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By Mesh’al Al-Enezi and B Izzak Saudi Shiites hold mass funeral KUWAIT: More than 33,000 residency violators who are registered with suspended companies will be granted a grace period of 60 days from June 1 to Aug 1 to legalize QATIF, Saudi Arabia: Tens of thousands of Saudi their status. According to Abdullah Al-Motoutah, direc- Shiites yesterday held a mass funeral for the victims tor of the Manpower Public Authority, the grace period of a mosque bombing which authorities called an coincides with the approach of the holy month of attempt by Sunni extremists to sow sectarian strife. Ramadan and would allow violators to either transfer Mourners from the kingdom’s minority community their work permits to other sponsors or cancel them to crowded streets in the mainly Shiite Qatif district of leave. Eastern Province to show their respect for the 21 “This grace period was given for both humanitarian dead, who included two children. A Shiite imam led reasons as well as to give employers a chance to make the funeral prayer in a marketplace under a cloudless use of the expertise of those laborers who are already in sky, as a breeze carried the fragrance of green herbs Kuwait instead of recruiting new ones and waiting for placed on prayer mats upon which the bodies lay. their arrival, needless to mention the time new recruits Volunteers in fluorescent orange vests carried the would wait to gain enough experience,” he explained. victims in, one by one, on wooden litters draped with Motoutah added that his organization was coordinating flowers. The crowd, some of them weeping, shouted with the interior ministry to halt the arrest of violating the name of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite laborers in this category to give them a chance to use Islam. Memorial banners and flags flew at the sprawl- the grace period. ing outdoor market where pictures of the dead were Meanwhile, independent MP Ahmad Al-Qudhabi displayed. They included a boy wearing a bow tie, inquired yesterday in a series of questions about the and a bearded man in uniform. Everybody “is very government’s efforts to trace hundreds of millions of much anxious to participate... to express their sup- dinars in public funds allegedly stolen by the former port,” one organizer said ahead of the funeral, asking chief of the pension agency. In questions to Minister of not to be named. Mourners were expected from Justice Yacoub Al-Sane, the lawmaker asked about the Saudi Arabia and abroad, he said. legal measures taken following a Swiss court judge- The suicide bombing, during the main weekly ment to freeze 15 bank accounts related to the former Muslim prayers in nearby Qadeeh, was the second mass director general of the Public Institution for Social killing of Shiites in the kingdom since late last year. QATIF, Saudi Arabia: Saudi men take part in a mass funeral in this mainly Shiite Gulf coastal town yesterday, Security Fahd Al-Rajaan. Continued on Page 13 held for the victims of a mosque bombing carried out by Islamic State group earlier in the week. — AFP Continued on Page 13 8 killed in Tunis rampage

TUNIS: A Tunisian soldier the authorities say had psy- chological problems seized a gun at a barracks yesterday and killed seven comrades before being shot dead him- self. The interior ministry said the rampage was not linked to “terrorism”, but a defense ministry spokesman did not rule this out before an investigation reports on the incident. Defense ministry spokesman Belhassen Oueslati said the corporal, whose name was not given, “had family and psychological problems”. Because of this, he had been “forbidden from carrying arms” and given “non- sensitive duties”. “He attacked one man with a knife and took his gun before shooting at his comrades who were saluting the flag,” Oueslati said. The incident “caused the deaths of seven soldiers and also of the shooter. Ten sol- diers were wounded, and one is in a serious condition,” he added. Yesterday’s shooting was at the Bouchoucha barracks in Tunis, not far from parliament and the Bardo National Museum where jihadist gunmen killed 21 foreign tourists and a policeman in March. It triggered a security alert across the Bardo district, AFP correspondents reported. One heard two volleys of gunfire from inside the barracks at around 8:45 am (0745 GMT), before an ambulance emerged, its siren blaring. The interior min- istry’s elite counterterrorism brigade deployed in force TUNIS: A member of Tunisian special forces stands across the area. Police with sniffer dogs also checked guard outside the Bouchoucha army barracks yester- parked vehicles for fear of car bombs in the district, day after a soldier opened fire at his colleagues. — AFP which also houses two police barracks. — AFP UAE lays out space strategy ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates yesterday laid out a strategic framework for a newly created space agency that aims to integrate various arms of the Gulf federa- Iranian general: tion’s burgeoning space industry. The seven-state federa- tion, perhaps best known for its oil wealth and extrava- US did ‘nothing’ gant attractions like Dubai’s Palm-shaped islands and record-breaking Burj Khalifa skyscraper, is fast establish- to save Ramadi ing itself as the Arab world’s leader in the space sector. The UAE Space Agency, created last year by presidential TEHRAN: The United States has done “nothing” to decree, aims to regulate and support the country’s space help Iraq’s army battle jihadists in Ramadi, according sector, which includes existing Earth-orbiting satellite to a senior Iranian general involved in the fight programs and plans for a mission to Mars in 2020. against the Islamic State group. Qassem Soleimani, Agency Chairman Khalifa Mohammed Thani Al- the Revolutionary Guards’ commander of foreign Rumaithi said the space industry will help diversify the operations, hit out at Washington after Pentagon country’s economy and create highly skilled jobs for a chief Ashton Carter said Iraqi forces growing youth population. “The United Arab Emirates is “failed to fight” in Ramadi, which seeking to confirm its status as a spacefaring nation in has fallen to IS. “Mr (Barack) Obama, which the industry plays a key role in sustainable eco- what is the distance between nomic development,” he told a gathering at an event Ramadi and Al-Asad base where US rolling out the federal body in the capital, Abu Dhabi, planes are based?” Soleimani said in that featured models of existing Emirati satellites and a speech late Sunday in the south- ern province of Kerman carried by waiters serving space-themed canapes including hum- Soleimani mus in metal squeeze tubes. state news agency IRNA. “How can Space technology is one of several high-tech indus- you be in that country under the pretext of protect- tries the OPEC member nation is championing as a way ing the Iraqis and do nothing? This is no more than to create jobs and diversify an economy still heavily being an accomplice in a plot,” said Soleimani. dependent on oil. Thuraya, an Emirates-based satellite Shiite Iran has military advisers in Iraq and Syria phone operator, was responsible for the country’s first and provides financial and military support to the commercial satellite, launched in 2000. The Emirates’ first governments of both countries in their battle government-backed satellite, an Earth-observation satel- against Sunni extremists. According to Iranian lite known as DubaiSat-1, blasted into orbit atop a media, Soleimani has been active in Iraq, particularly Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

KUWAIT: (From left) Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousef Mohammad Al-Ali, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah meets IBM’s director general of Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah are pictured during the Amir’s reception of the research and intellectual property Dr William LaFontaine. newly appointed minister. — Amiri Diwan photos Amir receives newly appointed minister Prime Minister receives IBM official

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah attended the meeting. US Ambassador Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) for the 6th session Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday in the pres- to Kuwait Douglas Silliman had announced recently that IBM (2014-2015) today. Minister of Education and Minister of ence of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- will launch a subsidiary office in Kuwait next week. Higher Education Bader Hamad Al-Essa will attend the cer- Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- In other news, HH the Crown Prince is set to patronize emony at KISR headquarters on behalf of HH the Crown Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the newly appointed Minister the honoring ceremony of distinguished workers at Kuwait Prince. — KUNA of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousef Mohammad Abdullah Al-Ali, who took the oath before HH the Amir. Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Director of the Office of His Highness Ahmad Fahad Sulaiman Al-Fahad, the Chief of Amiri Protocol Sheikh Khaled Abdullah Sabah Al Nasser Al-Sabah in addition to acting Secretary General for Cabinet Affairs, Advisor Wael Issa Al-As’ousi attended the cer- emony. Separately, HH the Amir received National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah and Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Faisal Al-Mershed. Meanwhile, HH the Crown Prince received Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Khaled Al-Jassar, as well as President of the National Security Apparatus Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al- Salem Al-Sabah. Also yesterday, HH the Prime Minister received IBM’s director general of research and intellectual property Dr William LaFontaine and his accompanying delegation. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Dr Yousef Mohammad Al-Ali swears in as the new Minister Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and Kuwait Direct Investment His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Faisal of Commerce and Industry. Promotion Authority Director General Sheikh Mishal Jaber Al-Mershed. Amir to be honored Cabinet condemns mosque in 42nd OIC session attack in Saudi Arabia JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic the meeting will also discuss conflicts in Cooperation (OIC) will honor His Highness the Islamic world and a number of different Ministers eulogize former speaker Khorafi the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber parts of social, economic, cultural, techno- Al-Sabah for the UN’s Humanitarian Leader logical and humanitarian topics. Moreover, title during the 42nd OIC session to be held the session’s agenda includes the condi- KUWAIT: The cabinet yesterday condemned a sui- Assembly speaker from 1999 to 2011. He was also University City in Kuwait tomorrow and the day after, the tions of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, cide attack that targeted a mosque east of Saudi appointed as Minister of Finance and Economy in Minister of Education and Minister of Higher OIC announced yesterday. the peace process in Mali and the current Arabia on Friday, leaving scores of people dead or 1985-1990. Education Dr Bader Hamad Al-Essa briefed the HH the Amir will deliver a speech at the situation in Somalia, including develop- injured. Some 21 people were killed and more than meeting on the progress of work at the Sabah Al session’s opening, while First Deputy Prime ment and reconstruction in the country, 80 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an New minister Salem University City in Ashedadiya. Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs OIC added. explosive-laden belt at a mosque packed with wor- HH the Premier then welcomed newly-appoint- This was followed by detailed account on the Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Separately, Kuwaiti Ambassador to shippers in the eastern province of Al-Qatif. ed Minister of Industry and Commerce Dr. Yousef project by Director of Kuwait University Sabah will head the meeting, the OIC said Malaysia Saad Al-Asousi met with chairman The cabinet’s weekly meeting, held at Seif Mohammad Abdullah Al-Ali wishing him the best, Construction Program (KUCP) Dr Qutaiba Abdul- in a statement. Saudi Minister of Foreign of the protocol department in the Palace under chairmanship of His Highness the serving the interests of the people and the nation. Razzaq Razouki who said that the University City Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir and Secretary General Malaysian Foreign Ministry to prepare for Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad The cabinet was then notified of a message has been built on a total area of six million square of the organization Eyad Madani will also the 42nd OIC session. The two sides dis- Al-Sabah offered condolences to the relatives of from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon inviting meters. It is divided into two parts, the first is the perform speeches in the opening session, cussed the participation of Malaysian the victims, wishing the wounded speed recovery. HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- general campus that will embrace all Kuwait the statement notes. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hanifah Aman in It also reiterated Kuwait’s condemnation and Sabah to attend the treaty signature/ratification University scientific and humanities colleges. The The 42nd session of the OIC Council of the event, which will focus on fighting ter- rejection of all forms of terrorism, Minister of State ceremony to be organized by the Treaty Section, other will include all the medical ones. Foreign Ministers entitled “Joint Vision in rorism and the current situation in Yemen, for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah New York, 28 September-1 October, Sheikh Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Promoting Tolerance and Rejecting Libya, Syria and Palestine, Asousi said yes- Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah said. Mohammad Abdullah added. The event aims at Minister of State for Planning and Development Terrorism” will focus on the current conflicts terday. He also noted that the special envoy At the outset of the meeting, the ministers encouraging wider participation in the multilateral Hind Subaih Al-Subaih briefed the meeting on the in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Palestine, as well of the OIC Secretary General to Myanmar eulogized former National Assembly speaker treaties deposited with him (over 500 treaties) and monthly follow-up report of the strategic projects as fighting terrorism and Islamophobia, the Hamid Al-Bar will also be present at the Jassem Al-Khorafi who died on Thursday at the their speedier entry into force. being carried out nationwide, as well as the leg- OIC said. event to discuss the conditions of the age of 75. They stressed Al-Khorafi’s personal The meeting was then informed about a mes- islative requirements for the national develop- Meanwhile, the statement noted that Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. — KUNA exploits and the great services he rendered to the sage from Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam ment plan, 2015-2016. country over the years. Desalegn to HH the Amir inviting him to attend The cabinet reviewed topics on the agenda of Born in 1940, Khorafi came from a locally high- the UN Third International Conference on the National Assembly, and reports on the politi- ly-revered family of businessmen and politicians. Financing for Development, Addis Ababa, July 13- cal developments on the Arab and the interna- He was voted an MP nine times and a National 16, 2015. tional scenes. —KUNA MPW, UK’s transport lab celebrate project completion

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public MPW, I am pleased to announce that Works (MPW) and the UK’s Transport the Ministry of Interior (MOI) have and Research Laboratory (TRL) yes- awarded TRL a new project which terday celebrated the successful would utilize the latest technology completion of their joint research for the collection, storage, analysis KUWAIT: Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah and Argentina’s Secretary of project, which focused on investigat- and reporting of crash data. This will Foreign Relations Eduardo Antonio Zuain sign a memorandum of understanding yester- ing the premature deterioration of support the MoI in developing effec- day. — KUNA asphalt wearing on roads in Kuwait tive policy and approaches to and the subsequent training of MPW improve road safety in Kuwait. I look Jarallah, Argentinean staff on this matter, and which will forward in due course to help with lead to safer and more durable roads the presentation of certificates to official discuss ties for everyone in Kuwait. MPW staff.” At an award ceremony celebrating Kuwait is an incredibly important KUWAIT: Undersecretary of the Foreign signed between the Saud Al-Nasser Al- the completion of this project, Simon economic partner for the UK. The Ministry Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah met Sabah Diplomatic Institute and Foreign Williams, Director of UK Trade and financial relationship between our yesterday with visiting Secretary of Foreign Service Institute of Argentina. The memo Investment, stated: “I am pleased to two countries is only getting stronger Relations of the Republic of Argentina was inked by Al-Jarallah and Zuain in the be here today to celebrate the suc- as shown by the fact that exports Eduardo Antonio Zuain and his accompa- presence of Jarallah’s Office Director cessful collaboration between the have increased 16% from last year. nying delegation. During the meeting, the Ambassador Ayham Al-Omar, Deputy Ministry of Public Works and the UK’s TRL works across a wide spectrum of two sides discussed bilateral relations and Director of the Americas Department Transport Research Laboratory, fields in the transport sector, and pro- the latest developments on both regional Fadhel Al-Hassan and the Argentinean which was established over 80 years vides impartial and trusted advice to and international arenas. Ambassador to Kuwait Jorge Omar Antonio ago. a range of international clients, and Simon Williams, Director of UK Trade and Investment speaks at the cere- A memorandum of understanding was Biga. — KUNA In addition to their work with the national Governments. mony. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 LOCAL 107 bachelors evicted from private residential areas New workers city soon

By A Saleh Individual grievances Corporation to abdicate lands located west of The Manpower Public Authority announced Hadiya and take proper needed measures to KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior’s Assistant scrapping the individual grievances committee, include it within the housing welfare plan. “This Undersecretary for Public Security Major General and authorizing labor departments in all gover- land will accommodate around 4,000 housing Abdul Fattah Al-Ali announced that single expa- norates to receive such complaints and look units with an area of 400 square meters each, triate men were evicted from 107 houses in into them. The decision was made on instruc- which are enough to solve the problems and Wafra, Dhaher, Fahaheel and Sabahiya, since the tions from Minister of Social Affairs and Labor remove burdens off of many Kuwaiti families,” beginning of a campaign targeting illegal rent- said Huwailah, urging minister Omair to exert ing in private residential areas. Ali added that more efforts in coordination with the Minister of some citizens had rented their houses to bache- State for Housing Affairs Yasser Abul in removing lors who used those residences for illegal prac- all obstacles that had been causing the delay of tices such as liquor manufacturing, copying adding that particular price of land to housing pornography CDs and using landlords’ landlines plans. without their knowledge in making internation- The West Hadiya project had already been al long distance calls. He also urged landlords in approved by the municipal council and by the KUWAIT: A general view of yesterday’s Municipal Council session in private residential areas to terminate any con- Cabinet in 2006 said Huwailah, underlining that progress. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh tracts they have signed with single tenants. The according to feasibility studies, 90 percent of the term ‘private residential areas’ refers to districts project site is environmentally safe. Separately, allocated for the construction of government Huwailah urged the new minister of commerce Council suggests naming homes only, as opposed to ‘investment areas’ and industry, Dr Yousif Al-Ali to work on han- where apartment buildings can be built. dling all the motions filed against his predeces- street after Khorafi sor Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej before he resigned. Residences project Huwailah also urged him to have more control By Meshaal Al-Enezi was unanimously approved by his col- But according to another official, the Cabinet over prices with the advent of Ramadan. leagues. had postponed compulsory eviction until a proj- Major General Abdul Fattah Al-Ali KUWAIT: Yesterday’s Municipal Council ect to build a laborers’ city was completed. Kuwaiti student dies in Egypt session was dedicated to eulogizing the Smoking in markets Kuwait Municipality’s Assistant Director Ahmad Hind Al-Subaih, said Badriya Al-Mukaimi the Kuwait’s cultural attaché to Egypt Shaye Al- late former National Assembly speaker Meanwhile, Municipal Council member Al-Manfouhi, who heads a team entrusted with authority’s deputy director for manpower pro- Shaye said Kuwait student Faisal Snafi, who was Jassem Al-Khorafi. Members took turns Yousif Al-Ghareeb suggested banning evicting bachelors from private residential areas, tection. A higher committee would be formed injured in a car crash in Egypt where he was talking about how Khorafi was a patriot- smoking in all markets and shopping malls said Kuwait would soon finish the first-of-its- to look into some of the labor-related com- studying law, passed away yesterday afternoon, ic and devoted statesman, who spent his in a bid to protect shoppers’ health. “Many kind bachelors’ city that is planned to accommo- plaints, Mukaimi added. and that the condition of his compatriot Saad Al- life serving Kuwait in various fields. Arab and foreign countries ban this bad date 40,000 workers in very humane conditions. Enezi was improving after receiving medical Municipal Council member Fahd Al-Sane habit in shopping malls,” he argued, urging He added that his team’s mission was limited to MP slams oil ministry treatment. Matters had been arranged with his suggested naming one of Kuwait’s main the Kuwait Municipality to set a related law six months according to the Cabinet’s instruc- MP Mohammed Al-Huwailah urged Oil university to allow Enezi to sit for his exams from streets after Khorafi, and his proposal that would fine violators. tions. Minister Ali Al-Omair and Kuwait Petroleum the hospital. Solar power helps overcome Kuwait Cardiac water shortage: KISR Director Society calls for quitting smoking KUWAIT: The use of solar power in part of an initiative to foster the use of fiting from sources of renewable energy. water desalination is “a logical solution solar power for generating electricity in In the meantime, KFAS has recently KUWAIT: Kuwait Cardiac Society (KCS) called on all citizens and to drinking water shortage,” a Kuwaiti Kuwait, KFAS Director General Dr Adnan adopted a host of model projects on expatriates in Kuwait to quit smoking and protect their health from official said yesterday. Shihab-Eldin told the event. The project solar power for promoting the use of smoking risks, which is a key cause of heart diseases and cancer. Director General of the Kuwait Smoking according to World Health Organization (WHO) reports, is Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Dr considered a main factor for heart diseases, cancer, and chronic res- Naji Al-Mutairi made the statement at a piratory diseases, KCS said in a statement yesterday on the occasion workshop organized by KISR’s Water of the International Day for Fighting Smoking, which falls on May 31. Research Center on the use of solar Kuwait was a pioneer in signing the WHO framework agreement power in desalination. on fighting tobacco consumption, it added. KCS regularly organizes He stressed the momentousness of campaigns in order to spread awareness among society members. implementing a MoU signed with The KRC’s mobile unit team offers medical advices for people, like French universities and research institu- consuming healthy food, and practicing physical activities, besides tions for cooperation in solar energy. A offering various services like checking the levels of blood pressure, similar one has recently been signed blood sugar, cholesterol, as well as taking the measures of height Colonel Khalil Al-Amir with a South Korean university. The KISR and weight. It expressed its concern over the rising smoking levels top official expected the workshop to among youth and youngsters, besides the impact of smoking on help promote the KISR’s relations with non-smokers, noting the real need of implementing smoking fight- KFSD denies fuel partners from Germany, Italy and ing law number 15 for year 1995, besides the smoking related arti- Singapore for more cooperation in the cles in environment protection law number 42 for the year 2014. The vital field, as well as exchanging data cardiovascular disease deaths reached 17.5 million people in 2012 tank fire claims and views. according to WHO, forming 31 percent out of the total death world- Mutairi revealed that KISR had wide of the same year, the KCS added. By Hanan Al-Saadoun designed, installed and operated an Kuwait Cardiac Society called for protecting children from the experimental water desalination plant risks of negative smoking from the part of their smoking parents or KUWAIT: Director of Public Relations at Kuwait Fire at the site of the Water Research Center. relatives in houses or at public areas and welcomed the issuance of Services Directorate (KFSD) Colonel Khalil Al-Amir The plant aims at testing research out- KUWAIT: KISR’s Director General Dr Naji Al-Mutairi speaks during the workshop. —KUNA the children protection law number 21/2015. Kuwait achieved a denied claims on social media that filling up a vehicle’s come and the technical and economic decrease in the deaths of infants, and children below five years old, feasibility of using solar power for water fuel tank by full causes fires. He said in a statement as well as a drop in maternal mortality, besides getting rid of com- released yesterday that manufacturers keep in mind the desalination. comes in line with directives by His photovoltaic systems to produce elec- municable diseases among children. —KUNA This is one of the model projects Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- tricity, other at home or coops, in a bid pressure inside the fuel tank and relieve it by a special adopted by the Kuwait Foundation for Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who is also to lessen pressure on the state electrici- valve, and there is no relation between filling up the the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) as KFAS Chairman, to give priority to bene- ty grid. —KUNA tank and fires. Woman arrested for robbery Rheumatoid diseases drop Hawally detectives arrested a female citizen who stole from the bag of another woman in a cooperative society, then discarded the purse. The suspect con- among Kuwaiti women fessed to committing several thefts the same way. Multiple arrests KUWAIT: The proportion of Kuwaiti cause of rheumatoid diseases, she cating this is a big difference between Jahra detectives arrested a Syrian man wanted to women suffering from rheumatoid said, stressing it is the first study in its the two groups compared to the same serve four years in drugs and liquor cases. Meanwhile, a arthritis diseases slipped due to little kind conducted in the Middle East. groups in the developed countries. Jordanian man sentenced for four years on a misde- smoking compared to the proportion Due to its accurate and important About 64 percent of men suffer meanor was arrested and sent to concerned authorities. of women in the developed countries, data, the results of the study will be from CCB compared to 54 percent of Separately, Capital detectives arrested a citizen with said a consultant rheumatologist at presented in the European conference women, she added, noting rheuma- heroin. Capital detectives also arrested a citizen wanted the Amiri Hospital. This was shown in on rheumatoid diseases to be hosted toid diseases in Kuwait generally hit to serve three years in jail for weapons possession. a study conducted by the Kuwait by Rome in June, she said. one percent. The average age of Registry for Rheumatic Diseases on About 62 percent of Kuwaiti Kuwaiti people who suffer from Security campaign 1,000 Kuwaiti patients, Dr Adeeba Al- women suffer from this disease com- rheumatoid diseases is 45 years, she Capital security forces launched campaigns to pur- Herz said in a statement yesterday. pared to 75 percent in other coun- said. Rheumatoid is a chronic disease sue criminals and enforce the law. The department set The study showed that smoking tries, she made clear. Twenty percent caused by a disorder in the function of KUWAIT: This image taken yesterday shows debris completely blocking a lane off Qutaiba Street in up 58 inspection points from May 17 to 23, resulting in causes protein of CCB inside the of Kuwaiti men smoke compared to immune system that leads to severe the arrest of 41 persons wanted over civil cases, eight Hawally. —Photo by Islam Al-Sharaa blood of smoker, which is a main two percent of women, she said, indi- osteoarthritis. —KUNA for felonies, 28 absconders and 103 visa violators.

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KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality teams carried out a campaign in Mubarakiya to inspect violations on buildings’ roofs. A total of 10 warnings were issued during the campaign, which covered 35 buildings. The campaign was carried out in cooperation with the Kuwait Fire Services Directorate. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief KISR honoring ceremony Sudan praises Kuwait’s support CBK promotes ‘Base’ KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh KHARTOUM: Sudanese Minister of Labor and Administrative account promotion Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is set to patron- Reforms Ishraga Sayed Mahmoud praised Kuwait for offering ize the honoring ceremony of distinguished work- substantial support for the nation over the past 40 years. The KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) was present ers at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research(KISR) official expressed gratitude for the Kuwaiti assistance follow- at the Avenues Mall recently to promote its latest ‘Your Prize, Your Choice’ promotion that is offered as part of the ‘Base’ for the 6th session (2014-2015) today. Minister of ing a meeting with the Kuwaiti ambassador Talal Mansour Al- Hajeri. She also underlined the historic and close ties account package. The promotion includes monthly raffle Education and Minister of Higher Education Bader draws with the final one set on June 7. The winner gets to Hamad Al-Essa will attend the ceremony at KISR between the two countries in the economic, immigration and sustainable development’s sectors. Kuwait has funded a large choose between a 2015 Lexus IS 250, a KD 1,000 monthly headquarters on the behalf of HH the Crown number of vital ventures, thus backing up the country’s econ- salary for a whole year or a luxurious trip to Dubai on a pri- Prince. —KUNA omy and development, she said. —KUNA vate jet and a stay at Atlantis, The Palm hotel. Photo of the day

KUWAIT: An outside view of the Gulf Bank headquarters building in downtown Kuwait City. The building is located at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Street in the nation’s capital; where it relocated back in 1974. Morocco to strengthen Citizens honored at cultural ties with Kuwait House of National Works

TAN TAN: Morocco seeks to take to a this southern desert down under the General Conference in 2003. By Faten Omar new height its cultural ties with patronage of King Mohammad VI “The two countries are bound to Kuwait on par with the exemplary between May 22 and 27. bilateral deals on mutual assistance to KUWAIT: Two Kuwaiti citizens were hon- political ties, Secretary General of the Meriny welcomed Kuwait as a register on the UNESCO List of ored at the Kuwait House of National works Moroccan Ministry of Culture guest of honor to the festival, saying Intangible Cultural Heritage their living yesterday as goodwill ambassadors. Yousef Mohammad Al-Meriny said. Kuwait’s participation in the event expressions, such as oral traditions, Al-Ameri and Bashayer Al-Awad were cho- “The visit exchanges and participa- falls in the framework of memoran- crafts, performing arts, social practices, sen by a Korean NGO as representatives of dum of understanding between the goodwill and peace from Kuwait. organizer of the event and Sheikh The honoring ceremony, part of the mul- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Heritage ti-day event at the House of National Works Village. aimed at promoting peace and goodwill “The presence of the Kuwaiti cultur- regionally and globally was attended by a al heritage with its desert dimensions number of government representatives, adds significance to this festival which embassy officials and Ibrahim Al-Baghli, sheds light on the Bedouin culture in chairman of the Ibrahim Taher Al-Baghli the regions of North Africa and the Foundation for the Obedient Son. Arabian Gulf,” he said. Meriny com- The Heavenly Culture, World Peace, mended Kuwait’s leading cultural role Restoration of Light (HWPL) a Korean non- in the Arab region since 1950s in terms governmental, non-profit organization hon- ored the two locals for their contribution to KUWAIT: Yousef Al-Ameri receives his certificate from the of publications, press and media. Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light organiza- Director of the heritage depart- the event. During his speech, Yousef Al-Ameri, head tion. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat Mohammad Al-Meriny ment of the Moroccan Ministry of Abdullah Al-Alawi Culture Abdullah Al-Alawi said the of the Kuwait House of National Works, said tion by the two countries in the cul- cultural exchanges between his coun- rituals and festive events,” he added. “We celebrating ‘Forgiveness, Peace, tural activities in each other can help try and Kuwait will have a new Amiri Diwan Advisor Mohammad Rejection of Violence and Unlicensed cement the relationship between the momentum in the coming weeks after Sharar leads Kuwait’s delegation to the Weapons’ festival on the second day in a two brotherly peoples,” he said on the Kuwait joins the Convention for the Tan Tan festival which has been listed as row, and today we welcomed the Korean sidelines of the 11th Tan-Tan cultural Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural a UNESCO intangible heritage since delegation of the HWPL from South Korea to season. The festival is being held in Heritage, passed by the UNESCO 2005. —KUNA participate in our festival, this organization is the biggest organization seeking for peace in the whole world.” Kuwaiti writer wins He pointed out that the Kuwait House of Condolences National Works was given permission by The prize in children’s Ministry of Interior to receive anyone who ho, when disaster strikes them, say, ‘Indeed we wants to hand over his weapon to the belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will literature in Ajman Kuwait House. He added that the “Wreturn’.” (Surah Al-Baqarah A: 156). AJMAN: Kuwaiti writer Heba Mandani won the ‘Forgiveness, Peace, Rejection of Violence May Almighty Allah accept the heartfelt and deepest con- first place prize in the children literature cate- and Unlicensed Weapons’ festival will be dolences from the office staff of Loay Jassem Al-Khorafi on the gory yesterday for her children story “City of going till June22, 2015. The ceremony sad demise of former National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al- Clouds”. The prize is presented by the Board of included a musical show, and a national Khorafi, who passed away at the age of 75 on May 21, 2015. A Trustees of Rashid bin Humaid Award for poetry in the love of Kuwait. At the end of true son of the soil, the rarest of the rare, a true nationalist, vet- Culture and Science in its 31st edition, and the event, the Kuwait House of National Works honored the volunteering young eran politician and prudent statesman, he dedicated his whole organized by Umm Al Moumineen Women’s A child is honored for participating in the national poetry segment. life for the cause of progress, prosperity and welfare of Kuwait Association in Ajman, UAE. people who organized the festival. and the Gulf region. Mandani said that she has received the prize He was elected as MP more than nine times. He was the along with a commemorative shield and a cer- finance minister from 1985 to 1990 during a period of tribula- tificate of merit, expressing her joy for winning tion. Verily, he proved a true patriotic leader who strived for the first place and wished other contestants the freedom of Kuwait from the brutal attack by neighboring better luck in next editions of the prize. Iraq. He was the speaker of the National Assembly from 1999 She also expressed her gratitude to the to 2011. Obviously, Kuwait has lost one of its most loyal son prize organizers for their efforts in enriching and a true national leader. thought, culture, and sciences in the Arab “Our Lord, accept [this] from us. Indeed You are the Hearing, region, noting that Gulf countries attach more the Knowing.” “Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] attention to children literature due to its impor- good and in the hereafter [that which is] good and protect us tance, effectiveness, and contribution to raising from the punishment of the fire.” [Holy Quran, Surah Al- children awareness and education from early Baqarah 127 and 201]. stages of their lives. The Kuwaiti writer expressed her hope that May Almighty Allah accept our prayers and blessings and she continues her writing to serve childhood, rest his soul in peace in heaven. Amen. adding that she plans to divide her time in the With deepest regards, future between children writing and participat- Nazeer Ahmed, Maged Besht, Ahmed Bhagat and Basheer ing in reading programs and writing work- Ahmed shops for children. —KUNA A musical performance featured during the event. LOCAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 US beef certified ‘halal’: US Meat Export Federation

By Ben Garcia quality and firmness of the beef prod- ucts. KUWAIT: US meat sold to the GCC is ‘halal’ and certified by the Halal Board of Quality and cut America, explains Bassam Bousaleh, “One will look for what they call clear Regional Program Manager from the US and red meat; but customers should Meat Export Federation. In an effort at understand that redness of the beef putting to rest persistent questions does not guarantee freshness of the about the issue, Bousaleh said that any beef. If fact, clear red meat has no taste, beef or meat brought here from the US there is no firmness, no flavor and juici- is “certified halal by the ‘Halal Board in ness,” he said. “Instead look for the US America. If it is sold to Kuwait and other beef which guarantees the quality and GCC countries then it is absolutely halal, safety of every beef products. Our beef is period! There are certificates given 100 percent best quality and safe. We before it could travel to the GCC coun- don’t mix the cattle breeds for milk and tries,” he explained. cattle breeds for meat. If they are bred Bousaleh was speaking at the US Beef for milk they’ll remain for the milk pur- Workshop organized for local chefs in poses only, same with the cattle for Kuwait by the US Meat Export meat,” he reiterated. Federation and National Cattlemen’s US cattle, according to Bousaleh, are Beef Association and held at the Holiday fed with high energy corn and soybean Inn Salmiya. The US Meat Exporters diets and those cattle are readied only Federation organized the one-day event after nine to 30 months. to educate chefs from five and four star Workshop attendees were shown var- hotels and from various casual and fine ious beef cutting techniques and a video dining restaurants all over Kuwait. presentation about US beef and US meat “The success and secret of US beef products. The US Meat Export DUBAI: KPA Director General Sheikh Yusuf Abdullah Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah is seen during his visit to Dubai Ports World. — KUNA lies in the meat cutting techniques and Federation is a non-profit trade associa- the cooking. So we are here to share the tion aiming to increase the value and art in cutting beef for the customers profitability of US beef and lamb indus- benefit to enjoy the best of our beef tries by enhancing demand for their KPA seeks to draw on Dubai products,” Bousaleh asserted. He said products in export through dynamic clear and red meat does not guarantee partnership of all stakeholders. Ports World’s expertise

DUBAI: A high-level delegation of the Kuwait accompanied by the DP senior officials toured with KPA to develop the performance of Gulf Ports Authority (KPA) started a two-day visit to Monday the new eco-friendly and ultra-mod- ports and to further strengthen relations the Dubai Ports (DP) World to get first-hand ern Hamdan Bin Mohammad Cruise Terminal between Dubai and Kuwait. He unveiled that information and draw upon the expertise of at Mina Rashid, an affiliate to the DP. They also the trade exchange between Dubai and one of the world’s leading containers han- plan to visit Port of Jebel Ali on Tuesday. Kuwait jumped to 21 billion Emirati dirhams dling and ports operating companies. Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal (about $5.7 billion) in 2014. “The aim of the visit is to save time, and at Mina Rashid in Dubai is the world’s largest In addition to Sheikh Yusuf, the Kuwaiti del- transfer and gain the great expertise of DP single, covered cruise facility capable of han- egation comprises KPA Board Member Anwar World which operates and manages 65 ports dling 14,000 cruise passengers a day. During Al-Yassin, Deputy General Manager for across the world,” Head of the Kuwaiti delega- the tour, DP Chairman and Mina Rashid Administrative and Financial Affairs and tion and KPA Director General Sheikh Yusuf General Manager briefed the KPA delegation Kuwaiti Al-Doha Port Chairman Yahia Al-Abal Abdullah Sabah Al-Nasser Al-Sabah said. about the progress march of the ports indus- and Deputy Director of the KPA Planning and He added that the KPA is preparing to try and Dubai Ports’ success story. Projects Department Salma Al-Marefi. DP recruit new professional cadres to develop Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Terminal is World has a portfolio of more than 65 marine and boost its efficiency in the coming period. built on with an area of 28,000 square metres terminals across six continents, including new The KPA wants to benefit from the success to allow Mina Rashid to serve up to seven developments underway in India, Africa, stories of counterparts in the region and the cruise vessels at one time in its three termi- Europe and the Middle East. world, he said. nals, said Bin Sulayem. He stated that Mina Container handling is the company’s core Sheikh Yusuf pointed out that the delega- Rashid Port has also increased its capacity to business and generates more than three tion held talks with the DP World Chairman handle 25,000 passengers a day overall mak- quarters of its revenue. In 2014, DP World Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem, Mina Rashid ing it one of the most tourist-friendly ports in handled 60 million TEU (twenty-foot equiva- General Manager Mohammed Al-Mannaei the world. lent container units). With its committed and several other DP senior officials, on the Bin Sulayem meanwhile welcomed the KPA pipeline of developments and expansions, ameliorating bilateral cooperation and the delegation, lauding the special relations link- capacity is expected to rise to more than 100 transfer of know-how. ing the two institutions as well as the two million TEU by 2020, in line with market KUWAIT: Bassam Bousaleh and Kassem Atoui at the workshop yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Zayyat He noted that the Kuwaiti delegation nations. He expressed readiness to cooperate demand. — KUNA GCC to unify customary measures at train stations

DOHA: The Gulf Cooperation Council on customary services at train stations mechanism of direct transfer of customs (GCC) states started considering the to be discussed in the union’s upcoming tariffs automatically among GCC mem- implementation of unified customary gathering,” Director General of Kuwait’s ber states, noting Kuwait was a leading measures to transfer goods and passen- General Administration of Customs country in this regard. He indicated that gers of member states by trains and rail- (GAC) Khaled Al-Saif said yesterday. Kuwait received delegations of the ways by 2018, a Kuwaiti official said. The union recommended forming union secretariat and Saudi Arabia to “The GCC Customs Union asked the delegations of customs to pay field vis- benefit from its experience so as to Secretariat to present a working paper its to US, Mexico, Britain, Spain, China implement this mechanism between and Australia to be acquainted with the two countries. The mechanism will their experiences and the advanced be implemented inside all GCC coun- technologies used in transferring goods tries by the end of this year, he made and passengers by train, added Saif, clear. who heads the Kuwaiti delegation to Saif said the union was briefed on the 11th meeting of union that kicked the report of GCC Secretariat on specify- off in Doha on Sunday. ing commitments agreed by the coun- The union’s officials coordinate with tries pertaining to goods that will be ministries of Communications, Finance, discussed by the competent commit- Economy, GAC and companies of rails to tees. The 11th meeting aims at promot- define measures of customs and ing cooperation and coordination in the General Department of Immigration customary field. The gathering dis- needed for cross-border of GCC coun- cussed means of developing scientific tries, he noted. initiatives that seek to improve perform- Khaled Al-Saif He said the meeting also discussed a ance of customs. —KUNA Kuwait’s economic policies

BERN: The Swiss National Bank (SNB) pays more attention to Kuwait’s eco- nomic policies, develop- ment projects and invest- ments, said Kuwaiti Ambassador to Switzerland. After his meeting with SNB Governor Thomas Jordan, Ambassador Bader Al- Taneeb said that the meet- ing is part of Kuwait’s keen- ness on promoting its rela- tions with Switzerland in financial and economic areas. The meeting dealt with the disengagement between the exchange rate of euro against the Swiss franc on local economy and the bank’s views on devel- opments of monetary and financial policies of the European Central Bank, the ambassador said. Switzerland is convinced that the free exchange rate of euro against Swiss franc will help the SNB get rid of a burden of commitment that the country has afford- ed during and after the global economic crisis, he noted. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Jarida Al-Qabas Have we become ‘mobile slaves’? Zahid and Najih

By Arwa Al-Waqian

recently posted the following question on By Ahmad Al-Sarraf social media networks: “Have we become Imobile slaves?” Most of the answers I received he Iran-Iraq war began in 1980 and ended in showed that we are being willingly enslaved by Rumors 1988, but after leaving vast losses and more technology. We can hardly spend fifteen minutes Tthan 1.5 million victims, its result was: nothing. without checking our mobile phones in search of This is a story that showed the destruction a any piece of information regardless of its signifi- tyrant regime can bring to its people and others. cance. We follow other people’s lives even if they Canadian director Ann Sheen, however, turned the do not mean much to us. We no more dine with- story into a heartrending documentary. out photographing our food first. We immediately The story begins with one person, Zahid, saying take a selfie once we bump into friends, even that he was 13 when war broke out between his before saying ‘hello’. We are documenting every- country and Iraq. His father used to beat him, thing as if we are shooting a documentary about because he wanted him to join the army like the rest the extinction of a rare animal, forgetting what Gossipsources news of the young men, so he decided to escape. Zahid has really become extinct is true socialization and was affected by the many horrors and continually thought of escaping, but to no avail. non-social media network communications! On the day Khoramshahr was recaptured from Though it may appear true, this entire world is the Iraqis, Zahid went to check the dead in a ditch, virtual. It is more like a short bulletin about other and there he saw the bodies of soldiers piled on top people’s lives. Such follow-up really wastes valu- of each other. He heard someone say, “This one’s able time that could be invested in things of actu- dead,” so he went over the man, checked his pocket al benefit. This virtual world has created its own to steal from him, and there found a copy of the Holy virtual stars. Everybody is dreadfully longing for Quran with a picture of a woman and child inside. fame through it. Everybody is becoming a replica The man was alive and he begged Zahid to spare his of this or that person who became a celebrity life, telling him that the picture was that of his friend thanks to social media. Al-Anbaa and her son. Zahid pitied the man, so he gave him a People who have done nothing have become pain killer and hid him for days behind the bodies of famous by posting some makeup scribbles and his comrades. Later, Zahid handed him as a prisoner stolen international designs. Most women are of war (POW) and never saw him again. dreaming of becoming like those celebrities and The story shifts to another person, Najih, narrat- ing that before the war, he owned a restaurant in receiving free gifts and trips. All dialogues are Al-Qabas revolving around them and around ‘monitoring’ Iraq, had a girlfriend whom he loved and wanted to their lives. We no longer get involved in long marry. When he was called for war, he went thinking debates without interrupting them with The Jaber Al-Ahmad homes’ scandal that he will return in two months. Snapchatting, posting a tweet or uploading a Najih said that one day in Khoramshahr, the photo on Instagram. We have become enslaved to Iranian rockets hit the ditch he was in and killed all his comrades. He was injured and was saved by a the mobile phone - we are already addicted to it By Walid Al-Ghanim young Iranian soldier, who hid him behind several and cannot do without it. These devices are literal- he Director General of the Housing Public pletes a certain stage according to what is required corpses, then later handed him as a prisoner of war. ly and unintentionally stealing us away from our The story returns to Zahid saying that he became loved ones - they are burning away our time, as Authority asked citizens who received homes in from him, he will be allowed to complete the follow- Jaber Al-Ahmad to inform the maintenance ing stage with the same system until he completes his a prisoner of war in Iraq and was released two years well as making our interests very superficial. T after the war ended. When he returned to Iran, he Constant follow-up of life around us through office of the authority about any defect in them. work. But is this what took place in the contracts and Thanks to the authority, because it did not fine citizens state projects in general and housing, for instance? Of did not find anyone. Instead, he saw a tombstone social media networks has brought mankind with his name on it. In shock and almost out of his absolutely nothing good. People are becoming for contractors’ mistakes, and was satisfied by asking course, we will answer with confidence that many gov- people to inspect their homes after leaders, engineers ernment projects do not go through these necessary mind after losing his youth and family, he decided to more envious and spiteful than ever. A complete and employees of the housing authority. It is sup- stages, and some contracts are executed in a rundown escape to Canada. But poverty, loneliness and mem- generation has become obsessed with ‘documen- posed in all government tenders that the authority state, because some authorities and ministries are not ories of war destroyed him. In physical and psycho- tation’ regardless of the real value of what they supervises contractors’ work step by step, and that any good in supervising and executing their contracts, logical stress, he seriously thought of committing document. Clinging to ‘reading’ and looking up contractor of any engineering work at housing, public either due to inability, ignorance or maybe benefit suicide, but his roommate asked him to seek help information is becoming more like jihad in view of works, electricity and other projects, does not have with some corrupt contractors who know the secret from the ‘tortured war victims’ clinic. all the shallowness and silliness everybody is the right to move even one step in the work he is path to get their full dues from the government with- The story shifts to Najih inside the clinic, speaking growing to like. The majority are now seeking asked to do until after taking the approvals and full out executing what they were contracted for - this if about how his family asked him to seek treatment at meaningless laughs and useless joys and insipidi- official passing of every brick, wire, switch and any they do not sell their contracts to those worse than the clinic, saying, “I met a person who seemed to be ty at the expense of deep meanings. piece he will provide. them. The scandal of wiring of Jaber Al-Ahmad homes an Iraqi. I attempted to speak to him, but I found out Our time is being robbed without feeling it, our After that, he executes work under the watchful eye is just a reflection of construction and engineering he was Iranian. He told me he was a POW in Iraq; I minds are becoming atrophied without noticing of engineers and their assistants and technicians of scandals that we see every day in various state author- told him I was a POW in Iran. Few questions later, I it, and unfortunately, this virtual world is stealing the state, who make sure first that the material meets ities. So, rewiring will not be any good if the damage is realized I knew this man - he was the one who saved my life in that ditch!” us from our real one! the agreed upon specifications and standards, then in the main station, because if it remains in its miser- It was a terrifying experience for both men. —Translated by Kuwait Times they supervise hands on the wirings, fixtures and able state, it will keep burning every wire and damage workmanship of the contractors’ laborers. If he com- anything new. — Translated by Kuwait Times Twenty years after their first meeting as enemies, on that Khoramshahr ditch, they meet again, but as brothers in the clinic. The two men embraced each other with love and fear, heavy tears coming out of their eyes. Zahid said at that moment that meeting Crime Najih changed his life. Najih convinced him to give up the idea of suicide and by that, he too saved his Report life. I leave the choice to the reader to apply the events of this tragedy on our current situation! Child drowns in pool —Translated by Kuwait Times

