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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 SHAABAN 3, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Violence flares Ruthless as Erdogan India reach cracks down Champions on protests7 Trophy18 semis Gulf to act against Max 43º Min 29º High Tide Hezbollah members 03:05 & 13:07 Measures to affect iqamas, financial transactions Low Tide 07:57 & 20:48 40 PAGES NO: 15837 150 FILS RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council said it will take measures against members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Nod to set over the Shiite movement’s military intervention against Syrian rebels. The measures will affect their “resi- dency permits, and financial and commercial transac- up telecom tions,” said a GCC statement issued late Monday, citing a ministerial council decision. The GCC statement urged commission the Lebanese government to “assume its responsibilities towards the behaviour of Hezbollah and its illegal and By B Izzak inhumane practices in Syria and the region”. The bloc strongly condemned “the flagrant intervention of KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday passed three Hezbollah in Syria” and its “participation in shedding the important legislations less than a week before the crucial blood of the Syrian people.” ruling of the constitutional court. MPs unanimously Fighters from Hezbollah openly spearheaded a 17- passed in the first reading a law to establish a Kuwait day assault on the Syrian town of Qusair near the telecom commission which will supervise the telecom- Lebanese border which culminated with its recapture munications sector in the country. The new authority will from the rebels last Wednesday. The GCC includes have powers to organize the mobile and landline phone Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the sector in addition to the Internet. United Arab Emirates. The decision is likely to stir fears The Assembly also overwhelmingly passed new among the many Shiite Lebanese who work in the Gulf amendments to the Kuwait Airways privatization law KUWAIT: Protesters set ablaze a defaced picture of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a protest in of being associated with the militant group. requiring the government to contribute to the financing front of the Lebanese Embassy yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Hezbollah’s popularity surged among Sunni Muslim of the purchase of new aircraft and to pay its accumulat- Arabs in the wake of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, ed debt between 2004 and 2012, estimated at over KD when the Shiite movement put up a strong resistance. 440 million. The new amendments also introduced a Alghanim Motors, Honda But this popularity plummeted as the Iran-backed party new article to the law to allow the government to hold a openly said it supported Syrian President Bashar Al- golden share in the new company. MPs also passed celebrate partnership Assad in his struggle to survive an uprising that began amendments to the housing welfare law to provide in March 2011 and morphed into an armed conflict. unmarried Kuwaiti women or those married to foreign- Saudi Arabia on Monday condemned Hezbollah’s “fla- ers equal rights with Kuwaiti men regarding housing Omar Kutaiba Alghanim, Chief Executive Officer Alghanim Industries, is seen address- care. The government did not vote with the law which ing the press conference held before a grand celebration that gathered 2,000 people grant intervention” in Syria. Like many Arab countries, was passed in the first and second rounds, but to become on Sunday. The event was held on the occasion of celebrating the ‘new and promising’ the kingdom has explicitly voiced support to the rebels effective, the government’s acceptance is crucial. Omar Kutaiba Alghanim partnership between the two companies. More on the event on Pages 10 and 11. in Syria. Damascus accuses Riyadh, along with Doha, of arming the rebels. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 LOCAL X-Ray exposure leads to cancer in four Sabah Hospital doctors

KUWAIT: Even as informed sources in the ble limits, besides ensuring that the room health sector made the revelation that remains closed. In the meantime, Minister three of the four doctors working with the of Health Dr Mohammad Al-Haifi ordered a radiology department in the Al-Sabah fact finding committee headed by Assistant health area were afflicted with cancer relat- Undersecretary for medical supplies Dr ed disease as a result of excessive exposure Omar Al-Syid Omer to probe into the to X-rays, and that the fourth doctor was claims made by MP Faisal Al-Kandari in still to be examined, the Ministry of Health which he talked about spurious heart sup- refuted the reports authoritatively. port accessories used for patients who Dr Hana Al-Khawari said that no X-ray underwent heart surgery at the Mubarak equipment is installed or operated without Hospital. the prior approval of X-ray protection The committee has already started its department. Personnel from this depart- meetings and begun checking everything KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday Voluntary ment inspect the room before installing the concerning heart equipments which Al- Work Center Chairperson Sheikha Amthal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and members of “Senyar 7” marine environment cam- equipment and again verify all parameters Kandari spoke about and will prepare a paign. His Highness lauded the members of the campaign for their role in the protection and safe-keep of the marine environ- after it is installed and operated. The radia- report on an urgent basis to be submitted tion is measured and kept within permissi- to the minister. ment. The meeting was attended by head of the Crown Prince Diwan Sheikh Mubarak Al-Faisal Al-Saud Al-Sabah. —KUNA Seven groups vie for expat insurance hospitals project Close contest likely at auction on July 8

KUWAIT: Seven groups applied for the purchase of expatriates under a government-supervised medical Authority, issued another tender, with new specifi- documents necessary to enter the bidding for a proj- insurance program is one of the many mega projects cations. The project’s budget dropped from KD318 ect to establish health insurance hospitals for expatri- included in Kuwait’s 5-year Development Plan. The million (for three hospitals with a total bed capacity ates in Kuwait, a local daily reported yesterday, quot- term mega project is used for those projects that of 1,600) to KD230 million (for three hospitals with a ing sources familiar with the subject. require capital of more than KD100 million. The total bed capacity of 230). Moreover, the new ten- The sources, who spoke to Al-Qabas on the condi- health insurance hospitals project involves building der was opened to both local and foreign investors, tion of anonymity, said the seven groups were KIPCO, three hospitals that will provide comprehensive while the earlier one was only for local Agility, National Real Estate Company, Arabi Holding medical services to Kuwait’s expatriate community, companies.Despite that, only local companies Group, Yiaco Medical Company (KFH Group), Jiblah as part of the government’s efforts to reduce the expressed interest to invest in 26 percent of stocks Holding Company (Al-Sayer Group), and Al-Essa pressure on the currently overcrowded public med- in the shareholding company that will be estab- Audience during the lecture at DDI Medical Equipment Company. The groups are set to ical facilities. lished to build the hospitals. The government will contest an auction on July 8, in which, it is believed, When strategic investors showed no interest own 24 percent of the stocks, and the remaining 50 “coalitions and withdrawals” might happen. after the project was first put out to tender, the gov- percent will be offered to the public through an ini- The project to establish hospitals exclusively for ernment, represented by the Kuwait Investment tial public offering. ‘Health Effects of VIVA extends support Desert Dust Storms’ KUWAIT: Dr Douglas W Dockery, Professor to the Amiri Hospital of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health presented a lecture KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-grow- and are offered devices that provide titled “Health Effects of Desert Dust Storms” ing telecom operator, continues to comfort. VIVA will continue to find dif- yesterday at Dasman Diabetes Institute. extend its support to the development ferent ways to help enhance the over- This lecture was organized in collabora- of the Kuwait health sector, as it makes all health services in Kuwait and work tion with Harvard School of Public Health a contribution to supply the Amiri towards a more prosperous one.” and Dasman Diabetes Institute to further Hospital with more than 200 new This initiative comes in line with shed light on dust storms in the area. Dr. medical chairs. VIVA’s mission to lend a helping hand Dockery reiterated in his lecture “These The Amiri Hospital Manager Dr to Kuwait’s health sector and assist in storms cause economic disruption, and Afrah Al-Saraf, paid a visit to the VIVA the development of its facilities, anecdotally are associated with asthma Dr Kazem Behbehani, Director General headquarters and was welcomed by through equipping them with the attacks and other exacerbations of respirato- of DDI and Dr. Douglas Dockery from ry conditions. Episodes of elevated particu- the Chief Executive Officer at VIVA required devices to offer a more com- Harvard Eng. Salman Al Badran, to express her prehensive service to the patients. late air pollution from urban, industrial, and gratitude and appreciation for this Worthy to note, VIVA recently motor vehicle sources has been consistently dust storms have shown increased cardio- contribution and support. donated 265 wheelchairs to different shown to be associated with increased num- vascular and respiratory hospital admissions Chief Executive Officer at VIVA Eng health facilities in Kuwait that were in bers of deaths, hospital emergency visits, and mortality. We will review this evidence for health effects and the implications for Salman Al-Badran said, “VIVA is com- need of this device, through collabora- and admissions. These effects have been attributed to health systems in Kuwait”. mitted to making contributions that tion with the Ministry of Health. VIVA fine fraction particles (less than 2.5 mm Dr Kazem Behbehani, Director General of will help develop the performance of will continue to make valuable contri- aerodynamic diameter), and not to the larg- Dasman Diabetes Institute commented on the medical facilities in Kuwait. Such butions that will help develop and bet- er coarse particles characteristic of resus- the importance of organizing such lectures, contributions go a long way, and ter the health services offered to the pended dust as in desert dust storms. as this is part of its mission statement to pro- ensure that patients are attended to communities. Nevertheless, recent analyses of Saharan mote awareness within the public. 220 arrested in Shuwaikh raids

KUWAIT: Immigration detectives and security forces yesterday launched another inspection campaign at Shuwaikh industrial area. The campaign led by the acting immigration investigation manager, Colonel Najeeb Al-Shatti resulted in the arrest of 220 illegal residents including people with expired residency visas, people working for persons other than their sponsors, marginal laborers and absconding laborers.

KUWAIT: Residency violators being rounded up in the intensified campaignat Shuwaik industrial area yesterday. —Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 LOCAL ‘Mom’ poses as child’s aunt claims custody

KUWAIT: Security media at the Ministry of tody and explained that he was in her cus- Interior announced that the six-year-old tody since his parents had left the country. Asian boy, who was found by some patrol However, the security sources suspected personnel near the cooperative branch at the lady’s story who claimed that both the the Al-Sabah Hospital two days back, was child’s parents had been deported and that handed over to his aunt by authorities at he had been living with her ever since. the Shuwaikh police station. Interestingly, The detectives suspect that the child when the child was found, there was no was the same lady’s son and that he had report of a missing or a lost child filed by been the result of adultery. The lady was anyone. The ministry said the child’s aunt referred to relevant authorities for further approached the police station to claim cus- investigations. Kuwait parliament Fire breaks out in Abu Halifa building

launches web archive By Hanan Al-Saadoun for rescue and evacuation opera- tions, another for reducing the KUWAIT: The launch of an archive of the tion easily accessible to the public,” said Al- KUWAIT: The operations center smoke in the building through National Assembly’s lawmaking accomplish- Rashed in a speech at the event. “We are mak- received a report a little after ments on its official website was marked by a ing this information accessible to the public airing, while the remaining group ceremony attended by the Kuwaiti parlia- after being confined to the parliament’s inter- midnight about a fire that broke was for fighting the fire. A total of ment’s speaker Ali Al-Rashed yesterday. nal network,” he added. After having attended out at an apartment in Abu Halifa 24 people were evacuated. The link will provide users with a historical an e-legislation conference along with HH the area. Mangaf fire center and Children, women and the elderly insight into the parliament’s legislative role Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Kabeer, assisted by were taken out of the building since its establishment in 1963 in addition to Sabah a day earlier, Al-Rashed noted that the the technical rescue center, through the fire ladder and the the subsequent Preliminary Assembly which parliament intends to follow in the footsteps responded to the call. In two min- building’s stairs. lasted for only one year in 1962. “The system is of state bodies, in its implementation of e- utes, the first group reached the aimed at recapturing information, storing government policies. Additionally, the parlia- The fire was soon brought documents and viewing them. It will fill a ment intends to transform all of its procedures fire site. There was fire on the sec- under control. Colonel Waleed Al- huge gap and will solve the problem of the from manual to electronic according to a well ond floor of a five-storey building, Ansari, who was present at the lack of information, thus making this informa- thought out strategy, he added.— KUNA and the size of the apartment in site, emphasized the importance which the fire had broken was of early alert systems (smoke about 150 square meters. detectors) and fire extinguishers The firemen divided them- in fighting fire before it spreads selves into three groups: one was and gets out of control. Politicians release ‘reform, national accord’ initiative 18 leaders set 11 goals for nation KUWAIT: Eighteen Kuwaiti politicians adopted initiative that focused on national unity and initiative further called for respecting ‘the inde- an initiative for reforms which came after six political stability as a way to end tensions and pendence of the judiciary’ and accepting court months of talks during which they met with top push the development process ahead. While it orders, including a Constitutional Court ruling state officials and opposition figures, a local refrained from pointing the finger of blame next Sunday on the electoral law. newspaper reported yesterday. towards anyone for the political crisis, the initia- The Court is to pronounce judgment on chal- In a statement published by Al-Qabas yester- tive demanded cooperation “among the ruling lenges filed against elections held last day, the group called for “comprehensive system, the government, the parliament and December. The elections were based on an reforms and reinforcement of national accord,” members of all spectrums of the Kuwaiti society amendment to the electoral law released Officials visit injured fireman adding that the initiative comes “as an important to end the state of division and political turmoil.” through an emergency decree during the parlia- step at a critical point in Kuwait’s history to Among those who signed the document ment’s absence. If the court finds the decree that By Hanan Al-Saadoun was accompanied by PR Director Colonel emerge from the tunnel of a political turmoil were former ministers Abdul-Wahab Al-Haroun, was released by HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Khalil Al-Amir. Doctors at the hospital told that has been ongoing for two years. The news- Ahmad Baqer and Dr. Moudhi Al-Hmoud, former Ahmad Al-Sabah as ultra vires of the statute, it KUWAIT: Acting Director General of Fire the visitors that the health of Sergeant paper’s report further indicated that the initia- Deputy Speaker Abdullah Al-Roumi, former MPs can rule that the elections based on the single- Department Brig Khalid Al-Tarkit paid a visit Hajieh was stable and improving. Earlier, tive came “as a result of comprehensive talks Dr. Hassa Jowhar and Adel Al-Sar’awi, as well as vote system stand nullified. In that case, the par- to Sergeant Ali Hajieh at the hospital where State Minister for Council Affairs and with the political leadership, HH the Prime Kuwait University Professor of Constitutional liament would automatically stand dissolved he is undergoing treatment after meeting Municipality Minister Sheikh Mohammad Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Law Dr. Mohammad Al-Moqatei, and Saleh Al- and new elections would have to be held as per with an accident while fight the fire that Al-Abdullah visited Hajieh immediately twelve political forces.” Fadhalah who chairs a government bureau to the four-votes-per-voter system that has been broke in Al-Shidadiya University. Al-Tarkit after he was hospitalized. The statement pointed out 11 goals for the handle the problem of stateless residents. The followed since 2006. — Al-Qabas

Group picture of students NBK welcomes new batch of university students

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait procedures. to experience how the actual pro- (NBK) recently launched a new ses- “NBK’s Training Program is an fessional banking issues and trans- sion of its ongoing Training extension to NBK’s educative initia- actions are handled and processed,” Program for university students. tives and as part of its corporate Al-Ablani added. The Training Program extends over social responsibility,” said Emad Al- NBK’s training programs include a period of two months and pro- Ablani, NBK Deputy General NBK Academy which aims to train vides practical training covering dif- Manager, Human Resources Group. and develop the professional skills ferent aspects of the banking indus- “Indeed, more than 200 trainees are of fresh graduates, the Summer try. The program offers trainees the enrolled annually in this intensive Internship Program for high school knowledge on a variety of subjects program.” and college students and the new such as: teamwork, creative think- “This annual program demon- training Al-Shabab program, that is ing and modern banking, in addi- strates NBK’s national commitment specially designed to develop the tion to helping them have greater towards providing Kuwaiti youth skills of newly recruited diploma exposure to daily banking work with the appropriate opportunities holders. Fingerprint system to curb unlicensed pilgrimage

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Awqaf and In recent years, Kuwait had transactions forwarded ahead of the Islamic Affairs is coordinating with launched efforts to check unli- travel season, a local newspaper authorities in Saudi Arabia to adopt censed Hajj and Omra campaigns reported yesterday. a new mechanism to deal with unli- which are often sought by pilgrims “Night shift employees are going censed Hajj campaigns by maintain- looking for cheaper alternatives to work on transactions submitted ing a database of fingerprints of pil- compared to official agencies. by Kuwaitis during the morning grims, a local newspaper reported Unlike licensed campaigns in which shift in order to complete them yesterday quoting a ministry insider. the promoter guarantees full servic- before the travel season,” said Speaking to Al-Qabas on the es to pilgrims, utilizing the services Brigadier General Mazen Al-Jarrah condition of anonymity, the source of unlicensed campaigns often Al-Sabah, the General Director of indicated that the Saudi authorities comes with risks that could include the department. He further told Al- planned to send officers all around failure to find proper accommoda- Rai newspaper that the step was the holy sites with devices to scan tion and transport. necessary to “overcome staff short- fingerprints “and determine Meanwhile, the General age by increasing the work hours of whether a pilgrim entered Saudi Department for Citizenship and existing labor forces in order to Arabia with a licensed Hajj convoy Passports announced allocating finalize work as soon as possible.” from the country of residence.” night shifts to address an influx of — Al-Qabas & Al-Rai WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 LOCAL

Kuwait Embassy dinner raises $1.5m for elite Arab women

WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s Ambassador to the and contributing to their economies they’ll US Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah and his wife use their strength to lift up their communi- Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah held a gala dinner ties as women always do,” he affirmed. The entitled “Educate and Empower” where $1.5 Ambassador added “we’re thrilled to be million was raised to benefit Georgetown working with Georgetown University to help University and establish an endowment equip talented young Arab women with cut- fund at its Center for Contemporary Arab ting-edge graduate training and give them Studies that will provide graduate studies the tools to make a difference for their com- scholarships to women from the Arab World munities, our region and our world.” based on merit and need. On the Humanitarian Award recipient, US Secretary of State John Kerry, the Sheikh Salem affirmed that Kerry “is a Humanitarian Award Recipient, in a speech builder of bridges, a firm friend of Kuwait.” he delivered at the night-time event, held in “It’s my great honor and personal pleasure cooperation with Kuwait-American to present Secretary of State John Kerry with NASA, US Embassy, Cisco bring Foundation, praised the role the foundation this humanitarian award for a lifetime spent plays for humanitarian causes and effort promoting peace” he remarked. Kuwait’s Ambassador and his wife exert in For her part, Sheikha Rima said in her digital learning program to Qatar this regard. He also hailed Sheikh Salem as a speech that the amount raised will help “us leading diplomatic envoy, as well as the rela- invest in a new generation of leaders, KUWAIT: Cisco, NASA, and the US Embassy in in the STEM fields.” Cisco’s TelePresence solution dents and teachers have attended live video con- tionship between Washington and his coun- dynamic young women from across the Qatar have joined forces to deliver Qatar’s inaugu- offers a video experience so intuitive, life-like and ferencing events at Cisco’s Doha headquarters. try, noting “we appreciate so enormously Arab world, who have already proven their ral NASA Digital Learning Network (DLN) program, natural that it feels as if people are in the same NASA experts based in the U.S. chatted with the the friendship with Kuwait.” commitment to their communities. Women a distant learning initiative designed to offer stu- room even when they were many kilometers apart. students in real-time about the ‘Mars Curiosity On past visits to Kuwait, Kerry remarked who want to serve their societies and to dents and educators the opportunity to connect What started out as a way to save travel costs and Rover Mission’, the Solar System and Solar Energy. on the “gratitude” Kuwaitis have shown for build a better world.” with NASA scientists, engineers and researchers, optimize employee time at large companies has The NASA experts also engaged the students in America. “For the past 20 years, Kuwait “has She added that the $1.5 million “down- virtually, without leaving the classroom. Utilizing evolved into a way of accelerating time to market, hands-on activities which included a simulation of made certain that it says thank you to payment will yield great dividends for many the power of Cisco TelePresence technology, stu- expanding access to experts, and transforming how NASA scientists communicate with the Mars America for our relationship and they have years to come, as the students we support dents, teachers and parents from the Al-Yarmouk how companies do business and how education rover. The program has been an enormous success done so in a most amazing way through return from Georgetown to their home Independent School for Boys and the Al Aqsa programs can be delivered. given Qatar’s interest and investment in STEM edu- helping and supporting many causes” he countries, with new tools and skills and Independent School for Girls have participated in NASA’s Digital Learning Network, which began cation. noted. “We Americans’ cannot thank you knowledge for driving change.” three NASA Digital Learning Network events. The in 2003 with three sites, has since expanded to “It has only been a couple of years since we enough for what the Kuwait-America Meanwhile, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, events took place on February 18th and April 11th include all 10 NASA field centers. The DLN has deployed the Cisco TelePresence solution in our Foundation does,” he affirmed. who was the Distinguished Award Recipient, and May 23rd 2013. reached close to 1 million students and teachers offices Qatar and yet what we are achieving with The theme of educating and empower- said in her remarks that public service “is not “The US Embassy, Cisco, and the Al-Yarmouk with videoconferences and webcasts that feature this technology is already helping to make a differ- ing women from the Arab World of this a chore for me but a joy and deep pleasure.” and Al-Aqsa schools have worked closely together NASA-related science, technology, engineering, ence to the lives of so many. We are not only help- year’s gala dinner is “wonderful and incredi- “It is an honor for me to be recognized to realize a remarkable joint project that will spark and mathematics (STEM) instruction. With stan- ing to extend the reach of technology to even the bly timely appropriate gesture for helping to around the world and be someone they can the imaginations of Qatar’s next generation of dards-based IP videoconference systems and high- most underprivileged communities, we are also provide particularly for women the opportu- put a situation to, not just a name and movie leaders in the sciences,” Susan L Ziadeh, US speed Internet connectivity, participants can take using the benefits of this collaborative solution to nity for graduate school study here in the title,” she stressed. She affirmed that “as a Ambassador to Qatar said. “We look forward to advantage of free interactive lessons and profes- facilitate learning experiences that will help con- US,” according to Kerry. woman I vow I will do anything I can to help identifying further opportunities to partner with sional development events through distance learn- tribute to shaping the next generation of leader- The US top diplomat reiterated that “this women education and the life of women Qatari educational institutions and the American ing technologies. ship in the Gulf region,” commented Tarek Ghoul, effort is really so important “that women, around the world.” business community to promote Qatari innovation Over the last three months, the Qatar based stu- General Manager, Cisco Gulf, Levant and Pakistan. particularly, would be able to come here, go “This award is real reminder for me that I in to graduate school, build relationships, have a whole so much more to do, “ she get a sense of different places and go back remarked. Along with Secretary Kerry, the to their country and make a difference.” event was attended by Secretary of Housing Kuwait condemns Israeli He stressed that “tonight is so important; Shaun Donovan, Deputy Secretary of Energy this effort to educate is one of the key links Daniel Poneman, White House Chief of Staff of the school with respect on how we are Denis McDonough, former senior advisor to going to manage our way through the many President Barack Obama David Axelrod, acts against Palestinians challenges.” “Tonight we’re celebrating the Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, in linkage of the private sector who (that) val- addition to several congressmen, ambassa- ue the connection between a university and dors and global corporate CEOs. Over the Al-Saeedi lists rights violations at UNHRC the world today, a world that is smaller in so last eight years, the Kuwait gala dinners GENEVA: many respects,” he added. have raised nearly $13.5 million for causes The UN Human Rights violation of the Geneva fourth con- lands, stressing that UNHRC on- The tough treatment of Kerry expressed gratitude to the ranging from microcredit loans to women in Council (UNHRC) should hold Israel vention concerning civilian rights going calls to Israel to stop these Palestinian prisoners within Israeli Ambassador and his wife saying, “thank you the Middle East, the care of America’s accountable for its human rights during times of war and occupa- acts were ignored by the govern- jails was also a sign of Israel’s unjust for being who you are. We treasure this rela- wounded, to establish schools and promote violations against the Palestinian tion. He also indicated that Israel ment in Tel Aviv. attitudes and disregard to human tionship and are happy to call you friends.” girls’ education in remote regions of Pakistan people, said a Kuwaiti diplomat was violating international human Al-Saeedi cited the Israeli cam- rights, said the Kuwaiti diplomat. For his part, Sheikh Salem said in his remarks and Afghanistan, to benefit the fight against here yesterday. rights in the way it treated the paigns against the United Nations Al-Saeedi stressed Kuwait’s sup- that “promoting education for Arab women climate change in Indonesia and Brazil, to In a UNHRC meeting on the Palestinian people, adding that Special Rapporteur on the situation port of the Palestinians right to and girls is a cause dear to both (his and his support the fight against malaria in Africa, to Israeli occupation of Arab lands, such treatment was clearly aimed at of human rights in the Palestinian establish an independent state wife) of our hearts and a cause that res- fund the Basra Children’s Hospital in Iraq, to Advisor at the Kuwaiti permanent preventing Palestinians from estab- territories Richard Falk, saying that within the 1967 borders. The meet- onates deeply with the people of Kuwait.” build schools for girls in Afghanistan and to delegation to the UN headquarters lishing an independent state in the the UN official’s reports on the situ- ing today is part of the 23rd session “If we can support women across the assist Iraqi women and children refugees in Geneva, Saud Al-Saeedi, said that future. The Kuwaiti diplomat also ation in Palestinian lands reflected for the UNHRC which began in May Middle East in sharpening their knowledge wishing to return home. —KUNA Israel’s actions in the Palestinian condemned the continuation of true inhumane acts perpetrated by 27th and will continue till June occupied territories were a clear Israeli settlements in Palestinian Israeli settlers against Palestinians. 14th. — KUNA

BlackBerry’s Global Creative Director, Alicia Keys speaks. BlackBerry’s global women’s initiative

KUWAIT: BlackBerry’s Global BlackBerry Live, this scholarship pro- for entering the mobile computing Women’s Initiative which aims to gram is the first of many steps in industry. provide full four-year tuition schol- BlackBerry’s long-term commitment Application deadline for the pro- arships to outstanding women to engage young women at every gram is 12am on June 27, 2013. globally has officially launched and step of their education, from high Following this, a panel of inspira- has begun accepting applications school to University, and as they rise tional and accomplished women, from women in the Middle East who through the workforce. led by Alicia Keys, will choose the are seeking degrees at accredited In addition to providing the full applicants from the pool of nomina- colleges and universities, in the pro- four-year tuition, BlackBerry will also tions submitted. gram areas of science, technology, offer mentorship and professional For full information about the engineering, and math. opportunities for each of the schol- program, eligibility requirements, Unveiled by BlackBerry’s Global ars who will be selected based on and application process, please visit Creative Director, Alicia Keys, at their academic merit and passion www.blackberry.com/scholars. Kuwait officials call for Arab media development

TUNIS: Kuwaiti media officials called tions, as well as expanding participation parency and credibility while writing yesterday for the development of Arab of African, European and Asian radio and reporting news, in order to enable media in TV and radio in order to boost unions. Arab media compete with other media. credibility and transparency in report- Kuwait information ministry assistant Assistant undersecretary for Radio Yusuf ing. They spoke to KUNA after the open- undersecretary for news and political Mustafa said the agenda of the union’s ing of union of Arab radio stations here. programs Faisal Al-Mutalaqqem said executive council included the develop- Kuwait information ministry assistant Kuwait TV and Radio were keen on ment of the union’s programs and the undersecretary for commercial sector, boosting media relations with the Arab Arab media message. Mustafa called for and the first vice-president of the execu- countries. the improving of the professionalism of tive council of the union, Mohammad He also asserted importance of trans- the Arab journalists. —KUNA Al-Awwash said the executive council affirmed importance of developing jour- nalism via the increase of training pro- grams. He said the development of Arab media was a necessary in order to face growing challenges. Al-Awwash high- lighted importance of transparency while reporting so the Arab listener of viewer would not seek other channels. He said the union was of the Arab coun- tries’ most leading organizations, adding the union has succeeded in attracting ARab and Western expertise “to enriching the common Arab media.” Al-Awwash said the union has opened membership for private media organiza- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 LOCAL Driver hospitalized after suicide bid Police officer held for reckless driving

KUWAIT: A man was hospitalized with traffic police officer securing the African of Monday). Upon verification of the dri- Prisoner charged burn injuries after he set himself ablaze at foreign minister’s route flashed warning ver’s identity, police came to know that he A prisoner was charged with a felony his employer’s house. Paramedics and signs to an American-made vehicle’s driv- was a security officer. He was arrested and count after offending HH the Amir in the police responded to an emergency call in er after he blocked the convoy’s path. The taken to the proper authorities to face Central Prison recently. The case was filed at which a Kuwaiti man reported that his driver of the offending vehicle was pulled charges while his car was impounded. the Sulaibiya police station after the Central driver had attempted suicide. The Asian over after he continued to block the dig- Jail’s management said a Lance Corporal man was rushed to the Babtain Hospital nitary’s route, and was found to be under Smuggling bid officer informed it about the Kuwaiti after first dousing the fire. He was admit- the influence of alcohol. The man, identi- Customs officials at the Doha Port inmate’s offensive remarks. ted to the intensive care unit after being fied as a stateless resident, was referred to foiled an attempt to smuggle thou- diagnosed with second degree burns. the proper authorities to face charges. sands of counterfeit sunglasses on Blasphemy KUWAIT: Undersecretary of the ministry of Interior General Ghazi Al-Omar Preliminary investigations indicated that Monday. The discovery came after cus- Meanwhile, a Syrian man was charged received Indian ambassador Satish C Mehta in his office yesterday. In his the man attempted suicide due to finan- Officer arrested toms officials issued orders to investi- with blasphemy after he made offensive talks with the ambassador, Al-Omar underlined the deep-rooted relations cial problems he was going through. A police officer faces charges after he gate a suspicious shipment of sunglass- remarks during a security crackdown held was arrested recently while driving his es. A total of 191,000 glasses found in recently. According to the police report, the between Kuwait and India. They also discussed topics of mutual interest. Drunk driving sports car recklessly along the Gulf Road. the containers were worth around KD man was heard insulting God seemingly in A drunk driver was arrested recently Traffic police officers pulled over the sus- 400,000. Investigations were on to find protest after being told to board a bus carrying after he came in the way of a visiting min- pect after he was seen performing dan- the supplier who planned to market the residency law violators. The man was held at 1.4 tons of expired ister’s convoy at the Second Ring Road. A gerous stunts past midnight (wee hours goods in Kuwait. the Mina Abdullah police station pending trial. meat destroyed

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Municipality announced yesterday that it had seized 1.4 tons of expired meat during an inspection campaign in the industrial area of Al-Rai. A penalty was filed by inspectors of the Capital governorate’s food and markets department against a food storehouse for storing the meat that were found frozen and deemed unfit for human consumption, said a statement, adding that the meat would later be disposed of. Meanwhile, Municipality Director General Ahmad Al- Subaih praised the efforts of the department, pledging the body’s commitment to protecting consumers and ensuring the suitability of food being sold and its compatibility with health and hygiene standards. —KUNA Ahmad Al-Subaih

Ministers inspect university fire site

KUWAIT: Minister of State for Cabinet it to the executing company for the com- Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal pletion of the project, the minister said, Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- adding “but, we were taken aback by Sabah, and Minister of Education and today’s fire”. On the earlier fire, the minister Minister of Higher Education Dr. Nayef Al- said an initial report on the fire would be Hajraf inspected the site of a university facil- issued next week, with all findings to be ity fire earlier yesterday. made public in full transparency. An under-construction building at Sabah Minister of Commerce and Industry Anas Al-Salem University City in Al-Shadadiyah Al-Saleh said his ministry signed a KD 83.8 suburb in southeast Kuwait City caught fire. million contract on Monday to develop the Speaking to reporters at the fire site, Sheikh infrastructure of Al-Shadadiyah area for a Mohammad said seven anti-fire squads, period of 36 months. including that of the National Guard, were Al-Saleh told KUNA that the layout of struggling to quench the conflagration, land areas in Al-Shadadiyah will be avail- hoping that it would be put out immediate- able to those who are serious, adding that ly. On an earlier fire at the same place, the his ministry “will not allow trade zones in minister said no report was yet issued and the industrial zone.” The minister added the fire was still under investigation. For his that the process of reform to industrial part, Al-Hajraf said initial information on the cities in Kuwait has begun. Al-Saleh noted previous fire showed that the fire appeared that this was the second contract to be to be an accident, rather than arson. signed by the ministry in this fiscal year, The General Fire Department on Sunday after the development of zone 11 in handed the site of the previous fire to the Sabhan area, which signed at the start of site administration, which, in turn, delivered this year. —KUNA Wanted Ethiopian woman arrested

By Hanan Al-Saadoun 66 rounded up A security campaign carried out at the KUWAIT: The security campaign led by Lt instructions of the Lt General who is also General Al-Jarrah in Al-Farwaniya resulted the head of patrols resulted in the arrest in the arrest of an Ethiopian maid wanted of 66 persons found in violation of the in a case in which she was convicted of residency law and seven persons who killing her girl friend and was sentenced to were wanted as they were reported as life imprisonment. absent. Among the arrested was a per- son who was in debt and another who had entered Kuwait illegally. Three vehi- cles were also detained as these were wanted in different cases.

Tanker seized The security personnel caught a sewage tanker driven by an Asian expat which actually belonged to the munici- pality. The driver had loaded the tanker from Mubarak Al-Kabeer governorate and, accompanied by his son, off loaded it at the dumping area at Al-Wafra. He bought some liquor from a Korean expat and brought it back to Mahboula area where he intended to sell it by using the municipality vehicle. A total of 24 bottles of locally-brewed liquor were The arrested Ethiopian woman confiscated. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 LOCAL

In my view Local Spotlight Free internet? Expats take Yes, no or maybe it all

By Labeed Abdal By Muna Al-Fuzai

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any debates are currently raging about reach- t is really becoming awkward and certainly not lauda- ing an international agreement to regulate tory these days to point a finger towards the expatri- Mthe internet. Iates, blaming them for the so-called demographic There were two major e-camps in the debate. One imbalance in Kuwait. was totally against putting any restrictions on internet For those who think the expats are the ones behind usage and argued that the issue involved the freedom this skew in the population structure, I need to say that of expression which must remain untouched. The oth- they are completely wrong. It is also unfair to blame er camp was happy to even over-regulate this medi- those who have been here throughout history and have um and throwing violators in some kind of e-dun- been partners in building this country’s economy. geons or shutting them inside some e-lockers. In the early days, before oil was discovered in Kuwait, Such people were happy blocking the internet con- some expats, both Arabs and Indians, used to come to tent en masse as a matter of routine to weed out any Kuwait for work and exploring new fields of business. At opinion, a shared post or daring to interact online or that time, no luxuries beckoned anyone towards Kuwait debating any issue that they found unpalatable. and people used to come from even countries that hap- Taking an extreme position and blindly restricting pened to be rich and highly advanced when compared to content posed a serious threat to the users in the e- kuwait digest us, like India and Egypt. world, a world that has no boundaries. They came to live in Kuwait and established their fami- Any ordinary citizen only desires a certain freedom lies here. Their businesses struck roots here for more than without worrying about horrifying laws and restric- The Kuwaiti jungle half a century. Of course, they did benefit financially but tions. On the other hand, advocates of more openness they also gave their life, time and efforts so far away from are indirectly monitoring what people say, choose, like their own homeland. They adopted Kuwait as their new or tap. land, a country in the middle of a desert. So, trying to They then filter this information to be sold to mar- By Ahmad Al-Sarraf look down upon the same expats now and claiming that ket giants in bulk where clever corporate interests use we should get rid of them should be a matter of shame it to compete in and dominate the market. jungle is a very suitable place for many who pre- the failed security and naturalization policies that have for anyone. Those who think expats are the reason for this improper population skew are ignorant of Kuwait’s histo- In reality, it is both, a commercial tool as well as an fer not to abide by any law or order and where been unable over the past sixty years to lead towards ry and its development over the years; they know not instrument of power. Any corrupt government with a survival is for the fittest. Kuwait has turned into a stability for people. The problem of stateless residents, A how countries become bigger and stronger. corrupt private sector can wreak damage on the mar- place where the law of the jungle prevails, something for example, has been snowballing since 1965 with no All decent expats come to Kuwait via sponsors, so kets by allowing organized fraud, supporting criminal for which I blame the ‘fake religious awakening’ of the solution in sight. Ironically, during this time, Kuwait has when things go wrong we should look for these sponsors networks that can threaten international peace and past thirty years. been successfully able to who could be individuals or companies. It is the sponsors security. Suddenly, we have dis- mediate to resolve some of who should be held accountable and not the victims. We must admit that we live in an age of informa- The issue of Corruption needs covered that there are thou- the most complicated prob- When I hear officials talking against expats, I feel that tion explosion. Some sectors are giving their nod for sands of people who have to be addressed with more pri- lems between our sister they are simply unaware of the history of this country or collecting huge amounts of personal data from giant violated their residency per- nations. what role the expats have played in the days of yore. search engines and social media sites run by internet mits, and that they can be macy than is being accorded And for years, police offi- When I see people being slapped with a travel ban on the companies. One way or another, the actual users of easily arrested. We also cers have been involved in assumption that they come from certain countries and such bulk data are likely to be those who want to found out that there are to the situation in the street. many violations ranging would commit crimes here in our wonderland, I feel very understand the market, sale or purchase patterns. Let hundreds driving their vehi- Therefore, I believe that all the from smuggling fugitives sorry. us face it: there are no tangible guarantees for inter- cles without licenses, and all out of the country, assault- I agree that some companies have misused the laws net privacy. Many international courts are headed of them could have been so ongoing crackdowns will ing detainees in police sta- and the powers vested in them and brought in many towards holding that emails or social media accounts easily caught. Moreover, we tions, being accomplices expats who were not wanted. These were the expats who were equivalent of a personal wallet and have con- suddenly discovered that result in zero results. In the with residency violators in either had menial or no jobs, but then they are not the firmed that any inspection can only be carried out there are a lot of fugitives end, wasta (connections with illegal activity, etc. Despite ones who could be held responsible for the demographic after a court permit that carries a time limit and is among us who were nabbed all the newspaper reports imbalance. Now, we are only sending out a rather poor aimed at a specific criminal charge. . with such ease. We also sud- people with influence) and about police’s misdemeanor, image of Kuwait to the wider world by presenting it as a In Kuwait, the latest move by His Highness the Amir denly found that crime had no interior minister has ever place where expats are not welcome. I can’t blame them. Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al-Sabah to support and become widespread in the bribery is going to allow peo- done more than punishing I think I need to apologize for all the misleading argu- encourage the e-legislation conference to improve society, and that there are the officer involved without ments being hurled around these days in Kuwait against the Information Technology laws was indeed the right ple to avoid prosecution, or thousands of people who investigating the root of this the expats and the fact that they are being made to bear step to take. Kuwait needs to cooperate with the had their visas canceled and behavior within the ministry the blame for all the troubles we face. advances in the international technological and legal ensure that their employees who had to be deported. In itself (which still is home to fields as far as research, e-infrastructure and security come out of jail and continue needs are concerned. addition, thousands of work- many honorable and loyal personnel). Globally, we must not forget basic e-human rights ers were deported after it issuing illegal visas. kuwait digest that must be protected, especially when we look for was discovered they were I have been the subject of democracy on the world wide web (www). Our e-iden- working in vital government many indirect robberies that tity must be preserved, our freedoms and liberties projects without having a registered employer. happened in my neighborhood, and I have all the infor- The dangers of must be safeguarded and never violated for any rea- All of that comes as if we have made new discoveries mation that the police may need to follow up on these son. despite the fact that all of this was happening in front of cases. The problem is that the area’s police station never balkanization Without any doubt, our personal data must remain our eyes for years. I am not against the government’s returns my calls, and I would rather save myself the a private domain and no one should be allowed to procedures to enforce the law, but such a chaos was humiliation I am sure will be put through should I ever cross the line. only allowed because of the corruption prevalent in the think of reporting the incidents at the police station. By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa government corridors. This corruption needs to be We are in dire need for a new security philosophy addressed with more primacy than is being accorded to and a new ideology. It is illogical to see many stateless t seems that the various projects to balkanize the Arab the situation in the street. Therefore, I believe that all the young people unable to find a job in a rich country, nation began to take shape in a well thought out fashion. kuwait digest ongoing crackdowns will result in zero results. In the while others are still waiting to legalize their status for IFollowing the break-up of Sudan and the separation of its end, wasta (connections with people with influence) half a century. The recent security crackdowns came Southern part from the North, the Arab world is witnessing the start of its people being balkanized along sectarian basis and bribery is going to allow people to avoid prosecu- thirty years too late, and I am afraid it is only a bubble Co-op society in Lebanon, Iraq and Bahrain between Sunni and Shiites. tion, or ensure that their employees come out of jail and that would burst with the first instance of bribery or Today, after the Syrian regime’s forces were able to take continue issuing illegal visas. wasta that will enable lawbreakers to escape the conse- control of Al-Qusair, with the help of Hezbollah and Iran reform The state of lawlessness was expected as a result of quences. — Al-Qabas after a year long siege and fierce battles ongoing for three weeks, we ask what will be impact of Al-Qusair fall on Lebanon and the Arab region? Is there a chance for peace By Hamad Al-Sarie and stability in the region or will the sectarian wars destroy kuwait digest he National Assembly Council has approved the everyone? The problem now is that the Syrian opposition Cooperative Societies law. As a matter of principle, the forces took the war to Lebanon by bombing the Eastern and government, primarily the Ministry of Social Affairs Northern areas, with rockets raining on the Baablbek City, T which indicated that the sectarian war was moving from and Labor, has approved the proposed draft, but members The Al-Ali experience of the Cooperatives Union Board have objected to this draft, Syria to Lebanon because of Hezbollah’s interference in Syria along with the boards of directors of some cooperative soci- and siding with the Syrian regime. eties. Lebanon, a peaceful and democratic country, has been I have not seen all the provisions of the law, but the most By Hassan Abbas living under a threat for years because of the sectarianism important issue that has emerged is about reducing the and the failure of the political elite in finding a national con- number of votes that each voter can cast from three to one. bdulfattah Al-Ali has become a national hero in Al-Ali in the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Oil, sensus. That is why sectarian fighting had begun in Tripoli and some Southern areas. This was ostensibly aimed at checking factionalism that had the past couple of weeks. Ever since assuming the Ministry of Electricity and Water, the sports sector, marred the previous election. Al-Qusair’s events and the escalation of the sectarian war Ahis duties as the Undersecretary Assistant for the investments’ sector, and other fields where we in Syria and now the fact that it is moving to Lebanon led to Bringing in new legislation for cooperative societies will Traffic Affairs in the Ministry of Interior, Kuwait has have troubles in? not help rectify the prevalent mismanagement as most of the call to unify the Salaf factions that had not united so far. seen a drastic change on We learn that the duty of the youth who stand for elections and win the posts in the Lebanon’s Sunna who comprise a power that should not be board of directors are government employees and try to the roads with instances of a traffic police officer is to taken lightly, found themselves marginalized and played no implement whatever decisions they think are best. reckless driving going We learn that the duty of a control traffic. Maj Gen Al- active role in the power struggle because they did not have The corruption and violations that happen in some coop- down and more people fol- Ali did not perform any an armed militia, and did not carry weapons as a unified erative societies are for real, and the issue was raised by the lowing the traffic law. What traffic police officer is to magic; he only remained force earlier during the civil war in Lebanon from 1975 to 1990. It was very difficult for the Sunni leaders and their tra- media, following which the ministry did indeed send some do we learn from the ‘Al-Ali’ control traffic. Maj Gen Al- committed to his responsi- of those cases to the public prosecutor. A few boards of ditional elite in Beirut to control the extreme Sunni organiza- experience? bilities and the law as per tions entrenched in Tripoli and Akar in Northern Lebanon. directors were also dissolved in case of those cooperative We learn that Kuwait has Ali did not perform any the authority he has as a societies where such thefts and violations had taken place. The participation of Iraq’s Hezbollah and the extreme This is not going to stop. people who are capable of magic; he only remained police officer. In other Shiite parties in the Syrian civil war with encouragement Many believed, and I am one of them, that the current performing their duties words, his reformist efforts from Iran will create new problems in Iraq itself, and will NA Council will play a big role in bringing forth a new law properly, and all that the committed to his responsi- in the traffic department thwart all attempts in which Iraqi parties and political move- for cooperative societies because most of its members have country needs to witness meant that his predecessors ments are trying to unite the political powers in order to bilities and the law as per avoid further balkanization of Iraq into tiny states based on no connection with labors unions and cooperative societies productivity, competency did not remain committed unlike the MPs in the earlier house who depended on these sectarian identities forever fighting each other. and control is to put the the authority he has as a to their duties properly. The sectarian war spread into the Arab Gulf countries, as groups and yielded to their demands. right people in the right Therefore, all the accidents, The NA Council should have issued a law to privatize police officer. In other Bahrain complained against the increasing Iranian interfer- these cooperative societies and turn these into shareholding places. deaths, injuries, and viola- ence in its internal affairs, but there are foreign powers that companies, run by those with a majority of shares. It should We learn that misman- words, his reformist efforts tions are indications to the encouraged some opposition forces not to accept the have ensured that the area residents should be share hold- agement is not something weakness of police officers. national dialogue in Bahrain. ers in these societies, and the profit is properly distributed. Kuwait is destined to suffer in the traffic department We learn that people Political Islam powers in Kuwait began to stir the sectari- In such a scenario, the societies would have become a vehi- from, but rather a result of meant that his predecessors respect the law when they an issue in order to create strife and differences within the cle for social welfare in the area. deliberate actions of peo- see it being implemented Kuwaiti society. May Imams called for Jihad in Syria and Cooperative societies are currently being run by boards ple seeking personal gains did not remain committed correctly. The saying that fighting the Shiites last Friday, which prompted the Awqaf of directors and there is direct interference of government ministry to take action and suspend some preachers. The offices in all aspects of their work, be it appointments or while putting the fate of to their duties properly. Kuwaitis do not respect the political Islam powers including Thawabet Al-Umma gather- leasing of shops. These societies are not being allowed to the country in corrupt law is unrealistic and the ing in Kuwait called for mobilizing the devout in all the provide better services to the people in the area. hands. If the right people proof for that is what Maj Muslim countries to help the Mujahideen in Syria, which is Developing a sound economic mindset in the running of with competence are handed over management, cor- Gen Al-Ali is doing these days. Everyone respects what witnessing the worst forms of killing. What the Arab world is these facilities but transforming the cooperative societies ruption will be eliminated in Kuwait, exactly the way traffic police officers are doing. People would longer witnessing today is a natural result of the failure of the Arab into shareholding companies will serve the residents of the Maj Gen Al-Ali managed to eliminate reckless driving be looking for wasta (help of people with influence) if elite in defending the civil state that leads to a notion of citi- area more than what these societies have been doing till and lawlessness on the roads. Can you imagine what the law was enforced objectively and if the people felt zenry as a principle, thus shunning the affiliations of sects date. —Al-Anbaa would happen if we had someone similar to Maj Gen that they are equal before the law. —Al-Rai and tribes. —Al-Watan WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

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DUBAI: The Cayan tower, the world’s tallest twisted tower, stands at Dubai’s Marina yesterday. — AFP Clashes as police storm Taksim Erdogan won’t yield, calls on protesters to withdraw

ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police moved yester- rubbish and plastic mingled with tear gas. ramshackle settlement of tents at the edge about the troubles in a key NATO ally border- leading from the square to the park. “Our aim day into the central Istanbul square at the Demonstrators skirmished with police. Tear of the square; among their number leftists, ing Syria, Iraq and Iran. Washington has held is to remove the signs and pictures on the heart of 10 days of anti-government gas drifted into the lobby of an upmarket environmentalists, liberals, students and pro- up Erdogan’s Turkey as an example of an Ataturk statue and the Ataturk Cultural protests, firing tear gas and water cannon at hotel, overwhelming some guests who were fessionals who see the development plan as Islamic democracy that could be emulated Centre. We have no other aim,” Istanbul hundreds of protesters armed with rocks and moved to the basement. symptomatic of overbearing government. elsewhere in the Middle East. Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu wrote on fireworks. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan What began as a protest at redevelop- Despite the street protests against Erdogan, The police move came a day after Twitter. Police hung a single Turkish flag and declared he would not yield to the protest- ment plans for Gezi Park, a leafy corner of he remains unrivalled as a leader in his AK Erdogan agreed to meet protest leaders, picture of the founder of the Turkish secular ers. In a further sign of the effect the crisis the square, has grown into an unprecedent- party, in parliament and on the streets. Many whose peaceful demonstration two weeks state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, from the build- has had on financial markets, the central ed challenge to Erdogan. Victor in three con- protesters call for his resignation, but others ago spiralled into anti-government protests ing. Protesters accuse Erdogan of authoritari- bank said it would intervene if needed to secutive elections, he says the protests are say they just want to moderate his exercise in cities across the country after police an rule and some suspect him of ambitions support the lira. “They say the prime minister engineered by vandals, terrorist elements of power. One organising group called for a crushed it using tear gas and water cannon. to replace the secular republic with an is rough. So what was going to happen here? and unnamed foreign forces. His critics say mass protest on the square, where stalemate “I invite all demonstrators, all protesters, to Islamic order - something Erdogan denies. Were we going to kneel down in front of his unyielding talk has made the crisis worse. seemed to prevail. Police were expected to see the big picture and the game that is “This movement won’t end here. We’ve these (people)?” Erdogan said after the “A comprehensive attack against Turkey has block any attempt to move into the area in being played,” Erdogan said. “The ones who started something much bigger than this action began. “If you call this roughness, I’m been carried out,” Erdogan told a parliamen- the night. are sincere should withdraw ... and I expect park ... After this, I don’t think people will go sorry, but this Tayyip Erdogan won’t change.” tary group meeting of the AK Party he The unrest has knocked investor confi- this from them as their prime minister.” Police back to being afraid of this government or Police backed by armoured vehicles founded in 2001 and led to power in 2002. dence in a country that has boomed under removed huge banners hung by protesters any government,” said student Seyyit moved soon after dawn into Taksim Square, “The increase in interest rates, the fall in the Erdogan. The lira currency, already suffering from a building overlooking Taksim but the Cikmen, 19, as the crowd chanted “Every site of the initial protest against government stock markets, the deterioration in the from wider market turmoil, fell to its weakest local governor said they had no intention of place is Taksim, every place resistance.” Police construction plans 10 days ago which investment environment, the intimidation of level against its dollar/euro basket since Oct breaking up a protest on Gezi Park itself. Riot appealed to the protesters not to throw sparked the worst unrest in decades. investors - the efforts to distort Turkey’s 2011. The cost of insuring Turkish debt police moved into the park briefly, then rocks, calling from loudspeakers, “Dear Gezi Bulldozers cleared barricades, but by early image have been put in place as a systematic against default rose to its highest in ten withdrew. friends. We are unhappy with this situation. evening hundreds of protesters remained on project,” he said. months, although it remained far from crisis Hundreds of protesters, many wearing We don’t want to intervene. We don’t want to one side and black smoke from bonfires of Thousands packed into Gezi Park, now a levels. Western allies have expressed concern facemasks and hard hats, gathered on steps harm you. Please withdraw.” —Reuters Blasts kill 14 in central Damascus

