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Kuwait frees seven Max 45º Min 30º High Tide opposition activists 01:25 & 12:14 Dozens of activists, ex-MPs face trial over ‘insults’ Low Tide 06:44 & 19:31 40 PAGES NO: 15893 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait has released seven opposition activists, central prison around midnight Tuesday, the ministry said 11-year jail term, was not covered by the pardon because Kuwait Times Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al- including a woman, who were in prison for insulting the in a statement. They were serving various jail terms after her sentence is not yet final. International rights groups Alyan wishes HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- ruler on Twitter after he pardoned them last week, the being convicted of insulting the Amir through Twitter, a have criticized Kuwait’s practice of jailing opposition Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Interior Ministry said yesterday. Dozens of other opposi- crime punishable by a maximum of five years in jail under members for “insulting” the Amir and have called on the Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Prime Minister tion activists and former lawmakers being tried on similar the oil-rich Gulf state’s penal code. The pardoned activists authorities to amend the law that prohibits criticism of Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Cabinet charges were not included in the pardon issued by Amir include Sara Al-Darees, a teacher, who was in jail after the the ruler. The Amir’s pardon came a few days after a parlia- members, Heads of States around the world, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on the occasion of the appeals court upheld her 20-month jail sentence last mentary election that was boycotted by the main opposi- Kuwaitis, expatriates and our valued readers Eid Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. month. She however spent only about a week in jail. tion groups in protest against an amendment to the elec- Mubarak. Kuwait Times will not be published on The six men and the woman were released from the A second woman, Huda Al-Ajmi, who was handed an toral law. — AFP Friday and Saturday. Next issue will be on Sunday.

Ramadan Kareem Celebrations

By Hassan T Bwambale

elebrations in Islam are blessings from Almighty Allah in that all of them come after accomplish- Cing an act of worship. We have two main celebra- tions in Islam viz. Eidul-Ad’ha and Eidul-Fitr. When Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) arrived in Medinah, he found its inhabitants celebrating two occasions. Upon asking them, they said: we used to celebrate these occasions before your advent (Jahiliyya). He then informed them that Allah has substituted those two occasions with two better Islamic ones vizEidul-Fitr (festival of breaking the fast) and Eidul- Ad’ah (festival of sacrifice). (IbnHajar) Muslims officially celebrate two occasions vizEidul-Fitr (that comes after Ramadan) and Eidul-Ad’ha (that comes after perform- ing the fifth pillar of Islam, pilgrimage - Haj). Once during Eidul-Ad’ha, festival of sacrifice, Abu Baker - first caliph in Islam- visited Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and found two maids singing and playing tam- bourines. He reprimanded them saying: “Do you play Satan’s equipments in the house of the messenger of KARACHI: A Pakistani beautician applies traditional henna design to the hand of a customer ahead of the Muslim festivities of Eid Al-Fitr, in Karachi yesterday. — AFP Allah? Prophet Muhammad woke up to Abu Baker’s sound and said: “leave them alone Abu Baker! Indeed PAGE PAGE every people have their own festival and this is our fes- Fire guts Kenya’s airport, Yemen foils Al-Qaeda tival.” (Imam Muslim) Our rightly guided ancestors used to glorify three religious seasons in that they would tre- chokes regional gateway plot; US drone kills 7 ble their acts of worship therein. Those seasons are: The first 10 days of Dhul-Hijja (the last month of the Islamic lunar calendar). Abdullah Ibn Abbas narrated that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “There is no any Qaeda leaders remain global threat other season where by acts of worship and devotion are dearer to Allah and more rewarding than these first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah.”His companions inquired: O messenger of Allah! Even Jihad? He replied: “even Jihad, Qaeda-ism continues to attract new aficionados except for one who goes out fighting in Jihad then he gets martyred and in the process his belongings get WASHINGTON: Far from being on the replacement, Ayman Al-Zawahri, who as used for Jihad purposes.” brink of collapse, Al-Qaeda’s core leader- early as December 2001 announced (Iman Al-Bukhari)In those days there is also the day ship remains a potent threat - and one plans to decentralize the network and of Arafah. Jabir bin Abdullah related that Prophet that experts say has encouraged the ter- scatter its affiliates across the globe as a Muhammad (PBUH) said: “The day of Arafah is the best ror network’s spread into more countries way of ensuring its survival. day of the year.” (rated sound by Imam IbnHibban) The today than it was operating in immedi- Now, major Al-Qaeda hubs are thriv- second season is the last ten nights of Ramadan in ately after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist ing along the Iraqi-Syrian border, in which the Night of Power/Destiny/Worth/Honor falls. attacks. President Barack Obama, who North Africa and, in the most serious risk Allah says: “The Night of Power is better than a thou- ordered the May 2011 raid that killed to the US, in Yemen. The regional hubs Osama Bin Laden, has described Al- may not take direct orders from al- sand months.” (97:3) Qaeda’s headquarters as “a shadow of its Zawahri, and terror experts say they The third season is the first ten days of Muharram former self.” White House spokesman Jay rarely coordinate operations with each (the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar). The day Carney on Tuesday called it “severely other or share funding and fighters. But of Ashura in which Allah saved Moses from the Pharaoh diminished” and “decimated.” they have promoted Al-Qaeda’s mission and his army falls on the tenth of Muharram. If one fasts The bravado, however, didn’t match far beyond what its reach was a dozen on this day he/she is forgiven the sins that he/she com- the Obama administration’s action this years ago and, in turn, created an endur- mitted during the elapsed year. week. It closed 19 US diplomatic out- ing legacy for its core leaders. Abu Hurairarelated thatProphet Muhammad (PBUH) posts stretching across the Middle East, “Even while the core Al-Qaeda group said: “The best month in which to fast after Ramadan is Africa and Asia, and evacuated may be in decline, Al-Qaeda-ism, the the month of Muharram.” This means that Muharram nonessential personnel from the US movement’s ideology, continues to res- comes second to Ramadan in terms of trebled rewards Embassy in Yemen after intelligence offi- onate and attract new adherents,” Bruce that one gets for fasting. IbnTaymiyya said: “The first ten cials said they had intercepted a recent Hoffman, director of the Security Studies SHARJAH: A four year old Arabian leopard called ‘Spoti’ sits in front of the days of Dhul-Hijjah are better than the days of message from Al-Qaeda’s top leader Program at Georgetown University, wrote camera at the Breeding Center for the Arabian Wildlife in Sharjah, United Ramadan, whereas, the last ten nights of Ramadan are about plans for a major terror attack. The in a research paper earlier this year. Arab Emirates. — AP better than the last ten nights of Dhul-Hijjah.” new communique came from Bin Laden’s Continued on Page 15 Oman struggles to save Question: What are the two major celebrations of Muslims? Arabia’s last leopards

Courtesy TIES Center, a leading non-political NGO pro- TAWI ATAIR: Several thousand feet up weeks old. He and a colleague bag the moting relations between Westerners and Muslims on a jagged escarpment overlooking waste, which later will be genetically through dialogue, friendship and cultural exchange. the Arabian Sea, Hadi Al-Hikmani has analyzed to help determine the leopard For more information. www.tiescenter.net come searching for a shy and reclusive population in the area as well as the creature. The Arabian leopard, the last prey. remaining big cat in the Middle East, is This leopard seemed to have a taste almost invisible in the canyons and dry for porcupines, small rodents and hyrax, riverbeds of Oman. So even a growl or a a plump, rock-dwelling mammal. A few scratch mark would satisfy the conser- hundred feet up the path, further good vationist. news. One of the more than 25 camera AUGUST 8, 2013 But Al-Hikmani looks set to go home traps that dot these mountains caught empty-handed as he has so many times an image of a leopard - its pale coat dot- after his treks across the Dhofar moun- ted with black rosettes and spots stand- tains in the Jebel Samhan Nature ing out against the darkness. It was just Reserve of southern Oman. Then his a bit larger than a golden retriever and MANAMA: A Bahraini police officer sits in a police car at a new checkpoint near luck turns. “Here we go!” yells Al- was the first one caught on camera for the US Embassy in Manama. The US Embassy in Bahrain is one of 19 American Hikmani as he comes upon a pile of several months. diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa ordered closed following ter- leopard droppings that appears several Continued on Page 15 ror threats. — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 LOCAL Health care privatization moves ahead

While a lack of external investment has hindered previous attempts to galvanize health care privatization, the administration’s latest initiatives look set to generate considerably more interest among businesses. KUWAIT: Ambitious plans to priva- The government currently pro- The setting up the Kuwait forward has not been straightfor- tize segments of Kuwait’s health vides nationals with free health Health Assurance Company ward for the Kuwaiti government. care services are gaining momen- care, while foreign workers make (KHAC), an expansive PPP operat- The first round of tendering for pri- tum as the government makes a an annual payment of $175 that ing under the Ministry of Health, is vate investors in 2011 produced two-fold bid to reduce waiting can rise if additional services, such also expected to speed up sectoral only one bidder, Agility Logistics, times at state hospitals and attract as X-rays, are required. reform. The company, which was prompting the government to put new investment for the sector. The In March, the Ministry of Health launched in 2011 as part of the the project out again in April 2013. Kuwait government has already approved a proposal that will over- government’s bid to accelerate pri- Results from the second round taken action to boost private sec- haul access to public medical care vatisztion across the sector, is set to of bidding were more positive. In tor participation under its wide- by allotting nationals and expatri- roll out more than 800 health care early July, investment group ranging $110 billion development ates separate times for hospital vis- projects, including three hospitals Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) plan by setting up public-private its. and 15 primary health care clinics announced it would bid for a KD partnerships (PPPs) that will roll Jahra Hospital, west of Kuwait by 2015. Ownership will be divided 25.6million stake in KHAC, joining out several major projects. City, began trialling the new sys- among private investors (26%), the Agility and other bidders, which While a lack of external invest- tem in mid-July for a six-month government (24%) and free-float include National Real Interest ment has hindered previous period. Under the pilot, Kuwaitis Kuwaiti shareholders (50%). Estate, Arabi Holding Group, Yiaco attempts to galvanize health care are given access to state hospitals Once fully operational, the Medical Company, Jiblah Holding privatization, the administration’s in the mornings, while expatriates KHAC’s core activity will be the pro- and Al Essa Medical Equipment. latest initiatives look set to gener- have been allocated the after- KUWAIT: A look inside a hospital ward. The image is used vision of health care coverage to Although Kuwait has encoun- ate considerably more interest noons. Exceptions will be made for for illustrative purposes only. most expatriates. The company will tered challenges to its health care among businesses. emergency cases. The program is deliver services at pre-set prices privatization plans, the latest round One of the government’s priori- expected to be rolled out across all tious PPPs, including a venture for and a consortium of companies similar to the processes used by US of KHAC bidding suggests that the ties is the privatisation of health public health care facilities, pend- the construction of a 500-bed hos- including Bouygues Batiment health maintenance organizations. private sector is beginning to rec- care services for Kuwait’s sizeable ing the outcome of a review at the pital near Al Andalus. The govern- International, Ahmadiah Trading & It will also provide health insurance ognize the opportunities emerging population of expatriate workers. end of the trial. ment is keen to boost the number Contracting, EDTE, Gulf Investment to 60% of the country’s expatriates. within the sector. New facilities, The initiative has been on the Kuwait’s 2010 privatization law of beds available for patients by Corporation, Infrastructure Holding With an expected capital base of which will be rolled out across the administration’s agenda since leg- forms a key component of the adding to the country’s 20 public Company and Mubadala KD318 million, and an anticipated state by PPPs, should ease the islation passed in 2010 enabled the country’s four-year $107.3bn and 21 private hospitals. Infrastructure Partners, were workforce of 8400 full-time longstanding burden on public state to begin privatizing sectors of development plan, which is aimed In September 2012, the names among the names appearing on employees, the company could health facilities and open the door the economy. at reducing oil dependence and of the companies that can be con- the list. The government’s well become one of the largest for investors and insurance compa- Expatriate workers account for boosting the private sector. sidered for the project were made Partnerships Technical Bureau organizations in its field across the nies, setting the scene for the sec- two thirds of Kuwait’s 2.82m popu- Reforms have enabled the admin- public. Carillion, Habtoor Leighton expects a decision on the project Middle East. tor to expand. lation, according to local media. istration to establish several ambi- Group, Al Ghanim International, to be made by the end of the year. However, moving the project — Oxford Business Group Woman beaten up in parking lot Woman nabbed with cocaine at airport KUWAIT: Detectives are looking for a young man ger as a citizen approached him while he was ing for his family. But as the girls insisted, police- who beat a woman in the parking lot of a popular about to kidnap a 12-year-old juvenile in front of men arrested him and charged him with urging By Hanan Al-Saadoun mall before escaping. The two had met in a cafe a a Jahra mall. The citizen told police that he saw a immoral acts. week ago, but she did not answer his calls. A secu- man trying to kidnap a boy, so he saved the boy KUWAIT: The narcotics department rity source said the victim told police she saw the but the suspect escaped. Police took the boy to Woman chased arrested a Kuwaiti woman for pos- assailant waiting with another man, and as she the police station and his father was called, who Hawally police patrols arrested three citi- sessing a quarter kilogram of cocaine. neared her car, he began beating her, pulled her filed an attempted kidnap complaint. Jahra zens for chasing a woman and forced her to hit The authorities followed a tip-off hair and slammed her to the floor. He then opened detectives are investigating. the pavement. A security source said the vic- on the woman who was caught at Kuwait International Airport upon her purse and took her mobile. When a shopper tim, a citizen, called police to rescue her from arrival from a nearby Arab country. and his wife attempted to help the woman, he told Woman harassed the three men who chased her in their pick-up She was searched by a female cus- them he wanted to discipline her. The attacker and A suspect groped a woman in the parking lot truck to take her with them. Nugra police are toms officer in the presence of other his friend then fled when they saw the police. The of a mall before being arrested by police. The investigating. narcotics officials and was found con- young female citizen told police she met the sus- woman was in her car along with her sister look- cealing a quarter kilo of cocaine in pect a week ago at a cafe, but she was annoyed by ing for a parking space when they were sur- Obscene gesture her underwear. his calls. When she ignored him, he sent her mes- prised by a man who grabbed the hand of one A harasser chased a female citizen from Upon interrogation, she confessed sage accusing her of being a cheater. of the sisters through the open window and Salwa until Bidaa roundabout, then made an to bringing large quantities of touched her body before the two started obscene gesture before speeding off. The cocaine for trade in Kuwait. She was Male ‘monster’ screaming. Security men caught the man who woman, aged 22, rushed to Salwa police station referred to the concerned authorities after the stash was seized. A male “monster” escaped when he felt dan- denied the girls’ claims, adding that he was wait- and complained about the man. Kuwait plans nationwide survey on noncommunicable diseases KUWAIT: Health Ministry’s Undersecretary unhealthy diet. According to the World Health for Public Health Dr Qais Al-Duweri The age range of the surveyed Kuwaitis Organization (Who), the noncommunica- announced yesterday that the ministry is will be from 18-69 years, of males and ble diseases (NCDs) kill more than 36 mil- embarking on a plan to conduct a nation- females, to produce representative data of lion people each year. Nearly 80 percent- wide survey on the non-communicable the whole society. age of NCD deaths - 29 million - occur in diseases (NCD) risk factor in Kuwait. A non-communicable disease, or NCD, low- and middle-income countries. In a press statement, Al-Duweri point- is a medical condition or disease, which by More than nine million of all deaths ed out that survey will be conducted in definition is non-infectious and non-trans- attributed to NCDs occur before the age cooperation with the World Health missible among people. of 60; 90 percent of these “premature” Organization. NCDs may be chronic diseases of long deaths occurred in low- and middle- It will include assessment of the per- duration and slow progression, or they income countries. centage of NCD patients, the progress in may result in more rapid death such as Cardiovascular diseases account for addressing risk factors, and evaluate the some types of sudden stroke. They most NCD deaths, or 17.3 million people implementation of national strategies and include autoimmune diseases, heart dis- annually, followed by cancers (7.6 million), plans. ease, stroke, many cancers, asthma, dia- respiratory diseases (4.2 million), and dia- The survey will measure the NDC betes, chronic kidney disease, osteoporo- betes (1.3 million). These four groups of behavioral risk factors, including tobacco sis, Alzheimer’s disease, cataracts, and diseases account for around 80 percent of use, physical inactivity, overweight and more. all NCD deaths. —- KUNA

KUWAIT: A view of the Mubarakiya Souk. Mubarakiya Market .. a blend of past, future KUWAIT: Mubarakiya Souk, named and tourists. Visitors can get a taste of The gold market is located in the after late Amir Sheikh Mubarak Al- the Kuwaiti market. The Souk consists heart of the Souq where shops are Sabah is now ready to receive visitors of various shops with all kind of mer- lined adjacent to each other display- after being decorated for Eid Al-Fitr chandise. ing their unique gold pieces of holiday. Thanks to the tremendous There are several Arab, Indian and authentic Arabic style. efforts of President of the Voluntary Persian restaurants, old type cafes and One can also find authentic Work Center Sheikha Amthal Al- children playground as well. kitchen ware, Arabic tea cups and tea Ahmad Al-Sabah who has turned the Shops sell national costumes, pots and baskets and mats weaved dream into a reality by renovating the sweets, spices, dates and the natural out of date palm fronds, another Souk area. The relentless activist tar- and alcohol free perfumes widely Arab Gulf speciality. The food section gets to attract not only citizens and used in Arabian Gulf countries like of the souq contains fruits, meat and expatriates, but also foreign visitors musk, and oud. fish. —KUNA THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 LOCAL Fadhl challenges election results

KUWAIT: Third constituency candidate tion with teams working for other candi- Nabil Al-Fadhl announced plans to chal- dates. lenge the election results in the constituen- “It was discovered that a big mistake cy on the basis that his electoral committee happened in the announced results as the allegedly reached a different tally to the one votes [Al-Fadhl] received puts him in sev- announced which ‘guarantees his victory’. enth place,” read a statement of the candi- Al-Fadhl finished in eleventh place with a date’s team in which they announced mak- small margin between him and Khalid Al- ing the challenge. Tahous who was elected in tenth place in The cassation court received 8 chal- the third constituency. lenges to the election results on Tuesday, After initially declaring that he had no raising the total number of challenges plans to challenge the results, Al-Fadhl later made since the results were announced on indicated that his team worked in the past July 28 to 15. All challenges demand number of days since the results were recounting of votes under the court’s super- announced on recounting votes in coopera- vision.

KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah receiving a group of Kuwaiti students at Seif Palace yesterday. Amiri pardon praised by local, world media Parental care towards nationals

KUWAIT: The recent Amiri pardon granted by His Al-Wafd newspaper in Egypt mentioned that stitution to resolve the current issues. Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- prominent figures in the Kuwaiti society praised Secretary General of the Kuwait Journalists Jaber Al-Sabah to those convicted of defaming his HH’s kind gesture, also quoting HH’s calling on all Association Faisal Al-Qinai on his part praised the status, was widely praised by local, Arab, and inter- MPs to live up to what society is expecting of Amiri pardon, saying that it shows the kind national media. NGOs expressed appreciation them, and to take their responsibilities seriously. parental spirit that HH has, and how much he towards HH’s gesture yesterday, saying that it Meanwhile, local newspapers also praised the cares to do what’s best for his people. Al-Qinai embodies HH’s parental spirit towards Kuwaitis, Amiri pardon, and including news throughout the hoped that those included in the pardon would spreading happiness throughout the society dur- pages regarding HH receiving the families of those learn from their mistakes, and not use the free- ing the last days of Ramadan and also Eid. included in the pardon, who expressed their dom they enjoy in this country in the wrong way. The Amiri pardon also attracted the attention utmost appreciation for HH’s humane action. Board Chairman of the Kuwait Society for of Arab and international media. CNN’s Arabic Al-Qabas mentioned that Yousif Al-Baidan, a Human Rights Khalid Al-Ajmi expressed his deep- website included HH’s speech for the occasion of family member of one of the convicted, expressed est appreciation for HH’s kind gesture, saying that the last ten days of Ramadan, quoting the Amir his deep joy for meeting HH. The newspaper also those included in the pardon made mistakes, and saying that Kuwait is heading towards a new leg- said that the families were totally against what were convicted, yet HH had granted them with islative term, and will see more developments in their convicted members have committed. his forgiveness. different fields, and efforts to provide the country Al-Seyasah newspaper on the other hand, cre- Meanwhile, Board Chairman of the Social with different income sources, and run various ated a large space of its pages for the Amiri par- Reform Society Homoud Al-Roomi also praised projects. don issue, mentioning all the praises that came HH’s gesture, noting that it came in the right time In the same context, the British Broadcasting from different society members, who said that HH, to spread happiness and joy between the families Corporation BBC, also mentioned the Amiri par- like all previous Kuwaiti Amirs, has a kind loving of the convicted. don on its Arabic website, noting the importance heart, and always share a father/son kind of rela- Chairman of the Federation of the of this step for the Kuwaiti society. The website tionship with his people. Government Sector Workers Unions Bader Khalid also added tweets by people working in the field Al-Anbaa newspaper also took part in praising Al-Azmi, praised the Amiri Pardon, saying that HH of law and human rights, who were praising HH’s HH’s gesture, issuing interviews with academics, loves his people equally, despite their different gesture. and prominent figures of law and media, who point of views. Al-Azmi noted that all Kuwaitis Al-Arabiya also posted a report about the Amiri agreed that the Amiri pardon is a very important enjoy their freedom, and the law treats everyone pardon on its website, especially that it included and humane gesture by HH. The figures also not- equally, calling on all society members to use KUWAIT: The view from inside and outside of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait. all those convicted in final verdicts in cases of ed that the pardon came as a result of HH’s kind their freedom in proper ways for Kuwait’s own —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat defaming HH’s status. The report also showed the spirit and the humane teachings of the Prophet good. reactions of political Kuwaiti figures towards the Muhammad (peace be upon him), adding that In the same context, Senior MP Hamad Saif Al- pardon, who said that HH took the right decision HH the Amir always stands by his people when Harshany praised during the opening of the first NA chooses members of for the society’s own good, also mentioning that they face hard times. ordinary session for the 14th legislative term of some of the families of those included in the par- Prominent Kuwaiti social figures, on their part, the National Assembly, HH’s kind gesture of for- don said they were grateful to HH the Amir. also praised HH’s kind gesture. Chairman of the giving all those who had defamed his status, permanent committees SkyNews posted the pardon’s news on their Kuwait Lawyers Association Khalid Al-Kandari adding that Kuwaitis always have great love and Arabic website, and quoted some of HH’s speech thanked HH for his great gesture, noting that all appreciation towards Al-Sabah ruling family. KUWAIT: Members of the permanent commit- Osama Al-Tahoos, Dr Khalil Abduallah, Dr where he called on the newly elected PMs to work Kuwaitis respect the law. Al-Kandari said that it is HH the Amir, had received the families of tees at Kuwait’s parliament were elected Abdulkarim Al-Kandari and Dr Oudah Al- hard to get the public services done on time, put time for the new Parliament to work on develop- those included in the Amiri pardon. The families according to article no. 93 of the constitution Riwai’e were chosen for the Committee for their efforts into developments in all fields, and ing all fields in the country, by cooperation said they were deeply grateful for HH for re-unit- during the first regular session of the 14th leg- Education and Culture. avoid all kinds of conflict. between the legislative, and executive authorities. ing them with their family members who were islative term, held Tuesday. MPs Dr Hussain Al-Qwaiaan, Khalil Saleh, As for the Arab newspapers, Al-Dustour news- Moreover, Head of the Kuwait Graduates convicted, adding that they were extremely hap- The National Assembly (parliament) is com- Riyad Al-Adssani, Sadoon Hammad and Dr paper in Jordan showed admiration towards the Society Saud Al-Anazi welcomed HH’s decision, py to be able to meet HH the Amir. The families posed of several parliamentary committees, Mansour Al-Dhafiri were voted for the freedom and democracy Kuwaitis enjoy, mention- hoping that it would be a start towards bringing also wished HH a long happy life with good each serving a different area. These committees Committee for Health, Social and Labor Affairs. ing the Amiri pardon and HH’s speech. Moreover, political stability to Kuwait, and to follow the con- health. —KUNA are crucial to the legislative and oversight MP Saleh Ashour, Jamal Al-Omar, Dr Masouma processes as it is through these committees Al-Mubarak, Hamdan Al-Azmi and Sultan Al- that bills are first discussed, investigations are Shammiri were elected for the Committee on conducted, and ordinary citizen concerns are Foreign Affairs. News raised. As for the Committee for Public Facilities, in brief During Tuesday’s session, the parliament MPs Mohammad Al-Haddiyah, Adel Al-Kharafi, voted MP Dr Yousef Al-Zalzalah, Dr Hussain Al- Majid Al-Mutairi, Rakan Al-Nessif, Kamil Al- Qwaiaan and MP Rakan Al-Nessif for the com- Awadi, Mohammad Al-Enizi and Ali Al-Omair Travel exodus in Eid mittee concerning drafting the reply to the were voted for it. Committee for State Budget KUWAIT: The operations director at Kuwait Airport Amiri Speech. MPs Saud Al-Huraiji, Dr Khalil was given to MPs Adel Al-Kharafi, Adnan Isam Al-Zamel said that the number of departing Abduallah and Faisal Al-Diwaisan were elected Abdulsamad, Dr Oudah Al-Rewaie, Osama Al- flights from Aug 6 until Aug 10 are as follows - 536 for the Committee for Public Petitions and Tahoos, Abduallah Al-Adwani, Mohammad Al- regular flights and 231 additional flights. The num- Grievances. Committee for Defense and Interior Jabri and Hamad Al-Harshani. ber of passengers who departed within this period was assigned to MPs Askar Al-Enizi, Abduallah Lastly, Committee for the Protection of numbered 101,018 passengers. The destinations of Al-Teraiji, Sultan Al-Shammiri, Abduallah Al- Public Funds was voted for MPs Abduallah Al- travelers were mostly Dubai, Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo, Timmimi and Dr Mohammad Al-Hiwailah. Timmimi, Saif Al-Azmi, Jamal Al-Omar, Saleh Bangkok, London and Malaysia. Zamel called upon Committee on Economic and Financial Ashour and Humoud Al-Hammdan. passengers to abide by the laws of the countries Affairs were assigned to MPs Mohammad Al- Currently, the parliament is comprised of 18 they are traveling to and stay away from restricted Jabri, Faisal Al-Kandari, Faisal Al-Shayah, Rakan such committees, 11 of which are permanent areas. Al-Nissef, Dr Humoud Al-Hamdan, Dr Yousef and 8 are temporary. No committee may have Zalzalah and Safaa Al-Hashim. more than 9 members at any given time. Employees on leave Committee on Legislative and Legal Affairs Committee members are elected at the start of KUWAIT: A majority of employees at the Ministers’ were designated to MPs Dr Masouma Al- each parliamentary session, for one year terms. ‘Won’t Let You Go’ Comples have taken leaves during the last 10 days Mubarak, Yagoub Al-Sania, Mubarak Al-Herais, MPs may run for as many parliamentary com- of Ramadan in order to observe rituals of the holy Majid Al-Mutairi, Dr Abdulkarim Al-Kandari, mittees as they wish. There are no limits as to month. A notable decline in the number of staff has Faisal Al-Diwaisan and Abdulrahman Al-Jiran. the number of times an MP may serve on any campaign launched affected the quality of work. This was reported by a MPs Dr Mohammad Hadi Al-Hewailah, given committee. —KUNA local daily yesterday after trips to offices of the KUWAIT: In an effort to raise hope, aware- lies pre, during, and post diagnosis, was finance, social affairs and Islamic affairs ministries ness and funds for the treatment of cancer, shot in the United States with world during work hours, while similar trips at the docu- talented Feras Abushaar has launched the renowned director Roman White. In addi- mentation department at the Justice Ministry Real estate sales reach “Won’t Let You Go” campaign at the tion, a commercial starring a local cast of revealed a lot of pressure because of the large num- Avenues on July 31 in collaboration with young successful individuals was also ber of people seeking to finalize necessary transac- youth from the media, art, sport and social recorded and released on July 31 on TVs. tions. Reporters spoke to several employees during $1.1 billion in June media in Kuwait. The commercial encourages social responsi- the visit including Khalid Al-Azmi from the Ministry The opening ceremony was held in the bility and unity and demonstrates that what of Social Affairs and Labor, who explained that KUWAIT: Real estate sales in the month of June A relatively sizeable drop in the total number presence of some VIPs and local media in brought the talented cast together was working during the last ten days of Ramadan could in Kuwait increased by 27 per cent year-on-year, of transactions in the first half was mostly offset addition to representatives from charitable their desire and willingness to make a differ- be seen as an ‘exception’ as people usually perform to reach KD339 million ($1.18 billion).. Real by an increase in the average transaction size for foundations and the “Won’t qiyam prayers at night following a long day of fast- estate sales in the month of June in Kuwait both homes and plots of land (which make up Let You Go” ambassadors. ing. “That is why the quality of work at government increased by 27 per cent year-on-year, to reach most of the transactions in the segment). Feras, a brilliant teenager offices drops to its lowest levels, while a notable KD339 million ($1.18 billion), a report said. The The investment sector saw KD124 million in who was deeply touched by number of employees take leave during these days,” solid growth in sales was across the three major sales in June, a 9 per cent y/y increase. This a person very dear to him he said. He also refuted the notion that this behav- segments of the market, added the latest makes the total sales for 1H2013 amount to that has been diagnosed ior could be considered negligence on employees’ Economic Update from the National Bank of KD655 million, a 5 per cent decline from H1 with breast cancer began to part. Azmi’s coworker, identified in the report as Kuwait (NBK). 2012. Although the sector saw an increase in the plan for the initiation of a ‘Um Saud’, also noted that the percentage of staff Overall, the first half of the year closed on an total number of transactions, the drop in sales campaign that would spread members taking leave during the last ten days of almost equal footing with the same period of was due to a smaller average transaction size. awareness amongst youth Ramadan exceeds 60 percent, pointing out at the last year, registering a 3 per cent year-on-year This was because the current year saw a sub- about cancer however; same time that many of these workers are already (y/y) increase. The increase in the first half (H1) of stantial increase in the number of apartments through something very dif- on their annual leaves. 2013 came on the back of an exceptionally sold, while the number of whole buildings sold ferent, through music and strong-performing commercial sector; by con- declined. pop culture. MoI to release pardoned convicts trast, both the residential and investment sec- June sales in the commercial sector reached Taking an artistic KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) announced tors were slightly down compared to H1 2012. KD 48 million, a huge 9-fold increase y/y. Such approach, Feras composed and wrote a ence - the Won’t Let You Go wristband. yesterday the release of seven convicts pardoned Nonetheless, the level of real estate transactions large monthly movements are somewhat com- song titled Won’t Let You Go, which first This wristband allows its owner to con- by His Highness the Amir after completing all legal in Kuwait overall seems to be in good shape, the mon in the sector, though commercial sales premiered in October in a morning radio firm to society that they have joined a com- and administrative regulations in coordination with report said. Sales in the residential sector totaled have had solid results in the first half of the year. show. Feras later launched Won’t Let You Go munity fighting to save lives, but not only is the District Attorney’s Office and other concerned KD166 million in June, up 12 per cent y/y. Similar Total sales for the segment reached KD216 on iTunes, Amazon, and other websites wearing a form of spreading awareness, sectors. The Ministry statement added that the to May, the increase came about due to rising million in the first 6 months of 2013, compared such as EMusic, etc. before releasing the rather ALL proceeds from sales will be release of those convicts, (six men and one average transaction size, while the total number to just KD 102 million in the same period in lyric video of the song, featuring two case donated directly to our respective organiza- woman), comes in implementation to His Highness of transactions was down y/y in June. 2012. The sector has seen some resurgence this cancer patients, internationally on VEVO tions for the treatment of cancer patients the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Residential sales reached KD 904 million in year, backed by some involvement by the and Youtube on December 18, 2012. who cannot afford it. The wristband also Sabah’s special pardon for those accused of offend- H1 2013, down a small 3 per cent compared to Kuwait Investment Authority to inject liquidity Most recently, an official awareness comes with an illustrated info graphic with ing the Amir. H1 2012. into the commercial market. music video, which cinematically depicts interesting facts, figures and preventative the lives of cancer patients and their fami- measures about cancer. LOCAL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

Omniyati hosts a girgian in Regency hotel

KUWAIT: Omniyati girgian was hosted in Regency Hotel. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

30) The one who married Um Kalthum the Prophets daughter was...

a) Usman

b) Abu Bakr

c) Umar LOCAL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 Missoni Hotel hosts ghabqa Mushroom Kebab with Chicken

2 chicken tights, chopped 1 onion, chopped 1 tbsp oil 1/2 lb (200-250 gr) mushroom, sliced KUWAIT: Missoni Hotel hosted a Ramadan ghabqa for the media last week. —Photos by Joseph Shagra 3/4 cup tomatoes, diced 1/2 cup green pepper, chopped 1/2 cup mozzarella/cheddar/parmesan, shredded 1/4 tsp oregano 1/4 tsp basil 1/2 tsp ginger 1/2 paprika 1 tbsp salt

In a pot, place the oil, onion and green peppers and saute for 2-3 minutes. Then add the chopped chicken, cook for 5 minutes on medium heat, stirring occasionally. Then, add the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes until they become soft. Add the tomatoes and salt. Over medi- um heat, cook until the chicken and mushrooms are cooked. Add the spices, mix and transfer to a Pyrex dish. Finally, spread the shredded mozzarella/cheddar/parme- san on the surface and cook for 5-6 minutes in a preheat- ed 350 F (175 C) oven. Shrimp Scampi Raad Afyouni creates the longest sushi table in Kuwait with Butter Sauce

1 lb large fresh shrimp 3 large cloves garlic, minced 2 Tbsp olive oil 3-4 Tbsp unsalted butter 1/4 tsp dried crushed red pepper (optional) 1-2 Tbsp chopped fresh or dried parsley Black pepper Salt to taste

Peel and devein the shrimp. In a large skillet, saute minced garlic in hot olive oil for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the butter and stir until it melts. Add the shrimp and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in salt and red pepper. Reduce heat and simmer for 4-5 minutes or until the shrimp turns pink. Sprinkle with the fresh parsley and serve hot over your choice of rice or pasta.

KUWAIT: Raad Afyouni, the leading advertising agency in Kuwait held its annual Ghabqa for its staff and their families, where creativity and uniqueness created the longest Sushi table in Kuwait at Sakura Japanese restaurant, on July 30. On this occasion, Housam Afyouni, CEO, Raad Afyouni said that “creativity is not only about being against the trend in business, but also about thinking of multiple perceptions for the events we live and organize, as well as exceeding the limits imposed on our choices. As a result, today we have this unique occa- sion and the longest Sushi table in Kuwait”. During the event, a number of competitions and entertainment activ- ities were organized, where many attendees won valuable prizes. It is worthy to mention that this annual event aims to strengthen the relation- ships between the staff members outside the working environment. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 LOCAL

In my view kuwait digest Where do A new factor we stand? of division By Ahmad Al-Sarraf

By Ramzy Baroud ember of the annulled parliament Abdulhameed Dashti has called for the easons come and go, yet Arab countries are in Mestablishment of a Higher Shiite Council. He ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring’, asked academics and specialists to prepare the rules Sbut even if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the of the secretariat general of the council, until schol- shape and form that the media portrayed it to be, it ars, former ministers and MPs as well as Shiite families never really lasted. It has now morphed into something select their representatives according to a unified far more complex. But it is not an ‘Islamic winter’ either, stand. He said it is time for Shiites to get all their con- a foreboding term favoured by Israeli policymakers and stitutional rights. And that the Shiite slogan was analysts. The Islamic dimension of Arab rebellions - always “we will never succumb!” some of which turned into bloody civil and regional Regardless of the way he proposed to establish the wars - should have been palpable from the very start to council and the mystery that shrouds it, it is difficult anyone who cares to understand political reality to think of it out of the personal interest of the person beyond its usefulness as a propaganda tool. who thought about it in the absence of any clear Islam has and will always be a component in shaping mechanism of the way such a sectarian council is collective cognisance of Arab nations. Political Islam chosen, especially that those with political and finan- moved to the heart of the ongoing strife and was a cial influence or those who are deep into their sectari- manifestation of a century-long struggle where Islam an extremism will have the say in running the affairs was a platform of political expression, governance and of such a council. Based on what we saw in the form jurisprudence that has fought against many imported of sectarian, tribal and family polarizations during the and Western-styled trends. elections, which is expected to be more extreme in Throughout the years, there has not been one suc- the future, we are not in need of creating another cessful union between Islam and Arab ruling classes - sectarian polarization that becomes a new factor of successful in the sense that it contributed to progress, division! rights, and prosperity for all. Islamists were either co- It is also difficult to imagine the agreement of the opted or conflict reigned. The atrociousness of the parties he mentioned, especially families’ representa- results of these conflicts varied depending on how kuwait digest tives over a unified form, or who will decide the num- clever Arab rulers were in their management. ber of participating families, bearing in mind that In Jordan, low-level discord has always existed such a council, if established, will have a dangerous between Islamic opposition parties and the ruling class. Between hope and history role in selecting who wins or loses in any future par- It teetered between partial inclusion of Islamic forces in liamentary or municipal elections. Those in control of the council will seek to impose their candidates for a parliament that operated with little authority and By Hassan Barari occasional spats and political crises of little conse- the government, and all this will lead to increasing quence. However, not all failed experiments came at a inally US Secretary of State John to risk a political crisis within his cabi- sectarian tensions and extremism, and the increase of relatively low cost. In Algeria, an attempt at harmonisa- Kerry has succeeded in initiating net over the Palestinian problem. For certain individuals’ control over decisions, minds and It would be a mir- behavior of the majority and forcing them to vote for tion went terribly wrong. The 1991 Algerian civil war Fa new round of talks between many of his partners in the govern- persons who may not be better than others, but only lasted for over a decade and resulted in the death of up Israel and Palestine. As a matter of ment, the Palestinian problem has to acle, therefore, if because the higher council wanted it! to 200,000 people. Things were not meant to be so fact, were it not for Kerry’s relentless take a backseat to the perceived We saw in similar tribal experiences how tribal bloody, as it had begun with something rather promis- efforts, it would not have been possi- Netanyahu agrees threat emanating from Iran’s nuclear choices or the cultural society were not leading to ing - an election. ble for the Israelis and the Palestinians ambitions. It would be a miracle, select the best - rather it was to pick those who are The ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) cancelled to keep their differences at bay and to to offer conces- therefore, if Netanyahu agrees to offer close to their ideas! As for the issue that Shiites are in elections after the first round, fearing what seemed like resume talks. concessions on these burning issues. sions on these need of a higher council to restore “all their constitu- an assured loss at the hands of the Islamic Salvation It seems that Kerry is confident Indeed, the peace process was not an tional rights”, it is something strange. If Shiite rights Front (FIS). The move turned into Algeria’s second that his efforts will pay off this time burning issues. issue during the last Israeli elections, are not complete, then why did he keep silent - as he worst nightmare, the first being its even bloodier strug- around. According to him, the Israeli although peace and security are two and Palestinian sides will meet again important issues for the Israelis. is a lawyer - towards completing them, especially that gle for liberation from colonial France. All ingredients Indeed, the peace and their goal will be to work out a Having said that, however, the he reached parliament twice and we did not hear were in place for a complete disaster. There was a comprehensive peace agreement process was not an Palestinian political scene also does about anything to restore the missing rights? strong army running the country through a deeply within nine months that will lead to not present a very nice picture. The As for his claim that the Shiite slogan is “we will enriched ruling party, an emboldened political opposi- issue during the an independent Palestinian state. It is Palestinian society has never been never succumb”, it is also strange and leads to hated tion that was about to achieve political power using the as if the United States has assumed last Israeli elec- more fragmented. The irony is that sectarian escalation. Does he mean “we will never ballot box, and a thoroughly frustrated public eager to the responsibility for chalking out a even Abbas is having a hard time succumb” does not apply to others, and that their slo- move beyond the tired slogans and economic disen- full-fledged peace treaty between tions, although appointing a prime minister. Will there gan is “welcome, welcome, surrender”? Suppose that franchisement. Israel and the Palestinian Authority be any credible player in Palestine or what he said is true, so does this make Shiites better Additionally, a radicalised generation of youth exist- (PA). However one may ask: Is Kerry peace and security among the Arabs who can support than others? Are we not all generally equal citizens in ed as they had serious doubts about the sincerity of the aware of the conditions that can help are two important Abbas in case the latter offers conces- a backward society? And are the attributes of one ruling class in the first place. The cancelling of the elec- the two sides reach a historical recon- sion to the Israelis? Hardly! group better than others? What did their not accept- tions was the final straw, and bloodletting seemed as ciliation? issues for the Savvy as he may be, Kerry has ing succumbing do to them, and did it have an influ- though it were the only common denominator. Even Kerry’s enthusiasm is far from real- missed a very important prerequisite ence on our rank as 38th in the world as far as stan- now, Algeria is still trapped by the consequences of istic. First, given the turmoil in the Israelis. Having for peacemaking in the Middle East. dard of living is concerned? So, for this and other rea- that very conflict as it sits at a political standstill with- Middle East, it seems that the last said that, however, History tells us that the American sons, we hope the elders of the country bury the idea out much of a roadmap to anywhere. thing the US should seek is another administrations could only manage to of creating a higher Shiite council in its infancy, Despite one’s insistence to evade generalizations, failure in the conflict between Israel the Palestinian create the conditions for the initiation because we are not in need of more polarizations and knowing how some media tend to lump all Arabs and and Palestine. Above all, the mere ini- of a peace process. And yet this is hard- fights. - Al-Qabas Muslims into one convenient discourse, the similarities tiation of conflict resolution will not political scene also ly sufficient. For peace to materialize, between the Algerian and Egyptian experiences are put the American administration in a does not present a there are some concessions that only simply uncanny. On Jan 25, 2011, Egyptians revolted better position to contend with the the parties to the conflict can make. I with the hope that they could finally break the choke- repercussions of the Arab uprisings. very nice picture. believe that the only way to iron out kuwait digest hold of the ruling elites: The National Democratic Party, Adding salt to the wounds, Israeli differences between Israel and the with its adjoining business class and the army, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Palestinian Palestinian Authority is through serious Democracy operates its own massive economy within the larger, and Palestinian President Mahmoud talks. For this reason, Kerry should have haggard, Egyptian economy. Abbas have entered the new round of society has never focused more on conditions that can But by extension, the revolution could have targeted negotiations with different objectives been more frag- make peace within reach. This would on paper the larger regional and international conglomerate that and calculations. If anything, Abbas have entailed a US interference in aided and abetted the Hosni Mubarak regime and his seeks an agreement on all issues mented. Israeli politics to produce a peace coali- By Abdullatif Al-Duaij massively corrupt power apparatus. Indeed, without an including Jerusalem and refugees. tion in power. This is exactly what the t appears that the Cabinet in Kuwait is destined to elaborate benefactors’ network, the United States being Short of extracting Israeli concessions Netanyahu cannot agree to the US needs to understand. Otherwise, always contain a majority of ruling family members, in the lead, Mubarak would have never managed to on these burning issues, Abbas would Palestinians’ minimum demands and the US administration will continue and to have ‘sheikhs’ control the so-called ‘sovereign not be able to justify any future agree- beating around the bush. This exercise I sustain his reign for over three decades. Egyptians how- survive politically at the same time. ministries’. Not only does this control reflect autocratic ever barely had the time or the resources to develop ment and thus he may lose power in Netanyahu’s obsession with the reminds us the old adage: “You can’t desires, but also a lack of trust in the people either out much of a foreign policy agenda, as their revolution the process. On the other hand, Iranian nuclear program pushes him teach an old dog new tricks.” of the belief that they are not qualified for the job or faced too many obstacles and decided attempts at sab- fear that they might eventually threaten the ruling otage. family’s interests. On one hand the army was still in charge, although it The ruling family’s interests are safe and protected branded itself as if it were the guardian of the nation kuwait digest and its revolution by using the same old corrupt media. On the other, there was never a cohesive structure that I am still against certain would allow Egyptians to translate their collective aspi- Incomparable examples ration into anything tangible. The only available forum demands made by some was that of elections and referendums, and Islamic par- By Waleed Al-Rujaib political groups including ties squarely and democratically won every single one. Fair and transparent elections maybe, but their results n his latest attempt to prove that journalists, and used violence against testors’ demands. Furthermore, she calls for ‘partnership’ with the allowed the Mubarak regime to resurface. the middle class is leading a pub- protestors who were accused of met with 4,000 municipality heads Using its never dismantled infrastructure, notwith- Ilic revolution dubbed worldwide ‘extremism’ and ‘terrorism’. and gave 3.5 billion rials to improve ruling family in the political standing a most corrupt media owned by powerful as the ‘Global Spring’, American politi- Meanwhile, thousands in Brazil health and educational services in decision-making process. businessmen, and with the army playing a dubious role, cal scientist Francis Fukuyama tries to took to the streets after the govern- their cities. She also called upon the the old regime managed to turn the revolution against convince us that the situation in ment increased public transportation ruling Workers’ Party to side with the itself. It cleverly sold the June 30, 2013 protests as if Brazil is a revolution led by the mid- fairs, and also to express protest people’s legitimate demands. as long as they are in line with the public interest and they were a call to correct the wrong path taken after dle class against the leftist rule. against staging the 2014 World Cup In the meantime, the communist deal with the public’s affairs and concerns. But devel- the Jan 25, 2011 revolt. In a strange turn of events, mil- Furthermore, he mentioned similari- and the 2016 Olympics on the party in Brazil which had taken part opment is the dominant feature today, and progress is in the protests released a statement lions of those who protested against Mubarak were ties in his writings between these grounds that investments in interna- imminent. Both circumstances and requirements of the in which they recognized the positive back protesting against democratically-elected events and those in Turkey on the tional sporting events are unneces- current era demand that authorities return to the peo- grounds that both countries provide sary spending ventures that take impact that hosting international ple and meet their demands. Mohamed Morsi, allying with the very political forces sporting events is going to have on examples for economic success. from spending on the main resources I am still against certain demands made by some that wrecked the country for many years, calling on the the country. In addition to improving same army, and siding with the ‘baltajiya’ - thugs who However, I believe that the compari- that Brazil needs. political groups including calls for ‘partnership’ with son was unfortunate and merely an infrastructure and basic services as terrorised protesters merely two and half years ago. Despite the fact that police sup- the ruling family in the political decision-making attempt to delude people into think- the protestors’ demand, the state- Egypt is now taking its first steps towards becoming process. The ‘public participation’ in power as often ing that the public movement in ment credited the competitions as another Algeria during the civil war. Do the coup lead- referred to is a given, and something that should have both countries share similar reasons The communist “an opportunity to show Brazil as an ers truly understand the repercussions of what they already been settled a long time ago. It is exactly simi- for their reaction, while ignoring the advancing country and seeker of lar to ‘democratic experience’ which already has have done? party in Brazil substantial differences found in each world peace”. And while the state- become a stable ruling system and irreversible human Tunisia, that small nation that inspired the world in country’s example. which had taken ment holds the government respon- choice. Half a century ago, Kuwaitis chose democracy Dec 2010, is not far behind in this sad saga. A recent In Turkey, a public revolution led sible for maintaining transparency, it as a system of ruling in which sovereignty resides in assassination, this time of nationalist politician by the largest labor unions in the part in the protests describes the investment strategic the people as the source of all powers that are regulat- Mohamed Brahmi, followed an earlier assassination of country as well as opposition politi- released a state- plan as “improves cities, public secu- ed through the constitution. another high profiled politician, Chokri Belaid. Tunisia cal parties, especially leftist ones rity, airports, and telecommunication Fifty years later, we still practice democracy on stands divided between those who want to topple the started in May against the plans of ment in which they infrastructure, in addition to creating paper, and some of us still hope and dream about the 3.6 million job opportunities”. The government, and those who insist on its democratic the Islamist, conservative govern- ruling family sharing “wealth and power”. In reality communist party also blamed some right to govern. Either way, there is no doubt that some ment to ‘destroy’ the civilized and his- recognized the posi- however, these people ignore the fact that they them- rightist groups of playing a role in suspect hands are trying to push Tunisia into an abyss torical character of Istanbul. These selves possess the wealth and power. Today, the wish tive impact that deviating the protests away from that is being marketed as Islamists vs secularists. plans include demolishing poor of taking part in power has become a dream after once their goals as a prelude to overthrow- Syria has been the bloodiest example by far. neighborhoods in order to set up being a reality that we were supposed to have moved hosting internation- ing the government in a similar fash- Although in the Syrian civil war, the stakes quickly on from. Today, participating in power has unfortu- malls, compounds and bridges that ion to coups that happened in recent became much higher, and along with the pertaining al sporting events is nately returned to being a demand after once being a serve the neo-liberal greed for profit. years in Honduras and Paraguay, and discussion, the war rapidly took on a dangerous sectari- reality. Today, we once again hope that the Information In other words, the protests are made similar to the right’s attempts in an conflict whose implications are felt near and far. In going to have on Ministry returns back to the people after it went back against the government’s approach Venezuela to topple the government some sad way, the Arab regimes are making gains. in siding with the wealthy capitalists the country. in cooperation with the American to the ruling family as part of their control over sover- Some are doing so through war, others through military at the expense of the working and imperialism. eign ministries. coups, and some are actively plotting in hopes of mak- poor classes. pressed the protests, Brazilian The events in Turkey and Brazil are A ‘Kuwaiti’ Cabinet is inevitable, be it elected as ing their move soon. As costly as it has been, one thing The ruling Islamic party used neo- President Dilma Rousseff announced incomparable despite Fukuyama’s some demand or appointed as the constitution stipu- is for sure, the old Middle East paradigm, of powerful liberal policies that depend on the since the beginning that the protes- attempts to convince people other- lates; be it nominated by the Cabinet or handpicked by elites backed by formidable allies, oppressing weak, dis- influx of foreign funds to continue tors’ demands were rightful. She also wise. His recent writings about the whoever HH the Amir assigns for the job. Not only missible peoples, is unlikely to be resurrected. There privatization plans and gradual ordered construction of 800 hospitals, middle class leading global revolu- because it is a natural result of progress, but also will be more blood, but a return to the past is surely a reduction of personal freedoms. It and presented 50 billion rials to start tions seem like disappointing acts of because it is what the Kuwaiti people have agreed thing of the past. prosecuted political activists and immediate reforms and meet the pro- service to global capitalism. - Al-Rai upon and is mentioned in the constitution. - Al-Qabas THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 Yemen ‘foils Qaeda plotí Indian govt under fire over handling of border attack to seize cities, oil port

