issue DUBAI: State-owned Oman Electricity Transmission Co issued by Lamaar Funding Ltd and unconditionally guaran- LONDON: Brent crude oil steadied Prices have also been supported by Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi told (OETC) plans to meet fixed income investors starting today teed by OETC. OETC is expected initially to raise around 300 around $63 a barrel yesterday, not far speculation over falling US output Reuters in Seoul this week that the for a potential debut US dollar bond issue, a document from million rials from the debt capital markets to repay short- below the 2015 high, supported by after data showing the number of US world’s top crude exporter expected lead arrangers showed. The firm, which develops, operates term loans of 223 million rials, with the rest of the proceeds worries that a civil war in Yemen could exploration and production oil rigs fell to produce at near record highs of and maintains power transmission grids in Oman, has cho- earmarked for capital spending, Moody’s said. —Reuters sen Bank Muscat and J PMorgan to arrange investor meet- destabilize the Middle East, affecting to their lowest since 2010. Brent crude around 10 million barrels per day ings in the United States and Europe. No further details were oil supplies. for June was down 30 cents at $63.15 (bpd) in provided by lead arrangers. Saudi bourse plans Oil has climbed around 15 percent a barrel by 1105 GMT. US crude for April. Analysts warn that OPEC’s The issue could be around $1 billion, rating agency foreign roadshows this month due to concern over the May, which was due to expire later on ability to cope with an unexpected Standard and Poor’s said after assigning a preliminary BBB- conflict in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s Tuesday, was down 10 cents at $56.28 surge in demand is diminishing fast. plus to the issue. Supporting the rating is OETC’s “very RIYADH: The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) will organ- southern neighbor. The seaways a barrel. “If the demand and non-OPEC sup- strong” link to Oman’s government and its monopoly status ize roadshows for foreign investors in the fourth quarter around Yemen are some of the most “Geopolitics is supporting oil at the ply responses to lower prices are as the sole transmission system operator, S&P said. of this year as it opens to direct foreign investment in list- It added that OETC was exposed to potential privatiza- important for the international oil moment,” said Tamas Varga, analyst at similar to what was experienced in ed shares, exchange officials said yesterday. Khalid Al- tion risk, but: “We expect that, after any potential change in trade with access points to the Red London brokerage PVM Oil Associates. the 1980s, the very low level of spare Rabiah, chairman of Tadawul, told a news briefing that ownership, the government would continue to maintain a the roadshows would focus on North America and Sea and Suez Canal as well as the But the global oil market is heavily capacity carries a risk of a price spike controlling stake in the company.” OETC is expected to invest Europe. Khaled al-Hosan, head of Tadawul’s markets Middle East Gulf. oversupplied and a rapid build of in the not too distant future,” said around 540 million rials between 2015 and 2019 to meet its department, said they would include investment firms The US navy said on Monday it had inventories, particularly in the United analysts at PIRA Energy. OPEC’s demand growth, rating agency Moody’s said in a note. and listed firms. The Capital Market Authority announced sent an aircraft carrier and a guided- States, has been weighing on prices. spare capacity could halve to as low “OETC intends to fund its investments with third-party last week that the market, which now has a capitalization missile cruiser into nearby waters. US commercial crude oil invento- as 1.7 million bpd this year, far debt that will result in a more levered financial risk profile - of $554 billion, would open to direct foreign investment with debt/capitalization in the 50-55 percent range - and will Brent hit a 2015 high of almost $65 a ries are forecast to have increased by below the level of more than 10 mil- on June 15. Final rules covering the opening will be pub- require frequent access to the debt markets in the coming barrel on April 16, up more than 40 2.4 million barrels last week, rising for lion bpd in the 1980s, when Saudi lished on May 4. Tadawul chief executive Adel Al-Ghamdi five years,” Moody’s added. said in May last year that the exchange would apply percent from a January low just above the 15th consecutive week, a prelimi- Arabia last opted for market share It assigned a provisional A3 rating to proposed dollar- “extremely soon” to go public. —Reuters $45. nary Reuters survey showed. over price. —Reuters denominated senior unsecured notes which would be

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Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Jordanian Dinar 426.763 US Dollars Mint 0.299200 0.303400 20 gram 243.470 Egyptian Pound 39.550 10 gram 124.430 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Sri Lankan Rupees 2.264 Bangladesh Taka 0.003548 0.004148 Japanese Yen 2.534 5 gram 62.900 Indian Rupees 4.845 Indian Rupees 4.827 Pakistani Rupees 2.978 Chinese Yuan 0.047463 0.050963 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036980 0.039730 Pakistani Rupees 2.981 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Bangladesh Taka 3.885 Srilankan Rupees 2.264 Philippines Pesso 6.822 Indian Rupee 0.004700 0.005101 Nepali Rupees 3.010 Cyprus pound 742.159 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Singapore Dollar 224.630 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 3.539 Japanese Yen 0.002450 0.002630 Hongkong Dollar 39.071 Australian Dollar 236.80 Syrian Pound 2.599 Kenyan Shilling 0.003222 0.003222 Canadian Dollar 250.50 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Nepalese Rupees 4.028 Korean Won 0.000269 0.000284 Philippine Peso 6.841 Swiss Franc 319.79 Malaysian Ringgit 0.079568 0.085568 Euro 326.29 Malaysian Ringgit 84.045 Thai Baht 9.340 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.187 Nepalese Rupee 0.003067 0.003237 US Dollar 303.00 Pakistan Rupee 0.002821 0.003101 Sterling Pound 453.30 Thai Bhat 10.329 GCC COUNTRIES Philippine Peso 0.006748 0.007028 Japanese Yen 2.57 Turkish Lira 113.136 Saudi Riyal 80.779 Sierra Leone 0.000066 0.000072 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Singapore Dollar 0.220645 0.226645 Qatari Riyal 83.221 Indian Rupee 4.818 South African Rand 0.018875 0.027375 Omani Riyal 787.000 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.265 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001879 0.002459 Bahraini Dinar 804.570 Nepali Rupee 3.009 UAE Dirham 82.484 Taiwan 0.009614 0.009794 Pakistani Rupee 2.983 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT UAE Dirhams 82.37 Thai Baht 0.009010 0.0009560 Europe ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 804.24 Belgian Franc 0.007899 0.008899 Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.850 Egyptian Pound 39.60 Arab British Pound 0.443978 0.452978 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.611 Jordanian Dinar 430.52 Bahraini Dinar 0.796720 0.804720 Czech Korune 0.003832 0.015832 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.414 Omani Riyal 785.82 Egyptian Pound 0.039340 0.042440 Danish Krone 0.039465 0.044465 Tunisian Dinar 154.610 Qatari Riyal 83.44 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Euro 0.319335 0.327335 Jordanian Dinar 427.260 Saudi Riyal 80.72 Iraqi Dinar 0.000192 0.000252 Norwegian Krone 0.034319 0.039519 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.032 Jordanian Dinar 0.423076 0.430576 Romanian Leu 0.073070 0.073070 Syrian Lira 2.159 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009025 0.019025 Morocco Dirham 30.741 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Swedish Krona 0.030686 0.035686 Swiss Franc 0.309872 0.320072 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021754 0.045754 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.114820 0.121820 Nigerian Naira 0.001249 0.001884 US Dollar Transfer 302.800 US Dollar 302.350 Omani Riyal 0.780481 0.786161 Euro 324.750 Canadian Dollar 247.406 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082460 0.083673 Sterling Pound 451.780 Sterling Pound 451.816 Australian Dollar 0.224526 0.236026 Saudi Riyal 0.080110 0.080810 Canadian dollar 247.590 Euro 326.933 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 Swiss Frank 288.209 New Zealand Dollar 0.225258 0.234758 Turkish lira 112.070 Tunisian Dinar 0.151732 0.159732 Swiss Franc 317.230 Bahrain Dinar 801.346 America Turkish Lira 0.114820 0.121820 Australian Dollar 234.970 UAE Dirhams 82.645 Canadian Dollar 0.241411 0.249911 UAE Dirhams 0.081460 0.082609 US Dollar Buying 301.600 Qatari Riyals 83.875 Saudi Riyals 80.803 US Dollars 0.249911 0.249911 Yemeni Riyal 0.001368 0.001448 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 BUSINESS

New risks as young Londoners priced out of housing market

LONDON: Last weekend, London couple Vicki 100,000 pounds ($150,000) a year, according people now say they are not even saving to would consider moving out to find cheaper becoming obvious. “We’re turning the clock Clayton and James Renhard left behind to the National Housing Federation (NHF), a buy a home. housing. London’s housing supply and costs back to the 19th century, which has huge cramped bedrooms that smelt of smoke, trade body for affordable housing providers. The main reason for high house prices is are “a significant risk to the capital’s economic implications for the politics and society of our housemates who stole their food and a land- That’s more than three times the average simple: London, like Britain as a whole, is not growth,” said three-quarters of the decision- country,” said Shelter’s Lloyd. “A whole genera- lord who kept his deposit, and moved into a salary in the capital, and more than Clayton building enough homes. At the current rate - makers questioned for the survey. tion is being priced out and losing out as a rented flat of their own. and Renhard earn combined. 17,547 new homes a year - the capital could By itself, lower home-ownership is not nec- result of a systemic failure to build enough Buying a home is not an option. “I don’t High prices are reshaping the housing mar- face a shortfall of more than 700,000 homes by essarily a bad thing. Germany has an owner- homes.” know where the extra money to put away for a ket. By last year, one-third of all London house- 2031, according to the NHF. ship rate of just 53 percent, but boasts a more deposit is going to come from,” said Renhard, holds rented - double the level of a decade Even renting isn’t cheap, eating up about mobile workforce and lower rents. Rising LIVING IN A BEDROOM? 34, a law graduate who works as a website edi- ago, according to the Office for National 53 percent of average London incomes, house prices also boost government revenues The average London house costs more tor. “Aside from a mystery benefactor or a lot- Statistics. according to the NHF. That’s a bigger share and make people feel rich, which can encour- than 10 times average earnings, up from tery win.” That’s a reversal of a century-long trend, than anywhere in the United States except the age them to spend. London itself is booming, around four times in 1993, according to the The couple is a relatively wealthy example according to Toby Lloyd, head of policy at New York borough of Brooklyn, where renters its skyline evolving “like an accelerated ... Institute for Fiscal Studies. Real house prices - of London’s Generation Rent: people shut out Shelter, a homelessness charity. Since 1918, pay 60 percent, figures from real estate agency nature film about the return of Spring to the but not real incomes - have grown faster in the of the city’s housing market by high prices. The home ownership grew, becoming deeply Zillow show. Business leaders say sky-high Canadian tundra,” in the words of Mayor Boris UK over the last 40 years than in any country in problem has become a hot issue in national ingrained in the British psyche. But in 2002, the prices are making it hard to attract workers. A Johnson. the Organisation for Economic Cooperation elections due next month. To buy an average ownership rate started to decline. According survey last year for London First, a business But as house prices rise out of reach of and Development (OECD), a 2014 study in house in London today, you need to earn over to one survey, more than half Britain’s young lobby, found that two out of five employees more and more people, the downsides are Economic Journal showed. —Reuters Luxury auto party over in China as growth slows Corruption crackdown bites

SHANGHAI: When Italian luxury car- may have hit upon a solution with its But parent BMW said it had brands, such General Motors’ maker Maserati entered China a new Mercedes-Maybach S600, say- “adjusted” the production of Rolls- Cadillac and Ford’s Lincoln. Lincoln, decade ago, with a brand virtually ing it is under-stated enough to find Royce specifically because of slower which only launched in China in late unknown to Chinese customers, it a market in the new China. sales in China, which became appar- 2014, showed off a concept for its sold fewer than 40 vehicles its first “The Maybach is a really exclusive ent last summer. Continental sedan at the Shanghai year. Last year, the Asian giant was vehicle, but still almost an under- “We have seen some headwinds auto show, as well as two SUVs. Maserati’s second largest market as statement,” said Hubertus Troska, in the top luxury segment, not only “This year, next year, China could sales of its sports cars-including the member of the board of manage- Rolls-Royce but very expensive become the biggest luxury car mar- Quattroporte, which can cost up to ment of Daimler with responsibility goods in this country,” said Peter ket,” Ford CEO Mark Fields confident- $377,000 — reached 9,400, more ATHENS: Two women exit the Bank of Greece headquarters, in Athens yester- than doubling from 2013. But now its day. Authorities from municipalities across Greece were to hold an emergency chief executive acknowledges it will meeting yesterday after the government ordered reserves from state enter- struggle to even maintain that level prises to be placed in a Bank of Greece account to help the country meet its this year. financial obligations and avoid a default. —AP The party is over for the luxury car market in China, with the country facing the slowest economic growth in a quarter of a century and a cor- Air Berlin follows IAG ruption crackdown orchestrated by Communist Party chief Xi Jinping. in move to leave “Last year was fantastic,” said Maserati boss Harald Wester, sipping a mineral water on the roof of a Shanghai art European trade body museum ahead of China’s premier auto show. FRANKFURT: German airline Air Berlin, by airlines which desperately try to erect a “The target this year is to maintain part-owned by Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways, new wall around Europe,” Pichler said in a more or less the volumes of last year has ended its membership of European statement yesterday. a very difficult task. We all know trade group AEA, citing what it said were its Etihad, which owns 29 percent of Air about the slowing down of growth,” protectionist policies. Berlin, has struggled to gain German back- Wester said. The world’s second- The move comes only days after a similar ing of its code share flights with the largest economy expanded 7.4 per- move by British Airways and Iberia, and German carrier. Under a bilateral traffic cent last year, its slowest since 1990. after the boss of Etihad Airways warned agreement, carriers from the United Arab So Maserati is buckling down in Europe against protectionism in the airline Emirates may fly to only four airports in China, servicing existing customers, sector. Germany - Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and building its dealer network and Air Berlin Chief Executive Stefan Pichler Duesseldorf. Code shares allow it to offer awaiting the arrival of its Levante SUV joined British Airways owner IAG in calling passengers bookings from other airports. (sports utility vehicle) in 2016. for aviation markets to be liberalized, saying European carriers Air France-KLM and Maserati executives say their Chinese that would promote consolidation and Lufthansa , along with some US competitors, customers are young entrepreneurs, innovation, thereby benefitting all passen- have long complained that the Gulf airlines nearly half female, and deny they are gers. “With its current focus and representa- are benefiting unfairly from interest-free selling to government officials who tion of interests, the AEA is not fulfilling government loans and cheap fuel. The Gulf might be caught in the much-publi- SHANGHAI: A man looks at a Maserati sports car on display at a luxury mall in Shanghai. When these ideas, but allowing itself to be driven carriers deny those accusations. —Reuters cized anti-graft campaign, now two Italian luxury carmaker Maserati entered China a decade ago, with a brand virtually unknown to years long. Chinese customers, it sold fewer than 40 vehicles its first year. —AFP But the crackdown is making ostentatious displays less popular, for China. Schwarzenbauer, member of the ly predicted. Analysts said the top- Credit Suisse profits which could affect sales. “When the “We feel like it fits actual Chinese board of management for BMW who end luxury market might be better entire society is pointing at some times.” The slowdown did not stop has responsibility for Rolls-Royce. placed to ride out the downturn, people as having much more than Britain’s Rolls-Royce from choosing “We adjusted our production since premier segment cars that are jump nearly a quarter others, potentially those (people) China for the launch of its new because Rolls-Royce is the last brand favorites for government officials hesitate to show it,” Wester said. Phantom Limelight, which has fea- you want to push: you can’t sell a and fleet-such as Audi-are now ZURICH: Swiss banking giant Credit first quarter, with an improving trend in tures including leather-covered Rolls-Royce, a Rolls-Royce has to be being targeted by an austerity cam- Suisse said yesterday a strong perform- underwriting and advisory,” he said. Daimler, Rolls-Royce accessory boxes and handmade fra- bought.” At the same time, the luxury paign. ance by its investment banking unit “We remain committed to our capital Photos posted online of the grance holders. and slightly lower-priced “premium” “There is quite a large segment of helped first quarter net profit rise by 23 and leverage goals and expect to make wreckage of lime green Lamborghini “This precious brand... occupies a segment-cars costing under China, the young ultra-rich who percent to 1.05 billion Swiss francs (1.02 further progress in executing our strate- and red Ferrari that crashed drag rac- very special place in the hearts of our $197,000 — are facing more compe- want a Lamborghini or Ferrari,” said billion euros, $1.1 billion), outstripping gic initiatives over the balance of 2015.” ing on the streets of Beijing earlier customers here in China,” Rolls-Royce tition. Namrita Chow, principal analyst for forecasts by analysts. Dougan will make way for the Franco- this month caused outrage, as peo- CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos told the In the premium segment, tradi- IHS Automotive in London. “They’re Its investment bank posted a 14 per- Ivorian Tidjane Thiam, now head of the ple questioned who owned the luxu- launch ceremony at another tionally strong German manufactur- unlikely to be dented by these cur- cent rise in pre-tax profits to 945 million British insurer Prudential, in June. ry cars. Germany’s Daimler believes it Shanghai art museum. ers are now being pitted against US rent scandals.” —AFP francs. CEO Brady Dougan said that while trading revenue was higher than last Restructuring expected year, the bank had a “difficult start to the Investors are betting that Thiam will year” due to a slowdown in underwriting downsize the bank, Switzerland’s second TPP free-trade deal still away only to benefit from later volatility in the largest, more decisively to focus on markets. wealth management. The Swiss central bank shocked “Following the appointment of the domestic and global markets with its new CEO Tidjane Thiam, we’ve been despite US, Japan urgency decision on January 15 to end three hearing some rumors that, in June, he years of efforts to hold down the value of could cut up to 3,000 jobs in the the Swiss franc against the euro, sending Investment Banking department, which China’s bank move highlights US need to win in region the currency soaring. “Our swift and would be in line with the deleveraging TOKYO: Japan and the US emerged from Tokyo needs the cover that the Trans-Pacific an agreement between Japan and the US is close, proactive response to the changed cur- strategy,” said Laurent Bakhtiari, a market marathon talks on a Pacific-wide free trade area Partnership (TPP) affords to force through reforms but we’re hoping that even more progress will be rency and interest rate environment post analyst at IG. claiming to be within reach of a deal yesterday, to its sclereotic agriculture sector, one key ele- made.” the Swiss National Bank’s announcement, But he said the bank’s CET1 ratio-a but analysts say they remain far apart on a project ment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bid to revive “It would be good if I could reach an agree- combined with an improvement in mar- measurement of a bank’s core equity that neither can afford to see fail. his country’s economy. ment during my meeting with the president, but ket activity, mitigated the impact on our capital compared with its total risk- China’s unexpected success courting dozens After talks that lasted until 3:00 am in Tokyo, when you climb a mountain, the last step is always results and led to higher revenues in our weighted assets-came out lower than of nations for its Asian Infrastructure Investment US Trade Representative Michael Froman told Wealth Management Clients business,” expected in the first quarter. the hardest,” Abe said, referring to his summit next Bank (AIIB) has highlighted its rising power and reporters that gaps over the biggest sticking said Dougan. “The deleveraging measures should week in Washington with Barack Obama. the need for Washington to get a win in the points of agricultural imports and auto sector “In our well-diversified Investment have been stronger,” he said. “The new The ambitious 12-nation TPP would, if realized, region, after years of criticism that its so-called access have been “substantially narrowed”. Banking franchise, we achieved consis- ones, which will have to be implement- encompass 40 percent of the global economy, “pivot to Asia” was empty rhetoric. Abe told the Wall Street Journal: “We think that tent strategic results and reported a ed by Brady Dougan and then by the largely through the participation of the United return on regulatory capital of 19 per- new CEO, will be closely scrutinized, so States and Japan-the world’s biggest and third cent, despite further significant delever- there is still more to come on that front biggest economies, but not China, the second aging.” until the end of the year.” American largest. Negotiations on the pact have been Dougan, who was presenting his last banks have recently reported solid first bogged down for more than 18 months, with quarterly results, sounded an optimistic quarters thanks to a rise in their broker- agreement between Tokyo and Washington prov- note on the coming three months and age activities, with Morgan Stanley ing elusive. For Tokyo, getting around its powerful the rest of the year. “Looking at the sec- reporting a 59 rise in profits for the first agricultural lobby is tricky-but it is an end as well ond quarter to date, the momentum in quarter, the highest since the financial as a means because reducing farmers’ collective the businesses has carried over from the crisis of 2008. —AFP political power would bring economic dividends for Japan.