DAMASCUS: Twin suicide bombers sions took place near a police station,” because of the victories achieved by Backed by fighters from Lebanon’s targeted a Damascus police station it said. our brave army,” state news agency powerful Shiite Hezbollah militia - a yesterday killing at least 14 people, as The Observatory put the death toll SANA reported. key Syrian regime ally - the army the Syrian army launched multiple at 15, and said one of the blasts “was Meanwhile, in Aleppo province, seized the town near the Lebanese attacks on rebel positions in the caused by a suicide bomb attacker the army launched multiple attacks on border last week. The militia’s role has northern province of Aleppo. The who blew himself up inside the police rebel positions, including insurgent- raised fears about the growing region- blasts wounded more than 30 people, station”. “A second explosion took held areas of the key Minnigh military alisation of the conflict in Syria, which state media and the Syrian place just outside the police station,” airbase, the Observatory said. “Parts of began in March 2011. The fighting has Observatory for Human Rights watch- the Britain-based group said, without Minnigh military airbase were shelled spilled over into Lebanon, where sev- dog said. They caused widespread elaborating on the nature of that by regime forces... Rebels are in con- en rockets fired from Syria landed in damage in the capital’s central Marjeh blast. “The number of casualties is trol of large swathes of the airbase,” the Hermel region, a Hezbollah bas- neighbourhood, with state television expected to rise because several of the Observatory said. A military source tion, yesterday. The deteriorating situ- broadcasting images of blood and the wounded are in critical condition,” told AFP heavy clashes were raging at ation in the Golan Heights has broken glass on the pavement near added the Observatory, which relies the base for a third day, but denied prompted Austria to announce it the scene. “The number of casualties on a network of activists, doctors and any part of the airport was under rebel would withdraw its troops from the after a twin suicide attack in Marjeh lawyers for its reports. The Syrian cabi- control. He said the fighting was not UN monitoring force on the strategic square has risen to 14 dead and 31 net denounced the attack, saying part of a broader campaign that the Syrian plateau, which is partly occu- injured,” said the channel, updating an “armed terrorist groups and those regime has pledged to launch to re- pied by Israel. earlier toll. “The two suicide explo- behind them have failed completely take Aleppo city, large parts of which Yesterday, Austria’s defence min- are in rebel hands, and other parts of istry said the withdrawal of the coun- the province. try’s 378 troops stationed in the Golan But other areas of Aleppo were would begin today. The international under fire, two days after pro-regime community, led by Russia and the media said an army campaign in the United States, has been pushing for an province would began within “hours international peace conference in or days”. Regime forces shelled the Geneva to discuss a political solution opposition-controlled villages of Deir to the conflict. But preparations have Hafer and Al-Bab, and hit the insur- stalled over which countries will par- gent stronghold of Marea with rock- ticipate, with Iran saying yesterday it ets, the Observatory said. There were had been invited to the conference, unconfirmed reports of a ground-to- despite opposition from some ground missile strike in Aleppo Western countries, including France. province, the Observatory added. The “Ten days ago, we received a verbal regime has pledged to focus its atten- invitation to take part in this confer- tion on Aleppo after winning a strate- ence,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister gic victory by retaking the town of Hossein Amir Abdollahian told DAMASCUS: A Syrian man receives medical treatment at a hospital Qusair, in the central province of reporters in Moscow, without saying following two explosions in the centre of the capital yesterday. — AFP Homs. who extended the invitation. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 INTERNATIONAL ‘Kidnapped’ Iran reformists imprisoned at home

DUBAI: Four years after Iranians took to authorities desperate to block reforms. At reform movement. His wife Rahnavard number, are under security, and stifled, ment on Friday’s election. “Under the pres- the streets to demonstrate against the rallies and at a funeral for a dissident cleric campaigned for him, breaking new and it’s impossible to find out what’s really ent situation, his information about vari- results of a presidential election, the this month, crowds have shouted for them ground in Iranian politics. For the first two going on,” the source said. ous issues in the country in general and authorities are taking no chances this to be freed. months of the couple’s house arrest, secu- Formerly early risers Mousavi and the election in particular is so little,” time, keeping opposition leaders confined Sources close to their families have rity forces moved into the bottom floors of Rahnavard now go to bed late and wake Mohammad Taghi Karoubi said of his under house arrest with doors and win- provided Reuters with details of their cap- their home and a neighbouring building, up late. Religious rites like reading the father. “Recently he told my brothers: ‘I dows welded shut. When Iran elects a new tivity, painting a picture of an intensely said the source. “During this time, they Quran and performing their prayers punc- respect my friends’ decision over the elec- president on Friday, authorities are deter- lonely existence with virtually no contact had no newspapers, books, paper, or writ- tuate their daily routine. They have some- tion, but please don’t ask me to say any- mined to prevent a repeat of the street with the outside world and all their activi- ing implements,” the source said. “All the times been provided with art supplies, thing because I won’t say anything.’” unrest that posed the biggest challenge to ties controlled by security forces. There is windows had been welded shut and these and have done some drawings together, Although they refrain from political the Islamic Republic’s ruling system since no foreseeable end to their detention. two were imprisoned in a room on the top the source said. The pair have periodic statements, the opposition leaders still its birth in the 1979 revolution. Mirhossein They have never been charged officially floor of the house.” access to a yard with a garden. They are have influence in Iran. Under house arrest, Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who as with a crime, though hardliners have Authorities confiscated personal docu- given no newspapers, magazines, or radio, Mousavi has started what amounts to a reformist candidates led the “Green called for their execution for “sedition”. ments, drawings, sculptures, computers, but can watch state television. The couple book club for his followers. In 2011, he Movement” that disputed the 2009 elec- Mousavi, 71, is being held at his own telephones, radios, social and political is sometimes given access to their library - compared his captivity with “News of a tion result, have not been charged with home off central Tehran’s Pasteur Street texts and documents from Mousavi’s time which the source estimated contained Kidnapping”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s crimes. But both men, former top officials along with his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, 67, a as prime minister. In those first months, 150,000 books. non-fiction book about prisoners held by now in their 70s, are being kept locked prominent artist, sculptor and academic. Rahnavard suffered from breathing prob- The other opposition leader, Karoubi, a a Colombian drug cartel. His recommen- indoors, under constant surveillance and The house, in an area of government lems, probably due to a lack of fresh air. former speaker of parliament, was first dation made the book an overnight hit in with little contact with families who fear buildings not far from Khamenei’s own Officials ignored her complaints, the confined to his home in northern Tehran Iran. In 2012, he recommended “The Right for their health. residence, has been turned into a prison. source said, until Mousavi broke a window and later moved to a three-story safe to Heresy” by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, “This is illegal even according to our Two of the doors are welded shut and open with his fist, injuring his hand. house in the capital provided by the about 16th century theologian Sebastian laws and regulations,” Karoubi’s son authorities keep constant watch over the Officials then allowed one window to be Intelligence Ministry. He occupies one Castellio, who preached tolerance and Mohammed Taghi Karoubi said from third door. Cameras were installed all opened a bit to let air in. floor and the security services occupy the opposed Protestant leader John Calvin for Britain. “No one has officially taken around the house, as well as floodlights Rahnavard has lost 17 kg and suffers other two, said his son Mohammad Taghi executing heretics over religious differ- responsibility for this illegal action.” The and surveillance devices. All door handles from arthritis. Mousavi, 71, has lost 12 kg, Karoubi. There is no garden and he has no ences. government’s firm grip ensures that there inside have been removed so doors will the source said, and was taken to hospital access to fresh air. Karoubi, 75, was taken Zweig quotes Castellio as writing: “We is unlikely to be any repeat of the unrest of not fully close, denying the couple privacy, in August for blocked blood vessels. to hospital in November after showing can live together peacefully only when we 2009, when the authorities violently sup- said a source close to their daughters. Mousavi at one point fell unconscious for symptoms including weight loss, dizzi- control our intolerance. Even though there pressed demonstrations and dozens of “The (security forces) team overseeing two hours within view of a security cam- ness, and nausea, the opposition will always be differences of opinion from people were killed, hundreds wounded this kidnapping are rude, foul-mouthed, era, but despite Rahnavard’s pleas for help, Sahamnews website reported at the time. time to time, we can at any rate come to and thousands arrested. Since then, with and violent,” said the source, who no one came to assist them, the source “At the moment his health is in good con- general understandings, can love one prices rising and unemployment surging described the conditions of their captivity said. Their family has requested their med- dition,” his son said. “He is in great spirits.” another, and can enter the bonds of because of international economic sanc- on condition of anonymity. “They have ical files but authorities have refused. He is allowed to watch state television and peace, pending the day when we shall tions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program, said, ‘They have no religion, and whatever Some early restrictions on the couple is provided three state-owned newspa- attain unity of faith.” The source close to public discontent is arguably higher than we do to them they deserve it. They are were eventually eased, and they were pers to read. His requests to read other Mousavi’s daughters said he recommend- ever but reformists among the leadership servants of the US and Britain,’” the source granted family visits, the source said. But papers were refused. ed the book to show the parallels with Iran have been sidelined. said. Reuters was not able to contact the family members still often go months with Another son, Mohammad Hossein and “a way to analyse the situation and The approved slate of candidates is Mousavi family directly and details cannot no news of their welfare. Karoubi, has only been allowed to visit his combat it”. Mousavi had the following dominated by hardliners, and the winner be independently verified. In the few visits allowed, security forces father once in the last seven months, for message for Iran’s authorities, the source is expected to be a conservative close to Mousavi, an architect, served as Iran’s are present, and they must speak “only the Iranian New Year in March, said: “You cannot stop the movement Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Mousavi last prime minister from 1981 until 1989 about family issues and with loud voices. If Mohammad Taghi Karoubi said. Other which has started, even through severe and Karoubi have been under house when the position was abolished under voices drop, officials will issue a sharp family members have recently been repression, and it will answer against your arrest for more than two years, since call- constitutional changes. For the next two rebuke. Mousavi and Rahnavard constant- allowed weekly visits that last 2-3 hours in will. I will use any opportunity and shout ing for a rally in support of protests that decades he was largely out of the public ly argue with the security forces and say the presence of security officers. Because and say what I have to say. Even if just one swept the Arab world in 2011. Supporters spotlight until he ran in the 2009 election, this is how they spend their days,” the of their isolation, Karoubi, Mousavi and passerby hears it, they will convey it to describe their captivity as “kidnapping” by emerging as the leading candidate for the source said. “The visits are limited, few in Rahnavard have decided to make no com- others.” —Reuters Aref quits Iran vote Reformists back moderate Rowhani

TEHRAN: Sole reformist candidate Mohammad Khatami’s intervention came amid growing good (international) interactions to gradually Reza Aref pulled out of Iran’s presidential race calls in recent days from within the reformist reduce the sanctions and finally remove them,” yesterday as the reformist camp including ex- camp for Aref to quit in favour of Rowhani. he added. Rowhani has advocated flexibility in president Mohammad Khatami urged voters to Khatami’s advisory council had already said it negotiations over Iran’s controversial nuclear rally around Hassan Rowhani, a moderate. Aref was backing Rowhani as the “reformist camp drive, which world powers believe is masking said on his website that Khatami had sent him a candidate”. However, Aref did not declare his an atomic weapons program despite repeated letter advising that it “would not be wise” for support for any other candidate in the state- denials by Tehran. him to stay in the race for the election on Friday. ment announcing his withdrawal. Rowhani had When Rowhani was Iran’s top nuclear nego- tiator, Tehran agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and to implement snap inspec- tions by the UN atomic watchdog in accor- dance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Aref is the second of the eight candi- dates to withdraw. Ex-parliamentary speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, seen as close to CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi waves to the audience prior to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did so giving a speech during a conference on protecting the country’s water crisis on Monday, saying he was “promoting the and Ethiopia’s dam project on the Blue on Monday. —AFP chances of a conservative election”. Rowhani, 64, will now face other major con- tenders hardline conservative Saeed Jalili, for- Egypt warns all options mer foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati and Tehran’s mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. open over Ethiopia dam Hopefuls Mohsen Rezai and Mohammad CAIRO: Egypt’s president on Monday hardened building the dam. Prime Minister Hesham Kandil Gharazi are trailing in polls. Supporters of Jalili, his stance against Ethiopia and its construction had just finished addressing parliament about head of the Supreme National Security Council of a Nile dam, warning that “all options are open” how the government planned to work diplo- and tasked with negotiating with world powers, in dealing with the project that threatens to matically, legally and technically with Ethiopia have harshly criticised Rowhani’s approach dur- leave Egypt with a dangerous water shortage. over the dam when the session heated up. ing his tenure, saying he made too many con- Speaking in a live televised speech before hun- Kandil called the dam’s construction an “act cessions in return for too little. Rowhani quit his dreds of supporters, Mohamed Morsi said Egypt of defiance,” but then hurriedly left the chamber post in 2005 over disagreement with President is not calling for war, but it is willing to confront despite calls for clarification over how to handle Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as Iran resumed the any threats to its water security. “If it loses one the situation if Ethiopia rejects overtures. “Egypt sensitive uranium enrichment work that it had drop, our blood is the alternative,” he said to a will turn to a graveyard” if the dam is completed, suspended. raucous crowd of largely Islamist supporters that Egyptian lawmaker Khaled Ouda, a geologist, Pro-reformist and moderate newspapers erupted into a standing ovation. shouted to parliament. “The prime minister hailed Aref’s withdrawal. The reformist Arman Ethiopia’s $4.2 billion hydroelectric dam, didn’t provide anything.” Abdullah Badr, who ran the headline “Aref greets Rowhani... the which would be Africa’s largest, challenges a leads the ultraconservative Islamist Salafi caucus great consensus.” The Etemad newspaper ran colonial-era agreement that had given Egypt in parliament, held up a blank notebook after TEHRAN: Iranian supporters of first vice president and reformist presidential candidate and Sudan the lion’s share of rights to Nile water. Kandil’s speech and said: “I have been taking Mohammad Reza Aref hold his portraits during his campaign rally on Monday. —AFP its main story as: “Reformist votes Rowhani,” adding that the decision follows weeks of Experts estimate that Egypt could lose as much notes and the page for solutions is blank.” Hours later, Khatami called on voters to support been top nuclear negotiator under Khatami deliberations. Aref’s move has prompted the as 20 percent of its Nile water in the three to five “Where are the studies? Where are the solutions? Rowhani. “Due to the duty I have to the country and served as a senior security official under conservative camp to call for union among the years needed for Ethiopia to fill a massive reser- This is about water security and there are ene- voir. “If Egypt is the Nile’s gift, then the Nile is a mies outside and inside - what is the role of the and the fate of the people of Iran I will vote for the pragmatic former president Akbar Hashemi remaining conservative candidates. “In case of gift to Egypt,” Morsi said in his opening remarks. government and what did it do?” he said. my esteemed brother Hassan Rowhani,” Rafsanjani, whose backing he still enjoys. division of the vote among the conservatives, The president’s speech reflected the impor- The crisis plays into a wider feeling of malaise Khatami said on his website. “I ask all, especially “I will follow the paths of Khatami and then the conservative candidate will be elect- tance of the Nile River to Egypt. It provides in Egypt. A diverse spectrum of the population is reformists and those who seek the dignity and Rafsanjani,” the media quoted Rowhani as say- ed with just a few more votes than his almost all of the fresh water to a country that is growing increasingly impatient with Morsi’s han- elevation of the nation,” to come and vote for ing on Monday at a rally in the western reformist rival,” wrote the publisher of the otherwise largely parched desert. As much as 85 dling of the country’s instability, including a “Hassan Rowhani in order for their demands to province of Kurdistan. “I do not approve of the hardline Kayhan newspaper, Hossein percent of the Nile’s water comes from Ethiopia. security breakdown and a struggling economy, be met.” current foreign policy. We should try to have Shariatmadari. —AFP “We are not calling for war, but we will not allow, more than two years after an uprising toppled at all, threats against our water security,” Morsi longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Opposition said before adding, “all options are open.” Morsi activists are hoping to harness the frustration of appeared to be using concern about Ethiopia’s Egyptians into mass protests planned on the 1,000 Iraq Kurd soldiers desert megaproject to whip up nationalistic fervor anniversary of Morsi’s taking office June 30. ahead of protests planned against him later this Suggestions last week by some political leaders KIRKUK, Iraq: More than 1,000 forces, according to the mayor of the not want to further raise tensions into peshmerga forces.” month. to aid rebels against the Ethiopian government Kurdish career soldiers in the Iraqi town where they are based. His com- between Arabs and Kurds in what is a The mass defection comes at a In the conference hall where Morsi deliv- or even sabotage the dam itself also heightened army have deserted and want to be ments were echoed by the swathe of disputed territory claimed crucial time for Iraq’s security forces, ered his speech, some of his supporters chant- concerns in Egypt. Ethiopia has demanded an integrated into forces loyal to Iraq’s spokesman for the Kurdish ministry by both the central government and which are dealing with a massive ed slogans against Israel and accused it of col- official explanation. autonomous Kurdish region, officials responsible for peshmerga forces, the Kurdish authorities. “The forces ... are spike in violence, months of protests luding with Ethiopia to harm Egypt. Blaming Egypt faces the prospect of its current water said yesterday. The move comes after former rebel militia that is now part of still deployed to their positions, but in Sunni Arab provinces, and fears of Israel for Egypt’s problems is common here. shortage worsening when the Grand Ethiopian the Kurdish troops disobeyed orders Kurdistan’s security forces. they are receiving their salaries and spillover from the conflict in neigh- Israel denied any connection to the construc- Renaissance Dam is completed. The crisis start- to take part in an operation ordered But the officials differed as to orders from the peshmerga ministry,” bouring Syria. “This happens in places tion of the dam. Morsi said he would be willing ed last month when Ethiopia diverted the flow by the Shiite-led government in whether the soldiers’ request to join Abdul told AFP. where you have a severe division of to approach opposition groups in order to of the Blue Nile, one of the Nile’s sources, to Baghdad against a mainly Sunni Arab the peshmerga had been met. The Peshmerga ministry spokesman loyalties,” warned John Drake, an Iraq unite Egyptians around a common position make way for the dam - before a 10-member town. If their request is fulfilled, such a troops had been assigned to the eth- Halkurd Mullah Ali confirmed that the analyst for risk consultancy firm AKE with regard to the dam. This came after two panel of experts from Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia mass defection would deal a heavy nically-mixed towns of Tuz Khurmatu soldiers were not carrying out Group. “These tensions are being driv- prominent opposition parties declined an invi- and other countries released a study on the blow to Iraq’s stretched armed forces and Sulaiman Bek, the latter of which Baghdad’s orders, and added that en by ethnic and sectarian identity, so tation to meet Morsi last week, citing a lack of dam’s impact. The move took the Egyptian gov- as they grapple with a surge in vio- briefly fell to gunmen in April. Kurdish authorities were providing when you have got community iden- transparency in dealing with national issues ernment by surprise. lence that has sparked fears of According to Tuz Mayor Shallal Abdul, rations because officials “sympathised tity having more of an impact on your and a failure to listen to them. Ethiopia’s unilateral action appeared to renewed sectarian bloodshed. they stood accused of refusing to fol- with them”. But he denied that the sol- job and your efforts to enforce securi- “The great Nile is that which all our lives are ignore the 10-nation Nile Basin Initiative, a Two officials said the 1,070 Kurdish low orders as Sulaiman Bek, a mostly- diers were receiving either wages or ty, you are not going to be an effec- connected to. The lives of the Egyptians are con- regional partnership formed in 1999 that seeks members of the Iraqi army’s 16th Arab town, was overrun. As punish- orders from peshmerga commanders. tive force.” He added that it seemed as nected around it ... as one great people,” Morsi to develop the river in a cooperative manner. Brigade mutinied when gunmen took ment, they were ordered to attend re- “We will discuss their situation with though “employees of the govern- told the crowd. Shifting his tone later in the Egypt complained that the 10-member panel control of a northern town in April, training. Three senior Kurdish officers the joint security committee (of the ment - because that is what they are - speech, Morsi said that Egypt considers Ethiopia did not give concrete answers to the impact of and subsequently declined to attend were also replaced with Arabs, Abdul Baghdad government and the feel that the situation is out of control, a “friend” and noted he has visited the country the dam, because Ethiopia failed to provide disciplinary re-training. The soldiers said. autonomous Kurdish regional admin- and they are resorting to insubordina- twice since taking office. He said his administra- enough updated data to the panel. Ethiopia said were no longer receiving salaries or The troops did not follow orders to istration),” he said. “If we do not reach tion. “That would be a worrying sign. tion is in continuous dialogue with Ethiopia and the report assured that the dam will not harm rations from the Iraqi army, nor were stay and defend the town against the an agreement with Baghdad about It would indicate a lack of belief in the Sudan to discuss water rights. Earlier in the day, Egypt. It was not possible to obtain a copy of the they following any orders from federal Sunni Arab gunmen because they did them, we are ready to integrate them state.” —AFP angry Egyptian lawmakers accused Morsi’s pre- report to independently examine its conclu- mier of doing nothing to prevent Ethiopia from sions. —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

Qaeda, Sunni insurgents exploit Iraq’s sectarian woes

BAGHDAD: Masked gunmen stopped the Shiite-led government. favoured an Al-Qaeda revival, with Sunni longer control vast areas or towns as in focused on helping fellow-Sunni mili- bus full of Shiite police officers and fami- Iraqi officials say that in the desert resentment against perceived discrimina- the heyday of their campaign against US tants in Syria, other groups are trying to lies at what looked like an Iraqi army near Syria men with black jihadi flags are tion by the Shiite-led government fuelling troops, and Sunni support for armed channel Sunni discontent into armed checkpoint on a western desert highway reclaiming their former strongholds to insurgent recruitment. Shiite Prime rebellion is far from universal. Yet anger revolt against Baghdad. In January, Izzat in the Sunni-dominated province of use as staging posts in their deadly cam- Minister Nouri Al-Maliki now accuses among minority Sunnis over perceived Ibrahim Al-Douri, head of the Baath party Anbar. Two of the gunmen asked passen- paign. Suicide bombers wearing explo- some Sunni tribal sheikhs of sheltering Al- slights and abuses has deepened, lead- and of the Army of the Men of the gers one by one where they were from sive belts - a signature of Al-Qaeda - are Qaeda militants. “There are those who ing to months of mass protests. After a Naqshbandi Order, formed in 2007 to and then shot 14 dead in their seats, leav- hitting with a frequency not seen in years, want to incite sedition by targeting a cer- deadly army raid on a protest camp in fight US troops, urged Sunnis to rise ing one woman alive with a simple mes- implying there is no shortage of recruits tain sect,” he said in an interview this the town of Hawija in April, Sunni gun- against Maliki. The Naqshbandi army sage: “Go back and tell them how we are ready to sacrifice themselves. Nearly week. “Yes, Al-Qaeda has a presence, but men appeared in Fallujah, Mosul and oth- plays on Sunni grievances over a law killing you.” Last week’s bus attack, whose 2,000 people have died in attacks since the painful thing is some tribes do not er cities and fought street battles with used by Iraq’s Shiite leadership to exclude details were recounted by local officials, April, according to UN figures, in the cooperate. These gangs are protected by government forces. One Sunni lawmaker, Baathists and officers of Saddam’s dis- strengthened fears that Iraq is edging worst spike of bloodshed since Shiite- some tribes.” who asked not to be named, said mili- banded army from public office. Limited back into sectarian mayhem, with Al- Sunni bloodletting eased five years ago. Al-Qaeda’s revival in Iraq worries tants were steadily gaining strength. concessions by Maliki have done little to Qaeda again striking at will in a drive to Al-Qaeda’s local wing, Islamic State of Washington, which pulled out its troops “They are recruiting now among the pro- defuse the anger. provoke civil war. Iraq, may spearhead the violence, but at the end of 2011. Shiite leaders in testers, and the government has no Naqshbandi is now extending its influ- Baghdad has now banned off-duty other Sunni armed groups are also resur- Baghdad also fear that the conflict in Syria response.” ence beyond its traditional base in the officials, police and soldiers from using gent, including the Naqshbandi army, an may bring to power Sunni Islamists who Al-Qaeda fighters use abandoned northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul, often the desert highway without an escort. expanding network of Saddam Hussein’s might encourage Sunni rebels in Iraq. hamlets in Anbar’s Jazira desert for safe in coordination with Al-Qaeda, security More than 70 people were killed on outlawed Baath party members and ex- Iraqi government officials say Shiite mili- haven and temporary shelter, often with officials say. Despite - or perhaps because Monday alone when car bombs and army officers. A few years ago Sunni tribal tias, which once engaged in tit-for-tat the compliance of local communities, of - its associations with deposed strong- attacks hit cities across northern Iraq. One leaders turned on Al-Qaeda, disgusted by killings with Sunni insurgents, have yet to security officials say. “Tribes won’t revolt man Saddam, Naqshbandi has some assault on a police base involving suicide its indiscriminate killings and cadre of for- be drawn into a new cycle of sectarian against them as long as they do not tar- advantages over the Islamist militants bombers, rockets and gunmen killed 40 eign fighters, helping U.S. troops defeat revenge. Sunni mosques, neighbour- get their people,” said one senior police linked to global jihad, according to people, mostly police and soldiers. the insurgency in Anbar. But with the hoods and tribal leaders have also been officer who asked not to be named. “They Ramzy Mardini, at the Iraq Institute for Invigorated by Syria’s Sunni-led revolt and Americans gone, Iraqi forces no longer attacked - in some cases perhaps by Al- say protecting soldiers and policemen is Strategic Studies. “(It) is an indigenous fed by Sunni frustrations at home, Al- have the air cover and intelligence that Qaeda provocateurs. But some Sunni not their responsibility, it’s the govern- movement and better integrated in Iraq’s Qaeda’s Iraqi wing and other insurgents US forces once supplied. leaders blame Shiite militias. ment’s.” Sunni landscape than Al-Qaeda in Iraq,” pose a violent challenge to Baghdad’s Iraqi political tensions have also Al-Qaeda and other insurgents no Apart from Al-Qaeda, which is partly he said. —Reuters Germany begins to count cost as floods surge north Hungarians breathe sigh of relief as Danube falls BERLIN: Deadly floods forging a path of devastation power cut and some 400 people had to seek higher euros would be covered by insurance policies. The through central Europe for more than a week bore down ground. Downriver the Elbe stabilised as towns and cities German Economic Institute (DIW) estimated in the mid- on northern Germany yesterday as new estimates remained in a state of alert, particularly in Magdeburg, dle of last week that the floods had already done six bil- emerged on the cost of the damage. Swollen rivers in the the capital of Saxony-Anhalt, where more than 20,000 lion euros in damage. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein have had to seek emergency shelter. just over three months away from a general election and posed the biggest threat, after flood waters that left at Hungarians meanwhile breathed a sigh of relief as the last week pledged Ä100 million in immediate aid, is to least 19 people dead across Europe. Europe’s top eco- level of the Danube continued to fall to 8.45 m yesterday meet Germany’s 16 state leaders tomorrow to discuss nomic power has published no official figure on the cost from 8.81 m late Monday. Travel restrictions in Budapest recovery efforts. of the deluge but a private ratings agency said the figure were expected to remain in place for another week but a Meanwhile a staple of the German diet, the potato, could surpass Ä12 billion ($16 billion) in Germany alone. key bridge linking Hungary to Slovakia reopened to traf- looked to be another victim of the flooding as the fruit The German Agricultural Association said sodden fic. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his ministers would and vegetable industry association (BOGK) warned that a fields, destroyed crops and damaged equipment brought begin calculating the cost of the damage and hammer- meagre harvest could drive up prices. “It is not unlikely losses of Ä405 million, according to a preliminary esti- ing out a reconstruction plan. “We still have a day and a that there could be a shortage of French fries, dumplings mate published yesterday. Around 305,000 hectares of half or two tough days ahead of us,” he said. “That is why and chips,” BOGK managing director Horst-Peter Karos fertile farmland were submerged as the floodwaters we need to focus our efforts and attention at this time.” told the daily Bild. Officials in Bavaria, which experienced worked their way north, with Saxony-Anhalt in the centre Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said yesterday the the worst of the flooding last week, said the brown of the country seeing about one-third of the total dam- government would establish an aid fund for stricken resi- waters had wiped out around 60 percent of the veg- age. Some 9,000 soldiers were deployed in Saxony-Anhalt dents and businesses using a model established after etable harvest. And in Saxony, where the Elbe burst its yesterday to ensure dykes held as around 11,300 people “worst-in-a-century” floods in 2002. “That was a success,” banks last week, 30,000 hectares used for grazing and remained stranded in provisional housing. he told Berlin’s Inforadio, saying the amount of the new 45,000 hectares of cultivated land were inundated to an In Schleswig-Holstein in the north, fears focused on fund would be determined after the floods had passed extent where “nothing could be saved”, Andreas Jahnel of the town of Lauenburg, 40 km southeast of Hamburg, and the cost of the damage had been tallied. Ratings the region’s agricultural federation said. “The fields were FISCHERDORF, Germany: A helper of the Red Cross sits on a boat in the where the Elbe was expected to peak tomorrow. There agency Fitch said the latest deluge could be more costly under water for four or five days - everything is rotten,” he floodwaters of the river Danube near Deggendorf in southern Germany yes- the river has already reached a level of 9.56 m, more than than the 2002 catastrophe, forecasting Ä12 billion in said, adding that the only hope was that some of the har- terday. —AFP double the normal. The old quarter of the town had its damage in Germany alone, of which up to three billion vest could be salvaged to produce biogas. —AFP Russia would consider asylum for cyber leaker

MOSCOW: Russia would consider data by the NSA, fled to Hong Kong and granting asylum to the American who has said he hopes that Iceland might has exposed top-secret US surveillance grant him asylum. programs, if he were to ask for it, Putin said the methods revealed by President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Snowden were widespread and were said yesterday. Spokesman Dmitry justified “in the circumstances of the Peskov stopped short of saying struggle against international terror- Moscow would accept Edward ism”, but that they must be applied Snowden, but pro-Kremlin lawmakers legally and not behind the public’s spoke out in favour of the idea, tapping back. “In Russia, for instance, one can- into a lingering Cold War rivalry with not listen to a telephone conversation the United States and a vein of anti- without the proper permission from a American sentiment Putin has often court,” Putin told state-run English-lan- encouraged. “Promising Snowden asy- guage channel RT. He was not asked lum, Moscow takes upon itself the about the asylum issue. defence of people persecuted for politi- Snowden is not known to have cal reasons,” Alexei Pushkov, chairman mentioned the possibility of asylum in of the international affairs committee in Russia, where the government taps the the lower house of parliament, said on phones of opposition members and Twitter. “There will be hysteria in the MOSCOW: Russian President keeps close tabs on social networks, United States. They recognise this as Vladimir Putin speaks during his but Peskov was quoted in Russian daily their right alone,” he said. visit to the new headquarters of Kommersant as saying Moscow was Putin and other Russian officials open to such an approach. Asked by have often accused the United States of “Russia Today” TV channel in Reuters whether Russia would be hypocrisy, saying it tries to impose stan- Moscow, Russia, yesterday. —AP inclined to grant a request from dards of human rights, freedom and Snowden’s leaks about National Snowden, Peskov said: “It is impossible democracy on other nations while Security Agency surveillance programs. (to say) now. No one has applied yet. If falling far short of them itself. “This is an Snowden, who provided the informa- he says: I request (political asylum), ideological catastrophe for the United tion for reports that revealed broad then we will consider it.” States,” Pushkov said, referring to monitoring of phone call and Internet Accused by the West of curtailing democracy and civil liberties over 13 years in power, Putin has missed few Sudan orders firms to chances to champion public figures who challenge Western governments, and to portray Washington as an shut South’s oil flow overzealous global policeman. He has KHARTOUM: Sudan’s oil ministry formally recent attacks. Juba denies supporting insur- pursued warm ties with US foes such as told oil companies yesterday to block the gents in the north and, in turn, has accused the late Venezuelan leader Hugo export flow of South Sudanese crude oil, fol- Khartoum of backing rebels on southern ter- Chavez, and this year granted Russian lowing an order from President Omar Al- ritory. South Sudan became independent citizenship to Gerard Depardieu after Bashir. Oil Minister Awad Ahmad Al-Jaz pre- two years ago under a peace deal that end- the French actor abandoned his home- sented the written directive in a meeting with ed a 22-year civil war. It separated with most land to escape high taxes. In 2010, the senior executives of the GNPOC joint operat- of Sudan’s 470,000 barrels per day of oil pro- Kremlin suggested Wikileaks founder ing company and Petrodar, the ministry said. duction but the export infrastructure Julian Assange should be nominated It orders them “to stop the process of trans- remains under northern control. Until March, for a Nobel prize. portation and exporting South Sudanese oil when the two countries reached detailed “By tapping telephones and conduct- within 60 days starting from Sunday June 9”, timetables to implement the nine agree- ing surveillance on the Internet, the US the ministry said. ments, the two sides had not been able to security services have violated the laws of On Sunday, Khartoum froze nine securi- agree on how much Juba should pay to use their own country. In this sense Snowden, ty and economic pacts with South Sudan, the pipeline. like Assange, is a rights defender,” mem- including a deal to restore economically The deals had been held up for months ber of parliament Pushkov tweeted. vital oil shipments through the Red Sea because of Sudan’s concerns that the South Russia recently began criticising the export terminal. A day earlier, Bashir had was backing rebels. Those concerns have now United States in annual reports on the said the oil minister must issue a formal resurfaced publicly even though the two state of human rights around the world - order effective Sunday to close the pipeline. sides had begun jointly monitoring a demili- fighting back for the drubbing Russia An expert told AFP 45 days would be tarised border buffer zone along with United gets in yearly rights reports by the US required to complete a shutdown without Nations peacekeepers. Yesterday, the oil min- State Department. In another pointed damaging the infrastructure. Despite these ister told the companies that “South Sudan is intervention, Putin offered on Friday to moves, Khartoum said it remained commit- not serious about implementing the security send Russian troops to the Golan Heights ted to good relations if the South’s govern- agreement.” On Sunday, Juba accused buffer zone between Israel and Syria, ment ended what it claims is support for Khartoum’s troops of pushing through the after Austria said it would withdraw from rebels on Sudanese soil. Bashir had earlier buffer zone and into South Sudan. Khartoum a UN peacekeeping force. His proposal warned the South over backing rebels, who in turn said the South had not withdrawn went down badly in the West because of analysts say humiliated the authorities with from six areas along the frontier. —AFP Russia’s support for the Syrian govern- ment. —Reuters local spotlight WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

Omar Kutaiba Alghanim delivering his speech during the press con- (From right) Hesham El Hawary, Shunichi Uchida, HE Toshihiro Tsujihara, Omar Kutaiba Alghanim and Manabu Nishimae ference.

(From right) Hesham El Hawary, Shunichi Uchida, Omar Kutaiba Alghanim and Manabu Nishimae Omar Kutaiba Alghanim amongst his guests.

uwait has once again hosted one of the most beautiful and Hawary, Senior General Manager Honda Middle East. These hon- ceremonious occasions that were held this summer in the ourable gentlemen have joined us today to celebrate the new and Kcountry. Blossoming with glorious promise of economic suc- promising partnership between Honda and Alghanim Motors in this cess anticipating further Kuwait’s commercial progress, the distinc- unique and spectacular evening. This partnership is among tive event itself comprised of rich, entertaining and artistic seg- Alghanim Industries’ most significant milestones.” ments with the highlight of the long awaited He added, “We are looking forward to working closely with evening being a performance from the Honda in order to market the company’s products for our customers renowned music artist, Hussain Al- here in Kuwait. Alghanim Industries and Honda have long shared a Jassmi, who moved and dazzled the mutual goal to serve customer needs in Kuwait at the highest inter- invitees and crowd of audiences who national standards. The promising partnership between Honda and were present at the event that was Alghanim Industries is based on the values both companies share. held in the Ice Skating Rink on Sunday. Both are ambitious corporations that stress upon customer centrici- The festive event was organized to mark ty as well as diversity, teamwork, meritocracy and respect in the the grand occasion of Alghanim workplace, a professional and empowering environment that con- Industries’ new partnership with the siders its employees as its core asset.” Japanese multinational corporation, Honda. Alghanim further said, “Today, Alghanim Industries continues to Alghanim Industries has proudly become the grow and succeed. Its new partnership with Honda has given new and exclusive distributor of all Honda Alghanim Motors the rights to distribute Honda’s products including products including vehicles, motorcycles its automobiles range, power products, marine products and motor- and power products in Kuwait for sales and cycles. Alghanim Industries will also provide state of the art service service. centers for the Honda products supported by qualified service engi- The event’s invitees included a large neers and all-new sales showrooms.” number of guests including the Japanese “At the end of the day, our customers lie at the heart of every- ambassador, Toshihiro Tsujihara, members of the thing we do. Although we at Alghanim Industries are proud and Japanese Embassy, high-ranking members from Honda excited about our new partnership with Honda, we know that what Motors including Manabu Nishimae, the Managing Officer of Honda might excite us even more is increasing our customers’ satisfaction Motor Co. and the Chief Operating Officer for Honda’s Regional and developing their lifetime experiences with the products and Operations in Europe, CIS, Middle and Near East and Africa, and services we now provide. Our customers are our calling, and it gives Shunichi Uchida, Director of Honda Middle East. Omar Kutaiba us great pleasure to go beyond their needs and wants with our new Alghanim, the Chief Executive Officer of Alghanim Industries, as well partnership with Honda,” Alghanim concluded. as top management members of Kuwaiti corporations and Honda On his part, Manabu Nishimae, the Managing Officer of Honda Alghanim who were also present at the event. Motor Co. and the Chief Operating Officer for Honda’s Regional Addressing the press conference held before the start of the Operations in Europe, CIS, Middle and Near East and Africa said, event, Omar Kutaiba Alghanim, Chief Executive Officer Alghanim “Since its establishment in 1948, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., has provided Industries, said, “Please join me in welcoming Japanese Ambassador: products of the highest quality that create new values for our cus- Toshihiro Tsujihara, Manabu Nishimae, the Managing Officer of tomers. Honda has grown to become the world’s largest motorcycle Honda Motor Company and Chief Operating Officer for Regional manufacturer and one of the leading automakers. Honda develops, Operations in Europe, CIS, the Middle and Near East and Africa and manufactures and markets a wide variety of products ranging from Schunichi Uchida, Director of Honda Middle East and Hesham El general-purpose engines to motorcycles, to specialty sports cars.

ASIMO gracefully dancing on stage.

The all-new 2013 Honda Accord ASIMO shakes hands with Shadia Bseiso, the presenter. local spotlight WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

A view of the audience.

Hussain Al-Jassmi captivates the With the presence of Hussain Al-Jassmi, rhythmic beats audience with his songs. of a traditional Kuwaiti folklore band and the beat of Japanese Taiko drums the audience was enthralled.

ble beginnings before the discovery of black gold that quickly breathed life into Kuwait, bringing about projects and potential of growth, an element that included the birth of Alghanim Industries in the year of 1932. Although And we have earned an outstanding reputation from cus- small, the ambitious company’s values and vision helped it tomers worldwide.” gain success year after year until it became what it is today: He added, “In 2012, Honda achieved worldwide sales of one of the largest regional corporations in the global mar- 15.5 million units of motorcycle, 4 million units of automo- ket. biles and 6.1 million units of power products. In total, we The short documentary featured different stages of have achieved 25.6 million unit sales in the world. And, Alghanim Industries including its growth, fruitful expan- under new venture, in order to provide products exceed- sion and success, the large number of globally renowned ing expectations and to give you the dream, Honda has brands it represents as well as its growing local, regional been developing the Honda Jet and ASIMO with new and global network of companies that includes 40 coun- robotic technology, who you will meet shortly later.” tries around the world with the highlight of everything On a final note he said, “Alghanim Industries and Honda being Alghanim Industries’ recent exclusive distribution have long shared a mutual ambition to address the needs agreement with Honda Motors in Kuwait. of customers in Kuwait by offering product and service at high quality. We are committed to exceed customer satis- Hussain Al-Jassmi: The faction and the Joy of Buying a Honda product. It is our Man with the Golden Voice promise to you.” Following the exciting performance of the Japanse The much-anticipated event started with speeches from taiko drummers, an announcer revealed the surprising per- formance of the night, the beloved music artist, Hussain Al- Honda officials before a traditional Kuwaiti folklore band Hussain Al-Jasmi, the man with the golden voice. broke the ice and awed its audience with its entrancing, Jassmi. With lyrics and harmonious melodies that tugged rhythmic beats and sounds of Kuwait’s past. Kuwaiti tradi- at his audience’s heartstrings, Al-Jassmi’s performance tion was followed by the captivating performance of became one of the grand event’s highlights as his unique Japanese taiko drummers who mesmerized the audience and powerful voice and presence filled the air and hearts with their dominating beat and rhythm. Although cultural- of his listeners and fans. Always the entertainer, Al- Jassmi’s ly different, the two traditional musical performances’ har- performance went beyond music as he engaged and inter- moniousness mirrored the equally balanced and harmo- acted with his audience who thus responded to his capti- nious nature of the new partnership between Honda vating musical talent and glory. Motors, the epitome of Japanese technology and innova- tion, and Alghanim Industries, a symbol of admirable suc- Honda and Alghanim: A Shared cess, prideful perseverance and a deeply rich history that Vision and United Effort spans over eight decades. Announcing the partnership between Alghanim Industries and Honda Motors concluded a long conversa- ASIMO: Honda’s Robot Visits Kuwait tion between the two entities that share the same ambi- The element of surprise was in the form of ASIMO, the tious vision that is always geared to constant progression smartest robot in the world that is the culmination of two and achieving success year after year. The two corpora- decades of humanoid robotics research by Honda engi- tions seemed to suit one another as both occupy leading neers in Japan. ASIMO was brought to Kuwait to reveal to positions in their respective local market. The admirable the audience at the event what the human mind has similarities that Honda Motors shares with Alghanim achieved in the field of technology: a robot that acts just as Industries instilled a familiar sense of trust that aided that Japanese corporation to grant Alghanim Industries the humans do. ASIMO can run, walk on even slopes and sur- Kuwaiti traditional ‘Arda dance. faces, turn smoothly, climb stairs and reach for and grasp exclusive right to distribute all of Honda’s products. With objects. ASIMO can also comprehend and respond to sim- that, Alghanim Industries established Alghanim ple voice commands. ASIMO has the ability to recognize International for the Sale and Purchase of Cars (Alghanim the face of a select group of individuals. Using its camera Motors) so as to become the legal and official distributor of eyes, ASIMO can map its environment and register station- Honda’s products in Kuwait including Honda vehicles, ary objects. ASIMO can also avoid colliding with obstacles motorcycles, power products and marine outboard as it moves through its environment. As development con- engines. tinues on ASIMO, today Honda demonstrates ASIMO The agreement gives Alghanim Motors rights for the around the world to encourage and inspire young stu- distribution and servicing of Honda Automobiles’ range of dents to explore the infinite universe of science and tech- coupes, sedans, SUVs, CUVs, and minivans. Alghanim nology. ASIMO will soon be of help with important tasks Industries will also provide and manage Honda such as assisting the elderly or disabled people as well as Automobiles facilities in Kuwait, including dedicated serv- performing certain tasks that are dangerous to humans ice centers, Honda qualified service engineers and new including fighting fires or cleaning up toxic spills. specialist sales outlets.

Kuwait Past & Present: In the Eyes of Alghanim Industries Although it was a simple film that was a few minutes long, the content it contained possessed beautiful and pride-filling moments and snapshots of the past and pres- ent. The short documentary showcased aged, yellowing photographs of Kuwait’s past and the Gulf country’s hum- Taiko drummers up close.

