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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 MUHARRAM 27, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Iran nuke talks Fouz: My A taste of home Rooney’s double get down to journey with for war-weary helps England nitty-gritty7 ‘Roacutane’38 Syrians40 in Beirut floor20 Scotland Criminals using stolen, Min 11º Max 29º missing civil ID cards High Tide 10:44 & 22:20 Alleged thief caught red-handed, detained by shopkeepers Low Tide 04:35 & 16:20 40 PAGES NO: 16348 150 FILS KUWAIT: A suspected civil ID card thief was caught by shopkeepers in Farwaniya yesterday. The Asian man had NA extends work of deposits probe panel visited several shops, using a different civil ID cards in each shop to register for a phone line and receive a new iPhone. After the man obtained phones from several By B Izzak locations within the same area, shopkeepers began to suspect him and proceeded to detain him until police KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday agreed arrived. to extend for another three months the work of a “The man went into several mobile shops here (in a special panel formed to investigate suspicions that small shopping complex with several mobile shops) on former MPs had received bribes worth tens of mil- several occasions - with maybe two to three weeks gap. lions of dinars. The extension came after Oil Minister Each time he registered for a new line and took a mobile Ali Al-Omair said the government will cooperate through a promotion offered by mobile companies,” one with the committee provided that the information it shop attendant told Kuwait Times. The clerk said that the seeks should be in line with the law and the consti- alleged thief’s modus operandi was the same in all the tution. He said that some of the information the cases. He would present a different civil ID in each shop, committee had sought from the government were availing of the latest mobile phone promotion. The shop- also demanded by a similar committee formed by ping place is commonly frequented by Asian expatriates. the 2012 Assembly because such information are When the man was seen again by shopkeepers in the classified and personal - and the law does not allow area buying phones, suspicions arose. “So we checked its release. with other shops here and another shopkeeper told us The minister said that the information relate to the man had also taken mobiles from their shops using data available with the central bank and the law civil ID of some people and not his own. So we held him bans exposing them. The committee was formed last and asked him for the mobile number of the people year and has held several meetings but it told the whose IDs were in his hands,” the shop attendant Assembly that it needed more time to be able to explained. But the man could not provide any numbers. complete its task. It was asked to investigate allega- Some witnesses said the thief managed to transact tions that bank accounts of 13 former MPs in the mobile promotions using the civil ID of other people and Assembly elected in 2009 were inflated with illegal actually managed to take with him two new iPhone 6s deposits worth around KD45 million. before the arrest took place. The two iPhones were then A similar committee was formed in the opposi- returned to the shop where he got them from. tion-dominated Assembly elected in February 2012 The con is straight forward. Often mobile phone com- but it could not complete its mission because the panies will offer a promotion that includes the gift of a Assembly was scrapped by the Constitutional Court new phone in exchange for signing up for an extended KUWAIT: Kuwait Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim chats with MP Adnan Abdulsamad during a parliament ses- in June. Members of that committee however said period. Customers need only to provide their civil IDs to sion at the National Assembly in Kuwait City yesterday. The National Assembly yesterday agreed to they had collected credible evidence that those for- be able to take the mobile unit home and sometimes mer MPs had received the bribes for political reasons. extend for another three months the work of a special panel formed to investigate suspicions that former with the free internet connection. Continued on Page 13 MPs had received bribes worth tens of millions of dinars. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 Saudi leans on GCC as region boils Iran nuclear work - a abiding concern for Gulf DUBAI: Gulf Arab states have shelved a bit- abide by an agreement not to interfere in ter row among themselves, hoping to one another’s internal affairs and not to FBI tracking 150 US repair an alliance that has been sorely test- support the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, ed by chaos in the Middle East and the seen as a terrorist group by some Gulf Arab citizens with IS link prospect of an Iranian states. Qatar denies that nuclear deal that could tilt charge. BOSTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigations is the regional balance of pow- Officials said the possibility tracking close to 150 Americans it believes traveled er towards their old foe of a thaw in relations between to Syria in recent months, potentially to join armed Tehran. Saudi Arabia, the Tehran and the United States, groups, FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday. United Arab Emirates (UAE) the Gulf States’ main ally, fol- He said Americans fighting with foreign jihadist and Bahrain agreed at a lowing any nuclear accord was groups are a top concern for the FBI because of the meeting on Sunday to return a constant preoccupation of possibility they could return to the United States their ambassadors to Qatar, Gulf Arab rulers, but was not with the training, expertise and connections signaling an end to an eight- the immediate cause of required to launch an attack on home soil. month dispute over Doha’s Sunday’s agreement. The rulers GUANTANAMO BAY: In this file photo, a shackled detainee is transported by “We have tracked coming up on close to 150 backing of Islamist militants instead appear to have mend- guards away from his annual Administrative Review Board hearing at Camp people who traveled from the United States to in Syria and elsewhere and its ed fences for fear the row Delta detention center, Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba. — AP Syria, for all manner of motivations. A significant promotion of Arab Spring would otherwise spin out of revolts. control, possibly leading to a number of them to fight,” he told reporters at a Saudi King Abdullah Controversy flares over briefing in Boston. “We are determined not to allow An official photograph boycott of the annual summit future lines to be drawn from a terrorist diaspora showed Qatar’s youthful Emir, Sheikh their six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council female guards at Gitmo out of Syria to a future 9/11,” he said. The FBI was Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, kissing the (GCC) alliance to be hosted by Qatar next paying most attention to those Americans believed head of Saudi King Abdullah, who is over month. A boycott would have been a deep GUANTANAMO: In the recently released the presence of female guards, saying it is to have joined the militant group Islamic State, 90, in reconciliation at the meeting of Gulf embarrassment to Qatar, amplifying an Arab rulers in Riyadh. The king was the driv- impression of GCC disarray and raising “Camp X-Ray,” “Twilight” star Kristen an affront to their religious beliefs. The which has captured swaths of Syria and Iraq and ing force behind the closing of ranks, ana- doubts about the point of a three-decade- Stewart plays a soldier assigned to issue has turned into a headache for US has launched a sophisticated recruitment campaign Guantanamo Bay who ends up befriend- military authorities, who bristle at the idea lysts and a diplomat said. Saudi Arabia, old union of monarchies created to stand on the internet, Comey said. ing one of the detainees. In reality, inmates of instituting any gender restrictions on Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their envoys together against common adversaries. Continued on Page 13 at the US military prison have balked at Continued on Page 13 in March. They accused Qatar of failing to Continued on Page 13 Snow blankets New York as US feels chill

BUFFALO: A ferocious storm dumped “We have tried to get out of our house, and massive piles of snow on parts of upstate we are lucky to be able to shovel so we can New York, trapping residents in their open the door,” said Linda Oakley of homes and stranding motorists on road- Buffalo. “We’re just thinking that in case of ways, as temperatures in all 50 states fell to an emergency we can at least get out the freezing or below. Even hardened Buffalo door. We can’t go any further.” residents were caught off-guard as more The snowstorm forced motorists in 150 than 5 feet fell in parts of the city by yester- vehicles, including a women’s basketball day morning. Authorities said snow totals team, to ride out the onslaught in their by the afternoon could top 6 feet in the vehicles. They waited for hours to be freed, hardest-hit areas south of Buffalo, with with some waiting more than a day. New another potential 1 to 2 feet expected by York Gov Andrew Cuomo deployed 150 Thursday. members of the National Guard to help Cold weather enveloped the entire clear snow clogged roads and remove country Tuesday, leading to record-low abandoned vehicles. A Thruway official temperatures more familiar to January said most but not all passenger vehicles than November. Racing winds and icy had been cleared. roads caused accidents, school closings Members of the Niagara University’s and delays in municipal operations from women’s basketball team were among the the Midwest to the South even where lucky ones. Stranded since 1 am Tuesday, snowfall was low or mercifully absent. The team members tweeted photos of a plow NEW YORK: Snow covers a street at daybreak yesterday in south Buffalo, NY. Buffalo-area officials are getting help from a neighboring storm was blamed for at least six deaths in starting to clear the road. county in their efforts to clear roads and provide emergency services during the snowstorm that has buried sections of western ewN New York, New Hampshire and Michigan. Continued on Page 13 York in more than 5 feet of snow. — AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah with the visiting Albanian prime minister. — KUNA Deputy Amir receives KUWAIT: HH the Amir is seen off at the airport by HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah.— KUNA Albanian PM, senior officials Amir embarks on private KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir Al-Sabah and senior government offi- German-Arab Chamber of Industry and and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- cials. HH the Deputy Amir then received Commerce Peter Ramsauer and his visit to Morocco Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Deputy Prime Minister and Interior accompanying delegation. Chairman of Bayan Palace yesterday HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al- Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim, HH Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, as well as Information Industry (KCCI) Ali Mohammad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah left yesterday for Morocco accompanied Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Hamad Al-Sabah, who escorted his visit- Minister and Minister of State for Youth Thunayan Al-Ghanim and Assistant by Deputy President of the National Guard Sheikh Meshal Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, ing Albanian counterpart Edi Rama and Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Undersecretary of HH the Prime Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on a private visit. First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah the delegation accompanying him. The Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. Minister’s Diwan Sheikh Khaled HH the Amir was seen off by HH the Deputy Amir and Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and Deputy Minister of Amiri reception was attended by Foreign Separately, HH the Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah were Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah. — KUNA Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad received the visiting Chairman of present in the meeting. — KUNA Kuwait, Albania eye better cooperation Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak meets Albanian counterpart

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Rama, accompanied by his Foreign “We are more convinced that our inte- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- and Economy Ministers, said he would gration path is linked to our relations Hamad Al-Sabah and visiting Albanian be meeting with His Highness the in the region. Relation between Serbia Prime Minister Edi Rama discussed Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber and Albania is very important” yesterday ways to promote and bol- Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime towards closer ties with the EU, he ster bilateral cooperation and coordi- Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- said. nate views on several regional and Hamad Al-Sabah and KFAED officials. international issues of mutual con- The Albanian prime minister, also Joint target cern. accompanied by four MPS, three may- Meanwhile, Kuwait Chamber of The talks were attended by First ors and a 16-member business dele- Commerce and Industry (KCCI) called Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of gation, said KFAED has played an for strengthening trade and economic Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled important role in the difficult transi- cooperation with Albania. Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of State tion period in Albania. Kuwait and The trade exchange between for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Albania had signed several agree- Kuwait and Albania does not meet Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, ments aimed at promoting and pro- “joint target”, Osama Al-Nesef, a KCCI Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh and tecting investment, economic, techni- member, said in a statement to KUNA the visiting Albanian prime minister’s cal, legal and judicial cooperation as after meeting with a visiting Albanian accompanying delegation. well. An economic forum sponsored trade delegation yesterday. He added Following the talks, Kuwait and by Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and that Kuwaiti investments in Albania Albanian signed a number of cooper- Industry will be held on the occasion still need time to reach a developed ative agreements and memos of of Rama’s visit to focus on trade and level. KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister receiving his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama yesterday. — KUNA understanding, mainly pertinent to investment chances that lead to “To reach that level, Albania should mutual visa exemption, environment, increasing trade exchange between provide tax facilities and services to sustainable development, public the two countries. investors who target better atmos- health, medical sciences and export Rama was the mayor of Tirana, the pheres to obtain revenues from their Sultanate of Oman’s development. HH the Prime Minister capital of Albania. While a mayor, projects, “ he added, noting that then held a luncheon in honor of the Rama proposed granting an honorary Albania is still an attractive invest- visiting Albanian delegation. citizenship to His Highness the Amir. ment hub. He pointed out that 44th National Day “His Highness the Amir is an honorary Kuwaiti investors are active and expe- Kuwaiti investors citizen of our capital city since 13 rienced and always search for invest- Meanwhile, the Albanian Prime years. I proposed it and the city coun- ing in projects that serve their coun- KUWAIT: On the 18th of November every Minister called on Kuwait’s private cil approved it with a full majority,” he try’s interest and also the interest of year, Omanis celebrate their National Day, sector to invest in different fields in his said. “We have a special relation” with the country where they invest. recalling the anniversary of the Omani country, commending the State of Kuwait “where I felt being welcomed Nesef expressed his hope that this Renaissance which kicked off 44 years Kuwait for its contribution to the as a real friend,” noted Rama and cited visit could achieve its targets aimed at ago and still presses ahead towards the development of Albania. Albanian Post Office’s issuance of a enhancing economic cooperation achievement of further progress and “We are ready to welcome private special stamp bearing the image of between the two countries, calling for prosperity for the citizens. The country is investment in Albania, how we can His Highness the Amir in appreciation offering facilities to investors. The visit open towards its regional and interna- develop further this relation by sup- of his role in cementing bilateral ties. provides Kuwait business with more tional spheres, extending a hand of porting Kuwaiti investors to invest in Rama also noted the UN honoring of information about Albania’s invest- friendship and peace to various countries Albania in several fields,” said Rama, His Highness the Amir as a ment atmosphere, noting that the of the world. Its policy derives its funda- who described relations with Kuwait Humanitarian Leader because of his KCCI spares no effort to provide its mentals from the judicious Omani identi- as “special.” “role and his leadership” in humanitar- services that contribute to increasing ty and its culture which originates from its In an interview with KUNA, Rama ian work, as well as naming Kuwait as joint trade exchange. Islamic heritage and its Arabic values that said he already started meetings with a Humanitarian Center. Meanwhile, the delegation said are deep-rooted in human civilization. the private sector in Kuwait to explore As for Albania’s relations with the that Kuwait contributed to carrying The country is also inspired by the Royal how important entrepreneurs could European Union, Rama said the EU out several developmental projects in vision and guidelines laid down by Sultan start important business in Albania in has already granted Tirana a candi- Albania notably in the domains of Qaboos. When drawing out plans for the different fields like real estate, agricul- date status, which means that Albania agriculture, sewage and restoration of nation’s rebuilding, His Majesty was actu- ture, airlines, tourism and water. needed to carry out wide-scale squares. ally racing with time to compensate his Relations and cooperation reforms to meet with EU standards. Albania aims to encourage foreign people for what they missed and to rein- between Kuwait and Albania are dat- “We have a very generous help from investments as it has investment state their dignity and prestige in the ed back to the early 1990s.Rama not- your (Kuwaiti) government, five mil- opportunities in tourism and energy, world. Hence the Omani renaissance was ed that Albania was among the first lion euros in our disposal to enhanc- the delegation said, adding that unleashed, unconfined and uncon- countries to condemn the Iraqi inva- ing the reform process ... to help us Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic strained by any particular system. It has sion of Kuwait in August 1990. address rightly key priorities,” said Development contributed to imple- been a blend of originality and modern- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Rama. ment several investment projects. A ization. It has taken from others what might strongly sense the depth of citi- dance with as much community accord Development (KFAED) had since 1993 Rama meanwhile said his recent friendship association was established serves its purposes and it has dropped zenship. as possible, bearing in mind all economic extended six loans worth some 21.5 visit to Belgrade, the first by a senior between Kuwait and Albania to pro- what contravenes its principles. Oman’s and social realities and serving as a frame million Kuwaiti Dinars (KD) ($72.9 mil- Albanian official in 68 years, would vide investors with data on economic citizens, with all the ethics and values OMAN Vision 2040 of reference for planning tasks over the lion) for agricultural and transport play an important role in improving atmospheres in Albania, the delega- they represent, have been the moving The Main Committee for Oman 2040 next two decades. projects in Albania. relations between the two countries. tion noted. — KUNA force behind this renaissance, inspired in was formed in 2013 to devise a new Oman 2040’s main focus will be on this approach by the character of the vision which benefits from economic and identifying and exploiting the country’s Architect of Oman’s renaissance, Sultan social developments in the local, regional available opportunities and resources of Ministers tackle critical issues Qaboos Bin Said, who commands a clear and international arenas, while at the each economic sector, including airports, vision about what he wishes to achieve same time taking into account the ‘Oman seaports and industrial estates, in addi- KUWAIT: MPs’ inquiries into issues for the country and its people, the State 2020’ assessment made by the tion to available resources, to help realize and society. The Sultan took upon him- Secretariat General of the Supreme the diversification of sources of income such as demolishing run down self the responsibility of reviving the glo- Council for Planning. and the expansion of self-employment schools, evicting bachelors from rious human civilization of the ancestors The Committee has been formed as projects. A balanced distribution of families areas, and corruption in the and the duty of closely attaching the early as possible to allow for the accurate development in all governorates should state’s Oil Ministry were answered by people to their homeland so that they drafting of the future vision in accor- also be taken into account. ministers during yesterday’s comple- mentary session at the National Assembly. As for the demolishing run down schools, Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Bader Al- Issa said that this matter will be the one he will be focusing on during his tenure. Meanwhile, Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Issa Al-Kanderi said that the officials from the state will meet next Sunday to discuss the issue of bachelors’ dwellings in fami- lies populated areas. And as for the corruption at the Oil Ministry, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair said that there were no indications that the higher-ups at the Ministry were involved in any sort of corruptive behavior, noting that any violations would be han- KUWAIT: Education minister Dr Bader Al-Issa addresses the National dled swiftly by the state. — KUNA Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

Sheikh Salman in a group photo with Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Fayez and members of the Saudi The minister takes a group photo with students. embassy at Saudi Arabia’s pavilion. Kuwait Book Fair brings back the reading culture

By Nawara Fattahova “This is an important cultural event. HH Book Fair annually to increase the aware- years we also have 50 new publications displaying some new books that were the Amir and the Crown Prince are sup- ness among young generation and that were released especially for this fair. released for the first. Nova Plus also has 71 KUWAIT: The 39th Kuwait Book Fair porting this Book Fair and other cultural encourage them to read books. “We need This includes one novel in English of a new publications on display. “Most of attracted a huge crowd on the first day, events in our country. The support of to cooperate with the private sector and young author Mariam Al-Haroun, titled: them are from Kuwaiti authors and the dispelling the notion that most people Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak, the Prime the NGOs to promote culture and toler- ‘Reveal the Hidden’, who is still a student,” rest are from authors worldwide. I noticed now prefer to read soft copies to hard Minister highlights the interest of Kuwait ance among the future generations - far Hiba Al-Mansour, Business Development the high turnout, although we just copies these days. The ongoing Book Fair in promoting culture, knowledge and edu- from terror and intolerance that is captur- Manager of Al Salasil told the Kuwait launched it,” said Majeed a salesman at (from November 19 - 29) at Kuwait cation. I would like to thank all partici- ing the world,” he said. Times. “We launched this bookstore in Nova Plus. The fair is also accompanied by International Fair Ground in Mishref was pants - both the local and the internation- In Kuwait, Al Salasil is one of the most 1972, and we participating annually. Every different cultural activities held every launched by the Minister of Information al including the Publish Houses for their popular bookshops. They are participating year, we have some new books released evening at hall No 6. Also, workshops, and State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh efforts and participation,” Al-Homoud said. in this year’s Book Fair with great selection for the fair. We also display them in other poetic evening, lectures, and other activi- Salman Al-Homoud. He praised the Book The National Council for Culture, Arts of books for all ages. “Apart of the wide international book fairs,” she added. ties are held at the Amrikani Cultural Fair. and Letters (NCCAL) is keen to hold the selection of publications from previous Nova Plus is another publishing house - Center.

KUWAIT: Sheikh Salman Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah speaks at the press con- The Information Minister with US Ambassador Douglas Silliman. Sheikh Salman talks to students attending the fair. ference. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Asnan Tower hosts Youth Empowerment Conference’ guests Kuwaiti singer Redha enthralls audience

KUWAIT: As the strategic sponsor of the event, Asnan Tower’s CEO and general manager Dr Essa Al-Essa recently threw a luxurious banquet at the sidelines of Mama Anisa and the governor in a group photo with the students. the ‘Youth Empowerment Conference’ at the clinic’s headquarters on the Blajaat Street. The ‘Youth Empowerment Conference’ was held at the Regency Hotel in the period of November 16-18 Documentary chronicles with the attendance of a large group of major interna- tional companies’ CEOs, such as those of McDonalds, Pepsi and KFC, who shared their success stories with the TV icon’s career audience. The conference was also attended by a large group of major Kuwaiti companies and banks’ directors KUWAIT: A short documentary film including Asnan Tower, Zain, KFH in addition to ambi- on a well-beloved Kuwaiti TV per- tious young owners of small businesses and many sonality known primarily for her guests of honor. children’s programs on Radio and The dinner was attended by many celebrities, public TV was shown in her honor, at a figures and bloggers who all enjoyed listening to folk- school named after her yesterday. loric Kuwaiti songs by singer Hanan Redha and her Titled ‘A Woman from the Beautiful band. The guests also listened to speeches made by Dr Past,’ the film follows the career of Al-Essa and McDonald’s CEO, Edward Rensi. The event Anisa Mohammad Ja’afar in chil- ended by a documentary about Asnan Tower trip from dren’s programs heard and shown inception till becoming the largest of its kind in the on state radio and TV channels for Middle East. several decades. It includes numer- Notably, the Youth Empowerment Conference’ is the ous citations for the admirable work first of its kind conference in Kuwait held for the third she had done in her field of interest consecutive year. It is a national initiative for young by people who were contemporary Kuwaiti owners of small businesses. It is one of the to that work. national initiatives aiming at encouraging the youth’s Following showing of the docu- contributions at the varying academic and professional mentary in the presence of Anisa, levels, given the resources that are made available to who was well-known by her show them such as seminars and workshops organized to business moniker Mama Anisa, a develop youth skills by international experts. number of officials of the school Asnan is one of the Middle East’s largest dental clin- named after today’s honoree spoke KUWAIT: Mama Anisa and Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Sabah at the film ics specializing in dentistry where both art and dentistry highly of her and her long and showing. — KUNA are combined to provide the best dental care services. endearing career, particularly on TV her is located in the governorate of collective effort on the part of a The clinic overlooks the Gulf road with a relaxing sea when she hosted for decades a chil- Al-Ahmadi) who says that Mama number of teachers at the primary view. It is fully staffed by the finest dentists and uses the dren’s program. Anisa is a Kuwaiti icon whose name school of Mama Anisa in the suburb most up-to-date American, German and Japanese den- Among those who applaud her will remain burnished in the memo- of Abu Helaifa in the governorate of tistry equipment in addition to digital radiology test in the documentary is Governor of ries of many generations of Kuwaitis Al-Ahmadi, headed by the script devices that provide 85-90 per cent of tests needed. It is Al-Ahmadi Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khalid weaned on her radio and TV chil- writer and director Nawal Al- specialized in using the latest technology to overcome Al-Sabah (the school named after dren’s shows. The documentary is a Obaidan.—KUNA dentist phobia. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 LOCAL ‘Huge progress’ expected in missing Kuwaitis report Kuwait underlies human resources importance

NEW YORK: The head of the UN Mission in Iraq Nikolay resources as one of the most important resources in UN Crime Mladenov said he expects an upcoming report to the organization and its workforce. In a speech at the 69th Crime Report Security Council on Kuwait’s missing persons and its General Assembly fifth committee session, Kuwait’s Third Report national archive would achieve huge progress. Secretary of Kuwait Permanent Delegation to the UN The unavailability of immediate results should not be Nasser Al-Ramzi said that Kuwait is fully committed to UN the only scale success is measured, as relations between Secretary General’s report about the general review of the Husband ‘missing’ Iraq and Kuwait are currently in their best condition, he reform of the management of human resources. said in his current report to the Security Council. The session focused on discussing Human Resource KUWAIT: A citizen asked police to help her find her hus- The efforts of the UN mission in Iraq (UNAMI) - that he Management. The Kuwaiti diplomat hailed the progress band who has been missing for six days. The woman gave heads - should also be taken into consideration, he added, and UN administrative reform that have been made so far, security operatives her husband’s details. The case has along with Iraq’s commitment to the matter, particularly on stressing on Kuwait’s continued support to the Secretary been sent to detectives. Meanwhile, two citizens have filed the missing person’s affair. Over the past four months, as General to reach the desired results in the field of human complaints that their maids have been missing for months. was the case during the past 13 months, the Iraqis have resources management. Police are working on the cases. shown their unwavering commitment to searching for the In spite of such progress, Ramzi added, the organization Kuwaiti missing individuals, he said. should carry out reforms at the domestic level, starting Kuwaiti beaten up He suggested that the passing of time and the difficulty from the development of human resources, the develop- A Kuwait woman was beaten up near a traffic light in in remembering events, when taking into account inci- ment of policies in education, career development to Maidan Hawally, after a verbal exchange. Police are look- dents that took place 23 years ago, were obstacles. These implement the principle of justice, and functional equality ing for the suspects. In another development, a high efforts, including digging up trenches and collecting infor- to reach job equality with the participation of representa- ranking officer at Hawally immigration has accused a mation from eyewitnesses and inspectors, have been tives of developing and developed countries. woman of insulting him while on duty. The officer (a ongoing despite the tiresome security situation, he con- Kuwait emphasizes on the importance of developing colonel) was approached by a lady with a transaction, but cluded. a system of follow-up and monitoring for reform meas- when he checked it, he asked her for more documents ures and process to ensure it will achieve the expected and told her to wait for her turn. The lady got angry and Human resources outcome in raising the efficiency of UN organization’s verbally insulted him. The officer filed a complaint at Separately, Kuwait asserted importance of the human work. —KUNA A tent with equipment used in brewing liquor. Maidan Hawally police station. CMA law to be amended soon Liquor factory ‘Cut in a camera’ Cameras in a citizen’s house captured the escape of his busted maid with her boyfriend as they climbed the fence. The citi- KUWAIT: Deputy Premier and Anas Al-Saleh said in a statement including development of the com- zen who lives in Nahdha area noticed his maid was miss- Minister of Commerce and Industry that the ministries are working to cut prehensive law awareness (7) of ing, and then he checked the security cameras and discov- Dr. Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej said unnecessary spending and combat- 2010, in addition to finding a clear By Hanan Al-Saadoun ered that a man climbed the fence late night, then few Tuesday that amending a law of the ing waste, noting that the financial monitoring mechanism to oversee minutes later, he left with the maid. An absconding case Capital Markets Authority (CMA) will reform policy is continuing even if oil the implementation of executive reg- KUWAIT: Ahmadi police have discovered a liquor factory in has been filed at Qirawan police station. be ready within 60 days. prices returned to past levels. ulation. Wafra area. A man was seen holding a bag - on seeing Majad, on the sideline of a cere- In response to a question on the Hajraf added that the commission policemen, he tried to escape but was caught with a bag mony honoring CMA commission National Portfolio in Kuwait Stock launched the government partner- containing four bottles of locally made liquor. When asked council members, said in a statement Exchange, Saleh said that the portfo- ship concept to develop practices about the source, he led police to a place where eight bar- KD36,000 missing that CMA role is very critical through lio is working with 70 percent of that imposes cooperation among rels of liquor was found, in addition to 250 bottles. Police An Egyptian accountant issued 18 receipts worth real monitoring and independence, stock market value. various apparatuses. The ceremony have launched investigation. In another development, KD36,000 and instead of depositing it in the bank, he “which is what we are always keen on CMA Board Chairman Dr Nayef Al- honored various CMA former com- Residency Affairs detectives have arrested an Egyptian took the money. The company representative filed a to develop and maintain.” Hajraf said that CMA role lies in the mission members in the government man accused of forging health cards. complaint against the accountant. Investigation is Meanwhile, Minister of Finance development of the capital market, and private sectors. —KUNA underway. KOTC receives Lloyd’s safety, security award Fake detectives Three men who posed as detectives arrested some Asian KUWAIT: Kuwait Oil Tanker Company itime transport industry, it noted. girls in Farwaniya area and then stole KD360 from one of (KOTC) has received the 2014 Lloyd’s Not only does the award reflect them. The victim told police that the attackers asked for Safety and Security Award as the top KOTC’s commitment to the highest safe- their IDs and forced them in their car. Police have launched tanker firm in the Middle East and the ty and security on deck, but also the investigation. Indian Subcontinent, the company said company’s dedication to its responsibili- yesterday. ties as a national and strategic tanker KOTC was handed the award at the company of importance to the State and Wife accused of cheating Maritime Standard (TMS) Middle East the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, A man accused his wife of cheating on him and charged her with urging vice crimes. The citizen, and Indian Subcontinent Awards held in chairman Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al- according to a police source, discovered that she had Dubai recently, the company added in a Ahmad Al-Sabah. Sheikh Talal dedicated contacts with a man through the phone- so he com- statement. The award is a major achieve- the award to the KOTC staff for their “sin- plained to Mubarak Al-Kabeer police. The woman and ment and classification for the company cere and hard work” to raise it to the her alleged boyfriend are being summoned by police. Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled on the regional and international levels, rank of world’s leading companies in the Al-Sabah for the prize has prominence in the mar- field. —KUNA Society donates $10,000 to Ebola epidemic The municipality inspectors with some of the NEW YORK: The Islamic Heritage Society held a charitable event, which raised $10,000 for Ebola aid to be donated to containers. the World Health Organization (WHO). Cosmetics warehouse raided President of the Society, Soad Al-Otaibi, also spouse of Kuwait Municipality Center in Mubarakiya raided a cos- Kuwaiti Permanent representative to the UN Ambassador metics warehouse yesterday and confiscated 775 cream Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi, held the event at Kuwait containers and aromatic oils. The department appealed Mission’s headquarter late Tuesday, to help fight the epi- to citizens and expats not to deal with expired products. demic which hit many countries in West Africa. “It is our Officials urged residents to call 139 for assistant in case duty to help treat the affected patients as well as prevent they see any expired product on sale. further spread of the disease”, Otaibi said. “They are in need of our help”, she stressed, adding that “all of today’s pro- ceeds will go to the World Health Organization’s benefit”. Otaibi was overwhelmed by the turnout of attendees and expressed gratitude and appreciation to the organiz- ers and to those who made the donations either by check, food and raffle prizes. On his behalf, Executive Director of WHO office at the UN Dr Jacob Kumaresan expressed his most appreciation of what the Islamic Heritage Society is doing to help peo- ple in need. “On behalf of the World Health Organization, I thank you very much for your donation which will go a long way to help the victims of Ebola, especially women and children”, she addressed the audience. Main contributors of the amount donated were Kuwait, GCC, Libya, Bahrain as well as others. The society was founded in 1972, with the aim of promoting Islamic civi- lization. They have been holding different events through- out the years of which the funds go to aid those in need. Last year, the society organized a charitable bazaar, for aiding Syrian refugees in countries neighboring their crisis- struck nation. Kuwait has donated $5 million to WHO to combat the spread of Ebola virus in West Africa. —KUNA Pork found in Abu Hlaifa restaurant

By A Saleh

KUWAIT: Ahmadi Municipality officers busted an unspeci- fied amount of pork inside an Abu Hlaifa restaurant during a recent campaign. The meats were confiscated and referred to the investigation department. The restaurant’s owner was summoned for questioning.