‘Tough hurdles’ S Korea to punish firms who Despite the positive noises coming from both camps yesterday, analysts say the gap remains bowed to North’s wage pressure wide, particularly on rice and autos-sacred cows SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday it would pun- of both sides. As the row intensified, Seoul ordered for Japan and the US, respectively, with neither ish three factory owners for bowing to North the firms not to yield to pressure, but the South’s keen to give up tariffs that protect important Korean pressure in a wage dispute over workers at Unification Ministry said three firms had caved in domestic industries. the Kaesong joint industrial zone. The North uni- and signed Sunday a statement promising But both are now feeling “a sense of urgency” laterally announced in February a wage hike for Pyongyang to pay the increased wage in the about the accord, with China flexing its muscles in the more than 50,000 North Korean workers future. “They will face administrative punitive the wings. Beijing has countered with its own rival bid for a common trade region in east and south- employed by South Korean firms operating in action for complying with North Korea’s unilateral TOKYO: US Trade Representative Michael Froman (front left) leaves after talks with Kaesong, just north of the inter-Korean border. demand,” a ministry official told AFP. Seoul was east Asia. “The growing Chinese presence in the South Korea demurred, insisting that under a also considering delaying monthly payment for Japanese counterpart in Tokyo early yesterday. The US and Japan need further work to region has prompted Japan and the United States previous accord, employment conditions in the workers-usually made around 20th-until the dis- resolve differences on autos and farm exports that are hindering progress toward a to speed up talks,” said Masayuki Kubota, chief zone could only be adjusted with the agreement pute is settled, the official said. —AFP Pacific Rim trade deal, Froman said yesterday. —AP strategist at Rakuten Securities in Tokyo. —AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 BUSINESS European stocks struggle on data, Greek fears

LONDON: European stocks mostly slid yes- 0.12 percent to 5,181.30 points. Frankfurt’s pulsory and will also affect local authori- make losses and markets are position- economic institute slipped by 1.5 terday, with Athens plunging after the DAX 30 index trimmed earlier gains but ties. “Yet again, the focus for markets ing themselves ... as Greece could points to 53.3 points in April, disap- Greek government ordered all public agen- held in positive territory to stand at 11,946 turned towards Greece as anxiety mounts default on debt repayments.” pointing analysts’ expectations for a cies to hand over financial reserves to help points, up 0.46 percent from Monday’s over the threat of Greece leaving the euro- Greece is struggling to unlock some further increase this month, ZEW said meet urgent debt repayments. closing level. zone,” said dealer Amir Khan at traders 7.2 billion euros in bailout funds. But in a statement. “The German economy The ATHEX benchmark index of top And the euro retreated to $1.0675 from Currencies Direct. Athens and its international creditors is in good shape. A stable labor mar- companies slumped 3.40 percent to 704.89 $1.0741 late in New York on Monday. “Liquidity problems in Greece have have so far been unable to find an ket and increasing wages are points in volatile trade, making it the worst Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s cash- turned acute and in a hastened move, agreement on the reforms that need strengthening confidence and boost- performer in the region. strapped government had launched an Prime Minister Tsipras passed a law that to be undertaken in exchange for the ing consumption,” said ZEW president Elsewhere, London’s FTSE 100 index slid appeal in March for public agencies to turn requires state entities to provide funding rescue package. Clemens Fuest. 0.06 percent to 7,048 points in late morn- over their reserves on a voluntary basis. to banks to shore up their reserves. “However, the current weakness of ing deals and in Paris the CAC 40 reversed But the call now looks set to become com- “Not surprisingly, the euro continued to ‘Collecting coins’ the world economy is dampening “Despite the looming Eurogroup export prospects and reducing the meeting at the end of the week to dis- scope for further improvements of the cuss Greece’s finances, traders are economic situation in Germany.” confident the indebted nation will be European indices had rebounded given yet another chance,” added IG Monday after China announced a raft trader David Madden. of stimulus measures to bolster “Athens has been hoovering up any growth. spare cash from local authorities to show ... it means business; however, Asia higher this is the political equivalent of col- Asian equities mostly rose yester- lecting coins that have fallen down day after overnight gains on Wall the back of the couch, but it may save Street, with investors also keeping an them yet.” eye on Europe as Greece struggles to Across in Frankfurt, a leading sur- pay off its debts. vey showed that German investor sen- Hong Kong surged 2.79 percent, timent fell for the first time in six Tokyo stocks jumped 1.40 percent and months in April as weak global growth Shanghai rallied 1.82 percent. The weighed on confidence. gains reversed some of the losses suf- The widely watched investor confi- fered on Monday, partly on fears dence index calculated by the ZEW about Greece’s future in the euro- BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Mercedes-Benz retains ‘World Car of the Year’ title Luxury carmaker earns triple success at 2015 World Car Awards

KUWAIT: Following a successful start finalists. The World Car Awards jurors AMG GT as the 2015 World 12 prestigious cars from all over the Jaguar F-Type R Coupe. Its on-road to the year globally, Mercedes-Benz recognized the C-Class for taking its Performance Car,” said Dirk Fetzer, world, with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class presence alone is almost enough to garnered three awards at the recent design and technological cues from Director of Sales & Marketing at Coupe reaching the finals against the qualify it as a ‘Top 3’ finalist, but in World Car Awards, including the covet- the S-Class but at the same time Daimler Middle East & Levant. BMW i8 and the Range Rover addition to its ruggedly handsome ed 2015 World Car of the Year, this time employing an all-new aluminium/steel Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to the Autobiography Black LWB. The World looks it has an impressive spec sheet for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. The lux- hybrid platform and updated rear-dri- World Car Awards program - now in its Car Awards jurors deemed the comprising biturbo 4.0-litre V8 engine, ury automotive marquee scooped the ve powertrain that delivers levels of 11th year. This is the second consecu- Mercedes-Benz S-Class CoupÈ the 2015 seven speed dual-clutch transmission, same award in 2014 for its flagship S- refinement, luxury, safety, ride and tive year that Mercedes-Benz has won World Luxury Car for its exceptional 456bhp (minimum) and much more. Class. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class handling to challenge the best-in- the World Luxury Car title. The compa- marriage of design and technology. Vehicles are selected and reviewed CoupÈ was also declared the 2015 class. ny won last year’s inaugural award for by a panel of judges comprised of 75 World Luxury Car, while the Mercedes- “We’re really proud of our accom- the S-Class when the new category Mercedes-AMG GT: Driving perform- top-level automotive journalists from AMG GT earned its rightful accolade as plishments - being the only automo- was created to acknowledge higher- ance for sports car enthusiast 22 countries around the world. Each the 2015 World Performance Car. The bile manufacturer to make it into the priced premium models selling in Candidates for the World juror was appointed by the World Car 2015 World Car Awards are organized final round of the awards with five more limited numbers worldwide. The Performance Car award are required to Steering Committee on the basis of his in association with New York models nominated and being selected company has also won two World demonstrate a specific and overt or her expertise, experience, credibili- International Auto Show, Bridgestone for three awards is a remarkable Green Car awards for the S 250 CDI sports/performance orientation while ty, and influence. Each juror typically Corporation and Autoneum and achievement for us. The Mercedes- Blue EFFICIENCY in 2012 and for the meeting the same availability criteria drives and evaluates new vehicles on a judged by an international jury panel. Benz C-Class embodies modern auto- Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec in 2007. as for the World Car of the Year award. regular basis as part of their profes- The Mercedes-Benz C-Class was motive luxury, delivers top perform- The Mercedes-AMG GT was chosen sional work. Through their respective chosen from an initial entry list of 24 ance and offers high levels of quality, S-Class: True design and from an initial entry list of 12 cars from outlets they collectively reach an audi- vehicles from around the world, pro- comfort and safety. We’re also proud to technological icon all over the world, shortlisted to 10 ence of many millions world-wide. The gressing to the short list of twelve, see the S-Class Coupe named the 2015 This year’s World Luxury Car winner cars, before reaching the finals against international accounting firm KPMG before being selected as one of three World Luxury Car and the Mercedes- was chosen from an initial entry list of the BMW M4 Coupe/M3 Sedan and tabulates the jurors’ ballots. Russia adapting to new economic reality: PM

MOSCOW: Prime Minister Dmitry takeover of the Ukrainian province of Medvedev said yesterday Russia was suffer- Crimea a year ago, but said the “historic” ing significant economic problems because step had been justified. “For many the of international sanctions, but the situation return of Crimea was the restoration of his- could have been much worse and Russia toric justice, which in its significance is was adapting. equivalent to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Referring to Western sanctions imposed reunification of Germany or the return to last year because of Russia’s actions in China of Hong Kong and Macao,” he said. Ukraine, Medvedev told parliament: “Losses Although the economic situation was from the restrictions which were intro- stabilizing, “there should not be any illu- duced are significant. sions” about the difficulties, which had “According to the estimates of some for- been made worse by the collapse in inter- eign experts, Russia has suffered losses of national oil prices and “by several domestic 25 billion euros ($26.7 billion) in total, problems that we weren’t able to solve”. which is 1.5 percent of gross domestic However, Russia had seen worse in the past product, and in 2015 it could increase sev- and could cope, Medvedev said. “If external eral times,” he said in an annual speech to pressure intensifies, and oil prices remain at parliament about the government’s record. an extremely low level for a long time, we Medvedev said Russia’s economy had will have to develop in a new economic contracted by around 2 percent in the first reality,” he said. quarter, but that the economic situation “I am convinced that we will be able to could have been far worse and was stabiliz- live even in such a reality. The experience of ing. the recent period has shown that we have He linked the sanctions to Russia’s learnt how to do this.” — Reuters Venezuelan delegation visits ATHENS: CEO of Russian gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller (center), gestures as he speaks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left) and Iran, Saudi in OPEC price push Greek Environment Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis (right) during their meeting in Athens yesterday. — AFP

KHOBAR: Venezuela’s oil minister heads a ing in Saudi Arabia as well as fellow OPEC delegation to meet Saudi Arabian oil offi- members Qatar and Algeria failed to soften cials yesterday, coming from talks in Iran, in the refusal of the Gulf OPEC countries to Euro-zone steers away from an OPEC diplomatic tour as its need for cut output. OPEC meets on June 5. Iran and higher oil prices gains urgency. a Libyan OPEC official have urged the Suffering from a slowing economy, soar- group to consider output cuts, while new deadlines for Greece ing inflation and shortages, producer Kuwait - in a view expected to be that of Venezuela is among the members of the the other Gulf OPEC members - has said Organization of the Petroleum Exporting the policy will remain unchanged. - Reuters BRUSSELS: Euro-zone finance ministers will not set in Vienna, European Commission President Jean- with creditors on a comprehensive package of Countries most deeply wounded by the oil FRANKFURT: Investor sentiment in any deadline for Greece to come up with reforms Claude Juncker urged Greece to step up efforts to reforms by the end of April was unlikely, despite price fall. Its need for OPEC to cut supply to Germany fell for the first time in six months to get more funding because such time limits lead strike a deal with its, warning that talks were not one more week left after the Riga meeting. support prices has failed to shift the stance in April on concerns about weak global to brinkmanship in negotiations, a senior euro advanced enough to find a quick solution. “If you want to present some kind of compre- of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf OPEC allies, growth, a survey showed yesterday, but zone official said yesterday. A senior euro-zone official involved in the talks hensive agreement to the authorities and the insti- which are focusing on protecting market analysts were confident that recovery in Greece, which is quickly running out of cash, said there had been some improvement in negoti- tutions, analyse it, send it to the Euro Working share. Europe’s biggest economy remains intact. pledged to its euro zone partners in February that ations very recently, but not enough for a deal. Group to work on it, which then filters out the An industry source told Reuters a visit- The widely watched investor confidence by the end of April it would agree with creditors on “There is a clear pickup in activity, there is a political questions for the Eurogroup to debate, it ing oil sector delegation from Venezuela index calculated by the ZEW economic a comprehensive list of reforms to get 7.2 billion clear pick up in engagement, but we are a signifi- will be extremely difficult to keep the deadline of will meet Saudi Deputy Oil Minister Prince institute slipped by 1.5 points to 53.3 euros remaining from its bailout. Euro-zone offi- cant way away from a signal that a result is in sight,” April 30,” he said. The problem was not ideological Abdulaziz bin Salman in Saudi Arabia yes- points in April, disappointing analysts’ cials had expected the list to be presented to euro the official said. differences between Tsipras’s left-wing govern- terday. Iran’s state news agency IRNA expectations for a further increase this zone finance ministers this Friday in Riga. This “(But) the use of deadlines, which leads to cer- ment and the euro zone, but rather lack of informa- reported yesterday that Venezuelan Oil month, ZEW said in a statement. would allow for a faster disbursement of cash to tain brinkmanship and unnecessary excitement, tion. Minister Asdrubal Chavez had met Iranian But the think tank insisted that the shal- Athens, helping the debt-laden country avoid will not be done again.” “I do not see any ideological fights,” the official Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh in Tehran, for low dip was no cause for alarm. “The default on loan repayments on May 12. said. “We need to know exactly what out of the talks that included the prospect of higher German economy is in good shape. A sta- But no package will be ready by then and it is CASH CRUNCH whole program are the 70 percent which Greece Iranian supplies. ble labor market and increasing wages are also unlikely it will be ready by the end of the In a sign of how extreme the financial con- has said was acceptable, or which are the 30 per- “We expect the members of OPEC to strengthening confidence and boosting month. This is mainly because in the past weeks straints have become, Athens on Monday ordered cent that are not, and once we have a firm picture pave the ground for (an) increase of Iran’s consumption,” said ZEW president Clemens Greece has not been providing the creditors with state entities, ranging from municipalities to a fund of that, we can start discussing that,” the official oil production that will reach global mar- Fuest. the financial data they seek or saying clearly what meant for future generations, to park idle cash at said. kets when sanctions are lifted,” Zanganeh “However, the current weakness of the reforms it plans. the central bank. The official said such a step would “We are not there yet, and if there ever were to said during the meeting, the agency world economy is dampening export Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet help Greece’s liquidity. be such a ‘fight’, the preconditions for it have not reported. prospects and reducing the scope for fur- German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a European “With the decree that was passed yesterday the been created,” he said. The bailout and the financ- The Venezuelan delegation will meet ther improvements of the economic situa- Union summit on migration tomorrow and the two situation, within the limits that there are, is well ing it offers expires on June 30. — Reuters Prince Abdulaziz because Saudi Oil Minister tion in Germany,” Fuest explained. are expected to discuss the funding crisis. Speaking manageable,” he said. But reaching an agreement Ali Al-Naimi had been visiting South Korea. For the survey, ZEW questions analysts No further details were immediately avail- and institutional investors about their cur- able, and there was no immediate com- rent assessment of the economic situation ment from the Saudi government. in Germany, as well as their expectations German investor sentiment slips slightly The Venezuelan foreign ministry said on for the coming months. its Twitter account on Monday that the oil And confidence about the current situa- FRANKFURT: Investor sentiment in Germany fell wages are strengthening confidence and boosting cial market players’ view of the current economic minister, plus Foreign Minister Delcy tion is improving sharply. The sub-index for the first time in six months in April on concerns consumption,” said ZEW president Clemens Fuest. situation in Germany jumped by 15.1 points to 70.2 Rodriguez and Finance Minister Rodolfo measuring financial market players’ view of about weak global growth, a survey showed yes- “However, the current weakness of the world points in April, its highest level since July 2011. Marco Torres had arrived in Saudi Arabia “to the current economic situation in Germany terday, but analysts were confident that recovery in economy is dampening export prospects and “The April reading of ZEW only disappointed at hold bilateral and working meetings”. It did jumped by 15.1 points to 70.2 points in Europe’s biggest economy remains intact. The reducing the scope for further improvements of first glance,” said BayernLB economist Stefan Kipar. not elaborate. Oil prices have almost April, its highest level since July 2011. widely watched investor confidence index calculat- the economic situation in Germany,” Fuest “Overall, the data are positive. The German econo- halved since June last year in a drop that “The April reading of ZEW only disap- ed by the ZEW economic institute slipped by 1.5 explained. my remains on a recovery path and the framework deepened after OPEC refused to cut pro- pointed at first glance,” said BayernLB econ- points to 53.3 points in April, disappointing ana- For the survey, ZEW questions analysts and conditions-a weak euro and low oil prices-continue duction. The price slide is more painful for omist Stefan Kipar. “Overall, the data are lysts’ expectations for a further increase this month, institutional investors about their current assess- to be favorable,” Kipar said. countries such as Venezuela and Iran than positive. The German economy remains on ZEW said in a statement. ment of the economic situation in Germany, as well “Germany is doing fine,” agreed Berenberg Bank the wealthier Gulf states. a recovery path and the framework condi- But the think tank insisted that the shallow dip as their expectations for the coming months. economist Holger Schmieding. “In fact, it may now In January, a diplomatic tour by tions-a weak euro and low oil prices-con- was no cause for alarm. “The German economy is in And confidence about the current situation is be doing so well that some observers believe it Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tak- tinue to be favorable,” Kipar said.—AFP good shape. A stable labor market and increasing improving sharply. The sub-index measuring finan- can’t get much better,” he said.—AFP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Warba Bank’s net profit grows 148% in Q1 2015 Bank on path for sustainable growth: Al-Thaqeb KUWAIT: Warba Bank announced exceeding the required limit as per enhance the Bank’s position in the adequacy ratio exceeded the limit its financial results yesterday for the Basel III and Central Bank of Kuwait Islamic banking sector in the mandated by both CBK and Basel III three -month period ended March (CBK) instructions. This will drive region, we have prepared our new instructions thus enhancing the 31, 2015, indicating strong growth Warba’s future business growth and strategy for the next three years till Bank’s position in the local market across the bank’s business. The enhances its capacity to seize 2017. This strategy will serve as an and driving it to achieve the set bank achieved operating revenues appropriate investment opportuni- ambitious roadmap to enhance the goals.” He added: “While we look at 32 percent growth rate amount- ties yielding the highest returns to Bank and develop its performance forward to the coming months of ing KD 5.017 million by the end of 2015, we will continue to develop the first quarter 2015 compared to and introduce innovative new KD 3.805 million for the same peri- products and services that meet od 2014. During 1st Q 2015, Warba our customers’ various needs and Bank achieved net profit at growth contribute in strengthening the rate of 148 percent amounting KD Bank’s position and path to sustain- 77 thousand dinars compared to a able growth to ensure that Warba loss of KD 162,000 for the same continues in playing a leading and period 2014. effective role in driving the devel- The Bank’s total assets increased opment of Kuwait economy.” in the 1st Q 2015 at 46 percent Warba strives to implement an reaching KD 627 million compared ambitious growth plan for expand- to KD 429 million for the same peri- ing in Kuwait market, enhancing its od 2014. The customers and banks’ online banking services, develop- deposits increased at 59 percent at ing web portal and launching the end of the 1st Q 2015 reaching smart phone applications aiming to KD 531 million compared to save customers’ time and efforts, Emad A Al-Thaqeb Jassar Al-Jassar VIVA launches new data plan deposits of KD 334 million as on facilitate their banking transactions March 31, 2014. at the highest safety and security The Bank’s financing portfolio shareholders. and competitive capabilities by standards. In addition, the Bank for postpaid customers reached KD 392.1 million at the end Commenting on the results, implementing best practices in the improves free SMS Alert and pro- of the 1st Q 2015, at an increase of Emad A Al-Thaqeb, Warba Bank sector, innovating banking prod- vides Warba POS devices. KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing grants its customers a unique experience. 44 percent compared to the 1st Q Chairman, said: “ The outstanding ucts and services, developing the In addition, the Bank continu- and most developed telecom operator, VIVA is the fastest-growing telecom 2014. The high quality of the Bank’s performance of the Bank during Bank’s role in the local market and ously endeavors to develop the Call announced yesterday the launch of its new operator in Kuwait. Launched in December financing portfolio is attributable the 1st Q 2015 reflects Kuwait maintaining a solid financial posi- Center, increase its efficiency and KD 11 Data Plan, presented through a spe- 2008, VIVA makes things Possible for its to the low ratio of default finances strong economy and the great tion that safeguards the Bank’s applications and train its staff. This cially tailored package. customers by transforming communica- at only 0.25 percent while the cov- potentials for the banking sector in shareholders. This is in addition to resulted in Warba’s winning “Best Upon subscribing to this offer, VIVA cus- tion, information and entertainment expe- erage ratio reached 565 percent at the Country. Despite the tough our endeavors for expansion in the Call Centre Award -2014” from tomers are presented with a daily capacity riences. The company has rapidly estab- the end of the 1st Q 2015. conditions at the region, the huge domestic market and entering into Banker Middle East Magazine for of 3.5 GB, a free 4G LTE mini router and a lished an unrivalled position in the market Revenues from financing and challenges at local, regional and new ones in the region that will Banking Products and Services in free iPad Mini. The monthly postpaid plan through its customer centric approach. deposits increased in the 1st Q global markets, and the intense contribute in our search for lucra- Kuwait. This Award is an addition to will be for only KD 11 with a 24-month con- VIVA’s quest is to be the mobile brand of 2015 to reach KD 4.42 million com- competition among banks, Warba tive investment opportunities to the Bank’s achievements record. tract. Customers can also subscribe to the choice in Kuwait by being transparent, pared to KD 2.74 million for the could convert to profitability illus- boost Bank’s growth for the benefit In addition to the Bank’s opera- new plan through VIVA’s E-Store, whereby engaging, energetic and fulfilling. VIVA same period 2014 at an increase of trating the significant improvement of both shareholders and cus- tional activity, Warba continuously customers will be able to conveniently continues to take a considerable share of 61 percent. This is one of the key in the Bank’s performance and tomers alike.” focuses on investing in human select a preferred delivery date for the the market by offering an innovative range positive indicators illustrating the assets’ operational efficiency.” Jassar Al-Jassar, Warba Bank Vice resources and the recruitment of products they purchased which will be of best value products, services and con- Bank’s robust operations. It should He added: “During the past Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, national talents. The Bank man- delivered right to their door step. tent propositions; a state of the art, nation- be noted that the net profit for the three years, Warba Bank has been said: “Our performance during the aged to attract and train young VIVA continuously presents its cus- wide network and world-class service. VIVA 1st Q 2015 represents 67 percent of able to achieve the key objectives first quarter this year is remarkable Kuwaiti cadres to work at various tomers, both prepaid and postpaid, with offers internet speeds of more than 100 the net profits for the whole 2014. of the adopted sustainable growth in terms of financial growth indica- sectors. The Bank also places signifi- the exciting packages that offer excellence Mbps, due to the implementation of the Warba Bank has a strong finan- strategy within the framework of tors and enhancing the our capital cant stress for employing best in quality of service with added value for most advanced fourth generation (4G LTE) cial position and high quality sound corporate governance prac- position. Profits have been the out- Kuwaiti calibers at the executive money. As a market leader, VIVA is commit- network in Kuwait resulting in superior cov- assets. This is clearly reflected by tices and risk management. As part come of increased revenues from management level, which actually ted to providing differentiated services that erage, performance and reliability. the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), of our continuous pursuit to the operational activity. The capital exceeds 75 percent. Al-Mazaya Holding completes 3,131 residential apartments