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NAIROBI: Airport staff look at the debris after a fire damaged a terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobiesterday. y A massive fire shut down Nairobi’s international airport yesterday with flights diverted to regional cities as firefighters battled to put out the blaze in east Africa’s biggest transport hub. —AFP Huge fire guts Nairobi airport Airport reopens for domestic, cargo NAIROBI: A devastating fire shut sengers usually transit through JKIA enough, the army and some police down Nairobi’s international airport every day, Esipisu said. The airport came with empty buckets to manually for much of yesterday in a “major cri- serves as a regional hub for east put out the fire,” Amondi said. sis” that forced the cancellation or Africa, with many long-distance inter- “The international arrivals station diversion of scores of flights at east national flights landing there to con- has been completely destroyed, the Africa’s biggest transport hub. nect to countries across the region. roof has caved in and the floor is cov- The first international flights by Chunks of the roof of the interna- ered in debris and water.” The blaze Kenya’s national carrier will land early tional arrivals terminal had caved in. comes two days after aircraft were today in Nairobi, officials said, with Tens of thousands of passengers will delayed for several hours after the fail- immigration formalities and baggage be affected by the closure of the air- ure of a fuel hydrant needed for refu- processed through what is normally port, while regional airports have lim- elling the planes. It also comes 15 the domestic terminal as international ited capacity and will likely struggle to years to the day after attacks on the arrivals were gutted in the four-hour handle all the travellers unable to land US embassy in Nairobi and in Dar es blaze. in Nairobi. Around 250 flights take off Salaam in neighbouring Tanzania Cargo and domestic flights out of and land there every day, regional avi- killed 224 people. The United States Nairobi resumed early evening ation sources said, adding some six has ordered two dozen of its yestersday. It was not clear whether million passengers used the airport embassies closed in the Middle East other airlines would also land as early last year. The fire was reported to and some African countries because as today. The inferno, which started have begun at the immigration sec- of fears of an Al-Qaeda attack, but not before dawn, sent dramatic plumes of tion at arrivals, but the cause is not yet Kenya. black smoke billowing out of the main known, with police chief David There was no suggestion the arrivals terminal. Kimaiyo saying that investigations Nairobi fire was linked to any attack. But by 9:00 am (0600 GMT) fire- had begun. President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose fighters had succeeded in stemming No casualties have been reported, father Jomo Kenyatta-Kenya’s first the raging flames, despite being ham- but two people-an airport worker and president-the airport is named after, pered by a lack of water and equip- a passenger-were taken to hospital for visited the charred terminal along ment. “Everything is being done to smoke inhalation, Kenya Airways’ chief with his top security chiefs to assess resume normal operations,” said presi- Titus Naikuni said. the damage caused by the “huge dential spokesman Manoah Esipisu, The interior ministry was forced to inferno”, the interior ministry added. speaking to reporters outside the gut- issue public appeals for Nairobi’s Kenyatta later called the fire a ted arrivals hall of the Jomo Kenyatta notoriously congested traffic to give “tragic event”, and promised all efforts International Airport (JKIA), where way to trucks ferrying water to the air- would be made to resume normal flames had earlier lit up the pre-dawn port after firefighters tackling the operations “as soon as possible”. sky. blaze ran “dangerously low on water”. August is one of Kenya’s busiest International passengers were giv- Soldiers and police even came with months for tourism, a key industry for en priority to fly to Kenya’s second city buckets to help put out the inferno, the country, as foreign travellers fly in Mombasa to connect to onward said Sylvia Amondi, who was at the to see its wildlife and the white sand flights from there, while Nairobi’s airport to pick up a relative who had beaches on its Indian Ocean coast. domestic terminal was being pre- been due to arrive there. The airport offers direct connections pared to handle international flights “The airport fire brigade acted in to Europe, the Middle East, the Far starting Thursday. Some 16,000 pas- good time but the personnel wasn’t East and other African cities. — AFP Bahrain amends law to ban Manama protests

DUBAI: Bahrain’s King Hamad has those who take part. The monarch hours. But the demonstrations banned protests in Manama in an also amended a juvenile law to have been confined to Shiite vil- amendment to a law on public hold guardians responsible for “the lages surrounding Manama. King gatherings, ahead of a major oppo- social dangers facing minors taking Hamad this month decreed stiffer sition demonstration called for mid- part in demonstrations.” penalties for “terror acts” in the August, state news agency BNA Guardians will be given a warn- Shiite-majority country. reported. The monarch, whose ing the first time a juvenile is caught The authorities report a growing kingdom has been rocked by taking part in protests. If the act is number of shootings and bomb- Shiite-led protests since 2011, also repeated, the minor will undergo ings targeting police stations and toughened penalties against the vocational training or be sent to a patrols in Shiite villages outside guardians of minors caught taking social care centre, BNA reported. Manama, blaming “terrorists” for part in protests, BNA said late on The amendment stipulated stiffer the attacks. Tuesday. penalties against guardians who At least 80 people have been His decree modifies the law to will be jailed for a minimum of one killed in Bahrain since anti-regime “ban organising protests, rallies, year, fined, or both, it said. protests erupted two years ago, gatherings or sit-ins in Manama, Shiite demonstrators have kept according to the International with the exception of sit-ins outside up their protests against the ruling Federation for Human Rights. (offices of) international organisa- Sunni monarchy despite a 2011 Strategically located across the tions” in the capital held with writ- crackdown backed by Saudi-led Gulf from Shiite Iran, Bahrain is ten police authorisation, said BNA. Gulf troops, sparking repeated home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet Authorities have already decided clashes with security forces. and is an offshore financial and to ban the mid-August protest and Young protesters frequently take services centre for its oil-rich Arab threatened to severely punish to the streets during late-night neighbours in the Gulf.— AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Tunis press urges dialogue before time runs out

TUNIS: Tunisian newspapers said yester- expanded to save the country while today”. The march passed off peacefully. day the country’s Islamist rulers and their there is still time,” the paper said. Assembly speaker Mustapha Ben detractors must open a dialogue on end- Tunisia has been wracked by political Jaafar said the ANC’s work would be ing the political crisis gripping the North unrest since the July 25 murder of oppo- halted until the government and opposi- African state before it’s too late for nego- sition MP Mohamed Brahmi and tion opened negotiations to break the tiations. Tuesday’s protests marked the biggest deadlock “in the service of Tunisia”. Tens of thousands of people poured anti-government rally since the assassi- The stalemate showed no sign of onto the streets of Tunis overnight to nation. ending, however, with the opposition demand the government’s resignation, A police official estimated that 40,000 refusing to hold talks with the govern- as the crisis deepened with the suspen- people crowded the streets of Tunis, ment until it steps down and Ennahda sion of Tunisia’s elected National while opposition leaders put the turnout ruling out any dialogue conditional on Constituent Assembly (ANC). as high as 100,000-200,000. its ouster. “We must go from a showdown on Earlier on Tuesday, the ANC-a body Prime Minister Ali Larayedh has the squares and in the streets to a con- elected in 2011 to forge consensus on refused to quit, offering instead to frontation through arguments,” said La drafting a new constitution-was sus- broaden the coalition. Presse. pended. Since the ANC was elected in October Le Quotidien, a daily that is highly Brahmi’s murder, as well as that of 2011, political leaders have failed to critical of the Islamists, said “everyone is another opposition politician, Chokri hammer out a consensus on a new con- unanimous as to the seriousness of the Belaid, have been blamed on radical stitution following a revolution that situation” and urged the moderate Islamists, with the Ennahda-led cabinet ousted longtime president Zine el Islamic movement Ennahda which heads criticised for not doing enough to pre- Abidine Ben Ali. And the suspension of a ruling coalition to make real conces- vent them. the assembly’s work throws into ques- TUNIS: A woman demonstrates against Tunisia’s Islamist-led government, sions. Protesters carried pictures of both tion Larayedh’s target of the ANC adopt- Tuesday in Tunis. The assassination of leading leftist politician Mohammed “The hour of compromise has come Belaid and Brahmi and shouted slogans ing a new constitution and electoral law Brahmi on July 25, the second opposition figure to be assassinated this year in and these concessions, which have been such as “The people want the regime to by October 23 ahead of a December 17 Tunisia, has plunged the country into a crisis with anti-government protests, the coming at a snail’s pace, must be fall” and “The government will end election. — AFP resignation of a cabinet minister, and a walkout by dozens of lawmakers. — AP Yemen ‘foils Qaeda plot’ to seize cities, oil port US drone kills seven jihadists

ADEN: Yemen said yesterday it had foiled an Al- been killed. tional alliance against terrorism,” the foreign Qaeda plot to storm a Western-run oil terminal, President Barack Obama hosted his Yemeni ministry in Sanaa said. Local authorities had as a US drone killed seven suspected jihadists in counterpart Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi for White “taken all necessary precautions to ensure the the country’s southeast. House talks on August 1 on their joint struggle safety and security of foreign missions,” it added. The Yemeni government’s announcement against the jihadists. According to media The Yemen-based AQAP has attempted sever- was the first indication of the nature of the Al- reports, the trigger for the embassy closures al attacks on the United States, including a failed Qaeda threat that prompted the mass closures came when US intelligence intercepted mes- bid to bring down a passenger plane by a man of US diplomatic missions in the region and far- sages between Zawahiri and Nasser al- wearing explosives in his underwear and anoth- ther afield from Sunday. The jihadist network’s Wuhayshi, the leader of AQAP. er to send bombs concealed in printer car- feared Yemeni affiliate plotted to assault the The New York Times said the electronic com- tridges. BAGHDAD: People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb explosion that hit a cafe in Canadian-run Mina al-Dhaba oil terminal on the munications revealed Zawahiri had ordered Washington has launched scores of drone the northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. A wave of Arabian Sea coast, and a nearby export facility bombings, mainly targeting markets in and near Baghdad, have killed scores, offi- for oil derivatives, and take hostage their staff, cials said on Tuesday, the latest in a surge of violence that has gripped Iraq. — AP including Western expatriates, a government spokesman said. They also plotted to seize control of the Iraq mired in deadlock Hadramawt provincial capital of Al-Mukalla, a port city of some 100,000 people, as well as the as violence worsens Ghayl Bawazeer area to its north where Al- Qaeda militants briefly declared an Islamic emi- BAGHDAD: A coordinated spate of bomb- government has largely failed to deliver on rate earlier this year, spokesman Rajeh Badi told ings across Baghdad capped Iraq’s bloodi- basic services such as electricity and clean AFP. The militant had planned to carry out their est Ramadan in years, with more than 800 water, and little in the way of landmark leg- raids disguised in military uniforms. people killed in spiralling violence that a islation has been passed since 2010 elec- “They would demonstrate pretending to be paralysed government has failed to stem. tions. guards demanding bonuses... and then storm Experts say things could get even worse, While the cabinet is ostensibly labelled the port,” he said. “If they were to fail in seizing as political deadlock with no end in sight one of national unity, comprising each of control of the facilities, the plan was to take for- feeds a worsening security situation in a the country’s main political blocs, rival eign experts away as hostages,” he added. The country only a few years removed from a political leaders often publicly criticise each attack was planned for the 27th day of Ramadan, sectarian war in which tens of thousands of other and trade barbs on a variety of issues. the fasting month for Muslims, which coincided people died. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is routinely with Monday, the second day of the mass clo- “If the Iraqi political parties get together, accused of agglomerating power, and he sure of US Middle East missions. The plot was and agree with each other, discuss things, retorts that his political opponents are in foiled around two days before it was due to be try to be flexible and reach decisions, I bed with foreign powers. launched, Badi said. Washington has closed 19 think it will be better,” Kurdish MP Mahmud Only symbolic gestures, such as a June 1 embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Othman said. “But if things stay as they are- meeting of political leaders, have taken Africa, citing intercepted communications parties not meeting, not making common place, and few tangible measures have among militants, reportedly including an attack decisions, everyone putting blame on oth- been taken to address the stand-off. order from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ers-then of course it will get worse.” Little respite is expected before elec- to the network’s Yemen affiliate. SANAA: A police trooper inspects a vehicle at the entrance of the Sanaa International Airport Of those two options, Othman said: “I tions due next year. “Political leaders are While the closures span cities across the Arab yesterday. The United States ordered Americans to leave Yemen “immediately” amid a world- think the second is likely. “I don’t see any the main ones responsible for the bad situ- world, the focus of concern has been Yemen, wide alert linked to electronic intercepts from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. — AFP real sign of will that they are ready to meet. ation because they are the ones who con- where American forces are fighting a drone war ... They are running away from responsibili- trol security,” said Ihsan al-Shammari, a against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP to carry out an attack as early as last strikes in Yemen, where the militant group ty. “The whole conflict is political, and at Baghdad-based political analyst. Both Washington and London pulled out Sunday. AQAP is seen as the global Islamist mili- thrives in vast, lawless areas largely outside the the same time it’s sectarian. And that feeds “They are also responsible for other parts diplomatic personnel from Sanaa on Tuesday cit- tant network’s most capable franchise following government’s control. Yemen has listed the into the security situation.” of life like corruption and unemployment.” ing intelligence reports of an imminent AQAP the decimation of Al-Qaeda’s core leadership in names of 25 Al-Qaeda suspects wanted in con- Ramadan in Iraq typically sees an Shammari warned that any improvement in attack. The latest US drone strike killed seven Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years. nection with an alleged plot to launch a major increase in violence because, analysts say, the political or security situation was “far off”, militants in Shabwa province, to the west of Yemeni authorities beefed up security in attack before Ramadan ends and the Eid al-Fitr militants see their attacks as having reli- and voiced worry that levels of violence Hadramawt, early yesterday, the second such Sanaa, where they feared the attack would be feast begins today. One of those on the list, gious justifications. But even with that in could in fact increase ahead of elections, attack in as many days, tribal sources said. launched. But they responded angrily to the Saleh al-Tays al-Waeli, was killed in a drone strike mind, the holy Muslim fasting month was which are due to be held in April 2014. “I The early-morning attack in the town of withdrawal of Western diplomats, saying they on Tuesday. Yemen has offered a five million rial especially bloody this year, with at least 816 think there will be an increase in the level of Nasab destroyed two vehicles, the sources said. recognised the safety fears but that the pullout reward ($23,000/17,300 euros) for information people killed according to an AFP tally. violence in the coming days or months, with Those who died were all AQAP militants. It was “serves the interests of the extremists”. that could lead to the arrest of any member of Attacks struck a wide variety of targets, the coming of the next election,” he said. The the fifth US drone strike in Yemen since July 28. Such a step “undermines the exceptional the group, the defence ministry’s news website mostly in Baghdad and north of the capital. elections are widely seen as the next major At least 24 suspected Al-Qaeda militants have cooperation between Yemen and the interna- 26sep.net reported. — AFP In the latest deadly attacks, a series of coor- opportunity when Iraq’s political deadlock dinated bombings struck across the capital can be shaken up, as changes to power on Tuesday evening as the city’s residents structures within and between parties could were getting ready to break the daily force alterations in how they interact. Until Ramadan fast, killing 31 people. then, however, violence is unlikely to abate, Four Israeli soldiers wounded Officials frequently point to the blood- analysts say, as at least seven more people shed in neighbouring Syria as sowing insta- were killed yesterday. “Things were very bad bility in Iraq, but a long-standing political before Ramadan, and the underlying factors in Lebanon incursion: Army stalemate is also widely blamed for allow- driving that violence have not changed as a ing militants to gain room on the ground to result of Ramadan,” said John Drake, an Iraq LABOUNEH: Four Israeli soldiers on patrol were Labouneh area at 00:24 local time,” or 2124 GMT four soldiers but did not specify the cause of the carry out attacks and promote their goals. analyst for risk consultancy AKE Group. wounded in a blast 400 metres (yards) inside on Tuesday, the army said in a statement. blast or say whether it was inside Lebanese or In addition to worsening security, the “That’s still there.” — AFP Lebanese territory yesterday, Lebanon’s army “An explosion took place and the soldiers Israeli territory. and a UN peacekeeper in the border region said. were wounded, with blood found at the scene. A The troops were “carrying out nocturnal activ- Israel’s army said earlier the four soldiers were military committee has opened an investigation ities in the Lebanese border area when the wounded in an explosion overnight near the in coordination with UNIFIL, “ the United Nations explosion occurred,” he said, adding that the Before-and-after pictures show Lebanese border, but did not specify on which Interim Force in Lebanon, it said. wounded had been hospitalised with “light to side of the UN-demarcated “Blue Line” border. A UNIFIL officer deployed in the area said the moderate” injuries. devastation in Syria’s Aleppo An AFP correspondent at the scene and a Israeli army unit, which was made up of 10 sol- An AFP correspondent said barbed wire Lebanese army officer said two separate explo- diers, withdrew after the explosion taking the marking the border had been cut, and two BEIRUT: The sharp outlines of houses are sis identified a near constant pace of sions had taken place, although there was no wounded with them, as troops on the Israeli side blasts had occurred in a pine forest several hun- reduced to a blur of rubble in “before-and- destruction to Aleppo’s infrastructure, early confirmation. of the border fired flares to light up their exit. dred metres (yards) into Lebanese territory. after” satellite images of Aleppo published including residential, religious, commercial, “An infantry patrol of the Israeli enemy pene- An Israeli army spokesman reported earlier “Two devices, whose nature we do not know, yesterday that show how civilians have and industrial facilities,” Amnesty said. The trated 400 metres (yards) inside Lebanon in the that an explosion along the border wounded the exploded,” a Lebanese army officer at the scene borne the brunt of Syria’s civil war. images also show widespread damage to told AFP. The Blue Line was drawn up in 2000 by Amnesty International, which posted the Aleppo’s old city, a UNESCO world heritage the UN after Israeli troops withdrew, ending a photographs of the northern city on its site, including the destruction of the minaret 22-year occupation of south Lebanon. website, says they show a campaign of indis- of the Great Mosque and damage to the The area is heavily mined and has seen sever- criminate air bombardment by government main Souq. Both sides in the 28-month-old al rounds of fighting between Israel and forces, razing entire areas and killing civil- war have ignored international law by fight- Lebanon’s Shiite militant movement Hezbollah. ians. “As the intensity of aerial bombard- ing in Aleppo’s historic sites. More than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu com- ments and other attacks has continued to 100,000 people have died in Syria’s civil war mented on the incident during a visit to the increase, the number of displaced Syrians and millions have been displaced. UN inves- south of Israel but gave no details. has also risen several times,” said Amnesty, tigators say Assad’s forces have carried out “Our soldiers defend us and our borders, which compiled the pictures in collabora- war crimes including unlawful killing, torture, which is what they were doing last night. We will tion with the American Association for the sexual violence, indiscriminate attacks and continue to react to defend Israel’s borders,” he Advancement of Science (AAAS). pillaging in what appears to be a state- was quoted by military radio as saying. “We’ll The pictures show the impact of ballistic directed policy. They say rebels have also continue to work to ensure the protection of our missiles fired by government forces in committed war crimes, including executions. country.” Israeli public radio said the four injured February on three neighbourhoods in A year ago, Amnesty released satellite soldiers were part of a special forces unit and Aleppo. Bird’s-eye-view photos taken before imagery of bomb craters in and around that army reinforcements were deployed to the the attack show densely built-up districts of Aleppo and warned of the grave risk to civil- border after the blast. apartment blocks. Images of the same view ians. “The risk cited one year ago regarding Israel’s arch-foe Hezbollah controls large after the attack show an area of destruction the devastating consequences of turning parts of south Lebanon. In 2006, it fought a several streets wide where dozens of build- what was Syria’s most populous city into a GHAJAR: In this Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 file photo, Lebanese soldiers guard the Lebanese side of bloody 33-day war against the Jewish state that ings have collapsed. battlefield has become reality,” said Donatella the border fence, as they look towards northern Israel, in the southern village of Labbouneh, a devastated much of the Shiite-majority south The three strikes killed more than 160 Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis day after the Israeli army withdrew from the entire south except for the village of Ghajar. An and parts of Beirut. The war killed some 1,200 residents and wounded hundreds, Amnesty response adviser, who investigates human explosion yesterday wounded Israeli soldiers who had crossed the border into Lebanon in a rare Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most said. “Over the study period, the AAAS analy- rights violations in Syria. —Reuters incident on the heavily guarded and volatile frontier, a Lebanese army statement said. — AP of them troops. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Italy accepts boat migrants after Malta refuses

VALLETTA: Italy has agreed to take in Mediterranean island nation in interna- Muscat has sparked controversy with government claimed that a patrolling equipped vessels operated by traffickers 102 migrants rescued from a leaking tional waters, was heading for Syracuse his hardline approach to boat migrants. Italian navy ship had ordered the to get to Italy and other parts of the dinghy after Malta refused to admit in Sicily. “This development came as the In July he said the government was con- Salamis to take the migrants to the near- European Union in recent years, many them despite EU pressure, the Maltese Italian authorities accepted to welcome sidering expelling them, insisting he had est available port, in this case in Libya, paying with their lives. government said yesterday. the migrants who are aboard the MV to “get the message across that Malta is but said the captain refused to obey the Malta had a record 880 arrivals in July The migrants, including a five-month- Salamis. It followed diplomatic contacts not a pushover”. order. Muscat said in a tweet Tuesday with some 1,200 in total having landed old baby and four pregnant women, between the Italian, Maltese and Greek The country refused to allow the 102 that the country meets its international on the island so far this year. Yesterday, were rescued from their badly damaged governments,” the government said. migrants aboard the Salamis to land obligations but “cannot be expected to Maltese police said 86 immigrants had inflatable boat on Monday by the It said Prime Minister Joseph Muscat despite a call from the European intervene in place of irresponsible boat been rescued overnight after their Liberian-flagged Salamis oil tanker 80 personally thanked Italian Prime Minister Commission to do so “as soon as possi- owners who defy rules for their commer- dinghy started taking in water, and kilometres (50 miles) off the Libyan Enrico Letta. “Malta’s position during this ble” to save lives. EU Home Affairs cial needs.” brought to Malta. The migrants consist- coast. crisis was always strong, consistent and Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem said The Salamis was heading to Malta ed of 65 men, 17 women and four chil- In a statement released overnight legitimate. Through this position, Malta it was Malta’s “humanitarian duty” and with a consignment of oil. Hundreds of dren who were dehydrated but did not Wednesday, Malta said the Salamis, sent a strong message,” Muscat was sending the ship back “would be con- thousands of migrants from Africa have need urgent medical attention, the which had been moored off the quoted as saying in the statement. trary to international law.” The Maltese braved the seas in dangerously ill- police said. — AFP Series of attacks kill 28 people across Pakistan No one has claimed responsibility for the attack KARACHI: A bomb blast that The motive for the attack late sengers, said Waheed. A paramilitary appeared to be targeting a provincial Monday night in Baluchistan province soldier trying to sneak into the area government minister killed 11 people was unclear since no one claimed was killed by the gunmen, said before dawn yesterday at a soccer responsibility. But suspicion may fall Waheed. field in southern Pakistan, the latest in on separatists who have been waging The attackers took 22 passengers a series of attacks that left 28 people a low-level insurgency in southwest with them, including nine tribal dead across the country, officials said. Baluchistan province. policemen, Waheed said, but they left The bomb planted next to the field The buses were headed to central the policemen a few kilometers in the city of Karachi was hidden in a Punjab province, and the separatists (miles) away because they were locals, motorcycle, said senior police official have a history of attacking Punjabis and continued on with the 13 Razaq Dharejo. The bomb went off whom they view as outsiders hostages. Police found the bodies near the vehicle of provincial minister encroaching on their independence. near the town of Machh, around 10 Javed Naghori, who was leaving after The province is also home to Islamic kilometers (6 miles) from the check- witnessing a late-night match militants who have carried out past point where the buses were stopped, said Nabi, the local administrator who works in Machh. Elsewhere, Taleban gunmen killed ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara (C, top) reviews an honor guard yesterday at the presidential palace three senior security officials in the in Abidjan during celebrations marking the 53nd anniversairy of the country’s independence from France. — AFP same northern area where the mili- tant group shot to death 10 foreign mountain climbers over a month ago. The security officials were Russia police ‘aided illegal migration’ ambushed in their vehicle at around MOSCOW: Three high-ranking offi- conditions amid blistering tempera- slave labour, largely from Vietnam, in 1:30 am on Tuesday morning in Gilgit- cers from Russia’s migration service tures. Police said that three officials underground production,” it added. The Baltistan’s Diamer district, said Ajmal and the police colluded with criminal who helped bring the migrants into announcement shows that the influx of Bhatti, the district’s deputy commis- gangs to bring illegal migrants to Russia have been sacked and could illegal migration into Moscow was sioner. They were attacked shortly Russia to work in “slave labour” condi- face criminal proceedings. The offi- made possible by high-level corruption after leaving Bhatti’s house, where tions, police said yesterday. The cials are the deputy head of the migra- within the Russian police force. The they had been holding a meeting. Russian police are currently imple- tion service in eastern Moscow and crackdown began last week after an The dead included an army menting a major crackdown on illegal two deputy police chiefs for Moscow attack on a police officer who was badly colonel, a captain and the district workers in sweatshop factories and districts. hurt at Moscow’s Matveyevsky market police chief, said Bhatti. Their vehicle markets in Moscow and have detained They were not named. Moscow while trying to detain a suspected sex plunged into a ravine after it was several thousand people for migration police said in a statement that its offi- offender. In the latest operation in the attacked, and authorities later recov- violations. cers had “betrayed the interests of the crackdown, Moscow police yesterday ered the bodies. Some 600 of those illegal migrants service and engaged in corrupt activi- arrested 1,000 people after inspecting KARACHI: Pakistani residents investigate damages of a vehicle caused by a Officials have been on high alert in arrested, largely from Vietnam, are ties”.Their involvement had come to the Sadovod market in southeast bomb explosion early morning in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday. A bomb Diamer since Taleban militants killed being housed in temporary camps light during an investigation into “mem- Moscow, the ITAR-TASS news agency blast that appeared to be targeting a provincial government minister the 10 foreign climbers in late June at ahead of deportation but rights bers of the criminal underground who said. Those detained have been taken to killed many people before dawn yesterday at a soccer field in southern a mountain base camp, said Bhatti. groups have condemned inhumane organise illegal immigration and use police stations for checks. — AFP Pakistan, the latest in a series of attacks that left tens dead across the They have been holding meetings at country, officials said. — AP unusual times and places, like Bhatti’s house, to avoid attack. between local teams in the Lyari attacks, especially on minority Shiite The same faction of the Pakistani neighborhood, said Dharejo. Naghori Muslims. Taleban that claimed responsibility for escaped unharmed. Paramilitary troops protect bus the attack on the mountain climbers, The blast killed 11 people and convoys moving through Baluchistan. Junudul Hafsa, also claimed responsi- wounded 24 others, said provincial But gunmen distracted the troops by bility for the latest shooting. A Information Minister Sharjeel Memon. shooting at an oil tanker, said Kashif spokesman for the group, Abdullah Many of the dead and wounded were Nabi, a local government administra- Ghazi, spoke to The Associated Press young boys standing near the soccer tor. Then, dozens of other gunmen by telephone from an undisclosed field when the bomb exploded. dressed in tribal police uniforms location, saying it was behind the No one has claimed responsibility stopped the convoy of five buses at a attack. A Pakistani security official said for the attack. Karachi is Pakistan’s security checkpoint about 6 kilome- the three men who were killed were largest city and has a long history of ters (4 miles) away after overpowering investigating the attack on the political, criminal and religious vio- the nine policemen who were sta- climbers. They were trying to convince lence. On Tuesday, police found the tioned there, said Abdul Waheed, locals to confirm some of the details bodies of 13 people who were pulled deputy commissioner of Bolan dis- of the attack and identify the militants off a convoy of buses in southwest trict, where the attack took place. involved, said the official, speaking on Baluchistan province, shot dead and The attackers surrounded the bus- condition of anonymity because he dumped in a ravine, officials said. A es, and two gunmen entered each was not authorized to talk to the paramilitary soldier was also killed. vehicle to check the identities of pas- media. — AP British MEP sparks outrage with ‘bongo land’ comments

LONDON: A British member of the European parliament billion pounds a month when we’re in this sort of debt to (MEP) has said London should not be sending aid to “bon- bongo bongo land is completely beyond me,” Bloom told a go bongo land”, raising questions about his anti-Europe meeting of supporters last month. The film emerged yes- UKIP party that is chipping away at support for the ruling terday. “To buy Ray-Ban sunglasses, apartments in Paris, Conservatives. UKIP, which stands for UK Independence Ferraris and all the rest of it that goes with most of the for- Party, wants Britain to quit the European Union. It is eign aid.” expected to do well in next year’s European elections, UKIP rejected calls by politicians from other parties to boosted by disaffected Conservatives who want tougher expel Bloom from the party. “We are asking Godfrey not to policies on Europe and immigration. use this phrase again as it might be considered disparag- In footage obtained by the Guardian newspaper, MEP ing by members from other countries. However foreign aid Godfrey Bloom, 63, can be heard arguing it was wrong for is an extremely important debate that needs wider discus- Britain to send aid to developing countries while strug- sion,” said party chairman Steve Crowther. gling with spending cuts. “How we can possibly be giving a Rushanara Ali, a member of parliament and the opposi- tion Labour Party’s spokeswoman on international devel- opment, was among many who expressed outrage over Bloom’s language. “It’s just offensive and the kind of thing that should have been consigned to the history books,” she said. Britain’s “first-past-the-post” voting system favours large, established parties like the Conservatives and Labour and makes it very hard for newer, smaller parties to gain seats. No UKIP candidate has been elected to the Westminster parliament. However, the party has won seats for 11 mem- bers in the European parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels. And UKIP has also received growing support in Britain’s local polls and by-elections, sometimes beating the Conservatives into third place. But the party has struggled to dispel a perception that it is full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, to use the words of Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron in 2006, when he was still in opposition. UKIP rejects that description, accusing Cameron of arro- gance and saying it speaks for ordinary, common-sense Britons. Bloom, who describes himself on Twitter as “urbane, witty, well informed and sensitive, even as he punches your lights out”, was thrown out of a session of the European parliament for directing a Nazi chant at a ELOY: Detained Mexican immigrant Maria Peniche, 22, German member in 2010. gestures as she explains what it has been like since her He stood by his “bongo bongo land” comments yester- detention, from inside the Eloy Detention Center in day. “I think I’m standing up for ordinary people at the pub, Eloy, Arizona, Monday. The Homeland Security the cricket club, the rugby club, the sort of people who Department took the highly unusual step of tentatively remain completely unrepresented under the political sys- approved asylum requests for nine Mexican immi- tem that we have,” he told BBC Radio 4. grants including Peniche, who left the US and attempt- “If I’ve offended anybody in bongo bongo land, I shall ed to re-enter as part of a protest against US deporta- write to the ambassador ... and apologise to him personal- tion policies. — AP ly.” — Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Vigil set for Canada boys strangled by python TORONTO: A shocked community in tion. The brothers had been visiting hole in the ceiling connected to the wasn’t the first time that the python staying over at the apartment. Canada planned a vigil yesterday for the apartment of a friend whose ventilation system. He said the snake had escaped its enclosure. Police Snake expert John Kendrick, a two small boys strangled by a 100- father owned an exotic pet store on made its way through the ventilation were not available to confirm that manager at the Reptile Store in pound (45-kilogram) python in their the floor below, Royal Canadian system, the pipe collapsed and the late Tuesday. Hamilton, Ontario, said it sounds like sleep. Investigators said they were Mounted Police Sgt. Alain Tremblay snake fell. Loyst said the boys had been play- the snake might have been spooked. waiting for the results of an autopsy said. Tremblay said the 4.3-meter (14- The friend of the boys was sleep- ing with other animals hours earlier, Pythons can sense heat, and if they on Noah Barthe, 4 and his brother foot) snake was being kept inside the ing in another room and was and he believes their scent might are startled they can grab some- Connor Barthe, 6, as well as a necrop- apartment, not inside the pet store unharmed. The pet store owner, have attracted the snake. Paul thing, Kendrick said. He said their sy on the snake before commenting as authorities had previously stated. Jean-Claude Savoie, told the Global Goulet, founder and co-owner of muscles run lengthwise through further on the cause of death. Steve Benteau, a spokesman for News television station that he didn’t Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo in Ottawa, their body, so they are not very sta- The snake apparently escaped the provincial Natural Resources hear a sound and discovered the said snakes don’t recognize humans ble unless they are holding on to from its enclosure, slithered through Department, said no permit was “horrific scene” when he went into as a source of food, but if the chil- something. It’s possible that the a ventilation system and fell through issued for an African rock python, his living room on Monday morning. dren smelled like animals, it could python was just holding on to what the ceiling into the room where the and provincial authorities weren’t Police said the snake was killed by explain an attack. it landed on, Kendrick said. “Once young boys were sleeping, authori- aware it was being kept at the apart- a veterinarian. It was sent for a “If a snake sees an animal moving, they are in constricting mode, any ties said Tuesday. ment. The department said the snake necropsy to confirm the type of giving off heat and smells like a goat, part of their body that is touching A snake expert said it was possible is generally only permitted in accred- snake and help understand what what is it? It’s a goat,” Goulet said. something that moves, they’ll wrap that the African rock python was ited zoos, unless there is a special may have caused it to attack. Reptile Family spokesman Dave Rose, the it,” he said. “I’ve seen snakes with two spooked and simply clung to what- permit. Tremblay said the snake was expert Bry Loyst, curator of the boys’ great-uncle, said the brothers different prey items at the same time, ever it landed on. Police are treating housed in a large glass enclosure Indian River Reptile Zoo in Ontario, had spent Monday at Savoie’s family one with the back of the body and the deaths in Campbellton, New that reached the ceiling of the apart- said police have been seeking his farm and played with llamas, goats, one with the front. It could have Brunswick, as a criminal investiga- ment and escaped through a small advice. He said police told him it horses and dogs and cats before been an incident like that.” —AP Cameron warns Spanish PM over Gibraltar spat Gibraltar accused Spain of creating border hold-ups LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday warned his Spanish counterpart that the escalating tit-for-tat over border tensions in Gibraltar risked dam- aging relations between their countries. Cameron and Mariano Rajoy discussed ways to calm the situa- tion in a call Britain described as “constructive” after the row had escalated further at the weekend when Spanish Foreign Minister ROSARIO: Picture released by Telam showing a woman waiting to be rescued fol- Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo lowing a powerful blast that ripped through a ten-story building, and destroyed threatened to impose steep bor- another next to it, in Argentina’s third largest city, Rosario, setting it ablaze and der tolls. leaving at least eight dead and 61 injured, according to the latest report. — AFP The British prime minister called Rajoy “to raise serious con- cerns about actions by the Explosion in Argentina Spanish at the border with Gibraltar and suggestions... that leaves at least 8 dead they may introduce further meas- ures,” a Downing Street spokes- ROSARIO: A powerful blast from a gas cue survivors via the roof of a neighbor- woman said. “The PM made clear leak ripped through a ten-story apart- ing supermarket. But civil defense direc- that our position on the sover- ment building in Argentina’s third largest tor Raul Reinone said that the magnitude eignty of Gibraltar and its sur- city Tuesday, leaving at least eight dead of the event may cause the building to rounding waters will not change. and 61 injured. collapse. “He also reiterated, as the PM City officials in Rosario said at least 15 “The shock wave was tremendous,” and Rajoy had previously agreed, MADRID: In this April 8, 2013 file photo, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, left, shake hands with people were still missing as hundreds of the superintendent of a building 200 that the issue should not damage British Prime Minister David Cameron before a meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid. British firefighters and rescuers searched the meters from the site of the explosion told our bilateral relations. However Prime Minister David Cameron says he has had a “constructive” phone conversation with Spanish rubble of the edifice that was in danger the TV station C5N. there was a real risk of this hap- premier Mariano Rajoy amid tensions over the British enclave of Gibraltar. — AP of collapse. “This is awesome, I’ve never seen any- pening unless the situation at the 1.2-kilometre frontier in either Rajoy described the “unilateral act and has provoked great concern “There are eight dead. The search in thing like this in Rosario. I remember the border improved. “Mr Rajoy direction, which would affect the of installing concrete blocks” in in Spain about the damage to the the rubble will continue all night,” Mayor images of the AMIA”, German Martinez, agreed that he did not want the thousands of people who make the Bay of Gibraltar as “unaccept- environment and the fishing Monica Fein told reporters. Four people 40, who is employed in a neighboring issue to become an obstacle in the trip every day. Spain ceded able”, his office said in a state- industry. Adding to the strains in earlier unaccounted for were found, office, told AFP, referring to the attack the bilateral relations and that we Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity ment about the conversation relations, Gibraltar police said medical sources told AFP, decreasing an that destroyed the Argentina Jewish cen- needed to find a way to de-esca- in 1713 but has long argued that with Cameron. they had arrested three Spaniards earlier tally of 19 missing. ter in Buenos Aires in 1994, with a death late the issue.” it should be returned to Spanish He called two-way dialogue on a fishing boat who were sus- The blast wiped away the front of the toll of 85 and 300 injured. Gibraltar has accused Spain of sovereignty. London says it will “framed in respect of internation- pected of tobacco smuggling. building, leaving the insides of people’s The blast sent flames roaring through deliberately creating border hold- not do so against the wishes of al, European and national law”. Three Gibraltarians were also homes and gutted balconies visible from the building as fire truck sirens sounded ups in retaliation for the tiny Gibraltarians-who are staunchly Britain and Spain are “partners, arrested on a nearby beach. The the street below. Rosario’s health min- and traffic clogged Rosario’s city center. British overseas territory dump- pro-British. The internally self- friends and allies”, Rajoy said, so arrests were “unrelated to any istry declared an emergency, calling all The area around the building includes ing concrete blocks in the sea to governing British overseas terri- any disputes would have to be fishing or nature protection legis- dispatchers into action. shops, schools and banks. Following the create an artificial reef. tory, measuring just 6.8 square handled with “honesty and trans- lation matters,” the police said, Mayor Fein said earlier 17 ambulances blast, people ran through the streets or Gibraltar says it wants to cre- kilometres (2.6 square miles), is parency”. The leaders agreed that dismissing any connection with were on the scene to help people injured gawked at the ruined structure, some of ate an ecological reef, but Madrid home to about 30,000 people. Garcia-Margallo and his British the dispute over fishing rights. in the fire. People within a two-kilometer them crying. Shards of shattered glass claims it is a deliberate bid to Gibraltar has a significant off- counterpart William Hague will It also emerged that Gibraltar (one-mile) radius of the explosion, littered the streets. Rosario is home to impede Spanish fishing vessels in shore banking sector and a take the dialogue forward. had received a message of sup- including 11 schools, were evacuated, as 1.1 million people and is located 300 the dispute over territorial waters. booming reputation as an online “In the meantime, Prime port from the government of the the gas supply to the building could not kilometers (180 miles) north of Buenos Then, during the last weekend gaming hub. Minister Rajoy committed to Falklands, the British-held islands be cut off. Aires. It is Argentina’s main port for farm in July, Spanish border forces The peninsula on the Spanish reducing measures at the border. in the South Atlantic which are Civil defense officers were able to res- exports. —AFP searched every vehicle entering south coast, dominated by the Both leaders agreed that there claimed by Argentina. The the peninsula, creating delays of giant limestone Rock of Gibraltar should be a solution to the fish- European Commission said up to six hours. Tensions rose fur- monolith, is strategically impor- ing dispute,” the British spokes- Tuesday it would send a team of Man who subdued Pennsylvania ther when Garcia-Margallo sug- tant as it overlooks the only woman said. monitors to the border to ensure gested Madrid could impose a entrance to the Mediterranean Madrid says the artificial reef controls were being applied “pro- gunman describes chaotic scene 50-euro ($66) charge to cross the Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. will destroy the fishing grounds portionately”. —AFP SAYLORSBURG: A day after a shooting room and shooting a supervisor and four that left three people dead in his rural residents, two of whom survived and were Pennsylvania community’s township build- released from the hospital, as was Newell. ing, a witness being hailed as a hero Newell then retreated to the car and Marathon bomb suspects described a chaotic scene that ended with picked up a revolver, authorities said. When him and another man wrestling the sus- he returned to the meeting room, the 5- pected gunman to the ground as others foot-10, 240-pound suspect was tackled by hid behind a barrier of overturned tables two men and shot in the leg during the met conspiracy theorist and chairs. scuffle, officials said. “He was saying: ‘They stole my land! “I wish I killed more of them!” Newell BOSTON: Boston Marathon bomb- Larking, said Larking shared publi- Larkings that started years ago became angrier and irrational. They stole my land!’ A bunch of curse shouted when state Trooper Nicolas De La ing suspects Tamerlan and cations with the brothers and dis- when the brothers’ mother began The lawyer’s account first words,” said Ross Township resident Mark Iglesia arrived on the scene, according to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev befriended a cussed theories including that the working as a personal care assistant emerged in a Wall Street Journal Kresh, 47. Though he and the township’s the trooper’s affidavit. Gerard J. Kozic, 53, brain-damaged anti-US govern- Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and for Larking’s wife, a quadriplegic article, which included Tamerlan parks and recreation director, Bernie Kozen, and James V. LaGuardia, 64, both of ment conspiracy theorist through the Newtown, Conn., elementary since birth. Tsarnaev’s former landlady talking tackled the suspect and forced him to the Saylorsburg, died at the scene and Ross their mother’s health care aide job school shooting didn’t happen or Rosenberg said Larking, who about publications that had been floor, Kresh deflected the praise given to Township zoning officer David Fleetwood, years before the deadly attack, a the US government was behind lives in West Newton, just west of in his Cambridge apartment. him by state police, saying he simply acted 62, died after being flown to a hospital. lawyer said Tuesday. them. Boston, was shot in the head in Landlady Joanna Herlihy told on instinct. Newell told police he had gone to the Attorney Jason Rosenberg, who The attorney said the Tsarnaev 1974 in an attempted robbery The Associated Press she salvaged “The only news I know is that three meeting in hopes of finding the township represents the family of Donald family had a relationship with the while working in a convenience publications after authorities had innocent people got killed and two others officials in one place. “He intended to shoot store. He said Larking suffered brain searched the apartment and items got hurt. I did what I needed to do to pro- the solicitor and supervisors and thought damage that led to problems with were discarded. She confirmed that tect my wife and other innocent people in that he would then be killed,” police said in his decision-making and judgment. among them were an Alabama- the room,” he said Tuesday. “We came out the affidavit. Authorities say the Tsarnaev based publication that uses a very lucky. We made it out alive. The story is Newell was about to fire his .44 brothers orchestrated the April 15 Confederate flag on its website and about the people who lost their lives. I’ll Magnum revolver when Kresh and Kozen marathon bombing, in which two a weekly publication that the get over it in a few days.” wrestled him to the ground. pressure cookers loaded with Southern Poverty Law Center calls Authorities said Rockne Newell, 59, a “Two very courageous individuals posi- shrapnel exploded near the finish anti-Semitic. disabled junk dealer feuding with local offi- tioned themselves in a way that they were line, killing three people and injur- Rosenberg said Tuesday he cials over his debris-strewn property, able to jump on this subject as he came ing more than 260 others. doesn’t think Larking helped the packed a rental car with guns and ammuni- through the door,” state police Lt. Col. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not Tsarnaev brothers, ethnic Chechens tion before opening fire at a town meeting George Bivens said. “This could have been guilty last month to charges includ- from Russia, formulate ideas but and killing three men Monday evening. much worse.” ing using a weapon of mass may have made them believe oth- He had lost his property this year in a Newell didn’t enter a plea at his arraign- destruction to kill. Tamerlan ers felt as they did. “(They) were court fight over complaints that he lived in ment on three homicide counts and two Tsarnaev died after a shootout with seeing someone who was a storage shed, built an illegal culvert and counts each of attempted homicide and police a few days after the bomb- Caucasian and was born in America used a bucket outside as a toilet. At his aggravated assault. He was given a form for ing. who was saying the same things,” arraignment on homicide charges Tuesday a public defender, but he did not request a Rosenberg said Tuesday the the attorney said. Rosenberg said morning, a judge asked Newell if he owned lawyer. A preliminary hearing was sched- Tsarnaev brothers got to know he doesn’t know if the Tsarnaev any real estate. uled for Aug. 19. “When I found out about Larking while substituting for their brothers understood how seriously “They stole it from me. That’s what start- the shooting, we all looked at each other mother sometimes by helping to Larking’s brain was affected from ed all this,” he replied. Newell allegedly and said his name,” said Terry Doll, 58, who MAKHACHKALA: In this April 25, 2013 photo, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, care for his wife. The attorney said the long-ago shooting. He said he’s used a Ruger Mini-14 rifle to blast a barrage lives near Newell and said he was well- right, mother Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and the brothers “helpful” and “kind” to talked to Larking since the Boston of gunfire through a wall into the meeting known as a “kook,” an intelligent man Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, speaks at a news conference beside the sus- the couple and Larking shared his Marathon bombing but doesn’t room in Ross Township, about 85 miles whose unpredictability stoked fear in some pects’ father Anzor Tsarnaev, left, in Makhachkala, capital city of views with them as he found anti- think his friend comprehends what north of Philadelphia, before entering the neighbors. — AP the southern Russian province of Dagestan. —AP US government websites and happened.—AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Brazil drug trafficking lair in Rio slum now a police base

RIO DE JANEIRO: The crumbling, bullet- patrolling the area under orders to pre- tion. But Ranulfo Brandao, a commander get practice, held trials and delivered ing, but Brandao insisted that the Red riddled house on top of a hill in northern pare for a permanent presence. Now, of the Duque de Caxias military police summary justice, pigs wallowed in piles Command “is already weakened.” Rio de Janeiro’s Mangueirinha slum was day and night, police patrol battalion, said the problems didn’t come of trash. Our goal, he added, is “to prevent until recently used as a “court” by Mangueirinha and three other area fave- solely from the drug gangs. “Yes, there Street dogs jumped up amid barefoot people from showing off their weapons Brazilian drug traffickers. las: Sapo, Santuario and Corte 8, seen as was a migration” of drug traffickers from children assembling colorful kites. A and to stop the racket of ‘funk’ dance This week, police turned it into one of among the city’s most dangerous. slums brought under police control, said toothless 60-year-old woman, with parties full of armed traffickers,” the their bases in this community of 25,000 They arrested 25 suspects in recent Brandao. “But not as large as people say. immaculate, painted nails and toes, police commander said. people located in the Baixada days. It’s a development residents, used There are also social delinquents.” pointed to a cardboard shack and said: “We also want garbage collectors, Fluminense district. to squalor and danger, cautiously wel- “We arrested 12-year-old kids with “This is my luxury apartment,” triggering electricity to reach here, to make it possi- Dozens of drug traffickers had taken comed. “What do I think of the police? It firearms. If they manage to reach the age guffaws from neighbors. ble to solve water and open sewage refuge in this impoverished corner of Rio can’t be worse than before,” said Paulino of 25 or 30, they will be lucky,” he added. Nearby dozens of police officers problems.” Many residents don’t even after fleeing southern slums where, since Dantas, a 60-year-old resident, as he “At this age, most of them are in jail or inspected the site for their new base. own a bucket and throw their trash 2008, authorities have been gradually tried to repair a rickety Volkswagen have been killed, including by their own.” Two portable chemical toilets set up in a through the windows. wresting back control ahead of next Beetle with black adhesive tape. It is crime born amid desperation, wasteland will soon be joined by a mov- “Life here is hard. We live with narco- year’s World Cup and the 2016 Rio sum- “Children could not go into the Brandao said. “These people have noth- ing container serving as an office. traffickers. What can we do? You have to mer Olympics. streets, and I could not either, without ing. They have lunch without knowing They took cover as shots were fired in keep your head down,” said Bruno de But starting in July, police began risking getting shot,” he added. Like what they will eat for dinner.” ‘You have their direction from the slums over Oliveira Palmeira, a jobless 19-year-old moving into Mangueirinha, too. And neighboring favelas, Mangueirinha was to keep your head down’. which they have a 360-degree view. who used to repair tires. “I would never Monday, a 180-strong detachment, controled by the feared Red Command, A few meters (yards) from the dilapi- Police conceded that they cannot have believed that police could get here. mainly from an elite battalion, began Brazil’s oldest drug trafficking organiza- dated house where drug gangs did tar- completely eradicate the drug traffick- Now I do.” — AFP Obama cancels meetings Deadly boardwalk crash with Putin amid tensions ‘horrible accident’: Lawyer LOS ANGELES: A Colorado man was left “profoundly depressed” after he drove his car into the weekend masses Obama confronts Russia on Snowden at the Venice Beach boardwalk, killing a woman and injur- LOS ANGELES: In a rare diplomatic view of the president and his national Group of 8 summit in Northern ing 16 people, said his lawyer, who called it “a horrible acci- snub, President Barack Obama is can- security team that a summit did not Ireland. dent.” celing plans to meet with Russian make sense in the current environ- Obama, who is traveling in “I don’t believe he intentionally tried to hit anybody,” President Vladimir Putin in Moscow ment,” Rhodes said. California, said in an interview said public defender Philip Dube, who is representing next month. Obama’s decision to scrap talks Tuesday that he was “disappointed” by Nathan Louis Campbell, 38. “He’s profoundly sad, he is pro- The decision reflects both US anger with Putin is likely to deepen the chill Russia’s move to grant Snowden asy- foundly depressed, that he has potentially ended some- over Russia’s harboring of National in the already frosty relationship lum for one year. But he said the move body’s life.” Security Agency leaker Edward between the two leaders. They have also reflected the “underlying chal- Campbell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to one count of Snowden and growing frustration frequently found themselves at odds lenges” the US faces in dealing with murder, 16 counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and 17 within the Obama administration over on pressing international issues, most Moscow. counts of hit-and-run. A felony complaint said Campbell what it sees as Moscow’s stubborn- recently in Syria, where the US accus- “There have been times where acted willfully, but it provided no explanation for why he ness on other key issues, including es Putin of helping President Bashar they slip back into Cold War thinking allegedly maneuvered around a vehicle barrier early missile defense and human rights. Assad fund a civil war. The US has also and a Cold War mentality,” Obama said Saturday evening and plowed into tourists and vendors on Obama will still attend the Group been a vocal critic of Russia’s crack- in an interview on NBC’s “The Tonight the popular walkway along the Pacific. of 20 economic summit in St down on Kremlin critics and recently Show.” Italian newlywed Alice Gruppioni, 32, who was on her Petersburg, Russia, but a top White sanctioned 18 Russians for human Snowden is accused of leaking honeymoon, was killed, and 16 others were injured. COLORADO: Nathan Louis Campbell, 38, a transient House official said the president had rights violations. highly secretive details about NSA Campbell appeared briefly in court, handcuffed in blue from Colorado, enters Los Angeles Superior Court surveillance programs. He first fled prison garb, with his graying hair disheveled. He sat with Tuesday. Campbell was charged with murder and from the US to Hong Kong, then made his hands folded in his lap and only said “I do” and “yes sir” assault for allegedly driving his car down Los Angeles’ his way to Russia. He was marooned in while responding to questions. Venice Beach boardwalk, killing an Italian tourist and the transit zone of a Moscow airport If convicted, he could face life in prison. Bail was set at injuring 16 other people, on Aug 3. — AP for more than a month before Russia $1.48 million. Talking to reporters outside the courthouse, He was sentenced to five days in jail after pleading guilty to granted him asylum last week. Dube said there was no indication that drugs or alcohol shoplifting at a Denver supermarket in February 2009. Five For Russia, the decision could be were involved, and he said he was unaware of any history months later, he was accused of trespassing at an outdoor used as cover to depict itself of a of mental illness with his client. mall in Denver and sentenced to 10 days in jail, but instead defender of human rights amid criti- “He is very fragile. He is very frail right now,” Dube said. served time in a sheriff’s work program, said Melissa cism from the US and other nations of Police said Campbell has been in California only a short Drazen-Smith, assistant director of prosecutions at the its tough crackdown on dissent. Even time, and it’s not clear what brought him to Venice Beach Denver city attorney’s office. as Obama scraps plans to meet with on the summer weekend. Only a sketchy picture of him has All of his infractions occurred in businesses along a Putin, Secretary of State John Kerry emerged. He has no fixed address and no state driver’s downtown walking mall, an area that is also a magnet for and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel license, and police have found no evidence he was working homeless people. She said Campbell is listed in one record are preparing for meetings in in the state. as being a temporary laborer. Washington on Friday with their Campbell has ties to Colorado, where he lived as recent- Earlier Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council called for Russian counterparts. Snowden’s sta- ly as last year. He was evicted from his apartment in Denver new street barriers to block vehicles from getting onto the tus is expected to be a main topic of for not paying $655 in rent in March 2012, records show. boardwalk. —AP conversation. The lower-level meetings with Russia underscore that the US cannot ENNISKILLEN: In this June 17, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama and completely sever ties with the Russian President Vladimir Putin get up to leave after their meeting in Kremlin. Russian transit routes are crit- Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. President Barack Obama said he was “disap- ical to the US as it removes troops and pointed” that Russia had granted temporary asylum to National Security equipment from Afghanistan. And Agency leaker Edward Snowden, defying administration demands that the for- despite deep differences over Syria’s mer government contractor be sent back to the US to face espionage charges. future, the White House knows it will no plans to hold one-on-one talks For its part, Moscow has accused almost certainly need some level of with Putin while there. Instead of vis- the US of installing a missile shield in Russian cooperation in order to oust iting Putin in Moscow, the president Eastern Europe as a deterrent against Assad. will add a stop in Sweden to his early Russia, despite American assurances Still, some congressional lawmak- September travel itinerary. that the shield is not aimed at its for- ers have called for Obama to not only White House deputy national secu- mer Cold War foe. Putin also signed a scrub the Moscow summit but also rity adviser Ben Rhodes said Russia’s law last year banning US adoptions of demand that Russia forfeit its right to decision last week to defy the US and Russian children, a move that was host the G-20 summit. Others have grant Snowden temporary asylum seen as retaliation for the US measure spoken of boycotting next year’s only exacerbated an already troubled that cleared the way for the human Winter Olympics in the Russian city of relationship. And with few signs that rights sanctions. Sochi. In his interview Tuesday, Obama progress would be made during the The US was expected to alert the defended his decision to attend the G- Moscow summit on other agenda Russians yesterday morning about 20 summit, an annual gathering of the items, Rhodes said the president Obama’s decision to shutter the world’s largest economies. Given the decided to cancel the talks. Moscow summit, though the two US role in an increasingly interdepend- “We’ll still work with Russia on presidents were not expected to ent global economy, Obama said it issues where we can find common speak directly. Obama and Putin last made sense to have high-level repre- ground, but it was the unanimous met in June on the sidelines of the sentation. —AP Fort Hood attack detailed as trial gets under way