‘No Kuwaiti’ The fire drill in progress. Mock exercise leaders in IS KFSD carried out a mock exercise on a fire in a residential building in Khaitan area. Technical rescue centers from Farwaniya, Ardiya participated in the event. The exercise KUWAIT: Secretary General of the Syrian Assalah and was about a fire in a basement of a 10-storey building. Development Opposition Front Khaled Al-Hammad said Firefighters rushed to the area and evacuated the building. that the Kuwaitis fighting with Islamic State (IS) are only Five injured people were rescued and the fire was brought ‘soldiers’ and not top commanders. In a statement made under control. over the phone, Al-Hammad said that IS top leading posi- tions are restricted to Iraqis and exceptionally for some Syrians such as Abu Mohammed Al-Adnani, who is the IS Thief has accident A car thief had a traffic accident in Sabah Al-Salem area official spokesperson. Al-Hammad added that IS refused to and was rushed to Mubarak hospital for treatment. go to religious courts to solve disputes amongst Muslim Sabah Al-Salem police noticed the car was stolen, so groups because they believe that their methodology was the suspect was placed under police custody. deviant from ‘true’ Sharia. —Al-Watan THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

In Brief Subsidized eggs Unpaid dues Curbing spending By A Saleh KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission sent rec- Water won a court order against the Kuwait ommendations to the Ministry of Commerce that KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Society of Engineers over unpaid energy can help save KD 170 million in the new budget by Commerce and Industry Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej bills. The comprehensive court ordered the cutting spending on public sector’s payroll. The list canceled an order to include eggs in the list of food society to pay KD107,648 in total for unpaid includes conducting a comprehensive revision on items provided to citizens in subsidized prices. The bills over a period of one year and a half. The budget projects for some state departments, order was made two years ago to counter sharp hike ministry had cut electricity and water from reducing annual bonuses and adjusting the in egg prices due to supply shortage. It was never the society’s building in a bid to force the Kuwaiti Dinar’s exchange rate with foreign curren- executed due to difficulties in implementation. due payments. cies regarding payments for employees sent in scholarships. — Al-Qabas Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A picture of Kuwait Towers taken on a cloudy day this week. The weather forecast for this weekend is partially cloudy with a chance of scattered rain. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Gulf Bank sponsors Education UK Exhibition

KUWAIT: Gulf Bank recently spon- sored the British Council’s annual Education UK Exhibition (EDUKEX) in Kuwait as part of its ongoing sup- port to the educational sector. This high-profile event was held on the 8th and 9th of November 2014 at the Regency Hotel in Kuwait and was attended by Her Majesty’s Ambassador Matthew Lodge, the British Ambassador to Kuwait, and Grant Butler, Director of the British Council. Education has a defining role as the world matures into an interna- tional community driven by knowl- edge and technology. It is the potential for education to change the world for the better that has caused Gulf Bank to support educa- tion as part of its responsibility to society and in particular its support Ambassador Matthew Lodge and Grant Butler during the opening of for young people, who represent the event. society’s future. cated society is directly linked to the some of the world’s best universities Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager future health and success of all and colleges of higher education, of Human Resources at Gulf Bank communities. including four universities currently said: “Gulf Bank is very proud to sup- At Gulf Bank, our role is one of ranked in the world top ten. This port and be involved in major initia- support; to provide opportunities important annual event will allow tives such as the British Council’s which encourage youth to go out UK university representatives to annual Education UK Exhibition in and further their education, so that present their courses to students Kuwait. they can take full advantage of the and families in Kuwait directly, and We take education and activities career choices available to them explain the entry requirements and which encourage youth develop- and build fruitful and successful application procedures to students ment very seriously, as we believe lives for themselves and their fami- who could be interested in going to that the development of a well edu- lies.”The United Kingdom is home to the United Kingdom to study. KIPCO Platinum Sponsor for NUKS-USA Conference KUWAIT: KIPCO - the Kuwait Projects spot and recognize rising talents in Company - has announced its many fields. We are looking forward Platinum Sponsorship of the 31st to this year’s gathering, and stu- Conference of the National Union of dents’ interactions in a number of Kuwaiti Students - USA Branch events.” (NUKS-USA). The event, which KIPCO As a Platinum Sponsor, KIPCO will is sponsoring for the fourth consecu- be addressing students during the tive year, will be held under the aus- Opening Ceremony and will host a pices of Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber lunch banquette before the Closing Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Ceremony. KIPCO will also be spon- from November 26-29 in San soring the much awaited signature Francisco, California. standup comedy show, which will be The conference, which will be performed by the renowned Ibrahim held under the theme of ‘Kuwait’s Khairallah and Moayad Alnefaie. aspirations are fulfilled by its youth’, Eman Al-Awadhi Marina FM, a member of the KIP- is the largest gathering of Kuwaitis attend,” said Eman Al-Awadhi, CO Group, is a Media Sponsor of the outside of their country and KIPCO’s Group Communications event, and will be present to cover includes a wide range of programs Director. “With more than 3,200 stu- its activities. Burgan Bank, the and activities. “The NUKS-USA con- dents actively participating in last largest member of the KIPCO Group, ference is a landmark event that year’s event, KIPCO’s involvement will be present at the conference to Kuwaiti students studying in the promotes leadership and education highlight career opportunities for world’s best universities across the among Kuwaiti youth, and also pro- graduating students across the United States look forward to and vides us with an opportunity to organization. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest GCC customs and norms

By Thaar Al-Rasheedi

eticulous political calculations proved to be of no use in the Arabian Gulf region for sev- Meral reasons, on top of which is the fact that the whole region, from top to bottom, strongly believes in its traditional customs and norms that are stronger than scientific and political theories. Regardless of approving or rejecting such norms for any reason, the norms’ policy has always proved to be successful. This principle might have even been politi- cally utilized in dealing with domestic and foreign affairs in a way that makes the GCC states very unique. It has also fortified it against any alteration or Budget change attempts set according to political theories and principles. This can be easily proved by the recent GCC crisis that was described by many analysts as the most seri- ous GCC states have ever faced. Yet, it was successful- ly wrapped up. In a previous article under the title of ‘The heart knoweth his own bitterness’, I emphasized that the intervention of the ‘Humanitarian Leader’, HH the Amir, would eventually succeed in bringing the crisis to an end. Yes, indeed. The crisis is over now, gaps have been bridged and views have been brought closer to agreements according to the principle of GCC tradi- tional customs and norms, which is not mentioned in any political books or guidelines. However, we, the Gulf peoples, know and appreciate it very well. I would even go as far as saying that the US adminis- tration might be incapable of politically functioning well in the region because it knows nothing about such customs and norms. Al-Jarida As I said, traditional customs and norms (I do not know the exact equivalent of the term in English) are absolutely and beyond all expectations the keys to regional politics. Norms and traditions prevailing in in my view the GCC region have the upper hand compared to political theories. This does not necessarily make us wrong. This political method has probably and always Palestinians support attacks against Jews proved successful because it regionally originated and developed. — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa By Abdullah Erakat

esponding to Tuesday’s attack in a Jerusalem “They have gone into revenge mode because they He warns that the Palestinians might revolt against kuwait digest synagogue that took the lives of four Jews dur- can’t stand that he was killed by settlers, a suicide was their own security forces should they try to prevent Ring morning prayers, some Palestinians in the announced and the world bought it.” West Bank residents from engaging in clashes with West Bank say they believe it to be a “natural Qutaiba suggests that what is new and alarming is Israel, which is what they are obligated to do accord- ‘Cherchez’ Israel response” to recent events and the fault of the Israeli the increase in [Arab] Jerusalemites and Palestinians ing to the Oslo agreement. “This would be a way of government. from 1948 engaging Israelis since it was not seen in showing lack of confidence in the leadership,” he said. The two Palestinian assailants also wounded nine the previous Intifadas [uprisings]. “This is very danger- The latest escalation follows separate meetings in By Ali Al-Bedah others before being shot dead themselves. ous,” he said, noting that both groups have Israeli Jordan between US Secretary of State John Kerry, King The killings are adding to the already soaring ten- identity cards and can therefore move about freely Abdullah II, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu here is no wonder that Israel asks the Arabs and sion in Jerusalem following Sunday’s discovery of the inside Israel. and Abbas. While the Israeli Prime Minister made the Muslims to recognize IS, especially with fifty of them body of a 32-year old Palestinian bus driver who drove gesture of lifting the age restrictions for admittance to Tfighting a group of mercenaries, whose origins are very for the Israeli cooperative Egged. Despite the finding Increased tension Al-Haram Al-Sharif, the resulting calm did not last well known to everybody, driven by either hypocrisy or fear of suicide following an autopsy conducted by Israel’s Clashes - often violent - between Palestinian resi- once word that Al-Rimouni’s body was found in the of the ‘master’ leading the alliance. By time, the illusion will Abu Khabir Forensic Institute in the presence of a dents of East Jerusalem neighborhoods and Israeli back of his bus he drives spread. turn into reality and with Israel’s ‘wish to support Islam and Palestinian physician, people claiming to be eyewit- forces have been on-going in the city for more than a Ramallah resident Tala Abu Rahma is not surprised Muslims’, we will eventually agree to establishing and recog- nesses insist that Yousef Al-Rimouni was strangled by month. Palestinians accuse the Israeli government of by violence from both sides. nizing the state. We might even go as far as supporting it and having it lead Arabs and Muslims. Jewish Israelis and that his body bears signs of a strug- allowing “right wing Jews” to enter the holy site “[Violence] is never a solution, but people are angry Will it not represent the caliphate we have always been gle - a charge that continues to resonate throughout known to the Arab world as Al-Haram Al-Sharif to beyond measure at these terrible daily injustices, and dreaming of and speaking about its glories? Who would ever the Palestinian street. The Palestinian doctor, Dr Saber when you think about our lives, can you really blame object to or reject such a state as long as Israel and its ‘godfa- Al Aloul, who was involved in the autopsy, was them?” she asked. ther’ agree and support it? Who would ever reject such a unavailable for comment. Ramallah resident Huda young state that will support and promote Islam’s tolerance The prompt condemnation of the attack by Al-Refai says Al-Rimouni Religious conflict worldwide? Do not the majority of its men and women Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has North of Ramallah in the village of Ein Senea, 26- belong to European states? After all, it would mean that apparently done little to assuage the anger on the was just trying to make year old Eman Ahmad says the conflict is turning into Islam’s flags that had been removed from buildings in Austria and other Mediterranean countries would be hoisted back streets of the West Bank, a mood typified by Jericho ends meet and they killed a religious one. “They attack the Palestinians who go not only in those countries, but also on 10 Downing Street, taxi driver Raed Seif who said that those who call it to pray at Al-Aqsa mosque, but the difference is we are the White House and all the countries in the world. What suicide are “big liars.” Seif said he was “happy” to hear him because “they are under occupation and they are not. They have the more victory would we want?!! of the attack, saying, “It’s great. It’s very great because power and we don’t,” she said. IS deserves all the fuss made about it because all the this is the price for Israel continuing with its occupa- thirsty for Palestinian Referring to the Palestinian teen that was burned allied forces, their fighter jets, the Iraqi, Syrian and Kurd sol- tion and the disgusting things they do to us.” alive by Israelis who are now in prison for the crime, diers have so far failed to arrest a single IS member. Ramallah resident Huda Al-Refai says Al-Rimouni blood.” she says she is not surprised that Israeli police called International intelligence services say that IS members seem to be invisible and undetectable by all tracking devices be was just trying to make ends meet and they killed him Al- Rimouni’s death a suicide because “it’s the last them thermal, electric or magnetic, though they had been because “they are thirsty for Palestinian blood.” Jews, the Temple Mount while Muslims were prevent- thing they need after Mohammad Abu Khdeir.” reportedly able to detect the inside label on Saddam “This operation is a normal reaction against these ed from access to the holy compound during the The military wing of Hamas has threatened to Hussein’s underwear. Things are different in IS’ case. All satel- Zionists for killing our people,” she said. “This is our recent period. launch attacks against Israel, which Ahmad says would lites are incapable of tracking them and we have not heard of land and it’s our right to resist and defend ourselves,” Tension has increased, too, as the result of stab- not be wise. “The two-state solution will only ever arresting or killing any of them so far! she added. bings; two incidents where Palestinian drivers drove happen if the United States or the United Nations Therefore, Israel has realized IS’ blessings and recognized Ala, who works at a supermarket in Al-Azaria, says their vehicles into pedestrian Jews; and the deaths of forces Israel to do so.” it. Along with the ‘godfather’, they want us to recognize and support it because they are not being greedy and all they hearing about the deaths of the Jews this morning two Palestinian girls. Spokesperson for the Palestinian Jericho resident Munther Abdallah does not con- temporarily want is the area extending from the middle of gave him a little comfort after hearing about Al- security forces Lt. Adnan Damiri says the time is now done violence on either side. He calls the death of Al- Syria to Kuwait and half of the Iraqi soil, as declared by Israel! Rimouni. “They deserve it for killing Yousef,” he said. for the people of Israel to stand up to their govern- Rimouni, “stupid, violent and terror.” Gentlemen, review the whole image and take some man- Next door, at Abu Shadi’s popular restaurant, he lis- ment and demand peace. “I’m calling on all Israelis to “They should not attack someone who is praying, ly attitudes. A plot is already declared targeting sabotaging tened to the details of the killings on the Voice of agree to the two-state solution, to end the occupation Jewish or otherwise, because I think this would justify the Arab world and fragmenting it to at least fifty states, each Israel radio as he fried falafel. “This is no surprise,” he which without, there cannot be peace,” he said adding the other side to go and kill Muslims while they pray,” ruled by certain sects so that they get involved in endless said. “The problem is that the international media will that the region is turning into “hell.” the 55-year old said. He says both sides are facing a wars, leaving the upper hand to the only united country in the region - Israel. All the fifty states will race to befriend it say ‘poor Jews,’ while they accept the Israeli lie that PA President Abbas has so far withstood pressure to “dangerous situation.” He doesn’t know what, but he and the whole world will kneel before it once more after it [Yousef] killed himself,” he said. end security coordination with Israel, often cited as says negotiations and violence is not the solution. has already started losing some friends. None of them will Palestinian journalist Qassem Qutaiba says it’s clear the most significant achievement in the Palestinian- Meanwhile, Tala Abu Rahma says that grief is a diffi- ever dare say a word about the only state remaining intact in by looking at people’s expressions in the city of Israeli relationship since the Oslo Accords in 1993 — cult thing. “Losing people we love is never easy or for- the Middle East! Bethlehem, they are angry over the death of Yousef. but something Giacaman says “is not easy to do.” givable,” she said. —The Media Line Unless you wake up and work for the best interest of you and your peoples, your regimes are doomed to vanish and you will no longer have anything to rule. So all the countries included in the division scheme depending on our fanati- cism and stubbornness must get together to counter the kuwait digest plot promoted for and nurtured by the beneficiaries in all wars - the weapon merchants and brokers. Get together and utilize all your financial, political and military assets as well as Intolerance your peoples’ powers (provided you give them due rights) to express rejection and anger against those plotting against you. For once in your lifetime, stop this manipulation and do By Ghanim Al-Najjar not waste your energy following evil illusions implanted in your minds! If only Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt and the rest of the Arab olerance is a trait many people lack. Maybe wishes and eloquence. We live in a world where Fraternity Society that recently organized a semi- countries would agree to reject this conspiracy, take the lead this is why it is sometimes described as the hatred prevails as ants on an anthill; where extrem- nar at the university marking a good start, we still in solving Arab problems and cast away all those manipulat- T‘art of tolerance’. It is one of the most impor- ism spreads as fast as fire in dry dead branches; need a lot more. ing, intimidating, dividing and terrifying us and turning us tant elements of coexistence among human where hatred, others’ exclusion and discrimination I am writing this on arriving to Canada upon an against each other, we will regain our power and be capable beings. It begets stability and prosperity and motivations vary from racial to ethnic, lexical, reli- invitation to lecture at the Ottawa University, the of striking all those plotting against us, including Israel. This is should not, in any way, be considered a sign of gious, doctrinal, sectarian, regional, economic or parliament and the media in addition to attending not wishful thinking. Your united power is mightier than any weakness. As a matter of fact, the extremer a per- others. Discrimination is the main vessel leading to a meeting of Canadian Arabs on whose agenda other in this world. You own the power of oil and commerce. You can even threaten major countries with your financial son is, the more weakness and psychological disor- hatred which is the sheer enemy of tolerance. tolerance, the West’s view of it and the way they investments in them! der this indicates. Tolerance tools still seem to be far from achiev- deal with it will be the main topic. Nonetheless, If you produce oil at half capacity nowadays, you will The UN has named Nov 16 the International Day ing anticipations at a time when hatred and intol- Canada has a unique, complicated reality in terms bring its prices back to previous levels. If only you agree with for Tolerance, when various countries should erance ‘leaders’ have unlimited resources that are of tolerance that I might explain later on. The Iran, your power will multiply and major powers, including organize special activities. On this day and on rep- being fully utilized by politicians or those eager for world is in real danger of extreme discrimination, Israel, will fear you. If you support Egypt today, its army will etition of previous pledges made to promote the authority and power while the value of tolerant severe poverty and great potential differences. be able to purchase more weapons, get rid of many ele- same principles and values, the UN secretary gen- people is decreasing. They are rarely immortalized Therefore it is very important to dig deeper into ments of pressure and fight Israel and others with you! You own all power elements, so use them. Once more, I eral urges various peoples and nations to combat by history. Fighting the current state of fragmenta- the lost tolerance problem and how to achieve it stress that I am not calling to declare war, but be ready to fear, hatred and extremism through dialogue, tion and division, that seems to be getting worse, in real life by combating the reasons leading to defend and protect your countries against conspiracies and understanding and mutual respect. requires serious actions and communal awareness. losing it! division plots! —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida However, things in real life remain limited to Except for a few appreciated efforts of the National —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Tunisia artists, media fear for 4 sentenced to death for lynching Pakistan woman freedoms after Page 11 election Page 8

VIENNA: Protestors against the Iranian regime hold flags and banners next to Palais Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, yesterday. Talks on Iran’s nuclear program have entered what participants hope is the final round. But substantial differences could mean they are extended beyond the Nov 24 target date for a deal. The talks group Iran around the negotiating table with the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. —AP Iran nuke talks get down to nitty-gritty VIENNA: Iran and six world powers get down to business in Vienna yesterday, groping for the elusive magic formula to secure a milestone nuclear deal that UKIP immigration stanced raws angry voters satisfies hardliners in Tehran and Washington. The clock will be ticking though on the second day ROCHESTER: Sat on a bench on Rochester High Street, House of Commons. parts of Europe, and is calling for a points-based immigra- of a final round of talks, with the deadline for Iran and out-of-work British labourer Paul is considering voting for Keith Mye, another former Labour supporter, said he tion system instead. the five permanent members of the UN Security Council the anti-immigration UK Independence Party in a crucial too was been frustrated at the number of migrants. “I think The rise of UKIP has in turn encouraged Prime Minister plus Germany on Monday. by-election today. there’s too many coming into this country,” the 67-year-old David Cameron’s Conservative-led government to step up “This is a very critical week obviously in Iran After breaking his spine in an accident four years ago, said. the rhetoric and warn of the need to curb arrivals. negotiations,” US Secretary of State John Kerry, expected Paul, in his 50s, complains he “cannot get the jobs”. “I’m not Once considered to be the refuge of voters on the right- “Immigration across the board, whether you are in the in the Austrian capital later in the week, said in London a racist, but there’s foreigners who will work for half the wing of the Conservative Party, UKIP is now attracting north or south, east or west, working-class or middle-class, on Tuesday. money,” he told AFP. working-class voters drawn by the party’s plans for strict it is an issue,” UKIP’s deputy leader Paul Nuttall said as he “We hope we get there but we can’t make any Paul used to support the opposition Labour party. But controls on immigration. canvassed for votes.“People’s wages are not rising in the predictions.” he is one of many in this southeastern English constituency UKIP has promised to pull Britain out of the European way they should. It amazes me that the trade unions don’t Already Kerry has announced he will delay his that UKIP is hoping will deliver the party’s second seat in the Union, which would end the influx of migrants from other stand up and say something about it.” —AFP arrival in Vienna. Late on Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry would now travel to Vienna “later in the week”, although the exact day had not yet been set. “Secretary Kerry will stay in London tomorrow where he will continue consulting with both the negotiating team in Vienna and his interagency counterparts in Washington,” she said. Kerry will then hold separate meetings with the French and Saudi foreign ministers in Paris today. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, arriving in Vienna on Tuesday, said that a deal was “possible” and that if the talks fail it will be because the six powers asked for too much. “If, because of excessive demands... we don’t get a result, then the world will understand that the Islamic Republic sought a solution, a compromise and a constructive agreement and that it will not renounce its rights and the greatness of the nation,” Zarif told Iranian media. But Kerry, who held the latest in a string of meetings with Zarif in Oman last week, put the onus on Iran. “It is imperative that Iran works with us with all possible effort to prove to the world that the programme is peaceful,” Kerry said. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond echoed his comments, calling for more “flexibility by the Iranians to convince us that their intentions in their nuclear programme are entirely peaceful”.

Drums of war The landmark accord being sought by Monday’s deadline, after months of negotiations, is aimed at easing fears that Tehran might develop nuclear weapons under the guise of its civilian activities. It could resolve a 12-year standoff, silence talk of war, help normalise Iran’s relations with the West, boost the beleaguered Iranian economy and mark a rare foreign success for US President Barack Obama. In order to make it virtually impossible for Iran to assemble a nuclear weapon, the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany (the P5+1) want Iran to scale down its nuclear programme. Iran, which insists its nuclear aims are exclusively peaceful despite failing to declare parts of its programme in the past, wants painful sanctions lifted. Some areas appear provisionally settled. But the big problem is still enrichment-rendering uranium suitable for power generation and other peaceful uses, but also, at high purities, for a weapon.— AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Gunmen driven out, but bullet-scarred Lebanese city still boils

TRIPOLI: So many bullet holes cover the apart- poverty, joblessness and frustrations over years President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the were being imprisoned on thin pretexts, and What the city needed was a way to reinte- ment blocks and shops in the Bab al-Tabbeneh of what they see as political marginalisation Shi’ite-derived Alawite sect, against Sunni Sunni leaders were failing to stop it. grate young men who, he said, were victims of district of northern Lebanon’s main city Tripoli and economic mismanagement. rebels. Increasingly, hardliners have turned Impoverished Sunni areas in the north years of mismanagement and failed politics. It that you can hardly tell which conflict they are Poverty is palpable in Bab al-Tabbeneh, their anger against the army, which they accuse which provide the army with many of its needed real development, not crackdowns. But from any more. where run-down buildings make a contrast to of working with Hezbollah. recruits were now being portrayed as hotbeds none of this was happening, and few leaders “The area is dying,” Sheikh Omar al-Rifai, a newer ones several kilometres away. Men here Whatever its cause, the fighting illustrates a of terrorism, Ahdab said. Hezbollah was mean- capable of making real change were emerging. local Sunni Muslim cleric, shouted over the roar clear gutters by hand. Plastic bags, snack food dangerous trend for the Mediterranean state - while parading its fighters and weapons on tel- “It’s as though the Sunni community is sterile, of hammers repairing damaged storefronts and wrappers and fruit peels are ground into the for one of the first times since Syria’s war began, evision and fighting openly in Syria. not able to produce new faces,” Ahdab said. men dragging debris from gutted homes. muck of the road. Sunni gunmen here turned their weapons on Young Sunni men who might have worked Last month gunmen including supporters “Taking up arms doesn’t happen unless soldiers rather than Alawite rivals living on the in factories or hotels were now carrying ‘Their voices are loud’ of the hardline Islamic State group fought the there’s unemployment,” Rifai said, speaking other side of a thoroughfare appropriately weapons, he said. Recent donations to the Despite the frustration in Tripoli, relatively Lebanese army here for three days, a battle that within earshot of an armoured personnel carri- named Syria Street. Lebanese army to help it fight militants would few Lebanese seem to actively support hardline killed several soldiers and damaged some of er and army patrol. “If a man is jobless, if he can’t only do so much. groups such as Islamic State so far. Residents the largely Sunni port city’s most famous his- work, what does he have?” Recipe against terrorism “We’re talking about bringing money to the say scores, not hundreds, of young men took toric sites. The battle in Tripoli was the second of its Misbah Ahdab, a former lawmaker, has a Lebanese army to fight terrorism. Wonderful. part in the latest clashes. To outsiders, it may have seemed like a nat- kind between Syria-linked fighters and large flat in a good part of town, but his list of But do we fight terrorism only with rockets?” “Their numbers are not large but their voic- ural consequence of the dramatic rise of hard- Lebanese soldiers this year. grievances is long. The city’s residents were Ahdab said. “There’s a recipe against terrorism. es are loud and they make a din when they line Sunni groups from Iraq to Algeria. But for Many Sunnis resent the Shi’ite movement being used as pawns in political games, he said. If people are starving, they will be in alliance move,” said Sheikh Nabil Rahim, another Tripoli residents the conflict was rooted more in Hezbollah, which has sent fighters to aid Syrian The economy was falling apart, young men with the devil.” cleric. —Reuters Suicide car bombing kills four in Iraq Kurdish capital No claim of responsibility for the attack