KUWAIT: A seven-year-old Kuwaiti boy drowned in a youth center swimming pool in Farwaniya, said a security source. The pool’s supervisor has been held for questioning over News negligence allegations, the source added. The child was pronounced dead upon arrival at Farwaniya Hospital. In brief Police questioned the man who brought him to the hospi- tal, and he said that the boy was swimming, then suddenly Final decision on he became motionless and was rushed to the hospital. gas prices next month KUWAIT: Recommendations resulting from a study con- ducted by Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) Weapons smuggling foiled pertaining to electricity and gas subsidies will be submit- Nuwaiseeb customs officers foiled an attempt to ted to the cabinet next month so that a final decision can smuggle weapons into Saudi Arabia, when they arrest- be made after considering the possible socio-economic ed a Gulf national who attempted to hide the guns by effects of the gradual subsidies lift, informed sources said. wrapping them with several blankets. The Gulf nation- This comes following the subsidies committee’s decision to al, who was with his family, attempted to smuggle 72 increase diesel and kerosene prices to 120 fils around the boxes containing 18,000 bullets in addition to six shot- start of June. In this regard, a high-ranking Kuwait guns and an air rifle. The man was sent to concerned Petroleum Corporation official said that their recommend- authorities for further action. ed gas prices were based on daily international average oil derivatives prices. Meanwhile, economic observers pre- dicted a wave of price increases in consumer goods or services’ prices, in the near future, especially those which Artist, manager trade jabs are closely related to diesel and kerosene. — Annahar with fashion designer Mediation attempts between a Lebanese fashion designer and an Iraqi business manager failed, so a com- Raj’an funds to be frozen plaint was filed in Jabriya police station that included ‘ver- KUWAIT: Well-informed legal sources said the govern- bal insults.’ A security source said the business manager ment would take a series of measures soon to freeze the made an agreement with the designer to make several funds belonging to former social security director Fahd dresses for TV programs, but later found out the dresses Al-Raj’an in Egypt, Lebanon and UAE as well as in some were completely different from what his artist ordered. The Asian countries. The sources added that such measures manager told his female artist, which later escalated to would prevent Raj’an and his family members from swearing and trade of insults between the two sides. accessing these funds due to the ongoing investigations by the public prosecution. The sources added that a spe- cial judicial and legal delegation would soon travel to those countries to finalize the procedures needed to Attempted kidnapping freeze the funds, especially after similar measures suc- Capital police arrested a 24-year-old Egyptian man ceeded in Switzerland and Britain. — Al-Jarida after a 31-year-old Jordanian woman screamed for help in Bneid Al-Qar. The woman accused the man of attempting to kidnap her. The man is detained at Ramadan donations Daeya police station. KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih said MSAL’s charities department had distributed a directive to various charities asking them to determine the number of Ramadan donation collections receipt books each. She also ‘Naked’ maid threatens sponsor said that the receipt books were already being printed and Jahra police was able to control an Ethiopian woman will be distributed by next week after randomly stamping who was wielding a knife while she was naked, according each using a special rubberstamp, adding they had prepared to the police report. She threatened to kill her sponsor special ID cards and nametags for donation collectors. and his family members at their home, but she was quick- Subaih, who is also minister of state for planning and develop- ly subdued and taken to Waha police station. A security ment, added the charities will get the nametags by the end of source said the woman, who worked as a maid at the May and that no one would be allowed to collect any dona- same house, was in ‘a state of frenzy’ as she was both cry- tions during Ramadan unless he has the ID on him. “There are ing and laughing. no restrictions to charity; and Kuwait has always been known for its benevolence worldwide. We are only regulating the process,” she underlined.— Al-Rai Man robbed of KD 275 An Iranian expat told Rumaithiya police station that Surveillance cameras he was mugged and his wallet, which contained his KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry asked the municipalities driver’s license, civil ID and KD 275 cash, was stolen. and other public areas to ask their specialized depart- The victim pressed charges against two citizens and an ments to provide high quality surveillance systems Iranian man, adding that the mugging took place after that can do round-the-clock surveillance. The Interior he was lured by the third suspect. Ministry added that before installation, they will send a — Al-Anbaa and Al-Qabas technical team to inspect the buildings and determine where the cameras should be mounted. —Al-Qabas TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Storms flood US Islamic State faces battle in Iraq, bombs in Syria Midwest; 3 dead

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Temperatures hit 50 degrees Celsius, force taxis off the road

HYDERABAD: More than 430 people an official with the state’s disaster man- have died in two Indian states during a agement department, said. Hundreds of heatwave that has seen temperatures mainly poor people die at the height of nudge 50 degrees Celsius and force summer every year across the country, Kolkata’s iconic yellow taxis off the road, while tens of thousands suffer power cuts officials said yesterday. Officials warned from an overburdened electricity grid. the toll was almost certain to rise, with “The kind of heatwave we are seeing figures still being collected in some parts now is slightly higher than normal. The of the hard-hit Telangana state in the temperatures here have almost touched country’s south, and with no end in sight 48-49 degrees Celsius (118-120 degrees to the searing conditions. Fahrenheit),” said B. R Meena, principal Large parts of India, including national secretary of revenue for Telangana. Poorly capital New Delhi, have endured days of paid workers said they could ill afford to sweltering heat, prompting fears of pow- heed the warnings to stay at home to er cuts. But the highest temperatures avoid the worst of the heat. “I am a dia- have been recorded in Telangana and betes patient, but I have no husband and neighboring Andhra Pradesh state. no sons, so I have to stay here and keep Andhra Pradesh authorities are urging shop,” said P Gangamma, 65, who runs a laborers and others not to work long cigarette stand at a busy intersection in hours in the heat of the day after 246 Telangana’s capital, Hyderabad. Gurunath people died from the high temperatures Patil, who plies his auto rickshaw in the there in the last week. “The majority of capital from 8.30am to 4pm, said “you the victims are people who have been can’t make money sitting at home.” exposed to the sun directly, usually aged Several deaths have also been report- 50 and above and from the working ed in the northwestern desert state of classes,” P Tulsi Rani, special commissioner Rajasthan in recent days including a of Andhra Pradesh’s disaster manage- woman who collapsed on the roadside in ment department said. Bundi city, the Press Trust of India said. In Rani said although the deaths started the eastern city of Kolkata, taxi unions occurring on Monday last week, the num- have urged drivers to stay off the roads ber increased rapidly towards the end of during the day. “We are not forcing it on the week after days of scorching heat. anyone. [But] we have requested all driv- “We are asking them to take precautions ers and taxi owners to remain off the like using an umbrella, using a cap, taking roads ... when the heat is extreme,” a huge quantity of liquids like water and Pramod Jha, secretary of West Bengal buttermilk, and wearing cotton clothing,” Taxi Workers Union said. India’s weather he said. Another 188 people have died in bureau warned “heatwave to severe Telangana since April, although most heatwave conditions would prevail” in fatalities have occurred since the middle Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in com- HYDERABAD: An Indian man rests under a transport vehicle on the outskirts of Hyderabad yesterday. More than 430 people have died in two of last week. Latest figures are still being ing days as well as in northern states and Indian states from a days-long heatwave that has seen temperatures nudging 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). — AFP confirmed and highly likely to rise, D Vani, New Delhi. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

‘Wall’ of religious hatred divides Central African town

BODA: The outbreak of violence that plunged the ‘Nowhere to go’ Central African Republic into chaos in 2013 has left a Saidou Bouba, a Muslim farmer with scars from legacy of suspicion, fear and hatred that still plagues machete blows criss-crossing his face, recalls how he places like the southern mining town of Boda. “There’s was attacked on March 25 last year by anti-balaka mili- an invisible wall. It’s as if we’re in prison,” says Bouburori tants as he was trying to flee the nearby town of Bindowo, deputy mayor of the town of around 11,000 Ngkontikil with his family. The militants killed his two people, whose Muslim residents, of whom he is one, live wives-one of whom was pregnant-and four children, segregated from the often hostile Christian majority. The and left him for dead. These days many Muslim residents violence erupted after the 2013 coup that ousted presi- do not venture out of their enclave, are caught in a lim- dent Francois Bozize and pushed the country into a con- bo and subsist primarily on humanitarian aid. flict that took on an unprecedented religious dimension, “We can’t work in the mines, can’t go into the fields, pitting sections of Christian and Muslim populations look for firewood, trade, travel. We sell our belongings against one another. to survive. We don’t have the means to leave, but we Largely Christian “anti-balaka”-or anti-machete-mili- don’t have the means to stay,” says Bindowo. “We have tias were formed to avenge atrocities by the mostly nowhere to go (although) we are sons of this land,” Muslim Seleka rebels behind the coup, resulting in comments Ahamat Ali as he walks through the ruins of waves of killing, rape and pillaging since. Despite the his former shop, estimating the losses he and his part- deployment of French forces and the United Nations ners suffered at between 50 million and 100 million MINUSCA mission to restore peace, the UN’s refugee CFA (75,000 to 150,000 euros, $82,600 to $165,100). agency says continuing violence displaced around Fear runs high on both sides of the divide. Christelle 30,000 people within the country since last December Dovasio, a 22-year-old Christian, says her husband and alone, with another 20,000 having sought refuge in father-in-law were killed in attacks by Muslim neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence assailants that she escaped by fleeing with her three around Boda in 2014 saw anti-balaka militias massacring children into the bush. “We’re scared,” she says. “We Muslim Fulani shepherds, and destroying most shops in BODA: Christian refugees wait at the Catholic mission in Boda, southern Central African Republic. want the Muslims to leave!” the centre of town. Surrounded by Christians, several thousand of Muslims live entrenched in a neighborhood of this Both communities accuse the other of stockpiling As a result, local Muslims-whose extremist ele- mining town which was disfigured by the inter-religious clashes that plunged the country into chaos arms and preparing new attacks-suspicion that may ments also engaged in killing sprees-now live massed in December 2013. —AFP not be entirely unfounded. “There are arms caches on together for protection, relying on the ruins of walls in sion, despite a period of calm the past two months. mond mining town, whose Christians and Muslims no both sides, but now is not the time to attempt to dis- central Boda to serve as a buffer zone between the “The illness comes quickly, but it is cured slowly,” longer interact, despite often living just meters apart. arm (them) — it’s too early,” said the deputy chief of two communities. Tensions in the town still run high, Mitolo says of the situation. Congolese soldiers from Wounds inflicted by the violence continue to dampen the local police, which has moved its station to the says Evariste Mitolo, a soldier with the MINUSCA mis- the UN force operate from a hill overlooking the dia- any desire for intermingling. town’s invisible Christian-Muslim border. —AFP Israel’s ex-PM Olmert jailed for corruption

JERUSALEM: Former Israeli prime minister the contribution to the country made by Ehud Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in Olmert”. prison for corruption yesterday, the latest legal Press reports said former British premier blow in a spectacular fall from grace. Lawyers Tony Blair, now the Quartet’s Middle East envoy, for Olmert, who was premier from 2006 to 2009, provided a character reference for Olmert. In a crowning a political career spanning decades, letter to the court, Blair praised Olmert’s efforts immediately announced they would appeal. to promote Middle East peace. Olmert has The 69-year-old already faces a six-year prison always insisted on his innocence, describing the sentence handed down in a separate bribery allegations as “a brutal, ruthless witch-hunt”. His case which is the subject of an appeal to the defense team said they would appeal as there supreme court. He remains at liberty until the was “no evidence of personal use by Olmert” of appeals have been heard, but will have to serve the money handed over by US businessman the two jail terms consecutively if they are Morris Talansky. The former premier had initially upheld. been acquitted of fraud and corruption in the The Jerusalem district court convicted case, escaping in 2012 with a $19,000 fine and a Olmert of fraud and corruption in March follow- suspended jail sentence for breach of trust. ing a retrial over allegations that he had received envelopes of cash from a US business- Secret recordings man while trade and industry minister in the But new evidence came to light during his early 2000s. Passing sentence, the three-judge trial in the other corruption case, and prose- bench said: “The conduct of Ehud Olmert merits cutors again pressed the charges. In return for a custodial sentence. “A public servant-a minis- a reduction in sentence, his former secretary ter-who receives cash payments in dollars, and confidante Shula Zaken brought to the keeps them in a secret safe and uses them for court secret recordings of conversations she personal purposes, is committing a crime which had with Olmert in which he is heard talking undermines the people’s confidence in public about the tens of thousands of dollars he had office.” The judges also handed Olmert an addi- received. The six-year prison sentence hand- TIKRIT: Iraqi fighters from the Shiite popular mobilization unit hold position on the outskirts of Baiji refinery north of Tikrit, in the Salahaddin tional suspended eight-month prison term and ed down against Olmert in May last year was province, during a joint operation with the Iraqi army to retake the remaining area of the oil refinery from Islamic State (IS)group jihadists yester- a 100,000-shekel (nearly $25,000) fine in what the first ever against a former Israeli premier day. Iraq rejected accusations by the US defense chief that its security forces dodged battle in Ramadi and lack the will to fight the IS group.—AFP they said was a “light sentence in recognition of for corruption.— AFP Iraq leader rebuts US criticism on security Criticism of Iraqis raises policy questions

BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday rejected accusations by the Ramadi fightback imminent Palmyra violence US defense chief that its security forces dodged battle Ahmed Al-Assadi, spokesman of the Hashed Al- The capture of Ramadi together with the IS in Ramadi and lack the will to fight the Islamic State Shaabi umbrella organization for Shiite militia and vol- takeover of Palmyra in eastern Syria last week has con- group. Pentagon chief Ashton Carter argued that the unteers Abadi reluctantly called in after Ramadi’s fall, solidated the jihadists’ grip on the heart of their self- May 17 fall of Ramadi, the worst defeat Baghdad has reacted angrily to Carter’s comments. “This lack of will proclaimed caliphate. IS jihadists in different parts of suffered in almost a year, could have been avoided. the US defense secretary mentioned is how the ene- Syria’s Homs province have executed 67 civilians and “We have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight mies of Iraq have tried to depict the Iraqi security 150 members of regime forces since May 16, accord- ISIL and defend themselves,” he told CNN on Sunday, forces,” he said. The government has nonetheless ing to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. using one of the acronyms referring to the Islamic admitted to shortcomings, vowing to investigate the Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said whole JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gestures during his trial yes- State organization. Washington has been one of chaotic retreat from Ramadi and punish “recalcitrant” families had been executed, including children with terday at Jerusalem’s District Court. A Jerusalem court sentenced Olmert to eight Baghdad’s key partners in the war to reclaim the fighters. After a year of fighting and despite a string of their parents, after Syrian state media said IS had car- months in prison, after convicting him of corruption in a March retrial. —AFP ground lost to IS last year and Iraqi Prime Minister territorial losses, the jihadists’ will to fight, on the other ried out a “massacre” in Palmyra, slaughtering some Haider Al-Abadi expressed disbelief at Carter’s sting- hand, was never really in doubt. IS is a trim fighting 400 civilians. Syrian regime aircraft launched at least ing comments. “I’m surprised why he said that. I mean, force which has time and again displayed great tacti- 15 strikes in and around Palymra yesterday, the most he was very supportive of Iraq. I am sure he was fed cal skill and whose men see death on the battlefield as intense raids since the jihadists overran the city on Yemen war rages; peace hopes fade with the wrong information,” Abadi told the BBC. the ultimate reward. Thursday, the Britain-based monitor reported. The loss of Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s largest province Abadi and Washington had hoped to keep the On Sunday, IS forces also crossed from Syria with SANAA: Rebel forces and loyalist fighters were which of the warring parties would attend the Anbar, raised questions over the strategy adopted not Hashed and its Iranian-backed militia out the Sunni two suicide car bombs to attack the Iraqi side of the locked in fierce fighting in Yemen yesterday as talks slated for Thursday in Geneva. “I can con- only by Baghdad but also by Washington to tackle IS. stronghold of Anbar. But the collapse of the security southern border crossing. Iraqi border guards prompt- hopes of a political solution faded after the firm that the meeting has been postponed,” a Months of air strikes and the deployment of advisers forces during the fall of Ramadi was seen by most ly retreated to a nearby crossing with Jordan, arguing United Nations postponed peace talks. Clashes UN official told AFP on Sunday, without provid- to reform and train the security forces have failed to as evidence that Baghdad could not afford to do they had repeatedly called for reinforcements, in vain. raged in the country’s third city Taez, sowing ing further immediate explanation. The post- keep up with IS’s aggressive tactics. “Secretary Carter’s without the Hashed’s determination to fight and In Iraq’s Diyala province, which the government panic after Shiite Houthi rebels bombarded ponement is another blow to UN efforts to bro- remarks are surprising and likely to negatively affect sheer numbers. “It makes my heart bleed because claimed to have cleared of IS fighters in January, eight several districts with rocket and tank fire. ker peace in a country where nearly 2,000 peo- the morale of the ISF,” Iraq analyst Ahmed Ali said, we lost Ramadi but I can assure you we can bring it bombs went off almost simultaneously early Sunday, “There’s a real massacre going on in Taez, the ple have been killed since March. using the acronym for the Iraqi security forces. Ali, a back soon,” Abadi told the BBC. Iraqi regular forces security sources said. Intelligence had been received city that spearheaded the revolt” against for- visiting senior fellow at the Education for Peace in Iraq backed by the Hashed and Sunni tribal fighters of a possible wave of bomb attacks and only 14 peo- mer president Ali Abdullah Saleh who now Hadi’s demands Centre, argued there were several examples of Iraqi from Anbar have begun clawing back land east of ple were wounded in the blasts in the towns of supports the Houthis, one resident said. “Saleh Hadi had laid out his government’s forces showing plenty of grit and cited the Baiji refin- Ramadi over the past few days. Abadi said the Baquba and Baladruz, a senior official said. A top offi- has aligned himself with the rebels to take demands in a pre-talks letter to UN Secretary ery, where elite troops have repelled relentless IS major counteroffensive in Anbar would be cial said he feared more attacks and said Baquba was revenge,” Bassam Al-Qadhi added. Saleh quit in General Ban Ki-moon, insisting that the rebels attacks for months. launched in a matter of days. sealed off as a precaution.— AFP early 2012 after bloody year-long protests must withdraw from territory they have seized. against his rule, and was replaced by He reiterated his position on Sunday during Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi who has taken talks in Riyadh with Ban’s special envoy, Ismail refuge along with his government in neighbor- Ould Cheikh Ahmed. In a bid to restore Hadi’s IS facing fierce battle in Iraq, bombs in Syria ing Saudi Arabia. authority, Saudi Arabia has led an air campaign Yesterday’s clashes in Taez came just four against the Houthis since March 26. Coalition Pro-government forces prepare to retake the city days before a new UN effort was to have been aircraft bombarded targets across the country held, aiming to resolve the conflict in the at the weekend, including the airport in second BAGHDAD: Islamic State poured more fighters into gents, and yesterday retook a rural area south of the Major setback impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation. But city Aden and its northern suburbs, officials Ramadi yesterday as security forces and Shiite para- city. Police sources said Iraqi security forces supported The fall of Ramadi is the most significant set- there had been growing uncertainty over said. —AFP militaries renewed efforts to retake the western Iraqi by Iran-backed Shiite militia groups and locally back for Iraqi forces in almost a year and has cast city that fell to the Islamists a week ago in a major set- recruited Sunni tribal fighters had retaken parts of Al- doubt on the effectiveness of a US-led strategy for back for the government. In Palmyra, the Syrian air Tash, 20 km south of Ramadi, which lies only a short fighting the Sunni militant group. The seizures of force launched strikes at buildings captured by distance from Baghdad. Ramadi and Palmyra were the group’s biggest suc- Islamic State, whose occupation of the city has raised Ramadi residents said trucks carrying Islamic cesses since a US-led coalition launched an air war fears that the insurgents will destroy its famed Roman State fighters arrived on Sunday evening before against it last year. The near simultaneous victories ruins. Islamic state has killed at least 217 people exe- spreading out across the city. Local man Abu Saed against the Iraqi and Syrian armies have forced cution-style, including children, since it moved into heard a commotion outside his house in the city’s Washington to examine its strategy, which involves the Palmyra area 10 days ago, according to the southeastern Officers neighborhood. “I saw two bombing from the air but leaving fighting on the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A trucks pull up outside with dozens of fighters carry- ground to local forces. In a sharp criticism of further 300 soldiers were killed in fighting before the ing arms running quickly into nearby buildings and Washington’s ally, US Defense Secretary Ashton city was captured, according to the monitoring taking cover.” Another resident said at least 40 Carter accused the Iraqi army of abandoning group. fighters had jumped out of three trucks that Ramadi to a much smaller enemy force. “The Iraqi Islamic State reinforced Ramadi yesterday, deploy- arrived in the southern Al-Tamim district at around forces just showed no will to fight,” he told CNN’s ing fighters in preparation for battle against security 8 pm on Sunday. “They were carrying weapons and State of the Union program on Sunday. forces and paramilitary groups advancing on the wearing mostly khaki dress with ammunition belts The general in charge of Iran’s paramilitary provincial capital. Iraqi forces have regained ground wrapped around their chests,” said Abu Mutaz. activities in the Middle East meanwhile said the MARIB: Soldiers loyal to Yemen’s President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi march during a east of the city since launching a counter-offensive on “They were talking in an Arabic dialect, they were United States and other powers were failing to parade yesterday in Marib province, east of the capital, Sanaa. —AFP Saturday, a week after it was overrun by the insur- not Iraqis.” confront Islamic State. —Reuters INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 In Mexico gunfight region, population lives in fear

TANHUATO DE GUERRERO: Rodolfo Chagoya was about shocked by the intensity of Friday’s battle, even though to cut firewood near the El Sol ranch in western Mexico they didn’t witness it. “You don’t get used to things like when suddenly, he said, “I heard ‘rat-at-at-at!’ It was a horri- that,” Chagoya said under his straw hat in the nearby town ble thing.” The corn farmer said Friday’s gunfight that of Ecuandureo, while a friend lamented that he was killed 42 criminal suspects and one federal police officer unable to sell products Friday because people were hid- made him even more afraid of working his plot of land in ing inside their homes. Chagoya said he often sees “bad the violent region. The ranch was the scene of one of the people” cross the fields, though he never came face to bloodiest battles in nearly a decade of drug conflicts in face with armed gangsters. Mexico, with burning vehicles blowing up and assault The region is known as the “western drug corridor” rifles echoing across corn fields. with mountains that provide cover for labs producing syn- The shootout took place in Tanhuato, Michoacan state, thetic drugs that are smuggled into the United States. The near the border with Jalisco. The two states have endured New Generation, a former wing of the powerful Sinaloa some of the worst violence in the drug war. This month, a cartel, now dominates the regional underworld after mayoral candidate was assassinated in Yurecuaro, a fighting the ultra-violent Zetas gang in Jalisco and the Michoacan town near Tanhuato ahead of June 7 elections. Knights Templar criminal group in neighboring The mayor of Tanhuato, Gustavo Garibay, was assassinat- Michoacan. President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration ed by an armed group in March 2014. The municipality’s launched on May 1 an operation to dismantle the New secretary general was also murdered. In La Barca, a Jalisco Generation, whose attacks on police has made it a top tar- municipality bordering the two states, 64 bodies were get. Friday’s clash was part of the efforts to break up the unearthed from mass graves in 2013. “There’s a lot of miss- group. ing and dead people,” an elderly man who refused to give his name said in Tanhuato. “This is no man’s land.” ‘Small town, big hell’ The local population, meanwhile, is afraid to openly ‘Western drug corridor’ talk about living in fear of the New Generation cartel. The Jalisco New Generation drug cartel is the domi- Many in Tanhuato claim they didn’t even hear Friday’s TANHUATO: Mexican soldiers patrol the ranch along the Jalisco-Michoacan highway in Tanhuato, nant criminal group in the region. Earlier this month, it gunfight, which authorities said lasted three hours and Michoacan State, where gunmen took cover during an intense gun battle. — AFP downed a military helicopter with a rocket-propelled involved a police helicopter.”I didn’t know about this. I grenade, killing seven soldiers and a policewoman. It don’t get out of my house,” said a woman who sells where people are too afraid of retaliation to discuss car- talk about these (cartel) people. There are eyes and ears killed 20 other police officers since March. Despite their clothes from her house before abruptly closing her tel problems in their towns. “One of the most sacred everywhere,” said a man selling flowerpots. “Small town, exposure to violence, residents of the region were door. It is a scene repeated in many parts of Mexico, places we have is the church and even there we can’t big hell,” he said.—AFP Thousands of bikers gather in Washington to honor vets

WASHINGTON: One week after a “They’re not here to party and get Throughout the day, at the gathering of biker gangs in Texas drunk,” she said of Rolling Thunder, edge of the stage, a scrawny, that resulted in nine deaths and named after a 1965 bombing cam- bearded man in tattered fatigues 170 arrests, thousands of motorcy- paign against North Vietnam. “No sat locked in a bamboo cage hold- cle riders roared into the nation’s fights. No attitudes.” ing a sign reading “Never Forget.” capital Sunday to honor military Crowds cheered and waved as Sunday’s ride was part of a week- veterans, prisoners of war and sol- bikers throttled their engines and end of events that included a diers missing in action. Rolling waved back. Many bikers rode with “blessing of the bikes” outside the Thunder, an annual event that has US or Prisoner of War flags. A few National Cathedral and a day-long been bringing motorcyclists and rode with Confederate flags. Bikers barbecue hosted by motorcycle spectators to the National Mall in and veterans could be found scat- manufacturer Harley-Davidson. downtown Washington since 1988, tered throughout the National There were several other biker started the “Ride for Freedom” at Mall. Many gathered at the events across the country the Pentagon in Virginia, crossed Vietnam and Korean War memori- planned for the Memorial Day the Potomac River over the als. Some relaxed in the shade and weekend. Rallies were held in Memorial Bridge and circled the drank beer. A stage below the New Mexico, Mississippi, Missouri Mall. Lincoln Memorial hosted speakers and South Carolina with height- Organizers estimated that more and musicians, including former ened security, according to media than a million bikers and specta- Wisconsin Governor Tommy reports. Last Sunday, 170 people tors attended, making it the Thompson, singer Nancy Sinatra were arrested in connection with largest one-day motorcycle gath- and actor Robert Patrick. “I thank the shootout among rival bikers ering in the world, Rolling Thunder you for your service and I thank that left nine dead and 18 wound- spokeswoman Nancy Regg said. you for my freedom,” Patrick told ed and turned a Waco, Texas There were no reported criminal the crowd. “Each and everyone of restaurant into a blood-soaked incidents at the event, Regg said. you are the real deal.” crime scene. — Reuters

TEXAS: A parking lot of Wal-Mart is submerged after a record rainfall wreak havoc across a swath of the US Midwest on Sunday. — AP Storms flood US Midwest; 3 dead Spawning tornadoes trigger evacuations in Texas

SAN MARCOS: Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet - swamping Interstate the Plains and Midwest on Sunday, causing flash floods in nor- 35 and forcing parts of the busy north-south highway to close. mally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least Rescuers used pontoon boats and a helicopter to pull people 2,000 people in Texas from their homes. Tornadoes struck, out. severely damaging an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. A Dallas also faced severe flooding from the Trinity River, which firefighter in Oklahoma was swept to his death while trying to was expected to crest near 40 feet Monday and lap at the foun- rescue people from high water and a woman in Tulsa died in a dations of an industrial park. The Red and Wichita rivers also traffic-related crash. rose far above flood stage. Heather Ruiz returned from work ear- In Texas, a man’s body was recovered from a flooded area ly Sunday to ankle-deep water and a muddy couch inside her along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet in just one hour and home in San Marcos. She wasn’t sure what to do next. “Pick up left piles of wreckage 20 feet high, authorities said. “It looks pret- the pieces and start all over I guess. Salvage what can be sal- ty bad out there,” said Hays County emergency management vaged and replace what needs to be replaced,” Ruiz said. This coordinator Kharley Smith, describing the destruction in May is already the wettest on record for several cities in the Wimberley, a community that is part of a fast-growing corridor southern Plains states, with days still to go and more rain on the between Austin and San Antonio. “We do have whole streets way. So far this year, Oklahoma City has recorded 27.37 inches of with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just rain. Last year the state’s capital got only 4.29 inches. slabs,” she said, noting late Sunday that three people from The reasons include a prolonged warming of Pacific Ocean Wimberley still weren’t accounted for. sea surface temperatures, which generally results in cooler air, coupled with an active southern jet stream and plentiful mois- Homes destroyed ture from the Gulf of Mexico, said Meteorologist Forrest Mitchell From 350 to 400 homes were destroyed in Wimberley, many at National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma. “It of them washed away, Smith said. In nearby San Marcos, flood- looks like the rainfall that we’re getting now may actually offi- ing had damaged about 300 homes, she said. Authorities also cially end the drought,” that has gripped the southern Plains warned people to honor a night-time curfew and stay away states for years, Mitchell said, noting that moisture now reaches from damaged areas, since more rain was on the way, threaten- about two feet below the surface of the soil and many lakes and ing more floods with the ground saturated and waterways over- reservoirs are full. flowing. Rivers rose so fast that whole communities woke up Sunday surrounded by water. The Blanco crested above 40 feet - Record Rainfall Wichita Falls was so dry at one point that that it had to get Texas regulatory approval to recycle and treat its wastewater as drinking water dried up. By Sunday, the city reached a rainfall record, nearly 14 inches so far in May. The storm system pushed northeast into Iowa and Illinois on Sunday after it moved through parts of Colorado, central and North Texas and most of Oklahoma. New flash flood watches were issued Sunday for western Arkansas, Missouri and parts of Kansas, and tornado warnings were issued Sunday night for parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. About 1,000 people were evacuated from homes in Central Texas, where rescuers pulled dozens of people from high water overnight. Tami Mallow, 41, gathered her three cats at a shelter in San Marcos while her husband put furniture on cinderblocks, and retreated to the second floor with electronics and other valu- ables as the floodwaters entered. “He told me there was 2 inches of mud,” Mallow said. “I don’t know what the cleanup process is going to be.” Five San Marcos police cars were washed away and a fire station was flooded, said Kristi Wyatt, a spokeswoman for San Marcos, which imposed a 9 p.m. Sunday curfew. Wyatt said some 1,000 homes were damaged in San Marcos, Wimberley and elsewhere in Hays County, a fast-growing area between San Antonio and Austin. A tornado briefly touched down in Houston, damaging rooftops, toppling trees, blowing out windows and sending at least two people to a hospital. The weather service said the tor- nado struck with winds of about 100 mph at around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Fire officials said 10 apartments were heavily damaged and 40 others sustained lesser damage.— AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Spanish local election shakes up political landscape Ruling PP gets worst local election result in 20 years

MADRID: Spain’s ruling People’s Party (PP) took a “Market sentiment towards Spain may be favor- battering in regional and local elections on Sunday able but the political scene is becoming a lot more after voters punished Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fragmented, boding ill for the formation of a stable for four years of severe spending cuts and a string and strong government after the parliamentary of corruption scandals. In a test of the national vote later this year,” said Nicholas Spiro, analyst at mood ahead of general elections expected in Spiro Sovereign Strategy. November, the PP suffered its worst result in more than 20 years to herald an uncertain era of coalition ‘Burnt out’ as new parties rose to fragment the vote. Spaniards The PP got its worst result in countrywide rejected the stability offered by the PP and rival municipal elections since 1991 and lost its absolute Socialists which have alternated in power since the majority in regional bastions Madrid and Valencia, end of dictatorship 40 years ago and opted for where potential left-wing coalitions could send the change in the shape of new parties - market-friend- party into opposition for the first time in 20 years. “I ly Ciudadanos (‘Citizens’) and anti-austerity used to vote for the PP but they are burnt out, they Podemos (‘We Can’). have been in power for too long. It’s time to clean Rajoy’s future looked bleak as his strategy to bet the slate,” said Nacho, a 56-year-old doctor in on an accelerating economic rebound to win a sec- Valencia who voted for Ciudadanos. ond term later this year was seriously undermined At the PP headquarters in Valencia, dozens of by his party’s poor showing. “It’s a drubbing for the shell-shocked supporters, many of them young PP. The fear factor did not come into play and peo- activists, fought back tears as they received the ple voted for Podemos and Ciudadanos,” said Jose news their party would also likely lose control of the Pablo Ferrandiz of leading pollster Metroscopia. city to a left-wing coalition. In Madrid city, where Although the PP got more votes than any other par- there has been a PP mayor since 1991, Rajoy’s party ty, it and the rival Socialists fell short of overall marginally beat a leftist platform backed by majorities in most areas. The two parties will have Podemos and headed by 71-year-old retired judge MADRID: Ahora Madrid citizen platform’s candidate for mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena (center) to negotiate coalitions with minority parties in the Manuela Carmena. But there as well the Podemos- claps as she celebrates the results in Spain’s municipal and regional elections in Madrid. — AFP 13 of Spain’s 17 regions that voted on Sunday backed alliance is likely to team up with the alongside more than 8,000 towns and cities. Socialists to win power. Madrid’s old quarter, Lavapies, where immigrants Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), in a set- Spain has virtually no tradition of compromise Podemos, often compared to Greek radical left and the working class rub shoulders with bohemi- back for the Catalan separatist movement. “The politics and the fragmented vote is likely to result in party Syriza, had toned down its policies in recent ans and tourists. In Barcelona, another left-wing people have won here, not a bunch of initials,” Colau weeks of pact-building in the regions which hold weeks, scrapping more extreme ideas like default- coalition headed by former community activist Ada said to cheering supporters, referring to the scram- substantial devolved power and determine spend- ing on the national debt. “It’s time for total change,” Colau and backed by Podemos beat pro-indepen- ble of initials representing traditional Spanish politi- ing in key areas like education and health. said 31-year-old teacher Natalia Cendejas in dence parties Convergencia i Unio (CiU) and cal parties.—Reuters

Conservative newcomer wins Polish presidential cliffhanger

WARSAW: Conservative opposition challenger wish Poland well,” he told supporters in Warsaw. Andrzej Duda has won a surprise victory in The country’s powerful Roman Catholic church Poland’s presidential run-off, trumping incum- also congratulated Duda, with whom it shares bent centrist Bronislaw Komorowski with prom- an opinion on certain social issues. ises of change and generous social spending. An MEP and lawyer with a populist streak, Duda ‘Velvet road to dictatorship’ scored 52 percent support ahead of “Duda’s victory signals a dramatic change on Komorowski, who mustered 48 percent, exit the Polish political scene,” legendary commu- polls showed yesterday. nist-era dissident Adam Michnik said, warning The result is a stunning turnaround from that a potential victory of Kaczynski’s PiS in par- expectations only a few weeks ago and gives a liament could mean that “Poland embarks on a key indicator of the national mood ahead of an velvet road to dictatorship”. Kaczynski gained a autumn parliamentary election in the heavy- reputation for being highly combative and weight central European nation. A former eurosceptic during his 2006-7 stint as prime defense minister who has been president since minister. He served in tandem with his late twin 2010, the 62-year-old Komorowski is allied with brother Lech Kaczynski, who died in a 2010 the PO, the governing centrist Civic Platform par- plane crash in Russia. The 65-year-old Jaroslaw ty. “Poles want change. They issued a yellow card Kaczynski then ran against Komorowski in the to the PO and risk issuing the party a red card at 2010 presidential election. the general election,” wrote Poland’s Polska The Having lost, he floated Duda as candidate Times daily yesterday. “PO politicians are used to this time around. The Polish president has lim- governing. Power for them is not a duty but a ited powers but is commander-in-chief of the LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (left) smiles at photographers as he shakes hands with Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu privilege. They have just been dealt a lesson,” armed forces, steers foreign policy and has the Buhari on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street following a meeting in London. — AP added the conservative Rzeczpospolita daily. right to introduce and veto legislation. Duda Analysts said voters hungry for change in the has called for NATO to station its troops on EU and NATO member state could in this year’s Polish soil, amid heightened tensions with parliamentary polls return the controversial Soviet-era master Russia over the Ukraine cri- Nigeria in crisis as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his conservative Law sis. He has been less enthusiastic about Poland and Justice (PiS) party to power after eight years. entering the euro-zone, which he believes “Those who voted for me, voted for change. Warsaw should only do once the European sin- Together we can change Poland,” the PiS-backed gle currency has solved all its debt woes. If offi- Duda, 43, said to wild applause at his Warsaw cial results confirm a Duda victory, he will take handover looms campaign headquarters. Komorowski was quick up his new office in August. Given his close to concede defeat and said his loss was also a affiliation with Kaczynski and the PiS, Duda’s warning signal to his political allies in govern- cohabitation with the PO government of Expectation weighs on Buhari ment. “I congratulate my rival, Mr Andrzej Duda Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz is expected to be and I wish him a successful presidency because I difficult. — AFP LAGOS: Muhammadu Buhari formally takes over as to “temper high expectations on the part of those High hopes Nigeria’s president this week but his inauguration who are expecting miracles to happen”. But across “One of the first things he (Buhari) has to do is could not have come at a worse time, with the coun- the country many hope he can follow through on assemble a competent strategic communications try reeling from a cash crunch and a crippling strike his election pledge of sweeping change to stop the team to manage expectations,” said political com- over fuel. Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) rot in Africa’s most populous nation. mentator Chris Ngwodo. “He has to be able to tem- party accused President Goodluck Jonathan’s On a bus from Oshodi to Agbado in the Lagos per the level of expectation but without being a administration of sabotage for allegedly deliberately suburbs, unemployed 27-year-old university damp squib. It has to be skilfully managed.” To be handing over the nation in its worst state since inde- accountancy graduate Solomon Abegunde said he sure, Nigeria’s military has the upper hand against pendence 55 years ago. “No electricity, no fuel, expects the new administration to create jobs. In Boko Haram but there is still work to do to maintain workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, private securi- the peace. On most other fronts, however, the federal workers, $60 billion owed in national debt ty guard Awwalu Maidawa, 41, wants an end to the incoming government has an uphill task. To tackle and the economy is virtually grounded,” APC Boko Haram insurgency which has claimed at least the fuel crisis, Buhari, who once headed a govern- spokesman Lai Mohammed said. 15,000 lives since 2009. Housewife Hajara Sani ment oil agency, has to convince fuel importers But across Nigeria, confidence is still high that hopes for investment in education, with 10.5 million holding out for claimed government subsidy arrears Buhari, who headed a military government in the children out of school-the most in the world-and lit- by shutting depots, that they will be paid, said 1980s, will fix the mess. “It’s not in dispute that the eracy levels low, particularly in the Muslim north. Ngwodo. Jonathan government has messed up things,” said Musa Mohammed, a 33-year-old auto mechanic, In the longer term, he needs to tackle “the rice trader Mulikat Bello in the Agege area of Lagos, wants improved power supply, now at an all-time absurdity of an oil-producing nation that imports Nigeria’s financial capital. “We know Buhari can do it. low of just 1,327 megawatts-below levels during fuel”, build domestic refineries and eliminate fuel He has done it before. It’s the same way the (Shehu) Buhari’s last time in office. subsidies that are open to corruption, he added. Shagari administration destroyed the economy Lagos beer distributor Abolaji Odumesi hopes to “It’s a pity that Buhari has come at the wrong WARSAW: Andrzej Duda (center), presidential candidate of Law and Justice (PiS) before Buhari’s coup of December 1983,” the 32- see Buhari tackle corruption in the oil sector, which time,” said Debo Adeniran, of the Coalition right wing opposition party celebrates with his wife Agata (right) and daughter year-old added. accounts for 90 percent of foreign earnings but is Against Corrupt Leaders lobby group. “The Kinga after the announcement of the exit poll results of the second round of the dwindling due to falling global crude prices. Jonathan government has mismanaged the presidential election in Warsaw. — AFP To-do list Elsewhere there are calls to diversify the economy, economy with a lot of baggage too heavy for Thirty years ago, Buhari’s 15-month military increase taxation to boost government coffers and Buhari to carry. “I still cannot fathom how the regime was characterized by a hardline crackdown tackle poverty that the APC says blights the lives of incoming administration is going to get the against so-called “indiscipline” and corrupt practices, some 110 million of Nigeria’s more than 170 million funds to implement its programs.” On the bus to Blacklisted Russian official tells which sometimes crossed the line into abuse of people. Almost everyone talks of corruption, which Agbado, Abegunde is still confident. “To whom power. But he has said things will be different this the austere Buhari believes has made the country a much is given, much is expected,” he said. “Buhari West ‘Tanks don’t need visas’ time round, with decades of military rule aban- global laughing stock. “I want him to maintain zero has no excuse to fail because we gave him our doned since 1999 in favor of multi-party democracy, tolerance on corruption especially in the public votes with the hope that he would turn things MOSCOW: An outspoken deputy prime put on the blacklist last year he boasted parliament and the constitution. In February, the 72- service and ensure that whoever is found wanting around... We cannot continue like this. Things minister in charge of Russia’s defense sector that Russia’s defense sector has “many oth- year-old cautioned however that there was a need faces the full wrath of the law,” said Maidawa. have to change.”— AFP has dismissed Western concerns over er ways of travelling the world besides Moscow’s increased assertiveness in the tourist visas.” Last May his plane was pre- Arctic by saying that “tanks don’t need vented from flying over EU member visas.” Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the Romania, after which he wrote: “Next time I With pomp, British government to defense industry, is known for his hawkish will fly in a Tu-160” bomber, provoking remarks and enjoys rattling Western offi- protest from the Romanian foreign ministry cials. “I’ve always joked about it... so what if who called it a “serious threat.” outline new legislative programs they won’t give us visas, put us on sanc- tions list... tanks don’t need visas,” Rogozin ‘No access to detained men’ LONDON: The British government’s new legislative are one nation, in which all working people can suc- Pomp and circumstance said on state TV late Sunday, after the host Meanwhile, Russia’s embassy in Ukraine programs, including a referendum bill on leaving the ceed; people of all backgrounds have social justice; The Queen’s Speech will also feature new legis- asked him whether Europe and the United says it has still not been given access to EU, will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II tomor- and the ties that bind all parts of our nation are lation handing new powers to Scotland after it vot- States are concerned about Russia’s pres- two Russian citizens detained earlier this row as parliament gets down to business after the strong,” he wrote in this week’s Sunday Times. The ed against independence in a referendum last year. ence in the Arctic. month on suspicion of fighting alongside Conservatives’ election win. The mood of bill paving the way for a referendum on whether Nicola Sturgeon’s pro-independence Scottish Russia recently conducted huge military separatists in the eastern region of Westminster’s grandest day is likely to be sunny as Britain should remain a member of the European National Party (SNP), which became the third exercises in its Arctic north as it seeks to Luhansk. The Russian Embassy said yester- the queen comes to parliament in full ceremonial Union, due to be held by the end of 2017, will be largest group in the Commons following the elec- bolster its claims over the vast energy and day that it filed a formal request on May regalia and Prime Minister David Cameron’s party published the day after the speech. tion, wants the government to go further. The SNP, mineral resources now increasingly accessi- 19 for its consul to visit the men in the basks in this month’s surprise outright win over Cameron has signaled a referendum could be which increased its number of MPs ninefold at the ble due to the receding ice caps. Rogozin is hospital where they are being treated for Labor, who are now hunting for a new leader. But held as soon as 2016, and is embarking on a election, says Scotland should get more powers known for inflammatory tweets about the battle wounds. Ukraine says the men are the to-do list for his centre-right government also whistlestop tour of European capitals this week for over taxation to bring it in line with regions like West, writing at the weekend that it will intelligence operatives working under includes controversial issues such as powers for talks on the reforms he is seeking on issues like Quebec in Canada. Cameron’s government could “fall under the weight of Islamic State and direct orders from Moscow and says their Scotland and human rights reform, which could sig- immigration before the vote. He hosted European also face a rebellion from both opposition parties gays” rather than a perceived threat from presence is further evidence of Russia’s nal trouble ahead as he bids to pass laws with a slim Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker at his coun- and within its own ranks over its plans to scrap Russia. support for the separatist insurgency in majority. try residence, Chequers yesterday, before travelling European human rights laws. The deputy prime minister formerly the east. Russia denies it is supplying arms Cameron, whose policies critics say often favor to meet the leaders of Denmark, the Netherlands This week’s Sunday Telegraph quoted an served as an envoy to NATO and once or manpower to rebel forces. The embassy the wealthy, said this was a “one nation” government and France on Thursday, and then Poland and unnamed member of the government as saying he founded a nationalist party. He is on the says Ukrainian authorities are applying whose first Queen’s Speech would help Britons in Germany Friday. He aims to talk to other leaders of could resign over the issue, and former justice min- sanctions list of both the US Treasury and psychological pressure to force the “every city, every community and every home.” “This the 28-member EU individually before a European ister Damian Green warning withdrawal would the European Union following the annexa- detained men into saying they are serving time it’s (about) renewal-renewing the idea that we Council summit at the end of next month. “damage our country’s reputation.” — AFP tion of Crimea in March 2014. After being Russian soldiers. —Agencies INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Strongman looms large as Suriname votes