FORT HOOD: The Army psychiatrist on cross-examination as prosecutors told The Associated Press in a recent charged with killing 13 people in the began to present a methodical, interview that he still has nightmares 2009 Fort Hood massacre likened him- detailed case. Staff Sgt. Alonzo about the attack, slowly got to his feet self to a soldier who switched sides in Lunsford, who was hit seven times, and pointed to each spot on his body what he described as a war between had waited for the moment he would where Hasan’s bullets had hit him. America and his Islamic faith. confront the man who killed 13 of his Lunsford talked about playing “The evidence will clearly show that colleagues in the deadliest attack on a dead, hoping that Hasan wouldn’t I am the shooter,” Maj. Nidal Hasan said US military installation. A showdown, attack him again, before deciding to in an opening statement Tuesday that however, never happened. flee when he realized he was perspir- lasted little more than a minute. The When the time came to testify ing. “When I’m laying there, I do a self- evidence, he added, would “only show Tuesday, Lunsford, one of the more assessment on myself, because I real- one side.” Hasan - the America-born, than 30 people wounded in the attack, ize that dead men don’t sweat,” 42-year-old defendant who is acting as was asked by prosecutors to show the Lunsford said. Hasan, who was para- his own attorney - raised few objec- 13 jurors where Hasan had shot him. lyzed after being shot by officers tions and asked almost no questions The tall, imposing retired soldier, who responding to the attack, looked for- ward impassively throughout the testi- mony. He didn’t ask Lunsford a single question in cross-examination. When Lunsford was excused from the stand, the two men did not appear to acknowledge each other as Lunsford walked past him and out of the courtroom. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premedi- tated murder, and faces the death penalty if convicted. Hasan wanted to plead guilty to murder and attempted murder, but military rules forbid guilty pleas in death penalty cases. During Tuesday’s testimony, he occasionally took notes on a legal pad. While two defense attorneys remain on stand-by, Hasan rarely turned to them for advice. No American soldier has been exe- cuted since 1961, and military prose- TEXAS: In this courtroom sketch, Staff Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, rear right, tes- cutors showed that they would take tifies in front of military prosecutor Lt. Col. Steve Henricks, center, with no chance of fumbling details that presiding judge Col. Tara Osborn looking on during the court-martial of could jeopardize any conviction down Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Tuesday, in Fort Hood, Texas. — AP the line.—AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Taiwan names military man as defense minister

TAIPEI: Taiwan yesterday named a mili- another source. counterattack from someone who failed The death of university graduate Now, after weeks of negative publici- tary man as its new defense minister, less President Ma Ying-jeou accepted to become minister.” Allegations about Hung Chung-chiu just days before his ty over the death’s grisly circumstances, than 24 hours after his civilian predeces- Yang’s resignation immediately. The Yang’s purported transgression were discharge infuriated many Taiwanese, the effort may have to be scaled down sor resigned just six days into his tenure. speed of his action prompted sugges- first bruited on the day of his appoint- who saw it as another in a long line of substantially. The appointment of career air force tions that senior military officials had ment, but Lo insisted they had been well military abuses. An estimated 200,000 Yang was the first civilian appointed officer Yen Ming to the position raises made Ma aware of their unhappiness known to ministry officials for years, protesters took to the streets of Taipei by Ma to the prestigious defense post. A questions about a possible power strug- over Yang’s appointment, ostensibly including the four-year period when on Saturday demanding far-reaching widely respected academic, he had gle over the defense minister’s job, because of his reformist credentials and Yang served as deputy defense minister. military reforms, including civilian con- been deputy defense minister since which has taken on added significance presumed inclination to threaten long- “Why did he have to become defense trol over important elements of the mili- 2009. following the death of a 24-year-old con- standing military prerogatives. minister before he was attacked and not tary justice system. His departure may yet come back to script in a military brig and growing Speaking to reporters early yester- when he was deputy defense minister?” Eighteen officers and noncommis- haunt the president politically, particu- Defense Ministry difficulties in transition- day, Defense Ministry spokesman Lo she asked. “After all, the allegations are sioned officers, including a general, have larly with his approval ratings already ing to an all-volunteer force. Hsiao-ho denied any suggestion of a not new.” been indicted in connection with the hovering in the high teens to low 20s. Yen, 64, replaces Andrew Yang, a power struggle within the ministry. But Yang, 58, took office last Thursday Hung case. The new defense minister’s Once praised for bravely lowering ten- respected academic, who announced his lawmaker Lo Shu-lei from Ma’s own after his predecessor resigned amid a first operational challenge will be to sions with China - the two sides split resignation late Tuesday after taking Nationalist Party charged that ministry furor over the death in early July of an implement the military’s ambitious pro- amid civil war in 1949 - Ma has recently responsibility for an article that a ghost officials had leaked the material on Yang army conscript forced to perform gruel- gram to transition to an all-volunteer run into trouble, highlighted by his poor writer prepared under his name in a as a way of forcing him to resign. ing exercises in searing heat while being force by 2015, which even before Hung’s economic stewardship, his repeated 2007 book on China’s People’s Liberation “The military is definitely behind the held in a military brig over a cellphone death had been falling far short of its administrative bungles and his per- Army that contained material lifted from resignation of Yang,” she said. “This is a violation. declared goals. ceived personal haughtiness. —AP Philippines urges charges in Taiwanese man’s death Homicide charges against eight Filipino coastguards

MANILA: Philippine investigators Aguila, who was found to have fired The Philippine coastguard said the Philippines agreed to joint said yesterday they had recom- the M14 rifle that killed the fisher- initially the fishing boat intruded investigations into the incident. mended homicide charges against man, are among those the report into its waters, and its personnel New details from the probe were eight Filipino coastguards for the recommends charges against. were forced to open fire when it revealed yesterday. fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisher- However since all eight coast- tried to ram their vessel. Rojas said a video filmed by one man in disputed waters. guards admitted to firing their But Filipino investigators said of the Philippine coastguards to The announcement follows guns, they would all face the same yesterday they could find no con- capture the alleged ramming inci- weeks of high tensions between charge under the principle that clusive evidence of this. The killing dent proved “inconclusive”. Taiwan and the Philippines, after they acted in “conspiracy”, Rojas has caused outrage in Taiwan, with “The video failed to prove the attempted ramming... the intent to ram is not clear,” he said. Rojas added that the coastguard rules of engagement only allow the use of firearms in self-defence or to BANGKOK: Former Prime Minister and opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva disable a vessel, not to cause death. waves during a protest march against an amnesty bill in Bangkok, Thailand, “There is no categorical proof yesterday. Thai lawmakers began debating a controversial bill that many that the fishing boat posed an people fear could pave the way for an ousted prime minister to return, as imminent or grave threat to the hundreds of defiant protesters gathered near the parliament in Thailand’s lives of those on board the capital despite a strict law invoked by the government. —AP Philippine patrol craft,” he said. A criminal complaint will now be lodged before the state prosecu- Thai lawmakers start tor’s office. Under Philippine law, the prosecutor will determine whether there is enough evidence debate on amnesty bill to take the case to court. If convicted, the eight could face BANGKOK: Thai lawmakers yesterday began enriched himself, and was not respectful 12 to 20 years in jail for homicide, debating a highly contentious bill to give enough of the country’s revered monarch, Rojas said. A spokesman for amnesty for political offenders, which threat- King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Taiwan’s de facto embassy in ens to revive the often violent social unrest His troubles began in 2006 when the mili- Manila said the home office would that plagued Thailand for years. tary ousted him after increasingly large issue a statement from Taipei later The government-sponsored bill proposes a demonstrations called for his ouster. In 2008, yesterday. blanket amnesty to all those charged with even though his allies had temporarily taken The Taiwanese boat was “well crimes related to Thailand’s various upheavals back control of government, he was sen- within the Philippines’ 200-kilome- since Sept. 19, 2006, the day a military coup tenced in absentia to two years in jail on a tre exclusive economic zone”, in ousted then Prime Minister Thaksin conflict of interest charge, which he would waters off the northern Philippine Shinawatra while he was on an overseas trip. have to serve if he returns. islands of Babuyan and Batanes, on Even though the bill excludes Thaksin - Also in 2008, Thaksin’s opponents, who the day of the shooting, said the Thailand’s most divisive figure in recent histo- called themselves the “yellow shirts,” occupied MANILA: Philippine Justice Department investigating chief Nonnatus Rojas holds up a folder NBI head. ry - it is bitterly opposed by the opposition, the prime minister’s offices for about three containing a report on the May 9 incident where Philippine coast guard men opened fire on a The coastguard was just doing who see it as an underhanded attempt to months and Bangkok’s two airports for a Taiwan fishing boat, resulting in the death of one fisherman in Manila, yesterday. —AFP its duty when it tried to stop the bring him back home without fear of being week. In 2010, about 90 people were killed fishing boat, said Rojas. Taipei offi- jailed for a 2008 conviction. Activists also when Thaksin’s supporters, the “red shirts,” coastguard chiefs in Manila initially told reporters. Nine other coast- President Ma Ying-jeou describing cials have previously said the boat oppose the bill, saying it would let human occupied part of downtown Bangkok for insisted the fishing vessel had tried guards who were on the same ves- it as “cold-blooded murder”. was within its jurisdiction when the rights abusers off the hook for their actions around two months before being swept away to ram the coastguard boat and sel, as well as three fisheries bureau His government had ordered a incident happened. while suppressing past public protests. by the army. their personnel had fired in self- personnel, will not be charged, he freeze on the hiring of Filipinos to Rojas also said that four of the Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra is now Although the government has a majority defence. added. The May 9 incident occurred work in Taiwan, issued a “red-alert” Philippine crew including dela Cruz the prime minister and the government is in the lower house, it is sensitive to the poten- “The NBI (National Bureau of in waters near a Philippine island warning tourists against travelling had tampered with a report on how packed with his loyalists. The opposition fears tial of social unrest if Thaksin gets an amnesty. Investigation) report recommends that Taiwan also claims as part of its to the Philippines and staged naval many bullets were fired and also that the bill, if passed, would give Yingluck an An earlier parliamentary effort that could have that criminal charges of homicide economic zone. drills near Philippine waters. spliced the crew member’s video opportunity to look for loopholes in the law to led to a pardon for Thaksin was derailed by be filed against these eight A 65-year-old Taiwanese fisher- Philippine President Benigno footage, leading the NBI to recom- facilitate her brother’s return. courts. Human rights advocates also say an Philippine Coast Guard personnel,” men was killed when the coast- Aquino repeatedly apologised and mend additional “obstruction of About 2,000 opposition Democrat Party amnesty would provide impunity for wrong- said NBI head Nonnatus Rojas. guards opened fire on the small sent an envoy to Taiwan, but these justice” charges against them. supporters gathered outside Parliament doers as it covers the 2010 period when the Commanding officer Arnold dela fishing vessel he was crewing with actions were rejected as insincere. These are punishable by as much as before the debate began yesterday, but didn’t bloody military crackdown ended the “red Cruz and seaman first class Edrano his son and two others. Following pressure from Taiwan, six years in jail. —AFP carry out their threat to break through a police shirt” protests. cordon around the building, easing fears of The prime minister at the time, Democrat violence. leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, is facing charges of Frenzied headlines in the local press for the murder in connection with the crackdown, Japan says battle to stop past week had been touting “rising tension” though his case has not yet reached the and the possibility of a “major clash.” To many, court. Cecile Pouilly, spokeswoman for the Thaksin was a savior of the poor who chal- Office of the UN High Commissioner for nuke plant leaks ‘urgent’ lenged Bangkok’s traditional ruling elite by Human Rights, said Tuesday in Geneva that consistently winning elections handsomely, the bill could pardon people involved in thanks to his populist policies. But his oppo- abuses during the 2010 crackdown on anti- TOKYO: Japan’s prime minister yesterday said ter had leaked outside the plant, confirming long- handle. “Stabilising the Fukushima plant is our chal- nents see him as a corrupt businessman who government protesters. —AP Tokyo would get more involved in the clean up at held suspicions of ocean contamination from its lenge,” Abe said at a meeting of the government’s the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, describing as shattered reactors. The leaks triggered fresh fears disaster task force. “In particular, the contaminated “urgent” an ongoing battle to stop radioactive over Fukushima’s precarious state and TEPCO’s abili- water is an urgent issue which has generated a water from leaking into the ocean. ty to deal with a growing list of problems after the great deal of public attention.” Chinese judges punished The government’s more prominent role comes plant was swamped by a tsunami in March 2011, Abe-whose Liberal Democratic Party wants to as critics slam plant operator Tokyo Electric Power sending reactors into meltdown. restart the country’s switched-off reactors if their in prostitution scandal and its handling of the more than two-year-old The company has also faced widespread criti- safety can be assured-said the clean up would no atomic crisis, the worst nuclear accident in a gener- cism over its lack of transparency in making critical longer be left to TEPCO alone, as he called for “swift BEIJING: Two top Shanghai judges and stripped of party membership while the ation. information public since the disaster. Yesterday, pre- and steady measures” on the toxic water issue. another court official caught on a videotape fourth court official was on probation, and The embattled utility-which has been kept mier Shinzo Abe said his government would beef Tokyo would now help foot the bill, Abe said, the apparently taking prostitutes to hotel rooms that it was requesting that the court dismiss afloat from a government bail out-admitted last up efforts to help with the expected decades-long first time that it has committed extra funds to deal after dining with a contractor have been all four employees. month for the first time that radioactive groundwa- clean up, which has largely been left to TEPCO to with the growing tainted water problem. stripped of Communist Party membership The party-run People’s Daily newspaper, The vast utility is already facing billions of dollars and will likely lose their jobs. commenting on the case yesterday, said it in clean-up and compensation costs over the acci- The case, exposed by a disgruntled was important for the image of judges to be dent. TEPCO had previously reported rising levels of defendant in a civil case, has aggravated untarnished. “The images of judges are not cancer-causing materials in groundwater samples public distrust of the court system and shed about themselves but also inherently relat- at Fukushima. But officials had long insisted they new light on continued wrongdoing by offi- ed to the credibility of the judicial system had halted toxic water from leaking beyond its bor- cials despite the Chinese leadership’s vow to and the public trust of law,” the editorial said. ders. In May, Tokyo ordered the company to build crack down on all corruption. Whistleblowers in China run the risk of new barriers around the reactors to contain tainted “They slept with prostitutes, but they retribution from powerful officials, and lead- water which is used to keep the reactors cool, a raped the law,” commentator Liu Xuesong ers are deeply wary of enlisting the public in measure that could cost up to 40 billion yen ($410 wrote in an editorial posted on the website the fight against corruption, preferring to million). of Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV and widely wage the campaign on their own terms. There are growing fears that existing safeguards circulated online Wednesday in mainland However, the man who leaked the hotel will soon be overwhelmed by the highly radioac- China. The hotel surveillance video, secretly videos - identified in state-run media reports tive water, as TEPCO scrambles to fine ways to store copied and released publicly by a man who only by his surname, Ni, has appeared to it. “The worsening leaks of contaminated water at went to the hotel claiming he needed to see face no repercussions from his actions so far. the Fukushima nuclear plant prove TEPCO is inca- the videotapes to recover lost property, trig- Ni has told state-run media outlets that pable of dealing with the disaster,” Greenpeace said gered an investigation by the Shanghai he set out to expose wrongdoings by one of in a statement Tuesday. Communist Party Committee. the judges, Shanghai Supreme Court Justice “Japan’s authorities must now step in and ensure The panel said late Tuesday that the Zhao Minghua, after getting what he action is finally taken to stop the leaks,” it added. three Shanghai Supreme Court officials “par- believed was unfair treatment in a court The country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ticipated in prostitution” after being invited case handled by other judges. has said it plans to pull together two dedicated to dinner. A fourth court official accepted Ni said he found out that Zhao was a teams to probe water contamination and its impact female companionship that evening but did cousin of the plaintiff in the case, a contract not take a woman to a room, the panel said. dispute in a building project, and he sus- OKUMA: This photo taken on August 6, 2013 shows local government officials and nuclear on the ocean’s ecosystem, which has largely remained a question mark. The statement did not clarify whether pected the judge had exerted influence on experts inspecting a construction site to prevent the seepage of contamination water into the the contractor paid for prostitutes, but party the courtroom outcome. Ni told state media sea, at Tokyo Electric Power’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima The agency has focused on conducting safety checks for the country’s other nuclear reactors, rules forbid both involvement in prostitu- he then spent a year stalking Zhao, and prefecture. Japan will accelerate efforts to prevent more radioactive groundwater from seep- which were switched off in the wake of the crisis. tion and accepting bribes. The committee found his opportunity on June 9 when he ing into the ocean at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, government officials said yester- But on Friday, it ordered TEPCO to accelerate its said the three involved in prostitution were followed the judge to a resort hotel.—AP day, as critics slam its operator’s handling of the issue. —AFP containment plan at Fukushima. —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

Indonesian plane skids off runway after hitting cow

JAKARTA: An Indonesian passenger cow, however, was crushed to death were three cows wandering in the Jakarta and also had a stopover in Indonesia, which relies heavily on jet crashed into a cow and skidded off under one of the Boeing 737-900’s middle of the runway”. Makassar, on Sulawesi, according to air transport to connect its more than the runway as it came into land at an middle wheels, head of Jalaluddin air- Pictures showed the dead cow local media. 17,000 islands, has one of Asia’s worst airport in the centre of the archipela- port Agus Pramuka told AFP. The under the aircraft’s wheel in a field. The airport was closed following aviation safety records. In April, a go, officials said yesterday. pilot, Iwan Permadi, told state-run The plane, which suffered minor dam- the incident, disrupting travel plans Lion Air passenger jet carrying 108 No one was killed or seriously Antara news agency he could smell age, had skidded into the field next to for people heading home for the Eid people crashed into the sea after injured when the Lion Air plane carry- “burning meat” as the jet ran over the the runway, with its tail still on the al-Fitr holiday in Muslim-majority missing the runway as it came into ing 110 passengers collided with one animal. runway. All the passengers managed Indonesia. One small jet managed to land on the resort island of Bali. No of three cows wandering on the run- He said he thought there were to disembark safely, transport ministry take off Wednesday, but the Lion Air one died but dozens were injured. way as it arrived late Tuesday in dogs in front of the plane as it came spokesman Bambang Ervan told AFP. plane was still at the edge of the run- Lion Air could not be immediately Gorontalo, on Sulawesi island.The into land, “but it turned out there The plane had started its journey in way, Pramuka said. reached for comment. —AFP Indian govt under fire over handling of border attack Opposition accuses defence minister of being soft on Pakistan NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: India’s parliament ment explain the contradiction between the two Manmohan Singh’s government can pursue dia- was paralysed yesterday as opposition lawmak- statements and accused Antony of misleading logue with Pakistan without being painted as ers angrily protested over the government’s the nation about Pakistan’s role in the attack. weak by the opposition. response to an ambush in which five soldiers “The defence ministry held Pakistani army The BJP has repeatedly accused Singh of were shot dead on the border with Pakistan in fully responsible for the incident. But the being soft on Pakistan and China, whose troops the disputed region of Kashmir. defence minister gave a clean sheet to the are also accused of border incursions. Political The uproar, for the second day in a row, Pakistan army and completely absolved them,” heat over the killing of two Indian soldiers in a derailed the government’s legislative agenda Sushma Swaraj, a leader of the main opposition clash in Kashmir in January forced Singh to sus- and raised question marks over whether it will Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), told parliament. pend the peace talks. In the intervening months, be able to drive through long-pending econom- “The government must admit that the diplomats and officials from both countries have ic reforms during the short session, which ends Pakistan army is responsible for this incident,” been quietly working to relaunch them. on Aug. 30. Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony told par- liament on Tuesday that a group of about 20 HERAT: Former Taleban fighters stand with their weapons during a ceremony heavily armed militants accompanied by “per- after joining Afghan government forces in Herat yesterday. About 100,000 sons dressed in Pakistan Army uniforms” had foreign combat troops, 68,000 of them from the US, are due to exit by the end ambushed an army patrol earlier that day near of 2014, and NATO formally transferred responsibility for nationwide security the 740-km (460-mile) Line of Control (LoC) in to Afghan forces a week ago. —AFP the Himalayan region. It was one of the worst such attacks since the two nuclear-armed rivals signed a truce in 2003 Taleban wound Afghan and it cast a pall over planned talks by top Pakistani and Indian bureaucrats on disputed territorial and water issues. The talks, frozen after female senator in ambush a border clash in January, had been expected to KABUL: The Taleban ambushed a convoy of a Press on Tuesday the prosecutors were inad- resume this month. female Afghan senator yesterday, seriously vertently given a copy of compelled state- While Antony stopped short of blaming the wounding her in the attack and killing her 8- ments Bales made to Army psychiatrists, and Pakistan army for the latest attack, his ministry year-old daughter and a bodyguard, officials then read them - even though they knew they later issued a strongly worded statement directly said. weren’t supposed to. accusing Pakistani soldiers of taking part in the Senator Rouh Gul Khirzad’s husband, son Bales pleaded guilty in June in a deal to ambush. Army officers, speaking on condition of and another daughter were also wounded in avoid the death penalty. A sentencing-phase anonymity, made similar accusations even as the attack in the Muqur district of Gazni trial set to begin Aug. 19 at Joint Base Lewis- Pakistan strongly denied any involvement. province, according to Deputy Governor McChord south of Seattle will determine The defence ministry statement and army Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. whether he receives life in prison with the officers said the attack had been carried out by Ahmadi said the ambush took place on possibility of parole or without it. Pakistan’s Border Action Team. The unit includes the main highway from Kabul to the southern The judge, Col. Jeffery Nance, mistakenly members of Pakistan’s commando Special city of Kandahar. gave the prosecution team an unredacted Services Group and irregular forces like Lashkar- HYDERABAD: Activists of the All India Youth Congress shout anti-Pakistan slogans as Khirzad was traveling from Kabul with her copy of the psychiatric evaluation, rather than e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group, the they burn an effigy and flag of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency dur- family to their home province of Nimroz for a redacted version that had been prepared by army officers said. ing a protest against the death of five Indian Army soldiers in cross-border the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end the defense, Browne said. But, in a sign that India’s army and politicians exchanges in Hyderabad yesterday. —AFP of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, said The Army did not immediately have a were not singing from the same hymn sheet, the fellow Senator Mohammad Alam. comment, a spokesman at the base said. ministry later retracted its statement and said she said. New Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Taleban often stage attacks along the Browne indicated that the judge set a hearing Antony’s account represented the official record Antony stood by his statement and said as made improving trade with India a central plank highway in Gazni and Wardak provinces, for next Tuesday to discuss the matter. of what had happened on the border. defence minister he had an obligation to be of his election campaign and has said he wants where they have a strong presence Alam said “The trial team got ahold of a thorough India is under pressure from the United States careful not to repeat information that had not to ease mistrust between the two countries. Khirzad’s eight-year-old daughter and her psychiatric evaluation done on Sgt. Bales that to ratchet down tensions with Pakistan to sta- been verified. But rowdy lawmakers did not Two Pakistani soldiers were wounded in an bodyguard were killed in the attack. He added they should never have had access to, and bilise the region as foreign forces prepare to accept his explanation and continued to disrupt exchange of fire with Indian troops on Tuesday, that Khirzad has been hospitalized with seri- they admitted they read it,” Browne said. “I withdraw from Afghanistan. proceedings until parliament was adjourned. officials on both sides said yesterday. ous injuries. There was no immediate word on don’t think the judge has many options aside Both US Vice President Joe Biden and Antony’s cautious statement appeared to A Pakistani military official blamed “unpro- the condition of her husband, son and other from dismissing the trial team.” Secretary of State John Kerry have visited New reflect a reluctance by the Indian government, at voked Indian firing” and said senior army com- daughter, Alam said. Bales made the statements as part of a Delhi in recent weeks to discuss Afghanistan, least for now, to let the border incident damage manders on both sides had spoken over a hot- Khirzad was elected to Afghanistan’s 102- “sanity review” by military doctors, aimed at where India and Pakistan are vying for influence. efforts to restart the peace talks. line. A senior Indian army officer in northern member upper house in late 2010. She is the determining whether he was sane at the time Opposition lawmakers chanting “Apologise! But with elections due by next May, there are Kashmir said Pakistani forces had opened fire head of defense and internal security commis- of the attacks and whether he was capable of apologise!” demanded that the Indian govern- questions over whether Prime Minister first. —Reuters sion. The lower house is made up of 245 standing trial. The Army is entitled to the short members. The upper house has a regulatory conclusions of the doctors, but not the full function, approving laws generated by the report, Browne argued, saying the statements lower house. After upper house approval, were protected by his client’s constitutional Dozens of youths freed they need the endorsement of the president. right not to incriminate himself. Meanwhile in Seattle, lawyers for the Bales, an Ohio native and married father of American soldier convicted of slaughtering 16 two young children, admitted leaving his Afghan civilians during nighttime raids last post in Kandahar Province before dawn on from Myanmar army: UN year want the entire prosecution team March 11, 2012, to attack two villages of removed from the case before his sentencing, mud-walled compounds nearby. In pleading YANGON: Myanmar’s army has freed 68 which is scheduled for this month. guilty, he told the judge, “There’s not a good children and young people from military John Henry Browne, a civilian attorney for reason in this world for why I did the horrible service, the United Nations said yesterday, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, told The Associated things I did.” —Agencies calling for a “mass release” of child soldiers in the formerly junta-run nation. The release is the biggest such move since the UN signed an agreement on the issue in June 2012 with Myanmar’s reformist regime and “tatmadaw” army, which for years recruited children to bol- ster its ranks. In a little over a year, 176 children and young people have been discharged from the military, which has decreased-but not yet stopped-the recruitment of children to the armed forces. “The time has come for the mass release of all children from the Myanmar armed forces,” Shalini Bahuguna, deputy representative for UNICEF in Myanmar, said in a statement. There are no verifi- able figures on how many children are currently serving in Myanmar’s huge mil- itary, which has faced a slew of accusa- tions of rights abuses including the forced recruitment of children and other civilians to work as porters or even YANGON: President Office Minister Aung Min visits the photo exhibition on the 1988 uprising, human mine detectors. displayed during a “8888” uprising silver jubilee ceremony in Yangon yesterday. The event Ending rights violations is a key marked the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators on demand of the international community, August 8, 1988. —AFP which has embraced reforms in HYDERABAD: Indian state government employees and supporters of United Myanmar since the end of outright junta not a place for a child to grow up. We state armed groups that are also opposition political party into parlia- Andhra Pradesh shout slogans during a lunch hour protest against the forma- rule in 2011. Myanmar released 42 chil- are very happy for the children and accused of co-opting under-age per- ment. His government has also reached dren in September last year, 24 in young people being discharged today,” sonnel. A quasi-civilian regime led by tentative peace deals with major armed tion of Telangana state at Andhra Pradesh Secretariat in Hyderabad, India, February and a further 42 in July. All of said Ashok Nigam, the UN’s resident former general Thein Sein has been ethnic minority rebel groups in the yesterday. The United Progressive Alliance coalition agreed to endorse that a those freed were recruited as children, coordinator in Myanmar. The UN also praised by foreign governments for country, which has been wracked by new state called Telangana be carved out of Andhra Pradesh state. Telangana but some have since become adults. urged ethnic rebels to end their recruit- reforms including welcoming democra- civil wars since independence from would become India’s 29th state. —AP “I have always said the military is ment of children, listing seven non- cy champion Aung San Suu Kyi and her British colonial rule in 1948. —AFP Singaporean woman jailed 21 months for maid abuse SINGAPORE: A Singaporean woman was “Chan Huey Fern was sentenced to 21 Twelve days later, the maid said Chan resumed the abuse-raining kicks on her body maid’s injuries and the fact that Chan showed jailed for 21 months yesterday for repeatedly months’ imprisonment today (Wednesday),” a attacked her again for not monitoring her son’s and groin area causing her to bleed, the report a lack of remorse, the report said. abusing an Indonesian maid with attacks district court spokeswoman told AFP. Local temperature, pushing her head against the added. It said the maid fled from the house Chan had denied the charges, telling the described by a judge as “repugnant to all media reported that Chan, 32, was convicted edge of a toilet doorway and kicking her pri- that day, fearing more torment. “Your abuses court that the maid’s injuries were self-inflict- notions of common humanity”. of five cases of maid abuse and that the vate parts. On December 31 that year, Chan were systematic. What you have done to a ed. She is appealing the conviction and sen- District Judge Low Wee Ping said the vio- offences took place in December 2010. In mid- lashed out again when she found her son’s helpless domestic helper, is repugnant to all tence. More than 200,000 women, many of lence inflicted by Chan Huey Fern on her December, Chan punched the 25-year-old blanket on the floor in the children’s room, notions of common humanity,” the Straits them from impoverished villages in Indonesia, helper was one of the “most distressing” cases maid in the eye when she felt sleepy while tak- kicking her maid repeatedly in the body, the Times quoted the judge as saying. Pubic pros- the Philippines, India, Myanmar and of maid abuse in the city-state, the Straits ing care of Chan’s two young children, the report said. ecutors said aggravating factors for a severe Bangladesh, work as domestic helpers in afflu- Times said. Straits Times reported. She called the maid to the kitchen and sentence included the seriousness of the ent Singapore. —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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here is one burning question raised by the possibility of President Barack Obama traveling to Russia and Tmeeting with thug-in-chief Vladimir Putin in September. It is: Why is this even a question? Obama shouldn’t just cancel the trip. He should go on national tel- evision and tear up the ticket. Meeting agenda. Whatever piece of paper is handy to illustrate his disdain. In fact he should have done it yesterday. Each hour of diplomatic hand-wringing - should he or shouldn’t he? - diminishes Putin’s respect for him and for this country, which, by the way, already had to be minimal, given his granting of asylum to the whistle-blower or trai- tor, take your pick, Edward Snowden. Under Putin’s reign, Russia has been of little help to the United States on world issues. Most recently, it has supported Syrian President Bashar Assad despite Assad’s total disregard for civilian lives as he fights off insurgents. Russia’s own human rights record is dismal: Putin recently signed a law banning the public discussion of gay What Egypt tells us about US foreign aid rights or relationships anywhere around children, horrify- ing enlightened people everywhere and casting a shadow over the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Snowden is an By Charles V Pena The unspoken rationale underlying US foreign aid is the ings in the last month has brought the death toll to more odd bird. Unlike Bradley Manning, who encountered infor- belief that recipient countries will behave the way we want than 3,000 since April. And why does the US give more than mation during his service to this country and felt com- ore than 200 people have died in violence since them to. Yet there seems to be little prospect that either $2 billion per year to Pakistan, a country that provides sanc- pelled to reveal it, Snowden deliberately sought access to army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi deposed Egypt’s side in Egypt will do what the United States wants. Indeed, tuary to the Taleban, which is responsible for much of the classified information he could reveal. Mfirst freely-elected president, Mohamed Morsi. at least some administration officials are mystified by the carnage in Afghanistan? His disclosures have led to ongoing US embarrassment Predictably, there is hand wringing in Washington. hard line being taken by both the Egyptian military and the What do Angola, Cambodia, Chad, Haiti, Laos, Somalia, and soul searching over massive surveillance operations Secretary of State John Kerry called the violence “a pivotal Muslim Brotherhood. “None of us can quite figure this out,” Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Yemen and Zimbabwe that concern us and many Americans. They also are moment for Egypt” and urged its leaders “to help their a senior US official said. “It seems so self-defeating.” have in common? They all receive US foreign aid and, alleged to have seriously compromised national security. country take a step back from the brink.” Secretary of If that’s the case, it hardly seems prudent to continue to according to Transparency International’s Corruption We’ll save the debate on what should happen to Snowden Defense Chuck Hagel urged restraint in a phone call with risk more than a billion US dollars annually on the slim Perceptions Index, boast some of the most corrupt govern- for another day, but given the seriousness of the charges Al-Sisi. And White House spokesman Josh Earnest pro- hope that the Egyptians will come to their senses anytime ments in the world - strong-arm governments in most cas- against him, the nation that thumbed its nose at the US to claimed that “the United States strongly condemns the soon. Ultimately, the issue of US foreign aid to Egypt begs es. If money can’t buy the United States influence, it’s also offer him asylum is unlikely to be a friend in other ways. bloodshed and violence in Cairo and Alexandria.” the larger question: the wisdom of foreign aid writ large. not buying America a lot love. According to a recent Pew Putin cultivates a macho image, circulating pictures of The United States lavishes about $50 billion annually in poll, in Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan only 16, 14 and 11 per- himself bare-chested on a galloping horse and stealing a WHAT’S A SUPERPOWER economic and military assistance on other countries cent of their respective populations have a favorable view Super Bowl ring he asked to see. This is not a guy who Even before the outbreak of violence, President Obama around the world. Historically, the top recipient has been of the United States. appreciates subtle diplomacy. If Obama has a hankering to ordered a halt to the scheduled delivery of four F-16 fight- Israel (more than $3 billion in fiscal year 2012), yet those bil- And an analysis of the State Department’s “Voting do something self-destructive in September, perhaps he could plan a swimming vacation at the Fukushima Daiichi ers to the Egyptian air force. But that’s just a slap on the lions have not compelled the Israeli government to stop Practices in the United Nations 2011” reveals that on what reactor. That would be stupid, but not as stupid as meet- wrist. Instead, the United States should cut off the more settlements in the occupied territories, a top US priority. the State Department considers important resolutions the ing with Putin. — MCT than $1.5 billion per year Egypt receives in foreign aid. The Afghanistan is number two on the list. But with civilian majority of countries that receive US foreign aid voted Foreign Assistance Act clearly states in Section 508 that the casualties on the rise (up 23 percent in the first half of this against the United States the majority of the time. Egypt is a United States must cut aid to any country “whose duly year, according to the United Nations), Afghanistan will like- clarion call to stop throwing good money after bad. US for- Muddled Egypt policy elected head of government is deposed by military coup or ly descend into a state of internecine conflict as the US pre- eign aid to corrupt and authoritarian regimes, with no real- decree.” Although the administration refuses to call Morsi’s pares to pull out by the end of 2014. This already is happen- istic expectation that we’ll get a favorable payback, is a los- ouster a coup, that’s exactly what it was. ing in Iraq (number four on the list), where a rash of bomb- ing bet.—MCT hen both the Egyptian military and supporters of the country’s ousted president are accusing the WUnited States of betrayal, it’s tempting to think that the Obama administration must be doing something right. Obama’s economic speeches pound Republicans But in fact, the breadth of the discontent may simply be a reflection of the administration’s inconsistent and some- By Steve Holland times incoherent policy, both before and after the military deposed Mohamed Morsi last month he economic policy speeches President Barack Last week US Secretary of State John F Kerry said on Obama has been delivering in recent weeks are Pakistani TV that the Egyptian armed forces were “restoring Tturning out to be blunt attacks on Republicans, democracy” when they overthrew Morsi, the Muslim with an eye toward coming fiscal battles and the Brotherhood leader who was elected president only last 2014 congressional elections. Obama’s basic message year. That gratuitous comment added insult to the injury of across the country, most recently sounded on the administration’s refusal to describe Morsi’s ouster as a Tuesday in Arizona, is that while he has made great military coup - a description that would have triggered a strides in improving the economy, further progress is suspension of US aid. (Obama has delayed delivery to Egypt being thwarted by Republicans in the US House of of four F-16 fighter jets, a token expression of disapproval.) Representatives. By obstructing his proposals, That the US would continue its annual infusion of $1.5 Republicans are hurting the nation’s “most vulnerable billion in mostly military assistance to Egypt was never in children,” Obama said, along with farmers, the mili- serious doubt, given the role the aid plays in bolstering the tary, home-buyers, middle-class job seekers, immi- peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Even so, Kerry’s com- ment was unjustified and offensive; previously the US had grants and businesses seeking to hire immigrants. treated Morsi’s removal as a fait accompli but had stopped From Galesburg, Illinois, to Chattanooga, short of accepting its legitimacy. Tennessee, to Phoenix, Arizona, Obama has been Ironically, in an interview in the Washington Post, Gen unrelenting in tone, attacking “slash-and-burn parti- Abdel Fattah Sisi, the head of the armed forces, denounced sanship,” “phony scandals,” and the “gutted” farm bill - the US for not embracing what he described as a popular all the work of Republicans now spoiling for a fight uprising against Morsi. He also suggested that the Obama that “could plunge us back in financial crisis.” Offering administration had been remiss in not pressuring Morsi to what he considers a moderate position on overhaul- reach out to his political opponents. “You turned your back ing policies governing the housing industry, Obama on the Egyptians and they won’t forget that,” he said. said in Phoenix on Tuesday: “First, private capital The administration understandably feels whipsawed should take a bigger role in the mortgage market. I between these two complaints. But both have some validi- know that’s confusing to folks who call me a social- ty. The US should have been more vocal in criticizing Morsi’s ist.” Republicans, equally combative, began their highhandedness, not only because he was violating demo- counterattack even before Obama hit the road on cratic norms but also because it was obvious that his July 24. “He ought to stop threatening to shut down actions were tempting intervention by the armed services. the government unless we raise taxes,” House of Once Morsi was removed, the response of the US - that it Representatives Speaker John Boehner said. PHOENIX: President Barack Obama speaks about housing in Phoenix. — AP was “deeply concerned” by his overthrow - was short on the “Americans aren’t asking the question ‘where are the appropriate indignation. speeches?’ They’re asking ‘where are the jobs?’” The said a senior White House official. blame falls squarely on Republicans for a government The administration further undermined its credibility barbs are likely to continue for some time. The presi- But bit by bit, Obama is building an argument for shutdown should one occur this fall. when it reacted with muted criticism to attacks on protest- ers in which scores of people were killed. In recent days, the dent and Republicans in Congress confront two why he feels many Republicans are willing to do “It feels like a campaign and it feels like they are US has redoubled its efforts to promote compromise in major spending showdowns this fall: the first over a damage to the US economy for political gain. Brad setting it up so he (Obama) can’t be blamed if they Egypt. —MCT bill in September to continue funding the govern- Woodhouse, head of the liberal group Americans go to a government shutdown,” said one Democratic ment and the second, probably in October, to raise United For Change, said Obama’s speeches are help- loyalist. While the outcome of the budget showdown the government’s borrowing power so it can keep ing to crystallize where the parties stand on the could potentially help Obama politically, he still faces paying its bills. issues in a way that will prove helpful to Democrats in difficulty in turning this into votes for more All articles appearing on these 2014. “I think all of us would just prefer get the two Democratic lawmakers in November 2014. Democrats pages are the personal opinion of CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING parties together and get something done but I think need a net gain of 27 seats to win control of the the writers. Kuwait Times takes no The midterm elections, held in years when a presi- it really does lay the groundwork for a foundation House. They control the Senate with a 54-46 margin dent is not being selected, are in November 2014 and about priorities in midterms,” said Woodhouse. and may see their majority narrowed in 2014. responsibility for views expressed fundraising by Democrats and Republicans is well The potential for a government shutdown over the Dave Wasserman, an expert on House races at the therein. Kuwait Times invites read- under way. Both parties need issues to inspire contri- budget is tricky politics for Obama. On the one hand, non-partisan Cook Political Report, said he could not ers to voice their opinions. Please butions. It is normal for a president to join the fray on Americans have generally sided with the president see how Democrats can pick up House seats in 2014, send submissions via email to: opin- behalf of his party in a midterm election, though against attempts to shut down the federal govern- but that Obama has to make an effort to improve White House officials insist that beyond fundraising ment over budget politics. But on the other hand, chances that he can get some action taken on his [email protected] or via snail for Democrats, Obama is not focused at all on the Obama was widely viewed as the loser in the debate agenda before he turns into a lame duck president. mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. 2014 races. “The president is focused on using every over $84 billion in “sequestration” budget cuts that “Obama has very little choice,” he said. “The parties in The editor reserves the right to edit day in office to try to advance his agenda and when it began in March. In most cases, Americans have sim- Congress are so polarized that he can’t reasonably any submission as necessary. comes to affecting the outcome of the midterms, the ply shrugged and gotten accustomed to the cuts. search for Republican votes in the House. They simply Republicans appear to be taking the lead on that,” This makes it essential for Obama to make sure the aren’t there on big ticket issues.”— Reuters NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

LAHORE: Pakistani Muslims travel on an overloaded train as they head to their hometowns ahead of the Muslim festivities of Eid Al-Fitr, in Lahore yesterday. — AFP Diplomacy fails to end Egypt crisis

CAIRO: Egypt’s presidency said yesterday Egyptian authorities had warned they Eid el-Fitr holiday marking the end of the which includes the Brotherhood, urged spokesman for EU foreign policy chief lish an Islamist autocracy, coupled with a that diplomatic efforts to end the coun- were losing patience with the sit-ins, Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, MENA Morsi supporters to take to the streets for Catherine Ashton said the Europeans failure to ease economic hardships afflict- try’s political turmoil had failed and which can swell to tens of thousands. The said. The holiday lasts from Thursday to an “Eid of Victory”. The leftist Popular would “continue to do all we can to try ing most of Egypt’s 84 million people, led warned that the Muslim Brotherhood of presidency’s declaration suggests security Sunday. Current party called for public Eid prayers and encourage people to get this inclu- to mass street protests, triggering the ousted President Mohamed Morsi would forces could soon use force to break up “There are some initiatives that can be in Tahrir Square, epicenter of the 2011 sive dialogue going, that is so important army intervention. In the latest violence, be held responsible for the consequences. the gatherings. Prime Minister Hazem El- built upon to start national reconciliation,” uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni to see a return to the democratic transi- gunmen in Sinai Peninsula near the bor- In a statement, interim President Adly Biblawi met with army chief and defense an Al-Azhar official told MENA. The meet- Mubarak, and in squares across the coun- tion in Egypt”. Leon was still in Cairo talk- der with Israel killed a politician yesterday Mansour’s office said the period of inter- minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and ing would be held in the presence of try “to celebrate Eid and announce the ing to all sides, he added. who was a member of parliament during national efforts that began more than 10 Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim yes- Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand Sheikh completion of the revolution and to sup- On Tuesday, two visiting senior US sen- the era of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, securi- days ago had “ended today”. terday, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper of the 1,000-year old institution, who port national independence”. ators, Republicans Lindsey Graham and ty sources said. Envoys from the United States, reported. endorsed the military takeover last The senior US diplomat involved in the John McCain, called on the military to Attackers in a car fired four bullets at European Union, Qatar and the United The discussions included the sit-ins, month. The presidency statement said the mediation effort left Egypt yesterday, release political prisoners and start a Abdel Hamid Silmi as he left a mosque, Arab Emirates have been trying to defuse and emphasized the interior ministry’s government had allowed the foreign Cairo airport officials said shortly after the national dialogue to return the country to the sources said, adding that he had been the crisis and prevent further bloodshed. mandate to deal with “violence and terror- envoys “to visit and discuss” the situation, government declared diplomatic efforts democratic rule. “I didn’t know it was this a member of Mubarak’s now outlawed The breakdown raised the prospect of ism”, a reference to the Brotherhood. At including with jailed Muslim Brotherhood had failed. US Deputy Secretary of State bad. These folks are just days or weeks National Democratic Party. Islamist mili- heightened instability and bloodshed in the biggest protest camp outside Rabaa leaders. William Burns had held talks with both the away from all-out bloodshed,” Graham tants, mostly based in North Sinai, have the most populous Arab state which has a Al-Adawiya mosque in northeast Cairo, The aim was to urge the Brotherhood government and members of the Muslim told the CBS network. Egyptian officials escalated attacks on security forces and peace treaty with Israel and controls the Morsi supporters were defiant. “If they try to “respect the will of the people” who had Brotherhood during the mediation effort, and media reacted angrily to their criti- other targets since Morsi was deposed last strategic Suez Canal. Egypt’s crisis also has to break up the sit-in there will be a huge protested to demand an end to Morsi’s together with European Union envoy cism of the military takeover and call for month. The Muslim Brotherhood says it a wider impact on other countries, such as loss of life. We are prepared for this. We rule. “These efforts did not achieve the Bernardino Leon and the Qatari and UAE dialogue. MENA quoted presidential has no connection with the militants, who Tunisia, which saw similar Arab Spring leave our homes every day ready to die,” hoped-for success, despite the complete foreign ministers. spokesman Ahmed Al-Muslimani as say- have struck almost daily, killing about 40 uprisings in 2001. said Yusri Ismael, standing near sandbags support the Egyptian government The EU said it was very concerned by ing that Egypt “did not need a certificate people, according to medical officials. The state held the Muslim and wearing a blue hard hat. offered,” said the presidency. Mohamed the breakdown of the mediation effort of good conduct or behavior from any- Many of those killed were members of the Brotherhood completely responsible for Almost 300 people have been killed in Ali Bishr, a senior Brotherhood politician and urged a peaceful solution. A one”. Fears that Morsi was trying to estab- security forces. — Reuters “the failure of these efforts and the later political violence since the overthrow, who has represented the group in the events and developments that might including 80 shot dead by security forces recent talks with diplomats, told Reuters result from this failure related to breaches in a single incident on July 27. he needed time to confer with other of the law and endangering civil peace”, Underscoring concerns over deeper tur- Brotherhood leaders before responding Saudi deputy defense minister fired the presidency statement added. moil, Egypt’s leading Islamic authority Al- to the presidency’s statement. RIYADH: The Saudi monarch has fired his deputy OPEC kingpin where the monarch’s age and frequent Thousands of supporters of Morsi, who Azhar plans to host talks on the crisis next Pro-Morsi parties and leftists who defense minister and appointed a senior official from the hospitalization have raised concerns over its future lead- was toppled by the army on July 3, have week, the state news agency MENA backed his removal called rival street National Security Council as his replacement. The official ership. Analysts believe Saudi Arabia has regained the been staging protest sit-ins in two areas of reported. Al-Azhar would call people who demonstrations for Thursday, making the Saudi Press Agency said yesterday that King Abdullah initiative from its much smaller neighbor Qatar to re- Cairo for the last five weeks to demand his had proposed initiatives to end the stand- public holiday a potential flashpoint. The issued a royal decree naming Prince Salman Bin Sultan, emerge as the diplomatic kingpin of the Gulf region reinstatement. off for “an important meeting” after the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, who also previously served as a lieutenant in the air amid sweeping political turmoil in the Arab world. defense forces and then as a platoon commander in an Prince Bandar, formerly ambassador to the United air defense unit, as the new deputy defense minister. States, is widely regarded as among the most influential Salman replaces Prince Fahad Bin Abdullah Bin powerbrokers in the Middle East. Late in July, he held Qaeda leaders remain global threat Mohammed Bin Abdul-Rahman, a retired army general talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Continued from Page 1 which itself is reeling from political instability. who had only been in the post since April. Prince Few details emerged of the talks which came amid Violence has risen steadily since the American mili- Salman, born in 1976 according to local media, was strained relations between Moscow and Riyadh over the Bin Laden’s death, Hoffman wrote, “left behind a tary left Iraq in December 2011, fueled in part by Syrian assistant secretary general of the national security coun- conflict in Syria. Saudi Arabia has been strongly support- resilient movement that, although seriously weakened, cross-border militant traffic but also because of cil headed by Prince Bandar, and had worked at the ive of the rebels battling the regime of President Bashar has been expanding and consolidating its control in Baghdad’s inability to curb attacks. July was the dead- Saudi embassy in Washington. Al-Assad. But Russia, to the fury of Riyadh and its new and far-flung locales.” liest month in Iraq in years, with attacks killing more No reason was given for the move, the latest in a Western allies, has refused to cut its cooperation with Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian whose location is unknown, than 1,000 people and wounding at least 2,300, accord- reshuffle of princes holding government posts in the the Damascus regime. — Agencies issues messages to followers every few months that are ing to UN data. And coordinated jailbreaks at two high- posted and circulated on jihadi websites. His latest, security Iraqi prisons last month set free hundreds of posted July 30, lashed out at Obama for the continued inmates, including Al-Qaeda extremists. Oman struggles to save Arabia’s last leopards US detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Iraq’s branch of Al-Qaeda, known as the Islamic State Cuba, and for launching deadly drone attacks in of Iraq and the Levant, claimed responsibility for the Continued from Page 1 The Jebel Samhan reserve - established in 1997 and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and other Muslim coun- raids that it said were planned for months. Kenneth also home to striped hyenas, caracal, wolves and many tries. Pollack, who oversaw Persian Gulf issues while on the “It’s a good indication that the leopard is still using rare bird species - is a park in name only. The 50 rangers “You fought us for 13 years. ... Did we soften or White House National Security Council during the this area,” said 30-year-old al-Hikmani, who works for only patrol its edges, no tourist infrastructure exists toughen up? Did we back out or advance? Did we with- Clinton administration, said Al-Qaeda is poised to gain the Oman government’s Arabian leopard project and and there isn’t even an entrance gate. The hope is that draw or spread out?” Al-Zawahri asked Obama in his from instability across the Mideast - in part by using Iraq wears a traditional Omani headdress over Western hik- next month’s Oman-sponsored conference on the leop- July 30 message, according to a transcript of his letter as a regional hub. ing attire. “Maybe one day we will come up here and ard will result in more coordinated approach to saving that was translated from Arabic by SITE Intelligence “Al-Qaeda in Iraq is back. They were dead in 2010, won’t even see any leopards. So we are quite excited.” the leopards. The gathering of Omani officials will Group, which monitors jihadist websites. dead as doornails, and now they are huge in Iraq,” For conservationists, these are small victories in the weigh such proposals as compensating herders for He continued, “I call on every Muslim in every spot Pollack said. “They have operations in Syria and they are race to save a species. reducing their herds and curbing unchecked develop- on Earth to seek with all that he can to stop the crimes a real movement in Syria.” But the Al-Qaeda fighters in Once thriving across the Middle East, the Arabian ment in the area. of America and its allies against the Muslims - in Iraq and Syria have shown little interest in attacking Leopard is now considered critically endangered by the One option not on the table will be to reintroduce Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Mali, and every- Americans beyond the region, Pollack said, and neither International Union for Conservation of Nature. It esti- leopards into Oman from the more than 80 captive- where.” Three days later, the State Department have most of those in northern Africa. There, in a region mates there are fewer than 200 in the wild with the bred leopards in nine locations on the peninsula. At the announced the temporary closing of US embassies and that spans across the Sahel and stretches from the largest single population of 50 to 100 in the mountains Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife in the diplomatic outposts across the Mideast, Africa and Asia Mediterranean Sea to Somalia, a spread of militants are of southern Oman. There also are small populations in emirate of Sharjah just north of Dubai, the leopards are - although not in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel or Mali. calling themselves Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb. Yemen and Israel’s Negev desert. caged and almost docile when humans approach, and Officials this week said the closures were prompted AQIM is rooted in Algeria and affiliated with Al- The animals’ range is increasingly fragmented by they would make easy pickings in the wild. There by an unspecified threat to US and Western interests in Zawahri, who in April warned French troops fighting development, overgrazing and herders who shoot or would have to be protective measures, and animals a message from Al-Zawahri to his top lieutenant in extremists in Mali that they would face “the same fate poison them lest they prey on their goats, cows and would have to meet genetic criteria and be trained to Yemen, where Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is America met in Iraq and Afghanistan” as long as they camels. Leopards in Yemen are under threat from hunt and survive in the wild. based. AQAP, as the terror network’s regional hub is stayed. But there’s no evidence the North African poachers who supply a vibrant exotic animal trade in Jane Budd, a South African who heads the Feline known, is led by Nasser Al-Wahishi, who for years was groups receive direct orders from al-Zawahri, and most places like the United Arab Emirates. “They are at a criti- Department at the breeding center and is the close to Al-Zawahri and Bin Laden, and is one of Al- are as motivated by asserting local authority through cal point,” said Andrew Spalton, a Briton who advises International Studbook Keeper for Arabian leopards, Qaeda’s few remaining core leaders, said SITE director criminal activity as by anti-Western ideology. the Oman government on environmental affairs and said she finds herself having to repeatedly explain that Rita Katz. It’s believed that AQIM was linked to some of the mil- has worked on leopard conservation for 16 years. releasing captive leopards is not an easy answer. “I do Intelligence officials say AQAP has for years itants behind last year’s attack on a diplomatic post in “Inevitably, they are going down. That’s because of think it will happen,” Budd said. “I would like there to be announced its intent to attack the US, and is widely Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens loss of habitat. Where they are hanging on are areas correct preparations for it. There is certainly a lot of considered the biggest threat to the West of the Al- and three other Americans. And AQIM is suspected of that people find most difficult to get into with their pressure to do it. I think it will be pushed a lot faster Qaeda affiliates. The group is linked to the botched driving overloaded trucks of rifles, mortars and other livestock and their four-by-fours,” Spalton said. The than what can realistically work.” Christmas Day 2009 underwear bombing of an airliner weapons from Libya to Mali and Niger to arm allies immediate challenge is to count them and and figure The hurdles to reintroduction were evident on a bound for Detroit and explosives-laden parcels inter- there. Al-Zawahri also urged Muslims to join Somali mil- out their gender ratio. “The official estimate given is drive in and around Jebel Semhan with Al-Hikmani. cepted aboard cargo flights a year later. Katz said AQAP itants in a message last November. there may be 200 Arabian leopards left between Oman Illegal settlements are proliferating in the park and may serve as the future Al-Qaeda headquarters, given The Somali-based militant group Al-Shabab is loose- and Yemen (at opposite ends of the Arabian peninsula). herders allow their camels and goats to roam. New that Al-Zawahri and other core leaders pay attention to ly linked to Al-Qaeda, but some of its members have It’s probably half that number and may even be lower. tracks open up almost weekly in the mountains for Al-Wahishi. But she warned, “There will be a new leader plotted attacks against the United States, where large We don’t know,” said Tessa McGregor, a British conser- herders to transport their animals, which means more in the future, and I doubt it will stay the same.” pockets of Somalis have moved to escape famine and vation biologist. incentive to treat leopards as a threat. Hadi Al-Hikmani For the most part, Al-Qaeda’s regional power centers war over the last 20 years. An inevitable part of Al- “It’s a very difficult terrain and trying to set up and grew up in a family of camel herders in the area and have formed in places undergoing political upheaval, Qaeda’s growth is its new regional leadership - few of monitor enough camera traps that are represented joined Spalton as a volunteer when he was a teenager. where security forces are too distracted by internal war whom fought with Bin Laden or have ever worked with throughout the area takes a lot of manpower and He works tirelessly to convince his friends and neigh- or strife to clamp down on extremists. The civil war in Al-Zawahri, Katz said. They may not all be driven by the expertise.” McGregor is working with Al-Hikmani on a bors that leopards rarely kill their livestock and could Syria, now in its third year, has given Al-Qaeda a huge same anti American or anti-Western fervors that moti- five-year project supported by the nonprofit be huge tourist draw. boost and an opportunity to seize land that the Sunni- vated bin Laden, but that makes them no less a global Earthwatch Institute and the Omani government to But on an overnight stay with his father’s herd of based network has long yearned to control. threat as the disparate groups mature. gather data on the leopards in Jebel Semhan, train 200 camels on a grassy hillside, the affable Al-Hikmani Having a leadership role in Syria would be a victory “In the past, people wanted to go to Afghanistan; it Omani scientists and raise awareness of leopards in was inundated with stories of camels killed by leop- for Al-Qaeda given the country’s prominence in Muslim was the dream of every possible jihadi on the front to communities and schools. ards. No one seemed to buy the fact the leopards scripture, its proximity to other Arab states and the net- go to Afghanistan to fight in Al-Qaeda training camps,” But Al-Hikmani and others know that research alone should remain in the wild. Put them in the zoo, every- work’s hatred toward Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Katz said. “You don’t see that anymore. No one cares won’t save the leopard, and are exasperated that their one said. “If I saw a leopard coming tonight to kill one Islam, who include Syrian President Bashar Assad. More about what’s happening in Afghanistan. “If anyone work isn’t matched by stronger action on the ground. of my livestock or camels, I would kill it. My livestock is than 100,000 people have died in the Syrian war, which wants to go anywhere today it is, of course, Syria,” she Nothing has been done to combat the rampant over- worth everything,” said Mohammed Ahmed Al-Amri, a largely pits Sunni opposition forces and rebels against said. “Going to Yemen is always a good thing for them; grazing by livestock that denudes the Dhofar moun- 57-year-old herder who was enjoying a fresh bowl of Assad’s Alawite regime, and has drawn fighters linked to going to Somalia is less than it used to be, but it’s still tains, and enforcement of Oman’s laws protecting leop- camel milk. “For us, there is nothing that scares us Al-Qaeda. Many have come from neighboring Iraq, another possibility. Things change all the time.” — AP ards is weak. more than the leopard.” — AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 SPORTS