ARBIL: A suicide bomber detonated 29, Saman Barzanchi, the director people and wounding more than “Retroactively, it’s chilling,” an explosives-rigged vehicle in the general of the Arbil health depart- 60. In that attack, the asayesh said a Retailleau, who was heading a dele- heart of the usually secure Iraqi ment, told AFP. suicide bomber detonated explo- gation that delivered 10 tonnes of Kurdish regional capital Arbil yester- A crowd of onlookers gathered sives at the entrance to their head- aid for displaced Iraqis, told AFP. day, killing four people, officials at the site of the blast, which broke quarters, after which they killed four Iraq’s three-province autonomous said. car windows, scarred vehicles with more would-be bombers before a Kurdish region is generally spared The bomber hit the main check- shrapnel and left glass and debris fifth blew up an ambulance rigged the rampant violence plaguing other point on the way to the provincial scattered across the blood-stained with explosives. parts of the country. government headquarters in the street. “When you are visiting Arbil, There was no immediate claim of northern city just before noon The bombing is the worst attack there is absolutely no sense of dan- responsibility for yesterday’s attack, (0900 GMT), provincial council to hit Arbil since September 29, ger,” said Bruno Retailleau, a French which rocked a usually crowded spokesman Hamza Hamed said. 2013, when militants struck the senator who was at the Arbil provin- area close to the city’s main land- The attack killed four people, headquarters of the asayesh securi- cial headquarters minutes before mark, the UNESCO-listed Arbil two of them police, and wounded ty forces in the city, killing seven the blast. citadel. But suicide bombings are usually JERUSALEM: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in a synagogue a day after a carried out by Sunni extremists in shooting attack there in Jerusalem, yesterday. The synagogue attack, which left Iraq, including a series of blasts five people dead, was the deadliest in Jerusalem since 2008 and came amid claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group in recent weeks. weeks of violence linked to a disputed holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims. —AP Kurdish security forces are bat- tling IS, which spearheaded an Israelis, Palestinians look to offensive that has overrun large areas of Iraq since June, making it a personal safety in holy city more prominent target for militants. The initial jihadist onslaught swept federal security forces aside JERUSALEM: On edge but faithful to their and the fourth a British-Israeli national-were in the north, allowing the Kurds to religious routine, worshippers returned yes- killed along with a Druze police officer by take control of a swathe of disputed terday to the Jerusalem synagogue where two attackers armed with knives and a gun, territory that they want to incorpo- four rabbis and a policeman were killed in a was the deadliest in Jerusalem since 2008. rate into their autonomous region Palestinian attack a day earlier. The blood- The current wave of violence has defied over Baghdad’s objections. stains had been washed away. But four clear definition-Israeli officials insist it is not But IS turned its attention to the memorial candles burned as about a dozen a new, tightly organized Palestinian uprising north again in August, launching a men chanted their daily prayers and police and cannot be compared with the Intifada renewed drive that pushed Kurdish newly stationed outside guarded the that raged from 2000 to 2005. Palestinian forces back towards Arbil, helping Kehillat Bnei Torah congregation. suicide bombers blew up Israeli buses and to spark a US-led campaign of air “It’s a little scary, but we’re going to have cafes during that period, and Israel carried strikes that has since been expand- to go on with our lives. We’re staying here, out crushing military operations in ed to Syria. we’re not moving anywhere ... this terrorist Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Backed by the strikes, Kurdish attack is not going to change anything,” said For the most part, security guards who troops have managed to regain Avraham Burkei, a member of the syna- tried to prevent and often died in such some areas seized by IS, as have gogue in Jewish West Jerusalem. bombings are no longer posted at the federal forces backed by pro-gov- Palestinians in Israeli-annexed East entrance to restaurants and stores in ernment fighters. But significant Jerusalem also voiced concern about their Jerusalem, but they are a lingering presence territory, including three major safety amid the surge in violence, as police outside its main indoor shopping mall. So ARBIL: Iraqi firefighters work at the site where a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged set up checkpoints in their neighborhoods when Ayala, a 39-year-old Israeli teacher, vehicle in the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil yesterday killing four people. —AFP cities, remain in the hands of the militants. —AFP and tethered surveillance balloons floated wanted to have coffee with a friend yester- overhead. day, the complex offered a safe haven. In the dead of night, a large explosion “We’re meeting at the mall because we rattled windows in the city as Israel blew up know there is security here,” said Ayala, who Tunisia artists, media fear the home of a Palestinian who last month declined to give her last name. “We’re going ran over and killed two people at a on with our lives but with much more cau- Jerusalem tram stop before police fatally tion. We are afraid of the Arabs,” she said. shot him. Pointing to armed police checking “This is not the first wave of terrorism. for freedoms after election cars and pedestrians on a road leading to Terrorism comes in waves and eventually it the centre of town, Imram Abu Al-Hawa, a ends. It’s deja vu. We understand we are liv- 40-year-old Palestinian, spoke of humiliation ing with people who hate us, deeply.” For TUNIS: Tunisian rappers, comedians and journal- sometimes punished. It “leaves the door wide open to Ben Ali and concern about revenge attacks. “They Palestinians, a push by far-right Jews to be ists, fearful that next week’s presidential election Rappers, a particular bane of the old regime, cronies, experts in the art of censorship and (police) say, ‘do you have a knife, where are allowed, in defiance of a decades-old ban could cement a return to power by partisans of are leading the way in warning against what they repression,” he said. you going?’” he said. “They can go to hell. I agreed by Israel, to pray at a holy compound the former dictatorship, are bracing themselves to fear could be the effective return to power of Ben “Freedom of expression was the main achieve- used to work among Jews, now I’m afraid I’ll where Al-Aqsa mosque now stands and defend the freedoms won since it was ousted in Ali’s RCD party in the shape of Nidaa Tounes, ment of the revolution, and we will never let any- get stabbed or attacked (by them).” Biblical Jewish Temples once stood, has 2011. which already won parliamentary elections in one, whoever it is, take that away from us. We’re Violence in Jerusalem and other areas of prompted anger and suspicion. Under former president Zine El Abidine Ben October. not scared of anyone!” he said. Israel and the occupied Palestinian territo- Israel says it has no intention of chang- Ali, tough censorship sharply circumscribed Nidaa Tounes leader Beji Caid Essebsi is the ries has surged since July when a Palestinian ing the prayer arrangements at the site and freedom of expression in the media and per- hot favourite to win Sunday’s election. Scare tactics teen was burned to death by Israeli has accused Palestinian leaders of inciting forming arts. Essebsi, 87, a pillar of the old guard, served as Comedian Lotfi Abdelli says that changing the assailants in alleged revenge for the abduc- violence. There have been almost nightly Journalists critical of the regime were harassed interior minister during the authoritarian regime target of his jibes from Ennahda to the secular tion and killing of three Jewish teens by mili- clashes in East Jerusalem in recent months Nidaa Tounes has also raised hackles. tants in the West Bank. The collapse of US- between Palestinians throwing rocks and “For three years they used to tell me: ‘Go on, brokered peace talks, renewed fighting in setting off firecrackers and Israeli police fir- you’re good, you’re witty.’ Now that I’ve been Gaza in the summer, and continued, interna- ing stun grenades and tear gas. “It’s gone attacking Nidaa Tounes a bit, I’ve become the guy tionally condemned Israeli settlement-build- from bad to worse-it’s never been this bad,” who has no humour, no respect,” he says. ing on land Palestinians seek for a state have Uday Abu Sbeitan, a 65-year-old Palestinian, Abdelli can’t resist coming up with an exam- also fanned the flames. said as a police helicopter hovered low over ple: “Old Essebsi... can go to two meetings at the his Mount of Olives neighborhood. same time: he goes to one and he sends his den- Defying definition “Women are scared for their children at tures to the other.” Tuesday’s synagogue attack, in which the night-that they might be arrested or kid- Essebsi’s critics question his advanced age and rabbis-three of them dual US-Israeli citizens napped.” —Reuters argue that he does not represent Tunisia’s youth, who spearheaded the 2011 revolt. Formed only two years ago, Nidaa Tounes rap- idly emerged as the principal opposition to Ennahda, which it accused of taking the country Egypt sees ‘new era’ in Arab backwards. But while Nidaa Tounes does incorporate fig- ties after Qatar thaw ures aligned with the old regime, it also includes CAIRO: Egypt yesterday hailed a “new era” in On Sunday, Gulf leaders agreed to return businesspeople, intellectuals, trade unionists and Arab solidarity after Gulf states agreed to wel- their ambassadors to Doha, signalling an end to even leftwing activists. come Qatar back to the fold following a row the dispute. Its defenders point out that while it won the over its support for Islamists. Saudi King Abdullah on Wednesday urged most seats in parliament it did not gain enough Cairo said it offered its full support to the “Egypt, the people and leadership, to seek with to rule on its own. It needs to form a coalition and reconciliation move, which it described as a us the success of this (reconciliation) move as faces an Islamist opposition that made a strong “huge step towards Arab solidarity”. part of Arab solidarity,” according to the official BIZERTE: A supporter of Moncef Marzouki, the current Tunisian president who is showing. “We look forward to a new era that would SPA news agency. defending his position in the upcoming presidential elections flashes the sign for vic- “Talk of a Nidaa Tounes domination of the end past disputes and spread hope and opti- He said the kingdom looked forward “to the political scene... is aimed at scaring the electorate,” tory during a campaign rally yesterday in Bizerte, north-east of Tunis. A total of 27 mism to our peoples,” Egyptian President Abdel start of a new phase of consensus” among Arab said Faouzi Elloumi, a co-founder of the party. Fattah al-Sisi’s office said. nations and voiced hope for “security and sta- candidates are set to compete for the role of president, with former prime minister “I can understand people’s fears but they are Beji Caid Essebsi, 87, widely tipped as one of the frontrunners. —AFP The Egyptian army’s overthrow last year of bility for our people amid these circumstances unfounded. There are people out there trying to Islamist president Mohamed Morsi strained ties and challenges” facing the region. mislead them. Tunisia knows there is no risk of with Qatar, which had been a key Morsi backer. The agreement offers “a general framework and sometimes arrested and jailed, but always on of Tunisia’s “father of independence,” Habib sliding back.” His ouster led to differences among Gulf for unity, consensus, and an end to differences” the pretext of an offence other than offending Bourguiba, and as parliament speaker in the early But the journalists’ union is on guard, pointing states, with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi among Arab states, the king said. the powers that be. 1990s under Ben Ali. out that Ennahda and other parties with influ- Arabia hailing his replacement, while Qatar Ties between Cairo and Doha are also The government also demanded a pro- “O RCDists... we thought we’d got rid of you ence have also advocated putting caps on certain repeatedly denounced it. Tensions hit a low in strained over an Egyptian court convicting and regime line from the media. A flattering piece but you’ve had the nerve to return,” rapper El democratic principles. March when Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE jailing three reporters from Qatar-based Al- on Ben Ali could always be found on the front General hammers home in a video clip featuring “The fight for freedom of expression is not announced the withdrawal of their envoys from Jazeera television for backing Morsi’s Muslim page, and another at the top of the lineup on Nidaa Tounes politicians who were elected. over. We’ve learnt from experience that every new Qatar in protest at its “interference” in their Brotherhood and spreading false information. the television news. Weld El 15, another rapper and a fierce critic of government tries to restrict this freedom,” said the internal affairs by supporting Islamists. Cairo considers Al-Jazeera as Doha’s voice Performing artists, particularly comedians the moderate Islamist movement Ennahda that union’s president, Neji Bghouri. Egypt had already withdrawn its ambassa- after the channel repeatedly criticised its crack- and actors, had to tip-toe around issues and formed the North African country’s first post-rev- “We are forever wary because we’re convinced dor in February, although Doha has kept its down on Morsi’s supporters that has left at least personalities, although some braver souls delib- olution government, sees no cause to celebrate the political class at large is only democratic in its envoy in Cairo. 1,400 people dead since his ouster. —AFP erately overstepped the boundaries and were the rise of its Nidaa Tounes rivals. speech.” —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL US Senate blocks govt surveillance reform bill ‘Those who value civil liberties will not rest’ WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a cates who would argue for civil liberties. sweeping overhaul of a National Security Agency program The court currently hears only the government’s side in the that would have ended the government’s controversial bulk surveillance cases. The reforms are likely to face another test collection of data about Americans. next year, as the Patriot Act’s Section 215, which contains the The vote marks a blow for President Barack Obama, who legal justification for the dragnet phone metadata program, had supported the reforms, and sets up a showdown in 2015 comes up for renewal. when crucial surveillance provisions are set to expire. The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, The USA Freedom Act, also backed by Silicon Valley groups Senator Saxby Chambliss-who retires next month-defended and major technology firms, marked an ambitious bipartisan the bulk collection and stressed Americans have not suffered effort to reform the nation’s surveillance apparatus following from abuse of the program. the revelations of government spying by former security con- There has been “not one single case” in which “any tractor Edward Snowden. American has had their privacy rights breached,” Chambliss The measure earned a majority, 58-42, with four said on the Senate floor. “It simply has not happened.” Republicans joining all but one Democrat in favor. But it fell And incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell short of the 60-vote threshold to overcome blocking tactics. warned that the reforms could strip intelligence agencies of It would have reined in the NSA, whose clandestine pro- tools needed to fight extremists like the Islamic State. gram has been scooping up vast amounts of electronic data on innocent US citizens as it pursues information on terror Liberty vs security threats. It also would have replaced the NSA’s blanket authori- The intelligence panel’s chair, Senator Dianne Feinstein, ty with a far narrower one allowing it to obtain call records had backed the reforms as perhaps “the best opportunity to from phone companies but only in specific cases. reform the metadata collection program while maintaining “Obviously I’m disappointed by tonight’s vote,” said the the government’s ability to use this tool to prevent terrorist In this YouTube video posted in the personal website of Mexico’s first lady, Angelica Rivera on Tuesday, the wife of bill’s sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy. “This lifelong Vermonter attacks at home and abroad.” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto talks as she tries to clarify a scandal over her purchase of a mansion from a will not give up the fight.” Proponents had been eager to She also hailed its transparency clause that would have government contractor, saying she used her own money in the deal and plans to put her stake in the $4 million progress before January, when they envision a more difficult allowed “private companies to more fully report the number home up for sale to avoid any doubts. — AP path for the bill in a new Congress controlled by Obama’s of times they receive government requests for information.” Republican foes, after the GOP swept to victory this month in Senator Ron Wyden, a strong supporter of the reforms, midterm elections. expressed disappointment at the vote but looked forward to The bill would have crucially modified the Patriot Act, the coming debate in full public view. Mexico’s first lady to hastily approved in the aftermath of the September 2001 “Those who value civil liberties and the US constitution will attacks on the United States, by changing the secret Foreign not rest until there is true reform that ends this unnecessary sell controversial mansion Intelligence Surveillance Court to include a panel of advo- overreach,” he said. — AFP

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s first lady announced late Tuesday she Mexico. Rivera said she was selling the house-which she said was putting her multi-million-dollar private mansion on sale was bought for $4 million-”because I don’t want this to con- to end a controversy over her purchase of the property from a tinue being a pretext to insult and defame my family.” government contractor. But Rivera’s explanation did not appear to refute the main Missouri executes Leon Pushing back at suggestions of a conflict of interest, facts in the report, including that the house was built by and Angelica Rivera issued a video on her website to say she had was still in the name of a government contractor’s subsidiary. bought the house with her earnings from her days as a popu- Taylor for 1994 killing lar soap opera star. ‘The Seagull’ defends family Criticism of the mansion in a posh Mexico City neighbor- BONNE TERRE: A man who killed a suburban Kansas bers through the glass in an adjacent room. Once the hood has been an extra headache for President Enrique Pena Revelations about the “White House” were made last week City gas station attendant in front of the worker’s state started injecting 5 grams of pentobarbital, Taylor’s Nieto, already struggling with protests over the government’s on Aristegui’s website, which said the house was built by a young stepdaughter in 1994 was put to death early chest heaved for several seconds then stopped. His jaw handling of the presumed massacre of 43 college students. subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company headed by Mexican yesterday - the ninth execution in the US state of went slack and he displayed no other movement for the “In the face of accusations that have put my honor in mogul Juan Armando Hinojosa. Missouri this year. rest of the process. doubt, I want to make it clear before all Mexicans that I have Rivera acknowledged that the house was built by Leon Taylor, 56, was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m. Four of Taylor’s family members sat in a room to his nothing to hide, that I have worked all my life and that thanks Hinojosa’s real estate company after she told him she was at the state prison in Bonne Terre, minutes after receiv- left and looked on without reaction as the drug killed to that I am an independent woman,” Rivera said. “I have looking for a new property. ing a lethal injection. With Taylor’s death, 2014 ties 1999 Taylor in about eight minutes. At a time when execu- always acted with integrity,” she said, adding that she had Grupo Higa had won lucrative public works contracts for having the most executions in a year in Missouri. tions have gone awry in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona declared nearly $10 million in revenue in 2010, for which she when Pena Nieto was governor of the State of Mexico. Earlier Taylor shot worker Robert Newton to death in front and taking an extended period to kill an inmate, Taylor’s paid almost $3 million in taxes. this month, it was part of a Chinese-Mexican consortium that of Newton’s 8-year-old stepdaughter during a gas sta- execution went off without any visible hitches or com- Rivera signed the real estate deal in January 2012, six won a $3.7 billion bullet train contract. tion robbery in Independence, Missouri. Taylor tried to plications with the drug or equipment. months before Pena Nieto was elected president. But three days before the Aristegui report came out, Pena kill the girl, too, but the gun jammed. In a final statement, Taylor apologized to Newton’s Her explanation came hours after a visibly irate Pena Nieto Nieto abruptly canceled the train deal, putting him in an awk- Taylor’s fate was sealed Tuesday when Gov. Jay Nixon family because “our lives had to entwine so tragically” said his wife would publicly clear up the “falsehoods” in the ward position as he traveled to summits in China. declined to grant clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court and thanked his family for their support and love. “I am report by prominent journalist Carmen Aristegui. The government said it wanted to avoid any questions turned down his appeal. also sorry to have brought all of you to this point in my “I will not allow this issue and finger-pointing to put in about transparency after the opposition raised questions Taylor, his body covered by a white sheet, could be life to witness this and/or participate,” Taylor said. “Stay doubt the trust that the majority of Mexicans have put in me,” about why only one group, the one led by China Railway seen in the execution chamber talking to family mem- strong and keep your heads to the sky.” — AP Pena Nieto said in a speech in his native central State of Construction Corp., had bid for the contract. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Don’t meddle in Russia affairs: Putin tells US envoy

MOSCOW: President Vladimir post in February after just two gate Russia but would never suc- the United States do not want Putin urged Washington’s new years on the job. ceed. “They want to subdue us, this really, I mean the general envoy yesterday not to interfere Tefft served as US ambassador want to solve their problems at public, citizens. So everything in Russia’s affairs as he accepted to Ukraine from 2009 to 2013 our expense,” the Russian presi- will sort itself out,” he said. credentials from US ambassador and was Washington’s represen- dent said. Separately, Putin on John Tefft amid raging tensions. tative in Georgia during its five- “No one in history ever man- Wednesday also accepted cre- “We are ready for practical day war with Russia in 2008. aged to do this to Russia, and no dentials from North Korea’s cooperation with American part- His predecessor McFaul, a one ever will.” ambassador after receiving Kim ners along various directions Stanford university professor, fre- In a fresh sign of mounting Jong-un’s special envoy at the guided by the principles of quently sparked Russia’s fury Russia-West tensions, Putin at the Kremlin Tuesday evening. respect for each other’s interests, with critical comments on Twitter weekend faced scorn from Putin said that developing equal rights and non-interfer- and meetings with Russian oppo- Western leaders at a G20 summit political and economic ties ence into domestic affairs,” Putin sition activists. in Australia which he left early. In between Russia and North Korea said. Cold War-era rivals Russia and unusually blunt remarks on was in the interests of the two He spoke at the Kremlin the United States are locked in a Monday, German Chancellor countries and would strengthen where Tefft, Washington’s new tug-of-war over the fate of ex- Angela Merkel said Russia’s “regional security and stability”. ambassador to Russia, presented Soviet republic Ukraine, with aggression against Ukraine The United Nations on his letter of credence along with Washington imposing sanctions threatened Europe’s “peaceful Tuesday adopted a landmark envoys from several other coun- and US President Barack Obama order”. In an apparent effort to resolution condemning North tries including North Korea. Tefft- branding Moscow’s actions over calm tensions, Putin said on Korean rights abuses and lay- known for backing the pro- Ukraine a “threat to the world”. Tuesday no one in the West ing the groundwork for put- Western aspirations of former Meeting with his supporters wanted to see an escalation. “No ting the Pyongyang regime in MOSCOW: US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft (L) and Russian Soviet states-succeeded Michael on Tuesday, Putin claimed the one wants to ramp up tensions in the dock for crimes against President Vladimir Putin pose yesterday after presenting his cre- McFaul, who abruptly quit his United States wanted to subju- the world, trust me, and they in humanity. — AFP dentials at the Kremlin in Moscow. — AFP Ukraine rules out direct talks with separatists Kiev says it will not legitimise ‘terrorists’

KIEV/MOSCOW: Russia urged Ukraine’s leaders But Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny reported daily. Kiev and the West accuse Russia yesterday to talk directly to separatists to end Yatseniuk hit back, accusing Moscow of trying to of sending tanks and troops to back the rebels the conflict in the east, but Kiev rejected the call push Ukraine into recognising the pro-Russian but Moscow denies the charges. and told Moscow to stop “playing games” aimed rebels who are fighting government troops to Lavrov and president Vladimir Putin held talks at legitimising “terrorists”. split parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Kiev and the West accuse Russia of destabilis- regions from Kiev. Steinmeier in Moscow on Tuesday but failed to ing Ukraine by providing the rebels with money, Speaking at a government meeting, he overcome deep rifts over Ukraine. arms and reinforcements. The West has imposed declared Kiev would not speak directly to the Yatseniuk called on Moscow to “stop playing sanctions on Moscow over the conflict in which separatists and repeated the phrase slowly in games aimed at legitimising bandits and terror- more than 4,000 people have been killed since Russian for emphasis, saying: “We will not hold ists.” mid-April. direct talks with your mercenaries.” “If you (Russia) want peace - fulfil the Minsk An image grab taken from a propaganda video released on November 16, 2014 by Russia backs the separatists but denies it is A ceasefire was agreed on Sept. 5 in the agreement,” he said. Lavrov said in Moscow that al-Furqan Media allegedly shows Mickael Dos Santos, a jihadist believed to be directly involved in the conflict in the Donbass Belarussian capital of Minsk as part of a wider the “party of war” - supporters of Kiev’s military French citizen and member of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, who also goes by region. deal between Moscow, Kiev and the rebels campaign against the rebels - had tried to the name of Abu Othman, before taking part in the beheadings of at least 18 men “We are calling for the establishment of sta- under the auspices of the Organization for exclude the separatists from peace moves and described as Syrian military personnel. — AFP ble contacts between Kiev and Donbass repre- Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - to “force the West to seek the consent of Russia sentatives with the aim of reaching mutually with a former president representing Kiev to to act as a side in the conflict.” “This is a com- Second French citizen in IS acceptable agreements,” Russian Foreign avoid formal recognition of the rebels. pletely counter-productive and provocative Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a policy address to But the truce is under constant pressure, with line that has no chance of succeeding,” Lavrov execution video identified the lower house of parliament in Moscow. deaths of government troops and civilians said. — Reuters

PARIS: A second Frenchman was identified ous IS beheading videos and appeared again yesterday after appearing unmasked in a gris- in Sunday’s recording claiming Kassig’s killing. ly execution video among Islamic State The video also showed the Syrian men jihadists, many of whom are believed to be kneeling on the ground each before a sepa- Western fighters. rate executioner, whose faces were uncov- Several European countries are probing ered. Other known foreign fighters are the possible involvement of their nationals in believed to have appeared in the video, the execution of 18 Syrian prisoners and kid- including an Australian and a Dane. A Belgian napped US aid worker Peter Kassig. newspaper reported that one of the men fea- The video sparked global horror after its tured in the video looked like Abdelmajid release Sunday by the IS Sunni Muslim Gharmaoui, who is currently on trial in his extremist group that has carried out wide- absence in Belgium for membership of a spread atrocities since seizing control of large jihadist group. parts of Iraq and Syria. Around 1,000 French nationals are One foreigner, 22-year-old Maxime thought to have taken part in the conflict in Hauchard from Normandy in northern France, Syria and Iraq, with 375 currently there, the was quickly identified by French prosecutors. government has said. At least 36 have died. He is one of several young French nation- French President Francois Hollande, on a visit als from a middle class, atheist or Catholic to Australia, said the issue of foreign fighters background to have converted to radical and how they were being “brainwashed” was Islam and gone to fight in Syria, making a a major concern. profile of potential jihadists nearly impossible “They could be from any background, to pin down, experts say. from any ethnic origin-but they can easily be A source close to the French investigation brainwashed into becoming converts, and on Wednesday identified a second national as this is a very important matter,” he said. 22-year-old Mickael Dos Santos from an east- “We must be vigilant, and we must be ern Paris suburb, who goes by the name of strong.” Earlier this month, Paris adopted an Abu Othman. anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban He is believed to have left for Syria in the on anyone suspected of planning to wage autumn of 2013, and became known to inves- jihad, and Hollande said it was crucial that the tigators shortly afterwards during a probe full force of the law is used on those opting to into a network channelling jihadists into the fight overseas. war-torn country. “What is very important is not just reduc- “The man concerned is known for his ter- ing the number and avoiding new ones (for- rorist involvement in Syria and his violent eign fighters), but have some sort of penalty behaviour shown on social networks,” Prime applying to those who went to these areas LONDON: Protesters walk through central London during a student march against university fees yesterday. The demonstration organised by Minister Manuel Valls said, without confirm- because if you go to a combat zone it is the Student Assembly Against Austerity, alongside the Young Greens and National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts demands free education ing his identity. something that should be subject to sanc- and an end to tuition fees, education cuts and student debt. — AFP In July, Hauchard said in an interview with tions and penalties within the law,” he said. French television he had decided to join IS Kassig, who took the name Abdul-Rahman after watching videos online. after converting to Islam, was captured last “The personal objective of everyone here year and became the fifth Western hostage Burkina Faso set to appoint is (to become a) shahid (martyr). That is the beheaded by IS after two US reporters and greatest reward,” he said. two British aid workers. Thousands of foreign fighters have flocked Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory to join IS in Iraq and Syria, and experts say for Human Rights said Monday it had docu- army’s Zida as premier they are often among the most violent and mented the execution of 1,429 people in brutal of the jihadists. Syria by IS in the five months since it declared OUAGADOUGOU: Veteran diplomat Michel added, declaring that it was the “first elementary will head a 25-member transitional government. A British-accented militant nicknamed the establishment of a “caliphate” in areas Kafando, just sworn in as Burkina Faso’s interim duty of a citizen” to respect the constitution. A civilian will also head a 90-seat parliament, “Jihadi John” has been at the centre of previ- under its control. —AFP president to oversee a year-long transition to Mass unrest erupted in late October over known as the National Transitional Council. civilian rule, will yesterday appoint army strong- Compaore’s bid to change the constitution, According to a draft of the blueprint, no man Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Zida as prime which would have allowed him to extend his 27- members of the interim regime will be allowed minister, a senior officer has told AFP. year rule of the former French colony. to stand in the November 2015 election. Australia slams door The deal has been agreed between politi- On Tuesday, the United States congratulated cians and army leaders, said the officer. “We ‘Awesome responsibility’ the country for forming a transitional govern- on asylum-seekers negotiated the post of prime minister. Everyone Kafando, who served as Burkina Faso’s UN ment and urged Kafando “to build on the agrees,” said the officer, adding that the post of envoy from 1998-2011 and as foreign minister in momentum of the past two weeks and to select SYDNEY: Australian Immigration Minister cy-to deny asylum-seekers arriving by boat prime minister will “return to Lieutenant-Colonel 1982-83, was chosen to head the transition after individuals to serve in the transitional govern- Scott Morrison yesterday said he was “taking resettlement and instead send them to Zida”. “It was on this understanding that we gave tortuous negotiations between the military, ment who are firmly committed to a democratic, the sugar off the table” in controversially camps in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific the post of president ... to civilians,” added the political parties and civil society groups. civilian government,” said State Department announcing that Canberra was slamming the state of Nauru-has halted the flow. The move officer. Zida was put in power in the immediate He is barred from standing in elections spokesman Jeff Rathke. door on UN-registered asylum-seekers in to shut the door on even those registered aftermath of the uprising against longtime- scheduled to be held in November next year During the uprising against Compaore, pro- Indonesia. with the United Nations High Commissioner leader Blaise Compaore last month. under the transitional deal. The African Union testers set the parliament building ablaze and Morrison said that asylum-seekers who for Refugees in Indonesia was the next step, Kafando was sworn in on Tuesday and had warned that the deeply poor country would attacked other official premises in the capital arrived in Indonesia after July this year would Morrison said. “While nine of 10 months of pledged he would not let the country become a face sanctions unless it chose an interim leader, and other cities in violence not seen since a no longer be eligible for resettlement in 2014 have passed without a successful peo- “banana republic”. The one-time foreign minister and it welcomed Kafando’s appointment. wave of army mutinies in 2011. Australia. The move, he said, was part of the ple-smuggling venture to Australia, we know vowed to “respect and defend the constitution, However, the decision to hand power to a Compaore was 36 when he seized power in a government’s work to “strip people-smug- smugglers continue to encourage asylum- the transition charter and laws and do every- man closely associated with the former regime 1987 coup in which his former friend and one of glers of a product to sell to vulnerable men, seekers to travel illegally to Indonesia for the thing to guarantee justice for all Burkinabes” as raised suspicions for many. Africa’s most loved leaders, Thomas Sankara, was women and children” and stop Indonesia purpose of seeking resettlement in Australia,” he took the oath at a televised ceremony in the “Compaore said for 27 years that he was not ousted and assassinated. being used as a transit lounge. he said. capital Ouagadougou. thirsty for power, yet he remained firmly in his He held on to power in the following “We’re taking the sugar off the table. That’s “These changes should reduce the move- Poised to formally take over Friday from an job,” said Amadou Sawadogo, a 37-year-old decades, being re-elected president four times what we’re doing,” he told ABC radio. “We’re ment of asylum-seekers to Indonesia and interim military ruler, the 72-year-old empha- street seller. Burkina Faso notably exports cotton since 1991. His foiled attempt to extend his rule trying to stop people thinking that it’s OK to encourage them to seek resettlement in or sised his “humility” as a leader aware that he and gold, but almost half the population lives on was closely watched across Africa, where at least come into Indonesia and use that as a waiting from countries of first asylum.” temporarily held “power that belongs to the less than one dollar a day and many are subsis- four heads of state are considering similar tactics ground to get to Australia.” Morrison said Jakarta had been briefed on people”. tence farmers. to stay in power, from Burundi to Benin and the The giant northern neighbour is not a the development, as he insisted that Australia “The constitution of a country holds the keys “It is an awesome responsibility that falls to Democratic Republic of Congo. refugee generating country, but has become continued to support the UN refugee conven- to the very organisation of the state. To change it me, I already foresee the pitfalls and the immen- Compaore has taken refuge in neighbouring a key magnet for others seeking to reach tion. “We do support the convention,” he said. too much leads to a breakdown in society, to sity of the task,” Kafando told reporters after he Ivory Coast, where he is living in a luxury villa Australia, often through treacherous boat “But what we don’t support is how that con- regrettable upheavals such as we have recently was named on Monday. owned by the state. Known in colonial times as journeys that have left hundreds dead. Since vention is abused by smugglers who try and known,” Kafando said. Kafando, who was chosen by a panel of 23 Upper Volta, Burkina Faso won independence Australia’s conservative government came to leverage people into Australia through what- The landlocked nation of 17 million people officials, will be charged with appointing a prime from France in 1960 and changed its name in power last year, its hardline immigration poli- ever means they can.”—AFP “could never become a banana republic,” he minister-either a civilian or a military figure-who 1984. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Afghan anti-graft watchdog calls for sweeping changes KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani must clear cised for allowing corruption to flourish during his Ghani, who built a reputation for fighting cor- their health, their careers and even their lives, you out a whole generation of dishonest government offi- 13-year reign. ruption as finance minister 2002-2004, has already can not expect them to go beyond their limits. cials to tackle an endemic culture of corruption, the Eva Joly, the French chairwoman of the Anti- made a mark as president by re-opening a trial into “The political will is at the top of everything. head of a foreign-funded watchdog said yesterday. Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee the $900-million collapse of Kabul Bank in 2010. And I think the new president and his team has a Ghani has vowed to crack down on corruption (MEC), said that Ghani showed strong signs of Two bank executives were given longer jail very important role to play in showing a clear since he came to power in September, but he faces wishing to reform Afghanistan’s graft-riddled terms and huge fines last week, while other sus- example.” a massive challenge after graft boomed in authorities. pects will also now be investigated over the scan- In his inauguration speech, Ghani repeatedly Afghanistan since 2001 as billions of dollars flowed “He is allergic to corruption,” she told AFP. “He dal. Joly, a former magistrate and a member of the vowed to show “zero tolerance” towards corrup- into the country. knows the damage that corruption can cause in the European parliament, called for the attorney gener- tion, saying it was badly damaging the judiciary, Afghanistan is one of the world’s most corrupt search for peace and development. al to be sacked and for prosecutors to be properly the military and government. nations, along with North Korea and Somalia, and it “I think the legal system must change because protected. The MEC, which is funded by Britain and is set for a tough economic future as aid funding the current administration has been set up by “Afghanistan is a country of ‘warlords’ who have Denmark, yesterday released its latest report, falls and the US-led military coalition pulls out. Karzai. And there must be a generational change, a more power than we know,” she said. which said that half of all medicine imported into Former president Hamid Karzai was often criti- whole renewal.” “As long as prosecutors think they are risking Afghanistan was illegal. — AFP 4 sentenced to death for lynching Pakistan woman