PARAMARIBO: Suriname goes to the polls in general Surinamese interior. The smallest country in South elections yesterday with its convicted drug trafficker America, Suriname was colonized by the British and president striving to tighten his controversial grip on Dutch and gained independence from the the reins of power. The colorful Desi Bouterse, who Netherlands in 1975. Five years later, a group of ser- has ruled the small South American country on and geants led by Bouterse overthrew prime minister off since 1980, is seeking to dispense with his alliance Henck Arron and installed a military government. with one-time nemesis Ronnie Brunswijk and preside Whether in his dictator’s fatigues and sunglasses or over the first non-coalition democratic government in his sharp president’s suit, Bouterse, 69, has loomed Suriname’s history. Bouterse’s National Democratic large over the country’s politics ever since. Party formed a government after the last elections in His regime put down two countercoups and 2010 by forging a motley mega-coalition, returning rounded up and executed 15 opponents in 1982, an him to power for the second time since his 1980-1987 event known as the “December killings.” Bouterse military government. stepped down in 1987, but returned to power in 1990 But after the coalition fell apart, the NDP decided in a second, bloodless coup. After leaving power a to go it alone this time, buoyed by strong standings in second time, Bouterse was indicted and court-mar- opinion polls. The party needs to win at least 26 seats tialed for the December killings, but his coalition in the 51-member National Assembly to govern alone, passed a controversial amnesty law in 2012 that and 34 seats to re-elect Bouterse-the president is cho- aborted the trial. sen by a two-thirds majority of parliament. “Strong The president and his family have faced a host of foundations have been laid for the future of this coun- other legal woes, adding to the country’s reputation try,” Bouterse, who has been a coup leader, dictator for drug running, money laundering and graft. The and an international fugitive, told large crowds on Netherlands convicted him in absentia of cocaine Saturday. He accused the main opposition V7, a coali- smuggling in 1999, but he remained free because tion of six parties, of fearmongering. Suriname does not extradite its citizens. Earlier this “We have to stop with using the culture of fear and PARAMARIBO: A Surinamese woman votes (right) at a polling station during the general elections in year, a Dutch court rejected his third bid to have the unremitting suspense against this society,” he bel- Paramaribo yesterday. — AFP conviction overturned. In all, seven parties and four lowed, to hearty cheers from supporters. The V7, coalitions are vying for the ballots of 350,000 regis- which has a broad ethnic base in the racially diverse “powerful, honest government, good governance.” before teaming up with his former foe in 2010. tered voters, who will also elect their district and local country whose 500,000 people have roots in Asia, The third main group in the election fray, and possible representatives. Polls open at 7:00 am (1000 GMT) and Africa, Europe and the Americas, in turn accuses powerbroker, is the Alternative Combination alliance Bouterse looms large close 12 hours later. The first, partial results are Bouterse of massive corruption. At the same time, leg- led by Brunswijk, a former guerrilla leader who fought The party’s base are the Maroons, the descendants expected at 10:00 pm, with a projection of the full islator Chan Santokhi, who leads the V7, promised a a civil war against Bouterse’s military government of fugitive slaves who set up settlements in the results early today.— AFP 3 die in attack targeting Suicide truck bomb kills Pakistan President’s son at least 5 in Afghanistan KANDAHAR: A suicide truck bombing that the incident was under investiga- killed at least five people and wounded tion. And in western Farah province, Gov Militants target telecoms, one dead 62 in southern Afghanistan yesterday, Asif Nang said rival insurgent groups had officials said. The truck struck at the gate been fighting each other for three days, QUETTA: Three people were killed and four others of the provincial council’s compound in leaving at least 25 dead on both sides. injured when Baluch separatists targeted a convoy Zabul province’s capital of Qalat, council Nang said the fighting in Khaki Safed dis- carrying the Pakistani president’s son in the south- director Atta Jan Haqbayan said. Three of trict was between the Taleban and a western province of Baluchistan late Sunday night, the wounded were council members, group that identified itself as an Islamic police said. “An explosive laden motorbike parked at including two women, and children were State affiliate. He said 10 of those killed a roadside was blown up with a remote control also among the wounded, Haqbayan were identified as Taleban insurgents and device when [the] convoy of President Mamnoon said. Mirwais Noorzai, Zabul’s police 15 as having aligned themselves with IS. Hussain’s son, Salman Mamnoon was passing by late chief, said the attacker used a small truck Nang provided no further details. The Sunday night in Hub Industrial Zone near the border in the bombing. President Ashraf Ghani Taleban have been fighting to overthrow with Karachi,” local police official Ghulam Mustafa condemned the attack in a statement. No the Kabul government since their own Shah said yesterday. He said the president’s son was group immediately claimed responsibility regime was ousted in the 2001 US-led unharmed as his vehicle had already passed the spot for the attack. Insurgent activity in Zabul, invasion. The Islamic State group is where the device exploded hitting a rikshaw and the which borders Pakistan, has intensified in believed to have a presence in last vehicle of the convoy. “The rikshaw driver, a 12- recent months. The province has also Afghanistan, mostly in the south. Afghan year-old child in the rikshaw and a passerby died at seen a number of kidnappings, especially and foreign officials differ on how wide- the spot while four police personnel of the security of minority Hazara Shiite men, raising spread and operational the group’s pres- squad received minor injuries,” he said. fears that Afghanistan’s war may be tak- ence is but most agree it is growing. Zahid Ullah, a senior police official confirmed the ing on a sectarian element. Meanwhile, in northern Sari Pul province, incident and said the president’s son owns a dairy Also yesterday, three policemen were police said the body of a local official in farm in the area and is a frequent visitor. “The presi- killed in neighboring Kandahar province charge of religious affairs, Abdul Wodod, dent’s son was the apparent target of the attack,” he when a firefight erupted between two was found yesterday, three days after he said. Meerak Baluch, spokesman of the Baluch groups of officers, said provincial police was kidnapped. Gen Habib Gulbhary, the Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the spokesmen Zia Durrani. Four of the offi- provincial police chief, said Wodod was attack in a telephone call to AFP. “We claim responsi- cers involved in the fight in Maiwand dis- kidnapped by unknown assailants in bility for the attack, it was in response to the military trict fled the scene, said Durrani, adding Sozma Qala district.— AP operation carried out in various areas of Baluchistan,” he said. Resource-rich Baluchistan is the largest of Pakistan’s four provinces, but its roughly seven mil- lion inhabitants have long complained they do not Quake shakes Tokyo receive a fair share of its gas and mineral wealth. KARACHI: Pakistani volunteers and rescue workers unload an injured victim of a bomb blast upon Rebels began their fifth insurgency against the state his arrival at a local hospital in Karachi. Police say the son of Pakistan’s president has escaped a in 2004, with hundreds of soldiers and militants killed roadside bomb attack unharmed after the blast killed three people and wounded 15. — AP TOKYO: A strong quake shook build- broadcaster NHK reported the effects in the fighting since then. ings in Tokyo yesterday, setting off were felt over a large area around the Lashkar-e-Islam - in the same area, warning phone age. Muslim-majority Kashmir is a heavily militarized alarms and temporarily bringing the capital. Militants target telecoms companies to shut down their operations and land- region, claimed by both Pakistan and India in full but city’s subway system to halt, AFP However, there were no immediate In another development, militants attacked a lords to dismantle mobile phone towers erected on ruled by the two countries in part. Separatists have reporters in the Japanese capital said. reports of injuries or any damage, mobile phone shop in Indian Kashmir yesterday, their property. “We warn these telecommunication been fighting Indian security forces in the Indian- Scientists said there was no risk of a including at any of the shuttered killing one employee and wounding two, in the sec- companies to close all networking services, close administered part of the region since 1989, although tsunami from the quake, which had a nuclear power stations in the region. A ond attack in as many days to target telecommunica- their offices and stop recharging services as well. We the frequency of attacks has waned in recent years. magnitude of 5.3, according to the US massive 9.0 magnitude quake that tion businesses in the disputed region. The militants warn the retailers as well to stop recharging the sub- India accuses Pakistan of training and arming the Geological Survey. The Japan struck off the country’s northeast coast fired at a franchisee outlet of state-owned company scribers within seven days,” the posters read. rebels, a claim Islamabad denies. Militants killed an Meteorological Agency earlier put it at in 2011 generated a powerful tsunami BSNL in Sopore in northern Kashmir before fleeing, a Militants had hurled two grenades at a mobile Indian soldier in the south of Indian-administered 5.6. Both runways at Narita Airport, the that wreaked havoc in a wide area. As senior police officer said. phone tower used by Vodafone, Aircel and Airtel Kashmir yesterday after they opened fire on an army main international gateway to Tokyo, well as killing more than 18,000 peo- The attack follows the appearance last week of near a police station on Sunday. One of the grenades patrol, the police officer said. The army then killed were temporarily closed so staff could ple, it destroyed thousands of homes posters - bearing the name of militant group exploded near the tower without causing any dam- one of the militants after returning fire.m —Agencies check for any damage. and sparked a nuclear emergency at Neither was affected. Alarms on Fukushima when waves swamped mobile phones and in buildings reactor cooling systems. Japan is locat- sounded as the quake developed with ed at the junction of a number of the Nepalese mark one month since quake a series of vertical bounces, as well as earth’s tectonic plates and experiences a side-to-side shaking. The quake around a fifth of the planet’s most struck at a relatively shallow 35 kilo- powerful quakes every year. But rigid KATHMANDU: Hundreds of Nepalese gathered yes- when flying into Kathmandu. “Its collapse signifies he said. metres (22 miles), the USGS said, put- building codes and strict enforcement terday at the rubble of a 19th-century tower in the devastation our country has suffered,” she said. The twin quakes destroyed nearly half a million ting its epicenter just 34 kilometers mean even powerful quakes that Kathmandu to mark one month since a devastating The 50.5-metre high attraction-which contained a houses and left thousands in desperate need of food, north of the heaving metropolis of might devastate other parts of the earthquake killed more than 8,600 people in the spiral staircase and offered visitors panoramic views clean water and shelter, with experts warning that Tokyo, one of the most densely popu- world frequently do little damage to Himalayan nation. The quake, which was followed by of the capital-was reduced to just its base when the the opportunity to help victims is closing fast before lated areas in the world. National Japanese infrastructure.— AFP a second major tremor on May 12, brought down quake struck. Ram Chandra Shrestha, who spent 12 monsoon rains arrive next month. The World Food buildings across the country including historic tem- years tending the garden in the tower complex, told Program announced plans to open up land and air ples, monuments and the much-loved Dharahara AFP that “it is hard to look up and not see the tower, routes to get more aid to far-flung mountain villages tower as tourists and locals climbed its more than it sends a chill through my heart”. Those attending demolished by the quake, although no details were 200 steps. the ceremony, organized by political party given. “To open up some of the overland routes is Turkmenistan unveils After the national anthem was played on loud- Bibeksheel Nepali, told of their despair not only of gonna be incredibly difficult, it’s gonna be incredibly speakers, crowds surrounded the collapsed tower losing their homes but also their jobs, leaving them dangerous and it’s gonna be incredibly expensive,” and observed 56 seconds of silence at 11:56, the facing a bleak future. Like thousands of others, 41- WFP’s emergency coordinator Richard Ragan told leader’s gold statue moment the 7.8-magnitude quake ripped through year-old Dil Maya Rai has been living in a tent since reporters. The United Nations has repeatedly called Nepal on April 25. Nina Shrestha, a 23-year-old stu- the massive quake. “We can’t find a room to rent and on international donors to ramp up their aid contri- ASHGABAT: The isolated Central Asian Berdymukhamedov did not attend, the dent carrying a small Nepali flag, said the nine-storey the carpet factory where I worked also collapsed in butions, with only a fifth of its $423 million appeal state of Turkmenistan yesterday parliament’s speaker Akdja Nurberdieva tower was “always the first thing” she looked for the quake,” Rai said. “I don’t know how we will get by,” trickling in so far. —AFP unveiled a large gold statue of President said it was the result of “multiple sug- Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov riding a gestions from simple people, work col- horse, in a move echoing his predeces- lectives and public organizations,” in sor’s cult of personality. The 21-metre order “to mark his services to the home- statue, located in the capital Ashgabat, land”. The ceremony featured a rendi- depicts the president mounted on his tion of the national anthem, soldiers favorite horse, Akkan (“White Khan”), taking an oath of loyalty to the presi- and saluting with his right hand. dent and a flock of white pigeons being Cast in bronze and covered in 24- released into the sky. carat gold leaf, it is the first such monu- Last year, the parliament named ment of the president of the energy-rich horse-lover Berdymukhamedov a ex-Soviet country since he came to “Master Jockey and Mentor”. He was lat- power in 2006. The statue is called “The er recognized as a “People’s Horse Protector”, Berdymukhamedov’s unoffi- Breeder” at a day of equestrian events in cial title. The former dentist came to April. In 2013, the president suffered a power after the death of Saparmurat fall from his horse seconds after win- Niyazov, who built a gold statue of him- ning a race, clips of which have gained self that rotated with the sun’s move- thousands of views on YouTube. “The ments. It was taken down several years protector” statue was unveiled to mark after Niyazov’s death, but has since Ashgabat Day, a holiday celebrating the been moved to the outskirts of the capi- capital of 400,000 people that was rec- tal. ognized by the Guinness Book of Niyazov, known for establishing a Records in 2013 for having “the highest personality cult, also renamed months density of white marble-clad buildings”. after members of his family and wrote a Turkmenistan is regularly blacklisted as “book of the soul” that all school chil- one of Freedom House’s “Worst of the KATHMANDU: Nepalese residents and others participate in a candle-light memorial for the victims of the April 25 earthquake in Kathmandu dren were expected to learn by heart. At Worst” list of repressive countries for its yesterday, as the country marks one month since a deadly earthquake struck the Himalayan nation. — AFP the unveiling of the new statue, which lack of civic liberties.— AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Sydney siege gunman prone to grandiose claims

SYDNEY: The Iranian-born gunman behind last year’s bering the pair. deadly siege in an Australian café was secretive and prone to grandiose claims but was even shunned by a ‘Strange and weird’ motorcycle gang which found him “weird”, an inquest The inquest was told that Monis was born into heard yesterday. The 17-hour standoff in Sydney’s cen- modest circumstances in Iran, but was well-educated tral business district in December, which ended with and after his marriage had lived in relative luxury in the deaths of two hostages along with gunman Man the capital Tehran. While his level of education could Haron Monis, shocked the country and sparked fears have led to a government job-and he boasted of high- about national security. level contacts-there was no evidence he had taken this At the reopening of the inquest, which began in path, said counsel assisting the coroner Jeremy January and is being held amid high security, New Gormly. “As we’ll see, Mr Monis was prone to grandiose South Wales state coroner Michael Barnes said he claims, but it seems that there may have been some would look deeply into the background of the former kernel of truth in his background,” Gormly said. The religious scholar and self-styled cleric. He said the reasons why Monis quit Iran, arriving in Australia in “despicable actions of Mr Monis”, who took more than 1996, are unknown. Making his case for asylum, he a dozen people hostage at the Lindt cafe in Martin claimed that a book of his poetry had made him a tar- Place, required special investigation because they get for persecution in Iran, and that he had spied for raised questions of national significance. “Was Monis a that country’s secret police. so-called lone wolf prosecuting an ISIS-inspired terror- “He was secretive in many respects... yet he kept ist act, or was he a deranged individual pursuing some records dating back many years,” Gormly said, adding personal private grievance in a public manner?” he that Monis had lodged tax returns, reported changes asked, referring to the Islamic State group. of address and name and even filled out a form for The detailed inquest would examine whether police on staging a protest. Monis struggled to find a Monis could have been deported, detained or stopped place in Australia, working as a carpet salesman and and whether the siege could have been ended with- security guard, before setting himself up as a clairvoy- out the loss of lives, Barnes added. Cafe manager Tori ant offering spiritual healing. By 2014 his constant Johnson and barrister Katrina Dawson died when reinventions-including his attempt to join a motorcy- SYDNEY: In this file photo, Man Haron Monis speaks to the media as he leaves the Downing Centre heavily-armed police stormed the building and shot cle gang whose members found him “strange and in Sydney after a pre-trial hearing where he is accused of sending offending letters to the families of Monis dead. Johnson was shot dead by Monis at point- weird”-had failed to pay off and his mental health was soldiers killed in Afghanistan. — AP blank range while mother-of-three Dawson was hit by deteriorating. a ricocheting bullet as police moved in. The incident “His attempt to develop a personal religious follow- His attempts to join other groups, even the bikies who adding: “Reality for him, may not have hit home until sparked an outpouring of grief in Sydney with a huge ing...had failed. Indeed the Islamic community in tolerated him for a short period, failed.” Gormly said many hours into the siege.” The inquest is being con- makeshift memorial of flowers near the scene. The cafe Australia did not accept him,” Gormly said. “He had few that whether or not Monis expected to survive the ducted across numerous sessions throughout the year reopened in March with simple gold plaques remem- friends and no standing with any group or institution. events of December 15 and 16 was not known, with an outcome not expected until 2016.—AFP

Malaysia finds another 139 Indonesia’s army creeps graves at trafficking camps

WANG KELIAN: Malaysia has found 139 graves, paid for their freedom. Past Reuters investiga- back into civilian affairs and signs of torture, in more than two dozen tions have shown ransoms demands ranging squalid human trafficking camps suspected to from $1,200 to $1,800, a fortune for impover- have been used by gangs smuggling migrants ished migrants used to living on a dollar or two Widodo opens door to greater military role across the border with Thailand, the country’s a day. police chief said yesterday. The dense jungles of Pictures of the camps shown to journalists JAKARTA: Nearly two decades after Indonesia’s doesn’t steer clear of civilian life.” severely weakened by a tit-for-tat dispute with southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have by Malaysian police showed basic wooden huts military was squeezed out of civilian affairs with the police. General Moeldoko said he already been a major route for smugglers bringing peo- built in forest clearings. Khalid said bullet cas- the downfall of strongman leader Suharto, Power play had two officers in mind to join the KPK after ple to Southeast Asia by boat from Myanmar, ings were found in the vicinity and added there President Joko Widodo is drawing the army A senior government official with direct they retired from service in a few months. The most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they were signs that torture had been used, without more closely into his wars on drugs, terrorism, knowledge of the matter told Reuters that agency, popular with ordinary citizens for going are fleeing persecution, and Bangladesh. elaborating. Metal chains were found near and corruption. Palace and military officials say Widodo, the first president from outside the after Indonesia’s moneyed elites, hopes the mili- “It’s a very sad scene... To us even one is seri- some graves. The first decomposed body was Widodo’s move is partly designed to counterbal- country’s political elite or armed forces, has tary’s inclusion will protect it from police inter- ous and we have found 139,” Malaysia’s brought down to a police camp set up at the ance senior police officers who have crossed struggled to assert himself over the police force vention. Inspector General of Police, Khalid Abu Bakar, foot of the mountains where the camps were swords with him and who, critics say, are trying and its political patrons, who include senior fig- KPK officials were not immediately available told reporters in the northern state of Perlis. “We found yesterday evening, an operation that to undermine the agency leading the campaign ures in his own party. He trusts the military more for comment. Since the KPK declared a promi- are working closely with our counterparts in took nearly five hours due to the roughness of against graft. The police acknowledges “prob- than the police, the official said, and sees it as a nent police general a corruption suspect in Thailand. We will find the people who did this.” the terrain. “The body was only bones and little lems” in its relationship with the Corruption potentially counterbalancing force. The army’s January, the police has launched a series of The grisly find follows the discovery of similar bit of clothing on it,” said Rizani Che Ismail, offi- Eradication Commission (KPK), but says it is expansion into civilian affairs began last month, investigations against the agency that have led shallow graves on the Thai side of the border cer in charge of Padang Besar police depart- working with the agency to tackle graft. with the first major counter-terrorism operation to the suspension of two of its commissioners. earlier this month, which helped trigger a ment, adding that the cause of death was not The prospect of a greater role for the military since the response to a spate of hotel bombings The KPK has since dropped its case against regional crisis. After a crackdown on the camps immediately apparent. in civilian matters does not presage a return to in Jakarta in 2009. Anti-terrorism efforts are tra- police general Budi Gunawan, who was subse- by Thai authorities, traffickers abandoned thou- the authoritarianism of army General Suharto, ditionally the domain of the police. quently named deputy police chief. The police sands of migrants in rickety boats in the Bay of Smuggling crackdown when it oversaw government policy as well as Approved by Widodo, who came to power in do not see the expansion of the military’s pow- Bengal and Andaman Sea. Police chief Khalid said one of the grave sites providing national security, the officials said. October, the military launched the six-month ers as a threat. “We don’t at all think the military was just 100 meters or so from the site where Indeed, military chief Moeldoko has sought to exercise to crack down on militants with sus- is a threat to us or our role in society. We don’t Shocked by the cruelty twenty-six bodies were exhumed from a grave quell such concerns. “As long as the military is pected links to Islamic State. Then, this month, think there is any sort of balancing going on,” “We were shocked by the cruelty,” said in Thailand’s Songkhla province in early May. needed by the country to safeguard the national the armed forces signed a memorandum of said Agus Rianto, national police spokesman. Khalid, describing conditions at the 28 aban- Thailand, under pressure from the United States development carried out by ministries, then go understanding to help the country’s main anti- He also said the police would investigate doned camps, scattered along a 50 km stretch to do more to combat people smuggling, ahead,” Moeldoko, who retires in July, told narcotics agency with its war on drugs, a top pri- complaints of corruption made against it, and of the Thai border, around which the graves launched a crackdown after finding that mass reporters this month. “But nobody should try to ority for Widodo. Government officials said they added: “To say there is a public perception that were found in an operation that began on May grave, since when more than 3,000 migrants drag the military into politics.” are now considering legislative changes that the police is corrupt is not accurate.” Activists say 11. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are ferried have landed from boats in Malaysia and Nevertheless, critics of Widodo’s move fear it would allow serving military officers to work in allowing the military to help fight corruption by traffickers through southern Thailand each Indonesia. Thai police said yesterday there were sets a dangerous precedent in a country where state ministries and agencies. The ministries of may be an effective stop-gap measure to shore year, and in recent years it has been common no human trafficking camps left in southern the military has a long tradition of involvement transportation and fisheries, which handle proj- up the KPK, but it threatens to leave the military for them to be held in remote camps along the Thailand after a month-long crackdown. But the in politics and which directly elected a president ects and industries steeped in corruption, have immune to graft investigations itself. The mili- rugged border with Malaysia until a ransom is crisis at sea is not over. — Reuters for the first time only 11 years ago. “While sym- asked that military personnel join their staff. “If tary has a history of acquiring strategic assets, bolic engagement with the military is important these requests are to be fulfilled, they should not especially in the resources sector. Suharto was to get things done and to send a signal of stabili- violate any law,” Cabinet Secretary Andi reported to have a sprawling business empire ty, we’re treading a dangerous line here,” said Widjajanto told reporters recently. worth $15 billion when he resigned in 1998. Tobias Basuki, political analyst at the Centre for “The consequence is that the military will be Strategic and International Studies, a local think- Corruption agency untouchable in corruption investigations,” said tank. “In the long term it will create a new The KPK has taken the unprecedented step of Adnan Topan Husodo of Indonesia Corruption Goliath within Indonesian politics if the military seeking the military’s assistance after being Watch.— Reuters Group slams Myanmar’s birth law as anti-Muslim WANG KELIAN: A check point is seen at the entry point to Malaysia - Thailand border in YANGON: A new law that forces some women in in one area,” said Khin Lay, founder of the Yangon- violence against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. They Wang Kelian, Malaysia. — AP Myanmar to have children at least three years apart based Triangle Women Support Group, which say the government’s policy toward the Rohingya was yesterday criticized by rights groups who say it gives women professional and political training minority is a root cause of mass migration that will be used to target the country’s minority and lobbied against the law. The government has led to the humanitarian crisis unfolding on Muslim population. Myanmar’s President Thein denies discriminating against Muslims. It says new Southeast Asia’s seas. Other groups have also China busts 181 ‘terror’ Sein signed the population control healthcare bill the birth law is aimed at improving maternal expressed concerns that the law could further into law last week, state-controlled media health and child welfare. It was unclear how the exacerbate tensions in Rakhine State where vio- gangs in restive region announced on Saturday. The legislation is backed new law against giving birth in the three-year lence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims by the Buddhist ultra-nationalist group the period would be enforced. The United States has broke out in 2012. Most of Myanmar’s 1.1 million BEIJING: A “strike hard” campaign against what March for their part in the attack. Committee for the Protection of Nationality and said the legislation, which falls under “Race and Rohingya are stateless and live in apartheid-like China calls terrorism in the largely Muslim Authorities have also targeted religious Religion, known as Ma Ba Tha. The group has Religion Protection Laws”, has the potential to conditions. “In the case of Rakhine specifically, it region of Xinjiang and beyond has seen 181 practices, such as the wearing of veils, which stoked anti-Muslim sentiment by saying Muslim exacerbate racial and religious divisions in the will only create misunderstanding between the gangs busted, authorities said yesterday, a year activists say has created an atmosphere of communities have high birth rates and will eventu- country. two communities,” said Nwe Zin Win, head of after the controversial measures were repression and led to violence. China defends ally overrun the predominately Buddhist country. Washington and the United Nations have Yangon-based women’s rights group Pyi Gyi launched. Rights groups have labeled the its policies, arguing that it has boosted eco- “This law targets one religion, one population, called on Myanmar to address discrimination and Khin.— Reuters crackdown discriminatory, raising further con- nomic development in the area and that it cerns after Beijing announced in January the upholds minority and religious rights in a coun- measures would be extended until at least the try with 56 recognized ethnic groups. But Dilxat end of 2015. Authorities launched the cam- Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World paign after 39 people were killed last May in a Uyghur Congress, said: “So-called equal laws bloody market attack which was blamed on deprive Uighurs of freedom of expression and separatists in Urumqi, the capital of the vast, rights. “The law upholds Beijing’s political inter- north-western region of Xinjiang. ests rather than judicial justice, and it is possi- Scores of people have been sentenced to ble for any person at any time... to lose their death as part of the drive, while hundreds have freedom for being resentful of China’s policies,” been jailed or detained on terror-related he said in an emailed statement. offences. “As of April 30 this year, 181 violent terror gangs have been destroyed, with 96.2 Patient executed percent being thwarted at the planning phase,” In another development, China yesterday the Xinjiang government’s Tianshan web portal executed a man who stabbed a doctor to death reported, adding that 112 suspects surren- over what he considered a botched nose oper- dered to the police. Clashes between authori- ation, media reported, in a case that spotlight- ties and alleged Islamist separatists-as well as ed the country’s overburdened health system. attacks killing civilians-have spread in recent Lian Enqing was sentenced to death last year years, both in Xinjiang, which is home to just for a fatal attack on an an ear, nose and throat over 10 million of the mainly Muslim Uighur specialist in Wenling, in the eastern province of minority, and outside it. Zhejiang. Lian attacked the doctor because he More than 200 people died last year in vio- “felt displeased with his nose and claimed to be lence either in or traced back to Xinjiang, suffering respiratory problems”, the official according to media reports. Among the most news agency Xinhua said. shocking incidents was a deadly rampage by The death sentence was carried out yester- knife-wielding assailants at a train station at day, the Chengdu Business Daily newspaper Kunming in China’s southwest, when 31 people reported, citing family members who said they were killed and four attackers died. Three men had met the condemned man briefly before his BAYEUN: Rohingya migrants queue up for food at a temporary shelter in Bayeun, Aceh province, Indonesia yesterday. — AP convicted on terror charges were executed this execution. — Agencies NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

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Iranian general: US did ‘nothing’ to save... UAE lays out space strategy Continued from Page 1 Arabic acronym for IS. “Obama has not done a damn Continued from Page 1 probe, named “Hope”, will provide inspiration for the thing so far to confront Daesh,” he said, adding the Arab world. It is the first Mars mission being attempted at the end of March when Iran-backed Shiite militias jihadists, who control several oil zones in Iraq and Syria Russian rocket launched from Kazakhstan in 2009. It by any Arab country. Some 75 Emirati engineers are cur- helped to recapture the city of Tikrit. Ramadi, located “export their oil via countries belonging to the interna- and the follow-up DubaiSat-2 were collaborations rently working on the Mars project, and officials hope to about 100 km west of Baghdad, fell to IS on May 17 tional coalition” led by Washington. The struggle against between Emirati engineers and a South Korean satellite double that number by 2020. Aabar Investments, which despite US air strikes and the presence of hundreds of IS was a matter of “national interest”, he said. firm. Abu Dhabi’s Al Yah Satellite Communications Co, is backed by the Abu Dhabi government, is a key investor US military advisers at the Al-Asad air base in the same Soleimani said Iran and its allies are the only forces better known as Yahsat, hopes to put its third satellite in Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin province. that can deal with IS. “Today, there is nobody in con- into orbit in 2016. Its first communications satellite was Galactic. launched aboard an Arianespace rocket from French It agreed to pump $280 million into the space startup In his remarks on Sunday, Carter said that the US-led frontation with (the Islamic State group) except the Guiana in 2011. The announcement comes less than in 2009 in exchange for a third of the company, and later air campaign against IS, which controls large swathes of Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as nations who are next three weeks after the Dubai-based team behind a 2020 raised its stake to 38 percent after agreeing to additional Iraq and Syria, was still working. He said Iraqi forces had to Iran or supported by Iran,” he said. On Sunday, mission to Mars announced that its probe will circle the funding for the development of a satellite launch pro- “showed no will to fight” even though they outnum- General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan, commander of Iran’s planet studying its atmosphere, including changes over gram. Its initial deal called for the development of a bered their opponents, leading to Baghdad’s worst ground forces, asked parliament for additional funds to time and how surface features such as volcanoes, deserts spaceport in Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic’s plans are now defeat in almost a year. But Soleimani argued that the fight the jihadists, who are also present in Pakistan and and canyons affect it. uncertain after its experimental rocket ship, United States had “no will to fight Daesh”, using an Afghanistan. — Agencies Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al- SpaceShipTwo, broke apart in flight over California’s Maktoum said earlier this month that he hoped that Mojave Desert in November. — AP 33,000 iqama violators get 60-day grace... Continued from Page 1 corruption case was brought to light when a Swiss court Saudi Shiites hold mass funeral agreed to freeze the bank accounts belonging to Rajaan Continued from Page 1 of explosions. We condemn the terrorists,” but not He said that an arrest warrant has been issued and a number of his relatives. The government has Sunnis. “They pray in our mosques,” he said. Following against Rajaan, who has fled Kuwait, in addition to an repeatedly vowed to track down the former official to In November, gunmen killed seven Shiites in the prayers at the market, the crowd surged into a nearby asset freeze order against him and his first degree rela- recover the stolen funds. Eastern Province town of Al-Dalwa. Asked whether he street, filling it for as far as the eye could see, to make a tives. Qudhabi asked that since the stolen funds belong Separately, MP Mohammad Al-Jabri said yesterday feared a new attack during the funeral, the organizer 30-minute march to the burial site in Qadeeh. to Kuwait and have been deposited in investment com- that he totally supports moves to reinstate Kuwait said: “Nobody can predict anything. We have taken all The Islamic State group said it carried out the panies, has the government taken legal measures Airways Co as the country’s national carrier. In 2008, the precautions in coordination with local authorities.” bombing, the first time the jihadists, who control against these investment companies and fund man- National Assembly passed a law to transform the then Volunteer marshals sealed off surrounding streets, swathes of neighboring Iraq and Syria, claimed an agers for facilitating the stealing of state money. He said Kuwait Airways Corporation into a shareholding compa- frisked pedestrians entering the area, and pho- attack in the Sunni-dominated kingdom. The interior that the stolen funds were also deposited in interna- ny operating on a commercial basis. Little has been tographed the identity cards of journalists. Safety con- ministry confirmed that the bomber, a Saudi national, tional banks which are bound by agreements to combat implemented in the privatization process and the sale cerns prompted organizers to ask women to stay away had links with IS, which considers Shiites to be money laundering and stealing of public funds. of a 40-percent stake in KAC to a strategic investor. from the funeral, but some went anyway. A small heretics. It was the deadliest attack in years in Saudi Qudhaibi asked if the Kuwaiti government has invoked The law has been amended on at least two occa- group of female mourners gathered near a pastel- Arabia. King Salman vowed on Sunday that anyone legal measures against those banks for facilitating the sions, prompting several MPs to call for making KAC green mosque in one corner of the market. Organizers with the slightest involvement in the “heinous crime” stealing of the funds and “damaging” Kuwait. the national carrier again, especially after the carrier also took precautions against the desert heat, setting would be punished. The government and local media have revealed that signed two mega deals worth several billion dollars to up stands offering ice water and snacks. Most Saudi Shiites live in the east, where the vast Rajaan is accused of stealing hundreds of millions of purchase 25 Airbus and 10 Boeing aircraft. Jabri also Black flags of mourning flew in the streets of Qatif, majority of the country’s oil reserves lie but where dinars when he was at the helm of the state-run pen- praised an announcement by KAC chairwoman Rasha while police manned checkpoints leading into the dis- Shiites have long complained of marginalization. Saudi sion agency. It was alleged that he had diverted the Al-Roumi that the airline succeeded in cutting losses trict. “What happened, the unfortunate event, made us Arabia and its Sunni Gulf neighbors joined a US-led air funds over years into foreign-based bank accounts and to KD 33 million in 2014 from KD 67 million the previ- more united,” said Ayman Alawi Abu Rahi, who is from campaign against IS in Syria last year, raising concerns into paper companies based in several countries. The ous year. Qadeeh. “We as a Shiite community, we are not afraid about possible retaliation in the kingdom. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Karen Sanje

mpoverished villagers are hacking down Malawi’s forests to make charcoal, undeterred by government efforts to confis- Icate the dirty fuel as a power deficit stokes demand. Only 9 percent of the southern African country’s population have access to electricity, ensuring a good market for the charcoal produced by communities living near forests. The fuel is sold mainly in urban and semi-urban areas where even those who do have a power connection cannot afford electricity for cooking. Alex Thom, standing by his bags of charcoal on the roadside at Bale in Rumphi in northern Malawi, said he and others make char- coal by smouldering wood because it provides steady earnings. “This is our major source of income. The cash crops we grow are seasonal, which means there are parts of the year when we have nothing to sell. But we can store the charcoal and sell it later,” he Portugal, like Europe, loses hunger for reform said. Charcoal producers, including those around the vast Dzalanyama forest stretching between Dedza and the Malawian By John O’Donnell and Axel Bugge ECB’s trillion-euro-plus money printing. IMF criticised the government for failing to push ahead with capital Lilongwe, say they are driven to the environmentally a legal framework to help companies shed heavy loans, a destructive trade by poverty. “There is a need to economically elebrated among Europe’s elite as a model of how to Untapped Potential debt burden that will hinder growth. empower the poor, especially those in areas bordering natural reform an economy after a debt binge, Portugal’s Portugal, like Europe, had been ambitious. It made Some economists blame a scattergun approach to forests,” said Charles Kajoloweka, a consultant on forest issues. Centhusiasm for change has waned as Europe loses its sweeping changes to meet the terms set for emergency reform. “Portugal may have carried out reforms, but not ... Policies should encourage local people to co-manage the forests appetite for further belt-tightening. With Greece’s future in loans from the euro zone and International Monetary Fund with coordination between each of them to allow for an so they see the mutual benefits of protecting them, he added. the euro uncertain, after its leftist government all but tore under its bailout, including reforms to its labour markets and increase in competitiveness and output,” said Rui Kajoloweka described Malawi’s deforestation rate as “alarming”, up a reform-for-aid deal, Europe’s policy setters are putting legal system. It cut civil servants’ wages and pensions and Constantino, chief economist at Santander-Totta in Portugal. and said the real situation was not reflected in out-of-date official an extra shine on other countries that were bailed out - in made the biggest tax hikes in generations. But economists He spelt out three reforms to pursue: “First justice, second figures. The Department of Forestry told the Thomson Reuters part to avoid a spillover. They have declared Portugal, follow- say that drive has waned after the three-year bailout pro- bureaucracy and third taxation. Portugal still has a very high Foundation researchers put the deforestation rate at between 1.6 ing on the heels of Ireland, a recovery success story after a gram ended last year and international inspectors stopped tax burden. In the last few years the middle class has lost net percent and 2.8 percent of forest cover per year. It plans to com- debt crisis that started with a financial crash and drove coun- visiting the country to check on its progress. income of at least 10 percent.” mission a new estimate. tries from Greece to Ireland to the brink of bankruptcy. Attempts to cut state salaries have been partially over- But with Portugal no longer answerable to the IMF or ECB “l compared the case of Portugal to the film ‘Match Point’,” turned by the country’s highest court, while a general elec- - also a member of the troika of inspectors that monitored its ‘Desperate’ Confiscation Jose Manuel Barroso, the former president of the European tion due in September or October has also sapped enthusi- bailout program - and as reform momentum loses pace in Without stepped-up action, the country will continue to expe- Commission, and one-time prime minister of Portugal, told asm among politicians to pursue further changes. Talk of fail- Europe, there will be little pressure to act. France has been rience rising temperatures as its forests are cut down, releasing Reuters, referring to Woody Allen’s film. “Which side of the ure, however, is, off the agenda. The Portuguese economy given two more years to cut its budget deficit to within the carbon they store into the atmosphere, Kajoloweka warned. tennis court would the ball land on after hitting the net? started to recover in 2014 after three years of recession, European norms, extending the deadline for the third time To prevent this, laws governing protection of forests must be Ireland or Greece. It was Ireland’s. Recovery is now under expanding 0.9 percent, and growth is expected to accelerate since 2009 as Paris struggles to enact reforms. Central adhered to and stricter sanctions introduced, he said. “The way in Portugal.” European Central Bank President Mario in 2015 to around 1.5 percent. Those figures, however, mask bankers and academics discussed the need for reform for enforcement of these laws is so weak,” he added. The law stipu- Draghi chimed in last weekend, praising Portugal for grasp- deep-seated problems. Almost one in seven Portuguese who hours at a remote luxury hotel and golf resort in Portugal lates that those found felling trees should have their equipment ing the nettle and making difficult changes to the way its could be working are not, the third highest level of unem- last weekend, but reached few conclusions. confiscated, and where charcoal has already been produced, it economy works. ployment in western Europe. The government has warned For Barroso, there remains little alternative. He defended should be removed. “A great deal has been achieved and we have praised that this trend will take a long time to reverse. the prescription of austerity, or tightening spending. “We “There is a need for stiffer punishment. Snatching the charcoal progress where it has taken place, including here in Charts, which Draghi used in his presentation, hint at the didn’t want people in Portugal, in Greece to suffer. But we counts for nothing,” Kajoloweka said. “Charcoal means trees have Portugal,” Draghi told a group of central bankers and aca- reason for this. One, labelled ‘untapped potential’, ranks were close to the abyss,” he said, reflecting on the situation already been felled.” The large amount of charcoal confiscated at demics gathered at an ECB event near Lisbon. Yet Draghi’s Portugal as last on a list of eight euro zone countries for at the height of the euro zone crisis. “If we, in Europe, want police roadblocks far from where it is produced means existing encouragement was tempered by his broader warning that labour productivity, well behind Spain, Italy and France. In a to keep our social welfare model then we must stick with measures to tame deforestation are ineffective, he added. Europe was letting its guard down on reform, underscoring ranking of countries by ‘ease of doing business’, Portugal budget consolidation. We don’t want Europe to turn into just Director of Forestry Clement Chilima said forest guards are confis- worries about apathy in a region artificially buoyed by the comes mid-way down the list, behind Ireland. Last week, the a museum for tourists to visit.” —Reuters cating charcoal at roadblocks “out of desperation to kill the mar- ket or reduce demand”. “That way we believe those making the charcoal will be forced to seek other means of generating income. But that is not working perfectly,” he explained in a telephone Iran will need to spend windfall at home interview. The government now plans to try and address the problem at its source, he added, without going into details of how By Lesley Wroughton and Sam Wilkin from Iran’s large and vocal middle class, President Barack Obama faces opposition to right now to be able to fund those foreign this would be done. Local water boards are already taking action which turned out in force to elect President its decision to offer to lift of sanctions in policy projects that it considers to be of to protect forest reserves in water catchments by deploying ranians will demand their government Hassan Rouhani in 2013, hoping his agenda return for a nuclear deal. core interest, even if it doesn’t have all the Malawi Defence Force soldiers to guard areas supplying water to spend a windfall from the lifting of eco- of better management at home and prag- “If Iran gets major sanctions relief... that funds in the budget,” he said. the cities of Mzuzu and Lilongwe. The government is considering Inomic sanctions on improving the quali- matic diplomacy abroad could improve their will mean more money flowing into Iranian Iranian paramilitary activities are run by licensing individuals who produce charcoal in a sustainable way, ty of life at home, limiting the degree to economic fortunes. “I have to support a fam- coffers and a windfall Iran can use to step the secretive Islamic Revolutionary Guards compared with the majority who are not. “We will look at those which a future nuclear deal could fund ily of four. I don’t have time to think about up its influence in the region even more,” Corps (IRGC) and funded outside the budg- who are growing trees and making charcoal,” Chilima said. Tehran’s allies on Middle East battlefields. politics or the nuclear issue. What people Matthew Kroenig, a fellow at the Atlantic etary framework, meaning there are no Since 2012, Iran has given support worth bil- like me need is an improved economy,” said Council, said. Administration officials down- definitive reports on quite how much mon- Alternative Incomes lions of dollars to regional allies, funding and teacher Gholamreza Behrad in Tehran. play those fears. Treasury Secretary Jack ey Iran has spent, or how much it has left. The government has recently launched projects that could arming mainly fellow Shiite Muslims in con- “Hopefully it will happen when the sanc- Lew said in April that most of the money Reuters reported in late 2013 that Supreme help, under the U.N.-backed Reducing Emissions from flicts that have taken on a sectarian dimen- tions are lifted.” Iran received from sanctions relief would Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei controls a Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme, together sion. Its enemies say lifting sanctions will not be used to support regional proxies and holding organisation with assets of around with donors such as USAID and local groups like Total Land Care. provide it with the means to do even more. Regional Rivalry activities. “Iran will be under enormous $95 billion. The state news agency “Individuals who are in the charcoal business because they have Within months of financial sanctions being Despite facing economic hardship under pressure to use previously blocked denounced those reports as “disinforma- no other means of survival will be engaged in alternative sources lifted, Iran will be able to collect debts from sanctions, Iran has ramped up support to resources to improve its domestic econo- tion”. of income,” Chilima said. Total Land Care, for example, promotes overseas banks that may exceed $100 bil- allies such as Syrian President Bashar Al- my,” Lew said. Emile Hokayem, an analyst at the apiculture and tree-planting initiatives as ways of curbing defor- lion, mostly from oil importers whose pay- Assad, Iraq’s Shiite militias, Lebanon’s Iran’s most costly intervention is in Syria, International Institute for Strategic Studies estation due to charcoal-making. Instead, those involved sell hon- ments have been blocked, diplomats and Hezbollah and, Tehran’s foes say, Houthi whose government last week requested a (IISS) in London, estimated Iran gave ey, tree seedlings and lumber. The Department of Forestry and the analysts said. rebels who have taken over much of Yemen. new credit line worth $1 billion from Tehran between $15 billion and $19 billion worth Department of Energy will also target charcoal users, Chilima said, But with the budget strained by last Saudi Arabia and its allies have expressed after months of setbacks on the battlefield. of support to Syria alone in the two years to although they expect resistance from some who prefer charcoal as year’s heavy fall in oil prices, and public alarm at their rival’s activities in the region, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington the end of 2014. That figure includes the a cooking fuel. Joseph Kalowekamo, a spokesman for the expectations of improved socioeconomic which they portray as aggressive and desta- Institute and former Treasury official, said cost of keeping IRGC commanders in the Department of Energy, said the government is working to increase conditions in the event of a deal, the author- bilising, arguing that the lifting of sanctions Iran’s support for regional allies did not field, probable shipments of arms and access to electricity to 30 percent of the population by 2030. The ities will face pressure to invest new funds at could open to the door to even more Iranian depend on whether a nuclear deal is ammunition, and financing such as lines of Malawi Rural Electrification Programme is connecting people in home. “The idea that Iran is going to have its activism. The argument is also made in the signed, since the leadership would fund credit and soft loans, he said. The IRGC is rural and peri-urban areas, while the government has plans to pockets full of cash that it can use for discre- United States, where the administration of them anyway. “Iran has plenty of money used to operating under sanctions and increase hydro-electric generation capacity, he said by email. tionary purposes, I think is exaggerated,” knows how to pursue its goals without rely- Little has been done yet on other renewable energy sources, Charles Hollis, managing director for the ing heavily on Iran’s limited foreign but the government has installed community solar and wind Middle East at FTI Consulting, said. exchange reserves. hybrid systems in northern, central and southern parts of the Infrastructure in the vital oil sector has Obama said in an interview with the country. These are benefiting around 900 households through a fallen into disrepair during years of misman- Atlantic magazine last week that the IRGCs mini-grid network, Kalowekamo said. The government, with tech- agement and isolation, and the oil ministry most effective activities in the region actu- nical and financial support from the Scottish government and the has lobbied for huge cash injections that will ally do not cost very much, adding that he World Bank, is conducting an assessment of solar, wind and geot- be necessary to bring production back to had pointed this out to Gulf Arab leaders at hermal energy resources. It will develop a renewable energy strat- pre-sanctions levels. Deputy oil minister a recent summit. A significant portion of egy based on what the assessment judges to be economically Mansour Moazzami said in February that the Iran’s support to allies, including the salaries viable, Kalowekamo added. —Reuters oil industry needed $30 billion of invest- of IRGC agents, is paid for in rials. Other aid ment a year in order to maintain production is provided in kind, such as ammunition. and develop new projects, in comments car- Trade deals are negotiated without hard ried by the ministry’s news agency Shana. currency changing hands, a Western diplo- All articles appearing on these Iranian officials have not speculated in pub- mat said. lic about how much money they might Pieter Wezeman, an expert on military pages are the personal opinion of receive from a nuclear deal, or how it would expenditure at the Stockholm International the writers. Kuwait Times takes no be distributed. Peace Research Institute, noted that Iran’s responsibility for views expressed Analysts said any cash windfall would spending was only a fraction of Saudi probably be deposited initially in the Central Arabia’s military budget, which topped $80 therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Bank of Iran (CBI), making it relatively diffi- billion in 2014. He added that the spending ers to voice their opinions. Please cult for the Islamic Republic’s secretive secu- power of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab send submissions via email to: opin- rity officials to spirit it away to foreign battle- countries, which have also funded allies in fields. “As soon as there is a sense that the the region, is likely to check Iran’s ambitions [email protected] or via snail money is there, every government depart- because of the threat of escalation. “The key mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. ment is going to start looking for flows,” said Arab states have heavily increased their The editor reserves the right to edit David Butter, a Middle East economic ana- spending, and if they see bigger threats any submission as necessary. lyst and associate fellow at Chatham House. Customers fill up their cars at a petrol station in the Iranian capital Tehran from Iran I’m sure they will go further,” he The establishment will also face pressure yesterday. —AFP said. —Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 SPORTS