Drogba back in I Coast Tevez not holding out Panesar pays the penalty hope of Argentina return side for Mexico match LONDON: England and Sussex spin bowler Monty Panesar has been fined for BUENOS AIRES: Carlos Tevez has abandoned any hope of returning to drunkenly urinating in public, police said yesterday. IVORY COAST: Didier Drogba is to return to the Ivory Coast national team next week for international duty with Argentina and says he almost turned his back The Sun newspaper said the 31-year-old left-armer was asked to leave Shooshh the first time since the country’s calamitous African Nations Cup finals performance at on football entirely before joining Juventus in June. club in Brighton, East Sussex, after complaints from fellow clubbers. the start of the year. In a television interview with ESPN’s Latin American network, Tevez Police said in a statement: “A 31-year-old man received a fixed penalty notice for The veteran striker has been named in a 23-man said that his time with Argentina, who look certain to grab an automatic being drunk and disorderly after being seen urinating in squad for a friendly against Mexico in New York next qualifying berth for the World Cup in Brazil next year, is “in the past.” public near the Shooshh Club in Kings Road Arches, Wednesday, for the first time since the tournament in Brighton, around 4.13am on Monday.” South Africa where the Ivorians were runaway “It’s over, I’ve said what I have to say on the national team and I have nothing more to add,” said the 29-year-old, who has not played for his Sussex said it was investigating the incident sur- favorites but were bundled out in the quarter-final by rounding Panesar, who was in the England squad to eventual winners Nigeria. country since Alejandro Sabello was appointed coach two years ago. “I have spoken the truth, I have said what I feel and that’s the end. If I play Australia in the third Ashes test last week but Drogba, for so long a talismanic figure for the did not make the starting side. Elephants, was dropped for the first time during the talk about this, it seems I’m asking for a chance to come back.” “Sussex County Cricket Club can confirm that an tournament and coach Sabri Lamouchi then left him Tevez had a controversial four years with Manchester City, which out of World Cup qualifiers in March and June, all the included a public spat with former manager Roberto Mancini in incident took place involving Monty Panesar in the while deflecting speculation of a rift with his captain September 2011 when he refused to warm up as a substitute during a early hours of Monday 5th August,” it said on its by claiming the 35-year-old needed to work on his fit- Champions League match against Bayern Munich. website (www.sussexcricket.co.uk). ness and would return. “I always said I would retire at 28 and I was close to retiring after the “The matter is under full investigation and Drogba, still hoping to make a third suc- fight with Roberto,” said Tevez, who also played for Manchester United the club will make no further comment at this cessive World Cup finals appearance in Brazil and West Ham United during his stint in England. stage.” Panesar made his England debut in next year, looked sharp at the weekend in “I was tired as well. I spent six years in England and nobody would 2006 and has taken 164 wickets in 48 test helping Galatasaray win a pre-season mini- have given a cent for me to stay six years in England.—Reuters matches. His last appearance was against New tournament at Arsenal.—Reuters Zealand in March.—Reuters Braves see off Nationals

WASHINGTON: Hit by a pitch two innings after METS 3, ROCKIES 2 shutout innings, leaving him 3-0 in his last four starts. homering, Bryce Harper jawed and pointed at In New York, Eric Young made a diving catch to Bruce hit his 23rd homer off Dan Straily (6-6), who Atlanta’s Julio Teheran, and the dugouts and take a go-ahead hit away from Todd Helton in the has lost his last four starts. The right fielder also went bullpens emptied, but the only haymakers thrown sixth inning, then raced home with the tiebreaking a long way to run down Josh Reddick’s fly ball to the during the NL East-leading Braves’ 2-1 victory over run in the eighth, and the Mets beat the Rockies. warning track in the fourth, saving a run. the Nationals on Tuesday night came from the The Rockies have lost 12 of 18 since the All-Star teams’ Twitter feeds. Evan Gattis’ two-run single in break and have scored five runs in their last three DIAMONDBACKS 6, RAYS 1 the fifth inning and the six innings thrown by games. LaTroy Hawkins got his first save since May 6, In Phoenix, Cody Ross homered and Wade Miley Teheran (9-5) while allowing one run combined to 2012, for the Angels. Scott Atchison (2-0) pitched a allowed five hits in seven innings to help the produce Atlanta’s season-high 12th consecutive win, padding their NL East lead to 141/2 games over Washington. Gattis’ big hit came off Gio Gonzalez (7-5), who pitched one night after Major League Baseball announced its Biogenesis investigation cleared the left-hander.

CARDINALS 5, DODGERS 1 St. Louis, Carlos Beltran and Matt Adams CLEVELAND: Starting pitcher Justin Verlander No. 35 of the Detroit Tigers pitches homered in the eighth inning, and the St. Louis during the eighth inning against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. —AFP Cardinals snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 15- game road winning streak with a 5-1 victory on Tigers maul Indians Tuesday night. Joe Kelly pitched into the sixth inning, outper- forming Clayton Kershaw and helping St. Louis to CLEVELAND: Justin Verlander dominated for league record with four passed balls in the first eight innings and Don Kelly hit a three-run inning as he struggled to handle pitches from its fourth victory in the last six games. Tony Cruz homer off Justin Masterson, leading the Detroit knuckleballer Steven Wright, and the Astros added an RBI single. Tigers to their 10th straight win, 5-1 over the took a 3-0 lead. Adrian Gonzalez hit a one-out RBI single off Cleveland Indians. Houston extended its lead to 5-0 before Kelly (3-3) in the sixth, but that was it for Los Verlander (12-8) allowed one run and four Ellsbury’s two-run shot in a three-run third Angeles against the right-hander. He left with run- hits as the Tigers beat the Indians for 10th time closed the gap. The Astros led 7-3 before a five- ners on first and second and the Cardinals nursing in 11 games and opened a five-game lead over run fifth inning, highlighted by a two-run dou- a 2-1 lead. Cleveland in the AL Central. ble by Lavarnway gave Boston a one-run lead. Kershaw (10-7) allowed two runs and six hits in Kelly connected in the fifth inning off The Red Sox tacked on five more runs in the six innings for Los Angeles, which dropped to 15-3 Masterson (13-8) and Miguel Cabrera picked up sixth, capped by the pinch-hit homer by since the All-Star break. The left-hander is 5-2 with his 100th RBI as the Tigers improved to 11-3 Gomes. Robbie Grossman, Brett Wallace and a sparkling 1.62 ERA over his last eight starts. WASHINGTON: Ian Desmond No. 20 of the Washington Nationals jumps over Justin Upton against their nearest division rival. Jake Elmore homered for the Astros, who have No. 8 of the Atlanta Braves after completing a double play in the eighth inning. —AFP The Indians, who are 24-10 against the lost five of six. PIRATES 4, MARLINS 3 scoreless eighth inning. Eric Young led off the eighth Diamondbacks beat the Rays. Miley (9-8) allowed one Central’s three other teams, have to hope they In Pittsburgh, Josh Harrison homered leading off the bottom of the ninth, lifting the Pirates to a with a single against Wilton Lopez (1-4). He was able run, struck out five and walked two for his fifth win in can win the next two over Detroit to split the RANGERS 8, ANGELS 3 to take second on Marlon Byrd’s deep fly, putting him his past six starts. Eric Chavez had a pair of RBI dou- series. To do that, they’ll have to beat Doug In Anaheim, Adrian Beltre drove in the win over the Marlins. in position to make it home on Juan Lagares’ infield bles for the Diamondbacks, who pulled within five Fister and Max Scherzer. tiebreaking run in the eighth, Yu Darvish Harrison sent a fastball from Miami’s Mike Dunn single, a slow chopper to second base, that he just games of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. pitched seven solid innings, and the Rangers (2-3) into the first row of seats in left-center field for his first career walk-off homer. Dunn had barely beat out. Young sped up as he rounded third Jeremy Hellickson (10-5) failed to pitch past the TWINS 7, ROYALS 0 beat the Angels for their eighth win in nine and beat the throw home. fifth inning for the second straight outing for the In Kansas City, Andrew Albers allowed four games. worked out of a bases loaded, no-out jam in the Rays, both against the Diamondbacks. hits while pitching into the ninth inning in his Elvis Andrus had three hits and scored the eighth. Bryan Morris (5-4) pitched a perfect top of Hellickson gave up five runs and five hits and major league debut, easily outdueling Royals go-ahead run as the Rangers won their third the ninth for the victory. The Pirates have won BREWERS 3, GIANTS 1 In San Francisco, Carlos Gomez homered, Wily three walks, hit a batter and struck out one as the ace James Shields and leading the Twins over straight and moved within one game of AL three straight and are a season-high 24 games Peralta outdueled Matt Cain to end a three-start win- Rays slipped 1 1-2 games behind Boston in the AL Kansas City. The first big leaguer from West-leading Oakland, which lost at Cincinnati. over .500 (68-44). less stretch and the Brewers beat the Giants. East. Saskatchewan in more than 20 years, Albers at Darvish (11-5) allowed eight hits in his least Neil Walker had three hits for the Pirates. Gomez hit his 18th homer in the second as the one point retired 15 straight. effective start since returning from the disabled Andrew McCutchen had two hits, including a two- Brewers jumped on Cain (7-7) early. Jonathan Lucroy He was two outs shy of his third straight list late last month. But the major leagues’ run double, for Pittsburgh. ORIOLES 4, PADRES 1 added a ninth-inning sacrifice fly. In San Diego, Adam Jones tied his career high complete game dating back to Triple-A strikeouts leader still escaped a seventh-inning Peralta (8-11) struck out six of nine batters during with four hits, including a home run, drove in two Rochester, and the first shutout in a big league jam, and he got the win when Beltre singled PHILLIES 9, CUBS 8 an early sequence and finished with six Ks in 6 1-3 runs and scored twice against his hometown Padres debut since Detroit’s Andy Van Hekken did it in against Kevin Jepsen (1-3). In Philadelphia, Darin Ruf and Chase Utley innings for his first career victory against the Giants. as the Orioles beat San Diego. Bud Norris (8-9) won 2002. The Twins took most of the pressure off Kole Calhoun and Mike Trout led off the first sparked a three-run fifth inning to lift the Phillies his second straight start since joining the Orioles, with a big night at the plate. Brian Dozier inning with back-to-back homers for the to a 9-8 win over the Cubs. holding San Diego to one run and five hits in six homered and drove in three runs, and Justin Angels, who have lost nine of 12. Tanner Utley, who had three hits, drove in the tying run INTERLEAGUE innings. Jones homered into the balcony on the sec- Morneau and Chris Colabello also went deep Scheppers pitched two scoreless innings for his on a triple to deep center field. He soon scored on REDS 3, ATHLETICS 1 In Cincinnati, Jay Bruce homered and made a run- ond level of the Western Metal Supply Co. brick ware- for the Twins. first save of the season. Domonic Brown’s groundout to give the Phillies the lead. Ruf added one more on a solo home run, saving catch on the warning track, and Mat Latos house in the left field corner at Petco Park leading off his fourth of the season. pitched into the eighth inning against Oakland’s the fourth off Edinson Volquez. It was his 23rd. WHITE SOX 3, YANKEES 2 BLUE JAYS 7, MARINERS 2 slumping lineup, leading the Reds to a victory over Jones singled in the first to bring in Nate In Chicago, Chris Sale allowed one run while In Seattle, Jose Reyes homered on the first Philadelphia tagged Edwin Jackson (7-12) for the Athletics. The Reds had dropped seven of nine McClouth, aboard on a leadoff double. He singled outpitching Hiroki Kuroda in to the eighth pitch of the game, added an RBI single to cap seven runs and 10 hits in six innings. Trailing 9-5 in and were coming off what players called an embar- and scored on Chris Davis’ double in the eighth. inning, and the White Sox beat the Yankees. Toronto’s big fourth inning, and the Blue Jays the ninth, the Cubs scored three runs off Phillies rassing weekend against St. Louis - losses of 13-3 and Jim Johnson pitched the ninth for his 39th save, Alex Rodriguez singled, walked, was hit by a handed Seattle ace Felix Hernandez his first closer Jonathan Papelbon before pinch-hitter 15-2. They found an American League team strug- tops in the majors. Edison Volquez (9-8) allowed two pitch and lined out to center field after going 1 loss since late May with a win over the Thomas Neal flew out with men on the corners to gling even more. The West-leading Athletics have lost runs and six hits in six innings, struck out six and for 4 in his season debut Monday. The Yankees Mariners. end it. Kyle Kendrick (10-8) allowed five runs and five of six. Latos (11-3) allowed four hits through 7 1-3 walked two.—AP lost for the 13th time in 19 games after scoring The Blue Jays battered Hernandez (11-5) six hits in six innings. He also had an RBI single. a run in the ninth against closer Addison Reed. and knocked him out after just five innings, A-Rod was on deck when Alfonso Soriano matching his shortest start of the season. struck out to end it with a runner on first. Reed A leading contender for a second AL Cy Yankees stand by Rodriguez gave up a single to a pinch-hitter Ichiro Suzuki, Young Award, Hernandez got no help from his who took second on defensive indifference and defense that committed three errors that led to came around on Brett Gardner’s two-out single. three unearned runs while he was on the NEW YORK: The New York Yankees have revered figures, playing his last season for But Reed finished for his 27th save in 32 mound. Despite lasting just five innings, pledged to stand by embattled slugger Alex the Yankees. “Alex is my friend and definitely chances. Hernandez’s ERA only rose from 2.30 to 2.39. Rodriguez while he fights his 211-game sus- it’s hard when you see all this stuff and when Hernandez had not lost since May 25, a span of pension for alleged doping offences. you see the fans booing a player because I’m RED SOX 15, ASTROS 10 12 starts. Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman a player,” Rivera said. In Houston, Jacoby Ellsbury homered twice Toronto’s Josh Johnson (2-8) pitched well said Rodriguez, who has filed an appeal “It’s hard, but it is what it is. At the same and Jonny Gomes added a three-run shot and with his potential spot in the rotation at stake. against the ban, would remain in the lineup time, he’s a human being. Seeing the way the Red Sox rallied from a five-run deficit for a Johnson threw five scoreless innings and won as long as he was fit. they boo him is kind of hard to take and to win over the Astros. for the first time since June 23, snapping a six- “If he’s healthy, he’s definitely going to see.” Catcher Ryan Lavarnway tied a major game losing streak.—AP be, by far, better than what we’ve been run- Rodriguez was one of 13 players sus- ning out there,” Cashman told reporters yes- pended by MLB on Monday but is the only terday. one challenging his penalty. All the others MLB results/standings For the second night in a row Rodriguez accepted offers of 50-game bans but A-Rod was back in the team and playing against got a stiffer punishment because he was Detroit 5, Cleveland 1; Atlanta 2, Washington 1; Philadelphia 9, Chicago Cubs 8; Pittsburgh 4, Miami 3; the Chicago White Sox, though manager Joe accused of other offences, including lying to Cincinnati 3, Oakland 1; NY Mets 3, Colorado 2; Chicago White Sox 3, NY Yankees 2; Minnesota 7, Girardi picked him as designated hitter the investigators. Kansas City 0; Boston 15, Houston 10; St. Louis 5, LA Dodgers 1; Arizona 6, Tampa Bay 1; Texas 8, LA instead of at third base. The players association has vowed to Angels 3; Toronto 7, Seattle 2; Baltimore 4, San Diego 1; Milwaukee 3, San Francisco 1. Rodriguez, who made his first appear- support his appeal although executive direc- ance of the season on Monday following a tor Michael Weiner said he would have American League National League long injury, played in his traditional spot for advised Rodriguez to accept a ban if MLB Eastern Division Eastern Division his comeback but Girardi gave him a had offered him a lower penalty. W L PCT GB Atlanta 69 45 .605 - reduced workload on Tuesday. “I don’t want to give a number, but there Boston 69 46 .600 - Washington 54 59 .478 14.5 “I didn’t even ask him. He said he felt was a number that I gave A-Rod and we Tampa Bay 66 46 .589 1.5 Philadelphia 51 61 .455 17 good today,” Girardi said. “I didn’t even ask advised him to take it,” Weiner told a US Baltimore 62 51 .549 6 NY Mets 50 60 .455 17 him. I thought it was a good idea.” Rodriguez radio station. “He was never given that num- NY Yankees 57 55 .509 10.5 Miami 43 68 .387 24.5 was jeered every time he came to the plate ber.” Pete Rose, who was banned for life for Toronto 53 60 .469 15 Central Division and went 1-for-2, getting on base three gambling on baseball while he was a player Central Division Pittsburgh 68 44 .607 - times as the Yankees lost 3-2 and failed to and manager of the Cincinnati Reds, urged Detroit 66 45 .595 - make up ground in the American League Rodriguez to own up if he had used per- Cleveland 62 51 .549 5 St. Louis 66 46 .589 2 Cincinnati 62 51 .549 6.5 East. He was also hit by a pitch from Chris formance enhancing drugs. Kansas City 57 53 .518 8.5 Sale in the third inning, which was met with Rose denied the charges against him for Minnesota 49 61 .445 16.5 Chicago Cubs 49 63 .438 19 Milwaukee 48 65 .425 20.5 approval by the Chicago crowd. There was years before finally confessing. “We have to Chicago W Sox 42 69 .378 24 no let-up off the field either as Rodriguez get these people to understand that if you Western Division Western Division came under renewed criticism following make mistakes, people will forgive you if you Oakland 64 48 .571 - LA Dodgers 62 50 .554 - Major League Baseball’s claims he had used come forward,” Rose told USA Today. “He’s Texas 64 50 .561 1 Arizona 57 55 .509 5 steroids and human growth hormone pur- like the rest of us. He’s made some major Seattle 52 61 .460 12.5 San Diego 52 61 .460 10.5 chased from the now-closed Biogenesis clin- mistakes and he’s trying to go on with his LA Angels 51 61 .455 13 Colorado 52 62 .456 11 ic in Florida. life. He’s in a tough position, I think, with this Houston 37 75 .330 27 San Francisco 50 62 .446 12 But he did get the support of closer appeal and with the lawyers telling him to Alex Rodriguez No. 13 of the New York Yankees. Mariano Rivera, one of the game’s most do this and do that.”—Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 , 2013 SPORTS Micheel goes down memory lane PITTSFORD: The press room at Oak Hill looked the same as it did 10 years ago to Shaun Micheel, with a few notable excep- tions. The Wanamaker Trophy was gone. The empty chairs outnumbered reporters by a 5- to-1 margin. And it was the wrong day of the week. “I wish it wasn’t Tuesday,” he said, settling into a chair to talk about the memories of his PGA Championship victory a decade ago at Oak Hill. The final major of the year feels more like a reunion to Micheel. He brought his wife and two children - the oldest was three months from being born when he won - along with his wife’s parents. Micheel was trying to fig- ure out a way to get them inside the ropes so they could follow his amazing footsteps in 2003, all the way to that 7-iron on the 18th ROCHESTER: Tiger Woods of the United States reacts during a practice round in this hole that stopped 2 inches from the cup and file photo. —AFP sealed his win. “I’m anxious to show them where I had one piece of history, I guess,” he said. It’s his All eyes on Tiger at only piece of history. “One and done” takes on a new meaning when it comes to Micheel. He PGA Championship is among 54 players since 1970 who have only one major championship. What puts ROCHESTER: World number one Tiger the 1980 PGA Championship. Micheel in a league of his own is that since Woods tries to snap a five-year major win “The scores are going to be really good,” 1970, he is the only player whose major remains his only victory. drought and claim his 80th career title Mickelson predicted. “You are going to PITTSFORD: Shaun Micheel speaks during a news conference at the PGA Championship golf And he hasn’t been particularly close. The starting today in the 95th PGA have a great discrepancy in the scores. If tournament at Oak Hill Country Club.—AP Championship at formidable Oak Hill. you play well you can make birdies. If you only other time since Oak Hill that Micheel career was hampered by 13 surgeries. What often gets overlooked is that Micheel Woods, a 14-time major champion chas- hit it poorly you are going to be severely was in a press room on Sunday was at the “A lot of guys can relate some personal was atop the leaderboard the entire weekend ing the all-time record 18 major titles won penalized with thick rough. 2006 PGA Championship at Medinah. He was stories that affected the way you do you and didn’t flinch. He shot a 68 in the second by Jack Nicklaus, served notice he is on “The course is a fair, difficult test that runner-up that year to Tiger Woods by five form with a seven-stroke triumph at last you want without going over the edge and work,” he said. “Unfortunately, I’m so exposed round for a two-shot lead, added a 69 to shots. out there and everything that I do - good or share the lead with Campbell, and closed week’s World Golf Championships event at without trying to protect par. It’s just the “Had you told me that when I hoisted that Firestone, giving him five victories this year. perfect fair test. It’s one of the best setups bad - it’s out there to be dissected.” The with a 70. trophy on Sunday night ... if somebody had record shows one win in 378 starts on the “It tells me he’s a tough guy,” Mahan said. “I feel good. I’m very pleased with where that I’ve ever seen for that.” whispered in my ear that you’re going to my game is at,” said Woods, who shared The rough is thick and tall but graduat- PGA Tour. And it happened to be a major “And that he wasn’t afraid of the big become a non-exempt player on the tour, championship. moment.” Micheel is aware of the “one-hit sixth at the British Open three weeks ago at ed off the fairways, a boon on some of the and you’re going to be a non-exempt player sloped fairways Oak Hill offers. Does that say more about Micheel or the wonder” chatter and he doesn’t fight it. He Muirfield. on the Web.com Tour, I would have told you Second-ranked Phil Mickelson, whose “It’s imperative to hit the ball in the fair- PGA Championship? “Anyone on tour can win doesn’t have as many wins as Lee Westwood, that you were crazy,” he said. “Or thought I fifth major triumph at the British Open ways and on the greens because it’s going one of these if they have a good week,” Geoff Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia or even Mahan or came a week after a Scottish Open win, to be tough to get up and down,” Woods was dead or retired.” Ogilvy said. “It’s probably the best field, isn’t Brandt Snedeker. But that one trophy he has Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia, said. Micheel had the lowest ranking (No. 169) it? I guess it says that every player in the field is a big one, and he wouldn’t trade it. “I’m US Open champion Justin Rose of England “This is one of those courses where you of any player to win the PGA Championship. who players for a living can win this tourna- happy with my place in history,” he said. and countryman Lee Westwood, a Muirfield have just got to bring it ball-striking-wise. He had gone 163 tournaments without win- ment.” What would a player rather have on his contender until the final holes, also figure You’ve got to hit the ball well.” “There’s a ning until the PGA Championship. He has Ogilvy, however, touched on another career record? Eight wins and no major, or to be in the hunt for the top prize of $1.445 few opportunities where you are going to gone 215 tournaments since then. “It’s amaz- point that speaks to those other 377 tourna- one major as his only win? Woods had both in million at the $8 million event. have wedges in your hands and you are ing, no doubt about it,” Hunter Mahan said. “It ments Micheel played. “It’s really, really hard 1999 - one major among his eight wins - but But they also appreciate how dangerous going to try to make birdies, but the penal- is surprising not to win again. You would fig- to win regular tournaments,” he said. he doesn’t dismiss Micheel’s win in the PGA Woods can be with confidence and the ty for being a little too aggressive is harsh. ure he’d always go back to that win and fig- This major once had a reputation of pro- Championship. hunger for a first major title since the 2008 It’s very severe.” The back-nine offers birdie ure out what he did that week, from a mental ducing first-time winners, none more surpris- “He’s going to go down in history as a US Open. chances but also two closing holes where or physical perspective, and find that.” ing than a PGA Tour rookie named John Daly, major championship winner. That just puts “Tiger is a factor no matter what,” Scott pars could be enough to claim the To be sure, it’s been a frustrating ride for said. “He has been up there in majors Wanamaker Trophy. who got in as the ninth alternate at Crooked you automatically into another category,” Micheel, some of that out of his control. He Stick in 1991. During one stretch, 18 players Woods said. “These are the biggest events recently and just has not finished it off. But “There are holes that are some of the was diagnosed with low testosterone in 2005, obviously he put it all together last week. hardest pars in the game — 17 and 18 are won the PGA Championship in a 19-year with the most pressure, the best fields on the and said he had to go through hoops to get a stretch until Tiger Woods repeated in 2000. most difficult courses. On top of that, hell, he He’s going to be feeling good about where two of the hardest pars you can possibly therapeutic use exemption from the PGA his game is at. I’m just worried about get- have,” Mickelson said. “We very likely could Micheel’s name stands out among the list of hit one of the greatest shots you’ve ever seen Tour when drug testing began in 2008. Then PGA champions. But so does the way he won. on 18 to finish it off.” ting my own golf ball around the course.” see a two- or three-shot swing coming he had surgery on his left shoulder that “Having him back, having him play well, down the stretch. You’ve got 12-16 where You might not know much about Micheel, Micheel returned to Oak Hill on Sunday affected his swing. Even now, he can’t get his having him win like he has won this year is you can make up ground making birdies on but there is no forgetting the shot. With a and stopped by the marker just left of the arm in the same position it once was. great for golf. He is playing solid and played 17 and 18 where you are trying to get one-shot lead over Chad Campbell, he was in fairway that commemorates his shot. great last week,” Mickelson said. home in pars.” Micheel wishes he had taken more time the first cut of rough from 175 yards out “There were two guys standing there, and I “It’s also great for the game to see guys Scott says experience will offer an edge, away to let his shoulder heal, but he kept his when he hit a 7-iron that stopped 2 inches wanted to hit a 6-iron,” Micheel said. “But they like Adam Scott and Justin Rose come out but only a small one. “These traditional- perspective. There are no free rides on the from dropping into the cup. wouldn’t let me hit a 6, so I had a 7 and came and win major championships. That just style courses really test patience,” Scott PGA Tour. And he’s not the only player who But it was more than just that one shot. up 10 yards short of the green.”—AP makes it exciting because we have a num- said. “An experienced and mature golfer had to cope with an injury. Andy North’s ber of players that can really create a lot of should have a slight advantage in that. But interest.” in saying that, a young guy coming out on And they have a course that can create his game like Rory McIlroy blowing the plenty of danger. Oak Hill has hosted two field away isn’t out of the realm, either. College football’s new ‘it boy’ prior PGA Championships, three US Opens “We’ve got five great finishing holes, a and the 1995 Ryder Cup, and the par-70 real mixed bag that will test every player NEW YORK: Remember those layout has been expanded to 7,163 yards. differently,” Scott said. “Then 17 and 18 are commercials that ran nonstop Ben Hogan set the course record of 64 in just an extreme test of ball striking and during the Final Four last spring, 1942 and Curtis Strange matched it in the nerve. It’s going to be an exciting finish no the ones in which the voice-over 1989 US Open. Nicklaus fired Oak Hill’s low matter what.”—AFP concluded, “There are over 72-hole total of six-under 274 in winning 400,000 NCAA student-athletes” and just about all of us will be going pro in something other Heat-Bulls, Lakers-Clippers than sports”? Well, here’s hoping that to play NBA’s opening night Johnny Football beats the odds and makes it to the NFL someday. NEW YORK: The Miami Heat will open their emotional return to Boston on Jan. 26. Rivers Because the kid is hopelessly title defense against the Chicago Bulls on Oct. will coach his first game back there on Dec. amateurish at just about every- 29 in the expected return of Derrick Rose, 11 - one night after the Celtics see Garnett thing else. The latest suggestion with an all-Los Angeles matchup later that and Pierce for the first time in Brooklyn. Rivers that college football’s new “it- night in the Lakers’ first game without Dwight will then renew acquaintances with his two boy” was in over his head arrived Howard and the Clippers’ first with Doc Rivers. star players on Dec. 12 at Barclays Center. via ESPN, with reports Johnny The NBA’s 2013-14 schedule, released Other highlights of the schedule, which Tuesday, also features a potential LeBron was released during an NBA TV special pro- Manziel was essentially shaking James-Kobe Bryant duel on Christmas in Los gram: down memorabilia dealers, swap- Angeles, right after scoring stars Carmelo • The Heat will host the Spurs on Jan. 26 in ping autographs for cash in clear Anthony and Kevin Durant match up across their first meeting since they edged San violation of NCAA rules. No mat- the country in New York. Antonio in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The ter. Howard’s first visit to the Lakers since leav- teams also meet in Texas on March 6. Considering how weak the ing for Houston as a free agent doesn’t come • The marquee Christmas Day schedule NCAA is at the moment, and how until Feb. 19, giving Bryant plenty of time to features five games: Chicago at Brooklyn, well lawyered-up Texas A&M is get back to full strength from his torn Achilles’ Oklahoma City at New York, Miami at the already, the chances that an tendon near the end of last season. Lakers, Houston at San Antonio, and the investigation will result in any The Indiana Pacers host the Orlando Clippers at Golden State. meaningful punishment for play- Magic in the opening game of the season, No. 1 pick Anthony Bennett could make • er or school is practically nil. about the time the Heat are holding another his NBA debut at home when Cleveland hosts championship ring ceremony. Then Miami Brooklyn on Oct. 30. The Aggies hired the same will try to give Rose a rough welcome back in • The Nets have a three-game road trip in firm Lightfoot, Franklin and what’s likely to be his first NBA game since three different countries from Jan. 11-20. White, from Birmingham, Ala. tearing his knee in the opening game of the They open at Toronto, travel to London to that got Panthers quarterback 2012 playoffs. Most teams open on Oct. 30. face the Atlanta Hawks on Jan. 16 in the O2 Cam Newton off the hook when SPARTANBURG: Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) throws a pass during an NFL football train- Two nights later, the Heat will serve as the Arena, and then return to New York to visit pay-for-play allegations surfaced ing camp practice. —AP opponent for the new-look Brooklyn Nets’ the rival Knicks in a Dr. Martin Luther King during his brief stay at Auburn. first home game since acquiring Kevin Day matinee. ï San Antonio and Minnesota And who knows, those same course, I’ve made my mistakes. It’s three-plus weeks. Forget about ferences got tangled up in more Garnett and Paul Pierce from Boston. play Dec. 4 in Mexico City. The regular season lawyers might have put Newton time to grow up.” Don’t bet on it. the mornings for the first of those conflicts-of-interest than they That duo, which helped lead the Celtics to ends April 16. The All-Star game is Feb. 16 in in touch with Manziel for the few He’ll likely survive this latest weeks, since his “student-athletes” could keep track of TV contracts, the 2008 NBA championship, will make its New Orleans.—AP counseling sessions that Newton scrape, in part because the NCAA will actually be bogged down sponsorship deals and the like, confirmed Tuesday, but declined enforcement staff has been deci- with classes. Ditto for the they became decidedly less inter- to discuss in detail. mated in the wake of its bungled weightlifting sessions, when ested in each other’s faux pas About all Newton would say, investigation at the University of they’re out of breath, and the film than ever. The guys in charge beyond the fact that the two Miami, and a new, less strict sessions, when they’re too busy might pretend to be pained, but talked several times, is that he penalty structure the organiza- taking notes. But would it be too nobody gets too worked up hopes “that everything works out tion rolled out barely a week ago. much, if during a training-table about amateur stuff like eligibility in the best for him so he can get That much seemed apparent by meal one evening, Sumlin simply any more, least of all the kids on back to what he likes to do and how breezily Texas A&M coach leaned across the table and whose backs the empire rests. that’s playing football.” Kevin Sumlin deflected questions instead of saying “Pass the salt, They, too, can see college football Apparently, though, that’s not the about his quarterback’s future. please,” he asked Manziel, “Did for what it’s become: the NFL’s de only thing Manziel likes to do. He “There’s not a whole lot I can you get paid for those auto- facto minor league. It’s great to also enjoys sharing photographs say about that,” Sumlin replied, graphs?” Apparently so, since have rowers, field hockey players of himself mocking other rules, which he repeated in one form or much like the Newton investiga- and cheerleaders who will whether it’s flashing a fistful of another to every question about tion, we’re going to be told that become engineers, accountants bills fanned out, or waving a bot- Manziel, including whether he game preparation is so impor- and marketing reps in the future. tle of champagne in a nightclub, ever asked the Heisman Trophy tant, there just isn’t time for They make for good commer- even though Manziel is just 20 winner whether he accepted pay- detours into complicated matters cials, and a good front for a non- years old. When those pranks and ment for autographs. that have nothing to do with profit like the NCAA, but they others Manziel staged during an “We got a game Aug. 31,” football. Yet there’s no mistaking don’t make any money. They’re LOS ANGELES: In this Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Sumlin said sternly. “My job is to where kids got the idea that get- the farthest thing, in truth, Howard (left) and Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin (center) battle for a eventful offseason were raised at get this football team ready to ting along meant going along. regarding what college sports is rebound as guard Kobe Bryant looks on during the second half of an NBA basketball SEC media days last month, he game. —AP said he’d learned his lesson: “Of play.” For those counting, that’s Once their universities and con- really about.—AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 SPORTS US stars look to Photo of the day shine in Moscow

MOSCOW: A star-studded American Olympic champion Aries Merritt, Sprint star Allyson Felix said she team is ready to impress at the World the world record holder in the men’s was enjoying being one of the elder Athletics Championships that start in 110m hurdles, believes records could stateswomen as she prepares to con- Moscow at the weekend, men’s head tumble at the Luzniki stadium. “The centrate on her favorite 200-metres coach Mike Holloway said yesterday. practice tracks here are extremely fast, event. And Holloway is expecting the team they are similar to what we had in Felix, 27, has performed at 100m, to set the world alight. London (for the Olympics), except 200m and 400m during an illustrious “I’m very excited with the team’s they’re blue. And if the arena’s track is career but the majority of her medal- work in the training camp and really the same, then we should expect a lot laden success has come in the half-lap discipline, which is her sole focus in Moscow. “I am excited to be back at the world championships and focus on the 200 which I have not done in quite some time, get back to where I started from and enjoy the World Championships,” the London Olympic 200m champion told reporters in Moscow. “I also hope to be on both relays here.” she added. Felix is aiming to reclaim the world 200m title she lost in Daegu two years ago when finishing third, having gone into that championship as the triple Competitors perform at the Red Bull King Of The Rock in Aarad Fort, Muharraq , Bahrain. world champion at her best event. —www.redbullcontentpool.com Felix, for so long the young stan- dard bearer of US athletics, also said that it felt strange to be one of the oldest athletes in the US squad and to serve as a mentor to the younger Eaton searching for lost spark MOSCOW: A picture taken yesterday, shows a general view of ones. Luzhniki stadium during a rehearsal of opening ceremony in “I am old now!” she said laughing. MOSCOW: After a stellar 2012 that onships) meet because it does take a in his bid for a first world title after Luzhniki stadium, ahead of the world athletics championships “It is very weird, time is going by... brought two world records and toll on mind and body.” taking silver behind compatriot and which will take place in Moscow from Aug 10-18. —AFP and it’s a lot of fun to see the younger Olympic decathlon gold, Ashton Eaton produced sensational form two-time winner Trey Hardee in athletes come up. Eaton was ready for a rest. What he in 2012, setting world records in the Daegu, South Korea, in 2011. impressed with their preparation for of fast times here,” he said. “It is great to be able to give them had not bargained for was the physi- heptathlon at the world indoor cham- “I feel ready to go. If something the event. By their passion as well,” he “This year the results were relative- advice, make sure they stay focussed cal and mental toll his achievements pionships and also in the decathlon at was going to happen (injury-wise), it told reporters in Moscow. ly slower than we had in previous and enjoy the journey and all that. took out of him. the US Olympic trials. would have,” he said. The two-day “We have a good mix of youth and years. It’s just because of the They have blank pages in front of The American multi-eventer, hailed In rain-soaked conditions in decathlon gets underway on the first experience as nine defending world Olympics. Many of the athletes still them, it is the beginning of their by sprint king Usain Bolt as the world’s Eugene, he became only the second morning of the championships on champions and five world record feel tired and drained after the tough career. “It is definitely a different expe- greatest athlete, said his exploits had decathlete to break the 9,000-point Saturday. Away from the track, Eaton holders came here, along with some preparation and high-grade competi- rience to be one of the older people left him this year “feeling physically barrier as he eclipsed the previous married Canadian heptathlete Brianne young athletes.” tion at the Olympic Games.” on the team.” —AFP worn down”. mark set by Roman Sebrle with a haul Theisen in Eugene in July. The pair “I feel like a little bit more fragile of 9,039 points. Eaton went on to met as teenagers at the University of this year for some reason,” Eaton, claim Olympic gold in London with Oregon. favorite to win gold at the world 8,869 points. After a three-month lay- “I’m way more proud of her than I championships in Moscow, told a off he returned to training in am of myself, and she vice-versa for news conference at the Luzhniki stadi- November, the 25-year-old not me,” he said. “It’s cool to be in the um on Wednesday. expecting to feel as sluggish as he did. same events, to be successful at the “I’m usually pretty robust, nothing “It took longer to get moving and same time and be able to travel really bothers me too much. This year, warm-up,” he said. This season he has around the world together.” Theisen little things have here and there ... and mixed “a few personal bests earlier was 11th in the Olympic heptathlon in my coach said the year after the this year” with an injury scare when he London but showed she could be a Olympics you are kind of physically tweaked his hamstring during high medal contender in Moscow after worn out. jump practice. His preparations for winning the prestigious Hypo meet- “You see a lot of Olympic champi- Moscow, though, are back on track, ing heptathlon in Gotzis, Austria, in ons that are not at this (world champi- and Eaton said he was in great shape May.—Reuters

Mo Farah Farah to lead British charge

LONDON: Mo Farah will lead Britain’s Farah’s status as Britain’s greatest focus and preparation. People have bid for World Championships glory as distance runner was cemented when learnt from some of the mistakes they the star of one of the strongest teams he claimed his two titles in the Olympic have made.” ever to represent the United Kingdom, Stadium last year, but another double Black believes some British athletes according to UK Athletics performance in Moscow would make him only the have structured their season better to director Neil Black. second man in history, after Kenenisa ensure they peak at Moscow. “To our Farah will start his World Bekele, to hold Olympic and world surprise one of the things we learnt Championship campaign in Moscow on crowns in the 5,000m and 10,000m at from last year was that there were a Saturday by trying to win the 10,000 the same time. few people who didn’t have that real metres title that eluded him in Daegu Black believes Farah’s history bid focus, that real preparation, that real two years ago when he was beaten by could be the crowning glory for a planning for the Olympics,” Black said. Ethiopian’s Ibrahim Jeilan in a tense British team he rates as even stronger “There were also a number of ath- sprint finish. than the group that enjoyed so much letes who were in transition in terms of Farah will then return to the success at the London Games 12 changes in their lives. “But we’ve learnt Ashton Eaton Luzhniki Stadium, scene of the 1980 months ago. from those things and I don’t think Olympic triumphs of legendary Britons “We are without question, genuine- there are similar reasons why people Allan Wells, Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett ly, in a better position going into the may not perform this year.” As well as and Daley Thompson, to defend his world championships than we were the indomitable Farah, Christine world 5,000m title. before London 2012,” Black said. Ohuruogu, who will captain the British Kenya prepare for Worlds If he were to win both, repeating his “We are better prepared. We are team in Moscow, is another athlete epic 5,000m and 10,000m double at more focused. And we are even more Black has high hopes for. last year’s Olympics, it would etch excited in the potential that will come “Without question she is a gold without 800m star Rudisha Farah’s name in the pantheon of long- from this competition. “The sense of medal contender,” he said. “She’s out- distance running legends. keenness is greater. As is the overall standing. “Her rivals are genuinely NAIROBI: Kenya is playing down the side London Olympics semi-finalist, world and Olympic 1,500m and 3,000m frightened of her. They know she runs absence of 800m star David Rudisha at Anthony Chemut, in the 800m. steeplechase champions, Asbel Kiprop incredibly well over three rounds. She’s the upcoming World Championships in “The youngsters are very excited. and Ezekiel Kemboi, plus defending ‘Old’ Felix happy to proved time and again that she peaks Moscow, a year after heartbreak at poor They have been training hard and study- women’s marathon champion, Edna at the majors.” performances at the London Olympics. ing the videos of Rudisha and they want Kiplagat. Black is unconcerned about how Officials say the enforced absence to go on the same route he went on... Kenyan men runners have dominat- focus on best event James Dasaolu, the 100m sprinter who through injury of the Olympic and world They can go all the way to the final,” ed the 1,500m for the last two seasons, advertised his potential by running a champion-and two other key athletes- Rono said. but while world champion Asbel Kiprop, MOSCOW: Sprint star Allyson Felix world 200m title she lost in Daegu time of 9.91 seconds in the UK trials will not have a serious impact on the The trio will, however, face a tough silver medallist Silas Kiplagat and third said Wednesday she was enjoying two years ago when finishing third, before pulling out of the final with country’s medal hopes. challenge from fellow teenagers Nijel fastest man, Nixon Chepseba, failed to being elder stateswoman of the US having gone into that champi- cramp and also the Anniversary Games The Kenyans travel to Moscow with a Amos of Botswana, who finished second deliver in London, they have been squad as she prepares to concen- onship as the triple world champion at the last minute, will cope with run- depleted line-up after three gold medal- behind Rudisha in London, and selected again. trate on her favorite 200-metres at her best event. ning three rounds in Moscow. “The cir- lists from Daegu two years ago, includ- Ethiopia’s Mohammed Aman, the reign- Their main challenge comes from event at the World Athletics Felix, for so long the young stan- cumstances around a couple of the ing Rudisha, were forced to withdraw ing World indoor 800m champion, who Ethiopia, who are looking to dominate Championships in Moscow. dard bearer of US athletics, also said recent withdrawals are things we are from the August 10-18 event. holds the world’s second fastest time of the men’s and women’s distance events. Felix, 27, has performed at 100m, that it felt strange to be one of the dealing with,” he said. “James is going Kenyan head coach Sammy Rono 1min 43.33secs. Veteran Ezekiel Kemboi will attempt 200m and 400m during an illustri- oldest athletes in the US squad and to be raring to go on the start line.” accepted that it could be difficult to Seventeen years after Venuste to become the first Kenyan to win three Black was more cautious about Dai repeat the success of 2011 2011, when Niyongabo won the first gold medal for consecutive steeplechase world titles ous career but the majority of her to serve as a mentor to the younger Greene, who won gold in the 400m Kenya scooped 17 medals, including Burundi in the 5,000m at the Atlanta and the two-time Olympic champion medal-laden success has come in ones. hurdles at the Daegu world champi- seven golds. Olympics, 20-year compatriot Francine showed he was still at the peak of his the half-lap discipline, which is her “I am old now!” she said laugh- onships in 2011 but has struggled with “It is going to be tricky. We are Niyonsaba is highly fancied in the powers when he returned a world-lead- sole focus in Moscow. ing. “It is very weird, time is going injury of late. already minus the three gold medallists, women’s 800m to become only the sec- ing time of 7:59.03 at the Paris Diamond “I am excited to be back at the by... and it’s a lot of fun to see the According to Black, other “genuine Vivian Cheruiyot, who won both the ond medallist from the tiny central League in July. world championships and focus on younger athletes come up. competitors for medals” including Perri 5,000m and 10,000m, and Abel Kirui, the African nation. The exciting young Kenyan the 200 which I have not done in “It is great to be able to give Shakes-Drayton in the women’s 400m two-time marathon champion, and now The African champion and Conseslus Kipruto, a former world junior quite some time, get back to where them advice, make sure they stay hurdles, Tiffany Porter in the 100m hur- Rudisha,” he said. But Rono believed that Burundian national record holder domi- champion, has beaten him three times I started from and enjoy the World focussed and enjoy the journey and dles, Shara Proctor in the long jump the 48-strong squad, which blends nated the season’s Shanghai, Paris and this season, however. Championships,” the London all that. They have blank pages in and both the men’s 4x100m relay and youth with experience, will still rise to the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League Moscow may signal the arrival of the women’s 4x400m relay teams. occasion. races, and currently holds the world next generation of Ethiopian distance Olympic 200m champion told front of them, it is the beginning of The only major frustration for Team Without Rudisha, pressure will be on leading time of 1:56.72 ahead of Russia’s runners to take over from Haile reporters in Moscow. “I also hope to their careers. “It is definitely a differ- GB is the absence of Olympic hep- teenagers Ferguson Rotich and Jeremia world and Olympic champion, Mariya Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele, and be on both relays here.” she added. ent experience to be one of the old- tathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mutai, who finished second and third at Savinova. among the most promising are Hagos Felix is aiming to reclaim the er people on the team.” —AFP who was forced to withdraw due to an the Kenyan trials and were picked along- Kenya’s experienced runners include Gebrhiwet and Yenew Alamirew. —AFP Achilles injury. —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 sports19 Treble winners Bayern to target five titles this season