LAHORE: A Pakistan court yesterday sen- outrage, with the United States branding tenced four men to death for murdering a the incident “heinous” and Pakistan’s Prime pregnant woman bludgeoned to death in Minister Nawaz Sharif demanding action to the centre of the country’s second-largest catch the killers. city for marrying against her family’s wish- Hundreds of women are murdered by es. their relatives in Pakistan each year on the A mob of more than two dozen attack- grounds of defending family “honour”. The ers, among them numerous relatives Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that including the victim’s father and brother, works to improve the lives of women in battered Farzana Parveen to death with Pakistan’s conservative and patriarchal soci- bricks outside the High Court in the eastern ety, says more than 3,000 have been killed city of Lahore in May. in such attacks since 2008. So-called “honour” killings are common- But Pakistan’s blood-money laws allow a place in Pakistan but the brutal and brazen victim’s family to forgive the murderer on nature of the attack on 25-year-old Parveen receipt of a payment, which makes prose- meant the case made headlines around the cuting so-called “honour” cases difficult world. because the killer is usually a relative. “The court today awarded death sen- Parveen’s killing, in broad daylight in a tences to four accused-the father, brother, supposedly relatively liberal city, caused cousin and ex-husband of the victim-for particular outrage as police were present at murder and terrorism,” prosecutor Rai Asif the scene but apparently did nothing to Mehmood told AFP. stop the attack. Mehmood said the sentences were Senior officers defended their men, say- handed down for three counts-murder, ter- ing the mob was too large to be stopped rorism and the killing of an unborn baby- and trying to play down the killing as a and the court had also fined each defen- “routine murder”. dant 100,000 rupees ($1,000). In a grisly twist to the case, a few days The fifth accused in the case, a cousin of after Parveen’s death her husband Parveen, was sentenced to 13 years’ impris- Mohammad Iqbal admitted he had stran- NEW DELHI: Indian followers leave the ashram of self-styled ‘godman’ Rampal Maharaj in Hisar, some 175 kilometres (108 miles) north of New onment, Mehmood said. Though Pakistan gled his first wife out of love for Parveen. Delhi yesterday. Police discovered five bodies after storming the ashram of a wanted guru in northern India where thousands of ollowersf have has the death penalty for several crimes, He was spared jail for his first wife’s mur- been holed up for days, as a sixth supporter died in hospital. — AFP there has been a de facto moratorium on der because his sons persuaded her family civilian executions since 2008. to pardon him under the blood-money Defence lawyer Mansoor Rehman Afridi laws. said his clients would appeal. “My clients On the day she was attacked Parveen will appeal against their sentences as we had gone to court to testify in Iqbal’s Six dead after police believe that the case had been politicised defence after he was accused by her rela- and the media coverage mounted pressure tives of kidnapping her and forcing her into on us,” Afridi told AFP. The killing sparked marriage. — AFP storm guru’s ashram Dead bodies sent for post-mortem BARWALA: Police discovered five bodies yester- bombs and other weapons, officers and televi- poet Kabir, was hiding in the crowd. day after storming the ashram of a wanted guru sion footage showed. Police are seeking Rampal’s arrest after he in northern India where thousands of followers Thousands of followers poured out of the repeatedly refused court orders to appear to have been holed up for days, as a sixth support- ashram overnight Tuesday, but police said they answer charges including conspiracy to murder, er died in hospital. believed another 5,000 were still inside the inner inciting mobs and contempt of court. The authorities made the discovery a day sections of the compound sprawled over 4.8 They accuse Rampal of ordering his disciples after they forced their way into the heavily hectares (12 acres). to fire on villagers during clashes in 2006 in guarded ashram northeast of New Delhi where “We have already saved around 10,000 lives which one person was killed and scores injured. they believe self-styled “godman” Rampal and around another 5,000 people are inside. We Rampal, an engineer by trade whose website Maharaj, who is wanted on murder charges, is will save their lives and arrest the wanted man,” says the charges against him are “false”, says his still hiding. Vashisht said. disciples must obey his instructions and may not They found the bodies of four women and worship traditional gods or engage in “unneces- one 18-month-old child, director general of Human shields sary charity”. police SN Vashisht said. The child appeared to Some who fled claimed they had been held Several supporters said they had to fight their have died of natural causes but it was unclear inside against their will, while police claimed way out of the ashram, while others said they lost how or when the four women lost their lives, he they had been used as human shields to protect their children in the melee. said. the guru. “I can’t trace my daughter who was with me Another woman apparently suffering from a “What started as a trickle hasn’t yet stopped inside the ashram... I somehow came out of the heart condition died after being taken to hospi- and we have dropped off around 10,000 people complex, but am very worried about her,” Roop tal, Vashisht told reporters. at nearby bus and train stations,” assistant police Rani told Hindi news channel ABP. “All dead bodies have been sent to the hospi- superintendent Jashandeep Singh said of the fol- India has been rocked by several scandals tal where they will undergo a post-mortem to lowers. involving immensely popular “godmen”, mostly ascertain the exact cause of their deaths,” he said. “The people who left the ashram mostly said Hindu ascetics who claim to possess mystical Riot police on Tuesday stormed the ashram, that they were being held against their will, as a powers. Last year one was charged with sexually which has been guarded by hundreds of follow- shield for the guru against any police action,” assaulting a schoolgirl. ers for days after a court ordered the arrest of Singh told AFP from outside the ashram in For many Indians, gurus play an integral role their guru on charges including conspiracy to Barwala town. in daily life. They say they offer a pathway to COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan man walks past a billboard bearing portraits of President murder. Police said they were checking those leaving enlightenment in return for spiritual devotion Mahinda Rajapakse in Colombo yesterday. Sri Lanka’s president secured the right to Police used water cannon and tear gas on the the ashram in case Rampal, who considers him- and often give donations to ashrams, temples seek re-election after completing the mandatory four years in his second term and followers, who were armed with stones, petrol self an incarnation of the 15th-century mystic and charity projects. — AFP was set to call a snap poll, officials said. — AFP Rajapakse cleared India’s Modi in Fiji to to call snap polls meet Pacific leaders SUVA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tions in September to end eight years of mil- COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president cleared a However, celebrations for Rajapakse’s was greeted by cheering crowds clamouring itary rule. final hurdle to seeking re-election on 69th birthday were marred on Tuesday for selfies when he visited Fiji yesterday to Bainimarama, the coup leader turned Wednesday when he completed the when a key coalition partner, the JHU or hold talks with Pacific island leaders about politician who won by a landslide, expressed mandatory four years of his second term, the National Heritage Party of Buddhist increasing his country’s engagement in the pride that Fiji had staged a ballot in which opening the way for snap polls expected in monks, quit his government in protest at region. everyone was treated equally, eliminating January. his failure to loosen his grip on power. The rock star welcome he received this the electoral disadvantages suffered by eth- Mahinda Rajapakse is widely expected Official sources said Rajapakse was keen week in Sydney after attending the G20 nic Indians in the past. to seek re-election after Sri Lanka’s to secure another mandate before his par- summit in Brisbane continued when Modi “This is a visit of the leader of the world’s Supreme Court last week rejected an ty’s popularity falls further. landed in Suva, with crowds lining the largest democracy to Fiji, a nation that just opposition challenge to the removal of a Rajapakse’s United People’s Freedom streets for a glimpse of the first Indian leader instituted the first true democracy in its his- two-term limit on the presidency. Alliance vote share plummeted at local to visit Fiji since Indira Gandhi in 1981. tory,” he said. “After completing four years in his cur- elections in September, suffering its worst “After this ceremony I don’t feel like a visi- “We are now a nation in which all people rent (second) term, the president now has performance since he first came to power tor, I feel that I belong here,” Modi said fol- come equally and so today it is not just the the constitutional authority to seek a fresh nine years ago. lowing a traditional welcoming service per- government of Fiji that welcomes the Prime mandate from the people,” his spokesman Rajapakse won the presidency in 2005 formed by chanting Melanesian warriors in Minister of India, it is the people.” Mohan Samaranayake told AFP. promising to return the country to a grass skirts. Modi praised the recent elections in an Samaranayake did not say when Westminster-style parliamentary democra- Almost 40 percent of Fiji’s 900,000 popu- address to parliament before meeting a Rajapakse would issue a proclamation cy. But he secured a second term in 2010 lation are of Indian origin, mainly descen- dozen Pacific island leaders at a specially seeking re-election-the next step towards and rewrote the constitution, removing dents of indentured sugar plantation work- convened “mini-summit”. polls-but official sources said it the two-term limit on the top job and giv- ers shipped in by the British during the colo- The meetings was a chance to court could happen within 24 hours. ing himself more powers over the entire nial era, and Modi said strong links to Fiji regional leaders, who form one of the Although no elections have yet been administration. remained. largest voting blocs at the United Nations. called, large posters featuring a smiling The JHU supported Rajapakse’s election “The tides of history brought our people Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also Rajapakse already appear on lamp posts in 2005 and backed his moves to end a to be formed, forging the timeless link that in the region after the G20 summit, will hold around the country, as was the case in pre- decades-long separatist war by crushing makes the relationship special,” he said, a similar meeting in Fiji later this week, seek- vious election campaigns. Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. before walking among the 5,000-strong ing to build strategic ties with the island Information minister Keheliya With just three seats in the 225-mem- crowd at Suva’s Albert Park, shaking hands nations. Rambukwella recently said elections could ber parliament the JHU lacks the power to SUVA: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks fol- and posing for photographs. Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna be held around January 7 or 8, and yester- destabilise the government, but the lowing a traditional welcoming ceremony at Albert Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said it was gratifying to see small Pacific day the state-run Daily News brought out a monks are considered influential among Park in Suva yesterday. Modi is in the Pacific nation for noted Modi’s visit brought the leader of the nations receiving such attention, adding special 92-page supplement on the presi- the country’s majority Buddhist commu- a three-day visit following his attendance of the G20 world’s largest democracy to the world’s that India’s rapid economic growth present- dent’s administration. nity. — AFP Summit in Brisbane over the weekend. — AFP newest, after the Pacific nation held elec- ed an opportunity to the islands. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Non-Muslim sworn in as Jakarta governor

JAKARTA: Jakarta’s first Christian governor become president. “I don’t need to be approved by every- praised by residents long weary of a graft- where nearly 90 percent of the population in nearly 50 years was sworn in yesterday in Hundreds of Islamic hardliners over the one,” Ahok told reporters after being sworn ridden and inert bureaucracy. consider themselves Muslim. the face of protests from religious hardlin- last few weeks have protested against the in by the president. “The ones that deny me Many Muslim organisations have also But experts believe Widodo will be ham- ers opposed to a non-Muslim taking over inauguration of Ahok, underlining the aren’t Jakartans. They come from Bekasi, voiced support for Ahok. The country of 240 strung by parliament, which is controlled by one of Indonesia’s most powerful political growing religious intolerance in a nation Depok, Bogor, which are not in my territo- million people has seen a rise in attacks the opposition. jobs. with the world’s biggest Muslim population. ry.” over the last decade against Christians, Shia “I do not have high hopes for (Widodo’s) Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known Thousands of police were deployed Ahok, who is the first ethnic Chinese Muslims and members of Ahmadiyah, a administration ... because parliament is not by his nickname “Ahok”, has been acting around the capital this week in case of vio- governor of Jakarta, has a reputation for small Islamic sect. controlled by his coalition,” said Andreas governor of the Indonesian capital since lence, but there was only a small group of being a transparent, no-nonsense and at Widodo’s administration has pledged to Harsono, Indonesia director for Human Joko Widodo stepped aside last month to peaceful protesters yesterday. times abrasive leader. His style has been protect all religious minorities in Indonesia, Rights Watch.—Reuters ‘Black widow’ with 7 dead partners arrested in Japan

TOKYO: A 67-year-old millionairess was ended in 2008 with the death of her 75- arrested yesterday on suspicion of poison- year-old partner, Jiji said. ing her husband with cyanide as it A boyfriend, believed to have been suf- emerged six former partners had already fering from some form of cancer, died a died, in Japan’s latest apparent “black wid- year later, and in 2012 her then-fiance met ow” case. his fate after collapsing while riding a Chisako Kakehi has been the beneficiary motorbike. of a combined 800 million yen ($6.8 mil- Traces of cyanide were detected in his lion) over the last two decades, Jiji Press body, media reports said. Kakehi was said-insurance money and other assets she arrested yesterday by police in Kyoto on received after the seven men’s deaths. suspicion of murdering her latest husband. Husband number four Isao Kakehi fell She has denied any involvement in his sick suddenly at home and was confirmed death. “We suspect she did it for money,” a dead at a hospital in December last year, police investigator on the latest death said less than two months after the couple mar- without giving details of the amount ried. involved. An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide compounds in his blood. That came after ‘Doomed by fate’ the September death of a 75-year-old Police are now working on the theory boyfriend, who fell suddenly ill after the that she could have been behind the couple ate together at a restaurant, Jiji said. deaths of at least some of the other six. Kakehi’s dalliance with death began in “We can’t say how many now... Given 1994 when her first husband passed away their advanced age, we have to proceed at the age of 54. carefully to judge whether their deaths In 2006 her second husband, whom she were actually the result of foul play or not,” had met through a dating agency, died of a the investigator told AFP by phone. stroke aged 69, while the third marriage Questioned by reporters earlier this year, former bank worker Kakehi protested her innocence. “If people suspect murder, I’d find it easier to bite my tongue off and die,” she told reporters in March. Jiji Press quoted her as saying in an earli- YANGON: Members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) read newspapers at the party headquarters in Yangon yesterday. Aung San Suu er interview that she was “doomed by fate” Kyi’s opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), on November 19 admitted it “cannot win” its battle to scrap parts of a junta- to suffer a series of deaths among those era constitution that bars her from Myanmar’s presidency, decrying a parliamentary decision to postpone amendments until after 2015 elec- close to her, and protesting that she had no tions. — AFP access to poison. If she is found to have been involved in the deaths of numerous partners, Kakehi Suu Kyi party admits cannot will become the latest example in Japan of a “black widow”, named for the female spi- der that devours its mate after coupling. win fight to change constitution In 2012 Kanae Kijima was sentenced to hang for the murders of three men, aged 41, 53 and 80, whom she met through Legislators to choose new president after election Internet dating sites. Kijima, who was at one time a paid-for YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party concerns about the clause, saying “the amend- opposition activists locked up. mistress, poisoned her victims with carbon admitted yesterday it cannot win its fight to ment process needs to reflect inclusion rather A vote to change its key points requires a monoxide by burning charcoal briquettes change a constitution that bars her from than exclusion”. more than 75 percent majority thus giving the after drugging them with sleeping tablets. Myanmar’s presidency, after authorities ruled army contingent the final say. And Myanmar KYOTO: This picture taken on March 13, She is in jail awaiting the outcome of an out charter amendments before 2015 elections. Surprise move scholar Renaud Egreteau said the army sees 2014 shows 67-year-old Japanese appeal to the supreme court. Another Nyan Win, spokesman for her National Parliament speaker Shwe Mann said Tuesday preservation of the constitution as its “core task woman Chisako Kakehi, who was arrest- woman, fomer bar hostess Miyuki Ueta, is League for Democracy, said an effective army a referendum would be held next May on any in state politics”. ed in Kyoto yesterday on suspicion of also waiting on the outcome of a supreme veto in parliament meant the NLD could not pre- charter amendments approved by parliament Debates on the constitution have seen nor- poisoning her husband with cyanide in court appeal against a death sentence for vail in its efforts to overhaul the constitution after the current heated debate in the capital mally circumspect military representatives take the latest “Black Widow” case. — AFP the killing of two men. —AFP during an ongoing debate in parliament. Naypyidaw. it in turns to reaffirm their support for 59f and Parliamentary representatives of the power- The Speaker said it would be impossible to the clause that ensures their veto, 436. ful military have lined up during the debate to implement any major constitutional changes “We should keep section 59f the same,” voice opposition to any change that would until after next year’s election, which is seen as a Lieutenant Colonel Myo Htet Win told the house Witness in Philippine threaten their position in the legislature, where test of the country’s transition that began in yesterday. they hold a quarter of all seats. 2011 from outright military rule. “If a person who has mixed with foreign “Calculate the ratio mathematically. We can- Nyan Win said the party would keep cam- blood and has then retaken Myanmar citizen- massacre murdered not win (the fight to change key sections of the paigning for change even in the face of defeat, ship or who has ill-intent, gets a top position, constitution),” Nyan Win told AFP, listing both the adding the NLD had a back-up plan which he our nation could swiftly become a puppet gov- MANILA: A potential witness in the trial than 30 journalists, and then gunning them clause that bars Suu Kyi and the one that gives could not elaborate upon at present. ernment, even without colonisation.” over the Philippines’ worst political mas- down. the military the final say on amendments. At party headquarters in Yangon a handful of Myanmar, which was under British colonial sacre has been killed, police said yesterday A total of 111 out of 195 suspects are on “So why are we working for it? Because we activists sold Suu Kyi T-shirts and trinkets as the rule until 1948, was plunged into isolation by a as the government struggled to secure jus- trial, including the principal suspects Andal believe in democracy,” he added, in some of the routine continued as normal. military regime that seized power in 1962. tice for the 2009 murder of 58 people. junior, brother Zaldy Ampatuan and their party’s most downbeat remarks on a charter But Myanmar-language newspapers sounded But in the past three years, its reforms have Tuesday’s attack brings to four the num- father and clan patriarch Andal Ampatuan which many believe was specifically designed to the alarm yesterday. “Parliament will approve the earned international praise and the removal of ber of would-be witnesses in the ongoing senior. thwart Suu Kyi’s political rise. constitutional amendments only after 2015: Daw most sanctions. trial to be killed, with no one yet convicted However, court officials said the other Legislators will choose a new president after (honorific) Aung San Suu Kyi cannot be presi- The quasi-civilian leadership, which remains nearly five years on. Dennis Sakal died suspects remain at large and prosecutors a general election in November 2015, which Suu dent,” said Mizzima in a front-page commentary. dominated by former generals, has freed most while another potential witness Sukarno do not expect the court to hand down ver- Kyi’s party is expected to win if polls are free and political prisoners, allowed Suu Kyi and her party Saudagal was wounded in the attack by dicts until next year at the earliest. fair. But the veteran democracy campaigner can- Fears of foreign influence into parliament and ended draconian media unknown gunmen in the southern Abigail Valte, a spokeswoman for not stand for the top post because a clause in Myanmar’s parliament is dominated by the censorship. province of Maguindanao, where the mas- President Benigno Aquino, and the the constitution, 59f, bans those with a foreign military and army-backed ruling party. But last week Obama added his voice to con- sacre took place on November 23, 2009, National Union of Journalists of the spouse or children. Her two sons are British, as Soldiers owe their place in the legislature to cerns that the transition is backsliding in certain said provincial police chief Rodelio Jocson. Philippines both condemned the latest was her late husband. the controversial 2008 constitution, which was areas, including press freedom and human “I was officially informed that the two ambush. US President Barack Obama last week raised drawn up by the then-junta as it kept critics and rights. —AFP were to take the stand,” Senior “The government has to step up and Superintendent Jocson told AFP by tele- secure people involved in this trial, which phone. He said he was unaware of what has taken too long already,” union director they planned to say. Apart from the three Jose Jaime Espina told AFP. HK activists try to storm legislature other potential witnesses murdered earlier, “It does not help the morale of the other three relatives of persons who had planned witnesses,” Valte acknowledged. The HONG KONG: Hong Kong police clashed with pro- ‘Sitting here is not a solution’ the first day. Now we have been sleeping out here to testify at the trial in Manila have also Ampatuans, who deny the murder charges, democracy demonstrators yesterday after a small The break-in was the clearest sign yet that a for 50 odd days before we actually do it,” he added, been killed, prosecutors say. had ruled Maguindanao for about a decade group tried to break into the city’s legislature, as small faction of protesters want to ramp up rather referring to a sit-in by Taiwanese students opposed The 2009 massacre was allegedly under the patronage of then-president splits emerged within the movement before the than scale down action after the court-backed to a trade pact with China. orchestrated by the Ampatuan clan of Gloria Arroyo, who had used the clan’s mili- expected clearance of protest camps. bailiffs’ action at Admiralty. “Nothing has been achieved at Admiralty,” said Maguindanao on Mindanao island in a bid tias as a buffer against Muslim separatist The clashes were sparked when around a dozen The execution of a second injunction ordering 18-year-old Saki Tin, who said she supported the to stop a local rival from challenging one of rebels. masked protesters smashed their way through a the clearance of a protest site in the Mongkok dis- group who attempted the break-in. “Sitting here is its members for the post of governor. Despite the detention of top clan lead- side entrance of the Legislative Council (LegCo) trict on Hong Kong’s Kowloon peninsula is expect- not a solution”. The clan’s candidate, Andal Ampatuan ers, wives and other relatives of the key building in the early hours, using metal barricades ed within days. Although that area is smaller, it has The protests have largely been peaceful but junior, allegedly led his family’s private defendants were elected to major local as battering rams. been the focal point of violence between police, have been punctuated by clashes, and police used army in stopping a convoy carrying his foe’s posts across Maguindanao last year, attest- protesters and opponents of the demonstrators in tear gas on large crowds on the first day, Around 100 police then moved to disperse the wife, relatives, lawyers and a group of more ing to the clan’s enduring influence. —AFP the last few weeks. September 28. front lines of hundreds of protesters in helmets and “I think we should all move to occupy inside Student protest leaders said after the latest con- waving umbrellas, a symbol of their movement. government headquarters and LegCo,” a 23-year- frontation that their movement was committed to Officers used pepper spray and batons in an angry old protester who gave his surname as Wong told non-violence, while a pro-democrat legislator said confrontation. AFP in Mongkok. he believed the group was not representative of Police said three officers were injured during “In Taiwan, activists occupied the parliament on the majority.— AFP the scuffles and six arrests made. The government of the semi-autonomous Chinese city said “severe damage” was caused, and joined police in con- demning the violence. The incident was widely reported on the Chinese mainland. At least one demonstrator managed to get into the building, according to the Apple Daily newspa- per. A regular session of the chamber was can- celled yesterday and visitor tours were suspended. Demonstrators have been camped on three major Hong Kong thoroughfares for more than seven weeks, demanding free elections for the city’s next leader. But public support has ebbed as the weeks pass with little progress. Beijing insists that candidates for the 2017 vote for the city’s top post must be vetted by a loyalist committee-an arrangement the protesters say will ensure the election of a pro-Beijing stooge. MANILA: Relatives of victims of the Maguindanao Massacre arrive at the National Authorities moved Tuesday to take down some Police Commission (NAPOLCOM) to ask for the dismissal of police involved in the barricades at the main protest camp, near the leg- massacre, at the NAPOLCOM headquarters in Manila yesterday. A would-be witness islative building in the downtown Admiralty dis- HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters pack up bags after lawyer representatives (not in pic- in the Philippines’ worst political massacre has been killed and another wounded in trict, after a court granted an order to remove ture) put up a notice on a barricade set up by pro-democracy protesters to be later removed by an ambush, police said yesterday. — AFP obstructions. bailiffs under a court injunction in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong yesterday. — AFP NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 Buses brave ‘road of fear’ in Syria’s divided Aleppo

ALEPPO: At dawn Syrian civil servants Abu Asaad and Abu Abdo each over the course of the more than three-year-old war. He and other pas- you disappear,” he said. begin their commutes across the war-torn city of Aleppo, a once-short sengers then risk their lives as their bus drives through Al-Bab, an area Abu Abdo lives in the rebel district of Sakhur. He too crosses the journey that now takes 10 hours. A frontline slices through the former of Aleppo province that is controlled by IS. From there, the bus travels frontline to get to the ministry where he works. “Our journey from one economic hub from north to south, with rebels in control of more than back into Aleppo city. “Before we reach the IS checkpoint, women side of Aleppo to the other is filled with danger. It used to take 10 min- half of the devastated city. People like 45-year-old Abu Asaad, who climb into the back of the bus and veil their faces completely,” said bus utes, but now it takes 10 hours because of a big detour,” he said. “There works as a driver for the state, must travel for more than 400 kilometers driver Mohammad, who makes the risky journey three times a month. are many checkpoints and dangers along the way, but I must make the by bus just to get from one side to the other. “They are not allowed to travel alone, according to the laws journey because I am a civil servant and I have no other source of They face grave danger as they detour through an area under the imposed by the jihadists. So we must make sure they are accompa- income. Sometimes, I make the journey twice or three times a week. control of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, which has seized large nied by their husband or brother. I check carefully, because I will pay God have mercy on us,” he said. areas in Syria and neighboring Iraq. Until a year ago, residents could the price if anything goes wrong,” he said. For Abu Asaad, each jour- The bus ticket price has shot up because of the war. It used to cost cross from one side of Aleppo to the other through a checkpoint at ney is now a dive into the unknown. “A jihadist from Daesh gets on the just 20 Syrian pounds to get from one neighborhood to the other. Now Bustan Al-Qasr. But because of snipers, it was closed. After working for bus, armed with a sword rather than a Kalashnikov,” he said, using an it costs 2,500 pounds ($12.5) from the government to the rebel sides. 10 days straight in a regime-held neighborhood, Abu Asaad waits for Arabic acronym for IS. “He checks everyone’s documents, and forces About 800 people make the journey each day from the regime side, the bus at a station in the New Aleppo district to go home to Shaar, a suspects to get off the bus, threatening them with his weapon. I while roughly the same number leave from the rebel area, said Munir, rebel area just five kilometers away. always say I am a tailor, because if I admit I am a civil servant, they will who runs the bus station. People living on both sides say loyalists and To get there the bus must first cross an area that is under army con- throw me in jail,” Abu Asaad said. But all of the forces on the ground- rebels demand bribes to let them through their checkpoints, but IS trol, before reaching a desert zone that has become a no-man’s land loyalists, the IS and the rebels-have their databases. “One mistake, and poses the biggest danger for drivers. — AFP

FBI tracking 150 US citizens with IS link Controversy flares over female guards... Continued from Page 1 he added. He declined to say how many Americans Continued from Page 1 said. the FBI believes may already have returned to the At Guantanamo, women deployed at the prison wear “There we see somewhere in excess of a dozen United States after fighting for jihadist groups abroad. staff at the facility on a naval base in southeastern Cuba. the same uniforms and boots as their male counter- (Americans who have joined Islamic State) that we “That is something that we track very closely,” he said. Earlier this month, a military judge ignited the dis- parts. They are forbidden from wearing makeup or jew- pute when he granted an emergency order to tem- elry. The only visible difference? Some of them wear have a pretty good handle on,” Comey said. “I don’t “I don’t want them to know too much about what we porarily halt the use of female guards in handling their hair in tightly fastened buns, only barely notice- have high confidence that I see the entire universe,” know.” — Reuters detainee Abd Al-Hadi Al-Iraqi. Iraqi, who stands accused able at the napes of their necks. Their mission is not an of having served as a senior Al-Qaeda military com- easy one. A young nurse in charge of force-feeding NA extends work of deposits probe panel mander alongside Osama bin Laden, has refused to be hunger strikers says some of them refuse to allow her to Continued from Page 1 return reports by the financial and economic affairs committee shackled by female guards when he is taken to pre-trial strap them down or to place a feeding tube down their about raising Kuwait’s financial contributions in a number of hearings, such as those taking place this week. nose-because of her gender. The Public Prosecution had investigated the case and inter- pan-Arab organizations amid objections by MPs. The establish- Lawyers for the 53-year-old, who is an Iraqi national, “Spitting has occurred, yes,” said the soldier, only rogated the former MPs but decided to shelve the case for lack ments include the Arab Fund for Social and Economic have argued that Islam forbids such physical contact identified as “Beeds” on her uniform so the prisoners of legislation to press charges. Development, Arab Investment Guarantees Establishment, between a man and a woman who is neither his wife never learn her real name. “But I was still able to do my In a related development, the Assembly agreed to form a Islamic Development Fund and others. nor a relative. “This commission has the duty of being job.” A senior medical officer by her side, also a woman, new panel to investigate suspicions of irregularities in award- MP Yousef Al-Zalzalah asked the Finance Minister about the mindful of religious and cultural differences within the said it was “very rare” for prisoners to refuse care or ing state-owned farms to a number of people. The panel is benefits Kuwait had got from these Arab investment bodies, parameters of its authority and responsibilities, while at nourishment from female staff. “We do try to accommo- headed by liberal MP Rakan Al-Nasef. Another committee is adding the benefits had been very limited. MP Abdulhameed the same time respecting the need of the detention date if there’s an objection,” said the officer, who arrived investigating alleged irregularities in the distribution of farms Dashti said that such organizations hardly have any positive facility commander to allocate resources and preserve at Guantanamo eight months ago. “I think there’s an by the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish value for Kuwait, while MP Abdullah Al-Tameemi said that in security,” wrote the judge, Navy Captain JK Waits. understanding of each other’s role: they need to Resources. the wake of the sharp drop in oil prices, the government must protest, we need to accomplish our mission and in most During the session, MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji announced that review its aid policies. Discreet femininity cases, that’s exactly how it proceeds.” he will submit a request to grill Commerce and Industry Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh said the decision to raise the But the commander of operations at Guantanamo, Guantanamo’s Muslim cultural advisor, known only Minister Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej within 10 days. Turaiji has capitals of these organizations was taken by the Arab econom- Rear Admiral Kyle Cozad, has voiced his opposition to as “Zach” for security reasons, insists the religion does been criticizing the minister and claiming he has committed a ic summit and that other Arab countries have fulfilled their any gender distinctions dictated by prisoners at the US not forbid being cared for or touched by women for number of administrative and financial violations and warned commitments and Kuwait will do the same after the approval facility in southern Cuba. “We’ve had female guards and medical reasons. Zach, a US citizen of Jordanian him several times in the past few months. During the by the Assembly. He said that Kuwait has benefited from the Assembly session on Tuesday, the two clashed over allegations organizations in a number of projects worth hundreds of mil- female medics since the first airplane landed from descent, was hired by the Pentagon to serve as a link that the minister had called on Kuwaitis to concede part of lions of dollars. The minister also said that the government’s Afghanistan in January 2002,” Cozad said in an interview between the detainees and the men and women who their salaries in the face of the sharp drop in oil prices. austerity program which has started will not be halted even if at his headquarters. “Having females is part of our pop- guard them. “Extremists-they play on the ignorance of In another development, the National Assembly voted to oil prices rebound to $100 a barrel. ulation. It’s not a new thing. It’s part of our history,” he people,” he said, clearly outraged by the detainees’ said. Cozad noted that women represent about 13 to 14 interpretation of the Quran. “As long as that touch does- percent of the force at the prison-a level comparable to n’t mean anything else-there’s no skin touching, they that seen Pentagon-wide. “If I was to pull a female wear gloves, they wear clothes-it’s business,” Zach Snow blankets New York as US feels chill guard, basically I would be discriminating against a added. “The more we pay attention to their claims, the Continued from Page 1 could be seen from a mile away. member of my force who is qualified to do the task,” he more we encourage extremism to continue.”— AFP In a region accustomed to highway-choking snow- A few hours later, state troopers picked them up and storms, this one is being called one of the worst in memo- brought them to a nearby police station where another bus ry. Snow blown by strong winds forced the closing of a Saudi leans on GCC as region boils was waiting to take them back to campus, Niagara guard 132-mile stretch of the Thruway, the main highway across Tiffany Corselli said. “It seemed like a nightmare. It just New York state. In New Hampshire and elsewhere, icy roads Continued from Page 1 of Nov 24. “Even if it is just an interim agreement, it didn’t feel like it was going to end,” Bryce Foreback, 23, of led to accidents. Lake-effect storms in Michigan produced would give a boost to the Iranian posture,” said Sami Shicora, Pennsylvania, told The Associated Press by cell- gale-force winds and as much as 18 inches of snow, and Nevertheless the top GCC concern is to protect its AlFaraj, a security adviser to the GCC. “The GCC needed phone 20 hours into his wait for help. “I haven’t slept in like canceled several flights at the Grand Rapids airport. members, who see themselves as a rare Arab bastion of to unify its stances, in light of Iran. Timing is of the 30 hours and I’m just waiting to get out of here.” Schools closed in the North Carolina mountains amid security, with Iraq and Syria at war, Yemen and Libya in essence.” Foreback had become stuck in a long line of cars near blustery winds and ice-coated roads. In Indiana, three fire- chaos, Egypt destabilized and Lebanon undermined by the Lackawanna toll booths just south of Buffalo about fighters were hurt when a semitrailer hit a fire truck on a the turmoil on its borders. Referring to the region’s diffi- Agreement - but for how long? 10:30 Monday night. The lake-effect snow created a stark snowy highway. In Atlanta, tourists Morten and Annette culties, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak At Sunday’s meeting, King Abdullah secured a fresh divide: In downtown Buffalo and north of the city, there Larsen from Copenhagen were caught off-guard by the 30- Al-Sabah said the accord among Gulf states was impor- pledge from Sheikh Tamim to curb Qatar’s support for was a mere dusting of precipitation, while in the south degree weather as they took photos of a monument to the tant because without it they would be “vulnerable to the Brotherhood and end its media criticism of neighbor- parts, snow was everywhere. The snow band that brought 1996 summer Olympics at Centennial Olympic Park. “It’s as storms”, the state’s Al-Rai newspaper said on Tuesday. ing Gulf states, a diplomat said. There was no immediate the snow was very much evident throughout the day as cold here as it is in Denmark right now. We didn’t expect “GCC disunion was probably deemed as too danger- confirmation of that report. How long the agreement gray clouds persistently hovered over the southern part of that,” Larsen said, waving a hand over his denim jacket, ous by Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries for the sta- lasts is another question. Some analysts say its durability the city. The band was so apparent, that the wall of snow buttoned tightly over a hooded sweatshirt. — AP bility of the region,” said Jean-Marc Rickli, assistant pro- is by no means assured, given the depth of Qatar’s ties to fessor at the department of defense at King’s College Islamist groups and its desire to continue to try to play a London, based in Doha. The Gulf’s Sunni Muslim dynas- prominent role in regional affairs. Criminals using stolen, missing civil ID... ties also want to counter Iran, which they regard as an Alfaraj, the GCC security advisor, said he was cautious- expansionist Shiite power bent on exporting its Islamic ly optimistic. But UAE political scientist AbdulKhaleq Continued from Page 1 nies to car and bank loans. “It’s his time! Thank God he was revolution to the Arab world. A diplomatic source Abdulla said that while the dispute could be seen as “offi- caught. How many more expatriates will he victimize? The involved in the reconciliation efforts said that while Iran cially” over, in reality that might not be the case. Qatar The telecom companies usually require customers to pay use of a civil ID to transact or get expensive mobile units for the units/internet lines on a monthly basis. But if a thief must be revised to protect people from thieves like him. was not an immediate factor in Sunday’s meeting, “the had to be given time to show that it was abiding by its uses a stolen civil ID to register for a new mobile, then the That is the only way to help expats,” a shop attendant com- concern over Iran and its nuclear work is always there commitments, he said. “It is difficult to know what com- unsuspecting victim will not know until he is notified by the mented. In a separate but related incident, a man from India and has never gone away”. promises were reached and how truly satisfied the vari- telecom provider of an outstanding balance. had his bag and all its contents stolen, including his civil ID. A deal to curb but not scrap Iranian uranium enrich- ous parties are,” said Emile Hokayem of the International In the worse case scenario, the victims could face travel He was set to fly home last year, but he was prevented from ment, which the West says is intended to develop a Institute for Strategic Studies. Rickli said the agreement bans until they pay for the telecom subscriptions. Mobile leaving the country as he has to settle KD1,400 loan from a nuclear bomb, would alarm Israel and Gulf Arab rulers was probably intended to stop the states intervening in companies are currently cooperating with the Ministry of mobile company which he didn’t even know existed. who fear the rise of a regional power hostile to their each other’s internal affairs. “It is thus likely that we will Interior and the Ministry of Justice to bar expatriates from Residents who lose or have their civil IDs stolen must report interests. Iran and negotiators for six world powers are continue to see different policies when it comes to sup- exiting the country if they owe debts, be it in mobile compa- the matter to the police immediately. meeting in Vienna to try to seal an accord by a deadline porting different actors and groups abroad”. — Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Issues Hard diplomacy ahead despite a ‘softer Beijing’