Bayliss to coach England Pakistan cricketer banned Alves focused on trophies LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket board yesterday banned left- LONDON: Australian Trevor Bayliss is set to become England coach ahead arm spinner Raza Hasan, who played one one-day interna- BARCELONA: Barcelona defender Dani Alves will focus on Saturday’s King’s Cup final and of compatriot Jason Gillespie, British media reported yesterday. tional and 10 Twenty20 matches for the national side, for the Champions League final a week later before announcing whether he will remain at Yorkshire coach Gillespie was widely expected to get the job but new two years after he failed a dope test in a domestic competi- the club next season, the Brazil international said yesterday. England cricket director Andrew Strauss has opted for the 52-year-old tion. “Hasan has been banned for two years on a failed Alves, 32, has yet to sign an extension to his contract, which expires at the end of next Bayliss who led Sri Lanka to the 2011 World Cup final. dope test, making him ineligible to participate in cricket,” a month, and the right back could leave for free after seven trophy-filled seasons if no “The ECB have said they’re speaking to their preferred candidate,” the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) statement said. agreement is reached. 40-year-old Gillespie told Sky Sports. “I’ve spoken to Andrew Strauss and The PCB said that for the period of his ban, “Hasan will Treble-chasing Barca have already wrapped up the La Liga title, their fifth since Alves I’m not that preferred candidate. So that’s fine. not entitled to take part in any capacity, in any cricket joined from Sevilla in July 2008, and can repeat their treble from 2008-09 with victory “It would have been a good job to have, there are exciting match or activity... authorised or organised by the PCB,” over Athletic Bilbao in Spain’s domestic Cup final at the Nou Camp and Juventus in the times ahead for English cricket and it would have been except for approved anti-doping education or rehabilita- Champions League showpiece in Berlin. “Will I be playing at Barca next season? a great challenge but it’s not be,” the former Australia tion programmes. It’s an unknown,” Alves told a post-training news conference. “I think there are fast bowler added. “As I’ve said I’ve got a wonderful The PCB conducted random testing during a domestic too many nice things to experience to be thinking about what I have to do,” job with Yorkshire and with Adelaide Strikers and I’m tournament in January and sent Hasan’s samples to a he added. “For the people who appreciate me, for everything involved, and looking forward to continuing that work.” Bayliss has also World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory out of respect I am just thinking about enjoying these two finals. coached Australian state side New South Wales and Kolkata in India. The PCB did not name the banned substance but “Hopefully we can make history with this club. After that, I will Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Paul Farbrace, Pakistani media last month reported Hasan was under announce my decision.” Alves has been a key part of Barca’s success in who worked as assistant coach to Bayliss with Sri Lanka, investigation for using cocaine. recent years with his probing runs up the right wing and a fine understand- was put in charge of the England team for the current Hasan, 22, featured in a one-off Twenty20 international ing with the likes of Argentina forward Lionel Messi. However, he has two-test series against New Zealand after Peter Moores against Australia in Dubai in December before making his sometimes attracted criticism for a perceived weakness in was sacked. The five-match Ashes series against one-day debut against the same opponents at the same defence and it was his howler that led to Malaga’s goal in a sur- Australia starts on July 8.—Reuters prise 1-0 La Liga defeat at the Nou Camp in February.—AFP Rangers defeat Yankees, Padres win

NEW YORK: Adam Rosales hit a two-run have been outscored 54-19 during the streak hits in 8 1-3 innings. Brooks Brown got the last homer off Chris Capuano that bounced off the that has dropped them to a season-worst sev- two outs. The start of the game was delayed 2 top of the left-field wall, and Yovani Gallardo en games under .500 at 18-25. Cleveland, hours, 10 minutes while a thunderstorm won for the second time since mid-April as the which has won eight of 10, took advantage of moved through the area. All four games in the Texas Rangers sent the New York Yankees to three Cincinnati errors to continue its hottest series were delayed by rain, including both their 10th loss in 11 games with a 5-2 victory stretch of the season. David Murphy, Nick ends of Saturday’s doubleheader. Sunday. Swisher and Carlos Santana each drove in a Prince Fielder had three hits and two RBIs run. Bauer (4-1) took a shutout into the sev- ASTROS 10, TIGERS 8 for the Rangers, who swept the three-game enth when Marlon Byrd hit a solo homer for Evan Gattis and Preston Tucker homered in series and extended a winning streak to five the only run allowed by the right-hander in 7 the sixth inning as Houston slugged its way to for the first time since September. 2-3 innings. another victory, rallying past Detroit. Texas then headed to Cleveland, where Rookie Raisel Iglesias (1-1), starting in place The Astros trailed 7-3 before scoring four Josh Hamilton is to start in left on Monday of Johnny Cueto, allowed two runs in three runs in the sixth, including Tucker’s three-run night. The 2010 AL MVP, who has seen side- innings. The Reds announced Saturday that shot as a pinch hitter that tied the game. The tracked by drug and alcohol problems plus the rookie from Cuba would replace Cueto, following inning, Jason Castro lined a tiebreak- shoulder surgery, was acquired from the who has a sore right elbow. ing two-run single with the bases loaded and Angels on April 27 and will be making his first two out. appearance for the Rangers since 2012. PIRATES 9, METS 1 Joe Thatcher (1-1) got the win by pitching New York held a pregame ceremony to Francisco Liriano kept up Pittsburgh’s the sixth - the first of four innings of work by retire Bernie Williams’ No. 51 and unveil a strikeout parade, fanning 12 as the Pirates the Houston bullpen. Luke Gregerson allowed plaque in his honor in Monument Park, and beat New York for a three-game sweep. a homer to Miguel Cabrera in the ninth but then had another night of pitching and defen- After Gerrit Cole fanned 10 in the opener held on for his 12th save in 13 chances. Detroit sive struggles. The Yankees have lost six and A.J. Burnett struck out 10 more Saturday, reliever Alex Wilson (1-1) took the loss. straight in a single season for the first time Liriano (2-4) topped them in only six innings. The AL West-leading Astros have hit a since May 11-16, 2011, and have 10 defeats in Liriano gave up one run and six hits. major league-leading 64 home runs. They won an 11-game span for the first time since May Andrew McCutchen and Starling Marte the last two games of the four-game series to 23 to June 3, 1995, according to STATS. homered for the Pirates. Jonathon Niese (3-5) salvage a split. Gallardo (4-6) allowed Brian McCann’s two- allowed four runs on seven hits and four walks run single in the first, and then pitched in 4 2-3 innings. The Mets finished 4-10 in a 14- MARLINS 5, ORIOLES 2 shutout ball through the sixth and wound up game stretch against teams from the NL Martin Prado homered to cap a 12-pitch at- giving up four hits with six strikeouts and one Central. bat and drove in two runs, helping Miami beat walk. Sam Freeman retired McCann on an Baltimore for its first series win since May 3. inning-ending flyout with two on in the NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 1 Baltimore left-hander Brian Matusz pitched eighth, and Shawn Tolleson struck out the side Bryce Harper drove in two runs and Gio two scoreless innings, a day after he was eject- in the ninth for his third save. Capuano (0-2) Gonzalez outpitched Aaron Harang as ed for having a sticky substance on his non- was the loser. Washington beat Philadelphia for its eighth throwing arm. The Orioles await a decision straight series win. from Major League Baseball regarding further PADRES 11, DODGERS 3 Harper gave the Nationals a 2-1 lead with a punishment. Justin Upton hit a grand slam and drove in run-scoring groundout in the fifth inning and The Marlins won their second game in a six runs and San Diego broke loose, backing added an RBI single in the seventh. In addition row after losing eight straight and finished 2-8 unbeaten James Shields in a victory over Los to moving into the NL lead with 41 RBIs, he on their homestand, which included a mana- Angeles. also increased his league-leading totals in gerial change. New manager Dan Jennings The Padres had totaled just three runs in walks (39) and runs (39). improved to 2-5. losing four straight games. Upton hit a slam in The 22-year-old Harper also threw out a Tom Koehler (3-3) retired the first 13 batters the first inning before Carlos Frias recorded an runner from right field on a force play at sec- and allowed one run in 6 1-3 innings. He has out and Will Middlebrooks later homered to ond base. Gonzalez (4-2) allowed one run and an 0.82 ERA in 22 innings over his past four help stake Shields (6-0) to a 9-0 lead through seven hits in 6 1-3 innings to win his third outings. A.J. Ramos pitched a perfect ninth for three. straight decision. It was his 46th victory with his second save in four chances, completing a The All-Star right-hander became the first Washington, tied with Stephen Strasburg for six-hitter. Miguel Gonzalez (5-3) was the loser. Padres starter to win his first six decisions second in Nationals history behind Jordan since 1985, when Andy Hawkins began 11-0. Zimmermann (60). Drew Storen, the fifth RED SOX 6, ANGELS 1 New to the Padres this year, Shields allowed Washington pitcher, worked the ninth for his Mike Napoli hit his fourth homer of the three runs in seven innings and struck out sev- 14th save. Harang (4-4) gave up two runs and series and drove in four runs and Wade Miley NEW YORK: Yankees’ Chase Headley (12) is out at second as Texas Rangers second baseman en. He started a four-run burst in the second seven hits in six innings. allowed one run in eight innings as Boston Adam Rosales throws to first attempting to complete a double play during the eighth inning with a leadoff single. Shields also went beat Los Angeles. inning of a baseball game. —AP 6-0 over his first 13 starts in 2007 season with ROCKIES 11, GIANTS 2 Napoli belted a two-run home run, two-run the first Cardinals pitcher to start 7-0 since in five scoreless innings before leaving with a Tampa Bay. Frias (3-2) was tagged for 10 runs Nolan Arenado had four hits and four RBIs, double and improved his career average to Matt Morris began 8-0 in 2005. Matt Carpenter bruised right ankle as Oakland beat the Rays. and 12 hits in four-plus innings. leading Chad Bettis and Colorado past San .333 with 18 homers and 36 RBIs in 47 games hit a two-run homer in the sixth off Yordano Gray (5-2) was hit on the lower leg by Francisco. Troy Tulowitzki and Nick Hundley against his former team. Ventura (3-4). Salvador Perez extended his hit- James Loney’s grounder in the fourth, but INDIANS 5, REDS 2 each drove in two runs to help the Rockies Mike Trout had an RBI double for the ting streak to 10 games and singled home a stayed in for a while longer. He had lost his Trevor Bauer pitched into the eighth inning split the rain-soaked, four-game series. Bettis Angles, who closed a 10-game trip against AL run for the Royals. previous two starts. Billy Burns hit the first as Cleveland extended its winning streak to six (1-0) was nearly unhittable until the ninth East teams at 5-5. Xander Bogaerts went 4 for pitch of the game into the right-field seats for games with a victory over slumping inning. Nori Aoki singled on the first pitch of 4 with a double and three singles for the Red BLUE JAYS 8, MARINERS 2 his first major league homer. Mark Canha and Cincinnati. the game, and San Francisco’s next hit was Sox. Miley (4-4) gave up one run and four hits, Edwin Encarnacion and Ryan Goins home- Josh Reddick also homered as the A’s won Cincinnati has dropped eight in a row, its Matt Duffy’s leadoff single in the eighth. striking out two and walking one in eight red, Aaron Sanchez won for the first time in consecutive games for the second time this longest losing streak since 2009. The Reds Bettis was charged with two runs and six innings. Hector Santiago (3-3) threw a career- three starts as Toronto beat the Seattle season. The only other time they did it was high 124 pitches in 6 2-3 innings, allowing Mariners to avoid a three-game sweep. April 13-14 against Houston. Erasmo Ramirez three runs and seven hits. Sanchez (4-4) allowed two runs and seven hits (2-2) took the loss. in 6 2-3 innings to help Toronto win for the DIAMONDBACKS 4, CUBS 3 third time in 12 games. TWINS 8, WHITE SOX 1 Paul Goldschmidt hit his second home run Seattle’s Kyle Seager homered for the sec- Brian Dozier homered twice and drove in in three days as Arizona beat Chicago to win ond straight game, a solo shot in the second, four runs in Minnesota’s victory over Chicago. the three-game series. Goldschmidt’s 12th but the Mariners were unable to complete Dozier hit a solo shot off Jose Quintana (2-5) in home run of the season, a two-run shot to the what would have been their first sweep in the first inning and a three-run homer off porch in deep right-center, put Arizona up 4-1 Toronto since May 2001. Scott Carroll in the seventh for his second in the third. He also singled in a run in the first. Mariners right-hander Taijuan Walker held career multi-home run game. Miguel Montero homered against his for- the Blue Jays without a hit through the first Kyle Gibson (4-3) struck out eight, tying a mer Arizona teammates, a solo shot to the four innings, but Toronto came alive with four career high, and allowed a run and four hits in opposite field. Chris Coghlan hit a two-run runs in the fifth. Walker (1-5) allowed four runs eight innings. Jose Abreu homered in the homer that cut the Diamondbacks’ lead to 4-3 and six hits in 5 2-3 innings. He fell to 0-4 in six fourth for the White Sox run. in the fifth. road starts, but lowered his road ERA from The Twins moved three percentage points Jeremy Hellickson (2-2), who played for 10.71 to 9.79. ahead of the Tigers for second place in the AL Cubs manager Joe Maddon when the two Central. They improved to 15-6 in May after were with Tampa Bay, allowed three runs on ATHLETICS 7, RAYS 2 they went 10-12 in April and started the sea- four hits in 6 2-3 innings to get the win. He Sonny Gray limited Tampa Bay to four hits son 1-6. —AP also had his first career RBI. Brad Ziegler pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save. Jason Hammel (3-2) was the loser. MLB results/standings BRAVES 2, BREWERS 1 Rookie Mike Foltynewicz allowed just three Toronto 8, Seattle 2; Houston 10, Detroit 8; Oakland 7, Tampa Bay 2; Cleveland 5, Cincinnati 2; Miami 5, Baltimore 2; Boston 6, LA Angels 1; Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 1; Washington 4, Philadelphia 1; Pittsburgh 9, NY Mets hits for 7 2-3 innings, leading Atlanta past 1; Minnesota 8, Chicago White Sox 1; St. Louis 6, Kansas City 1; San Diego 11, LA Dodgers 3; Colorado 11, San Milwaukee. Foltynewicz (3-1) allowed one run Francisco 2; Arizona 4, Chicago Cubs 3; Texas 5, NY Yankees 2. in his longest start in the majors. He struck out seven. The 23-year-old Foltynewicz was one of American League National League three players acquired by Atlanta in the offsea- Eastern Division Eastern Division son trade that sent Evan Gattis to Houston. He W L PCT GB Washington 26 18 .591 - was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett on May Tampa Bay 24 21 .533 - NY Mets 24 21 .533 2.5 1. Jason Grilli struck out three in the ninth for NY Yankees 22 22 .500 1.5 Atlanta 22 21 .512 3.5 Boston 21 23 .477 2.5 Philadelphia 19 27 .413 8 his 13th save. Jimmy Nelson (2-5) matched Baltimore 19 22 .463 3 Miami 18 27 .400 8.5 Foltynewicz through five scoreless innings Toronto 20 26 .435 4.5 Central Division before allowing two runs on two walks and Central Division two hits, including Andrelton Simmons’ RBI Kansas City 28 15 .651 - St. Louis 28 16 .636 - single, in the sixth. Minnesota 25 18 .581 3 Chicago Cubs 24 19 .558 3.5 Detroit 26 19 .578 3 Pittsburgh 21 22 .488 6.5 CARDINALS 6, ROYALS 1 Cleveland 20 23 .465 8 Cincinnati 18 25 .419 9.5 Unbeaten Michael Wacha won for the sev- Chicago White Sox 19 22 .463 8 Milwaukee 16 29 .356 12.5 enth straight time this year as St. Louis beat Western Division Western Division Houston 29 16 .644 - Kansas City to end its season-worst three- LA Dodgers 26 17 .605 - LA Angels 22 22 .500 6.5 San Francisco 25 20 .556 2 game losing streak. Texas 21 23 .477 7.5 Arizona 21 22 .488 5 Wacha held the majors’ best-hitting team to Seattle 20 23 .465 8 San Diego 21 24 .467 6 LOS ANGELES: Dodgers relief pitcher Kenley Jansen follows through on a delivery during one unearned run and five singles in seven Oakland 16 30 .348 13.5 Colorado 17 25 .405 8.5 the ninth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. —AP innings. He exited with a 1.87 ERA and became TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 SPORTS

Pharoah aims to defy history in Triple Crown bid

WASHINGTON: History suggests that opportunity to see a piece of sports his- longshot named Birdstone blew by the But the Belmont Stakes’ punishing dis- Course. there will be nothing easy about US tory when Espinoza gets an unprecen- favorite just yards (metres) from the fin- tance is so taxing for a thoroughbred, “Before, I said I really want to win the jockey Victor Espinoza’s attempt to ride dented third crack at the coveted prize ish line, turning the mood from giddy to most never run that long again. Triple Crown,” said Espinoza. “At this American Pharoah to a Triple Crown vic- when he rides American Pharoah at morgue-like in a matter of seconds. The 20-horse Derby is run on the first point, I have no pressure. If it happens, it tory next month. Belmont Park to the cheers of a 90,000- There was an audible gasp from the Saturday in May, followed by the happens. If it doesn’t it just wasn’t There has not been a Triple Crown strong crowd. crowd of 120,000, followed by an eerie Preakness two weeks later. The Belmont meant to be. I’ll just move on with my winner since 1978 and one of the last Espinoza, 43, is vying to become the silence. Stakes is three weeks after the life.” Last year, Espinoza tried vigorously attempts, by hugely popular Smarty 12th winner of the Triple Crown, one of Of the 11 Triple Crown victors, no Preakness, capping a series so tough to get California Chrome in position Jones, ended in crushing disappoint- the rarest feats in all of sports, having one had a harder path than Cauthen, that some horses never recover and down the stretch but conceded the ment. failed at Belmont Park with War Emblem whose colt had to battle Alydar in dra- have to be retired. colt’s gas tank was “empty.” They fin- As Smarty Jones barreled down the in 2002 and California Chrome a year matic stretch drives in all three races. “You just have to have everything go ished fourth, losing to Tonalist, who home stretch at Belmont Park in 2004, ago. The two rivals were by themselves right even if you have the best horse,” skipped both the Derby and the jockey Stewart Elliott knew his mount No horse has won the Belmont for most of the Belmont Stakes before said Cauthen, now 55. “You need for Preakness. would fall short, disappointing a world- Stakes after finishing first in the Affirmed won by a head to win and your horse to be at his best on all three Baffert is also aiming for his first wide audience hoping to see the colt Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes claimed a rarified place in horseracing occasions.” Triple Crown, having been denied with complete the Triple Crown. Toward the since Affirmed turned the trick in 1978 history. Before he takes to the track known as Silver Charm in 1997, Real Quiet in 1998 end of the grueling 1-1/2-mile (2.4-km) and Steve Cauthen became the “It was fantastic, especially the way it “Graveyard of Triple Crown Dreams,” and with War Emblem. He knows course, the journeyman rider said he youngest jockey to win a Triple Crown happened,” said Cauthen. “They were all Espinoza insists he is ready for his third Espinoza has a target on his back. could feel the thoroughbred running at just 18 years of age. tough battles. But in the Belmont, to get shot, even though he knows American “I know everybody right now is out of gas and realized then that the This year, spectators will gather at across the line 3 or 4 inches (7.5 cm to Pharoah will be facing fresh horses, sharpening their knives, getting ready,” Belmont Stakes was about to claim yet Belmont Park in Long Island, New York, 10 cm) ahead after a mile-long (1.8 km) some that skipped the Derby or he said minutes after his colt’s another victim. hoping to witness a different fate from battle was extremely satisfying. “A mile- Preakness, or both. Preakness victory. But ordinary fans “I knew if any other horse was run- the one that befell Smarty Jones, a and-a-half wasn’t Affirmed’s best dis- Trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, always thirst for a Triple Crown winner. ning, we were going to get beat,” Elliott diminutive chestnut who was perhaps tance, but what got him across the line American Pharoah won the Derby by a Just ask Edgar Prado, the Birdstone jock- said softly, recalling the pain of the 2004 the most popular horse of his genera- was his desire and his heart.” The Triple mere length, but roared back to win the ey who beat Smarty Jones 11 years ago. race, “and we did.” tion. Crown is only for 3-year-olds and its Preakness by an astonishing seven “I apologize to everybody,” he said after On June 6, the world will get another On that afternoon in 2004, a 36-1 three races are each different distances. lengths at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race the race.—Reuters Kirk wins at Colonial

TEXAS: American Chris Kirk coolly got up and down from off the green at the 18th hole to salvage par and clinch his fourth PGA Tour title by one shot on Sunday at the $6.5 million Crowne Plaza Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. After watching playing partner Brandt Snedeker nar- rowly miss a 12-footer for birdie at the last, Kirk sank a clutch seven-foot par putt to seal victory with a closing four-under 66 at a rain-saturated Colonial Country Club. That left Kirk at 12-under 268 after an intriguing last-day shootout at Colonial where five players held at least a share of the lead in the final round. “Unbelievable, to be a part of the history of this tourna- ment is just amazing to me,” Kirk told CBS Sports after adding his name to a list of winners at Colonial where golf- ing great and Fort Worth resident Ben Hogan triumphed five times. “I’ve always loved this golf course and this has been my favourite tournament on the tour. “I didn’t really feel like I was swinging that great early on in the week but somehow I was able to get it done,” said the 30-year-old, who never relinquished the lead after sinking a birdie putt at the 15th. Asked if winning on the PGA Tour was becoming any easier, Kirk replied: “Absolutely not. I was as nervous as I have ever been today, for sure. Those up-and-downs the last couple of holes, and especially making that putt on 18, INDIANA: Colin Montgomerie of Scotland putts for birdie on the 17th hole during the was pretty sweet.” final round of the Senior PGA Championship. —AFP Snedeker signed off with a 67 to share second place at 11 under with fellow Americans Jason Bohn, who fired a best-of-the-day 63, and Masters champion Jordan Spieth Monty retains Senior title (65). “Very disappointed,” said Snedeker. “I played great and INDIANA: Colin Montgomerie of Scotland “I spent 22 proper years trying to do this just didn’t make putts on the last three holes like you are retained his Senior PGA Championship and three (wins) have come at the one supposed to to win golf tournaments.” crown by a commanding four shots on time,” said the Scot, who was a runner-up American Kevin Na, who had been a stroke in front Sunday at French Lick, Indiana as he earned five times in regular majors during a glitter- overnight, briefly stretched his lead to three with a birdie- his third major title in the over-50 ranks. ing career that also yielded a record eight birdie start but his title bid unravelled when he followed a Three ahead overnight, Montgomerie European Tour order of merit titles. bogey at the third with a double at the ninth. Na finished rebounded from a bogey on the opening “It’s a fantastic time I am having. The with a 72 to share 10th place at nine under. hole with a superb display on the challeng- American crowd have embraced me and The start to the final round was delayed by three hours ing Pete Dye course at the French Lick I’ve embraced them and I’m having fun out due to thunderstorms, and improved lies were permitted Resort, piling up six birdies and just two here. I think that’s what it’s all about. I from anywhere on the par-70 layout after just under two more bogeys on the way to a three-under- enjoyed this layout.” inches of rain had saturated the course since Saturday TEXAS: Chris Kirk poses with the champion’s trophy after winning the Colonial golf par 69. Montgomerie never allowed his pur- afternoon.—Reuters tournament. —AP That left the 51-year-old Scot at eight- suers to get any closer than two shots on under 280, four strokes ahead of Mexico’s Sunday and he effectively secured victory Esteban Toledo who closed with a 69 on a with a sizzling run of five birdies in eight blustery afternoon. holes from the fifth. Montgomerie became the first player “Finishing second is not that bad but Lightning strikes to close since American Hale Irwin (1996-1998) to Colin ... just an outstanding job he did successfully defend the Senior PGA today,” said Toledo, a former professional Championship. boxer who birdied three of the first seven in on Stanley Cup Finals The Briton, one of the best players never holes before his own title bid stalled. to land a regular major title, won last year’s “Four under par today is incredible. It’s NEW YORK: Tampa Bay Lightning stood firm on to complete the shutout. “We did what the Rangers did last game, we Senior PGA at Harbor Shores in Michigan hard to catch up when somebody is play- defense before striking with two brilliant sec- Tampa Bay, who led the National Hockey bent but we didn’t break.” After Tampa Bay’s criti- before claiming his second Champions ing really well. I put a little pressure on the ond-period goals to move within one victory of League in scoring, weathered four New York cal penalty kills and a timely timeout by coach Tour major two months later at the US front but ... then it kind of slipped away.” the Stanley Cup Finals with a 2-0 road win over power-plays before taking charge at Madison Cooper, the attack began to click. Senior Open. “I’m just making up for lost Woody Austin carded a 69 to finish the New York Rangers on Sunday. Square Garden. Five minutes after Filppula’s goal, Nikita time,” a beaming Montgomerie told NBC alone in third place at three under, one The victory lifted Tampa Bay into a 3-2 lead in “It’s not how many you score. It’s how many Kucherov centered to Ondrej Palat, who had Sports about his successful run in the blue stroke better than fellow Americans the best-of-seven Eastern Conference Finals with you keep out of the net,” Lightning coach Jon Lundqvist committed before sweeping it across riband senior events over the past 12 Brian Henninger (71) and Scott Verplank the series heading back to Florida today. Cooper told reporters. “The boys committed to to Stamkos, who one-timed it into an open net. months. (71). —Reuters Neutralized in the first period and a half, the defense. “Huge effort on the penalty kill. If they The first period was played largely in Tampa Lightning exploded into life during a sublime get the first one (goal), no telling how the game Bay’s end as the Rangers controlled the puck spell late in the second, sparked by Valtteri would go.” and won the battles for possession but could Filppula flicking the puck over goaltender Henrik Stamkos said the visitors figured the Rangers not cash in opportunities. Phelps’ coach returns Lundqvist’s stick into the left corner after a feed would be fired up after their 5-1 Game Four win New York, who scored on two of four power- from captain Steven Stamkos at 13:29. in Tampa Bay tied the series 2-2. “We knew they plays in that 5-1 rout last time out, came up to college ranks Five minutes later, two perfect passes led to were going to push. They had some confidence empty in four chances with a man advantage. “If an easy power-play goal from the skipper that from last game,” said Stamkos, who was without we want to continue to play, we’re going to have doubled the lead, leaving goalie Ben Bishop to a point in the first eight post-season games but to play our best game of the year,” Rangers ARIZONA: Bob Bowman will always be known his most famous athlete, a swimmer who has protect the advantage by stopping all 26 shots has now scored in four straight contests. coach Alain Vigneault said. —Reuters as Michael Phelps’ coach. Phelps won’t be won a record 18 Olympic gold medals and around forever, though, so Bowman started came out of retirement to compete at the Rio thinking about his future. Games next year. It led him back to the college ranks and a “It’s going to shake him up a little bit,” new job at Arizona State, a school that he Bowman said. “It doesn’t hurt to change things believes has the potential to be one of the top up every now and then, just from an athletic swimming programs in the country. standpoint. That’s one thing about being in “When they first called I was like, ‘There’s no the same place for a long time. You kind of fall way I can do it,’” Bowman said. “Then I thought, into some habits. Sometimes, you need to ‘When is going to be a good time? The oppor- break those. I’m not saying they’re all bad. You tunity is there. I’m just going to take it.’” just get in this rut. Sometimes, you feel like This won’t be the first time Bowman has led you’re doing the same things you were doing a college team. After the 2004 Olympics, he five years ago, 10 years ago.” For Phelps, it was spent three years at Michigan, succeeding a no-brainer of a decision. longtime coach Jon Urbanchek. The two have worked together since Phelps During his time in Ann Arbor, Bowman was 11 years old. They are friends and business learned plenty of lessons that he hopes will be partners, a relationship that wasn’t going to helpful in his new gig, such as how to divvy up change just because Bowman was moving the scholarships. In non-revenue sports such 2,000 miles to take a new job. “I’m never going as swimming, not everyone gets a full ride, so to swim for anybody else,” Phelps said. “And it is it’s up to the coach to figure out the best way a good opportunity for me.” to split the funds. The timing of the move actually excites the “My first two years at Michigan, I was so swimmer, who recently got engaged. Phelps dumb with the money,” Bowman remembered. and his fiancee, Nicole Johnson, are already “I fumbled that big time and paid for it a few looking at homes to rent, preferably one on a times, just trying to figure out how the whole golf course so he’ll be able to pursue his other thing needs to work.” passion when he’s not at the pool. Since 2008, Bowman has served as head “It’s a chance for Nicole and I to go some- coach and CEO of the North Baltimore Aquatic where where we can start fresh,” Phelps said. Club, where he has continued to work with For now, the plan is to live in Arizona for less Phelps - a Baltimore native - along with a num- than a year, while he’s training for Rio. But they ber of top swimmers, including Olympic cham- might wind up finding a new permanent pion Allison Schmitt. home. “We’re not going out there with closed Phelps and Schmitt are among those who minds,” Phelps said. “If we go down there and will follow Bowman to Tempe, Arizona, form- somehow fall in love with it and want to stay, ing a new pro training group that will work we’ll stay. If go and use it as temporary home, alongside Bowman’s college team. it will be temporary. We’re very open-minded NEW YORK: Rangers center JT Miller (10) and Tampa Bay Lightning right wing JT Brown (23) fight for control of the puck during the third period Bowman thinks the change will be good for about the move right now.”—AP of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final during the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs. —AP TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 SPORTS SEA Games showcase region’s rapid growth

SINGAPORE: The 28th Southeast Asian British colonial outpost, the Lion City has town hotels. In a country where income tors in almost all of the disciplines, par- appearances but is going for an Games (SEA Games) begins in Singapore been transformed into a global financial tax is low and crime rare, there are few ticularly badminton, SEA countries gen- unprecedented nine in his home city next week, an event that promises to powerhouse and home to many of the concerns about crowd disturbances, erally excel in non-Olympic and combat this time. showcase the region’s spectacular eco- world’s mega-rich. although police said there would be a sports. Thailand is the most successful For Singapore’s new head swimming nomic growth as much as the athletes Singapore asked to host the SEA big security presence. nation, winning a combined total of coach, former Spanish Olympian Sergio and their competitions. Games this year as part of its 50th For spectators, most events will be 1,994 gold medals over the 27 complet- Lopez, Schooling’s profile and ambitions Like all regional multi-sports events, anniversary of independence from free to watch while tickets for high-pro- ed editions of the Games. sum up the significance of the event, the SEA Games struggles for mainstream Malaysia, a year-long celebration which file sports such as swimming sold out Most of the competing countries which officially runs from June 5-16, but recognition outside its own borders, but has taken on added poignancy following quickly. For the competitors themselves, have offered some sort of cash incentive will kick off on Friday with preliminary for the 11 competing countries, the the death in March of Singapore’s first the biennial SEA games are like a mini- for any athlete who wins a gold medal rounds of men’s soccer. stakes could hardly be higher. prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. Olympics, bringing enormous pride to and hired foreign coaches to give them “We’re here to win. If you don’t win, Around 7,000 athletes will flock to the Most of the events will be held at the the competing nations: Brunei, the best chance of success. you give your 100 percent, you might tiny city-state for the June 5-16 event, new $1 billion Sports Hub, which fea- Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Of all the athletes at the Games, few cry for five minutes, but you have to competing in 36 different sports for tures a 55,000-seat national stadium that Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, will be under more pressure to succeed stand up and keep moving forward,” more than 400 gold medals. opened last year. Thailand, Vietnam and East Timor. that Singaporean swimmer Joseph Lopez told Reuters. From humble beginnings in 1959, the Local officials are also using many Most of the sports are on the Olympic Schooling. Just 19, Schooling has “I know swimming has been a big SEA Games has steadily grown into venues that were built for the 2010 programme but organisers also offer tra- become his country’s big hope for next sport in the Southeast Asian environ- Southeast Asia’s biggest multi-sports Youth Olympics, keeping costs down so ditional events that keep faith with the year’s Rio Olympics after winning a silver ment for Singapore bringing in medals. event, mirroring the region’s increasing they can run everything on a budget of region’s eclectic cultural mix, such pen- medal at last year’s Commonwealth But for me, I need to change the mind- financial muscle. S$324.5 million ($241.77 million). cak silat, sepak takraw and dragon boat Games and a gold at the Asian Games. set... why can’t we be one of the best Nowhere is this better illustrated than Rather than build an athlete’s village, racing. Although the various teams He has already won seven SEA Games smallest nations in the world? We need in the host-city Singapore. Once a sleepy competitors will be housed in down- boast a number of world class competi- gold medals from his two previous to think that way.” —Reuters Montoya keeps Powers at bay to win second Indy 500

INDIANAPOLIS: Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya came from the back of the pack and outran his team mate over the closing laps to the win the 99th Indianapolis 500 for a second time on Sunday. Montoya, who won his Indy 500 debut in 2000, survived an early collision that forced him into the pits and dropped him to 30th place before mounting a stirring charge and storming to a one-car length win. “When I came through the field, I knew I had a really great car. But it was hard,” said Montoya. “Oh my God! That was awesome.” “This is what racing and IndyCar is all about. Awesome racing all the way down to the wire.” Returning to IndyCar last year after stints in NASCAR and Formula One, Montoya took the lead with four laps to go and fought off a challenge from Australian Will Power. American Charlie Kimball was third. MONACO: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain touches his face in this file The IndyCar Series win was his fourth, two coming at photo. —AP the sprawling 2.5 mile speedway. The victory was also 16th for team owner Roger Penske, giving him the rare Daytona 500-Indy 500 double. Monaco will make Hamilton After a crash filled buildup to the race, a mix of excite- ment and apprehension hung over the famed Brickyard as stronger, says Hakkinen the 33-car field took the command to start their engines. The trepidation proved well placed with cars driven by MONACO: Lewis Hamilton can turn “Millions of fans looking at it and asking Sage Karam and Takuma Sato coming together in the first Monaco misery into a Canadian celebration why? It’s hard to be a driver sitting there corner of the opening lap, bringing out the yellow flag. because every setback makes you stronger, and have to answer these questions. “But Problems continued on the restart when Simon De according to retired double world champi- you have to go on, you have to go flat out. Silvestro, one of two women in the field, ran into the back on Mika Hakkinen. You have to build up your confidence of Montoya sending both drivers into the pits for repairs. “‘I’m going to win the next one’. That will inside more and challenge the next grand After last year’s race went 149 laps without a caution be his motivation. You cannot just start get- prix. There’s a long way to go in the season. flag, the first 11 laps of the 99th edition were run under yel- ting depressed about it,” the Finn, who And Monaco is an example that anything low before the field finally settled into a rhythm with overcame his own share of race setbacks, can happen.” Ganassi team mates pole sitter Scott Dixon and 2013 win- told Reuters. “You have to learn and analyse Sunday’s race had a Hamilton victory ner Tony Kanaan setting the pace. everything that has happened, and get written all over it. He was fastest in practice, With 100 miles to go, the race had boiled down to a bat- stronger and better.” Hakkinen, champion qualified on pole and led from the start by tle between IndyCar’s two powerhouse outfits with Penske with McLaren in 1998 and 1999, knows all a comfortable margin until the safety car and Ganassi cars occupying the top six places. about that from bitter experience. came out near the end. A spectacular crash involving Stefano Coletti, Jack At the 1999 Italian Grand Prix, he While others stayed out, the Briton came Hawksworth and Sebastian Saavedra brought out the final sobbed in bushes by the side of the track in for fresh tyres in what turned out to be a yellow of the day. That set up a wild sprint for the check- after making a basic error and crashing out needless stop. He finished third. Mercedes ered flag, Montoya blasting past Dixon and Power and while leading. motorsport head Toto Wolff apologised for staying in front the final four laps as the crowd of close to In Spain in 2001, the Finn suffered one the error but said Hamilton, whose champi- 250,000 stood and roared. “I was trying to keep the lead of the cruellest blows when his McLaren’s onship lead over team mate and race win- because I knew, with the heat, the tires would degrade and engine blew on the last lap while he was ner Nico Rosberg was halved to 10 points, eventually they wouldn’t be able to go round,” said Power, coasting to victory. would fight back at the next race, the sev- the reigning IndyCar series champion. “Montoya got that “All these things that happen in motor enth of the season, in Montreal. last run and maybe I was a bit nice to him into turn one racing or in life, they make you stronger “He has such mental strength and is on and lifted. because you learn from those things. It’s a roll. It must be very sore to lose that one, “That was serious racing there, it was a lot of fun. “Full just very hard in the position you are sit- because it was his to win. I have no doubt credit to the team, finishing one-two. Congrats to Juan, he INDIANAPOLIS: Juan Pablo Montoya, of Colombia, poses with the Borg-Warner ting, in the racing car, when everyone is he will recover as quickly as he always did,” was very strong all day and had to come through the Trophy during the traditional winners photo session at Indianapolis Motor staring at you,” said Hakkinen. said the Austrian. —Reuters field.”—Reuters Speedway. Montoya won the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race. —AP LeBron’s triple-double helps Cavs top Hawks CLEVELAND: LeBron James shook off an atrocious shooting start and withstood Atlanta’s gritty comeback to record a triple-double as the Cleveland Cavaliers moved within one win of the NBA Finals by beat- ing the Hawks 114-111 in overtime on Sunday to take a 3-0 series lead. James missed his first 10 shots, but finished with 37 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists. The Cavs needed every single one of them to hold off the top-seeded Hawks, who fought Cleveland until the final seconds despite being without injured shooter Kyle Korver and losing Al Horford, who was ejected in the first half. James hit a 3-pointer with 36.4 seconds left to put the Cavs ahead by one, and the superstar dropped a runner with 12.8 left to make it 114-111. “He just wouldn’t let us lose,” coach David Blatt said. Atlanta had two chances to tie it in the final seconds, but Shelvin Mack missed two 3-pointers. When the final horn sounded, an exhausted James, who was favoring his right leg for most of overtime, dropped to the floor and had to be helped to his feet. “I worked extremely hard and Hawally, Interior in final for me as a leader no matter how I’m feeling I’ve got to try to make some plays,” James said. He’ll have just one day to rest up before the Cavs try to earn their By Hanan Al-Saadoun second Finals trip - and the fifth in a row for James - in Game 4 on KUWAIT: Hawally governorate team, and Interior Ministry team qualified for the final of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister SheikhMohammad Al-Khalid, Tuesday night. which was organized by the Police Sports Association. The final will be tomorrow (Wednesday) at Kazima Sports Club hall. Hawally governorate defeated Jeff Teague scored 30 points and Paul Millsap 22 for the Hawks, Ahmadi, while Interior defeated Farwaniya 2-1. who scratched and clawed for 53 minutes. Down 10 in the fourth, the Hawks showed championship toughness and nearly pulled off a win that would have guaranteed them another home game on Thursday. They’ll have to dig deep again, and they are facing long odds to win the series as no NBA team has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit. Teague dropped a nasty, step-back jumper with 55 seconds left to put the Hawks up 111-109, but James answered - following an offen- sive rebound by Tristan Thompson - to knock down a corner 3 like the one he made at the buzzer to beat Chicago in the second round, mak- ing it 112-111 with 36.4 seconds left. James then hit his runner over Millsap and the Cavs and 20,000 fans held their breath as Mack took two cracks at the rim. The Cavs were again missing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, sidelined for his second straight game with an injured left knee. But Cleveland has James, and even on a night when his shot wasn’t falling, he carried the Cavs, who can earn their first trip to the Finals since James took them there in 2007. Matthew Dellavedova and J.R. Smith added 17 points each for Cleveland. The Hawks took a one- point lead into third quarter when James decided to seize control of the game. He recorded 15 points, six rebounds and six assists in the period, but it only resulted in Cleveland having a 10-point lead early in the fourth. —AP TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 SPORTS