KUWAIT: Al-Mazaya Holding announced the launch of Q-Line, a new residential project for mid- dle income groups in Dubai. The announcement was made in a press conference that was held in The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dubai, yesterday. The launch of Q-Line comes on the back of the success made by Al Mazayaat Queue Point located in Dubai Land, which consists of 52 buildings for middle income groups. The press conference was attended by Rashid Al-Nafisi, Chairman of Al-Mazaya Holding, Eng Ibrahim Al Soq’abi, Group CEO of Al-Mazaya, Eng Salwa Malhas, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer and Khalid Abdul Latif, KUWAIT: Al-Thurayya winner receiving the car from Venkat Menon, Burgan Bank Acting CEO of Al Mazaya Company in Dubai. Chief retail Banking Officer. The conference began with a welcome speech delivered by the Chairman of Al-Mazaya Holding, in which he commended the Dubai market and Hamad Al-Dhuwaihi spoke about how Al-Mazaya was welcomed in a warm reception and supported by government Burgan Bank’s new winner authorities and the private sector in Dubai. He launched the company’s new project “Q-Line” in Al-Thuraya draw then, attendees watched a video about Al He added: “Al-Mazaya has made new additions apartments with stunning designs that combine Mazaya’s achievements, with a particular focus on to its project portfolio by launching large-scale convenience with elegance. The project is sur- KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently announced largest by assets in Kuwait, with a signifi- the new Queue Point project. projects that meet the demand of local markets rounded by green spaces that reflect the lovely its Thuraya Account winner of the Audi R8 cant focus on the corporate and financial The Group CEO delivered a detailed presenta- and enable different social groups to own residen- modern lifestyle. Studio apartments ranged from sports car. The winner Hamad Abdulaziz Al- institutions sectors, as well as having a tion about the company’s services, projects and tial units at reasonable prices. Most prominent of 369 to 970 square feet, one bedroom apartments Dhuwaihi expressed his excitement for growing retail, and private bank customer achievements in 2014 and the upcoming projects these offerings are the Queue Point which targets from 780 to 1485 square feet and the two bed- being the new winner of the Audi R8 with base. Burgan Bank has five majority owned in 2015. Al-Soq’abi pointed to the company’s posi- the middle income group and the Q-Line residen- room apartments from 1109 to 1462 square feet. Al-Thuraya Salary Account from Burgan subsidiaries, which include Jordan Kuwait tive results in the first quarter of 2015, which was tial project which is set to complete the resound- The project is scheduled for completion in 2017”. Bank. Al-Thuraya Account is the only salary Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - announced only a week ago. The company ing success made by our projects in the UAE”. Queue Point is a 52-residential building project account in Kuwait that provides its cus- Turkey, Bank of Baghdad, Tunis achieved a 16.6 percent growth in its profit, com- Eng. Ibrahim Al-Soq’abi, Group CEO of Al- located in Dubai Land and targets middle income tomers with the chance to win Audi R8 Car International Bank, in which Burgan Bank pared to the corresponding period in 2014 and a Mazaya Holding, said: “Q-Line comes on the back groups. Moreover, Al-Mazaya owns 29 plots of on a quarterly basis. The account aims at owns a majority stake. Burgan Bank Group 175 percent increase in operating revenues gener- of the increasing demand for residential units in land being developed by third party investors. raising the frequency of customers winning has one of the largest regional branch net- ated from sale and lease operations. Queue Point by investors and buyers, being a Construction of the projects is progressing in full one of the world’s most admired sports works with more than 231 branches across At the end of the press conference, Al Mazaya leading project that offers an integrated residen- swing and Al-Mazaya has already sold 80 percent cars. Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, honored its strategic partners, including a number tial environment, with high quality services, state of the residential units in Queue Point and com- Al-Thuraya Account’s features range Lebanon and Palestine. of officials in Dubai government departments and of the art infrastructure and vibrant facilities that pleted 75 percent of the units. The project is devel- from the option to hold money in Kuwaiti The Bank has continuously improved its media representatives from the GCC countries in meet the aspirations of a large group of buyers. oped in Al Liwan in Dubai Land over a total area of dinar and any other major currency, access performance over the years through an recognition of their outstanding efforts which The project boasts a strategic location on the junc- 13 million square feet. to account-related services such as stand- expanded revenue structure, diversified have significantly contributed to the success of Al tion between Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road Recognizing and honoring success partners: ing orders, loans and credit cards and much funding sources, and a strong capital base. Mazaya Holding in recent years. and Al Ain Road”. During the press conference, Chairman of Al- more. The account has been further devel- The adoption of state-of-the-art services In his speech at the press conference, Rashid Mazaya accompanied by the Group CEO honored oped in response to offering more benefits and technology has positioned it as a Al-Nafisi, Chairman of Al-Mazaya Holding, Location the successful partners, and presented commem- and increasing customers’ chances to win. trendsetter in the domestic market and expressed his pride of the tremendous achieve- Al-Soq’abi added: “Q-Line reflects Al-Mazaya’s orative plaques to them in recognition of their Opening an Al-Thuraya account is simple; within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s ments made by Al-Mazaya in different markets commitment to meet the market demand by outstanding contribution to real estate sector and customers are required to visit their nearest brand has been created on a foundation of over the last few years, reiterating that these offering projects for all groups of society and pro- developers in the UAE. The list of honorees includ- Burgan Bank branch and obtain all the nec- real values - of trust, commitment, excel- achievements will have a positive short-term viding high quality residential projects at reason- ed Dubai Lands Department, Real Estate essary details, or simply call the bank’s Call lence and progression, to remind us of the impact on the company’s financial results. He said: able rates Q-Line is a high end multi-building proj- Regulatory Authority (RERA), Dubai Properties Center 1804080. high standards to which we aspire. ‘People “Al-Mazaya Holding is striving to raise its profile in ect strategically situated in the heart of Dubai Group, Mashreq Bank, Emirates Islamic Bank, Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the come first’ is the foundation on which its the real estate market as one of the Middle East’s Land, the future tourism destination in Dubai, at Dubai Islamic Bank, Place Community Managers, youngest commercial Bank and second products and services are developed. leading real estate developers. The company is the junction between Sheikh Mohammed bin Harbor Real Estate, FAM Properties, Options keen to seize the best and most feasible opportu- Zayed Road and Al-Ain Road, neighboring Dubai Furniture and Sahara Media Consultancies. nities to generate the best returns on investments, Academic City and Dubai Silicon Oasis. The project Al-Mazaya has also honored a number of GCC while ensuring the delivery of the best services in is inspired by the urban architecture model of San media conglomerates in the region, in recognition Aramco board visits accordance with the highest international stan- Francisco City, comprising of four buildings, rang- of their outstanding efforts and the significant role dards in this vibrant sector. We have an increasing ing in height from 9 to 14 stories tall. It spreads they have played in serving the real estate sector S Korean shipbuilder demand from end users in the thriving real estate over a total area of 150,000 square feet, consisting and disseminating the truth to audience in a market in the UAE in general and Dubai, in partic- of residential units at affordable prices, ranging straightforward, unbiased and professional man- SEOUL: Board members of Saudi Aramco The deal could be worth about $1 bil- ular”. from studio, one bedroom and two bedroom ner. visited the headquarters of South Korea’s lion, based on data from Clarkson, the Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd yesterday, British shipbroking house, which puts the as the shipping arm of Saudi Arabia’s state price of the tankers of this size at $96.5 mil- SAP Q1 profit in line as sales surge, aided by cheap euro oil firm looks to buy up to 10 tankers, four lion. Hyundai Heavy, the world’s biggest industry sources said. shipbuilder, is favorite to secure the deal, FRANKFURT: German business software maker lion euros, helped by currency effects, solid busi- pointing,” a Frankfurt-based trader said. Saudi Arabia has been supplying more said three sources, who declined to be SAP reported a 15 percent rise in operating profit ness in European markets and the $7.3 billion SAP’s results were in some ways the mirror crude to Asian markets and Saudi Aramco’s identified due to the sensitivity of the issue. helped by a cheap euro, even as rising investment acquisition of Concur, the expenses software mak- opposite of US technology services giant IBM, shipping arm has tendered to build 5 very A spokesman for STX Offshore & in newer cloud-based software squeezed its profit er. That beat the average analyst expectation of which on Monday posted its twelfth quarter of large crude carriers (VLCCs) plus up to 5 Shipbuilding Co Ltd confirmed it had com- margin. Europe’s largest software company said 4.25 billion euros in the Reuters poll. SAP shares revenue decline as it sheds unprofitable business- optional vessels for 2017 delivery, said one peted in the final round of bidding, but on Tuesday first-quarter operating profit, exclud- are indicated to open 1.1 percent higher, outper- es to focus on cloud computing. Excluding the of the sources. All of the vessels the declined to elaborate. Saudi Aramco said it ing special items, rose to 1.06 billion euros ($1.13 forming the German blue chip index, which is effect of currencies, SAP operating profit dropped National Shipping Company of Saudi could not immediately comment, while billion), matching the average expectation in a seen opening 0.6 percent higher, according to 2 percent, while operating margin fell to 23.5 per- Arabia (Bahri) is seeking are 320,000 dead- Bahri was not immediately available for Reuters poll. premarket data from brokerage Lang & Schwarz. cent from 24.8 percent in the same period last weight tons. comment.—Reuters First-quarter revenue rose 22 percent to 4.5 bil- “Top-line really strong, but bottom-line disap- year.— Reuters WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 TECHNOLOGY

Americans say cellphone cameras not changing police conduct

NEW YORK: Americans are evenly divid- ior would improve and an equal number blacks and other minorities. lent on the impact of cameras on their behaving better because of omnipresent ed on whether the widespread use of said it would not, the poll found. Some incidents were captured on own behavior. Fifty-nine percent agreed cameras, and most said they were not smartphone cameras will improve police Among respondents, 56 percent said video. One showed Walter Scott being with the statement: “I like how camera behaving better either. behavior and think it has done little to police were not behaving better so far shot in the back while running from phones make people more accountable Neither are politicians behaving bet- change police conduct so far, according because they could be caught on video, police in North Charleston, South for their actions.” ter, or likely to do so in the future, to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released yester- the poll said. Carolina, after a traffic stop. Another At the same time, 47 percent agreed because of cellphone cameras, accord- day. Against the backdrop of such A series of incidents in the United showed Eric Garner, who died after New it was an invasion of privacy for people ing to poll respondents. The poll was footage as that of a white South Carolina States in which white police officers York City police put him in a chokehold to be constantly filming with their conducted April 10 through April 17. The police officer fatally shooting a black killed unarmed black men prompted while trying to arrest him. phones. credibility interval, used to measure its man in the back earlier this month, 42 protests in many cities and sparked The online poll of 2,446 US adults The poll showed most respondents precision, was plus or minus 2.3 percent- percent of Americans said police behav- debate over police conduct toward showed Americans remained ambiva- did not think people were generally age points. — Reuters

UK chip designer ARM hits a high after iPhone 6 boost

LONDON: ARM Holdings, the British chip “These chips typically have a slightly designer favoured by Apple, beat expecta- higher royalty rate than the previous gen- tions for first-quarter profit thanks to eration.” demand for the iPhone 6, and said its royal- Royalty revenue, collected a quarter in ties would grow as its latest technology is arrears from a record 3.8 billion chips used in more smartphones. shipped, rose 26 percent on an underlying Shares in the Cambridge-based compa- basis, ARM said. ny rose to an all-time high of 1,233 pence Analysts at Citi said they expected full- after it posted a 24 percent rise in first- year consensus expectations for ARM’s rev- quarter pretax profit to 120.5 million enue would edge up to reflect the encour- pounds ($179.1 million). aging performance in royalties. That beat analysts’ expectations of 115 ARM’s processor licensing revenue million pounds, according to a company- dipped 2 percent, missing market forecasts, provided consensus. but Score said he expected licensing rev- The shares were up 4.6 percent at 1,204 enue to rise 5-10 percent in the longer pence at 0717 GMT. term. Industry-wide revenues had slipped “In the second half of 2015 we expect to after a busy fourth quarter, in line with nor- benefit from the increasing deployment of mal seasonal trends, which would be ARMv8-A technology, our latest generation reflected in its second quarter, Score said. of processors, in the newest smartphones But overall second-quarter revenue would and tablets,” Chief Financial Officer Tim be in line with market expectations, which Score said yesterday. stand at $354.6 million. —Reuters Microsoft to launch first flagship store outside US SYDNEY: Microsoft yesterday said it will Samsung outlet, and will reportedly take open its first flagship store outside the up 581 square metres (6,254 square feet) United States in Sydney, as the technology over two floors. GREENBELT: A mirror, similar to the one that will be installed on the James Webb Space Telescope is displayed in a clean room at the NASA giant expands its physical footprint to take Marlow did not say when it would open Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. — AFP on global rivals Apple and Samsung. but The Australian Financial Review said it Microsoft Australia’s managing director would be in time to capture the busy Pip Marlow said the shop, to be located in Christmas shopping period. Sydney’s main Pitt Street shopping district, The Redmond, Washington-based com- Hubble, the telescope that was a “significant development” for the pany announced last year its first flagship American firm. store would be on Fifth Avenue in New “This is a significant development for York. The firm has 110 physical stores in the revolutionized our view of space our business locally as well as globally,” US, Canada and Puerto Rico and 17 store- Marlow said in a statement on the compa- in-store locations in China. Along with the ny’s website. “This will be much more than flagship shops, they are a reflection of GREENBELT: Hubble, the first telescope to revo- exploring the depths of space from its circular our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the fact that plan- a store. It will embody the world class inno- Microsoft’s push towards a more visible lutionize modern astronomy and change our path around Earth and transmitting astonishing etary formation is a relatively common process. vation that you have come to expect from presence. view of the universe by offering glimpses of dis- images of supernovas, or massive explosions Closer to home, Hubble has advanced knowl- Microsoft and be a space where con- Apple said in March it has 453 physical tant galaxies, marks its 25th year in space this that occur with the death of a star, and other edge of our own solar system. In March, NASA sumers... can visit and learn how to make stores in 16 countries. Microsoft is seeking week. celestial bodies. announced that Hubble had detected a vast the most of their technology.” to take on the mobile operating systems “Hubble absolutely has changed the way One of Hubble’s best known images is of the ocean under the surface of Ganymedes, Jupiter’s A flagship store is commonly seen as a space dominated by Apple’s iOS and humans look at the universe and our place in it,” vast Carina Nebula, an interstellar cloud of dust, biggest moon, widening the range of known way for firms to showcase their brand’s Google’s Android. The Windows operating said astronomer Jennifer Wiseman, one of the hydrogen gas, helium gas and plasma that lies celestial bodies on which life forms may exist. products and have more recently been system for PCs, which was launched in the telescope’s senior scientists at NASA’s Goddard some 6,500 light years away from Earth. “Hubble has been a major player in enabling adopted by technology companies keen to 1990s, has been a cash cow for Microsoft, Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Hubble, which is named after the pioneering people around the world to have a sense of establish direct contact with their cus- but the platform is lagging in mobile. “It shows us that the universe has been American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889- wonder about the universe that we live in,” said tomers in large, downtown outlets. Microsoft has also launched its own changing over time, that stars in fact are an inte- 1953), has also shown us black holes at the heart Wiseman. The spectacular images that Hubble The store will be just several hundred mobile devices such as Surface tablets and gral part of producing the type of element that of galaxies scientists did not previously know has sent back have been described as “the most metres from Apple’s flagship shop and a Lumia smartphones. —AFP we need for life, for planets, for our well-being,” existed. The 24,000-pound (10-ton) telescope flamboyantly beautiful artworks of our time,” she told AFP. has taken more than a million pictures, including according to British art critic Jonathan Jones. Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the Space some that have allowed astronomers to more Hubble’s images have made their way into Shuttle Discovery, Hubble orbits the Earth. It precisely calculate the age of the universe-about popular culture, and can be seen in countless doesn’t travel to faraway stars but instead snaps 13.8 billion years old. books and even on a Pearl Jam album cover. incredible pictures of them. Wiseman believes that Hubble still has a few The telescope is the fruit of a collaboration Major player good years ahead of it, as it is in perfect working between NASA and the European Space Agency. Observations from the Hubble combined condition since the last visit by space shuttle Hubble is celebrated as a triumph these days, with powerful telescopes on Earth helped astro- astronauts in 2009. but almost as soon as it was launched, a major physicists confirm in 1998 that the universe It will continue to operate alongside its suc- problem was discovered with its main mirror appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate, cessor, the James Webb Space Telescope, which and it did not become operational until three which earned two Americans the Nobel Prize for will be 100 times more powerful and should years later. Its repair required a special space Physics in 2011. launch in 2018. shuttle mission in 1993. Other Hubble discoveries include the first “Just as Hubble rewrote all the astronomy After that, the Hubble space telescope detection of an organic molecule in the atmos- texts, Webb will rewrite it again,” said NASA became a veritable legend in its own right, phere of a planet circling a distant star far from astronomer Matt Greenhouse. —AFP Sweden opens world’s first remote air control tower