By Ben Blanchard

rom a military rules-of-the-road agreement with Washington to $20 billion in loans for Southeast Asia, Beijing has set aside Fthe tensions of recent years to present a softer side to the world in the last week. But proof of whether President Xi Jinping is serious about narrowing differences that have marked his first two years in office will depend on how China’s festering disputes are managed in the months ahead. The possibilities for disagreement are many, from cyberspying to land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea and the deeply emotional issue for China of how Japan deals with next year’s 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. China set nerves on edge Traveling through multiple Europes with its air defense zone over the East China Sea, by sending an oil rig deep into waters disputed with Vietnam and by unveiling advanced By Adriano Bosoni out in force because of crime but because of social Party again because it’s either them or the (anti- Bulgarians I’m worried about.” new weapons, including a prototype stealth fighter. But in recent unrest. Though Greece is relatively tranquil these system) Five Star Movement.” While conservative The irony is that the same process that is cre- days, China has gone out of its way to set minds at ease as Xi hosted urope is overcrowded with people and with days, the social situation is still a ticking time forces are moving to the right and nationalist ating political and social tensions in Europe’s the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. China made nations. Six decades ago, the need to sup- bomb. forces are gaining strength, the center-left is going core is helping to mitigate the negative effects of conciliatory gestures to Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan, and, with Epress the dangerous forces of nationalism At the other end of the Continent, Portugal through an identity crisis that is generating fric- a demographic change. In Germany, I met many US President Barack Obama, agreed to a climate deal and to lower the led to the unprecedented political, economic and looks similar. I arrived in early October, excited by tions within the parties and confusing their tradi- expatriates from across Europe, most of whom risk of misunderstandings during military encounters. “We still have to social experiment now known as the European recent figures showing a drop in unemployment tional voters-something French President Francois work at English-speaking companies with large observe what happens in the next six to 12 months or even longer. Union. The hundreds of thousands of EU citizens and an improvement in the economic outlook. Hollande is learning the hard way. Pan-European staffs. European enterprises can But I think that now we stand at the beginning of a substantive working across the Continent and the lack of bor- What I found, however, was a place where only In Athens, a journalist told me she did not pick their employees from a pool of highly change in Chinese foreign policy,” said Shi Yinhong, head of the der controls between member states show that tourism seemed to be working while everything share the views of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn par- skilled workers from across the Continent with- the experiment has been successful in many ways. else remained static. Lisbon and Oporto are bitter- ty, but at least it had never been involved in a cor- out having to file significant amounts of paper- Centre for American Studies at Beijing’s Renmin University who has However, rising nationalism, pervasively high sweet places where magnificent monuments and ruption scandal like those that have traditionally work. While the pressure to limit immigration is also advised the government on diplomatic issues. unemployment and a growing sense of frustration spectacular views coexist with poverty and eco- surrounded the country’s mainstream parties. gaining momentum in Europe, I also expect Reliance on the military has been replaced by money to guide with governing elites also highlight the serious nomic depression. Though Lisbon ended its rescue Along with the concept of democracy, Ancient businessmen to fight it. China’s diplomacy, Shi added, pointing to the $40 billion New Silk limitations of the European project. Over the past program with the European Union and Greece also developed the concept of kleptocracy. Road fund and $50 billion China-backed Asian Infrastructure 12 months, I have traveled extensively throughout International Monetary Fund early this year, for Whenever you talk with Greeks about politics, a View from outside Investment Bank announced before APEC. More than $120 billion Europe, observing firsthand how the global eco- many Portuguese, life remains hard. word comes to their mouths almost immediately: The economic crisis is not only leading to fric- has been promised since May to Africa, Southeast Asia and Central nomic crisis is reawakening dormant trends along “kleptes,” which literally means “thieves.” Most tion within the euro-zone, it’s also fragmenting the Asia. “The message is that China sincerely hopes that it can play its the Continent’s traditional fault lines. The crisis is Talking politics Southern Europeans have similar views of their wider European Union. With Europe’s main powers role as a responsible power,” the official China Daily newspaper wrote having an uneven effect on EU member states Whenever I’m in a foreign country, I make an governments. And while there is a big gap focused on the problems within the currency in an editorial on Monday. because the euro-zone locks countries with differ- effort to visit bookstores because the books peo- between what people say in conversations and union, many of the newest EU members are feel- ent levels of economic development into the same ple read and write offer insights into the social the way they vote, these anti-establishment senti- ing isolated. The re-emergence of a more aggres- currency union. mood. Bookstores in Southern Europe are a ments are not going away anytime soon-and will sive Russia is complicating matters for these new Root causes remain Europe’s geography helps explain these differ- reminder that the Continent’s economic problems keep threatening the survival of the European members. Of all the places I visited this year, The root causes of past disagreements have, for now, been set ences: Countries in the south have traditionally have become political ones too. The gap between Union. Poland is probably the most interesting for the aside. State-run Xinhua news agency sought to temper expectations dealt with high capital costs and low capital-gen- voters and traditional elites keeps widening as simple reason that its concerns are different from following Xi’s meeting with Obama last week, saying that, despite eration capacity, while countries in the north have people are becoming increasingly tired of the poli- Continent of expatriates those of Western Europe. I visited Warsaw in May the “amicable tone”, “still much has to be done to translate promises seen the opposite. In December, I drove from cies designed by Brussels and backed by domestic While the economic and political impact of the to attend a conference marking the 25th anniver- into reality”. As if to remind the United States of China’s growing mili- Barcelona to Madrid. The endless succession of politicians. crisis is evident in Southern Europe, its demo- sary of the end of communism and the 10th tary power, the day before Xi and Obama’s summit, the Chinese mili- mountains along the route encapsulates Spain’s Perusing the shelves, I saw numerous books graphic consequences will take longer to be anniversary of Polish EU membership. tary unveiled a sophisticated new stealth fighter jet at an air show in traditional struggle against geography: Merely The timing was also interesting because the moving people and goods from point to point on crisis in Ukraine was heating up, making the Poles the south of the country. “A lot of problems exist and there will be a the Iberian Peninsula has always posed formidable increasingly nervous about Russian moves in lot of uncertainty in the days to come,” said Jia Qingguo, dean of the challenges for governments and traders. Central Europe. I found that Poland was a country School of International Studies at Peking University who has also This rugged geography also led to the devel- confident about its economic strength but wor- advised the government on diplomacy. China has long sought to opment of small pockets of populations with ried about its future. History has given the Poles a address fears in the region, and globally, that economic growth will strong national identities, creating tension deep understanding of geopolitics and too many inevitably bring a more muscular diplomatic and military approach. between Madrid and the Basque Country as well reasons to be worried about the events beyond During a summit of Southeast Asia leaders in Myanmar last week, as Catalonia. Spain has traditionally been a their borders. I visited Warsaw a few days before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang proposed a friendship treaty, yet held to resource-poor country that has had to look to the the arrival of US President Barack Obama. The Atlantic to find wealth while frequently resorting excitement caused by his visit was a confirmation the line that Beijing will only settle South China Sea disputes directly to violence to secure unity. In contrast, most of of Poland’s strategy of developing closer ties with with other claimants. Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he Germany is flat. In May, I drove north along the the United States to help it cope with a politically and Xi had a good meeting in Beijing, but the Philippine military says Rhine, one of the country’s major economic arter- fragmented European Union and a hesitant NATO. there has been no sign of China reducing its presence in parts of the ies. The river and its tributaries have blessed all of The Poles are proud of being members of the South China Sea that Manila also claims. the people living near them, bringing incalculable European Union, but they are not completely con- wealth to trading cities such as Frankfurt and fident that Brussels will come to their rescue Legacy of war lives on Cologne. should the crisis with Russia escalate. Then there is Japan. China and Japan, the world’s second- and The same holds true for the two other major German waterways, the Elbe and the Danube. But One Europe, too many Europes third-largest economies, have argued bitterly for two years over wealth does not necessarily mean peace. Both Strasbourg is an excellent place to reflect on disputed islands, regional influence and the legacy of Japan’s sides of the Rhine host multiple castles and fortifi- Europe because it is a synthesis of everything that wartime occupation of China. While Xi and Japanese Prime cations, a reminder of the state of fragmentation is great and tragic about the Continent. The city Minister Shinzo Abe held breakthrough talks just before APEC, in that defined the Germanic world for centuries. The looks German but feels French-because it’s both. recognition of the economic damage inflicted by their row, suspi- lack of any real physical borders to the east and SICILY: A general view shows the city of Salemi where the hotel Villa Crossing the Rhine from Baden-Baden to cion runs deep. “Whether or not incidents or disturbances can be west also helps explain Germany’s historical con- Mokarta is temporarily transformed in a center for immigrants near Trapani Strasbourg and seeing that there are no border prevented from happening again between the two countries flict with its neighbors. in Sicily. Thousands of asylum seekers washing up on recession-hit Italy’s controls, and nothing to indicate that you’ve depends on Japan’s attitude and actions,” Han Zhiqiang, acting Highways in Spain and Germany highlight a shores are helping boost the local economy, with luxury hotel owners trans- moved from Germany to France but a small sign Chinese ambassador to Japan, was quoted saying in state media more significant difference. During my journey forming their pool-side residences into centers for immigrants-with the that reads “French republic,” is normal for anyone between Barcelona and Madrid, I barely saw any who was born in the past 30 years. But from a last week. China has already promised high-profile events to mark promise of state subsidies reportedly luring the mafia into the new cars, let alone trucks. At times, it was hard to “tourism” sector. —AFP French king’s order to his men to “burn the next year’s World War Two anniversary, offering another opportu- believe I was traveling between the two major Palatinate” in the late 1680s to a German leader’s nity to accuse Japan of not properly atoning for its past. “Japan is cities in the euro-zone’s fourth-largest economy. with significant anti-austerity and anti-establish- noticed but will probably be deeper. Before the invasion of France in the early 1940s, having peace particularly worried about how the anniversary will be handled in By contrast, Germany’s autobahns are crowded ment themes, which in some cases took an anti- current downturn, these countries had some of between the countries east and west of the Rhine China,” said one Beijing-based Western envoy. India presents with vehicles going from one point to another. The German flavor. In an Oporto bookstore, among the the lowest fertility rates in Europe, which, com- is an anomaly rather than the norm. another problem, with no sign of lasting resolution to a festering same geography that made Germany a place of bestsellers was a book called We Are Not Germans, bined with rising life expectancy, led to an aging Six decades after the creation of the European border dispute. In recognition of the world’s concerns, Xi, speak- conflict also explains its economic power: while a Rome bookstore had a book called It’s Not and shrinking population. The crisis made things Union, this is still the key relationship to watch. The ing to Australia’s parliament on Monday, channeled an ancient Germany is the center of Europe from almost Worth a Lira, a plea to leave the euro and return to worse because it generated high waves of emigra- crisis has now reached a point where its two main every possible point of view. Italy’s old currency, that appeared to be quite pop- tion. In the short run, emigration helps reduce the players are under extreme pressure. Germany expression to assuage worries: “A war-mongering state will even- The farther one moves from Germany, the ular. Southern Europeans fear and admire pain of the crisis because there are fewer people joined the euro-zone under the assumption that tually die no matter how big it is”. He did not finish the saying, more evident the crisis becomes. Traveling by train Germany at the same time. On one hand, competing for jobs and more people sending no bailouts would be given to nations in distress whose last line reads: “Though the world is peaceful, you will be in from Thessaloniki to Athens lets one see Greece’s Germany is seen as a country where everything remittances home. In the long run, however, it cre- and no monetization of debt would take place. danger if you forget about preparing for war”. —Reuters complex geography firsthand. Greece is a rugged works and governments are efficient. On the other ates fiscal and economic challenges for the coun- France joined the euro-zone under the assump- country with narrow coastal plains that swiftly give hand, it is also seen as a hegemon that doesn’t tries that see a decline in their labor forces. The tion that it would remain the political leader of way to mountains. Complicating matters, the understand or care about the situation in the economic crisis is returning Southern European Europe. The crisis has put all the promises and country has some 6,000 islands and islets, only a nations it is trying to lead. countries to their traditional roles as places of emi- agreements that supported the Franco-German All articles appearing on these handful of which are inhabited. Greece’s extremely Europe’s economic crisis is particularly puzzling gration, where the young leave and the old are left unity in doubt. fragmented geography and its strategic position for the center-left. Social Democrats have tradi- behind. Europeanists believe that things would be much pages are the personal opinion of on the eastern Mediterranean helps explain why it tionally embraced the process of European inte- But emigration is also problematic for the better if the European Union became a true federa- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no has struggled throughout history to get anything gration because it offers economic prosperity receiving countries. The rising number of tion. They are probably right. The question is how to responsibility for views expressed done. based on big welfare states and strong labor legis- refugees coming from Northern Africa and the accomplish this. As Germany learned during its uni- Developing an integrated economy and col- lation. But this model is in crisis in many countries, Middle East is generating concerns in countries fication in the 1870s and confirmed during its reuni- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- lecting taxes has proven difficult, especially while and even center-left governments are applying including Spain and Italy as well as Austria and fication in the 1990s, building a large united politi- ers to voice their opinions. Please repelling a never-ending series of invasions. spending cuts under pressure from the European Sweden. At the same time, immigrants from cal unity out of smaller entities requires the redistri- send submissions via email to: opin- Walking down the streets of Athens reveals that Union. Eastern Europe are pushing Germany and the bution of money and power. But what should come [email protected] or via snail this is where the crisis struck first and has had the In Italy, I had dinner with a former union leader United Kingdom to find bureaucratic means to first, money or reforms? The European Union is cur- deepest impact. The city’s downtown is full of as the center-left’s Matteo Renzi-who had just discourage them. In early January, an old lady in rently seeing the worst of both worlds: A monetary mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. closed shops with broken windows, graffiti and been appointed prime minister-was proposing Frankfurt asked me where I was from. When I union without a fiscal union. In other words, it has The editor reserves the right to edit other signs of long-term neglect. In Athens, I saw reforms in several areas, including labor. “I don’t told her I was Argentinean-Italian, she smiled at sovereign states that don’t control their currencies any submission as necessary. far more police than in any other major European like the direction Renzi is going,” the former union me. She thought about her words and, after a and supranational institutions that don’t control fis- city. But at no time did I feel unsafe. Police are not leader told me, “but I will vote for the Democratic while, said, “Italians are fine. It’s Romanians and cal policy. —Stratfor THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SPORTS

Astana hit by doping again New race display system Nyakane gets first SA call PARIS: Astana were rocked by another doping case yesterday when the International LONDON: Formula One is set to test a new on-car display system champi- CAPE TOWN: After winning 11 caps as a replacement, prop Trevor Nyakane Cycling Union (UCI) said Kazakh Victor Okishev had tested positive. “The Union oned by Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony aimed at helping fans to follow will make his first test start as one of four changes to the South Africa side to Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that it has notified UCI Continental Team a race without having to take their eyes off the action. face Italy in Padova on Saturday. Astana Kazakh rider Victor Okishev of an Adverse Analytical Finding of Anabolic Hamilton said the ‘Info Wing’, a carbon fibre camera mount with an It is a major shuffle from coach Heyneke Meyer, who has also made five Androgenic Steroids in a sample collected at the Asian Cycling Championships on 29 integrated LED display system, would be trialled on one of the Force India changes to his bench following the 31-28 victory over England last weekend. May 2014, the UCI said in a statement. cars in testing next Tuesday after this weekend’s Abu Dhabi season-ender. Nyakane starts at loosehead prop while Coenie Oosthuizen moves up from “The rider has the right to request and attend the analysis of the B sample.” It may also be trialled on the safety car at Yas Marina this Thursday or the bench to replace the injured Jannie du Plessis at tighthead. Okishev rides for Astana Continental (third division), which is technically a different Friday. Sunday’s race could see Hamilton, leading the championship for Teboho Mohoje returns to the starting line-up at flank in the place of Mercedes, secure his second title. entity to the Astana World Tour (elite) team. Sources told Reuters, however, that Schalk Burger and Johan Goosen has been selected at fullback as Willie le Okishev’s case would be taken into consideration, although not offi- The wing, mounted on the airbox behind the driver’s head, would dis- play real time race positions on the endplates in colored numbers that Roux is given a rest. cially, by the Licence Commission, who has been reviewing Joining the uncapped pair of loose-forward Nizaam Carr Astana’s case in the wake of a string of recent doping affairs. Last should be visible from the stands. The data would be provided by race control, with the wing able to dis- and prop Julian Redelinghuys on the bench are prop Gurthro month, the UCI officially asked the Licence Commission to review Steenkamp, lock Lood de Jager and Le Roux. Astana’s status after the Kazakh outfit was hit by a third positive play a range of information updated during the course of the race. “I’m excited to see what these guys can do on Saturday doping test this year. Kazakh brothers Maxim and Valentin Hamilton said the tests would aim to show whether the unit was prac- Iglinskiy, as well as trainee Iliya Davidenok, also of Kazakhstan, tical for Formula One and single seaters in general, whether the LED dis- in what will be a stern test against a fired-up Italy,” Meyer failed dope tests this season. play could be seen from the grandstands and how well it might work for said in a press release from the South African Rugby Union. Astana officials were heard by the Licence Commission on Nov. TV audiences. He recognised it might not work in bright sunlight but felt “We planned to make a few shifts for this test as I’d like 6, a cycling source told Reuters, and the UCI has yet to receive their the concept, with patents pending, was worth trying anyway. to see if these players can make the step up. The guys com- recommendations. Earlier the UCI said Astana, who are managed “One of the major problems with watching race cars is knowing who is ing in deserve their opportunities and seeing that we by ex-doper Alexandre Vinokourov and have Italian Tour de where and who is who without having to take your eyes off the action to won’t have our overseas-based players available France champion Vincenzo Nibali in their ranks, could have find and locate the information on a hand held device, or one of the cir- next week against Wales, it made sense to “conditions attached to their licence”. —Reuters cuit monitors,” said Hamilton. —Reuters bring a few of them in this week.” —Reuters Air bag system approved for World Cup ski races

ROME: Perhaps if Lindsey Vonn had a big small gas generator capsule that inflates cushy air bag to fall on when she tore two the air bags. ligaments in her right knee she wouldn’t The air bags were already worn by have missed the Sochi Olympics. Dainese-sponsored athletes during official And maybe Aksel Lund Svindal wouldn’t training runs last season. Dainese has been have broken bones in his face and suffered collecting information from skiers for five a laceration to his groin and abdominal years to find out exactly when the system area after failing to land a massive jump in should go into effect - in other words, at 2007. what point in a fall can a racer no longer Looking back, it’s nearly impossible to regain control. “You want to avoid false calculate what effect - if any - an air bag positives so it doesn’t release when it does- would have had in those crashes. But with a n’t need to,” Lewis said. “On the other side, radical air bag system being approved for you don’t want the reverse to happen, use in World Cup and lower level races which is for it not to release when it beginning in January, Alpine skiing could should.” get a lot safer. A similar air bag system has been used “History is what drives the future,” in motorcycle racing since 2009. “There will International Ski Federation (FIS) secretary continue to be injuries but we want to try general Sarah Lewis told The Associated to work in a way to minimize these and still Press on Tuesday after the approval was keep the sport attractive and exciting,” announced. “So the lessons learned from Lewis said. Skiing has always been an different crashes in the past are used as the injury-riddled sport but the worst crashes basis to improve the situation in the future.” were particularly severe when the air bag The system - which entails putting an air system first came into development about bag in the neck area of athletes’ back pro- five years ago. tectors - was developed by Italian manufac- In 2008, American downhiller Scott turer Dainese in coordination with the FIS. Macartney suffered brain injuries and was It inflates when skiers lose control and are kept in an induced coma after losing con- about to crash. trol and smashing his head on the final “Dainese has been closely aligned to it jump of the treacherous Streif course in UNIONDALE: Anton Stralman No. 6 of the Tampa Bay Lightning throws the puck past Nick Leddy No. 2 of the New York Islanders at Nassau but there are other companies out there Kitzbuehel, Austria. Veterans Memorial Coliseum. — AFP which are also developing their systems,” Also in 2008, Austria’s Matthias Lewis said. Until December, the system can Lanzinger had his lower left leg amputated be worn in World Cup downhill training after crashing in Kvitfjell, Norway. The next Red Wings soar over Blue Jackets sessions. Intended for speed disciplines, year, Daniel Albrecht of Switzerland suf- the system’s race debut will come at the fered life-threatening brain and lung COLUMBUS: Jimmy Howard made 28 saves for straight victory after losing seven of nine. period for Washington. Oliver Ekman-Larsson women’s downhill in Bad Kleinkirchheim, injuries after a crash in the same spot as his 19th career shutout, and Tomas Tatar and Jimmy Hayes and Jussi Jokinen scored for the tied it early in the second period for Arizona. Austria, on Jan. 10. Men will use it for the Macartney in Kitzbuehel. And in 2011, Hans Tomas Jurco each had a goal and an assist to lift Panthers, who have lost five of seven. Roberto first time at the classic venue of Wengen, Grugger of Austria had yet another horrific the Detroit Red Wings past the Columbus Blue Luongo stopped 21 shots in two periods before JETS 3, DEVILS 1 Switzerland, the following weekend. While crash and head injury in Kitzbuehel. More Jackets 5-0 in the NHL on Tuesday. Gustav Al Montoya relieved him for the third. Mathieu Perreault and Mark Scheifele scored the system is not mandatory, the FIS hopes recently, Vonn tore up her right knee dur- Nyquist, Riley Sheahan and Darren Helm also less than 2 minutes apart early in the second that all World Cup racers will use it. The FIS ing a crash at the world championships in scored and Brendan Smith added two assists to SABRES 4, SHARKS 1 period to lift Winnipeg past New Jersey. had originally hoped to implement the sys- Schladming, Austria, in February 2013. help Detroit end a three-game road winless skid. Brian Gionta had two goals and an assist in Michael Frolik added a goal late in the third tem at the start of this season but there “(The air bag system) is going to help The Red Wings scored twice on the power play leading Buffalo past San Jose in front of a sparse, to seal the victory. Perreault got Winnipeg start- were concerns over the shape and aerody- (avoid) the most serious injuries,” Lewis and put the game out of reach with three third- snowstorm-depleted crowd. ed with his first of the season as he backhanded namics of the back protectors, which hold a said. — AP period goals. Nicolas Deslauriers and Brian Flynn also a high shot past Cory Schneider at 1:54 of the Columbus’ two-game winning streak - after a scored for Buffalo, which won its eighth straight second. Scheifele flicked in linemate Adam club-tying nine straight losses - ended as the against San Jose, dating to the 2009-10 season. Lowry’s rebound at 3:38 for his third goal. Patrik Red Wings won most of the puck battles to con- Jhonas Enroth stopped 20 shots over the final Elias narrowed it to 2-1 on a power play just trol the tempo. Columbus did have scoring two periods after replacing starter Michal more than a minute into the third. He beat Jets chances, but they failed to generate sustained Neuvirth who sustained a lower body injury in goalie Michael Hutchinson, who made 21 saves. pressure. Sergei Bobrovky, who finished with 35 the first period. saves, didn’t have his best form in his second Brent Burns scored for San Jose, which fin- HURRICANES 6, STARS 4 start in row since missing eight with a broken ished 3-4 on a seven-game road swing. The Eric Staal had two third-period goals and an finger. Sabres improved to 16-1 at home against the assist to lead Carolina. The Hurricanes overcame Sharks. Buffalo also won consecutive games for a 2-0 deficit with four second-period goals. The PENGUINS 4, CANADIENS 0 the first time since a three-game streak late last last of those chased Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves for his February.The game was played in front of an from the game. He stopped 12 of 16 shots in league-leading fourth shutout of the season as estimated crowd of about 6,200 on a day a nearly 36 minutes on the ice. Pittsburgh ended Montreal’s six-game winning severe snowstorm dumped more than 4 feet (1.2 The Hurricanes franchise had not won in reg- streak. meters) of snow in the area. ulation at Dallas since 1996, when the team was Beau Bennett and Steve Downie had first- the Hartford Whalers. Carolina ended a three- period goals for the Penguins, and Brandon PREDATORS 9, MAPLE LEAFS 2 game losing streak and improved to 2-6-2 on the Sutter and captain Sidney Crosby each scored in Taylor Beck scored twice as Nashville routed road. The Stars lost their seventh consecutive the second. Pittsburgh has now won 10 of its last Toronto. Nashville also got goals from Filip home game. Jeff Skinner, Patrick Dwyer, Victor 11. Carey Price stopped 18 shots for Montreal. Forsberg, Calle Jarnkrok, Roman Josi, Eric Rask and Jiri Tlusty scored in the second for the Fleury, who made a couple of key saves early on, Nystrom, Mike Ribeiro, Derek Roy and Colin Hurricanes. is 8-1-0 with a .944 save-percentage in his last Wilson. Shea Weber had three assists. Maple nine starts dating back to Oct. 25. Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier lasted just one FLAMES 4, DUCKS 3 period, allowing three goals - two by Beck - on Sean Monahan scored the decisive goal in a ISLANDERS 5, LIGHTNING 2 12 shots. He had allowed only three goals com- shootout to lift Calgary over Anaheim. Dennis Cal Clutterbuck, Mikhail Grabovski and Ryan bined in his previous two starts. James Reimer Wideman scored twice in regulation and Jiri FINLAND: Henrik Kristoffersen competes during the first run of an alpine ski, men’s Strome scored in the second period to lift the started the second. Hudler also had a goal for the Flames, who World Cup slalom race in this file photo. — AP New York Islanders. Brock Nelson and Casey Pekka Rinne continued his early-season dom- trailed 2-0 after two periods and won their third Cizikas also scored and Jaroslav Halak stopped 26 inance by turning aside 29 shots. Mike Santorelli straight. Jonas Hiller finished with 24 saves shots for the Islanders, who got a measure of and Nazem Kadri scored for Toronto. through overtime in his first game against his IOC suggests more venues revenge for a 5-2 loss at Tampa on Saturday that former team. ended their five-game winning streak. Alex CAPITALS 2, COYOTES 1 After Monahan scored in the third round of Killorn and Ondrej Palat scored for the Lightning Eric Fehr put in a rebound at 3:16 of overtime the shootout, Hiller stopped Corey Perry to pre- outside Tokyo for Games and Evgeni Nabokov finished with 31 saves. to lift Washington. Fehr got his stick on a deflect- serve the victory. Johnny Gadreau scored earlier TOKYO: International Olympic just as for football, they may care to look Clutterbuck tied the score at 1-1 with a short- ed shot from teammates Brooks Orpik and slid in the shootout for the Flames, and Ryan Kesler Committee (IOC) Vice President John at cities like Osaka that might have large handed goal 39 seconds into the middle period. the puck past Arizona goalie Mike Smith as the tied it for the Ducks. Sami Vatanen had a goal Coates has urged Tokyo to consider mov- venues.” Tokyo has said from the start Grabovski and Strome then scored 1:03 apart to Capitals ended a two-game skid. The Coyotes and two assists, and Matt Beleskey and Kyle ing more events to venues outside the that some preliminary events for soccer give the Islanders a two-goal lead with 6 1/2 min- lost a third straight game at home on late goals. Palmieri also scored for Anaheim. Frederik capital, including one hundreds of kilo- would be held in parts of northeastern utes to go in the period. Nelson’s power-play goal Jay Beagle scored with 8:49 to go in the first Andersen had 16 saves. — AP metres away, in a bid to rein in spending Japan affected by the March 2011 earth- in the opening minute of the third made it 4-1. for the 2020 Summer Games. quake and tsunami in an effort to broad- Rising labour and construction costs en the economic impact, but this is the BRUINS 2, BLUES 0 NHL results/standings have forced Tokyo to rethink its plans for first time holding events in other regions Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for his first 10 venues it intended to build for the has been mentioned. shutout of the season as the Bruins ended a six- Games, contravening its promise that vir- Osaka is some 400 km (255 miles) game home losing streak against St. Louis. NY Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 2; Detroit 5, Columbus 0; Boston 2, St. Louis 0; Buffalo 4, San Jose 1; tually all events would take place within west of Tokyo. Planners allotted $1.5 bil- Patrice Bergeron and Torey Krug scored for Nashville 9, Toronto 2; Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 0; Winnipeg 3, New Jersey 1; Carolina 6, Dallas 4; 8 km (5 miles) of the Olympic village — lion for venues in Tokyo’s Olympics bid the Bruins, who were outshot 33-17. Rask earned Western Conference Eastern Conference his 24th career shutout. Boston played sound one of the key points in its successful but that estimate more than doubled late Pacific Division Atlantic Division defense throughout against a Blues team that hosting bid. last year after recalculation. W L OTL GF GA PTS Montreal 14 5 1 55 51 29 In addition, the IOC on Tuesday made Such budget worries mean plans for a had won 10 of 11. Tampa Bay 13 5 2 73 54 28 Anaheim 11 4 5 54 50 27 some of the biggest changes in decades new basketball arena may be dropped in The Bruins limited St. Louis to mostly shots Boston 12 8 0 53 49 24 in the way the Games are organised and favour of an existing venue about 25 km from outside, and Rask didn’t leave many Calgary 12 6 2 63 53 26 Detroit 9 4 5 50 42 23 rebound opportunities. Boston hadn’t won at Vancouver 12 6 0 53 52 24 Ottawa 8 5 4 47 45 20 run, issuing 40 recommendations and (17 miles) out of Tokyo, with badminton Toronto 9 8 2 58 60 20 putting more of an emphasis on sustain- moving a similar distance outside the home against the Blues since Jan. 30, 2001. Brian Los Angeles 10 5 4 50 42 24 Elliott made 15 saves for St. Louis. Florida 6 5 5 35 42 17 ability in an effort to ease the burden on city. Coates said he had visited both San Jose 10 9 2 57 57 22 Buffalo 5 13 2 34 69 12 host cities. prospective sites and felt “very positive” Arizona 8 9 2 48 59 18 Metropolitan Division “(The IOC) has come out and specifi- about them. KINGS 5, PANTHERS 2 Edmonton 6 10 2 44 60 14 Pittsburgh 13 3 1 64 35 27 Jeff Carter had a power-play goal and an cally said that we should make the maxi- No decision has yet been made but Central Division NY Islanders 12 6 0 59 52 24 assist during Los Angeles’ four-goal second peri- Washington 8 7 3 52 50 19 mum use of existing facilities, and that, Tokyo hopes to have a fairly complete Nashville 12 4 2 52 37 26 so far as I am concerned, overrides the final plan pulled together by February od, and Jonathan Quick made 30 saves in the NY Rangers 7 7 4 50 58 18 St. Louis 12 5 1 49 35 25 8km philosophy which we had as part of 2015, officials said on Wednesday. Kings’ victory over Florida. New Jersey 8 9 2 47 56 18 Kings defensemen Matt Greene and Robyn Winnipeg 10 7 3 40 43 23 Philadelphia 7 7 2 51 53 16 the bid,” Coates told a news conference in “What we’re trying to avoid above all Carolina 6 9 3 43 55 15 Tokyo on Wednesday after a two-day IOC is swelling expenses that become a huge Regehr both scored rare goals during the Chicago 10 7 1 51 36 21 defending Stanley Cup champions’ highest-scor- Minnesota 10 7 0 50 39 20 Columbus 6 11 1 44 64 13 review of Tokyo’s preparations. “We have burden for the people of Japan,” said Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one suggested to the organising committee Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo ing period of the season. Colorado 6 8 5 47 61 17 point in the standings and are not included in that for the preliminaries for basketball, organising committee. — Reuters Marian Gaborik and captain Dustin Brown Dallas 6 9 4 53 67 16 the loss column (L). added power-play goals in Los Angeles’ second THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SPORTS Kiwis push Pakistan hard in second Test