Liverpool’s decline leaves Rodgers’ future in jeopardy

LONDON: As subscribers to the name is about to leave the club, with every right to be angry and frustrated Liverpool failed to get out of its The summer is also likely to be domi- “Moneyball” approach, Liverpool’s captain Steven Gerrard swapping and of course I take full responsibility for group in the Champions League and, at nated not by who comes in but whether American owners like to do their busi- Liverpool for Los Angeles after 17 years that.” one stage, was in 12th place in the Liverpool is able to keep hold of winger ness based on cold, hard statistics. as a professional at Anfield. Gerrard A 6-1 loss to a mid-table team with league. Later, Rodgers acknowledged Raheem Sterling, the team’s best young So here are some damning numbers scored three of Liverpool’s last four goals nothing to play for is the kind of result that at that time he feared for his job. player, who is refusing to sign a new for the hierarchy at Fenway Sports this season, taking his overall tally to that gets a manager fired, and social Rodgers changed the team’s forma- contract. Group to chew on before they sit down 186, and some pundits believe the play- media and radio phone-ins were filled tion to a 3-4-3 and the Reds went Gerrard’s departure leaves a gaping with Liverpool manager Brendan er who has held the club together for with Liverpool fans calling for the unbeaten in the league for 13 games. hole, not just in the team but at the club Rodgers for his end-of-season review in the past decade is leaving too early. It all removal of Rodgers after the game. With However, the final two months of the itself. the coming days. makes tough reading for Rodgers, who a respected coach like Juergen Klopp season saw Liverpool win just two of its And next season’s schedule already Liverpool finished a miserable season on Friday declared himself “150 percent” looking for work after leaving Borussia nine league games - against relegation looks complicated for Liverpool, which with a 6-1 loss at Stoke, its worst defeat sure that he’d still be in his post at the Dortmund, Rodgers is on shaky ground. contenders Newcastle and Queens Park must - because of its sixth-place finish - in the 23-year history of the Premier start of next season. Ever since Luis Suarez left for Barcelona Rangers - and lose to Aston Villa in the go through two qualifying rounds to League and its heaviest in 52 years. For Some aren’t so sure anymore - and last July, things have gone downhill for FA Cup semifinals in arguably the low compete in the group stage of Europa the first time in 84 years, the Reds con- that includes Rodgers himself. The man Liverpool and Rodgers. point of the campaign. At least before League. That competition has loaded a ceded five goals in the first half of a top- widely regarded as the top young man- The summer signings have been travelling to Stoke. heavy burden on English teams in recent division game. ager in Britain last season for guiding majorly disappointing - and Rodgers’ “It’s evident for all to see,” former years. In the space of a year, Liverpool has Liverpool to the brink of a first league lineup for the Stoke game reflected that. Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said And there’s still room for one last gone from the second best team in title since 1990 had a shell-shocked look Mario Balotelli wasn’t in the squad, fel- on his Facebook page, “there is problems insult for Liverpool fans. Belgium striker England to No. 6, despite an outlay of to him as he was asked to explain the low striker Rickie Lambert started on the at both ends of the field that will hope- Divock Origi, who will join on a perma- 116 million pounds (now $180 million) capitulation at Stoke. bench as Liverpool began the game with fully be rectified in some way this sum- nent basis this summer after being on new players in the last offseason. “If the owners want me to go then I no recognized forward, Dejan Lovren mer.” loaned back to Lille following his 10 mil- Rodgers has had three years as go,” an emotional Rodgers said, “but I and Lazar Markovic - who reportedly With no Champions League football lion-pound (now $15.5 million) transfer Liverpool’s manager and hasn’t won a want to be here.” “The fans deserve an cost a combined 40 million pounds (now on offer and with the likes of Manchester to Liverpool last year, was named in the trophy. apology,” he added. “They were angry at $62 million) - were unused substitutes, City and Manchester United set to spend French league’s worst team of the sea- Meanwhile, a man with the experi- halftime - and rightly so - because that and Adam Lallana and Emre Can played big this offseason, Liverpool is unlikely son by respected French newspaper ence of 710 Liverpool appearances to his was awful, absolutely awful. They have out of position. to attract the top names to Anfield. L’Equipe. —AP Mourinho hails departing Drogba

LONDON: Jose Mourinho believes Didier keeping Cech. Drogba’s influence will continue to be felt “I keep saying the same. He’s a legend of at Chelsea even though the Ivory Coast for- this club, but he’s a legend at 33. Thirty- ward has called time on his second spell three for a goalkeeper is a very young leg- with the Premier League champions. end,” Mourinho said. Drogba announced his intention to leave “One of our strengths this season was to Stamford Bridge before the 3-1 victory over have the two best goalkeepers in the Sunderland on Sunday that ensured Premier League. When Thibaut Courtois Mourinho’s side ended their title-winning was injured, Petr made decisive saves in campaign in fitting style before being pre- matches for us. sented with the trophy after the final whis- “I’m not sure if Petr was not here in tle. these seven matches if we could be cham- The 37-year-old is keen to play on for pions, so his contribution was decisive. “But one more year, but will have to look else- we also have to be fair, and not emotional where for more regular first team action. with our analysis, and say that Thibaut is an Drogba was named captain but played amazing goalkeeper who had a fantastic only 28 minutes before being chaired from season for us. He’s a big champion.” the pitch by his team-mates as he was Members of Chelsea’s 2005 title-winning replaced by Diego Costa. team were reunited before kick off and And Blues boss Mourinho insists the vet- Mourinho said: “For me, to have here today eran’s legacy will continue to be felt the champions of 2004-05 and the champi- because of his impact on the development ons of 2014-15 is an amazing feeling of the club’s younger players. because I feel as if I belong to both. “The substitution was decided because “I belong to two generations. To be back he had a problem with his knee and, in nor- for the end of my team was hard. To see mal conditions, he could not play for long. Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard, Michael Essien We left him on for half an hour,” Mourinho and Didier Drogba leave is very hard. said. “The captaincy was John Terry’s desire, “But my job is Chelsea’s future and to give him the armband. The players to Chelsea’s future is this team that we’ve bring him off the pitch? I think that was been working with in the last few years. “It LONDON: Middlesbrough’s Belgium player Jelle Vossen attempts an overhead kick as he is marked by Norwich City’s French player Sebastien decided between them because they like would be a dream to be here in 2025 and Bassong during their playoff final at Wembley Stadium. —AP him a lot. be with the champions of 2005, 2015 and “I’m really happy because he was part of 2025.” Sunderland arrived at Stamford the other team, but he belongs also to this Bridge having already secured their new Chelsea. “For these players to know Premier League status and boss Dick Norwich win promotion jackpot him, train with him, live with him, play with Advocaat, who masterminded their escape him, share with him is fantastic. after arriving on a short-term deal in March, LONDON: Norwich City won the promotion believing it and another thing doing it,” Neil ward to double their lead three minutes later. “He was very, very good for these young insisted he would make a decision on his jackpot as they swept back into the Premier said. “Big players arrive on the big stage and you This was a far more emphatic strike from people: Eden Hazard, Willian, Oscar. They own future soon. League with a 2-0 victory over Middlesbrough saw that in the first 20 minutes. We were unbe- Neil’s team, whose confidence, already high learnt from a good example. His was a fan- “Wait and see. It’s not up to me, because in the Championship play-off final yesterday. lievable.” after their play-off semi-final win over bitter tastic contribution this season.” they offered me already two or three years. Alex Neil’s side raced into a two-goal lead Middlesbrough’s team bus had been caught rivals Ipswich, had gone through the roof in the Petr Cech also started on what could be But I have to be honest to myself and to inside the first 15 minutes at Wembley thanks to in the busy bank holiday traffic en route to moments after Jerome’s opener. They swag- his last appearance for the club. The everybody what I will do for the future,” goals from Cameron Jerome and Nathan Wembley, arriving later than expected. Aitor gered towards the penalty area in blur of quick Chelsea goalkeeper, 33, is keen to move in Advocaat said. “It will be as quick as possi- Redmond and that early blitz was enough to Karanka’s players appeared unsettled by that passes before Steven Whittaker played a precise search of more regular first team football ble, because the club must know. “Let’s secure an immediate and lucrative return to the disruption and the flaws that would undermine ball into Redmond, the young Norwich winger and has been strongly linked with Arsenal, wait till next week and then I’ll make the Premier League just 12 months after the pain of them were immediately on display when a slop- matching the quality of the approach play as he but Mourinho has not given up hope of decision.”—AFP relegation. py Dean Whitehead clearance fell to Norwich a touch before driving a fine finish into the far Promotion is worth an estimated £120 mil- midfielder Bradley Johnson, who smashed a corner. lion ($185 million), but, while the cash is impor- left-footed strike against the crossbar. That nar- Despite beating Norwich twice this season, tant to Norwich’s prosperity, it was the thought row escape prompted a brief surge of adrena- Middlesbrough had been completely over-run of taking their place alongside the likes of line from Middlesbrough as they charged and spent the rest of the half just trying to Chelsea and Manchester United that fuelled the straight down the other end and hit the bar recover their composure. jubilant celebrations at the final whistle. themselves through Jelle Vossen’s curling 25- It didn’t help that Patrick Bamford, the gifted Winning promotion in such style will also yard drive. But, fatally, Middlesbrough couldn’t young striker loaned to Karanka by his friend add to the growing reputation of the 33-year- quell their nerves and more lackadaisical and Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, struggled to old Neil, a fiery Scot who has already earned defending proved their downfall in the 12th make an impact as Norwich’s industrious mid- comparisons with former Manchester United minute. field cut off the supply lines. After a first half manager Alex Ferguson and seems to have the Whitehead put his team-mate Daniel Ayala in that must have exceeded their worst night- midas touch when it comes to the play-offs. trouble with a slow backpass and Jerome mares, Middlesbrough made a brighter start to Neil guided Hamilton into the Scottish pounced to devastating effect. He muscled the second period and Bamford’s shot on the Premiership via the play-offs last season, and Ayala off the ball and advanced into the penalty turn forced a sprawling save from John Ruddy. now he has led Norwich to promotion in the area before guiding a cool finish past goalkeep- Ayala had a header blocked on the line by Lewis same fashion after a remarkable 17 wins in the er Dimitrios Konstantopoulos from a tight angle Grabban in the closing stages. 25 games since he was hired to replace the at his near post. But Middlesbrough’s revival came too late to sacked Neil Adams. Jerome’s 21st goal of the season was a terri- disturb Neil’s team, who cruised to the finish “We worked so hard to get here and I ble one to concede and Karanka’s team still line while their yellow-clad fans got the promo- believed we would do it, but it’s one thing looked shell-shocked when Norwich swept for- tion party started.—AFP

LONDON: Chelsea’s Didier Drogba (front left) holds up the English Premier League trophy with teammate John Terry as the team parade through the streets near their Stamford Bridge stadium. —AP Boca stunned Man United decide Thousands flock to by Aldosivi against signing Falcao BUENOS AIRES: Boca Juniors’ woes, the product of their LONDON: Manchester United will not on one up front during the team’s Chelsea victory parade Libertadores Cup fracas 11 days ago, continued with a shock 3-0 be signing Colombia forward best run in the third quarter of the defeat by modest Aldosivi at an empty La Bombonera in the Radamel Falcao on a permanent campaign, another frontman may not LONDON: An estimated 70,000 people League and FA Youth Cup-winning squad. Argentine championship on Sunday. basis, the Premier League club said be needed. Borussia Dortmund took to the streets of west London yester- Veteran striker Didier Drogba, who played The defeat, Boca’s first in 13 league matches this year, denied on Sunday after the final game of the defender and Germany World Cup day to watch Chelsea show off their the final game of his second Chelsea spell them sole leadership of the standings which they now share on 28 season. winner Mats Hummels has been Premier League and League Cup trophies against Sunderland, was on the first of the points with San Lorenzo, who beat Sarmiento 3-0 on Saturday. The 29-year-old will return to par- repeatedly linked with United in in an open-top bus parade. three buses. Boca, playing behind closed doors and unable to draw on the ent club Monaco, at least initially, media reports. —Reuters Hordes of blue-clad fans exploited the Long-serving goalkeeper Petr Cech is normally passionate atmosphere of their cavernous stronghold, after four goals in 29 appearances opportunity afforded by a public holiday to also expected to leave the club after losing were a pale shadow of the team that had held a three-point lead was not deemed good enough for line the route as three buses took players his place to Thibaut Courtois, but he did at the top of the table. Italy striker Dani Osvaldo botched a chance United to consider splashing out the and staff on a winding tour of the roads not discuss his future when he addressed to give Boca a 31st-minute equaliser when he put his penalty wide reported 55 million euros ($60.5 mil- adjacent to their Stamford Bridge home. supporters. after defender Matias Lequi had fired Aldosivi ahead in the eighth. lion) fee to buy him. Chelsea lifted the Premier League trophy “We are all blue, so we are all the same,” Striker Roger Martinez and substitute Angel Vildozo added sec- “Falcao is a top professional and a on Sunday after winning 3-1 at home to said the 33-year-old Czech Republic inter- ond half goals while Boca were down to 10 men for the last half good human being. On behalf of Sunderland in their final league game, hav- national. But his Nigerian team-mate John hour after midfielder Pablo Perez was sent off. myself and everyone at the club I ing beaten Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in the Mikel Obi led the crowd in a chorus of: “Petr would like to wish him well for the League Cup final in March. Cech, we want you to stay!” The match was played behind closed doors as punishment for the incident on May 13 when fans sprayed an irritant at River Plate future,” manager Louis van Gaal told Addressing the fans, manager Jose In an interview broadcast earlier on ManUtd.com after the 0-0 Premier players, four of whom ended up in hospital with burns to their Mourinho said: “Thank you for everything, Chelsea’s in-house television channel, League draw at Hull City left United eyes, before the second half of their Libertadores last-16 second for all your support. Book another place for Mourinho warned that his side will have to fourth in the table and in the leg, which was 0-0 at the time and then abandoned. The South the parade next season. I hope we can give improve if they want to successfully defend Champions League playoff spot. American Confederation (CONMEBOL) kicked Boca out of its elite you that.” the league title next season. Falcao was once one of the hottest club tournament, fined them $200,000 and banned La Bombonera The 52-year-old Portuguese, who “We have to be better if we want to be properties in world football but a returned to Chelsea for a second stint as successful again,” he told Chelsea TV. “The for four home matches in international competition while arch curious move to Monaco and a seri- manager in 2013, then made an unconvinc- other opponents are not going to accept rivals River, who had won the first leg 1-0 at home, went through ous knee injury have curtailed his ing attempt at a Chelsea anthem, singing: this without a fight. to the quarter-finals. River, with 25 points, could have caught the career. “Blue is the colour, la, la, la, la, la!” “Next year will be more difficult, but joint leaders but their late kickoff at Tigre (0030 GMT) was sus- United have already recruited for- The club’s Russian owner Roman because it’s difficult is one of the reasons pended after a second division player collapsed and died during a ward Memphis Depay from PSV Abramovich took part in the parade, along why I came back to England. I will enjoy it match in Corrientes, the second such incident in 10 days.—Reuters Eindhoven and with Van Gaal settling with members of Chelsea’s European Youth again.” —AFP Radamel Falcao TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 SPORTS Platini: Blatter lied about quitting FIFA

ZURICH: UEFA president Michel Platini fies himself totally with it.” said yesterday that FIFA president Sepp Platini said that he believed that Blatter had lied about his plans for a new Prince Ali, 39, would make a “great presi- term as he backed Prince Ali bin al dent” of FIFA. “He is not a politician and Hussein’s bid to oust the head of world he does not need FIFA to exist,” said football. Platini. Platini said as FIFA’s executive met in The Jordanian prince is the sole Zurich that the 79-year-old Blatter fears a remaining challenger to Blatter following life of “emptiness” if he loses a vote for last week’s withdrawals of Portugal great the presidency on Friday and that the Luis Figo and Dutch administrator world body will have no credibility if he Michael van Praag. Prince Ali said in a remains. video appeal to the head of national Blatter is a strong favourite to win a associations that change is now “urgent” fifth term in the vote. But he faces an at FIFA. unprecedented challenge and the “The conspicuous waste, the self-serv- Jordanian prince also attacked the ing policies and controversial leadership “waste” and “self-serving policies” of the style of FIFA today have disempowered leadership of the world’s most important our national associations, hurt our sport sporting federation. and cost us our dignity,” said the prince Platini recalled how he had backed who was until last month a FIFA vice Blatter in previous elections and in 2011 president. the Swiss official had said he would serve Without mentioning the scandals that one last term. have tainted FIFA since the award of the “He asked us face to face to support 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and him for what would be his last mandate,” Qatar, respectively, the prince said: Platini told French sports newspaper “Corporate and social responsibilities L’Equipe in an interview. “I have the have been neglected, ethics have fallen unpleasant feeling of having given my by the wayside. support on the basis of a lie,” he added. “Decisions about the game have been Platini said Blatter had made good taken unilaterally and sponsors have left.” decisions in his 40-year career but that Blatter has strong support from Africa he could just not let go of power. “I and Asia and is expected to easily get a understand the fear of emptiness he majority from the 209 member federa- SPAIN : Sevilla’s Argentinian midfielder Ever Banega (second left) celebrates after scoring in this file photo. —AFP must feel, that is human,” the UEFA leader tions on Friday despite the many scan- said. dals that have hit FIFA in recent years. “You have to be capable of handing Platini, a member of the FIFA execu- over the reigns of power at the right time tive meeting in Zurich yesterday and Record in sight for Sevilla and not be guilty of holding on to it at today, does not vote in the election. The any cost.” Blatter has said he needs a fifth Frenchman decided against challenging LONDON: The road to Europa League success is through to the final in style, winning 10 of their to be expected from a team who have had to term to complete his “mission” and Blatter this time but has not ruled out renowned for being one of football’s greatest 14 matches, losing only once and scoring a overcome the disadvantage of staging home explained his change of mind by saying standing in 2019. slogs, making it all the more impressive that competition high 26 goals in the process. games in Kiev due to Dnipropetrovsk’s proximi- “times change” and that he feels fit Another broadside to Blatter came holders Sevilla stand on the brink of lifting the Dnipro, befitting a team whose historic roots ty to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. enough for a fifth term. from Argentine football legend Diego trophy for a record fourth time in the last nine lie in Soviet era industry, are rugged, hard- Coach Myron Markevych, who took over “He is not staying on because he has a Maradona who told the Daily Telegraph years. working and well-organised, but far from easy from Juande Ramos in May last year, has craft- job to complete or because he still has that a fifth term for Blatter would be “an The roll of honor for Europe’s second tier on the eye. ed a tactically astute side, who get results when some big projects to carry out for FIFA,” absurdity”. “Under Sepp Blatter, FIFA has competition is headed by some illustrious They have scrapped their way through to it really matters, including a 2-1 aggregate win declared Platini. become a disgrace and a painful embar- clubs, yet victory over Ukrainian outsiders the final, winning respect but few admirers, over a heavily fancied Napoli in the semi-finals. “No, he simply is scared of what the rassment to those of us who care about Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in tomorrow’s final will having claimed only six wins since the start of They will need to be just as resilient if they allow Sevilla to edge ahead of Inter Milan, the group stage, losing four times and scoring are to shock Sevilla, who unlike some clubs future holds for him having consecrated football deeply,” the 1986 World Cup win- Juventus and Liverpool. 13 goals, less than one a game. They have, how- from Europe’s bigger leagues, take this compe- his life to FIFA to the point that he identi- ner said. —AFP Unsurprisingly, Sevilla, whose first two suc- ever, proved masters of a format that seems tition, which now offers a Champions League cesses in 2006 and 2007 came in the competi- perfectly designed to test will and stamina of place to the winners, very seriously. tion’s former guise as the UEFA Cup, will start all who take part, having begun their campaign “It means something,” Emery told the showpiece in Warsaw as clear favourites. with a qualifying playoff back in August. UEFA.com “The team want the fans to feel the They are facing a club who are playing their It probably seemed unthinkable they would vibrations that this competition gives us. first European final and are without silverware reach the final when they picked up only one We’ve achieved something that makes us big- of any variety since 1989. Sevilla are, in foot- point in their first three group games, including ger, it gives us prestige, it gives us a place in balling terms, everything that Dnipro are not- a 1-0 defeat to Azerbaijani minnows Qarabag. history and recognition in Europe for our an exciting, high-scoring outfit who have eased But they are nothing if not resilient, which is hard work.” —Reuters Cruzeiro hold Ponte Preta 1-1

SAO PAULO: Two-time defending champion Cruzeiro was held to a 1-1 home draw against Ponte Preta on Sunday, remaining winless after three Brazilian league matches. Midfielder Charles gave Cruzeiro the lead with a long-range strike in the 82nd minute at the Mineirao Stadium, but Ponte Preta equalized three minutes later with forward Biro Biro’s right-footed shot from just inside the area. Cruzeiro played without most of its regular starters because it faces Argentina’s SPAIN: A file picture taken on May 12, 2015 shows Real Madrid’s Italian coach Carlo River Plate on Wednesday in the quarterfi- Ancelotti waving as he leaves a press conference. —AFP nals of the Copa Libertadores. The Brazilian club won the first leg 1-0 last week in Argentina. Real Madrid fire Cruzeiro, which was yet to score in the Brazilian league, is only 18th in the 20-team standings, inside relegation zone. Ponte Preta, recently promoted to the top flight, is coach Ancelotti in seventh place with five points. Sport reached seven points to take the tournament’s early lead after beating MADRID: Real Madrid fired their coach wins between September and Coritiba 1-0 in Recife. Striker Neto scored a Carlo Ancelotti yesterday, club president December to add to the Copa del Rey 29th-minute winner at the Ilha do Retiro Florentino Perez said, making the popu- and UEFA Super Cup in a record four-tro- Stadium to give the traditional northeastern lar Italian pay for a disappointing season phy haul in 2014. But they were beaten club its second win in three matches. Midfielder Charles of Cruzeiro without a major trophy. to the Spanish league title by a treble- At the Maracana stadium, Corinthians and “The board of directors has taken the seeking Barcelona and eliminated by Fluminense drew 0-0 in a match marked by decision this afternoon to relieve Carlo city rivals Atletico Madrid in the Copa an incredible error by Corinthians Peruvian English elite cast about Ancelotti of his duties as coach of Real del Rey. striker Paolo Guerrero, who had an open net Madrid,” Perez told a news conference at Ancelotti’s last chance of keeping his in front of him but sent his shot wide with the club’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium. job was ended when one of his former the goalkeeper and defenders already beat- in Chelsea’s dominance “It has been a very hard decision... but clubs, Juventus, knocked Real out of the en behind him inside the penalty area. Real Madrid is extremely demanding Champions League earlier this month to Corinthians officials said last week that LONDON: While Chelsea head into the close sea- League’s new £5.14 billion ($7.98 billion, 7.2 billion and we believe it is time to give a new progress to the final. Guerrero is one of the players likely to leave son serene in the knowledge of their Premier euros) television rights deal kicking in next year, impulse” to the club. The former AC That was too much for the club’s man- the five-time Brazilian champion in the com- League supremacy, the English summer holds the expectation is that they will spend big. weeks of recalibration for the teams seeking to City must seek to revitalise a squad that has Milan and Chelsea coach leaves Madrid agement, despite Ancelotti’s popularity ing months because of the team’s financial topple them. Can Manchester City, the usurped become overly reliant on the goal-scoring bril- after just two years in the job having with fans and players. Media have struggles. Corinthians was the only team entering the weekend with two league victo- champions and runners-up this season, success- liance of 26-goal Golden Boot-winner Sergio failed to convert a record run of victories reported that Napoli’s Spanish coach ries. fully rejuvenate a starting XI that has barely Aguero. last year into silverware at the end of Rafael Benitez is the favourite to replace Also Sunday, Vanderlei Luxemburgo’s changed since their 2012 title triumph? Yaya Toure’s future remains unresolved, but this season. Madrid had won the Club him. Perez said the new coach would be Flamengo lost 2-1 at recently promoted Avai, Will third-place Arsenal, newly streetwise in reports suggest City will keep faith with manager World Cup on a streak of 22 consecutive named next week.—AFP staying with only one point after three confrontations with their major rivals, finally shake Manuel Pellegrini. Goalkeeper and striker would matches. Brazil’s most popular club com- off the fragility that has prevented them from appear to be priority positions for Arsenal, but as plained that Avai’s winner should have been maintaining a sustained title challenge since the arrivals of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez Roma in Champions League called off because the ball went out of 2004? demonstrated, it is difficult to second-guess man- bounds before it was crossed into the area Are Manchester United, back in the Champions ager Arsene Wenger’s transfer strategy. ROME: AS Roma qualified for the he looked certain to score. Tempers flared for the score. The match marked the debut of League after a season of uneven progress under United, meanwhile, find themselves linked with Champions League group stage in the best after Lazio midfielder Senad Lulic cynically Colombian left back Pablo Armero with Louis van Gaal and with millions to spend on new an ever-lengthening list of superstar names, fol- possible style yesterday, booking their place felled Iturbe with a tackle from behind but, Flamengo. players, equipped to return to centre-stage? And lowing reports they will match or even exceed with a last-gasp 2-1 win over neighbours and despite Roma players surrounding the refer- Earlier Sunday, Palmeiras lost 1-0 to Goias can Liverpool, shorn of Steven Gerrard and chas- their £150 million splurge from last year. bitter rivals Lazio in a passionate Rome der- ee demanding a red card, the Bosnian in front of nearly 40,000 fans at its recently tened by a 6-1 drubbing at Stoke City on the final Should goalkeeper David de Gea join Real by. Central defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa escaped with a booking. Roma players were built Allianz Parque stadium, also remaining day, rediscover the winning formula that took Madrid, as widely predicted, a replacement will be was the unlikely hero as he headed the win- again demanding a red card for Lulic after he winless after the first three rounds. The eight- them to the brink of the title 12 months ago? sought, while Memphis Depay has already been ner five minutes from the end of a feisty fouled Francesco Totti early in the second time national champion had drawn its first Chelsea moved quickly and decisively in last year’s brought in to add pace and vim to Van Gaal’s encounter that produced eight yellow cards, half. The referee was again unmoved and two matches. Goias is one of the early sur- transfer window, recruiting Cesc Fabregas and attack. several skirmishes between players and instead booked Vasilis Torosidis for dissent. prises of the tournament with two wins and Diego Costa, and looked like champions in waiting “We’re establishing a very good squad who I numerous protests. Lulic was substituted minutes later. a draw, good for second place in the stand- from the moment they won 3-1 at Burnley on the believe can go on and win silverware next year,” Third-placed Lazio, who needed a draw to Miralem Pjanic injected new life into Roma ings. season’s opening weekend. says United captain Wayne Rooney. make sure of a place in the Champions when he came on in the 68th minute. Victor On Saturday, fourth-place Sao Paulo Having seen his side finish the campaign eight Liverpool’s transfer committee also seeks goal- League playoff round, now have their hopes Ibarbo, who replaced a lacklustre Totti, some- defeated Joinville 3-0 at the Morumbi points clear of City at the top of the pile, manager scorers, after their forwards could only muster a of qualifying in the balance while the how fired wide from six metres when he was Stadium with goals by defender Doria, mid- Jose Mourinho says his only priority during the meagre haul of 52 goals in the first campaign of chances of Napoli, who are fourth, have been left unmarked but almost immediately made fielder Michel Bastos and former AC Milan close season will be making sure he keeps his the post-Luis Suarez age. rekindled. The two sides meet in Naples on amends by producing a low cross that Iturbe striker Alexandre Pato. Gremio, in its first squad together. The base last year was to sell Tottenham Hotspur, beaten by Chelsea in the Sunday with the hosts needing a win to pip turned in for Roma’s opening goal. match since former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe some to buy some,” Mourinho said. “The base this League Cup final, looked no closer to breaking Lazio for third place and qualify at their Roma appeared to be on top until Felipe Scolari resigned following the team’s poor season (2015-16) is to keep my squad.” into the top four and would have finished much expense. Anderson floated a cross to Klose at the far results, defeated Figueirense 1-0 at the Arena Didier Drogba has already confirmed his depar- lower than fifth had it not been for the stunning Juan Iturbe put Roma ahead in the 73rd post and he nodded the ball on for Gremio in Porto Alegre for its first win, while ture and Mourinho is likely to lose second-choice emergence of Harry Kane. Southampton may yet minute with his first goal since October Djordjevic to equalise. Yanga-Mbiwa was at Rio de Janeiro’s Vasco da Gama was held to goalkeeper Petr Cech, but he will approach next join Liverpool and Spurs in the Europa League before Filip Djordjevic headed Lazio level fault for that goal, allowing Djordjevic to its third consecutive draw, a 1-1 result at season with his armoury fully intact, if not after finishing seventh, adorned with more plau- eight minutes later in a thrilling finale. get free, but made amends by heading in enhanced by supplementary signings. dits than almost any other team after Ronald Earlier, Miroslav Klose had an excellent from Pjanic’s free kick to ensure that Roma home against Internacional, which also rest- City, Arsenal, United and Liverpool will all be Koeman’s superb job of galvanising a squad pil- chance for Lazio after five minutes but the would finish second behind champions ed its regular starters because of the Copa active in the transfer market and with the Premier laged by the big beasts in 2014.—AFP former Germany forward headed wide when Juventus.—Reuters Libertadores’ quarterfinals.—AP Kirk wins Norwich win at Colonial promotion 16 jackpot18 TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

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FRANCE: Russia’s Maria Sharapova serves in the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi at the Roland Garros stadium. — AP Sharapova rolls at French Open

PARIS: Defending women’s champion Maria 2013. “It’s absolutely normal. I’m not making Annika Beck, a player she defeated 6-0, 6-0 Russian world number 74 Teymuraz just 50 minutes to brush aside Timea Babos Sharapova reached the French Open second any excuses but I’ve got to do what I have to when they met at Indian Wells last year. Gabashvili, 6-3, 7-6 (11/9), 6-3. of Hungary 6-0, 6-1. round yesterday but was jeered by fans do.” There were no such problems for British The loss was only the third time in 34 Australia saw their three brightest Former world number one Victoria after she refused to carry out an on-court TV third seed Andy Murray, twice a semi-finalist, Grand Slam tournaments that 26-year- prospects all make it to the second round. Azarenka, who missed last year’s Roland interview. who took his clay record this season to 11-0 old Radwanska had lost in the first Nineteen-year-old wildcard Thanasi Garros through injury, marked her return by Second-seeded Sharapova defeated with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 win over Argentine ‘lucky round. “Maybe I’m getting older,” said Kokkinakis defeated Georgia’s Nikoloz beating Spain’s MarÌa-Teresa TorrÛ-Flor 6-2, 6- experienced Estonian Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 6-4 to loser’ Facundo Arguello. the tearful Pole. Basilashvili 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 while 27th 1. Croatia’s Ana Konjuh, the youngest woman set up a clash against Russian Fed Cup team- Murray, with claycourt titles in Munich World number four Tomas Berdych, a seed Bernard Tomic saw off Italy’s Luca Vanni in the draw at 17, made the next round with mate Vitalia Diatchenko. and Madrid, goes on to face either 2010 semi-finalist, continued his solid clay- 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. a 6-1, 6-4 win over Russian qualifier Margarita But the 27-year-old irritated the Philippe Canadian world number 53 Vasek Pospisil court season with a 6-0, 7-5, 6-3 win over Kokkinakis and Tomic will face off for a Gasparyan. Chatrier Court crowd by refusing to carry or Portugal’s 44th-ranked Joao Sousa. Japanese qualifier Yoshihito Nishioka, the place in the third round where top seed Four American women exited although out the traditional on-court television “Always the first round of the majors is world number 146. Novak Djokovic will likely be waiting. Nick they were guaranteed a winner later in the pleasantries, claiming her voice was not tough and it was quite windy and difficult Berdych will now face 36-year-old Davis Kyrgios, the 29th-seeded Australian who day when 34-year-old Venus Williams, play- strong enough. conditions at the start,” said Murray. “I was a Cup-winning teammate Radek Stepanek, beat Roger Federer in Madrid earlier this ing in her 18th Roland Garros, was meeting She said she had been suffering from a little bit nervous at the start but I like that, who became the oldest man to win a month, eased past Denis Istomin of Sloane Stephens. cold in a worrying repeat of last year when it shows that you care and want to do well.” match at Roland Garros since 38-year-old Uzbekistan 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Meanwhile, a record was set in the clash she was also sick in the run-up to Paris. “I Ex-world number two and 2012 Wimbledon Jimmy Connors in 1991 when he saw off Spanish eighth seed Carla Suarez Navarro, between Denisa Allertova of the Czech totally understand that everyone usually runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska was a Croatian journeyman Ivan Dodig 5-7, 6-3, 6- a quarter-finalist in 2008 and 2014, beat Republic and Britain’s Johanna Konta. Their does the interviews and answers a few ques- shock first-round loser. 4, 6-1. Romania’s Monica Niculescu 6-2, 6-2. German first set tiebreak, which went 19/17 in favour tions to the crowd,” said Sharapova, who was The Polish 14th seed, a quarter-finalist in Spain’s 11th seed Feliciano Lopez was the 11th seed Angelique Kerber, the champion of the Czech, was the longest in tournament also champion in 2012 and runner-up in 2013, went down 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 to Germany’s biggest men’s casualty when he lost to on clay in Charleston and Stuttgart, needed history. — AFP England stun New Zealand SCOREBOARD LONDON: Scoreboard on the fifth day of the first Test between England and New Zealand at Lord’s yesterday: LONDON: England completed a remarkable all out chasing 239. The collapse continued win to beat New Zealand by 124 runs in the first when Broad, who took a Test-best seven for 44 England 1st Innings 389 (J Root 98, B Stokes 92, Bowling: Boult 34-8-85-5; Southee 34-4-162-2 Test at Lord’s yesterday. New Zealand, set 345 to against New Zealand at Lord’s two years ago, J Buttler 67, M Ali 58; T Boult 4-79, M Henry 4-93) (1w); Henry 29-3-106-2 (3w); Craig 28-3-96-1 win on the fifth and final day, were dismissed had Ross Taylor plumb lbw for eight. (1w); Anderson 3-0-13-0; Williamson 1-0-2-0 for 220 as England won the 100th Test between New Zealand took the score on to 61 before New Zealand 1st Innings 523 (K Williamson the two countries to go 1-0 up in this two- Stokes, who on Sunday scored the fastest Test 132, M Guptill 70, R Taylor 62, BJ Watling 61 no, T New Zealand 2nd Innings (target: 345) match series ahead of the second Test at century at Lord’s, off just 85 balls, struck twice in Latham 59; S Broad 3-77, M Wood 3-93, M Ali 3- M. Guptill c Ballance b Anderson 0 Headingley on Friday. two balls. 94) T. Latham lbw b Broad 0 For England, without a permanent head Kane Williamson, who made 132 in the first K. Williamson c Root b Stokes 27 coach following the sacking of Peter Moores innings, fell for 27 when he guided Stokes to England 2nd Innings (overnight: 429-6) R. Taylor lbw b Broad 8 and coming off the back of a disappointing 1-1 Joe Root in the gully. And next ball McCullum A. Lyth c Southee b Boult 12 BJ Watling c Buttler b Wood 59 series draw in the West Indies, this was just the played on to a Stokes inswinger. A. Cook c Latham b Boult 162 B. McCullum b Stokes 0 morale boost they needed. “It’s one of the best Given a roar by the crowd worthy of Ian G. Ballance b Southee 0 C. Anderson lbw b Root 67 matches I’ve ever been involved in,” said Botham or Andrew Flintoff, Stokes, the New I. Bell c Latham b Southee 29 M. Craig b Stokes 4 England captain Alastair Cook. Zealand-born son of former Kiwi rugby league J. Root c Boult b Henry 84 T. Southee c and b Ali 20 “It was just a brilliant, brilliant day,” said Cook, international Ged Stokes, who came to England B. Stokes c Taylor b Craig 101 M. Henry not out 10 whose hundred on Sunday allied to man-of- as a 12-year-old, charged in again. But Corey J. Buttler c Latham b Henry 14 T. Boult c Ali b Broad 10 the-match Ben Stokes’s fastest-ever Test century Anderson survived the hat-trick delivery, allow- M. Ali lbw b Boult 43 Extras (b5, lb7, w2, nb1) 15 at Lord’s helped turn the tide of the game. ing the ball to pass his stumps. Anderson, in S. Broad b Boult 10 Total (all out, 67.3 overs, 300 mins) 220 New Zealand humiliated England during Stokes-like fashion, later pulled the Durham all- M. Wood not out 4 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Guptill), 2-0 (Latham), 3-12 their run to the World Cup final and were on top rounder for six. J. Anderson b Boult 0 (Taylor), 4-61 (Williamson), 5-61 (McCullum), 6- in the early stages of this match only to be well- Deciding attack was the best form of Extras (b2, lb12, w5) 19 168 (Watling), 7-174 (Anderson), 8-198 (Craig), 9- beaten come the finish. defence, Anderson completed a 44-ball fifty in Total (all out, 129 overs, 571 mins) 478 198 (Southee), 10-220 (Boult) “We got over 730 runs in the Test and still which 46 of his runs — 10 fours and a six-came Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Lyth), 2-25 (Ballance), 3-74 Bowling: Anderson 14-5-31-1 (1w); Broad 16.3-3- lost by more than 100 runs,” said New Zealand in boundaries. (Bell), 4-232 (Root), 5-364 (Stokes), 6-389 (Buttler), 50-3 (1nb); Wood 13-3-47-1; Stokes 11-3-38-3 captain Brendon McCullum. The gritty BJ Watling, whose 59 was his sec- 7-455 (Cook), 8-467 (Broad), 9-478 (Ali), 10-478 (1w); Ali 8-3-35-1; Root 5-3-7-1; “It’s not every day that happens but we hold ond fifty of the match, and the dashing (Anderson) Result: England won by 124 runs. our heads high.” New Zealand were rocked from Anderson (75), kept England at bay during a the outset of their chase, losing both openers sixth-wicket stand of 107. for ducks without a run on the board. However, both batsmen fell in quick succes- reviewed. tain Alastair Cook took his overnight 153 not The second ball saw Martin Guptill become sion to leave New Zealand 174 for seven. New Zealand lost their next two wickets on out to 162. His marathon innings came to an James Anderson’s 399th Test wicket, caught in Watling exited when he gloved debutant fast 198 but, with the draw now their only realistic end when he was caught behind off Boult. the slips by Gary Ballance. New Zealand were bowler Mark Wood through to wicket-keeper goal, last man Trent Boult somehow managed The left-handed opener batted for more than still on nought when Stuart Broad’s first ball of Jos Buttler. to get out playing an attacking upper-cut off nine hours, facing 345 balls including 17 LONDON: England’s Ben Stokes celebrates taking the second over had Tom Latham lbw for a Dangerman Anderson was then lbw to part- Broad as Moeen Ali held a fine catch running fours. His exit was the start of a Boult burst the wicket of New Zealand’s Mark Craig during play golden duck. For New Zealand, it was all start- time off-spinner Root, with Ravi’s initial decision back at third man. that saw the left-arm paceman take four on the fifth day of the first cricket Test match ing to become horribly reminiscent of their last of ‘out’ seeing the tightest of ‘umpire’s call’ ver- Earlier, England were dismissed for 478 wickets for nine runs in 17 balls for final between England and New Zealand. — AFP Test at Lord’s, in 2013, when they slumped to 68 dicts fall in England’s favor when the batsman after resuming on 429 for six. England cap- innings figures of five for 85. — AFP Kuwait’s trade surplus with Japan narrows 34% in April Page 22

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TEHRAN: A fuel attendant fills a car at a petrol station in the Iranian capital Tehran yesterday. The Iranian government has lifted the quota of 60 liters of subsidized fuel for individuals, reported Iranian medias. — AFP Iran scraps monthly petrol subsidy Gas prices to go up by 40% in subsidy cut

TEHRAN: Iran scrapped a petrol allowance from midnight percent. By removing the fuel subsidy, Iran, which is under hoped will be finalized by the end of June. In exchange, under then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, part of today as part of a 2010 plan to phase out subsidies on a crippling international sanctions regime because of its sanctions facing Iran could be lifted gradually, the United what he described as a radical “surgery” to help the Islamic energy products and boost the economy, media reported. disputed nuclear drive, hopes to help tackle its budget States has said. While previous attempts to raise prices Republic’s ailing economy as it faced increased interna- Motorists will no longer to be entitled to buy 60 litres of deficit. Iran approved its budget for the current fiscal year have sparked dissent, last year’s increase saw no major tional sanction for its contested nuclear program. The sec- petrol monthly at a reduced price of 7,000 rials (about 24 which began in March with oil accounting for just a quar- unrest. Iranian state television also reported that a current ond phase, which targeted further gasoline subsidy cuts, US cents) a litre, media reported. The reports said a litre of ter of revenues after a global fall in prices of crude. plan allowing for lower subsidized prices on the first 60 was to take effect in March 2012, but was pushed back to standard petrol will retail at 10,000 rials (around 34 US The Islamic republic has the world’s fourth largest oil liters (15.85 gallons) of gasoline purchased a month by the 2014 over fears of stoking inflation. cents) and super will cost 12,000 rials. The country will raise reserves, and crude is its main source of foreign currency. consumers for each car they own also would end. Diesel Before the cuts, Iranians had some of the cheapest gasoline prices by some 40 percent beginning today, the But crude exports have fallen from more than 2.2 million fuel prices also will rise to 3,000 rials (9 cents) per liter, up gasoline in the world. Previous attempts to change the country’s official news agency reported, the latest cut to barrels per day in 2011 to about 1.3 million bpd because of from 2,500 rials (8 cents). price at the pump have seen dissent. In 2007, protesters the Islamic Republic’s fuel subsidies that cost it some $32 an oil embargo imposed by the United States and the Iran, an OPEC member, consumes 70 million liters rioted and damaged gas stations over prices increasing, billion a year. European Union in response to its nuclear ambitions. Iran (18.49 million gallons) of gasoline daily, with some 10 per- with authorities arresting dozens of people. Iran’s low fuel Diesel will sell for 3,000 rials a litre. Iran last increased says its nuclear program is aimed at reducing its reliance cent refined and imported from abroad. prices has led to rampant smuggling to neighboring coun- the cost of petrol in April 2014, when prices rocketed by 75 on oil, and is in talks with world powers on a deal that it is Iran began cutting energy and food subsidies in 2010 tries. — Agencies

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DUBAI: Gulf stock markets were duce above its initial capacity narrowly mixed yesterday as oil target this year. prices moved very little and bours- es were shut for public holidays in UAE, EGYPT the United States and much of Dubai’s index edged up 0.4 per- Europe. Brent oil inched up early cent as most stocks rose. Builder yesterday on strong Asian and US Arabtec jumped 2.2 percent after demand but then slipped towards Egypt’s government said a deal $65 a barrel as the US dollar under which the company would strengthened. Saudi Arabia’s index build 1 million housing units in the inched down 0.1 percent and country was still in the works, con- National Industrialization Co trary to media reports on Sunday (Tasnee) was the main drag, drop- which had sent the stock down. ping 2.3 percent after its chief exec- Emaar Malls, up 1.9 percent, utive told Saudi Arabia’s Al-Riyadh continued to climb ahead of its newspaper that its petrochemicals inclusion in MSCI’s emerging mar- business faced increased competi- kets index at the end of this month. tion from Chinese producers while Abu Dhabi’s bourse added 0.3 per- the titanium business suffered from cent on the back of telecommuni- lower prices. cations firm Etisalat, which rose 0.4 KABUL: Afghan vendor Reza, 41, sells watermelons alongside a road at Karte Sakhi in Kabul yesterday. — AFP Oil shipper Bahri pulled back 2.6 percent. Qatar’s benchmark edged percent after surging 16 percent down 0.4 percent as Ezdan Holding between May 13 and 24 on news fell 1.0 percent on profit-taking that freight rates from the Gulf to after a strong rally prompted by its Saudi Gulf Airlines to begin flights in Nov Japan had hit their 2015 highs and inclusion in MSCI’s benchmark. that the firm had ordered five new Egypt’s index fell 0.8 percent to DUBAI: Saudi Gulf Airlines aims to begin flying in economy fares, while international flights will provide tions,” he said. This could be in the coming weeks. crude tankers. But Saudi Arabian 9,051 points after gaining 3.4 per- November after receiving regulatory approvals, the new business class and economy class services. In addition to The final Air Operator’s Certificate is an approval for Mining Co (Ma’aden) jumped 2.7 cent in the two previous sessions. Dammam-based carrier said yesterday. the A320 aircraft, the airline signed a $2 billion deal with an airline to use its aircraft for commercial operations percent to 45.00 riyals after Al Rajhi But the benchmark was well above Owned by the Abdel Hadi Al-Qahtani & Sons group, Canada’s Bombardier last year to purchase 16 CSeries and the state of readiness includes the personnel, air- Capital raised the stock’s target technical support at 8,860 points, the airline plans to fly from Dammam to three destina- jets with an option for a further 10. craft and systems able to carry out operations. Only price to 52.00 riyals from 41.00 its early May peak, which it sur- tions, initially with a fleet of four Airbus A320s, Samer Delivery of the CS300 jets, which seat between 130 national carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines and budget oper- riyals, citing its growing output and passed this week. Most stocks fell Majali, the group’s president and senior adviser, told and 160 passengers, is expected to begin late this year ator National Air Services currently serve a domestic an improving business outlook. and Telecom Egypt, which is likely Reuters. “We are working with the General Authority of or early 2016. Majali said that additional aircraft will join market of about 27 million people. Foreign carriers can Ma’aden said this month that to suffer from an exodus of passive Civil Aviation (GACA) in preparation for starting opera- the fleet after the delivery of the A320s and CSeries jets. only fly in and out of Saudi Arabia, not within the coun- its massive smelter run jointly investors at the end of this month tions to obtain the technical license,” Majali said. Initial Saudi Gulf presented its readiness plans for Nov. 1 dur- try, but that will change when Qatar Airways obtains with US group Alcoa, which had due to its exclusion from MSCI’s flights from Dammam will be to Jeddah, Riyadh and ing a meeting with GACA officials on Sunday, the regula- regulatory approval to launch its subsidiary Al-Maha experienced several technical emerging markets index, was one international destination, with further destina- tor’s spokesman Wael Al-Sarhan told Reuters. Airways for the Saudi market. It is planning to begin glitches on start-up, would pro- down 0.6 percent. — Reuters tions added in 2016 as the fleet expands, Majali said. “They have a primary license and the final license will operations with four A320s, though the airline’s launch The airline’s domestic flights will offer first class and be given when they complete final readiness for opera- has been delayed by regulatory red tape. — Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 BUSINESS Kuwait’s trade surplus with News in brief Japan narrows 34% in April Dubai’s bourse to add trading-at-last session Overall exports to Japan plunges to $646 million DUBAI: Dubai Financial Market, the emirate’s main stock exchange, will add a five-minute TOKYO: Kuwait’s trade surplus with Japan narrowed 34.0 cent from a year earlier. Crude oil, refined products, lique- Europe and electrical parts to other regions of Asia. “trading-at-last session” to its daily routine as it percent in April to JPY 63.8 billion ($524 million) from a fied natural gas (LNG) and other natural resources, which Imports dropped 4.2 percent to JPY 6.605 trillion ($54.3 adjusts the pre-closing session next month, it year earlier, shrinking for the sixth month, as exports accounted for 95.6 percent of the region’s total exports to billion), down for the fourth straight month, as imports of said yesterday. The pre-closing session, which declined by almost 30 percent, the Finance Ministry said Japan, slid 36.2 percent. crude oil and liquefied natural gas declined by nearly one- now runs for 10 minutes starting at 1350 local yesterday. But Kuwait maintained black ink with Japan for The region’s overall imports from Japan expanded 7.6 third in value, reflecting the plunge in their prices. Exports time (0950 GMT), will begin at 1345 from June 4 the 87th consecutive month, the ministry said in a prelimi- percent, thanks to robust shipments of automobile, to China, Japan’s biggest trading partner, edged up 2.4 per- and have a more clearly defined time frame for nary report. machinery, and electric equipment. Japan’s trade balance cent, and imports from the country expanded 2.5 percent. placing and cancelling orders. The new trading- Kuwaiti overall exports to Japan plunged 29.3 percent slipped back into a deficit in April following a surplus in the Japan’s currency weakened against the US dollar by 17.0 at-last session will start 20 seconds after 1355, year-on-year to JPY 78.6 billion ($646 million) for the sixth previous month, but narrowed 93.5 percent on the year as percent from the year before to an average of JPY 119.89 in straight monthly fall, while imports from Japan grew 2.3 declining crude oil prices reduced fuel import costs. April, according to the ministry. The yen’s depreciation sup- allowing investors to place orders based on the percent to JPY 14.8 billion ($122 million), up for the second The world’s third-biggest economy posted a global ports exports by making Japanese products more competi- already calculated closing prices of securities. A month. deficit of JPY 53.4 billion ($439 million), the lowest since tive overseas and increases the value of repatriated over- similar phase is used by pan-European stock Middle East’s trade surplus with Japan also shrank 45.4 March 2009. Overall exports rose 8.0 percent to JPY 6.551 seas earning, but it also inflates import prices. The trade exchange Euronext. Dubai Financial Market said percent to JPY 548. 0 billion ($4.5 billion) last month, with trillion (USD 53.9 billion), up for the eighth straight month, data are measured on a customs-cleared basis before it was making the changes after consulting mar- Japan-bound exports from the region tumbling 34.9 per- buoyed by increased shipments of vehicles to the US and adjustment for seasonal factors. —KUNA ket participants about how to adopt interna- tional best practices.