STOCKHOLM: Sweden yesterday inaugurated Sundsvall. way as in a traditional tower,” LFV said in a state- the world’s first remote air control tower at the According to LFV, cameras and sensors col- ment. northern Ornskoldsvik airport, air traffic authori- lect live-time information at the Ornskoldvik air- “It went very safely!,” a SR journalist on board FUNABASHI: A man rides the newly developed electric motorcycle “Zecoo” during a ties said. port’s remote tower, which is relayed to air traf- the first flight told the radio with a laugh after test drive event at the Nihon University in Funabashi in suburban Tokyo. The motor- “The first Remote Tower Services landing!,” fic controllers in Sundsvall. the landing, one of the 50 passengers on board. cycle can drive 160 kilometres after a 4 hour charge and has a maximum speed of Sweden’s Air Navigation Services (LFV) .”We are the first in the world to have a “I held on to the armrest tightly but there 160kph. Japanese auto maker Autostaff Suehiro started to sell 50 limited units in announced on Twitter, under a picture taken remote tower ... The pilots in the plane were in was no problem. And if I understood correctly, Japan, Asia and the Middle East market. — AFP from the plane before it landed around noon contact with the tower in Sundsvall,” LFV’s com- for the pilot it made no difference,” she added. (1000 GMT). munications director Elisabeth Lindgren told The two airports were chosen “for geographic The plane flew from the town of Sundsvall to public radio SR. reasons”, Lindgren said without providing fur- Ornskoldsvik, around 150 kilometres (95 miles) Pilots experienced no difference in their ther details. The technology is expected to be Uber face lawsuit claiming to the north. Both the take-off and landing were communication with the tower. “With the help gradually rolled out in other airports in bias against blind riders guided by the air traffic control tower in of technology, air traffic is controlled the same Sweden. —AFP

SAN JOSE: Uber Technologies Inc must with all laws regarding transportation of defend against a lawsuit accusing the service animals. “The Uber app is built to popular ride-sharing service of discrimi- expand access to transportation options nating against blind people by refusing to for all, including users with visual impair- transport guide dogs, a federal judge ments and other disabilities,” the company ruled. said. In a decision late Friday night, US In seeking to dismiss the case, Uber Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in also said the individual plaintiffs were San Jose, California, said the plaintiffs required to arbitrate their claims. could pursue a claim that Uber is a “travel Valued at an estimated $40 billion, service” subject to potential liability under Uber says it offers its mobile phone taxi- the Americans with Disabilities Act. hailing service in more than 270 cities and The judge rejected Uber’s arguments geographic areas in 56 countries, and can that the plaintiffs, including the National charge varying prices based on demand. Federation of the Blind of California, But the San Francisco-based company lacked standing to sue under the ADA and has faced complaints around the world state laws protecting the disabled. over how it pays drivers, treats passengers Uber was given 14 days to formally and ensures safety. respond to the complaint. In the discrimination case, the plaintiffs Aaron Zisser, a lawyer for Disability said federal law requires operators of taxi Rights Advocates in Berkeley, California, services such as Uber to carry service animals which helped bring the case, said the for blind riders, but it knows of more than 40 plaintiffs are pleased with the decision. instances in which Uber drivers refused. They “Uber is a very popular service, and it is cited two instances in which Uber drivers important for riders with service animals allegedly yelled “no dogs” at riders, and to be able to use it like anyone else,” he another in which a Uber driver allegedly said in a phone interview. refused a blind woman’s plea to pull over ABIDJAN: People attend a computer training course, as part of the “Afrique Innovation, reinventer les medias” (Africa innovation, reinvent In a statement, Uber said drivers are once she realized he had locked her guide media) programme, at the Ecole Superieure Africaine des Technologies et des Communications in Abidjan. In Ivory Coast, only 200,000 out of told that company policy is to comply dog in the trunk of his car.— Reuters 23 million inhabitants have an internet subscription, according to the government. — AFP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Mindfulness therapy as good as medication for depression

LONDON: Mindfulness-based cognitive thera- nation of both. Yet many patients fail to get more time with a trained therapist-was not sig- anti-depressant drugs were randomly relapse rates were similar in both groups-at 44 py (MBCT) may be just as effective as anti- better and suffer recurring bouts of illness. nificantly more pricey, particularly when given assigned either to come off their anti-depres- percent in the therapy group versus 47 percent depressants in helping prevent people with MBCT was developed to help such people in group sessions, the study found. sants slowly and receive MBCT or to stay on in the anti-depressant drug group. chronic depression from relapsing, scientists by teaching them skills to recognise and Richard Byng, a professor at Britain’s their medication. “Whilst this study doesn’t show that mind- said yesterday. respond constructively to thoughts and feel- Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of While 212 patients continued taking their fulness-based cognitive therapy works any Depression is one of the most common ings associated with relapse, aiming to prevent Medicine and Dentistry, said that, while current anti-depressants, the other 212 attended eight better than maintenance anti-depressant forms of mental illness, affecting more than a downward spiral into depression. standard treatment for chronic depression is to group mindfulness therapy sessions and were medication in reducing the rate of relapse ... 350 million people worldwide. It is ranked by In the first large study to compare MBCT keep taking anti-depressants, many people given daily home practice as well as an option these results suggest a new choice for the mil- the World Health Organization as the leading and anti-depressants, researchers found little don’t want to take them for long periods and to have four follow-up sessions over a 12- lions of people with recurrent depression on cause of disability globally. difference in outcomes. others want to avoid side-effects. month period. repeat prescriptions,” said Willem Kuyken of Treatment usually involves either medica- In terms of cost, mindfulness training-often In this study, 424 adults with recurrent Study results published in The Lancet med- Oxford University, who worked with Byng on tion, some form of psychotherapy or a combi- viewed as more costly because it requires major depression who were on maintenance ical journal showed that after two years, the research. —Reuters Sierra Leone chimps back in swing as Ebola retreats Third of worldwide population killed by Ebola

FREETOWN: In the rising afternoon ping back down to double figures, mates that around a third of the Controversy humidity 30-year-old Tom sits in the and eventually single figures, and worldwide population of chim- Amarasekaran bought the alpha shade, picking fleas off his neigh- Sierra Leone was able to end cur- panzees has been killed by Ebola male for $20 in 1988, when he was a bour, unaware of how close he came fews, lift travel restrictions, reopen since it first emerged in the just a few months old, and named to losing his home to Ebola. borders and welcome back 1970s. him after British heavyweight boxer Tom is a chimpanzee-one of tourists. The sanctuary-which was losing Frank Bruno. around 5,000 in Sierra Leone for “We have had many enquiries almost a third of its income-was The centre was plunged into con- whom the tropical fever poses as from local and overseas wildlife finally able to open on Thursday last troversy in 2006 when Bruno and a deadly a threat as it does to humans. lovers asking when we would week, and Tom was among the resi- pack of 31 chimps escaped, attacking His rainforest sanctuary in the reopen and, taking into considera- dents welcoming the public back. a group of US tourists and killing their verdant hills around the capital tion the falling number of Ebola cas- “He had been kept as a pet since Sierra Leonean driver, according to Freetown suddenly found itself es in recent weeks, we have decided a baby and had not interacted with witnesses. forced to close in August last year as to open up,” programme director other chimps since birth,” said Hope for future - WASHINGTON: This September 25, 2013 file photo illustration shows a woman the virus overwhelmed the human Bala Amarasekaran told AFP. Amarasekaran. Most of the chimps returned of smoking a ‘Blu’ e-cigarette (electronical cigarette) in Washington, DC. The use their own accord, but Bruno-who was of electronic cigarettes has tripled among young Americans in just a year and said to have personally killed the driv- er-was never seen again. for the first time exceeds that of conventional products. From 2013 to 2014, “Bruno was never traced and we the number of students who at least once used the electronic cigarette in the can’t say whether he is alive or dead,” last month, rose from 4.5 percent to 13.4 percent, from 660,000 to two million Amarasekaran told AFP. students, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and The reserve also housed Pinkie, Prevention(CDC). —AFP thought to be the world’s only albino chimpanzee, whose lifeless body was found in her enclosure in 2002, Type, frequency of e-cigarette although no cause of death has ever been established. use linked to quitting smoking Unrelated to Pinkie’s case, the reserve has also been struggling for a LONDON: Two new studies looking at ting smoking,” Ann McNeill, a professor at number of years with the mysterious whether electronic cigarettes help smok- the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & sudden deaths of a number of chim- ers to quit their deadly habit have found Neuroscience at King’s College London panzees. that while some of them can, it depends who was involved in both studies, told Staff believe a toxic plant endemic on the type and how often it is used. reporters. to the region, identified with the help The research-welcomed by experts in a The two studies were based on a survey of scientists from the Royal Botanic field marked by a dearth of good scientific of around 1,500 smokers in Britain in Gardens in London, may be the cul- evidence and intense lobbying- suggests December 2012, followed up one year later. prit but have not ruled out other pos- daily use of so-called “tank” e-cigarettes, The first found 65 percent of daily e-cig- sibilities. designed to be refilled with nicotine-con- arette users in December 2012 tried to quit One positive outcome of the Ebola taining liquids, is most likely to help smok- smoking in the next year compared with crisis, as far as the sanctuary is con- ers quit. 44 percent of non-users. Some 14 percent cerned, is that it has curbed the tradi- Many experts think e-cigarettes, which of daily e-cigarette users had cut their con- tional practice of killing chimpanzees heat nicotine-laced liquid into an inhalable sumption of tobacco cigarettes by at least for bushmeat. vapour, are a lower-risk alternative to 50 percent over the previous year, com- But habitat destruction is a larger smoking, but questions remain about their pared with only six percent of non-users. BETHESDA: In this Oct. 24, 2014, file photo, Patient Nina Pham speaks outside of National threat to the wild population, with use and safety. In the second study, researchers found Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. A Texas district judge yesterday, put on hold a hospi- forest cover barely five percent of The charity Action on Smoking and that of 587 people using e-cigarettes at tal operator’s efforts to seek a worker’s compensation claim for Pham who contracted Ebola what it was 100 years ago. Health says more than 2 million adults in the one year follow-up, 76 percent used while caring for the first US patient to succumb to the deadly disease. —AP The story of Sierra Leone’s chim- Britain use e-cigarettes. So-called “cigalike” “cigalikes” and 24 percent used “tank” mod- panzees may yet get a happy ending, e-cigarettes are disposable or use replace- els. Almost a third of daily tank users had population, killing thousands. ‘Strongest chimpanzee ever’ “He was gradually rehabilitated as conservation efforts helped the able cartridges, while “tank” models look quit smoking, compared with 13 percent With money running out and The 100-acre (40-hectare) centre in 2014, fed with natural food and population to double to around 5,500 quite different and have refillable contain- of smokers not using e-cigarettes. only a skeleton staff looking after was set up in 1995 to rescue chim- familiarised with the surroundings between 1980 and 2010, according to ers of nicotine “e-liquid”. “At this point we don’t know why peo- Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, panzees whose families had been and sounds of other chimps. Now the country’s first chimp census. Researchers who conducted the two ple who use tank type e-cigarettes daily Tom and around 85 companions stolen for the pet trade or wiped out he is just like the man next door.” “We are delighted that we have new studies, published in the journal are more likely to have quit,” said Sara were facing homelessness as the by bushmeat hunters, habitat The Ebola outbreak is just the lat- bounced back, as it was difficult to Addiction and Nicotine & Tobacco, said Hitchman, who led the second study. closure began to look permanent. destruction and the civil war that est tumultuous chapter in the take the decision to shut down. It was they show that smokers wanting to use e- “Research suggests that tanks might “We were all worried about what raged until 2001. reserve’s 20-year history of heroism, like cutting a life line and it was not cigarettes to quit should use them daily deliver nicotine more effectively and per- our lives would be like if the sanctu- “After the outbreak, we decided heartbreak and villainy. easy,” Amarasekaran said. and try “tanks” rather than “cigalikes”. haps be more satisfying ... but there may ary was not opened again,” staff not to accept any new chimps due Among a colourful cast of char- “As we prepare to celebrate our “Our research indicates that daily use of also be other factors, including price and member Abdul Koroma told AFP, to the potential risk of bringing the acters to have stayed at Tacugama, 20th anniversary in September, pro- tank models that can be refilled with liquid the ways that tanks allow the user to adapt adding that he and his fellow work- disease into the sanctuary, which undoubtedly the most infamous is tecting wild chimpanzees and their may give smokers a better chance of quit- the product.” —Reuters ers saw the park as “a baby we have would have been catastrophic for Bruno, described on the website as habitats through sustainable devel- nurtured”. And then one day in the chimps,” said Amarasekaran, a Sri “charismatic, spectacularly imposing opment remains the key to our January, everything changed. Lankan. and physically the strongest chim- future and this is the legacy we aim Weekly infections began drop- The Jane Goodall Institute esti- panzee we have ever had”. for.” —AFP New US mammogram guidelines stick with screening from 50

CHICAGO: New mammogram screening service for select patients, depending on deaths averted is “much smaller” and the guidelines from an influential panel of US individual circumstances. “number of false-positive tests and unneces- experts reaffirm earlier guidance that breast The draft guidelines from the govern- sary biopsies are larger.” cancer screening should begin at age 50 for ment-backed US Preventive Services Task Women with a parent, sibling, or child most women, but they acknowledge that Force also prompted renewed debate over with breast cancer may benefit more than women in their 40s also benefit, something when women should be screened for breast average-risk women from beginning screen- experts say is a step in the right direction. cancer, as patients parse conflicting advice ing between the ages of 40 and 49 years. “They made it really clear this time from health experts and advocacy groups. “The value of mammography increases around, unlike 2009, that the discussion Some prominent physician groups wel- with age,” said Task Force chair Dr. Michael between a woman and a clinician about comed the shift in the panel’s language after LeFevre, a professor of family medicine at the breast cancer screening should begin at 40,” its abrupt change in screening recommenda- University of Missouri School of Medicine. In this artist rendering released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or said Dr Richard Wender, chief cancer control tions in 2009, in which it recommended Dr. Daniel Kopans, a professor of radiology JAXA, Monday, the space explorer named SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating officer at the American Cancer Society. women should have mammograms every at Harvard Medical School, said the task force Moon) lands on the moon. Japan’s space agency is considering an unmanned mis- The Department of Health and Human other year starting at age 50 rather than should still emphasize the potential for sav- sion to the moon by 2018 or early 2019, part of an effort to beef up aerospace tech- Services provided for mammogram coverage annual tests starting at age 40. ing lives by beginning screening at age 40. nology and keep pace with China and other emerging powers. The JAXA included for women age 40 to 49 after the health pan- Many groups including the American “They should support screening annually the possibility of a lunar landing in the fiscal year that begins April 1, 2018, in its el made its recommendation in 2009. The College of Obstetrics and Gynecology beginning at the age of 40 while providing summary of moon exploration plans by Japan and other countries. —AP department said on Monday that the guide- (ACOG) and the American College of women with accurate, scientifically derived lines are only in draft form and that nothing Radiology recommend annual mammo- information so that each woman (not the has changed regarding access to mammo- grams start at age 40. The American Cancer panel) can decide for herself whether or not Bird flu takes biggest toll grams or other preventive services. Society shares that view, but is reviewing its to participate in screening,” Kopans said in a Critics stressed that keeping 50 as the guidelines. written statement. as virus hits chicken farms starting age for screening - a change first The health panel’s updated recommenda- The panel’s review included clinical trials introduced by the panel six years ago - could tions are now “more closely in line with that showed over a 10-year period, mam- MINNEAPOLIS: Poultry producers and scientists turkeys and chickens since March. threaten insurance coverage for millions of ACOG’s,” said Dr. John Jennings, ACOG presi- mography prevents four deaths per 10,000 have been hoping warmer weather would women age 40 to 49. dent. Both groups recognize that the deci- women age 40 to 49 years, five to eight knock down a virulent strain of bird flu that has WHAT’S THE OUTLOOK? “If this becomes the final guideline, cover- sion to screen women in their 40s is a per- deaths for women age 50 to 59, and 12 to 21 hammered the Midwest, but the virus recently US Department of Agriculture officials say the age of mammograms would no longer be sonal one that reflects potential benefits of deaths for women age 60 to 69. took its biggest toll yet, hitting a farm in Iowa virus could be a problem for several years. The mandated under the ACA,” said Wender. detecting cancer early and the harm of The panel also considered new simulation that held nearly 10 percent of the state’s egg- USDA’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. John Clifford, laying chickens. also said last week that while new cases should President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care receiving a false positive, he said. models from six independent research teams Here are some questions and answers about drop to close to zero once the weather warms up Act (ACA) requires preventive medical servic- that analyzed data from digital mammo- the outbreak: and kills off the virus, there’s “very likely” to be a es with a grade of “B” or higher be covered, Weighing the evidence grams, the cost commonly used technology. resurgence this fall when the wild waterfowl that unless the administration specifies other- The new health panel guidelines are That modeling unanimously projected WHAT’S THE LATEST? are natural carriers of avian influenza fly south for wise. based on a review of scientific evidence that screening every two years from age 50 The US Department of Agriculture said the winter. Under the draft guidelines released on showing the benefits of cancer screening to 74 would, over a lifetime, prevent seven Monday that the deadly H5N2 bird flu virus was Monday, mammogram screening every two outweigh the risk of overtreatment for breast cancer deaths per 1,000 women found at a farm in northwest Iowa’s Osceola WHAT KIND OF FLU IS THIS, EXACTLY? years for women 50 to 74 got a grade of “B”, women age 50 to 74. screened. Starting screening every two years County. The confirmation means up to 5.3 million H5N2 is a highly contagious virus that kills meaning doctors should offer the service. They acknowledge that mammograms in from age 40 would prevent one more death hens there must be destroyed in a state that pro- commercial poultry quickly once it gets into a Screening for women in their 40s remained a women 40 to 49 may reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer and generate 576 more duces one in every five eggs consumed in the barn. But the risk to the public is considered “C” grade, meaning doctors should offer the of breast cancer, but say that the number of false positive tests. —Reuters country. Seven other Midwestern states have low, and infected birds are kept out of the food been hit by the virus, dooming nearly 7.8 million supply. —AP WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Environmentalists contest broadened use of new herbicide

KANSAS CITY: Environmentalists are neered to resist the herbicide, so farmers Dakota and Wisconsin. The latest motions representing five of the groups. in written statement Monday that it would contesting the federal government’s deci- can spray the fields after the plants were filed after the EPA decided last Demand for Enlist promises to be review the petition and “respond appropri- sion to allow more widespread use of a emerge and kill the weeds while leaving month to allow its use in nine more states: strong because many weeds have become ately.” Dow AgroSciences, which manufac- new version of a popular weed killer to be crops unharmed. Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, resistant to glyphosate, an herbicide com- tures Enlist, has said that the new version used on genetically modified corn and But the Natural Resources Defense Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma monly used on genetically modified corn has been engineered to solve potential soybeans. Council and a coalition of five environ- and North Dakota. and soybeans now. Enlist includes a com- problems, like drift before and after the Motions filed Monday in the 9th Circuit mental groups, including the Center for “Our concern is the same as we’ve bination of both the new version of 2,4-D herbicide hits the plant. US Court of Appeals in San Francisco chal- Food Safety, claim in separate lawsuits that had all along, which is that this is a pow- and glyphosate. Groups that unsuccessful- But Sylvia Fallon, the wildlife director lenge the Environmental Protection it could endanger wildlife and public erful chemical that has demonstrated ly lobbied the EPA to prevent its expanded for the New York-based Natural Resources Agency’s handling of a 2,4-D weed killer health. The groups first sued after the EPA harm to human health and to wildlife, use say they are concerned about 2,4-D’s Defense Council, wrote in a blog posted called Enlist Duo, a new version of the in October approved the herbicide’s use in and the EPA has simply not done an ade- toxic effects and the potential for it to drift. on the group’s website Monday that the popular herbicide used since the 1940s. It’s six states: quate job of assessing it before letting it The EPA, which has said previously that use of “increasingly toxic pesticides” is aimed at use with seeds that are engi- Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, South loose,” said Paul H. Achitoff, an attorney the herbicide meets safety standards, said “unsustainable.” —AP Air pollution levels drop in China cities