BERLIN: Treble winners Bayern Munich believe they can win all five titles they will compete for this season and become the first team to defend their Champions League crown, sports director Matthias Sammer said yesterday. Bayern, who also won the domestic double last season, enjoyed a record-breaking cam- paign under former coach Jupp Heynckes, becoming the first German team to win the tre- ble. The club have spent more than 60 million euros ($79.9 million) on transfers in the close season under new coach Pep Guardiola and will be competing in the European Super Cup and the club World Cup in December in addi- tion this season. “We want to achieve something that has not been done in Europe before,” Sammer told Sport Bild magazine. “We want to go after the SAN FRANCISCO: Luna Rossa Challenge of Italy makes their way around a lee- treble again and on top of that we want the ward mark during their Americaís Cup challenger series semifinal race against European Super Cup and the club World Cup.” Artemis Racing of Sweden. —AFP Bayern have brought in gifted Germany midfielder Mario Goetze from rivals Borussia Dortmund in a 37 million euro deal as well as MUNICH: A picture taken on June 2, 2013 shows Bayern Munich’s French midfielder Franck Sweden’s Artemis loses to Italy sought-after Spain Under-21 international Ribery (center) and Bayern Munich’s Belgian defender Daniel van Buyten (left) during the Thiago Alcantara from Barcelona. A deal for SAN FRANCISCO: Artemis Racing, the The winner of the best-of-four semi- celebrations the day after winning the German Cup. —AFP Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski fell grief-stricken Swedish team vying for the finals between Artemis and Luna Rossa through with the Ruhr Valley club blocking the Bundesliga opener on Friday. Meanwhile, or whether he wants something bigger than America’s Cup sailing trophy, lost its first will compete against New Zealand, move repeatedly. Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz that.” Bayern won the league by 25 points last race to Italy’s Luna Rossa on Tuesday on which defeated Luna Rossa in a round- Bayern’s biggest transfer coup, however, was Rummenigge has revealed the European season and will be defending their Champions San Francisco Bay, but won the contest robin preliminary series, for a spot in the champions are considering selling Brazil mid- League crown while Wolfsburg cannot offer for hearts and minds. main event against Oracle beginning signing former Barcelona coach Guardiola on a three-year deal. “We want to become even fielder Luiz Gustavo to Bundesliga rivals VfL European football having finished 11th in May. Luna Rossa sailed its 72-foot catama- Sept. 7. Wolfsburg. Bayern start the defence of their Wolfsburg’s managing director Mike ran with duct tape holding together its Software billionaire Larry Ellison’s stronger,” Sammer said. “That is why I do not German league title on Friday at home to Schuessler admitted ten days ago that the main sail after a pre-race mishap, but still Oracle team won the Cup in 2010 and understand any discussions about being satis- Borussia Moenchengladbach, but new coach 2009 Bundesliga champions have expressed an finished nearly two minutes ahead of with it the right to set the rules and fied.” He said last season’s treble win was in no Pep Guardiola has a jam-packed midfield in his interest in Gustavo, who started 13 league Artemis. It was nonetheless still some- choose the venue for this year’s competi- way damaging motivation. “It’s about pulling squad with 10 full internationals to accomo- games last season, and Bayern have granted thing of a victory for Artemis, which suf- tion. His decision to use high-tech cata- up our sleeves and getting to work. Everything date, including Gustavo. permission to speak to the 26-year-old. fered a fatal training accident in May and marans that can reach speeds of more starts from scratch. If we do not show ambition “In the end, the question is: what does Luiz Rummenigge said there has been interest in whose participation in the event was in than 50 miles per hour on windy San and willpower then we are not worthy of work- want and what does Bayern Munich want?” Gustavo from “all over Europe. From Spain, doubt until recently. Francisco Bay has been much-criticized ing for Bayern,” he said. Rummenigge told German broadcaster Sport1. England and even from Russia”, but the Bayern Unable to train until two weeks ago, in light of the Artemis accident in May, in “Everyone has to ask themselves every day if “We will resolve this question in peace, I don’t boss said there will be no further sales if Artemis is the clear underdog in a three- which British Olympic gold medalist they bring this willingness with them.” Bayern, way competition with Italy and New Andrew “Bart” Simpson was killed after who lost 4-2 to Dortmund in the German Super think there will be a decision in the next few Gustavo is sold. Zealand for the right to compete against he was trapped under a capsized Artemis Cup two weeks ago, kicked off their domestic days,” he added, with the transfer window open “Should Luiz leave Bayern at some point, he defending champion Oracle Team USA boat. Before Tuesday’s race, Artemis CEO season with a 5-0 win over fourth-tier BSV until September 2. “The question is also will be the only one,” said Rummenigge. “Apart for the fabled America’s Cup. Paul Cayard talked to Reuters about the Rehden in the German Cup first round. They whether Luiz wants to go to another club, who from that, we will not sell any more players, the A small crowd that met the boats at teams difficulties. “We’ve had our chal- face Borussia Moenchengladbach in the unfortunately don’t play international football, squad will stay as it is.—AFP the finish line along the San Francisco lenges,” he said. “But challenges are just waterfront waved a few Italian flags for an opportunity, an opportunity to be Luna Russa - and heartily cheered for together, work together and overcome, Artemis. “Just to be out there leading and ultimately that’s what being on a them to mark one after all we’ve been team is all about. It’s also more opportu- through was enough to put a smile on nities to build that strong relationship. Suarez asks Liverpool my face for a long time,” Artemis skipper “I feel that Artemis is a strong team Iain Percy said after the race. because of what we’ve been through The Swedish team showed that it and were taking it on the race course.” remains a contender, beating Italy at the Artemis skipper Iain Percy described get- to honor agreement starting line and finishing closer to its ting back on the boat and into the race opponent than Luna Rossa had finished as bittersweet. Simpson and Percy had in an initial series against Emirates Team been friends since they were 10 years LONDON: Liverpool striker Luis subject of intense transfer specu- tained that Suarez is not for sale. Suarez said Liverpool manager New Zealand. old, and went through Britain’s youth Suarez has called on the club to lation during the close season Suarez, who is to have a scan Brendan Rodgers gave him “his Artemis finished one minute and 57 sailing program and then on the honor “an agreement” that said after scoring 29 goals in all com- on a foot injury he sustained in word” that he would be allowed seconds behind Luna Rossa on Tuesday. Olympics together. he could leave the club if they petitions last season. training, said he was prepared to to go if Liverpool did not achieve The closest the Italians came to Team Late last month, when Percy was failed to qualify for the Arsenal offered jut over 40 mil- take his case to the Premier Champions League qualification. New Zealand in the first set of races was about to step into the yacht for the first Champions League. lion pounds for the striker, League. “Liverpool is a club with a rep- two minutes and 19 seconds. time since Simpson’s death, his voice The Uruguayan has been the although Liverpool have main- “I want to move to play in the utation for doing things the right “The last month’s been hard, and it choked with emotion. “It’s really a sad Champions League and there is a way, I just want them to abide by was good for us to finish today with a day for me personally,” he said. “I’d love to club offering me that opportuni- the promises made last season,” win,” said Luna Rossa helmsman Chris be going out there with Bart. He would ty,” he was quoted as saying in he said. Draper, who added they had torn the have been so excited.” The Daily Telegraph. “I have told “I have the club’s word and we main sail just before the start of the race He looked at a ribbon with Simpson’s the manager that I want to leave have the written contract and we and the shore crew was still taping it nickname printed on the sleeve of his the club. are happy to take this to the together with only three minutes to go. wetsuit. “He’s gonna be with us out “I am being accused of show- Premier League for them to The tear “made sailing the boat a little bit there,” he said.”So keep an eye on us ing a lack of loyalty but last year I decide the case but I do not want harder trying to nurse it,” he said. Bart.”—Reuters had the opportunity to move to a it to come to that.” big European club and I stayed Suarez, who is four games into on the understanding that if we a 10-match ban for biting did not qualify for the Champions Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic, will Preview League the following season then miss late yesterday’s pre-season I would be allowed to go. friendly against Valerenga in New coach hopes Zimbabwe “I gave absolutely everything Norway due to the foot problem. last season but it was not enough Liverpool open the new Premier improve against Zambia to give us a top-four finish. Now League season with a home all I want is that Liverpool honour game against Stoke City on Aug. JOHANNESBURG: New Zimbabwe French coach Herve Renard took our agreement.” 17. —Reuters coach Ian Gorowa hopes his second Zambia to third place four years ago in African Nations Championship home the maiden Championship and believes match within eight days will be more Evans Kangwa can be the catalyst for successful than the first. another finals appearance. The ‘Warriors’ tackle Zambia in Harare Substitute striker Kangwa, back from ICC in Hotspot probe — report this weekend in a second round, first leg six months of trials in Spain, scored the fixture and the overall winners qualify second goal in a 2-0 home win over SYDNEY: The International Cricket Council in 1st innings where hotspot showed I nicked to the remainder of the Ashes series.” for the 2014 tournament. Zimbabwe Botswana that sealed a second-round (ICC) have launched a probe into allegations it.” Another, in reply to former England captain secured a last-four place in the region- place. some batsmen in the Ashes series have used Hotspot’s Australian inventor, Warren and media pundit Michael Vaughan posted based qualifiers despite an embarrassing “Although not fit enough yet to last silicone tape on the edge of their bats to con- Brennan, was reported in the British media to on Aug. 5 read: “Michael, its time you investi- 1-1 draw with minnows Mauritius. 90 minutes, Evans has a lot of talent and fuse Hotspot technology, Australia’s Channel be preparing a statement on the technology gate why players are using fibreglass tape on Having romped to a 3-0 win on the after scoring a hat-trick in a warm-up Nine TV reported yesterday. for release late yesterday. the edges of their bats.” England coach Andy Indian Ocean island, Zimbabwe were game I knew he could make an impact The ongoing five-test series between A tweet posted on Tuesday from an unveri- Flower also called for improvements in the expected to celebrate the home debut off the bench,” explained Renard. England and Australia has been riddled with fied Twitter account under his name and enti- DRS system after the third test was drawn, of former national team striker Gorowa Mozambique have home advantage controversy over the inconsistency of the tled @HotSpotInventor read: “We will make a ensuring the hosts, who won the first two with a big victory. first in a clash with Angola that brings Decision Review System (DRS), part of which statement tomorrow about hotspot in regard tests, would retain the Ashes. —Reuters But it took them more than 80 min- together the two Portuguese-speaking is the Hotspot thermal imaging technology. utes to score through captain and mid- countries in southern Africa. Hotspot uses infrared cameras to determine fielder Masimba Mambare and the visi- They also met at the Cosafa Cup with tors grabbed an equaliser just before an Apson Manjate goal just before half- whether the ball has struck the batsman, bat full-time. time settling the plate final in favour of or pad, with any contact supposed to show up “We must do better against Zambia the Mozambican Mambas (snakes). Star as a bright spot on the image. to reach the finals,” admitted Gorowa, striker Manjate misses the first leg in Cricket Australia last week requested an who took over when the contract of Maputo after being red carded during a explanation from the ICC over the dismissal of German Klaus-Dieter Pagels was not 3-0 away loss to Namibia last weekend Usman Khawaja during the third test at Old renewed. “The pressure of playing at that took the tie to penalties. Trafford. home got to us and now we face Mozambique had a much easier time in The batsman was given out caught despite tougher rivals,” he said of a Zambian a preliminary tie against Seychelles, scor- a review of the television pictures and team seeking a second win over ing six goals, while Angola won 1-0 at Hotspot which showed no convincing evi- Zimbabwe inside three weeks. home and away to Swaziland. Gabon dence of a nick off the bat. Hosts Zambia overcame Zimbabwe trail Cameroon 1-0 ahead of a first round, Later in the same match, England batsman 2-0 in the final of the regional Cosafa second leg clash in Libreville delayed by Kevin Pietersen was also given out, caught Cup during July with Alex N’gonga and a short FIFA ban on Cameroon over state behind, but again the Hotspot failed to pick Kabaso Chongo scoring direct from free- interference. anything up. kicks. Goalkeeper Maxwell Jacques Haman was the Yaounde The ICC declined to comment when Nyamupangedengu came under fire for match-winner two weeks ago, compos- Reuters contacted a spokesperson on both goals, and axing him from the ing himself after being fouled to net the Wednesday but Pietersen was far more forth- squad was one of the first decisions tak- resulting penalty kick. The overall win- coming with his opinion on the matter in a en by Gorowa. ners advance to the January 11-February series of angry tweets. Pagels produced good football but 1 finals in South Africa and the losers get “Horrible journalism yet again! My name bad results during his brief tenure, and a second chance in a play-off with the brought up in hotspot crisis suggesting I use Gorowa wants to continue a crisp pass- Democratic Republic of Congo. Burkina silicon(e) to prevent nicks showing! Such hurt- ing style in a Championship for home- Faso, Burundi, Congo Brazzaville, ful lies,” Pieterson wrote. based stars. “We want to use the wings Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, “I am never afraid of getting out! If I nick it, and make crosses-I believe that is the Morocco, Nigeria and Uganda have qual- I’ll walk.. To suggest I cheat by covering my way football should be played,” Rusape- ified and South Africa are automatic par- bat with silicon(e) infuriates me,” he added. born Gorowa, 41, stressed to reporters. ticipants as hosts.—AFP “How stupid would I be to try & hide a nick NOTTINGHAM: England’s Matt Prior checks his bat as he walks from the pitch after losing when it could save me on an LBW appeal, like his wicket during the first day of the opening Ashes series. —AFP US stars look Suarez asks to shine Liverpool in Moscow to honor 18 agreement19 THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

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ZURICH:Basel Lyon’s midfielder Clement Grenier (left)and vies with Grasshoppe’s Serbian Lyondefender Milan Vilotic and Grasshopper’s in midfielder Amir AbrashiCL (far right) during playoffsthe UEFA Champions League preliminary football match. — AFP

TEL AVIV: Basel blew a three-goal lead but hung on to beat of anti-Israel remarks attributed to Salah. He and another Salzburg, won 3-1 on Tuesday but went behind after four min- The Albanian midfielder added a second penalty on the Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-3 on aggregate on Tuesday and seal a place Egyptian, substitute Mohamed Elneny, were booed whenever utes with a Jonathan Soriano goal before Raul Meireles hit a half-hour to bring Skenderbeu level on aggregate but a goal by in the Champions League playoffs. they touched the ball at the compact Bloomfield stadium. quick reply for the home side. Sergei Khizhnichenko steadied the visitors’s nerves before the The Swiss champions will be joined on the last step before The Swiss, who reached the Europa League semi-finals last Senegal’s Moussa Sow scored a second for the Turkish side, break. Skenderbeu’s Pero Pejic was sent off early in the second the lucrative group stage by Olympique Lyon, who won 1-0 at season, were rocked again eight minutes into the second half who had grabbed a 1-1 draw in the first leg only after a 95th- period and Shakhtyor took advantage when Makzat Bayzhanov Grasshoppers, Steaua Bucharest, Fenerbahce, Slovenia’s when Maharan Radi brought the Israeli side level with a shot minute penalty, and Cameroon striker Pierre Webo sealed the hit their second of the night to take them through 5-3 on Maribor, Bulgarian side Ludogorets and Shakhtyor IK of from 30 metres that beat Basel goalkeeper Yann Sommer. win for last season’s Europa League semi-finalists. aggregate. Kazakhstan. But Basel held their nerve to reach this month’s two-legged Steaua Bucharest all but guaranteed their playoff place after Partizan Belgrade were missing left-back Vladimir Volkov Ludogorets, who won 1-0 at seasoned European campaign- playoffs to decide who will join the likes of last season’s winners just six minutes of the second leg against Dinamo Tbilisi when and midfielder Milos Jojic after red cards and failed to make ers Partizan Belgrade on Tuesday thanks to a late penalty, and Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Manchester United in the group Iasmin Latovlevici scored to make it 3-0 on aggregate. their home advantage count against Ludogorets, who had Shakhtyor have not got past the second qualifying round stage of European club soccer’s elite competition. Dinamo equalised early in the second half but the 1986 come from a goal down in the first leg to win 2-1. before. Basel coach Murat Yakin said: “We could not have asked for a European champions eased through with plenty to spare. The Bulgarians rubbed salt in the Serbian fans’ wounds Defending a 1-0 lead from the first leg, Basel were ahead better start with three unanswered goals. But then Maccabi had Maribor reached the playoffs for the second season in suc- when Hristo Zlatinski scored from the spot in the 88th minute after five minutes through Fabian Schaer before Mohamed nothing to lose. We were expecting a hot game, both in terms cession, on away goals, after a 0-0 home draw with APOEL after a foul by Nikola Gulan, who was sent off. Salah and Marcelo Diaz added further goals with half an hour of the crowd and the climate.” Nicosia, which followed a 1-1 draw in the first leg. The draw for the playoffs is on Friday. Teams will be divided played. But an own goal by centre-back Schaer revived Maccabi Lyon, Champions League semi-finalists in 2009-10, had won Albania’s Skenderbeu, 3-0 down after the first leg against into a champions group and a non-champions group which and Eran Zahavi kept the dreams of the 13,000 home fans alive the first leg against Grasshoppers 1-0 in France and just about Shakhtyor, shocked the Kazakhs by taking a 2-0 lead after just already includes Arsenal, AC Milan and Schalke. Five of the 10 with a goal eight minutes before the end of a breathless first deserved to seal the same result in Zurich thanks to a late goal 20 minutes of the return leg through goals from Zelijko Tomic teams in each group will be seeded for the two legs on August half. The build-up to the match had been dominated by reports from Clement Grenier. Fenerbahce, who drew the first leg 1-1 in and Blendi Shkembi, from the penalty spot. 20-12 and August 27-28. — Reuters Venus falls in Toronto Djokovic thrills TORONTO: Venus Williams got off to a flying confident in it.” start in her return from a two-month layoff Williams has also been battling an auto- but her game quickly fell apart as the seven- immune disease for the past few years and fans in Montreal times grand slam champion slumped to a 0-6 said she might have come back a week too 6-4 6-2 loss to Kirsten Flipkens in the Rogers early. But she feels she needs matches before MONTREAL: World number one Novak It proved to be a successful, yet tense, Cup first round on Tuesday. the US Open, which begins in a little less than Djokovic powered to a comprehensive 6-2 one for Nadal as he and his doubles partner Seeds Maria Kirilenko (11) Jelena Jankovic three weeks time. 6-1 win over Florian Mayer in his first match Pablo Andujar saved two match points (15) and Ana Ivanovic (16) also had first round “Coming back from injury, you have to since Wimbledon while Canadian players before they beat Spanish compatriots David wins. In the second round, Slovak Dominika build the confidence to just realize that you upstaged Rafa Nadal with a string of sur- Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez 6-7(2) 6-1 12-10. Cibulkova upended eighth seed Angelique can come back and play without pain,” she prise victories at the Rogers Cup on The second day’s play, however, Kerber of Germany 6-7(0) 6-2 7-5 and second said. “So I feel like I’m in that threshold of Tuesday. belonged to the understated locals, includ- seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland won 6-2 building confidence. A fit and fresh looking Djokovic, who ing three wildcard entries who stunned 6-3 over Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer. “That’s a lot of what happened to me at the was beaten by Andy Murray to the All their more highly fancied opponents as Williams, who has played sporadically this French (Open), too. I played an intense and a England Club crown, showed little signs of they basked in the home support. rust from a lack of recent match practice as World number 71 Vasek Pospisil pro- season due to a back injury and had not com- really exciting match, but I hadn’t played any he took just 56 minutes to advance on a duced the biggest upset when he surged to peted since losing in the first round of the matches. So it was a tough situation to be in. warm Montreal evening. an unlikely first round win over in-form French Open in late May, started in fine form Do you play or you don’t play? So I feel like in The Serbian, renowned for his sense of American John Isner. on Tuesday but gradually fell apart as the that situation now going into the US Open.” humor and reputation as an entertainer, Pospisil came from a set and a break contest wore on. Cibulkova, who won the Stanford title late then celebrated his victory with some down to claim a 5-7 7-6(5) 7-6(4) victory in The five-times Wimbledon champion’s last month, needed nearly three hours to impromptu dancing in the centre of the bright and sunny conditions, thrilling a serve was slower than usual, her ground overcome German Kerber, fighting back from main arena, much to the delight of the fans parochial home crowd who cheered his strokes were erratic and she seemed slow to 1-4 down in the third set to seal victory. who had stayed late to watch him. every winner. the ball as Wimbledon semi-finalist Flipkens “You have to go for it,” Cibulkova said. “It’s the first game (for me) since Isner, who won the Atlanta title two consistently changed angles on her. “Then when you make some mistakes, then Wimbledon, I had four weeks off ... but it weeks ago before being beaten by Juan “I just really started serving a lot more in you get a little bit nervous. It was really long was a great performance,” a smiling Martin Del Potro in the Washington final last the last week, so I’m not really 100 percent on match because we had long rallies and I was Djokovic said in a courtside interview once week, was left wondering how he had failed the serve yet,” the 33-year-old Williams said. the one who was making her run. I think it’s he had ended his crowd-pleasing antics. to get the job down. “So it was better not to take too many risks normal that she became tired.” Top seed The return of the two-time defending “I should’ve won the match,” Isner said. “I champion after a month off had followed should’ve won the second set and I also and just do something I felt more comfort- Serena Williams will play her opening match TORONTO: Kristen Flipkins of Belgium hits a return during her match against Venus Williams Nadal’s first competitive match since his should’ve won the third set but I didn’t. This able with. This week I will definitely be prac- on Wednesday against Italy’s Francesca shock first round exit at Wimbledon. was a match I let slip away.” — Reuters ticing my serve a lot more and getting more Schiavone. — Reuters during day 2 of the Rogers Cup. — AFP Koreas agree fresh talks on closed industrial park Page 23

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GIZA: A picture taken on August 3, 2013 shows Egyptian men riding their camels as they wait for customers in front of the pyramid of Khafre. — AFP Tourists desert Egypt as protests rage

CAIRO: By Giza’s Great Pyramids, sou- soak up the atmosphere and relax in venir vendors wait restlessly in the cafes over a mint tea and a sheesha shade, watching for the handful of (water pipe). After dark, the area is tourists who still make their way down crowded with Egyptians talking a stroll Delays hang over Pak 3G lifeline the empty street to the once-bustling after the iftar meal to break the landmark. The 2011 revolution that top- Ramadan fast, but the foreigners are ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s cash-strapped pled dictator Hosni Mubarak dealt a nowhere to be seen. government has promised to sell 3G severe blow to the country’s tourist Hussam Manaf, 41, is a university pro- mobile telephone licences to raise rev- industry, once a mainstay of Egypt’s fessor in the mornings but, in the enue, match regional rivals and drive pros- economy. And things have gone from evenings, he runs the small Khan el- perity, but the process has been beset by bad to worse since June, when violent Khalili souvenir shop his father founded. delays. Even Afghanistan, Pakistan’s far less protests broke out against president Surrounded by hundreds of alabaster developed western neighbour with a Mohamed Morsi. On July 3, the army pyramids, glass ornaments and papyrus weaker economy and more fragile state, ousted the Islamist leader, leading to scrolls, Manaf said only one or two has the technology. But Pakistani con- further deadly violence and an ongoing tourists had visited his shop each day sumers struggle to transfer data by phone, standoff between the two sides. The since June 30. He was adamant that the video streaming is often interrupted - tour buses that lined the streets around tourism ministry needed to do more to although technically YouTube is banned - the pyramids have disappeared. promote Egypt abroad. “Where are the and video calls problematic. Two months “We hope to the Lord that he will films showing Egypt outside of Egypt,” after the new government took office, bring back those busy days, because all he asked, pointing out that other coun- there is little sign that the process will start of us rely on tourism alone,” said Gameel tries had done a far better job of pro- soon. Pakistan’s state minister for informa- Hassan, who has run a shop near the moting themselves. “When you look tion technology Anusha Rehman told AFP pyramids selling papyrus prints for near- around you see that, when they do film that the auction alone could take six to ly 20 years. Now, his shop is empty. Only adverts, they show important places,” he eight months. “The base price for 3G a few tourists come each day to browse said, amazed that the ministry was hap- licences is not set yet. Only once it is done the hundreds of pictures of Egyptian py to stick to old cliches about the will I be able to give a figure on how much gods and pharoahs that cover the walls. country. “Tourism in Egypt is not only revenue will be generated by the licences “To bring tourism back, we need stabili- the pyramids,” he said, exasperated. sale,” she said. But first the Pakistan ty and security,” he said. “The parties Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou Telecommunication Authority (PTA) needs must calm down and leave the presi- acknowledge to AFP that the sector is to be constituted and Rehman conceded dent to rule the country in the way he suffering even more, as the current there could be substantial delays. “I am not ISLAMABAD: Pakistani pedestrians walk past a mobile phone promotion banner on sees fit,” he said, referring to the coun- unrest is hitting the peak season. “In the sure how long it is going to take because Tuesday. — AFP try’s new interim authorities. first 15 days of July 2013, Egypt wel- the appointment of members have to be Out in the street, Mahmoud Attiyah, comed 387,000 tourists compared with made by the cabinet,” she said. But delays are not the only problem. just 10 percent would raise GDP by 1.5-1.6 who offers horseback tours of the pyra- 515,000 tourists in the same period last A senior civil servant initially told AFP “The previous government could not auc- percent. “It is a paradigm shift from voice mids, is glum about business. “There year,” Zaazou said. In 2010, the year that key appointments to the PTA were tion 3G licences because it wanted to to data that will open many doors for GSM have been no tourists coming from out- before the revolution, Egypt attracted expected to be finalised in July. The first bypass the standard tendering practices,” operators in the country to serve their cus- side. From June 30 until now, there have 14.7 million visitors, a record high. That half of August in Pakistan is dominated by the official said on condition of anonymity. tomers through innovative avenues,” the been none,” he complained. But Morsi’s plunged by nearly a third to around 10 religious and national holidays. Prime “There was infighting within the PTA over official said. removal cheered Attiyah. Like many of million in 2011, then rose to 11.5 million Minister Nawaz Sharif, elected for a his- the auctioning of licences as the previous Shahzad Ahmad, country director of the vendors, he thought the Morsi gov- in 2012. Zaazou said he had plans for a toric third term in May, faces the daunting government wanted to bypass standard Bytes for All, an independent technology ernment was harming Egypt’s tourist fresh PR offensive abroad, but added challenge of bringing down an 8.8 percent procedures and there was resistance by think tank, says Pakistan should forget 3G industry, which once accounted for that getting countries to lift advisories budget deficit, yet his first budget was the members which delayed the process,” and move directly to more advanced 4G some 10 percent of GDP. Yet not every- against travelling to Egypt is his main conservative. He offered no major tax the official said. LTE bands. But he also called for clean bid- one has been put off. Two travellers, aim. “At this stage of the development reforms and within weeks, his government Raza Rabbani, a leading senator from ding. “The process should be transparent laden by backpacks, made their way of tourism in the world, a tourist won’t was forced to seek a $5.3 billion loan from the opposition Pakistan People’s Party, has so that Pakistan gets a better price for its past the gate to the pyramids. They go abroad without travel insurance,” he the International Monetary Fund: enough criticised the inclusion of 3G licence sale asset and ensure that there is no corrup- were followed by a crowd of jostling only to keep on top of old loan repay- proceeds in the first budget of the Sharif tion,” he told AFP. “So far there is no trans- vendors offering souvenirs and horse said. Warnings issued by embassies and ments. government. “These are illusionary figures. parency in the process, nobody knows rides. foreign ministries make it harder for Finance Minister Ishaq Dar sought to There is nothing concrete,” he told AFP. Of how many licences are going to be auc- Ryan Gary and Ashley Westcott, from them to get the insurance they need to fend off some criticism about the lack of the five mobile phone companies in tioned and to whom?” he added. Ahmad the US state of Colorado, were unfazed travel to Egypt. Zaazou said he was already talking to tax reform by saying that a 3G auction Pakistan, only Oslo-based Telenor has so said that 4G technology will speed up by the State Department’s travel warn- would fetch a “considerable amount of for- ings about the country and alarming European ambassadors to lift the travel far expressed public interest in acquiring a telecommunication in Pakistan and create warnings in certain areas, such as eign exchange”. Cheap mobile phone 3G licence, saying it could be operationally new jobs in online media content creation. stories on the news. “As long as you trav- telephony took Pakistan by storm in the el safe and are smart about the kind of Egypt’s pristine Red Sea resorts. “There ready at the end of 2013. “Telenor Pakistan Consumers seem unfazed, saying they are other destinations different than early 2000s and according to the PTA there is presently going through a massive net- already have to pay more than 40 percent decisions that you are making, a lot of are more than 122 million mobile phone times the people are a lot nicer than the Cairo and Alexandria that are safe away work modernisation exercise which is taxes and service charges on recharges from the hot events,” he says. But subscribers - or 68.6 percent of the popu- expected to finish by the end of this year and calls. “The amount of taxes on mobile media makes them out to be,” one said, lation. PTA officials estimate that a 3G auc- Zaazou said he is bullish about the and is essential in making our state-of-the- phone calls is insane. I recharge a 100 beaming. But tourists like Westcott and tion could raise $1 billion in annual licence future, and aims to bring 13 million art network 3G, 4G and LTE enabled,” a rupee card and get only 60 rupees credit. Gary are increasingly rare. They have fees, which could be ploughed back into disappeared from the Khan el-Khalili tourists to Egypt this year. “I think that company official told AFP. He said the The rest all goes into taxes, duties and reducing the crippling $5 billion circular bazaar in Cairo. This warren of narrow in the medium and long term, tourism technology would drive prosperity and service charges,” said construction worker debt in the energy sector. streets used to see coachloads of peo- will see a strong comeback,” he predict- that increasing Internet penetration by Mohammad Afzal, 35. — AFP ple coming to haggle over souvenirs, ed. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 BUSINESS Iraqi Kurdistan opens crude oil trade route via Iran

ARBIL, Iraq: Iraq’s Kurdistan region is However, it is not clear what Iran, deals on its own terms with firms includ- “We have no knowledge of any such ny itself is not domiciled in the EU and is exporting crude oil by truck to an Iranian which faces huge problems in selling its ing Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total, and transactions,” said Bjoern Dale, acting not a branch of an EU company, then it is port for shipping to Asia, industry own oil products because of internation- is currently laying the final stretch of an managing director of DNO, which oper- unlikely to be subject to EU sanctions,” sources say, using a trade route that is al sanctions, gets out of the arrange- independent export pipeline to Turkey. ates Tawke. “We sell oil on the market, said Patrick Murphy, a legal director at likely to anger both Baghdad and ment. Asked about the route, the Fuel oil and naphtha have moved by and once we sell, the buyer takes control Clyde & Co. in Dubai who specialises in Washington. In a dispute largely over Kurdish government did not comment truck from Kurdistan through Iran for and responsibility.” Genel Energy, which Iran sanctions. revenue sharing, Kurdistan’s crude on the record, although a KRG official years, because Kurdish domestic sales is involved in both Tawke and Taq Taq, Many ships mask their entry into exports through a pipeline controlled by source denied any crude was going contracts allow the sale of these prod- also said it sold crude at the well-head. Iranian ports by switching off their AIS the Iraqi central government dried up through Iran yet. Oil lies at the heart of ucts outside Iraq. At Iran’s BIK terminal, the truckloads transmitters - vanishing from the global last year. However, it is transporting the dispute between the Arab-led Iraqi Washington, a long-standing ally of of crude are pooled in storage tanks and ship positioning system as they about 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of central government and the ethnic the KRG, has previously pressured Arbil then pumped onto ships for export. The approach BIK and reappearing days later crude and condensates by road from the Kurdish-run northern enclave. At issue to stop this trade as it tightens the sanc- tankers sail directly to Asia or to storage laden and heading to Fujairah. Shippers landlocked region through Turkey. Now are control of oilfields, territory and tions imposed over Iran’s disputed facilities at Fujairah in the United Arab from BIK arrive at storage terminals wav- the Kurdistan Regional Government crude revenues shared between the two nuclear program. “We have advised Arbil Emirates and elsewhere in the Gulf, ing Iraqi certificates of origin for their (KRG) has approved a second route for administrations. “We have made it very in the past not to engage in business where the crude is kept in tank farms cargoes of crude, fuel oil or naphtha. “We crude through Iran used previously only clear that the only acceptable option for with Iran and will continue to do so,” a US part-owned by European companies, AIS take due care to establish that no Iranian for petroleum products, the sources said. oil exports is through the federal diplomat said when asked how Live ship tracking data shows and indus- petroleum products with certificate of For the past two months, crude has pipeline network,” a senior Iraqi oil offi- Washington would view the KRG’s offi- try sources say. At least a dozen tankers origin Iran are currently being stored at been trucked from Kurdish fields over cial said. “We consider any other trade, cial approval for crude exports through have loaded crude or fuels at BIK over any facilities owned, leased or operated the border to Iran’s Bandar Imam whether it be through Iran or Turkey, as Iran. Amounts of Kurdistan crude being the past few months and unloaded them by the company, Vopak Horizon Fujairah Khomeini (BIK) terminal, 900 km (560 smuggling. It’s illegal.” trucked through Iran are likely to be at the Vopak Horizon terminal in Fujairah Limited (VHFL) or any controlled entity,” miles) to the south on the Gulf. Amounts Baghdad claims sole authority over modest compared with its production - part-owned by Dutch Royal Vopak - a spokesman for the Dutch company are unclear but could be as much as oil exploration and export. It has already capacity. This is three times its refining and at VTTI Fujairah, a nearby terminal said. He said that four examples of ships 30,000 bpd, they said. One industry accused the Kurds in the past of smug- capacity of around 125,000 bpd, which is 50 percent-owned by Swiss identified by Reuters as having loaded source in Kurdistan said the regional gling crude via Iran and keeping the rev- although some more oil is being refined trader Vitol, according to ship tracking oil at BIK and unloaded at VHFL over the government in Arbil was anxious not to enue for itself. The KRG says its right to locally in rudimentary topping plants. data and terminal operators. last few months had presented Iraqi cer- put out either of the region’s powerful exploit and export the reserves under its Industry sources said the oil is mainly EU sanctions prohibit European com- tificates of origin on arrival from Iran. As neighbours, Turkey and Iran, in trans- soil is enshrined in Iraq’s federal constitu- from the region’s three biggest produc- panies from dealing in Iranian oil and for VTTI Fujairah, “the Vitol group of porting the crude. “It’s a political com- tion, which was drawn up following the ing fields - Taq Taq, Tawke and Khurmala. any crude and oil products, regardless of companies has ceased all business deal- promise,” said the source, who declined US-led invasion of 2003, and has passed Bjoern Dale, acting managing director of origin, that have been exported from ings with Iran; including the sales of to be identified. “They cannot ignore the its own hydrocarbons legislation. Arbil DNO which operates Tawke, said he did Iranian ports. But the joint ventures run- refined product to Iran and all purchases Iranians and go all the way ... with the has already antagonised Baghdad by not know whether any crude from the ning the terminals are not incorporated of crude oil from Iran,” a spokeswoman Turks. They have to balance.” signing exploration and production field was going over the border into Iran. in the European Union. “If the JV compa- said. — Reuters

High bond yields push Gulf Aldar to cut debt as business recovers borrowers to alternatives ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi developer Aldar Properties laid out plans to cut its $3.8 billion debt by more than half in coming years as it starts to recover from a real estate slump and reaps the benefits of a merger with its main rival. Sukuk issuance hit by volatility Property prices in the emirate slumped by more than half after the global financial crisis and Aldar, one of the largest DUBAI: Two Gulf Arab borrowers have not be taken as a sign of the general billion a year earlier, according to Zawya. as a candidate for a bond issue. Middle Eastern developers, was saved from collapse by a attracted heavy investor demand for mood in the market. Both bonds are per- The figures include local currency sukuk A Dubai-based syndicated loan banker $10 billion government bailout in 2010. Three years on, international bond sales in the past two forming well because of scarcity value - sales. So bank financing is re-emerging at a European bank said the pricing on Aldar is still struggling. Its revenue slumped in the second weeks, but higher yield premiums are little other debt has been issued in recent as a more accessible and cost-efficient the Jumeirah deal was “too tight” for his quarter, when sales were scarce, and its net income came prompting many other potential issuers weeks - and because the issuers were alternative to debt capital markets in the bank to participate - but cash-flush UAE mostly from a one-time gain linked to the purchase of its in the region to seek alternative funding willing to pay high premiums: in Gulf - at least for now. banks were keen to participate. main rival Sorouh Real Estate earlier this year. sources. US dollar bond issuance in the Bahrain’s case, a coupon of over 6.0 per- “Companies in the region are already Some borrowers, such as Dubai mall Chief Financial Officer Greg Fewer said revenue would Gulf, conventional and sukuk, stands at cent for a BBB-rated sovereign issue. exploring other options, especially in the developer Majid Al Futtaim Holding, have start to improve in the third quarter as Aldar benefits from about $17.3 billion year-to-date, up from Bahrain appeared to need the cash bank market, thus taking advantage of had enough cash on their balance sheets Sorouh’s revenue stream and would grow further by year- $11.4 billion in the same period a year fairly quickly to cover its rising budget their own improved credit metrics as well to hold off on issuing bonds. Earlier this end when it begins delivering more than 7,000 units. He ago, according to data from Zawya, a deficit; Shuweihat was a project bond, as the fact that many banks in the region year, MAF announced it would issue a said recurring income, which comes mainly from malls and Thomson Reuters company. But the vast and the project behind it was subject to are very liquid and need to grow their hybrid bond to help finance its buyout of hotels, would grow from the third quarter when Sorouh’s majority of this year’s total was issued deadlines. loan books,” said Chavan Bhogaita, head Carrefour’s stake in a joint venture; it said recurring revenue is integrated with Aldar’s. Aldar, which built Abu Dhabi’s Formula One race track, will look to before late May, when US Treasury yields “Both issues were priced to leave of markets strategy at National Bank of it already had enough liquidity on hand reduce its leverage and is aiming to slash debt to between began rising sharply on expectations that some money on the table for investors, Abu Dhabi. for the deal, but wanted to issue a bond 4 billion and 5 billion dirhams ($1.36-1.09 billion) from 14 the US Federal Reserve would start cut- which in my view was smart given the In the United Arab Emirates, for exam- to ensure no risk to its credit rating. MAF billion in the next few years. ting back its monetary stimulus this year. market conditions, at a time when the ple, bank deposits were up 6.7 percent subsequently said it was delaying the “You would expect 35 to 40 percent debt against the Since late May, new international interest rate view had softened after a year-to-date in May while total bank issue because of market conditions. value of your recurring assets that will give an optimal level bond issuance has been modest, and fairly brutal sell-off. So some people were lending was up only 2.9 percent. As In the case of Saudi Arabia, companies of leverage and operational flexibility,” Fewer said in a con- most borrowers who have come to mar- looking to get back in,” Dasgupta said. recently as the end of 2011, outstanding that might have issued bonds in the ference call yesterday. The firm hopes to repay the debt ket appeared to have special reasons for Other potential Gulf bond issuers, which loans exceeded deposits; now deposits international market may now choose to through receivables from its government projects and wanting to raise funds quickly. Borrowers just three months ago might have exceed loans by 10 percent, according to issue in the country’s liquid riyal-denomi- recurring income businesses. Fewer said Aldar, with about who need money less urgently have held tapped the market opportunistically to central bank data. The increase in excess nated bond market. $12 billion in assets, was looking to refinance its debt, off on issuing - and since general yield raise cheap funds, are now reconsidering deposits is continuing to push down In May a senior executive at Saudi including a $1.2 billion bond maturing next year. “We will levels are still much higher than they their strategies. banks’ funding costs - the one-year dairy firm Almarai hinted at a preference be requesting many discussions with banks on various were in May, borrowers are exploring During past episodes of volatility in Emirates interbank offered rate is at a for an international bond issue, but last debt, including the $1.2 billion debt maturing next year,” options such as bank loans and tapping the market for conventional bonds, multi-year low of 1.27 percent, down month the company appointed banks to Fewer said. their own cash flows, which are healthy sukuk have been an attractive option for from 1.37 percent in mid-May - and rais- structure a hybrid bond which, sources The bulk of Aldar’s debt matures next year and two of because of strong economic growth in issuers, because global supply of sukuk ing pressure on the banks to extend cor- familiar with the situation said, is likely to those notes will be carried beyond 2014. Fewer said that the Gulf. “With US yields still higher by has not kept pace with demand from porate loans at lower rates. be riyal-denominated. Because of ample no banks had so far been mandated for its refinancing 100 basis points from the May levels, cash-rich pools of Islamic funds. The The borrower-friendly conditions in market liquidity, riyal bonds have been plans. In its first earnings announcement after the Sorouh immediate recovery to issued levels looks imbalance has allowed sukuk to be the loan market can be seen in a spate of outperforming dollar debt. The yield on takeover was completed in June, Aldar said it made sec- tough,” Biswajit Dasgupta, head of treas- issued more cheaply than conventional renegotiations of loan deals by Dubai Saudi Electricity Co’s riyal bond maturing ond-quarter net profit of 1.25 billion dirhams ($340.3 mil- ury and trading at Abu Dhabi asset man- debt. entities over the last several months. Last in 2029 has tightened 1 bp since June 18 lion), compared with 418 million dirhams in the same peri- ager Invest AD, said of the recent rise in This year, however, sukuk have not month, Dubai Duty repriced a $1.75 bil- to 1.47 percent, while the yield on its dol- od of 2012. Gulf yields. been spared the impact of rising US lion, six-year loan facility from 325 bps lar bond maturing in 2023 has widened The earnings included a one-time gain of 2.6 billion Bahrain issued a $1.5 billion bond late yields. Spreads on Gulf Cooperation over the London interbank offered rate 35 bps to 3.97 percent. dirhams from the combination of its business with Sorouh, last month which generated order books Council conventional bonds widened an to 225 bps over on a dirham-denominat- “Some prospective borrowers, espe- said Aldar, which is 30.5-percent owned by Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala. Fewer said the gain represented the differ- of nearly $8 billion. The bond has per- average of 57.8 bps between May 22 and ed tranche and 250 bps over on a US dol- cially in Saudi, who may have been con- ence between the value of shares issued to acquire Sorouh formed well since issue; it was yielding June 26, the period of most volatility, lar tranche. In June luxury hotel chain sidering diversifying into dollar funding and the value of Sorouh’s assets. The figure was less than 6.15 percent in the secondary market on while spreads on Gulf sukuk widened 45 Jumeirah Group, part of the Dubai may prefer to use the local currency mar- some investors had expected. “The stock had gained in Tuesday, down from 6.20 percent at bps - not much of an outperformance. Holding conglomerate which has seen ket if the difference in borrowing costs expectations of acquisition gains, which were expected to issue. Similarly, an $825 million project The absolute difference in spreads some of its units restructure debt, between the two is too big,” said Bhogaita. be higher than the reported 2.6 billion, and we expect to bond issued by Abu Dhabi’s Shuweihat 2 between conventional bonds and sukuk secured a six-year, $1.4 billion loan at an “Local currency-denominated issuance is see profit taking once the exchange resumes trading,” (S2) power and water plant, issued at 6.0 at the start of this month was just 13 bps. aggressive margin of only 275 bps over an alternative to international bond sales Ambereen Jiwani, senior analyst at Bahrain’s Securities & percent, was yielding 5.78 percent on Sukuk sales in the Gulf total just under the London interbank offered rate. as issuers scrutinise cost of funding more Investment Company (SICO), said in a note. —Reuters Tuesday. But these performances should $15 billion year-to-date, down from $19.8 Jumeirah had been seen by the market closely.” — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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PARIS: A glimmer of hope that France Hollande said on July 14 that for France A trade deficit is a drag on growth in that it might turn out higher. plus for May was more than double the may edge out of recession in the next the recovery “is here”. And on Monday, an economy while a surplus boosts out- Meanwhile yesterday, the customs 6.6 billion recorded in May 2012. A criti- three months came from the central the International Monetary Fund said put. France has made a commitment to service reported that the trade balance cal problem in France is high unemploy- bank yesterday, the day after President that France was heading to end the year the European Union to reduce its public showed a deficit of Ä4.4 billion ($5.8 bil- ment, and many economists are scepti- Francois Hollande repeated that recov- in a recession of 0.2 percent, struggling deficit to within the ceiling of 3.0 per- lion) in June, the smallest deficit since cal that Hollande will be able to deliver ery was on the way. The Bank of France in to growth of 0.8 percent next year. cent of output, but was heading to miss July 2010. But the main reason for this on his promise to reverse the upward said in a first estimate that the economy, However, the government is still fore- that target for this year and has been improvement was a fall in imports of trend by the end of this year. In June, the which is stumbling along just below the casting that this year the economy will given a two-year extension on condition hydrocarbons. In the first six months of number of jobseekers in France rose to a line between recession and expansion, grow by 0.1 percent, even though the that it pursue deep reforms. The IMF said the year the balance showed a deficit of record of 3.28 million, marking an 11.2- was set to edge into growth of 0.1 per- statistics agency INSEE predicts a 0.1 on Monday that France should slow the €29.9 billion, the first time it was less percent leap year-on-year and the 26th cent in the third quarter of the year. The percent contraction. Earlier this week, a pace of budget correction, and shift to than €30 billion since 2010, Trade monthly increase in a row. “We think that overall picture for France is mixed but leading indicator showed that shrinkage cutting state spending from raising tax- Minister Nicole Bricq said. France can it will be much longer than five months appears to be trailing the trend in the of business activity was now running at es. Praising budget action in the last two hope to be drawn forward by the euro- before unemployment starts to fall,” sen- eurozone and Britain. the slowest pace for 17 months. “There is years, and recent reforms to raise com- zone and particularly by the biggest ior European economist Jennifer The latest forecast, coupled with something happening,” Hollande said petitiveness, the fund warned however eurozone economy Germany which has McKeown at Capital Economics com- some other recent signs, is broadly in Tuesday. But France is struggling on sev- that the public deficit was likely to be 3.9 withstood gloom elsewhere in Europe. mented. “This is unlikely to happen until line with data showing that the euro- eral fronts, notably to reduce its public percent of gross domestic product this Recent EU Eurostat data showed that GDP growth has reached 1.7 percent, zone is emerging from recession. But deficit and debt, and to raise the com- year. The government is forecasting a the eurozone sharply increased its trade which even the government’s rosy fore- some commentators, pointing to record petitive position of industry in a drive to deficit of 3.7 percent, although last week surplus in May, largely driven by casts suggest will not happen until late high unemployment, scoffed when reduce a big structural trade deficit. Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici hinted Germany’s export performance. The sur- next year.” —AFP Auto industry: Young people will buy again TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: The auto industry such as insurance and gasoline. Also, more says people under 34 are gradually starting to enrolled in to college, where they either can’t buy cars again as their economic circum- afford cars or don’t need them, the analysts stances improve. After the Great Recession, said. sales of cars to young people dropped signifi- In May, the unemployment rate for 16 to cantly. Fewer of them even bothered to get 19-year-olds was 24.5 percent, more than drivers licenses. Some experts surmised that three times the national rate. It was 13.2 per- the group lost interest in cars because of the cent for people 20-24, according to GM. prevalence of social media. Data presented at Without jobs, it’s difficult for younger people a big industry conference in Northern to buy cars, the analysts said. In addition, Michigan on Tuesday show that young cars Federal Reserve data show that people age 18 buyers are making a slow, if uneven, return to to 34 lost 44 percent of their net worth the market. between 2001 and 2010, yet their aggregate People age 18 to 34 accounted for more student loan balances have nearly doubled to than 14 percent of the US new car market just a total of $1 trillion, the analysts said. five years ago, but that plunged to 10.5 per- “The younger buyer is broke,” said Anthony cent in 2011, to according to registration data Pratt, vice president of Americas forecasting collected by the Polk auto research firm. The for Polk. “This demographic has been the hard- figure grew to 12.3 percent last year. Licensing est hit, from unemployment, from net worth, rates led some industry analysts to conclude from income - all factors that would influence that young people, who meet constantly on demand for high-priced consumer goods like Facebook and other social media, have less an automobile.” Pratt said he’s not sure exactly need to travel and aren’t interested in buying when young people will start buying cars in cars - even when they grow older. In 1984, big numbers again, but he’s confident they nearly 80 percent of people ages 16-24 had will. driver’s licenses, but that fell to only 68 percent Statistics show that as people age, they get in 2010. In the next-oldest demographic jobs, get married and eventually have families group, 25- to 34-year-olds, 95 percent had and buy cars, Mohatarem said. “It’s not licenses in 1984, but that dropped to 88 per- because their preferences have changed. It’s cent in 2010. because of their needs. The income isn’t there. But industry executives at Tuesday’s con- The jobs aren’t there. They grow older, that LONDON: A man walks past the window of a shop selling clothing and goods bearing the Union Flag yesterday. — AFP ference had a different take. “I don’t see any changes.” Tim Tremonte, 22, of Somerville, evidence that young people are actually losing Mass., seems to back up what the industry is interest in cars,” Mustafa Mohatarem, General saying. Of his group of eight friends, seven have Motors’ chief economist, said Tuesday at the bought or leased new cars, while one bought a Bank of England looking Center for Automotive Research Management 2-year-old car. All had to make big down pay- Briefing Seminars, an auto industry confab ments in order to get decent interest rates for near Traverse City, Michigan. Mohatarem and first-time buyers, he said. “We all consider our others at the conference said young people cars as investments, even though they are a forward to help recovery put off getting licenses because they’ve had depreciating asset, and we plan to keep them trouble getting jobs and have been living with for some years,” said Tremonte, who works for a their parents. They also didn’t buy cars due to Jeep dealership. He recently signed a three-year Economy recovering but slowly, Carney says rising car prices and higher costs to own cars, lease on a new Nissan Sentra.—AP LONDON: The Bank of England overhauled its nurse their economies back to health after the Unemployment is forecast to fall only slowly policy strategy yesterday, saying it planned to damage of the financial crisis. For the BoE, the from its current level of 7.8 percent of the work- keep interest rates at a record low until unem- challenge is to hold off a premature rise in force, with the central bank expecting it to aver- Koreas agree fresh talks ployment falls to 7 percent or below, something British borrowing costs at a time when signs of age 7.1 percent in the third quarter of 2016, the unlikely for another three years. Barely a month economic recovery at home and the US Federal end of its forecast horizon. This implies that the on closed industrial park after Canadian Mark Carney took over as gover- Reserve’s decision to phase out stimulus are BoE expects to keep interest rates unchanged nor, the central bank said it would keep interest pushing up market interest rates. Last month its until at least that time, unless one of three con- SEOUL: South and North Korea agreed yes- spokesman Kim Hyung-Suk. “We hope this rates at 0.5 percent unless inflation threatened Monetary Policy Committee took a step towards ditions is breached before then. The BoE will terday to new talks on their shuttered joint meeting will be able to resolve the to get out of control or there was a danger to guidance by saying that a rise in British market consider raising interest rates if their low level industrial park in Kaesong, after Pyongyang Kaesong issue and work out measures financial stability. Carney said a recovery in rates was not justified by economic fundamen- poses a threat to financial stability, if the public’s offered what Seoul called “forward-looking” aimed at ensuring the normalisation and Britain’s fragile economy was underway and it tals, and it reiterated that point yesterday. medium-term inflation expectations rise danger- proposals for reopening the complex. The further development of Kaesong,” Kim said. appeared to be broadening but he warned that ously high or if it forecasts that inflation in 18-24 agreement came just hours after Seoul had Born out of the “sunshine” reconciliation it had a long way to go before it was on solid months will be at 2.5 percent or higher. announced it would start paying compen- policy initiated in the late 1990s by then- ground. “This remains the slowest recovery in It said that if those thresholds or the 7 per- sation to South Korean firms locked out of South Korean president Kim Dae-Jung, output on record,” he told his first news confer- cent unemployment rate are reached, the MPC Kaesong since April - a move widely seen Kaesong was established in 2004 as a rare ence since taking over at the Bank. “We’re not at would consider the case for interest rate rises on as presaging a permanent withdrawal. The symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. escape velocity right now.” a month-by-month basis. “There is therefore no two Koreas have already held six rounds of Lying 10 km across the border in North The pound rallied after an initial fall on the presumption that breaching any of these knock- fruitless talks aimed at resuming operations Korea, it provided an important hard cur- announcement and British government bond outs would lead to an immediate increase in at the complex, and the South warned rency source for the impoverished North prices were lower as the BoE’s commitment on Bank Rate or sale of assets,” it said. Inflation is Sunday that it was “reaching the limit” of its through taxes, other revenues, and its cut interest rates fell short of some expectations of a forecast to average 2.9 percent in the last three patience. of workers’ wages. It had appeared immune more aggressive plan to revive growth. “It looks months of this year - close to its current level The main sticking point has been the to previous downward spirals in North- like rates are not going to rise in the next three and a lower peak than previously thought - and South’s insistence that the North provide a South relations, but finally fell victim to two years, though they could, as Carney has stressed then to fall roughly as predicted three months binding guarantee that it would not unilat- months of intense military tensions that they are not pre-committed, so again this is a ago. Finance minister George Osborne named erally close Kaesong in the future if the followed the North’s nuclear test in rather valueless bit of ‘forward guidance’ as is the Carney in November to succeed King, impressed South Korean-funded park is reopened. February. Both sides blamed the other for case with the ECB,” said Mark Ostwald at by the Canadian’s reputation for innovative Pyongyang had barred South Korean entry its closure, with the North insisting that its Monument Securities. thinking and applying forward guidance while to the park in early April as military ten- hand was forced by hostile South Korean The Bank of England followed the US Federal he led Canada’s central bank. Osborne wel- sions on the Korean peninsula soared, and actions - in particular, a series of joint mili- Reserve’s approach by setting an unemployment comed the plan and said it was consistent with shortly afterwards withdrew its entire tary exercises with the United States. target rather than committing to keeping rates Mark Carney the government’s “absolute commitment” to 53,000-strong workforce. In what it called a Yesterday’s CPRK statement accepted no low for a set period of time but included get-out Britain’s 2 percent inflation target. Carney has “bold and magnanimous” gesture, the direct responsibility for the suspension of clauses. BoE policymakers said they stood ready Markets already did not expect the BoE to start previously stressed the importance of reassuring North’s Committee for the Peaceful operations at Kaesong, and stressed that to buy more government bonds if additional to raise interest rates until late 2015 at the earli- ordinary people and businesses that their debt Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued preventing any recurrence was the joint stimulus was needed and would not reverse est. The BoE said Britain’s economy had strength- costs are not going to rise anytime soon in order Wednesday a statement promising total duty of “North and South”. “It still suggests existing purchases while unemployment was ened over the past three months. But output still to give them more confidence about spending access to Kaesong and guaranteeing the that both Koreas are responsible,” said IBK too high. The central bank said inflation was remains more than 3 percent below its pre-crisis which would help the economy. future attendance of its workers and the Economic Research Institute analyst Cho forecast to stay above its 2 percent target until peak, a much weaker recovery than in the The new governor also signalled he was not safety of all South Koreans working there. It Bong-Hyun, who felt it fell short of provid- the second half of 2015 based on market rate United States or Germany. It now forecasts the concerned about signs of a fast recovery in the also said both North and South should ing the safeguards Seoul had been asking expectations. “Attempting to return inflation to economy will grow 0.6 percent during the cur- housing market in some parts of Britain, espe- ensure that normal operations at the com- for. “How to narrow down differences in the target too quickly risks prolonging the peri- rent quarter - the same as between April and cially London. “The housing market is starting to plex are never again “affected by any situa- this matter will be a key issue in the talks. I od over which the nation’s resources are under- June, and that growth will reach an annual rate recover and actually the overall level of housing tion in any case”. see an uphill battle ahead,” Cho said. The utilised,” it said. of 2.6 percent in two years’ time, compared with activity relative to GDP is a couple of percentage Whether that will satisfy the South’s business association representing owners A growing number of major central banks are 2.2 percent forecast three months ago, assuming points lower than where it was prior to the crisis,” demand for a guarantee remains to be of the 123 South Korean companies in providing so-called forward guidance to help interest rates stay on hold. Carney said at the news conference. — Reuters seen, but Seoul responded positively and Kaesong said it “actively welcomed” the agreed to the CPRK’s proposal for a seventh North’s statement. “We hope the (South) round of talks on August 14. “We consider government will accept the proposal and the North has come up with a forward- Kaesong can get back to normal at an early Govt sues Bank of America for fraud looking attitude,” said Unification Ministry date,” it said in a statement. —AFP NEW YORK: The US government on Tuesday type of loan included in the securities, “whole- The government argues that more than 40 sued Bank of America for defrauding investors in sale” loans executed through third-parties, as percent of the loans in one of the bonds did not the sale of $850 million in mortgage-backed “toxic waste”. Despite the “prime” rating, at least meet Bank of America’s own underwriting stan- securities ahead of the housing bust. The 23 percent of the mortgages in the securities dards. Many had “glaring” problems such as over- Department of Justice civil complaint alleges have defaulted or were delinquent as of June stated income for the borrowers, or fake employ- Bank of America lied to investors about the riski- 2013, according to the complaint. A Bank of ment data, that made them “wholly inconsistent” ness of the mortgage loans backing the securi- America spokesman denied the bank was with a prime rating, the Justice Department said. ties, and intentionally avoided performing ade- responsible for the losses. “As a result of this lack of due diligence, Bank of quate due diligence on them, leading to investor In an emailed statement, he argued that the America had no basis to make many of the rep- losses surpassing $100 million. Unlike some of “prime” designation was justified, saying the resentations it made in the offering documents the other sub-prime-based mortgage securities loans in question had performed better than regarding the credit quality of the underlying that soured during the housing bust and similar loans originated and securitized at the mortgages,” it said. spawned messy litigation, the mortgages in time by other financial institutions. Instead, he In parallel action the Securities and Exchange Tuesday’s US suit against Bank of America were blamed the losses on the general downturn of Commission also levelled fraud charges against sold as “prime” loans, meaning they purportedly the market and economy, which sank into deep the bank over the same 2008 mortgage security had a low likelihood of falling into default. recession in 2008-2009. And he said the buyers offerings. Bank of America has been damaged to The high rating of the loans “signified a safe of the securities were “sophisticated investors a greater extent by the housing bust than some and conservative investment and justified the who had ample access to the underlying data”. other rival banks, thanks in part to an ill-timed PAJU: Hundreds of South Korean representatives from Kaesong-based companies high prices,” said the complaint. However, the “We are not responsible for the housing market purchase of Countrywide Financial, once the hold a rally at Imjingak peace park near the border with North Korea yesterday, urg- suit alleges the loans were far riskier than Bank collapse that caused mortgage loans to default country’s largest originator of mortgages. The ing the swift resumption of operations at their abandoned plants in the shuttered of America said. It cited the bank’s former chief at unprecedented rates and these securities to bank’s shares closed 1.1 percent lower at $14.64 inter-Korean industrial zone. — AFP executive, Ken Lewis, as having referred to one lose value as a result,” he said. in trade Tuesday. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 BUSINESS Russian potash move hits Germany’s K+S