ΩJapanese Taiko drummers leave the audience mesmerized with their drum

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Mayor to start prepping US diplomatic security NYC for warming world

NEW YORK: The projections paint an walls - and emphatic about not suggesting in sex, drugs cover-up? unsettling picture of New York’s future: a that people retreat from coastal communi- city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people ties. The recommendations will draw from could be living in a flood zone that would updated predictions from the New York Memo reports cases of hushed of criminal activity cover a quarter of the land, with tempera- City Panel on Climate Change, a scientists’ WASHINGTON: A US watchdog has launched an “underground drug ring” near the US embassy in vowed “any case we would take seriously and we tures steadily rising. Facing those new pro- group convened by the city. inquiry into claims that diplomatic security offi- Baghdad which was said to supply drugs to con- would investigate, and that’s exactly what we’re The average day could be 4 degrees to jections of the effects of global warming cials tried to cover up alleged sex-and-drugs tractors working for diplomatic security. doing,” but she dismissed the notion that behav- on America’s biggest city, Mayor Michael nearly 7 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to nearly 4 charges against agents and diplomats, an official In one case, officials told the inspector gener- ior such as using prostitutes was endemic. Bloomberg was scheduled to talk about degrees Celsius) hotter by mid-century, said Monday. State Department diplomatic secu- al they were told to stop investigating an “Last year alone, the detail accompanied what to do about risks that Superstorm the panel estimates in data Pinsky and rity agents are responsible for protecting 275 US American ambassador “who held a sensitive then-Secretary Clinton to 69 countries with Sandy brought into stark relief when it Holloway discussed Monday. A once-in-a- embassies as well as the secretary of state-and diplomatic post and was suspected of patroniz- more than 10,000 person-nights spent in hotels devastated the East Coast last year. century storm would likely spur a surge 5 the bureau last came under fire for the 2012 ing prostitutes in a public park,” CBS reported. abroad. So I’m not going to speak to specific cas- “We have to look ahead and anticipate feet (1.5 meters) or more higher than did attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on es... but it is hardly endemic.” Psaki also revealed any and all future threats, not only from Sandy, which sent a record 14-foot (4.2- Now, in a new blow to the agency’s credibili- Monday did not deny any of the allegations con- that, following the recommendation of the meter) storm tide gushing into lower ty, a watchdog has called in outside law enforce- tained in the CBS report, but refused to go into Inspector General, “diplomatic security has taken Manhattan. And with local waters a foot to ment officers to investigate its procedures, amid specifics. the further step of requesting an additional 2.5 feet (0.76 meters) higher than they are claims it tried to hush up allegations of the use “We take allegations of misconduct seriously review by outside, experienced law enforcement today, 8 percent of the city’s coastline of prostitutes by agents and even an under- and we investigate thoroughly. All cases men- officers.” could see flooding just from high tides, the ground drugs ring supplying contractors. An tioned in the CBS report were thoroughly inves- These would make “expert assessments about group estimates. Most of that coast is in a internal memo by the State Department’s tigated or are under investigation,” she insisted our current procedures,” she said. A former inves- relatively undeveloped area near a bay. Inspector General found eight cases in which to reporters. She dismissed the idea that the tigator with the Inspector General, Aurelia City Hall, the state government and inquiries into alleged criminal activity by diplo- State Department would not hand over for pros- Fedenisn, told CBS: “We also uncovered several others have released warnings over the matic security agents or contractors were influ- ecution any of its 70,000 staff if they were found allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, years about climate risks. The city has enced or halted, CBS television reported. to have engaged in criminal activity. some of which never became cases.” But mem- required some new developments in flood They included allegations that security “I can say broadly that the notion that we bers of the diplomatic security bureau told the zones to be elevated and has restored agents protecting ex-secretary of state Hillary would not vigorously pursue criminal miscon- Inspector General’s investigators to back off, she Clinton “engaged prostitutes while on official ducts in any case is preposterous,” she told alleged. “We were very upset. We expect to see wetlands as natural barriers, among other trips in foreign countries,” CBS said, quoting from reporters. “We’ve put individuals behind bars for influence, but the degree to which that influ- steps. “Sandy, obviously, increased the the memo, a problem the report says was criminal behavior. There is record of that. ence existed and how high up it went, was very urgency of dealing with this and the need “endemic.” It also revealed details of an alleged Ambassadors would be no exception.” Pskai disturbing,” she said. — AFP to plan and start to take concrete steps,” Holloway said. The new projections echo 2009 estimates from the climate change panel, but the timeframe for some upper- What’s the problem with PRISM? end possibilities has moved up from the 2080s to mid-century. “The overall num- WASHINGTON: When the federal Microsoft, Google and others - and gram, the Bush administration court approves the collection rules, bers are similar, but we have more com- government went looking for phone grab emails, video chats, pictures and appealed to Congress, saying court the government can grab anything it pelling evidence now that (a more severe numbers tied to terrorists, it grabbed more. approval was too arduous. There wants. Judging from the documents scenario from 2009) is looking like a more the records of just about everyone in Just how much the government were too many emails to monitor. released by the Post and Guardian, realistic possibility now,” due to improved America. Why every phone number? seizes is unclear. Clapper says it is Getting warrants for each one took PRISM takes a lot of data and quickly. “Well, you have to start someplace,” narrowly focused on foreign targets, too long. “In certain cases, this An NSA document said PRISM was computer models and more evidence that Director of National Intelligence and technology companies say they process of obtaining a court order the eavesdropping program “used Mayor Michael Bloomberg some ice sheets are melting, said Radley James Clapper told NBC News on turn over only information that’s slows, and in some cases may pre- most” by the agency. Horton, a climate scientist with Columbia Monday. That breadth, that willing- required by court order. But after vent, the government’s efforts to The law says the government hurricanes and other coastal storms but University’s Earth Institute and a ness to sweep up enormous informa- reading a leaked court document last conduct surveillance of communica- must limit its surveillance to people also from droughts, heavy downpours and researcher with the city climate panel. tion on Americans with no ties to ter- week that allowed NSA to sweep up tions that are potentially vital to the “reasonably believed to be located heat waves - many of which are likely to be Scientists have reached a consensus on rorists, is making it hard for the millions of American phone records, national security,” Kenneth Wainstein, outside the United States.” But every- longer and more intense in the years to global warming but still debate how Obama administration to tamp down Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier then the Justice Department’s top thing hinges words such as “target- come,” an excerpt from the mayor’s severe the effects will be. Meanwhile, the controversy over a separate program, Foundation said, “The question is national security prosecutor, testified ing” and “collecting,” which have planned speech says. Two top Bloomberg Federal Emergency Management Agency called PRISM, to monitor Internet how broad the orders are they’re giv- in 2007. unique meanings in the spy world. As aides who oversaw the study underlying released revisions Monday to proposed traffic. ing these companies.” Sometimes, the government the classified court order released the speech, Seth Pinsky and Deputy Mayor new flood zone maps for the city. About In short, critics ask, if looking for PRISM was born late in George W would sweep up Americans’ emails, last week shows, officials can grab Caswell Holloway, wouldn’t hint Monday 218,000 people and 35,000 buildings are terrorists means collecting every Bush’s administration, but its blood- but not intentionally. “As a matter of phone logs from everybody and still at what the suggestions would be, what in the current once-in-100-year flood zone, American’s phone records, how can line can be traced to the frenzied due course, if you’re targeting some- say they haven’t targeted or collected they might cost or how they might be drawn in the 1980s. The new maps rough- anyone believe the president when aftermath of 9/11. It used to be that, thing foreign, you could inadvertent- information on a single American. financed. Many key decisions likely will ly double those numbers, though the revi- he says Americans aren’t being moni- when the federal government want- ly intercept an American,” said Only when an analyst reaches into come after Bloomberg’s third and final sion shifts about 5,800 structures from a tored on the Internet? “These things ed to read a foreigner’s Yahoo or Michael McConnell, the director of the archives and looks at the informa- term ends this year. subset called the V zone - the area expect- are very narrowly circumscribed,” Microsoft emails, it needed a judge’s national intelligence at the time. tion has something been collected. Bloomberg said last winter the study ed to suffer the worst damage - to a less Obama said. “They’re very focused.” approval. After the attacks, Bush Congress agreed. No more warrants. Clapper uses a library analogy: The would examine the pros and cons of build- stringent zone. A roughly two-year review The Internet program came to light secretly authorized the National With that, PRISM was born. Now, the government can fill its shelves with last week in documents published by Security Agency to get to skip that government needs only explain to books containing the phone num- ing berms, dunes, levees and other coast- is expected before new maps become offi- The Washington Post and Guardian oversight and read US-based email Congress and a secret court exactly bers of Americans, who they’re talk- cial. They can affect building regulations protection structures. But he has historical- newspapers. It allows the NSA to accounts in real time. how it intends to collect information ing to, how long they talk and where ly been cool to the idea of massive sea and insurance.— AP reach into the data streams of US When the New York Times like emails, Skype video conferences they call from. That doesn’t count as companies - Facebook, Yahoo, revealed the existence of that pro- and Facebook messages. Once the collection. — AP 10 women, many in 90s, escape Calif limo fire

SAN FRANCISCO: Ten women - some of got out and the other women -some of foot partition, apparently because smoke them in their 90s - escaped unharmed whom relied on walkers and canes- fol- and fire kept them from the rear exits of from a limousine that began smoking lowed with help from each other and a the extended passenger compartment. and caught fire in Northern California a caregiver. “I think that’s what saved us,” Four women and the driver managed little more than a month after five nurses she said. “The doors were not closed, so to escape. The women were celebrating were killed while trapped inside a burn- they weren’t locked.” Flames erupted the wedding of a newlywed friend. The ing limousine on a nearby bridge. The about 15 minutes later, she said, California Highway Patrol has not con- women were celebrating one of their although the women were out by then cluded its investigation of the May 4 90th birthdays and were in the vehicle and had moved into the home. Television fire.Industry experts say the stretch lim- outside the birthday woman’s home - news footage showed the limo’s passen- ousine industry is poorly regulated where they had gathered shortly after 11 ger and driver’s compartments com- because regulatory agencies lack funds a.m.- when white smoke began coming pletely gutted. to investigate the many small businesses out of the partition between the driver’s The limo fire on the San Mateo- that modify limousines. US Department compartment and the passenger com- Hayward Bridge over San Francisco Bay of Transportation data shows five people partment, Mary Chapman, one of the last month spread rapidly, engulfing the died in three separate stretch limo acci- passengers, said Monday. luxury car in just a few fleeting moments. dents in 2010, and 21 people died in The limousine was idling, but the The five women who died were found another three accidents in 2011. doors were open. Chapman, 63, said she pressed up against the 3-foot by 1 1/2- The 2008 Lincoln Town Car that burned Sunday was well-maintained and had 80,000 miles, said Claudius Oliveira, owner of TownCar SF, which operates the limo and two others in the San Francisco Bay area. He said faulty wiring was responsible for the fire and blamed the manufacturer. Typically, stretch limos are either modified by a company that customizes and stretches the vehicle or by whoever bought the limousine directly from the car marker. The manufacturer modified the car in this case, Oliveira said. WALNUT CREEK: In this photo, a burned out 2009 Lincoln Town Car Walnut Creek police Lt. Jay Hill said limousine sits in a driveway along Skycrest Drive in the Rossmoor the vehicle was only licensed to carry community of Walnut Creek, Calif. — AP eight people. —AP Police piece together fatal shooting PRESCOTT VALLEY: A 4-year-old boy 30s was shot in the left side of the chest and his son arrived, and the gun went off who was visiting Prescott Valley with his and was bleeding. One of his unidenti- within a minute. “He really wasn’t in a dad grabbed a loaded handgun from a fied male friends was in the living room position to know they were there or to television stand, asked what it was and at the time and told authorities that he go and secure his gun,” Bonney said. pulled the trigger, killing the man in heard the boy say “what is this?” before a “With this person, living by himself, there what police say was a tragic accident. shot rang out. Thomas grabbed his chest wasn’t necessarily any legal requirement Justin Stanfield Thomas, 34, had traveled and said to call 911, then collapsed, to keep that weapon locked away.” No from Phoenix to a friend’s home on police said. one answered the door Monday at the Friday to pick up some of his things from With labored breathing, Williams tells duplex. The case has raised questions a duplex where he lived until earlier this a dispatcher that he wasn’t sure what about how weapons should be stored in year, police said. The boy quickly found a happened but that he believed it was an a home even when children aren’t pres- .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun, accident involving Thomas’ son. “He’s non ent. Firearms experts say gun owners showed it to his dad and fired it, authori- responsive, he’s breathing, there’s bub- have a certain responsibility for their ties said. “Daddy got blood on him,” the bles coming from his mouth,” Williams weapons but aren’t required to lock boy later told investigators. says. “He looks pretty bad.” Thomas later them up at all times. Larry Kolontar, own- Police Sgt. Brandon Bonney said died at a hospital. The Prescott Daily er of Common Sense Firearms Training in Monday that it didn’t appear that the Courier reported that Thomas was an Des Moines, Iowa, said the issue isn’t tenant - James Williams, 26 - knew Army special forces veteran who served about whether children are present Thomas and his son would be visiting or in Iraq. His mother told Phoenix televi- inside the home - it’s about control of had enough time to secure the weapon sion station KNXV that her grandson did your weapon at all times. “If it’s not on before they arrived. No children lived in not understand what happened and was you or in a secured location, out of reach the house. Bonney said Williams was waiting to play with his dad. A number and hidden, it needs to be locked up,” asleep when Thomas sent him a text listed for her in Tampa, Fla., was discon- said Kolontar, who teaches firearms safe- message to say he was coming over, but nected. ty. “This is a very sad, horrible situation, Williams didn’t read it until authorities Bonney said no charges were expect- but it’s one of those things that could showed up to investigate the shooting. ed in the case, and that Williams kept the have been avoided if the owner would Williams is heard in a 911 recording weapon for self-defense. He said Williams have taken a little more responsibility released Monday saying that a man in his was in a back bedroom when Thomas and secured the weapon.” —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Korean talks called off High-level dialogue cancelled after discord over delegate

SEOUL: The Koreas’ first high-level talks in years entirely on South Korea,” Kim said. He added that After UN sanctions were strengthened following have been scrapped because of a stalemate over Seoul is still open to talks if North Korea reconsid- North Korea’s third nuclear test in February, the who will lead each delegation, South Korea said ers. country, which is estimated to have a handful of yesterday, a day before they were to begin. The The main goal of the planned talks had been to crude nuclear devices, threatened nuclear war and cancellation is a blow to tentative hopes that the see if the Koreas could restore economic projects missile strikes against Seoul and Washington. rivals were about to improve ties following years of that were born in the “sunshine era,” a 10-year peri- North Korea has also conducted recent nuclear rising hostility. North Korea said it wasn’t sending od ending in 2008 when South Korea was ruled by tests and long-range rocket launches. its officials to Seoul for the two-day meeting that liberal presidents who shipped large quantities of Some observers believe Pyongyang was trying was to begin today because the South had aid to Pyongyang as they sought to improve ties. to ease ties with Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing as a way changed the head of its delegation, Kim Hyung- The last of those projects, a North Korean factory to win coveted talks with Washington, which it VIENTIANE: In this photo, a Chinese teacher instructs the first class of students suk, a spokesman for Seoul’s Unification Ministry, complex run with North Korean workers and South believes could grant it aid and security guarantees. told reporters in a briefing. The ministry is in Korean managers and capital, shut down this South Korean President Park Geun-hye has made the Chinese language in a classroom at the transitional campus for Soochow charge of North Korea matters. spring. North Korea also wanted Seoul to restart an trust-building with Pyongyang a hallmark of her University in Laos. — AP There had been hope that the talks on reviving era of rapprochement by commemorating past nascent rule, even as she vows strong counter- two high-profile economic cooperation projects joint statements on reunification and joint eco- strikes to any North Korean attacks. There was China ready to set up first would allow the countries to move past a relation- nomic cooperation efforts. But Seoul balked at this; skepticism in Seoul about the talks even before ship marred by recent North Korean threats of it has demanded apologies for past bloodshed they collapsed. “We cannot be overly hopeful university campuses abroad nuclear war and South Korean vows of counter- before allowing such exchanges. about inter-Korean relations, which reached a new strikes. But the collapse over what’s essentially a North Korea’s interest in talks followed its long- low not long ago,” the conservative Korea BEIJING: In the capital of tropical Laos, two discuss yet. The Laos branch of Soochow protocol matter is testament to the difficulty the standing cycle of alternating between provocative JoongAng Daily said in an editorial yesterday. “We dozen students who see their future in trade University, based in Vientiane, is now looking countries have in finding common ground. South behavior and attempts to seek dialogue in what have experienced numerous setbacks during past ties with neighboring China spent their to raise money for a full-fledged campus of Korea had originally wanted a minister-level meet- analysts say are efforts to win outside concessions. talks with Pyongyang.” —AP school year attending Mandarin classes in a 5,000 students, university official Chen Mei ing between the top officials responsible for inter- no-frills, rented room. It’s the start of China’s said. “The national policy wants us to go out, Korean affairs, but Pyongyang wouldn’t commit to first, and almost certainly not its last, universi- as the internationalization of education that. The last minister-level meeting between the ty campus abroad. “There are a lot of compa- comes with the globalization of economy,” Koreas occurred in 2007. nies in Laos that are from China,” said 19-year- she said. When Seoul told Pyongyang yesterday that it old Palamy Siphandone. She said she chose The Lao campus started as part of an eco- was sending a lower-level official than it had initial- the Soochow University branch campus after nomic development zone between Laos and ly proposed in preparatory talks, North Korea said it hearing it would offer scholarships to stu- Chinese governments, then continued after would consider that a “provocation,” Kim said. The dents with high scores. the larger project fell through. cancellation of talks arises partly from misunder- “If I can speak Chinese, I get more oppor- China’s Xiamen University, based in east- standings that the sides have about who is equiva- tunities to work with them,” she said in a tele- ern Fujian province, announced plans early lent to whom in power between their largely differ- phone interview during a trip to the eastern this year to open a branch in Malaysia by ent political systems, Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea Chinese city of Suzhou - the home city of 2015 and have annual enrollment of 10,000 scholar at Seoul’s Dongguk University, said. Soochow University. Education officials in by 2020. In May, China’s Zhejiang University “The two sides are offended by each other now. China are promoting the notion of the coun- and Imperial College London signed an The relations may again undergo a cooling off peri- try’s universities expanding overseas, tapping agreement to explore options for a joint cam- od before negotiations for further talks resume,” he new education markets while extending the pus, though the scope and funding are still to said. North Korea did not immediately issue its own influence of the rising economic power. be spelled out. statement about the canceled talks. The talks were China so far has been on the receiving end Philip G. Altbach, an expert on internation- set up in a painstaking 17-hour negotiating session of the globalization of education, with al higher education at Boston College, warns Sunday, but the rivals had set aside the issue of Western institutions rushing to China to set that Chinese universities might be venturing who would lead North Korea’s delegation. Kim said up shop. Now it’s stepping out. In addition to out too soon. “I think that China’s top univer- that yesterday, North Korea offered to send a sen- the emerging Laos campus, there are plans sities have sufficient work to do at home that ior official of the Committee for the Peaceful for what may become one of the world’s they do not need to expand into the risky and Reunification of Korea as chief delegate, and Seoul largest overseas branch campuses in Malaysia often expensive world of branch campuses said it would send its vice unification minister as and an agreement by a Chinese university to outside of China,” Altbach wrote in an e-mail. chief delegate. explore a joint campus with a British universi- “China’s global influence and prestige in high- South Korea had previously proposed sending SEOUL: Pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (left top) late North Korean leader ty in London. er education is best served by strengthening its unification minister. After it announced the vice Kim Jong Il, and members of Unified Progressive Party, South Korean pro-North Korean “The Chinese government and its universi- its universities at home and offering a ‘world minister would go instead, North Korea said it political party (left bottom) are displayed by conservative groups, which opposes the ties have been very ambitious in the reform class’ education to Chinese students and wouldn’t send anyone and that “all responsibility is Koreas’ first high-level meeting yesterday. — AP and internationalization of Chinese higher expanded numbers of overseas students.” education,” said Mary Gallagher, director of Starting in the 1990s, China - aiming to the Center of Chinese Studies at University of graduate more college students - began to Michigan. “This is partly about increasing build new campuses, encourage privatization Suicide explosion in Kabul China’s soft power, increasing the number of of higher education and expand enrollment. people who study the Chinese language and The rush has been accompanied with criti- are knowledgeable about China from the cism that quality has been overlooked by Chinese perspective.” quantity and that Chinese colleges have kills 17 at Supreme Court Chinese universities historically have failed to prepare their students for the job offered language lessons in foreign countries market, or to deliver a well-rounded educa- KABUL: A suicide car bomber struck the Taleban by the name they were the year. Jan Kubis, the UN special “Because of their campaign, civil- but usually to serve the overseas Chinese tion. The changes have helped draw interna- outside the Supreme Court in the known when they ruled representative to Afghanistan, said ian casualties have increased and population. In recent years, the Chinese gov- tional students, whose numbers in mainland Afghan capital yesterday, killing at Afghanistan. On Monday, seven 3,092 civilians were killed or wound- the situation has worsened,” Kubis ernment has set up Confucius Institutes China are growing and topped 290,000 in least 17 people and wounding 39 in Taleban fighters with rocket-pro- ed from January to June. That repre- said. In 2012, civilian deaths around the globe to promote Chinese culture 2011. China also has encouraged its youth to the second consecutive day of mili- pelled grenades and machine guns sented a 24 percent increase in the declined to 2,754, a 12 percent and language. But full-fledged campuses that seek education abroad and has invited for- tant attacks in the heart of Kabul. launched a rare assault on NATO’s first six months of 2013, compared decrease from 3,131 in the same can confer degrees are a new experiment. eign universities - especially top institutes - to The Taleban claimed responsibility operational headquarters at the mil- to the same period last year, he said. period a year earlier. It was the first China’s Education Ministry declined The set up joint programs and branch campuses for the attack, saying their fighter itary section of Kabul’s international However, Kubis refused to pro- time in six years that the civilian Associated Press’ request for an interview on to help meet the demand for quality educa- had taken down judges who obey airport. All seven militants were vide a full breakdown of the dead death toll dropped. Kubis said the the issue, saying the effort was too nascent to tion.—AP Western powers. President Hamid killed and two civilians were and wounded, saying those figures insurgency is to blame for 74 per- Karzai condemned the bombing, wounded in the violence. would be released in July. That cent of all civilians casualties in the saying it was another “terrorist act The failed attack showed that made it unclear if what had first six months and attributed the that once again shows the Taleban despite an enormous security blan- increased were the number of dead rise on the militants “continuing dis- are serving the enemies of Islam.” ket around the capital, insurgents or the number of wounded. Kubis regard” for international laws on The bombing was the deadliest can still menace Kabul. Earlier yes- blamed the increase on the insur- civilians in conflict. He said pro-gov- attack in Kabul since Dec. 6, 2011, terday, the UN in Afghanistan gency, saying it was trying to take ernment forces were to blame for 9 when a suicide bomber on foot hit expressed concern over what the advantage of the withdrawal of for- percent of the casualties, but did worshippers at a Shiite shrine, mission said was a surge in civilian eign troops in Afghanistan to not say who was responsible for the killing at least 80 people. Yesterday’s casualties in the first six months of increase their attacks. rest. He also said that targeting gov- explosion struck as court employees ernment officials and civilians was a were leaving the building by the crime under international law. The back entrance after the day’s work, Taleban have argued that govern- mostly in buses or private cars, said ment officials and workers are legiti- police officer Jahn Agha. mate targets. Kubis added that the Police spokesman Hashmat UN in Afghanistan had publicly and Stanikzai said the bomber drove an privately sent a message to the SUV and specifically targeted the Taleban that the mission as “willing buses with court workers. Police to discuss civilian casualties and said all the victims were civilians or how to reduce them.” The Taliban, court staff. The courthouse is on a Kubis said, had sent “signals of their busy main road in central Kabul, willingness to discuss this,” but that near the US Embassy. The NATO a way to establish contact with the headquarters is also nearby. Taleban group had not yet been worked out. KOLKATA: Police officials arrest activists of pro-leftist student organisation as spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid Another worrying trend, Kubis claimed responsibility for the attack, said, was the targeting of humani- they shout anti-government slogans during a protest against the recent gang- saying in a statement the militants tarian groups. On May 29, insur- rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student in the suburban Barasat area, were obliged to attack “cruel judges” gents attacked a compound hous- in Kolkata yesterday. — AFP who do the bidding of foreign pow- ing the International Committee of ers. The Taleban and other groups the Red Cross in eastern have unleashed a wave of bombings Afghanistan and killed one of the Veteran Indian oppn and assassinations around the coun- group’s Afghan staff. Five days try, testing the ability of the Afghan before, six suicide bombers leader back in fold security forces to respond with attacked the offices of the U.N.-affili- reduced help from international ated International Organization for troops, which have begun a with- Migration in Kabul. During the NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist anti-Muslim riots in 2002 in his home drawal that will see most foreign attack, three Afghans died before opposition said yesterday party patriarch state. BJP leaders gathered at Advani’s troops gone by the end of 2014. The security forces killed the insurgents. LK Advani would return to the fold, a day residence to make the announcement Taleban have said they would go “Any attack on humantarians is an after he quit in apparent protest at the that the veteran leader was staying on in after government workers as part of attack on civilians,” Kubis said. In naming of hardliner Narendra Modi to the party. their spring campaign targeting another attack yesterday, two police head the 2014 election campaign. In a However, Advani was not present at those serving the “puppet” adminis- officers and two truck drivers were shock move, Advani, an 85-year-old stal- the news conference for what Singh tration of Karzai. killed when insurgents attacked a wart of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) explained were “reasons of common eti- “The Islamic Emirate of convoy carrying cargo through the and a former deputy prime minister, quette”. He did not elaborate.In a terse Afghanistan was obligated to act eastern province of Ghazni. Deputy resigned Monday from all his positions in resignation letter, Advani had said he was against this puppet regime because police chief Asadullah Insafi said the party which he helped build into a “finding it difficult to reconcile with the people have suffered under the KABUL: Afghan men assist an injured man at the site of a suicide three insurgents were also killed in national force. Advani’s resignation was either the functioning of the party or the courts,” said Mujahid, referring to the attack. — AP rejected by the BJP’s parliamentary direction in which it is going”. “Most BJP attack yesterday. — AFP board amid high drama that followed his leaders are concerned just with their per- decision. sonal agendas,” he wrote in an oblique Yesterday, BJP president Rajnath reference to controversial right-wing Musharraf wins $10,000 bail in second case Singh announced that Advani would leader Modi. Advani, who built the BJP continue to “guide the party in the into the only national opposition to ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ex military leader Pervez bail in a third case dating back to his 1999-2008 Bugti, but that his team will apply for pre-arrest national interest”.Singh said he had Congress, had snubbed the party confer- Musharraf was granted bail yesterday in a second rule. Yesterday’s decision is likely to fuel specula- bail in the final case. They also say they will peti- assured Advani that his concerns about ence where Modi was named campaign case relating to his nine-year rule, bringing closer tion that a deal could be reached to allow tion Pakistan’s highest court to have his name the functioning of the party would be chairman. Advani’s unhappiness high- his possible release after nearly two months of Musharraf to leave Pakistan without facing the removed from the exit control list, which would “properly addressed”. Advani “has said lighted the difficult road ahead for Modi house arrest. The retired general, who returned courts. “The court has accepted his bail applica- allow him to leave the country. “He cannot leave that any decision of the party he will who will need to win the backing of oth- from four years of self-imposed exile in March, is tion. He has been asked to furnish surety bonds,” the country until the supreme court orders to accept,” Singh said. Modi’s appointment er senior BJP members as well as the par- officially barred from leaving the country and has said Mohammad Amjad, spokesman for remove his name from the ECL. Only then he can as campaign manager at a weekend par- ty’s regional coalition partners to been detained at his villa on the edge of Musharraf’s All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) leave the country,” said Amjad. Arresting a former ty meeting in the coastal state of Goa is become the party’s candidate for prime Islamabad since April 19. Last month, he won bail party which won two seats in last month’s elec- chief of army staff was an unprecedented move seen as a stepping stone to him being minister, analysts say. Analysts also say over charges that he conspired to murder former tion. in a country ruled for more than half of its life by named the BJP’s prime ministerial candi- the dissent could hurt the BJP’s chances premier Benazir Bhutto, and yesterday for his dis- Amjad said the bail order would end the military and was seen by many as a challenge date. of recapturing power despite widespread missal of judges and imposition of emergency Musharraf’s house arrest, although the former to the armed forces’ power. On Sunday, the Modi’s elevation came despite resist- public anger against the ruling Congress rule in 2007. leader is also wanted over the 2006 death of a Pakistani Taleban issued a fresh threat to assassi- ance from some colleagues who view the over corruption scandals. The general Musharraf’s lawyer Ilyas Siddiqui told AFP that Baluch rebel leader. Aides say a court in the nate Musharraf, who was a key ally of the United chief minister of Gujarat as an electorally elections are slated to be held by May of bail had been posted at one million rupees southwestern city of Quetta has issued orders for States in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and divisive figure for failing to stop deadly next year. — AFP ($10,000) and that his defence team would seek Musharraf’s arrest over the 2006 death of Akbar the war against Al-Qaeda. —AFP 15 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 ANALYSIS

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gyptian President Mohamed Morsi is facing Eheavy pressure to secure a negotiated settle- ment to a bitter dispute with Ethiopia over the sharing of Nile waters. There has been tough rheto- ric from Morsi and other Egyptian officials in recent weeks about Ethiopia’s diversion of a section of the Blue Nile for a dam project. “If a single drop of the Nile is lost, our blood will be the alternative,” Morsi said in a speech on Monday. A government official Erdogan plays ‘martyr’ card in battle told AFP Egypt would negotiate a solution to the intensifying dispute. “We are in the midst of negoti- By Nicolas Cheviron lated either by the Turkish opposition or mys- always worked very well for him in the past,” Istanbul’s Bahcesehir University, argued that ations,” said the official, on condition of anonymity terious powers such as the “interest rate lob- said Amberin Zaman, an editorialist at the lib- Erdogan does not understand what is driving because of the sensitivity of the topic. Morsi’s stern mbattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep by”. He also drew comparisons between the eral daily newspaper Taraf. “I think he is the protesters, most of whom are educated, Tayyip Erdogan has chosen to portray current unrest and the era when the Turkish reverting to that mode of portraying himself middle-class city dwellers who reject what tone, he added, was meant to emphasise “that there E himself as a martyr battling dark forces army, in its role as guardian of the secular as a martyr, as a victim of so-called dark they see as Erdogan’s growing authoritarian- is a commitment to our rights,” denying that the as he faces unprecedented protests against state, intervened repeatedly in the country’s forces who try to undermine him and the ism and the creeping Islamisation of their president had intended to appear bellicose. “For us his government. It’s a role that served him politics. It notably ousted four governments country, the dark forces as he paints them country. Until recently, those who opposed it is a matter of life or death,” he added. well in the past but this time round it is more between 1960 and 1997. “Today we are in the who want the return of Turkey to the bad old him were the elite of the secular state who An Egyptian government report concluded the a sign of weakness and panic, analysts said. same situation as April 27, 2007,” he told sup- days.” sought to defend their interests against the proposed dam on the Blue Nile could affect the sup- On Sunday he held a marathon six rallies of porters Sunday at Ankara airport. But it is unlikely to work this time round, rising power of the AKP, whose support ply of water for irrigation and hydroelectric power his supporters in three different cities during On that date the military publicly con- she said. Erdogan has made Turkey’s army, comes mostly from Turkey’s more conserva- which he insisted he would stand firm against demned plans to have Abdullah Gul, who co- many of whose top generals have been jailed tive Muslims, he noted. Nuray Mert, a politics generation. Almost a year into his first term of the “looters” and “extremists” calling for his founded the AKP along with Erdogan, run for after alleged coup plots against him, much expert at Istanbul University, said Erdogan is office, Morsi is beleaguered by simmering opposi- resignation. Then yesterday hundreds of riot president as the party’s candidate. Tens of less of a player in the country’s politics. “The in disarray. “This time he has reacted in an tion that has seized on the dam project as a failure police retook Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the thousands of supporters of the secular princi- paradigm has shifted in Turkey, and largely abnormal way. I do not know if we have ever of his much touted foreign policy. In the Islamist- epicentre of the protests, as Erdogan tough- ples established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, thanks to him. So in some ways you can say seen anywhere in the world a prime minister dominated senate, lawmakers heckled Prime ened his stance, warning he would show “no seen as the founding father of modern that he is a victim of his own success, the fact holding six rallies in the same day. It is Minister Hisham Qandil in a rowdy session on more tolerance” for the mass demonstrations Turkey, took to the streets to protest. that the military have been tamed,” Zaman because he feels threatened. With the interest Monday after he finished a speech in which he against his Islamic-rooted government that Erdogan’s government was expected, like said. “It is almost comical to characterise the the international media has shown (in the have raged for nearly two weeks. other administrations before it, to bend to the protesters as he does, as agents of so-called protest movement), he has succumbed to warned the dam would affect the country’s princi- The police action and warning came just will of the generals. But instead it stood up to foreign and internal powers coalescing to fear about his own imminent end,” she said. pal water source. hours after the prime minister agreed to hold the military and the AKP party went on to win drag Turkey down. The fact that he paints this “There is this idea of great Turkish leaders In one of his first steps, Morsi had convened a talks with protest leaders today, his first major legislative elections just months later, in July as the legitimate democratically elected gov- working for the good of Turkey but who are meeting with party leaders, including those from concession since the trouble began. Erdogan, 2007. ernment versus coup plotters, because that’s destroyed by internal or external enemies of the opposition, calling for a national front to tackle who is facing by far his greatest challenge Gul was elected president in August the what he has called them, just doesn’t really the country. Clearly Erdogan has this mentali- the dam. The meeting, aired live on television, back- since his AKP party came to power a decade same year and remains in the post today. hold,” she said. ty, and that returns as soon as things start fired as the politicians, apparently unaware they ago, said the protesters were being manipu- “Erdogan is pulling up the martyrdom card. It Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at going badly,” said Mert. —AFP were on air, proposed supporting Ethiopian rebels or sending agents to sabotage the dam. But some opposition leaders have rallied around the presi- Hezb tips Syria balance, polarises Lebanon dent’s call for unity, saying the dam’s threat requires By Samia Nakhoul a national front. “It is not a matter of blame now,” rebels and the government to the table can agree a negoti- The danger of Sunni reprisals could force Hezbollah to ated political transition to remove Assad from power. Such take greater control on the ground. Its move into Syria said Amr Mussa, who lost to Morsi in a presidential ebanese have long viewed the Hezbollah guerrilla changes in Western policy on Syria, allied to developments could also trigger another war with Israel, which has three election last June. “It is much more serious,” said the Larmy as a state-within-a-state. But having watched it on the battlefield, leave Lebanon hanging by a thread. In a times this year bombed what security sources said were former foreign minister and head of the Arab launch a military adventure in Syria and brutality on country still emerging from the ashes of its own 15-year civ- convoys of Iranian missiles transiting Syria towards the League. “The solution must stem from an under- the streets of Beirut, they feel ever more hostage to the il war, the sight of Hezbollah men rejoicing over the fall of Lebanese militia. Hezbollah has said it will not be dragged standing between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia,” he Islamist group’s regional agenda. Within minutes of a bus- Qusair or firing at protesters frightens many Lebanese. into all-out sectarian war in Lebanon, where it is the most told AFP. “It is necessary to create the right political load of unarmed demonstrators arriving on Sunday at the Sunday’s killing of the protester in Beirut added to the powerful militia. Hezbollah’s adversaries are neither willing environment to reach such an understanding.” Iranian embassy in Beirut to protest against Iran and list of grievances against Hezbollah among Lebanese, who nor able to engage it on the streets of Beirut. The danger Hezbollah’s military involvement in Syria, Hezbollah once revered it as a resistance force above domestic poli- could come from Al-Qaeda groups in north and south The dam project has been significantly expanded enforcers surrounded the building and scattered the crowd tics. “What we’re seeing is very dangerous: Armed clashes, Lebanon, who may retaliate against Hezbollah with suicide from past Ethiopian plans when Egypt’s Hosni with batons and gunfire, leaving one dead. the weakening of the state, the killing of a protester. It’s low attacks, security sources say. Mubarak, overthrown in a 2011 uprising, was in The small demonstration by an anti-Hezbollah crowd intensity warfare,” said Fawaz Gerges, Professor of Middle Politically, the war in Syria and rivalry between pro- and power. When Mussa was foreign minister, between showed that the “Party of God”, armed and financed by Iran, Eastern Politics at the London School of Economics. anti-Syrian parties have prevented Lebanon from forming a 1991 and 2001, the project was far more modest, he is not prepared to contemplate even the smallest level of Lebanese columnist Sarkis Naoum said: “The (Hezbollah) new government. “There is a dangerous power vacuum. The said. “At the time, there was talk of a dam that was threat. Such visibly frayed nerves in Lebanon’s capital follow state-within-a state already exists ... This shows that if they military and Lebanese security forces are overstretched in six times smaller, hence... it was six times smaller, the Shiite group’s dramatically increased involvement in the (Hezbollah) are challenged, they will go to the streets. They Tripoli, the eastern Bekaa and elsewhere. In such a situation, two-year-old Syrian civil war, helping troops loyal to (crushed) the protest so it won’t be repeated elsewhere.” Hezbollah has emerged as the dominant force as the power therefore six times less threatening,” he said. President Bashar Al-Assad retake the border town of Qusair. Angry comments dominated social media, showing a broker and the party that has military muscle, with a power Morsi had come to power pledging a new chap- Hezbollah’s involvement may have transformed the war bloodied picture of the slain protester, Hashem Salman, a base,” Gerges said. The pro-Hezbollah politician said the par- ter in relations with Nile Basin countries, which felt into a sectarian contest, pitting Assad and his fellow young Shiite from a bloc opposed to Hezbollah. Displayed ty was in no mood to compromise. “Hezbollah has no red alienated by Mubarak’s opposition to upstream Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, against mainly Sunni alongside were pictures of Hezbollah militiamen charging line. It will cross any line and take to the streets when it feels projects. The Islamist president will try to contain rebels, including Al-Qaeda groups fighting under the ban- at the crowd with the caption: “The fascist assault and the it is in danger.” He said politicians could “go to the ends of the crisis through talks, said Essam Al-Erian, the sen- ner of the Nusra Front. Western powers and Turkey have peaceful protests.” “Hezbollah has already lost a great deal the earth but they won’t be able to form a government ate leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, the also rallied behind the rebels, despite misgivings over of ground, not militarily, but if you lose popular support without its approval”. — Reuters Islamist radicals in their ranks, while Russia has armed and among independents and among the silent majority, you Muslim Brotherhood political wing that backed his diplomatically shielded Assad. lose. This will haunt them eventually because there was no candidacy. “The choice is of negotiations, and coop- Building on battlefield gains that have swung the security threat,” Gerges said. eration,” he told AFP. “It will happen.” If talks fail, momentum towards Assad and Hezbollah, Syrian forces are Hezbollah’s participation in the battle for Qusair is a turn- Egypt could resort to international arbitration, said preparing to retake Aleppo, which could be a decisive point ing point for the group, set up in Damascus by Iran in 1982 Hatem Begato, the legal and parliamentary affairs in the war that has killed 80,000 and forced 1.6 million to with the aim of fighting Israel after its invasion of Lebanon. minister. Ethiopia has already begun diverting the flee abroad. The move to a northern front comes as Syria’s Hezbollah spearheaded the rise of Lebanese Shiites from an Blue Nile some 500 m from its natural course to con- war is increasingly infecting its neighbours - Iraq, Lebanon, underclass to the most powerful faction in the country, Jordan and Israel - and widening the regional sectarian fault forced Israel to end its 20-year occupation of south struct the dam. The Blue Nile joins the White Nile in line between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. “Syria has become Lebanon, and formed a military front with Syria and Iran the Sudanese capital Khartoum to form the Nile, an open battlefront for regional and international powers. It against Israel and the United States. Now many Lebanese which then flows through Egypt. Egypt says its “his- is an open stage for anyone who wants to fight,” said a see Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s support for Assad toric rights” to the Nile are guaranteed by two politician close to the movement. against an insurgency dominated by Syria’s Sunni majority treaties from 1929 and 1959 which allow it 87 per- For the first time since the start of the uprising in March as a miscalculation that will drag Lebanon into the Syrian cent of the Nile’s flow and give it veto power over 2011, an Israeli minister suggested on Monday that Assad quagmire, exacerbate fighting in Lebanon itself and deepen upstream projects. But a new deal was signed in “might not just survive but even regain territories” from the Sunni-Shiite sectarian rifts in the region. rebels, an assessment which reflected the difficulties the “The internal divide between Shiite and Sunni Muslims is 2010 by other Nile Basin countries, including West faces in predicting Syria’s fate and weighing interven- as deep and as wide as the fault lines between Arabs and Ethiopia, allowing them to work on river projects tion. Alarmed by Assad’s advances and Hezbollah’s inter- Israelis and that statement speaks volumes about the very without Cairo’s prior agreement. — AFP vention, Washington might decide later this week on violent and threatening storms that are brewing in Arab whether to start arming the rebels, a US official said. What lands,” said Gerges. No matter how this unfolds, Nasrallah’s has changed is Hezbollah entering the fray on the side of prestige in the region is shattered. Long revered as the Arab All articles appearing on these Assad to fight the rebels, while the Nusra Front has made hero who stood up to Israel, and among his own as the man pages are the personal opinion of Syria a magnet for foreign Shiite and Sunni fighters. who elevated Shiites to the top of Lebanese politics, he is the writers. Kuwait Times takes no “Put aside the propaganda that we’re seeing from now being portrayed as the protector of Syrian autocracy Hezbollah, the assault that is being prepared around and a proxy of Iranian theocracy. responsibility for views expressed Aleppo is a worry, be it in Washington, Paris or Riyadh,” one Already on Washington’s terrorism list for attacks against therein. Kuwait Times invites read- Western official said. “We can have all the diplomatic wran- Israeli and US targets, Hezbollah faces new sanctions from ers to voice their opinions. Please gling in the world, but the most important element is the Western powers. Arab public opinion has become hostile, balance of power on the ground. That balance is changing. seeing the group as an offshoot of Iran’s Revolutionary send submissions via email to: opin- You have to weigh the risks,” the official said. “If you arm the Guards, more responsive to Iranian interests than Lebanese [email protected] or via snail rebels, there is a risk (arms) fall into the wrong hands, but if concerns. Gulf Arab states have now pledged sanctions mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. you don’t, then thousands more could get massacred and against Hezbollah members working in the Gulf. While you’re left with Hezbollah versus Nusra. Which is the worst Hezbollah says it strives to maintain peace inside Lebanon, The editor reserves the right to edit risk?” its intervention in Syria will add to pressures that threaten any submission as necessary. That shift in power makes it less likely that a US and to fracture the fragile state and limit its ability to contain the Russian peace conference planned for July to bring the growing threat from Sunni extremist groups. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 SPORTS

Tebow signs with Patriots Ferrari back FIA’s handling Al Ahli coach Flores quits of Mercedes tyre test NEW YORK: Tim Tebow was handed another chance in the National Football DUBAI: Former Atletico Madrid coach Quique Sanchez Flores is going back League yesterday when the New England Patriots signed the quarterback to an to Spain after quitting Al Ahli yesterday to become the latest high-profile undisclosed deal. The Patriots did not reveal the terms of the contract but it was PARIS: Ferrari backed Formula One’s governing body yesterday for their departure from the United Arab Emirates’s Pro League. He had been widely expected Tebow would be the team’s third-choice passer, behind starting quar- handling of a tyre testing controversy involving rivals Mercedes. The expected to sign a new two-year contract, having led Al Ahli to second terback Tom Brady and his back-up Ryan Mallett. International Automobile Federation (FIA) has summoned Mercedes and place in the league this season, but instead announced he would be leav- Media reports suggested Tebow had signed a two year contract with no tyre supplier Pirelli to its international tribunal in Paris on June 20 on ing with immediate effect. “I’m really sad ... but for me two guaranteed payments, making the move risk-free for charges of breaking the rules by testing in Spain last month. years is my limit so I feel this is the moment to say good- New England.A polarising figure, Tebow’s brief NFL “We have faith in the FIA,” president Luca di Montezemolo declared at bye,” Flores told a news conference in Dubai. career appeared to be in jeopardy after he was the opening of the new Ferrari museum at the Italian team’s Maranello Flores won the Europa League with Atletico in traded by the Denver Broncos then released by factory yesterday. 2010 before leaving the following year after failing the New York Jets in April. “I do not wish to comment but I note with satisfaction that the federa- to qualify for the Champions League. “Anything we do is what we feel is in the tion is following this incident well,” he added in comments reported on the He arrived at Al Ahli in November 2011 and best interest of the team,” said Patriots Ferrari website (www.ferrari.com). guided the club to fifth place in his first season head coach Bill Belichick. “Tim is a talented “Let’s hope Formula One can maintain its professionalism and we have before finishing runners-up this term, 11 points player that’s smart and works hard, so faith that those who attempt to circumvent the regulations are pursued behind champions Al Ain. Flores also won two we’ll see how it goes,” added Belichick and prosecuted, or rather more prosecuted than pursued.” The FIA is now domestic knockout competitions, the Etisalat Cup who gave short shrift to follow up ques- run by Jean Todt, the former Ferrari principal who presided over the team’s and President’s Cup. “With Quique’s calibre he tions on the player. By joining the Patriots, most successful years with Michael Schumacher winning five champi- will always have job offers from Europe ... Tebow, 25, will reunite with his former onships in a row between 2000 and 2004. we tried our best to retain him,” said coach Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordina- The Mercedes team principal is Ross Brawn, Todt’s former right-hand Al Ahli chairman Abdullah al tor at New England. —Reuters man as Ferrari technical director up to the end of 2006.—Reuters Naboodah. —Reuters Rangers, Red Sox advance

ARLINGTON: Lance Berkman hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning as the Texas Rangers beat Cleveland 6-3 Monday night to hand the Indians their eighth straight loss. Berkman’s homer was his first since May 24 and extended Cleveland’s road losing streak to 12, its longest since a 16-game skid that carried over from 2009 into the second away game of 2010. Robbie Ross (3-1) got the win after striking out the side following a leadoff walk in the sev- enth. Joe Nathan pitched a perfect ninth for his 20th save. Scott Kazmir (3-4) ended up with the loss even though he was in the dugout when Berkman homered off Nick Hagadone. Carlos Santana had a three-run double in the third inning, but the Indians didn’t get another hit. CHICAGO: Catcher Ryan Hanigan No. 29 of the Cincinnati Reds (right) waits to tag out Dioner Navarro No. 30 of the Chicago Cubs at home plate on a fielders choice after RED SOX 10, RAYS 8 Darwin Barney hit a ground ball to third during the ninth inning. —AFP In St. Petersburg, Daniel Nava hit a tiebreak- ing single in the 14th inning as the Red Sox beat the Rays after squandering two late leads in a Red tame Cubs in NL testy game that included a bench-clearing scrum. Red Sox starter John Lackey hit Matt CHICAGO: Brandon Phillips hit a grand slam batting leadoff in his first seven big league Joyce in the back with a pitch in the sixth inning. and matched his career high with six RBIs as games last week. He was named NL player of Joyce, who homered earlier, shouted at the the Cincinnati Reds extended their domi- the week on Monday. pitcher but was restrained by Boston catcher nance over the Chicago Cubs with a 6-2 win Jarrod Saltalamacchia as players from both ARLINGTON: Nelson Cruz No. 17 of the Texas Rangers hits a one run double in the seventh Monday night at foggy Wrigley Field. Phillips PADRES 7, BRAVES 6 teams streamed out of the dugouts. inning for Adrian Beltre to score against the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark. —AFP had an RBI single in the first inning, homered In San Diego, Logan Forsythe homered in There was pushing and shoving along the the start of the 2005 season. Jim Johnson got solo shot in the fourth into the right-center seats off Scott Feldman (5-5) in the third and added his first at-bat of the season, Will Venable first base line, but it appeared no punches were three straight outs for his 22nd save. off Dallas Keuchel (3-3). a run-scoring groundout in the sixth for his added a three-run shot and Jason Marquis thrown and the umpires did not eject anyone. fourth game with six RBIs. Across town, the won his seventh straight decision to lead San Shane Victorino opened the 14th with a sin- MARINERS 3, ASTROS 2 WHITE SOX 10, BLUE JAYS 6 Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays Diego over Atlanta. Both home runs came off gle off Cesar Ramos (1-2), then tagged up and In Seattle, Hisashi Iwakuma only allowed an In Chicago, Adam Dunn had two homers and were delayed more than an hour because of a rookie Julio Teheran (4-3), who had a no-hit- hustled to second when Dustin Pedroia flied out unearned run in seven innings as the Mariners five RBIs to overcome two home runs and five dense fog but the Cubs and Reds were never ter through 7 2-3 innings in his previous start. to deep right field. David Ortiz was intentionally sent the Astros to their fifth straight defeat. RBIs by Toronto’s Jose Bautista to give the White halted. Cincinnati has won 10 straight at Braves rookie Evan Gattis had a pinch-hit, walked before Nava singled to center to put the Raul Ibanez hit his team-high 12th home run Sox a victory in a game delayed 1 hour, 10 min- Wrigley Field, eight of 10 over the Cubs over- three-run homer with one out in the ninth off Red Sox ahead. Franklin Morales (2-0) pitched and Michael Morse had an RBI double for utes by fog. Dunn hit a three-run home run off all this season and 17 of the teams’ last 20 Tim Stauffer to pull the Braves to 7-5. Jason two scoreless innings for the win. matchups. Heyward homered with two outs, his second Seattle. Iwakuma (7-1) gave up four hits, struck knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (5-8) in the fourth out eight and walked one while reducing his inning after he hit a solo shot in the third. Homer Bailey (4-4) earned his first win solo shot of the game. It came off Dale Thayer, ROYALS 3, TIGERS 2 ERA to 1.79, second-lowest in the majors behind The game was played from the second since beating the Cubs on May 25. He pitched who got two outs for his first save. In Kansas City, Jeremy Guthrie pitched Boston right-hander Clay Buchholz (1.71). inning on in fog which became so thick in the eight innings and gave up one unearned run Forsythe was reinstated from the 60-day impressively into the seventh inning and Tom Wilhelmsen got three outs for his 16th third inning that fly balls became an adven- and four hits while striking out eight to disabled list earlier in the day to take the spot Salvador Perez hit a two-run triple as Kansas City save in 19 opportunities. Pinch-hitter Carlos ture. Umpires stopped play in the third and the improve to 7-2 against Chicago, which fell to of rookie second baseman Jedd Gyorko, who got its sixth straight victory. Corporan had a two-out RBI single in the ninth fog continued to varying degrees even after 7-19 in the NL Central. Chicago has lost six of was put on the 15-day DL with a strained Guthrie (7-3) limited the Tigers to a two-run before Wilhelmsen retired Matt Dominguez on a the break. Reliever Nathan Jones (2-4) got the eight since a five-game winning streak. groin. Marquis (8-2) held Atlanta to two runs homer by Miguel Cabrera in 6 1-3 innings in foul pop to end it. Ibanez tied the score with his victory.—AP and five hits in 7 2-3 innings. helping the Royals to extend their longest win- DIAMONDBACKS 5, DODGERS 4 ning streak since they won seven straight in In Los Angeles, Willie Bloomquist put BREWERS 6, MARLINS 1 September 2011. He gave up six hits and walked Arizona ahead with a two-run infield single In Miami, Yovani Gallardo threw eight three. Aaron Crow replaced Guthrie after he MLB results/standings off Los Angeles closer Brandon League in a scoreless innings and Jonathan Lucroy had gave up a single to Avisail Garcia and he hit four-run ninth inning. four hits as Milwaukee beat Miami for its Andy Dirks with an 0-2 pitch. Crow retired Torii Diamondbacks closer Heath Bell barely fourth consecutive victory. Baltimore 4, LA Angels 3; Milwaukee 6, Miami 1; Boston 10, Tampa Bay 8 (14 innings); Texas 6, Cleveland 3; Hunter on a fly to shallow right and struck out Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 2; Chicago White Sox 10, Toronto 6; Kansas City 3, Detroit 2; Seattle 3, Houston 2; held on for his 12th save as Arizona won its Carlos Gomez had three hits and two RBIs, Cabrera to end the threat. Arizona 5, LA Dodgers 4; San Diego 7, Atlanta 6. fifth straight against the Dodgers and while Lucroy also drove in a pair of runs. Cabrera, who tops the American League with improved to 6-1 against them this season. Rickie Weeks homered among his three hits American League National League 90 hits and 69 RBIs, hit his 18th home run in the Eastern Division Eastern Division Arizona closed to 3-2 in the ninth on for the Brewers, who tied a season high with second after Hunter doubled. Doug Fister (5-4), pinch-hitter Jason Kubel’s infield single that 16 hits despite playing without slugger Ryan W L PCT GB Atlanta 39 25 .609 - who is 0-3 in five starts since a victory May 14 Boston 40 25 .615 - scored Martin Prado. Gerardo Parra doubled Braun after he aggravated his sore right Washington 31 31 .500 7 over Houston, went the distance. He allowed NY Yankees 37 26 .587 2 before League (2-3) walked pinch-hitter Didi thumb Sunday against Philadelphia. Philadelphia 31 33 .484 8 three runs on nine hits. Baltimore 36 28 .563 3.5 Gregorius to load the bases. Gallardo (5-6) won for the second time NY Mets 23 35 .397 13 Tampa Bay 34 29 .540 5 Miami 18 45 .286 20.5 Bloomquist hit a sharp grounder that since April 29 and became the third Brewers ORIOLES 4, ANGELS 3 Toronto 27 36 .429 12 Central Division shortstop Nick Punto stopped with a dive pitcher to strike out 1,000 batters, joining Ben In Baltimore, Adam Jones homered and drove Central Division St. Louis 41 22 .651 - behind second base, but he couldn’t hold Sheets and Teddy Higuera. The right-hander in three runs as Baltimore beat Los Angeles in a Detroit 35 27 .565 - Cincinnati 38 26 .594 3.5 onto the ball and two runs scored to give the allowed four hits and one walk while striking game marred by rain. The teams played with wet Cleveland 30 33 .476 5.5 Pittsburgh 37 26 .587 4 Diamondbacks a 4-3 lead, their first of the out four. The Marlins scored on a ninth-inning baseballs on a muddy field and endured a delay Kansas City 29 32 .475 5.5 Milwaukee 26 37 .413 15 game. Peter Moylan gave up an RBI single to groundout to avoid the shutout, but have of more than two hours before the final out was Chicago White Sox 28 34 .452 7 Paul Goldschmidt, making it 5-3. managed no more than one run in 21 of their recorded shortly before midnight. Minnesota 27 33 .450 7 Chicago Cubs 25 36 .410 15 Juan Uribe pulled the Dodgers to 5-4 in 63 games. Miami’s record is a major league- Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton homered for Western Division Western Division the bottom of the ninth with a homer off Bell, worst 18-45. the Angels, who have lost three straight to fall 10 Texas 38 25 .603 - Arizona 36 28 .563 - who had runners at the corners with none Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton went 1 games under .500 (27-37). Jered Weaver (1-2) Oakland 38 27 .585 1 San Francisco 33 29 .532 2 out before escaping. Tony Sipp (3-1) got one for 4 in his first game since April 29 after miss- gave up four runs in 5 2-3 innings. Freddy Garcia Seattle 28 37 .431 11 Colorado 34 30 .531 2 out for the win. ing 36 due to a right hamstring injury. Ricky (3-3) allowed two runs and six hits over six LA Angels 27 37 .422 11.5 San Diego 30 34 .469 6 Dodgers rookie sensation Yasiel Puig went Nolasco (3-7) allowed a season-high 10 hits innings for the Orioles. The 36-year-old righty Houston 22 43 .338 17 LA Dodgers 27 36 .429 8.5 3 for 4 while hitting fourth in the lineup after and four runs in 5 1-3 inning.—AP improved to 17-3 against the Angels, 7-0 since