BAYT.COM WEEKLY REPORT

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Career-oriented professionals usually CAIRO: An Egyptian government offi- cent on Sunday after Egyptian newspa- Egyptian officials have said the like to attend such events to meet like-minded experts in their cial yesterday denied a local media per Al Mal reported, citing an anony- entire housing project will cost about ering four deals in Egypt in healthcare, oil and field and further their knowledge. This will give you a good report that a project for Dubai-based mous source, that the deal over the 280 billion Egyptian pounds ($36.7 bil- gas, petrochemicals and consumer goods, the opportunity to initiate conversation with them. builder Arabtec to build a million project had fallen through. The firm lion) and Arabtec said in April the first firm’s chief executive said yesterday. Gulf 6. 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Shares in Arabtec dropped 3.3 per- past year. ed in 2013. — Reuters hoped the fund would be worth $250 million.

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Jordanian Dinar 426.125 US Dollars 0.299250 0.303950 20 gram 244.170 Egyptian Pound 39.491 US Dollars Mint 0.299750 0.303950 10 gram 124.780 ASIAN COUNTRIES Sri Lankan Rupees 2.242 5 gram 63.070 Asia Japanese Yen 2.498 Indian Rupees 4.751 Bangladesh Taka 0.003556 0.004156 Indian Rupees 4.781 Pakistani Rupees 2.961 Bangladesh Taka 3.876 Chinese Yuan 0.047512 0.051012 Pakistani Rupees 2.973 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Philippines Pesso 6.777 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037039 0.039789 Srilankan Rupees 2.246 Cyprus pound 741.050 Indian Rupee 0.004542 0.004943 Nepali Rupees 2.989 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Japanese Yen 3.525 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Singapore Dollar 228.440 Syrian Pound 2.595 Japanese Yen 0.002412 0.002592 Hongkong Dollar 39.124 Australian Dollar 226.64 Canadian Dollar 251.58 Nepalese Rupees 3.025 Kenyan Shilling 0.003358 0.003358 Bangladesh Taka 3.897 Swiss Franc 327.42 Malaysian Ringgit 85.500 Korean Won 0.000266 0.000281 Philippine Peso 6.814 Euro 339.45 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.040 Malaysian Ringgit 0.080539 0.086539 Thai Baht 9.099 US Dollar 303.10 Thai Bhat 9.970 Nepalese Rupee 0.003042 0.003212 Sterling Pound 472.81 Turkish Lira 116.910 Pakistan Rupee 0.002781 0.003061 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.54 Philippine Peso 0.006708 0.006988 Saudi Riyal 80.910 Bangladesh Taka 3.891 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Qatari Riyal 83.345 Indian Rupee 4.750 Singapore Dollar 0.223534 0.229534 Omani Riyal 788.170 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.248 Bahrain Exchange Company wll South African Rand 0.019446 0.027946 Bahraini Dinar 80.770 Nepali Rupee 2.975 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001846 0.002426 UAE Dirham 82.607 Pakistani Rupee 2.973 CURRENCY BUY SELL Taiwan 0.009872 0.010052 UAE Dirhams 82.40 Europe Thai Baht 0.008740 0.0009290 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 804.50 Belgian Franc 0.007915 0.008915 Egyptian Pound - Cash 42.350 Egyptian Pound 39.61 British Pound 0.462351 0.471351 Arab Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.670 Jordanian Dinar 430.59 Czech Korune 0.004172 0.016172 Bahraini Dinar 0.798179 0.806179 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.416 Omani Riyal 786.08 Danish Krone 0.040701 0.045701 Egyptian Pound 0.039976 0.043076 Tunisian Dinar 157.290 Qatari Riyal 83.47 Euro 0.327461 0.335461 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Jordanian Dinar 427.960 Saudi Riyal 80.74 Norwegian Krone 0.035692 0.040892 Iraqi Dinar 0.000186 0.000246 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.035 Romanian Leu 0.087018 0.087018 Jordanian Dinar 0.423552 0.431052 Syrian Lira 2.162 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009051 0.019051 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.589 Swedish Krona 0.032113 0.037113 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Swiss Franc 0.314910 0.325110 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021816 0.045816 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.116186 0.123186 Nigerian Naira 0.001252 0.001887 US Dollar Transfer 303.250 US Dollar 302.900 Omani Riyal 0.781910 0.787590 Euro 336.610 Canadian Dollar 255.880 Qatar Riyal 0.082611 0.083824 Sterling Pound 475.240 Sterling Pound 472.310 Australasia Saudi Riyal 0.080257 0.080957 Euro 345.788 Canadian dollar 248.770 Australian Dollar 0.228884 0.240384 Syrian Pound 0.001286 0.001506 Swiss Frank 276.932 Turkish lira 116.720 New Zealand Dollar 0.215207 0.224707 Tunisian Dinar 0.153456 0.161456 Bahrain Dinar 799.730 Turkish Lira 0.116186 0.123186 Swiss Franc 324.160 UAE Dirhams 82.500 Australian Dollar 239.870 America UAE Dirhams 0.081610 0.082759 Qatari Riyals 83.740 Yemeni Riyal 0.001371 0.001451 US Dollar Buying 302.050 Saudi Riyals 81.310 Canadian Dollar 0.241217 0.249717 BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank eyes UAE expats to spur growth

DEAD SEA, Jordan: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank will growth this year to decelerate from last year. try. The Abu Dhabi bank agreed a 650 million and Egypt’s Commercial International Bank are in focus on winning more business in the United A sign of the changing industry outlook is that dirham deal with the British lender and began the running to buy Citigroup’s Egyptian consumer Arab Emirates’ expatriate community this year as some UAE banks are resorting to cross-border migrating Barclays’ 110,000 customers in the coun- business and the bidding process is in its final growth in the national banking sector slows, chief lending to keep growing, but this strategy has lim- try last Sept. 1. stages, banking sources told Reuters. Mahmoud executive Tirad Mahmoud said. its, Mahmoud noted. Key to the deal’s success was the ratio of did not comment on this. Total UAE banking sector revenues rose an esti- ADIB’s net customer financing grew 13.3 per- Barclays accounts which ADIB could retain. One challenge for Islamic banks in coming mated 14 percent to $18.1 billion last year but cent year-on-year in the first quarter but Mahmoud said ADIB had budgeted to lose about years will be liquidity management; Basel III regu- expansion shows signs of decelerating because of decreased 0.9 percent from the previous quarter. 20 percent but ultimately only lost 2 percent, com- lations being phased in around the world require factors including the drop in oil prices and a mod- Mahmoud attributed the fall to the timing of some pleting the onboarding process in three months, banks to have enough high-quality liquid assets, erate cooling of real estate markets. “We believe facilities and ADIB’s decision to step away from less than half the time it had expected. but there are not as many sharia-compliant assets that overall growth in consolidated revenues of all some potential business that it did not think pro- This was achieved partly by minimizing cus- available as conventional ones. UAE banks has been significantly reduced,” vided enough return on equity. He predicted tomers’ engagement in the onboarding - for exam- As a step towards adressing the liquidity issue, Mahmoud told Reuters on the sidelines of a busi- Islamic banking assets in the UAE would continue ple, they could keep their old card numbers - and ADIB and National Bank of Abu Dhabi pioneered ness conference in Jordan. growing faster than conventional ones, however - by retaining the Barclays management team, he what they said was the Gulf’s first sharia-compliant ADIB, the largest sharia-compliant bank in Abu the gap in growth rates would eventually narrow said. repo transaction in 2011. Dhabi, posted a 10.1 percent year-on-year rise in but only when Islamic assets neared 50 percent, ADIB’s international operations - it has pres- ADIB is now working with governments in first-quarter net profit to 450.8 million dirhams versus about a quarter now. ences in Britain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Sudan the Middle East to help them plan issuance of ($122.8 million), helped by a 14.1 percent leap in and Egypt - are still too small to have a big impact sukuk and other Islamic instruments that group net revenues to 1.22 billion dirhams. BARCLAYS ASSETS on the bottom line but they are growing rapidly. could be used as liquidity management tools. Nevertheless, this marked a slight slowdown from ADIB created a base for its expansion among International revenues in 2014 were double One country is likely to begin issuance this revenue growth of 16.6 percent in 2014, and the UAE expatriate population with its acquisition those in 2013, and 2015 is expected to be double year and another next year, Mahmoud said Mahmoud said he expected ADIB’s revenue last year of Barclays’ retail operations in the coun- 2014, Mahmoud said. ADIB, Dubai’s Emirates NBD without naming them. — Reuters Stalling economy hurts Turkey’s AKP

ISTANBUL: Murat Dalga stands in a shop ECONOMIC ARCHITECT filled with everything but customers and Turkey has enjoyed years of breathtaking swears he won’t be voting for Turkey’s rul- growth under the AKP. In 2002, per capita GDP ing AK Party this time around. “In 20 years averaged $3,600, just ahead of Equatorial I’ve never seen it so bad,” the 38-year-old Guinea. By 2013 it had trebled to $11,000, electronics salesman said amid rows of tel- higher than Malaysia. With annual output of evisions and fridges. “The AKP used to be more than $800 billion, Turkey is now com- the party of the working class, but not any- fortably among the world’s top-20 economies. more. They will definitely bleed this time.” But growth has stalled, slipping to 2.9 per- For the first time since coming to power cent last year, from more than 4 percent in in 2002, the AKP is heading into an election 2013. Critics say Turkey relies too much on under fire over the economy, thanks to construction, private consumption and debt, stalling growth, stubbornly high unem- and desperately needs to boost household ployment and worrying levels of house- savings. hold debt. That has given the opposition a “The Turkish economy is sort of a bubble. new line of attack and highlights the diffi- It’s living off foreign capital being pumped in, culties a weakened AKP will face after the which has made it possible for people to bor- June 7 polls, when it will need to bring in row and consume,” said Halil Karaveli, manag- overdue reforms to cut personal and cor- ing editor of The Turkey Analyst. “The savings porate debt, boost savings and increase rate in Turkey is extremely low. You’re totally productivity. dependent on inflows of foreign capital, Investors think the AKP will win just which has sustained consumption and it has enough seats to remain in power as a sin- sustained this construction boom.” gle-party government and keep its eco- Turkey’s current account deficit, which was nomic management team intact, although over 5 percent of GDP last year, remains a wor- one closely watched poll has predicted it ry, as does household debt. could be forced to form a coalition. In the last decade, consumer credit has It is almost certain to fall far short of the ballooned 11-fold. Dollar-denominated debt super majority required to change the con- equals nearly 30 percent of gross domestic stitution and give its founder, President product, meaning regular collapses in the lira Tayyip Erdogan, the broader powers he currency drive up borrowing costs. The weak ATHENS: A man walks a wall adorned with graffiti on a street in Athens yesterday. Struggling Greece will keep on repaying for as long as it can wants. economy has been an opportunity for the its EU-IMF creditors, who have demanded reforms and withheld release of the country’s remaining bailout funds, a spokesman said. — AFP A lacklustre performance at the polls main opposition Republican People’s Party may be a much-needed wake-up call, said (CHP). Vedat Mizrahi, a managing director at “Until this election, the opposition did not Greece to keep repaying financial services firm Unlu & Co. want to talk about the economy because it “If the AKP does lose some popularity, was seen as an asset for the ruling party. But that could force it to focus more on eco- things have changed. They have hijacked the nomic management and reform,” he said. economic agenda from the AKP,” said Sinan creditors as long as it can “We haven’t seen any reforms in the last Ulgen, the chairman of the Istanbul-based couple of years and Turkey is really lagging Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy 300 million euros repayment due next week its emerging market counterparts.” Studies.—Reuters

ATHENS: Struggling Greece will keep on Central Bank-for the past four months in a bid Austerity ‘deal-breaker’ repaying its EU-IMF creditors for as long as it to unlock some 7.2 billion euros in bailout “Austerity is the only deal-breaker,” Finance can, with some 300 million euros due next cash. The Syriza-led government, which was Minister Yanis Varoufakis wrote in a Project week and no deal in talks over the country’s elected in January on an anti-austerity plat- Syndicate blog entry. “Greece’s creditors insist remaining bailout funds, a spokesman said form, has so far refused to agree to key eco- on even greater austerity for this year and yesterday. nomic reforms that the creditors want in beyond... Our government cannot-and will “To the extent that we are able to pay, we exchange for the rescue funds. not-accept a cure that has proven itself over will keep on repaying these obligations,” gov- But with a punishing debt repayment five long years to be worse that the disease,” ernment spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis told schedule in the next three months, the coun- he wrote. reporters. try now desperately needs those funds. Last Sakellaridis denied a report by Greece’s He added: “It is the government’s responsi- week, the parliamentary spokesman for Syriza Mega TV that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras bility to be able to repay all these obliga- had also said that the government would be had asked US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to tions.... It is also the responsibility of the credi- unable to honor repayment to the IMF as its help persuade the IMF to agree to group all tors to be faithful to (their) loan obligations.” priority is to pay salaries, pensions and run- four June repayment instalments to the end Sakellaridis’s remarks came a day after a ning costs. of the month. cabinet minister said Greece had “no money” “No country can repay its debts with only “I read these reports, there is no such case. to make a series of repayments to the the money from its budget,” Nikos Filis told We have not examined it and no such case International Monetary Fund from June 5. “The Ant1 television. has been put to the Greek government,” he instalments for the IMF in June are (overall) 1.6 Sakellaridis also said talks in Brussels over said. billion euros ($1.8 billion). This money will not the Greek reforms would resume today. He The spokesman also dismissed speculation be given. There isn’t any to be given. This is a added that the two sides were still apart on of possible capital controls-meaning limits on known fact,” Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis tax issues, social insurance, labor rights and cash withdrawals-being imposed over next said on Sunday. the size of Greece’s budget surplus. He repeat- weekend if no deal emerges. “Such scenarios Greece’s radical-left government has been ed that the government’s goal was to secure a are entirely baseless and malicious... There is LISBON: Kitchen staffers and waiters in a Portuguese traditional food restaurant locked in negotiations with its creditors-the “mutually beneficial” agreement by early June absolutely no possibility of capital controls,” work, during a busy lunch time, in Lisbon. European Central Bank head Mario Draghi IMF, the European Union and the European at the latest. he said. — AFP said tough measures to clear away bureaucracy and make hiring and firing more flexible are needed quickly to energize the economy, during an ECB’s conference on Iraqi bank to open five more inflation and unemployment in Sintra, Portugal. —AP branches in bet on future Oil prices edge down as dollar strengthens DEAD SEA: An Iraqi bank controlled by Iraq’s overall banking sector has dropped some million); operating income rose 9 percent. Total Jordanian interests plans to open five more 20 percent because of the conflict and the fall assets expanded 26 percent to 646.71 billion branches in Iraq by the end of this year, a sign in oil prices since last June, he estimated. dinars. LONDON: Crude oil futures edged low- lion kilolitres) in April, the Ministry of that there is still money to be made in much of This has tightened liquidity in the banking To attract deposits, the bank launched this er towards $65 a barrel as the dollar Finance said yesterday. the country despite civil war and low oil prices. system; bad debt is rising, partly because some year a zero-interest rate deposit which gives strengthened yesterday, with a public In China, crude imports hit a record Iraq’s economy shrank an estimated 2.4 percent payments by the government are being depositors a chance to win a car every three holiday in the United States and much 7.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, in 2014 and the International Monetary Fund delayed. Attracting deposits has become hard- months. Abu-Dhaim said Capital Bank was of Europe keeping trading muted. with healthy car sales countering a slow- expects it to grow only marginally if at all this er since many people tend to go to govern- focusing on training staff at its subsidiary and Front-month Brent crude shed 17 ing economy. In the United States, the year. Baghdad has started running down its ment banks in unstable times; building an infrastructure in Iraq. “We are cents to $65.20 a barrel by 1052 GMT. US peak summer driving season started international reserves as cheap oil slashes state Abu-Dhaim estimated state banks, including preparing ourselves for the good times to crude was down 35 cents at $59.37 a with Memorial Day on Monday, and the revenues. the two giants Rafidain and Rashid, held about come.” barrel. The dollar pared early gains but American Automobile Association said But enough of the economy remains rela- 80-85 percent of roughly $60 billion of National Bank of Iraq, which accounts for 15 remained near to two month-highs road travel was expected to reach a 10- tively untouched by the conflict, particularly in deposits, leaving about 50 private banks com- to 20 percent of Capital Bank’s business, against the euro and yen as well as a year high over the Memorial Day week- the southern oil-producing areas where Islamic peting for the rest. obtained approval from the Lebanese and Iraqi one-month high against a basket of cur- end. State has not penetrated, for banks to keep Private banks have met with the central central banks this year to open a branch in rencies. Unrest in the Middle East intensified functioning, and the long-term potential of bank which has promised support for them, Beirut. A strong dollar makes crude oil less yesterday as the Islamic State poured Iraq’s oil reserves is still drawing some fresh such as providing them with state deposits. But This ties in with Capital Bank’s overall busi- attractive for holders of other curren- fighters into the western Iraqi city of investment. this hasn’t happened so far, said Abu-Dhaim, ness strategy, which is to develop as a regional cies. “The overall fundamentals still Ramadi. In oil exporter Libya, warplanes National Bank of Iraq will open five branches who worked as CFO for Jordan’s Social Security bank with commercial and investment opera- point to a well-supplied market, a fact from the official government attacked this year in Baghdad and southern areas, Investment Fund before joining Capital Bank in tions. In Jordan, Capital Bank’s business is that should continue to put a ceiling on an oil tanker docked outside the city of including two in the capital and one near the 2011. growing moderately - Abu-Dhaim said he prices,” Barclays said. However, the mar- Sirte on Sunday, wounding three people big Rumaila oilfield, vice-chairman Ayman Abu- expected the Jordanian economy to continue ket drew support from strong demand and setting the ship on fire, officials Dhaim said. PROFITS expanding modestly in the next couple of years figures across Asia and the United said. The bank, in which Jordan’s Capital Bank Despite the tough conditions, enough of with no major improvement or deterioration, as States. “Global oil demand continues to It was the third confirmed strike by owns 62 percent after initially investing in 2004, National Bank of Iraq’s customers remain international aid helped the country cope with surprise to the upside, with April data the internationally recognized govern- currently has nine branches in Iraq, including healthy - many are in consumer goods trading a huge Syrian refugee burden. By making a play showing no signs of slowdown despite a ment on oil tankers, part of a conflict two in the Kurdistan region. and pharmaceutical distribution, which have for the business of Iraqi and Jordanian compa- pick-up in prices,” Energy Aspects said in between competing administrations “Iraq is a strategic investment for us...If one been relatively undisturbed - for the bank to nies operating around the region, Capital Bank a note. and parliaments allied to armed factions can achieve this in the current conditions, keep making money. can hope for faster growth. Last November it Japan’s customs-cleared crude oil fighting for control of the country four imagine what one could do when the problems National Bank of Iraq’s net income before tax said it was establishing a subsidiary in the imports rose 9.1 percent year on year to years after the ousting of Muammar are solved,” Abu-Dhaim, who is Capital Bank’s in the first quarter of 2015 jumped 51 percent Dubai International Financial Centre to provide 3.62 million barrels per day (17.28 mil- Gaddafi. —Reuters chief financial officer, told Reuters. Business in year-on-year to 2.94 billion Iraqi dinars ($2.5 financial and investment services. —Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 BUSINESS Europe stocks stumble, dollar lifted by US rate view

LONDON: European shares fell in thin trade yes- tightening until employment and inflation hit its After four months of talks with its euro-zone supported the Fed’s case for an interest rate Greece’s interior minister said Athens cannot terday while the dollar powered ahead after US targets risked overheating the economy. partners and the IMF, Greece’s leftist-led Syriza hike later this year. make debt repayments to the IMF next Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated that The benchmark French CAC 40 index shed 0.8 government is still scrambling for a deal that could Data on Friday showed the US Labor month unless it manages to reach a deal the central bank was poised to raise interest rates percent. Trading volumes were thin as several release up to 7.2 billion euros ($7.9 billion) in Department’s gauge on core consumer with its lenders. this year. Investor concerns about Greece’s debt markets including Germany, the United Kingdom remaining aid to avert bankruptcy. goods prices rose by 0.3 percent last month, Asian shares got off to a slow start yes- problems and a poor regional and local election and the United States were shut for holidays. bringing the year-on-year rise to 1.8 percent, terday after US Federal Reserve Chair Janet result by Spain’s ruling People’s Party also weighed Spain’s IBEX equity index fell 2.3 percent after RESURGENT DOLLAR the highest since October. Yellen indicated that the central bank was on the euro and European shares. voters in regional and local elections on Sunday In foreign exchange markets, the dollar index, “I would expect rate expectations to con- poised to raise interest rates this year if the The pull-back in European stocks mirrored loss- punished Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s ruling PP which measures the greenback against a basket of tinue to rise and for the dollar’s uptrend to economy keeps improving as expected. es on Wall Street on Friday after Yellen suggested for four years of austerity while Greece’s ATG share other major currencies, rose 0.3 percent to a one- continue as a result,” said Marshall Gittler, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares the Fed was ready to act if the economy kept index fell 2 percent. month high of 96.475. Against the yen, the dollar head of global FX strategy at IronFX Global. outside Japan was up 0.1 percent in early improving as expected, though a raft of recent “The Greek debt warning and the Spanish elec- traded near a two-month high of 121.78, jumping The euro was weaker, falling to a one- trade, with weakness in Southeast Asia off- data has suggested it is growing only modestly in tion outcome are weighing on the markets, said from a low of 120.64 after Yellen’s comments and month low of $1.0959 with some traders cit- set by rises in China, Australia and South the second quarter. She said delaying a policy Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at AvaTrade. as stronger-than-expected underlying US inflation ing the victory of anti-austerity parties in Korea. Japan’s Nikkei stock index added 0.7 Spain and Greece’s financial crisis as factors. percent, getting a tailwind from a weaker In the most explicit remarks so far about yen and better-than-expected April the likelihood of default if negotiations fail, exports. —Reuters

YICHANG: Investors look over stock prices on display terminals at a brokerage house in Yichang in central China’s Hubei province yesterday. China’s Shanghai Composite Index surged 3.4 percent to 4,813.80 yesterday as Asian stocks were mostly higher on a quiet trading day with Hong Kong, Wall Street and London closed for holidays. —AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 African economy to strengthen in 2015 despite Ebola, oil drop Population seen doubling to 2bn over 35 years

JOHANNESBURG: Africa’s overall economy suggested Africa’s economy was going to and we are expecting that (they) are reducing should advance in 2015, expanding by 4.5 per- expand by 5.7 percent this year. now and as such South Africa will have a rate of cent, showing resilience despite weak com- At the same time, economists noted that growth that’s better than in the past,” said modity prices and the devastating Ebola epi- Africa’s increasing population could boost Pezzini. demic, an annual report published yesterday growth in much the same way that population Despite being ravaged by deadly Ebola said. And future growth could be spurred by booms fuelled development in China and India. virus, the West African region fared relatively the continent’s population doubling to two bil- “This phenomenon may be helpful as was well, posting an average 6.0 percent growth lion over the next 35 years, repeating in Africa the case with India and China because the last year. the economic boom seen in Asia’s biggest demographic dividends usually help growth,” Oil-rich Nigeria, the continent’s largest econ- countries. OECD Development Centre director Mario omy, which was not at the epicentre of the “Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) Pezzini said. But, if Africa fails to absorb the Ebola crisis, saw 6.3 percent growth in 2014 growth is expected to strengthen to 4.5 per- enormous youth bulge in the labor market, fuelled mainly by non-oil sectors. But the TOKYO: A container is loaded onto a flatbed truck from an international freighter at cent in 2015 and 5.0 percent in 2016 after sub- “then you may have very strong tensions,” he countries worst hit by Ebola-Liberia, Ghana and the international cargo terminal at Tokyo’s port yesterday. Japan swung back to a dued expansion in 2013 (of 3.5 percent) and added. Sierra Leone-will be seriously affected and eco- trade deficit in April after the first surplus in almost three years in March, but the 2014 (3.9 percent),” said the report, co-authored nomic activity will remain subdued “notably in shortfall shrank drastically year-on-year thanks to stronger exports and lower ener- by the Organization for Economic Co-operation Jobs, Ebola Sierra Leone where the economy is expected to gy bills, official data showed yesterday. — AFP and Development (OECD), the African An estimated 23 million youths are expected contract,” from a previous 10 percent growth Development Bank and the UN Development to enter the African labor market this year rate, the report said. Program (UNDP). The continent has so far been alone, according to the report. Of those, four East Africa was the best performing region, Japan trade account “relatively resilient to the sharp fall in interna- million will be in North Africa, the region that accelerating more than 7.0 percent last year, tional commodity prices,” said the report, such dragged down the continent’s growth rates last with Ethiopia being counted among the best. as crude prices which dropped more than 50 year, as a result of fall-out from the 2011 Arab But that growth may slow down to 5.6 percent returns to deficit percent between June and January. Spring popular uprisings. this year partly due to unrest in oil-producing And if the commodity prices remain low, the That region grew by just 1.7 percent last South Sudan. TOKYO: Japan swung back to a trade deficit recession. report warned that the economies of resource- year. Southern Africa slowed to below 3.0 per- The latest continental predictions in the in April after the first surplus in almost three The Bank of Japan on Friday held off rich countries, such as leading oil exporters cent in 2014 due to labor unrest in South Africa, OECD-led report are in line with the years in March, but the shortfall shrank dras- launching more stimulus and governor Nigeria and Angola, may slow down as their the continent’s most advanced economy which International Monetary Fund’s projections of tically year-on-year thanks to stronger Haruhiko Koroda said the world’s number- governments will inevitably have to trim grew by just 1.5 percent. 4.5 percent in 2015, but are slightly more opti- exports and lower energy bills, official data three economy was on the upswing after spending. The latest forecast is a downward “In part the lower rates of growth in Africa mistic than the World Bank’s forecast of 4.0 showed yesterday. taking a hit from a sales tax hike in April last revision from projections made in 2014 which were related to the social crises in South Africa percent. —AFP The monthly deficit came in at 53.4 billion year. yen ($440 million), about one-15th of the Since taking office in late 2012, Japan’s 825.5 billion yen posted a year earlier, prime minister has embarked on a high-pro- finance ministry data showed. file policy blitz-including big government Exports rose 8.0 percent year-on-year spending and huge central bank monetary chiefly on robust shipments of cars, electron- easing-in a bid to end years of deflation and ics components and machinery as the yen lacklustre growth. was 17 percent cheaper against the dollar The April deficit was much smaller than than last year. Imports dropped 4.2 percent market expectations for a deficit of more as the cost of oil and gas fell. By region, US- than 300 billion yen although it reversed bound shipments soared 21.4 percent, far March’s 227.4 billion yen in surplus, which outpacing a 2.4 percent increase in exports was the first black-ink since June 2012. to China and a 0.8 percent rise in exports to Capital Economics expects Japan’s bal- the European Union. “Japan’s economy will ance to remain in the red in the near term. “If be more robust this year, led by domestic the exchange rate starts to weaken again in consumption and external demand,” said the second half of the year as we expect, Yoshitaka Suda, an economist at Nomura crude oil imports will become more expen- Holdings. sive again, soon,” said Marcel Thieliant, Japan “We think that the US economy will con- economist at Capital Economics. tinue to recover moderately, helping to “Overall, therefore, the trade balance will boost Japan’s exports,” he told Bloomberg likely remain in the red in coming months.” News. The April data came after a stronger- he said in a note. Economists at SMBC Nikko than-expected economic growth report last Securities said “the trade balance will be week. Data from the Cabinet Office showed likely to move around the break-even point Japan’s economy grew a faster-than-expect- for a while” due to stalling export growth, a ed 0.6 percent on-quarter in the first three pick-up in imports, and an upturn in oil months of 2015 as it crawls back from a brief prices. —AFP

Nigerian banks announce early closing MALAKAL: An aerial view of Malakal, the capital of South Sudan’sbiggest oil producing Upper Nile state, In South Sudan. The rebels threaten to seize the last oil fields still in production, which would be a major victory for them, and probably the final blow to a dying economy entirely dependent on the black gold. —AFP due to fuel crisis LAGOS: Two of Nigeria’s biggest banks the pumps below the market rate for yesterday announced they were shutting consumers and pays the difference to branches early due to a lack of fuel, in the importers and marketers. But they say Businesses quietly switch to latest sign of shortages hitting business- they are owed $2 billion in arrears and es. “The current shortage of petroleum have shut fuel depots until the balance is products in the country has limited our paid. dollar in socialist Venezuela ability to supply diesel to all our branch- The government maintains the mon- es in order to continue normal branch ey has been paid and the importers are operations,” GT Bank said in a statement holding the country to ransom by CARACAS: It’s still possible to buy a gleaming Ford Driving the shift is the crumbling value of the the parts needed to assemble the cars in on Twitter. demanding losses from the slump in the truck in Venezuela, rent a chic apartment in bolivar, which has lost more than half its value this Venezuela, according to union officials. “Due to this we unavoidably have to naira currency caused by the global drop Caracas, and snag an American Airlines flight to year, plunging to 400 per dollar on the free market Foreign airlines made their switch to dollars close our branches nationwide at 1pm in oil prices. Miami. Just not in the country’s official currency. as Venezuelans scramble to convert their savings after the government refused to let them convert (1200 GMT) from Monday 25th May, Telecoms operators warned they may As the South American nation spirals into eco- into a more stable currency. Desperate, people are and repatriate nearly $4 billion worth of profits 2015.” Union Bank of Nigeria said later its be forced to shut down networks if no nomic chaos, an increasing number of products are selling bolivars for a rate 60 times weaker than the held in the country. Meanwhile, inflation is racing branches would shut at 2:00 pm for the fuel supplies are found for generators not only figuratively out of the reach of average strongest of country’s three official exchange rates. so fast that ATMs have failed to keep pace. Many same reasons. The situation would be that power base stations and switches. consumers, but literally cannot be purchased in It’s a politically uncomfortable situation for deliver a maximum of just $1.50 worth of bolivars reviewed on Tuesday, head of media Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat, which has Venezuelan bolivars, which fell into a tailspin on President Nicolas Maduro, who regularly leads per transaction. Some shoppers stay away from Francis Barde told AFP. massively expanded its operations in the black market last week. Businesses and individ- chants of “gringo go home” and says currency spec- cash altogether, according to reports in local Guaranty Trust Bank plc has branches Nigeria in recent years, informed cus- uals are turning to dollars even as the anti- ulation is one of the main tools used by enemies to media, leaning more heavily on credit cards so they across Nigeria, as well as Anglophone tomers of “possible disruptions” to servic- American rhetoric of the socialist administration try to sow chaos and force him from power. can pay for purchases later, when they’ll cost less in and Francophone West Africa, East Africa es in the days ahead. grows more strident. It’s a shift that’s allowing parts It’s not just businesses chasing greenbacks. Real dollar terms thanks to inflation. and Britain, with an overall staff of more “The scarcity of petroleum products of the economy to limp along despite a cash estate contracts are still drafted in bolivars to satis- Decade-old price controls make staple items than 10,000. Union Bank of Nigeria is one has impacted every sector of the econo- crunch and the world’s highest inflation. But it fy a requirement imposed by late President Hugo ridiculously cheap for all Venezuelans. A bottle of of the country’s oldest and has more my and the provision of telecommunica- could put some goods further out of reach of the Chavez, but in upscale neighborhoods most own- vegetable oil costs 20 cents at the black market than 300 branches nationwide. Nigeria tions services is no different,” a company working class, whose well-being has been the focal ers operate outside the law and sell and rent in dol- rate, a package of rice costs half that, and a sack of has been brought to a virtual standstill statement said, asking customers for point of the country’s 16-year-old socialist revolu- lars only. A group of realtors in tony eastern sugar costs even less. Still, many working-class by fuel shortages, caused by a row “understanding” as they try to minimize tion. Caracas has established a password-protected Venezuelans are looking for ways to accumulate between the outgoing government and disruption. The latest sign of an emerging dual-currency website for listings in dollar prices. their own stockpile of the US currency by offering importers, as well as strikes by petrol The Etisalat announcement followed system came earlier this month when Ford Motor Analysts say the administration likely sees a services to wealthy or foreign clients. tanker drivers and oil and gas workers. a similar warning by South Africa’s Co. union officials said the company had reached a limited dollarization as the only way to prevent “It’s the only way we can try to stay ahead,” said Despite being Africa’s biggest oil pro- MTN, the largest telecom provider in deal with officials to sell trucks and sports utility multinationals from leaving the county altogether, one gym teacher who supplements his $25 a ducer, petroleum products have to be Nigeria, and Airtel. Nigerian homes and vehicles in dollars only. as Clorox did last year, citing problems brought month salary by offering personal training to imported to Nigeria because of a lack of businesses are forced to use generators A few weeks earlier, American Airlines about by decade-old currency controls, supply clients who can pay in dollars. The teacher, who functioning domestic refineries. because of poor to non-existent grid announced that it had stopped accepting bolivars shortages and inflation that hit 68 percent last year, asked that his name not be used to protect his The government keeps the price at supply. —AFP for any of its 19 weekly flights out of Venezuela. and economists believe is now well into the triple safety, keeps his bills in a locked box at home until Customers must now use a foreign credit card to digits. a friend or obliging client can deposit them in his buy the tickets online. Virtually all other foreign Production at Ford has fallen by 90 percent as Miami bank account. carriers have made the same switch with the gov- the company struggles to gain access to dollars The move toward currency substitution doesn’t ernment’s consent, according to the Venezuela needed to import parts. Customers will now trans- sit well with hardcore government supporters, Airlines Association. fer Ford dollars in advance to pay for the import of many of whom cut their political teeth listening to Chavez’s tirades against the “dictatorship of the dollar.” “How is it possible that in the face of the US effort to sabotage the revolution, we are allowing transnational companies to conduct business with the imperialist dollar in our country?” wrote Omar Hernandez, an engineer who works with Chavista community programs, on the influential pro-gov- ernment website Aporrea. But outside economists say Maduro would be wise to embrace the dollar outright. Steve Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University economist who has long advised governments facing currency crises, says replacing the bolivar with the dollar would nip Venezuela’s inflation problem almost overnight and become an anchor of economic stability, though it could also force austerity measures. He points to the example of Maduro ally Rafael Correa in Ecuador, who has railed against the US during his eight years in office but has so far shown no desire to bring back the old national currency, which the country did away with in favor of the dollar. WASHINGTON: President of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka speak- At the Ford factory, workers are optimistic that ing at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. Few the new deal will save their jobs, according to days before the end of his second term as President of the African Development union leader Gerardo Troya. In fact, they have an Bank Group (AfDB), Donald Kaberuka will remain the main actor of the return of the CARACAS: Shoppers queue outside of a supermarket in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. idea for more dollarization: They’d like to be paid in institution in Ivory Coast, despite critics who accuse him of neglecting francophone Venezuelans continue to struggle to find basic goods including detergent and sugar. — AP US currency now too, starting at $8 a day. — AP countries.— AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Three KD 5,000 winners in NBK’s Al-Jawhara weekly draws for May

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Gold dips as Yellen comments shore up dollar

LONDON: Gold prices fell slightly yesterday, as the dollar gained traction against major currency rivals, on signs the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy for the first time in six years in 2015. Fed Chair Janet Yellen indicated on Friday that the US central bank was poised to raise rates this year, with the world’s largest economy set to bounce back from an early-2015 slump. Higher US interest rates increases the opportuni- ty cost of holding non-yielding bullion. Spot gold was down 0.2 percent at $1,203.46 an ounce by 1127 GMT, just above a near-two-week low of $1,201.20 hit in the previous session. It posted its biggest weekly drop in a month last week, down 1.4 percent. Liquidity was thin with British and US markets shut for holidays. “The Fed raising the rates is cer- tainly not electrifying news for the precious metal, which is on track to extend its biggest weekly decline since April,” AvaTrade chief market analyst Naeem Aslam said. “Yellen last week has confirmed that she is still confident that the rates will rise this year and (gold) traders are not fond of this news at all.” The prospect of higher rates later in 2015 boosted the dollar to its highest in a month against a basket of major currencies yesterday. Stronger-than-expect- One of KFH car showrooms. ed underlying U.S. inflation and persisting Greek debt worries also supported the greenback. A stronger dollar makes gold more expensive for KFH: Exclusive offers and promotions to holders of other currencies, while diminishing the metal’s appeal as an hedge against risk. In the physical markets, gold demand across customers on Lexus, Acura and Mazda cars Asia was soft as investors channel their money towards higher-yielding stock markets. Indian gold jewellery demand in the second half KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) offers exclusive promo- thousand km whichever comes first, 1 year comprehensive through over 380 branches, including KFH-Turkey, in order to of the year could take a hit as the Hindu calendar tions to customers in collaboration with several major automo- insurance and a free car registration. offer services for the bank’s clients in Turkey, Malaysia, Saudi shows the number of dates seen as being auspi- tive agencies (Mohammed Naser Al-Sayer & Sons Automotive Kuwait Automotive Imports Co. offers KFH customers who Arabia, Bahrain, Australia, Jordan, Dubai, and Manheim in cious for weddings will drop 40 percent in the sec- Company “Lexus Cars”, Al-Mulla International Automotive are interested in Mazda 2 and Mazda 3 exceptional prices, Germany. ond half from a year earlier. Trading Co. “Acura” and Kuwait Automotive Imports Co. installation of V-Cool, free maintenance till 30 thousand km, a KFH’s mission is to achieve highest levels of excellence and In other Asia-related news, China has estab- “Mazda” 2, 3, 5, 6) till mid-July, as part of its continuous efforts third party insurance and a free registration. innovation in the field of client service, while developing com- lished a fund that is expected to raise about $16 bil- to provide more advantages to customers and ensure that a In regard to Mazda CX-5 and Mazda CX-6, KFH customers mon interest for all those concerned with the financial institu- lion for gold-backed investment as part of its “Silk high level customer service is performed. shall get a high trading price for their used cars KD 1500/- mini- tion. KFH’s vision is to spearhead the global development in Road” initiative to develop trade and transport Mohammed Naser Al-Sayer Co in cooperation with KFH mum, free maintenance for 60 thousand km, insurance, free Islamic financial services, and to upgrade the bank into the lev- infrastructure across Asia and beyond, official provides a set of exclusive advantages to KFH customers on card registration, free V-Cool installation and additional KD 200 el of becoming the most sustainable profitable Islamic bank in media reported. Silver was down 0.7 percent at Lexus cars, the advantages include exclusive discounts on discount. KFH has strong relations with automotive agents. the world. $16.99 an ounce, after falling 2.2 percent last week. prices, a two years comprehensive insurance, a 5 years open KFH was established in Kuwait in 1977 and is enlisted in the KFH’s values include cementing leadership through all its Platinum dropped 0.1 percent to $1,143.88 an meter warranty, a 5 years free maintenance or 50 Thousand KM Kuwait Stock Exchange. KFH Group is a global pioneer in the businesses, including leadership in the Islamic banking servic- ounce and palladium fell 0.7 percent to $774.98 an whichever comes first and a free car registration. field of Islamic banking services, where it offers a wide array of es worldwide, through innovation and in client service and the ounce. — Reuters Al-Mulla Company offers KFH customers who are interested Islamic products and services, not to mention a high standard development of its employees. In addition, KFH is committed in Acura Cars a variety of advantages including a high trading of innovation and client service. to all its procedures, and to setting up long-life partnerships price rate for used cards, free maintenance for 5 years or 50 KFH manages its operations in the GCC, Asia, and Europe with the concerned authorities. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 TECHNOLOGY Amazon now paying tax on German sales in Germany