BERLIN: Fears of a potash price war triggered tonne by the end of the year from $400 in July. the industry, was “well positioned to withstand logical step in conditions where the price falls Steiner said in a statement. Along with a wider by a Russian company has sparked upheaval This sparked what analysts described as a lower prices”. In contrast, “K+S will be in a more to a level of marginal producers,” he told the product range, “that makes us more robust in in the market for the key industrial fertiliser “Black Tuesday” on the potash market and sent difficult position, given its much higher pro- Russian daily Vedomosti in an interview. the event that competition intensifies,” Steiner component and wiped 40 percent off the K+S stock spiralling. The plunge in K+S shares duction costs”, added the ratings agency. K+S, based in the central German city of said. However, the company, which employs share price of German fertiliser maker K+S. continued this week as ratings agency S&P put DZ Bank analyst Heinz Mueller said that the Kassel, tried Tuesday to reassure investors, 14,000 people, acknowledged that salt sales K+S, which has annual sales of Ä4.0 billion the company’s debt rating on watch. On price of potash “is the most important param- pointing to the fact that it is also the world’s would not prevent an erosion in profits, and ($5.3 billion), last week saw more than Ä2 bil- Tuesday, its shares closed down 8.1 percent to eter for K+S”. When the price drops below top salt maker, and has a reliable revenue said it was no longer standing by its previous lion shaved off its market value after Russia’s Ä15.92, now having lost nearly 40 percent of $300 per tonne, K+S “won’t recover its costs” stream from the sale of road salt to melt snow. guidance of a slight increase in operating biggest potash maker Uralkali abandoned a their value since the Uralkali announcement. and a capital injection will be necessary, said “In contrast to our competitors, who are earnings this year. Analysts are also worried cartel-like system and said prices could possi- That left K+S the smallest company by capitali- analyst Marc Gabriel at Bankhaus Lampe. focused exclusively on potash, we have a because K+S has hefty investments, and is in bly fall by 25 percent. Uralkali said it was will- sation on the DAX, threatening its place on the Uralkali chief executive Vladislav Baumgertner robust second pillar to our operations with our the process of building a new three-billion- ing to accept lower prices and that it expected index of 30 blue-chip stocks. S&P said that has speculated the price war could push some global salt business, which follows different euro potash plant in Canada that is due to the price of potash could fall to $300 per Uralkali, one of the lowest cost producers in rivals out of business. “Consolidation will be a market conditions,” chief executive Norbert come on line in 2016. — AFP Winton escalates hedge fund race

LONDON: Winton Capital, one of the world’s tion to cash equities is closer to what we biggest hedge fund firms, has developed a believe the optimum is,” chief investment new model of its flagship fund, hoping its officer Matthew Beddall told Reuters of greater allocation to equities and risk will Evolution. “If it does better than the Futures produce better returns in a sector struggling fund then I imagine money will move to make money. The move by Winton - a (between the two).” computer-driven trader set up in 1997 by So far, the signs are good. In the year to multi-millionaire David Harding, the co- July 24, the Evolution fund was up 7.34 per- founder of Man Group’s flagship AHL fund - cent. The Futures fund has also been one of could affect tens of billions of dollars held by the better-performing funds in the sector pension funds and other investors in its main this year, gaining 4.62 percent to July 24. Futures fund. Winton has quietly overhauled Rival BlueTrend is down 11.21 percent this its $40 million Evolution fund, which was year to July 31, as measured by the perform- previously focused on its best trading ideas, ance of a feeder fund. The Futures fund’s but had a mixed record - making money in large investor base means making major 2010 and 2011 and losing money last year. changes to this fund is tricky, hence Winton’s Evolution now has a bigger focus on decision to experiment with Evolution. Many equities and risk than the $24 billion Futures computer-driven hedge funds make money fund, which it could eventually supersede. following trends in global futures markets. The move is part of an arms race between But some, notably Winton, have been trying computer hedge fund traders, who control to develop other programs as well, such as hundreds of billions of dollars and employ equities trading or predicting the effect of experts in fields such as statistics and astro- climate on crop prices. While the Futures physics to fine-tune their automated trading fund has 20 percent of its risk in equities systems. However, the sector has struggled trading - which is set to be raised to 25 per- in recent years, with the average fund down cent over time - Evolution now has 40 per- 2.81 percent this year to Aug 5, according to cent of its risk in equities and 60 percent in Hedge Fund Research’s HFRX index. Funds futures trading. Evolution also has a higher lost 2.51 percent last year and 3.54 percent volatility target than the Futures fund, at 12 in 2011, according to its HFRI index. percent compared with 10 percent. Winton, Winton, which has invested millions of which spends around $30 million a year on dollars in the top-secret computer codes research, has developed its equities trading that drive its trading, attracted a massive $1 system using metrics such as value, volatility in every $8 invested in hedge funds globally and company size to try and predict if a in 2011 after strong returns during the credit stock price will rise or fall. Founder David crisis. But it saw a $1 billion outflow in funds Harding is one of Europe’s wealthiest hedge from May to December 2012, likely to have fund managers with an estimated fortune of stemmed from its decision during the crisis £700 million, according to the Sunday Times to cut risk levels - a move which makes it Rich List. A large part of Evolution’s assets attractive to more conservative investors currently comes from senior Winton staff. such as pension funds but does not always Last month Winton launched a US version of suit those chasing high returns. “The alloca- Evolution. — Reuters

TOKYO: A man uses his mobile phone as he walks past a share prices board outside a securities company yesterday. — AFP Shares, dollar drop on Fed tapering unease

NEW YORK: World share indexes dropped the market to be trading off of otherwise,” yesterday and the dollar fell for a fourth day said Frederick. The uncertainty weighed on in a row as investors grew concerned over European shares as well, as did comments when the Federal Reserve will start to wind from the Bank of England that it plans to down its stimulus program. Stocks on Wall keep rates at a record low of 0.5 percent Street opened lower, the third down day in until unemployment falls to 7 percent, a lev- a row, though indexes were still not far el unlikely for another three years. BoE below record highs. The Fed’s bond buying Governor Mark Carney also made any move program has been a major driver of the rally conditional on inflation staying low and the in equities this year, which has the S&P 500 financial system being stable. Europe’s up about 18 percent for the year. “We’re still broad FTSE Eurofirst 300 index shed 0.2 per- only a few points under our all-time high, so cent and the MSCI world equity index was it isn’t surprising to see people take profits down 0.8 percent. in a somewhat frothy market,” said Randy Sterling rose against the greenback, Frederick, managing director of active trad- climbing to its highest in one and a half ing for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas. “At months, as investors viewed Carney’s com- these levels, there’s plenty of room to the ments as less dovish than expected. The downside before there’s reason to be con- pound was last up 1 percent at $1.5501. The cerned.” yen rose to a seven-week peak against the Investors have been focused on trying to dollar on expectations that Japanese pinpoint when the Fed may start to reduce investors would convert their overseas its $85 billion a month in bond purchases. earnings before the mid-August Obon holi- Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said day. The dollar was down 1.1 percent at Tuesday the Fed would probably scale back 96.66 yen. The dollar index was down 0.3 its bond-buying program later this year, percent at 81.37. perhaps beginning to do so as early as next “Dollar sentiment hasn’t been the same month, depending on economic data. That since last week’s tepid US jobs report, which was similar to earlier comments by Dennis suggested the Fed would move more Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve patiently to slow a stimulus program that Bank of Atlanta, although he told Market has long been a thorn in the dollar’s side,” News International the central bank might said Joe Manimbo, senior market analyst, continue its stimulus program if growth at Western Union Business Solutions. “A doesn’t meet its targets. The Dow Jones slower US data calendar this week also industrial average fell 79.82 points, or 0.51 hasn’t offered a fresh impetus for investors percent, to 15,438.92. The Standard & Poor’s to bid the dollar higher.” US Treasuries 500 Index lost 11.17 points, or 0.66 percent, prices rose as some traders anticipated to 1,686.20. The Nasdaq Composite Index firm demand at a $24 billion auction of 10- gave up 29.11 points, or 0.79 percent, at year notes later in the day. 10-year 3,636.67. “The comments weren’t especially Treasury notes were up 3/32 in price with a out of the ordinary, but there’s not much for yield of 2.629 percent. — Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 BUSINESS Scare shows NZ reliance on dairy monopoly

WELLINGTON: When dirty pipes at a rural their breath over its dirty piping. Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser in an powder, and the market is growing rapidly. Willy Leferink, a farmer in the town of New Zealand milk factory put the entire In a country that has always relied on its interview with The Associated Press. “I think David Robb, a professor at the University Ashburton and dairy chairman for advocacy nation on high alert, it was an unsettling farmers to pay the bills, Fonterra has we should be adding to the extraordinary of Auckland Business School who lived in group Federated Farmers, said farmers have reminder for many New Zealanders that become a behemoth, exporting more in strengths we have within agriculture.” He China for seven years, said Fonterra was become frustrated with the problems. “The their prosperity is tied to a single company. dairy products alone than the nation’s com- said the country could achieve that by sell- applauded at the time of the melamine biggest thing will be for Fonterra to con- The company, dairy giant Fonterra, on bined exports of lamb, beef, fruit and wine. ing more branded and finished products. scandal because it helped blow the whistle; vince authorities, mainly China of course, Saturday announced that the unsanitary Some 70 percent of New Zealand’s export Within the economy, Fonterra has it was a minority shareholder in a dairy com- that this is a little hiccup and we are truly pipes had tainted some of the whey con- earnings come from such primary products, become the linchpin. A cooperative jointly pany that had tainted its milk. He said one sorry,” he said. “But there’s no headroom left. centrate it sells for use in infant formula with and the country has long feared anything owned by some 10,500 farmers, Fonterra student came into his Beijing office weep- If we do this again in half a year’s time, all a type of bacteria that can cause botulism. that could threaten its farming - in particular collects 89 percent of the country’s milk, ing, wanting him to thank New Zealand’s hell will break loose, because we would The revelation sparked the type of response an outbreak of the bovine foot-and-mouth giving it a near-monopoly in dairy. It was Prime Minister for helping save Chinese have become a very unreliable player.” some countries might reserve for a terror- disease. A 2003 study by New Zealand’s created in 2001 when politicians passed a babies. But Robb warned that Chinese con- Fonterra’s Chief Executive Theo ism alert, with dozens of officials and diplo- Reserve Bank and Treasury estimated that law that allowed dairy farmers to avoid sumers are more concerned with price and Spierings, who flew to China to reassure the mats assigned to around-the-clock crisis even a limited outbreak of the disease antitrust rules. Many argued they needed a quality than with remaining loyal to a par- public and liaise with authorities there, said management and the Prime Minister John would cause the currency to plunge by 20 single company to compete effectively in ticular brand. He said New Zealand risks los- Wednesday that the company’s reputation Key saying he was willing to fly to China, a percent and shrink the economy by 8 per- the global marketplace. And since its cre- ing its credibility and customers in China had been damaged in the short-term but crucial market, if needed. cent in two years. ation, Fonterra has flourished. It now col- because of the latest scare. he expected it would be restored, based on By yesterday, Fonterra appeared to have New Zealand has tried over the decades lects 17 billion liters (4.5 billion gallons) of Fonterra ran into problems even before the reactions he received in China. Fonterra contained the threat when it announced to diversify its economy. It has developed milk each year from New Zealand farms and the botulism incident. In January, the com- officials declined to comment on the com- that all the affected infant formula had been tourism and some niche manufacturing. exports 95 percent of it. pany announced it had detected trace pany’s role in the New Zealand economy. isolated or recalled, and that no babies had Filmmaker Peter Jackson has almost single- It found its most important market in amounts of the agricultural chemical But Tim Hazledine, an economics professor gotten sick. But the panic underscored how handedly built a movie and special effects China. In 2008, many parents there dicyandiamide in some of its products, at the University of Auckland Business dependent New Zealand’s economy is on empire in the capital, Wellington. But the switched to buying expensive imported prompting alarm and a ban on the chemi- School, said he’s skeptical about the bene- agriculture in general and Fonterra in partic- country’s mild weather, abundant rain and milk after six babies died and thousands cal’s use on New Zealand farms. On fits of the monopoly. He said he believes ular. Fonterra’s annual revenue of $16 billion verdant farmland have kept agriculture at more were sickened when local milk formu- Wednesday, China announced that Fonterra that competition typically achieves better is equivalent to 10 percent of New Zealand’s the economy’s heart. “The caricature over la was tainted with the chemical melamine. was one of six milk suppliers it had fined for results. “Fonterra might be too big to fail,” he entire economy, meaning everyone from many years has been we should be diversi- New Zealand now supplies China with price-fixing, imposing a penalty on the said. “But it’s not too big to be foolish or farmers to homeowners were left holding fying away from agriculture,” said New more than 80 percent its imported milk company of 4.5 million yuan ($720,000). flounder.” —AP China fines formula firms $110m for price fixing China says firms fined for restricting competition SHANGHAI/BEIJING: China fined six companies, percent of last year’s sales after they cooperated in well as broad economic policies. Wang from Jones including Mead Johnson Nutrition Co, Danone and the probe and corrected improper practices. “As a Day said that while a Chinese firm got the biggest New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, a total of $110 good corporate citizen, we are committed to rap on the knuckles, foreign companies were clearly million following an investigation into price fixing addressing the concerns raised by the government no longer insulated from NDRC investigations. “It is and anti-competitive practices by foreign baby for- and authorities in the market in which we do busi- a shift in that the foreign companies are so promi- mula makers. The other three penalised were ness and will comply with the fine stipulated by the nently being pursued. But that is normal. That is the Abbott Laboratories, Dutch dairy cooperative NDRC,” FrieslandCampina said in an emailed state- way you would expect the antitrust system to FrieslandCampina and Hong Kong-listed Biostime ment. mature,” Wang said. The milk sector is still relatively International Holdings, the National Development Analysts said the probe was possibly part of a young in China, with consumption of dairy prod- and Reform Commission (NDRC) said yesterday. broader Chinese plan to boost consumption of ucts growing at an annual compound rate of 20 The fines, which follow a four-month antitrust local infant milk products. But they said the fines percent, a contrast to US and European markets, probe by the NDRC, coincide with separate pricing were unlikely to damage the reputation of the where demand has been shrinking in the past investigations into 60 foreign and local pharmaceu- affected companies. If anything, foreign infant for- decade. NAIROBI: A soldier stands among the debris after a fire damaged a terminal tical firms as well as companies involved in gold at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport yesterday. —AFP trading. Those probes have yet to conclude. The official Xinhua news agency said the fines were a record for China, although it did not elabo- Kenya businesses hope rate. “These are really significant fines for China, which has typically not issued large fines for swift return to normal antitrust violations,” said Peter Wang, an antitrust expert and Shanghai-based partner for law firm NAIROBI: Business operators in Kenya got back to normal, they can make Jones Day. Foreign infant formula is coveted in the were optimistic yesterday for a swift return adjustments,” he said. International termi- world’s second biggest economy, where public to normal operations at the country’s main nals at Jomo Kenya International Airport trust was damaged by a 2008 scandal in which six infants died and thousands became ill after drink- international airport after it was ravaged were gutted, but neither the runway or ing milk tainted with the toxic industrial compound by fire. Passenger flights have either been domestic terminal were damaged. melamine. cancelled or diverted, mostly to the Domestic and cargo flights resumed ear- Foreign brands account for about half of total coastal city of Mombasa, but international ly yesterday evening, while at least two sales and can sell for more than double the price of flights were due to land again in Nairobi flights from Kenya Airways were due to local formula. The infant milk market in China is set to grow to $25 billion by 2017 from $12.4 billion in today morning, using a domestic terminal land as scheduled in Nairobi today morn- 2012, according to data from Euromonitor. The undamaged in the fire. Cargo operations ing. NDRC said in a statement the fines were for restrict- were only halted for some 12 hours, so the Nairobi’s other airport, Wilson, handles ing competition, setting curbs on minimum prices impact on Kenyan exporters should be mostly domestic flights to game parks for distributors and for using a variety of methods limited. In addition, while Nairobi is a key and beaches. It has little infrastructure to disrupt market order. It fined US-based Mead Johnson 203.8 million yuan ($33.29 million); French regional airport, 18 airlines fly direct to and would be ill-equipped to handle food group Danone 172 million yuan; Biostime Mombasa from Europe, so tourists head- large numbers of additional passengers. 162.9 million yuan; Abbott 77 million yuan; ing straight for Kenya’s white sand beach- Among the hardest hit by any incidents FrieslandCampina 48 million yuan and Fonterra 4 es will not be affected by the fire. at JKIA are Kenya’s flower producers. million yuan. Flights from Nairobi to Mombasa, Kenya exported 122,000 tons of cut flow- All of the companies said they would not con- BEIJING: A woman carrying her baby walks by a cartoon logo of a baby at a shopping test the penalties. Swiss giant Nestle, Japan’s Meiji mall yesterday. —AP Kenya’s second city and an international ers in 2012, accounting for 1.6 percent of Holdings and Zhejiang Beingmate Scientific airport, were ferrying passengers stranded the east African nation’s GDP. While that Technology Industry and Trade Co Ltd were not mula makers might increase their market share Some analysts also said the pricing investigation by the fire for onwards flights outside the contribution is relatively modest, due punished because “they cooperated with the inves- because of the price cuts. “It will have an impact on could result in tougher rules governing imports. country. Many passengers change planes largely to tax loopholes, the sector is a tigation, provided important evidence and carried domestic brands over the long term as the prices of The China Food and Drug Administration is propos- in Nairobi, as do the ever-larger numbers big employer, with half a million Kenyans out active self-rectification”, Xinhua quoted Xu high-end premium brands come down. Customers ing tightening conditions for the granting of Kunlin, the head of the NDRC’s price department, as will tend to buy the foreign brands as the price gap licences for milk powder production, including of tourists coming in from Asia, as well as estimated to depend on flower farming saying. Xu said the probe began in March, but was between domestic and foreign brands narrows,” requiring producers to have their own controlled the vast majority of those visiting for for their livelihood. only made public in early July. After the NDRC said Jacqueline Ko, an analyst at Maybank Kim Eng milk sources and research and development capa- wildlife safaris. Nairobi also remains a hub Any delay in shipping out fragile lilies probe was announced, a number of companies, Research. bilities. In a statement late on Tuesday, the regulator for travellers heading elsewhere in the and roses would result in big losses. Jane including Mead Johnson, Danone and Nestle, cut Fonterra, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, said said it was seeking public comment on the propos- region, such as those on their way to track Ngige, who heads the Kenya Flower prices on their baby formula in China by up to 20 it would give additional training to sales staff and als, which also include requirements for licence percent. Chinese firm Biostime was fined the equiv- review its distributor contracts in the wake of its holders to strengthen hygiene practices and man- mountain gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda. Council, warned that if the situation was alent of 6 percent of its 2012 China sales, the high- fine. “We believe the investigation leaves us with a agement standards. “This is the busiest time of year for interna- not resolved swiftly the sector “would be est of those penalised, because it “seriously violated much clearer understanding of expectations Mead Johnson said its fine would reduce its full- tional flights,” said Duncan Muriuki, head one of the hardest hit by the airport cri- the anti-monopoly law and failed to actively take around implementing pricing policies,” Kelvin year earnings by about 12 cents per share, but it of Destination Africa, a tour operator. sis”. However, Ngige said cargo handlers corrective action”, Xu said. Biostime imports most of Wickham, president of Fonterra Greater China and reiterated its 2013 earnings forecast for profit, “We have people stuck in Mombasa so had been able to store produce delivered its products. Mead Johnson, the maker of Enfamil India, said in a statement. Fonterra is embroiled in a excluding one-time items, of $3.22 to $3.30 per formula, was fined the equivalent of 4 percent of its separate milk powder contamination scare that has share. Shares of Biostime, which has a market value it will definitely impact us negatively,” he to the airport despite the fire. Harvesting 2012 sales because it “did not actively cooperate led to product recalls in China, Hong Kong and else- of $3.3 billion, were up 5.3 percent at midday, beat- said, adding that clients stuck at the coast at flower farms had been halted yester- with the investigation but did take active self-recti- where in Asia. ing a 0.3 percent drop in the benchmark index. It would face journeys of several hours to day while the trade association waited for fication measures”, Xu added. Danone, Abbott, The NDRC is one of China’s most powerful gov- shares resumed trading after being suspended the travel by road to the capital. “It has to be more information, she said. —AFP FrieslandCampina and Fonterra were each fined 3 ernment bodies, with a role in overseeing prices as day before. —Reuters Benefit of apps for toddlers questioned WASHINGTON: Can a mobile app really teach a “teach” babies skills. For example, Fisher-Price of dence. In 2012, the FTC - which enforces truth-in- baby to find her nose? Or learn to recognize letters East Aurora, New York, claims that its Laugh & advertising laws - agreed with the Campaign for a and numbers? Not according to an advocacy Learn “Where’s Puppy’s Nose?” app can teach a Commercial-Free Childhood that the developer of group that filed a complaint Wednesday with the baby about body parts and language, while its “Your Baby Can Read” lied when it promised con- Federal Trade Commission alleging that two popu- “Learning Letters Puppy” app educates babies on sumers it could teach babies as young as 9 lar baby app developers - Fisher-Price Inc. and the alphabet and counting to 10. Open Solutions, months to read. That business shuttered after the Open Solutions - are trying to dupe parents into a developer based in Bratislava, Slovakia, says its FTC imposed a $185 million settlement. thinking their online games make infant and tod- mobile apps offer a “new and innovative form of In 2006, the group asked the FTC to prohibit dlers smarter. The Campaign for a Commercial- education” by allowing babies to “practice logic the makers of Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby Free Childhood, the Boston-based group whose and motor skills”. Neither company, contacted by videos from making claims about educational allegations against “Baby Einstein” videos eventu- phone and email, responded immediately to benefits. The FTC eventually declined to act after ally led to nationwide consumer refunds, is urging requests by AP for comment. the companies, owned by the Walt Disney Co, federal investigators to examine the marketing “Given that there’s no evidence that (mobile agreed to remove some marketing promises from practices of Fisher-Price’s “Laugh & Learn” mobile apps are) beneficial, and some evidence that it its packages and took down testimonials that apps and Open Solutions’ games such as “Baby may actually be harmful, that’s concerning,” Linn claimed educational benefits. After the Campaign Hear and Read” and “Baby First Puzzle.” said of the companies’ marketing claims. for a Commercial-Free Childhood encouraged a It’s the campaign’s first complaint against the According to the Pew Internet and American Life group of lawyers to threaten a class-action lawsuit, mobile app industry as part of its broader push to Project, more than half of American adults own a Disney began offering cash refunds for videos pur- hold accountable businesses that market technol- smartphone while about a third of adults own a chased. ogy to very young children and their parents. tablet. With the number of mobile devices on the Linn said her organization targeted Fisher-Price “Everything we know about brain research and rise, mobile software applications have become and Open Solutions because their baby apps were child development points away from using lucrative money makers. Even apps that are down- among the most popular and because they repre- screens to educate babies,” said Susan Linn, the loaded for free will often collect personal informa- sented an overall trend of deceptive marketing group’s director. “The research shows that tion from a consumer that can then be sold to practices by app developers, both big and small. machines and screen media are a really ineffective marketers. The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages way of teaching a baby language. What babies Most of the Fisher-Price apps, for example, are any electronic “screen time” for infants and tod- need for healthy brain development is active play, free but warn in their privacy policies that “third dlers under age 2, while older children should be hands-on creative play and face-to-face” interac- parties” can collect information about a person’s limited to one to two hours a day. It cites one tion. device for possible marketing purposes. Federal study that found infant videos can delay language Linn’s group alleges that the companies violate law says advertising can’t mislead consumers and, development, and warns that no studies have METAIRIE, Louisiana: In this Oct 21, 2011 file photo, Frankie Thevenot, 3, truth-in-advertising laws when they claim to in some cases, must be backed by scientific evi- documented a benefit of early viewing. —AP plays with an iPad in his bedroom at his home. —AP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 BUSINESS

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Mr. played a role in Jeff Bezos’ $250 million dens. For tax purposes, a business owner Mathew Punnose - Coupon No. 009416, 4. Mr. purchase of The Washington Post, he may or partner can deduct from income any Tazuddin Mazumdar - Coupon No. 255687, 5. Mr. need to reconsider his hands-off approach losses from operating that business. By Mohammed Isteyak - Coupon No. 191050, 6. Mr. if he hopes to offset gains from other ven- reducing taxable income, losses can Agnello Francisco - Coupon No. 21790, 7. Mr. tures with losses at the newspaper. In reduce a business owner’s overall tax bill. Krishna Kant Tailor - Coupon No. 127088, 8. Mr. announcing the deal on Monday, the 49- It was unclear how Bezos - the world’s M Sagul Hamid - Coupon No. 126110, 9. Mr. year-old multibillionaire founder and chief 19th richest person with a fortune of $25.2 Mahbubur Rahman Khan - Coupon No. 260461, executive of Seattle-based Amazon.com billion, according to Forbes magazine - 10. Mr. Tareq Nabil Alsayed - Coupon No. 148112. Inc told Post staff in an open letter: “I would manage his new businesses for tax “Sending money home, this Ramadan, can won’t be leading The Washington Post purposes. US individual tax returns are bring our customers golden fortune!” exclaimed day-to-day.” Bezos will stay in Seattle private, meaning that he has no obligation Mr. Pancily Varkey, Country Head - UAE Exchange where he will focus on his day job as head to disclose publicly how he might use the Kuwait. He was speaking on the 2nd draw of of the world’s largest online retailer. He newspaper purchase to his tax advantage. Gold Fiesta, the promotion for the holy month of promised to preserve the paper’s journal- His 2012 compensation from Amazon was Ramadan from 5th June to 31st August, 2013. “At offer period, get a chance to participate in the and more. Money2anywhere (M2A) is the online istic tradition, while driving innovation in $1.7 million; he owns nearly 19 percent of UAE Exchange, we understand our customers corresponding monthly draw and the mega money transfer facility where the customers can a business facing unprecedented chal- Amazon. well. We constantly strive to address their aspira- draw. It will have a total of 31 winners, who will send money from their home or office through lenges as advertising revenue and reader- In an effort to root out tax shelters, tions and be instrumental in making their be winning a total of 200 grams of gold. There their personal PC/Laptop/tablets & Smart ship decline. Congress passed tax rules that prevent an dreams come true. This promotion is yet another will be 10 lucky winners each in the three phones in just a few click from an internet envi- But tax experts said on Tuesday that individual from claiming business tax token of appreciation from us to our customers monthly draws, who will win five grams of gold ronment, anywhere. FLASHremit is the facility playing a limited role at the Post could breaks without playing an active role in for bestowing their trust on us.” Mr. Varkey each. One winner will get the mega prize of 50 for real time account credit, at UAE Exchange prevent Bezos from realizing individual the business itself. Before the law, “people added. grams gold in the mega draw to be held at the Centre WLL, while Xpress Money and Western income tax benefits that he might be able would be passive investors in a business, Gold Fiesta is one among the many promo- end of the promotion. Union are the instant money transfer options. to claim as a result of owning The Post. For the business would throw off losses and tions lined up by the leading global remittance UAE Exchange Centre WLL had built a strong UAE Exchange Centre WLL offers customised the first six months of the year through they would use depreciation losses to off- and foreign exchange brand. It has three month- network of 24 branches in Kuwait. Customers currency exchange services at competitive rates June, the Post’s newspaper division set other income,” said David Kautter, ly draws and a mega draw. Customers, who send can walk into the nearest one to avail a bouquet at its counters. All these have made it the reported an operating loss of $49.3 mil- managing director of the Kogod Tax money home or exchange currency from any of services including Online transfer, bank trans- favourite of millions of customers in a very short lion, compared with a loss of $33.2 million Center at the Kogod School of Business at UAE Exchange Centre WLL branch, during the fers, instant money transfers, currency exchange time. during the same period last year. Such American University.—Reuters Can Amazon CEO ship online savvy to Post?

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is we will need to experiment.” Doctor believes revenue is likely to continue to slip smartest things is moving toward private owner- revered as one of the brightest minds in corporate According to an Amazon spokesman, Bezos for the next five years, too. Newspapers have been ship,” said Ellen Shearer, a journalism professor at America, but even he is still puzzling over how to wasn’t available to be interviewed Tuesday about suffering because their main source of revenue - Northwestern University. “I think that’s what a lot of reverse the financial slide threatening The his plans for the Post. Amazon’s nearly two-decade advertising sold in their print editions - has been papers need right now, particularly the Post.” It’s Washington Post and other major US newspapers. history under Bezos’ leadership suggests the Post is drying up during the past eight years as their read- likely that some of his ideas will fail, but that proba- Nevertheless, Bezos is determined to face the chal- likely to try things that other newspapers steeped ers have discovered that they can keep up on the bly won’t bother Bezos. In his inaugural letter to lenge, raising hope that his $250 million purchase in tradition have never dared to attempt. “Ever latest events for free or lower subscription rates Amazon shareholders in 1997, Bezos emphasized, of The Washington Post announced Monday will since he was a little kid, it got deeply ingrained through Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Google, special- “It’s all about the long term.” He has attached that provide the newspaper industry with a template into Jeff that experimentation is the answer to ty blogs and a variety of other digital outlets. proclamation to each annual letter he’s written for making the leap from the printed page to digi- everything,” said Hal Gregerson, who interviewed Most newspapers have intensified their focus on since. tal devices. “The marriage between the newspaper Bezos for his 2011 book, “The Innovator’s DNA.” their own digital editions during the past few years, Indeed, it took Amazon nearly a decade before it industry and technology has never been consum- “Exploring the edges is one of Jeff’s counter-intu- but still haven’t been able to overcome this funda- turned its first annual profit. Even now, the compa- mated, but it could happen at The Washington Post itive skills. If you go back to when he started mental problem: digital ads typically sell for 10 per- ny doesn’t make as much money as most analysts now,” said media analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc. Amazon, he was paying attention to something cent to 50 percent less than print ads. That gap is think it should, partly because Bezos is continually Although Bezos bought The Post with his own out of the corner of his eye and turned it into the chief reason that the annual print ad revenue at investing in new ideas and equipment that he money, most experts believe he is likely to tether something that others didn’t see.” US newspapers has plummeted 60 percent in just believes will make the business even more lucra- the newspaper to Amazon.com Inc.’s products. He It’s impossible to predict the bright ideas Bezos seven years, dropping from $47.4 billion in 2005 to tive. The strategy has worked well so far, gracing might also infuse the newspaper with some of the might explore, partly because reviving the Post will $18.9 billion last year, according to the Newspaper Amazon.com with market value of $137 billion and concepts that helped turn the Seattle company probably take years to pull off. Experts are floating Association of America. Over the same stretch, the enriching Bezos with unimaginable wealth. from an online book store into a multi-dimensional a host of ideas. Bezos could, for instance, deploy industry’s digital ad revenue has climbed from $2 “One thing that Bezos seems to be is patient,” business that sells a multitude of merchandise and the technology that Amazon uses to recommend billion in 2005 to $3.4 billion last year. said Jeff South, a former newspaper editor and runs data centers that power other websites books, movies and music to consumers to enable The financial hole is so deep that it will be diffi- reporter who is now a journalism professor at around the world. the Post to automatically tailor digital news pack- cult for even a savvy Internet executive like Bezos Virginia Commonwealth University. “He was with “Just having his brain in the room (at The ages to each reader’s interests. He might impose to find a workable solution at The Post, said Amazon, losing money quarter after quarter. He Washington Post) will force people to confront dig- more fees to read the Post’s content online while Christopher Harper, a journalism professor at seemed to say ‘we know what we’re doing, it’s ital in a way they haven’t before,” predicted Jerry bundling free subscriptions as part of Amazon’s Temple University. “It’s not really a business deal, it’s going to take time.’ Hopefully, that can transfer to Ceppos, a former newspaper editor who is now Kindle Fire tablet or consumers who buy Amazon’s almost an investment in a nonprofit,” Harper said. newspapers.” After getting to know Bezos while dean of mass communications at Louisiana State “Prime” service for free shipping. He could even It’s one Bezos can easily afford to make. The pur- interviewing him for his book, Gregerson is con- University. Bezos, 49, made it clear that he has no include special offers in the printed edition to chase price works out to just 1 percent of Bezos’ vinced the Post purchase is a case of business mix- magic formula for turning the Post around. The deliver merchandise ordered through estimated $25 billion fortune. The mid-range of U.S. ing with personal passion. broadsheet is the anchor of a newspaper division Amazon.com. charitable contributions annually works out to “Jeff loves books, he loves journalism, he loves that lost $54 million at The Washington Post Co. The Post and other newspapers might not be nearly 5 percent of discretionary income, according writing, he loves ideas and he love to make things last year while generating annual revenue of $582 around that much longer, unless radical changes to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. happen,” Gregerson said. “That’s a quality of 90 per- million - 39 percent less than it did in 2005. “There are made. Some of the biggest newspapers already Bezos is also in a better position to absorb ongo- cent of executives don’t have. They don’t love the is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be have had to seek refuge in bankruptcy court to ing losses at The Washington Post than the newspa- essence of what they are doing as much Jeff does. I easy,” Bezos wrote in a Monday letter sent to Post reshuffle their finances during the past five years per would have been had it remained part of a pub- don’t what answers he will have in terms of a 10- employees after his surprise acquisition was and the outlook still looks grim. Based on his licly held company under pressure to deliver better year plan for the Post, but I think there is a good announced. “We will need to invent, which means recent conversations with publishers, analyst returns for a larger pool of shareholders. “One of the probability that he will figure something out.” —AP technology THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

Wearable device Samsung seeks smart watch trademarks in US, S Korea SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. has applied for US market within a few years. Apple Inc. applied June 3 operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. an early version of Internet-connected spectacles and South Korean trademarks for a watch that con- for a trademark in Japan for “iWatch.” Industry The company has not confirmed those rumors but called Glass. It uses a small screen above the right nects to the Internet in the latest sign that con- watchers have long speculated that Apple is work- CEO Tim Cook has hinted it may be developing a eye that displays information and imagery retrieved sumer technology companies see wearable devices ing on a smart watch that uses a version of the wearable computing device. Google Inc. is testing from the Internet. as the future of their business. Samsung described The South Korean patent office said the Gear “Samsung Galaxy Gear” as a wearable digital elec- trademark will not be approved this year as it takes tronic device in the form of a wristwatch, wrist band seven to eight months to start reviewing applica- or bangle in its July 29 application with US Patent tions due to a waiting list. Samsung applied for the and Trademark Office. A month earlier, it applied for South Korean trademark on June 21. a “Samsung Gear” trademark in South Korea. It was not clear if Samsung would use the The trademark applications did not show the “Samsung Gear” trademark for a Smart Watch. The shape of the products. But drawings from a trademark application covers 38 possible products Samsung design patent approved in May show a including mobile telephones, bracelets, glasses and watch-like design with a flexible screen that curves software interfaces that monitor human vital signs. around the wrist. The US trademark application said South Korea’s patent office said in June that the device will be “capable of providing access to Samsung had patented watch designs in which the Internet, for sending and receiving phone calls, more than three quarters of the device is covered electronic mails and messages” as well as “for keep- by a flexible display that curves around the wrist. ing track of or managing personal information.” Illustrations showed ‘back’ and ‘home’ buttons at The trademark filings in the US and in South the bottom of the screen. Another illustration Korea show that Samsung is deep in preparations shows a rectangular screen with an edge that for what tech industry experts expect will be a new tapers toward the top. The product is made of met- generation of mobile technology that dramatically al, synthetic and glass materials, Samsung’s patent expands the utility of single-function objects such document said. Samsung executive vice president as watches and glasses. Lee Young Hee said in March interview with The South Korean consumer electronics giant Bloomberg that the company’s mobile division has was caught flatfooted by Apple’s invention of the SEOUL: A man walks by a logo of Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartphone Galaxy S4 during its been working on a smart watch. Samsung declined smartphone but through what turned out to be a unveiling ceremony in Seoul recently. Samsung has applied for US and South Korean trademarks for to confirm the report then. legally risky strategy of imitation was able to cap- a watch that connects to the Internet in the latest sign that consumer technology companies see Company spokeswoman Chenny Kim declined ture a dominant share of the global smartphone wearable devices as the future of their business. — AP to comment on the patent applications. — AP Carbon capture technology loses out in Germany