ABK continues to present ‘Best Player’ British horse racing seeks to prize at Volleyball Championship reassure backers after scandals LONDON: British horse racing will dealing promptly with Al Zarooni The sport had a total value to the KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait not suffer commercial damage from but the case inevitably raises ques- UK economy of 3.45 billion pounds is keenly involved in lending recent doping scandals if it shows it tions about the extent of doping in ($5.36 billion) in 2012, according to support to the youth of Kuwait, can handle them effectively, the the sport. the report. That was slightly higher and has always taken an enthusi- head of the sport’s governing body “I have spoken to a number of than the figure from 2008, the last said yesterday. major sponsors and other investors time it was calculated. However astic interest to participate in But given the very challenging in the sport over the last six weeks there are tensions over how much several youth activities, with an economic environment the sport and for them ultimately it comes money bookmakers including emphasis on sport under the does need more money from down to a confidence in the sport William Hill and Ladbrokes put into Bank’s CSR banner “Our Britain’s bookmakers to sustain the itself,” Bittar told a news conference. the sport. Society...Our Responsibility”. number and quality of races, British “If they have that confidence Horse racing has long been at Horseracing Authority (BHA) Chief then I think their investment is cer- the heart of Britain’s big betting ABK has therefore conducted the Executive Paul Bittar said. tainly sustainable,” added Bittar, an industry but funding via an annual ‘Best Player’ prize as a recogni- Britain’s second largest sport Australian, who described British levy on racing profits has fallen to tion token for best performing after soccer in terms of revenue and horse racing as the best in the some 75 million pounds from over athletes. spectator numbers, horse racing has world. The sport’s recent problems 100 million in the last decade after ABK presented a prize to the been hit by a series of scandals in extend to the riders too: Late last many bookmakers moved online recent months. year, British-based Italian jockey operations offshore, out of the reach best player at the Al Qadsiya vs Last month trainer Mahmood Al Frankie Dettori, one of the most of the British authorities. Kazma Sporting Clubs final Zarooni was banned for eight years charismatic figures in the sport, was “The economics of the sport in game during the Volleyball for doping racehorses. Al Zarooni banned for six months after failing a Britain are very challenging and our Championship. Mr. Zaid Al Kazmi worked in Newmarket in eastern dope test in France. Dettori said he key focus is around ensuring appro- from Al Qadsiya Sporting Club England, the home of British flat rac- taken cocaine but has now returned priate returns to the sport through ing, for Dubai ruler Sheikh to racing. all channels of betting,” said Bittar. was chosen as the best player. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, So far British horse racing has The racing industry would like to Ali Al Baghli, Assistant one of the sport’s biggest financial weathered the impact of recession move away from the annual levy Manager, Public Relations at ABK backers. and reduced payments from the and strike longer-term commercial stated, “We congratulate Zaid Al Two other Newmarket trainers betting industry thanks to an deals with bookmakers to put on Kazmi, the winner in the have since said they treated some of increase in the value of media meetings. A 40 million pound agree- Volleyball championship, whose their horses with a medication con- rights, the BHA and business servic- ment with exchange operator taining a banned steroid. es group Deloitte said in a report Betfair struck last year is a model display of talent and sportsman- The BHA has won plaudits for published yesterday. they are keen to replicate.—Reuters ship is exemplary!” WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 SPORTS

Satisfied but shaken, Spurs bring NBA Finals home

SAN ANTONIO: On a day of rest at the The finals were once as much a part But a little doubt seemed to creep being 1-1, it’s not bad. But you don’t plenty of buildup to the series, and NBA Finals, Tim Duncan had work to do. of June as the heat in this city deep in into the Spurs’ Big Three, unusual for a want to play like this in an NBA Finals,” Ginobili said the Spurs stand little Not only was he admittedly awful in the heart of Texas. San Antonio won four group that has been there, done that. Ginobili said. “You don’t want to give chance of winning if their trio plays Game 2, he had never been so bad on titles in a nine-year span starting in The Spurs took home-court advantage them that much confidence, and you poorly. this stage. He shot 3 for 13 from the field 1999, but hasn’t hosted a game in the away from Miami, but no momentum feeling bad about yourself.” But James, having seen the Heat not for nine points, posting finals career lows NBA’s championship round since the after the reigning champions took them Parker managed only five baskets in have enough when they were largely in scoring, field goal percentage and Spurs took a 2-0 lead over LeBron James apart Tuesday. 14 attempts while making five turnovers, just he, Wade and Chris Bosh two years field goals made, according to STATS. and Cleveland in 2007. “Not after tonight. I think they and Ginobili had three of the Spurs’ 17 ago, insists his current team is deep The three-time finals MVP made only Here comes James again, needing to regained that,” Duncan said. “Obviously turnovers that led to 19 points Sunday, enough to do big damage even when it 11 of 32 shots in Miami and knows he win one here - which hasn’t been easy we were glad to win a game here in after the team tied a finals low with four doesn’t come from the big names. must be better if the San Antonio Spurs for Miami - and not concerned that the Game 1. Our goal was to get two. But turnovers in a Game 1 victory. “I think the supporting cast is really are going to win their fifth title in five finals’ 2-3-2 format now gives the advan- they got the one tonight. We get to go The Spurs, like every other team in why both teams are here,” James said. finals appearances. tage to the Spurs. back home. We got a game here. We the NBA, know there’s no way to beat “They’ve been making an impact all year “Obviously, they’re contested shots, “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “Two best have three at home, so we’re excited the Heat with that kind of ball handling. long, and they feel like their supporting but they’re the shots I feel I can make,” teams in the NBA at this point. Both about that. But if we play like we did “We have to play better. Definitely cast is better. We feel like our supporting Duncan said after the Heat’s 103-84 vic- teams have won and can win on each tonight, that’s not going to matter.” have to play better,” Parker said. “You cast is better. It’s who goes out and do it tory Sunday. “So whether it be them or other’s floor. So it’s not a biggie.” Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu know, we’re playing the defending each and every night to help seal wins.” me or whatever it may be, I’m going to The Heat are just 3-22 in San Antonio, Ginobili have teamed for 99 postseason champs. They’re a great team. We knew The Spurs are shooting just 41 per- get back in the gym tomorrow and though they did win this year even while victories together, second-most in NBA they were going to come in and play cent and averaging 88 points in the hopefully come out with a better stroke,” James, Dwyane Wade and Mario history, and the trio is well aware of how with a lot more energy and play harder. series, perhaps lucky to not be down 2-0, he said. “But I’m getting the shots I want. Chalmers sat out the late-season meet- quickly things can change in the play- That’s what they did tonight. and realize they needed to be much I just have to knock them down.” ing. James had no cause for concern offs. They changed really quickly in this “So it’s always easy to bounce back sharper when they got back home. The teams took Monday off, with the after Game 2, which validated his belief series, about the time it took James to after a loss, and now it’s our turn to see “It’s about getting refocused here, series resuming Tuesday night. The that he can depend on his teammates turn Tiago Splitter’s dunk attempt into a how we’re going to handle our loss and playing a much better game, ending Spurs also will host Game 4 tomorrow until he gets rolling, as he did late in the blocked shot and an instant finals high- how we’re going to respond.” quarters better, and hopefully shooting and Game 5 on Sunday. third quarter and well into the fourth. light. “Of course if you look at the result, Big Three against Big Three provided better,” Duncan said. —AP Lions maul Country boys

NEWCASTLE: The British and Irish Lions side maintained their unbeaten start to the tour of Australia by run- ning in 10 tries to overwhelm a will- ing but outgunned semi-professional Combined Country side 64-0 at Hunter Stadium yesterday. Wales winger George North con- firmed his rich form with two of the tourists’ six first-half tries but captain Brian O’Driscoll and coach Warren Gatland were disappointed that the Irishman’s try was one of only four after the break. While Gatland said he had been pleased overall with the perform- ance, his brusque manner indicated that he was not so happy with the way the Lions stalled in the second half. “There was some excellent stuff Gael Monfils and some average stuff as well,” said the New Zealander, adding that the Lions had come through the match Monfils beats Raonic unscathed in terms of injury. “Just a few turnovers and stuff, the on grass in Germany team only had one training session together and there was excellent HALLE: Gael Monfils defeated fifth- The Frenchman was ranked 119th last handling and off-loading and tries as well.” With Gatland planning to play a seeded Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-2 Tuesday in month, but moved to No. 67 this week. NEWCASTLE: British and Irish Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll (left) is tackled by Combined Country player majority of his test side against the the first round of the Gerry Weber Monfils wasted four match points in Dale Ahwang (second right) during their rugby union tour match. —AFP New South Wales Waratahs on Open. Mirza Basic, a lucky loser playing losing to Tommy Robredo in the third Saturday, the Lions had no motiva- Lions’ place-kicking on the tour, that The pick of the tries was North’s put-in at the scrums, and their defen- his first main-draw match on the ATP round of the French Open. tion to go easy on the invitational Tour, stunned seventh-seeded Jerzy “I am just happy to be on court, the failure of Scotland fullback Hogg, first, which finished off a brilliant sive effort in the second half side, which included a carpenter, playing his first senior game at flyhalf, move that ran the length of the deserved plenty of applause. Janowicz 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (5). enjoying every second,” said Monfils, plumber and a medical student. to convert his own try from in front of pitch after a turnover on their own Replacement winger Dale Ahwang, a The 21-year-old Bosnian reached a who lost in the third round of the The Lions were superior in every the posts was a blot on his copy line. The Lions took 10 minutes after furniture remover, crossed for the match point with a drop volley. He won French Open. He added that adjusting department and Gatland’s disap- book. Otherwise, though, he had a the break to add to their six tries in Country side in the second half but the match when Janowicz reached to grass from clay in Paris was not easy. pointment was perhaps that they solid game at number 10, which will the first half before O’Driscoll was called back for a knock-on. another drop shot but sent it back long. “It’s very hard for my movement,” had failed to challenge their record be reassuring for the Lions, who have crossed and when Leigh Halfpenny, Although they failed to score, the Basic played because Philipp said Monfils, adding that he’d rather victory of 116-10 against Western only Jonny Sexton and Owen Farrell a halftime replacement for North, Country team could take some pride Petzschner withdrew with a shoulder lose a point than risk re-injuring his Australia in 2001, when O’Driscoll as specialist flyhalves in the squad. converted his own try after 56 min- in limiting the Lions to fewer points injury. knee. “I am more mature after what I made his Lions debut. “I think we got “I thought he played very well,” utes, that brought up the half centu- than Super Rugby’s Western Force, Monfils broke serve for 2-1 and went went through last year. I’ve grown up. I a little bit flat, I mean depth-wise,” said Gatland. “I was really pleased ry. Props Alex Corbisiero and Ryan who lost 69-17 to the visitors last up a break at the start of the second try to do simple things.” Raonic has lost said the Irishman. with his performance, he kicked and Grant both got playing time after week. set. Raonic put pressure on Monfils in both times to Monfils. “We tried to kick on in the second ran well, played nice and flat, it was joining the squad over the weekend With four wins from four games, the final game, but Monfils hit a drop In other first-round matches, Tobias half but it just didn’t really happen for a really good performance from as replacements for the injured Cian Gatland said he felt the Lions were on shot followed by a lob and served out Kamke of Germany beat Lukasz Kubot us at times. We should have been him.” Healy and Gethin Jenkins. the right track heading towards the the match with an ace. Once ranked No. of Poland 6-4, 6-0, and Cedrik-Marcel able to kick on from there but we did- Flanker Justin Tipuric did enough The tourists were so dominant in first of three tests against the 7, Monfils missed several months in Stebe of Germany defeated qualifier n’t.” A handsome Lions victory looked to make it clear that tour captain the set piece, however, that referee Wallabies in Brisbane on June 22. 2012 because of a right-knee injury. Jimmy Wang of Taiwan 6-2, 6-4.—AP assured from the eighth minute Sam Warburton would have to fight Steve Walsh was negotiating with “Great harmony within the squad, when winger Alex Cuthbert sprinted for the number seven shirt for the the Lions front row as early as the the boys that didn’t play today across the line to open the scoring, to three tests against Australia. first half about just how much worked hard, we’re undefeated, so if be followed over in the next five min- Hooker Richard Hibbard, flanker scrummaging practice they wanted. we can win the next two games and utes by scrumhalf Conor Murray and Sean O’Brien and Jonathan Davies The Australians in the 20,071 crowd arrive in Brisbane undefeated it will Els ready to get major Stuart Hogg. after the hooter at the end of the cheered every decision that went the be a good, positive frame of mind to win in 2nd straight year Such has been the quality of the game were the other try-scorers. Combined XV’s way, including the arrive in,” he said.—Reuters

ARDMORE: Give it up, Ernie. No, not the this point now and guys are winning a lot belly putter. At least, not yet. Ernie Els has a of big tournaments, kids are starting to use Donald sees major hope at Merion claret jug he must return with his reign as it, and so that’s what it is.” British Open champion coming to an end. Before the rule change was confirmed, ARDMORE: Luke Donald is hoping that the game and putting. mer world number one Donald has struggled “It was great to have it in my possession he’d already started practicing with a regu- shortest and tightest US Open course in years Merion, he believes, could be tailor made with over the years. again,” a smiling Els said. Perhaps another lar putter. “It took a little focus away from will open the door for him to finally win a for him. “I would like to have seen it firmer. I In eight previous US Opens, his best finish is U.S. Open trophy would serve as an ade- what I want to do. And my ball striking for major tournament. think wetter, damper conditions bring more of a tie for 12th in 2006. In the last four years, quate replacement. some reason this year hasn’t been as sharp. At just 6,996 yards, Merion Golf Club bucks the field in play,” Donald said. which included a time when he was top ranked Els is on the hunt for a third US Open So I’ve put a bit more work in on that front the trend that has seen major championship “But certainly I like a course where I’m only in the world, he has gone: missed cut, tie for championship and the Big Easy wants to the last week. When all aspects start click- courses stretched to well over 7,000 yards in a hitting five drivers, a course where I’m hitting a 47th, tie for 45th and missed cut. find it at Merion Golf Club this weekend. Els ing, then you can start thinking about win- bid to counter the big hitters. But it does lot of wedges in my hands, playing to my Hardly inspiring statistics and ones that is one of the few dozen or so in the 156- ning. And I feel that time is coming right demand accuracy. strengths, where I feel like from 100 yards in Donald is at pains to explain. “I think in US player field to play some rounds at Merion. now.” And with the heavy rain that has fallen in I’m pretty good. Opens usually success comes from hitting a lot He played corporate outings in 2004 and Els had been in a lengthy majors the area over the last few days, wedge play and “This course demands a lot of good wedge of fairways and hitting a lot of greens. And I 2005 and recalled the tough holes, blind drought when he took advantage of Adam pinpoint approach shots will be even more at a play. Obviously you’ve still got to do what’s think my game is more from the hole back- tee shots - and the rain. Lots of rain. Scott’s collapse to win his second British premium. pretty important in US Opens-hit fairways, hit wards. I’ve always kind of worked that way,” Not much changed when Els returned Open last year at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. That’s where Donald sees his chances. Not greens. That will be a big key for me if I want to Donald said. this week. Rain has absolutely soaked the His fourth major championship came at a among the longest hitters off the tee, the 35- be successful.” Being successful at the US Open “This year I’ve made a little bit more of a course and flooded bunkers over the last stage in his career when it appeared that year-old Englishman is renowned for his short and in majors in general is something that for- conscious effort to try and change that, to get three days. Els scrapped a practice session his best golf was behind him. He became a little bit more control, to work some things on Saturday and Monday’s was cut short only the sixth player to win the U.S. Open around, spending a little bit more time on the because of the downpour that greatly and British Open twice. range working on really solidifying a few dampened and softened the 6,996-yard Els, elected to the World Golf Hall of things. (6,397-meter) course, the shortest Open in Fame in 2011, is up for a third in his 21st “And it hasn’t happened yet, but statistics more than a decade. Open. It’d be a long time coming - his other will show I’ve improved in those areas. And I’ll “I think it’s not going to bare its teeth two were won in 1994 and 1997. He fin- be starting to hit more greens, having more the way it should,” Els said. “I know guys ished ninth last year at the Olympic Club in control, more control of my ball flight. And were hoping for a firm test.” With softer San Francisco. “I see a very close race with a that’s what you need out here to be successful.” conditions, Els may as well keep the driver lot of players in contention this year, unlike in the bag. Golfers should be able to hit the other U.S. Opens,” he said. “It’s going to be Donald has had a poor 2013 season to date by fairway with a 3-wood or even an iron on bunched. It’s going to be under par, you’ll his own standards. In March, he failed to some of the par-4s. Once they reach the be seeing quite a few numbers in the red.” defend his title at the Tampa Bay green, it could be time for Els to anchor up Els, from Johannesburg, has kept close Championship and finished in a tie for fourth. the belly putter. tabs on the worsening health of Nelson He then missed his first-ever cut in an The 43-year-old Els has about only three Mandela. The anti-apartheid hero and European Tour event at the Malaysian Open. It more years of majors left where he can still South Africa’s first black president was in was his first missed cut in 119 career European use the belly putter in its current form. The serious but stable condition in a Pretoria Tour starts. proposed rule change would prohibit hospital for the third day on Monday with a As the two-time defending champion, golfers at all levels from anchoring a club recurring lung infection. Donald then missed the halfway cut at the against their bodies while making a stroke. Els said he had a great relationship with BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth after Els, who won the British with a longer put- Mandela, though he hadn’t seen the former shooting rounds of 78 and 72, missing the cut ter, has been outspoken about his unhappi- leader in several years. “When I won a lot of by four strokes.” ness over the ban. tournaments in the ‘90s and early part of At least this time round at Merion, he will be “Unfortunately, for guys that have been the 2000s, we spoke a lot on the tele- able to come into the tournament somewhat using it for a very long time, I think it’s very phone,” Els said. “He always felt proud of more under the radar as expectations on him unfair,” he said. “For the future of the game, what the sporting athletes out of South are lower than before, especially when he was looking down the road 50 to a hundred Africa did for the country. He always felt ranked number one. years, they probably needed to do this step very proud of that. Through that instance “There’s always more attention, more at some point, I guess. Probably should we had a really nice relationship. “We’re just ARDMORE: Luke Donald of England hits an approach shot during a practice round prior to the requests of your time and that takes manage- have done it 30, 40 years ago, but we’re at hoping for the best.”—AP start of the 113th US Open at Merion Golf Club. —AFP ment and that’s tough,” he admitted.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 SPORTS

After 86 years Blackhawks Photo of the day and Bruins meet for Cup

CHICAGO: A Stanley Cup classic 86 years Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern in the making hits the ice as Boston Bruins Conference final. and Chicago Blackhawks, two of the But the road to the Cup does not come National Hockey League’s charter clubs, without a few bumps with each team sur- faceoff in a best-of-seven final dripping viving a seven-game scare, Boston against with nostalgia and mystery. the Toronto Maple Leafs in the opening The first Original Six showdown for Lord round and Chicago against the Detroit Red Stanley’s famous silver mug since 1979 may Wings in the Western Conference semi- harken back to the days before expansion, finals. but despite their rich histories when the Cornered by the Maple Leafs, down 4-2 series opens on Wednesday in Chicago it with under 90 seconds to play in Game will mark the first time the two storied fran- Seven, the Bruins showed their teeth in chises have clashed in a Stanley Cup Final. frightening fashion scoring two late goals “The tradition of the Bruins and the and another in overtime to advance. Hawks is special,” Blackhawks coach Joel The Bruins remained in a snarly mood Quenneville told reporters. “I’m sure, the crushing the New York Rangers in five rivalry could return instantly come Game games then mauling Sidney Crosby and One. the Penguins to get back to the Final for “I think it’s good for the league. It’s good the second time in three years. for hockey. Two great hockey markets.” Two Chicago spent the entire campaign atop of America’s great sporting cities, Boston the West standings setting a record by and Chicago have rarely crossed paths at earning points in each of their first 24 any championship. games on way to claiming the Presidents’ In fact, Beantown and the Windy City Trophy, as the NHL team with the best reg- have only twice before met to decide a ular season record. title, the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox But like the Bruins, Chicago also needed in the 1918 World Series and the Bears and to pull off a miraculous escape to keep New England Patriots at the 1986 Super their Cup dreams alive, going down 3-1 to Bowl. The Bruins and Blackhawks, however, the Red Wings before sweeping the last are no strangers to Stanley Cup celebra- three games and capping the comeback tions. with a Game Seven overtime winner from Chicago last hoisted the Cup in 2010 defenseman Brent Seabrook. while the Bruins, winners in 2011, would The Blackhawks then clinched a spot in like nothing more than to parade the treas- the Final clinically dispatching the defend- ured trophy trough the streets of Boston ing champion Los Angeles Kings in five Pat Casey performs during Red Bull Framed Reactions at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ww.redbullcontentpool.com that were left silent and empty following games. the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 The Final also will be a fascinating clash that left three people dead and 264 injured. of styles, with the ‘Big, Bad Bruins’ punish- The Final marks the finish line of a pun- ing, hit-anything-that-moves approach India down Windies to march ishing two month playoff marathon and against the speedy Blackhawks finesse and could provide a thrilling climax to a tumul- puck possession game. tuous season that nearly never was after a There is no lack of offensive creativity on into Champions Trophy semis bitter labor dispute shortened the schedule the Chicago bench with snipers like captain to just 48 games. Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, who LONDON: World Cup holders India marched into the Memories of the lockout now appear all were among the top five in league scoring but forgotten washed away by an intrigu- during the regular season with 23 goals Champions Trophy semi-finals with an emphatic win ing playoff race that has left standing two apiece. over the West Indies yesterday that knocked arch-rivals teams that have not played each other in Toews has been mired in a post-season Pakistan out of the race. almost two years. slump with just one goal but Patrick Sharp A career-best five-wicket haul by Ravindra Jadeja Both Boston and Chicago enter the Final and unheralded Bryan Bickell have picked and a second successive century from Shikhar Dhawan on impressive rolls, the Blackhawks winners up the slack with eight tallies apiece while lifted India to an eight-wicket victory at the packed of seven of the last eight games and the Kane had a hat-trick in eliminating the Oval ground on a grim, overcast day in London. Bruins winning nine-of-10, including a Kings. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men, backed by some 22,000 stunning sweep of the top seeded A solid Chicago defense is anchored by largely Indian supporters at the stadium, restricted the Duncan Keith and Seabrook while netmin- West Indies to 233-9 and then batted fluently to sur- der Corey Crawford has the best goals- against-average in the playoffs. pass the target in 39.1 overs. Left-hander Dhawan fol- For all their reputation as a surly team lowed his 114 in the tournament opener against South that relies on intimidation, the Bruins line- Africa with an unbeaten 102, reaching his second one- up also features the playoff’s two leading day hundred by smashing Dwayne Bravo for a six over scorers in David Krejci (nine goals, 21 third man. Dhawan put on 101 for the first wicket with points) and Nathan Horton (seven goals, 17 Rohit Sharma (52) and an unbroken 109 for the third points). But stopping goals, not scoring with Dinesh Karthik, who made 51 not out. them, has been the foundation of Boston’s India’s second successive win in group B ensured playoff success. them a place in the semi-finals even before their last The Bruins enter the Final with the post- league match against winless Pakistan in Birmingham season’s top ranked defense led by the giant Slovak Zdeno Chara and Finnish net- on Saturday. LONDON: India’s Shikhar Dhawan celebrates his century (100 Runs) during the 2013 minder Tuukka Rask, who posted two The West Indies and South Africa, who both beat ICC Champions Trophy One Day International (ODI) cricket match between India and shutouts against the Mighty Penguins. Pakistan, clash in Cardiff on Friday to determine the West Indies at The Oval. —AFP While the Blackhawks have the marquee second semi-finalist from the group. names, the Bruins view themselves as a Left-arm spinner Jadeja, who finished with 5-36, set Band of Brothers, typified by fourth liner up the win with three wickets for five runs to reduce SCOREBOARD Gregory Campbell who broke his leg the Windies from 103-1 to 109-4 after India won the throwing himself in front of a slap shot in toss and elected to field. “Overall, it was a very good LONDON: Full scoreboard of the Champions Trophy group B match between India and Game Three against the Penguins but performance,” Dhoni said. “The West Indies got a great the West Indies at the Oval yesterday: stayed on the ice to finish his shift. start, they seemed to be heading for 280, but our “That’s the way I feel a team should be, West Indies Bowling: Kumar 8-0-32-1, Yadav 9-0-54-1 nobody should be on a pedestal,” said bowlers did well to restrict them. C. Gayle c Ashwin b Kumar 21 (w1), I. Sharma 10-1-43-1 (w1), Ashwin 9- Bruins coach Claude Julien. “There’s a lot of “What is pleasing that our young batsmen have J. Charles lbw b Jadeja 60 2-36-1, Kohli 4-0-26-0, Jadeja 10-2-36-5. guys in there that you could easily put on a accepted the challenge. Dhawan and Rohit were really Darren Bravo st Dhoni b Ashwin 35 CHICAGO: The Stanley Cup is on display pedestal. “Not only are they not put on a good. But it has also helped that we have become a M. Samuels lbw b Jadeja 1 India: during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup media pedestal, they don’t want to be put on a very good fielding side.” Dhoni, asked about Saturday’s R. Sarwan c Dhoni b Jadeja 1 R. Sharma c Charles b Narine 52 day at the United Center. —AFP pedestal.” —Reuters “dead” rubber against Pakistan, said: “I don’t think the Dwayne Bravo c Jadeja b Yadav 25 S. Dhawan not out 102 Indian team has ever played a dead game. That match K. Pollard c Kumar b I. Sharma 22 V. Kohli b Narine 22 is also important to improve in the areas we want to.” D. Sammy not out 56 D. Karthik not out 51 Racing legend Cecil dies West Indies opener Johnson Charles smashed 60 off 55 S. Narine c Karthik b Jadeja 2 Extras: (b4, w5) 9 R. Rampaul b Jadeja 2 Total (for two wickets, 39.1 overs)236 balls, but it was a brilliant unbeaten 56 from 35 balls by K. Roach not out 0 Fall of wickets: 1-101 (R. Sharma), 2-127 LONDON: Legendary horse trainer Henry Ascot last October, the suitably named former captain Darren Sammy towards the end that Cecil died on Tuesday aged 70 after a long Champion Stakes, the 32,000 capacity crowd Extras: (b4, lb2, w2)8 (Kohli). boosted the total. Total (for nine wickets, 50 overs) 33 Bowling: Roach 6-0-47-0 (w1), Rampaul battle with cancer. Cecil, who was British gave him three cheers both before and after Sammy plundered five boundaries and four sixes to champion trainer 10 times and trained the the race, moving him to tears. Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Gayle), 2-103 6-0-28-0, Narine 10-0-49-2, Sammy winner of the Epsom Derby four times, had a It also completed a remarkable comeback lift his side from 182-9, making all the 35 runs from the (Charles), 3-105 (Samuels), 4-109 4-0-23-0, Dwayne Bravo 5-0-36-0 (w1), memorable time on the track over the last by him after several years during which he last two overs as last man Kemar Roach watched from (Sarwan), 5-140 (Darren Bravo), 6-163 Samuels 4-0-17-0 (w1), Gayle 1-0-11-0 three seasons with the unbeaten Frankel. had been a shadow of the all-conquering the non-striker’s end without scoring. (Dwayne Bravo), 7-171 (Pollard), 8-179 (w2), Pollard 3.1-0-21-0. The colt, owned by Saudi prince Khalid trainer as two broken marriages took their “We just did not have enough runs on the board,” (Narine), 9-182 (Rampaul). India won by eight wickets Abdullah, won all 14 races - 10 of them toll and the winners total dwindled. Indeed said West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo. “After the start Group One races - and just under £3 million many thought he might retire altogether and we had, we deserved to get at least 40-50 runs more. (US$4.7 million, 3.5 million euros) in prize enjoy one of his hobbies, tending his roses at “But the Indians bowled well and stuck to their Champions Trophy table money from 2010-12, earning himself the the gardens in Warren Hill. plans. Sammy was particularly good for us, but we official mantle of the greatest racehorse ever. However, having given up alcohol, the need to work the ball around and improve our strike- However, Cecil, who said that Frankel’s winners started flowing again and it was LONDON: Champions Trophy table after yesterday’s match between India and the West success was what kept him battling, grew appropriate the ever loyal Abdullah, who had rate. Indies at the Oval in London (played, won, lost, tied, no result, points, net run-rate): more and more frail throughout last year and stood by him while other owners, including “Our next game (against South Africa) is like a final this season had not been seen on the race- Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin al- itself. We know it will not be an easy game, but we have Group A Pakistan 2 0 2 0 0 0 -1.10 course for some time. Maktoum, took their patronage away, should the talent to win it.” India won the initial battle by get- New Zealand 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.04 “It is with great sadness that Warren Place be the one to enjoy the greatest moments at ting rid of danger man Chris Gayle in the fifth over, England 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.96 Semi-finals Stables confirms the passing of Sir Henry the end of his career with Frankel. The trib- caught at slip off Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, after he had Australia 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.96 Jun 19, The Oval: A1 v B2 Cecil earlier this morning,” read a statement utes flowed for Cecil who, while not the most scored 21 of the first 25 runs. Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.04 Jun 20, Cardiff: A2 v B1 from his stables. outgoing of men, had a loyal group of The West Indies were without wicket-keeper Denesh Group B Final Cecil, whose twin brother David also died friends. His great training rival Michael Ramdin, who was handed a two-match ban for claim- of cancer, was a much loved character, whose Stoute, also champion Flat trainer on 10 India 2 2 0 0 0 4 +0.97 Jun 23, Edgbaston courageous battle with the illness had occasions, paid Cecil the ultimate tribute by ing a dropped catch during his team’s victory over South Africa 2 1 1 0 0 2 +0.41 Note: Day matches start at 0930GMT, D/N endeared him further with the public. describing him as the best trainer the UK has Pakistan at the Oval on Friday. Sammy replaced Ramdin West Indies 2 1 1 0 0 2 -0.08 (day/night matches) at 1200GMT Indeed when Frankel ran his final race at ever had.—AFP in the side, while Charles kept wickets.—AFP Demare stuns rivals, wins stage

BUOCHS: Frenchman Arnaud work for me even though it was- and Robert Vrecer fell by the fectly and took the bend at Demare of FDJ was the surprise n’t easy all day long with this wayside as their maximum lead speed, acting as a slingshot into winner of the fourth stage of the hilly route,” said the winner. of just over 4min proved insuffi- the final straight. He had under- Tour of Switzerland yesterday. “In the last 25km I told myself cient. Sagan’s Cannondale team stood that the first man into the Home hope Mathias Frank I needed to recoup (energy) and Boonen’s Omega Pharma- corner would be at a significant kept hold of the leader’s yellow ahead of the sprint, knowing QuickStep outfit led the chase advantage and he charged down jersey after finishing the 161km that there was great competi- towards the end of stage, ensur- the inside line and emerged into stage from Innertkirchen to tion. “I really am very happy to ing the escapees were reeled in the final straight with daylight Buochs safely in the peloton. have succeeded against such and trying to set up their punchy between himself and the Sprint favourites Peter Sagan, good sprinters.” A three-man finishers. chasers. the winner of Monday’s third breakaway early in the day had However, no-one managed to Goss had the faster finish and stage, and Tom Boonen were got close to surviving right to control the run-in to the finish ate into the gap but just ran out boxed in on a 90-degree bend the end of the lumpy stage that and the 90-degree bend 200m of tarmac before he could over- 200-metres from the end and was made for a sprint finish, but from home helped cause chaos haul the Frenchman. With the Demare surged through to take the final escapee, veteran that saw both Sagan and Boonen favorites and leaders all coming the victory from Australia’s German break specialist Jens lose valuable yards as they were home safely in the bunch, Frank Matthew Goss with American Voigt was caught inside the final squeezed off the racing line and leads Roman Kreuziger by 23sec Tyler Farrar in third. 5km. He had gone it alone after forced to slow down. overall with last year’s winner Rui Arnaud Demare in action in this file photo “The whole team did great his companions Olivier Kaisen Demare timed his burst per- Da Costa third at 35sec.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 SPORTS19 Preview Mourinho: Current Chelsea players must get a chance

LONDON: Jose Mourinho’s first task on his return as Chelsea man- ager is to get to know the players he has inherited and give them all a fair chance to succeed under him, the Portuguese said on Monday. Since his Stamford Bridge comeback was rubber-stamped last week, there has been a barrage of media speculation on the future of John Terry, Fernando Torres, David Luiz and Juan Mata among others. “I have to start working with the players, even those I’ve already worked with,” Mourinho told reporters after going back to the London club he first managed from 2004 to 2007. “Time changes people, changes players, changes qualities. “Even that group of five or six boys from my time here before, I need to meet them again. The oth- ers? I think I know them because I watch them on TV 20 times every Chelsea football club’s new manager Jose Mourinho season, minimum, but I don’t know them. interim manager Rafa Benitez, over Portuguese said none of them connected with the other areas of “That’s the first part of this job. his handling of Terry or other deci- would be granted special treat- a club and I think the club and I It’s not to arrive and say, ‘Mr sions. ment. have the same kind of vision.” Abramovich and members of the “One of my good qualities - I “It’s important to tell you, not Mourinho has been involved in a board, I need some more money also have some bad ones - is that I them because they know, there’s series of on and off the field inci- with a lot of zeros, I need to don’t speak about a club when I no privileges for them,” said the dents during his career but he said change half the team, move this leave it and when I arrive at one I manager. “They know my nature, he returns to Chelsea as a calmer, Ahmed Musa one and buy that one’,” added don’t like to comment on what they don’t have an advantage in more mature individual. Mourinho. “No, I need to work with happened before me,” said the for- relation to the others. “Football is an industry that Nigeria poised to the players and not commit injus- mer Real Madrid, Inter Milan and “We have ambitions to add a demands a lot and you learn a lot tice. I need to give them a chance, Porto manager. couple of new players to improve every day,” he added. “Back in be fair with them. After that we’ll “For me, not one word about the squad, increase the competi- 2000 when I was managing for the advance in World Cup have time to make decisions.” Benitez’s decisions either on John tiveness, but my biggest job at the first time, I thought I knew every- JOHANNESBURG: Nigeria could be the based striker Ikechukwu Uche. Captain Terry was relegated to or another player. What I can say is moment is the all-round improve- thing. first qualifiers for the final round of the In came Musa and fellow striker fourth-choice centre half last sea- about the future and the future is ment of the squad. “After 13 years you realise you 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Africa if they Nnamdi Oduamadi and both played sig- son and while Mourinho offered to meet John in the first week of “Chelsea have done very well to knew nothing. At 50, I think I’m still win in Namibia today. nificant roles in a victory that confirmed no guarantees of regular starts, he July and try to get the best out of get some young boys in with great very young as a manager and I Maximum points for the Super Eagles Nigeria as favourites to make the final 10 did say the 32-year-old would him. “I know what he can give. potential, with great ability, with think I am at the beginning of a would give them an unassailable Group of the African qualifying competition. remain club skipper. Let’s try to make him a very impor- great futures, and I look forward to new period. “Do I have a different F lead if second-place Malawi do not win “The 4-3-3 system in Kenya worked “John is the club captain,” he tant player that he couldn’t be last trying to improve them,” added personality? For sure, no, but will I at home against bottom side Kenya the well for us so there is no need to said. “I am more than happy with season.” Terry, Frank Lampard, Mourinho. have a different approach and way same day. change,” Keshi told reporters in that, so are the fans, so I think he Petr Cech, Ashley Cole, Michael “I’m more than happy to follow of looking at things? I’m the same Reigning African champions Nigeria Windhoek. “Our focus is on defeating has to be the club captain.” Essien and John Obi Mikel all this philosophy the club has. My personality, I have the same enter matchday 5 with eight points, Namibia and not the Confederations Mourinho refused to criticise his played under Mourinho in his first area is the football area but more nature, but a different perspec- Malawi have six, Namibia four and Kenya Cup.” predecessor, Chelsea’s former stint at Stamford Bridge but the and more you have to be deeply tive.”—Reuters two and only the group winners advance Swede Roger Palmgren quit as to the two-leg play-offs. Namibia coach Monday after saying he Windhoek is the latest stop in a hectic and his family received unspecified period for the ‘Eagles’, who arrived in death threats and assistants Ricardo Lebanese referee jailed south-west Africa after a training camp in Mannetti and Ronnie Kanalelo take his for corruption Germany, a draw with Mexico in the place. United States and a World Cup win in Namibia have been hindered by a SINGAPORE: Lebanese referee Ali Sabbagh has been sen- Kenya last Wednesday. blunt attack with only one goal in four tenced to six months in jail by a Singapore court after After Namibia, they jet across the group games and the continued absence pleading guilty to influencing two linesmen to help fix an Atlantic once more to face Tahiti, of injured South Africa-based striker Asian Football Confederation match. The sentencing yes- Uruguay and Spain in the Henrico Botes and Rudolf Bester is a terday comes two months after the trio was charged with Confederations Cup, with two further fix- blow. Malawi are also battling to score, “corruptly receiving gratification in the form of free sexual tures in the World Cup dress-rehearsal if finding the net just twice in 360 minutes, service,” arranged by Singaporean businessman Eric Ding they secure a top-two Group B finish. and the return of teenage striker Si Yang, in an attempted to fix the April 3 match in The World Cup Group F fixtures were Gabadinho Mhango after missing a 0-0 Singapore. Linesmen Ali Eid, 33, and Abdallah Taleb, 37, brought forward 72 hours because of the home draw against Namibia last week is were sentenced Monday to three months in jail but were two-week tournament in Brazil, with a timely boost. released within hours after the court took into account Africa staging a further 18 matches Kenya must do without new captain time already served while waiting for their sentences. Eid between Friday and Sunday. and Celtic midfielder Victor Wanyama, and Taleb were expected to leave Singapore late yester- Coach Stephen Keshi gambled on a who is injured, while France-based strik- day. All three were apprehended before the April 3 match by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau and were bold three-man attack against Kenya and er and deposed skipper Dennis Oliech detained at Singapore’s Changi prison. succeeded, although Nigeria had to wait was left at home after arriving late in In delivering his sentence Tuesday, Judge Low Wee 81 minutes before 20-year-old Russia- camp. Ping told Sabbagh: “You were not only cultivated by Ding, based Ahmed Musa lobbed the only Having sacked Oliech, ‘Harambee you also in turn went on to cultivate, or included, the co- goal. Stars’ coach Adel Amrouche was accused linesmen as potential corrupt international foot- The ‘Eagles’ started with nine of the involved in more drama on arrival in ball officials.” team that defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in Malawi, initially refusing to drive from Sabbagh’s sentence was delayed a day as the court Soweto last February to win the Cup of Lilongwe to Blantyre because he said the needed time to consider a harsher punishment due to his Nations while injuries ruled out Chelsea distance was too far and the bus sub- direct contact with Ding, whom he met in Beirut a year midfielder Victor Moses and Turkey- standard.—AFP ago. The state prosecutor also said Sabbagh was the “most culpable” out of the three football match officials. “You are a FIFA-accredited international referee with the potential to influence legally or corruptly many inter- Malaga outraged after national matches,” Judge Lowe said in his sentencing UEFA ban appeal rejected remarks. —AP

MADRID: Malaga expressed outrage and decision to be annulled or replaced with Quebec suspended cast themselves as “sacrificial lambs” after less severe sanctions. their appeal against a UEFA ban from However, CAS rejected the appeal and over turban ban continental competition over late pay- ruled Malaga would also have to pay the ments to creditors was rejected yester- original fine of 300,000 euros ($395,800). MONTREAL: The Canadian Soccer Association has sus- day. The decision by the Court of The Swiss-based court said it would pub- pended its Quebec affiliate over the province’s decision Arbitration for Sport (CAS) means Qatar- lish the reasons for its decision at an to ban turbans on the football pitch-a move that has owned Malaga, who finished sixth in La unspecified date. European soccer’s gov- angered Sikh groups. Liga last season, cannot take up a place in erning body welcomed the ruling on its In a statement, the sport’s national governing body the Europa League next term and eighth- website (www.uefa.com). said it acted after a June 6 request to the Quebec Soccer placed Rayo Vallecano or ninth-placed “(Malaga) is therefore excluded from Federation to reverse its position on players wearing Sevilla will compete instead. the 2013-14 UEFA Europa League and the head garments was ignored. “Shameful, pathetic, unfair that they will be replaced by the next best-placed Quebec is the only province to institute such a ban treat us completely differently to other club in the Spanish domestic league, pro- on turbans, which are worn by many Canadian Sikhs. A teams with a lot more (financial) irregu- vided this club has been granted a few hundred Sikh players are estimated to be affected larities and debts,” Malaga’s Spain Under- licence and fulfils all the admission crite- by the measure. “The Quebec Soccer Federation’s inac- 21 playmaker Isco said on his Twitter ria,” it added. tion has forced us to take measures in order to ensure feed. “Yet again they are taking away Malaga reiterated that they had com- soccer remains accessible to the largest number of Canadians,” Canadian Soccer Association president what we won on the pitch. Neither the plied with FFP rules and said they Maxi Rodriguez players or the fans deserve this.” Rayo, deserved to be able to take up their Victor Montagliani said. who have not been awarded a licence to Europa League place. The suspension means that Quebec teams cannot compete in Europe by the Spanish soccer “The Spanish soccer federation (RFEF), Newell’s crush Union 5-0 play in inter-provincial tournaments, and matches with- federation (RFEF) due to financial prob- within the parameters set by UEFA, con- in Quebec that use a nationally certified referee could lems of their own, reacted to Malaga’s firmed on May 14 that Malaga’s applica- be cancelled. Montagliani said the suspension would BUENOS AIRES: Winger Maxi Rodriguez reporters. Third-placed Lanus, three only be lifted when Quebec agreed to remove the ban. exclusion by saying they would appeal to tion for a UEFA licence had been scored twice as Newell’s Old Boys points further back, hoped to keep pace A week ago, Quebec federation chief Brigitte Frot CAS to try to reverse the RFEF’s decision. approved,” the club said on their website edged closer to the Argentine league but their match at Estudiantes in La provoked a public outcry when she was quoted by local Otherwise, Sevilla will compete in (www.malagacf.com). title with a crushing 5-0 home victory Plata was abandoned at halftime when media as saying that if Quebec children wanted to wear Europe’s second-tier club competition Vicente Casado, the club’s director over relegated Union in Rosario on they were 2-0 down after a fan was a turban while playing football, they could “play in their next term, a tournament they won in general, said Malaga’s finances were in Monday. killed in a clash with riot police. backyards.” 2006 and 2007 when it was called the much better shape than some other Newell’s have a three-point lead over Rodriguez put Newell’s ahead after half She has cited safety concerns as the reason for the UEFA Cup. Spanish clubs and he feared others may River Plate, who beat Independiente 2-1 an hour at their Marcelo Bielsa ground ban. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney called the ban UEFA, which is getting tough on fall foul of UEFA rules. on Sunday, with two matches to go in and also netted the fourth in the sec- “ridiculous” while opposition Liberal leader Justin teams that live beyond their means as The CAS decision will not affect the the “Final” championship, the second of ond half. Striker Ignacio Scocco added Trudeau said in a Twitter message: “Barring kids from part of its Financial Fair Play (FFP) initia- Malaga project and there will be some two in the season. the second just before halftime, net- playing soccer because they wear a turban is wrong.” tive, initially banned Malaga for two years important announcements about the Newell’s coach Gerardo Martino said ting the rebound after goalkeeper had Quebec Premier Pauline Marois however defended in December because of overdue pay- future later this week, he added. “They getting the win was key in order to parried his first effort, to take his tally the provincial soccer group’s autonomy and right to set ments to rival clubs and Spanish tax wanted a scapegoat, a sacrificial lamb, regain the momentum from Sunday’s to 11 as the championship’s top scorer. “its own rules,” calling the suspension “unacceptable.” authorities. and they found it, I can’t see it any other loss to All Boys. Defender Gabriel Heinze struck the The president of the Montreal Impact soccer club, That was later reduced to a year after way,” he told local radio. “We cannot lose “This is important because we had to third at a corner in the 55th minute Joey Saputo, said while he personally disagreed with the club “regularised its overdue our heads in the heat of the moment but recover from the defeat at All Boys. and substitute Maximiliano Urruti the ban, he thought the suspension was “exaggerated” payables” by a March 31 deadline and it seems this decision was not based in There’s still a way to go, we must win so rounded off the rout 10 minutes from and urged both sides to “find some common ground they appealed to CAS asking for the UEFA law but was political.”—Reuters as not to give River a chance,” he told time.—Reuters for the good of the sport.”—AFP Rangers, Red Lions maul Sox advance Country boys

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MELBOURNE: Matthew McKay (left) of Australia and Amer Deeb of Jordan compete for the ball during their 2014 World Cup football qualifier in Melbourne. — AFP Australia in Kruse control for Jordan rout

MELBOURNE: Exciting young winger Robbie Kruse Jordan and Australia had been locked on seven points each Jordan enjoyed plenty of possession but lacked a cut- inspired Australia’s old guard to a thumping 4-0 win over before Tuesday’s game. “You can never dream of a score like ting edge and were restricted to long-range efforts. Ahmed Jordan which put them within sight of next year’s World 4-0 but I think the overall performance was excellent,” he Hayel picked up a loose ball and fired a fine shot just wide Cup yesterday. said. But the German warned there would be no celebra- after 27 minutes. Iran thrash Germany-based Kruse set up 30-somethings Mark tions yet, noting: “We have to focus on the next game.” Coach Adnan Hamad had billed it as the biggest match Bresciano and Tim Cahill and then grabbed an eye-catching The opening few minutes, in front of a 43,785 crowd at in Jordan’s history as they seek a first ever World Cup berth, Lebanon 4-0 goal of his own, before veteran skipper Lucas Neill rounded Melbourne’s Docklands Stadium, were tense but Australia but the visitors never looked like repeating their home wins off the scoring with his first ever international goal. soon threatened when Jordan ‘keeper Amer Shafia denied against Japan and the Socceroos earlier in qualifying. TEHRAN: Iran thrashed Lebanon 4-0 in Tehran yes- The much-needed win lifted the Socceroos to the sec- Brett Holman from inside the box after 14 minutes. As half-time approached, midfielder Holman was terday to move into second place in Asia qualifying ond automatic qualifying spot in Group B with one game to Bresciano blazed the rebound high and wide, but barely bowled over 25 yards out by Anas Bani Yaseen. Bresciano go, meaning a home victory over Iraq next week will ensure a minute later he made no mistake with his second chance stepped up again and Shafia did well to hold the low, Group A and take control of their World Cup destiny. their ticket to Brazil and their third World Cup in a row. of the night, connecting with Kruse’s short cross to stab in swerving shot. The second half was nearly all one-way traf- Goals by Mohammad Khalatbari, Reza “Wonderful,” said Kruse, 24, who is headed from Fortuna from six yards out. Kruse had danced clear of the defence fic and when Cahill powerfully headed home Kruse’s cross Ghoochannejhad and two from captain Javad Dusseldorf to Bayer Leverkusen and Champions League when referee Abdul Malik Bashir played the advantage after after 60 minutes, the result looked secure. Nekonam helped Iran move past Uzbekistan into the football next season. “To get the win was excellent... it puts a foul on the right touchline. Jordan froze momentarily, Jordan tried to push forward but only exposed their automatic qualifying places ahead of their final us in a good position going into the next game.” He added: allowing Bresciano to claim his 13th goal for his country. defence, and with another flowing break Kruse cut in from match away to South Korea next Tuesday. “It was fantastic to get four goals, and we could have had a Kruse was the danger man and Khalil Bani Ateyah was the right, nutmegged a defender and drove home after 76 The Koreans lead the group on 14 points from few more.” booked for bringing down the rampant right winger, before minutes. Eight minutes later, Neill nodded in a close-range seven matches with Iran second on 13 and the Coach Holger Osieck said he felt “pretty sure” Australia Cahill had a penalty shout turned down when he went over header. Jordan need to beat Oman in Amman next Tuesday Uzbeks third on 11 after their 1-0 loss in Seoul earlier now had the momentum to beat Iraq and get to Brazil. in the box after 26 minutes. to have a chance of a play-off place. — AFP yesterday. The top two sides are guaranteed a place in Brazil with the third placed team also joining them if they Japan ends Iraq’s WCup bid can successfully negotiate a playoff against another Asian country and then a South American nation. DOHA: Asian champions Japan finished their World Cup quali- alive their hopes of claiming a top-three finish and a chance of The Uzbeks host Qatar in their final game on fying campaign with a 1-0 win over Iraq in Doha yesterday that reaching Brazil. Tuesday but Iran will be confident of edging them ended the West Asian nation’s slim hopes of joining them in The Japanese, who sealed top spot in the group last week after finally finding their feet in front of goal with a Brazil. with a point at home to Australia, rested first teamers Keisuke Iraq enjoyed plenty of possession and created lots of Honda, Ryoichi Maeda and Maya Yoshida for the fixture while dominant display against bottom side Lebanon. chances in the searing Qatari heat but could not find a way skipper Makoto Hasebe was suspended. The home side had only managed three goals in through and Japan made them pay with an 89th-minute goal Despite the absentees, the Japanese came close to the first their opening six matches of the group and they on the counter from Shinji Okazaki. The result leaves Japan on goal with striker Mike Havenaar narrowly missing with a glanc- seemed set on not adding to that total with some 17 points from their eight Group B games with Iraq bottom on ing header in the 32nd minute and Yasuyuki Konno blazing profligate finishing once again in the opening 30 five ahead of their eighth and final fixture away to Australia over a good opportunity from close range four minutes later. minutes. Ghoochannejhad had a flurry of chances to next week. The game was then stopped for the first of two water score but he wasted a free close range header and After losses to Jordan and Bulgaria, Japan coach Alberto breaks with the temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86 blasted another snap shot over the bar as Lebanon, Zaccheroni was keen to grab a win before the team begin their degrees Fahrenheit) in the country which will host the 2022 Confederations Cup campaign against hosts Brazil on Saturday. World Cup finals. already out of qualifying contention, struggled to “It’s been a while since we’d won so I told the players to fin- Iraq, 2007 Asian champions, were better suited to the heat stem the wave. ish off with a victory,” the Italian was quoted as saying by Kyodo and wrestled control of the match in the second period with Midfielder Khalatbari eventually broke the dead- news agency. captain Younis Mahmoud, who will retire at the end of the lock in the 39th minute when he skipped through “The heat and wind made things difficult but we did well campaign, looking dangerous in attack. two challenges and slotted home a right foot shot enough tonight. I think we showed we have been a force to be Forward Alaa Abdul-Zahra wasted a good chance to give from 12 metres, much to the relief of under-pressure reckoned with in this group.” Iraq the lead in the 69th minute after he took advantage of QATAR: Japan’s Sakai Hiroki (left) vies for the ball with Iran coach Carlos Queiroz on the sidelines. Iraq knew only victory in front of a handful of fans in their some careless Japanese defending but he fired his shot over Iraq’s Ali Rhima during their 2014 FIFA World Cup Full back Khosro Heydari was causing problems temporary home ground in Qatar would be enough to keep the bar. — AFP Asian zone Group B qualifying football match. — AFP for the visitors down the right and his cross set up the second goal in first-half stoppage time for South Korea edge Uzbekistan in vital clash Nekonam, the skipper rising highest to head home. Iran were quick out of the blocks in the second SEOUL: South Korea had a first-half own goal Uzbekistan at the top of a tight Group A. Lee Keun-Ho was guilty of a terrible miss when minute later when Kim Young-Gwon’s arcing half with Ghoochannejhad finally finding his range, to thank yesterday as they edged Uzbekistan 1- “I felt this match would come down to a sin- he sliced an easy shot wide from close range. cross from deep on the right fell to the unfortu- cutting inside Hassan Daher to finish confidently in 0 for a vital win which could be enough to put gle goal,” said South Korea’s coach Choi Kang- Uzbekistan’s Ulugbek Bakaev drew Korean nate Shorakhmedov, who could only direct it the 46th minute. them through to their eighth successive World Hee. “We were able to win because our players ‘keeper Jung into action again with a shot but into his own net. With the tight qualifying picture in Group A possi- Cup next year. never lost their concentration.” he also passed up a golden chance when he After the break, Timur Kapadze fired over in bly coming down to goal difference, Iran pushed for- Defender Akmal Shorakhmedov was the fall Only the top two teams in Asia’s two final met Server Djeparov’s cross unmarked at the a strong spell for the visitors but South Korea guy when he headed Kim Young-Gwon’s qualifying groups win an automatic spot, with far post, but planted his header high and wide. gradually regained control and had the best ward but Abbas Hassan in the Lebanon goal pro- vicious cross into his own net just before half- the third-placed countries entering a play-off. After 41 minutes, imposing Korean striker chances of the second half. duced a number of good saves. time, but South Korea showed enough attack- Group B winners Japan are the only team to Kim Shin-Wook’s knock-down fell to Lee Hamburger SV striker Son Heung-Min beat But Hassan was left motionless as Nekonam ing endeavour to deserve their win at Seoul book their ticket to Brazil so far. Myoung-Ju, but Uzbek custodian Ignatiy two defenders with a slalom run into the box rounded off the scoring in the 86th minute when he World Cup Stadium. After a cagey opening, Anzur Ismailov’s long Nesterov dived low at his feet to deny the but saw his shot deflected, and from the ensu- fired home a long range effort to wrap up the scor- The Taeguk Warriors, World Cup semi-final- shot forced a save from South Korea’s Jung debutant midfielder. ing corner Kwak Tae-Hwi’s strong header ing. — Reuters ists in 2002, open up a three-point lead over Sung-Ryong, and reigning Asian player of the However, the Korean pressure told just a brought a sharp save from Nesterov. — AFP Berlin defends ECB bond plan, casts doubt on court’s power Page 22 Hard times for Iran middle Business class battling US sanctions WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 Page 23 Strike leads protest of EU air travel plan Turkish economy depends on political stability Page 24 Page 23