BERLIN: Online retailer Amazon has Luxembourg took effect May 1, the and elsewhere. due to criticism of its practices, the 12 billion dollars (11 billion euros) started paying tax on profits from its online edition of the Sueddeutsche The EU is investigating tax deals Sueddeutsche Zeitung report said. worth of goods in Germany last year, sales to German customers in Germany Zeitung daily quoted a company involving US tech giant Apple and “We review our company structures up from around nine billion dollars in instead of in Luxembourg, a newspaper spokesman as saying. Ireland, coffee-shop chain Starbucks in regularly in order to ensure that we can 2012. reported yesterday. Amazon is among several large The Netherlands, and Amazon and serve our customers as best we can,” it According to other press reports, The change to book sales from companies under the spotlight in Italian automaker Fiat in Luxembourg. quoted the spokesman as saying. Amazon has also begun booking Amazon.de in Germany rather than Europe over tax deals in Luxembourg Amazon said the overhaul was not The paper said Amazon sold almost British sales in Britain. —AFP

Why you need more than a Facebook page to be social

By Jyoti Lalchandani And while technology is certainly important in providing the basic capabili- DUBAI: Mention the term ‘social business’ ties, the more important architectural to most people, and their thoughts imme- issues involve how to integrate the new diately turn to social networks such as technologies with existing applications and Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And with then how to use the new capabilities and small businesses alone accounting for information to evolve the business model. more than 30 million active pages on This requires an in-depth understanding of Facebook, such a response is perfectly value exchange during customer interac- understandable. But there are also a grow- tions so that initiatives can be focused ing number of people who believe there where it matters most. must surely be more to social business than Success in using social technologies to tweeting about new product launches and improve business performance will reside driving up the number of ‘likes’ for their in mastering the ability to position the brand. And those people would be right. organization at the interface touch points in social interactions, thereby enabling it to act as an intermediary, expert resource, connection service, or smart gateway. Indeed, understanding where these inter- face touch points are located must become the key focus of any social business strate- gy because incorrectly identifying opportu- nities for social interaction with potential customers will inevitably lead to wasted efforts and missed opportunities. Another key determiner of success will be the deployment of so-called ‘socialytics’. By this I mean the ability to collect Big Data across the social spectrum and, within sec- onds, conduct complex analytics functions that show what customers are saying and buying, what competitors are saying and SAN MATEO: In this March 29, 2006 file photo, YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley, 29, left, and Steven Chen, 27, pose for a photo with their lap- doing, and what is happening in the mar- tops at their office loft in a San Mateo, Calif. YouTube has been celebrating its 10th anniversary throughout May 2015 because the site entered kets in real time. There is simply no point in its testing, or “beta,” phase in May 2005, but the company’s roots go further back. Co-founders Hurley, Chen and Jawed Karim started YouTube a business correctly identifying customer in February 2005 shortly after realizing there wasn’t an easy way for people to share their videos on the Internet. — AP touch points and then not doing anything The confusion that exists around this with the reams of potentially invaluable topic can be forgiven because, in many data that inevitably heads its way. This data ways, we are still only at the concept stage. must be thoroughly analyzed to determine After a decade, YouTube True social business is in its infancy world- its relevance, with the near-instantaneous wide, and we have barely scratched the information provided by socialytics used to surface here in the Middle East, but it is adjust organizational processes and already moving quickly from one-way com- enhance the user experience. is redefining celebrity munications and basic data gathering to a future where people and smart devices are Business challenges connected in a complex network that can Aside from the ability to collect and sense and respond to trillions of daily communicate Big Data through millions of Powerful marketing platform for millennials inputs in real time. And of all the new tech- devices in real time, there are a minimum nology theories shaping this latest era of set of cultural requirements that organiza- LOS ANGELES: It’s a meet-and-greet worthy of YouTubers like Franta - “creators,” the site calls Connection with audience computing, social business has the poten- tions must be prepared to fully embrace if an A-list star. Outside the three-story bookstore them - who attract millions of subscribers that Google has opened production facilities in tial to be the most disruptive to the tradi- their social strategies are to deliver long- at the outdoor shopping mecca known as The regularly watch their online videos and the London, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Sao tional business models that organizations term business value. These include a will- Grove, hundreds of mostly young women have advertising attached to them. Paulo for creators who have more than 5,000 around the world have become so accus- ingness to collaborate and exchange infor- formed a line that stretches past trendy clothing Their popularity is still eclipsed by music subscribers to film videos. The studios are tomed to. Indeed, the march of social busi- mation across the entire stakeholder com- stores and spills out onto a nearby street. videos, which continue to account for YouTube’s equipped with sets and equipment that tran- ness will be accompanied by organization- munity, and an enterprise-wide under- They’re waiting to have Connor Franta, an affa- most watched clips. Yet the fandom that cre- scend most YouTubers’ living rooms and web- al, cultural, and process changes so standing of any and all direct and indirect ble 22-year-old Internet personality best known ators are inspiring, and the ad revenue they’re cams. The spaces also serve as social hubs for extreme they will revolutionize business contributors to the customer experience. for delivering diary-like monologues on bringing in, can’t be ignored. creators. Several of them will host 10th anniver- performance, with the impact being felt by Businesses must also strive to closely align YouTube, sign a copy of his new memoir. With his playful grin and doe eyes, Franta sary parties tomorrow. all constituents of the business ecosystem. their operations and processes with their The irony of a YouTube star drawing a mas- currently boasts more than 4.4 million devotees “For us, creators are the lightbulb of the But what exactly is social business? Simply social business capabilities, and it is critical sive crowd at a bookstore isn’t lost on talent to his personal YouTube channel, where he ecosystem,” said Kevin Allocca, YouTube’s head put, it’s an umbrella term that encompass- that senior executives show visible support manager Andrew Graham. speaks to viewers about life, dating, candy, of culture and trends. “Sure, YouTube was origi- es all social-driven workflow, internal and for the application of socialytics in driving “A year ago, I went to New York and tried to whatever at least once a week. He began post- nally known for viral videos, and that was great external, to and from a business. Today, new business initiatives and overcoming get a book publisher to take a meeting with ing videos in 2010 while still attending high and still is, but if you want to be able to build a social business is often thought of as an existing business challenges. me,” said Graham, who represents Franta and school in La Crescent, Minnesota. Now, he’s business, you need to be able to create a follow- interconnection of public and private social While social networks such as Facebook other mega-popular YouTubers. “I had one releasing music compilations and a line of local- ing. I think it’s a very different model than tradi- networks with ‘smart’ applications that and Twitter are continuing to grow and meeting, and they laughed at me. Here we are a ly grown coffee. tional media. It’s about maximizing the connec- tion with an audience.” engage people directly in new and differ- evolve into platforms for communication year later at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles with For every Justin Bieber or Psy, perhaps a New York Times best-selling author who is a That’s not so different from the genesis of ent ways, with Big Data analytics recording and community-based interaction, most YouTube’s biggest success stories, there are client. I think that says it all. It’s a 180-degree YouTube, which entered its beta phase in May the frequency, nature, duration, and out- organizations have not yet figured out how dozens of Frantas. It’s a form of celebrity that turn.” 2005. The first-ever video posted on the site was comes of this social contact. to truly leverage them to improve cus- didn’t exist 10 years ago, when YouTube was tomer experience and business perform- Franta isn’t a singer, chef, comedian or ath- a crude 19-second clip titled “Me at the Zoo” lete. He’s a YouTube star angling to be the born and made it simple to post video online. that featured YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim Basic capabilities ance. A lot of trial and error will occur as Franta, who continues to upload videos despite The most commonly cited motivation the social business concept matures, with Oprah Winfrey for millennials. speaking directly to the camera about the “cool” In its 10-years of existence, YouTube has his other endeavors, is young enough to have elephants at the San Diego Zoo. for embracing social business is the desire some businesses simply getting lucky and been inspired by the YouTube vloggers that to enable a seamless customer experience. others wasting their efforts on hunches evolved from a playground for kitty videos to a It’s been a decade, and while video lengths $20 billion visual menagerie. Along the way, it’s came before him. are longer and resolutions are higher, the senti- However, this cannot be the sole focus of about improving the customer experience. “There are guys like Shane Dawson and such initiatives, and I urge organizations to To some extent, that is the nature of inno- also become an incubator for a new type of ment is the same: watch me. celebrity - a digital Brat Pack that’s leveraging Phillip DeFranco who I was a fan of, and now The next evolution for online video has develop all-encompassing social business vation, but the true winners will be those we’re friends,” said Franta, sequestered from strategies that aim to reduce the cost to that focus their efforts and experiments smartphone stardom to write books, drop seemingly already arrived, with such sites and albums, design products and break into fans behind racks of his book, “A Work in apps as Twitch, Periscope, Meerkat and YouNow serve, measure customer sentiment, gener- where it matters most - on understanding Progress,” in the Barnes & Noble stockroom. “Do ate immediate upselling and cross-selling their stakeholders, defining relevant value Hollywood. making it easier than ever to stream live video. you know how awkward it would be to tell opportunities, enhance transparency and streams, and identifying key interface “It’s the most powerful marketing platform in That’s a feature YouTube has in its arsenal but some of my friends that I watched them on trust, address the growing demand for touch points. the world for millennials,” said Graham. “If you’re the streaming video giant has yet to solidify YouTube in my bedroom before I knew them? information, and facilitate a space for idea The columnist is group vice president and trying to reach that audience of girls gathered itself as a live video destination. “There’s a ton of It’s weird to think of it like that.” generation and collaboration. The key chal- regional managing director for the Middle downstairs, YouTube is the venue to do that. opportunity for innovation there,” said Allocca. The creators’ importance to YouTube is evi- lenge is making sense of how all these East, Africa, and Turkey at global ICT market Look at an artist like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank). He “As it becomes easier to stream and take advan- denced by the Google-backed site bankrolling pieces fit together to provide value and intelligence and advisory firm International went off to Hollywood, created some films, neg- tages of audiences built on YouTube, there’s marketing campaigns the past two years featur- drive business outcomes. Data Corporation (IDC). lected his channel, came back to YouTube and ... going to be some interesting stuff. It’s another crickets. No one was there anymore. You can’t ing such famous (on the Internet) faces as one of those things that’s really hard to predict abandon it.” Bethany Mota, Hannah Hart and Grace Helbig. what will be next. I definitely think live experi- While such creators vlog about very different ences and people gathering around singular Subscribers topics, they usually share a similar aesthetic: moments will continue to grow.” If the rise of In recent years, YouTube, which is celebrating improvised delivery, quirky editing and person- YouTube over the past decade is any indication, its 10th anniversary this month, has propped up alities that jump off screens. so will the lines to meet creators. —AP Truckers’ secret to fuel efficiency: Take it easy EAST DUBUQUE: Mario Enriquez says there’s no primary goal is cutting fuel bills, one of a trucking to use the least fuel. real trick to getting great fuel mileage in a big company’s biggest costs. In the process, some Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of metals company Alcoa truck. “Just take it easy,” says the 61-year-old native truckers are already achieving mileage close to the Inc, sees opportunities in the sector through of El Paso, who’s driven an 18-wheeler for 11 years. target that green groups want the EPA to set. increased use of aluminum to make trucks lighter. “I don’t gun the engine, I just gradually give it the Brad Pinchuk, chief executive of Hirschbach Daimler AG - the largest US truck maker with 40 gas.” Enriquez averaged 9.74 miles per gallon from Motor Lines, a midsize trucking firm, says some of percent of the market so far this year last month February to April in an International ProStar made his best drivers can get more than 10 miles per gal- showed off a Freightliner “SuperTruck” at an event by Navistar International Corp. For that, his lon out of their newest trucks today. in Las Vegas that has hit 12.2 miles per gallon in employer, Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT), In East Dubuque, Pinchuk is buying new trucks tests. Its latest production model gets close to 9 awarded him a Nissan Versa compact car. Enriquez from Navistar International Corp that use automat- miles per gallon. wasn’t even the best of the company’s drivers in ic transmissions to boost mileage. Looking at the Daimler is pushing fuel saving technology into the latest quarter, but no driver is allowed to win monthly fuel usage of a driver who recently current trucks. So far this year, 66 percent of its more than once and all those ahead of him were switched to an automatic transmission truck, Class 8 trucks are equipped with some form of previous winners. Pinchuk says the new model shows a mile-per-gal- automated transmission, up from 33 percent in The mileage performance Enriquez and truckers lon improvement. 2013. But company executives caution some like him can achieve with current trucks is signifi- Hirschbach also uses aerodynamic “sleds” and SuperTruck innovations may not be marketable in cant because it could influence how far the US gov- “tails” from startup SmartTruck, which attach to 10 years’ time. ernment pushes heavy truck makers to boost the truck trailers and cut fuel usage by 10 percent by The EPA should consider different ways trucks average fuel economy of future Class 8 trucks - the streamlining the flow of air around the trucks. are driven and set flexible standards, Wolfgang over-the-road haulers like the ones MVT operates. Wabash National Corp offers a “skirts” and “tails” Bernhard, head of Daimler’s global truck business, SEOUL: A promotional banner of mobile apps that block harmful contents, is posted Environmentalists want the Environmental combination that provides similar savings. Wheel said in an interview. on the door at a mobile store in Seoul, South Korea. The banner reads: “Young smart- Protection Agency to set a standard of 10 miles per coverings from FlowBelow are another recent inno- “There’s all different kinds of traffic,” Bernhard phone users, you must install apps that block harmful content.” “Smart Sheriff” app gallon, up about 40 percent from current levels, as vation, cutting fuel use by 3 percent, also by cut- said. “So you need to say what you mean by 10 was funded by the South Korean government primarily to block access to pornogra- part of a broader effort to curb US greenhouse gas ting the drag of air on the truck. miles per gallon.” An EPA spokeswoman said the phy and other offensive content online. But its features go well beyond that. Smart emissions. Some truck manufacturers say that Eaton Corp PLC is about to launch production of agency intends to propose “performance-based Sheriff and at least 14 other apps allow parents to monitor how long their kids use could be too aggressive. a dual-clutch transmission that it says will cut fuel standards that provide for multiple technological their smartphones, how many times they use apps and which websites they visit. But owners of truck fleets such as MVT are run- consumption versus existing automatics by up to pathways to compliance.” In other words, the Some send a child’s location data to parents and issue an alert when a child searches ning ahead of regulators and manufacturers, tak- 12 percent. Engine maker Cummins Inc has a mod- agency wants to set a standard, and let truck mak- keywords such as “suicide,” ‘’pregnancy” and “bully” or receives messages with those ing advantage of new technology and new ways of el in the pipeline that includes predictive GPS - ers and their customers decide what technology words. — AP motivating drivers to cut fuel consumption. Their which works out how to manage hills and valleys works best to hit the target.— Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE High altitude may boost babies’ risks for SIDS deaths

CHICAGO: Lofty living may make babies vul- done in Austria’s Alps. SIDS deaths are rare; only six occurred at each year, and is the leading cause of infant down in their cribs. Public health efforts nerable to sudden infant death syndrome, Mountain air has less oxygen than air at Colorado’s highest altitudes during the six deaths after the first month. launched in the 1990s that emphasized plac- according to a Colorado study that found lower elevations, and conditions that reduce years studied. The rate at high altitudes was The causes are unknown but certain con- ing babies to sleep on their backs dramatical- higher risks above 8,000 feet (2,400 meters). infants’ oxygen levels have previously been just 0.8 SIDS deaths per 1,000 births, versus ditions linked with reduced oxygen levels ly reduced SIDS deaths. While the research shows that the SIDS linked with SIDS. But exactly how mountain 0.4 per 1,000 in the state’s regions with an seem to increase risks, including brain-stem Katz said to help protect their infants rate in Colorado’s tall mountains is very air might put babies at risk is uncertain and altitude of less than 6,000 feet (1,800 meters). abnormalities, mothers smoking during and from SIDS, parents should focus on known low, it’s still two times greater than in the whether there is a solid connection requires The study was published online Monday after pregnancy, respiratory infections and risks. That advice includes no stomach sleep- Denver area and other regions where the more study, the researchers said. in Pediatrics. The authors examined Colorado stomach sleeping. ing or bed-sharing, avoiding soft bedding altitude is less than 6,000 feet (1,800 Lead author Dr. David Katz, a University of birth certificate and death registries for 2007 SIDS used to be called crib death because and pillows in cribs, and keeping infants meters). The results echo earlier research Colorado heart specialist, emphasized that to 2012. SIDS kills about 2,000 US infants infants were often found lifeless, lying face- away from cigarette smoke. —AP ‘Ugly’ potential fallout from Supreme Court health care case ‘Only the unhealthy would keep buying health care’

WASHINGTON: A Supreme Court ruling health care. It would really exacerbate State lawmakers could mitigate the become the biggest target for repeal. due in a few weeks could wipe out the problem of the cost of health insur- impact by setting up their own insur- “My guess is there would be over- health insurance for millions of people ance.” ance markets, or exchanges. But that whelming political support for the elim- covered by President Barack Obama’s Praeger, a Republican who retired can’t be done overnight. ination of the individual mandate if health care law. But it’s Republicans - this year, called it “a classic death spiral,” States might try authorizing an people can’t afford the premiums,” said not White House officials - who have using a term for market collapse. exchange, and then contracting with former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who been talking about damage control. Oral arguments on March 4 revealed the federal government to run it. But was an influential Obama adviser on A likely reason: Twenty-six of the 34 a divided court. Chief Justice John that sort of end run might prompt law- health care. states that would be most affected by Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy suits from opponents of the law. Insurers would demand relief from the ruling have Republican governors, seemingly are key to the outcome, In any case, most state legislatures provisions of the law intended to limit and 22 of the 24 GOP Senate seats up in which won’t be known until late June. will be out of session by the summer. premium increases, or they might drop 2016 are in those states. If the subsidies survive, the During arguments, Justice Samuel out of the insurance exchanges. Obama’s law offers subsidized pri- Affordable Care Act will look like settled Alito raised the possibility that the court SELF-PAY CUSTOMERS Many people still buy individual This photo taken May 19, 2015, Judith Chase Gilbert, of Arlington, Va., is health care policies directly from an loaded into a PET scanner by Nuclear Medicine Technologist J.R. Aguilar at insurance company, bypassing the law’s Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Gilbert shows no signs of markets and paying the full cost. They memory problems but volunteered for a new kind of scan as part of a study tend to be small-business owners, self- peeking into healthy brains to check for clues about Alzheimer’s disease. —AP employed professionals and early retirees. But even they would not escape the Peeking into healthy brains tumult in states losing subsidies. The health law created one big insurance pool in each state, combining to see Alzheimer’s is brewing customers who purchase their policies directly with those who buy through WASHINGTON: Sticky plaque gets the most Yet more recent research, including a large the government market. If healthy peo- attention, but now healthy seniors at risk of autopsy study from the Mayo Clinic, suggests ple exit the insurance exchanges in Alzheimer’s are letting scientists peek into their that Alzheimer’s other bad actor - that tangle- droves, premiums for those buying brains to see if another culprit is lurking. forming tau protein - also plays a big role. The directly would go up. Some may be No one knows what actually causes newest theory: Amyloid sparks a smoldering risk, unable to afford the higher cost. Alzheimer’s, but the suspects are its two hall- but later spread of toxic tau speeds the brain “It would set off cascading events,” marks - the gunky amyloid in those brain destruction. said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan plaques or tangles of a protein named tau that Normal tau acts sort of like railroad tracks to Kaiser Family Foundation. “The individ- clog dying brain cells. New imaging can spot help nerve cells transport food and other mole- ual market would empty out as premi- those tangles in living brains, providing a chance cules. But in Alzheimer’s, the protein’s strands ums rise significantly.” to finally better understand what triggers collapse into tangles and eventually the cell dies. dementia. Most healthy people have a small amount of REPUBLICANS TO THE RESCUE? Now researchers are adding tau brain scans dysfunctional tau in one part of the brain by Leading congressional Republicans to an ambitious study that’s testing if an experi- their 70s, Sperling said. But amyloid plaques have been walking a fine line, opposing mental drug might help healthy but at-risk peo- somehow encourage this bad tau to spread the law in the Supreme Court case while ple stave off Alzheimer’s. Whether that medica- toward the brain’s memory center, she pledging to protect consumers if their tion works or not, it’s the first drug study where explained. The A4 study, which is enrolling par- WASHINGTON: In this March 4, 2015 file photo, demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court side wins. scientists can track how both of Alzheimer’s sig- ticipants in the US, Australia and Canada, may in Washington, as the court was hearing arguments in President Barack Obama’s health over- If the subsidies are overturned, nature markers begin building up in older adults give some clues. haul which, if successful, could halt health care premium subsidies in all the states where the Republicans will first try blaming before memory ever slips. federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. A Supreme Court ruling expected in a few Obama and the Democrats for writing “The combination of amyloid and tau is really Researchers track memory weeks could wipe out health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack flawed legislation and then trying to the toxic duo,” predicted Dr. Reisa Sperling of The goal is to check up to 500 people for tau Obama’s health care law. But Republicans - not White House officials - have been the ones talk- paper over problems with regulations. Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and three times over the three-year study, as ing about damage control. —AP Then they’ll move ahead with a patch to Harvard Medical School, who is leading the so- researchers tease out when and how it forms in appease angry constituents. called A4 study. “To see it in life is really striking.” those who are still healthy. They won’t be told vate insurance to people without access law to all but its most passionate oppo- might be able to delay the effective A bill introduced by Sen. Ron The A4 study - it stands for Anti-Amyloid the results - scientists don’t know enough yet to it on the job. In the court case, oppo- nents. But if they are overturned, the date of its decision. Even a delay Johnson, R-Wis., would continue the Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s - aims to about what the scans portend. nents of the law argue that its literal shock could carry into next year’s elec- through the end of this year wouldn’t subsidies for existing customers only on enroll 1,000 healthy seniors like Judith Chase At the same time, study participants will wording allows the federal government tions. Some potential consequences: buy much time. Enrollment for 2016 the federal exchange until Sept. 2017. Gilbert, 77, of Arlington, Virginia. The recently receive either an experimental anti-amyloid drug to subsidize coverage only in states that health law plans is scheduled to start That would open a window for states to retired government worker is mentally sharp but - Eli Lilly & Co.’s solanezumab - or a placebo as set up their own health insurance mar- BAD TIMING Nov. 1. act, but it would ultimately leave the learned through the study that her brain harbors researchers track their memory. The $140 million kets. Most states have not done so, Around the time when the court problem for the next president and amyloid buildup that might increase her risk. study is funded by the National Institutes of because of the intense partisanship announces its decision, insurers will be HOUSE OF CARDS Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Last week, researchers slid Gilbert into a dough- Health, Lilly and others; the Alzheimer’s over “Obamacare” and in some cases working to finalize premiums and plans The health law was designed as a McConnell, R-Ky., is a co-sponsor. nut-shaped PET scanner as she became one of Association helped fund the addition of the tau because of technical problems. Instead, for the coming year. Contracts with the balancing act. Insurers can’t turn people Johnson’s bill would repeal the the first study participants to also have their scans. they rely on the federal HealthCare.gov government for 2016 health law cover- away because of health problems, but requirements for individuals to have brains scanned for tau. The idea: If the drug proves to be helpful, it website. age have to be signed by early fall. If the most healthy people are required to insurance and for larger employers to might be tamping down amyloid formation that If the court invalidates the subsidies subsidies are overturned, insurers contribute to the insurance pool, and offer coverage to workers. No good treatment in turn reins in toxic tau. In previous studies, in those states, an estimated 8 million would have to tear up their projections the government subsidizes most of the Obama is unlikely to accept any of “We know that tau starts entering the picture solanezumab failed to help full-blown people could lose coverage. The results about markets in more than half the premium for low- to middle-income those changes. at some point, and we do not know when. We do Alzheimer’s but appeared to slow mental decline would be “ugly,” said Sandy Praeger, a states. households. “The president is likely to veto what- not know how that interaction happens. We in patients with mild disease, raising interest in former Kansas insurance commissioner. Populous states such as Texas, Take away subsidies, and the other ever we would propose, because we should know,” said chief science officer Maria testing the still healthy. “People who are reasonably healthy Florida, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, two parts become unstable. don’t have a willing partner,” said Sen. Carrillo of the Alzheimer’s Association, which is “We’re trying to remove amyloid’s down- would just drop coverage,” she said. Georgia and Pennsylvania would be The law’s requirement to carry insur- John Barrasso, R-Wyo., leader of a GOP pushing to add tau scans to other dementia stream effects on tau formation,” said Dr. R. Scott “Only the unhealthy would keep buying among those affected. ance, never popular, would probably working group on health care. —AP research, too. Turner of Georgetown University Medical Center, More than 35 million people worldwide have where Gilbert enrolled in the study. Seeing how Alzheimer’s or similar dementias, including amyloid and tau interact in living brains “is open- about 5 million in the US Those numbers are ing a whole new chapter into possible therapies,” Sierra Leone marks expected to rise rapidly as the baby boomers get Turner added. older. There is no good treatment. Today’s med- For Gilbert, learning she had amyloid buildup ications only temporarily ease symptoms and “was distressing,” but it has prompted her to take attempts at new drugs, mostly targeted at sticky extra steps, in addition to the study, to protect grim Ebola anniversary amyloid, have failed in recent years. her brain. On her doctor’s advice, she’s exercising Maybe that’s because treatment didn’t start more, and exercising her brain in a new way by early enough. Scientists now think Alzheimer’s buying a keyboard to start piano lessons. FREETOWN: On May 24 last year a pregnant Molecular shark Curse begins quietly ravaging the brain more than a “It’s exciting to be part of something that’s woman and an older housewife staggered into The virus is highly infectious through expo- Liberia, which saw the most deaths, gave decade before symptoms appear, much like cutting edge,” said Gilbert, who had never heard Kenema hospital in eastern Sierra Leone and sure to bodily fluids, and its early rapid spread in the world hope when it was able to declare heart disease is triggered by gradual cholesterol of tau before. And she has a spot-on question: were diagnosed within a day as the country’s first west Africa was attributed in part to relatives that it had eradicated Ebola earlier this buildup. Brain scans show many healthy older “So what’s the medication for the tau?” Ebola cases. touching victims during traditional funeral rites. month. adults quietly harbor those sticky amyloid Stay tuned: A handful of drugs to target tau The younger patient lost her baby but both Ultimately 14 women were infected at But Sierra Leone and Guinea have seen a plaques, not a guarantee that they’ll eventually also are in development but testing will take sev- were lucky to survive a virulent tropical virus Nyuma’s funeral in mid-May. recent jump in new cases, according to the get Alzheimer’s but an increased risk. eral years. —AP which over the following 12 months laid waste to But before they died they fanned out across World Health Organization, dashing hopes the country, leaving nearly 4,000 people dead. the rolling hills of the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, start- that the deadly outbreak was petering out. Both women had attended the funeral of a ing a chain reaction of infections, deaths, funerals Sierra Leone said on Sunday it would not widely-respected faith healer known as and more infections. Within 35 days of Nyuma’s be marking the one-year anniversary of Mendinor, whose “powers” were renowned on death, there were 30 confirmed cases from Ebola-either May 24 when the pregnant both sides of Sierra Leone’s border with Guinea. Kailahun district, five active epidemic chains, and woman entered Kenema hospital or May 25 The grandmother, whose real name was Finda sporadic cases were being identified as far away when she and her companion were diag- Nyuma, had been treating sick patients in her as Port Loko district, on the other side of the nosed. home village, a diamond-mining town just a few country. “No official programme has been laid out hours’ walk from Gueckedou in Guinea, where A worrying outbreak turned into a major epi- to observe the day but we are concentrating the outbreak began in December 2013. demic when the virus finally hit Kenema city on on widespread sensitisation to get people to “She was claiming to have powers to heal June 17. realise that the disease is still around,” said Ebola. Cases from Guinea were crossing into The brutality and cold efficiency of the Ebola Sidi Yaya Tunis, a spokesman for the National Sierra Leone for treatment,” Mohamed Vandi, the virus-described in medical literature as a “molec- Ebola Response Centre (NERC). top medical official in Kenema, told AFP in ular shark”-caught the city’s shabby, chaotic hos- Ibrahim Sesay, of the NERC’s Freetown August last year. pital off-guard. branch, said five Ebola patients nationwide She became extremely ill on April 28 and died More than 20 healthcare workers died, includ- remained in treatment while 203 people were two days later, according to a recent study by the ing five co-authors of a study published by the under quarantine in the capital. National Center for Biotechnology Information, journal Science which confirmed the healer’s Many people in the Muslim-majority coun- part of the US National Institutes of Health. funeral as a seminal event at the outbreak’s try prayed at mosques or in churches where Her sisters, grandchildren and neighbours explosive start. clerics called for “the cancellation of the gathered around her bed in her mud brick house, By late summer the virus had marched into curse”, according to an AFP correspondent LOS ANGELES: In a photo released Caltech Communication, the surgical team at washing her body and brushing her hair in line the capital city, Freetown, where it took advan- who witnessed church services in Freetown. Keck Medicine of USC, working in close collaboration with Caltech and Rancho with traditional funeral rites to prepare her for tage of overcrowded living conditions and fluid “God will turn this curse into blessing,” said Los Amigo National Rehabilitation Center, perform a europrosthetic implant on the afterlife. Her husband and grandson died two population movements to grow in explosive William Kumuyi of the Deeper Life Bible days later. numbers. Church, preaching via satellite from Nigeria to Erik Sorto, in a five-hour surgery in Los Angeles, California on April 17, 2013. A Ebola has killed more than 11,000 people At the peak of the outbreak in September and the Sierra Leone branch. new kind of brain implant senses a patient’s intent to move a robotic arm, offer- since it emerged in southern Guinea in October last year, Sierra Leone and its neigh- “God has cancelled this curse today and ing new promise to people who are paralyzed or have lost limbs, researchers December 2013, spreading first to Liberia, which bours were reporting hundreds of new cases a has broken the chain,” he said, perhaps pre- said. Erik Sorto, 34, is “the first person in the world to have a neural prosthetic was recently declared Ebola free, before Sierra week, their health services overwhelmed and maturely, to prolonged chants of acquies- device implanted in a region of the brain where intentions are made,” said the Leone. their economies shattered. cence from the locals. —AFP study in the journal Science. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Vocabulary test takes away National Spelling Bee drama Everyone is tested on the same words

WASHINGTON: For viewers of last year’s Scripps semifinals were stopped in the middle of a The 285 participants in this year’s National National Spelling Bee, one of the most surprising round because too many spellers got words Spelling Bee have already proven they’re better results came courtesy of a test nobody saw. wrong and there was a chance of having too few spellers than 11 million other kids - and to spell Vanya Shivashankar was one of the stars of finalists to fill the 2-hour broadcast window. at that level, it’s essential to at least have some the show, heavily promoted in ESPN’s coverage. The bee’s executive director, Paige Kimble, idea what the words mean. The best spellers can Her older sister, Kavya, won the bee in 2009, and heard plenty of complaints that ending the figure out words they’ve never heard before by the smiling, telegenic Vanya was participating semifinals that way was unfair. “We’ve certainly understanding Greek and Latin roots and lan- for the fourth time, coming off a fifth-place finish had some white-knuckle moments,” Kimble said. guages of origin. in 2013. “You just don’t know when you go into a round In addition to 13-year-old Vanya, this year’s Vanya breezed through the preliminary how the kids are going to do.” bee has two other siblings of past winners - 12- rounds and spelled both words correctly in the The vocabulary test, Kimble said, plays a year-old Jairam Hathwar, whose brother, Sriram, semifinals. But when the finalists were much more important role than making the was a co-champion last year; and 11-year-old announced - factoring in scores from a comput- semifinals more predictable. “I think it’s making Srinath Mahankali, whose brother, Arvind, was a CANBERRA: This photo taken on April 20, 2015 shows coffee maker Sasa Sestic erized spelling and vocabulary test - Vanya was the most profound impact exactly where we popular winner in 2013. (R) posing with his trophy after winning the World Barista Championship in the eliminated. ESPN’s cameras cut to her, but she wanted it to, and that is at the school and local Jairam and Srinath will get another shot if competition’s 15th year, at his cafe in Australia’s capital Canberra. Australia is didn’t show much emotion. spelling bee levels,” she said. “We’re finding that they fall short. Vanya is in 8th grade, which world-renowned for its love of beer, but its passion for a different type of brew — Two years after vocabulary became part of teachers and students and parents are embrac- means this is her last chance. She insists she coffee — is what has been making global headlines recently. — AFP the bee for the first time, the integration of the ing the acquisition of vocabulary along with the doesn’t feel any added pressure. test remains a work in progress. While partici- memorization of words for a spelling bee.” “I’ve been having the time of my life,” she said. pants and bee officials say it’s made the compe- Kimble also said she didn’t think the vocabu- “This is something that not many people get to Australia makes its mark tition fairer - everyone is tested on the same lary test has ultimately had much influence over do and I’ve been able to do it so many years, so words - it has taken some of the drama away who advances to the finals. definitely no regrets.” —AP on global coffee culture from the semifinal rounds. Vanya still loves the bee, but she misses the CANBERRA: Australia is world-renowned for with one in 2001. simplicity of the old format, when the semifinals its love of beer. But its passion for a different Now 37, he runs a Aus$10 million (US$8 would continue for as necessary for the field to type of brew-coffee-is what has been making million) business that includes three Canberra be narrowed to about 10 finalists. global headlines recently. cafes and a wholesale green-bean company “Lots of people would like to see people Sasa Sestic, from the capital Canberra, is the connecting coffee farmers in developing coun- going up and spelling words and seeing how second coffee maker from Down Under to win tries with international clients in countries such they used to do it, just to spell until everyone the World Barista Championship in the compe- as China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. drops,” Vanya said. “I’m fine with anything, but tition’s 15th year which drew national champi- Entrepreneurs like him have thrived as spelling till you drop is kind of cool.” ons from some 50 countries. Australia’s robust coffee market goes from Vanya, who’s from Olathe, Kansas, wasn’t Young, driven and keen to shake up the cof- strength to strength, even during slower eco- entirely surprised she didn’t make the finals last fee scene, Sestic, like many of his Australian nomic periods, expanding at an annualised 3.2 year. She knew her test score could have been peers, is helping to shape global tastes in the percent over the past five years, market better. Spellers were given their own scores, but brown beverage. researcher IBISWorld said in an April report. neither they nor the audience knew how they He wowed international judges at the More of a brewers than growers market, the stacked up. annual competition in the United States in domestic industry was estimated to have gen- That’ll change this year as bee officials contin- April, using winemaking techniques and a spe- erated Aus$4.3 billion in revenue over the ue to tweak the format. The test scores will be cial ingredient-shiraz viognier grape juice 2014-15 financial year, IBISWorld added. announced and spellers will be ranked heading sourced from a Canberra vineyard-to become The report noted the Australian market was into the semifinals. the surprise champion. “highly fragmented and traditionally encom- Tim Weinkauf, the lead producer of ESPN’s “I started competing initially to learn and passes a larger number of single-establish- coverage, said he’ll take advantage of that the major reason I have been competing for ment owner-operated cafes”. As a result, promi- change by showing golf-style leaderboards and the last two years is to bring a message to the nent chains have struggled to find favour with highlighting the spellers who can work their way coffee industry-that I can potentially improve the country’s sophisticated coffee clientele. into the finals if someone ahead of them falters. our industry and make it better,” Sestic told AFP Starbucks, which dominates some interna- “I think it allows for more dramatic moments about his desire to encourage innovative tional markets, saw its Australian operations because there will be those certain kids that are approaches to coffee-making. lose money in the years after its first store on the bubble,” Weinkauf said. One important OXON HILL: File photo shows Vanya Shivashankar, of Olathe, Kan., smiling as she answers “Those 15 minutes in Seattle in the finals opened in Sydney in 2000. The chain was taken thing that hasn’t changed: If you miss a word on her question during the third round of the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md. were my biggest moment, the best in my cof- over locally by Australia’s 7-Eleven owners, the stage, the bell rings and you’re out. Participants and bee officials say the competition is fairer now that kids are tested on fee career. Even if I finished at number two, Withers Group, in 2014. what words mean. But it’s also taken some of the drama away from the semifinal rounds. three or four, I could not have done things any Regular “Flat White” drinker, Ben Neville, 36, Drawbacks There were drawbacks to what Vanya calls the Thirteen-year-old Vanya Shivashankar says she misses the simplicity of the old format, better.” said he enjoyed building rapport with local which she called “spelling till you drop.” —AP A wave of post-war immigrants from cafe owners-something that is lacking in big “spelling till you drop” approach. In 2010, the Turkey, Greece and particularly Italy has long chains. seen Australia embrace the bean culture. “It’s more standardised in Starbucks,” Neville But more recently, its citizens have been said of the way the coffees are made. “I also driving innovation in the sector through more think that as a perception, you get a more gen- Senate tweaks veterans health sophisticated espresso-based brews and uine product from a local cafe, whereas from a vibrant cafe experiences, said Australian major chain, you get something that’s more Speciality Coffee Association’s Brent Williams, artificial or prefabricated.” law to boost specialized care who has served as a judge at the barista cham- Australian tastes have instead invaded pionships. “A lot of the younger generation Starbucks, with the company introducing the that have come through have moved away “Flat White”-steamed milk poured over one or WASHINGTON: Veterans would needed because some veterans recently tweaked the rule so it falsified records covering up the from the beer-style culture, especially the two shots of espresso, believed to be an get specialized medical care from were unable to get federally paid measures 40 miles by driving dis- delays. urban dwellers,” Williams told AFP, adding that Antipodean invention-to its American menu in private doctors more easily under a medical care from private doctors tance, rather than in a straight line. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., there was a growing thirst for new coffee expe- January. bill the Senate approved. under the new Veterans Choice Moran, who sponsored the chairman of the Senate Veterans riences. The measure relaxes a rule that Act. The law blocks veterans from Senate bill, said it “puts the veteran Affairs Committee, said the change “Italians have their particular way of doing ‘Rich, intense, very Australian’ makes getting specialized care getting private care if they live first and provides the fix the VA approved Friday would “ensure vet- coffee and they are very rigid in making sure Meanwhile, Australian entrepreneurs are from local doctors difficult for within 40 miles of a VA medical says they need to make certain erans can receive care outside of that it stays to the Italian tradition, whereas finding friendly tastebuds in New York, open- some veterans, especially those in facility, even if the veteran needs that veterans are not dismissed or the VA health care system if they Australia and New Zealand are quite interna- ing a string of cafes there named after streets rural areas. Senators approved the specialized care that is farther forgotten just because of where face geographic or travel burdens, tional countries. “So they are making coffee in the southern city of Melbourne. bill by voice vote as they rushed to away. they live.” have a medical condition that and developing it so that it suits international They followed in the footsteps of coffee wrap up legislative work before a Lawmakers from both parties Moran and other lawmakers would impact their ability to travel requirements.” roasters Toby’s Estate. New Yorkers were quick weeklong Memorial Day recess. have criticized the 40-mile rule, have pressed for changes in recent or for other factors that may be to embrace its Australian-style brews, and just The Senate bill would open up which they say goes against their months, after far fewer veterans determined by the VA.” Australian tastes go global several months after opening a cafe in trendy private care to veterans who live intention to put the needs of veter- than expected were receiving VA officials have said they are Sestic, a former Australian Olympian in Williamsburg in 2012, Toby’s Estate was nomi- within 40 miles of a medical facility ans ahead of all other concerns, treatment offered under the sympathetic to lawmakers’ con- handball, was born in Bosnia and lived in nated as a top pick in a local coffee guide book. run by the Department of Veterans including cost. Sen. Jerry Moran, R- Veterans Choice law. The law was cerns but have cautioned that the Serbia before moving Down Under at 18 with “The coffee is rich and intense, and so very Affairs, so long as the VA site does Kan., said the VA was deliberately adopted last year in response to a change could cost tens of billions his family. He has been unable to step away Australian,” was another nod, from the New not offer the care required. interpreting the 40-mile rule to scandal over long wait times for of dollars a year. The measure now from coffee machines since he began working York Times. —AFP Senators said the measure was deny veterans needed care. The VA veterans seeking health care and goes to the House. —AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Sebamed distributes skin-care products at 26th Raft Race s its custom every year Sebamed was on hand at the 26th Raft Race for Companies at the Aqua Park. The race attracted a large number of participants from various companies in and around Kuwait. The race was attended by Athe Aqua Park’s chairman of board, Mohammed Abdul Reza Khorshid, PR and marketing manager, Abdullatif Al- Shemmari, the sales manager, Mohammed Al-Enezi and the festival organizing committee members. Al-Sayer Company won first place in the men’s race while Al-Sayer (Lexus) came second and ABB came third. Al-Sayer also won the first place in the mixed (men and women) race, ABB came second while Al-Nasser Sports came third. A special ceremony was held to honor the winners, participants and sponsoring companies. Sebamed distributed products related to skin care and sun protection creams and booklets on the ultimate protection our skin deserves.