BEIJING: Air pollution levels in some of seen in the capital, saw PM2.5 levels plunge China’s smoggiest cities fell by nearly a by 31 percent. third in the first quarter of this year, envi- “Our expectations for the immediate ronmental campaign group Greenpeace future is that PM2.5 concentrations in said yesterday. coastal cities will continually improve But pollution levels remain a major pub- thanks to measures that the government lic health threat, linked to thousands of ear- has put in place to control pollution,” he ly deaths, and the group said they continue added. to increase in other parts of the country. China’s cities are often hit by heavy pol- In Beijing, levels of PM2.5 — airborne lution, blamed on coal-burning by power particulates with a diameter small enough stations and industry, as well as vehicle use. to deeply penetrate the lungs-fell about 13 The issue has become a major source of percent in the first three months of 2015 popular discontent with the Communist compared to the same period a year earlier, Party, leading the government to vow to Greenpeace said. reduce the proportion of energy derived The organisation collated data released from fossil fuels. by China’s environmental protection min- Kai warned that elsewhere, there were istry, which makes live figures available but “ever-increasing PM2.5 concentrations in does not publish full historic or compara- cities in China’s central and western tive statistics. provinces, where such measures do not yet The main drivers were “the govern- exist.” Despite drops in pollution levels in ment’s strict measures to control air pollu- some areas, about 90 percent of 360 cities tion, which have drastically reduced pollu- now being tracked by Greenpeace exceed- tion from heavy industry in places like ed government limits on yearly particulate Hebei and Beijing,” Zhang Kai, Greenpeace averages. Shanghai, China’s financial hub, East Asia Climate and Energy Campaigner, saw roughly a 13 percent increase in PM2.5 wrote in an e-mail to AFP. levels. Among the 74 cities that have moni- China’s Premier Li Keqiang said last tored air pollution for more than a year, month that the country was falling short of some saw decreases as much as 48 percent. its people’s expectations in battling smog VALLE DEL CAUCA: This July 16, 2013 file photo shows a Humpback whale as it jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing after a popular documentary drew atten- and contributes to much of the pollution tion to dismal air pollution levels. —AFP Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia. The humpback whale has long been considered an endangered species, but the US government said yesterday that the population has rebounded in most areas and no longer needs protection. —AFP First infant MRI study finds Agency to lift protections babies feel pain ‘like adults’

LONDON: The brains of babies “light up” in for them to really feel pain... (yet) our study for most humpback whales a similar way to adults when exposed to provides the first really strong evidence the same painful stimulus, suggesting they this is not the case.” feel pain much like adults do, researchers Even as recently as the 1980s it was After 45 years of protection and restoration efforts said yesterday. common practice for babies undergoing In the first of its kind study using mag- surgery to be given neuromuscular blocks HONOLULU: The humpback whale became the fisheries managers say 10 of those should be Humpbacks were listed as endangered in 1970, four netic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists but no pain relief medication. unofficial symbol for the conservation movement in removed from the endangered list. Two will remain years after the International Whaling Commission from Britain’s Oxford University found that Last year, a review of neonatal pain the last century. The iconic whale that can be found listed as threatened, and two others will be listed as banned commercial humpback whaling. The com- 18 of the 20 brain regions active in adults management in intensive care found that across the planet was on the verge of extinction. The endangered. mission put a stop to all commercial whaling in experiencing pain were also active in although these babies experience an aver- international community banned whaling the But just because the animal could soon be off 1986. babies. age of 11 painful procedures per day, 60 species in 1966, and the US government put it on the endangered list doesn’t mean there will soon be Humpbacks are found around the world, and Brain scans of the sleeping infants percent do not receive any kind of pain the endangered species list four years later. hunting seasons again. All the whales remain pro- officials say protection and restoration efforts have while they were subjected to mild pokes medication. On Monday, federal officials said removing most tected under the Marine Mammals Protection Act, increased their numbers in many areas. Among on the bottom of their feet with a special “Our study suggests that not only do of the world’s humpback whales from the endan- and the United States is still an active member of those recommended for delisting is the population rod-creating a sensation “like being poked babies experience pain but they may be gered species list, noting that the massive mammals the International Whaling Commission, which that migrates each year from Hawaii to Alaska. with a pencil”-also showed their brains more sensitive to it than adults,” Slater said. have rebounded after 45 years of protection and banned commercial whaling in 1966, said Angela Decisions on which whale groups to recommend had the same response to a slighter “poke” “If we would provide pain relief for an old- restoration efforts, is a national success story. Somma, chief of NOAA Fisheries’ endangered were based on many factors, including the risks they as adults did to a stimulus four times as er child undergoing a procedure, then we “To be able to bring a species to a point where species division. face, NOAA officials said. The single largest threat to strong, suggesting babies have a much should look at giving pain relief to an their population is doing well and they no longer humpbacks is fishing activities that result in the lower pain threshold. infant.” meet those requirements to be on the endangered Killed for research whales becoming tangled in fishing gear and “Obviously babies can’t tell us about The research looked at 10 healthy species act, I think that is a really important success There are only a few places in the world that still drowning. their experience of pain and it is difficult to babies aged between one and six days for us as a nation,” Donna Weiting, the director of the allow hunting of humpback whales, and that is for The most important considerations in determin- infer pain from visual observations,” said and 10 healthy adults aged 23 to 36. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s aboriginal subsistence only, according to the ing if populations will remain on the list are their size Rebeccah Slater, a doctor at Oxford’s pae- During the study the babies, accompanied Office of Protected Resources said during a news International Whaling Commission’s website. Three and growth rates, Weiting said. “Ten of these popula- diatrics department who led the study. by their parents and by doctors, were put conference. nations, Japan, Norway and Iceland, still allow the tions are no longer in danger of extinction, which is “In fact some people have argued that in an MRI scanner where most of them fell “So I think it’s quite a big deal,” she added. The animals to be killed for scientific research. our criteria for an endangered listing, nor are they babies’ brains are not developed enough asleep. —Reuters agency is proposing dividing up the population of Humans hunted the whales in much higher likely to become so in the foreseeable future, our cri- humpback whales into 14 separate categories, and numbers before their listing as endangered. teria for a threatened status,” she said.—AP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Costa Coffee celebrates Earth Day with educational workshops

osta Coffee celebrated Earth Day on Saturday the included painting with coffee grains and seed planting. Costa Coffee’s iconic red cups are 100% recyclable, made 18th of April at their newest branch in Al Salam During the event children were taught the importance of using only certified sustainable pulp and vegetable ink. Gulf Bank CMall Salmiya. Earth Day is an annual event, cele- the environment and sustainability in their everyday The Costa Coffee branch at Al Salam Mall is one of the brated today, on which day events worldwide are held to lives. chain’s newest locations. Since its acquisition by demonstrate support for environmental protection. To Environmental sustainability is a large part of the Alghanim two years ago, the British coffee shop has been celebrates the mark the occasion, the new branch hosted ‘Costa Coffee’s Costa Coffee ethos, the brand prides itself on its making significant strides in making its handcrafted cof- Acts of Green’ an event that attracted over 300 partici- Rainforest Alliance status, all of Costa Coffee’s Mocha fee more accessible to customers. 45th anniversary pants including children and adults. Italia beans come from Rainforest Alliance Certified Costa Coffee currently operates in 36 locations across In line with its commitment to the environment, Costa farms, which ensures that both the farmers and the land Kuwait, including recent openings in Shaab Al Bahri, Coffee joined forces with local initiatives Funhouse and they grow on is supported and sustained, helping coffee Kuwait International Airport, and kiosk rollouts within of Earth Day Artspace to offer a four-hour interactive workshop, which growers and their respective communities. In addition The Sultan Centers in Kuwait. o commemorate the 45th anniversary of Earth Day which falls on April 22 (today), Gulf TBank will sponsor an ‘Earth Day’ event organ- ized by the students of the Environmental Technology Management club-O2. The event will take place today at Kuwait University. The Environmental Technology Management department is the first of its kind as a scientific major-College of Life sciences aims to educate stu- dents on fields of environmental science locally and globally. Earth Day event will give the oppor- tunity to more than 35 specialized associations, centers, volunteer groups, interested individuals and activists to showcase their role in protecting the environment and encourage doing more towards the future of our planet and the survival of life on earth. Gulf Bank is keen to support humanitarian glob- al initiatives that contribute positively to both the British Business Forum Kuwaiti community and the world as a whole. It is announcement worth mentioning that Gulf Bank had recently organized a special awareness campaign to sup- ritish Business Forum will have April members port Earth Hour, a global initiative led by the World meeting at Ibis Salmiya Hotel today. Baruch BSpeigel, Consultant Behaviour Analyst will be Wildlife Fund. The campaign included releasing 60 speaking on Collaborative Learning: Bridging the Gap lanterns and switching off the lights in addition to between Education and Industry. other internal activities on March 28th to raise awareness in the Global warming and Climate Nubian Architecture change. oin us for a fantastic journey through time and place The upcoming Earth Day 2015 is going under to the cradle of civilization; Egypt. This journey leads the theme of ‘It’s Our Turn to Lead’ to redefine Jus South to the Egyptian Jewel known as Nubia. Our what progress looks like. Earth Day takes place spotlight will focus on the unique culture of Nubian archi- every year on 22 April to focus on global warming tecture & our tour guide is Architect, Salah Abdullah. This and to push for clean energy. event begins on Tuesday, April 28 at 7pm.

7th annual ASDA’A Burson-Mursteller Arab Youth survey EMBASSY OF INDIA Top ten findings young Arabs are looking to start a business within the Canada (8 per cent) and France (8 per cent). he Embassy of India in Sana’a, Yemen has been closed 1. With the legacy of the Arab Spring waning, Arab next five years. 7. Saudi Arabia is seen as the top ally in the region, temporarily and relocated to Djibouti with effect from 15 youth are uncertain whether democracy could ever 4. Arab youth remain cautiously optimistic about the followed by the United States and the United Arab TApril 2015. The Embassy is functioning from Hotel work in the Middle East. future despite the number of issues facing the region. Emirates. Djibouti Palace Kempinski. Their contact number is Tel: 00253- Confidence that the Arab Spring would bring positive When thinking about the last five years, three in five When asked to think about their country’s biggest 325555 Ext-2755. The officers and staff members of the change across the region is declining. In 2015, just 38 (57 per cent) believe their country is heading in the right ally, Arab youth cite Saudi Arabia for the fourth year run- Embassy can be contacted on the following: per cent agree that the Arab world is better off following direction. Eighty-one per cent of Gulf youth believe ning and continue to view the UAE and United States as (1) AmritLugun, Ambassador-00967 736 333 786 (or) 00253- the Arab Spring, compared to 72 per cent in 2012. As a things in their country are heading in the “right direc- their biggest supporters in the region. One in three (30 77199669. (2) T. Rajagopal, SS (PPS) to Ambassador 00967-764 result, Arab youth are uncertain about whether democ- tion” compared to 57 per cent in North Africa and only per cent) consider the Kingdom their biggest ally, while 000658 (or) 00 253 77199369. (3) S.L. Vaiphei, GA - 00 253 racy could ever work in the Middle East with 39 per cent 29 per cent in Levant. 23 per cent cite the United States and 22 per cent the 77196685 (4) Mohd Tariq, Accountant - 00 253 77196875 E-mails [email protected] (or) [email protected], agreeing with the statement “democracy will never work 5. While youth view the Arabic language as central to UAE. [email protected] (or) [email protected], in the region,” 36 per cent think it will work while the their identity, many believe it is losing its value and con- 8. The majority of Arab youth, particularly in the OPEC [email protected] remaining 25 per cent are unsure. verse more in English. countries, are concerned about the falling energy prices, 2. The rise of ISIS is seen as the biggest obstacle fac- Three in four (73 per cent) of Arab youth agree that but most also believe the drop is temporary. ing the region and fewer than half of Arab youth are the Arabic language is central to their identity but almost With few young Arabs believing the drop is perma- What’s On - Submission Guidelines confident their national government can deal with it. half of those polled (47 per cent) say it is losing its value. nent, youth are split on whether or not oil producing The rise of ISIS is a major worry for Arab youth with Sixty-three per cent agree that “knowing English can countries should lower production. All photos submitted for What’s On nearly three in four (73 per cent) “concerned” about the advance one’s career more than knowing Arabic.” 9. A brand’s country of origin matters to many young should be minimum 200dpi. Articles extremist group’s growing influence and almost two in 6. The UAE remains the country that most Arab youth Arabs and four in five do not rule out the possibility of five (37 per cent) citing it as the biggest obstacle facing would like to live in and is seen as a model for their boycotting a brand for political reasons. must be in plain text and should include the region. At the same time, fewer than half (47 per country to emulate for the fourth year running. Almost half (44 per cent) say a brand’s country of ori- name and phone numbers. Articles and cent) are confident their national government can deal When asked to name a country where they would like gin matters to them and one in five (21 per cent) say photos that fail to meet these require- with this new threat to live, Arab youth cite the UAE as their top choice for they would boycott a brand for political reasons. ments will not be published. 3. As unemployment remains a major concern in the the fourth year running ahead of 20 other countries, 10. While digital plays an increasingly central role in region, many young Arabs are keen to start their own including the United States, Germany and Canada. the daily lives of Arab youth, television is still king. Please send them to business. Likewise, when asked to think about which country they While television remains the most popular source of When asked to comment on how concerned they are would like to emulate, almost a quarter (22 per cent) news (60 per cent), 40 per cent of young Arabs get their [email protected] about unemployment, the majority (81 per cent) say consider the UAE as a model nation, followed by the news from online sources and 25 per cent from social they are “concerned”. Nearly two in five (39 per cent) United States (15 per cent), Germany (11 per cent), media, significantly more than newspapers and radio. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Joyalukkas opens biggest jewellery store in Kuwait in Al Rai

he world’s favourite jeweller, Joyalukkas ellery chain, renowned for offering over one showroom in Kuwait and features the widest lucky and blessed during the celebration peri- success. Joyalukkas is also offering exclusive opened their biggest jewellery show- million choices of breathtaking jewellery at range of collections in gold, diamond, precious od. Our offers and choice of products have collections at very special prices during the Troom in Kuwait, Al Rai near Lu & Lu each of their showroom. stone, platinum and pearl. The mix of jewellery been designed to meet all jewellery shoppers’ celebration period. Hypermarket & Friday Market. The showroom “Firstly a big thank you to Sri Sunil Jain for offered is the largest choice of traditional and expectation and make the occasion very spe- Joyalukkas is committed to offering the was inaugurated by Sri Sunil Jain, Ambassador taking time from his precious schedule and contemporary jewellery design to meet all the cial for them.” best prices on the over one million choices of of India to Kuwait, in the presence of John Paul inaugurating the Kuwait’s biggest Jewllery needs of jewellery lovers. Also to commemorate with the auspicious jewellery designs it offers at its showroom. The Joy Alukkas, Executive Director, Joyalukkas store also would like to thank the residents of John Paul Joy Alukkas, Executive Director, period of Akshaya Tritiya Joyalukkas is offering global jewellery retail chain also ensures 100% Group, Sonia John Paul, Director, Joyalukkas Kuwait for a very warm welcome. We have Joyalukkas Group said “We are extremely an exciting choice of free gold coins and transparency of the prices on all jewellery sold Group, Mohammed Ismail Safar Behzad many opened a state-of-the-art jewellery showroom grateful to the country and its lovely residents exquisite collections to double the joy of at their showrooms. “We have opened in Al Rai local dignitaries and VIP’s. Joyalukkas with the for Kuwait residents and are giving them the for the warm welcome they have given us. Our shoppers during the celebration period. so that jewellery lovers here get a world of nev- presence across ten countries around the best experience in jewellery shopping.” said Mr. team in Al Rai is eagerly waiting to serve the Akshaya Tritiya, is considered as a very auspi- er before seen choice in jewellery. We have cre- world i.e Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, Joyalukkas residents here. Also as part of auspicious cious occasion and it is believed that gold & ated an array of exquisite and ethnic choices to Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Singapore, London, Group. Akshaya Tritiya we have launched a special jewellery purchased on this special day will make the jewellery shopping a great experi- Malaysia & India is the world’s favourite jew- Joyalukkas, Al Rai showroom is the biggest gifting initiative to ensure our customers feel help bring home prosperity, good luck and ence for people here.” added Joy Alukkas.