LONDON: Protestors march through the streets of central London yesterday during demonstrations against the G8 Summit. —AFP Police scuffle with anti-G8 UK protesters Financial, energy, defence, mining firms among targets

LONDON: Police scuffled with scores of anti- event of disruption after similar protests in green and red flags as they marched through anger”, identifying offices of financial organisa- an email indicating some 500 people would G8 demonstrators in central London and sur- recent years led to violent clashes with police, Oxford Street. They carried banners saying “No tions such as banks, hedge funds, defence attend the protest. rounded a building where protest organisers vandalism and buildings being temporarily borders, no prisons, no capitalism” and “One manufacturer BAE Systems and mining and One hedge fund, which asked not to be were meeting yesterday before a summit of occupied. Common Struggle”. energy companies including ArcelorMittal and identified, said it had advised its staff to be world leaders in Britain next week. Isolated Police descended on premises just off There were skirmishes around Oxford BP. The list includes hedge funds Man Group especially alert to the protests. “We’re clearly scuffles broke out when police moved in to Regent Street, one of London’s best known Street, with television footage showing police and Paulson, private equity firm Blackstone, aware of it,” it said. “Our guidance is to be care- arrest individuals as a main group of around shopping areas, in the fashionable Soho dis- dragging one protester to the ground. banks such as Citi and Barclays and embassies ful and don’t draw attention to yourself as 30 to 50 activists, mostly dressed in black, trict, where the StopG8 group had been meet- Reuters witnesses saw at least five people including those of Saudi Arabia and the obviously being a hedge fund manager. We’re banged on drums and blew whistles as they ing before the demonstration. More than 100 arrested near Piccadilly Circus. “Humanity is United States. not expecting a riot on our doorstep.” Recent ran through the capital. officers in riot uniforms formed a cordon, trap- spiralling towards extinction,” said one protest- The group, which describes itself as an demonstrations against the British govern- The demonstrators were staging a “Carnival ping the gathering protesters in a tight area er, who identified himself only as Silvester. “We openly anti-capitalist network “made up of ment’s austerity measures have been marred Against Capitalism” across London to start a around Beak Street as police helicopters hov- are facing the biggest crisis ever. We oppose autonomous groups and individuals”, had by rioting anarchists, while many Britons week of action before Britain hosts the meet- ered above and reinforcements waited in vans. governments and corporations. And the G8 is refused to cooperate with police, meaning it angered by bank bailouts and bonuses during ing of the Group of Eight leading industri- London’s Metropolitan Police said it had a emblematic of all that.” was not clear how many people would attend tough economic times blame the financial alised nations at a golf resort in Northern search warrant for the address. “People inside during the course of the day, or where they sector. In 2009, police made more than 100 Ireland. Some of the world’s biggest hedge the property...are free to leave but will be Map of targets would focus their attentions. One banker arrests after protests by tens of thousands of funds, private equity firms and banks have searched,” the police said on Twitter. Activists, Last month, StopG8 issued a map of 100 working for an international firm with offices people to coincide with a G20 economic sum- warned their staff to take precautions in the some with their faces covered, waved black, potential targets for people to “show their in central London said the staff had received mit in London turned violent. — Reuters

India rupee skids to fresh Indians in Kuwait cash in lifetime low against dollar MUMBAI: India’s rupee hit a new lifetime cannot intervene heavily to buttress the on rupee’s record plunge low against the dollar yesterday as the currency as it must retain enough for- government said authorities would take eign reserves for imports. It only has suf- “action as warranted” to stem the fall. ficient reserves for seven months of Volume rises despite fear among expats The rupee has been hit by speculation imports-the lowest cover in 13 years. that the US Federal Reserve will cut back The rupee’s fall is the latest blow to By Sajeev K Peter on asset purchases which have fuelled Asia’s third-largest economy, which has flows into emerging markets and as well been beset by sharply slower growth, KUWAIT: Despite the lingering fear and uneasi- as by growing concern about India’s eco- worsening public finances and political ness among the expatriate population in Kuwait, nomic weakness. “A large part of the turmoil. Indians crowded foreign exchange centers rupee’s fall is due to dollar strength,” the The weaker currency makes imports across the country yesterday to cash in on the finance ministry’s chief economic adviser costlier, especially of foreign oil on which unprecedented plunge of the Indian rupee as Raghuram Rajan told reporters in New India heavily relies, and will stoke the currency plummeted to an all-time low of 59 Delhi, adding that there was “no sense of already high consumer inflation. India is against the US dollar. panic”. also already contending with a bloated A Kuwaiti dinar fetched 207.468 rupees yes- Emerging market currencies across current account deficit-the broadest terday, a record low for the Indian currency the world have been hit by dollar measure of trade. The finance ministry’s while a dollar traded for almost 59 rupees at one strength triggered by a robust US jobs Rajan said he believed the rupee was point though it softened subsequently to hover report. Rajan added authorities “will take “oversold” and would recover some of its around 58.978 following reports that two Indian action as warranted” to curb the rupee’s weakness in coming days. banks have intervened in the forex market to fall. He said the central Reserve Bank of “We expect to see a resumption of check the freefall of the currency. India (RBI), stock market officials and the equity inflows as the realisation dawns Analysts point out that the partially convert- government were “keenly following (abroad) that Indian assets are quite ible rupee plummeted against the greenback what is happening”. Traders said the RBI cheap,” he said. “We have gone beyond because dealers sought refuge in the dollar fol- was believed to have intervened in for- what is warranted by (economic) funda- lowing reports on India’s dismal economic eign exchange markets yesterday, selling mentals,” he added. He said the govern- growth and promising US data. a small number of dollars for rupees to ment was committed to narrowing the “A large number of expats are cashing in on lift the Indian currency off its record low current account deficit , which ballooned the record plunge in the rupee’s value. Though of 58.98 rupees to the greenback. to 4.89 percent of gross domestic prod- the number is not rising considerably, the vol- The RBI was suspected to have “inter- uct last year from 4.2 percent the previ- ume is definitely,” Pancily Varkey, the country MUMBAI: In this photograph, an employee counts Indian rupee notes at a bank in Mumbai. —AFP vened at around the 58.97 level by sell- ous year, and this “includes restoring head, UAE Exchange Centre, told the Kuwait ing dollars”, a private bank dealer, asking conditions for investment and growth”. Times. According to Varkey, the volume of said there is an increase in flow of money to central bank RBI, though the government has not to be named, told AFP. After the Rajan said he would soon announce pro- remittances to India has registered a 10 to 15 India now. “There is surely a rise in the volume initiated measures to attract more foreign direct reported RBI move, the Indian currency posals to increase foreign direct invest- percent growth in June over the previous being remitted, but not as much as we wit- investments (FDIs) into the country. Also a pro- recovered by about a fifth of a rupee to ment (FDI) caps to boost currency month. “Especially, high net worth customers are nessed in last June during the rupee plunge. posed mega deal by Unilever worth $3 billion 58.62 rupees to the dollar. The latest inflows but would not say in which areas taking advantage of the market situation,” he According to many exchange company offi- may help prop up the beleaguered rupee, they bout of weakness has taken the currency of the economy. pointed out. cials in Kuwait, the ongoing campaign against point out. Varkey however remained skeptic well below its previous lifetime low of Last year, the Congress government Money market specialists and foreign the illegal residents have seriously affected the about the impact of any government measure to 57.32 rupees hit on June 28 last year. opened the retail, aviation and other exchange traders forecast that the rupee could industry creating panic and nervousness among stem the rupee tide. “There is not enough clarity The RBI has a policy of not comment- sectors to greater FDI in a bid to spur an hit an all-time low of 60 against the dollar soon if the people. “People do not feel very comfortable about the government policies and measures. In ing on movements in the foreign economy growing at just five percent a the central bank fails to intervene in the market to move around these days. Definitely, the situa- fact this ambiguity is keeping foreign funds at exchange market and of intervening decade low. Rajan said government effectively. According to reports from India two tion has affected the industry. But the rupee’s bay,” he argued. only to curb volatility. “This is a senti- steps to curb gold purchases, one of the leading public banks, the Union Bank of India record depreciation has prompted many to “The rupee will remain volatile at least in the ment-driven phase for the market,” the biggest contributors to the current and the State Bank of India, sold the US dollar to send home money now,” said an executive with medium term as the RBI is unable to rein in the dealer told AFP, adding the rupee could account deficit, had already reduced arrest the fall of the rupee that gained marginal- an exchange company in Mirqab who did not runaway inflation in the country. If the trend trim its losses and recover to 58.0 levels consumption of the precious metal by ly to 58.20, but fell back to 58.38 later. want to be named. Analysts however do not continues, it may even plunge to the level of 63,” in coming days. Analysts say the bank more than three-fold. — AFP Lulu Exchange General Manager K N S Das anticipate any major intervention from India’s added Das. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 BUSINESS Gold slides to 3-week low over BoJ

LONDON: Gold fell 1 percent yesterday to a inflation fears. Speculation they may be set tary stimulus is on the wane knocked ever, down 340 tonnes this year. bank UBS said while platinum had been at near three-week low after the Bank of Japan to end is now pressuring the metal. Spot European shares 0.9 percent lower and hit Among other precious metals, silver was its cheapest compared with palladium in opted not to extend its stimulus pro- gold was down 1.1 percent at $1,371.11 an peripheral euro zone bond prices. The dollar down 1 percent at $21.69 an ounce, spot more than a decade recently, supply threats gramme, stoking speculation that the era of ounce at 0923 GMT, while US gold futures fell a quarter of a percent against the platinum was down 1.1 percent at $1,485.99 in South Africa had more scope to drive plat- ultra-loose global monetary policy is coming for August delivery were down $15.20 an euro.Dealers in Singapore said gold demand an ounce and spot palladium was down 1.3 inum higher. to an end. Gold had already been hurt by ounce at $1,370.80. had eased after a jump in April, which fol- percent at $757.72 an ounce. Platinum pro- “In spite of their apparent preference for talk the US Federal Reserve may be set to “The market is coming around to the lowed the biggest two-day fall in gold prices ducer Lonmin and South Africa’s Association palladium this year, investors are also wary taper its monetary easing sooner than view that the Fed will taper quantitative eas- in 30 years. Gold bars and coins were there- of Mineworkers and Construction Union of supply risks in platinum that could easily expected, after Standard & Poor’s revised up ing,” Credit Agricole analyst Robin Bhar said. fore easier to obtain, they said. (AMCU) were in talks yesterday to avert a result in sharp price spikes, especially in the its US sovereign credit outlook on Monday “The fact that the economy seems to be cre- strike, a union official said. next few months,” it said. “Market partici- and a US payrolls report last week beat fore- ating jobs, as we saw with the payrolls report Gold ETF reports inflow AMCU wants to be recognised as the pants are keeping a close eye on headlines casts. on Friday, makes Fed tapering more likely The world’s largest gold-backed majority union at Lonmin as it now repre- from South Africa. Tensions are increasing. Successive rounds of stimulus measures than not.” He added, “The Bank of Japan’s exchange-traded fund, New York’s SPDR sents over 70 percent of the workforce at the Given the more acute upside risks to plat- around the world have boosted gold prices reluctance to further stimulate is just anoth- Gold Trust, reported its largest inflow in over world’s third-largest producer of the pre- inum in the near term, palladium’s relative to record highs in recent years by keeping er reason to at least be cautious on gold.” a month on Monday, of 2.7 tonnes. Its hold- cious metal and has threatened to down strength versus platinum should not be tak- up pressure on interest rates while stoking Concerns that the era of plentiful mone- ings still remained near four-year lows, how- tools at the mine this week if talks fail. Swiss en for granted.” —Reuters

Berlin defends ECB bond plan, OPEC sees room for its casts doubt on court’s power over-target oil output LONDON: OPEC predicted world oil ondary sources cited by the report, led by Merkel, Schaeuble and Bundesbank back ECB action demand will grow more quickly in the rest Saudi Arabia which typically pumps more of 2013 and indicated the group can keep in summer to meet domestic air condition- KARLSRUHE: Germany’s finance minister likely to give a green light to the OMT, though bond of any distressed euro-zone government, pumping more oil than the ouptut target it ing demand. Still, the report said that out- defended the European Central Bank’s bond- the German court could attach recommenda- yields on 10-year Spanish bonds have fallen retained at a May 31 meeting without over- put rate was broadly in line with OPEC’s buying scheme against charges it violates tions if it did refer the case. from 7.6 to 4.6 percent, while their Italian equiv- supplying the market. estimate of the average demand for its German law and questioned whether the coun- Making the case for the German government, alents have dipped from 6.6 to 4.3 percent. The Organization of the Petroleum crude in the second half of 30.47 million try’s top court had the power to rule on a Schaeuble said at the hearing: “I find it hard to Despite this, Jens Weidmann, head of the Exporting Countries in a monthly report bpd - meaning most of the surplus will be scheme many credit with saving the euro-zone. imagine that German courts would decide Bundesbank and a member of the ECB’s govern- forecast world oil demand would expand absorbed rather than head into inventories. The comments by Wolfgang Schaeuble and a directly on the legality of the ECB’s actions”. If ing council, is testifying against OMT at the hear- by 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the sec- “Overall, existing fundamentals portray a separate statement by the president of they did so, he said, there was a risk that courts ing. ond half, up from 700,000 bpd in the first market with ample supply, which is further Germany’s Constitutional Court at the start of a in all 17 euro-zone member states would try to He believes the programme is tantamount to six months of 2013. “The second half of the reflected in comfortable crude oil stock lev- two-day hearing on the ECB’s bond plan raised weigh in, giving the ECB contradictory legal printing money to finance struggling euro year is expected to see higher demand,” els,” the report said. the prospect of the case being referred to the orders. “The German government sees no signs states. This is seen as taboo by many in Germany, said the report by OPEC’s economists. “In OPEC reiterated its familiar warning of European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg. that the measures taken by the ECB so far violate where fears of inflation still run deep nearly a terms of demand growth, the expected downside risks to the demand outlook century after runaway prices under the Weimar global economic recovery in the second from weak economic growth. For 2013 as a Republic devastated the economy, helping the half of this year could also add more barrels whole, it forecast world oil use would grow Nazis rise to power. In a rare public clash, to seasonally higher global consumption.” by 780,000 bpd, slightly lower than Weidmann was due to face off against another With oil prices near the group’s pre- 790,000 bpd previously expected. The German, Joerg Asmussen, who was making the ferred level of $100 a barrel, OPEC at a May report is the first of this month’s three case for the ECB. Only a few years apart in age, 31 meeting agreed to retain its output tar- prominent oil supply and demand fore- both studied at Bonn University and worked get at 30 million bpd, leaving the door casts to emerge. The US government’s closely together in formulating Berlin’s response open for informal supply tweaks by top Energy Information Administration - at to the 2008/9 global financial crisis. Asmussen exporter Saudi Arabia depending on present more bullish on demand growth was Schaeuble’s top deputy at the time and demand. than OPEC with a forecast of 890,000 bpd - Weidmann an economic adviser to Merkel. OPEC has been pumping above the tar- issues its report later on yesterday. The get and in May. Supply rose by 106,000 International Energy Agency’s monthly Bailout fatigue bpd to 30.57 million bpd, according to sec- update is due today. —Reuters Vosskuhle began the hearing by saying the success of OMT would play “no role” in the court’s view of its constitutionality. The court cannot revoke the ECB scheme but, in consider- Saudi airports agency picks ing whether it violates the German parliament’s sovereign right to control the budget, it could challenge aspects of the programme, such as its banks for huge riyal sukuk “unlimited” nature. Even that could wreck the effectiveness of DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s state airports operator been involved in, they added. A sale could the OMT, which has worked largely by giving has picked three banks to arrange the sec- take place before the start of the Muslim investors the confidence to buy bonds, safe in ond tranche of its local Islamic bond pro- holy month of Ramadan, due to begin the knowledge that the ECB would intervene on gramme, banking sources said yesterday, around July 9, two of the sources said, the secondary market if any government were with a sale seen matching the firm’s record- although one of the others said it may be at serious risk of defaulting. Speaking at an breaking $4 billion debut sukuk in 2012. The delayed until after the summer. GACA didn’t KARLSRUHE: A member of the action group “Direct Democracy” demonstrates prior industry conference in Berlin, Chancellor Angela General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA), immediately respond to a request for com- to hearings on the European Central Bank’s controversial OMT bond purchase pro- Merkel said the ECB had acted appropriately to which oversees the air industry in the ment. The sukuk is expected to draw signifi- gramme in front of the German Constitutional Court in Germany yesterday. —AFP stabilise the euro and stressed the importance Kingdom, has chosen HSBC Holdings’ Saudi cant demand from Saudi investors as it will of the euro-zone’s permanent rescue mecha- Arabian unit and the investment banking be backed by a guarantee from the country’s More than 35,000 Germans filed complaints its mandate,” Schaeuble said. The judges are not nism, on which the court still has to deliver a arm of state-owned National Commercial Ministry of Finance. Given that the kingdom against the ECB’s programme to buy up the debt expected to reach a final ruling until after final verdict. Bank to manage the riyal-denominated doesn’t issue sovereign debt, this is the clos- of stricken southern euro-zone members, claim- German parliamentary elections in September. The complaints against the OMT reflect transaction, four banking sources said, est that investors can get to holding govern- ing it violates the central bank’s mandate for fatigue in Europe’s largest economy at funding speaking on condition of anonymity. ment paper. The last sukuk, a 15 billion riyals price stability and amounts to illegal back-door “Whatever it takes” the lion’s share of successive sovereign Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in infra- ten-year government-guaranteed deal financing of governments. But although the ECB ECB President Mario Draghi, who unveiled bailouts. About 20 members of the new anti- structure projects and revamping many of its priced in January 2012, was the country’s is based in Frankfurt, it is bound by European the programme dubbed Outright Monetary euro “Alternative for Germany” party demon- airports to cater for growing passenger traf- largest ever local currency bond and attract- Union law, raising questions about whether the Transactions (OMT) last year as fears of a cata- strated outside the court. In earlier rulings the fic, including through a planned 27 billion ed orders from investors worth 3.5-times the Karlsruhe-based court has jurisdiction over it. strophic euro breakup flared, has called it “prob- court has approved euro-zone bailout schemes riyal ($7.2 billion) development of Jeddah’s final amount. “They are planning to raise the In his introductory remarks, court president ably the most successful monetary policy meas- while insisting the German parliament be con- King Abdulaziz Airport. Standard Chartered same amount and they could very easily do Andreas Vosskuhle said this was “the most diffi- ure undertaken in recent time”. The crisis has sulted more fully. For plaintiffs like Peter will also be involved in the transaction, hav- it,” said one of the banking sources. HSBC cult legal question” facing the eight red-robed subsided significantly since Draghi promised to Gauweiler, on the eurosceptic fringe of ing pitched jointly with NCB Capital, but will Saudi Arabia arranged the maiden sukuk on judges, whose rulings on euro-zone bailouts do whatever it takes to save the euro last July, Merkel’s conservatives, this is not clear hold a more junior role than the other two its own. The kingdom’s finance minister said have been closely watched by financial markets before unveiling details of the bond scheme two enough. “A ‘yes, but’ does not help anymore. A banks, two of the sources said. in December that bonds would be issued in since the bloc’s crisis broke out over three years months later. clear ‘no’ is what is needed,” his lawyer Dietrich The deal will be the first local currency 2013 to fund construction at airports in ago. Legal experts believe the ECJ is much more Even though the ECB has not bought a single Murswiek told the court. —Reuters Saudi debt issue that Standard Chartered has Jeddah and Riyadh. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Commercial Bank of Kuwait Malaysian ringgit 94.271 Omani Riyal 742.22 748.000 Guinea Franc 0.0000442 0.0000502 Irani Riyal 0.271 Qatari Riyal 78.81 79.500 Hg Kong Dollar 0.0341291 0.0372291 Irani Riyal 0.273 Saudi Riyal 76.24 77.000 Indian Rupee 0.0047940 0.0048580 US Dollar/KD .2770000 .2880000 Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000240 0.0000291 GB Pound/KD .4310000 .4470000 GCC COUNTRIES Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Jamaican Dollars 0.0028429 0.0038429 Euro .3680000 .3760000 Saudi Riyal 75.990 Japanese Yen 0.0028106 0.0029906 Swiss francs .3020000 .3170000 Qatari Riyal 78.290 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Kenyan Shilling 0.0032972 0.0035272 Canadian Dollar .2780000 .2920000 Omani Riyal 740.160 US Dollar 284.900 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0854936 0.0924936 Bahraini Dinar 756.880 Nepalese Rupee 0.0028929 0.0030929 Australian DLR .2940000 .3020000 Canadian Dollar 282.585 UAE Dirham 77.605 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028606 0.0029006 Indian rupees .0040000 .0069000 Sterling Pound 444.595 Sri Lanka Rupee .0020000 .0035000 Philippine Peso 0.0061505 0.0066205 ARAB COUNTRIES Euro 377.550 Sierra Leone 0.0000727 0.0000757 UAE dirhams .0771240 .0778990 Swiss Frank 304.360 Bahraini dinars .7513970 .7589480 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.950 Singapore Dollar 0.2220541 0.2280541 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.068 Bahrain Dinar 754.280 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021974 0.0022394 Jordanian dinar .3930000 .4110000 UAE Dirhams 77.545 Saudi riyals .0720000 .0770000 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.329 Thai Baht 0.0088407 0.0094407 Tunisian Dinar 175.830 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Arab Omani riyals .7366120 .7440150 Jordanian Dinar 402.420 Saudi Riyals 75.935 Bahraini Dinar 0.7486136 0.7571136 Egyptian pounds .0370000 .0440000 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.912 Jordanian Dinar 401.615 Egyptian Pound 0.0380578 0.0400878 Syrian Lier 3.096 Egyptian Pound 40.120 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0127803 0.0192803 CUSTOMER TRANSFER RATES Morocco Dirham 34.444 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.247 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1447280 0.1465180 US Dollar/KD .2841000 .2862000 Indian Rupees 4.943 Iranian Riyal 0.0000792 0.0000797 GB Pound/KD .4338920 .4370990 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Pakistani Rupees 2.888 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001731 0.0002331 Euro .3707360 .3734770 US Dollar Transfer 284.850 Bangladesh Taka 3.658 Jordanian Dinar 0.3959095 0.4034095 Swiss francs .3043390 .3065880 Euro 379.140 Philippines Pesso 6.793 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Canadian dollars .2795430 .2816100 Sterling Pound 445.220 Cyprus pound 698.875 Lebanese Pound 0.0001746 0.0001946 Danish Kroner .0497330 .0501010 Canadian dollar 280.640 Japanese Yen 3.895 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0221794 0.0461794 Swedish Kroner .0443660 .0446940 Turkish lira 149.830 Thai Bhat 9.385 Nigerian Naira 0.0012088 0.0018438 Australian dlr .2963730 .2985640 Swiss Franc 306.620 Syrian Pound 4.070 Omani Riyal 0.7283396 0.7393396 Hong Kong dlr .0365940 .0368650 Australian Dollar 269.330 Nepalese Rupees 3.195 Qatar Riyal 0.0775310 0.0783140 Saudi Riyal 0.0753733 0.0760133 Singapore dlr .2291130 .2308060 US Dollar Buying 283.650 Malaysian Ringgit 91.110 Japanese yen .0029600 .0028810 Sudanese Pounds 0.0452820 0.0468320 Syrian Pound 0.0027515 0.0029715 Indian Rs/KD .0000000 .0052870 GOLD Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lanka rupee .0000000 .0022880 20 Gram 265.000 Tunisian Dinar 0.1740405 0.1800405 10 Gram 134.000 UAE Dirhams 0.0760724 0.0775224 Pakistan rupee .0000000 .0029190 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Bangladesh taka .0000000 .0036810 5 Gram 70.000 Europe Yemeni Riyal 0.0012840 0.0013840 UAE dirhams .0773800 .0779520 British Pound 0.4368423 0.4456423 Bahraini dinars .7538810 .7594530 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Czech Korune 0.0063873 0.0183873 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian dinar .0000000 .4048090 Danish Krone 0.0466506 0.0516506 Saudi Riyal/KD .0757800 .0763400 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Euro 0.3729195 0.3804195 Norwegian Krone 0.0454174 0.0506174 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Omani riyals .7382100 .7436660 Australian Dollar 275.96 283.000 Scottish Pound 0.4198043 0.4273043 US Dollar 285.400 Philippine Peso .0000000 .0069870 Canadian Dollar 283.06 283.000 Swedish Krona 0.0393156 0.0443156 Euro 377.050 Swiss Franc 313.19 299.000 Swiss Franc 0.3005376 0.3075376 Pound Sterling 442.350 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Euro 382.40 372.000 Australasia Canadian Dollar 277.550 US Dollar 285.40 288.000 Australian Dollar 0.2582376 0.2702376 Japanese Yen 2.925 Sterling Pound 448.60 438.500 ASIAN COUNTRIES New Zealand Dollar 0.2167627 0.2267627 Indian Rupee 5.030 Japanese Yen 3.04 3.300 Japanese Yen 2.901 Uganda Shilling 0.0001130 0.0001130 Egyptian Pound 40.245 Bangladesh Taka 3.676 3.740 Indian Rupees 4.870 America Sri Lankan Rupee 2.256 Indian Rupee 4.990 5.400 Pakistani Rupees 2.886 Canadian Dollar 0.2725376 0.2815376 Bangladesh Taka 3.677 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.240 2.460 Colombian Peso 0.0001448 0.0001628 Srilankan Rupees 2.231 Philippines Peso 6.768 Nepali Rupees 3.049 Nepali Rupee 3.132 3.420 US Dollars 0.2825000 0.2846500 Pakistan Rupee 2.902 Singapore Dollar 226.790 Pakistani Rupee 2.890 2.985 Asia Bahraini Dinar 760.050 Hongkong Dollar 36.693 UAE Dirhams 77.77 78.800 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036100 0.0036650 UAE Dirham 77.800 Bangladesh Taka 3.652 Bahraini Dinar 759.61 763.500 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031575 0.0033875 Saudi Riyal 76.250 Philippine Peso 6.590 Egyptian Pound 40.24 40.500 Chinese Yuan 0.0454297 0.0504297 *Rates are subject to change Thai Baht 9.227 Jordanian Dinar 406.18 415.000 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0164433 0.0195433 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 BUSINESS Hard times for Iran middle class battling US sanctions Devaluation of rial pushes prices of imported products high TEHRAN: Like many middle class Iranian-made alternatives. as the price of the imported drugs ment, has on many occasions vowed Iranians, 55-year-old Maryam has Although authorities have hailed she needs has quadrupled in the to bolster the economy ever since seen the bright future she once envi- this particular effect of the sanctions past year. “The domestic-made medi- taking office in 2005. But his failure sioned for her family thwarted by the as a means to promote domestic cines either do not exist or are not as has left little choice for the seven country’s economic pains. Leaning products, the implications are not effective,” she said. The government candidates approved by the hardline over an elegantly framed photo of limited to luxury goods. Many of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad electoral watchdog to contest the her four children, Maryam bemoans Iranians have had to cut back on has failed to curb soaring inflation, June 14 presidential election but to the missed opportunities and finan- imported necessities, including med- which according to official data, tops focus their campaigns on promises cial woes that have put an end to her icine. “Life is getting more and more 30 percent. Critics believe the real of reviving the economy. plans. “Sometimes even thinking difficult. I wish I had a better-paid job figure is much higher. The “misman- Mohammad Gharazi, a long-shot about the future is painful. So I just so that I could relieve part of the bur- agement” of the administration, in moderate candidate, has done little occupy myself with making the man- den on my mother’s shoulders,” said the words of critics and even campaigning, but he has repeatedly teau,” she said of her in-house tailor Sara, Maryam’s daughter, who suffers supreme leader Ayatollah Ali stated his intention to establish an shop, where along with her 30-year- from multiple sclerosis, an autoim- Khamenei, has also contributed to “anti-inflation government”. Others, old daughter she makes Islamic- mune disease that requires drugs to unemployment, estimated to be in including seasoned diplomat Ali MARIGNANE: Passengers check flight information at Marseille-Provence approved clothes for women that keep it under control. the double-digits. Akbar Velayati, link the economic dif- Airport, in Marignane, southern France yesterday. —AFP cover most of the body. Sara says her medicines eat up a Ahmadinejad, feeling the pres- ficulties to Iran’s strained relations Until a few years ago, Maryam, large portion of the family income, sure from within the ruling establish- with the international community, in who has raised her children alone, particular over Tehran’s nuclear Strike leads protest could make ends meet with a gov- ambitions. However many Iranians- ernment pension of about 310 euros suffocated by sanctions and eco- of EU air travel plan ($409) awarded to her after her hus- nomic worries-see little hope of a band died in the 1980s war with Iraq. speedy recovery. PARIS: Air traffic controllers in France other countries throughout the EU on But she has had to find a new cash Unconcerned about Iran’s disput- kicked off a series of strikes against a Wednesday. flow, like many other middle class ed nuclear programme, Maryam’s 34- European plan to overhaul their industry, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas households struggling to adapt to year-old son, Saman, says: “We are forcing the country’s main airports to cut yesterday called for a speedy implementa- rising prices. looking for a better president who their flight timetables in half yesterday. The tion of the centralization plan as the cur- Maryam says she is fed up with can offer better and more practical Civil Aviation Authority said some 1,800 rent system’s inefficiencies are costing air- broken promises from statesmen economical solutions. “But I know flights were cancelled at Charles de Gaulle, lines and customers some 5 billion euros who have failed to shore up the ail- cleaning up this mess and returning Orly, Beauvais, Lyon, Nice, Marseille, ($6.6 billion) annually. ing economy against international to how it was before will take ages,” Toulouse and Bordeaux airports. French Transport Minister Frederic sanctions over Iran’s nuclear pro- said Saman, who holds an MA The strike was called to protest against a Cuvillier said that France and Berlin are gramme and government misman- degree in mining engineering and European Union plan to centralize control seeking a postponement of the plan. He agement of its oil income. “Until a still lives with his mother. of the continent’s air space to eliminate said that he and his German colleague, few years ago, I could afford certain He envies his wealthy friends duplication of work across the bloc’s 27 Peter Ramsauer, asked the European luxuries, like travel. We were able to “who are off doing PHD studies countries. Unions fear the plan will cost Transport commissioner to formally “delay save money. We could upgrade our abroad, while I have to sweat blood jobs and reduce pay for air traffic con- this type of liberalization” at the European car, for example,” she said. “But now every day to help my family make trollers. They have called more strikes in summit at the end of June. — AP they are long-gone dreams.” ends meet.” He voted for Iran’s currency, the rial, has lost Ahmadinejad in 2009, when the dis- more than two-thirds of its value puted re-election sparked massive against the dollar since early 2012 street protests that were crushed by China’s MA60 planes in when the United States and the the government. Now, Saman is criti- European Union announced new cal of the president. “His wrong eco- spotlight over safety sanctions against Iran’s oil exports nomic policies at a time when sanc- and access to the global banking sys- tions were biting only made our lives YANGON: China’s high-flying aviation to checks carried out following serious tem. The devaluation of the rial, cou- more difficult,” he said, referring to a ambitions suffered a setback yesterday as accidents-on the MA60s. pled with difficulties in repatriating controversial subsidy reform scheme Myanmar grounded several planes made The process would take up to three petrodollars, has pushed prices of that led to increases in the price of by the Asian powerhouse and Indonesia months, ministry spokesman Bambang imported products through the roof, QOM: An Iranian-Syrian man sells breads and pizza in the reli- many energy products, including ordered special checks on its fleet follow- Ervan told AFP. “We will investigate how forcing many buyers to turn to gious Shiite city of Qom.— AFP gasoline. — AFP ing a series of safety scares. An MA60 tur- maintenance work was carried out, the boprop airliner with 52 people on board availability of spare parts, crew training, crash-landed at an airport in eastern and all matters related to operations,” Greece plays down privatisation blow Indonesia on Monday, leaving two passen- Ervan said. Merpati is the only Indonesian gers with minor injuries and forcing state- carrier which currently uses the Chinese- ATHENS: Greece played down yesterday the Simon O’ Connor told reporters in Brussels. The Russian pullout poured cold water on a posi- owned carrier Merpati to write off the made planes, with eight in operation and impact of the collapse of a major privatisation sale A Greek government source earlier said it was tive period for Greece when it was building up plane. five more undergoing routine mainte- on the country’s finances, saying it would not spark “practically impossible” to find a buyer for DEPA praise from international officials for its progress On the same day an MA60 operated by nance work, according to airline new budget cuts and tax rises to meet debt-rescue this year. Greek media had earlier raised the on enacting austerity and structural reforms. Myanma Airways and carrying about 60 spokesman Herry Saptanto. conditions. But the European Commission said that prospect of additional budget cuts this year to The head of the International Monetary Fund, people skidded off a runway at a domestic “We have no plans to ground our planes the failure of the process, which blows a hole in make up the expected shortfall from the sale fail- Christine Lagarde, said last week that Greece had airport in southern Myanmar, although because of yesterday’s incident,” he added. budgeting, was an issue. ure. The Athens stock exchange was shedding 4.46 achieved “massive, unprecedented fiscal consoli- nobody was hurt. It was the second such “Our MA60 aircraft have been certified by “Certain jokes have been heard that new meas- percent of its value yesterday. It had registered a dation” and the global lender even went as far as incident in less than a month involving Chinese and Indonesian aviation authori- ures will be taken because of (this) entanglement,” 4.69-percent drop on Monday. Gazprom said on admitting planning errors in Greece’s first bailout one of three MA60s owned by Myanma ties. We will continue to fly them.” Dudi Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told reporters just Monday that it was worried by mounting unpaid deal. And Jeroen Dijsselbloem, head of the Airways. “I think the accidents happened Sudibyo, senior editor at Indonesian avia- as EU-IMF auditors review progress on reforms. bills owed to DEPA by independent electricity pro- Eurogroup of euro-zone finance ministers, has because of system failure. We will check all tion magazine Angkasa, noted however Samaras was referring to the privatisation of ducers and industry. offered hope that further debt relief for Greece the systems. That’s why we stopped the that MA60 planes were not certified safe Greece’s gas distributor DEPA, which fell through “We did not receive adequate guarantees that could be discussed next year if Athens stays on operation of the planes,” Tin Naing Tun, by US or EU aviation authorities. on Monday after Russian giant Gazprom pulled out DEPA’s financial situation will not deteriorate until track with its recovery programme. The latest cred- director general of Myanmar’s Civil “Merpati was too hasty in purchasing of the bidding process. the deal is concluded,” said Gazprom spokesman itor audit will determine the release of an instal- Aviation Department, told AFP. the aircraft,” he told AFP. Sudibyo said the The setback could cause a shortfall of at least Sergei Kupriyanov. “The takeover procedure could ment of 3.3 billion euros ($4.3 billion) of loans “The systems also showed warnings airline’s pilot training, maintenance proce- 700 million euros ($912 million) in the 2.6 billion last another year after the end of the tender,” he approved in May. The troika is looking to see what before,” he added. The Chinese maker of dures and stock of spare parts should be Greece needs raise this year under the terms of its added. “The company is already burdened with progress Greece has made in overhauling its state the plane, AVIC Xi’an Aircraft Industry investigated. “They should have grounded EU-IMF fiscal bailout. It came as a mission from the unpaid customer bills.” But there are also strong administration and liberalising its energy sector, Company, could not be reached for com- the MA60 for a week or two while the so-called troika of creditors-the EU, IMF and the signs that the European Union had reservations while Athens is requesting a cut in sales tax to cap- ment yesterday. China is fighting for a big- investigations are ongoing.” Other opera- European Central Bank-began a scheduled audit of about the sale as Gazprom is a key gas supplier to italise on the tourism season. ger share of the multi-billion dollar global tors of the plane include Lao Airlines, Greek reforms and fiscal performance that will Greece. EU gas market reforms bars suppliers from However, the troika itself is labouring under aviation market. The communist nation is Philippines’ Zest Airways and several determine the payment of the next instalment of also running a country’s gas distribution system. some tension after the IMF pointed to errors in developing the ARJ-21 regional jetliner Chinese carriers. rescue funding under bailout agreements. the first bailout, and the European Commission and the 168-seat C919 plane in the hope of Following the 2011 accident, there were The spokesman for EU Economic Affairs Progress with reforms angrily disagreed. In return for two EU-IMF competing with Boeing and Airbus. calls by Indonesian lawmakers to ban the Commissioner Olli Rehn said that the failure of the Fellow Russian firm Sintez likewise held back bailouts, Greece has pledged to raise 9.5 billion Its turboprop-powered airliners have a planes altogether. President Susilo sale would “clearly be discussed” during the audit. bidding on DEPA subsidiary DESFA, the Greek gas euros ($12.4 billion) in asset sales by 2016, a tar- chequered record. In May 2011 an MA60 Bambang Yudhoyono ordered a review “The Greek authorities will now have to assess transmission system operator. Samaras insisted get that was originally 50 billion euros. The pri- operated by Merpati crashed in West into the controversial $220 million deal to what has happened...and how best to address yesterday that the privatisation glitch had nothing vatisation drive has had a slow start and revenue Papua province, killing 25 people. buy the MA60s amid allegations of kick- it...right now our message is that we would like (the to do with Greece. “The tender for both companies goals have been repeatedly scaled back since it Following that accident, Indonesian backs and concerns about the planes’ air- process) to resume as soon as possible,” spokesman was carried out under all the rules,” the PM said. began in 2010.—AFP authorities banned the plane from landing worthiness. A special audit carried out at three airports with difficult approaches. after the 2011 accident found the pilot was After the latest incident on Monday, not familiar with operating the plane, and Indonesia’s transport ministry said it would did not find any problems with the aircraft, Hungary economic ‘fairy tale’ carry out a “special audit”-the term given according to Ervan. — AFP comes true, or so it seems

China, LatAm leads BUDAPEST: When Hungary’s economy minister pre- and the Czech Republic, where output slumped 1.1 to cut its main interest rate for the 10th month run- dicted a year ago an economic “fairy tale” for Hungary percent in the quarter as exports to the euro-zone ning in May, further helping its economy. Further gains in tourists in 2013, few believed him. But recent data from the slumped. While Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s com- good news is that the European Commission has pro- central European country show he might have been ments that Hungary’s growth rate could be the high- posed removing Hungary from special fiscal monitor- right. Figures out last week confirmed that the non- est in the region as soon as 2014 “may be just politick- ing in recognition of Budapest cutting its deficit to WASHINGTON: Tourists from China (-4.3 percent), France (-3.2 percent) and euro-zone EU member emerged from recession in the ing and prove too optimistic ... Orban has strong levels only dreamed about in much of the euro-zone. and Latin America swarmed to the the Netherlands (-1.5 percent). Visitors first quarter, notching up growth of 0.7 percent, lead- arguments to back his statement,” BNP Paribas econo- Brussels has been keeping a close eye on United States last year, while fewer from Canada and Mexico flocked into ing several analysts to hike their forecasts for the year. mists said in a recent note. Hungary’s public finances ever since the country Europeans came, according to a gov- their North American neighbor in The contrasted with dismal growth figures from Hungarian inflation tumbled in April to 1.7 per- joined the European Union in 2004, and being let off ernment report released Monday. A record numbers. Canadian tourists fellow European emerging economies like Poland cent, the lowest since 1974, allowing the central bank the hook will mean that it can look forward to EU record 67.0 million international visi- were up 6.4 percent to 22.7 million, fol- regional funding. Part of the reason for Hungary’s tors clocked into the world’s biggest lowed by Mexico’s 14.5 million, up 7.5 economic rebound has been Orban’s “non-orthodox” economy in 2012, up by 4.3 million percent. policies, some of which have put more money in peo- from the prior year, the US Commerce “Increasing international visitors ple’s pockets, giving a fillip to consumer spending, Department said. helps grow our economy and create and have eased inflation. It also was a record-breaking year more jobs,” said Francisco Sanchez, A drop in industrial output, meanwhile, has been for international travel and tourism undersecretary of Commerce for inter- attenuated by good news in the auto sector. “The spending, which surged 10 percent to national trade, in a statement. Sanchez Hungarian economy has the good fortune to have $168.1 billion. As usual, visitors from said the banner results showed that factories of high-end carmakers like Audi and Mercedes, because these brands have been less Canada and Mexico accounted for the President Barack Obama’s strategy was affected by the crisis,” said Zoltan Arokszallasi, analyst lion’s share of the total. Aside from working as the administration contin- at Erste Bank. The question however is whether this those, Japanese tourists accounted for ued to focus its efforts “to make recent good performance is sustainable, or whether the largest number of overseas tourists America more welcoming to visitors the positive effects from Orban’s policies will be a — 3.7 million-nearly 14 percent up from all around the world.” good thing in the longer term. from a year earlier. The goal is to attract 100 million Hungary’s credit rating remains rated at “junk” by But China had by far the strongest international visitors, and snare $250 all the main agencies, meanwhile.”To have strong and growth, up a whopping 35.3 percent at billion in spending, annually by the sustainable growth we need to have a turnaround in 1.5 million. Latin American countries end of 2021. The Commerce direct foreign investment,” said Zoltan Torok, econo- had the second-biggest gains, with Department forecast 4.0 percent annu- mist at Raiffeisen Bank. These vital investments-testa- Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela al growth through 2018. For 2013, 69.6 ment to foreign companies’ confidence, or lack of it, in roughly up around 20.0 percent and million foreign travelers are expected a country’s prospects-slumped 8.7 percent in the first Brazil almost 19 percent. Recession- to visit the United States. Spain was the quarter, according to rating agency Moody’s, with mired Europe was the only region only one of the top 40 visitor origin many firms spooked by Orban’s policies. among the top 20 countries of origin countries expected to show a decline Moreover, faster economic growth-which may fal- showing declines. during the next six years. China was ter, depending on Europe’s overall performance-may British visitors strongly outnum- projected to lead growth, soaring a push up inflation again, potentially stopping the cen- bered other European tourists at 3.8 total 229 percent over the period, fol- tral bank further lowering interest rates, experts say. PARIS: This photo shows the tails of a Boeing 777, the Airbus A380 and A340 at the million, but the number was down 1.9 lowed by Saudi Arabia (+191 percent), Banks, too, remain reluctant to lend money to small percent. Spain slumped 13.3 percent, Russia (+79 percent) and Brazil (+66 Paris Air Show. Global demand for aircraft in the next 20 years will be even stronger businesses and have been hit by special taxes. A new central bank effort to boost lending “is good but not followed by Italy (-6.8 percent), Ireland percent). —AFP than estimated so far, pulled by demand in the Asia-Pacific region and from low-cost carriers, US manufacturer Boeing said yesterday. — AFP enough,” said Raiffeisen’s Torok. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 BUSINESS Russian city awaits potash boom but outlook fragile

BEREZNIKI: At first sight, Berezniki looks a typical- Saskatchewan in Canada, according to the US exploding and the need for cereal crops among which made farmers reduce their fertiliser pur- depth of 520 metres, is planned to take over from ly bland provincial Russian outpost with its Geological Survey. A veritable army of miners fast-growing emerging economies such as China chases. another mine which is closing down. It is due to decrepit housing blocks and factory chimneys. march up and down the kilometres of passages growing sharply. But despite the boom, the out- There were also delays in the signature of con- be commissioned in 2020 and reach full capacity But the city in the Perm region of the Urals sits on that have already been carved out 450 metres look for the industry has become considerably tracts with China and India, two major emerging in 2025. Uralkali, the largest potash company in a vast and hugely valuable secret-one of the (1,500 feet) underground. Their machines work more complicated in recent years. market clients but also tough negotiators. The the world by production and capacity, also has a world’s biggest deposits of potash, a mineral that day and night to mine the pink coloured rock The main players in the potash industry need prices of potash jumped after the food supply cri- license for another bloc called Polovodovsky, due is now coveted across the world as a fertiliser for where the mineral is contained. This is then taken to be constantly aware of the need for a balanced sis of 2007-2008, prompting India and China to to be commissioned in 2021. food crops. Berezniki, 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) to the surface by conveyors to extract the pre- strategy to satisfy demand while not resorting to look for alternative fertilisers. As a result, potash Meanwhile the existing Solikamsk mines out- east of Moscow, sits on the Verkhnekamsk cious mineral. Once turned into powder or crys- over-production which could result in a serious prices slumped by 10 percent in 2012. However side Berezniki are being expanded and will reach deposit, which was discovered in 1925 and which talised as granules, potash is used as a fertiliser to price fall. The Russian potash giant Uralkali which Uralkali has now launched the construction of a their new full capacity by 2019. The construction was developed after World War II. help crops grow and increase their immunity to owns five mines in the region and employs 11,800 new mine called Ust-Yayvinsky just outside of new mines should according to the group Its proven reserves represent some 34.5 per- disease. people had to reduce its production at the end of Berezniki. In a huge forest, works are underway to increase its capacity to 19 million tonnes by 2021 cent of the world’s total and the deposit is the sec- The demand for potash is growing exponen- 2012. The reason was poor weather conditions for dig the new pits. from 13 million tonnes currently, although this fig- ond biggest in the world after those in tially at a time when the world’s population is agriculture and also macro-economic uncertainty This new site, which is expected to reach a ure leaves some analysts sceptical. —AFP