DUBAI: New Zealand bowled with disci- first slip. Misbah’s 28 had two boundaries pline and, despite Azhar Ali and Younis and a six. Ali drove spinner Mark Craig Khan’s half-centuries, looked set for a lead through point for three to complete his in the second Test against Pakistan in Dubai 18th half-century. yesterday. But he too fell soon, trying to cut Sodhi Pakistan lost Asad Shafiq in seamer Tim and was bowled. He hit six boundaries and Southee’s penultimate over for 44 to close a six during his patient five-hour 22-minute the third day on 281-6, still trailing by 122 vigil. Shafiq was lucky to survive at 26 when runs on New Zealand’s first innings total of Boult bowled him with a sharp incoming 403. Sarfraz Ahmed was unbeaten on 28 delivery but much to New Zealand’s dismay and Yasir Shah on one in a day when the it turned out to be a no-ball. He too failed Pakistani batsmen failed to score big after to bat for long and was caught off a loose getting good starts. Leg-spinner Ish Sodhi shot in the end, adding 59 for the sixth led the New Zealand bowling with 2-65. wicket with Sarfraz. Pakistan, resuming at 34-2 saw off the In the morning Pakistan’s in-form bats- first session without losing any wicket as men were under pressure after a big New Younis Khan (72) and Azhar Ali (75) shared Zealand total and, more so, after losing a 113-run stand for the third wicket. But both the openers cheaply on Tuesday. New Zealand got four wickets in the next But Younis and Ali showed no sign of two sessions to press home their claims for pressure as they started the day solidly. a useful lead and in turn improve their Younis reached his half-century with a chances for a series-levelling win. Pakistan sweetly-timed boundary off Craig. won the first Test by 248 runs in Abu Dhabi. Younis hit seven fours and two sixes- Azhar added another 50 runs with skip- both off Craig-during his 160-ball knock per Misbah-ul Haq, but New Zealand hit but fell to a casual shot, spoiling a good back with the second new ball taken after chance of scoring another hundred. He also 83 overs with the score at 194-3. amassed 468 runs with three hundreds in Trent Boult claimed his first wicket in the the 2-0 white-wash of Australia in the pre- series when he produced a beautiful deliv- ceding series, also played in United Arab ery which got the edge of Misbah’s bat and Emirates. The third and final Test begins in landed in the safe hands of Ross Taylor at Sharjah from November 26. — AFP

SCOREBOARD CANBERRA: Hashim Amla of South Africa puts his bat behind the crease during the third One-Day International cricket match against Australia. — AFP DUBAI: Scoreboard at close on the third day of the second Test between Pakistan and New Zealand at Dubai stadium yesterday: New Zealand Ist innings 403 (T. Latham Sarfraz Ahmed not out 28 Aussies coast to big 137, M. Craig 43; Zulfiqar Babar Yasir Shah not out 1 4-137) Extras: (b1, lb2, nb1) 4 Total: (for six wkts; 109 overs) 281 Pakistan Ist innings (overnight 34-2) Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Masood), 2-32 win over South Africa Shan Masood b Sodhi 13 (Taufeeq), 3-145 (Younis), 4-195 (Misbah), Taufeeq Umar st Watling b Craig 16 Azhar Ali b Sodhi 75 5-220 (Ali), 6-279 (Shafiq) CANBERRA: Australia cruised to a 73-run vic- Younis Khan c Craig b Neesham 72 Bowling: Boult 22-8-46-1 (1nb), Southee tory over South Africa in their third one-day SCOREBOARD Misbah-ul Haq c Taylor b Boult 28 21-3-41-1, Craig 24-5-94-1, Sodhi 30-7-65- international yesterday on the back of big-hit- Asad Shafiq c Taylor b Southee 44 1, Anderson 7-0-26-0, Neesham 5-1-6-1. ting innings by Aaron Finch and Steve Smith. CANBERRA: Scoreboard in the third one-day international against Australia and South Africa at Opener Finch cracked 109 off 127 balls and Manuka Oval in Canberra yesterday: Smith hit a swashbuckling unbeaten 73 off 55 balls as Australia amassed a formidable 329 Australia innings Q. de Kock c Marsh b Hazlewood 47 for five off their 50 overs in Canberra. D. Warner c de Villiers b Philander 53 F. du Plessis c Warner b Marsh 17 The Proteas were always up against it and A. Finchb de Villiers 109 R. Rossouw c Wade b Starc 2 were dismissed for 256 in the 45th over, with S. Watson c Miller b Behardien 40 A.B. de Villiers lbw b Richardson 52 last man Imran Tahir unable to bat because of S. Smithnot out 73 F. Behardien c Finch b Hazlewood 12 G. Bailey c du Plessis b Morkel 12 D. Miller lbw b Starc 3 a knee he injured while fielding. M. Marsh c de Villiers b Morkel 22 V. Philander c Finch b Starc 1 The Australians now lead the five-match M. Wade not out 8 D. Steync Marsh b Starc 12 series 2-1 ahead of the final games in Extras (lb1, w7, nb4) 12 M. Morkel not out 0 Melbourne on Friday and Sydney on Sunday. Total (5 wickets; 50 overs) 329 I. Tahirabsent injured 0 Left-armer Mitchell Starc troubled the Fall of wickets: 1-118 (Warner), 2-189 (Watson), Extras (lb5, w2, nb1) 8 South Africans with his late swing and fin- 3-242 (Finch), 4-264 (Bailey), 5-295 (Marsh) Total (all out; 44.3 overs) 256 ished with four for 32 off eight overs, while Did not bat: M. Starc, K. Richardson, X. Doherty, Fall of wickets: 1-108 (de Kock), 2-143 (du fellow opening bowler Josh Hazlewood J. Hazlewood Plessis), 3-148 (Rossouw), 4-224 (de Villiers), 5- claimed three for 51. Bowling: M. Morkel 10-0-84-2 (2nb, 5w), V. 226 (Amla), 6-231 (Miller), 7-238 (Philander), 8- Hashim Amla hit 102 off 115 balls and skip- Philander 10-0-70-1 (2nb, 1w), D. Steyn 10-0- 252 (Steyn), 9-256 (Behardien) per AB de Villiers cracked a belligerent 52 off 53-0 (1w), F. Behardien 8-0-39-1, I. Tahir 6-0-40- Bowling: M. Starc 8-1-32-4 (1nb), J. Hazlewood 34 balls to briefly threaten Australia’s bowlers. 0, De Villiers 6-0-42-1 9.3-0-51-3 (1w), S. Watson 6-0-47-0, K. Smith was named man-of-the-match for Richardson 8-0-49-1, X. Doherty 6-0-31-0, M. his innings which was full of improvised shots, South Africa Innings Marsh 7-0-41-1 (1w) including one boundary cheekily hit through H. Amla b Hazlewood 102 Result: Australia won by 73 runs. his legs. “It was a free hit, so I had pretty free rein to do what I wanted. I was lucky enough missed by part-time bowler de Villiers in the wicket each. it came off and went to the boundary,” Smith 41st over. South Africa’s hopes were pinned on the said. “Aaron was able to lay the foundation Fellow opener David Warner pounded 53 fourth-wicket stand of 76 between Amla and and I was able to close it out. “You always feel off 50 balls, with six fours and two sixes, in a de Villiers, but once the skipper fell leg before more comfortable when AB (de Villiers) is first-wicket stand of 118 in 20 overs. Warner wicket to Kane Richardson in the 38th over, back in the sheds, he’s an unbelievable player looked set for a big score before he found de the tourists were unable to keep pace with and it was good to see the back of him. Villiers, who took a leaping catch at mid-wick- the Australian total. “It was a hard wicket to start on so we et. Smith crashed eight fours in a majestic Amla followed five balls later when he was thought we were a great chance when we got knock, while Shane Watson took a more con- bowled as he tried to slog Hazlewood him out. “The boys hit their lengths well and trolled 40 off 38 balls before he miscued and through the leg-side. “It’s disappointing. I DUBAI: Pakistani batsman Azhar Ali (right) hits a six as New Zealand wicketkeeper BJ bowled really well, we got the ball quite soft was caught in the deep by David Miller off the thought we were in the game and I got out at Watling looks on during the third day of the second Test match. — AFP and it started reversing.” medium pacers of Farhaan Behardien. Watson a bad time,” de Villiers said. Finch was in blistering form as the holds the highest ODI score at Manuka Oval David Miller looked unlucky to be given Australians made full use of the slow Manuka with 122 against the West Indies in 2013. out leg before wicket to Starc on three when Ramiz questions Pakistan’s Oval pitch after winning the toss. Finch hit Morne Morkel was the best of the Proteas replays showed the ball was sliding down leg. nine fours and three sixes to spearhead the bowlers with two for 84, while Vernon But the team had no more reviews left to chal- support for sullied Aamer Australian run plunder before he was dis- Philander, de Villiers and Behardien took a lenge the decision. — AFP

DUBAI: Former Pakistan captain severance, Misbah-ul-Haq and his men turned commentator Ramiz Raja yes- have been able to salvage Pakistan Legend Hunt to watch terday criticised the lobbying for the cricket and its image,” said Raja of the return of paceman Mohammad current Pakistan captain. Aamer, banned for spot-fixing, saying “Should they be exposed to a virus his return would expose the team to now? How unjust would it be to the attempt on his record the “virus”. Aamer, along with Salman performers who have toiled long and Butt and Mohammad Asif, was banned hard to make way for a man whose in a spot-fixing scandal on Pakistan’s integrity is still suspect,” said Aamer. DOHA: Geoff Hunt, who was at the forefront of inadvertently contributed to his own unwanted No player today would deny his body the tour of England in 2010. Raja, who played 57 Tests and 158 world squash longer than any other man, has retirement. need to recover and rehabilitate, which is partly The International Cricket Council one-day internationals, refused to buy praised the sport’s progress which has given two “When I was young I didn’t really know what I why Shabana has survived so long at a very high (ICC), at the request of Pakistan Cricket the argument that Aamer was naive. players a chance to better one of his most was doing,” he admitted. “As a consequence I standard, and why Matthew has played his best Board (PCB), earlier this month revised “The argument put across in Aamer’s famous achievements at the World Open this had a few physical problems but players now squash after the age of 30. These two men were its anti-corruption code, paving the favour is that his talent was compro- week. The legendary Australian’s record as the have a much better chance of avoiding that.” due to play their World Open quarter-final way for all the banned players to fea- mised at a young age due to poor oldest male winner of the world title has lasted a He added: “At one point I played every single Wednesday with the winner likely to have a ture in first-class cricket a few months judgement and his naivete, and remarkable 34 years, but modern sports science day for three years, even on Christmas day when semi-final Thursday with Mohamed El Shorbagy, before their bans expire. because he comes from a poor family. has now helped give two men, Nick Matthew of my father got the courts opened up for me - and the 23-year-old world number one from Egypt The PCB said it would launch an “If that is the case, there are millions England and Amr Shabana of Egypt, a chance of I couldn’t get enough,” he said. “I was fanatical who is seeking his first world title. And Hunt will appeal for Aamer later this month and of other Pakistani youth who have had superseding it. Hunt, a leading player for a about the game and I realised later that it was be there right till the end to see whether his a final decision on when he can return a tough start in life, and less than ideal decade and a half, was 33 years and six months about more than just hitting the ball.” record survives. —AFP to domestic cricket is expected at the upbringings. old when he won the last of his four World Open next ICC meeting in January. “Does that give them a licence to titles in 1980. Ramiz questioned why Aamer’s use underhanded means and cheat to Matthew is 34 and Shabana 35, and their return was fast-tracked. “Why is the make a living? In fact, to quote an inci- enduring excellence is an important attribute at world so keen to see Amer back? The dent, I was approached to find out a time when squash still has hopes of getting managers of the game, who for what- why Aamer had turned down a more- into the Olympics. ever reason are trying to fast-track him than-decent offer made to him by an “The sports science behind squash has devel- into the very system that he had English county just a day before he oped enormously,” said Hunt, who retired as a wronged, have obviously not experi- was caught,” said Raja. coach in Qatar a year ago but has returned this enced the pangs of betrayal and “During my conversation with him week as a consultant coach during the World cheating that fixing causes,” wrote Raja regarding the offer, I realised that Open. “The ability to be able to film people play- in his cricinfo column. because the offer was a few thousand ing and watch them in slow motion to use as a Raja revealed he had experienced pounds short of what he expected, he coaching tool, and the progress in sports medi- how fixing can damage the game dur- was willing to let go of an opportunity cine and injury treatment have all developed,” ing the 1990s with a scandal which to play and establish himself at a he said. “The strength and conditioning staff can ultimately led to a life ban on then renowned and historic county. “I came all create better programmes now so you get captain Salim Malik and fines on six to the conclusion that he was not, players that are stronger, fitter and faster and leading players, including former cap- after all, so gullible and naive about that avoid injuries better.” tains Wasim Akran and current money matters. “It is the most awful It is these advances which have helped give Pakistan coach Waqar Younis in 2000. and sickening feeling. When a bunch modern squash speedier rallies, a greater Raja said the current players need- of rogues you share the dressing room emphasis on stroke-play, and more tactical vari- ed to be asked would they like to play with are fighting tooth and nail to lose ety, making it a better spectacle than it has ever alongside Aamer. “Someone needs to a match, it kills your desire to play the been. It has also helped players like Shabana ask the Pakistan players if they at all game, and whips up a desire to kill and Matthew. Hunt might well have remained at COLOMBO: England’s wicketkeeper Jos Buttler catches a ball during a practice session in want Aamer back. After years of per- them.” — AFP the top for a year or two longer had not a hip Colombo yesterday. England will play a seven match One-Day International series with Sri injury ended his career, and he suggests he Lanka starting Nov. 26. — AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SPORTS F1 showdown could spell double trouble

ABU DHABI: Lewis Hamilton could be only head Toto Wolff. days away from his second Formula One “We need to provide him with the most world title but the Mercedes driver is wary reliable car and we want the championship of double trouble in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. to end in a straight and fair battle and not The Briton leads German teammate Nico by one of them breaking down.” Rosberg by 17 points going into Sunday’s While the focus is on the title scrap season-ending ‘Duel in the Desert’, which between the two Mercedes rivals, whose means he does not have to win the race to relationship has been under the micro- take the crown even with an unprecedent- scope all year, other battles will be fought ed double points on offer. behind them in what amounts to a last roll Second place at Yas Marina would do, of the dice for some. even if Rosberg were to triumph, but the Red Bull are sure of second place while scoring potential and shadow of a mechan- Williams look set to finish ahead of Ferrari ical failure or race incident still cast a heavy for the first time since they took their last shadow. “There is zero comfort going into title in 1997. the next race because it’s 50 points to gain,” For Ferrari, the sport’s most successful said Hamilton, who took his 2008 title with and glamorous team, it is the last chance to a last gasp overtake when all seemed lost. stave off their first winless season since “In the last race you never know what is 1993. Sauber are also staring at their first going to happen, so I’m going to the last season without a single point while race to win.” Caterham, in administration and with a Sunday’s double points could be a one- skeleton crew, are hoping to do enough to Lewis Hamilton in action in this file photo. off, with even commercial supremo Bernie convince a buyer to rescue them. Ecclestone now against continuing the idea The race will be quadruple champion he pushed through, but in other respects it Sebastian Vettel’s farewell to Red Bull and should be more of the same. could also be the final appearance in Scott begins defense of Mercedes have already secured both Formula One of 2009 world champion titles and finished one-two a record 11 Jenson Button, Hamilton’s former McLaren times this season, and are now chasing a team mate. McLaren, who end a long rela- record 16th win of the 19 race campaign. tionship with Mercedes and start a new Australian Masters title The nightmare for the team, and partic- partnership with Honda after Abu Dhabi, ularly Hamilton who has won 10 races to are expected to sign Fernando Alonso from SYDNEY: Adam Scott will attempt to win his third Rosberg’s five, is mechanical failure. To Ferrari and have yet to decide whether to Australian Masters title in a row on yet another many fans, it would turn the championship keep Button or Danish rookie Kevin renowned Melbourne sand-belt course, and with a into a travesty if he loses out that way. Magnussen. Other drivers possibly prepar- tryout caddie on his bag. “Clearly Lewis breaking down would have a ing for their final curtain call are Sauber’s Scott went close to winning Australian golf’s so- massive impact on his championship German Adrian Sutil and Mexican Esteban called “Triple Crown” last year but Rory McIlroy’s birdie attempt. And it would, for me personally, Gutierrez, both surplus to requirement at on the 18th hole at the Australian Open relegated be a nightmare,” said Mercedes motorsport the Swiss team. — Reuters Scott to second place at that tournament. Today, Scott begins play at Metropolitan, which is hosting the Masters for the first time. Last year, Scott beat American Matt Kuchar by two strokes at Royal Federer’s back is key Melbourne, successfully defending the Australian Masters title he won at Kingston Heath in 2012. No. 2-ranked Scott, with US-based Englishman in winning Davis Cup David Clark as caddie, will then renew his rivalry with No. 1 McIlroy in the Australian Open next week at PARIS: Roger Federer was at the top of his tion and convinced him they had a good Sydney. Scott will also aim to defend his Australian game in London last week, sweeping past chance of winning the event. But without PGA title next month at Royal Pines in Queensland opponents as if his age were not an issue. A Federer, the Swiss have won just one of the 10 state. “I am very happy with where my game is coming back injury over the weekend changed every- ties they have played in the World Group since in,” Scott said yesterday. “I had a good summer here thing, casting serious doubts over his chances his debut in the competition in 1999. last year, so to keep that momentum would be great. of winning the Davis Cup, or even playing If Federer can’t play, Swiss captain Severin I’m hoping to make it three in a row.” against France in the final. Luthi will have to do either with the 212th- Scott said he always intended to play in Australia’s The 17-time Grand Slam champion picked ranked Marco Chiudinelli or No. 508 Michael three biggest tournaments of the year. The only other up the injury in a hard-fought win over Swiss Lammer. “For the time being, we are not think- event that attracts international players in Australia is teammate Stan Wawrinka at the ATP Finals, ing that Roger Federer will not play on Friday,” the Perth International, a joint European Tour event forcing him to retire ahead of the title match France captain Arnaud Clement said. “We have which was held in October. against Novak Djokovic. been preparing for 10 days, and we are pre- “If all I have to do to help the game in Australia is One statistic speaks volumes about the seri- pared to play the Swiss team with Federer and play these events, then it is a pretty easy role for me,” ousness of the 33-year-old Federer’s injury: His Wawrinka. But what we are going to play is not he said. Others in the Australian Masters field include walkover at the season finale marked only the Federer’s team, it is the Swiss team. They have Americans Kyle Stanley and Boo Weekley. Weekley is third time in his career that he withdrew before also entered in next week’s Open at Sydney, joining a match, each time due to back problems. Scott, McIlroy and Jordan Spieth at The Australian Golf As if Federer’s injury concerns were not Club. McIlroy won by a stroke last year at Royal enough, the Swiss are also worried about Sydney. The Masters’ first appearance at Metropolitan, Adam Scott Wawrinka’s morale as the country bids for its which hosted the world match play in 2001, comes Australian Masters and makes no mention of the new die of Tiger Woods. first Davis Cup victory. After wasting four with some controversy. Recently, a betting agency sponsor on its site. Williams and Scott parted ways after the caddie match points against Federer in London, the was confirmed as the primary sponsor of the event, The Australian PGA, scheduled for Dec. 11-14, will said he only wanted to work a part-time schedule next Australian Open champion said he “can either which was first played at nearby Huntingdale in 1979. include Scott, Weekley and former champion Robert year. Yesterday, Scott suggested he might “use a cou- be destroyed or bounce back” from such a At the same time, the word “Australian” was deleted Allenby, who is the only golfer to win Australia’s Triple ple different guys after this week and kind of see tough loss. Following the match, two men are from the tournament masthead and replaced with the Crown in 2005. where things are at and who is going to fit in best also said to have been involved in a heated betting agency name, a move that didn’t sit well with Scott was expected to have Clark, who first cad- next year in a more permanent position.” spat after Wawrinka complained about noise anti-gambling groups. It was also too much, it seems, died for him two weeks ago at the HSBC Champions in Scott will take a lengthy Christmas break after the coming from Federer’s box in between serves for the website of the century-old Metropolitan club, Shanghai, working all three Australian tournaments in Australian PGA and might not return until late January toward the end of the third set. Federer which continues to refer to the tournament as the the absence of Steve Williams, the veteran former cad- or early February. — AP defused the tensions by posting a picture on Twitter of a united Switzerland team, with Wawrinka making bunny ears behind his team- mate, and both players insisted on their friend- Lost time, but not a ship on Tuesday. “We had a conversation after the match. Everything’s totally relaxed about the situation. We’re old enough,” Federer said. “I just wanted to see if there were any hard feel- lost year for Michelle ings because it was probably one of the loud- est moments of the match. Clearly a lot of noise. Like I said, there is no hard feeling what- NAPLES: Michelle Wie has every reason to look at this straight top 10s - including a victory in Hawaii and a where she left off - a pair of top 5s, and pair of top 20s soever. We’re having a good time here. We are year as what might have been. Right when the 6-foot runner-up finish in the first major of the year. Unlike that long ago would have been considered a big suc- friends, not enemies.” Federer traveled to the LONDON: Switzerland’s Roger Federer star from Hawaii was finally hitting her stride, yet the past, no one had to scroll very far down the cess. Wie is practicing less and working out more, northern French city of Lille by private jet on speaking to the crowd in this file pho- another injury kept her out of golf for nearly three leaderboard to find her name. building a game for the long run. Monday, hoping to recover in time before the to announcing his withdrawal from months. She could only watch as her name slipped She headed into the Women’s British Open as the Next year will mark the 10-year anniversary when best-of-five series beginning Friday with two the final match of the ATP World Tour from the top of the LPGA Tour money list. When she star she always was expected to be. And then her sea- she turned pro. It already has been a long, twisting singles matches, followed by doubles on finally felt healthy enough to try to return, she lost out son took another detour, a route she knows all too road filled with injuries, big endorsement contracts, Saturday and reverse singles on Sunday. Finals tennis against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic. — AP on the inside track to a $1 million bonus for the win- well. Wie isn’t sure how or where she injured her right high expectations, and the discipline to be a part-time “It was definitely not good enough to prac- ner of the Race to the CME Globe. hand. She remembers it getting sore at Royal Birkdale, player while she earned a degree from Stanford. She tice yesterday,” Federer told reporters Tuesday. good players.” So how does she look back on the season? With a perhaps because of the firm turf in a dry English sum- looks at this season-ending event as a final exam. “You “I wish progress would be faster, but we’re try- Unlike its opponents, France is at full big smile, for starters. It helps that she won the US mer. She remembers one shot in Ohio a week later want to put everything you learned over the year and ing hard. We’re heading in that direction. I feel strength with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, Women’s Open, the biggest event in women’s golf and from a really bad lie that had her shaking her hand. kind of go out with a bang, and hopefully play the it’s definitely a little bit better than it was on Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet having her first major. Not to be forgotten was how she rallied Before long, she had trouble holding a toothbrush or best golf you played all year,” she said. If she doesn’t, Saturday night and Sunday and also Monday. traveled to Lille after a training camp in to win the Lotte Championship in April, her first LPGA lifting a fork. She tried to return to the final major of that won’t change how she looks at her season. Baby steps, I guess. I’m hopeful.” Federer had Bordeaux. Clement also summoned Gilles Tour win in nearly four years that felt even bigger the year in France and couldn’t make it beyond 13 Because a big part of her is eager to see what the next been in tremendous form this season, playing Simon as a reserve player. because she won before a home crowd in Hawaii. holes. Since her return in Asia, she’s right back to few years will bring. — AP a more offensive game and bagging five titles Both Tsonga and Gasquet, who won their So when she was asked Tuesday for one word to while staying injury-free after back problems singles matches and teamed up in doubles in describe her season, the 25-year-old Wie bought some damaged his 2013 campaign. the victory over the Czech Republic in the time before saying, “Rewarding.” Chasing the only major title still eluding semifinals, said they are not getting distracted “The season has been so phenomenal for me,” Wie him, Federer also showed his commitment to by the Swiss team’s struggles. France is looking said. “It boosted my confidence. It kind of showed me the Davis Cup this year, joining the Swiss team to win the trophy for the 10th time. what I can do. And obviously, it’s been a tough year for immediately after his loss in the U.S. Open “I think for this weekend, the important me with injuries, with my knee and my hand and semifinals to take part to their semifinal against thing for us is to stay focused on ourselves, on everything. But it’s still rewarding. I can’t complain.” Italy in September. our team,” Tsonga said. “What we need is to In one of the best seasons for the LPGA Tour, Wie For years, Federer did not regard the Davis have a perfect performance. What we can do is was a big part of it. She was runner-up in the Kraft Cup as a main priority. The emergence of just play tennis. Anything else is not really our Nabisco Championship to Lexi Thompson, the 19- Wawrinka as a top player changed the equa- business.” — AP year-old who hits it a mile. Wie bounced back with a powerful win at Pinehurst No. 2, where she survived a late blunder with a 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th Returning Rafa ready to roll hole that all but clinched her U.S. Women’s Open title. LONDON: As years go 2014 has not been a Djokovic at Roland Garros in June. However, Inbee Park won another major on her rise back to No. 1 in her sport. Mo Martin became a popular major good one for Rafa Nadal but with his injury that proved to be the only shining light in a champion at the Women’s British Open by showing troubles seemingly behind him, the Spaniard testing season for the world number three as grit and perseverance can go a lot longer than some is confident he will be back to his best next he was beaten in the fourth round at of her tee shots. season. Nadal, blighted by back and wrist Wimbledon by Australian teenager Nick And as the season ends this week at the CME injuries this year, underwent surgery to Kyrgios before a wrist injury ruled him out of Group Tour Championship, Park and Stacy Lewis are remove his appendix on Nov. 3, an operation the US Open. “This year was unlucky because it locked in a tight battle for all the big awards - money that forced him out of this month’s ATP World was accidents, it was not injuries that I had title, player of the year, and the Race to the CME Tour Finals in London. Now on the mend, the really felt before,” the 14-time grand slam win- Globe. The top three in the points race - Lewis, Park 28-year-old Spaniard hopes his injury troubles ner said at a Poker Stars event in London. and 17-year-old Lydia Ko - only have to win on the will be nothing more than a memory when he “I am doing all the right things but I have Tiburon Course at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort to cap- returns to training in December before he worked my body pretty hard for a lot of years ture the $1 million bonus. Along with the $500,000 begins the defence of his Qatar Open title in so these kind of things can happen. “But I am prize from the tournament, it would be the biggest January. “It was not an easy year, especially in confident I will have the chance to be back and payoff in women’s golf. Wie is at No. 4 and still has a the second half it was hard, but that’s part of be competitive with all the things I want to reasonable shot at the $1 million. But it’s not like her my life, that’s part of my career, and I accept compete in. Djokovic, who won the season- season would be empty without it. For the first time, that,” Nadal said in an interview with Reuters. finale in London on Sunday after Roger Wie felt like she belonged among the top players in “What happened with my wrist and then Federer withdrew with a back injury, finished golf. “I think in the past my mentality has always been appendix-it was problem and then problems the year as world number one for the third that I want to play really well. I put a lot of pressure on again. “I am not practicing yet, but I am happy time in four years and the Mallorcan praised myself,” she said. “I was talking to (swing coach David) Leadbetter about this and I told him I wanted to play with how the operation went and I have no the Serb’s consistency over the last 12 months. consistent. Whether I’m consistently mediocre or con- problems.” Nadal’s frustrating season began in “He is a fantastic player,” Nadal said. “He sistently good, I just want to be consistent every week, January when his back failed him during his deserves to be where he is because he hasn’t to go out there and build on it.” She was consistently Australian Open final defeat by Swiss Stanislas had an injury for a long time and that’s very good. Wawrinka. He managed to recover to claim a important for a tennis player. “He is an amazing In her first 14 events of the season, Wie finished ninth French Open crown after beating Novak player so he deserves it.” — Reuters worse than 16th only one time. She put together five Michelle Wie THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SPORTS Union, NFL at odds over personal conduct NEW YORK: Saying the NFL is “making things up as the same way it changes rules on the field, like when “The union agreed to the Commissioner maintain- ers the way it’s played out and we’re stuck with it for they go along,” players’ union chief DeMaurice Smith it moved kickoffs to the 35-yard line. ing authority to discipline. The league believes it is in another six years,” said Colton, who said he thinks the wants the league and its owners to take disciplining Smith told The Associated Press in an email that the best interest of football to retain that authority,” players and league absolutely need an independent, players out of the hands of Commissioner Roger the league indicated it was open to discussing the Vincent said. “The league is following the process dic- third-party arbitrator. “Due process exists in most Goodell. Already at odds over the process used to policy as recently as two months ago, but didn’t fol- tated by the CBA.” places in the United States except in the NFL.” punish Ray Rice, the dispute heightened Tuesday low through in coming to the table. He said those dis- The union and players helped revise the personal Pittsburgh Steelers safety Mike Mitchell said the when the league suspended Vikings running back cussions were distinct from the union representing conduct policy in 2007, Vincent said. He said the personal conduct policy needs more well-defined Adrian Peterson for the rest of the season for using a Peterson in his case, though on a parallel track. league has had multiple meetings with the union this terms and clear guidelines based on precedent. wooden switch to discipline his 4-year-old son. “There is one fact that does make those things year on revising the policy using the same approach. “Right now it’s kind of you know, one man has all The central issue remains the same for both sides: similar though, and that is the NFL is clearly making The rules in place now have some players and agents the power and I don’t know if that’s ever really a good Finding a way to fairly hold players accountable for things up as they go along,” Smith said Tuesday night. wondering if the NFL has too much power and thing. I think Roger does his best to do the best that transgressions that damage the credibility and image “Our goal is to pursue a new personal conduct policy whether the union fell short by agreeing to give he can but I know he’s got a lot on his plate that he of the league and its players. The union wants discipli- that is fair, transparent and consistent. The only way Goodell central power over discipline in 2011. Agent has to control,” Mitchell said. “I’m not just trying to nary power now held by Goodell to be handled by a that happens is if the NFL and the owners commit to Jerrold Colton, who represents four-time All-Pro tack- bash him or come down on him but I think players neutral arbitrator. The league, so far, doesn’t agree. collective bargaining.” le Jahri Evans of the Saints, Steelers cornerback would feel better if he wasn’t just judge, jury and exe- And while both the league and the NFL Players Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of William Gay and six-time Pro Bowl kicker David Akers, cutioner.” Association want to change the personal conduct football operations, countered that Goodell’s authori- said the union’s failure to negotiate changes to the Peterson pleaded no contest Nov. 4 to misde- policy, the sides disagree on how to do it. The union ty was collectively bargained with the union in 2011, personal conduct policy in 2011 was a “tremendous meanor reckless assault in Texas for injuries to his 4- wants to bargain for changes to the policy, while the while the personal conduct policy in place nearly 20 oversight.” “I felt strongly at the time that it was a mis- year-old son with a wooden switch. He said he NFL wants to implement changes with union input years has never been part of contract negotiations. take and clearly it’s turned out to be one for the play- intended no harm, only discipline. —AP Lakers and Bucks triumph

ATLANTA: Kobe Bryant scored 28 points as the Los Angeles Lakers won for only the second time this season, beating the Atlanta Hawks 114-109 in the NBA on Tuesday. Bryant’s biggest shot came with 1:11 remain- ing, when he backed in against Thabo Sefolosha and made a fadeaway jumper despite being fouled. Bryant completed the three-point play, giving the Lakers a 108-102 lead. The Hawks had a chance to force overtime after the Lakers (2-9) failed to put it away at the line. But Los Angeles smothered long-range threat Kyle Korver, leav- ing Pero Antic to take an open 3-pointer. It clanked off the rim and the Lakers grabbed the loose ball to seal the victory. Paul Millsap led Atlanta with 29 points. Carlos Boozer added 20 points for the Lakers, and Nick Young, coming back from a thumb injury, had 17 in his first game of the season.