Inter School Abacus competition - 2015

chievers Academy conducted their first Inter School Abacus competi- The competition among these 12 students was worth watching. It was all Out of these 12 students, Mohd Ayan of Kuwait Indian School and Dia tion in the second week of April 2015 at Indian Central School, about their accuracy skills, mental agility, aptitude and presence of mind. Elizabeth Renish from Carmel School won the Certificate of Merit with their AAbbassiya. Four prestigious Indian Schools participated, namely The students were given only the ABCAUS tool, use of pencils or papers breathtaking performance. Director of Achievers Academy, Ashish Jain, con- Indian Central School, Kuwait Indian School, Carmel School and Fahaheel Al were not allowed. gratulated the students for their excellent performance. It was a fun experi- Watanieh Indian Private School. More than 1000 students participated, 54 The host then fired the questions rapidly without any pause and the stu- ence to watch the kids doing their best and stiving for excellence. An amaz- cracked the preliminary rounds. The second round of written exam was dents gave cut throat competition. Principals of all four schools and Director ing platform given to the students by Achievers Academy to bring out their qualified by 12 students who made it to the final day of the competition. of Achievers Achievers Academy were amazed with their kids performance. hidden talent across. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015

Kuwait Kncc Programme From Thursday To Wednesday (16/04/2015 To 22/04/2015)

SHARQIA-1 PRESERVATION 12:45 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:15 PM CHILD 44 12:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:45 AM CHILD 44 2:45 PM FANAR-4 KILL ME THREE TIMES 5:30 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:00 PM AVENUES-5 CHILD 44 7:30 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 2:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 11:30 AM KILL ME THREE TIMES 10:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 4:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 1:30 PM KILL ME THREE TIMES 12:15 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 6:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 3:45 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 8:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 6:00 PM SHARQIA-2 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 10:15 PM NO THU PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 1:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:15 AM Special Show “PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2” 6:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 3:00 PM LAST KNIGHTS 8:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 5:00 PM FANAR-5 Special Show “BIG GAME” 8:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 1:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 10:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 3:00 PM LAST KNIGHTS 1:00 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 5:00 PM MR. X -Hindi 5:00 PM AVENUES-6 SHARQIA-3 NO THU+FRI+SAT PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:30 PM LAST KNIGHTS 11:45 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 2:45 PM LAST KNIGHTS 2:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 5:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 4:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 7:15 PM LAST KNIGHTS 6:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 9:30 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 8:30 PM MARINA-1 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 11:45 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 10:45 PM CHILD 44 12:15 PM LAST KNIGHTS 12:45 AM BIG GAME 3:00 PM 360º- 1 CHILD 44 5:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 11:30 AM MUHALAB-1 BIG GAME 8:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 1:30 PM Tamilnadu 600019 had BIG GAME 12:15 PM CHILD 44 10:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 3:45 PM MATRIMONIAL embraced Islam and BIG GAME 2:15 PM BIG GAME 12:45 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 6:00 PM BIG GAME 4:15 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 8:15 PM changed the name as PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 6:15 PM MARINA-2 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 10:30 PM Parents invite suitable pro- MOHAMMED JAVID. ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 8:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 1:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:45 AM posals for their daughter (C 4969) PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 10:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 3:45 PM (RCSC, 24yrs, 163cms, fair, 15-4-2015 BIG GAME 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 7 6:30 PM 360º- 2 B.Com, MBA) hailing from FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:15 PM BIG GAME 11:45 AM ancient family, MUHALAB-2 FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:15 AM BIG GAME 2:00 PM Changanacherry archdio- BIG GAME 4:15 PM CHILD 44 11:30 AM cese, and working in Kuwait FOR SALE CHILD 44 2:15 PM MARINA-3 BIG GAME 6:30 PM LAST KNIGHTS 5:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:45 PM BIG GAME 8:45 PM - from parents of well set- CHILD 44 7:15 PM LAST KNIGHTS 3:00 PM BIG GAME 11:00 PM tled BE/B.Tech RCSC boys of Mitsubishi 2009 LAST KNIGHTS 10:00 PM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 5:30 PM BIG GAME 1:15 AM reputed family working in Registration til Jan 2016 CHILD 44 12:15 AM LAST KNIGHTS 7:30 PM India or abroad. Email: 103,000km PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 9:45 PM 360º- 3 [email protected] KD 1300 negotiable MUHALAB-3 LAST KNIGHTS 12:05 AM CYMBELINE 11:30 AM Deepika matrimonial.com Call 9694-2874 after 5pm PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:30 PM CYMBELINE 1:30 PM 20-4-2015 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 2:30 PM AVENUES-1 CAKE 3:30 PM ID: DM - 26205 Bethlehem FAST & FURIOUS 7 4:30 PM BIG GAME 12:00 PM CYMBELINE 5:45 PM matrimonial.com ID: FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:00 PM BIG GAME 2:30 PM CAKE 8:00 PM BETH53863 Cherokee Liberty, 6 cylin- FAST & FURIOUS 7 9:30 PM CINDERELLA 5:00 PM CYMBELINE 10:15 PM (C 4968) der, white color, model FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:05 AM CINDERELLA 7:30 PM RUN ALL NIGHT 12:30 AM 2003 in good working con- CINDERELLA 10:00 PM dition. KD 850, call CHANGE OF NAME FANAR-1 FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM AL-KOUT.1 60982737. (C 4970) CHILD 44 11:30 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 12:45 PM CHILD 44 2:15 PM AVENUES-2 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 3:15 PM JAGADESH, son of PERU- CHILD 44 5:00 PM KILL ME THREE TIMES 11:45 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 5:15 PM MAL bearing an Indian Pajero 2007 for immediate ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 7:45 PM KILL ME THREE TIMES 1:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM Passport No. G0846093 sale, V6, metallic gold, good ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 9:45 PM JUNGLE MASTER 3:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 10:00 PM condition and well main- having an address No.28/13 CHILD 44 12:05 AM KILL ME THREE TIMES 5:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 12:30 AM tained, expected price KD Pillaiyar Kovil Street, KILL ME THREE TIMES 7:45 PM 2,600, please contact: Sathuma Nagar, FANAR-2 KILL ME THREE TIMES 9:45 PM AL-KOUT.2 66832848. (C 4971) BIG GAME 11:30 AM KILL ME THREE TIMES 11:45 PM CHILD 44 12:00 PM Thiruvottiyur, Chennai, LAST KNIGHTS 1:30 PM CHILD 44 2:45 PM 19-4-2015 BIG GAME 3:45 PM AVENUES-3 CINDERELLA 5:30 PM CINDERELLA 5:45 PM LAST KNIGHTS 11:45 AM PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 7:45 PM Prayer timings LAST KNIGHTS 8:00 PM LAST KNIGHTS 2:15 PM ASWAR AL QUMAR- Arabic 9:45 PM BIG GAME 10:30 PM LAST KNIGHTS 4:45 PM CHILD 44 12:05 AM Fajr: 03:51 LAST KNIGHTS 12:30 AM LAST KNIGHTS 7:15 PM LAST KNIGHTS 9:45 PM AL-KOUT.3 Shorook 0515 FANAR-3 LAST KNIGHTS 12:15 AM BIG GAME 11:45 AM KILL ME THREE TIMES 12:45 PM LAST KNIGHTS 1:45 PM Duhr: 11:47 PRESERVATION 2:45 PM AVENUES-4 BIG GAME 4:00 PM KILL ME THREE TIMES 4:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 11:30 AM BIG GAME 6:00 PM Asr: 15:22 KILL ME THREE TIMES 6:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 2:00 PM LAST KNIGHTS 8:00 PM PRESERVATION 8:45 PM CHILD 44 4:45 PM SKIN TRADE 10:15 PM Maghrib: 18:18 KILL ME THREE TIMES 10:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 7 7:30 PM LAST KNIGHTS 12:15 AM Isha: 19:39

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Mashhad 17:30 MSC 406 Sohag 05:00 IRC 527 Mashhad 17:30 MSR 612 Cairo 03:15 GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 JZR 560 Sohag 05:00 UAE 858 Dubai 17:40 SYR 341 Latakia/KAC 03:25 JZR 177 Dubai 17:45 THY 765 Istanbul 05:05 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:40 KAC 1544 Cairo 03:35 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:50 QTR 1085 Doha 05:20 IRM 1187 Tehran 17:50 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:00 SYR 343 Damascus 17:55 RJA 643 Amman 06:35 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 THY 770 Istanbul 04:40 GFA 944 LCA 18:00 GFA 212 Bahrain 06:50 JZR 184 Dubai 18:20 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:10 FDB 065 Dubai 18:05 THY 771 Istanbul 06:50 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 06:15 JZR 483 Istanbul 18:20 FDB 070 Dubai 07:05 KAC 563 Amman 18:30 BAW 157 London 06:35 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:35 JZR 164 Dubai 07:15 JZR 538 Cairo 18:40 KAC 382 Delhi 07:40 KAC 502 Beirut 18:35 BAW 156 London 08:30 JZR 238 Amman 18:45 KAC 206 Islamabad 07:45 KAC 618 Doha 18:55 FDB 054 Dubai 08:30 GFA 944 Bahrain 18:45 FDB 053 Dubai 07:50 KAC 542 Cairo 18:55 KAC 539 Sharm el-Sheikh 08:50 SYR 344 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19:55 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 AGY 681 Alexandria 20:50 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 OMA 647 Muscat 20:00 GFA 943 LCA 10:55 KAC 1543 Cairo 20:55 KAC 350 Kochi 09:40 KAC 674 Dubai 20:00 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 OMA 648 Muscat 21:00 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 KNE 480 Taif 20:10 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 GFA 943 Bahrain 10:10 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 11:15 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:00 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:20 KAC 561 Amman 11:25 KAC 283 Dhaka 21:05 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 20:25 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 GFA 049 Bahrain 20:45 JZR 356 Mashhad 11:40 KNE 461 Riyadh 21:10 MSC 405 Sohag 11:20 KAC 792 Madinah 20:55 KAC 741 Dammam 11:50 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 JZR 561 Sohag 11:25 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 AGY 680 Alexandria 11:40 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 GFA 049 Istanbul 21:30 IRM 1188 Mashhad 11:45 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:15 UAE 874 Dubai 12:10 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 JZR 165 Dubai 11:50 FDB 073 Dubai 21:30 KAC 103 London 12:10 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:05 IAW 157 Al Najaf 12:00 QTR 1074 Doha 21:30 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:15 FDB 074 Dubai 22:10 AXB 889 Mangalore/Bahrain 12:15 AIC 975 Chennai/Mumbai 21:35 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:20 KAC 381 Delhi 22:20 FDB 075 Dubai 12:25 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 AGY 685 Sohag 12:40 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 IZG 4167 Mashhad 12:30 KAC 546 Alexandria 22:05 IAW 158 Al Najaf 13:00 ETD 920 Dubai 22:25 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:10 KAC 785 Jeddah 13:00 UAE 860 Dubai 22:25 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 THY 764 Istanbul 22:10 IRM 1189 Mashhad 13:10 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:30 THY 766 Istanbul 13:10 JZR 125 Bahrain 22:15 FDB 076 Dubai 13:10 KAC 349 Kochi 22:30 KAC 620 Doha 13:10 BBC 044 Dhaka/Dammam 22:40 JZR 176 Dubai 13:10 QTR 1075 Doha 22:40 CLX 792 Luxembourg 13:15 FDB 059 Dubai 22:50 AXB 890 Mangalore 13:15 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:45 SVA 9433 Jeddah 13:50 JZR 185 Dubai 22:55 JZR 786 Riyadh 13:20 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 JAI 526 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Firm decisions in a group meeting this day may be surprisingly successful. If you You may be pleased, if not a bit surprised, at how many projects have can, provide for this meeting a few snacks and water with a lemon or lime wedge for the glass. already been completed this year. Four months into the last year was less fulfilling but By sharing your perspective, and listening to the other ideas, a new plan will develop. You may now-you realize your potential. Of course, you have come to understand that the more be delighted at the progress and just want to take in the view of everything coming together- you experience or know the more there seems to be to learn and experience. You are similar to an artist that sees the picture before the brush hits the canvas. The energies of this day refreshed with new enthusiasm to continue your work and reassess new ways to branch are toward progress and growth. This energy can be used for healing and planning or steady out and be expressive. It does not matter whether you are the least paid person in the activity of any positive sort. Later this day you may find your responsibilities double where rela- business or the business owner . . . You are encouraged and look forward to new accom- tionships are concerned and this may mean babysitting or just responding to the need of oth- plishments. This is a good day. Your generous and warm mood creates opportunities to ers on short notice. shine in the social circles; you can melt any heart.

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

This should be one of those wonderful days when you feel that everything is a- You may want to feel more secure through a better financial income now. A okay. Your confidence is high, you have nothing to fear and you look at the bright side of part-time job could be considered this Wednesday. You are able to entertain and express everything and everybody. If you have to deal with the public today, you will have them eat- your talent in successful ways, which could be how you decide to increase your income. If ing right out of your hand-particularly in sales. If the weather is good, enjoy taking your walk you are in a family that has a hard time budgeting, you might teach budgeting through or daily exercise with a friend after work today. This is a great opportunity to get updated on games, rewards and incentives. Whatever the case, you have to be the one to set the each other’s activities. There may be an opportunity to attend a movie or a live performance at example, so you might want to rethink your own budget. Creativity comes into play now- a theater tonight. Praise others for their thoughtfulness. Marriage and other partnerships enjoy this time of learning-it can be one of the more important times in your life. Your could be a key arena for the harmony in your life. Enjoy the celebration of life! mood improves as the day moves forward. This evening you and your family members will cheer each other as you all share in expressing your dreams, goals and plans.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) There is a little extra time today for solving puzzles and answering prob- Energy and self-assurance are rather low, so use the time to evaluate your sensi- lems that may have been pushed aside for another time. Communicating tivities and leave the deep discussions for another time. Do not negotiate the signing of con- feelings becomes important as you may uncover important matters that need attention. ACROSS DOWN tracts today. This is, however, an opportune time to sit down alone and get many things accom- Consider the facts and report the results of your evaluation. Matters can then be consid- 1. A female person who has the same par- 1. (informal) Elegant and fashionable. plished. You will find a shift in energy as you head for home this afternoon and as you look back ered in a timely manner without emotional comments. Teams of people are made up of ents as another person. 2. Give qualities or abilities to. on your workday you will be most pleased at your accomplishments. If the weather is not suit- personalities and a good boss is aware and will understand your thinking. Appropriate 4. Any sea anemone or related animal. 3. (informal) Very good. able for working in the yard this afternoon, clean the garage. This will leave you by yourself to communications will prove positive. Be sure to keep an open mind about new ideas and 12. A nurse who has enough training to be 4. The seventh month of the Hindu calen- think, work and clean and hum a happy tune. Show your appreciation of others and celebrate pay attention to the responsibilities a new plan may require. Friends are the keys to your life in general by treating yourself and someone you know to a dinner or a fun nature walk, etc. emotional satisfaction this evening and a movie or meal together may be just the tonic. licensed by a state to provide routine dar. Group activities are good. care for the sick. 5. A cloth used as a head covering (and veil 15. The compass point midway between and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu west and northwest. women. 16. The part of a wharf that is next to a ship. 6. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion- Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A strong emotion. resistant metallic element used in strong 18. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts). You enjoy doing some research in the workplace. During this day there are also You seem empowered with a clear and inquisitive mind. Discussing ideas with co- widely grown in mild climates as an 7. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting opportunities to listen to a book on tape, take long walks, pet animals, enjoy brief visits with chil- workers or in meetings with your boss can be most beneficial and rewarding. Anyone taking a noon ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves (especially in cases of drug overdose or dren and have long philosophical conversations. This is your day to do many things. One thing break with you usually finds the most interesting conversations. You have an easygoing manner to all. Relations with members of the opposite sex are strengthened at this time. This is a good day to and fragrant yellow-green flowers fol- poisoning). about you is that you do not become preoccupied with one idea and accept it as gospel-you have an open mind. Considering all sides of a story may be most beneficial just now. Take stock of what ask favors from someone close or to return a favor. However, it may be best to just take it easy and lowed by hanging clusters of fleshy 8. A committee in the executive branch of you have accomplished in your life and share your expression of gratefulness with a dear friend. plod along with whatever you were doing. Staying on an even keel with business, friends or a orange-red berries. government that advises the president Co-operative activities now should be both well-attended and successful. Perhaps a light dinner romantic partner is kind of nice at this time and may find you whistling a happy song. You could be 20. An international organization of on foreign and military and national and movie is the perfect activity for tonight. Your focus this evening is on healing and love. encouraged to become involved in volunteer work this evening-perhaps with children. European countries formed after World security. War II to reduce trade barriers and 9. Being one more than one. increase cooperation among its mem- 10. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin bers. or disease. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 21. Russian choreographer (1834-1905). 11. A state in the western United States. 23. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug 12. A floor covering. This is a great day for personal achievement as well as making plans. Your personal Mental motivation from others is enjoyed now; it is a good idea to make every effort to cooperate and compromise with others. Any project today should be a success. You may want to (trade name Clinoril). 13. A formal dance held for a school class goals are clearly visible and you should make great strides in reaching them. Be careful not to alienate friends or loved ones who may be following a different path. You attract many opportuni- take on a mentally difficult project or approach a subject with someone you were too shy about 25. A city in west central Washington on an toward the end of the academic year. ties right now, but you must choose which to pursue. Faith in your own self is the key. This is a before. You could ask for a raise or-speak publicly at this time. Energy and self-confidence are strong! arm of Puget Sound south of Seattle. 14. A river in northwestern Russia flowing time of major transition in your life, one that is usually quite beneficial. Today, your job is to find Past fears should melt away. This evening presents an opportunity to enjoy some social activities. 26. Occupied or in the control of. generally west into the Gulf of Finland. ways in which you can enhance your creative abilities and lift or raise your psychic energy. Careful- Because of past tension and hard work, you might really consider joining the group-family or friends- 27. Oldest known reptiles. 19. English actress noted for her perform- there are opportunities to be lazy, as well as expressive. Consider signing up for a class or teaching in some fun adventure. There is desire for intimacy and love with a partner this evening-with the 30. A summary that repeats the substance ances in Shakespearean roles (1755- a class. This will promote a healing in yourself and others. expression of affection being most satisfying. of a longer discussion. 1831). 31. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfec- 22. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of tions of the skin. the genus Acacia. 34. Excluded from use or mention. 24. Administer an oil or ointment to. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 37. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of 28. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama. the alkali metal group. 29. A cut of pork ribs with much of the Today, clear communications and young people go together. You will find this a A balance in your life would consist of work and volunteer aid, rest and relaxation, 38. A white metallic element that burns meat trimmed off. good time for decision making with lots of talking to others about their dreams and goals and the exercise and nurturing with chores and hobbies in each week. This will help bring your energies into with a brilliant light. 32. A card game for 2 players. process of achievement. You could be teaching, lecturing or finding yourself a guest speaker. The balance and reduce the possibility of physical problems later. Learn how to relax and clear your 39. A port city in northwestern Algeria and 33. A performer who dances. accent today is on communication. A gathering of people after your speech will be easy to navigate thoughts through art or music. This will really help your peace of mind. Music is also a wonderful tool and it will leave you feeling that you have helped others. Trading points of view with others should with which to rest, entertain yourself or exercise. This is a suitable time to get to know someone bet- the country's 2nd largest city. 35. An anti-TNF compound (trade name be informative. Travel is favored, especially if it is for your own rest and relaxation. Find a good ter. Additionally, there is a chance you may hear from a long-lost chum. Mental incentive from oth- 41. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabi- Arava) that is given orally. bookstore, museum or concert for tonight. You may see value in or feel love for an older person or ers is a good thing and it’s a good idea to make every effort to lend your support and encourage- tants or their culture or their language. 36. A nobleman (in various countries) of someone in authority. You appreciate the positive things around you. ment to others, as well as yourself. This is a productive day. 44. A unit of astronomical length based on varying rank. the distance from Earth at which stellar 40. Someone who works (or provides work- parallax is 1 second of arc. ers) during a strike. 47. A communist nation that covers a vast 42. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution territory in eastern Asia. scaly rind and shiny black seeds. 48. 100 avos equal 1 pataca. 43. Surpassing the ordinary especially in 49. An official prosecutor for a judicial dis- size or scale. trict. 45. American inventor. 50. A card game in which players bet 46. A rounded thickly curled hairdo. against the dealer on the cards he will 51. (pathology) An elevation of the skin draw from a dealing box. filled with serous fluid. 52. An island in the Indian Ocean off the 53. The capital of Croatia. east coast of Africa. 54. (informal) Of the highest quality. 55. An agent capable of activating specific 56. 10 grams. genes. 61. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6. 57. A very poisonous metallic element that 62. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or has three allotropic forms. bright light) that precedes the onset of 58. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed certain disorders such as a migraine during respiration and by the decompo- attack or epileptic seizure. sition of organic substances. 63. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as 59. A silvery ductile metallic element found stock for grafting. primarily in bauxite. 64. An imperfection in a device or machine. 65. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly 60. A mystical or allegorical interpretation aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking (especially of Scripture). true stems and roots and leaves. 69. An archaic term for a boundary. 66. Studies intended to provide general 72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in knowledge and intellectual skills (rather Arabia or North Africa. than occupational or professional skills). 73. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse. 67. The United Nations agency concerned 74. Put into a proper or systematic order. with atomic energy. 77. The starting place for each hole on a 68. In bed. golf course. 70. To make a mistake or be incorrect. 78. Block consisting of a thick piece of 71. A transuranic element. something. 75. An intensely radioactive metallic ele- 79. Small arctic whale the male having a ment that occurs in minute amounts in long spiral ivory tusk. uranium ores. 80. Experiencing or showing sorrow or 76. 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dele still hasn’t chosen a producer for her new album. The 26-year-old singer - who initially hinted the follow up to her hit 2011 record ‘21’ would be Areleased in 2014 - is reportedly still undecided over who to team up with on her latest offering and may be forced to push back the album’s release even more. Producer Emile Haynie - who met up with Adele in February to discuss the possibil- ity of working together on the record - said: “Adele was awesome, but I don’t know if we’ll be working together.”We got along well as friends when we met in February and I hope we can cut some songs, but Adele is taking her time. “I’d push for it to happen, but we’ll have to wait and see.” Emile, 34 - who has worked with Kanye West and Bruno Mars in the past - also admitted he sought help from pal Lana Del Rey when it came to releasing a record of his own. The producer - whose album ‘We Fall’ features the 29-year-old singer as well as Florence Welch and The XX - penned the record following a break up and Lana was quick to offer him advice on how to turn his heartbreak into a song. He told the Daily Star newspaper: “Lana came by a couple of days after the breakup when it was still hellish.”She gave me loads of advice and the next thing you know we’re cutting the song.”