BERLIN: Fossil-fueled power plants emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. It is, however, possible to capture harmful gases at the plant and deposit them in the ground by using “Carbon Capture and Storage” (CCS) tech- nology. This could result in better, more climate- friendly coal-fired power plants. But it’s a highly controversial technology. Development is espe- cially slow in Europe, according to the EU Commission. In Germany, the introduction of CCS failed due to residents and politics oppos- ing the technology. As a result, plans to con- struct massive underground storage reservoirs were abandoned. The EU and the International Energy Agency, however, are still convinced CCS can help limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees TOKYO: Japan’s new carrier-like warship “Izumo”, which has a flight deck that is near- Celsius, and are continuing with CCS projects in ly 250 meters long, is unveiled in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Tuesday. Japan Europe. unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top destroyer that has A recent International Energy Agency report raised eyebrows in China and elsewhere because it bears a strong resemblance to a predicts that by 2035, “almost 30 percent of new conventional aircraft carrier. — AP fossil-fueled power plants will be fitted with CCS.” Professor Manfred Fischedick, from the Facebook tunes ranking Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, argues that it would be smarter to BERLIN: Fossil-fueled power plants are the biggest greenhouse gas emitters worldwide. wait for research results. Modern gas capturing methods could make them more climate-friendly. But there’s a risk to it, of stories in news feeds “There is a difference between wishful think- and Germany has decided to scrap it altogether. ing and reality,” Fischedick told DW. “For the MENLO PARK: Facebook’s quest to be a person- relationship with each friend; we wanted a real ronment. Both has proven to be incorrect.” Kemfert, a climate expert at DIW. It should, for alized newspaper for the Internet age continued time factor.” moment, I cannot imagine that CCS technology Fischedick and the energy company RWE pre- instance, consider falling production costs of on Tuesday with tweaks aimed at making sure Facebook’s ranking software assigns numeri- will be widely used by 2020 or 2025, not in dict that power plants using CCS will accumulate renewable energy sources. “Renewable energy is members spy hot stories from their friends. cal scores to the roughly 1,500 stories typically Europe and not worldwide. I therefore recom- additional costs of over 60 to 80 percent per the only option for sustainable, low-emission Changes to the leading social network’s for- eligible for delivery to a member’s news feed mend to take a more realistic approach.” kilowatt hour. In other words, power from a energy in Europe,” she the told DW. mula for figuring out which posts will be of and displays the top 300. That view is echoed by the German Institute German coal power plant which uses CCS would Fischedick also says policymakers need to interest included “bumping” up potentially Powerful factors for ranking are relation- for Economic Research (DIW Berlin): “The past cost around 13 euro cents per kilowatt hour. By focus on renewable energy. At the same time, he intriguing stories that went unnoticed during ships, along with how often a member com- five years have shown CCS to be a failure,” said comparison, the current price for wind and solar also emphasizes that CCS research should not be prior visits to Facebook. ments, shares, “likes,” or otherwise acts on posts Christian von Hischhausen, DIW’s research direc- power costs under 10 euro cents. And according neglected entirely. “It is hard for users to get back to old things; of friends. Hiding posts sinks content from that tor for industrial economics. “The EU scenarios to experts the price could drop below seven “We might experience a time where it you have to scroll through things you have person in news feed rankings. “Our goal is to cre- are from four or five years ago, and are based on euro cents by 2025. becomes necessary to integrate CCS technology already seen,” Facebook news feed team engi- ate the best personalized newspaper for each of the assumption that carbon capture exists in a The EU should review and update the figures into existing power plants for environmental neering Lars Backstrom said while discussing our readers,” Backstrom said. technically safe and economically sound envi- it uses for its climate policy, said Claudia reasons,” Fischedick said. — AP the latest changes. Facebook engineers are experimenting with “We wanted to make it so people weren’t ways for News Feeds to better handle chrono- missing important stories that didn’t make top logical posts, such as a friend firing off play-by- slots but were just below the fold.” Signals play updates from a sporting event. Backstrom’s Google Chrome security flaw offers weighed in the machine learning algorithm team meets each Tuesday to brainstorm ways to were modified to bump-up a story considered improve the Facebook news feed, with worth- more interesting than fresher material that for- while ideas tested internally among workers or unrestricted password access merly got priority simply for being newer. with a tiny fraction of the social network’s more “We tweaked the model,” Backstrom said, than one billion members. SYDNEY: A serious flaw in the security of have also had the same failings. Apple’s Safari developers. “A good safe is judged by the time noting that about 30,000 signals are balanced in “It starts with intuition and then that gets Google’s Chrome browser lets anyone with requires the user to enter a master password required to break it,” wrote “marcgg”. “There is no the algorithm. written into code as a feature,” said Cox. “Then access to a user’s computer see all the pass- before it will show stored passwords. safe that is unbreakable, you just need to put “Instead of just taking the new stories, we we look at interactions.” words stored for email, social media and other Schuh wrote on Hacker News that “We’ve also enough time, effort and noise to open it. Same would take all stories that were new to you, that Ads displayed as promoted posts in news sites, directly from the settings panel. No pass- been repeatedly asked why we don’t just sup- thing could be applied here. Installing software, you haven’t seen, even if it isn’t the freshest.” A feeds are handled separately from content gen- word is needed to view them. port a master password or something similar, dump the cookies and so on requires time. Right test of the change showed that the number of erated by people’s friends or family members at Besides personal accounts, sensitive compa- even if we don’t believe it works. We’ve debated now with this security a person could get my stories people read in news feeds rose to 70 per- Facebook, according to the ranking team. ny login details would be compromised if some- it over and over again, but the conclusion we password in a couple of clicks with almost no cent from 57 percent with “bumping,” according “We figure out the most relevant news feed one who used Chrome left their computer unat- always come to is that we don’t want to provide technical knowledge.” One security manager at a to Facebook. “Story Bumping is going to be a with the organic content, and then, as a news- tended with the screen active. users with a false sense of security, and encour- publishing company said: “The fact you can view really nice tool for people if they...are sitting with paper or television program might do, we create Seeing the passwords is achieved simply by age risky behavior. We want to be very clear that the passwords means they are stored in a Facebook account and have run out of things advertising slots,” said Facebook product man- clicking on the Settings icon, choosing “Show when you grant someone access to your OS user reversible form which means that the dark to look at,” said Facebook vice president of prod- ager Will Cathcart. advanced settings...” and then “Manage saved account, that they can get at everything.” coders out there will be writing a Trojan to steal uct Chris Cox. “It will bump up new stuff.” Backstrom compared the job of ranking News feeds were also modified to take into news feed posts to the challenge faced by passwords” in the “Passwords and forms” section. However the position was criticised by other that password store as we speak.” — AP account the “last actor” a member interacted Internet search engines Google or Bing when it A list of obscured passwords is then revealed for with and then give that friend’s posts temporary comes to quickly determining optimal results for sites - but clicking beside them reveals the plain priority since they seem to be up to something queries. “Facebook is one of the only places text of the password, which could be copied, or Innovative 3D integration technology interesting. where you have a problem on the same scale as sent via a screenshot to an outside site. “We wanted to capture your current state of what Google or Bing is doing but you have to But the head of Google’s Chrome developer could improve industrial processes mind as you were using Facebook,” Backstrom use different techniques because of the person- team, Justin Schuh, said he was aware of the said. “A lot of signals are long term, such as the al aspects of it,” Backstrom said. — AFP weakness and that there were no plans to NEW YORK: The latest gadgets hitting the market ic potential. ‘Supporting the development of change the system. are smaller and faster than ever before, and rapid- micro-assembling techniques through this project That response was described by Sir Tim ly-emerging 3D integration technology plays a will allow for keep our industries afloat in a very GE takes stake in First Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the web, as major role in this evolution. The process, which competitive international environment’ said Dr “disappointing”. He characterised the flaw as consists in stacking 2D dies and connecting them Michael Gauthier, FAB2ASM coordinator. Solar; to share technology “how to get all your big sister’s passwords”. in the 3rd dimension in order to speed up com- In this context, the consortium aimed to Chrome is one of the three most widely-used munication between chips, can be found in appli- improve the competitiveness of European nano NEW YORK: First Solar Inc. said yesterday way to generate solar electricity. The tech- browsers on desktops worldwide, along with ances such as miniaturised implantable medical and micro-manufacturing with the use of integra- that it’s buying a competing thin-film solar nology is not as efficient at turning the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s devices and radio frequency devices found in tion technology which enables innovative prod- panel technology from General Electric Co sun’s rays into electricity as traditional crys- Firefox. It has millions of users and is seen by mobile phones. It stacks and interconnects multi- ucts to be produced competitively, while counter- in exchange for a stake in the company. talline silicon panels. But it was so compa- ple materials, technologies, and functional com- balancing the trend of outsourcing production to some as crucial to Google’s future efforts to The world’s largest producer of thin-film rably cheap to manufacture that the overall ponents to form highly integrated micro and low-wage economies. In contrast to most explo- monetise web use, by tying users to Google panels also reported quarterly earnings cost of solar electricity was lower. nanosystems for cross-sector applications. rative self-assembly technology developed to- accounts and synchronising between their desk- that missed Wall Street estimates. Shares But an oversupply of crystalline silicon FAB2ASM, an EU-backed project that set out to date, FAB2ASM not only reuses most industrial top and mobile systems. fell 8 percent in after-hours trading. manufacturing capacity, a reduction in develop a new manufacturing technology for the processes but also improves the performance of Elliott Kember, a UK-based software develop- First Solar will acquire GE’s technology global renewable energy subsidies, and 3D integration of microelectronics and the integration process in terms of precision and er from New Zealand who discovered the flaw, for making thin film panels. In return, GE lower prices for the raw material for tradi- Microsystems, has recently come to term and efficiency. The technology relies on robotic pick- commented: “In a world where Google promotes will receive 1.75 million shares of First Solar tional panels sent prices for all panels published positive results. The team addressed a and-place machines and machine vision, which its browser on YouTube, in cinema pre-rolls, and stock, about 2 percent of First Solar’s out- plummeting. This helped make solar much major shortfall in technology development time cannot be simultaneously rapid or accurate. For on billboards, the clear audience is not develop- standing shares. GE’s thin-film technology more affordable for customers, but it erod- and precision that hinders industrial output by example, if a micrometer is needed the integra- ers. It’s the mass market - the users. The over- has performed well in lab tests, but is not ed the price advantage of thin film solar joining traditional robotic tools with the physics tion timescale can be very long or in some cases whelming majority. They don’t know it works manufactured at large scale. and eviscerated the profits of both First of self-alignment - where tiny chips align due to unachievable. The project partners represent a like this. They don’t expect it to be this easy to surface tension of liquid or other physical forces major share of European industry in nano- and First Solar, based in Tempe, Ariz. will Solar and its crystalline silicon competitors. see their passwords. Every day, millions of nor- acting at the micro-scale level. micro manufacturing and expect FAB2ASM results attempt to incorporate GE’s technology First Solar announced after the market mal, every-day users are saving their passwords The main approach starts with component to improve its market share in microsystem into its extensive and well-developed man- closed that its net income for the second in Chrome. This is not okay.” and interface design. In the process, chips fed by devices by up to 5%. FAB2ASM completed its ufacturing process. GE, based in Fairfield, quarter fell 70 percent, to $34 million from Other browsers have previously had similar high speed robots are accurately aligned to the work in April this year and consisted of 9 partners Conn., will purchase and brand First Solar $110 million a year ago. Revenue fell by 46 flaws with password visibility - and closed them. targets by self-assembly followed by permanent from 6 European countries. The project received panels for its own installations. percent to $520 million. On a per-share In 2010, Firefox was revealed to use the same bonding to obtain 3-Dimensional devices. EUR 4.7 million from the EU as part of an overall First Solar’s panels made of thin metallic basis the company earned 37 cents, down “plain text” storage that Chrome is being criti- 3D integration is a very promising area of tech- strategy to support research that helps to improve films were once far and away the cheapest from $1.27 last year. —AP cised for - and added a master password option . nological development and carries huge econom- industrial manufacturing. Some versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE First study of human transmission of new bird flu raises worries Experts stress virus not spreading easily in people now LONDON: The first scientific analysis of probable to an intensive care unit (ICU) on March 15 but cal” - a strong suggestion that the virus was trans- human-to-human transmission of a deadly new died of multi-organ failure on May 4, the study mitted directly from father to daughter, the strain of bird flu that emerged in China this year reported. The second patient, his healthy 32-year- researchers said. “To our best knowledge, this is gives the strongest evidence yet that the H7N9 old daughter, had no known exposure to live the first report of probable transmissibility of the virus can pass between people, scientists said poultry but provided direct bedside care for her novel virus person-to-person with detailed epi- yesterday. Research published in the British father in the hospital before he went to intensive demiological, clinical and virological data,” they Medical Journal (BMJ) analysing a family cluster care. She developed symptoms six days after her wrote. of cases of H7N9 infection in eastern China found last contact with her father and went into hospital Peter Horby of the Oxford University clinical it was very likely the virus “transmitted directly on March 24. She was moved to the ICU on March research unit in Hanoi, Vietnam, who was not from the index patient (a 60-year-old man) to his 28 and died of multi-organ failure on April 24. involved in this research, said the study raised the daughter.” Experts commenting on the research Strains of the virus isolated from samples taken level of concern about H7N9 and reinforced the said while it did not necessarily mean H7N9 is any from each patient were “almost genetically identi- need for intensive surveillance.—Reuters closer to becoming the next flu pandemic, “it does provide a timely reminder of the need to CHINA: In this April 3, 2013 file photo, chickens are seen at a chicken farm on remain extremely vigilant.” the outskirts of Shanghai.—AP photos “The threat posed by H7N9 has by no means passed,” James Rudge and Richard Coker of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said in a commentary in the same journal. The sci- Doctors can safely treat entists who led the study stressed, however, that the virus has not yet gained the ability to transmit alcoholism, PTSD together from person to person efficiently - meaning the risk is very low that it could cause a human pan- NEW YORK: Despite fears that exposure dependence and PTSD,” she said. There has demic in its current form. The new bird flu virus, therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder also been concern, however, that PTSD treat- which was unknown in humans until February, (PTSD) would worsen alcoholism, a new ment involving repeated exposure to the has so far infected at least 133 people in China study found that doctors can safely treat traumatic memory will exacerbate alcohol and Taiwan, killing 43 of them, according to the both conditions at the same time. abuse in those who drink to “self-medicate” latest World Health Organization (WHO) data. Researchers found that people with PTSD their PTSD. To determine whether using Most cases have been in people who had visit- and alcoholism benefited the most from the exposure therapy to treat PTSD and a drug ed live poultry markets or had close contact with simultaneous treatments to reduce alcohol called naltrexone to treat alcoholism at the live poultry in seven to 10 days before falling ill. cravings and lessen distress, compared to same time led to an increase in drinking, Foa The BMJ study, lead by Chang-jun Bao at the people on other treatment regimens. and her colleagues recruited 165 people Jiangsu Province Centre for Disease Control and “What we found is that those people that with PTSD and alcoholism between February Prevention, analysed a family cluster of two H7N9 got (medication) plus prolonged exposure 2001 and June 2009 and assigned them to patients - a father and daughter - in Eastern China therapy for alcohol dependence together one of four treatment groups. in March 2013. with the treatment for PTSD did the best for One group of 40 received naltrexone, The first “index” patient - a 60-year-old man - maintaining their low level of drinking,” Edna which has been found to reduce alcohol regularly went to a live poultry market and fell ill Foa, the study’s lead author, told Reuters cravings, and prolonged exposure therapy, five to six days after his last exposure to poultry. Health.People develop PTSD after traumatic which is intended to help patients confront He was admitted to hospital on 11 March. When CHINA: A vender holds a chicken at a chicken whole sale market in this Tuesday April events and are left with a heightened state of memories or situations they typically avoid. his symptoms became worse, he was transferred 2, 2013 file photo in Shanghai. distress even when they’re not in danger. Another group of 40 received exposure Many of those people also develop some therapy and placebo pills, and a third group level of alcohol dependence. About 11 mil- of 42 received naltrexone and general sup- Aging America: Live to 120? Most say no thanks lion adults in the US have PTSD and about port counseling, which is not as comprehen- one-third of them are also dependent on sive as exposure therapy. A fourth group of WASHINGTON: Ninety birthdays When asked about living to 120 Because aging itself underlies step is to find medications that alcohol, according to an editorial accompa- 43 received placebo pills and support coun- maybe, but not 120: Americans or beyond, the survey found 51 the development of many chronic might somehow switch on those nying the new study in The Journal of the seling. After six months of treatment, the hope to stretch out life expectancy percent of people said that would diseases as our bodies break down, protective pathways, rather than American Medical Association. proportion of days in a given period that par- another decade or so, but they’re be bad for society. They worried the theory is that slowing the aging drastic dieting or gene manipula- There has, however, been some disagree- ticipants consumed alcohol dropped in each ambivalent, even skeptical, about a about a strain on natural resources, process might help keep people tion. A number of candidates have ment about how to best care for people with group. Those receiving naltrexone - with or fountain of youth. A new poll by and that such treatments probably healthier for longer - even if it’s worked in animals. Just last month, both conditions and whether PTSD and alco- without exposure therapy - benefited the the Pew Research Center explores would be available only to the rich never as dramatic as what has hap- NIA researchers reported that a low holism can safely be treated together. “If you most. attitudes about a scientific quest: rather than to everyone. What is the pened with animals. “We are very dose of the diabetes drug met- are trying to treat the alcohol addiction with- At the beginning of the study, partici- Creating treatments that one day ideal life span? To most Americans, interested in not only life extension, formin improved the health and out any treatment of the PTSD what will hap- pants drank alcohol between 71 and 79 per- might slow the aging process and it’s between 79 and 100; the medi- but extension of the health span,” longevity of middle-aged mice. pen is that they will stop drinking and the cent of days. That fell to about 13 percent of let people live decades longer than an answer was 90 years, Pew said Dr Marie A. Bernard, deputy No anti-aging pill is ready to try PTSD will become more severe, so what they days among those not taking naltrexone and is normal today. reported. In the US, a child born director of the National Institute on in people yet. Aging specialists say will do is start drinking again,” Foa, a profes- 5 percent among those on the medication. Scientists already can extend today can expect to live 78.7 years. Aging, which pays for much of this for now, common-sense is the best sor at the University of Pennsylvania in The largest decrease in alcohol cravings also the life span of certain laboratory Women’s life expectancy is longer, research. medicine: Eat a healthy diet, main- Philadelphia, said. occurred among people taking naltrexone, animals - mice, worms, flies - with 81 years, than men’s, 76.2. Research into life extension tain a healthy weight and exercise. “There is a vicious cycle between alcohol according to the researchers.—Reuters various techniques. They’ve also With a rapidly graying popula- began with the discovery that Asked about the poll, graduate stu- tried with monkeys, although the tion that is bringing concern about severely restricting calories in lab dent Katie Lebling, 24, of evidence in that species is mixed. the growth of Alzheimer’s disease animals - they regularly consume Washington said good health is key There’s no way to know if there ever and an overburdened Medicare 25 percent to 30 percent less than to how long she’d like to live: “It will be some type of Methuselah system, caution about the idea of normal - makes them live longer. depends on how happy I am, if I pill for humans. one day living even longer may not Remarkably, they also were healthi- was able to move or if I’m just sit- But with the field growing, Pew be surprising. But longevity pioneer er than their litter mates. ting in a rocking chair.” took the public’s pulse and found Cynthia Kenyon of the University of That led to the discovery of vari- If good health was a given, oth- most Americans wouldn’t want a California, San Francisco, wonders if ous genetic alterations that control ers wouldn’t mind living to 120. “I’m treatment that would let them live the public understands the real life span. Kenyon’s research, for curious to see how things now to 120. Fifty-six percent said no goal of such research, which is bet- example, found that altering a sin- would be then,” said John Gold, 38, thanks - although two-thirds ter health. Many of the experimen- gle gene doubled the life span of a San Francisco software engineer. expect most other people would tal animals whose lives have been roundworms, which stayed healthy The Pew Research Center’s Religion want to try such a step, said the extended look and act far younger - until near the end. Other & Public Life Project survey was report issued Tuesday. Few expect and are far healthier - than their researchers have discovered similar conducted from March 21 to April such a radical idea to become reali- untreated counterparts of the same aging-related gene mutations in 8, 2013. The nationally representa- ty, at least by 2050, although most age, she said. “It would be the different species. tive survey involved interviews, of those surveyed expect other equivalent of a 90-year-old person What about people? Some conducted on cell phones and medical advances that could more that you think is looking like a 45- research has found healthy cente- landlines, with 2,012 adults. It has a gradually extend life expectancy, year-old,” Kenyon told The narians are more likely to harbor margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 such as better cancer care. Associated Press. similarly protective genes. The next percentage points.—AP Pressures and marketing push China formula use BEIJING: China’s latest milk powder makes your child smarter, and con- in China, where many families are really aggressive about their prod- NEW ORLEANS: In this Tuesday, Nov 1, 2011 file photo, first lady Michelle scare will do nothing to increase tains all types of immunogenic sub- supported by parents who work ucts. They say they (products) are Obama sings and dances to exercises with staff, parents and children as she one of the world’s lowest breast- stances, whereas natural breast long hours.Working mothers take close to breast milk-and that is a lie. visits the Royal Castle Child Development Center, as part of the “Lets Move!” feeding rates, experts say, in the milk already has these substances”, to Internet message boards to air “I would say these companies are initiative.—AP face of misconceptions, economic he added. Scherpbie also said the their frustrations over poor breast- brainwashing, but not just mothers. pressures, and aggressive market- growing Caesarean rates in China feeding facilities in the workplace. Those that should be supportive CDC: First national sign of ing that “brainwashes” mothers. had also seen breastfeeding Yanhong Wheeler, a Beijing- are also being brainwashed.” New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra decrease. Just 50 percent of babies based author of books on childcare Wheeler said babies are often cared childhood obesity drop was forced to issue recalls in coun- in China were delivered in hospitals and breastfeeding, said many for almost exclusively by the wider tries ranging from China to Saudi in 2005, he said. Hospital delivery Chinese mothers felt victimized family in the first month after child- ATLANTA: For many years, doctors have been Children (WIC) program, which provides food Arabia following a scare over botu- is now almost universal but about because of a lack of basic knowl- birth, when the mother is often wringing their hands as more and more US vouchers and other services. It’s harder to get lism, an infection that can lead to half of those are Caesarean births, edge on the quantity of breast milk bedridden. children grew fat. Now, that may be changing, national data on preschoolers of more affluent paralysis and death. In China the often with babies separated from a baby needs. “The mother’s family- Later, many Chinese babies with the first evidence of a national decline in families, so it’s not clear if the trend applies to scare recalled memories of a scan- their mothers soon after birth, mak- particularly the new grandparents remain in the care of grandparents childhood obesity. In 18 states, there were at all young children. But experts note that low- dal over locally-produced tainted ing breastfeeding impossible. and the mother-in-law-blames the when the mother returns to work. least slight drops in obesity for low-income income kids tend to be heavier. milk formula, which left six children Maternity leave could be extended mother for starving the baby and Some formula milk providers preschoolers, health officials said Tuesday. After “If you’re going to look at the problem of dead and made more than 300,000 from the current 98-day limit, for not having enough milk if there approach mothers directly with decades on the rise, childhood obesity rates obesity early in childhood, the group at highest ill in 2008. Scherpbie added. are any problems,” she told AFP. their products and up to 52 percent recently have essentially been flat. A few places risk are low-income kids. That’s what makes this Ths scare was a key driver in a But he said there was great pres- “And in the background of this, for- of pregnant women had received a - Philadelphia, New York City and Mississippi - data so valuable for understanding trends in boom in imports that has seen the sure on mothers to return to work mula milk is everywhere. They are free trial, according to a survey by reported improvements in the last couple of this major public health problem,” said Dr. market for formula grow from a Beien, an Internet message board years. But the report from the Centers for Matthew Davis, a University of Michigan total $1 billion in 2002 to $9 billion for new mothers. “I received quite a Disease and Control Prevention shows signs of researcher who tracks health policy and chil- this year, according to statistics lot of samples, mostly in small wider-ranging progress. dren’s health issues. from the United Nations’ children’s amounts and they kept coming “Now, for the first time, we’re seeing a signif- The biggest declines were in Florida, agency Unicef, and an expected until even after childbirth,” one new icant decrease in childhood obesity” nationally, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey and South $13 billion in 2015. The demand for mother in Beijing told AFP. said Dr Thomas Frieden, CDC director. But rates Dakota. Each saw their obesity numbers fall at informal imports has at times seen Formula companies in China- are still too high, he added. One in 8 preschool- least 1 percentage point. Other states showing supermarket shelves cleared including Abbott, Mead Johnson, ers is obese in the United States, and it’s even improvement: California, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, around the world and retail pur- Nestle, Wyeth and Yili-were unavail- more common in black and Hispanic kids. “It’s Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, chase restrictions imposed from able for comment. Increasingly not like we’re out of the woods,” he said during Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Britain to Australia. Only 28 percent competitive formula companies a conference call with reporters Tuesday. Hampshire, New Mexico and Washington. A of Chinese mothers breastfeed for have targeted markets in poorer Obesity continues to be one of the nation’s substantial decline was also seen in the US the first six months-a figure which countries in recent years. leading public health problems - health offi- Virgin Islands. drops to 16 percent in urban areas. Campaigners have dogged Nestle cials call it a longstanding epidemic. A third of “These signs of progress tell a clear story: The global average is about 40 for decades, claiming the company US children and teens and more than two- we can reverse the childhood obesity epidem- percent, while more than 80 per- markets its products to women thirds of adults are obese or overweight. Some ic. It isn’t some kind of unstoppable force,” said cent of mothers in the UK breast- who would be better off breast- hope the report marks a turning point. “I really Dr James S. Marks, in a statement. He’s senior feed. Beijing was guilty of a “large feeding. do think this is a pivotal moment,” said Sam vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson marketing failure” to boost breast- Both Unicef and the World Kass, executive director of a White House initia- Foundation, a philanthropy that supports pro- feeding, said Robert Scherpbie, Health Organisation (WHO) recom- tive to reduce childhood obesity. grams to tackle obesity. Despite the improve- Unicef’s chief of health and nutri- mend breastfeeding from birth to Preschoolers who are overweight or obese ments, the numbers are still disappointing. tion in China.”The government is six months of age, and continued are five times more likely than other children to Hawaii was the best, with about 9 percent of unable to market the benefits of breastfeeding plus nutritious com- be heavy as adults, which means greater risks low-income preschoolers estimated to be breast milk at a very large scale, plementary foods thereafter, up to of high cholesterol, high blood sugar, asthma obese in 2011. Even with some progress, because there is this crowding-out two years or beyond. “Breastfeeding and even mental health problems. Tuesday’s California was worst, at nearly 17 percent. by the other marketing from for- is a natural act, but also a learned study used height and weight measurements Ten states were not included; some had mula companies,” he told AFP. behavior which needs social and from nearly 12 million low-income children in changed how they track height and weight. Manufacturers were “really smart peer support,” Marianna Trias, senior 40 states. The data was collected from 2008 One of the missing states is Texas, which has with their marketing”, he said. Firms program management officer for through 2011. one of the largest populations of low-income say that “they reinforce breast milk CHINA: This file photo taken on December 9, 2008 shows a WHO in China, told AFP. There were Most of the children ages 2 to 4 were children and is known to have a significant substitutes with all sorts of prod- child drinking milk in Chengdu, in China’s southwestern still “challenges... to overcome” in enrolled in the federal Women, Infants and problem with childhood obesity. —AP ucts that enhance learning, that province of Sichuan.—AFP China, she added.—AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Mental disorders, not combat, tied to military suicide

NEW YORK: Mental disorders including depres- from the Naval Health Research Center in San “I don’t think (the results) are surprising, in the sion and alcohol abuse were linked to a higher Diego used Department of Defense personnel broader sense,” said Michael Anestis, a clinical psy- risk of suicide among current and former military files to determine how many times and for how chologist from the University of Southern personnel, in a new study - but combat exposure long each person was deployed. Through 2008, Mississippi in Hattiesburg, who has studied sui- and number of deployments were not. 646 of the study participants had died, including cide in the military. “They’re saying that the risk Researchers said the analysis of 83 suicides 83 by suicide. The researchers found no difference factors in soldiers are not that dissimilar to the risk between 2001 and 2008 does not support the in the risk of suicide among military personnel factors in civilians,” Anestis, who wasn’t involved assumption that experiences in combat - such as who had and had not been deployed to Iraq or in the new research, told Reuters Health. He said seeing dead bodies or firing a gun - and time Afghanistan, nor were more cumulative days the findings don’t mean experiencing combat spent in a war zone are directly tied to a higher deployed tied to a higher suicide risk. doesn’t have any harmful long-term effects on suicide risk. “It was suspected of course that the Suicides were equally common among study military personnel - just that how people deal stresses of combat exposure would lead to bad participants of different military ranks, service with combat mentally, and their situation and outcomes such as suicide,” said Dr Edward Boyko, branches and occupations. However, male service stress level at home, may also be important. from the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health members were twice as likely to commit suicide LeardMann said mental health prior to ever Care System in Seattle, who worked on the study. as women, the study team wrote Tuesday in the seeing combat was the main driver for later sui- “We suspected that there would be an associa- Journal of the American Medical Association. cide risk. “While it’s possible that some of these tion between combat and suicide, given that When deployment history and gender were behaviors are happening after deployment, most there’s been a reported increase in suicide rates,” taken into account, depression was tied to a dou- of our findings ... are from people who are com- he told Reuters Health. The report included bling of the risk of suicide, manic-depressive dis- pleting these surveys prior to their first deploy- 151,560 veterans and current military personnel order to a four-fold risk and alcohol-related prob- ment,” she told Reuters Health. who were assessed in three waves starting in lems to almost three times the risk of suicide. For Past studies have shown an increase in the 2001. Every three years study participants filled example, five out of 1,227 people - or 0.4 percent - number of active duty service people with men- KUWAIT: A US soldier walks atop his armored vehicle at sunset as he pre- out a survey that asked about experiences in com- whose assessments showed they were manic- tal disorders since the mid-2000s, according to pares for a nighttime military exercise in the Kuwaiti desert south of the bat and included assessments for depression, depressive committed suicide, compared to 76 the researchers, possibly due to the stress of Iraqi border.—AP manic-depressive disorder and alcohol abuse and out of 146,403 - less than 0.1 percent - without being part of a military that has been at war for misuse. Researchers led by Cynthia LeardMann manic-depressive disorder. so long.—Reuters FDA advisory panel recommends Dolphins remember friends’ whistles for decades approval of Bayer lung drug PARIS: Bottlenose dolphins can remember know,” he said in a statement. But familiar each other’s signature whistles for more calls often elicited an immediate response. NEWYORK: “Bayer AG’s experimental drug 2.5 milligram dose proposed by Bayer. They than 20 years, a study said yesterday-the “When they hear a dolphin they know, they to treat two types of pulmonary hyperten- argued that a starting dose of 0.5 milligrams longest social memory ever observed in an often quickly approach the speaker playing sion should be approved at doses proposed and maximum dose of 1.5 milligrams three animal. Elephants have long been credited the recording,” said Bruck. “At times they by the company, an advisory panel to the US times a day would confer the same benefit as with the animal kingdom’s most prodigious will hover around, whistle at it, try to get it Food and Drug Administration ruled on the higher dose with a reduced risk of side memory, but evidence for that was anec- to whistle back.” Tuesday. The panel voted 11-0 that the FDA effects, particularly hypotension, or low dotal, said the study’s author Jason Bruck of In one case, Bruck played the whistle of should approve the drug, riociguat, which in blood pressure. Low blood pressure can the University of Chicago’s Institute for a female dolphin named Allie, who lives at clinical trials extended the distance patients cause dizziness, fainting, nausea and poten- Mind and Biology. Bruck claims to have Brookfield Zoo in the US, for Bailey, a could walk during a six-minute test. The FDA tially loss of consciousness. Dr Preston compiled the first study showing social female now in Bermuda. The pair had last is not obliged to follow the recommendation Dunnmon of the FDA said the agency was of its advisory panel, but typically does so. If concerned that most people with coronary recognition in an animal persisting beyond lived together in the Florida Keys when approved, the drug would be sold under the artery disease were excluded from Bayer’s two decades — possibly “the longest pure Allie was two and Bailey four-but Bailey brand name Adempas. clinical trials and that in an unscreened pop- memory of any kind in a non-human clearly recognized the call. The reaction The drug is designed to treat chronic ulation the negative impact from hypoten- species”. was not affected by how long the animals thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a sion could be more prevalent than thought. For the study published in the had lived together, nor their sex or kinship rare disease typically caused by blood clots Dr John Newman, professor of pul- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: status, the biologist said. that restrict the flow of blood from the heart monary medicine at Vanderbilt School of Biological Sciences, Bruck worked with 43 “I was expecting five, maybe 10 years. to the lungs. The drug would be used for Medicine, agreed, saying that once the drug captive dolphins at six zoos and aquariums Memory for over 20 years just has not been patients who are not candidates for surgery has been approved “we don’t really know in the United States and Bermuda, collect- systematically shown in animals so I was to remove the clots. It is also designed to what the increased risk will be in a general ing whistle recordings he played to them amazed by what I found,” he told AFP. In the treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, in population.” Overall, however, panelists rec- over speakers underwater. Previous wild, bottlenose dolphins have an average which arteries of the lungs constrict, forcing ommended approving the drug with a 2.5 research had shown that dolphins design life expectancy of about 20 years, though the heart to work harder. Symptoms of both milligram limit, saying they wanted as many unique signature whistles to identify them- some can survive for 45 years or longer. conditions are similar and include shortness options as possible and that decisions on selves, and answer when called by “name”. Bruck said the study revealed a social mem- of breath, fatigue, weakness and potential dosing should be left to physicians. Dr Stuart They use these whistles like we identify ory “very consistent” with that of humans. It heart failure. If approved, the drug is expect- Rich, a panel member and professor of medi- people by their faces. Bruck played dol- may even be more long-lasting than facial ed to generate sales of $610 million, accord- cine at the University of Chicago Pritzker phins the recordings of signature whistles recognition abilities by humans whose ing to the average estimate of six analysts School of Medicine, said he was not con- from those they had once shared a tank faces change over time while dolphin whis- FRANCE: A file picture taken on December 19, polled by Thomson Reuters. Reviewers for cerned about low blood pressure unless it with, as well as the calls of complete tles remain the same. Long-term social 2012 shows dolphins jumping in the water at the strangers. memory may help animals assess threats the FDA recommended the drug be caused symptoms, and those numbers were animal exhibition park Marineland in Antibes, approved at doses lower than the maximum relatively low in the trial.—Reuters “Dolphins got bored quickly listening to and opportunities for hunting alliances signature whistles from dolphins they don’t while preventing inbreeding.—AFP southeastern France.—AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

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Indian Embassy sets up helpline he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up helpline in order to assist Indian expatri- Tates in registering any complaint regard- ing the government’s ongoing campaign to stamp out illegal residents from the country. Kozhikode District NRI The embassy said in press release yesterday that it amended its previous statement and Association iftar sangamam stated if there is any complaint, the same could be conveyed at the following (as amended): ozhikode District NRI Association Kutty, Eby Varikadu, Krishnan Kadalundi, Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, organized grand iftar sangamam on Rexy Williams, Kaipattor Thankachan, Joy Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: KAugust 2, 2013 at Indian Community Mundakadu, Sam Kutty Jacob, Raju Sakariya, 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has School, Khaitan. The function was highly Sathar Kunnil, Afzal Khan, Nixon George, been in regular contact with local authorities auspicious with the presence of distin- Regi Bhaskar, Thomas Panicker, Girish regarding the ongoing checking of expatriates. guished guests from the various sectors of Ottapalam, Iqbal Kuttamangalam, The embassy has also conveyed to them the the society including Social, cultural, reli- Mohammed Riyaz, Sabu M Peter, Hameed concerns, fears and apprehensions of the com- gious, media and participation of large Madur, Joseph Panicker, Ashraf Kalathode, munity in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait number of association members and family. 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Toffice bearers for the year 2013- FApplicants may log on to the Public portal 14. The office bearers: D Balaram at ww.indianvisaonline.gov.in. After successful Naidu-President, Srinivas Talamanchi- online submission, the hard copy, so generated, Vice President, Vasu Maguluri-General has to be signed by the applicant and submit- Secretary, Prabhakar Reddy Akula-Jt. ted with supporting documents in accordance Secretary, Krishna Prasanth with the type of visa along with the applicable Surapaneni-Treasurer. Area Executive fee in cash at any of the two outsource centres Members: Bharathi Annaji-Salmiya, at Sharq or Fahaheel. It is essential that appli- Nageswar Rao Kondapalli-Abu Halifa, cants fill in their personal details as exactly Subbarao Chebrolu-Abu Halifa, available in their passports. Mismatch of any of the personal details would lead to non-accep- Srikanth A.K-Mangaf, Damodar Naidu tance of the application. Fees once paid are Perugu-Farwaniya, Ravi Garne-Abbasia. non-refundable. All children would have to The association’s first committee was obtain separate visa on their respective pass- formed in the year 1989 with the motto ports. of promoting the Telugu culture, arts, literature and sports for the Telugu 8th Expo Pakistan community in Kuwait. Vasu, General to commence in September Secretary thanked the association he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held from members and well-wishers to make it September 26 to 29 in Karachi. Held annu- as unanimous for the year 2013-14. He Tally, Expo Pakistan is the biggest trade fair also informed that this year’s commit- in the country showcasing the largest collec- tee will follow the same motto with a tion of Pakistan’s export merchandise and serv- concept of “For us & For the Society” ices. Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 was which will focus on events for its mem- visited by delegates from 52 countries and gen- bers in Kuwait and charity programs for erated a business of over $ 518 million. A 16 the needy back home in India. member delegation from Kuwait including rep- utable companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took part in the last exhibition. Sunni Council Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under the auspices of the Trade Development Authority executives meet Sheikh Pakistan. Details about the event can be viewed www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further information Dr Mhammad Salah and details of sponsorship can be obtained uwait Kerala Muslim Sunni Council Executives from the office of Commercial Secretary, met the visiting Islamic scholar Sheikh Dr Pakistan Embassy, Jabriya (25356594) during Muhammad Salah along with Mukhtar Marouf office hours. K (FIMA President) during the FIMA (Federation of KERA badminton Indian Muslim Associations) annual iftar function rominent badminton association IBACK is held at Crowne Plaza Hotel on Sunday and organizing a badminton tournament to be exchanged their views. Pheld on 24th and 31st August 2013. Total Dr Ghalib Al-Mashoor, Organizing Secretary, prize money is 475KD & last entry registration is KKSMC and also the President of Indo-Kuwait 15th august 2013. Interested to participate in the Friendship Society thanked Sheikh Dr Salah for the same as Team KERA shall be entertained, Please contact 97156575. opportunity to meet him and explore about possibili- ty of getting admission for Indian students in Egypt’s Australian Embassy announcement 1,000 year old Al-Azhar University. n the occasion of the Eid Al-Fitr, the Dr Salah hails from Egypt is a well known Islamic Australian Embassy wishes to advise that it scholar in USA and a prominent presenter in Huda TV Owill be closed today till Sunday, August 11, with his strong Islamic Debates. Dr Salah has lot of 2013 The Embassy will reopen on Monday, August friend circles around the world and he was the 12, 2013. founder of 2 Islamic and Arabic Schools. KKSMC South African Embassy announcement Chairman Sayid Nasir Thangal, Abid Qasimi, n the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in Shamsuddeen Moulavi, Nazer Allakatt also joined the accordance with the Eid holidays announced meeting. Oby the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa will remain closed from 8 - 11 August, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is today, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 8:00 to 16:00 & the Consular Section operation hours will be from 8:30 to 12:30 on Monday, August 12, 2013. In case Eid falls tomorrow, the Embassy will resume its work on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. For emergencies, please contact: 94924895.

Write to us Send to What’s On PGA concludes Ramadan program upcoming events, birthdays or he Premier Goal Academy friendly game against the Arsenal ticipated in the Ramadan training celebrations by email: sponsored by Porsche Centre Academy at Bayan recently. The camp. There is a short break in the [email protected] TKuwait, Behbehani Motors game was played in a very sporting football calendar now until the new Fax: 24835619 / 20 Company, concluded their busy and competitive spirit, involving all 2013-14 season begins on Ramadan soccer program with a the teenage players who have par- September 15. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Embassy of Australia has announced that Kuwait citizens can apply for and receive visit visas in 10 working days through www.immi.gov.au. All other processing of visas and Immigration matters are handled by the Australian Visa Application Centre located in Al Banwan Building, 4B, 1st Floor, Al Qibla Area, Ali Al Salem Street, Kuwait City. Visit. www.vfs-au- gcc.com for more info. The Embassy of Australia does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters is conducted by the Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: Media Box holds Ramadan ghabqa [email protected] (VIS), immigra- [email protected] (Visa Office), Tel: Media Box held a Ramadan ghabqa at the Regency Hotel. —Photos by Joseph Shagra +971 4 205 5900 (VFS), Fax: + 971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). Notary and passport services are available by appointment. Appointments can be made by calling the Embassy on 22322422.

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EMBASSY OF CANADA The Canadian Embassy will be closed on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr from 8/8/2013 till 11/8/2013. The Embassy will resume its duties on August 12, 2013 n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF FRENCH The French Embassy in Kuwait will be closed on the first of Eid Al-Fitr. If Eid will start today, the Embassy will be closed to the public today and Sunday, August 11. If Eid will start tomorrow, the Embassy will be closed to the public on Sunday, and Monday and will reopen on Tuesday at 9:00 am.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF 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) locat- ed 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 collection from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the fol- lowing website www.mfa.gr/kuwait. n n n n n n n

EMBASSY OF INDIA On the occasion of the Independence Day of India, a flag hoisting ceremony will be held at the Indian Embassy premises at 7 am on Thursday, August 15, 2013. This will be followed by the reading of the message of Hon’ble President of India by the ambassador and singing of patriotic songs. We expect a lot of Indian nationals to participate in the function.

EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA On the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in accordance with the Eid holidays announced by the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa will remain closed from 8 - 11 August, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is on Thursday, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 8h00 to 16h00 & the Consular Section operation hours will be from 8h30 to 12h30 on Monday, 12 August 2013. In case Eid falls on Friday, the Embassy will resume its work on Tuesday, 13 August 2013.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The children must be under 14 years of age, and additional requirements do apply, but the serv- ice means parents will no longer have to sched- ule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for themselves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti pass- ports. To take advantage, parents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (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 stat- ing no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- dren 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 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is avail- able on the U.S. Embassy website: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html

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EMBASSY OF PAKISTAN On the auspicious occasion of Eid-Al-Fitr, and in accordance with the Eid holidays announced by the Government of Kuwait, the Embassy of Pakistan will remain closed from August 8 to 11, 2013 (Thursday to Sunday) if the first day of Eid is on Thursday, and will reopen with its routine office timings from 08.00 am to 04.00 pm on Monday 12th August 2013. In case Bid falls on Friday, the Embassy will resume its work from Tuesday 13th August, 2013. TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

00:00 30 Rock 14:00 Cash In The Attic 13:15 Street Patrol 13:30 ICC Cricket 360 00:30 The Daily Show Global Edition 14:45 Antiques Roadshow 13:40 Forensic Detectives 14:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 01:00 The Colbert Report Global 15:40 Extreme Makeover: Home 14:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 17:00 Trans World Sport Edition Edition 15:20 Real Emergency Calls 18:00 NRL Premiership 14:35 Border Security 01:30 Seinfeld 17:00 Homes Under The Hammer 15:45 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 20:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 15:05 Auction Hunters 02:00 Seinfeld 17:55 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 16:10 Disappeared 21:00 PGA Tour Highlights 15:30 Auction Kings 02:30 Friends 18:20 Planet Cake 17:00 Solved 22:00 PGA European Tour 16:00 Rattlesnake Republic 18:50 Rick Stein’s Spain 17:50 Forensic Detectives Highlights 16:55 Yukon Men 19:40 Come Dine With Me 18:40 True Crime With Aphrodite 23:00 Super Rugby Highlights 17:50 Mythbusters 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home Jones 18:45 Sons Of Guns Edition 19:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 19:40 Deconstruction 21:20 Antiques Roadshow 05:15 A Kind Of Magic 20:20 Nightmare Next Door 20:05 How It’s Made 22:15 Bargain Hunt 06:00 Austin And Ally 21:10 Couples Who Kill 01:00 NRL Premiership 20:35 Auction Hunters 23:00 Homes Under The Hammer 06:25 Suite Life On Deck 22:00 I Married A Mobster 03:00 Trans World Sport 21:00 Flip Men 23:55 Cash In The Attic 06:45 Shake It Up 22:25 I Married A Mobster 04:00 AFL Premiership 21:30 Gold Divers 00:40 Come Dine With Me 07:10 A.N.T. Farm 22:50 Blood Relatives 06:30 Total Rugby 22:25 Alaska: The Last Frontier 01:30 The Hairy Bikers Come Home 07:35 Jessie 23:40 I Almost Got Away With It 07:00 Darts World Match Play 23:20 Ice Cold Gold 02:25 Design Star 07:55 Good Luck Charlie 09:00 NRL Premiership 00:15 Gold Divers 08:45 Doc McStuffins 11:00 World Match Racing Tour 01:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 09:00 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 12:00 Golfing World 09:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 13:00 Live Web.Com Tour 09:30 A.N.T Farm 13:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 15:00 World Cup of Pool 09:55 A.N.T Farm 15:00 Murdoch Mysteries 16:00 World Cup of Pool 03:25 Unique Eats 10:15 Jessie 16:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 17:00 Super Rugby 03:50 Food Crafters 10:40 Jessie 17:00 60 Minute Makeover 19:00 Trans World Sport 04:15 United Tastes Of America 11:05 Good Luck Charlie 18:00 Emmerdale 20:00 Darts World Match Play 14:20 Gadget Show - World Tour 04:40 Chopped 12:15 Shake It Up 19:00 Coronation Street 22:00 NRL Premiership 14:45 How Tech Works 05:30 Iron Chef America 12:35 Shake It Up 20:00 Coach Trip 15:10 X-Machines 06:10 Unwrapped 13:00 Austin And Ally 20:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland 16:00 Future Weapons 06:35 Unwrapped 13:25 Austin And Ally 21:00 Lewis 16:55 Kings Of Construction 07:00 Unwrapped 13:45 A.N.T. Farm 23:00 Trial & Retribution 17:45 Unchained Reaction 07:25 Unwrapped 01:00 UFC 14:10 Jessie 00:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 18:35 NASA’s Greatest Missions 07:50 Andy Bates American Street 03:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 14:35 Shake It Up 01:00 60 Minute Makeover 19:30 Brave New World Feasts 04:00 UIM Power Boats F1 Champs 15:00 That’s So Raven 02:00 Emmerdale 20:20 Mighty Ships 08:15 Unique Sweets 05:00 NHL 15:25 Good Luck Charlie 21:10 Gadget Show - World Tour 08:40 Reza’s African Kitchen 07:00 WWE Bottom Line 15:50 Jessie 21:35 How Tech Works 09:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 08:00 WWE Experience 16:10 Shake It Up 22:00 Brave New World Cookbook 09:00 Ping Pong World 16:35 A.N.T Farm 22:50 Mighty Ships 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 10:00 US Bass Fishing 17:00 Austin And Ally 03:00 The Amazing Spider-Man-PG15 23:40 Gadget Show - World Tour 10:20 Extra Virgin 11:00 NHL 17:20 That’s So Raven 05:30 Flower Girl-PG15 00:05 How Tech Works 10:45 Kid In A Candy Store 13:00 Triahlon UK 17:45 Suite Life On Deck 07:00 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most 00:30 Patent Bending 11:10 Unwrapped 14:00 Porsche GT 3 Cup 18:10 Good Luck Charlie Wanted-PG 01:00 Prototype This 11:35 Unique Sweets 14:30 Porsche GT 3 Cup 18:30 Dog With A Blog 09:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 01:50 Prototype This 12:00 The Next Iron Chef 15:00 Motor Sports 2013 18:55 Dog With A Blog 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man-PG15 12:50 Have Cake, Will Travel 15:30 WWE Smackdown 19:20 Austin And Ally 13:00 Arthur 3: And The War Of Two 13:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 17:30 WWE Experience 19:40 Austin And Ally Worlds-PG Basics 18:30 Adventure Sports 20:05 A.N.T. Farm 15:00 The Muppets-PG 13:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 19:00 UFC 20:30 Shake It Up 17:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 15:00 The Mob Doctor Basics 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 19:00 The Darkest Hour-PG15 16:30 Coronation Street 14:05 Tyler’s Ultimate 21:15 Austin And Ally 21:00 My Week With Marilyn-PG15 19:00 Parenthood 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 21:40 That’s So Raven 23:00 Wrath Of The Titans-PG15 20:00 Covert Affairs 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 22:00 Jessie 21:00 Once Upon A Time 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 00:00 Departures 22:00 The Newsroom 15:45 Chopped 22:50 Good Luck Charlie 02:00 Globe Trekker 23:00 Grimm 16:35 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 04:00 Inside Luxury Travel - Varun 00:00 The Mob Doctor Basics 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 07:00 A Fall From Grace-PG15 Sharma 01:00 The Newsroom 17:00 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 00:00 Hannah Montana 09:00 Love Will Keep Us Together- 05:00 Bizarre Foods America 02:00 Once Upon A Time Basics 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers PG15 06:00 Eden Eats 17:25 Reza’s African Kitchen 01:30 Emperor’s New School 11:00 Ring Of Deceit-PG15 07:00 Globe Trekker 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 02:15 Replacements 13:00 Legendary Assassin-PG15 08:00 Departures 18:40 Guy’s Big Bite 15:00 Web Of Lies-PG15 09:00 Off Limits TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON ON OSN ACTION HD 19:05 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 17:00 Underground: The Julian 03:00 Friends Cookbook Assange Story-PG15 03:30 The Mindy Project 19:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 19:00 The Descendants-PG15 04:00 Seinfeld 20:20 Chopped 21:00 And Soon The Darkness 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 14:30 Style Star 21:10 Chopped 23:00 Katy Perry The Movie: Part Of Leno 15:00 Keeping Up With The 22:00 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean Me-PG Ford set to join Stallone 06:00 All Of Us Kardashians Cookbook 01:00 Underground: The Julian Assange Story-PG15 06:30 Arrested Development 16:00 Keeping Up With The 22:25 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Kardashians Cookbook 08:00 Seinfeld 17:00 Ice Loves Coco 22:50 Andy Bates American Street 09:00 Guys With Kids in ‘The Expendables 3’ 17:30 Ice Loves Coco Feasts 09:30 The Mindy Project 18:00 E! News 23:40 Food Wars 10:00 2 Broke Girls 19:00 THS 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 04:00 Paranorman-PG 10:30 Arrested Development 20:00 Married To Jonas 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 06:00 Alvin And The Chipmunks: 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 20:30 Married To Jonas 00:55 Unique Eats Chipwrecked-PG Leno 21:00 Playing With Fire 01:20 Unique Eats 08:00 The Conspirator-PG15 12:00 All Of Us 22:00 Playing With Fire 01:45 Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean 10:15 Treasure Buddies-PG 12:30 Seinfeld 23:00 E!es Cookbook 12:00 The Avengers-PG15 13:00 Seinfeld 00:00 Dirty Soap 14:30 How To Fall In Love-PG15 13:30 Arrested Development 00:55 Style Star 16:00 The Conspirator-PG15 14:00 The Mindy Project 01:25 THS 18:00 Battleship-PG15 14:30 2 Broke Girls 20:15 Dark Shadows-PG15 15:00 The Mindy Project 22:15 Seeking Justice-PG15 15:30 The Daily Show 00:30 Deadly Affairs 00:00 The Conspirator-PG15 16:00 The Colbert Report 02:15 Battleship-PG15 16:30 All Of Us 01:20 Dr G: Medical Examiner 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 03:15 Bargain Hunt 02:10 Blood Relatives 18:00 Breaking In 04:00 New Scandinavian Cooking 03:00 On The Case With Paula Zahn 18:30 Breaking In 04:25 New Scandinavian Cooking 03:45 Killer Kids 19:00 Two And A Half Men 04:55 Delicious Iceland 04:30 Deadly Affairs 05:20 Dr G: Medical Examiner 04:00 The Presence-PG15 20:00 Don’t Trust The B In 05:25 Antiques Roadshow 06:00 Transformers: Dark Of The Apartment 23 06:15 Cash In The Attic 06:10 Disappeared 07:00 Mystery Diagnosis Moon-PG15 20:30 30 Rock 07:00 Cash In The Attic 09:00 Killer Mountain-PG15 21:00 The Daily Show Global Edition 07:45 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 07:50 Street Patrol 08:15 Street Patrol 11:00 Captain America: The First 21:30 The Colbert Report Global 08:35 Bargain Hunt Avenger-PG15 08:40 Real Emergency Calls Edition 09:20 Antiques Roadshow 13:30 The Adventures Of Tintin-PG 22:00 Family Guy 10:10 The Hairy Bikers Come Home 09:05 Who On Earth Did I Marry? 15:45 Killer Mountain-PG15 22:30 Cougar Town 11:00 Masterchef: The Professionals 09:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 17:45 Captain America: The First 23:00 Cougar Town 12:00 DIY SOS 10:20 Solved Avenger-PG15 23:30 Don’t Trust The B In 12:25 Come Dine With Me 11:10 Disappeared 20:00 Shadow-PG15 Apartment 23 13:15 Bargain Hunt 12:00 Mystery Diagnosis 22:00 Three Kings-18 12:50 Street Patrol 00:00 The Thaw-PG15 02:00 Shadow-PG15 arrison Ford is set to join Sylvester Stallone in the who has a successful background in commercials, is action-packed sequel “The Expendables 3,” a rep- directing the action-packed sequel, which Stallone is Hresentative for Ford has confirmed to TheWrap. producing with Millennium Films. “The Expendables” Stallone tweeted on Tuesday that he had successfully films have grossed more than half a billion dollars, and 08:00 Police Academy 6: City Under recruited Ford for the Lionsgate franchise - though the “The Expendables 3” hits theaters Aug. 15, 2014. Siege-PG15 excitable actor-producer is known to jump the gun Ford is a certifiable icon of the action genre thanks 10:00 The Little Rascals-PG when it comes to casting announcements, as represen- to the “Indiana Jones” franchise and two turns as Jack 12:00 Shark Tale-PG tatives for Mel Gibson have yet to confirm his casting in Ryan in “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present 14:00 Police Academy 7: Mission To “Expendables 3.” Danger.” He next stars opposite “Expendables 2” actor Moscow-PG15 Stallone appeared to take a swipe at Willis, who Liam Hemsworth in “Paranoia,” which Relativity opens 16:00 The Little Rascals-PG appeared in the original “Expendables” and its sequel, Aug. 16. He also co-stars in Summit’s “Ender’s Game” 18:00 Adventures In Babysitting- tweeting, “GREEDY AND LAZY ...... A SURE FORMULA FOR and Paramount’s “Anchorman” sequel. He’s repped by PG15 CAREER FAILURE.” Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes, UTA.—Reuters 20:00 Midnight Run-PG15 22:15 The Angel’s Share-PG15 00:00 Under New Management 02:00 Midnight Run-PG15 Skarsgard, Monaghan in talks 09:15 Love Takes Wing-PG15 11:00 The Chorus-PG15 13:00 Dolphin Tale-PG to join Streep in ‘The Giver’ 15:00 Love Takes Wing-PG15 17:00 The Prey-PG15 he stars of HBO and Showtime Jonas’ father, while Monaghan will 19:00 A Better Life-PG15 are colliding, as Alexander play Jonas’ best friend Asher. 21:00 Neds-PG15 Skarsgard (“True Blood”) and Streep is nearing a deal to play the 23:15 Ironclad-18 T 01:15 Project Nim-PG15 Cameron Monaghan (“Shameless”) community’s Chief Elder, who main- are in advanced negotiations to join tains order in the seemingly utopian Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep in Philip society. Noyce is directing the adap- Noyce’s adaptation of “The Giver,” an tation of Lowry’s celebrated 1993 01:00 Futbol Mundial individual familiar with the project children’s book. The movie has been a 01:30 PGA European Tour has told TheWrap. The Weinstein passion project for Bridges, who is 05:00 NRL Premiership Company and Walden Media are pro- producing with Nikki Silver of Tonik 07:00 Cricket ducing the movie, which is based on Productions. Dylan Sellers and Julie 10:00 Darts World Match the bestselling book by Lois Lowry. Rappaport will oversee the project for 12:00 Live NRL Premiership “The Giver” is a fantasy tale set in a TWC. Production will start this fall in 14:00 Rugby League Challenge Cup dystopian society that fears freedom. South Africa. Long attached to play 2013 All memory of human history has the title role, Bridges bought the 16:00 Darts World Match 18:00 PGA Tour Highlights been erased, emotion does not exist rights to “The Giver” two decades ago 19:00 PGA European Tour and citizens’ professions are chosen after being introduced to the book by Highlights for them. his daughter. 20:00 Super Rugby Highlights Brenton Thwaites stars as Jonas, Skarsgard, who plays Eric 21:00 Live Cricket the community’s Receiver of Northman on HBO’s “True Blood,” is Memories who spends his days being coming off a trio of well-reviewed Gretchen Rush. Monaghan, who plays mentored by the Giver (Bridges), who indies and next stars opposite Andrea Ian Gallagher on Showtime’s teaches him to confront and under- Riseborough in WB’s thriller “Hidden.” “Shameless,” recently booked a lead 00:00 Darts stand the lies that inform society. As He’s also set to star in the studio’s role in DreamWorks’ “Glimmer.” 02:00 NRL Full Time Jonas comes to grips with living an reboot of “Tarzan,” which “Harry He’ll soon be seen in the indie 02:30 ICC Cricket 360 unsheltered existence, he begins to Potter” director David Yates has been thriller “Mall” and TWC’s “Vampire 03:00 Cricket Friends Life T20 acquire a taste for freedom and hon- developing for the past year. He’s Academy: Blood Sisters.” He’s repped 06:00 Trans World Sport esty, becoming an outcast in the repped by CAA, Principal 07:00 PGA Tour by UTA and attorney Chad 12:00 Trans World Sport process. Skarsgard is in talks to play Entertainment LA and attorney Christopher. — Reuters WRATH OF THE TITANS ON OSN MOVIES HD 13:00 Futbol Mundial Classifieds

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accident, 2700cc, alterna- Kuwait CHANGE OF NAME tive 4-wheel driving, SITUATION VACANT KNCC PROGRAMME 115,000 km, Al Sayer main- I , Kapil Mohan holder of tenance, 4 new tires, cov- Driver needed for Kuwaiti FROM LAST DAY OF RAMADAN TO WEDNESDAY (14/08/2013) Indian Passport no: K ered cabin, KD 3700. Tel: family. Age over 35 - full 3655272 hereby wish to 99766343. (C 4477) time or part time. Call change my name to Kapil 5-8-2013 60623330. (C 4474) SHARQIA-1 RED 2 (DIG) 1:30 PM AVENUES-2 Mohan George THE SMURFS 2 (DIG) 11:45 AM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 3:45 PM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 1:30 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 2:00 PM DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG) 5:45 PM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 4:15 PM 7-8-2013 STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 4:15 PM RED 2 (DIG) 8:00 PM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 7:00 PM Prayer timings HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 6:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 10:15 PM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 9:45 PM I, Hasanali Asgerali STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 8:30 PM RED 2 (DIG) 12:45 AM PACIFIC RIM (DIG) 12:30 AM Badnawarwala, holder of Fajr: 03:44 HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 11:00 PM NO TUE+WED NO TUE+WED Indian Passport No: Shorook 05:11 HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 1:00 AM J3503961 hereby change FANAR-2 AVENUES-3 my name to HASANALI Duhr: 11:54 SHARQIA-2 STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 11:15 AM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 12:45 PM Asr: 15:29 DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 12:15 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 1:30 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 3:00 PM ASGERALI KALIMI. (C 4476) THE SMURFS 2 (DIG-3D) 2:30 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 4:00 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 5:15 PM 5-8-2013 Maghrib: 18:36 DESPICABLE ME 2 (DIG-3D) 4:45 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 6:15 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 7:30 PM Isha: 20:00 EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 6:45 PM STREET DANCE ALL STARS (DIG) 8:15 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 9:45 PM I, Sahana, holder of EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 8:45 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 10:30 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 12:05 AM Passport No: F 1472571, EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 10:45 PM HAMMER OF G’S (DIG) 12:30 AM NO TUE+WED hereby change my name to EL7ARAMY & EL3ABIET (DIG) 12:45 AM NO TUE+WED Last Day of Ramadan, No Show before 9.00 pm SHAIKH SAHANA. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Hard work is the order of this day. You could be interrupted from time to You seem much more attentive today. Before you get to work you may time with questions and requests. You would do well to just stop what you are doing in order choose to stop and help someone or call to get help for someone. Many times today you will to help. Have them write down what you tell them and then they will not become confused feel like you are on the outside looking in—perhaps as though you were viewing a movie. This about the order of things. Don’t be hasty with a complicated project this afternoon, particularly is a great way to gain a new perspective on just what you want to keep or change in your life. It if it is one with intricate steps. Taking shortcuts will only force you to retrace your steps and is a good meditation to employ. Occasionally, we have these meditative or contemplative delay completion. It may come to your attention that your financial resources may be opportunities and you should use them to your benefit. Be grateful, take your vitamins and strained—a little more than usual. If this is so, a budget will help you to prioritize. You may set delay any particular action until another day, if possible. Take plenty of notes for any changes aside some time this evening to meet with your mate and discuss some future changes in the you see are needed as all sorts of possibilities come to your attention. Enjoy a light evening budget. You will make wise choices. meal with the family.

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

This is a wonderful time for you to take control of projects in the workplace There are plenty of interruptions today. Although you enjoy many different or, in fact, whatever else would benefit from your attention. Everything is working together for activities during any one particular day, you tend to involve yourself in as many your best interest. You have plenty of enthusiasm and warm up to things and people quickly. as three jobs at once—you like variety but you also like to see several different things come You have an inner self-confidence that burns with its own light. You work hard and enjoy the together at once. Perhaps in a past life you were a conductor of an orchestra or a trail drive sense of accomplishment that you derive from doing your best. A co-worker friend may sug- boss. With many interruptions today, it still does not seem to faze you; all is natural and an gest that you two meet after work for some more relaxed and enjoyable time together. At organized chaos may be what you understand the best. Be aware of the need to choose quality home this evening a young person may need your advice. He or she does not like to wait for over quantity. This afternoon runs much more smoothly. There is a lot going on in your person- you, but this waiting creates a little focus and some eventual self-evaluation. There will be time al life but everything is running like a quiet clock. A friend who enjoys charity work may per- for listening soon. suade you to become involved.