BEREZNIKI: A picture shows employees working at the Uralkali, Russian potash fertilizer company, in the Urals city of Berezniki, more than 1,200 kilo- meters east of Moscow. —AFP Turkish economy depends on political stability LONDON: The escalation in the clashes month, while the national currency, the lira, between Turkey’s government and protest- has dropped about 6 percent against the dol- ers could hurt one of the world’s recent eco- lar, to about 53 cents per lira. The interest nomic success stories, spelling uncertainty rates on government bonds have risen for a country that has become a source of sharply, indicating foreign investors are more growth and stability in a region hit by reces- worried about lending money to the Turkish sion and unrest. At first, the 12-day protests, government. The benchmark 10-year yield which were sparked by plans to bulldoze and has risen from 6.2 percent to 7.3 percent. redevelop a park in central Istanbul but have Because economic growth and inflation are widened to incorporate concerns over the relatively high - helping to erode public debt government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip - the government is expected to be able to Erdogan, were largely peaceful and limited in keep borrowing at these rates. That means it’s size and scope. They weren’t very different unlikely to need to call on the IMF for a from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New bailout, like neighboring Greece. But it is nev- York. ertheless a bad sign for a country whose eco- However, clashes between riot police and nomic growth has depended heavily on the demonstrators yesterday have height- investment from beyond its borders. ened tensions and raised fears that a key regional power could be destabilized. Water What are the risks to the economy? cannon and tear gas were used against the The biggest threat is that political turmoil hundreds of protestors in Taksim Square, scares foreign investors into pulling their Instanbul, many of whom have fled into a money out of the country. One of the reasons nearby park. Here’s a look at the Turkish Turkey has become such an attractive place economy and the risks it faces. for investors is the relative political stability the country has enjoyed over the past How big is Turkey’s economy? decade or so. Erdogan’s government has Turkey’s economy has grown quickly in been in power since 2003. Turkey has recent years. Annual gross domestic product launched a series of massive infrastructure in the country of about 75 million people is projects, such as a huge new airport outside around $800 billion, putting it on a par with Istanbul, a third bridge across the Bosporus wealthy countries like Switzerland or the straight that divides Istanbul, and oil Netherlands. Its neighbors, by contrast, are pipelines that cross the country. To pay for almost all in the midst of economic turmoil. these works, the government and major cor- Greece and Cyprus have been embroiled in porations have been issuing bonds that Europe’s debt crisis and fallen into deep investors in the US and Europe have been recessions, while many of its neighbors to eager to buy because they potentially yield the east - Iraq, Syria and Georgia - have seen better returns than many of their financial their economies shattered by war and popu- assets back home. Political turmoil increases lar uprisings. Though impacted by the devel- the risk that such investments might not be opments around its borders, Turkey has repaid. Some investors could opt to pull their managed to blaze a trail. Following an eco- money out and place it in a more stable nomic crisis at the turn of the millennium, country. “The risk now is that a renewed peri- the country has seen its economy grow at a od of political uncertainty dents confidence little over 5 percent a year. In 2010 and 2011, and causes investment flows to reverse,” said when much of the global economy was try- Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets econo- ing to recover from recession, Turkey was mist at Capital Economics. Although some growing by over 8 percent, more or less the have made comparisons between the Turkish same rate as China, the world’s second- protests and the Arab Spring uprisings that largest economy. Turkey’s economic per- have toppled governments in several formance has enhanced its political profile in Mideast countries, the similarities are in fact the world. As a member of the Group of 20 few. The government was voted in demo- leading industrial and emerging countries, it cratically and still enjoys strong support. So has a voice in discussions on the world’s there is no immediate risk of the same kind of biggest issues. Though annual growth violent uprising. slowed to 2.6 percent in 2012, the “The demonstrations have not been on International Monetary Fund has projected the scale that would bring about the kind of that growth should accelerate to around 3.5 economic dislocation that has occurred in percent this year and 3.75 percent next. It parts of the Arab world in recent years,” said credited the improvement to recovering Paul Rawkins, a senior director at Fitch demand for its exports and to an increase in Ratings. A marked increase in the unrest capital flows that it can use for investment. could also deter tourism. About 37.7 million Figures yesterday showed that the Turkish visited Turkey in 2012, making it a top 10 des- economy was in relatively good health in the tination globally. Tourists are not cancelling period preceding the protests - the economy any trips so far, mainly because the protesters grew by 3 percent year-on-year in the first are not targeting visitors and the main sites - quarter from 1.4 percent in the previous palaces, markets and beaches - are still acces- three-month period. The increase was also sible. But any sign that the protests are higher than expected - the consensus in the becoming a more violent and widespread markets was for a more modest 2.3 percent confrontation would likely have an impact. rise. What has impressed many analysts over the past 10 years is the broad nature of What to watch out for? Turkey’s economic development. The indus- Besides a nasty turn in the protests, a par- trial and services sectors have expanded ticularly big risk factor for the Turkish econo- alongside tourism. Inflation, which had been my, like other emerging economies, could high for decades, hitting 90 percent as come from beyond its shores - the US Federal recently as 1999, has come under control. Reserve. Experts say that the Fed’s policy of The IMF predicts a fall in inflation to 6.6 per- stimulating the economy with a bond-buying cent this year from 8.9 percent in 2012. program has lowered returns for assets like US Treasuries and encouraged investors to How have investors reacted to the unrest? look for higher returns in other markets, like Not well. Markets fell sharply during the Turkey. Moody’s vice president Sarah Carlson first days of protest and government clamp- said the protests come “at an inopportune down and have remained volatile since, sug- time” for Turkey if the Fed does reduce the gesting the international investment commu- amount of new money it is creating as part of nity is on edge. Despite gains yesterday in the its monetary policy. The Turkish government wake of the growth figures, the main stock would hope to have solved its political stand- index is still down around 10 percent this off by then. —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 BUSINESS Obama names Furman as new White House chief economist Furman to replace Alan Krueger

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama nomi- advisory panel by naming high-profile University Sperling, and was an economist in the Clinton nated longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his of Michigan labor economist Betsey Stevenson as administration. When former NEC head Larry new chief economist on Monday, elevating a for- a member of the three-person council. Stevenson Summers left the administration at the end of mer campaign aide and Clinton administration is a former chief economist at the Department of 2010, Furman was considered a possible replace- official to oversee an agency with wide influence Labor who has drawn attention for her work on ment, but the post went to Sperling. over US economic policy. Furman will replace the economics of the family. Furman served as The CEA advises the president on domestic economist Alan Krueger as chair of the White special assistant to President Bill Clinton at the and international economic policy based on data House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). National Economic Council from 1999-2000 and and economic research. The chairman is a cabinet Krueger is returning to his post as a professor at also did a stint at the World Bank. He has advised member and requires Senate confirmation. Princeton University, from which he has been on Obama since his 2008 presidential campaign. Obama urged the Senate to confirm Furman leave. Furman, a father of two who holds a Ph.D in “He is brilliant, works harder than anyone I quickly. The president also poked some fun at economics from Harvard University, helped create know, and is incredibly influential - both inside Krueger for his interest in the economics of rock the economic stimulus package that dominated the White House and with Congress,” said and roll music. “Now that Alan has some free time, Obama’s first year in office and also advised on Christina Romer, an economics professor at the he can return to another burning passion of his - the formulation of the president’s signature University of California, Berkeley, and a former ‘Rockonomics,’” he said. healthcare reform act, tax policy, and budget talks chair of the CEA under Obama. “He is a somewhat “This is something that Alan actually cares with U.S. lawmakers. “When the stakes are high- unusual candidate for CEA chair, but for the cur- about - seriously, on Wednesday he’s giving a BUJUMBURA: A photo shows women selling fruits and vegetables on a est, there’s no one I’d rather turn to for straightfor- rent environment, he is perfect. He will absolutely speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s got a street in Bujumbura, Burundi, after the main market was razed to the ward, unvarnished advice,” Obama said of Furman be influential and will ensure that the careful eco- T-shirt under his suit with a big tongue sticking ground during an inferno four months prior. —AFP during a ceremony at the White House, speaking nomic analysis CEA can provide is front and cen- out,” Obama said, prompting Krueger to unbutton to an audience of top advisers, other economists ter in policy discussions.” his jacket and feign a move to undress in the White and family members. House state dining room. “Don’t show it,” Obama Burundi’s economy: Up in “He’s worked tirelessly on just about every ‘Rockonomics’ urged, prompting laughter and applause from the major economic challenge of the past four and a Furman’s policy background contrasts with the audience. And while Krueger may have an interest smoke after market fire half years, from averting a second depression, to academic background that many of his predeces- in popular music, the other economist the presi- fighting for tax cuts that help millions of working sors in the job have had. His appointment could dent named to serve on the CEA - the University of BUJUMBURA: The main market in Burundi’s capi- people. Now on many crossroads in the capital, families make ends meet, to creating new incen- signal a stronger role for the CEA within the Michigan’s Stevenson - has demonstrated a strong tal was once the heart of the country, a bustling dozens of former traders left without income tives for businesses to hire, to reducing our administration. Furman is currently assistant to grasp of popular media. Stevenson has amassed and crowded business zone that drove the nation- squat on the pavement begging those walking deficits in a balanced way that benefits the mid- the president for economic policy and principal more than 12,000 followers on Twitter with a al economy. Four months after Bujumbura’s key past for help. dle class,” Obama said. deputy director of the White House National stream of pithy remarks and is a frequent commen- covered market was razed to the ground by a The sorry sight is a “reflection of what is hap- The president further filled out his economics Economic Council (NEC), which is run by Gene tator on television, radio, and in print. —Reuters sweeping fire, the impact is still being keenly felt in pening in this country in crisis, it is confused and impoverished central African country with tax rev- adrift,” said Faustin Ndikumana, head of civil socie- enues down by a fifth. Most of the traders lost ty group Parcem, which is working for good gover- their livelihoods in the fierce blaze that also con- nance. The crisis “is sparing no sector of national Swiss-US tax spat sumed storage facilities, and now are struggling. life.” Even before the fire, Burundi’s economy was Widow and mother-of-eight Marguerite used massively dependent on foreign aid and suffering goes to wire after to sell rice, beans, and palm oil in a stall in the mar- from the repercussions of the global economic cri- ket, living life “with dignity”. Now she barely man- sis. senate setback ages to feed her family, renting a room without In November 2012, the international communi- ZURICH: A Swiss government plan to protect the country’s banks water, electricity or toilets for 12,000 Burundian ty pledged $2.6 billion (2 billion euros) in aid to from US criminal charges has been thrown into doubt by a Swiss francs a month (seven dollars, six euros) in a poor Burundi for 2013. “Nothing has (yet) been parliamentary committee’s rejection of the proposed bill on neighbourhood of Bujumbura. “When the market released”, said Finance Minister Tabu Abdallah Tuesday. Lawmakers are deeply divided over the plan to allow was burned, I lost everything,” the 32-year old said. Manirakiza. “The crisis... we live it every day.” Half of Swiss banks, suspected of helping wealthy Americans hide their “It is as if my life had stopped. I found myself help- the national budget for Burundi-ranked among money, to disclose data to US prosecutors to help settle investiga- less, four of my children were in private school and the three poorest countries in the world with a tions into tax evasion. Switzerland’s upper house of parliament is had to stop studying, I had to beg for food.” GDP per capita of $250 according to the World set to vote on the draft law, designed to solve the issue without Officially, some 7,000 traders were working in Bank-is provided by foreign aid. overturning Swiss banking secrecy laws, on Wednesday followed the market, but as many as three times that were Falling tax revenues following the fire have by the lower chamber next week, a schedule aimed at meeting a working informally, experts say. All, or almost all deepened the problem. In 2012, according to offi- US ultimatum. If the draft law succeeds, Swiss banks then have 120 traders were ruined by the January 27 fire, which cial figures, Burundi’s economy grew by 4.5 per- days to hand over the internal information to US authorities. raged for hours and police believe was caused by cent, with growth of 4.9 percent expected for this Possible outcomes include the following: arson, as they were not insured, said Audace year. But the country is lagging behind compared Bizabishaka, who heads a trader support associa- to its neighbours while inflation-expected to hit 9 Both parliament chambers pass deal tion. percent this year according to the International Amid fevered last-minute haggling in Bern, potential conces- For Burundi’s economy, already on its knees Monetary Fund (IMF) — eats into the growth. sions could still help swing the bill in parliament, even after the after a brutal 1993-2006 civil war and struggling The crisis is not only hitting shops, transport committee recommendation to vote it down. This would pave the amid the global economic crisis, the fire was an and real estate, but also banks. Two months after way for Swiss banks to disclose their US dealings, including names enormous blow. “The fire in the market was devas- the fire, one of the leading financial houses, of bank staff and third parties such as accountants and tax lawyers tating, and now we have begun to see its effects Interbank Burundi, said that deposits have who helped Americans evade taxes. This in turn should enable on the economy,” said finance ministry spokesman slumped by nearly a half. In the lakeshore port of TOKYO: Customers wait the opening of a shop of Japan’s mobile carrier potentially dozens of banks to reach their own deals with the Desire Musharitse. “State revenue dropped by 20 Bujumbura, most warehouses are empty. In des- SoftBank yesterday. —AP United States, including on fines which sources have said might percent in the three months that followed.” peration, the finance minister has called on the amount to $10 billion in total. One former finance minister, speaking on con- international community to fulfil its promises of dition of anonymity, explained the impact of the aid. Japan’s SoftBank raises Parliament stalemate fire is being felt across the country as many region- But civil society groups argue that Burundi- If the bill passes Switzerland’s upper chamber despite the com- al traders bought their supplies at the market. The ranked among the most corrupt nations in the mittee’s advice to vote it down, it is set to face even stiffer opposi- Sprint offer to $21.6bn loss was “a huge blow to an economy already in world-also suffers from a problem of leadership. tion in the lower house. Should one chamber approve the draft law crisis,” said the former minister. “Why, despite the many development plans... is and the other reject it, the bill would enter a potentially lengthy TOKYO: Japan’s SoftBank said yesterday it is $16.6 billion in cash compared with $12.1 bil- Burundi going backwards instead of forward?” mediation process to reconcile the two stances, effectively killing raising its bid for US firm Sprint Nextel to lion previously, but the complicated deal An economy on life support asked Faustin Ndikumana. “It’s simple, this country the deal given the US ultimatum. $21.6 billion, the latest twist in a high-stakes would reduce the amount of capital that the So far traders not received aid the government has a problem of leadership at every level.” Gabriel bid to trump a rival offer and grab a chunk of US firm would receive. SoftBank’s Tokyo-list- had promised, according to Bizabishaka. His asso- Rufyiri, president of an association fighting graft, Government enacts US deal without parliament the lucrative US mobile market. SoftBank ed shares jumped 1.26 percent shortly after ciation estimates that nearly 100,000 people were agrees, saying that while it is true “donor nations The Swiss government is desperate to get parliamentary said it would raise its original bid by $1.5 bil- the announcement, but the shares finished directly affected by the fire, a massive impact on are in crisis...beyond that, it is governance that is approval for the deal it hammered out in years of negotiations, but lion, just two weeks before Sprint sharehold- down 0.36 percent to 5,500 yen as the broad- the small nation. Bujumbura has some 600,000 the cause”, denouncing widespread corruption could eventually take matters into its own hands and approve the ers vote on the proposed takeover of the US- er market dipped 1.45 percent. inhabitants, the country in total about 8 million and a lack of capacity among leaders. —AFP agreement with an executive order, although circumventing a hos- based wireless carrier. Last month US national security officials tile parliament is seen as a risky gamble. The Swiss government has A joint SoftBank-Sprint statement yester- approved SoftBank’s planned takeover, in so far refused to use emergency law to settle the matter as it did in day encouraged Sprint investors to vote for what would be the biggest overseas acquisi- the case of UBS in 2009 to end the threat of indictment of the coun- the deal at the June 25 meeting, saying a tion by a Japanese firm. Under the agree- try’s largest bank. rival $25.5 billion bid from US satellite com- ment, any merger must see the appointment UBS, which admitted it had helped wealthy Americans cheat munications firm Dish Network was “not rea- of an independent member to the Sprint on their taxes, paid a $780 million fine and handed over more than sonably likely to lead to a superior offer”. In board of directors to serve as security direc- 4,000 client names as part of its settlement. Any deal could still be April SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son painted tor. The security director, who must be held up or even knocked down by Swiss courts if bank clients, staff his deal as superior to the Dish bid, saying his approved by US authorities, will oversee or third parties such as tax lawyers and custodians follow through firm had more experience in debt-financed national security matters and serve as a point on threatened legal action. takeovers and SoftBank’s bid could be con- of contact for US agencies. summated one year earlier than its rival. The agreement also requires that US Government grants data on case-by-case basis The proposed takeover would see already agencies will have a one-time authority to Even without parliament’s backing, the Swiss government heavily indebted SoftBank taking on even demand Sprint remove and decommission could still grant banks individual approval to hand over data. Swiss more debts. The Sprint shareholder meeting equipment as part of Sprint’s proposed data protection authorities have signalled their willingness to back- was originally scheduled for June 12, but the takeover of the broadband firm Clearwire, a stop such a handover, provided the involved parties are fore- joint release announced it had been delayed. transaction separate from the SoftBank- warned that their names will be made known to US authorities. Toshihiko Matsuno, a strategist at SMBC Sprint deal. The US Department of Justice in Friend Securities, said SoftBank had little January urged regulators to delay the pro- Swiss banks hand over data illegally choice but to sweeten its offer in the face of posed SoftBank-Sprint takeover until the Swiss banks could take their fate into their own hands and dis- the Dish bid. “It underlines SoftBank’s deter- national security ramifications had been close data to U.S. officials in violation of secrecy and data protection mination to buy Sprint,” Matsuno said. But evaluated. laws in Switzerland. This option was rejected by UBS before it settled delaying the shareholders’ meeting “could Since then, the rival bid for Sprint TOKYO: Pedestrians walk in front of a share prices board on a window of a in 2009 and would undermine any government-backed resolution. indicate in many cases that more time is emerged from Dish, which has said the tie-up securities firm yesterday. —AFP needed to resolve outstanding issues”, he with SoftBank would pose national security Deal fails, banks risk indictment added. The new SoftBank bid would see it risks. SoftBank, known in Japan for its quirky If the draft law fails in both Swiss chambers of parliament and a control 78 percent of Sprint, the third largest television commercials starring a talking BoJ stands pat on policy, way is not find to meet US demands, the Swiss government has US mobile carrier, up from 70 percent origi- snow-white dog and American actors includ- warned the United States could indict another bank, a move which is nally. ing Tommy Lee Jones, is widely seen as says economy ‘picking up’ seen as the death knell for any business. In January, Wegelin & Co, “We have decided to change part of the Japan’s most dynamic wireless carrier and has Switzerland’s oldest private bank, said it would shut its doors follow- contents of the deal through negotiations benefited from growing demand at home for TOKYO: The Bank of Japan said yesterday the new-look bank’s plan is just two months old. “In ing a US indictment on charges of helping wealthy Americans evade with Sprint in the wake of a counter-proposal Apple’s iPhone. It was the only Japanese economy was “picking up” and held off ramping terms of the development of the real economy, taxes through secret accounts. Wegelin later pleaded guilty, admitted of takeover by Dish Network Corporation,” mobile firm to offer the popular smartphone up April’s huge stimulus scheme, but warned of we are on track,” he told a press briefing yester- wrong-doing and paid $58 million to US authorities. —Reuters SoftBank said. Under the revised deal, until rival KDDI, the country’s second-largest possible headwinds caused by uncertainty in day. Revised data on Monday showed that SoftBank would offer Sprint shareholders operator, started selling it. —AFP Europe and the United States. The announcement Japan’s annualised growth came in at 4.1 percent came a day after fresh data showed the world’s in January-March, up from a preliminary reading third-largest economy grew faster than expected of 3.5 percent and suggesting Abe’s strategy, in the first quarter, but it sent the yen rallying and which includes huge government spending, is Saab parent’s $3 billion lawsuit vs GM dismissed stocks tumbling as investors were left disappoint- bearing fruit. ed. “Japan’s economy has been picking up,” the Consumer confidence improved in May over DETROIT: Dutch sports car maker Spyker NV’s $3 deal with Youngman were not made with malice or GM bought half of Saab - which had been bank said, while capital spending by the nation’s the previous month, while a government survey billion lawsuit accusing General Motors Co of try- to intentionally harm Saab. “We are pleased with making cars since 1947 and built a small, loyal firms “appears to have stopped weakening”. yesterday showed a jump in confidence among ing to bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab was dis- the court’s decision to dismiss the case, which we following - in 1990 and the rest 10 years later. It In April, new leadership at the BoJ-handpicked large Japanese firms in the second quarter as missed by a US federal judge on Monday who said believe was the appropriate result,” GM spokesman decided to sell the brand in 2009 after the finan- by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe-vowed to hit a two- hopes grow that the yen’s tumble, which makes the US automaker had the right to block the sale Dave Roman said in an email. Spyker Chief cial crisis and came close to closing it before percent inflation target within two years, jack up Japanese products more competitive abroad, will of a company using its technology. Spyker sued Executive Victor Muller, who attended the hearing, Spyker bought Saab in January 2010. Despite its asset purchases including government bonds, and help exports rebound. GM in August 2012, seeking damages and accus- declined to say whether he would appeal the deci- well-known name, Saab was a niche player double the money supply. The ambitious target, a However, BoJ policymakers said there was still ing the US automaker of trying to stop a deal with sion. “We will be awaiting the written order and whose future had been questioned by analysts. key part of the “Abenomics” plan to stoke the a “high degree of uncertainty” caused by the sov- Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co and then we will assess,” he told Reuters. Saab was profitable in only one of the 19 years it deflation-plagued economy, is aimed at reversing ereign debt troubles in key export market Europe eliminate a potential rival in the growing Chinese Drain said he would file a more detailed expla- was owned by GM, executives with the Detroit years of falling prices that have crimped private and the pace of a recovery in the US economy. market. nation of his ruling later. Last fall, GM rejected automaker have said. spending and business investment. Mixed US economic data has fuelled speculation “General Motors had a contractual right to claims that it deliberately bankrupted the Swedish Youngman pulled out of a potential deal to Yesterday, the bank repeated its determination the US Federal Reserve will hold off cutting back approve or disapprove the proposed transaction,” company by blocking a deal with Youngman. The buy Saab in late 2011 and the company then filed to press on with aggressive monetary easing for on its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying pro- US District Court Judge Gershwin Drain said in a US automaker has said the lawsuit was without for bankruptcy. “as long as it is necessary”. It added that a board gramme, known was quantitative easing, that is hearing in Detroit. “The court is going to grant the merit and it had the legal right to approve Saab’s A consortium called National Electric Vehicle member’s proposal to push back the inflation tar- aimed at stoking the world’s largest economy. The motion to dismiss the matter.” Drain said the deal transaction. Saab, one of Sweden’s best-known Sweden AB (NEVS) last autumn closed a deal to get’s timeframe had been voted down, pointing to BoJ decision, which comes after the European Spyker had reached when it purchased Saab, giv- brands, stopped production in May 2011 when it buy most of Saab’s assets for an undisclosed sum. a possible erosion in confidence over the plan. Central Bank and Bank of England held steady ing GM the right to stop change of ownership, “is could no longer pay suppliers and employees. It NEVS has said it aims to build its first electric car Although Japan remains mired in deflation, after policy meetings last week, sent investors run- clear, unambiguous and absolute.” He added that went bust in December 2011, less than two years for the Chinese market based on Saab vehicle BoJ chief Haruhiko Kuroda pointed out that the ning. —AFP GM’s statements voicing its opposition to Saab’s after GM sold it to Spyker. platforms at the start of 2014. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 BUSINESS Fitch Upgrades Gulf Bank’s Viability Rating to ‘bb-’, affirms IDR at ‘A+’

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced yesterday that tent financial performance and clear objective Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s leading inter- to generate growth across our core corporate national credit rating agencies, has upgraded banking and consumer businesses. The bank the bank’s Viability Ratings to ‘bb-’ from ‘b+’. maintains a cautiously optimistic outlook for The Bank’s other ratings have been affirmed at the coming period, with anticipated improve- Long-term Issuer Default (IDR) ‘A+’, Short-term ment in Kuwait’s general economic situation IDR ‘F1’, Support Rating ‘1’ and Support Rating and the expected execution of several vital Floor ‘A+’. The Outlook on the Long-term IDR is projects provided for in the strategic plan.” Stable. Gulf Bank recently posted a net profit of KD Gulf Bank’s Viability Ratings upgrade reflects 7.9 million for the first quarter of 2013, against the Bank’s sustained improvement in asset KD 7.4 million for the same period last year. As quality and capitalisation since 2009, while of end of March 2013, the bank’s total assets Fitch’s affirmation of Long- and Short-Term were KD 4,966 million, deposits stood at KD IDRs, Support Rating and Support Rating Floor, 4,178 million and total shareholders’ equity reflect Gulf Bank’s systemic importance as the was KD 460 million. This year, bank’s long-term From left to right: Dominick Keenaghan, President of INSIGHTS; Samia Barj, third-largest Bank by overall assets in the credit rating was upgraded from BBB to BBB+ Etihad Airways’ Al Ain Contact Centre Manager and Justin Warby, Etihad Kuwaiti market. with a positive outlook by Standard & Poor’s Airways’ Vice President Direct Sales. Omar K Alghanim, Gulf Bank’s Chairman, (S&P) in March. This was followed by an Omar K Alghanim said: “Today’s credit ratings upgrade underlines upgrade in outlook from “Stable” to “Positive” Gulf Bank’s progress and reflects our consis- from Moody’s Investors Service. Etihad Airways’ Al-Ain Contact Centre honoured Proteges Third Generation KUWAIT: Etihad Airways’ Al-Ain Contact mission “to deliver a consolidated multi-lin- Centre received the award for “Best gual contact centre that maximises every Facilities” at the INSIGHTS Middle East Call revenue opportunity while delivering inspi- officially launched in Kuwait Centre Awards, held June 4, 2013, in Dubai. rational experiences with warmth and This is the second consecutive year the respect.” Today, the centre is fully staffed by KUWAIT: Proteges - the mentorship program between the ages of 16 to 24 to find out more host the Kuwait-based training sessions. Our contact centre has received the honour. 200 Emirati women, including four quality that provides young people with opportunities about the program and register as soon as they regional TV operator, OSN, is providing prime Peter Baumgartner, the airline’s Chief management executives, 13 team leaders to learn life and leadership skills was officially can.” air time during Ramadan for a television com- Commercial Officer, said: “Once again, our and two performance managers. launched at a press conference at The Rana Al-Khaled, a mentor in the Proteges mercial which will publicize Proteges to a huge Al-Ain Contact Centre has proven to be an “Having national employees at strategic Chairman’s Club in Burgan Bank Tower. Members Program, spoke about how it works: “The audience” exceptional facility and we are extremely customer touch points across the organisa- of the Proteges program were joined by execu- Proteges curriculum is designed to reinforce The press conference was attended by gradu- proud of this team’s accomplishments. As a tion is one of the best ways for Etihad tives from KIPCO Group - the program’s main morals, enhance social and life skills and devel- ates from previous programs, program mentors, result of a comprehensive performance Airways to present its unique brand propo- sponsor. op self awareness. It also focuses on improving the program’s Board of Trustees and representa- management framework and a dynamic sition to the world,” Baumgartner said. “We Speakers at the press conference included critical thinking and creativity. This is achieved tives of KIPCO Group companies who are spon- training strategy, the contact centre con- remain committed to supporting and program manager, Shamlan Al-Bahar, program through workshops, projects, debates, guest soring the program. These companies are tinues to meet and exceed its targets and developing Emirati talent in our contact mentor Rana Al-Khaled and Abeer Al-Omar, speakers and a stop to the United Kingdom for Burgan Bank, KAMCO, United Real Estate, Qurain service levels, proving once again the centres and across every department and Corporate Communications Manager at KIPCO. specialized courses. The UK element of the pro- Petrochemical Industries Company, Gulf remarkable talent of our Emirati work- division of the airline.” During the conference, Al-Bahar explained the gram Is being hosted by Kings College in Insurance Group, United Networks, Kuwait force.” The Al-Ain Contact Centre is open 12 origin and objectives of Proteges: “Proteges was London, which is one of the top 30 universities Hotels Company and the American University of Etihad Airways’ Al-Ain Contact Centre hours a day, seven days a week, handling developed because we wanted to provide in the world”. Commenting as the main spon- Kuwait. These companies were joined by the was established as part of the airline’s over 800,000 calls per year in state-of-the- Kuwait’s future generations with the life and sor, Abeer Al-Omar said that KIPCO Group was platinum sponsors Abyat, Ali Alghanim & Sons Emiratisation Program. Recognising the art purpose built premises on the campus leadership skills they need to help society and committed to developing its partnership with Automotive Company, and Al-Anba Newspaper need to create job opportunities for the of Abu Dhabi University. lead our country. Our objective is to seek out the Proteges program: and the bronze sponsor, IFA Consulting Services. women of Al-Ain, the airline elected to Etihad Airways has three other contact gifted young people and give them an opportu- “KIPCO Group has a long track record of suc- Al-Bahar expressed his gratitude to all the open a contact centre there, creating an centres located in Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and nity to shine like the stars we hope they will cessful corporate social responsibility initia- sponsors for their support. Registration for the environment where national womencould Manchester. In 2012, the four contact cen- become. By taking part in a short but concen- tives and so we are very pleased to be the Proteges Third Generation is now open for all develop their careers while sustaining a tres handled approximately 2.6 million trated series of lectures and training courses, main partner the latest Proteges program. As young people aged between 16 and 24. The pro- balance between home and work. The cen- calls, assisting guests in 36 markets, serving these young people will hopefully learn things we say, this program is being powered by KIP- gram will start in the second week of August and tre officially opened in March 2011, with a 15 languages. that will change their lives forever. So, we are CO, because all our core companies are taking continue for four weeks. The application dead- here today to officially launch the Third part in one way or another. For example, The line for The Proteges, Generation 3 is June Generation of the Proteges program: the UK American University of Kuwait is providing its 20,2013. Applications can be submitted online Al-Tijari launches ‘Win Your Edition. We encourage all young people campus for the registration process and will through www.theproteges.org. Dream Car from Al-Tijari’

KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait November 2013, for CBK credit and prepaid announced the launch of its promotional card holders. With this campaign, all cus- campaign for its credit and prepaid card tomers intending to travel in summer or holders. The new campaign provides CBK those having plans to travel during feasts - “ card holders the chance to win one of Audi’s Fitr or Adha Eid” will get good chances to three luxurious cars the bank allocated for enter the “Draws” and win one of luxurious this campaign, namely Audi A5, Audi A7 and car”. Paul Daoud went on saying that “CBK Audi R8 Coupe. When using their credit or credit cards are the safest way for shopping prepaid cards, customers automatically and payments noting that customer do not become eligible to enter the draw for such need to carry large amounts of cash money fabulous prizes. Every time the customer and emphasizing that CBK chip embedded spends KD 10 using his credit or prepaid cards that require customers to enter their card locally, he will get one chance to enter “PIN” when using for shopping or cash with- the Draw and his chances can double when drawals provide further security and safety spending KD 10 using his credit or prepaid against fraud and forgery. Daoud explained card outside Kuwait. The more customers that CBK customers can use their prepaid use their cards for shopping or cash with- cards to withdraw from any ATMs locally or drawals, the more chances they will get to internationally without cash withdrawal enter the draws. charges being debited to their accounts and Commenting on this campaign, Paul this is regarded as an added value and privi- Daoud, Acting Head- Retail Banking Division lege for CBK prepaid card holders. Daoud said “We are pleased to launch this new concluded by inviting CBK and non-CBK cus- campaign, which will continue from the tomers to apply for credit and prepaid card KUWAIT: The speakers at the official press conference are pictured. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat beginning of June until the end of and enjoy a host of privileges and benefits.

Shale gas powering Celebrate DSS promotion at Arabian Center

petrochemical gain DUBAI: From 7th June till 7th July, 2013, up at Arabian Center. The mall extends Cars show, Comedian show, Sports “The summer months draw large HOUSTON: The US petrochemical industry, in trouble just a Arabian Center in partnership with the the offer at Lu&lu Hypermarket where show, and other entertainment and numbers of families and children from few years ago, is making a spectacular comeback thanks to DSMG (Dubai Shopping Malls Group one can avail this last chance to get 100 educational shows. There will also be a within the UAE and other GCC countries the boom in shale gas, shaking up the industry worldwide Secretariat) will have raffle draw promo- percent cash back on the total purchase. police parade in the mall to mark the to shopping malls in Dubai. Bearing this and spreading some discomfort through Asia and Europe. tions giving DSS shoppers the chance to This unique offer will give you an oppor- Anti-Drug day. This program is to help in mind, we endeavor to ensure that the “It’s pretty simple, there’s just so much feedstock that needs win a BMW car and grand exciting tunity to shop at no cost at all! the society at large. Arabian Center is shopping experience at Arabian Center to find a home,” Chuck Carr, a petrochemical analyst at IHS, prizes. Customers who shop for AED 200 Furthermore the mall is making this making this DSS special for you by also is a rewarding one with the grand pro- said in Texas, the capital of the US industry. “So everybody’s saying: hurry up to build something, or more at Arabian Center will enter into DSS even more special for its shoppers organizing a Pet Zoo area where there is motions and exciting line-up of events because at that natural gas price, it’s just pure value.” The a draw to win 8 BMW cars and AED 1 by organizing free kids arts and crafts a separate enclosure to feature more and activities certain to keep shoppers surge in gas production has pushed gas prices in the United Million in cash and gift vouchers. The and free ride on the Arabian Express. than 40 different kinds of animals. This coming back for more. We have devised States down since 2009, while oil prices have doubled since weekly raffle draw will have 4 winners Arabian Center will also organize Anti - will be located at First Floor, Morning entertainment programs like arts and then. The low price for gas as a fuel is already helping a per week where 2 winners stand a Drug day in collaboration with Dubai Court and one can benefit the chance to crafts for kids and ride at Arabian comeback in US industry-natural gas sells for one third the chance to win AED 100,000 each and Police which will stress on the educa- view different types of snakes, lizards, Express which will let the families have a price in Europe and one fifth that in Asia. But that makes it even more a boon for the petrochemi- the other 2 winners a BMW car each. tional sessions along with activities and arachnids, mammals, rodents, birds, fish, fun time and also organized Anti-Drug cal industry, where gas is a core raw material for producing During this month, shoppers will also entertainment programs like Police dog turtle and tortoise. The entry ticket for Day so that we can educate and inform plastics and other basic industrial products. In 2008, none of be surprised and delighted by the show, Yola dance, Horses show, Football the same is free and it is for everybody’s our shoppers about the abuse of drugs.” the members of the American Chemistry Council foresaw incredible offers and entertainment line- tricks, Q & A with a lot of gifts and prizes, viewing. said Tim Jones, COO, Arabian Center. investing any more in the country. Now, in the wake of the shale gas boom, the ACC lists 110 new investment projects for the US, worth some $77 billion. Just in the past two months, 13 projects have been Working mothers announced. If all come to fruition, the ACC sees 46,000 new direct jobs, plus another 200,000 for subcontractors, in a sec- tor that employs 800,000, compared with 1.1 million in 1981. urged to drop guilt “I’ve been working for the chemical industry for almost 20 LONDON: Children whose mothers work during meeting of policy-makers and academics organised years now and it’s always been a story of moderating pro- their early years do as well at school as those with by the Campaign for Social Science. “But as the per- duction,” said Martha Moore, an ACC economist. stay-at-home mothers, debunking a common par- centage of mothers in work has gone up, any impact “Now we’re in a renaissance. Chemicals are at the fore- enting myth that has piled guilt onto career women, on children has diminished.” Joshi said the most front, but there’s a rebirth of manufacturing in the United according to research released yesterday. An analysis important factor that triggered this change in Britain States. It’s a very exciting time to be in the industry.” “Not a of six studies looking at 40,000 children over the last was the Labour government’s investment in child- miracle” for Europe At the start of the boom, drillers mainly 40 years found there was no link between mothers care in the mid-1990s. The research was welcomed produced essentially methane gas. But faced with lower continuing their careers and children achieving less by parenting groups who said it would help end the profitability, they began to focus on producing oil from shale at school or misbehaving. Studies had shown that emotional baggage that mothers faced when decid- and “wet gas”, natural gas containing the feedstocks that children born to career mothers in the 1970s, 1980s ing whether or not to return to work and should petrochemical plants value more: butane, propane and and early 1990s did not perform as well, with their lit- encourage them to continue their careers. especially ethane. eracy and numeracy skills about two percent lower. Women make up 46 percent of the workforce in Those are extremely useful as substitutes for naptha, a But the latest research by Heather Joshi of the Britain but account for just a third of management component of oil often used as feedstock in chemicals University of London’s Centre for Longitudinal roles. “This research suggests changes in maternity plants-but now much more expensive. Ethane costs today Studies found children born since the mid-1990s leave and greater availability of childcare and the some one third the price of naptha. The natural gas feed- whose mothers worked during their early years fared consequent increase in maternal employment have stock is transformed into polyethylene, polypropylene, buta- just as well as those whose mothers did not. played a big role in enabling parents to balance work diene, the base products for the global plastics and chemi- She said this “generational change” was triggered and family,” Fiona Weir, chief executive of the single- cals industry. And, after a decade of offshoring the industry, by better maternity leave and greater availability of parent charity Gingerbread, told Reuters. “A lack of companies now are stepping up their production of those childcare that was something only rich families could family-friendly jobs and the shortage of affordable SYDNEY: A man feeds Seagulls at the Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour yester- products inside the United States. Existing plants are work- afford in the 1980s with other children making do childcare are still making it difficult for single parents, ing at full capacity; plants that were shut down are being day. The Reserve Bank of Australia last month cut its official cash rate to a record with informal, less structured care. “There has tradi- in particular, to balance work and family ... with one low 2.75 percent, seeking to reduce the economy’s reliance on the mining and started back up again; and others are boosting capacity, tionally been a concern that the employment of in five single parents who work full-time and one in industry officials say. —AFP mothers comes at the expense of child develop- four working part-time bringing their children up in energy sectors and stoke activity in weaker sectors such as home building and ment,” said Joshi who presented her findings to a poverty.” —Reuters retail spending. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 technology In Asia, dissidents worry US may share Prism data

SINGAPORE/BEIJING: Dissident and opposition Asked if he was concerned whether the U.S. gov- Network software allows users to bypass Internet groups in Asia, including those supported by the ernment would share surveillance information with restrictions. “These are the only weapons we have United States, are voicing concern over reports that Singapore authorities, given the friendly ties to get our message out and the only safe way to do Washington may have monitored and collected between the two countries, Tan said: “The U.S. is so. The US would never monitor us. They are using their conversations and e-mails. really hard to read”. A Singapore government it to fight terrorism. It’s totally different to what the Some of these groups include legitimate politi- spokesman did not immediately respond to Chinese government does to listen in on us,” he said cal parties, others are dissidents given U.S. assis- requests for comment. Several people in the region by telephone. tance. But they are worried that data collected by said the reports of government access to e-mails “Using Chinese sites like Weibo or (online mes- the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI and phone calls were not surprising. saging service) QQ is like opening a direct line to from US Web giants like Google Inc, Facebook Inc “This latest revelation, if true, is really no more the Ministry of Public Security,” said Hu, noting that and Yahoo inc could some day be used against than putting proof to suspicion,” said Howard Lee, a few Chinese dissidents had access to foreign sites them. blogger who often writes about political and social like Twitter. Tibetan activists opposed to Chinese “We share a lot of sensitive data, election-related issues in Singapore. rule in their homeland are similarly unconcerned, data, using Google Docs,” said Ong Kian Ming, a “As citizens of democracies, our response should since they do not see Washington and Beijing member of parliament for Malaysia’s opposition not be fear, but a concerted voice to demand exchanging information any time soon. LOS ANGELES: A frame from Dead Rising 3, exclusively for Xbox One, is seen Democratic Action Party. accountability and transparency. I believe this is the “I don’t see that happening anytime in the near under the Xbox One logo, at the Microsoft Xbox E3 2013 Media Briefing in “That’s definitely something we are concerned current aim of civil society groups in Singapore.” future with all the other cyber-related issues both Los Angeles. The press conference precedes the Electronic Entertainment about because we don’t know what kind of mes- One nation where dissidents are relatively countries have,” said Lobsang Sither, who works for Expo (E3) which takes place in Los Angeles. —AFP sages are being tracked and who these messages unconcerned about the snooping revelations is the Tibetan Action Institute, which focuses on would be given to.” China, where government critics view Washington teaching Tibetan exiles how to take advantage of Microsoft prices Xbox at Under Prime Minister Najib Razak, who won a as an ally and domestic Internet servers as sub- digital communications and non-violent resistance. second term last month, Malaysia has strengthened servient to Beijing. “I’ve never considered abandon- Sither, who is based in the Indian town of economic and security ties with the United States ing Twitter, YouTube, Google, Gmail or Gchat,” said Dharamsala, said the snooping revelations will $499 for November launch that had occasionally been strained in the past. A Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident, who has to however make him redouble emphasis on using LOS ANGELES: Microsoft Corp said on mostly hard-core gaming enthusiasts, who Malaysian government spokesman could not use a VPN to get round China’s ban on Twitter, encryption technology whenever he talks about or Monday its new Xbox One console would had hoped for a cheaper price tag. immediately be reached for comment but Najib has YouTube and Facebook. VPN or Virtual Private communicates sensitive information.—Reuters launch in November at $499 in the United The 8 gigabyte Xbox One is priced high- said in the past that he is committed to internet States, higher than most gamers had er than Nintendo’s new Wii U 8GB model at freedom. expected. $300. Sony may detail pricing of its new In a factsheet issued in Washington last week, The price is greater than its current con- PlayStation 4 at a presentation at E3 later the US government said it can only target someone sole, the Xbox 360, but it includes a Kinect on Monday. for internet surveillance if “there is an appropriate, motion sensor for hands-free game play- Microsoft also announced exclusive and documented foreign intelligence purpose” for ing. Microsoft announced the Xbox One in game titles coming to the new console, collection. Those purposes include countering ter- May as the latest move in its rivalry with including an Xbox edition of ‘Minecraft’ and rorism, weapons proliferation and cyber threats, Nintendo Co Ltd and Sony Corp in the $65 a new ‘Halo’ game, which will be released in Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said billion a year video game business. 2014. Yusuf Mehdi, an executive at in a statement after Edward Snowden, a contractor At a glitzy event at the Electronic Microsoft’s interactive entertainment unit, working for the National Security Agency, revealed Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, did not set any sales targets for the new the government’s top-secret internet surveillance Microsoft said the console will be sold in 21 Xbox, even though its existing console is programme. There was no word whether US agen- countries, including the United Kingdom at currently the best selling in the United cies were sharing such gathered information with 429 pounds. States market. “We have nothing new to allied governments but British and US newspapers The announcement of the pricing was announce other than the price,” said Mehdi have suggested that the NSA has handed over met with some groans from the audience, in an interview.—Reuters information on Britons gathered under Prism, the name of the eavesdropping programme. In Singapore, where authorities keep a close eye on opposition groups and political commentary, The desktop gets a makeover some people use encryption programs to avoid sur- veillance. SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc, known for but the concept essentially remains the “If you are concerned about electronic eaves- its bold experiments with computer same. dropping, you can use pidgin IM - it has an encryp- design, has come up with a radically re- The previewed Mac Pro, in contrast, tion module for instant messaging,” said Donaldson imagined Mac Pro that departs from the bristles with miniature circuit boards Tan, editor of socio-political website New Asia FORT MEADE: The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, venerable, boxy design of the typical ordered in sections around the circum- Republic. “There is also Tor client for online Maryland, as seen from the air, in this January 29, 2010 file photo. US spies are desktop personal computer tower. ference of its round case, broken up by a anonymity,” he said, referring to two popular free secretly tapping into servers of nine Internet giants including Apple, Facebook, The company on Monday offered a front panel for external connections. software programs developed by volunteer pro- Microsoft and Google in a vast anti-terror sweep targeting foreigners, reports said sneak peek at a top-of-the-line computer Reminiscent of a thimble or fat cigar, the grammers to guard against network surveillance. on June 7, 2013. —AFP destined for store shelves later this year: company claims it offers a glimpse into a sleek cylindrical chassis that, according “the future of the Pro desktop.” “There has to Apple, packs several times the pro- been some criticism of Apple that their cessing power of its predecessors but products of late have been fairly evolu- New Apple mobile software stands just shy of 10 inches. tionary, sort of incremental adjustments The new Mac Pro, with a yet-to-be- as you move from generation to genera- determined sales date and price, again tion. This was clearly a very big step for- will sport anti-theft feature features an Intel Xeon microprocessor - ward in this particular platform,” said used mainly in high-end computer Robert Brunner, founder of design con- SAN FRANCISCO: Smartphone thieves a perceived unwillingness to solve an servers - and a full-length cover that sultancy company Ammunition Group are set to have a harder time after escalating problem. About half of San slides upward to reveal its innards. and a former head of design at Apple. Francisco robberies last year involved It will be assembled in the United Brunner, whose company does not Apple Inc introduces an “activation States, marketing chief Phil Schiller told currently work with Apple, said older Mac lock” feature in its new mobile soft- stolen mobile devices, Gascon has said. an audience of thousands at the opening Pros were bulky and threw off a lot of ware, a move that comes amid pres- A recent study found that lost and of Apple’s annual developers’ conference heat, and could benefit from a redesign. sure from authorities and consumers stolen cellphones cost consumers in San Francisco on Monday. Other exec- The new machine features what Apple for companies to do more to stem a some $30 billion in 2012, his office has utives later outlined a number of new calls a “unified thermal core” that spreads tide of smartphone theft. said. Some companies have measures features in redesigned mobile software heat equally across its processors - typi- The new feature, available with the in place to reunite smartphones with for iPhones and iPads due this fall, and cally the hottest parts of a PC. The Mac launch of iOS 7 in the fall, will require a their rightful owners. Apple has Find talked about an “iTunes Radio” music- Pro is Apple’s costliest computer, legitimate owner’s ID and password My iPhone, which allows a user to track streaming service. employed primarily for graphics-inten- before an iPhone can be wiped clean a missing device on a map and remote- “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass,” sive tasks such as video-editing and or re-activated after being remotely ly lock it or erase data. remarked Schiller, addressing public criti- design. The current, top-of-the-line ver- erased, Apple executives said in a brief “‘Apple Picking’ is a huge epidemic cism from industry analysts and investors sion today sells for as much as $3,799. outline at company’s annual develop- in the United States. We are apprecia- that Apple’s famed innovation prowess Apple was lauded for the novel look ers conference. tive of the gesture made by Apple to had died along with its legendary co- of the first, pastel-colored iMacs in the New York State Attorney General address smartphone theft. We reserve founder Steve Jobs in 2011. late 1990s, which proved popular with Eric Schneiderman and San Francisco judgment on the activation lock fea- “This is a machine unlike anything consumers. District Attorney George Gascon plan ture until we can understand its actual we’ve ever made.” The personal computer “A glass block cylinder is not a new to meet with representatives of Apple, functionality,” Schneiderman and has looked largely the same for decades thing; it’s been done in all kind of prod- SAN FRANCISCO: Apple’s Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility, Gascon said in a joint Monday state- — an oblong case that houses compo- ucts,” Brunner added. “But when you look internet software and services, introduces the new iRadio at a Samsung Electronics and Microsoft ment. nents like memory and graphics cards at how development and engineering and processors in orderly rows, inter- could put that sophisticated a computer keynote address during the 2013 Apple WWDC at the Moscone Corp to discuss theft prevention on “We look forward to having a sub- spersed with thickets of messy wiring. in that small cylindrical form, that’s pretty Center. Apple introduced a new mobile operatng system iOS 7, Thursday. stantive conversation with Apple and The box itself has shrunk over the years huge.”—Reuters hardware upgrades and a new operating system OS X Mavericks Both prosecutors have criticized the other manufacturers at our smart- during the keynote address. —AFP cellphone industry for what they say is phone summit on Thursday.”—Reuters Kaspersky Lab announces commitment to B2B, B2C partners at Regional Partner Conference

DUBAI: Kaspersky Lab, a leading devel- service customers across a variety of program encompasses a variety of ensure advanced protection for business partners remain a core part of our busi- oper of secure content management enterprises based on their unique needs recently launched solutions including of all sizes through powerful combina- ness strategy and successes, represent- solutions, recently hosted its first ever and challenges. Kaspersky Lab’s flagship corporate secu- tion of deep protection, efficiency, and ing not just the brand but the strength Regional Partner Conference at the spec- Founded on Kaspersky Lab’s portfolio rity platform, Kaspersky Endpoint seamless manageability. of Kaspersky Lab solutions across the tacular Banyan Tree Al Wadi Resort in Ras of award winning security solutions Security for Business. The solution, Commenting on the occasion, Tarek vast Middle East and Africa market. It is Al Khaimah, UAE. designed to counter the challenges launched in February 2013, is designed Kuzbari, Managing Director, and through their commitment and dili- The two day event held from the 6th posed by changing threat landscape, the to simplify IT security management and Kaspersky Lab Middle East said, “Our gence that customers have come to rec- of May till the 8th of May, brought ognize Kaspersky Lab as a trusted securi- together over 60 top management part- ty brand that offers comprehensive, all - ners from across the Middle East, West round security. In a show of gratitude, Asia, Africa and Levant region to cele- we remain ever more committed to our brate the company’s achievements in partners and work to help them the year past and outline its focus for the enhance their business success, this new future. Partners, came together with rep- partner program is a step in that very resentatives from Kaspersky Lab Middle direction. In the last few months, we East to highlight the company’s strategic have launched new products and train- direction and roadmap for the year for- ing centers to help our partners enhance ward in addition to sharing best prac- their topline revenues and diversify their tices and ideas to garner further revenue own skill sets. As we celebrate the suc- growth. cess of the year past, we now embark on A well established leader in the anti- a new journey armed with a strong net- virus and B2C business segment, work of trusted channel partners, with a Kaspersky Lab is now making marked portfolio of new products and services investments in partner development to make the Internet a safer place for through training and education to help both enterprises and individuals.” partners tap into the tremendously suc- Following the success of this Regional cessful, yet vastly competitive B2B mar- Partner Conference, Kaspersky Lab also ket. In line with the company’s height- announced that this event will now be ened focus on the B2B market segment an annual affair, aimed at bringing the Kaspersky Lab also announced the company together with distributors and launch of an all new partner program at resellers from across the region to the conference, introducing partners to strengthen the relationship between new sales models and revenue opportu- Kaspersky Lab and its trusted channel nities to grow their own business while partners. The event will also give the actively expanding Kaspersky Lab’s cus- company the opportunity to collabora- tomer base across the region. A key part tively strategize to meet the needs of the of this program is the ability for partners diverse markets across the Middle East, to up skill their employees to be able to Kaspersky Lab Middle East Team with B2B and B2C partners at Regional Partner Conference West Asia, Africa and Levant. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Radiology department meets international best practices