Carly Rae Jepsen: Sia is so humble and rad arly Rae Jepsen has praised Sia for being “so humble and rad” after she collaborated with the ‘Elastic Heart’ singer on her Cupcoming album. The ‘Call Me Maybe’ hitmaker is a big fan of the Australian singer/songwriter and was desperate to have her on her her new LP ‘E∑MO∑TION’. Carly insists it was great to work with Sia and she is very excited about the song they have created together. Speaking in the latest issue of Notion magazine - on which she is the cover star - Carly said: “Sia is so humble and rad ... I was so nervous that day.” Sia is among a host of big names that feature on the LP, with Carly’s other collaborators including “Greg receives the Kurstin, The Cardigans’s Peter Svensson, Dev Hynes, Arial Spears Rechtshaid, Tegan & Sara, Jack Antonoff and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij”. Carly is really pleased with the track ‘All That’ which she recorded with Dev because it represents a departure Best of Last Vegas award from her usual sound. Discussing the song, she said: “It’s got an amazing Prince-y vibe to it, it’s very evocative, a total slow jam.” Carly’s first single from the album, ‘I Really Like You’, is out on April ritney Spears has won the Best Of ed: “Look what I got over the weekend! 26 and the video features a cameo appearance from Tom Hanks, Last Vegas and Best Bachelorette Thank you @BestOfLasVegas, my dedicated and she admits she wanted the Oscar winner to be in it so it Party awards for her Las Vegas resi- team & POM crew, @phvegas, and all of B wouldn’t become too “sickly sweet”. She said: “Look, I’m a cheesy, dency. The 33-year-old pop star - who’s YOU! (sic)” The singer was actually told nerdy Broadway girl at heart. It’s a very flirtatious, adorable song but been starring at the Planet Hollywood she’d won the coveted prizes at the end of ... we felt like if we had a sickly sweet video it would just overkill ... My Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas since it March, but only collected her prizes at the favorite bit (video) is where we sent ‘running guy emoji’, ‘tree emoji’ and opened on December 27, 2013 - has weekend. In March, she tweeted: “Just ‘running guy emoji’ to Tom Hanks. Run, Forest, Run!” earned rave reviews for her ‘Piece Of Me’ heard some AMAZING news!! POM was vot- residency and has taken to Twitter to share ed Best Show for @BestofLasVegas!!! her success with her 41.6 million followers BEYOND grateful to have such loyal fans. on the social media site. Britney - who was “THANK YOU to everyone who voted! Your pictured holding the awards backstage at support means the world. I am so proud of Planet Hollywood’s Axis auditorium, where this show & can’t wait to see what the she performs three nights a week - tweet- future holds! Xoxo. (sic)” Zane confirmed Will Spider-Man make to appear in a cameo in Avengers: Age of Ultron? Zoolander 2 n online leak has suggested Spider-Man will make a illy Zane is to make an appearance in ‘Zoolander 2’. cameo appearance in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’. The iconic The 49-year-old actor, who’s previously starred in Acomic book character recently joined the Marvel ‘Titanic’ and ‘Back to the Future’, has been cast in the Cinematic Universe and in a clip that has appeared on the inter- B net over the last few days, Spider-Man can be seen interacting eagerly-awaited sequel to the 2001 comedy film, in which Ben Stiller plays dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander. with a window cleaner and joking that he’d missed a spot of dirt. Billy made a cameo as himself in the original film and his However, the reported appearance of Spider-Man comes amid a appearance in the sequel has been confirmed in the latest casting change and a redesign of the character’s suit. Last week, on-set teaser for ‘Zoolander 2’, which shows Ben Stiller meanwhile, Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel, confirmed that appearing to approach his co-star Owen Wilson and say- the studio’s ‘Spider-Man’ movie will not be an origin story. He ing: “Hey Hansel, wouldn’t it be cool if Billy Zane was in revealed the new movie will work on the assumption that its Zoolander 2?” At that stage, the blonde-haired man turns audience already knows the “specifics” of Peter Parker’s life. He around to reveal himself as Zane, who responds: “Yeah, said: “In Spider-Man’s very specific case, where there have been that’d be great.” Other big-name stars rumored to appear in two retellings of that origin in the last whatever it’s been - [13] the much-hyped sequel include Naomi Campbell, Cara years - for us, we are going to take it for granted that people Delevingne and Jourdan Dunn, as well as rap star Kanye know that, and the specifics.”It will not be an origin story, but West. What’s more, Kanye is reportedly requesting that his with great power comes great responsibility. It is inherent to wife Kim Kardashian West be given a cameo or small part who his character is. But we want to reveal it in different ways in the comedy movie. A source said: “Kanye is friends with and spend much more time focusing on this young high school Will and appeared briefly in ‘Anchorman 2’ but he wanted kid in the Marvel Comic universe dealing with his powers.” He to be in ‘Zoolander 2’ even more. It’s very likely that Kim also said the Marvel Spider-Man will wear a distinctly different will also appear in some capacity.” outfit to previous on-screen incarnations. Kevin explained: “We’ve already designed the costume, which is different than any of the ones that have come before. And yet ours is classic Spidey, as I think you’ll see.”

Emma Stone reunites Cara Delevingne: Sia feels ‘hunted’ with Steve Carell? I’m not a role model mma Stone will star opposite Steve Carell in ‘Battle of The Sexes’. The by the paparazzi ara Delevingne doesn’t want to be a role model to her fans. The supermodel ‘Birdman’ actress and Steve, 52, will reportedly play iconic tennis rivals accepts her behavior and statements will have an effect on the people who follow Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King in the movie which recreates the leg- he ‘Elastic Heart’ singer hates the harassment she gets because she’s a E her career but she doesn’t accept she is a role model and she doesn’t want the endary 1973 meet between the former pro and 29-year-old sportswoman, C famous pop star and says her friends were shocked when they got a taste responsibility of being someone they should look up to. Cara - who has 2.51 million fol- which drew in an audience of 50 million. The pair - who previously played a Tof what her daily life is like dealing with the unwanted attention from the lowers on Twitter - said: “I hope that I can influence young people and teach them that it father and daughter duo on screen in the rom-com ‘Crazy, snappers. Speaking on Australian TV network Seven, Sia - who is famous for cov- is important and necessary to preserve your individuality. Stupid, Love’ - will be directed by ‘Little Miss ering her face in public - said: “It’s unpleasant. It makes Look, you can admire people and be guided by them, Sunshine’ helmers Johnathan Dayton and Valerie me feel hunted. My friends were with me the other but you should never imitate them.” The catwalk Faris. The film is based on a script by Simon day when the paps were at the airport and it was queen has now embarked on an acting career and Beaufoy and is set to begin filming this year in like they all got diarrhoea and I had to explain can currently be seen in Michael Winter bottom’s time for a 2016 release, reports Empire ... you go into fight or flight (mode). You feel psychological thriller ‘The Face of An Angel’ and Online. Emma, 26, is also set to team up like prey and they’re the predator and you’re has roles in DC Comics blockbuster ‘Suicide with her other ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ co-star being hunted. “Would you like to spend Squad’ and ‘London Fields’. The 22-year-old star Ryan Gosling after the pair entered into your life feeling like prey? Probably not.” As admits the biggest difference she’s noticed negotiations to star in ‘La La Land’. The well as being a successful solo artist, Sia from being a model to being an actress is that pair are in talks with director Damien has also written hits for a galaxy of stars, she’s now aware that cameras are shooting Chazelle and Lionsgate to appear in the including Rihanna, Flo Rida and Rita Ora. her. In an interview in Germany’s Vogue mag- upcoming romantic musical after Miles The 39-year-old songwriter has always azine, she said: “I always wanted to be an Teller - who played the lead in Chazelle’s been determined to try and live a “regular actress from an early age. Drama and music, Oscar-nominated film ‘Whiplash’ - dropped life” while working in the music business, that was always my plan A; the modeling was out. Although neither Stone, 26, nor but accepts it’s tough. She mused: “It’s just rather random (for me). “As a model, I was never Gosling, 34 - who also appeared alongside wanting to have a regular life, just like a reg- particularly aware of the camera. If you are an one another in ‘Gangster Squad’ - have offi- ular person but still be able to make music actor you have to put the camera out of your cially signed up for the film, production is and sing. But to do that without having to mind. That was difficult for me in the beginning but scheduled to begin in autumn with the studio sacrifice having just a regular life, that’s all (I slowly I got cool with it.” hoping to have the Hollywood stars on board. want).” —Bangshowbiz LIFESTYLE37 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 Gossip

Lovato has praised her boyfriend Valderrama emi Lovato has praised her boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama for inspiring her to beat her sub- stance abuse problems and eating disorder. The 22-year-old pop star has been very open Dabout her rehab treatment for drugs, alcoholism, self-harming and bulimia in 2010 and she has revealed Wilmer, 35, refused to “enable” her behavior when they were together at the time. In an interview on the ‘Kyle And Jackie O Show’ KIIS 106.5 FM, she said: “There were some moments when it was off and on when I was struggling with my issues. What he would do is he wouldn’t enable me so he’d say, ‘I can’t be around if you’re not going to get your stuff together.’ It made me fight for it. He’s a very, very good guy.” The ‘Really Don’t Care’ singer is currently in Australia for her ‘Demi World Tour’ and after completing her dates Down Under she then moves on to the Far East leg of the tour. Demi recently claimed she believes she has a responsibility to raise awareness of mental health issues. The ‘Skyscraper’ hitmaker said: “My whole life - all I’ve wanted to do is help. And I knew that singing could be a platform. And I thought that singing was the loudest I was going to get. It wasn’t until I started talking and sharing my story that I realized it was really reaching people. So that’s what I believe I’m here to do.”

Martin’s ‘ parting gifts’ for Gwyneth hris Martin has given Gwyneth Paltrow some intimate “parting gifts”, including handwritten song lyrics inspired by her. The former couple - who have children Apple, 10, and Moses, nine, together - filed for Cdivorce this week, over a year after they separated, but are doing everything they can to stay friends and keep their relationship amicable. A source told the new issue of Grazia magazine: “They will share joint custody as a children and agreed they will always spend Christmas, birthdays and significant holidays as a family. “Chris has even given Gwyneth parting gifts, including handwrit- ten lyrics of Coldplay songs that are about her. “He knows they will be worth a lot of money in the future and he wants her and the children to have them.” Things are so amicable between the ‘Iron Man 3’ star and the Coldplay frontman - who are now dat- ing Brad Falchuk and Jennifer Lawrence respectively - they are even planning a divorce party for when the legal process is complete. The source added: “Gwyneth and Chris have been regularly speaking on the phone to ensure it all goes through Royal baby won’t be named Charlotte with ease. “They’ve even joked about hav- ing a divorce celebration with friends and ritain’s Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge reportedly won’t be naming their second child family once it’s complete.” It was previously Charlotte. According to top historian Clarissa Campbell Orr from Anglia Ruskin University, who specializes claimed Gwyneth, 42, and Chris, 38, will Bin the British monarchy, the couple are unlikely to choose the name for the newborn if the child is a girl divide their £200 million fortune equally, due to the unfavorable fates of previous royal figures with the moniker. She told the Daily Express newspaper: and they are even planning to waive any “There is a popular tide of opinion hoping that if it is a daughter she will be named Charlotte. However, from the child support arrangement. A source said: point of view of the Royal Family, this is unlikely to be a particularly favorable name. “George III’s wife, Sophie “They’re worth pretty much the same Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was a very successful consort and weathered the disturbing episode of her amount so are planning to halve every- husband’s apparent madness, although her hair turned white with shock.” The couples eldest daughter thing. They have too much dignity to row Charlotte was also deemed a disappointment to the Royal Family after she married a Duke of Wurttemberg in about who has what, who should have the Germany against their will. The odds on the name being chosen still stand at 40/1, with Alice, Elizabeth and most money and who should see most of Diana also prove popular amongst betters if the 33-year-old royal gives birth to a Princess. James currently the kids.” It is believed that Gwyneth will stands as the favorite if the baby is boy. Sam Smith “would chop off his toe” to be able to live like a “hobbit” in remain in the family home in Brentwood, Hobbiton. Los Angeles whilst Chris will move to Malibu so the pair are not too far apart. Mulligan Huntington-Whiteley: doesn’t care Jason Statham is my ‘best mate’ about clothes arey Mulligan doesn’t care what osie Huntington-Whiteley says her partner she wears when she isn’t working. Jason Statham is her “best mate”. The 28-year- CThe ‘Great Gatsby’ actress - who is Rold model has been romancing the 47-year-old married to singer Marcus Mumford - action star for almost five years and Rosie believes feels she is a “better person” when she their relationship works well because they are such isn’t worried about her clothes or put- close friends as well as lovers and he can always make Panettiere describes motherhood ting on make-up, so makes minimal her giggle. In the new issue of Self magazine, Rosie effort when she is at home on her farm said: “We’re best mates. He makes me laugh every day. in Devon, South West England. She said: I almost feel like I never had a proper boyfriend as an out-of-body‘ experience’ “I like waking up in the morning and before!” The catwalk superstar has made the move ayden Panettiere says becoming a mother has been like an “out-of-body experi- putting on whatever’s by the side of my into acting in recent years and can next be seen in ence”. The ‘Nashville’ star gave birth to daughter Kaya - her first child with her bed, and putting on Wellington boots ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Rosie decided she wanted to fiancé Wladimir Klitschko - last December and since she welcomed her baby and walking up a steep hill. And not become an actress because she wanted to challenge H into the world she has re-prioritized her entire life. Musing on motherhood in an inter- wearing any make-up. “When you’re herself in a new professional field. The blonde beauty view with ‘Good Morning America’, Hayden, 25, said: “It’s out of body ... As long as your working, everything’s so busy and so said: “I don’t always want to be the face of everything. kids are happy and healthy and all good - it’s fabulous.” She then added: “You just re- aesthetic. When all of that angst isn’t on I think you have to take risks in life and scare yourself. prioritize ... You hear that they’re healthy, and you just don’t care about yourself any you, you’re just kind of a better person- You have to push beyond your comfort zone in order more. It’s the most out-of-body experience, where you go, ‘I will completely lay myself more focused on other people rather to grow.” Speaking about the six-month location on the line for my child. Without even a hesitation.’ “ The arrival of Kaya has had a simi- than worrying about yourself.” The 29- shoot for ‘Mad Max’ - which also stars Tom Hardy and lar effect on world heavyweight champion boxer Wladimir. The 39-year-old pugilist year-old actress also admitted she fre- Charlize Theron - she added: “You have to be fit and previously said: “It has changed my life completely. I’m so happy to have Hayden in my quently changes her hair style because healthy and strong. Your mind has to be strong, too. life. She’s the best mom I could even imagine. She’s a true, amazing mom ... I think she thinks it makes it easier for audi- Not only for the stunts but also for the number of [having] children is something that connects you until the end of your days no matter ences to accept her in a new role if she hours you’re spending on-set.” what. And I think that, Kaya, our daughter, has connected us forever. And that’s the looks different. She explained to the new most amazing thing. Everything else is coming, it’s something that needs to be issue of America’s Vogue magazine: “I planned ... but the connection with the child is better than any marriage!” have always felt that the less people know about me, the better. “The more similar you look job to job, the more Harding to have her own they relate to you from your previous roles. That’s why I’ve done loads of really stupid things to my hair in the past to try fashion line out this year Roseanne Barr is going blind to not look the same.” arah Harding wants to have her own fashion line “out this year”. The former Girls Aloud he 62-year-old actress is suffering from eye diseases macular degeneration and glauco- star - who recently just landed a role in TV soap ‘Coronation Street’ - is very interested ma but is determined to continue doing the things she loves while she still can. Speaking Sin creating a clothing collection and has hinted she already has one in development. Tof how macular degeneration is causing her field of vision to narrow, she said: “My vision The 33-year-old beauty told BANG Showbiz: “I can’t is closing in now. It’s something weird. But there are other really say too much about what I’ve got coming up, it’s weird things. “That one’s harsh, ‘cause I read a lot, and a bit of a secret project! “I would like to have my own then I thought, ‘Well, I guess I could hire somebody to fashion line out this year. That’s definitely something read for me and read to me.’ But I like words and I like I’m considering.” Sarah’s current fashion love is the re- looking. You do what you have to do. I just try and enjoy emergence of 70s style, because it’s “easy-wear”. vision as much as possible-y’know, living it up.”And the Speaking at the Florence & Fred Autumn Winter collec- ‘Roseanne’ star revealed the problem runs in her family. tion launch in London today the blonde bombshell She added: “My dad had it, too.” Roseanne has previously said: “I’m loving the whole 70s comeback, I’d probably confessed to smoking marijuana and says the drug helps wear the majority of Florence and Fred. The fit is really ease the discomfort of glaucoma, a build-up of pressure in great and flattering on the clothes. I’m wearing it now the eye. She told The Daily Beast website: “It’s a good and it’s very easy-wear!” Sarah had to face an embar- medicine, you know. “I have macular degeneration and rassing fashion faux par at the event as both she and glaucoma, so it’s good for me for that because I have pres- Saturdays singer Vanessa White both turned up in the sure in my eyes. It’s a good medicine for a lot of things.” exact same white jumpsuit outfit. Dealing with the And the actress admitted she enjoys the narcotic for other massively awkward situation like a true professional, reasons too. She added: “It’s expansive. It opens your Sarah laughed: “It’s actually really funny to see Vanessa mind. You’re like, ‘Wow’, you’re in awe. You look up into the and I wearing the same outfit this morning, great stars. It makes you wonder. It doesn’t close that down.” minds think alike!”—Bang Showbiz lifestyle WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 FEATURES