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

A recent disagreement may have you involved in some interesting research. Your positive outlook, no matter what, seems to be the way to accomplish- The answer you find may mean a raise. Issues of pride, mastery and appreciation ing your goals. Your focus is strong and others may have to call out your name become more and more central to your life stream as this cycle progresses. You do your best to to get your attention. A goal toward which you have been striving for a long time is now within complete your work and help others in the process. You try to teach to others that it is not what your reach. There is time today for you to become better organized in the workplace. You have ACROSS DOWN you do so much as how you do it, not who you are so much as how you make others feel about just enough time later this afternoon to look for a new pair of shoes or to freshen up before a 1. Used of a single unit or thing. 1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 themselves. If it does not come from the heart, it will not matter much to you now. A romantic work-related social event. You will be able to connect with influential people on a less demand- ing level, away from the workplace. Tonight a new habit is forming and family members 4. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant to agree on a common policy for the sale of partner wants to move your connection to each other, a little closer to intimacy. You may want express opinions and affirmations. When adults move forward in constructive ways, young petroleum. to review this relationship and decide just what you want to come from the relationship. Enjoy used as food. people will learn to do the same. 12. An enclosed space. 2. Plant with an elongated head of broad music this evening. 15. A close friend who accompanies his buddies stalked leaves resembling celery. in their activities. 3. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor 16. Tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs. of a person or cause). 17. The corporate executive responsible for the 4. A demon who swallows the sun causing Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) operations of the firm. eclipses. CAPRICORN 18. A federal agency established to coordinate 5. A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the This is a good day and has all the possibilities of success. The flow of creative Joint ventures seem to be rather fortunate throughout this month. An programs aimed at reducing pollution and pro- wall) used by men to urinate. juices gives birth to wonderful ideas. These ideas come so fast that it is difficult unusual route to success is within possibilities. A business meeting leads to a tecting the environment. 6. A silvery malleable metallic element that to give clear instructions to others. Take a deep breath and grab a pad and pencil; outline or positive exchange of ideas. Everyone acknowledges the significant progress you have been 19. A major school of Buddhism teaching per- resists corrosion. make a list of first-things-first. For example, on a personal level one might get news of unex- making lately. You also may help to bring some insight into several difficult projects. Perhaps you have reached the right people or found the pages to some notebook. If you are on a sales sonal salvation through one's own efforts. 7. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice pected company. On the job, one might become aware of some pressure. Two people making call later today, you will help to increase sales. If you are elsewhere with this information, it may of Yoga). a list will help cover many unexpected occurrences. Allocating the jobs may be a challenge but 20. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder help to better the education of young people—or to prove a point. Family members may cost of Dadaism in Zurich. 8. French soldier said to be fearless and chival- only because of the way the request is phrased. If you are writing a book, the list and outline method is an excellent way to build a plot. you money this evening, but this is good—they deserve the bonus as well as your support and 21. A popular island resort off the northeastern rous (1473-1524). praise for now. tip of the Yucatan peninsula. 9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 23. Tag the base runner to get him out. Arabia or North Africa. 24. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia. 10. A weapon that discharges a missile at high 26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flow- velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) ers. 11. Filled with the emotional impact of over- There may be a demand for solving quandaries and other puzzles today. 29. Angular distance above the horizon (espe- whelming surprise or shock. You may use tools in your work and decide to change your style. The best This may mean that a round-table meeting has suggestions flowing by your ears faster than cially of a celestial object). 12. A fraudulent business scheme. scenario here would be for your changes to go well. Higher-ups and those in control may have you can keep up. Be sure to ask for a copy of the meeting transactions so that you can separate 13. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a other things to say. So, perhaps you could just show one example of your work; you will make a 30. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its moth- the wise ideas from the ones that need to go on the backburner, so to speak. Perhaps because good presentation. Results should be quite interesting. A love relationship intensifies; the er and raised by hand. hawk or eagle). of the context in some of the ideas, you demonstrate great understanding and sensitivity to strong physical attraction you are feeling now will be obvious. Some will say you appear as if 33. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes 14. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes. the needs of others. You are in a good position to help bridge the gap that caused some misun- you had been born all new. Could this be the cause of your bravery in the workplace money is readily. 22. An actor's line that immediately precedes derstanding or miscommunication. You may be able to help choose a good plan, or at the least, involved in the connection of some type of vehicle that you have been trying to sell for some 34. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. and serves as a reminder for some action or press the need for a bit more research and reporting on the most popular ideas. You are think- time. It may be too late now to celebrate but you can put some money aside for celebrating 36. (informal) Of the highest quality. speech. ing about making a short movie. 38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB 25. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan tomorrow. gun. River. 41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture 27. A sock with a separation for the big toe. and patron of scribes and schools. 28. 1 species. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 44. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 31. Any organic compound formed by adding 45. A language of Australian aborigines. alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules. Your enthusiasm is strong and others pick up on it and take it on for You may want to become more technically informed and if you have a 48. A blue dye obtained from plants or made 32. The event of dying or departure from life. themselves—there seem to be no limitations today. This enthusiasm is positive and has computer, but have not mastered it, you could decide that now is the time to learn. synthetically. 35. A native or inhabitant of Denmark. good results—not a nervous energy. Practical issues dominate after the noon break. Tasks Dealing with contracts fills your afternoon and will complete a very full day. You are in a 49. British statesman and leader of the Labour 37. A port city of south central Ukraine on an that were previously neglected must now have your attention. An authority figure may add good position to communicate concerning groups and society and may need to schedule party who instituted the welfare state in arm of the Black Sea. some extra responsibilities this afternoon. No problem, you can handle the work. If you feel in time for a lecture at a high school this month. There are several opportunities to be with England (1883-1967). 39. (informal) Exceptionally good. that you need help, ask for it. You have no desire to work overtime so you take advantage of your loved ones in an environment of harmony later this afternoon. Someone has discov- 51. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright 40. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants. the opportunity to use your creative energy and show assertiveness in a positive way. A ered a hidden trail and you are invited for a bike ride. The lines of communication are open light) that precedes the onset of certain disor- 42. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates char- family member wants to spend more time with you this evening and you may really enjoy and any support you may need is within your reach. Take better care of your health. ders such as a migraine attack or epileptic acterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as remembering past events. Resolve to eat what your body needs. seizure. wings. 52. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short 43. The inner and longer of the two bones of wedge-shaped white tail. the human forearm. Word Search 53. The dialect of Malay used as the national 46. Desire strongly or persistently. Yesterday’s Solution language of the Republic of Indonesia or of 47. Nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry. Malaysia. 50. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth. 54. Involving the entire earth. 55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially 57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. in Turkey). 58. A silvery ductile metallic element found pri- 56. United States tennis player (born in marily in bauxite. Czechoslovakia) who won several singles cham- 59. A member of the British order of honor. pionships. 61. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by 60. Pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially gravity. the water gum. 63. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. 62. Strong and sharp. 64. Cause to lose one's nerve. 65. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae. 69. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cath- 66. A Bantu language spoken in southern ode and a cadmium anode. coastal Tanzania. 72. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with 67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a onions or celery and usually poultry or game or skewer usually with vegetables. shellfish and sometimes tomatoes. 68. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of 73. A small amount of residue. the Old World. 75. The fleshy pendulous part of the external 70. The United Nations agency concerned with human ear. atomic energy. 77. A loose cloak with a hood. 71. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and 79. Any of several imperial dynasties of China converted into dopamine in the brain. ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556. 74. A Hindu prince or king in India. 80. Small fatty fish usually canned. 76. Top part of an apron. 83. Preserve of crushed fruit. 78. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in 84. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappi- the blood. ness. 81. A metric unit of length equal to one hun- 85. Relating to the abomasum (the fourth com- dredth of a meter. partment of the stomach of ruminants). 82. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celes- 86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from tial point measured westward along the celes- aba cloth. tial equator from the zenith crossing.

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Bell wants spontaneous wedding risten Bell wants a spontaneous low- paper. “It could be any day. Honestly, I could key wedding. The ‘Veronica Mars’ star go home and we could do it today, there’s no Kpopped the question to her partner Dax forethought really going into it.”The couple - Shephard in June over Twitter, but admits she who originally got engaged in January 2010 - doesn’t want an over-the-top ceremony and welcomed their daughter Lincoln in March will probably opt for spur-of-the-moment and are keen to tie the knot soon for the sake nuptials. Speaking to E! News, she said: “We’re of her future. She explained: “We do want all not having a wedding. It’s not a desire of of the legal opportunities that come with a either of ours to have any sort of day of binding marriage, especially now that we have celebration for us. I feel like we get a kid. “It’s very important, there are a lot of enough attention in our daily lives things that you need to make available and and we just want something sort have in writing for your kid...Yeah, one of these of private that involves pen and days though.” Hoffman was Oprah comments on treated for cancer Dee’s N-Word scandal a biker chick prah Winfrey has finally weighed in on the Paula ODeen N-word scandal, and the media mogul knows that Deen is not alone. “I think that Paula Deen eyonce cycled to her Mrs Carter Show World Tour con- was used sort of like a symbol,” cert. The ‘Love on Top’ hitmaker decided to shun her usu- Winfrey told “Entertainment Tonight” Bal chauffeured journey by riding a bike to her last per- host Nancy O’Dell. “But I think lots of formance at the Barclays Centre in New York. She wrote on her people use that word inappropriate- Instagram page: “I biked to Barclays for my last show in ly all the time.” The controversy Brooklyn!” The star made the 3.5 mile journey from the Tribeca began at the start of the summer home she shares with rapper husband Jay-Z to the arena for when Deen was quoted in a May her last stop in the city. Meanwhile it seems her mode of trans- deposition as saying “of course” she port isn’t the only way the 31-year-old singer is staying ground- had used the N-word. The former ed - as she and her husband Jay-Z recently treated all of their Food Network star was being ques- 80 employees to a huge bonus. Workers on her tour - and at Beyonce’s tioned by lawyers for a lawsuit filed the couple’s three homes - were given over $45,000 each to against her and her brother, Bubba thank them for their efforts. A source is quoted by site Perez Hiers, by a former employee alleging Hilton as saying: “[Jay is] spreading the wealth around and that she suffered violent, sexist and everyone is blown away... Nobody got left out. “A lot of them racist behavior while working at couldn’t believe it and phoned his personal assistant to check their Savannah, Ga. restaurant, Uncle that there hadn’t been some mistake.” Ever the professional, Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House. Beyonce continued to impress last month when she continued S actor Dustin Hoffman, 75, has undergone suc- Winfrey said she doesn’t know if to sing despite her hair being sucked into an electric fan on cessful treatment for cancer, his spokeswoman she’ll pursue an interview with the stage during a performance of ‘Halo’. said Tuesday, without specifying the details of celebrity chef, but seemed open to U the possibility when Deen “is ready the disease. The cancer “was detected early and he has been surgically cured,” spokeswoman Judy Gottlieb to talk.” “I think you have to let the told People magazine. “Dustin is feeling great and is in dust settle and figure out where you are in all of that before you can actu- Adele splashes out good health,” she added, later confirming the informa- tion to AFP. Hoffman, a two-time Best Actor Oscar win- ally have a real conversation,” the ner for “Rain Man” in 1988 and “Kramer versus Kramer” star of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” added. O’Dell ness situations, such as board meetings where in 1979, will continue with preventative measures to transitioned from Deen to Winfrey’s own she is the minority in either race or gender. I for son’s first birthday avoid a recurrence, the spokeswoman added. She did experiences with racism, and asked if she had can see in the energy of the people there - not specify what type of cancer he had or which hospi- ever been called the N-word. “I would have to they don’t sense that I should be holding one tal he was treated in. Hoffman made his debut behind say that racism, for me, doesn’t show itself of those seats. I can sense that,” Winfrey the camera last year with the film “Quartet,” a comedy that way. Nobody in their right mind - unless added. “But I can never tell - is it racism or is it about a group of retired musicians. The legendary they’re a Twitter thug - is going to call me the sexism? Because often times, it’s both.” While a actor has starred in dozens of movies, including N-word,” Winfrey said. “Nobody in their right few argue that everyone should be able to “Midnight Cowboy,” “Little Big Man,” “All the President’s mind is going to do that to my face. True use the N-word if the black community uses it Men,” “Marathon Man,” and “Tootsie.” He currently film- racism is being able to have power over to address each other, Winfrey doesn’t think ing “Chef,” directed by Jon Favreau, and co-starring somebody else, so that doesn’t happen to me any body should use it - black or white - Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson. that way.” It does manifest for Winfrey in busi- because of the word’s harsh history.

Man charged in burglary attempt of Kid Rock’s home 43-year-old man has been charged with trying to break dele has booked the top floor of the Beaufort Hotel, London, for her into musician Kid Rock’s home. Brian D Keith was son’s first birthday. The ‘Skyfall’ hitmaker had her first child, Angelo, with Aarraigned by video Tuesday in court on felony charges of ASimon Konecki on 19 October 2012 but is planning on celebrating a attempted home invasion and malicious destruction property. month early at the upmarket venue in London’s wealthy Chelsea district. A Keith asked for a court-appointed attorney and is being held on source told The Sun newspaper: “Adele wants to mark Angelo’s first birthday in $75,000 bond. Keith was arrested Saturday after surveillance style.” Famous faces who have been invited to the bash include the birthday photos from security cameras on Kid Rock’s Detroit-area proper- boy’s godfather, comedian Alan Carr, and Adele’s friend, Sid Owen. Adele has ty were released. The been keeping a low profile since the birth of her baby and spending a lot of photos showed a man time with her family in the seaside town of Brighton, England, where they have ramming the gate last a £2.5million home. In June she was pictured for the first time with Angelo Wednesday and trying when the pair were visited Central Park Zoo in New York City. Earlier this year to break into the Adele was among a number of other A-Listers shortlisted for the tile of house. The man was Celebrity Mum of the Year 2013 in the UK. Black Keys guitarist on crutches. In requesting a low bond, Keith told the judge has problems Bieber accused of abuse by wife with his legs. He had under crutches at his side he estranged wife of Black their child. His wife denies it. during the hearing. “I Keys singer-guitarist Dan Stephanie Auerbach said in the had 15 screws and investigation TAuerbach accuses him of records that she sought treatment two plates put in my abuse in divorce filings dealing with at a residential treatment facility. knee,” Keith said. the custody of their child. Stephanie Dan Auerbach has primary custody “Nurses come by after club brawl Ann Gonis Auerbach alleges that the of their child. A judge gave his every other day. I have unspecified abuse culminated in an estranged wife supervised visitation to start intense physi- ustin Bieber is to be investigated incident in which she “superficially” rights with the child, until she can cal therapy or else I’ll by police over whether he insti- order to get his bow tie back - leading cut herself on her legs and ankles. show “that she is not a potential never walk again.” Jgated a club brawl on Saturday to a heated exchange with the star But Dan Auerbach said she has danger to the child.” A publicist for Judge Joseph Fabrizio night. The ‘Boyfriend’ singer’s visit to and his security. A source said: made two suicide attempts and that Dan Auerbach declined to comment cited Keith’s criminal Southampton, New York, hotspot “Wayne followed because he wanted one was made in the presence of Tuesday. record and lack of ties South Pointe ended in a fight over his tie back. Then Bieber’s people got to the area in setting the weekend and officers are trying in his face. “We thought it was all over, to determine whether Justin coaxed the bond high in rela- but it escalated outside when we his bodyguards into an alleged attack Jackson’s children saw him tion to the charges. heard Bieber yelling and talking s**t. on a fellow clubber. Southampton He was screaming in Wayne’s direc- Keith has 14 convic- Police sergeant Todd Spencer told the tion, ‘Punk b***h!’ Wayne thought overdose 8 years before he died tions as an adult, New York Post newspaper: “That somebody threw something at him. including several for drunken driving and fraud, the judge said. “I would be part of the investigation, Wayne picked up a small rock and ichael Jackson’s children found Katherine Jackson and her family are suing do not find that you have strong ties to the community,” Fabrizio whether Bieber directed them or not.” threw it back towards Justin. “That’s him collapsed from an overdose AEG live for £100 million, as they believe told Keith. “You have an out-of-state criminal history. While you According to an eyewitness, the 19- eight years before his death. The the concert promoters wrongly hired Dr. when Wayne heard someone yell, M have seven children, you do not have any custody of them.” year-old star was acting “like he was ‘You done f***ed up now.’ Justin late singer’s eldest children, Prince and Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of Authorities have impounded a 1994 Ford Club Wagon van that in ‘Die Hard’” outside the club, where jumped out the sunroof and slid Paris, were just four and three when they involuntary manslaughter for his role in they say Keith used to force open the gated driveway. Keith is saw their father laid out cold in the hallway Michael’s death. However, AEG claim it was 22-year-old Wayne Rennalls was down the car like he was in ‘Die Hard’. due back in court on Monday. Kid Rock, who has eight concerts allegedly beaten up by Justin’s securi- He dropped his shirt and threw his of their hotel suite at Walt Disney World in Michael who demanded Dr. Murray and his in suburban Detroit starting this weekend, said on his website Orlando, Florida, in 2001. However, body- own fault he died from an overdose of hos- ty team after butting heads with the hat and wanted to throw hands. His that he might have used deadly force had he been home dur- singer over a bow tie. Wayne report- people surrounded Wayne, who was guard Michael La Perruque saved the ‘King pital grade anaesthetic Propofol in 2009. ing the break-in.”Thank God I was not on the property at the of Pop’ by performing mouth-to-mouth The security guard insists he never found edly gave his white H&M accessory to getting punched from all angles.” time of this attempted break in,” he said. “I am an avid resuscitation until medical assistance medication in Michael’s room, but there a waitress after she complimented it. Wayne reportedly suffered a black arrived and stabilised him. La Perruque’s was always empty bottles of alcohol lying hunter and marksman and I will not hesitate to shoot The female worker then went over to eye, busted lip and bruised ribs fol- revelations surfaced at Los Angeles around, and he feared the star would even- anyone who has myself or family in fear for our Justin’s roped-off VIP area to provide lowing the altercation and filed a Superior Court where the singer’s mother tually overdose. lives.” bottle service and Wayne followed in police report the next day. lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 GOSSIP Silverman used mother

Lucy Hale: Being short cramps my height

auren Silverman reportedly used her mother as an Andrew filed for divorce last month, naming Simon, 53, as ucy Hale struggles to wear long pants and dresses young Hollywood starlets like Ashley, Vanessa Hudgens, excuse to secretly visit Simon Cowell. The 36-year-old co-respondent in the papers and citing adultery as the rea- because of her height. The pint-sized ‘Pretty Little Selena Gomez and Emma Watson are incredible fash- Lsocialite - who is now estranged from her business- son for the failure of his marriage. Simon is trying to get his LLiars’ actress often feels like she’s missing out on ionistas. She said: “People around my age have sort of man husband Andrew - is expecting a child with the media name removed from the papers and is said to remain the latest fashion trends, like long, flowing pants, got it goin’ on. I think it’s cool to show that people mogul and hid her affair by telling her spouse she was see- “hopeful” he will not be made to face court. Carole has also because of her petite frame. She lamented to around my age or a little younger can embrace higher ing her parent. According to reports in the New York Post, spoken out to defend her daughter from critics, claiming People.com: “I’m just too short and it doesn’t make fashion and make it cool, but still make it accessible.” Lauren pretended she was going from her home in New her relationship with Andrew was not “made in heaven”. sense. But I see them everywhere and I’m like, dangit, I Lucy says she embraces “up-and-coming designers” York City to Miami, Florida, to visit Carole Saland. The cou- She previously said: “Lauren isn’t a gold-digger. She’s a nice want to wear them so bad.” The 24-year-old beauty is when it comes to her own wardrobe choices, however, ple - who were friends with the ‘X Factor’ boss for more girl from Miami Beach. “Her marriage was not a marriage known for sporting stylish outfits on her hit TV show - she doesn’t always style herself. She added: “I have than six years - also have a seven-year-old son Adam. made in heaven and life goes on, people go on.” which also stars Ashley Benson - and the actress feels help. I have a stylist, but I just want to try new things!” Lohan annoyed Chaka Khan in rehab

indsay Lohan allegedly annoyed Chaka Khan with her “diva behavior” in rehab. The 60-year-old singer sought Ltreatment at the Cliffside medical centre in Malibu, California, at the same time as the ‘Mean Girls’ actress - who recently completed her 90-day court-ordered rehab stint - and was left furious by Lindsay’s “disruptive” attitude. A source told RadarOnline.com: “Chaka was really cool about everything at Cliffside, but Lindsay just pushed all of her buttons to the point where she was aggravated and tired of Lindsay’s behavior. “Lindsay was just doing stupid stuff for attention, so Chaka told her she was childish and told her to grow up. She never lost it, but started yelling at Lindsay [and] told her to knock it off, ask- ing her if she came to rehab to get well, or just to piss around.” The ‘Ain’t Nobody’ hitmaker was said to have been so frustrated with the 27-year-old starlet that she decided to end her time at Cliffside early and told fellow patients she “hated” Lindsay. The insider added: “Chaka was so annoyed with Lindsay. It got so bad that she refused to get in the same car with her or go to the same meetings with Lindsay. Chaka was so annoyed with Lindsay. It got so bad that she refused to get in the same car with her or go to the same meetings with Lindsay.” Since leaving rehab, Lindsay has vowed to get her life together and has been taking advice from TV legend Oprah Winfrey, after recording a tell-all interview about her troubles for Oprah’s OWN network. Usher’s ex-wife seeks Minogue excited custody of their sons about getting glam anni Minogue was excited to get out of clothes and back into heels and frocks.” Dannii Cole “mummy clothes” for ‘Britain and thinks she has grown into her style and is “ever goes foundation-free DIreland’s Next Top Model.’ The 41-year- evolving” and improving with age. She old star - who has three-year-old Ethan with ex- explained to Now magazine: “I really think boyfriend Kris Smith - is a judge on the Sky beauty comes with quiet confidence. It’s some- for L’Oreal Living HD reality competition, alongside mod- thing that’s ever evolving. That’s not to say I’m confident every day, but I do feel with age I heryl Cole has gone foundation-free in a new have a calmer perspective and appreciation of L’Oréal advert. The brave singer appears com- myself. I know every imperfection and flaw is pletely bare-faced in the French beauty brand’s what makes me unique.” Lily Collins finds kiss- C new TV campaign for their Skin Perfection range. ing scenes “super unsexy.” The 24-year-old Speaking in a behind-the-scenes video, she said: “I actress - daughter of rocker Phil Collins - stars in new film ‘The Mortal Instruments’ alongside thought I would be nervous or apprehensive about Jamie Campbell Bower and although they were not being able to wear foundation on a shoot, but it’s rumored to have enjoyed a romance off-screen, actually been really liberating to have the freckles out she says filming kissing scenes between them sher’s ex-wife is seeking primary Tameka, who currently only has limited in full force!” The ad, which also stars Canadian model was a turn-off. She said: “I promise you that it is custody of their sons. Tameka custodial rights of the boys, wants to Coco Rocha, marks the first time Cheryl has promoted super awkward ... and super unsexy because UFoster, who split from the singer reverse the situation. Usher Jr remains in L’Oréal’s skincare products instead of their make-up, everyone’s staring.” Lily remained coy when in 2009, lost custody of their sons Usher an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in hospital in and she revealed turning 30 in June had a big impact asked about her relationship with Jamie - who Raymond V, five, and Naviyd, four, last Atlanta, Georgia, following his accident on the way she thinks about her skin. The brunette split from his fiancée, Bonnie Wright, last year - year but filed legal documents on while swimming. The little boy was explained: “Skincare had never really felt like some- and whether they are still together. She added Tuesday asking for an emergency hear- playing in the water with his father’s thing that I’ve wanted to do before. Especially wrinkle to Glamour magazine: “We took that chance ing later this week, just one day after aunt when he dove down to retrieve a creams and that kind of thing - they never really felt and ...Whatever ... It is what it is. People are cast Usher Jr. allegedly almost drowned in a toy that was lying in the drain. His arm right for me. “I wasn’t really at time in my life when I because they have chemistry. You’re spending swimming pool when his hand got stuck got stuck and the aunt and a maid were was really feeling that way. But this is a great product 24 hour days together and it’s intense. “You in a drain. A source told gossip website unable to free him. Two men, who were for me as it’s more about preparing your skin before have that connection with each other and you reach that stage.” The Skin Perfection range is sometimes that translates to more.” Lily - who is TMZ.com that Tameka, a former stylist, working at the property, jumped into aimed at the under 35s and is made up of five prod- also rumored to have had a fling with Taylor plans to argue that the boys are in a the pool and were able to get him out els Elle Macpherson and Tyson Beckford, and Lautner - has previously said it was “inevitable” dangerous environment and ‘The Voice’ and lay him beside the pool, where he ucts to help transform visible skin quality, with formu- was excited to get dressed in some glamorous she would become an actress, rather than fol- mentor should not be their main carer. was immediately given CPR before las containing Perline-P and patented LR 2412. Cheryl clothes for the role. Quizzed on whether she lowing in her famous father’s footsteps. She She filed documents in Fulton County in being rushed to hospital by an ambu- said: “Skin Perfection works to perfect your skin - it had to raise her game in the style stakes for the said: “I started acting when I was two. I think Georgia, claiming her 34-year-old ex- lance. Doctors are still running tests but tightens pores, gives luminosity and helps to improve show, said: “Of course! I had to sit next to Elle becoming an actress was inevitable as I’ve husband is abdicating his parental believe he will be okay. Tameka’s 11- skin texture. It has all the skincare benefits you want Macpherson and Tyson Beckford on the panel. always loved dressing up and telling stories, but responsibilities by letting other people year-old son Kile, from a previous rela- before you put on your make-up, which means you But I’ve loved getting out of my ‘mummy’ it was never pushed upon me. I wanted to be a care for their two sons - who she claims tionship, died last year after a Jet Ski don’t need to mask your skin.” are not supervising them enough. accident. Brook ended things with Cipriani Teri Hatcher loves swimming elly Brook has allegedly ended things with Danny romantic holiday to Greece last week, but has now deleted Cipriani. The model is said to have discovered racy all photos of the love rat from her Instagram account. Sales with whales and elephants Ktexts to other women on the rugby star’s phone over manager Stacey Simcox has revealed Danny messaged her the weekend, causing her to throw him out of her house for eight months, claiming his messages got increasingly he 48-year-old actress has series ‘Desperate Housewives’ after an explosive row. Danny confessed to The Sun news- more demanding as time went on. She said: “At the begin- an adventurous side and where she played fun-loving paper: “I can’t believe what I’ve done.” The 25-year-old ning he was just friendly and really sweet. He’d ask how Tloves to splashing around in Susan Delfino and is hoping to sportsman - who rekindled his romance with my day was and we would just chat away. “But water with large mammals. She revisit her bubbly character in a Kelly, 33, earlier this year - has reportedly then after a couple of weeks it got really dirty. told UK radio station Magic 105.4: big screen adaptation. She previ- been sending dirty texts and pictures to “It got progressively more explicit and I just “I think I am the voice of reason, I ously said: “I love the fans of the women for months, even as his girl- thought, ‘What a rat’... I just couldn’t under- also have a lot of adventure in me show so much, and they don’t friend nursed him back to health stand why he’d stray. Every man fancies ... I have this thing with water, if seem to be done with those char- when he was hit by a bus in March. A Kelly, but that obviously wasn’t enough for there’s a whale in the ocean, I’ll acters. I think it would be great for friend of Danny’s told the newspaper Danny.” Kelly and Danny first began dating just jump in and start swimming them. If a script ever came across they had “no idea” whether Kelly in 2008, ending things in 2010 before with it. When I was in Malaysia my lap, I would read it hoping would take him back. The insider reconnecting earlier this year. The busty there was this dirty river, but that it would work out, but I don’t added: “Danny is absolutely devas- brunette’s rival, Katie Price - who briefly there were elephants in it and I really see that happening.” Tune tated. He just can’t believe what dated Danny in 2011 - recently said just though ‘I have to go be there!’ in to Magic 105.4 from 2pm on he’s done - he just wants Kelly the rugby hunk would be unfaithful Maybe I have a good balance in Sunday 11th August to hear the back.” The ‘Piranha 3D’ actress to Kelly and claimed he was still me!” Teri rose to fame on US TV full interview. — Agencies shared pictures of the pair on a messaging her. lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 TRAVEL

Marty Lash, right, and Susan Kaplan have breakfast on Guests travel in a bi-level, glass-dome topped car on Ainsleigh Dawiskiba serves hors d’ouvres to guests on Patrick Sutcliffe takes photos from an open-air the Rocky Mountaineer train. the Rocky Mountaineer train. the Rocky Mountaineer train. vestibule. Taking the scenic route on the Rocky Mountaineer train

The custom-built coaches of the Rocky Mountaineer makes their way through Black Canyon in the Canadian Rockies. he land, baronial and steep, dwarfs this 20-car train as tem, privately owned and deftly run. It is Canada Day July 1 Rocky Mountaineer railway offers four routes through it snakes through the wilderness. Go ahead, smudge not a bad time to start a 23-hour, 600-mile jaunt across the western Canada, most winding around postcard-perfect Tyour nose up against the wide windows. Slip outside provinces of British Columbia and Alberta and up and over Banff and Jasper. The tours, starting at less than $1,000, into the warm, pine-scented vestibule between the cars. At the Continental Divide. Two hours out of Vancouver, and begin or end in Vancouver or Calgary (the last leg from times, the Canadian Rockies seem one misty dreamscape. our Rocky Mountaineer crew can’t do enough for us. Were I Banff to Calgary is about 1 hours by bus); the railway is There are almost too many thrashing waterfalls, too many a vice president of human resources, I would send trainees launching a Seattle segment in August. forests, too many vistas that look as though they’ve never here for lessons on how to listen, look people in the eye, They are the best way to cross the Continental Divide, been hiked. follow through on requests. elegant and easy, the domed cars roomier than a first-class Grizzly bears, elk, moose and big-horned sheep still Tea, coffee, stories. Lots and lots of stories. Four guides jet cabin, with two plush fabric seats and plenty of legroom roam these rugged canyons. Signs of civilization are so few tend to our 68-seat, bubble-topped car as it passes on each side of the aisle. Air travel has become basic public that you feel as though you’re an explorer seeing North through the lush Fraser Valley of British Columbia. “It’s pret- transit, but rail travel in western Canada is still a bit of an America for the very first time. In midsummer, the ty good right now,” says one of the guides of the tunnels of indulgence: tablecloths and silverware, fresh orchids. “More Canadian Rockies are a giant breath mint, with this rail line trees. “But tomorrow it gets amazing.” coffee, sir?” is a familiar query, whether you are in the din- the iron thread on which Canada moved west, built vast Canada, of course, follows a west-to-east topography ing car or relaxing with a book at your window seat. hotel-castles to draw the rich and the royal, then commis- similar to that of the Lower 48. The coast is as green as your This region has a rep as a deep, relentless wilderness. Desserts are offered with a meal on the Rocky sioned artists to capture it on canvas and spread the word kale salad, but moving east you hit scratchy stretches. The How does it differ from our Sierra? More trees, billions Mountaineer train. back East. Canadian desert is far from desolate, but it is rocky and rel- probably, all of them washed and watered by a rich, Photographer Al Seib and I are riding this famed rail sys- atively dry and makes up much of your first day. In all, the cerulean watershed. “The Bow,” Rudyard Kipling wrote of the Alberta river that some say is the greatest trout stream in Canada, “does not slide or rustle like prairie rivers, but brawls across bars of blue pebbles, and a greenish tinge in the water hints of snow.” “Brawls” is the operative word there. Western Canada is nature brawling. One unexpected perk of train travel is the camaraderie. I don’t know that we’re lucky in this regard, for folks who choose a trip like this have similar sensibilities and self-sort. Dolores Vitullo, a pediatric cardiologist from Chicago, is gifting her great-nephew, Mike Krebs, with this vacation as a graduation present. Marty Lesh, a retired oil manager from New Jersey, is here with Sue Kaplan, who works in healthcare. Crystal Eid, a mother from Melbourne, Australia, is here with two Fruit serves as the first course at breakfast on the sons and both of her parents. Duke professor Elizabeth Rocky Mountaineer train. Guests in Vancouver, Canada, board the custom- A freight train making its way through the Rockies Ross and her mother, Mary Frank from Michigan, make up built cars of the Rocky Mountaineer train for a trip is seen from the Rocky Mountaineer train. Starts early we have to be in the lobby of the Hotel 540 the rest of our instant club. We have nothing in common, through the Canadian Rockies from Vancouver to at 6:15 am for a 7 am departure, and nobody is late. We will Banff. other than curiosity about this train and the vast region it cross seven rivers in our 13-hour day, passing lakes too runs through. That is all it takes. We sit together in the numerous to count, marveling over Class 5 rapids wicked dining car for the thickest pancakes you ever saw, then enough to carry a Chrysler. with other folks at lunch (pork tenderloin with apple con- And let me say this: Bald eagles are the celebrities of the fit). In between, we point out wildlife or kibitz about past animal kingdom fans go nuts when they spot one. There travels. The only real ding on this Rocky Mountaineer trip are maybe a dozen along this route, too many to count. comes late on the first day, on an unseasonably warm Our primary narrator on the trip, Carlo Myles, has a follow- afternoon, when the rear of our clear-roofed car heats up ing almost equally intense. The women on the train specu- like a terrarium. late about his age. He is kind of a Canadian Jimmy Fallon Repairmen work on the AC overnight, then attach a comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time but spare car, just in case, for the next day. The Australian tour always engaging. group seated in the warm areas remain good sports, “The lifestyle of the salmon is really quite interesting,” he though their tour director looks ready to explode. says as the train lumbers across the wilderness. “And it Yes, they work on the train overnight, which reminds might be a menu item later.” me of one key detail: These are daylight trips. To sleep Carlo actually recites a salmon poem: “I hesitate to be through scenery like this would be a travel crime. So this unkind, but salmon have a one-track mind ...” that is proba- touring train stops in the evenings, and passengers bunk at bly more endearing in person than in print (see Web video above-average hotels. After 285 miles the first day, the 500 clip). He challenges the passengers to create poems of passengers aboard this trip are in Kamloops, a town I’d nev- their own, then his co-host Charlie Millar tells a moose sto- er heard of. ry. Ainsleigh Dawiskiba, another host, announces that, at It turns out to be a lovely Canadian outpost, rich in 9:30 am, happy hour has begun. This rail trip involves a rivers and copper mines, though the teenagers sport an couple of long days, and by the time you get off in beauti- alarming number of tattoos. I have to get over that, but so ful Banff, you are rocking back and forth even while stand- far I can’t. After a lamb burger at an uncommonly good ing still. So unsteady are your legs, so fooled is your inner brew pub called the Noble Pig, we close Canada Day ts gyroscope, that you’ll spend the next several hours think- version of Fourth of July with fireworks over the ing you just felt an earthquake. Thompson River. Two days on a train turns out to be just enough not The show doesn’t start till almost 11 pm, making for a too much, not too little. But they are happy hours, all of long first leg of our adventure. But you’re in Kamloops them jovial, outlandishly scenic, hypnotically serene. only once in your life, right? Well, let’s hope. Oh, I kid the Clickity-clack, clickity-clack. The afterglow lasts for weeks. Kamloopians because I love them. But Day 2 aboard the The Rocky Mountaineer may not be for everyone, but Spectacular views including snow-capped mountains are seen from the Rocky Mountaineer train on a trip through the train is why we’re really here. Day 2 is a photo feast. Day 2 almost. And those other folks? Nobody wants them along Canadian Rockies from Vancouver to Banff. — MCT photos is Shangri-La. anyway. — MCT lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 FEATURES

A shop clerk of a plastic food maker displaying a bowl of spaghetti with a spoon, all made of plastic, A shop clerk of a plastic food maker demonstrating his skills to visitors as he makes fake food with Japan’sin Tokyo. — AFP photos fake food is realwax in Tokyo. deal for tourists

lberto Pellegrini doesn’t speak or read That turn of events in the early 1920s set off real dish.” Pellegrini, however, was relieved at Japanese, a deficit that threatened to a food revolution in Japan where the idea the visual guide, even if he’s not sure what Aleave the Italian tourist starving in a spread rapidly as eating out soared in popular- he’ll get. “I think this is fish,” he said, pointing nation famous for its gastronomic delights. ity and rural people flocked to the cities. to a plastic squid. “And this looks like an Fortunately for the hungry honeymooner, Unused to what city restaurants had to offer, omelette. But I can’t be sure it’s an omelette.” It restaurants across this food-obsessed nation- the models gave country dwellers and locals was a fishcake. — AFP where English menus range from sparse to alike a quick visual rundown of the chef’s spe- non-existent often display their wares in the cialties before stepping inside an eatery. form of intricately-made plastic replicas. The Nearly a century later, “Japanese have devel- sight of a giant hotdog slathered in condi- oped a sense of getting information from ments doesn’t faze the average Japanese three-dimensional signs”, Nose said, adding restaurant goer, and these fake food parades that plastic food also has a limited presence in are often so similar to the real thing that they neighboring China and South Korea. “You’re almost dare potential customers to take a bite. calculating lots of things-what kind of side A sudsy-looking beer, perfectly glazed sushi dishes are there, how big is the meal, and is it and indestructible deep-fried meat cutlets, economical?” he said. “But for foreign tourists known as tonkatsu, are a common sight on who don’t have this literacy, food samples are the streets of neon-lit Tokyo and even the just something that closely resemble real dish- smallest towns. “It can really help,” Pellegrini es.” said as he and his new wife combed lunch The modern-day alchemy involves making venues in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza shopping dis- a plastic mold of the real-life food and then trict. adorning it with just the right colors to tanta- “I point at the food and I just say ‘I want lize the taste buds of passing customers. this, I want that’. It is easier because choosing Iwasaki Co, a leading plastic food maker, has Visitors looking at food samples made of plastic. from a list (in Japanese) is impossible.” But that an army of craftspeople who hand paint the sumptuous-looking futomaki has less-than- molds, which sell for as much as $100 each, plastic. been less than successful, Nakai says. “That’s tasty origins. “The original craftsman was although restaurants can lease a fake ham- Iwasaki recently opened two shops in partly because we need real dishes to produce working for doctors and making models for burger set for about $6 a month. “Our main Tokyo where it sells sushi cell-phone charms food samples so geographical distance is a pathological studies, such as skin diseases and customers are restaurant owners, but plastic and bacon-adorned key chains-all with multi- hurdle.” human organs, before he was asked to make food samples are increasingly popular among lingual signs warning that “this is not edible”. Israeli tourist Elda Rozencvaag was not food samples for a restaurant,” says Yasunobu ordinary people,” said Takashi Nakai, a The shops also let visitors take a stab at creat- impressed. “When I see this it makes me feel Nose, a senior editor at the leading Nikkei spokesman for the company, which started ing their own fake food. Still, high-end restau- like I don’t want to eat it. It is too weird,” he A shop clerk of a plastic food maker business daily who authored a book about business in 1932 when the samples were rants rarely offer such blatant visual aids, while said, staring a plate of perfectly formed sushi. demonstrating his skills to visitors as he food models. made of wax instead of today’s more durable efforts to transport the idea to the West have “It has too many details-even more than in the makes fake food with wax. W Hotels & burn launch North Dakota graduate combines passion for online search for talent art, hunting and conservation into career NEW YORK: W Hotels Worldwide together with burn, harles Black has been a student of the outdoors Dakota and the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, good duck hunting,” Black said. “I never visited the school; The Coca-Cola Company’s globally leading energy since he was old enough to walk, so it was no sur- and working for natural resource agencies in Colorado, I just came here. We always took trips out to south-cen- drink, yesterday announced the launch of a global Cprise, perhaps, that he started sketching that pas- Montana and Minnesota. tral North Dakota when I was a kid, duck hunting or online search for emerging talent to join the third sion into notebooks when he was old enough to draw. He’ll be back at Theodore Roosevelt National Park this whatever, and I just love the state of North Dakota.” annual W Hotels and burn DJ Lab. With six available “My dad was just a big outdoor enthusiast, recreationist fall for his fourth season with the park’s elk reduction spots, aspiring DJ/Producers will compete for the and advocate and everything, and that’s what he instilled program. Once that ends in December, Black says he Looking ahead chance to join the weeklong DJ ‘boot camp’ at W in me when I was young,” Black, 26, said. “I just kind of sat- plans to see where his art career can take him. Returning Black has a website, “Wildlife and Art,” showcasing not Retreat Koh Samui in September, and later spin at a urated myself with it as the years went on.” to Grand Forks was a logical choice, he said. only his work, but his passion for wildlife and conserva- culminating music event at the recently opened W Growing up in Stillwater, Minn., Black says he can “I really wanted to jump on the painting and see what tion. He also launched a Facebook page to help get his Bangkok. remember filling notebooks with random sketches of the I could do with it,” Black said. “It was just so hard to bal- name “out there” and start connecting with people. “I get Starting today through August 28, interested type most 6- or 7-year-olds doodle. Many of the drawings ance that with work at the same time so I decided to take a lot of emails, and not necessarily for purchase-related DJ/Producers can upload an original track to depicted his experiences at the family’s cabin and hunt- the summer off and come back where I have some things, but just to say, ‘Hey, I love your artwork,’ and that’s www.mix.dj/djlab2013 for the chance to jet off to Thailand as part of the 2013 program. Each submitted ing land near Amery, Wis. “By no means did I think I had friends still. I’ve kind of planned myself budget-wise and encouraging,” Black said. “So, I’m starting to connect with track will be judged by an expert panel of DJ Lab any true God-given talent,” Black said. “It was just some- everything.” Black is subleasing an apartment where he a lot of people, and it’s helped. I figure it’s a good place to Mentors, with the winning six participants announced thing I think most people let go, and I became obsessed spends 10- to 12-hour days, seven days a week working start.” later this summer. with it, I guess.” to complete as many paintings as he can. He recently fin- Black says he also hopes to figure out a way to com- “We’re thrilled to once again partner with burn to Black, who graduated from the University of North ished a painting for Michigan’s state duck stamp contest bine all of his interests to be an advocate for conserva- further develop dynamic music programming that Dakota with a degree in wildlife biology, is working to and is working on an entry for the federal duck stamp tion. Among his ideas: a video documenting the process showcases emerging talent around the world,” said turn his passion/obsession for art and the outdoors into a contest, a competition that attracts the best of the best. of painting a duck stamp entry and tying it in with exam- Paul James, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels, St. Regis career as a wildlife artist with the ultimate goal of using Black’s paintings have a crisp, lifelike quality, which is ples of how duck stamps fund wetland and conservation and The Luxury Collection. “Evolving the DJ Lab to use his work to convey the importance of conserving wildlife apparent in his winning Colorado duck stamp entry, “A enhancements. “If I was going to sum up my artwork, I’d digital technology to seek out artists from across cul- and the habitat it needs to survive. He’s off to a good Break in the Clouds.” “It’s such a big deal in wildlife art to say I’m not really passionate about art, I think I’m passion- tures and musical genres allows us to continue to start, recently winning the Colorado duck stamp compe- be successful in the federal duck stamp, and it just carries ate about the outdoors and everything related to that, bring what’s new and next in music to both our guests tition with his painting of greater scaup. so much stress onto you,” Black said. “It’s basically got to and artwork is just a way I can express my love for that,” and locals on a truly global scale.” Not bad, for a mostly self-taught artist who only start- be the best in the world to win, essentially in the minds Black said. “I don’t want to turn my career into just 100 For the third consecutive year, W Hotels Global ed making the transition from sketches to acrylic paints of the judges, anyway.” percent art. I want to stay involved in wildlife manage- Music Director Michaelangelo L’Acqua will return as in 2009. “I remember I told my parents I’d bought this A glance around the downstairs room that serves as ment.” For now, though, painting is the priority. executive producer and lead mentor of the DJ Lab, new paint and it just worked for me,” Black recalls. “I said, Black’s studio attests to his interests. Paintings and “The last few years, working the places I’ve worked bringing with him a skill set cultivated from years of ‘This is going to change everything for me,’ and then I sketches of ducks and deer, shed antlers, archery gear and seeing the things I’ve seen, I’ve just got so much working with brands to strengthen their presence painted that Colorado entry and it was like, I couldn’t do and photo equipment fill the room. “I never did school inspiration,” he said. “I definitely don’t have a lack of that through music curation. As part of his role, L’Acqua has any better. It came out exactly how I wanted, and so it sports because that cut into hunting season,” he said. “I’d in terms of outdoors and wildlife.” The challenge, Black identified some of the music and entertainment indus- was kind of neat when they called me and told me I won.” sit in a tree stand all fall. I’d get back into school after a said, is translating that inspiration onto canvas. try’s most influential names to serve as official mentors of the 2013 W Hotels and burn DJ Lab. This year’s men- Colorado, as with many states, opens its duck stamp con- weekend and just draw sketches of deer and whatever. “Essentially, my goal is to start creating wall art, tors include: DJ White Shadow, two-time Grammy tests to artists across the country. They kind of went hand in hand. I was so obsessed with something you can hang above the living room couch nominated producer, composer, and instrumentalist the hunting and fishing and outdoor recreation, and and something that somebody would want to buy,” he for Lady Gaga; James Lavelle, A&R label boss, record- Back in Grand Forks then on the other hand, I was so obsessed with drawing, said. “I have a lot of unique original ideas I’m excited ing artist and DJ; and Andy Caldwell, two-time Black is back in Grand Forks for the summer, the latest and that’s what I drew, and this is what I did.” about, and I think I’m ready to take advantage of those Grammy nominated DJ producer. stop on a career path that has taken him to jobs at Those interests, he said, also drew him to UND. “I told and put them into some large paintings and see where I Throughout the weeklong program, each mentor Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North my parents I wanted to go to UND because they had can take it.” — MCT will help the rising DJs refine their skills, offering expert advice and invaluable training across various facets of the industry. From perfecting music engineer- ing skills to building a distinct brand and sense of per- sonal style, the 2013 class of DJ Lab participants will be ready to hit the road following the once-in-a-lifetime experience along the beaches of Koh Samui. Later this year, the DJs will embark on a global tour performing as some of W’s most glamorous hotels and retreats around the world. “burn shares in W Hotels passion for inspiring and fostering emerging musical talent, and we are excited to continue our partnership to bring this incredible opportunity to learn from some of the industry’s biggest names to artists around the globe,” said Prinz Pinakatt, Global Director, burn, The Coca-Cola Company. As part of the launch of the 2013 W Hotels and burn DJ Lab global talent search, select W Hotels around the globe hosted kick-off events featuring headline performances from 2012 DJ Lab artists. Dogus performed at W Barcelona on July 31, Vitor Kurc at W Santiago on August 3, Gio Vanhoutte at W Seoul on July 26, and Vanessa Giovacchini of Posso at W Los Angeles - Westwood on August 3. Wildlife artist Charles Black works in the basement of the Grand Forks, North Charles Black uses pencil to put the finishing touches on the sketch of a Labrador Dakota, apartment that serves as his studio for the summer. — MCT photos retriever he is drawing for its owner. Dustin Hoffman was treated for cancer36 THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

Afghan men buy second-hand clothes as they prepare for the upcoming Eid Al-Fitr festival, which is celebrated at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at a busy market in Kabul yesterday. Afghan Muslims, like millions of Muslims around the world, are observing the holy month of Ramadan - a month of fasting and spiritual purity during which they refrain from eating, drinking or sex from dawn Fulluntil dusk.—beards AFP make style comeback in France

earned and serious like the ancient Greeks or casual like 1950s “Beats”; the full beard is back in fashion in France to the delight Lof the nation’s barbers. After years in the style wilderness, the sort of bushy beard that takes weeks rather than days to grow-from the plain old full beard to mutton chops or a chin curtain-has finally dis- placed designer stubble and other barely-there styles of recent years. Thai pupils see glimpse of This summer, displays of thick facial hair are once more fashionable in France. The front cover of gay magazine Tetu’s July and August issue featured two men sporting perfectly-trimmed beards. Fashion house Maison Martin Margiela’s latest catwalk show, meanwhile, featured a succession of bearded models. The ancient Greeks regarded beards as a freedom from new hair rules sign of virility while Europeans during the latter part of the 19th century saw facial hair as a symbol of solid, middle-class respectability. In the udding-bowl bobs and army-type 1950s, the beard’s reappearance among so-called “Beats”-a term cuts were for decades the only derived from writer Jack Kerouac’s “Beat Generation”-came at a time hairstyles allowed to be sported by “when the beard was no longer fashionable among the powerful”, fash- P Thai schoolchildren-but now looser rules ion historian Laurent Cotta told AFP. Non-conformists adopted it as a symbol of rebellion, a way of show- spell new freedom for classroom coif- ing that “one didn’t care about one’s appearance”, he said. The 1960s fures. “I am embarrassed having this kind hippie counter-culture also embraced the full beard but over the subse- of hairstyle,” 14-year-old Visarut quent decades it largely disappeared until the emergence of the Rungrod told AFP, running his hand designer stubble look of the 1990s. Today’s beard says “that you work in over his close-cropped head, adding he the artistic world”, Cotta said, adding that despite its new-found popu- plans to lengthen his locks as soon as larity it might still raise a few eyebrows in more traditional work envi- possible. “I will feel more confident when ronments such as banking or insurance. The country’s recent fondness I go out,” he explained. Rules issued in for the full beard goes back less than two years to a small number of 1972 compelled Thai pupils to have iden- trend setters. tical hairstyles-a trim not below the ear- Antoine Ettori, 28, who works as a graphic artist in Paris, said he had lobes for girls and a maximum five-cen- had a thick but short beard for at least a year. “I am far from being the timeter length for boys-until the end of only one in my profession,” he said, adding that colleagues had not giv- high school. en any sign they disapproved. Maintenance, however, was more time But students are now hoping to flaunt consuming than shaving, he said. “I trim it regularly... to stop myself their individuality after an edict by turning into Father Christmas,” he said. Sarah Daniel-Hamizi, who Thailand’s education ministry in May opened “The Barber of Paris” hairdressing salon in Paris ten years ago, scrapped the measure. The issue, in a said there had been an upturn in business due to the growing populari- nation which emphasizes collective cul- ty of beards. ture over individualism, was sparked by “Hairdressers are calling me from all over to get trained (because) it’s a traditional trade that requires a lot of technique,” she said. Society now an anonymous complaint by a 15-year- accepted thick facial hair as long as it was well maintained, she said, adding that some clients came to the salon weekly for a trim starting at 18 euros ($23). And she said the advantages were not restricted just to covering up scars and acne or distracting attention from baldness or an odd-shaped face. “There’s something virile about it... it’s a means of This photo taken on July 31, 2013 shows young Thai students playing at their school in Bangkok. — AFP photos seduction, just as hair is for girls,” she added. — AFP has troubled the conservative older gen- erations. “They are very confused that all of a sudden students have long hair,” Somphong Chitradub, an education expert at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University, told AFP. “But it (the freedom to grow their hair) develops children to show their real feelings-it will make them Thai barber shaving the head of a stu- feel good,” Somphong added. One key dent. objection is that pupils will be distracted from their textbooks by the pursuit of old student to the National Human funky new hairstyles, while some parents Rights Commission of Thailand in 2011, fear an increased physical awareness saying the strict rules violated human may push their children prematurely rights and freedom. “It made adolescent towards having boyfriends or girlfriends. students lack confidence and lose con- It is an idea rubbished by Somphong, centration in studying,” the student said who says those fears smack of paranoia in the letter, which won mass support as it is “inner discipline”, and not hair- across social media among teenagers. Thai barber shaving the head of a student. styles that dictates pupils’ application at The letter stirred debate in a country Not everyone is happy. Some teachers ultimate authority to decide their school. “Parents and teachers do not where the education system often faces and parents fear doing away with the tra- school’s hair policy. “Among our teachers understand the real needs of the stu- accusations of promoting rigid conformi- ditional tresses is the start of a wider and school committees, the resolution dents, although they have good inten- ty over creativity and independent unraveling of Thailand’s appreciation for was that all students should have the old tions by thinking for the kids,” thought. Under the new rules, girls are conformism. “They must all have short hairstyle,” said Ratchanee Prapasapong, Somphong said. “They should teach the able to grow their hair long-although hair otherwise there will be a lot of varied director of Makutkasatriyaram School in kids about life skills and building self- they will have to wear it tied back in hairstyles (in schools),” said 56-year-old Bangkok. “Though hairstyle has nothing discipline.” For most pupils, the issue is matching ponytails-while boys can grow father, Pornyudh Budhapongsiriporn, to do with teaching, we see it as a kind of simply about choice and does not carry their hair to the nape of their neck. As whose sons are 12 and 15. “If most stu- discipline for living together in society. It much wider social meaning. “It depends fashions changed, a small number of dents have a short haircut, the rest also shows that younger ones respect on us how much we want to pay atten- schools had already allowed girls to grow should have short hair-otherwise they (and) still want to keep the traditional tion to studying or to beauty,” said their hair long, as long as it was kept tidy, won’t fit in with society.” For parents like culture of older generations,” she added. Pattanotai Tungsuwan, a 14-year-old A file picture shows a bearded model presenting a creation but the May rule change has brought him, all is not lost in the battle to pre- Experts suggest that the new rule female student with a silky black pony- by Japanese designer Rynshu during the Autumn-Winter new-found freedom to teenagers across serve conformity. may indeed herald a wider move away tail. “For me I would rather pay attention 2012/2013 ready-to-wear Menís fashion collection show in the kingdom. The government still gives teachers from that traditional culture and say it to my studies.” — AFP Paris. — AFP