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ATLANTA: Hawks guard Shelvin Mack (right) tries to steal the ball from Los Angeles Lakers for- KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommuni- The event will involve a Karting race, and ward Nick Young in the first half of an NBA basketball game. — AP cations company in Kuwait, announced provides participants with an opportuni- JAZZ 98, THUNDER 81 its main sponsorship of the 5th edition of ty to enjoy the race. 40 teams including Alec Burks had 20 points and a career-high 14 the unique motorsport activity, the company’s own “Zain team” will com- rebounds as the Jazz beat the reeling Thunder. NBA results/standings RoadRush. The motorsport activity, pete in a thrilling atmosphere at Kuwait’s Enes Kanter added 16 points and a season-high which exclusively aims at women, will SIRBB Circuit. The main race will be held 15 boards for Utah, which enjoyed a 55-44 edge kick-start from November 2014 until at the Bahrain International Circuit next on the glass. Trey Burke scored 11 of his 17 LA Lakers 114, Atlanta 109; Milwaukee 117, NY Knicks 113; Utah 98, Oklahoma City 81; New February 2015. January, where professional participants points in the second half, and finished with nine Orleans 106, Sacramento 100. Zain explained that RoadRush 5 aims will enjoy an experience that is consid- assists. Oklahoma City has lost three straight and Eastern Conference Western Conference at encouraging and inspiring women to ered as a real test to their potentials in seven of nine. Jeremy Lamb led the Thunder Atlantic Division Northwest Division participate in motorsports that are usual- the motorsport field. with 19 points, and Steven Adams had 11 points W L PCT GB Portland 8 3 .727 - ly associated with men. The event pro- Additionally, the unique event will and eight rebounds. Toronto 8 2 .800 - Utah 5 7 .417 3.5 Playing without the injured Kevin Durant and vides an ideal opportunity for women to witness a new initiative entitled Brooklyn 4 6 .400 4 Denver 3 7 .300 4.5 Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City shot 35.7 per- showcase their talents in an exciting “RoadRush School”, which aims at edu- Boston 3 6 .333 4.5 Oklahoma City 3 9 .250 5.5 cent (30 for 84) from the field. series of events that will involve several cating young people on safety driving NY Knicks 3 9 .250 6 Minnesota 2 7 .222 5 thrilling activities that will take place in and provide them with the necessary Philadelphia 0 10 0 8 Pacific Division Kuwait and Bahrain. safe training for them to compete in sim- PELICANS 106, KINGS 100 Central Division Anthony Davis had 28 points and nine Golden State 8 2 .800 - Zain’s sponsorship to this unique rac- ilar events in the future. Chicago 8 3 .727 - LA Clippers 5 4 .556 2.5 rebounds to lead the Pelicans past the Kings in a Cleveland 5 4 .556 2 ing competition comes in line with the Zain concluded that its sponsorship of Sacramento 6 5 .545 2.5 company’s core commitment to Kuwaiti this much anticipated event stems from matchup between two of the Western Milwaukee 6 5 .545 2 Conference’s most surprising teams this season. Phoenix 6 5 .545 2.5 youth’s various interests and activities, its utmost responsibility of youth’s talent Indiana 4 7 .364 4 Ryan Anderson hit four 3-pointers and scored LA Lakers 2 9 .182 6.5 which resembles the company’s endless development and the sports sector, Detroit 3 8 .273 5 22 points for the Pelicans, who outscored the Southeast Division Southwest Division confidence of the competencies of youth which comes in line with its Corporate Kings 31-15 in the third and improved to 6-4 on Memphis 10 1 .909 - and their capabilities in excelling in dif- Social Responsibility strategy. The com- Washington 7 2 .778 - the year. Tyreke Evans had 18 points, and Eric Miami 6 5 .545 2 Houston 9 2 .818 1 ferent fields. RoadRush will feature a pany will spare no efforts in supporting Gordon scored 17. DeMarcus Cousins had 24 Dallas 8 3 .727 2 number of activities that are related to causes and initiatives that spread aware- Atlanta 5 5 .500 2.5 points and 17 rebounds for Sacramento, which Orlando 5 7 .417 3.5 New Orleans 6 4 .600 3.5 car racing, in which women with differ- ness on certain areas that concern the dropped to 3-2 at home. Darren Collison added Charlotte 4 7 .364 4 San Antonio 6 4 .600 3.5 ent skill levels can participate and enjoy. Kuwaiti youth. 13 points and 11 assists. — AP TACK-MG & HUAWEI’s 4-Nations training camp in full swing Final squads to be announced next week KUWAIT: Training camps have been setup for the last one month at TACK Entertainment City Cricket Ground comprising of 30 aspi- rants as preparations for one of the biggest sporting events in Kuwait’s history on the 28th of November enters its final leg. Every single one of these hopefuls realizes what is at stake here, which is the once in a lifetime opportunity to play alongside some of the best cricketers ever to have played the game. The prospect of Khalid Butt batting alongside Azhar Mahmood is not only mouthwatering for cricket lovers in Kuwait but it is a moment the dynamic all rounder from Kuwait will cherish forever. Similarly for the youngsters to be bowling include the likes of one of the best all-rounder Friday. Herschelle Gibbs, Scott Styris, and ent of Sri Lankan cricketers residing in Kuwait. the Akram foundation which will take place against the fearsome power hitters like Yusuf produced by Pakistan i.e. Azhar Mahmood, Adam Hollioake will represent TACK-KUWAIT TACK International has now also become a on the 28th of November during the magna- Pathan, Herschelle Gibbs, Scott Styris and the 1996 World Cup winners Upul Chandana and XI along with Kuwaitis and Kuwait born crick- proud partner of The Akram Foundation mous event. ever-so-graceful Aravinda DeSilva will be a Aravinda De Silva from Sri Lanka, Scott Styris eters. Yusuf Pathan will represent TACK-INDIA (TAF), whereby the Sultan of Swing, the leg- On the other hand, TACK has not only part- huge learning curve and an immense adrena- from New Zealand, former England captain XI along with the best talent of Indian crick- endary Wasim Akram from Pakistan, will be nered for the second time with Huawei for the lin rush as well. Final squads are expected to Adam Hollioake, South African master blaster eters residing in Kuwait. A few first class play- seen on the gigantic LED screen of 21.sq upcoming 4Nations T20 Festival by giving be announced next week with the official Herschelle Gibbs and the giant of Baroda ers from India are also going to fly down to meters on the day of the event supporting them the naming rights, but has managed to press conference taking place in Crowne Plaza Yusuf Pathan from India. compete in this historic event. Azhar TACK activities and simultaneously ensuring retain almost all the sponsors and partners hotel (hospitality partner for TACK-HUAWEI 4 The sight of these international cricketers Mahmood is going to represent TACK- maximum people from all over the world from last year’s event which speaks volume nations festival) on the 27th of November playing side by side with the best of Kuwait’s Pakistan XI along with the best talent of come forward to help reduce poverty in about the trust and admiration TACK enjoys 2014. The official jerseys of all the four teams cricketing talent is a mouth-watering Pakistani cricketers residing in Kuwait. Pakistan while maximizing education and among its partners. will also be unveiled at the ceremony in front prospect and is reason enough to lock your Aravinda De Silva & Upul Chandana will repre- healthcare simultaneously. Yusuf Pathan has However, as growth has always been of all the leading media channels of Kuwait. dates for the 28th of November which is a sent TACK-Sri Lanka XI along with the best tal- already announced his support of 3 000 $ for TACK’s mantra, a lot of new partners have Staying true to its reputation of being the been brought onboard to conduct the event torch-bearer of innovation, for the first time on such a massive scale. Al Mulla Group has ever in the history of cricket in Kuwait, TACK come forward as the official Automotive has pulled off an amazing feat of inviting as Partner for the event with a swanky new many as seven top line International crick- Mitsubish Attarage to be given away to one eters to come down to Kuwait and compete lucky player (local player of the tournament) in a domestic tournament alongside the on the day of the event. country’s local talent through the platform of Fasten your seat belts, pull up your socks, TACK-MG & Huawei 4Nations T20 festival and get ready for an entertaining roller coast- 2014. er ride on Nov 28 at TACK Entertainment city Instead of inviting some upcoming talent cricket ground - Doha, where there will be from the domestic circuits of some of these back to back 4 thrilling T-20 matches, plenty test playing nations, TACK went all out for this of prizes and surprises, bumper draws and endeavor and has invited some of the biggest rocking music for all families and children to names to have ever played the game. These cherish for a long time to come. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 SPORTS Ronaldo v Messi show falls flat

MANCHESTER: ‘Cristiano Ronaldo v Lionel Messi’ got top billing at a packed Old Trafford but it was a lesser light who scored as Portugal scraped a 1-0 friendly win over Argentina on Tuesday. Raphael Guerreiro headed the winner in added time after a second half riddled with sub- stitutions and missing the excitement factor pro- vided by the game’s two biggest players who did not reappear after halftime. With Messi and Ronaldo on the field, Argentina showed what coach Gerardo Martino is looking for from his team, a quick-passing possession game with fast thrusts forward. They dominated the opening half-hour in which they could have scored at least twice, the first chance a shot from Angel Di Maria, playing at the home of his club Manchester United, that skimmed the outside of the post after he was set MARSEILLE: France’s forward Andre-Pierre Gignac (right) challenges for the ball with up by Messi. Argentina’s closest effort was in the Sweden’s defender Pontus Jansson, during an international friendly soccer match. — AP 11th minute when Messi beat the offside trap to reach a through ball on the right and came in at France scrape past Sweden a tight angle, his low shot from the edge of the six-yard box beating Beto but glancing off the MARSEILLE: Raphael Varane’s potential striker was allowed to rest after he came post and back into play. status as a France great was boosted on back from a lengthy layoff to play in last As the half-hour approached, Messi crossed, Tuesday when his late header helped Les week’s Euro qualifier against Montenegro. Javier Pastore headed and Beto dived to save Bleus beat Sweden 1-0 in a friendly at the France began brightly but lacked thrust before Ronaldo raised the decibels in the stadi- Stade Velodrome. in the opposition penalty box with Layvin um when he backheeled a neat pass to The 21-year-old Real Madrid defender, Kurzawa’s volley from Paul Pogba’s cross Bosingwa then raced into the box to take the made captain because regular skipper sailing over the bar. right back’s cross but his shot after two dummies MANCHESTER: Martin Demichelis of Argentina (left) is challenged by Nani of Portugal during Hugo Lloris started on the bench, nodded Sweden had to do a lot of defending in went over the bar. their international friendly soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium. — AP home seven minutes from time before club the opening 20 minutes and try their luck It was the signal for Portugal to come out of mate Karim Benzema missed a penalty. on the break. Mathieu Valbuena went close their shell for the last 15 minutes of the half and Gonzalo Higuain to boos from fans of his former getting a chance to play. Portugal looked like France, who qualify automatically for Euro for France on the half hour but his bicycle put the Argentine defence under pressure but team Manchester United but he did not make an they wanted it more towards the end and a 2016 as hosts, will play only friendlies until kick went just over. Martino’s side managed to play their way out of impact. The game failed to pick up its first half lucky bounce set up Ricardo Quaresma to cross the finals and the lack of excitement was Gignac found Antoine Griezmann in the trouble. After a lukewarm start to the second rhythm and quality, despite an end-to-end flow, from the right and give substitute Raphael palpable until Varane’s goal. box after 36 minutes and the winger’s poor half, Di Maria had a shot from outside the box thanks to the high number of substitutions as Guerreiro a free header for the only The billing at Didier Deschamps’ team, who drew 1-1 first touch cost him a decent chance. saved by Beto before Carlos Tevez came on for every player in the two squads appeared to be goal. — Reuters with Albania on Friday, had a few opportu- France had another excellent opportunity nities but struggled to find the spark that three minutes into the second half when helped them reach the 2014 World Cup Gignac’s volley from Payet’s cross was par- quarter-finals. ried by Andreas Isaksson who then blocked “We had a lot of chances even if we Griezmann’s fierce angled drive. struggled a bit in the beginning of the sec- Deschamps then brought on Benzema ond half, I’m happy we’re ending the year and Alexandre Lacazette for Gignac and with a victory,” Deschamps told the TF1 TV Valbuena to inject fresh blood into his front channel. Three Olympique de Marseille line. Sweden coach Erik Hamren also players started the game with Steve replaced Isaac Thelin with John Guidetti. Mandanda taking Lloris’ place in goal and Griezmann’s corner was headed in by Dimitri Payet and Andre-Pierre Gignac Varane in the 83rd minute before Benzema spearheading the attack. Sweden were skied a penalty over the bar after Oscar without talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Wendt handled. — Reuters Russia triumph in Hungary BUDAPEST: Russia won on Tuesday for the after 49 minutes when halftime substitute first time in four matches, beating Hungary Ignashevich glanced home a header at the 2-1 in a friendly to relieve the pressure on near post from Alexander Samedovís cor- under-fire coach Fabio Capello. ner to notch his sixth international goal. Media reports said the Italian could be Balazs Dzsudzsak then went close for sacked after the game in Budapest but his Hungary before Kerzhakov hit the bar for side triumphed thanks to second-half goals the visitors. Kerzhakov would not be from Sergei Ignashevich and Alexander denied and he extended his scoring record Kerzhakov. for Russia to 29 goals when he pounced on Hungary replied through Nemanja a perfect pass from Alan Dzagoev to slot Nikolic with four minutes to go. The home the ball between Dibuszís legs. team created the first chance with Zsolt ìI am satisfied with the result and with Kalmarís fierce right-foot drive forcing a my teamís performance,î said Capello. ìI fine save from Zenit St Petersburg keeper want to say to all Russian fans that I am Yuri Lodygin. Russia slowly worked their completely confident in my team. I am sure way into the match and Artem Dzyuba was we will get positive results in Euro 2016 sent clean through six minutes before half- qualifying.î Russia are third in Group G with time only for keeper Denes Dibusz to save five points from four matches, five behind well to his left. Capelloís men took the lead leaders Austria. — Reuters

GENOA: Italy’s Alberto Aquilani (right) challenges for the ball with Albania’s Sokol Cikalleschi during the friendly soccer match. — AP Italy squeeze past Albania

GENOA: A virtual second-choice Italy side bright spark for Italy. For Albania, it was a case of Italian debutant as Torino defender Emiliano laboured to a narrow 1-0 win over Albania in an so near and yet so far, just a few days after hold- Moretti and Genoa midfielder Andrea Bertolacci international friendly in Genoa on Tuesday. ing France to a 1-1 draw. also made their international bows. The winning goal even had a touch of fortune Centre-back Leonardo Bonucci, captain for Conte, who took over the top job after the about it as Hamdi Salihi diverted Stefano Okaka’s the night, was the only player to keep his place World Cup, was defiant after the game as his shot past goalkeeper Etrit Berisha with seven in Antonio Conte’s Italy side from the line-up side came under renewed criticism. “It’s a diffi- minutes left. On his debut, Okaka, a second-half held to a 1-1 draw by Croatia in a Euro 2016 cult moment for Italy but in six matches we’ve substitute for Sebastian Giovinco, was a rare qualifier on Sunday. Okaka wasn’t the only won five and drawn one,” he told Rai 1. — AFP Ireland embarrass US 4-1

DUBLIN: Ireland beat the United States 4-1 in an break, with McGoldrick again providing the deft stitute Shane Long a sublime third, McClean net- entertaining friendly at the Aviva Stadium on assist. Ireland had Shay Given to thank for keep- ted with a deflection. Hull City’s Brady completed Tuesday with goals from Anthony Pilkington, ing the US out with a couple of great saves, but the rout five minutes from time with the pick of James McClean and two from Robbie Brady the home side’s second half dominance told the night, curling a left-footed free kick into the handing Martin O’Neill’s second string side victo- when moments after the woodwork denied sub- top corner. — Reuters ry. O’Neill started an entirely different side to the one that lost 1-0 in Scotland in a bruising Euro 2016 qualifier on Friday but was rewarded after seven minutes when Pilkington scored his first goal for Ireland following a fine move. Pilkington exchanged passes with impressive debutant David McGoldrick whose wonderfully weighted pass put the Cardiff City midfielder through and his finish was just as sweet, dinking BUCHAREST: Denmark’s Nicklas Bendtner (left) and Romania’s Paul Papp (right) during the ball over Bill Hamid. their international friendly soccer game at the National Arena stadium. — AP The United States, starting with four of the team that lost out to Belgium in the last 16 of the Romania blank Denmark World Cup, had been on top before Pilkington’s strike and took control after with Fabian Johnson BUCHAREST: Claudio Keseru grabbed two er on Saturday while Danish counterpart going closest to levelling after his drilled shot hit superb second-half goals to earn Romania Morten Olsen gave debuts to Lucas the post from 30 metres out. a comfortable 2-0 win over Denmark in a Andersen, Anders Christiansen and Nicolaj It should have been 2-0 just before the half friendly at the National Arena on Tuesday. Thomsen. Lively winger Andersen was sub- hour after some comical US defending handed After a tight first half the home side stituted midway through the first half when Daryl Murphy a clear sight at goal and he would exploded into life when Keseru showed he lost three teeth after receiving an elbow have joined Pilkington with a first international excellent technique to control substitute in the face. Romania midfielder Eric Bicfalvi goal were it not for a good stop by Hamid. Alexandru Chipchiu’s precise pass and also made his debut after replacing It was another error, this time from Ireland’s round keeper Stephan Andersen to score in Alexandru Maxim in the second half. David Meyler, that let the visitors back in the the 53rd minute. The striker took his tally to Unbeaten Romania, on the verge of game. The Hull City midfielder gave up posses- 22 goals in all competitions this season reaching the top 20 of the FIFA world rank- sion in his own half and after a neat knock down when he gave Andersen no chance with a ings for the first time since March 2009, top from Chris Wondolowski, Mix Diskerud poked thunderous shot from 20 metres six min- Euro 2016 Group F qualifying with 10 points home the equaliser. The US grew in confidence utes later. from four matches, one ahead of Northern and were close to leading at halftime after Jozy Romania coach Anghel Iordanescu Ireland. Denmark also occupy first place in Altidore smashed an effort against the crossbar made six changes to the side that beat Group I with seven points from four games, but Brady, playing in the unfamiliar role of left DUBLIN: Republic of Ireland’s Stephen Quinn (foreground) holds off a challenge from United Northern Ireland 2-0 in a Euro 2016 qualifi- one ahead of Portugal. —Reuters back, put Ireland back in front shortly after the States’ Kyle Beckerman, during the international friendly soccer match. — AP Lakers and Ronaldo v Messi Bucks18 triumph show19 falls flat THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

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VIGO: Germany’s Sami Khedira (left) and Spain’s Isco Alarcon (right) fight for the ball, during an international friendly soccer match. — AP German Kroos missile sinks Spain

VIGO: Germany edged the big match between the last in Poland in a Euro 2016 qualifier. Mueller and Mario Goetze started the game and it was a 2016 qualifiers have left them third in the group. Germany two World Cup winners on Tuesday as Toni Kroos’s last- While Spain have also been far from their own rampant similar case for Spain. suffered a post-Brazil hangover with a shock 2-0 defeat to gasp goal handed them a 1-0 friendly victory over Spain in form that saw them win Euro 2008 and 2012 plus the 2010 Bayern Munich striker Mueller, who had scored ten Poland and 1-1 draw with Ireland last month, then pro- rain-lashed Vigo. World Cup in South Africa, and neither side is leading it’s times during 2014 for the national team, limped out of the duced another below-par performance on Friday against The goal came in the 90th minute of a game between Euro 2016 qualifying group. game on 27 minutes after a clash with Sergio Ramos, to be minnows Gibraltar in a 4-0 victory. two experimental sides when Spain’s substitute goalkeep- Spain coach Vicente del Bosque remained upbeat replaced by Karim Bellarabi. The heavy rain dampened The world champions’ next international is away to er Kiko Casilla was guilty of a howler, fumbling Kroos’s despite the narrow defeat. “We had as many chances as what might have been expected to be a party atmosphere Georgia at the end of March and with the Bundesliga set innocuous looking shot from the edge of the area. they did and all in all it was a close game. We’re in a transi- given the profile of the teams, but the biggest cheer of the to break for winter in January, Loew wants a new approach Real Madrid keeper Iker Casillas had started for Spain in tion period and we can continue to look to the future with night came with the news striker Nolito of local outfit Celta in 2015. “We haven’t delivered particularly convincing per- his 160th international appearance, but made way for his optimism,” said Del Bosque. would start the game. formances recently and lag behind a little in our European near namesake Casilla with 20 minutes to go. Germany coach Joachim Loew said he was looking for- Nolito sent a free-kick wide late in the first-half and was Championship qualifiers, so it’s nice to end this sensational “It was just what we’d been hoping for. It’s been a big ward to seeing both teams in action in the near future. “It also in a position to score from another chance when ruled year with the feeling of success against a top team,” said year and this was a fine way to close it,” Kroos said after the was a difficult match on a very wet pitch, but I felt we con- off-side on his international debut. Loew. “I still have a few appointments (in 2014), and after game. Spain’s best chance had come ten minutes earlier as trolled it well,” said Loew. “These two teams have marked Meanwhile, Joachim Loew is relishing a fresh start for such a great and exciting year, it will be good to come Barcelona’s Pedro tried to chip Germany keeper Ron- the recent history of football and I’m convinced we’ll both Germany in 2015 after their 1-0 friendly win over Spain back, following a bit of rest, after the winter break. Robert Zieler of Hannover 96, who produced a fine stop on play a decisive role at Euro 2016. Spain and Germany have capped their World Cup-winning year in style following “In January and February, we will then start working what was actually a quiet night for him. a host of good players with which to assure the future.” several below-par performances. again as a coaching team with the squad and individual Germany have been suffering something of a World Only four of the players that started the 2014 World Cup But Germany’s head coach admits there is work to be players.”We’ll also discuss which new approaches we’ll take Cup hangover with a run of poor form that saw them lose final for Germany, Benedikt Hoewedes, Kroos, Thomas done after their recent poor performances in the Euro in 2015.” —AFP Rooney’s double helps Joyless Brazil chalk up England floor Scotland GLASGOW: England captain turning the ball into the net from another friendly win Wayne Rooney scored twice after close range before leaping into Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain headed an acrobatic celebration. Oxlade- VIENNA: Brazil chalked up their sixth “I ask the referee if he left his yellow the opener in a 3-1 win over Chamberlain opened the scoring straight win, all in friendlies, since the cards at home,” Austria coach Marcel Scotland as the visitors dominat- when he glanced the ball home World Cup when they beat Austria 2-1 on Koller told reporters. “I was surprised that ed a typically passionate Auld with his head after a superb pass Tuesday in a joyless performance marred he allowed them to commit so many Enemy friendly at Celtic Park on from his Arsenal team mate Jack by tactical fouls and a negative approach. fouls without booking them.” Tuesday. Wilshere to score after 32 min- A stunning late strike by Roberto Brazil had a lucky escape when Marko Rooney took his tally to 46 in utes, reward for England taking Firmino, his first for his country, won the Arnautovic’s low ball across the penalty his 101st international to move control after a frenetic opening to match for Brazil, although Austria were area bounced off Filipe Luis’s knee to within three goals of Bobby the game. the more enterprising team and could safety, followed by another when Florian Charlton’s England scoring record Rooney headed England 2-0 in easily have gone in with a halftime lead. Klein’s shot deflected off a defender’s of 49 and led by example as skip- front in the 47th minute after Austria, previously unbeaten this year, knee and flew over. per with his composed side prov- Scotland failed to clear a free- at least had the consolation of being the Diego Alves also had to parry a corner ing too strong for the hosts. kick. The home side pulled a goal first team to score against Brazil since out from under his crossbar as Austria Before the game there were fears back when Robertson beat Dunga replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari as pushed forward. Brazil had to wait for that crowd trouble might erupt in Forster at his near post before coach following their woeful World Cup GLASGOW: England’sAlex Oxladw-Chamberlain (left) vies for the over half an hour for their first real shot the first football fixture between Rooney wrapped up the victory performance in July. when Oscar tested Robert Almer with a from close range after a superb ball with Scotland’s Andrew Robertson (right) during the interna- Aleksandar Dragovic converted a the two rivals since Scotland vot- low effort from 25 metres and a David ed to remain part of the United swift-passing move down the tional friendly soccer match. — AP penalty in the 75th minute, ending Luiz free kick flew over the crossbar Kingdom in a historic referendum right. Brazil’s run of five successive clean 60,000 crowd in the build-up to The opening 20 minutes were shortly afterwards. in September. The home side, who have kickoff. predictably frenetic without much sheets, to cancel out David Luiz’s header Brazil broke through in the 64th minute Tuesday’s friendly, however, improved since Gordon Strachan Tensions between the two shape or substance but England just after the hour. when David Luiz headed in from a corner passed off peacefully with no became manager early last year, not-always friendly neighbours gradually began to look the more Brazil were low on creativity, often although he seemed to tug his marker’s reports of violence. England were only had one real goal chance might have been exacerbated assured side with Wilshere in the struggling to play the ball out of their 2-0 ahead with seven minutes to before scoring when Russell away from the pitch by the middle and Nathaniel Clyne on own half in the face of the home team’s shirt as he got to the ball. Austria did not play but Scotland came back when Martin forced Forster to palm the recent independence referen- the right causing the home side aggressive pressing, and repeatedly give up and Arnautovic had a shot deflect- Andrew Robertson planted a left- ball over the bar early in the sec- dum in which the Scots voted 55 problems. interrupted Austrian moves with rough ed over the crossbar before Oscar tripped foot shot past former Celtic keeper ond half. percent to 45 to preserve the It was the first match between and cynical fouls in midfield. Andreas Weimann and Dragovic sent Fraser Forster to make it 2-1. 307-year union with England. But the two neighbours, who until Fernandinho escaped a booking Diego Alves the wrong way. A moment of But two minutes later Rooney RAUCOUS ATMOSPHERE apart from the obvious booing of 1989 met annually, on Scottish soil when he left Veli Kavlak with blood individual inspiration settled the game finished off a well-worked move There was a raucous atmos- the national anthems most of the since 1999 and England have now streaming from a cut near his eye when when Firmino unleashed an unstoppable involving substitutes Adam phere generated by both sets of derision was directed at the two won seven of their last nine meet- he went in for one challenge with his shot into the top corner with seven min- Lallana and Rickie Lambert by supporters in a near-capacity sets of players. ings with the Scots. — Reuters elbows flying. utes left. — Reuters Saudi oil policy impasse lets loose conspiracy theorists Page 22

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NEW YORK: People walk past a 24-million-pixel display billboard-measuring more than 25,000 square feet (2,320 square meters)— as graphics are displayed on it at the Times Square in New York on Tuesday. New York’s Times Square illuminated by the world’s highest resolution video display screen of its size, nearly as big as a football field. The panel, located on the side of a hotel, is eight stories tall and intended for advertisements similar to those on dozens of other screens lining the bustling New York crossroads. — AFP Syria economy ‘set back decades’ by war Inflation in double digits, half the population unemployed