Geneva rekindles its long-term association with the GCC Geneva Tourism to participate in ATM 2015 and focus on GCC tourism

eneva Tourism, one of Switzerland’s offi- World Travel Award and was voted Europe’s cial tourist boards, has announced, yet Leading City Break Destination, 2014. Facing Gagain, its participation in the Arabian prestigious competitors such as Paris, London, Travel Market, taking place on May 4, 2015. Madrid, Rome or Dublin, the award proves that Geneva Tourism has been associated with the Geneva has all the assets to be an attractive GCC for many years and is happy be to back to leisure destination. participate in one of the biggest travel events GCC’s tourist outflow to Europe has wit- in the region. As an active player in the in the nessed a steady increase over the past few GCC, Geneva Tourism plans to focus on endors- years and the number of GCC tourists visiting ing the city as a leisure and corporate travel Geneva in 2014 saw a 9.7% increase compared destination. to 2013. During this period, there was a total of Conveniently located in the heart of Europe, 219’812 overnights. The highest percentage of Geneva is the perfect gateway to Switzerland. these tourists were from Saudi Arabia, followed It not only has one of the country’s most spec- by the UAE. Saudi tourists have also been tacular landscapes, it is also well known for its ranked first in terms of daily tourist expendi- excellent quality of life. The city knows how to ture worldwide. welcome its guests with great activities, ulti- “We have a strong affinity with the GCC and mate shopping experiences, as well as we’re happy to see an increase in GCC tourism Switzerland’s most refined dining tables. to Geneva”, said Philippe Vignon, General Geneva has much more to offer than what Manager at Geneva Tourism. “Geneva has wel- people come to expect from it. Not many peo- comed people from the GCC for the last few ple know, but it is known as the gastronomy decades and, as a result, we understand the capital of Switzerland and has 140 ethnic changing needs of this market and have restaurants representing 5 continents and evolved accordingly. With our participation in more than 30 nationalities (including halal). the Arabian Travel Market 2015, we plan to With 55 restaurants awarded by the Michelin showcase Geneva in all its glory”, he added. and Gault Millau guides, Geneva definitely has The Arabian Travel Market has been the great taste. And that’s not all. Each March, region’s most popular travel event for 21 years, Geneva becomes one of the automobile capi- helping travel houses interact and network to tals of the world, hosting one of the biggest enhance their businesses. ATM 2015 promises automobile exhibition - the Geneva Motor to be bigger than ever, with the theme of Show. The city also has many boutiques where tional brands and a choice of watches you will host of outdoor activities like water sports, Last year, Geneva was nominated as ‘Family Travel’, focusing on Travel technology, you can discover all the prestigious interna- not find anywhere else. Geneva also offers a nature parks and much more. Europe’s Leading City Break Destination at the luxury and wellness. Missing wedding Swiss hotel schools eye ring plucked from dog doo, another century as ‘world best’

returned to owner t feels like a luxury restaurant, with starched- of the price,” said Michel Rochat, who heads the she aims to manage hotels for a large chain so uniformed waiters pouring pricy wine and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL). EHL, the she can travel the world. Iexplaining the intricate details of a gourmet world’s first hotel management school which Her Glion classmate, Federico Pironti, a 20- menu as diners gaze out at a spectacular moun- opened in 1893 and still tops global rankings, year-old Italian-Austrian student, says he has set tain view. But all the servers, the impeccably charges around 150,000 Swiss francs for its his sights higher. “My big dream is to own hotels, dressed guests and even the kitchen staff send- three-year bachelor program for international not manage them. To own a hotel chain. It’s an ing out elaborately decorated plates are in fact students. expensive dream, I know,” he said, smiling under- students at one of Switzerland’s famous hotel Far from cutting the price, Rochat said he neath his chef’s hat as he prepares desserts in the management schools. “This is part of the stu- plans to raise it in September to reflect the kitchen. These students view the tuition at Glion, dent’s learning experience,” said Stephane school’s annual revamp of 15 percent of its cur- a fully private institution charging around Bernard, a service instructor at the Glion school, riculum to keep up with an ever-changing global overlooking the picturesque town of Montreux hospitality market. And despite growing compe- on the shores of Lake Geneva. tition from new schools in Asia especially, he says The school is ranked among the top three Switzerland’s reputation for innovation and such establishments in the world, all in excellence, its stunning nature and stable econo- Switzerland. For more than a century, hotel man- my provide an atmosphere that cannot be emu- agement schools in the wealthy Alpine nation lated. “We’ll still be on top 100 years from now,” have been considered the best and draw stu- Rochat said. Glion student Palita Lee agrees. “In Geneva hotel, “but if they are willing to travel to dents from around the globe. Glion alone has Switzerland, the standards are at the top,” she say Shanghai or Dubai they can easily find not some 100 nationalities attending, with French said, explaining why she had chosen to travel just work but a position of responsibility,” he said. Nikki Balovich shows her platinum wed- the biggest group followed by Chinese, Russian from Thailand for the program. The 19-year-old Glion director of campuses Peter Cross says ding ring that had gone missing in and Swiss. But these schools are facing a range of graciously tops up a glass of sparkling water and 85 percent of graduates “have between two and January, after it was returned to her. — AP new challenges, with competing, less expensive suggests a good wine to go with the chicken three job offers at graduation,” while the others establishments surfacing in Asia, the Middle East ordered by a classmate. are either entering a family business or not look- n Alaska woman suspected her and elsewhere, in step with shifting global travel ing for work for other reasons. “There is a strong family’s dog snatched her wedding patterns. Future industry leaders A student takes orders. guarantee of getting a job at the end of the pro- Aring, but she couldn’t find proof - She and the others work hard to carry out gram,” he said. Lucile Falguieres, who graduated until the diamond-encrusted platinum Sky-high tuition their tasks professionally, but they do not plan to 185,000 Swiss francs for its three-and-a-half-year from Glion in 2005 and is currently associate band turned up months later at a local ball The soaring value of the Swiss franc, mean- be waiters or kitchen staff: they are being bachelor program, as an investment that will cer- sales and marketing director at the five-star field. Nikki Balovich lost her ring in while, has made already sky-high tuition at the groomed as future industry leaders. “The impor- tainly pay off. Fairmont Montreux Palace hotel, said she was January, when she was pregnant and Swiss schools around 20 percent pricier for stu- tant thing is that they try everything, that they While an increasing number of students in hired right out of school to manage a team of 30 often took it off her swollen finger, the dents writing their cheques in euros. The Swiss learn the needs of each profession and each other fields are graduating into unemployment people at a luxury hotel in Dubai. And she says Daily Sitka Sentinel newspaper reported. schools acknowledge that worried parents have service in the hotel so they can manage teams of and uncertainty, students targeting the still she has since hired her share of graduates from The Sitka woman suspected Halli was enquired about price cuts, but insist that is not specialists,” explained Alain Brunier, president of booming global tourism industry have a wealth Glion and other Swiss schools. “As soon as you the culprit because the 90-pound mastiff the way to go. “I will never do that, because the the Swiss Association of Hotel Schools and also of options, Brunier said. A graduate may not see a Swiss school, you tend to hire the person,” puppy often carries household items in its increase of the quality is more than the increase head of the Geneva hotel school EHG. Lee says immediately land a job managing a five-star she said. — AFP mouth. She spent time searching for the band, including checking Halli’s poop out- side. “I gave up, I thought it was long gone,” she said. “We take the dog every- where with us, on hikes, on the boat - what were the chances we’re going to find it?” Balovich had no evidence of the dog’s involvement until last week, when she saw a post on a Facebook sales site about a ring being found in an “unusual place.” Balovich had a gut feeling and contact- ed the poster, Bob Potrzuski. Turns out, his wife found the ring while picking up dog poop at a local ball field. Balovich also recently volunteered at the field, and brought along Halli. Potrzuski and his wife previously tried unsuccessfully to find the owner by putting an ad in the Sentinel. They also called police. Balovich was reunited with her ring on Thursday, her husband’s birthday. “It’s been on my hands ever since,” she said. “My hand was feeling naked without it.” — AP Students work during noon rush hour at the Glion school, one of Switzerland’s famous hotel management schools. — AFP photos lifestyle WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015 MUSIC & MOVIES AC/DC drummer’s kill threat just an ‘angry call’

C/DC drummer Phil Rudd yesterday made a surprise guilty plea on a charge of Athreatening to kill, with his lawyer describ- ing the veteran rocker’s offence as “just an angry phone call”. Rudd had previously denied all alle- gations against him, but changed his plea on the first day of his trial at Tauranga District Court in New Zealand, also admitting two minor drug possession charges. As a result, judge Robert Woolff adjourned the matter after just 10 min- utes and extended Rudd’s bail until a sentencing hearing on June 26. While threatening to kill carries a potential jail term of seven years, Rudd’s solicitor Craig Tuck said the 60-year-old would apply for a discharge without conviction. “What we can see now is that this matter was essentially just an angry phone call that resulted in police getting a search war- rant... that was it,” Tuck told reporters outside the court. Rudd was arrested in November at his waterfront mansion in the North Island coastal town of Tauranga, with court documents reveal- ing he was accused of threatening to kill a former employee. He was allegedly upset about poor organiza- Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd stands in the dock flanked by security facing charges at Phil Rudd arrives to face charges at the District Court . tion at a function to launch his solo album “Head the District Court in Tauranga, New Zealand yesterday. — AFP photos Job” in August, calling an associate four weeks “attempting to procure murder”, but it was gullwing Mercedes and was dressed conserva- replied: “We’ve got a team of lawyers looking at make it difficult for him to tour with the band. later to say he wanted the ex-employee “taken dropped after prosecutors decided there was tively in a blue jacket and tie. He said nothing to that right now.” Rudd first joined AC/DC in 1975 Chris Slade-the band’s drummer in the early out”, then phoning the man and threatening his insufficient evidence. A second charge of threat- a waiting media throng, in contrast to previous and left in 1983, only to return 11 years later. 1990s-has replaced Rudd in recent appearances life. He allegedly offered the associate ening to kill-relating to the ex-employee’s appearances when he had dressed casually and He was part of the AC/DC line-up inducted and is set to play on AC/DC’s upcoming “Rock or “NZ$200,000 ($153,000), a motorbike, one of his daughter-was dropped yesterday. made rude gestures to reporters. Rudd’s lawyers into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and won Bust” world tour. It was the second major line-up cars or a house”. When police raided Rudd’s have previously said the dropped murder-for- a Grammy for best hard rock performance with change for AC/DC. Malcolm Young, the rhythm home, they found 0.478 grams of methampheta- ‘Incalculable damage’ hire charge caused “incalculable damage” to the the band for “War Machine” in 2010. But the legal guitarist who founded the band with his brother mine and 91 grams of cannabis, the documents Australian-born Rudd, who has lived in New drummer. Asked yesterday how his client’s repu- woes threaten to end his involvement with the Angus, was placed in a care facility late last year said. Rudd initially faced another charge of Zealand since 1983, arrived at court in a luxury tation has suffered as a result of the case, Tuck hard rockers permanently, as a conviction would as he suffers dementia. — AFP Chicano Batman Dunham helps victims spreads wings with genre-merging sound of sex trafficking find hope ena Dunham is one of Variety’s Power of Women New teenager falls into the world of sex trafficking, it’s almost York honorees. For more profiles on the honorees, click impossible to start a new life, but that’s where Gems comes Lhere. Lena Dunham wasn’t aware of the horrors of sex to the rescue. Last year, 371 women and girls sought the trafficking until recently. But from the moment she heard organization’s services, which includes counseling, housing, about Gems from her friend Audrey Gelman, Dunham knew legal help and job coaching. she wanted to shine a spotlight on the non-profit that helps “There are so many girls, particularly in urban areas, who victims of commercial sexual exploitation in New York. are born to parents who may be drug addicted and violent,” “What attracted me so much to the cause is that I’m a femi- Dunham says. “These pimps are waiting at the bus to tell nist and I’m a sexual assault survivor,” says Dunham, the star these girls, ‘You seem amazing. I love you and want to be of HBO’s “Girls.” “I felt that it was important to me to not just your boyfriend.’ What feels like a loving relationship turns call attention to the circumstances (around) which I was into them being forced to go out and make a living. What’s assaulted on a college campus, but also to call attention to happening is rape. It’s statutory rape by the most basic defi- sexual abuse survivors who have far less of a public voice.” nition.” Girls Educational & Mentoring Services was started Dunham has been working with Lloyd to build a library in 1998 by British activist and author Rachel Lloyd. “There for Gems. “This is an important organization,” Dunham says. hasn’t been enough awareness and education,” says Lloyd. Lloyd is grateful for Dunham’s voice. “It’s helpful because she Bardo Martinez of the Latin-infused psychedelia She notes that society often considers these women lazy has a platform,” Lloyd says. “Our young women, while trau- group Chicano Batman performing on day three of the outcasts instead of helpless victims. Once a low-income matized and abused, have incredible potential.” — Reuters Lena Dunham Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California. — AFP n their ruffled tuxedo shirts, the Los Angeles musi- cians Chicano Batman sport a retro look that evokes Idecades past of performers in the working-class Gyllenhaal, Miller, Latino neighborhoods of their hometown. But with influences that range from psychedelia to tropicalia to funk, Chicano Batman offers a glimpse at a future direc- Marceau on Cannes jury tion of Latin music as the band builds off the diversity of traditions in the multicultural metropolis. After per- forming for years in the city’s Latin indie scene, Chicano Batman has recently won a broader following. The band opened this year on a tour of rocker Jack White and played at Coachella, the influential music festival in the California desert that closed on Sunday. The band members welcome the growing audience but bristle at being pigeon-holed as a Latin band. “We’re doing this on our own merits. It’s not like this weird affirmative action type thing,” frontman Bardo Martinez said of playing Coachella. “I feel that we play very tight and we provide a solid and very defined aes- thetic, which not a lot of artists do,” he told AFP at the festival. Chicano Batman’s sound, for all of the diversity of influences, is consistent and identifiable. Working off an energetic but even-paced rhythm section, key- boards conjure up psychedelic rock while the extended guitar stretches bring to mind jam bands. The lyricism, both in Spanish and English, is similarly evocative with a focus on sensory imagery. The song “Itotiani” is a ref- erence to an Aztec dancer and the music, and words, Music Review: Passion Pit cast a smooth, calm atmosphere. “Her heart is beating fast / Feeling the soul reborn,” Martinez sings in Sophie Marceau Spanish. “She has an air of Teotihuacan,” he sings of the feeling the ‘Kindred’ spirit ancient Mexican city, and, in reference to the peanut- based sweet: “Her skin has the color of mazapan.” merica’s reigning synthpop king, Passion ilmstars Sienna Miller, Jake in the running is a film starring Emily Pit, is out with a third studio album, Gyllenhaal and Sophie Marceau, Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, Diverse upbringings A“Kindred,” a passable offering of tidy little Fas well as cult director Guillermo “Sicario”, about a CIA operation to Latin rock is hardly a new genre in the United electro ditties. For their heartfelt lyrics, Passion Pit del Toro are among the members of bring down a Mexican cartel. Cate States. Guitarist Carlos Santana in the 1960s and 1970s (aka Michael Angelakos and whoever is playing this year’s Cannes film festival jury, Blanchett heads up another entry, pioneered the fusion of Latin influences in rock, while live with him at any given gig) remains a musical organizers announced yesterday. “Carol”, a lesbian love story set in New east Los Angeles-bred Chicano rockers Los Lobos won tastemaker’s dividing line. You’re either all in with Other members of the jury for the May York, while Rachel Weisz will be in two Jake Gyllenhaal mainstream appeal a decade later. But coming from a Angelakos’ sparkling lead vocals and sprightly festival, which is being presided over movies: the Italian-directed “Youth” more recent generation in Los Angeles, Chicano melodies, or you’re likely off the train. Take “Five by the Coen brothers, are Canadian also featuring Michael Caine and Jane Batman represents a greater array of musical influ- Foot Ten (I),” for example. It’s ripe for a deeper club director Xavier Dolan, Spanish actress Fonda, and Greece’s “The Lobster” with ences. Bassist and singer Eduardo Arenas recalled remix, but as delivered it is little more than an Rossy de Palma and Malian composer Colin Farrel. growing up with a love of gangsta rap and blaring Ice aural glitter bomb. “I want to be all alone with Rokia Traore. The jury will choose the Other movies chosen included Cube from his car. you/ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh” goes the cloying refrain to winners in a range of acting and film- several Asian picks-”The Assassin” “That’s how you would represent yourself, that’s the little resolution. making categories, including the top from Taiwan, “Umimachi Diary” from vibe you give out. But then you go home and you’re Lead single “Lifted Up (1985)” is better, soaring prize, the Palme D’Or, presented at the Japan, “Mountains May Depart” from listening to the things that your parents are listening higher and reaching far more artistically. Still, I closing ceremony on May 24. China, and an Australian version of to,” Arenas said, citing as examples the Mexican pop can’t help but feel that beneath Passion Pit’s well- Among this year’s crop of competi- “Macbeth” starring Michael stars Los Bukis and Spanish romantic crooner Julio polished tracks there are even better songs lurk- tion entries is American film “The Sea Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. The Iglesias. The band also brings together backgrounds ing behind one too many layers of production. I of Trees” starring Matthew Cannes Film Festival will run from from within Latin America. Drummer Gabriel Villa grew like “Kindred.” Just not enough. — AP McConaughey and Naomi Watts. Also May 13 to 24. — AFP Sienna Miller up in Colombia with a love of salsa, meringue and val- lenato. The different musical education is witnessed in Villa’s style-notably his love of cowbells. Martinez-who sings and plays keyboards and guitar, and also came up with the band’s attention-grabbing Close fights to end mental illness name-is half Mexican and half Colombian. He said that he grew up on his father’s music collection that includ- ed everything from 1980s pop superstar Cyndi Lauper stigma with bring change 2 mind to Eric Clapton’s classic blues rock outfit Cream. One key difference that sets apart US-raised musicians, lenn Close still remembers the nonprofit Bring Change 2 Mind to raise shirts. Since then, an estimated 1 billion lost that look. He said, ‘Do you know Martinez said, is the instruments that they pursue. “In day that her younger sister awareness. have viewed online the PSAs, which have what that was? I was terrified.’ “Jessie LA, you’re not going to grow up playing a conga,” he Gapproached her with a terrifying “We thought the best thing to do was featured Wayne Brady and NFL wide says she couldn’t be more proud of her said, referring to the Cuban drum. secret: “I can’t stop thinking about killing work against the stigma that surrounds receiver Brandon Marshall sharing their big sister, adding, “I would say Glenn is “In Cuba there will be a million percussionists and a myself,” Jessie Close confided to Glenn mental illness,” Close says, noting that stories. The Close sisters have used many really my hero as far as stepping up to few guitarists, but here it’s the opposite,” he said. With a roughly 10 years ago. Billy Kidd for one in four people are affected by it. “It’s forums to talk about their mission, from a the plate and doing something about new album in the works, the band members have mixed Variety After doctors diagnosed Jessie a chronic illness like anything else.” Washington, DC, summit to NPR to the stigma.” Adds Pamela Harrington, views on whether to focus on Spanish- or English-lan- with bipolar disorder, and Jessie’s son, Bring Change 2 Mind aims to start a People magazine. the executive director of Bring Change 2 guage lyrics. Arenas said that Spanish was more mean- Calen Pick, with schizoaffective disorder, conversation. Close tapped her friend Close says she recently had an Mind: “She was really one of the first ingful to him due to the personal connection. But Close was determined to learn more Ron Howard to direct the org’s first PSA, epiphany when she saw her nephew. public figures to speak out in mental Martinez said that English felt natural. “Part of it is that I about mental illness. She volunteered at which stars the Oscar-nominated actress “He would wear these dark glasses. He health advocacy world. She’s been a want to hit people as hard as I can,” Martinez said. “So if it the New York recovery center alongside Jessie, as well as other people had this frightening look in his eyes. I really great beacon of hope for so many takes writing a song in English, so be it.” — AFP Fountain House, and in 2010 started the wearing the names of their diseases on T- was telling him, six months ago, he had people.” —Reuters AC/DC drummer’s kill threat just an ‘angry call’

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Traditional coffee pots, left, and colorful clay dishes are on display at Al-Aqeeliya open-air auction market. Bargains and bidding in a raucous Saudi open-air market

Dagger vendors sit together, one of them reciting poetry about traditional Saudi daggers, at Al-Aqeeliya open-air auction market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Centre) A Saudi buyer talks to a vendor. (Right) Misfer Al-Qahtani, a 70 year- old retired National Guard officer wears his traditional Saudi dagger. — AP photos

t an open-air market in Saudi Arabia’s capital, haggling for a Agood deal is not just part of the experience - it’s also part of the fun. The Al-Aqeeliya market in Riyadh is far from the upscale malls and designer boutiques found in the capital, where arguing over the price would be con- sidered un-chic. Inside the market’s twists and turns, Yemeni and Saudi merchants smile to visitors, eager to sell the fragrant incense that burns outside their stalls and fills the air with a strong musk. A group of elderly Saudi women Saudi men have their own corner in the market haggle at Al- where they sell cotton dresses worn by Aqeeliya Clothes women around the house. Dusty metal open-air on display jewelry sits in piles inside woven bas- auction market. for sale. kets for buyers to rummage through, most of it made in Pakistan. Families stroll around the market, looking for the best bargain in stalls packed with toys, makeup, kitchen- ware and traditional abayas and thobes - the black robes worn by women in the Arabian Peninsula and the long white gowns worn by men across the region. At an auction in an empty quarter of the market, dozens of men drink tea, smoke cigarettes and yell out prices over one another in bids for handmade Arabian swords, old mobile phones, wooden chests, copper and gold-colored tea kettles - even a stuffed hawk. One man came with a suitcase full of beaded jewelry and sold the whole bag to an auction winner, who had just a few moments to inspect its con- tents before buying. Souvenir swords that sell as decorative pieces can go Saudi for more than 40 Saudi riyals ($10) in vendors and one of the market’s stalls, but at the buyers auction 10 or more together sells for gather at the 100 riyals ($27). — AP market. Traditional coffee pots are lined up for sale.