KALA Kuwait presents ‘Aksharam 2015’

eading socio-cultural activist and CPI (M) Politburo member LM A Baby stated that the litera- ture has the capacity of persistence and Shakespeare is being celebrated even today more than any monarchs of his era. He was inaugurating “Aksharam 2015”, the mega event of Harvest Festival 2015 coupon release ceremony Kerala Art Lovers Association, KALA- Kuwait. The improvisation in languages ndian Orthodox Church, Ahmadi will celebrate its Harvest Festival 2015 on October 31st at DPS are inevitable. All should be tolerant Ahmadi. The coupons for the Harvest Festival were released at the church after the Holy to other languages and broad ICommunion by church vicar Fr. Kurian John on 22nd May ‘15, in the presence of church Trustee Roy enough to accept any words or Varghese Kelakam, church secretary AnuPadathara, coupon convener Shiju Simon and Harvest meaningful phrases from others. That Festival convener Manoj Thankachen. There are Ten remarkable prizes offered through the coupons is how English language is still in its and 50 grams of gold as a mega prize. During the Harvest Festival day, the winners will be selected glory, he continued. ence and delivered the citation. The Mathew Chairman of Malayalam through lucky dip and announced. Baby applauded KALA-Kuwait for colorful souvenir marking upon the Education program, Vice Chairman its determination and efforts to prop- occasion was released by MA Baby Dr. Biji Basheer, Vanithavedi President agate Malayalam blended with the presenting the first copy to Biji Tolly Prakash, Indian Community The seven corners of life culture to the younger generations, Basheer. School Board Secretary Vijay Karayil, What’s On - Submission Guidelines despite the unfavorable surround- Sunil Kumar of KALA-Kuwait was PPF President Vinod A P Nair and oin this free interactive workshops to learn how to ings or challenges. In the inaugural awarded for designing the best logo Balavedi Fahaheel Area Convener better manage your money. The Life Principles function presided by KALA-President for Malayalam Silver Jubilee Aparna Shine felicitated Aksharam All photos submitted for What’s On JOrganization helps the community by sharing TV Hikmath, Gen Secretary Saji Celebrations. The collection poem 2015. should be minimum 200dpi. information on how to enhance physical, spiritual, pro- Thomas Mathew welcomed the “Nilkkunnavarkkoppam” authored by Thereafter the trophies and certifi- fessional, financial and social success. Tuesday, June 02 Guests and audience. KALA Member Peethan K Wayanad cates for the winners of BEC KALA- Articles must be in plain text and at 5:30 - 8:30 pm. Com visit us: Shuhada - B4, St 413, “Mathrubhasha Samithi Convener was released in the same function. Kuwait Balakalamela 2015 were pre- should include name and phone Villa 67. Sam Pynummodu narrated the Literary secretary Vikas Keezhatoor sented to winners by BEC CEO roadmap of one year long “Silver numbers. Articles and photos that introduced the work to the audience. Mathew Varghese along with distin- Jinns and magic Jubilee Celebrations” marking upon KALA Members Bineesh Babu & guished guests. Aksharam 2015 Gen fail to meet these requirements will 25th year our Malayalam mission. Family, Ranjith & Unnikrishnan who Convener J Saji rendered vote of not be published. hat are jinns? How to they affect people’s lives? Is “R Ramesh Memorial Diaspora are leaving Kuwait were bestowed thanks. there anything that we can do to protect our- Award”, constituted by KALA was pre- with mementos in the function. The Several unique art performances selves? The goal of Satan and his followers of jinn sented by MA, Baby to Subair Kannur, documentary prepared based on the cherished the audience there after. In Please send them to W in appreciation of his valuable charity is to mislead mankind into disbelief and sins. Join us as we history on Malayalam mission in the musical eve, the legendary per- [email protected] explore the mysterious world of jinns and magic. and social work based in Bahrain. R Kuwait was released thereafter. former Shahabaz Aman enthralled Wednesday, June 3 at 6:30 pm. Come visit us: Shuhada - B4, Naganadhan, Media Secretary of Well known author of Malayalam the audience with his fine musical St 413, Villa 67. KALA introduced Subair to the audi- Sethumadhavan “Sethu”, John combinations. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 Ipsos celebrates 40 years of success around the world psos, the number one research and President, Didier Truchot and President of Ipsos group. company in Middle East and Ipsos MENA Chairman & CEO, “We are here today because you INorth Africa, celebrated its 40th Edouard Monin. “Since its creation in believed in us and gave us your trust, anniversary around the globe at The 1975, Ipsos has aimed to be our in return, we work day and night to Waldorf Astoria in Dubai. The event clients’ preferred research partner. evolve, grow, find new ways to make took place in the presence of key Today, on the occasion of its 40th your lives easier, and provide you representatives from the media anniversary, Ipsos strengthens its with the best service,” added industry and socialites from the mission and commits to keeping its Edouard Monin. entire MENA region in addition to clients better informed and better Ipsos continues to release new management members of the Ipsos equipped to take decisions in today’s services keeping up with the con- regional and global teams and offi- complex environment featuring a sumer needs and further providing cial figures. tough competitive landscape and clients with resources and easier The celebration pertained to the new digital environment,” com- platforms to facilitate the business speeches from Ipsos group Founder mented Didier Truchot, Founder and process.

Warba Bank meets Al Safwa female customers

arba Bank has recently ence at local and international points individual customers at no profits organized a gathering for its of sales and ending with the special with a flexible repayment period up WSafwa female customers at care given to Lamar customers. Lamar to 18 months and a maximum the Salmiya Branch. The gathering is a account comes with many promotion- amount of KD 5000 while Murabaha just one in a series of ceremonies al offers that fulfill ladies require- Express is a creative method to reflecting the solid relationship ments and expectations. deposit the financing amounts direct- between the Bank’s female employees So many female customers of ly to the customers’ Bank account. and female customers in a friendly Warba Bank, social elite and business- Warba continues in supporting the atmosphere aside from financial women attended the gathering where social innovative activities to enhance transactions. The gathering was the attendees enjoyed the event in a communication with its customers attended by Lamar and Safwa female warm and friendly atmosphere. They particularly women and business- customers and businesswomen. They welcomed this initiative where Warba women and promoting the relation- were introduced to the Bank’s latest Bank has the opportunity to illustrate ship between the customers and the Intelligent Leadership seminar offers, products and services such as its active role in serving the commu- Bank employees. Salary Accounts and Qard Hasan (Free nity through its various banking prod- Warba Bank is constantly develop- igor Events proudly presents “Intelligent Leadership” seminar. 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ASSE conducts seminar on ‘How to Build Effective Contract Specific HSE Plan’

merican Society of Safety Engineers, benefit of ASSE members and introduced the but not limited to the development and Plan and its elements, ability to identify haz- The program was very much beneficial to Kuwait Chapter conducted a training trainer. Sanjay Jaiswal. implementation of HSE Management System, ards associated with the project activities and all the members particularly to the junior Aseminar on “How to Build Effective Sanjay Jaiswal, is a Certified Safety Training, Auditing & Inspections, Risk carry out Risk assessment. He further safety Officers and Engineers. The partici- Contract Specific HSE Plan” on 15th May 2015 Professional (CSP) by the Board of Certified Assessment & Loss prevention, Accident described the method to generate mitigated pants were very much happy and given feed- from 9:00am to 2:00 pm at Kohinoor Banquet Safety Professionals, USA and holds B.E. in investigations, Process Safety Management measures to lower the risk level with compli- back to conduct more such useful trainings Hall, Fahaheel. The trainer for the session was Fire Engineering from Nagpur University and Contractor HSE management. ance to required Safety Procedures / from ASSE Kuwait chapter for the benefit of Sanjay Jaiswal. Around 25 members attended India. He is a member of ASSE Kuwait Chapter The training seminar was very well con- Programs/ training and skill requirements. its members. and got benefited from this program. and the present Head of the Training ducted by the trainer and effectively commu- Defining the roles and responsibilities of indi- Yusuff thanked Sanjay Jaiswal for this ini- Mohammad Yousuff, Training committee Committee of the Chapter. Sanjay Jaiswal is nicated citing relevant industrial scenarios viduals associated with project and ability to tiative. The session concluded with the distri- member of ASSE Kuwait chapter welcomed presently working in Kuwait Oil Company as and case studies. He elaborated the need for identify the requirements and implementing bution of Participation Certificates to the par- the participants. He briefed about the signifi- Safety Specialist. He has more than 25 years’ developing a Project Specific HSE Plan for the the safe work practices through simple pow- ticipants. Delicious lunch Sponsored by ASSE cance of the training seminar and the impor- experience in downstream and midstream Oil contract, its requirements at different stages er point presentation and videos and sample - Kuwait Chapter served at the end of the ses- tance of conducting such seminars for the & Gas industry. His specific skill areas include of the project, approach to develop the HSE HSE plans. sion. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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Aries (March 21-April 19)

A lack of time to pursue your spiritual and intellectual interests could weigh on your mind today, Aries. Gloom might descend on you, as if responsibilities of the moment are too much for you. Try to be the observ- er. If a friend came to you for advice with your problem, what would you say? Take your own advice. You might also want to consider streamlining your activities.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

An unexpected setback could interfere with reaching a long- term goal as soon as you'd hoped. Don't let it get you down, Taurus. A little innovative thought and extra planning could get you back on track. This is a day best spent alone, working on projects of your own. You're likely to be restless in the company of others. On the upside, good money news could just about make your day!

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Your partner's family obligations could interfere with things you wanted to do together, Gemini. Your desire to help could also get in the way of other responsibilities. The best way to handle days like today is to plan carefully. There's always a way to squeeze it all in. This may be what you have to do. ACROSS 5. Reduce in scope while retaining essential ele- 1. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kid- ments. neys containing many cysts. 6. Soviet physicist who worked on low tempera- 4. Possible to sell. ture physics (1908-1968). 12. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of 7. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west. 8. A highly unstable radioactive element (the 15. Towards the side away from the wind. heaviest of the halogen series). A delay in receiving a communication from a distant place Yesterday’s Solution could prove frustrating today, Cancer. You may be looking forward to a 16. A building where animals are butchered. 9. indicate by signs. vacation, but responsibilities that suddenly crop up could postpone the 17. (Irish) The sea personified. 10. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved trip. This probably won't be necessary, but some adjustments need to be 18. Wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi. to cover or open the eye. made before you can both do what you want and fulfill your responsibili- 20. A doctor's degree in religion. 11. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth ties, too. 22. Designed to reduce or prevent skidding. group. 25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 12. A cloth having a crisscross design. Chad. 13. Used of the language of the deaf. Leo (July 23-August 22) 28. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of 14. A tall perennial woody plant having a main Tiamat. trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated Frustration could be the word for today. If you've made plans 31. (heraldry) Looking forward. crown. to meet a close friend or lover, Leo, don't count on it happening. 35. A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi. 19. A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Unexpected events might force a postponement. Problems with schedules 37. 1 species. 21. A musical composition for voices and orches- could have you playing phone tag. This also isn't a good day to work on creative or artistic projects. The results you want could prove elusive. 39. A unit of pressure. tra based on a religious text. Spend the day reading! 41. A fee charged for exchanging currencies. 23. Of or relating to the wrist. 42. A mountainous landlocked communist state in 24. Large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its southeastern Asia. large oval smooth-skinned fruit. 46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali Virgo (August 23-September 22) 47. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short earth group. wedge-shaped white tail. 27. A Loloish language. Upsets and disappointments on the part of a family member 48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle 29. A explosive device used to break down a gate could have the household in an uproar. Problems with household equip- where driver sits. or wall. ment could throw a monkey wrench into everyone's routine. On days like 50. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic informa- 30. One of the twelve Apostles (first century). this, it's best for everyone to get out and distract themselves. Movies, tion from DNA to the cytoplasm. 32. Resembling a dog. sporting events, and museums can help relieve the stress. 51. A public promotion of some product or serv- 33. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is ice. attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered. 52. Small beads made from polished shells and 34. English monk and scholar (672-735). formerly used as money by native Americans. 36. A radioactive element of the actinide series. 58. A midwestern state on the Great Plains. 38. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Libra (September 23-October 22) 61. The largest city of Cameroon. Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh). 64. A young woman making her debut into socie- 40. God of wealth and love. Today you may need to contact a lot of people, Libra, but the ty. 43. A shade of brown with a tinge of red. process could be frustrating. People may not be home, messages might 65. The atomic weight of an element that has the 44. Capable of being scaled. not be delivered, or your equipment might not work properly. Unless it's same combining capacity as a given weight of 45. The blood group whose red cells carry both urgent, it might be better to wait until tomorrow to try to reach them. You another element. the A and B antigens. could end up too stressed otherwise. 66. An extension at the end and at right angles to 49. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe the main building. on the western side of the Scandinavian Daily SuDoku 67. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria. Peninsula. 70. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puff- 53. A member of one of the four divisions of the Scorpio (October 23-November 21) ball or stinkhorn. prehistoric Greeks. 72. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria. 54. The capital of Turkey. Conflict over money could get in the way of your usual cordial 73. A republic in northwestern Africa on the 55. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by relationships, Scorpio. Attention to the household budget is definitely Mediterranean Sea. behavioral and learning disorders. needed. Unexpected events may require some immediate purchases that 75. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia 56. 1 species. you hadn't planned on. They might require some scrimping, but you should be able to minimize the need if you plan carefully. Don't make or North Africa. 57. External parts of the female genitalia. yourself crazy over anything today. You will get through it! 76. A plant hormone promoting elongation of 59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a stems and roots. skewer usually with vegetables. 77. A baby from birth to four weeks. 60. Jordan's port. 78. A small cake leavened with yeast. 62. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one- Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) seeded fruits. DOWN 63. Chief port of Yemen. Your mother and father, or a couple you're particularly close to, 1. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be 68. Gone by. could visit you today, Sagittarius. Plan some distractions like movies or accomplished. 69. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square videos, or invite some other people over. Talking with this couple alone might result in heated discussions that accomplish nothing but get every- 2. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and meter measured perpendicular to the rays from one worked up and stressed. Whatever happens, don't let it get you down. random and players cover the corresponding the source. Everyone should feel better tomorrow. numbers on their cards. 71. A period marked by distinctive character or 3. An administrator in charge of a division of a uni- reckoned from a fixed point or event. versity or college. 74. The branch of engineering science that studies 4. A member of the Algonquian people living in the uses of electricity and the equipment for pow- Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of er generation and distribution and the control of Green Bay. machines and communication. This isn't a good day to go out, Capricorn. Traffic is probably awful. Don't trust any gossip that comes your way! It's probably passed Yesterday’s Solution through at least half a dozen people and retains little, if any, of the facts. Someone might be passing along rumors for their own reasons, so believe Yesterday’s Solution nothing you hear without checking it out.

Aquarius (January 20- February 18)

Some unusual events could cause you to feel discontented from your life and contemplate some big changes, Aquarius. Money mat- ters might need attention and could prove frustrating. Outrageous ideas for improving your financial status could come to mind. Make a list of options, then wait a few days before making serious plans. This isn't the day to start anything new.

Pisces (February 19-March 20)

Recent activities have suddenly made you bored with your job and the people you deal with. You may feel restless and contemplate changes to your professional life, Pisces. This could be appropriate now, but it might not. It's best to look at your options logically and practically. Don't be afraid to ask family and friends for their opinions. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 information

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Features Box Office: ‘Tomorrowland’ stumbles to $41.7 million in slow Memorial Day weekend summer box office that was hurtling towards “Tomorrowland,” which starred George Clooney and was $26.5 million across 3,240 screens. The haunted house record breaking numbers hit its first speed bump directed by Brad Bird, will result in a write-down for the film carried an economical $35 million to produce. Athis Memorial Day after “Tomorrowland” landed studio. In the absence of a Memorial Day juggernaut, There was some good news for Disney. Fifth place fin- with more of a whimper than a bang. The Disney adven- Universal’s “Pitch Perfect 2” continued to draw crowds, isher “Avengers: Age of Ultron” crossed the $400 million ture film debuted to a disappointing $41.7 million across picking up an estimated $38.5 million over the four-day mark domestically, after bringing in $27.8 million over 3,972 theaters, less than the $50 million it was projected period. The a cappella comedy has earned $126 million the holiday weekend. Globally, the superhero adventure to make over the four-day weekend. Even if it had hit in its first two weeks in the theaters. has made more than $1.1 billion. Overall box office num- those estimates, “Tomorrowland” faced an uphill climb if “Mad Max: Fury Road” also showed some staying bers were not immediately available, but they will likely it hoped to make back its $180 million production budg- power, dropping 45% in its sophmore weekend and be down sharply from last year when “X-Men: Days of et plus tens of millions more spent hawking and distrib- earning $32.1 million over the four-day holiday. The Future Past” debuted to a massive $110.6 million, the uting the fantasy film. Warner Bros. release has earned $95.5 million domesti- sixth biggest Memorial Day opening in history. In con- More troubling, foreign numbers for the film were cally-a respectable figure, but one that will have to rise trast, “Tomrrowland’s” debut ranks 22nd on the all-time lackluster. The picture brought in $26.7 million through higher if the studio wants to recoup the $150 million it list of Memorial Day bows. — Reuters Sunday, from 56 percent of the international market- says it spent making the picture. Fourth place went to place. There are still several major territories left to open “Poltergeist,” a remake of the 1982 horror classic from such as China and Japan, but it seems likely that Fox and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer that brought in a solid

US actor George Clooney and his wife Amal pose for photographers at a photo (From right) US movie star George Clooney, Japanese actress Mirai Shida, US actress Britt Robertson, British actress Raffey Cassidy and US film director Brad Bird smile call for Disney’s latest film Tomorrowland in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP photos at the Japan premiere of their latest movie ‘Tomorrowland’ in Tokyo yesterday. Clooney and casts are here for the Japanese premiere of their new film ‘Tomorrowland’, a retro-futuristic spectacle mixing environmental themes with sci-fi wizardry. — AFP It’s a China office block, Jim, but not as we know it!

Chinese millionaire and self-confessed Star Trek fan has NetDragon told reporters that the building is called boldly gone where no man has gone before with the ‘Enterprise’,” the report added. “It is understood that Adesign of his company headquarters, erected in the NetDragon chairman Liu Dejian, himself a Star Trek fan, shape of the USS Enterprise. The office block in the eastern bought the USS Enterprise copyright from CBS,” it said, refer- city of Fuzhou has the emblematic circular contours and tubu- ring to the US broadcaster. The USS Enterprise explored lar features of the show’s spaceship, according to images on strange new worlds and sought out new life and new civiliza- the website of the People’s Daily newspaper. tions in death-defying odysseys in the Star Trek television It was built by “Trekkie” Liu Dejian, the boss of mobile series and films.— AFP Internet app developer NetDragon Websoft, at a cost of $160 million, the newspaper said. “An informed source at

The NetDragon Websoft headquarters building with the iconic circular contours and tubular features of the USS Enterprise, from the US television and film series Star Trek, in Fuzhou, in eastern Chinaís Fujian province. — AFP Actress and comedian Anne Meara, mother of Ben Stiller, dies at 85 nne Meara, the Emmy- and Tony-nominated comedian episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street,” in which she played a Meara and sister Amy both had roles, but Jerry was unaccount- ments in an Off Broadway staging of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” long paired personally and professionally with Jerry Stiller schoolteacher in a very tense hostage situation, drawing her ably absent except in the credits, where he was thanked. The the Nora and Delia Ephron play based on Ilene Beckerman’s book. Aand the mother of actor-director Ben Stiller, died Saturday, fourth Emmy nomination. In 1984 Meara shared a Writers Guild Stiller family frequently appeared in the same movies even when The actress made her screen debut in 1954 on NBC series “The her husband and son told the Associated Press. She was 85. No Award for penning the telepic “The Other Woman,” in which Hal Ben wasn’t directing. Meara had a small role in the Shawn Levy- Greatest Gift.” She also appeared on an Arthur Penn-directed “The further details have been revealed. A statement released to the AP Linden played a widower who toys with the notion of romance directed hit “Night at the Museum,” starring Ben. Jerry was the star Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse” adaptation of Robert Alan said Jerry Stiller was Meara’s “husband and partner in life.” “The with his daughter’s sexy roommate but ultimately finds love with of 2000 mockumentary “The Independent,” in which he played Arthur’s “Man on the Mountaintop” and, in 1959, in an ABC adap- two were married for 61 years and worked together almost as a woman played by Meara. Morty Fineman, a director of comically bizarre exploitation films tation of “Ninotchka” that starred Maria Schell. long,” the statement said. Stiller and Meara were a top comedy act with a message such as 1969’s “Groovy Hippie Slumber Party,” in the 1960s, appearing on “The Ed Sullivan Show” some 36 times. Powerful guest performances “Kent State Nurses” and-taking credit for the use of Roman numer- Emmy nominations Meara and Stiller were members of the improv group the Meara recurred as Mary Finnegan (the mother of Doug’s nerdy als in film titles-war epic “World War III II.” Even in this low-profile, In the brief 1964 animated series “Linus! The Lion Hearted,” Compass Players, which later became Second City. friend Spence, played by Patton Oswalt) on “The King of Queens,” low-budget film, Ben Stiller, Amy Stiller and Meara supported the Stiller & Meara were credited for three episodes. She Although Meara had converted to Judaism when the couple where Stiller was a series regular from 1998-2007 as the much- effort with cameos. appeared in a 1971 TV adaptation of the musical “Dames at Sea,” got married, Stiller & Meara’s material centered on the differ- married Arthur Spooner, the father of Leah Remini’s Carrie starring Ann-Margret. Meara also starred in her own, brief NBC ences in their ethnic backgrounds, epitomized by their signature Heffernan; in the final season of the series, the two characters Screen debut series, “Kate McShane,” in which she played an attorney who “Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle” routines. In 2010 the married. The actress recurred on “Sex and the City” as the mother Similarly, in the much-earlier horror film “Highway to Hell” solves mysteries, in 1975 — drawing her first Emmy nomination, couple had their own Yahoo comedy series, “Stiller & Meara,” of bartender Steve Brady and guested on “Will & Grace” in (1991), Jerry Stiller, Meara, as well as Ben and Amy, all had roles. In for lead actress in a drama. She was a series regular on “Archie produced in part by son Ben. 2001. “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” afforded Meara the 1998’s “Southie,” starring Donnie Wahlberg in the story of hoods in Bunker’s Place,” from 1979-82, as Veronica Rooney, the bar’s wise- opportunity to give two powerful guest performances. In 2004 Boston’s famous working-class Irish neighborhood, Meara played cracking, alcoholic chef-picking up her second and third Emmy Bravura performance she played the mother of a serial killer who, with anguish, helps the Wahlberg character’s ailing mother “with warm grit,” according nominations, for supporting actress in a comedy, in 1981 and But Meara was also a serious dramatic actress who received a the police apprehend her son before he can kill again; in a 2012 to the Boston Phoenix. Meara was born in Brooklyn to parents of 1982. She recurred on the brief ABC series “The Corner Bar” in 1993 Tony nomination for best featured actress in a play for her episode she played the mother of a prostitute (played by Patricia Irish descent. She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich 1972-73 as well as on “Rhoda” as one of the title character’s friends, work in a production of Eugene O’Neill’s harrowing “Anna Christie” Arquette) who’s involved with an armed and dangerous man and Village; decades later she would teach a course there herself. Sally Gallagher or “Big Sally,” a divorced flight attendant. (Jerry that starred Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson-and she also then goes missing. The young actress won an Obie for the 1955 Off Broadway Stiller appeared on one episode as her ex.) Later, in 1987-89, she penned a couple of plays that made it to Off Broadway. She was On HBO’s “Oz” Meara played the religious aunt of the impris- production “Madchen in Uniform.” She made her Broadway debut recurred on NBC’s “ALF” as the mother of series star Anne also well known for recurring on daytime soap “All My Children” oned O’Reily brothers in episodes in 1999 and 2002. Meara also in 1956 in a Michael Redgrave-directed revival of Turgenev’s “A Schedeen’s character. Meara was also busy in the 1970s guesting from 1993-98 as Peggy Moody; for her work on “Archie Bunker’s had a long career in movies, both with her family and without. Month in the Country.” The same year she appeared in a revival of on the likes of “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” “The Paul Lynde Place,” for which she received two of her four Emmy nominations; Stiller and Meara starred in Joan Micklin Silver’s 1999 feature “A Brecht’s “The Good Woman of Setzuan” that also featured Jerry Show,” “Love, American Style” and Medical Center.” The couple shot and for her bravura performance as the indefatigable suburban Fish in the Bathtub,” about a couple who have been bickering for Stiller in a small role. In 1957 she appeared in the original drama (and penned) a pilot, “The Stiller & Meara Show,” in 1986, but mother in Greg Mottola’s 1997 indie film “The Daytrippers,” in decades, finally prompting the wife to move in with their son, “Miss Lonelyhearts.” After an absence of 31 years, she returned to it was not picked up to series. which Hope Davis plays a woman who can’t get her husband, played by Mark Ruffalo. She appeared in 1990’s “Awakenings,” star- Broadway in 1988 in Richard Greenberg’s “Eastern Standard” Meara’s early feature work included roles in Arthur Hiller’s who’s in Manhattan, on the phone, whereupon her mother, ring Robin Williams, as one of the patients. The hit 2001 comedy before taking on “Anna Christie” in 1993. adaptation of Neil Simon’s “The Out of Towners” and Joseph played by Meara, puts the suburban family in the station wagon “Zoolander,” directed by and starring Ben Stiller as the air-headed Meara wrote and starred in the hit Off Broadway play Bologna and Renee Taylor’s adaptation of their own play “Lovers to begin an antic search for him in the city. model of the title, was a true family affair, with father Jerry playing “Afterplay” (1995), which also starred, at various times, Jerry Stiller, and Other Strangers,” both in 1970; in 1977’s Nasty Habits,” a satire Roger Ebert said: Meara is “almost by definition, superb at her Zoolander’s manager, Maury Ballstein. Ben’s wife Christine Taylor Rita Moreno, Rue McClanahan and Barbara Barrie. Meara also of Watergate applied to the politics of a convent, both Meara and assignment here, which is to create an insufferable mother. The played a Time magazine reporter; while Anne Meara and Ben’s sis- wrote “Down the Garden Paths,” which played Off Broadway in Stiller appeared, with the New York Times applauding Meara’s film’s problem is that she does it so well.” Also in 1997 Meara gave ter Amy appeared in cameos. 2000 and starred Jerry Stiller, daughter Amy Stiller and Eli Wallach. efforts as the “Gerald Ford of Crewe Abbey.” —Reuters a memorable performance on the smallscreen, on a two-part In Ben’s first feature directorial effort, 1994’s “Reality Bites,” In 2011 Meara and Conchata Farrell were brought in as replace-

In these file photos Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara arrive at the premiere of “I Love You, Man” in Los Angeles (left); pose on the set of “The King of Queens,” at Sony Studio in Culver An Oct 7, 2008, file photo, from left, Actors Anne Meara, City, Calif; and appear with host Ed Sullivan. Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor and Jerry Stiller attend the 11th Annual Project A.L.S. ‘Tomorrow is Tonight’ benefit gala in New York. — AP/AFP photos lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Features In Sweden, even the clergy have their stylist

n a small beige building in a leafy Stockholm sub- born. It is now regularly updated, with changes my clothes, to feel confident and be able to focus on urb, Maria Sjodin bustles around her design stu- made to sleeves or using new materials. Her first my message,” explains Elin Hyldeen Gartner, who Idio putting the finishing touches on her sleek client showed her new top to her colleagues and has worn Casual Priest garments for more than 10 fashions for an unexpected clientele: female clergy. sales took off, first in Sweden and Norway before years. One of the pioneers in the industry, Sjodin creates spreading to the Anglo-Saxon world. “The first top, “I transmit a feeling of being a modern pastor in sophisticated, tailored garments for women pastors EVA, is still the best-selling item,” Sjodin says with a a modern society,” adds Sjodin. In most of the and ministers that feature a discreet flair: form-fit- smile. Some men even contacted her to have world’s Protestant churches, women can be ting black tops and dresses with three-quarter or clothes made for them, and she now offers a small ordained as pastors or ministers. There are 2,086 in trumpet sleeves, or a pronounced architectural cuff. men’s collection as well. Sjodin’s collection is avail- Sweden, compared to 2,187 male pastors, and “My creations are made and designed with women able online, where young, hip and slender models they’re heading for equality: in 2015, 23 women will in mind,” says the 46-year-old designer, all clad in pose in her designs, putting to rest any thoughts of be ordained compared to just 11 men. Protestants black as she shows off her collection. austere or frumpy pastors. generally consider a pastor to be a religious expert, a Her clients couldn’t agree more. “The other theologist who has studied in preparation for a clothes (available for female pastors) are clothes for ‘Comfortable yet professional’ career in the Church, and not a calling like in the men, badly cut for women,” says Beatrice Lonnquist, “It looks comfortable yet professional. It cele- Catholic Church, which does not ordain women a pastor from Stockholm. Sjodin’s Casual Priest col- brates the curves of a woman without making her priests. lection consists of garments for clergy to wear in look provocative,” says one user in a comment on Today, Sjodin has some 4,000 clients around the their daily work-mostly tops and dresses-but not the company’s website. “With their clothes, pastors world, and she spends her days designing and sell- vestments (the liturgical robes worn for services). want to show that they’re human beings just like ing her collection. “We meet with clients, we pack- Most of the items are black, although some are you and me. They don’t want to create distance, but age, we send things with care,” she says, adding that available in various colors depending on the posi- rather proximity,” explains Asa Haggren, a lecturer at she tries to maintain special contacts with her tion held by the wearer. For example, green tops and the Swedish School of Textiles. Sjodin says she clients. Sjodin still designs all the clothes herself, dresses are reserved for deacons in Sweden’s encountered some sceptics early on, but time has assisted by two seamstresses. Most of the collection Lutheran Church. Sjodin had her design epiphany in proven them wrong. “It was the right time... I made is made in a factory in Portugal, and part of it will 2002, when she discovered there were no clothes something that really filled a need,” she says. soon be produced in Italy. — AFP made especially for women clergy members. “I don’t Sjodin never mentions her clients’ vanity-and not come from a religious background. I met a young just because her clientele is not meant to succumb woman who was a pastor who told me there were to such mundane thoughts. “In fashion, it’s often few clothes made for women ministers, and there about creating a need. Here there was a need to be was nothing she felt good in,” Sjodin recalls. filled, it makes a lot of sense,” she insists. “I represent Swedish fashion designer, Maria Sjoedin, So the designer set to work and made her a tee- the Church (of Sweden) and I pass on the message working in her studio on the Casual Priest shirt with a pastor’s collar, and her collection was of Christ. When I do it, I want to be comfortable in clothes line. — AFP Rolling Stones kicks off ‘Zip Code’ stadium tour in San Diego he Rolling Stones launched their “Zip Code” North American tour in San Diego Sunday with more than Ttwo hours of music. In front of a sold-out crowd at the Petco Park stadium, the stalwart foursome rocked hit after hit from their 50-year catalog. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts opened with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” before Show opener Gary Clark Jr joined them for “Bitch” from the band’s “Sticky Fingers” album, which is being reissued this week. A long catwalk extending from the stage allowed Jagger to dance, run and skip into the center of the crowd. At one point, he ran full-speed down the catwalk and across the stage. Songs in the high-energy set included Mutlu Kaya “Honky-Tonk Women,” “Midnight Rambler,” “Gimme Shelter” and “Sympathy for the Devil.” The chamber choir from California State University, Long Beach, joined the band onstage for “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” The Turkey teen singer still band closed with “Satisfaction,” for which Jagger donned Mick Jagger performs at The RollingStones Zip Code red glittery tuxedo tails. The tour next moves to Ohio.—AP Tour. in coma a week after shooting teenage Turkish woman who was competing in a Kaya’s health is being closely watched in Turkey amid sug- nationwide televised song contest is still in a coma one gestions that the shooting was an act of revenge for her dar- Aweek after being shot in the head in an attack that ing to appear in the song contest. Her performance on “Sesi shocked the country, doctors said yesterday. Mutlu Kaya, 19, Cok Guzel”-which moved Can and Kaya’s mother to tears-one who had previously received death threats for appearing in month before the attack has now taken an almost unbearable the show, was shot in the head at her home in the southeast- poignancy, and has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times on ern region of Diyarbakir in the early hours of May 18. Only the YouTube. The Hurriyet daily yesterday published footage of scarcest details have since been released about her condition Kaya-whose first name means ‘happy’-dancing with her family but doctors yesterday scotched hopes that she was coming at a wedding just days before she was shot. out of her coma. “There is no change in her overall situation. A former boyfriend, identified as Veysel Ercan, 26, has been Her vital signs are stable. remanded in custody and charged with attempted murder. She is on a ventilator and being monitored,” the Diyarbakir The Kurdish majority southeast of Turkey is known for its hospital where she is being treated said in a statement quoted strongly conservative values, with women expected to per- by the Dogan news agency. “Although she has been taken off form a traditional role. The main pro-Kurdish party, the sedation medication, she remains unconscious,” it added. The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) prides itself on progressive statement, without giving further details, also noted she had attitudes towards women, even to the extent of jointly shar- opened her eyes and taken breaths without the aid of the ing its chairmanship between a man and a woman. But that ventilator for the first time since the attack. Kaya had been party practice is not always consistent with attitudes in the appearing on the show “Sesi Cok Guzel,” similar to “Britain’s region’s society, which is still bedeviled by regular violence Got Talent,” on the Turkish private channel Fox. She had been against women, often from their husbands. — AFP mentored by Sibel Can, one of Turkey’s best known folk pop Ronnie Wood, from left, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts perform at The Rolling†Stones Zip Code Tour opening singers who has been a household name for decades. night at Petco Park on Sunday in San Diego. — AP photos Zimbabwe’s comedians draw tears of laughter in troubled times ith Zimbabwe’s economy on its knees and life a daily scope, Mpofu dishes out what he calls “doses” of humor to audi- Comedy fan and regular showgoer Enright Tsambo agreed, while of a woman facing charges of insulting Mugabe after she sent a struggle for most people, there is one luxury that many ences sick of hard times after 15 years of economic decline noting that the drinking part of a night out was seriously limited picture on WhatsApp purportedly showing the president in the Wcan surprisingly still afford-laughter. “We laugh at our- blamed on the policies of Mugabe’s government. by a lack of cash. “We can’t afford to drink as much as possible so nude, and a man who was arrested for joking that Mugabe was so selves. We laugh at funerals. We laugh even when things are not The “Doctor” has his audience in tears of laughter as he imi- some of us just buy one drink and spend an evening laughing at a old he would have a hard-time blowing up his birthday balloons going well for us and we should be moaning and groaning,” says tates the 91-year-old president announcing the list of countries he comedy show,” he said. “It takes the stress away.” In a country during national celebrations earlier this year. award-winning dramatist and poet Chirikure Chirikure. Out of dif- has just visited on one of his frequent trips abroad-while the gov- where insulting the president is a crime punishable by up to a Mpofu’s colleague Samm Monro, better known by his stage ficult times, with unemployment rampant and poverty wide- ernment can’t find the money to pay civil servants’ salaries. He also year in prison, the comedians have found a way of tackling serious name Comrade Fatso, pokes fun at the internal feuding which has spread, a new generation of comedians has emerged to give the takes a dig at Mugabe’s 35 years in office. “Zimbabweans, for all issues without making direct statements, so they get away with seen factions in Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party waging bitter fights stressed nation’s funny-bone a much-needed tickle. Simuka our literacy-with a 99.9995 percent literacy rate we are the only jokes that could get ordinary citizens arrested. among themselves in the race to succeed him. “ZANU-PF is the biggest opposition to ZANU-PF and now what is (opposition leader) Morgan Tsvangirai supposed to do?” Monro queried in one of his sold-out acts at the recent Harare International Arts Festival. The University of Zimbabwe also came in for ribbing as the record holder for the fastest conferment of a doctorate-after Mugabe’s wife Grace was awarded a PhD three months after registering. Monro is also among newscasters on the satirical Zambezi News, which parodies the state broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, renowned for its pro-government spin. Zambezi News bulletins, shown online on YouTube and on stage, feature characters such as the Minister of Impending Projects and the Minister of Mines, who owns a mine called Mine Mine- ”because it’s mine”. In the news bulletins white farmers whose properties were expropriated during the country’s controversial land reforms-partly blamed for the country’s economic collapse- are called “formers or farmers because most of them are former farmers”. One of the country’s top production houses has produced a play, All Systems Out of Order, portraying the collapse of ameni- ties such as public toilets as a symbol of the state of the country. “There is so much pain, and people find solace in looking at them- selves and laughing at themselves,” said theatre producer and Zimbabwean artist Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala perfoming in the play ‘The Crossing’ during Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA).— AFP photos actor Obrien Mudyiwenyama. — AFP Comedy-made up of Victor Mpofu, better known by his stage country that will fail to answer a simple question: who is your for- ‘So much pain’ name Doc Vikela or simply The Doctor, Michael Kudakwashe, mer president?” For many, Mugabe, who has been in power since Away from the comedy venues, Zimbabweans share jokes Samm Monro and Comic King attract full houses to their regular independence in 1980, is the only leader they have known. across social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp and through shows at The Book Cafe, a popular arts joint in the capital Harare. Explaining the growing popularity of their shows, Mpofu said street theatre shows-and some of them have landed in trouble. The young comics spare no sacred cows as they poke fun at relentless hard times made people look for comic relief. “Humor is “We have had several cases where people have been prosecuted anyone from veteran President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace a medically proven stress reliever,” he said. “Things are tight and for freely expressing themselves and in most cases they will just to corrupt traffic police officers, former white commercial farmers people need something to take the stress off their lives. People be sharing or cracking a joke,” said Kumbirai Mafunda, spokesman and local celebrities. Donning a doctor’s white coat and stetho- would rather spend their little cash laughing and drinking.” for Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. He cited the examples lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Awards

French director Jacques Audiard poses with his prize during a photocall after he was awarded with the Palme dí’Or for his film ‘Dheepan’ Director Jacques Audiard, left, delivers a speech after he was presented the Palme d’Or award for his during the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France. — AFP photos film Dheepan.

French immigration thriller bags Cannes Palme d’Or

French thriller spotlighting the plight of traumatized refugees building new lives, “Dheepan”, captured the ACannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or top prize on Sunday. As countries around the world grapple with an influx of peo- ple fleeing crises, a jury led by American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen chose the gritty picture about Sri Lankan asylum- seekers by acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard from a field of 19 international contenders. “To receive a prize from the Coen brothers is something pretty exceptional,” Audiard said after a victory that surprised many critics at cinema’s top showcase. The harrowing Holocaust drama “Son of Saul” by Hungarian newcomer Laszlo Nemes, offering unflinching depictions of the gas cham- bers of Auschwitz, claimed the runner-up Grand Prize.”Europe is still haunted by the destruction of the European Jews,” Nemes said. “I wanted to approach this history in a different way” to reach a younger generation, he said.

Surprise best actress win Director Jacques Audiard, center, holds the Palme d’Or award for his film “The Lobster”, a surreal black comedy about modern love Dheepan, alongside actress Emmanuelle Bercot holding the Best Actress by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Colin Farrell and award for the film Mon Roi, left, and actor Vincent Lindon with the Best Rachel Weisz, bagged the third-place Jury Prize. The best Actor award for the film The Measure of a Man. director honor went to Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-Hsien for the lush, slow-burn martial arts film “The Assassin”. In one of the night’s biggest upsets, the nine-member panel handed the best- actress trophy to two winners. Rooney Mara, paired in the American lesbian love story “Carol” with more hotly tipped co- French director Jacques Audiard poses on stage with US directors and Presidents of the Feature Film star Cate Blanchett, split the prize with France’s Emmanuelle jury Joel and Ethan Coen, Sri Lankan actress Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Sri Lankan actor Jesuthasan Bercot, in the doomed romance “Mon Roi” (My King). Antonythasan and Belgian actress Cecile de France after being awarded with the Palme d’Or for his film Mara did not attend the ceremony, leaving her director “Dheepan”. Todd Haynes to pick up her trophy. Bercot also opened the Cannes fest with a film she directed, “Standing Tall”. In a big woman and a nine-year-old girl-pretend to be a family to get night for the host country, France’s Vincent Lindon won best to France on fake passports. actor for his moving turn as a job-seeker trying to preserve his Once they arrive in a rough housing estate on the outskirts dignity in “The Measure of a Man”. French Prime Minister of Paris, the makeshift family bonds and Dheepan must use Manuel Valls hailed the homegrown winners in a tweet: his battlefield experience to keep the three of them safe from “French cinema shines tonight in Cannes and out into the drug gangs. Anthonythasan himself fought for the Tamil world”. President Francois Hollande’s office praised “Dheepan” Tigers from the age of 16 before making it in 1993 on a fake for “dealing with virtuosity with the painful subject of Tamils papers to France, where he was granted political asylum. looking to build a future in Europe”. Mexican director Michel Audiard told reporters during the festival that he “couldn’t Franco clinched best screenplay for “Chronic” starring British have placed Sri Lanka on a map” when he began the project. actor Tim Roth as a nurse caring for dying patients. On Sunday, he said he started working on the picture long before the current refugee crisis in Europe in which more than ‘Strangers in foreign land’ 1,700 people are estimated to have drowned in the However, critic Peter Bradshaw of London’s The Guardian Mediterranean this year. “What interested me was the position expressed disappointment at the choice of “Dheepan”, saying of someone different in society. These people who sell roses to Director Yorgos Lanthimos holds the Jury Prize award for the film The it was more of a lifetime achievement award for Audiard, a us when were sitting in a cafe, where they come from,” he said. Lobster as he poses for photographers with actor John C Reilly. Cannes favorite. The “brilliant director... had actually given us “If it helps the situation, then so much the better.” Actor Jake something less than his very best work,” Bradshaw said of Gyllenhaal later said he was one of the film’s biggest champi- Audiard, whose movies include “A Prophet” and “Rust and ons on the jury. “Over the course of two hours we watch three Bone”. Joel Coen indicated that the jury had been divided. “To strangers forced to travel to a foreign land essentially learn to some degree or another we all thought it was a very beautiful love each other, which is something I’ve never really seen movie,” he told reporters. “We’re different people, some peo- done in the way it is in that film,” he said.—AFP ple had greater enthusiasms for other things or lesser, but in terms of this movie, everybody had... some high level of excitement and enthusiasm for it.” In “Dheepan”, novelist and former child soldier Anthonythasan Jesuthasan plays an ex-Tamil Tiger fighter Director Agnes Varda holds the Honorary escaping Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war. He and two strangers-a Palme díOr award.

Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien holds the Best Director award for the film The Assassin.

Director Laszlo Nemes holds the Grand Prix award for the film Son of Saul.

Lebanese director Ely Dagher poses with his prize during a photocall after he Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes celebrates with French was awarded with the Short screenwriter Clara Royer, Hungarian cinematographer Actor Tim Roth, right, embraces director Michel Franco as he holds the Best Film prize. Matyas Erdely and Hungarian actor Geza Rohrig after Screenplay award for the film Chronic. being awarded with the Grand Jury Prize. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Awards

French director Jacques Audiard poses on stage with Feature Film jury members and laureates.

Actor Vincent Lindon gestures as he receives the Best Actor award for the film Director Cesar Augusto Acevedo, center, holds Camera díOr award which was pre- Actress Emmanuelle Bercot, left, holds the Best Actress award for the film Mon Roi The Measure of a Man. sented to him by actor John C. Reilly, right, and actress Sabine Azema. alongside director Maiwenn.

(From left) US directors and Presidents of the Feature Film jury Joel Coen and Ethan Coen and jury members French actress (From left) Jury members Sophie Marceau, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joel Coen, Sienna Miller, Xavier Dolan, Rossy de Palma, Guillermo Sophie Marceau, Canadian director Xavier Dolan, Malian singer songwriter Rokia Traore, US actor Jake Gyllenhaal, British Del Toro, Rokia Traore and jury president Ethan Coen pose for photographers upon arrival for the awards ceremony. actress Sienna Miller, Spanish actress Rossy de Palma and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro attend the closing ceremony of the 68th Cannes .

French glaciologist and actor Claude Lorius gestures next to French director Luc Jacquet US actor John C Reilly performs during the closing ceremony of (From left) jury president Ethan Coen, jury members Jake Gyllenhaal, Rokia Traore, Rossy de pose as they arrive for the screening of the film “La Glace et le Ciel” (Ice and the Sky). the 68th Cannes Film Festival. Palma and Sienna Miller pose for photographers. French immigration thriller bags Cannes 38Palme d’Or TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015

Fashion highlights from the 68th Cannes international film festival

In this May 20, 2015 file photo, model Kendall Jenner poses for photographers on the red carpet at the screening of the film Youth at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. — AP/AFP photos

Jury members Xavier Dolan, left, and Sienna Emily Blunt poses for photographers as she Naomi Watts poses for photographers dur- Irina Shayk poses for photographers upon Natalie Portman, left, and actor Amir Tessler Miller pose for photographers upon arrival leaves following the screening of the film ing a photo call for the film The Sea of Trees. arrival for the screening of the film Sicario. pose for photographers during a photo call for the screening of the film Carol. Sicario. for the film A Tale of Love and Darkness.

Lebanese director and member of the Un Certain Regard jury Nadine Labaki poses as she arrives for the closing ceremony.

Model Jourdan Dunn poses for pho- In this May 20, 2015 file photo, model Lara Model Toni Garrn poses for photogra- British model Emma Miller poses as tographers upon arrival for the screen- Stone poses for photographers as she phers upon arrival for the screening of she arrives for the closing ceremony. Iranian actress Sareh Bayat poses as she arrives for the closing ceremony. ing of the film The Little Prince. arrives for the screening of the film Youth. the film The Little Prince.