KUWAIT: As part of Dar Al-Shifa hospital’s fields of interventional radiology, technolo- the department’s expansion in the near long term commitment to offer the best gy, neurology, neurosurgery, ophthalmolo- future and the introduction of new tech- health care services available, the hospital gy, as well as other unique medical special- nologies across the diagnostic imaging cen- spares no effort in investing in its medical ties. Moreover, a number of keynote interna- ter, along with empowering and involving staff and the newest technologies to meet tional and local speakers shared their experi- patients with physicians in the whole the highest international standards. Dar Al- ence and knowledge on neuroscience, neu- process. Shifa hospital is proud to announce that its roradiology, interventional and diagnostic Consultant Radiologist Dr Ravi Mathai radiology and the latest developments Contributed by Dr Ravi Mathai, Consultant received the Fellowship of the Royal College across these fields.” Radiology at Dar Al-Shifa Hospital, and a of Radiologists (FRCR), which the highest recipient of the Fellowship of the Royal College academic degree is awarded by the Royal Keeping abreast of the latest industry of Radiologists, the highest academic degree College of Radiologists in the UK. Through trends awarded by the Royal College of Radiologists his capabilities, wealth of experience in his Along with the latest technologies and in the UK. field, and the new FRCR received, the hospi- healthcare services available, is the impor- tal is looking forward to continued success tance of the hospital’s adherence of interna- of its Diagnostic Imaging Center capabilities. tional standards, namely through its profes- sional workforce. The newest FRCR fellow- Raising the bar in the Diagnostic ship received by Dr Mathai is contributing to Imaging Center the huge success taking place at the radiolo- Radiology is a medical specialty that gy and diagnostic imaging center at Dar Al- Micheal, 3 week-old Sumatra elephant, stands under his mother Mayang in employs the use of various imaging modali- Shifa Hospital. “The three-part exam is a breeding program at Bali’s Safari and Marine Park in Giayar, Bali, ties like x rays, ultrasound, CT scan and MRI focused on subjects relating to the broad Indonesia yesterday. An environmental group says 129 critically endan- scans for the diagnosis of various medical field of diagnostic radiology, and tests the gered elephants have died on Indonesia’s Sumatra island in less than a diseases. Dr Mathai explained his view on entire range of radiological modalities from decade, many from poisoning or shooting, highlighting the country’s weak the newest happenings and technologies plain X-rays to CT and MRI, while also assist- enforcement of laws against poaching.—AP available at the radiology department claim- ing to prepare radiologists as professional ing, “We are continually incorporating cut- consultants in diagnostic radiology,” noted Endangered elephant ting edge imaging and reporting technolo- Dr Mathai. “Radiologists with the FRCR fel- gies in our department; recently, we have lowship conform to the highest level of com- killings rising in Indonesia successfully installed the Radiology petency set by the Royal College of Information System (RIS) and PACS and have Radiologists in the UK, and hence, receiving JAKARTA: Poisoning or shooting killed phants could be extinct within three “gone live” thereby enabling a filmless the FRCR degree endorses a radiologist’s many of the 129 critically endangered decades unless they are protected. The department with complete digitalization of expertise and validates his high level of elephants that have died on Indonesia’s decline is largely due to destruction of all radiology investigations. knowledge in the field,” Dr Mathai added. Sumatra island in less than a decade, their habitat. Forests across Sumatra are We also have an ongoing accreditation highlighting weak enforcement of laws being logged for timber, palm oil, and process from the American College of Future of the Diagnostic Imaging Center against poaching, an environmental pulp and paper. Sumatra has some of the Radiology in Computed Tomography (CT) Implementing updated Radiology best group says. WWF Indonesia said killings most significant populations of Asian and we have hosted the first multi-discipli- practices improves patient care and patient of Sumatran elephants are on the rise, elephants outside of India and Sri Lanka nary scientific symposium “Meeting of the satisfaction. Working together with a team with 29 either shot or poisoned last year, and is also home to tigers, orangutans Minds”. Attendees at the symposium includ- of professionals at Dar Al-Shifa Hospital, Dr including 14 in Aceh province. The group and rhinos. ed professional doctors specializing in the Mathai states that he is looking forward to Dr Ravi Mathai said Tuesday that no one has been con- “Effective action on the ground victed or jailed in the deaths that were should be taken immediately to protect counted in Riau province since 2004. Sumatran elephants from extinction, The report came three days after two especially in Riau,” the report said. There dead Sumatran elephants were found are about 300 elephants left in Riau, First double-leg transplant near a paper plantation in Riau, allegedly which is part of Sumatra island. poisoned by poachers. Another elephant Achmad Saeroji, head of the govern- was killed last month near Tesso Nilo ment conservation agency in Riau, patient has limbs amputated national park and its tusks were hacked denied the allegation of lax law enforce- off. An autopsy found a plastic detergent ment, saying at least eight cases have MADRID: The world’s first double-leg trans- tracted an unrelated illness, had the two limbs allow treatment of the illness that is more seri- wrapper in its belly filled with poison. been handled by authorities recently. plant patient has had both limbs amputated amputated about a year and a half after the ous and urgent.” The patient had not given The group said 59 percent of the dead “We always investigate every case of after an unrelated illness forced him to stop milestone transplant, it said. He had to stop authority for the release of information about elephants were definitely poisoned, 13 elephants found dead,” he said. “But it is taking anti-rejection drugs, the Spanish hospi- taking immunosuppressant drugs required to his current treatment, the hospital said. percent were suspected to have been hard to capture the perpetrators, either tal that carried out the operation said yester- prevent his body rejecting the transplant Renowned surgeon Pedro Cavadas led the poisoned, and 5 percent were killed by because of late reports or the fear of day. “The patient who had two legs transplant- because the medicine was complicating the team that carried out the original 10-hour gunshots. Others died from illness or people to report the poachers, who work ed at the Hospital La Fe in 2011 had to undergo treatment of the illness he contracted, the hos- transplant operation, which was completed on other causes, or the reason for their in a network.” Indonesia’s elephants an operation to amputate the two extremities,” pital said. “In these cases the protocol is that, if July 10, 2011. death was unknown. The International sometimes venture into populated areas said a statement issued by the hospital in the transplanted organ is not a vital organ, it The double leg surgery was touted as a Union for Conservation of Nature listed searching for food. They destroy crops or Valencia, eastern Spain. The patient, who con- should be removed from the patient so as to world first. The patient, a man in his 20s at the the animals as “critically endangered” attack humans, making them unpopular time of the operation, had had both legs ampu- after their numbers dropped to between with villagers. Some are shot or poisoned tated above the knee after a traffic accident. 2,400 and 2,800 from an estimated 5,000 with cyanide-laced fruit, while others are The height of the amputation prevented him in 1985. Environmentalists say the ele- killed by poachers for their ivory.—AP from using a prosthesis, meaning that he would have been consigned to a wheelchair with “zero” chance of walking again, the transplant surgeon said at the time. In October 2008, Weight loss drug Belviq Cavadas carried out the first double arm trans- plant in Spain and the second in the world, and in August 2009 he performed Spain’s first face gets overdue US launch transplant. For the double leg transplant, more than 50 WASHINGTON: Arena Pharmaceuticals cent in another study. Arena’s studies personnel were involved including surgeons, says its weight loss drug Belviq will be showed that patients taking Belviq, nurses, anaesthetists and transplant coordina- available to US patients beginning next known generically as lorcaserin, lost just tors. Surgeons had to connect nerves, blood ves- week, nearly a year after the drug was 3 percent to 3.7 percent of their weight sels, muscles, tendons and bone structure. But officially approved by federal regulators. over a year. About 47 percent of patients the patient was obliged to take immunosup- The Food and Drug Administration without diabetes lost at least 5 percent pressant drugs for the rest of his life. Spain has approved Belviq last June for adults who of their weight or more, which was become a world leader in organ donation since are obese or who are overweight and enough to meet FDA standards for effec- it set up a network of transplant coordinators in have at least one serious medical condi- tiveness. 1989 at all hospitals to closely monitor emer- tion, such as diabetes or high cholesterol. The FDA said patients should stop gency wards and identify potential donors. “The At the time, Belviq was the first new drug taking Belviq after three months if they Spanish transplant program is a model because SPAIN: This file pictured dated July 12, 2011 shows Spanish surgeaon Pedro Cavadas of the altruism and solidarity shown by donors,” approved by the FDA for long-term fail to lose 5 percent of their body giving a press conference at La Fe Hospital in Valencia.—AP the Hospital La Fe said.—AFP weight loss in more than a decade. weight. Patients are unlikely to see any Despite only achieving modest weight significant weight loss by staying on the loss in clinical studies, the drug was safe drug, the agency said. Side effects with enough to win the FDA’s endorsement, the drug include depression, migraine MERS coronavirus has amid calls from doctors for new weight- and memory lapses. Belviq is designed to loss treatments The drug’s launch was stimulate serotonin receptors in the delayed for months by logistical hurdles, brain linked with feelings of satiety, lead- potentialto cause pandemic including classification by the Drug ing patients to feel full. The drug will face Enforcement Administration. According an uphill battle in the US market for to the drug’s label, Belviq will be classi- weight loss treatments. Analysts have UN health agency issues new guidance on pandemic risks fied as a Schedule IV controlled sub- generally been disappointed with GENEVA: The World Health The interim guidance, to be final- virus to Britain, France, Germany and of international experts to Saudi stance, which means it has a low poten- Qsymia sales, despite that drug’s superior Organisation on Monday urged health ized later this year, incorporates les- Italy. Infected people have also been Arabia that ended on Sunday. “So far, tial for abuse. A small segment of results. Qsymia sales have fallen short in workers around the world to be on the sons from the 2009/2010 pandemic of found in Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia and the about 75 percent of the cases in the patients in company studies reported part because of limited insurance cover- alert for symptoms of the deadly H1N1 swine flu, which caused an esti- United Arab Emirates. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been in experiencing euphoria and hallucina- age and high out-of-pocket expenses for Middle East respiratory syndrome mated 200,000 deaths, roughly in line “Consequently, all countries in the men and most have occurred in peo- tions. Arena Pharmaceuticals and partner patients with coverage. coronavirus (MERS), which has the with annual seasonal flu. Having been world need to ensure that their health- ple with one or more major chronic Eisai Co said Friday the drug will be avail- Qsymia also has only been available potential to circle the globe and cause adjusted to include the notion of care workers are aware of the virus and conditions.” able beginning yesterday. Under an through mail order, but Vivus said last a pandemic. The United Nations severity when assessing risk, the new the disease it can cause and that, when But the source of the MERS virus agreement between the companies, month the FDA will allow some retail agency, which issued new, long-await- scale has just four phases against six unexplained cases of pneumonia are remained unknown, it said. Clusters of Arena will manufacture and supply the pharmacy distribution. The company ed guidance to countries on influenza previously and is intended to give identified, MERS-CoV should be con- cases have occurred in families and drug from its facility in Switzerland and expects to announce more on that in the pandemics, said the world was also in countries more flexibility in judging sidered.” MERS-coronavirus, a distant health facilities, indicating a limited Eisai will market the drug in the US. third quarter. Vivus said batches from the the same “alert phase” for two human local risks. relative of SARS that emerged in Saudi capacity to spread among people in Because of the delays to its launch, initial production of Qsymia had a shelf strains of bird flu - H5N1, which “International concern about these Arabia last year, has been confirmed in close contact with an infected person, Belviq actually arrives on the market 10 life of 24 months, and the company is emerged a decade ago, and H7N9, first infections is high, because it is possible 55 people worldwide, killing 31 of it said. All countries in the Middle East months after competitor Vivus’ Qsymia, applying to the Food and Drug detected in China in March. for this virus to move around the them. Forty cases occurred in Saudi should urgently intensify disease sur- which launched in September. Studies Administration to extend that to 36 “We are trying to find out as much world. There have been now several Arabia, many in a hospital in the east- veillance to detect any MERS infec- have shown that Qsymia produces more months for current and future produc- as we can and we are concerned about examples where the virus has moved ern province of Al-Ahsa. tions, it said. The WHO has not yet weight loss than Belviq. Patients taking tion. Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals these (three) viruses,” Andrew Harper, from one country to another through “The overall number of cases is lim- drawn up advice for travelers ahead of WHO special adviser for health security travellers,” the WHO said of MERS, ited but the virus causes death in the annual haj pilgrimage in October, Qsymia for a year lost 6.7 percent of their Inc., based in San Diego, fell 15 cents or and environment, told a news briefing which causes coughing, fever and about 60 percent of patients,” the WHO which draws millions of Muslims to body weight in one study and 8.9 per- 1.7 percent, to $8.51.—AP on its new scale for pandemic risk. pneumonia. Travellers have carried the said, reporting on a week-long mission Saudi Arabia.—Reuters FDA finds fungus in drugs from Tennessee pharmacy

WASHINGTON: Federal health officials tify the exact species of fungus and bac- said it is not aware of any cases of cies, the FDA and CDC to protect a pair of inspections found various prob- say they have found bacteria and fungus teria. meningitis associated with Main Street patients and resolve any lingering con- lems at the facility. in drug vials from a Tennessee specialty State and federal officials began Family Pharmacy’s products. cerns,” said spokesman Joe Grillo, in a According to a consent order, the pharmacy that recalled all of its investigating the pharmacy last month Last month the pharmacy recalled its statement. 2011 inspection found out-of-date med- injectable medicines last month. The after seven patients in North Carolina entire stock of sterile products manufac- The company’s steroid was shipped ications on the pharmacy’s shelves that Food and Drug Administration said in an and Illinois reported skin abscesses after tured after Dec 6, 2012. A spokesman for to medical facilities in 13 states: were being used in drug manufacturing. online posting Friday that it identified being injected with methylprednisolone the Main Street Family Pharmacy said its Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, It also found a technician who had been the growths in two unopened vials of a acetate, a steroid used to treat inflam- owners are aware of the FDA’s findings. Kentucky, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, working without proper registration for steroid injection distributed by the Main mation, joint pain and respiratory issues. “In addition to the recall, our efforts have New Mexico, North Carolina, South more than four years. When inspectors Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding The same steroid was involved in a also included comprehensive, aggres- Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Main returned in November 2012 they found pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn. The agency deadly fungal meningitis outbreak last sive outreach to everyone who could be Street Family Pharmacy’s license was 109 out-of-date or deteriorated medica- said it is working with the Centers for year that has killed 58 people and sick- affected. We continue to fully cooperate placed on three-year probation in March tions on the shelves, as well as other Disease Control and Prevention to iden- ened more than 740 others. The FDA with state boards of health and pharma- and its owners were fined $25,600 after problems.—AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE US to allow morning-after pill for girls of any age

WASHINGTON: The Obama administra- morning-after pill over the counter, Edward Korman, US attorneys said the and need more affordable options.” In the government to make lev- tion said Monday it would comply without a prescription. President Food and Drug Administration was April, the FDA approved Plan B One- onorgestrel-based emergency contra- with a judge’s order to allow women Barack Obama’s administration had dropping its appeal. “To comply with Step for girls aged 15 and up-reducing ception available without prescription and girls of any age to purchase emer- fought against US District Court Judge the order, FDA has asked the manu- the age restriction by two years. But or point of sale restriction. Korman gency contraception, ending its Edward Korman’s order seeking to facturer of Plan B One-Step (PBOS) to the move only applied to one brand of had slammed Health and Human efforts to restrict the drug’s availabili- make the drug more widely available submit a supplemental application emergency contraception, and Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s ty. The reversal on the politically sensi- after a more than decade-long court seeking approval of the one-pill prod- required that it be security-tagged to decision overruling the FDA to require tive issue means that anyone, includ- fight, warning of health and social uct to be made available OTC without avoid theft and only sold over the teens under 17 to obtain a prescrip- ing young girls, will soon be able to dangers. any such restrictions,” the agency said counter in stores that have a pharma- tion as “politically motivated” and “sci- purchase the popular Plan B One-Step In a letter to US District Judge in a statement. “Once FDA receives cy. It followed an order by Korman for entifically unjustified.” — AFP that supplemental application, the FDA intends to approve it promptly.” Levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception contains the same active ingredients as birth control pills but at higher doses, and may prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours after unprotected intercourse. The Center for Reproductive Rights, which brought the latest lawsuit, hailed the FDA’s “significant step for- ward” but criticized the administration for “unjustifiably” preventing generic, more affordable brands of emergency contraception to be made widely available. “We are pleased that women should soon be able to buy Plan B One-Step without the arbitrary restric- tions that kept it locked behind the pharmacy counter when they needed it most urgently,” the center’s presi- dent and CEO Nancy Northrup said in WASHINGTON: This undated file photo provided by Barr Pharmaceuticals a statement. WASHINGTON: Pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic emergency Inc, shows a package of Plan B One-Step, an emergency contraceptive. “But we will continue to fight for contraceptive, also called the morning-after pill, at the Health First —AP photos fair treatment for women who want Pharmacy in Boston. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 ACK victorious in ‘PetroBowl’ competition

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Indian author exposes perils of Asian expats By Sunil Cherian

n Indian laborer Awho signs a paper that says half the salary he was promised by the recruiting agent in Mumbai; malfunctioning air conditioner in a bro- ken down accommoda- tudents from the Australian College non-technical questions associated with focus on the oil and gas sector, Dr Reza since its debut in 2002 will be hosted tion facility where labor- of Kuwait (ACK) - School of the oil and gas industry. The panel of Taheri - Head of Petroleum Engineering annually in Kuwait starting this year. By ers have khubz (Arabic S Engineering - were the big winners judges was comprised of distinguished Department at ACK - described the event winning this prestigious competition, the bread) as the main food 3 of the first “PetroBowl” competition members from the Kuwait Oil Company as an academic motivator for young ACK team qualified for the second round times a day; agents in Joy C Raphael organized by The Society of Petroleum (KOC), Halliburton and SPE. future petroleum engineers that “helps and will be sponsored by the Society of Asian countries, especially Engineers (SPE) on the 21st of May at the Both ACK and Kuwait University (KU) increasing students’ awareness about the Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to travel to in India, Pakistan, and the Philippines who sell job Crown Plaza hotel. PetroBowl is a fast- were represented by eight candidates professional outcomes of quality aca- Qatar and compete with other winning visas and help people in the network to make a paced quiz competition whereby stu- each to compete in this challenging demic programs”. teams from different Middle Eastern uni- fortune; laborers who are recruited for some jobs dents from competing schools are chal- competition. Bringing together academ- The PetroBowl competition has grown versities. and who end up in remote farms; expats who lenged to answer both technical and ic institutions and businesses with a in size and popularity internationally have broken laws in a mutiny; expats killed by expats and more such stories constitute ‘Slaves’, a book in English by Muscat-based author Joy C Raphael. The true tales book, arguably the first of ICSK Junior holds impressive its kind by an Indian author, with stories of debauchery, degradation, and the dreadful con- ditions faced by thousands of expats, especially in Saudi Arabia, will be released on July 1. investiture ceremony “I started writing this book in 2010”, said Joy C Raphael on his second book, published by Turtle Books, an imprint of Zen Publications, Mumbai. Raphael said he would go in search of humane stories only to be shocked by the inhuman fea- tures of the real stories the ‘victims’ would tell him. The new book reminisces his 14 years of life in Riyadh where he worked at a newspaper there. “Slaves is a series of stories and anecdotes, some from personal experience”, said the author. “No, it’s not a one-sided, victimizing narration of the poor class”, the author said. “Slaves has at least one posi- tive story. Some funny ones too”. The 160-page Slaves has many haunting, heart- aching stories that will make the readers change their views on the world. In one mind-churning episode, Raphael illustrates an incident as if lifted from 18th century. ‘At Sahra, the vehicle entered the sandy unpaved road that snaked towards Hasha’, the author describes the journey of 3 Keralites to their workplace which, against their expectation, is a vegetable farm. The journey con- tinues: the bus bumped over stones and holes for more than a kilometre and stopped in front of three solid brick and wooden structures that looked like sheds. The sprawling green of a veg- etable farm could be seen on three sides of the brick structures. Raphael shocks us more by introducing Awad, the ‘boss’ at the farm with a bunch of minions car- rying whips. The shed does not have electricity, he Investiture ceremony of the newly elected were some life sized posters, high-pitched campaigning their responsibilities from the moment onwards. Oath but a few oil lamps. Nights of sleeplessness and TJunior Senate was held on 21st May 2013 at the and an unprecedented number of nominations. The was administered by the Principal In-charge to the new- days of servitude continue until the labourers school auditorium in ICSK Junior Branch. Vijay voting was held on 8th May in a free and fair manner ly elect Senate who marched on to the stage and took escape from the fenced farm. Karayil, Secretary to the Board of Trustees graced the and the results were announced on the same day. their oaths smartly. They received their badges from the Raphael writes with a detached passion. He occasion along with the Parent Advisory Council mem- During the investiture ceremony the Senate mem- guests. The chief guest addressed them as leaders who does not want to inform, educate or entertain. bers. bers were smartly dressed with their sashes and were should be humble and take up their duty with dedica- These 18 stories unearth unrecorded accounts of During the first week of May, the ICSK Junior campus eagerly waiting to receive their badges. The Principal in- tion and loyality. Ajay George, PAC member congratu- our time that is marred by perils of extreme experi- was abuzz with flurry of activities. One could get a charge. Gayatri Ravindran welcomed the gathering and lated the winners. The vote of thanks was given by Diya glimpse of India during the election in the school. There said that the Senate members should formally take up Ajay, President, Junior Senate. ences. Raphael’s stranger than fiction tales stand tall as lighthouses in the desert where many get lost and disillusioned.

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The Meat Co Kuwait launches weekly Jazz Nights he Meat Co Kuwait will be bringing more Tthan outstanding steak to the table with the launch of their new weekly jazz nights. Starting Wednesday 12 June, The Meat Co Jazz Nights will be treating its customers to the smooth sounds of the Kuwait Jazz Trio, who will be entertaining the crowd with their extensive repertoire of tunes, including the works of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Hoagy Carmichael, Billy Strayhorn and George Gershwin. Kuwait’s premier jazz band will be performing every Wednesday from 8pm at The Meat Co, Kuwait - using the tradi- tional jazz trio instruments of piano, bass and drums -thrilling the audience with the best of international jazz late into the evening.

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Movenpick Hotels & Resorts EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- com for more information. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm.

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EMBASSY OF CANADA The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration depart- ment. All processing of visa and immigra- tion matters including enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im-enquiry@inter- national.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is located nearby markets. and sardines. ovenpick Hotels & Resorts in Middle East and Asia. at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Da’aiyah. the Middle East has launched “Supporting quality local suppliers * At the Movenpick Hotel Doha at * At the Movenpick Resort Petra chefs M Please visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. an exciting, new ‘Go Healthy’ helps the community and using local least 40 percent of menu ingredients are have introduced homemade potato initiative to produce tasty, nutritious seasonal produce reduces the need to sourced locally, with grouper served sambusek and only use seasonal fruits The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to dishes that are not only good for guests rely on imports which benefits the envi- with rocket leaves and pomegranate and vegetables. The hotel’s olive oil is 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The reception is but also good for the planet. ronment.” essence a popular ‘Go Healthy’ dish. produced in nearby Wadi Mousa. open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for ‘Go Healthy’ menus are being created Good sustainable practice also * 90 percent of vegetables and sea- * At the Movenpick Hotel & Resort in all 26 Movenpick Hotels & Resorts underpins every culinary choice. At all sonal fruits are sourced locally at the Yanbu in Saudi Arabia chefs buy tradi- Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until across the Middle East offering guests a Movenpick properties in Dubai, endan- Movenpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea with tional ‘sayadia fish’, mint, dates and lamb 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday. wide range of meal choices featuring gered species of king fish and hammour local honey proving to be a particular direct from nearby markets with the healthy ingredients. are no longer available, while in guest favorite. hotel’s date cakes proving hugely popu- But delicious food is just part of the Movenpick hotels in Doha prawns are * At the Movenpick Hotel Beirut more lar. n n n n n n n bigger ‘Go Healthy’ picture. The use of off the menu during the June to August than 75 percent of ingredients are “Our ‘Go Healthy’ concept builds on local produce, the sourcing of seasonal breeding season. sourced from nearby suppliers and Movenpick Hotels & Resorts’ reputation EMBASSY OF US ingredients, working with quality local A commitment to sustainability may game meat dishes are ‘Go Healthy’ clas- for quality food and culinary excellence,” Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may suppliers and environmental awareness beat the heart of every Movenpick hotel sics. said Peter. “Eating good food should drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa are key to every menu. “Sustainability is and resort, but each ‘Go Healthy’ dish is * At Movenpick Hotels & Residences make you feel good in every way.” at the heart of everything we do at as distinctive as the restaurant in which Bur Dubai butter and cream are never To celebrate the launch of the new applications - completely free of an M?venpick Hotels & Resorts and our ‘Go it is served. used in dishes. Fatty proteins such as Go Healthy menu, one lucky Facebook interview or a trip inside the Embassy. The chil- Healthy’ program underlines this philos- * At Movenpick Resort & Spa Tala Bay duck are off the menu and the corner- fan will be wining a 3-night stay at dren must be under 14 years of age, and addi- ophy taking a holistic approach to food Aqaba everything from bread, milk and stones of the hotel’s ‘Go Healthy’ menu M?venpick Resort & Spa Dead Sea, tional requirements do apply, but the service are chicken and turkey, lean cuts of beef, Jordan. choices from every source to every table vegetables to fruit, eggs and spices is means parents will no longer have to schedule in every hotel,” said Peter Drescher, Vice locally sourced with all the ‘Go Healthy’ and other ‘fat burning’ ingredients President of Food and Beverage for ingredients for the hotel’s popular known to have health benefits such as individual appointments for their children, nor Movenpick Hotels & Resorts in the ‘Assorted Arabic Mezze’ bought from green tea, yoghurt, whole grain cereal come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti pass- KNES 2013 summer concert ports. To take advantage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website and year 6 graduation (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous pass- port, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS- 160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS- 160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For children of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I- 20. Children born in the US (with very few exceptions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet at Window 2 at the Embassy Kuwait National English School in Hawally celebrated the graduation of class 2013 Year 6 students who have successfully completed their Primary education and will be moving into the Secondary Department over the next academic year. Year 4 and Year 5 students were also performing and it was obvious that Kuwait from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, National English School students not only achieve excellent academic results, but also have great talents! It was indeed a successful evening which all parents excluding holidays. More information is avail- from Kuwait National English School, having their child in upper Primary, enjoyed and highly appreciated!! able on the U.S. Embassy website: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html

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EMBASSY GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the following website www.mfa.gr/kuwait.

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EMBASSY OF VATICAN The Apostolic Nunciature Embassy of the Holy See, Vatican in Kuwait presents its compliments to Kuwait Times Newspaper, and has the honor to inform the same that the Apostolic Nunciature has moved to a new location in Kuwait City. Please find below the new address: Yarmouk, Block 1, Street 2, Villa No: 1. P.O.Box 29724, Safat 13158, Kuwait. Tel: 965 25337767, Fax: 965 25342066. Email: [email protected] TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

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Farm 12:00 Amazing Wedding Cakes 21:00 Inside The PGA Tour 22:50 Austin And Ally 12:50 Have Cake, Will Travel 21:30 Trans World Sport 14:35 Border Security 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 22:30 Golf The Challenge Series Basics 23:00 NRL Full Time 15:05 Auction Hunters 03:00 Last Man Standing 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 23:30 PGA Tour Highlights 15:30 Auction Kings 03:30 Raising Hope 00:00 Hannah Montana Basics 16:00 Jesse James Outlaw Garage 04:00 Seinfeld 00:20 Hannah Montana 14:05 Food Wars 16:55 Yukon Men 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 17:50 Mythbusters Leno 01:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:45 Sons Of Guns 05:30 Hope & Faith 01:30 Emperor’s New School 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite 00:00 Super League 19:40 How Does It Work 06:00 All Of Us 01:50 Emperor’s New School 15:45 Chopped 02:00 International Rugby Union 20:05 How It’s Made 06:30 Til Death 02:15 Replacements 16:35 Barefoot Contessa 04:00 World Pool Masters 20:35 Auction Hunters 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 02:35 Replacements 17:00 Barefoot Contessa 05:00 World Cup Of Pool 21:00 Storage Hunters 08:00 Seinfeld 17:25 Food Wars 06:00 Trans World Sport 21:30 Unchained Reaction 08:30 Hope & Faith 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 07:00 Golfing World 22:25 James May’s Man Lab 09:00 Last Man Standing 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:00 Futbol Mundial 23:20 Mythbusters 09:30 Hot In Cleveland 18:40 Charly’s Cake Angels 08:30 NRL Premiership 00:15 Unchained Reaction 10:00 Men At Work 14:30 Style Star 19:05 Unique Sweets 10:30 World Pool Masters 01:10 James May’s Man Lab 10:30 Til Death 15:00 Keeping Up With The 19:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 11:30 World Cup Of Pool 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay Kardashians 20:20 Chopped 12:30 Golfing World Leno 16:00 Keeping Up With The 21:10 Chopped 13:30 Trans World Sport 12:00 All Of Us Kardashians 22:00 Charly’s Cake Angels 14:30 Futbol Mundial 12:30 Seinfeld 17:00 Ice Loves Coco 22:30 Charly’s Cake Angels 15:00 Champions Tour Highlights 13:00 Hope & Faith 14:50 The Real Sherlock Holmes 17:30 Ice Loves Coco 22:55 Unique Sweets 16:00 International Rugby Union 13:30 Til Death 15:45 Animal Armageddon 18:00 E! News 23:15 Unique Sweets 18:00 Live Nations Cup 14:00 Raising Hope 16:40 HMS Ark Royal 19:00 Fashion Police 23:40 Food Wars 20:00 Live Nations Cup 14:30 Men At Work 17:35 Mystery Cars 20:00 E!es 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:00 Inside The PGA Tour 15:00 Hot In Cleveland 18:00 Mystery Cars 21:00 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:30 UK Open Darts 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 18:25 Hero Factor 22:00 E! News Special: Country 00:55 Unwrapped Stewart 18:50 Hero Factor Music Festival 01:20 Unwrapped 16:00 The Colbert Report 19:20 Combat Countdown 22:30 E! News 01:45 Charly’s Cake Angels 20:10 Tattoo Hunter 16:30 All Of Us 23:30 Chelsea Lately 21:05 Out Of Egypt 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 00:00 Dirty Soap 01:00 NHL 22:00 Combat Countdown 18:00 Ben And Kate 00:55 Style Star 03:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 22:55 Death Machines 18:30 The Simpsons 01:25 E!es 04:00 UFC Countdown 23:50 Most Evil 19:00 Modern Family 05:00 NHL 03:00 The Artist-PG 00:45 Mystery Cars 19:30 The Mindy Project 07:00 WWE Vintage Collection 05:00 A Fall From Grace-PG15 01:10 Mystery Cars 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 08:00 WWE NXT 07:00 Page Eight-PG15 01:35 Combat Countdown Leno 09:00 Ping Pong World 09:00 We Bought A Zoo-PG 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 10:00 US Bass Fishing 11:15 A Better Life-PG15 Stewart 03:05 Coastal Kitchen 11:00 NHL 13:00 33 Postcards-PG15 21:30 The Colbert Report 03:30 Food Poker 13:00 WWE Smackdown 15:00 A View From Here-PG15 22:00 Weeds 04:15 Bargain Hunt 15:00 Mass Participation 22:30 It’s Always Sunny In 05:00 House Swap 16:45 We Bought A Zoo-PG 14:20 Food Factory 16:00 UIM Powerboat Champs Philadelphia 05:45 Cash In The Attic 19:00 The Odd Life Of Timothy 14:45 Food Factory 16:30 UIM Aquabike Champs 23:00 The Ricky Gervais Show 06:30 Coastal Kitchen Green-PG 15:10 Scrapheap Challenge 17:00 Mass Participation 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 07:00 Food Poker 21:00 Flypaper-PG15 16:00 Nextworld 17:30 WWE Vintage Collection 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 07:45 Home Cooking Made Easy 23:00 Contraband-18 16:55 Robotica 18:30 Mobil 1 The Grid Stewart 08:10 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 01:00 The Company Men-PG15 17:45 Race To Mars 19:00 UFC 01:00 The Colbert Report 09:00 Bargain Hunt 18:35 The Gadget Show 22:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 01:30 Weeds 09:45 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 The Tech Show 23:00 UFC Countdown 02:00 It’s Always Sunny In 10:40 Extreme Makeover: Home WRATH OF THE TITANS ON OSN CINEMA 19:30 Fire In The Sky: A Daily Planet Philadelphia Edition Special 02:30 The Ricky Gervais Show 11:20 MasterChef Australia 07:00 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2-PG 20:20 How The Universe Works 12:05 Come Dine With Me 09:00 Dangerous Flowers-PG15 21:10 Food Factory 12:55 The Roux Legacy 11:00 The Wild Thornberrys Movie- 21:35 Food Factory 13:30 New Scandinavian Cooking PG 22:00 Fire In The Sky: A Daily Planet With Andreas Viestad 13:00 Arrietty-FAM Special 13:55 Bargain Hunt 15:00 The Stool Pigeon-PG15 22:50 Colony 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:40 Cash In The Attic 17:00 The Wishing Well-PG15 23:40 Food Factory 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 15:25 Antiques Roadshow 19:00 Wrath Of The Titans-PG15 00:05 Food Factory 06:00 Prankstars 16:15 Extreme Makeover: Home 21:00 One Day-18 00:30 How Do They Do It? 06:25 Suite Life On Deck Edition 23:00 Bridesmaids-18 01:00 How The Universe Works 06:45 Shake It Up 17:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 01:15 The Wishing Well-PG15 01:50 Colony 07:10 A.N.T Farm 17:55 Planet Cake 07:35 Jessie 18:25 Food & Drink 07:55 Good Luck Charlie 18:55 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 08:20 Good Luck Charlie 19:20 New Scandinavian Cooking 08:45 Doc McStuffins With Andreas Viestad 04:00 The Pirates! Band Of Misfits- 14:00 Ancient Aliens 09:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 19:45 Come Dine With Me PG 15:00 Ancient Aliens 09:30 A.N.T. Farm 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home 06:00 The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2-PG 16:00 Ancient Aliens 09:55 A.N.T. Farm Edition 08:00 Puss In Boots-PG 17:00 Ancient Aliens 10:15 Jessie 21:20 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 18:00 Ancient Aliens 10:40 Jessie 22:15 Bargain Hunt 12:00 Big Miracle-PG 19:00 WWII: Secret Army 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 23:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 14:00 Burden Of Evil-PG15 20:00 Pawn Stars 11:25 Good Luck Charlie 23:55 Food Poker 16:00 Puss In Boots-PG 20:30 Storage Wars 11:50 Good Luck Charlie 00:40 Come Dine With Me 18:00 Mary & Martha-PG15 21:00 Ancient Aliens 12:15 Shake It Up 01:30 MasterChef Australia 19:45 Mission: Impossible - Ghost 22:00 Ancient Aliens 12:35 Shake It Up 02:20 Cash In The Attic Protocol-PG15 23:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 13:00 Austin And Ally 22:00 Comes A Bright Day-PG15 00:00 Pawn Stars 13:25 A.N.T. Farm 00:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 00:30 Storage Wars 13:45 Jessie 02:00 Burden Of Evil-PG15 01:00 Ancient Aliens 14:10 Shake It Up 02:00 Ancient Aliens 14:35 Suite Life On Deck 15:00 Gravity Falls 03:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:25 Good Luck Charlie 03:25 Food Wars 15:50 Jessie 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 04:00 Blackthorn-PG15 16:10 Shake It Up 04:15 Unique Eats 06:00 Transformers: Dark Of The 14:00 C.S.I. 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 04:40 Chopped Moon-PG15 15:00 Kyle XY 17:00 Austin And Ally 05:30 Iron Chef America 09:00 Go Fast-PG15 16:00 Emmerdale 17:20 Gravity Falls 06:10 Food Network Challenge 11:00 Secret Window-PG15 16:30 Coronation Street 17:45 Suite Life On Deck 07:00 Guy’s Big Bite 13:15 Thor-PG15 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 18:10 Good Luck Charlie 07:25 Guy’s Big Bite 15:30 Go Fast-PG15 18:00 C.S.I. 18:30 That’s So Raven 07:50 Andy Bates Street Feasts 17:30 Secret Window-PG15 19:00 Touch 18:55 Austin And Ally 08:15 Unique Sweets 19:30 Beneath The Darkness-PG15 20:00 Bones 19:20 Jessie 08:40 United Tastes Of America 21:45 The Keeper-18 21:00 Castle 19:40 Gravity Falls 09:05 Barefoot Contessa 23:30 End Of Days-18 22:00 The Client List 20:05 A.N.T. Farm 09:30 The Next Food Network Star 01:45 Beneath The Darkness-PG15 23:00 Greek 20:30 Good Luck Charlie 10:20 Extra Virgin 00:00 Kyle XY 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 10:45 Kid In A Candy Store 21:15 Austin And Ally

08:00 I Think I Do-PG15 10:00 Ernest Goes To Jail-PG15 12:00 Just Crazy Enough-PG15 14:00 The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom-PG 16:00 Ernest Goes To Jail-PG15 18:00 Problem Child-PG 20:00 Casino Jack-18 22:00 A Few Best Men-18 00:00 The Hangover 2-18 02:00 Casino Jack-18

10:00 Love Finds A Home-PG15 11:30 TT: Closer To The Edge-PG15 13:15 According To Greta-PG15 15:00 Love Finds A Home-PG15 17:00 Certain Prey-PG15 19:00 Route Irish-PG15 21:00 Final Analysis-18 23:15 Mahler On The Couch-18 01:30 The Butcher Boy-PG15

00:00 PGA Tour Highlights 01:00 PGA European Tour Highlights 02:00 AFL Highlights 03:00 UK Open Darts 07:00 British & Irish Lions 10:00 Super Rugby Highlights 11:00 Champions Tour 13:00 Champions Tour Highlights 14:00 Golf The Challenge Series 14:30 Live ATP Tennis 16:30 Live ATP Tennis 18:30 Live ATP Tennis 20:30 Live ATP Tennis 22:30 British & Irish Lions

00:30 ATP Tennis 02:00 ATP Tennis 03:30 ATP Tennis 05:00 ATP Tennis 06:30 NRL Full Time 07:00 ATP Tennis 08:30 ATP Tennis 10:00 ATP Tennis 11:30 ATP Tennis 13:00 British and Irish Lions Tour CONTRABAND ON OSN MOVIES HD 16:00 UK Open Darts Classifieds

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13:10 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 1:30 PM 7:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 11:15 PM AXB 489 COCHIN 20:35 JZR 176 DUBAI 13:20 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 1:00 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 10:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 1:15 AM KLM 417 AMSTERDAM 21:05 MSR 611 CAIRO 14:00 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 3:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 12:45 AM ALK 229 COLOMBO 21:10 THY 767 ISTANBUL 14:10 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED 360º 3 UAE 859 DUBAI 21:15 KNE 481 TAIF 14:10 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 8:15 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 1:45 PM ETD 307 ABU DHABI 21:30 UAE 872 DUBAI 14:15 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 10:30 PM MARINA-1 THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 4:00 PM QTR 136 DOHA 21:35 FDB 58 DUBAI 14:30 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:45 AM DISCONNECT (DIG) 12:30 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 6:15 PM GFA 217 BAHRAIN 21:45 IYE 827 RIYAN MUKALLA 14:30 NO SUN+ TUE+WED DISCONNECT (DIG) 2:30 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 8:30 PM QTR 146 DOHA 22:00 CLX 792 GIALAM 14:45 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 4:30 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 10:45 PM KAC 166 PARIS 18:40 QTR 141 DOHA 14:55 SHARQIA-2 DISCONNECT (DIG) 6:45 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 1:00 AM KAC 674 DUBAI 19:25 IRC 6693 MASHHAD 15:00 EPIC (DIG-3D) 12:30 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 8:45 PM KAC 786 JEDDAH 18:30 MSR 576 SHARM EL SHEIKH 15:00 TATTAH (DIG) 2:45 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 11:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 KAC 790 MEDINAH 13:55 KAC 673 DUBAI 15:05 EPIC (DIG-3D) 5:00 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 1:00 AM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 1:30 PM KAC 542 CAIRO 18:15 KAC 617 DOHA 15:45 TATTAH (DIG) 7:15 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED EPIC (DIG-3D) 3:45 PM KAC 672 DUBAI 13:40 SVA 503 MADINAH 15:45 TATTAH (DIG) 9:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 6:00 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 8:00 PM KAC 102 NEW YORK 19:35 KAC 773 RIYADH 16:00 TATTAH (DIG) 12:15 AM MARINA-2 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 10:15 PM KAC 774 RIYADH 19:25 JZR 188 DUBAI 16:00 NO SUN+ TUE+WED AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:30 AM KAC 618 DOHA 19:10 RJA 641 AMMAN 16:55 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 3:00 PM KAC 788 JEDDAH 15:00 JZR 238 AMMAN 17:05 SHARQIA-3 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:30 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 1:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 8:00 PM AL-KOUT.2 KAC 538 SHARM EL SHEIKH 15:50 QTR 135 DOHA 17:20 TATTAH (DIG) 12:30 PM JZR 177 DUBAI 17:30 ETD 304 ABU DHABI 17:20 DISCONNECT (DIG) 3:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 10:30 PM THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 6:00 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:45 AM TATTAH (DIG) 2:45 PM JZR 787 RIYADH 16:15 JZR 538 CAIRO 17:40 TATTAH (DIG) 5:00 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 8:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED JZR 257 BEIRUT 14:30 ABY 128 SHARJAH 17:50 TATTAH (DIG) 7:30 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 10:00 PM JZR 357 MASHAD 16:50 UAE 858 DUBAI 18:15 TATTAH (DIG) 10:00 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 12:30 AM MARINA-3 JZR 777 JEDDAH 17:50 SVA 511 RIYADH 18:20 TATTAH (DIG) 12:45 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED TATTAH (DIG) 1:00 PM JZR 189 DUBAI 20:10 GFA 216 BAHRAIN 18:20 EPIC (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM JZR 535 CAIRO 16:10 UAL 982 BAHRAIN 18:30 AL-KOUT.3 MUHALAB-1 THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 5:45 PM JZR 481 SABIHA 20:10 JZR 184 DUBAI 18:30 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 1:00 PM EPIC (DIG) 1:30 PM TATTAH (DIG) 7:45 PM KNE 480 TAIF 13:20 JZR 266 BEIRUT 18:40 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 3:30 PM EPIC (DIG) 3:45 PM TATTAH (DIG) 10:00 PM IYE 826 SANAA 13:30 KNE 471 JEDDAH 18:40 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:45 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 6:00 PM TATTAH (DIG) 12:30 AM QTR 140 DOHA 13:45 NIA 252 ALEXANDRIA 19:00 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 8:15 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 8:15 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED FDB 57 DUBAI 13:50 QTR 145 DOHA 19:25 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 10:15 PM IRC 6692 MASHAD 14:00 FDB 64 DUBAI 19:35 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 1:00 AM AVENUES-1 GFA 220 BAHRAIN 19:50 MSR 575 SHARM EL SHEIKH 14:15 MUHALAB-2 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 1:45 PM SVA 500 JEDDAH 14:30 JZR 134 BAHRAIN 20:05 BAIRAQ-1 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 12:45 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 4:00 PM EPIC (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM RJA 640 AMMAN 15:55 KAC 283 DHAKA 20:15 THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 3:00 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 6:15 PM EPIC (DIG-3D) 3:45 PM QTR 134 DOHA 16:15 MSC 404 ASSIUT 20:20 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 5:00 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 8:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 6:00 PM ETD 303 ABU DHABI 16:35 MSR 619 ALEXANDRIA 20:30 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 7:15 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 10:45 PM JAI 571 MUMBAI 20:35 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 8:45 PM UAE 857 DUBAI 16:55 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 9:45 PM NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 1:00 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 11:30 PM ABY 127 SHARJAH 17:10 FDB 62 DUBAI 20:40 NO SUN+ TUE+WED ABY 120 SHARJAH 20:45 UAL 982 WASHINGTON DC DULLES 17:15 MUHALAB-3 BAIRAQ-2 KAC 361 COLOMBO 20:50 SVA 510 RIYADH 17:20 TATTAH (DIG) 12:30 PM AVENUES-2 TATTAH (DIG) 12:30 PM KAC 331 TRIVANDRUM 20:50 GFA 215 BAHRAIN 17:20 TATTAH (DIG) 2:45 PM TATTAH (DIG) 1:30 PM TATTAH (DIG) 3:00 PM OMA 648 MUSCAT 20:55 KNE 462 MEDINAH 17:45 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:15 PM TATTAH (DIG) 4:00 PM TATTAH (DIG) 5:30 PM NIA 251 ALEXANDRIA 18:00 KAC 351 KOCHI 21:05 TATTAH (DIG) 7:45 PM TATTAH (DIG) 6:30 PM TATTAH (DIG) 8:00 PM MEA 403 BEIRUT 21:15 QTR 144 DOHA 18:25 TATTAH (DIG) 10:00 PM TATTAH (DIG) 9:00 PM TATTAH (DIG) 10:30 PM DHX 171 BAHRAIN 21:50 FDB 63 DUBAI 18:55 TATTAH (DIG) 11:30 PM TATTAH (DIG) 1:00 AM KLM 417 DAMMAM 22:05 GFA 219 BAHRAIN 19:05 FANAR-1 NO SUN+ TUE+WED ETD 934 SHARJAH 22:05 MSC 405 SOHAG 19:20 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 12:30 PM BAIRAQ-3 ETD 308 ABU DHABI 22:15 MSR 606 LUXOR 19:30 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 2:45 PM AVENUES-3 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:45 PM ALK 230 COLOMBO 22:20 JAI 572 MUMBAI 19:35 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 5:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 1:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 3:00 PM UAE 860 DUBAI 22:25 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 5:15 PM FDB 61 DUBAI 20:00 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 4:30 PM KAC 381 DELHI 22:30 DISCONNECT (DIG) 7:30 PM JAI 576 COCHIN 22:05 NOW YOU SEE ME (DIG) 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:15 PM QTR 137 DOHA 22:35 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:00 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 9:45 PM FDB 59 DUBAI 22:20 KAC 301 MUMBAI 22:40 NO SUN+ TUE+WED FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:45 AM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:05 AM AIC 975 CHENNAI 22:25 GFA 218 BAHRAIN 22:45 NO SUN+ TUE+WED UAL 981 BAHRAIN 22:40 FDB 60 DUBAI 23:00 FANAR-2 PLAZA DLH 636 FRANKFURT 23:10 KAC 205 ISLAMABAD 23:00 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 1:30 PM 360º 1 TATTAH (DIG) 5:45 PM JAI 574 MUMBAI 23:20 QTR 147 DOHA 23:05 THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 3:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 1:00 PM TATTAH (DIG) 8:00 PM MSR 614 CAIRO 23:30 JAI 575 ABU DHABI 23:05 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 5:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 3:15 PM TATTAH (DIG) 10:30 PM THY 772 ISTANBUL 23:45 JZR 554 ALEXANDRIA 23:20 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 7:45 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 5:30 PM JZR 185 DUBAI 22:40 JZR 1540 CAIRO 23:25 THE HANGOVER PART III (DIG) 10:15 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 7:45 PM LAILA JZR 239 AMMAN 22:30 KAC 415 KUALA LUMPUR 23:50 AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:15 AM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 6:00 PM JZR 135 BAHRAIN 23:00 JZR 528 ASSIUT 23:55 NO SUN+ TUE+WED AFTER EARTH (DIG) 12:15 AM TATTAH (DIG) 8:30 PM AFTER EARTH (DIG) 10:45 PM FANAR-3 360º 2 DIAL 161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION YEH JAWANI HAI DEEWANI12:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 2:15 PM AJIAL.1 IDDARAMMAYILATHO (DIG) 6:45 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 3:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 4:30 PM IDDARAMMAYILATHO (DIG) 9:45 PM Directorate General of Civil Aviation Home Page (www.kuwait-airport.com.kw) DISCONNECT (DIG) 5:30 PM DISCONNECT (DIG) 6:45 PM 34 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 stars

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

You are interested in helping others today. Teaching or helping others to be You may find yourself having emotional differences with someone at work more original when it comes to words or thoughts is a good thing. Your eye- today. A report with facts may help you to prove your point without having to spend time in hand coordination is excellent and your laserlike mind makes conversations fast-paced and argument. Having these facts to back up your ideas will gain you much. You are at your most illuminating. You can be very funny in your conversations today. There are many practical ideas practical when it comes to dealing and working with others and you enjoy having problems to available to you, especially related to your job or skills. You are always coming up with new solve. You know just what to do and you can act without haste and emotion. You also enjoy a ideas to manage things better and make things work. You have a strong concern for life, equali- good break time, especially at the noon hour when you can get outside to walk and think ty, gentleness and acceptance. You love community projects and group work of any kind and about things outside of work. You are one to enjoy life and embrace all the differences that life may find yourself in meetings this evening with discussions that concern the beautification of has to offer. If you are shopping tonight, make out a list before you go into the stores—it will your neighborhood. Aim high! help you save.

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

You could be most persuasive with others and eloquent in speech and A rebellious streak could affect your career now—careful. Your sense of communication. The initiative is yours and you will find positive results will develop independence may tend to kick over the apple cart and upset everything. Your from your actions. This is a day to take risks and dare to be a little unconventional. progress and success will be fruitful as you slow yourself and take whatever faces you today, There are new insights, inventions and an independent point of view. Your career could one step at a time. Your own devotion to the dreams and ideals you stand for these days will be open up by taking the road less traveled, or by daring to be the oddball. Growth and achieved. Working with groups in a spirit of cooperation and communion is a natural. You success could be tied to your possessions or to the way you respond to the various come up with new solutions or inventions today and others will follow your lead. A closed ideas and impulses operating in your life now. This may mean the connection you have mind believes the future and the present will be the same and your mind is certainly open and with your teachers, partners, hobbies or the competitions that you enter. Your day ends understanding of others. There is a chance to have a special time with someone you love this with the most positive of attitudes. evening. This is a time of learning and achievements.

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

You may find yourself having a difference of opinion with others today. You There is an emphasis on communication, expression of ideas and the con- could be going against tradition if you become too independent for group nections that unite. Something new has your attention today and this could approval. This could actually slow your progress. You could have difficulty getting your ideas mean a new boss as much as it could mean a new piece of equipment or even a new job. A across to others, sometimes feeling inadequate in matters that require logic or the use of your new system of working may put you in the leadership role and you know people are watching. ACROSS lar purpose (such as building or farming). mental powers. You may have doubts about those who talk too much and seem long on ideas. You will succeed at whatever you take on so relax . . . Don’t be so hard on yourself; move for- You may lack flexibility, managing a foot-in-the-mouth when you least need it. Give your ideas ward one step at a time. You will perform correctly and others will understand exactly what you 1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people 80. A self-funded retirement plan that allows are communicating. Later today, you could find yourself at a basketball, baseball or hockey living in Australia when Europeans arrived. you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward time to set in so that others will see the best ways in which to carry on a project. Take the observer point of view and watch things develop for the rest of this day. You may find you game . . . Yelling your lungs out! Here you will likely find a special friend with whom you have a 4. Usually tropical slender-bodied long- your retirement. made a positive difference. lot in common. legged moth whose larvae are crop pests. 11. Not only so, but. DOWN 15. A rapid escape (as by criminals). 1. Voluntary contributions to aid the poor. 16. Ascending to a level markedly higher than 2. Used as a Hindi courtesy title. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the usual. 3. A strategically located monarchy on the CAPRICORN 17. Beyond what is natural. southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Throwing caution to the wind, you could ignore whatever responsibilities you You or someone close to you finds mistakes today. Some people say 18. A master's degree in business. Peninsula. have today, and pursue a particular objective. Your animal-like instincts come in that people are not really trying unless they discover mistakes from time 19. The time at which something begins. 4. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and handy when it comes to big business. You are where the action is most intense. Your mind will get to time. You have an innate love of the law and working through things. You are not 20. United States neoclassical architect (1847- pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh. through the unimportant and move straight to the bottom line. Some may even respect your tenacity discouraged by problems and obstacles—you may look forward to solving them. You have the ability to work with others, particularly regarding vocation or career guid- 1909). 5. A young person (especially a young man or and it becomes exciting to be near you. Mental discipline and patience are keynote as you take on a new project or a new customer this afternoon. Tonight is for anything creative or whatever may give ance. You can direct and guide others in matters that are work-related decisions and 21. Expose one's body to the sun. boy). you an opportunity at self-expression through arts, theater, sports or with children. You enjoy hobbies may find yourself doing so often today. This could be a particularly lucky day. Look 23. A heavy brittle metallic element of the 6. On the contrary. but unless you have gobs of money, it is time to fine-tune your choices. into ways that you could put aside some income for future investment purposes. platinum group. 7. All the weapons and equipment that a 25. An officer who acts as military assistant to country has. a more senior officer. 8. A statement that deviates from or perverts 26. Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness the truth. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) or emotion. 9. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) You are a terrific businessperson and you exhibit your ability to get past the 27. A piece of information about circum- against the Israeli occupation of the West This is a very lucky day for making plans or decisions and finding your way surface of things and separate the things that have real worth. Ideas are in the air. Tap into that stances that exist or events that have Bank and Gaza Strip. through just about any problem you may discover. You will be feeling successful and able to universal mind through some quiet meditation during a break time. Your presence in a group cope with whatever comes across your path today. Good advice from a guide or older person occurred. 10. 1/10 gram. situation today has a very decided effect. Others may feel that nothing is a secret from you. may be forthcoming. You are very fortunate in being able to grow and progress throughout 28. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. 11. A member of the Mayan people of the Family, home and security seems just about ideal. Your family life has gone through some big your life without major difficulties. You can always find the resources you require plus the nec- 31. The seventh month of the Moslem calen- Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. improvements lately and may continue to improve. You are creative when it comes to partner- essary instruction on how to use the resources. Your love of job and practical skills makes you a ships or lovers; you seem to establish unusual and different relationships. You reflect and cele- dar. 12. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom. fine manager and business person. You bring a great deal of love to your work. Your mind is full brate the positive things in your life and in the family. You may find a love relationship deepens 32. A very light brown. 13. Harsh or corrosive in tone. of practical ideas, especially related to your job or skills. Tonight you have new ideas in how to now. 36. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana. 14. (sport) Used of your own ground. manage your time. 38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 22. The dialect of Malay used as the national 39. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized veg- language of the Republic of Indonesia or of etable matter deposited in the Carboniferous Malaysia. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) period. 24. The capital of Morocco. 40. A genus of Strigidae. 29. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945). Today you will likely be working in a team type of process. The This is a time of good fortune. Good surprises are plentiful. Situations are 41. A highly unstable radioactive element (the 30. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually group you are in will accomplish quite a lot as everyone works together and is almost perfect and it is easy to see which path is the one to take. The challenge comes heaviest of the halogen series). limited to the non-poisonous members of the agreeable. You know just what to do for your part of the contributions and can act when you work to keep your concentration strong. Continual discovery, persistent search 45. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote genus). without haste and emotion. You are respected for your talents as well as your capa- and persistent change and transformation keep you on the move and growing. You are able loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue. 33. Type genus of the Corixidae. ble actions. You may be asked to set your work aside later today in order to help to penetrate and get to the very heart of things. Research into when, what and where you 46. Area around the altar of a church for the 34. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having teach a new employee the details about some new project. An influential person really want to make your changes may be beneficial. A break from work, perhaps out-of- doors, may be worth telling about later today. A one-on-one with a bird or some other ani- clergy and choir. small white flowers. may take notice of your special talents. You are feeling unusually good and could write about the things you see around you today. This evening you will find that mal makes life most appealing. You may enjoy a good movie or book or feel like escaping 47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 35. In or of the month preceding the present romance is possible. from day-to-day realities for a while. Chad. one. 49. The largest Greek island in the 37. A slight amount or degree of difference. Mediterranean. 42. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially gallinules. in Turkey). 43. A small cake leavened with yeast. 52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a 44. A state in northwestern North America. skewer usually with vegetables. 48. Manner of acting or conducting yourself. 54. A set of questions or exercises evaluating 50. A race between teams. skill or knowledge. 53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 55. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single from aba cloth. ovary having one or many seeds within a 56. High quality grape brandy distilled in the fleshy wall or pericarp. Cognac district of France. 58. According to the Old Testament he was a 57. A primeval personification of air and pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel breath. (9th century BC). 59. A covered passageway. 60. A member of the Siouan people formerly 61. Squash bugs. living in the Missouri river valley in NE 63. A member of a Turkic people of Nebraska. Uzbekistan and neighboring areas. 62. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright 65. Any division of quantity accepted as a light) that precedes the onset of certain disor- standard of measurement or exchange. ders such as a migraine attack or epileptic 66. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a seizure. somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. 64. Russian writer of stories and novels and 68. Of or relating to or characteristic of plays (1818-1883). Thailand of its people. 67. An edge tool for cutting grass. 69. A person who is entitled by law or by the 71. (Sumerian) Consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz). terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. 73. Port city that is the capital and largest city 70. Tropical starchy tuberous root. of Latvia. 72. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 74. Treated with contempt. 75. Being ten more than one hundred ninety. 77. A resource. 76. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element 78. Of or relating to near the ear. that resembles manganese chemically and is 79. An area of ground used for some particu- used in some alloys. Yesterday’s Solution

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eidi Klum doesn’t have a “high maintenance” beauty regime. I’m wearing something short.” As well as her beauty regime, Heidi While fans of the supermodel may expect her bathroom cab- credits her youthful looks to exercising on a daily basis. She previ- Hinet to be stocked with lots of luxury moisturizers and make- ously explained: “My schedule is always really hectic so I try to incor- up, the German beauty reveals she prefers to use just a few tried- porate exercise into my everyday routine as much as possible. and-tested products. She said: “I don’t like a lot of fuss. I look like I’m “Having been in the fashion industry for many years it is important high maintenance, but if you look in my bathroom, I don’t have for me to stay in shape, plus with my busy schedule it helps me to 10,000 products. “I’m very easy - if I like it and it works, I stick with it.” stay energised throughout the day. “And like any woman, I want to The 40-year-old star also admits she isn’t concerned with having the feel attractive and confident so I can wear hot dresses and heels and most expensive beauty products and uses many budget-friendly always be date night ready.” items, including Clear Scalp shampoo and conditioner, Mario Badescu’s buttermilk moisturizer, and one of her absolute must- haves, Sally Hansen’s Airbrush Legs self-tanner. She told Us Weekly: “It works really well! I use it all the time. I apply it every time I when

ohn Galliano is preparing for his first television inter- view since his infamous 2011 racism scandal. The Jdesigner was dismissed as creative director of Dior after he was seen hurling anti-Semitic abuse at customers ennifer Aniston has in a Paris bar while intoxicated, but is now hoping to built a chicken coop in rebuild his fashion career and his reputation after months her Bel Air mansion. The of silence. The hour-long interview with US talk show host J ‘Friends’ actress has reported- Charlie Rose will be filmed today and the air date is yet to ly poured over $6 million into be confirmed. Liz Rosenberg, Galliano’s publicist told remodelling the lavish Los WWD: “Charlie Rose has a very close relationship with Angeles home she purchased Oscar. Oscar had been talking to John about the possibility for herself and fiance Justin of doing an interview with Charlie. It seemed like a good Theroux last year, and it seems the platform for John to get his story across.” The interview was couple will move in a few feathered brokered by Oscar de la Renta, who is a close friend of friends as Jennifer has installed a lavish Galianno’s and has openly supported him. The infamous hen house on the grounds. According to designer broke his silence regarding the scandal in an planning permission files obtained by interview with Vanity Fair last week. He said: “When every- RadarOnline.com, the couple have spared no one came over to tell me that I had done these terrible expense on a chicken coop, which will be located things, I was walking round and round and round not real- behind their guest house and boasts a “luxurious ly knowing what had gone down. “My assistant told me wooden deck”. The 44-year-old beauty previously revealed about the video. When I saw it, I threw up. The feeling was her love of the farmyard animals. She said: “They’re very social ani- like I was about to take a step out onto the street and a bus mals and they like it when you visit them with a cup of coffee in your hand. or truck whooshed past me and the blood was drained According to my groundskeeper, they love pasta.” Jennifer’s chicken house is just from my legs.” one of many glamorous features at the 8,500-square-foot home, which she paid a cool $21 million for in 2012. The mansion also has its own private vineyard, indoor gym, library, gourmet kitchen, a dining room overlooking an opulent out- door water feature, and a master bedroom complete with its own walk-in closet and bathroom. Meanwhile, it was recently reported the ‘Horrible Actresses’ star was “freaking out” about her dream home not being compete in time for nuptials to Justin, 41, later this year as the couple had hoped to have their wedding take ormer ‘American Idol’ boss Nigel Lythgoe has hinted Simon place at the palatial pad. A source said: “Jennifer is totally freaking out about the Cowell should return to the show. Simon was one of the original wedding. The ceremony is supposed to happen at the new house, but she is Fpanel members of the show when it launched in 2002, alongside becoming more and more convinced that none of the preparations will be fin- Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul, but left to front rival show ‘The X ished in time and the event will be a disaster. “It’s a total nightmare. There’s still Factor’ in 2011. Nigel told E! online: “That little team, Randy, Paula and tons to do, and the wedding is coming fast. They’ve put more than $6 million into Simon, again are the template for judges forever now.” When it was remodelling, and it still isn’t done.” suggested that TV network Fox - who have seen ratings for the show drop in recent years, despite high profile celebrity judges including Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj - could lure the original judges back on the show Nigel said “maybe they should!” Nigel has recently been fired as Executive Producer of the show, and although he is not taking the decision personally, admits it hurt. He continued: “Of course, and I’m saddened from that point of view. I suppose both Ken [Warwick] and myself, we created the production that then went worldwide and cer- tainly created the results show, which was never in anybody’s thoughts, until we came to America. “And it feels like that’s the tem- plate for many other reality shows now. So then to be asked to leave, it’s then like, ‘Oh wow.’”

alvin Harris has bought a £4.5million home in California. The superstar DJ splashed out on a pricey Clove nest in Hollywood Hills last week, and has wasted no time in extending an open invitation to his new girlfriend Rita Ora, reportedly saying she is welcome “any time”. An insider told heat magazine: “[Rita]’s over in LA a lot for work, so they’ll be spending a lot of time together.” The four-bed- room modern build boasts a stunning infinity pool for the music producer to relax in before enjoying a barbecue feast cooked on his huge outdoor fire pit. The sleek abode also randi Glanville has fired her assistant for losing her dog. The ‘Real Housewives of comes with its very own guest house, complete with two Beverly Hills’ star is blaming her 23-year-old former associate after her beloved bedrooms and a cinema room - perfect for having Calvin’s A- BChihuahua, Chica, was snatched from her home in Los Angeles during an alleged list pals over to stay. The ‘Sweet Nothing’ hitmaker will be break-in last week, while she was in Palm Springs, California. The assistant - who has asked rubbing shoulders with new neighbors Halle Berry and not to be named - told TMZ.com: “I no longer work for Brandi. She texted me [last Saturday] Russell Brand. Calvin’s bold move into the property market saying that I didn’t do my job by losing the dog.” The personal helper claims the 40-year-old comes after his 22-year-old girlfriend recently bought a new star still owes her for two weeks work, totalling up to more than $1,000. However, Brandi house for her parents, which she says has made her feel seems unsympathetic towards her former worker, saying: “I did what I had to do. If I can’t more grown up. Rita said last month: “I signed the contract to trust her with my dogs, how can I trust her with my kids?” The blonde beauty - who has sons buy my mum and dad their first house yesterday, so now I’m Mason, nine, and Jake, five, with her former husband Eddie Cibrian - has offered a generous officially a homeowner, like a proper adult.” $10,000 reward if her brown pooch is found, but in the meantime has welcomed a new dog named Chico into her home whilst the search for Chica continues. She wrote on Twitter on Sunday: “We have a new family member until Chica comes back to us. His name is Chico. (sic)” lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

Cambodian Buddhist monks bless flowers for two 10th century statues upon their arrival at Phnom Penh International A head of a 10th century statue is seen in a box upon its arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday. — AP Airport. — AFP Cambodia to welcome looted statues’ return from US

wo 10th-century Cambodian stone statues displayed for nated the region. They come from the Koh Ker temple in Siem en after that date have stronger legal standing to compel their The sculpture of a mythical warrior in an elaborate head- nearly two decades at New York’s Metropolitan Museum Reap province, which is home to the famed Angkor Wat tem- new owners abroad to return them. But there is also general dress has been estimated by Sotheby’s to be worth $2 million Tof Art were being returned to their homeland yesterday ples. Officials say they were stolen from the temple in the agreement in the art world that pieces were acquired illegiti- to $3 million at auction. The statue is of “extraordinary value” in a high-profile case of allegedly looted artifacts. The volun- 1970s. The museum said the statues were given to the muse- mately if they were exported without clear and valid docu- to the Cambodian people and “a triumph of creativity and tary repatriation of the paired “Kneeling Attendants” statues um in pieces by different donors between 1987 and 1992. mentation after 1970 - the year of a United Nations cultural innovation,” papers filed by the U.S. attorney’s office said. by one of America’s foremost cultural institutions is seen as The Metropolitan Museum announced in May it was agreement targeting trafficking in illicit antiquities. Sotheby’s has said it would defend against the action and setting a precedent for the restoration of artworks to their returning the statues after researchers discovered new evi- Largely due to the social and political disruptions of war, disputed federal prosecutors’ allegation that the sculpture was places of origin, from which they were often removed in hazy dence indicating that they had been illegally exported under widespread looting of Cambodia’s ancient temples took place illegally imported into the US. The statue was to be auctioned circumstances. Cambodian law. “The museum is committed to applying rigor- in the 1970s through the 1990s, with many items smuggled on March 24, 2011, but Sotheby’s voluntarily withdrew it from It comes as the Cambodian government is asking other ous provenance standards not only to new acquisitions, but to through Thailand. In April, the US attorney’s office in auction a day before the sale after a Cambodian official sent a museums to return similar objects. At the government’s the study of works long in its collections in an ongoing effort Manhattan filed court papers seeking to compel Sotheby’s to letter asking it to do so. — AP request, US authorities have begun legal action against to learn as much as possible about ownership history,” muse- forfeit a 5-foot (1.5 meter)-tall sandstone statue so that it Sotheby’s auction house to try to force the handover of a con- um director Thomas P. Campbell said in a May 3 statement. “In could be returned to Cambodia. US authorities acted at the tested piece. Cambodian officials and Buddhist monks have returning the statues, the museum is acting to strengthen the request of Cambodia. planned a welcome home ceremony for the life-size sand- good relationship it has long maintained with scholarly insti- The statue came from the same Koh Ker temple as the stone statues at the country’s international airport. tutions and colleagues in Cambodia and to foster and cele- Kneeling Attendants. It was consigned by a private collector Culture Ministry official Hab Tuoch said the statues are brate continued cooperation and dialogue between us.” to Sotheby’s in 2010, according to court papers. In February, important examples of Cambodia’s heritage and show the A 1993 Cambodian law prohibited the removal of cultural Sotheby’s identified the seller as a European collector who prosperity of the Angkor era, when Cambodian culture domi- artifacts without government permission. Pieces provably tak- purchased the work from a London dealer in 1975.

A worker packs pairs of shoes in boxes at the factory. Drawings of moccasins prototypes are displayed on the desk of a technician Snakeskins are displayed in a workshop. at the workshop. Tod s shoes turns from Italy to

ustom-made shoe moulds hanging in a sun-filled workshop are the secret behind the success of luxury CItalian shoemaker Tod’s, which is flourishing despite a recession-hit economy. Harrison Ford, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Brad Pitt-as well as countless of the newly rich in places like Brazil and China-are among the wealthy foreign clients that are boosting sales. The craftsmanship and man- agement may still be homegrown but the company-like many in the Italian luxury sector-has been forced to give up on its domestic market, at least for now. Sales in Italy last year fell by 26.7 percent last year and went up by 55 percent in China. “Forget” about sales in Italy “for this year and a good few years after that,” the shoe mak- er’s dapper billionaire owner, Diego Della Valle, told share- holders at the latest annual meeting. Tod’s managed to ring in a net profit of 145.5 million euros ($188.6 million) last year- a 7.4-percent increase on 2011 — despite the context of aus- terity and recession at home, where the economy has now A crocodile skin is been shrinking for two years. checked in a workshop. Sales were 963.1 million euros in 2012. Tod’s is headquar- tered in a minimalist complex surrounded by olive trees in as he handled two rare blue crocodile skins. Tod’s shoes are on Milan’s catwalks. The headquarters looks more like an art the Marche region in central Italy. A father-and-son team, 51- usually made with between 25 and 30 components, but that gallery than a factory — 40,000 square meters (430,600 year-old Daniele and 21-year-old Matteo, are among the 900 can range up to 70 for a particularly sophisticated model. square feet) filled with paintings and designer furniture like a workers at the plant. “It’s important to be able to pass on Each new model is tried out by two employees. One of them, staircase by Israeli Ron Arad. On a more practical level, it has these skills,” Daniele said in one of the workshops, filled with 39-year-old Roberto, said that his working motto is: “Work a gym and a creche. While its business model may be all the smell of glue and leather. The company, which employs a with passion while paying attention to the details.” about exports, the company is also looking for homegrown total of 3,000 people worldwide, was founded in 1978 and Detail is something of an obsession at Tod’s-which has talent. It has a program offering 30 six-month apprentice- has become famous for its mocassins with rubber pebble exactly 133 rubber pebbles on each sole, a signature touch ships for unemployed young Italians-a way of ensuring the soles. for the group. The company had an underwhelming start. Its future of the brand. — AFP It produces around 2.5 million pairs a year-retailing from first collection was a flop but it gained fame after the flam- A worker sews around 300 euros ($397) each. “It’s like a bank here,” said Toni boyant late boss of auto giant Fiat, Gianni Agnelli, wore a moccasins. Ripani, 66, who manages the rich stock of leathers and skins, pair in a television interview. Its collections are now shown

Prada profits driven by love for leather

talian luxury fashion brand Prada posted a 13.5-percent wholesale channel, recorded revenue decreases of 5.1 percent growth in net income for the first quarter yesterday, driven and 12.2 percent respectively,” it said. The Asia Pacific market Iby lively sales in leather goods which compensated for a grew by 23.1 percent and the Americas increased 23 percent, slump in footwear. “In an international economic environment while the European market remained broadly unchanged at that remains extremely volatile and uncertain, the Prada 1.3 percent growth at constant exchange rates. Group has recorded another highly positive quarter,” Patrizio “In 2013, we will again concentrate on the international Bertelli, owner and chairman of the Prada brand, said in a expansion of our retail network but without moving away statement. from tight control over costs and working capital, also in order The company said net profit rose from 127.1 million euros to safeguard our cash flow generation,” Bertelli said. — AFP ($168.7 million) in the first quarter of 2012 to 138.2 million in the first quarter of 2013. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to 240.8 million euros, a 20.4-percent increase on a 12-month compari- son, it said. “Revenues from sales of leather goods again grew strongly with a 29 percent increase and reached almost 70 percent of Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli attends his fashion show on late evening on June 10, 2013, in the Montenegrin consolidated net revenues for the quarter,” Prada said. coastal town of Budva. — AFP “Meanwhile, apparel and footwear, more exposed to the lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 Music & Movies

usic City has snared another star: Ed Sheeran. The British singer-songwriter Mturned pop star says he moved to Nashville in February, settling just outside of town in a rural area. Sheeran said he wanted to live somewhere that incorporates a lot of music, has a lot of countryside and a relaxed atmosphere - and isn’t filled with rude people. “And Nashville is full of very, very nice peo- ple,” the 22-year-old said. Always home to most of country music’s top stars, figures from the pop and rock world have also fallen for the city’s charms. Jack White and The Black Keys moved to Nashville in the last few years. Sheryl Crow calls it home now. And Sheeran can hang out with good friend Taylor Swift. Like those artists, Sheeran feels comfortable walk- ing the streets. Unlike Los Angeles and New York, Nashville doesn’t have paparazzi on the lookout for celebs, and most folks in town can have lunch in a public restaurant and be left alone. “I don’t think peo- ple really care in Nashville,” Sheeran said. “Even if they knew who you were, I don’t think they’d care. They’d just be like, ‘Eh.’” Sheeran said his new home reminds him of Framlingham, a rural area in England where he grew up before moving to London. And “The A Team” singer said settling in the US made sense, giv- Handout pictures show en his growing popularity here. dancers performing in the He recently performed at the Grammy Awards ballet ‘Les Noces’ by with Elton John, released a video with Swift for her Stravinsky at the theatre song “Everything Has Changed” and was at the CMT stage in the city of Perm. Music Awards last week to introduce Lady — AFP photos Antebellum. “I love America,” Sheeran said on the CMT red carpet. “I’ve been here for a long time, though. So I’d like to get back to England at some point. I’ve been in America since early January 2012 mostly. I’d say 90 percent in America since January 2012. Long time.” — AP

n a provincial music institute a thousand kilometers from We are not involved in the crazy life of the capital. We have time behind one of Russia’s best ballet schools that exists to this day. Moscow, deep in Russia’s Urals, a conductor and his orchestra to create a handmade product and not a factory product,” Though Perm has fast risen to musical sublimity in Russia, its Irehearse as the spring light floods through the windows and Currentzis said. “I say to people in Moscow - if you want to listen cultural future is uncertain. Currentzis was appointed in 2011 as the local trams rumble by. But despite the far-flung location in to high quality music then you can come here to Perm.” part of a drive by the former Perm region governor Oleg the city of Perm, these musicians are no provincial journeymen. Chirkunov known as the “Perm cultural revolution” to turn the They are the Greek Teodor Currentzis, 41, one of the world’s ‘Beautiful things must be rare’ city into an international cultural hub, drawing inspiration from mostly highly-regarded conductors, and his Musica Aeterna Currentzis rails against the modern classical music industry Spain’s Bilbao. But since Chirkunov resigned in 2012, many of the band of Russian and European musicians. which he says is ruined by too many concerts, robotic musicians city’s more ambitious Their presence in a region known in Russia as a backwater and political demands imposed by capitals. “Conductors projects for urban regeneration have fallen by the wayside complete with a notorious network of Soviet-era prison camps is destroyed musicians. And of course the conservatoires. Music is under new governor Viktor Basargin, a former federal minister. part of one of the most audacious cultural projects in post- to do with the more metaphysical part of ourselves, not the According to its general director Marc de Mauny, the theatre Soviet Russia. “Think of a monster opening its jaws. technical, pragmatic side,” he said. He said there should be fewer is now facing tricky and potentially fateful negotiations with the Graaaah!”Currentzis tells his orchestra as he explains a passage concerts, but that they should be special. “I think the beautiful region for a budget in line with its ambitions. “The Perm ‘cultural File photo shows British singer-songwriter Ed from Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, obsessively clicking his fin- things must be rare. If the world was full of diamonds scattered revolution’ bubble more or less burst,” de Mauny told AFP. He Sheeran at the 2013 CMT Music Awards at gers and stamping his feet. With his shoulder-length hair and around the street, nobody would pick up the diamonds.” said that while the theatre’s budget doubled after Currentzis Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. — AP sporting a stud in his ear, Currentzis has the air more of a rock Currentzis describes himself and his musicians as “19th-century arrived and it is seeking more funds from private sponsorship, “it musician than a conductor. He inspires his musicians by referring romantics”. Rather than any conductor, he instead cites his inspi- is hard to produce what we want with what we have”. “The ques- to techno music, Russian folk dances-anything but musical theo- rations as the Greek 20th-century poet Miltos Sachtouris as well tion is whether we will be able to maintain the level we have set ry. “I am here as I want to create a micro climate for real creation. as TS Eliot and Ezra Pound. in the first two seasons,” he said, revealing the theatre has had to This is something that is very difficult to do in a capital city,” Perm’s provinciality is something of a standing joke among cancel and postpone several planned new productions. But Currentzis told AFP in an interview during Perm’s recent annual Russians-in Chekhov’s play “Three Sisters”, the female protago- optimistic Currentzis, who likes to speak of his orchestra “work- Diaghilev festival which he lead. nists spend most of their time yearning to get out of the region ing without a clock, without time”, is single-minded in his quest Just two years after Currentzis arrived with his orchestra in and go to Moscow. But its musical theatre traces its history back to bring his audiences a unique musical experience. “Work is 2011, the Perm Theatre picked up more nominations and prizes to the 1870s when it was built with donations from wealthy work and life is life. For us, we do not have work. Music is our life,” at Russia’s top Golden Mask arts awards in 2013 than either the businessmen who included the grandfather of the great ballet he said. — AFP Bolshoi or the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg. Its biggest hits have impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who lived in Perm until his mid- court in India remanded the boyfriend of the late included a new production of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” and teens. By a twist of fate, the Mariinsky (then known as Kirov) bal- Bollywood actress Jiah Khan in custody yesterday the ballet “Les Noces” by Stravinsky in the Russian premiere of let company was evacuated to Perm from Saint Petersburg dur- Aover accusations that his behavior had helped drive the choreography by Jiri Kylian. “We have our own peace here. ing World War II and spent four seasons in the city, leaving her to commit suicide. Suraj Pancholi, a 22-year-old aspir- ing actor, was brought before a court in Mumbai after police arrested him on Monday for “abet- ment to commit suicide”, a week after his girlfriend’s body was discovered at her home. Additional Police Commissioner Vishwas Nangre-Patil told AFP that the charge was based on the contents of a suicide note found at Khan’s Mumbai and from a statement by her mother. Pancholi was remanded in custody by the court until June 13. Khan, who made her debut starring opposite act- ing legend Amitabh Bachchan, was found dead in an apparent suicide on June 3. The 25-year-old’s parents found a suicide note in her wallet which reports said con- tained details of her troubled relationship with Pancholi. Khan, born in New York before moving to London and then Mumbai, made her Bollywood debut in 2007 with the con- troversial film “Nishabd” (No words), playing a teenager in love with her best friend’s much older father, played by Bachchan. The movie won attention because of its provocative sto- ryline and Khan was praised for her bold acting. Khan, who changed her name from Nafisa Khan, went on to star alongside actor Aamir Khan in “Ghajini”, a box-office hit. India’s film industry reacted with shock and sadness to her death, with superstar Aamir Khan saying he was “deeply pained”. Pancholi has been taking acting lessons and was set to make his own film debut, having signed to feature in This CD cover image released by Eagle Rock ‘Rainbow Live in Munich 1977,’by Ronnie James Dio. This CD cover image released by Niji Entertainment the Salman Khan movie “Hero”. He has previously worked Entertainment shows ‘Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in shows ‘Magica,’ by Dio. as an assistant director. — AFP Philly 1986,’ by Dio. — AP photos

hree years after his death, Ronnie James Dio remains one finds Dio, his post-Black Sabbath solo band, at the height of its medieval and other-worldly realms and of course, the eternal of heavy metal’s most popular and enduring vocalists, and popularity. The 1986 show at the Philadelphia Spectrum show- contrast and contest between good and evil that has marked all Tthe stream of posthumous album releases shows no signs cases Dio’s flair for showmanship, including his artful blending of of Dio’s work from its earliest days. of slowing. Three albums and two videos have been released in hits into live medleys - “The Last In Line” segues into “Children Of The re-release includes a bonus disc of Dio narrating the sto- recent weeks, spanning his career from the frontman for the Sea” and “Holy Diver” before returning to the original track. ry of “Magica,” some extra tracks elaborating on characters from Rainbow in the 1970s through his successful solo career. But it is his signature track, “Heaven And Hell,” recorded with it and previously unreleased live cuts from the “Magica” tour. “Rainbow Live In Munich 1977” (Eagle Rock) features a full con- Black Sabbath, that forever defines Dio as a singer and song- Other releases include a pair of albums put out in the months cert from Rainbow at its best. Led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, writer, with its vivid imagery, dramatic pacing and soaring after Dio’s May 2010 death: “At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987” the band rips into the incendiary concert opener “Kill The King,” vocals. Both those releases are available on CD, DVD and Blu-ray. and “Neon Nights: 30 Year of Haven & Hell,” a live album from his then settles into an extended groove on “Mistreated,” which fea- “Magica: Deluxe Edition” (Niji Entertainment) is a re-release of final tour in 2009 with Black Sabbath. — AP tures intricate and delicate interplay between Blackmore’s Dio’s 2000 concept album about a planet of wizards and magi- Indian actor Suraj Pancholi, boyfriend of the late Fender Strat and Dio’s voice. “Catch The Rainbow” showcases cians that was overrun by evil, requiring an epic battle to save Bollywood film actress Jiah Khan, sits inside a police vehi- Dio’s multi-octave range, quiet and tender here, and raw and ris- the few remaining souls there. It’s one of his more obscure and cle on his way to a court in Mumbai yesterday, on suspi- ing there. poorer-selling albums, but it serves as a window into one of Dio’s cion of abetting her suicide after her family found a letter “Finding The Sacred Heart: Live in Philly 1986” (Eagle Rock) true passions: The imaginative realms of fancy, particularly in her room. — AFP

ith the $3 million “The Purge” taking in $36 million - or Genre films, and especially horror films, work best as counter- make a terrific $2 million movie, and even earn critical acclaim $15,000 found-footage film “Paranormal Activity” into one of 12 times its production budget - in its first three days at programming. “The Purge” offered something different than the and Oscar nominations like “Beasts of the Southern Wild” did last the most profitable movies of all time when it took in $193 mil- Wthe box office, you may be wondering why every studio superheroes and sequels that dominate the summer, but the year, but still make just $12 million.Not every movie will have lion in 2009. His Blumhouse Productions was also behind isn’t releasing micro-budgeted thrillers in hopes of hitting the market wouldn’t support a genre film every week. Contributing such a clear and high concept 12 hours of lawlessness - that is vis- “Insidious,” which was made for $1.5 million and grossed $97 box office jackpot. Swiping, er, re-spinning, great ideas is an art to the big debut for “The Purge” was pent-up demand on the part ceral, easily grasped and thought-provoking. You saw the effect million worldwide in 2011, and 2012’s $3 million “Sinister,” form in Hollywood, so why wouldn’t we expect to see a slew of of horror fans. Nothing has been aimed their way since “Evil of that with the massive social media “The Purge” generated in which has brought in $77 million.Not every film will have the similar projects soon. The short answer: It’s not that easy, or else Dead” in early April. the last days prior to its release - much of it organic, rather than muscle and millions of Universal’s marketing team behind it. everybody would be doing it. After all, movies with $3 million Not everyone wants to make a horror film, which is the genre studio-driven. They pushed all the right buttons and maxed out the impact of production budgets get made all the time - mainly art films - but that most lends itself to commercial success-i.e. connecting with Not everyone can assemble a marketable cast like Ethan the creepy concept. —Reuters broad box office success is rarely their goal and almost never young adults-done on the cheap. You wouldn’t want to see a $3 Hawke, Lena Headey and Max Burkholder, and a director like their reality. Here’s a number of good reasons you won’t be see- million “Les Miserables.” Terror and fear are often intimate emo- James DeMonaco who are willing to work for scale in return for ing anything quite like “The Purge” at the box office anytime tions, and can be portrayed with passion and intensity without a a cut of the back-end. With his incredible track record, “The soon: ton of special effects or exotic locales in horror movies. You can Purge” producer Jason Blum certainly can. He turned the lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

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These film publicity images released by Warner Bros. Pictures show Henry Cavill as Superman in ‘Man of Steel.’—AP photos

t has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, Shannon) attempts to take over power, fighting in bulky cos- strongest impression of the cast as a severe father urging Kent Snyder has succeeded in turning out a Superman that isn’t sil- the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the super- tumes with Jor-El. to hide his gifts. ly (not a small feat) and will likely lay enough of a bedrock for Ihero blockbuster, the comics’ most iconic son has eluded His coup is thwarted (though not before killing Jor-El, who We’re meanwhile introduced to Pulitzer Prize-winning jour- further sequels, it’s a missed opportunity - particularly with a its grasp like a bird or, if you will, a plane. New hopes of box- continues on in the film in an Obi-Wan-like presence), and he nalist Lois Lane (Amy Adams), fresh off a stint embedded with bright cast of Shannon, Adams and Lane - for a more fun-lov- office riches and franchise serials rests on Zac Snyder’s 3-D and his followers are locked away, frozen until Krypton’s the military for the Daily Planet. Adams, as she usually does, ing spirit. “Man of Steel,” the latest attempt to put Superman back into implosion frees them. Baby Kal-El has been rocketed away helps animate the film, as she plunges into a bulldog investi- Cavill’s performance is less memorable for his introspective flight. But Snyder’s joyless film, laden as if composed of the with Krypton’s precious Codex, an energy-radiating skull. Kal- gating of Clark and spars with her editor (Laurence Fishburne). brooding than for his six-pack (a fetish for Snyder, the director stuff of its hero’s metallic nickname, has nothing soaring El rockets to Earth, setting up not a Midwest reprieve to the Snyder brings to the film a sure hand for overly dramatic com- of “300”). He’s handsome and capable, but one can’t help miss- about it. Flying men in capes is grave business in Snyder’s lengthy Krypton fallout, but a flash-forward to more explo- positions that take after comic strip panels. He has a clearly ing Christopher Reeve’s twinkle. At least he smiled. The awk- solemn Superman. “Man of Steel,” an origin tale of the DC sions. Our next glimpse of Kal-El is as a young adult Clark Kent sincere reverence for the source material (originally created in ward acrobatics to modernize “Man of Steel” are most evident Comics hero, goes more than two hours before the slightest (the beefy Brit Henry Cavill) aboard a fishing vessel on stormy 1938 by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster). He’s a film- with its new explanation of Superman’s shield. The “S,” we are joke or smirk. seas, where he - shirtless and aflame - saves the crew of a maker who, even with his last film, the abysmal “Sucker told, doesn’t stand for Superman, but is a Krypton glyph This is not your Superman of red tights, phone booth burning oil rig. Punch,” seems to precisely make the movie he intended. meaning hope. But if “S” doesn’t stand for “Superman,” “Man of changes, or fortresses of solitude, but one of Christ imagery, At this point, your Codex may be spinning. Working from a Eager fans will likely thrall to the film’s many overlong Steel” is the one with the identity issues - not to mention a Krypton politics and spaceships. Who would want to have fun script by “Blade” scribe David S. Goyer and a story by Goyer action set pieces, as Superman battles with Zod and his min- spelling problem. “Man of Steel,” a Warner Bros. release, is rat- at the movies anyway, when you could instead be taught a and “Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, Snyder has ions. There’s little creativity to the fight sequences, though, ed PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and lesson about identity from a guy who can shoot laser beams clearly sought to avoid some of the expected plotlines and which plow across countless building facades. But Snyder destruction, and for some language. Running time: 144 min- out of his eyes? “Man of Steel” opens with the pains of child- rhythms of the familiar Superman tale. There’s a constant urge doesn’t have the material or the inclination to make “Man of utes. Two stars out of four. — AP birth, as Lara Lor-Van (Ayelet Zurer) and husband Jor-El to push the story to greater scale - a desperate propulsion that Steel” as thought-provoking as Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy. (Russell Crowe) see the birth of Kal-El, the first naturally born will surely excite some fans but tire others. The film hops back Superman wrestles with his allegiance to humans or his home child in years on Krypton. The planet - a giant bronze ball of and forth from Clark’s grown-up life and his Smallville, Kansas, planet, but the quandaries of a super powered man betwixt pewter, as far as I can tell - is in apocalyptic tumult (the disas- upbringing with Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent worlds doesn’t have any real resonance. The gravity that ter film has gone intergalactic), and General Zod (Michael (Diane Lane). Costner, back among the corn stalks, makes the cloaks “Man of Steel” is merely an en vogue costume. While

umford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane has a blood clot on his brain that will require surgery. The MGrammy Award-winning folk-rock group post- poned concerts yesterday in Dallastoday in The Woodlands in Texas and tomorrow in New Orleans. A statement on its website said there are no plans to postpone or cancel any other appearances on the cur- rent tour. Mumford & Sons has a headlining gig Saturday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. The statement says Dwane hasn’t felt well for a few days and went to the hospital Monday for emergency treat- ment. Scans revealed the blood clot on the surface of his brain, requiring surgery. The band is being assured that he will recover quickly. — AP

This June 7, 2013 file photo shows actress Anna Kendrick at an appearance at the ‘HeartRadio Theater in New York. File photo shows actors Rebel Wilson, left, and Anna Kendrick, — AP photos from the film “Pitch Perfect”, posing in West Hollywood, Calif.

hey say it’s not over till the fat lady sings - and that platinum plaque for “Cups,” which is also a viral hit thanks to platinum plaques are rare. “Universal was looking for partners means Fat Amy isn’t ready to put down her microphone. the cup routine she performed in the film, in the song’s music and there were other companies that looked at this movie and TThe movie “Pitch Perfect,” which was released in video - which has 17 million views - and others imitating it in passed on the soundtrack opportunity,” said Bruce Resnikoff, September and grossed $65 million domestically, is also a suc- their own videos and posts online. the president and CEO of Universal Music Enterprises, the cess on the music charts, where the film’s soundtrack has “We were like, ‘OK, it’s a cute song. Let’s ask our audience label that released the soundtrack. “We were fortunate peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than what they think about it.’ And it was enormous. It was enor- enough to have people who saw it and believed it.” Resnikoff 713,961 units so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The film mous,” said Sharon Dastur, program director for New York said the reason for the soundtrack’s winning moment is stars Rebel Wilson (Fat Amy) and Anna Kendrick (Beca) as City’s top station, Z100 (100.3 FM), where the song is on rota- because its audience includes teenagers who are constantly members of the all-girl a cappella group, The Barden Bellas, tion. “Cups” was originally just 76 seconds long, but Kendrick listening, streaming and buying music online. who are battling other a cappella groups in a national compe- re-recorded a version that is just over 2 minutes and it appears “This was an album that was completely launched through tition. on a second soundtrack from the film dubbed “More from a digital medium,” he said. “I do think some of the same things Kendrick’s rendition of the folk-pop tune “Cups” is helping Pitch Perfect,” which was released last week. “It wasn’t already that have hurt the soundtrack business - the digital market- push the soundtrack to musical heights: The song has sold planned,” said Mike Knobloch, the president of film music and place - were essential in creating the bigger opportunities one million tracks and currently sits at No. 27 on the Hot 100 publishing at Universal Pictures, of the new album. “There here.” Harvey Mason Jr, the Grammy-winning producer and chart. “It’s totally surprising,” the perky, red-haired 27-year-old were just some things we couldn’t get cleared or include more songwriter behind hits for Chris Brown and Beyonce, said said. “I always figured soundtrack sales would be a part of a for business reasons initially. Once we saw there was such a music fans enjoy new renditions of popular songs, which is movie that has so much music in it ... but I had no idea we’d be demand for it, we were able to go back and release more evident in the success of tunes from shows like “Glee,” into summer of the next year and people would still be talking music from the film.” “American Idol” and “The Voice.”—AP about the album (and) buying the album.” The gold-selling The albums feature mash-ups and covers of songs like File photo shows Ted Dwane of the English folk “Pitch Perfect: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” was Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone,” Rihanna’s “S&M” and La rock band Mumford & Sons, performing at the released the week the film hit theaters. Kendrick, an Oscar- Roux’s “Bulletproof.” The success of the soundtrack comes at a Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, NJ. — AP nominated actress, was in New York last week to receive a time when album sales are low and for soundtracks, gold and

ed Dawn” star Josh Peck is in talks to join Al- Pacino Mankad and Rawat’s Inimitable Pictures is independently in Dan Fogelman’s directorial debut “Imagine,” financing “Imagine” through a film fund backed by 5-Hour anye West says his new album is all about giving. The TheWrap has learned. Based on a true story, Energy founder Manoj Bhargava. Production will begin in the multiplatinum rapper held a listening for “Yeezus” late “R “Imagine” finds Pacino playing an aging musician who is coming weeks in Los Angeles. WME Global is repping US KMonday in New York City, where Beyonce was one of prompted by an old letter from John Lennon to give up his rights, while Mister Smith Entertainment is handling foreign the few hundred attendees. West says his sixth effort will rockstar lifestyle and reconnect with the son (Bobby sales. Peck has grown up since his breakout role on the hit showcase his growth over the last two years and that “he had Cannavale) he has never met. The all-star supporting cast Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh.” In addition to voicing one of to learn about giving.” Adds West: “I feel like I know who I am.” includes Jennifer Garner as Pacino’s daughter-in-law, Annette the animated leads in the “Ice Age” series, he starred in “Yeezus” is out June 18. It has a dark, moody vibe that Bening as his love interest and Michael Caine as his longtime Jonathan Levine’s “The Wackness” and recently played Chris expands beyond his last two solo efforts, 2010’s “My Beautiful manager. Hemsworth’s brother in “Red Dawn.” Peck will soon be seen in Dark Twisted Fantasy” and 2008’s “808s & Heartbreak.” It’s also Peck is making a deal to play a hotel valet who Pacino James Franco’s “Bukowski” and the dance movie “Battle of the a departure from his first three albums, which featured a Kanye West arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art encourages to go after the girl of his dreams. Denise DiNovi, Year” with Josh Holloway and Chris Brown. He’s repped by plethora of radio hits. West turned 36 on Saturday. He and girl- Costume Institute gala benefit, celebrating Elsa who produced the Fogelman-scripted comedy “Crazy, Stupid, UTA. — Reuters friend Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child. — AP Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, in New York. — AP Love,” is producing with Jessie Nelson (“I Am Sam”) and Nimitt Mankad. Shivani Rawat will executive produce the film, which is designed to appeal to older audiences. Cambodia to welcome looted statues’ return from US

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DJ Amelia ‘Foxtrot’ Raley doesn’t need computers, speakers or even electricity for her events. She uses two antique phonographs to turn back the clock with vintage tunes. — MCT photos

melia “Foxtrot” Raley isn’t a typical Austin DJ. She has no “It made sense to collect the music, too,” she says. “I’ve been Alaptop, speakers or need for an electrical outlet. Instead, enamored by these outside horn machines (another term for Raley lugs two 1900s-era phonographs and a crate of phonographs) for a while.” In 2008, Raley purchased her first vintage records to her gigs and literally cranks out the nostal- phonograph. It was a reproduction, but it fueled her passion gic tunes of yesteryear. At a recent Austin, Texas, Mini Maker for the machines with its rich sound and elegant shape. Raley Faire event, Raley’s old-timey DJ set lured a group of wide-eyed has owned a progression of phonographs throughout the children around her booth. “This record player is more than years, even funding the purchase of one through a successful 100 years old,” Raley told the curious faces. She hand-cranked Kickstarter campaign. Most phonographs in good condition the phonograph’s small lever like manually rolling down a car start at about $2,500. Raley plays two vintage 1902 and 1907 window and dropped a thick needle that landed in the models and also owns a smaller one that’s built into a suitcase. grooves of her old 78 revolutions per minute record. Then, out Raley purchased the two bigger phonographs through a deal- of the phonograph’s big horn boomed the sweet 1917 tune er at the Marburger Farm Antique Show in Round Top, Texas. “My Fox Trot Girl” by the era’s famous saxophone ensemble the At Raley’s DJ events, guests can listen to anything from Six Brown Brothers. 1920s hot jazz to Texas swing, with records spanning from Some of the taller kids poked their small heads in the horn 1915 to about 1938. Sometimes you can find Raley perusing for an irresistible peek inside a machine unlike anything they’d the record selection at local shops or on eBay, and other times seen before. “It’s louder than I thought,” one of them said. The said. “From the tablecloths she uses to the hairstyle she wears, record collectors contact her. Unlike the 78s most people are what she does DJing so people can understand and relate, but shorter kids tiptoed just enough to stick their hands in the bell. it’s genuine and very Austin.” Guests were so receptive to the familiar with, Raley’s 78s only play one song per side and are she considers her live entertainment more of a performance. Almost immediately they smiled when they felt the vibrations authentic phonograph idea that Raley decided to launch a made out of shellac, so they weigh a little more than vinyl. As vintage-inspired television shows such as “Boardwalk of the music buzzing through their fingers. Raley launched the business that’s now taken her across the Texas Hill Country for Thick, sharp needles last for one record before having to be Empire” and movies such as “The Great Gatsby” seep into pop- Austin Phonograph Company last summer after her friend weddings and private events. tossed. That means Raley usually buys a couple thousand nee- ular culture, the music and the fashions of the early 1900s have Devaki Knowles suggested she DJ at her outdoor wedding cer- Raley doesn’t just look the part she lives a vintage-inspired dles at a time on eBay. A small compartment on Raley’s phono- become hip. But although the trend has helped Austinites emony. A fellow lover of all things vintage, Knowles threw a lifestyle. Raley’s been fascinated with the 1920s and 30s since graph stores old needles headed for the trash. embrace her hand-cranked phonographs, Raley says she’ll still laid-back old-fashioned wedding and loved the idea of the she was a teenager. One of the first things she did when she When she shows up as the live entertainment at a wedding be writing letters on her old typewriter and cranking the tunes atmospheric songs of the past as part of her big day. The park got an AOL dial-up Internet account was search for “flappers.” or art gallery opening, she says regular DJs are often taken on her 110-year-old phonograph long after it fades. — MCT didn’t allow amplified music, so Raley’s no-electricity-required Today, she owns Sweet Ritual, an old-fashioned ice cream par- aback. “Oh, gosh, you’re the real deal,” she remembers one DJ phonographs turned out to be a perfect solution. lor in Austin’s historic Hyde Park neighborhood. She enjoys saying. But Raley doesn’t call herself a DJ to other DJs. “No mat- Knowles, a photographer with Fun Loving Photos, met researching and reading about the era, and signs her emails ter how many times people ask me, I still can’t scratch the Raley through a monthly vintage party series that Raley helped with “compiled by electric stenographer.” She has collected old record,” she says. Without the ability to mix, Raley says she has a organize at Swan Dive. “I knew she had great taste,” Knowles valentines, sheet music and vintage clothes for years. little less creative input as far as the music she plays. She calls

etween pots of glue and scraps of cotton, Bahjat Majeed Bsits cross-legged in his tiny workshop, putting the final touches on a pair of handmade shoes traditionally craft- ed in his hometown of Halabja. The meticulously-crafted “klash”, which trace their roots back several hundred years, remain a key feature of Kurdish culture even as the three- province autonomous region in north Iraq has seen breakneck economic development. The shoes feature soles made of cot- ton fabrics and cow hide, and upper vamps that are made with knitted wool thread, and are usually worn by men on special occasions such as the Kurdish New Year celebrations of Nowruz. “I have been doing this for 15 years,” Majeed, 34, says proud- ly. “I cannot think of a better job. I make a traditional symbol of Kurdish culture. This is wonderful.” Klash are made in one of three colors-white, red or blue-or some combination of the Kurdish men sit on the ground as they make local-style shoes known as ‘Klash’ worn by men as part of their traditional garb, in the town of Halabja, 300 kms (190 three, and do not differentiate between the left and right foot. miles) northeast of Baghdad. — AFP photos The shoes are known in particular for their sturdiness. They are produced by artisans in the town of Halabja, which lies in a An estimated 5,000 people were killed, mostly women and the side of the road while unemployed 16 years ago. Since “Throughout the year, we receive orders from abroad, or mountainous region near the Iranian border and some 250 children. But historically Halabja and the surrounding area then, his “love” for the shoes has constantly grown. “I love these from Kurds who want to gift these shoes to their friends who kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Baghdad. have been known for the klash. And Majeed is an expert in shoes even though they do not bring in much money,” he says. live overseas,” says Abu Baqr, who runs a store selling klash in The town, however, is sadly more famous as the site of what making these handmade shoes. He deftly passes cotton The klash originates from the Hawraman region of Kurdistan, a the town. And, he adds, the footwear also inspires feelings of is thought to have been the worst ever gas attack targeting threads between his toes before connecting them to small mountainous area that straddles western and northeast Iraq. Kurdish nationalism. “Some people here are proud that their civilians. In March 1988, as Iraq’s eight-year war with Iran was machines that wrap them together, helping form, in this case, Residents of the area speak Hawrami, one of five Kurdish shoes are made from imported material, but the klash is coming to an end, Kurdish peshmerga rebels, with Tehran’s what will become the sole of the shoe. A few metres from dialects. Agriculture forms the lion’s share of the local econo- Kurdish and nothing else,” Abu Baqr says. “It is not an imita- backing, took over the farming community of Halabja near the Majeed’s studio, Akram Mustafa tries to convince passing cus- my, and provides the raw materials for the klash. The footwear tion.” — AFP border with the Islamic republic. Now-executed dictator tomers to pick up a new pair of klash, showcasing various vari- is believed-according to legend-to have first been worn by Saddam Hussein’s forces bombed the area, forcing the rebels eties that sell for between 40,000 and 75,000 Iraqi dinars Zoroaster, the founder of the eponymous religion. And while to retreat into the surrounding hills, leaving their families (between $33 and $62). modern-day Kurds typically reserve the klash for ceremonial behind. Iraqi jets then swooped over the small town and for It was by chance that Mustafa became fascinated with the occasions, shoemakers in Halabja say they also receive strong five hours sprayed it with nerve agents. traditional Kurdish footwear, when he began selling them on business from overseas, year-round.