BEIRUT: Syria’s once-promising economy has human development indicators including health almost zero and the central bank and state- sugar and rice also doubling. Electricity and water $4.6 billion to pay for imports of energy and been set back more than 30 years by its brutal and education. But with the brutal violence that owned banks are internationally blacklisted. prices have skyrocketed too, Yazigi said. “The gov- wheat. civil war, economists say, and it may never recov- followed a crackdown on anti-government The measures have had a knock-on effect too, ernment has made cuts across the board. It now Moscow this year reportedly offered between er. Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the protests, regional investors fled, key infrastruc- prompting companies to avoid work in Syria for only imports what it considers absolutely neces- $300 and $327 million, although only a small por- more than three-year-old conflict, the govern- ture has been destroyed and the economy has fear of reputational damage, said Jihad Yazigi, sary: food and weapons,” said one economist who tion is thought to have been received in the form ment faces dwindling revenues and is increasing- withered. editor-in-chief of economic news site The Syria focuses on Syria, speaking on condition of of debt forgiveness. Experts say neither Russia ly dependent on aid from key allies Iran and “We estimate that GDP has contracted by over Report. “Lots of businesses don’t want to work in anonymity. nor Iran is likely to abandon Damascus, whose Russia. Inflation is in the double digits, half the 40 percent,” said May Khamis, division chief at the Syria... because of the potential consequences, for The regime also leans on wealthy business- expenditures have fallen with the exodus of more population is unemployed and international International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and example, for their work in the US or elsewhere,” men to pay the salaries of pro-government militi- than three million Syrians and an influx of inter- trade has plummeted. “We’ve lost a decade in Central Asia department. “Oil production has he said. There are loopholes, including a waiver amen and to import oil for sale to private busi- national aid money. terms of human development indicators, and in come to a near halt... year-on-year inflation has that allows Greece to continue importing around nesses, the economist said. Yazigi said he forecast a short-term “continu- terms of the economy today, it’s back to the size it risen from four percent in June 2011 to over 120 $300 million in phosphates, but overall the Syrian ous, gradual decline” in the economy, but said the was in the 1980s,” said Bassel Kaghadou, a UN percent in August 2013 and remains close to 50 government is struggling to make ends meet. Burgeoning war economy government would remain afloat and pay salaries official working on ways to rebuild Syria’s society percent as of May 2014.” “The government doesn’t have any meaning- An informal war economy, involving check- with help from allies. The UN program Kaghadou and economy. UN figures say the country’s exports and ful income anymore,” Yazigi said, pointing out that point bribes, fees to secure the release of prison- leads anticipates at least a decade of post-war “Syria as it was will never exist again. The imports have both declined by more than 90 per- state investment in infrastructure has declined to ers, and looting by pro-regime militiamen has rebuilding and reconstruction in the face of economy will be smaller. The population will be cent, and unemployment exceeds 50 percent. virtually zero and salaries have remained stag- also developed, though it is unclear whether the major challenges including a “huge loss of human smaller,” said Kaghadou, program director of the nant. Responding to the pressure of nosediving government benefits directly or merely turns a capital” and a generation with disrupted educa- National Agenda for the Future of Syria. Blow from sanctions revenues, the government has implemented a blind eye to placate supporters and employees. tion. And with little sign of a resolution to the Before the conflict began, Syria had a higher Damage has been compounded by Western- range of cost-cutting measures, including slash- Aid from key allies Iran and Russia has become an conflict on the horizon, its work remains theoreti- gross domestic product (GDP) than countries like led sanctions, particularly targeting the oil and ing subsidies. That has pushed up the cost of invaluable crutch for the government. Tehran last cal for now. “The opportunity is slipping away by Tunisia and Jordan, and it ranked favorably on banking sectors. Oil exports have dropped to bread by around 70 percent, with the prices of year offered Damascus two credit lines totalling the day,” Kaghadou said. — AFP Qatar Airways chief takes Weak oil keeps most Gulf markets jittery swipe at European carriers MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al-Baker Airbus aircraft, according to statements yesterday took a swipe at legacy carriers from the carriers and banks involved. The DUBAI: Weak oil prices and global equities kept week after world soccer body FIFA said Qatar would agreed to return their ambassadors to Qatar, sig- which complain of competition from Gulf region’s airlines are securing funds as they most Gulf stock markets jittery yesterday, although keep the right to host the 2022 World Cup, Doha nalling an end to an eight-month rift over Doha’s carriers, accusing them of being “inefficient” take delivery of what Boeing has forecast to a glut of upbeat news lifted Qatar’s bourse to an was selected as host city for the 2019 IAAF World support for Islamist groups. Elsewhere in the region, and protected by EU policies. be a need for 2,610 aircraft by 2033, valued eight-week high. Athletics Championships on Tuesday, a move cer- Egypt’s main index rose 0.5 percent as the market Legacy carriers “are screaming about the at $550 billion. Dubai’s Emirates airline has Shares were down in Europe and Asia and crude tain to encourage more government spending on further recovered from a profit-taking bout and Gulf Three,” Baker told an aviation forum in signed a 1.1 billion dirham ($299.5 million) prices remained near 4-year lows on signs of dis- infrastructure. And at the end of last week, Saudi some stocks displayed a delayed reaction to third- Dubai referring to his airline, Dubai’s financing deal with a group of banks for the agreement between OPEC members before a meet- Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain quarter earnings. —Reuters Emirates and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad. “There is purchase of two Boeing planes. ing next week. Dubai’s index erased early-session enough business... They are inefficient,” he First Gulf Bank, the third-largest lender gains to end 0.9 percent lower as most stocks charged. Baker said workers’ unions were by assets in the United Arab Emirates, led declined. Low-cost carrier Air Arabia was one of a the cause of problems faced by legacy car- the club finance lease package on behalf of OPEC may cut above-target few gainers, jumping 2.1 percent after it announced riers, not Gulf carriers which have seized a Emirates for the two 777-300ER aircraft, the a $230 million deal with Dubai Islamic Bank to sizable share of transit travel between the bank said in a statement. finance the purchase of six new Airbus A320 aircraft oil output: Libya official West and Asia and Australasia. Separately, Dubai Islamic Bank and Air in 2015. “It is the unions that should be blamed,” Arabia said they had signed a $230 million LONDON: OPEC will agree as a minimum step to OPEC pumped 30.60 million bpd in October. Local and regional investors were net sellers, he said. Baker charged that the European Islamic financing deal to cover the purchase remove crude from the market that it is pumping OPEC’s own figures put production lower at 30.25 according to bourse data. Abu Dhabi’s benchmark, Union intervened far more than the United of six new Airbus A320 aircraft in 2015 by above the agreed target, a Libyan oil official said, million bpd. up 0.6 percent at one stage, closed 0.1 percent low- States when it came to the protection of the budget airline. The Ijara-structured facil- to support prices that hit a four-year low. Oil fell to a four-year low below $77 a barrel er as telecom operator Etisalat fell 0.9 percent. home carriers. “EU without doubt,” he said, ity will pay for the delivery of a new aircraft Oil ministers from OPEC meet on Nov 27 to last week on ample global supply, slowing Saudi Arabia’s bourse eked out a 0.1 gain after naming France and Germany in particular. every two months from January. The consider adjusting their output target of 30 mil- demand and skepticism that the 12-member flitting between black and red zones throughout “We have problems in France, Germany, the Sharjah-based low cost carrier had received lion barrels per day (bpd). More delegates are Organization of the Petroleum Exporting the day. The petrochemical sector index slipped 0.4 Netherlands and elsewhere... Stirred by two 29 of the 44 A320s it ordered from Airbus in talking of a need to lower production, although Countries will be able to bolster prices. The percent. “Unless oil prices find a floor, the Saudi individual countries: Germany and France,” 2007, the joint statement said. top exporter Saudi Arabia has yet to say whether Libyan official added he also expected OPEC min- market will remain jittery,” said Shakeel Sarwar, he said. European airlines, notably Air Ijara is a leasing arrangement commonly it supports a cut. “I believe that the ministers will isters to “keep a watch on the market response head of asset management at Securities & France and KLM, have voiced concern at used to structure Islamic financing facilities. arrive to an agreement, as a minimum, to ask all and if needed, to set a new ceiling of not more Investment Co (SICO) in Bahrain. “It may continue increased activity by Gulf-based companies, The deals follow Qatar Airways closing a members to abide by the 30 million ceiling for than 29.5 million bpd”. Kamal said he was not for some time,” he said, adding that as the region’s complaining of differences in taxation that sale and operating leaseback transaction December,” Samir Kamal, Libya’s OPEC governor speaking on behalf of the Libyan government. biggest market Saudi Arabia affects other Gulf they say cause unfair competition. with Standard Chartered for three 777- and head of planning at the Libyan oil ministry, Libya is struggling with two administrations-the bourses. 300ER and five 787-8 aircraft. It was the first told Reuters. internationally recognized government, located Qatar, Egypt Agreements sale and leaseback transaction entered into Complying with the target would in theory in Tobruk since August, and a Tripoli-based rival Qatar’s bourse was resilient, rising 0.7 percent to Gulf-based airlines have closed financing by the Qatari flag carrier, according to local cut OPEC output by 600,000 bpd based on the administration. Neither has commented on the an eight-week closing high of 13,901 points in a agreements for a total of 16 Boeing and press reports on Tuesday. —Agencies International Energy Agency’s estimate that OPEC meeting. — Agencies broad rally following a string of positive news. A BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 Saudi oil policy impasse lets News in brief

GFH completes capital loose conspiracy theorists reduction plan, cuts losses DUBAI: Bahrain-based Gulf Finance House has complet- ed a capital reduction plan, a move that helps the Private briefings, long Naimi silence puzzle OPEC experts Islamic investment firm to cut accumulated losses, it said in a statement yesterday. It had received approval from LONDON: If Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi really do not know what is likely to happen Seeing off shale oil G20 group,” he said. the Bahraini authorities for the step, which reduces the wants to stop conspiracy theories spread- at the meeting. It is not clear,” said a long- Should the Saudis tell fellow OPEC nominal value of its shares by 13.8 percent to $0.265 per ing before a crucial OPEC meeting next serving senior OPEC delegate. members, badly suffering from the oil price “Global oil war”? share from $0.3075, it said. As a result, paid-up capital week, it’s too late. Naimi’s intervention last When Naimi finally spoke on Nov. 12, he collapse, that they will not cut output, In Russia, the idea of a Saudi-US plot had been reduced to $837.9 million from $972.3 million. week after a two-month silence failed to said Riyadh’s desire for stable markets had debate will intensify on what prompted the against Moscow has become common cur- Accumulated losses on GFH’s balance sheet had been address a question energy markets want not changed. “Saudi oil policy... have been policy shift. rency as the economy struggles under the reduced by $134.4 million under the measure, it said. answered: is the OPEC leader no longer subject a great deal of wild and inaccurate One possibility is Riyadh wants to see off effects of low oil prices and Western sanc- The statement did not specify if it had further accumu- willing to defend oil prices which have conjecture in recent weeks. We do not seek US shale oil, which is believed to need tions imposed over its annexation of lated losses. The reduction doesn’t involve any cash dived by a third to their lowest since 2010, to politicize oil ... For us it’s a question of much higher prices than conventional pro- Crimea and support for rebels in eastern transfer and doesn’t impact on shareholder positions as and is it pursuing new commercial or even supply and demand, it’s purely business,” duction to remain competitive. “They are Ukraine. Leonid Fedun, a co-owner of pri- the bank’s net equity remains unchanged. However, geopolitical goals? he said. According to four market and after US shale,” said one participant in the vate oil firm Lukoil, cited President Barack under accountancy rules, it will help to remove accumu- Despite Naimi’s insistence that Riyadh diplomatic sources, who asked not to be meetings with Saudi officials. However, the Obama’s visit to Riyadh in March. “Obama lated losses from GFH’s balance sheet. GFH suffered bad- wants stable markets, diplomatic and mar- named, Saudi officials briefed OPEC watch- source added that the Saudis might also travelled to meet the king of Saudi Arabia ly during the global financial crisis, needing several debt ket sources say Saudi officials told recent ers privately in New York and Riyadh in regard low prices as an opportunity to put just after the Crimea events to push him to restructurings, as it struggled to contend with a slow- private briefings that the kingdom can live September and October. even more pressure on Iran and Russia for these actions (to lower the oil price),” down in its main advisory business and the debt it had for some time with current, or even lower, Nasser Al-Dossary, Saudi Arabia’s nation- supporting Syrian President Bashar Al- Fedun, whose firm has large US assets, said taken on during the boom years. levels. Reading Saudi oil policies has long al representative to OPEC, Naimi’s deputy Assad, an arch-enemy of Riyadh, in the last month. been like Kremlinology - understanding the Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and the king- country’s civil war. Russia and Iran routinely allege US plots Egypt pound weakens politics of that other secretive power, dom’s OPEC governor Mohammed Al- Several Saudi oil sources have denied against their economies, but the conspiracy on black market Russia. The next OPEC meeting on Nov 27 Madhi attended at least one of these meet- over the past month that geopolitics are theories are spreading. “Is it just my imagi- CAIRO: The Egyptian pound was flat at a central bank dol- is taking this art to a new, higher level. ing to give the message that, with its large now driving the policy, but they have failed nation or is there a global oil war underway lar sale yesterday but weakened significantly on the black A number of explanations have been currency reserves, the kingdom was pre- to stifle theories that Riyadh and pitting the United States and Saudi Arabia market as Egypt’s plans to repay a $2.5 billion Qatari offered to fill the information vacuum on pared to withstand oil prices as low as $70- Washington are working together to hold on one side against Russia and Iran on the deposit raised concerns of a looming dollar shortage, Riyadh’s intentions and they aren’t all from $80 per barrel for up to a year. down prices. “What is the reason for the other?” New York Times columnist Thomas traders said. The bank offered $40 million yesterday and the usual conspiracy theorists in Russia and Benchmark Brent crude oil slipped to United States and some US allies wanting Friedman, wrote last month. said it had sold $37.6 million at a cut-off price of 7.1401 Iran, which are at loggerheads with the $79 on Tuesday. Most members of the car- to drive down the price of oil? To harm US Secretary of State John Kerry side- pounds per dollar, unchanged from its last sale on Monday. kingdom. Oil market watchers are divided tel apart from Saudi Arabia need much Russia,” Nicolas Maduro, president of fellow stepped the issue after a trip to Saudi The rates at which banks are allowed to trade dollars are on the outcome of the meeting in Vienna. higher prices to balance their budgets but OPEC member Venezuela, said last month. Arabia in September. Asked if past discus- determined by the results of central bank sales, giving the Predictions range from a large OPEC pro- ironically are unable or unwilling to reduce Masoud Mirkazemi, an Iranian lawmaker sions with Riyadh had touched on Russia’s bank effective control over official exchange rates. But in duction cut to revive prices through a small their output to counter a global glut and former oil minister, said Riyadh was need for oil above $100 to balance its budg- the unofficial market, the pound was trading at 7.75 to the cut to none at all. caused by slowing economic growth in helping the G20 group of major et, he smiled and said: “They (Saudis) are dollar at midday, weaker than Monday’s rate of 6.67 Even those who have known Naimi for China and Europe, just as US oil production economies. “Saudi Arabia, which intends to very, very well aware of their ability to have pounds and a marked decline from around 7.57 pounds decades are puzzled. “For the first time, I booms. manage OPEC, serves the interests of the an impact on global oil prices.” —Reuters today. “There is pressure because of the Qatari deposit,” said one foreign exchange trader at an Egyptian bank. “You are talking about a country where there is a cashflow Iraq transfers $500m deficit. Imports exceed exports so there is an imbalance.”

to Kurds in budget deal Dubai Aviation Corp launches $500m sukuk BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government transferred ens not only economic, security and political DUBAI: Dubai Aviation Corp, known as flydubai, has $500 million to the autonomous Kurdish interests, but also threatens national unity.” launched a $500 million five-year sukuk at the tight end region yesterday as part of a deal aimed at It comes at a time when both federal and of its previously-marketed price range, with the sale set ending long-running oil and budget disputes, Kurdish forces are battling jihadists of the to complete later yesterday, a document from lead man- the finance minister said. The move eases ten- Islamic State group, which spearheaded an agers said. The sukuk pricing was last revised to between sions between the federal and regional gov- offensive that has overrun large areas of the 200 basis points and 212.5 basis points over midswaps, ernments, paving the way for a lasting settle- country since June. after being marketed initially at 225 bps over the same ment as well as possible increased cooperation Federal and Kurdish forces have worked benchmark on Tuesday. Credit Agricole, Dubai Islamic against jihadists they are both fighting. together in some specific battles, but seem Bank, Emirates NBD, HSBC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, “The Iraqi finance ministry... on Wednesday largely to have fought their own separate wars Noor Bank and Standard Chartered are arrangers for the transferred the amount of 583 billion Iraqi so far. The government of Iraq and the semi- sukuk sale by the unlisted carrier, fully owned by the dinars, which equals $500 million, to the autonomous Kurdistan region have begun Dubai government. account of the regional government,” Hoshyar implementing a deal under which Baghdad Zebari told a news conference. resumes funding Kurdish civil servant salaries Upholding its side of the deal in return for a share of Kurdish oil Citi cuts around 35 jobs to transfer 150,000 barrels of exports, Iraq’s finance minister MOSCOW: McDonald’s staff members celebrate after the fast-food restau- on London trading floor crude per day to Baghdad’s con- said yesterday. rant reopened following a hygiene probe in Moscow yesterday. —AFP LONDON: US bank Citi has cut around 35 jobs across its capital trol, the three-province Kurdish The accord aims to reduce fric- markets trading operation in London, sources with knowledge region began moving oil to feder- tion between Baghdad and of the changes said yesterday. The cuts, announced internally al oil tanks in the Turkish port of Kurdish authorities as they face a McDonald’s reopens flagship last month, were across all asset classes, the sources told Ceyhan on Tuesday, Zebari said. common threat from Islamic State Reuters, and included head of G10 currency strategy Valentin “This mutual implementation insurgents who have seized large Moscow outlet after clampdown Marinov. High-earning jobs on trading floors have been means that the two sides are parts of the north and west of the squeezed by the growth in machine-driven trading and broader ready to resolve all the other country. Under the agreement MOSCOW: McDonald’s yesterday reopened value of its food and “repeated violations” of cuts at banks since the 2008 financial crisis, and lenders are also issues and all the issues are up for reached last week, Kurdish its flagship outlet in central Moscow for the hygiene standards. putting aside billions against the cost of litigation over charges discussion,” he said. Baghdad has Hoshyar Zebari authorities committed to pump first time in four months after Russia clamped McDonald’s, which according to Morgan they manipulated currency and interest rate markets. Citigroup long opposed the Kurdish region’s 150,000 barrels per day of oil - down on the fast-food chain for alleged Stanley makes an operational profit in Russia Inc said when it published third quarter results last month that it independent export of oil, while Kurdish lead- around half their overall shipments - to Iraqi hygiene violations following Western sanc- of about $331 million, appealed the decisions. was pulling out of consumer banking in 11 markets, including ers have sharply criticized Baghdad for with- government export tanks in the Turkish port of tions over Ukraine. “We have obtained agree- In October, it won a rare victory, convincing a Japan and Egypt, as it seeks to cut persistently high costs. holding budget payments to the region for Ceyhan. ment from the Russian public health agency court to overturn an order to shut down two much of this year. Baghdad cut the Kurds’ share of the budget to reopen our Pushkin Square restaurant,” branches in the northwestern city of Veliky “From March until now, this is the first to punish them for exporting oil without its McDonald’s spokeswoman Svetlana Novgorod. But six branches remain closed in India to pay Iran $400m financial payment to go to the region,” Zebari consent. The region was plunged into financial Polyakova said. Symbolically, the restaurant Russia, including one in a busy shopping mall oil money this week said. The two sides are also at odds over con- crisis, but has continued pumping oil through was the first ever branch of McDonald’s to next to the Kremlin. NEW DELHI: India will soon pay a third tranche of $400 mil- trol of a swathe of northern territory that the its independent pipeline to Turkey, and exports open in the Soviet Union in 1990, when peo- That branch would reopen in January, lion to Iran ahead of a Nov. 24 deadline to an interim deal Kurds want to incorporate into their recently increased to around 300,000 bpd. ple queued for hours around the square to try McDonald’s said, according to the state TASS with six world powers that allows Tehran to recover part of autonomous region, a move Baghdad strongly Iraqi leaders are under pressure to bury dif- their first ever Big Mac. news agency. Russia denied that the high- its overseas frozen oil revenues, industry sources said yes- opposes. ferences in order to counter Islamic State mili- Yesterday, only a dozen Russians waited for profile checks into the fast-food brand that terday. Indian oil refiners are preparing to release the pay- The deal is one of the most significant tants who control substantial parts of Iraq and the restaurant to reopen its doors since it was epitomizes the American way of life were ments this week, the sources said, adding Mangalore achievements of the new Iraqi government of neighboring Syria. forced shut in August over a hygiene probe. In politically motivated. But they came as the Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd and Essar Oil will make the Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi, and marks an In July, then-foreign minister Zebari said the the summer, Russia’s consumer safety watch- United States imposed harsh sanctions on bulk of the payment. The other refiners that will also make important improvement in ties between Kurdish political bloc withdrew from the dog launched a wave of checks of nearly 170 Russia over its support for separatists in east- payments are Indian Oil Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Baghdad and Arbil, which reached new lows national government in protest against then- branches of McDonald’s-out of a total of more ern Ukraine. Corp. India has already paid $900 million in two install- under the previous premier. In praising the prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s accusation that than 450 — and nine branches were shut Russia responded to sanctions by banning ments under the interim deal that allowed Iran to recover deal, Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi had previ- Kurds were harboring Islamist insurgents in down. most food imports from the European Union $2.8 billion of its funds held in foreign banks, in addition to ously said that it eases a dispute “that threat- their capital. —Agencies Russia accused McDonald’s of “consumer and the United States, a move that has proved $4.2 billion paid between January and July. fraud” through wrongly stating the energy unpopular with many Russians. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.710 Sierra Leone 0.000064 0.000070 Nepalese Rupees 3.945 Singapore Dollar 0.221444 0.227444 South African Rand 0.020249 0.028749 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 87.645 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 2.521 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 48.035 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001912 0.002492 Indian Rupees 4.740 Australian Dollar 236.01 233.01 Thai Bhat 9.885 Taiwan 0.009374 0.009554 Pakistani Rupees 2.865 Canadian Dollar 262.55 263.55 Turkish Lira 131.225 Thai Baht 0.008554 0.009104 Srilankan Rupees 2.223 Swiss Franc 307.32 305.32 Nepali Rupees 2.964 Euro 366.78 367.78 Arab Singapore Dollar 226.140 US Dollar 291.90 294.90 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.766485 0.774485 Hongkong Dollar 37.594 Sterling Pound 459.35 462.35 Egyptian Pound 0.038348 0.041448 Japanese Yen 2.54 2.56 Iranian Riyal 0.000081 0.000082 Bangladesh Taka 3.761 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.487 Bangladesh Taka 3.761 4.031 Iraqi Dinar 0.000194 0.000254 Europe Thai Baht 8.889 Indian Rupee 4.720 5.020 Jordanian Dinar 0.406922 0.414422 Belgian Franc 0.007586 0.008586 Irani Riyal transfer 59.000 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.223 2.658 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 British Pound 0.451155 0.460155 Irani Riyal cash 116.000 Nepali Rupee 2.942 3.477 Lebanese Pound 0.000142 0.000242 Czech Korune 0.005174 0.017174 Pakistani Rupee 2.870 2.790 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023800 0.047800 UAE Dirhams 79.32 79.78 Danish Krone 0.045007 0.050007 GCC COUNTRIES Nigerian Naira 0.001179 0.001814 Bahraini Dinar 774.72 776.79 Euro 0.359799 0.367799 Saudi Riyal 77.764 Omani Riyal 0.750859 0.756539 Egyptian Pound 40.71 41.31 Norwegian Krone 0.039156 0.044356 Qatari Riyal 80.115 Qatar Riyal 0.079330 0.080543 Omani Riyal 757.730 Jordanian Dinar 414.75 420.40 Romanian Leu 0.083583 0.083583 Omani Riyal 756.98 764.28 Slovakia 0.008496 0.018496 Saudi Riyal 0.077070 0.077770 Bahraini Dinar 774.540 Syrian Pound 0.001727 0.001947 UAE Dirham 79.417 Qatari Riyal 80.38 80.93 Swedish Krona 0.035425 0.040425 Saudi Riyal 77.75 78.15 Swiss Franc 0.297571 0.307771 Tunisian Dinar 0.155608 0.163608 Turkish Lira 0.129038 0.136038 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.129038 0.136038 UAE Dirhams 0.078356 0.0795505 Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.860 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001315 0.001395 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.684 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.360 Australian Dollar 0.247554 0.259054 Tunisian Dinar 159.550 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.225543 0.235043 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 411.550 US Dollar 291.750 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.956 Canadian Dollar 260.085 Canadian Dollar 0.252713 0.261213 Syrian Lira 2.078 Sterling Pound 456.630 US Dollars 0.287300 0.292000 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.314 Euro 366.500 US Dollars Mint 0.287800 0.292000 US Dollar 291.150 Swiss Frank 303.035 Euro 367.000 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 775.760 Asia Pound Sterlng 458.200 US Dollar Transfer 291.500 UAE Dirhams 79.330 Bangladesh Taka 0.003395 0.003995 Canadian Dollar 260.150 Euro 364.960 Chinese Yuan 0.046039 0.049539 Qatari Riyals 80.935 Indian Rupee 4.723 Sterling Pound 464.960 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035486 0.038236 Saudi Riyals 77.975 Egyptian Pound 40.695 Canadian dollar 257.670 Jordanian Dinar 411.660 Indian Rupee 0.004438 0.004839 Turkish lira 129.110 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.221 Egyptian Pound 40.707 Bangladesh Taka 3.757 Swiss Franc 303.330 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.225 Japanese Yen 0.002431 0.002611 Australian Dollar 254.190 Philippines Peso 6.480 Indian Rupees 4.716 Kenyan Shilling 0.003234 0.003234 US Dollar Buying 290.300 Pakistan Rupee 2.868 Pakistani Rupees 2.867 Korean Won 0.000256 0.000271 Bahraini Dinar 775.150 Bangladesh Taka 3.759 Malaysian Ringgit 0.084255 0.090225 GOLD UAE Dirham 79.300 Philippines Pesso 6.481 Nepalese Rupee 0.002978 0.003148 20 gram 226.000 Cyprus pound 715.865 Pakistan Rupee 0.002706 0.002986 Saudi Riyal 77.750 10 gram 116.000 Philippine Peso 0.006355 0.006635 *Rates are subject to change 5 gram 59.000 Japanese Yen 3.480 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS Risky rewards for China’s overseas investment boom

BEIJING: China’s inexorable economic stood at $117.6 billion last year, official ‘None of his business’ of law firm Dechert LLP China, told AFP share of Chinese investment is rising and rise is set to see it become a net global data showed, and the latest figures on At the same time, some projects have that the “primary cause” of problems was state-owned firms scaling back, so that investor after decades of Western money Tuesday showed the gap between them not proved as profitable as hoped. Auto poor thinking, and failures to carry out “sensitivity about government involve- flowing into the country, but analysts has narrowed substantially in 2014. manufacturer SAIC Motor took a control- sufficient due diligence. ment and thus scrutiny should also warn the change offers risks as well as China invested $4.19 billion in non- ling stake in South Korea’s SsangYong “A merger and acquisition contract is ease”, according to Brian Jackson of profits. financial sectors in the US alone in the Motor Company but lost several billion logged as an achievement of the SOE research firm IHS Economics. Chinese oil behemoth CNOOC’s $15 first 10 months of this year, the com- yuan when it went bankrupt and suf- (head) once it is signed,” he said. “It will But data compiled by AEI and the billion acquisition of Canada’s Nexen, merce ministry said, almost twice as fered a bitter strike, which ended only be none of his business when it incurs Heritage Foundation think-tank showed completed last year, was just a fraction much as the $2.32 billion that flowed in with a police raid featuring commandos losses in two years’ time.” more than 100 projects or acquisitions of the $625 billion the country has the other direction. “It is a matter of time rappelling from a helicopter in a hail of Experts also caution that having worth $100 million or more have fallen invested abroad, much of it resources before China’s overseas investment missiles. more funds flowing out of the world’s through for non-market reasons since driven and also taking in other sectors exceeds the foreign investment it Insurer Ping An saw its $3.5 billion second-largest economy reflects declin- 2005. including agriculture, manufacturing receives,” assistant commerce minister investment in European financial group ing confidence in China. “If capital finds Chinese technology giant Huawei in and banking. Zhang Xiangchen told reporters last Fortis wiped out in the global financial the rest of the world more appealing on 2008 abandoned a joint $2.2 billion bid But the looming changeover may be month. crisis of 2008. Wang Jiahua, executive the whole, it indicates that opportunities for US firm 3Com because of opposition a sign that China is becoming less attrac- “Even if it is not realized this year, it deputy chairman of the China Mining in China are being prematurely closed by Washington’s Committee on Foreign tive as an investment destination itself, will in the near future. China is soon to Association, an off, most likely by government policy,” Investment over security concerns. while some deals have been less suc- become a net capital exporter.” China is industry group, said 80 percent of Derek Scissors, of the Washington-based Nexen buyer CNOOC earlier mounted cessful than others. Chinese external now the world’s third largest investor Chinese mining investment abroad had American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told a failed $18.5-billion bid for US oil and acquisitions were strictly controlled until after the United States and Japan, “failed”, the state-run Economic AFP. Beijing has denied that a swathe of gas producer Unocal in 2005. Under a 2000 when the Communist Party listed according to the United Nations Information newspaper reported in inquiries in sectors ranging from auto free trade agreement sealed by Australia overseas investment as a new growth Conference on Trade and Development, June. China Power Investment and pharmaceuticals to software are tar- and China this week, Canberra has strategy, widely described as “going out” and Beijing’s figures show the US and Corporation is reported to have lost at geting foreign firms, but China’s growth retained the right to examine all invest- to secure technology, resources and Australia as its top recipient nations. least 7.3 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) on the has slowed in recent years, while land ments by Chinese SOEs, despite Beijing market access. But the spending spree has been controversial Myitsone hydropower and labour costs have risen. reportedly seeking an exemption for Overseas direct investment (ODI) has largely driven by big state-owned enter- plant in Myanmar, where President Thein deals up to around $940 million. since ballooned-along with China’s for- prises (SOEs), backed by state banks as Sein ordered the project halted in 2011. ‘Irrational’ “A lot of buyers are irrational, push- eign exchange stockpile-and reached they purchase mineral and energy Analysts blame Chinese investors’ Equally, many destination countries ing prices up and making people sus- $90.2 billion in 2013, more than 30 times resources, sparking concerns over inexperience and decisions driven by are wary of Chinese investment, some- pect whether China’s political, military what it was a decade previously. China’s growing economic power and government policy rather than business times provoking angry accusations of or other ends are behind such deals,” Incoming foreign direct investment (FDI) possible political motives. sense. Tao Jingzhou, managing partner bias by Beijing. Analysts say private firms’ said Tao. —AFP

Nigeria facing ‘serious economic challenges’ amid oil price collapse LAGOS: Nigeria has made pragmatic moves difficult. Public finances are often opaque to curb spending to offset falling global oil and serious corruption cases are very rarely prices, analysts said, but blamed corruption tested in court. “The signals for the current for the failure to prevent a budget crisis that situation have been there all along,” said Pat many saw coming. Finance Minister Ngozi Utomi, a professor at the Lagos Business Okonjo-Iweala described the recent plunge in School and a former opposition politician. price to $79 per barrel of Nigeria’s main crude “It’s just that our government did not take product as “a serious challenge” as oil exports proactive measures.” Utomi, like Nweke, account for 70 percent of government rev- argued that Nigeria had failed to take advan- enue. tage of ample opportunities to save. She announced a series of belt-tightening “Nigeria must understand that leakages in measures at the weekend, including a major the system need to be plugged and that our cutback in foreign travel for government resources can be used much better,” Nweke employees and new taxes on luxury items. said. “This is going to make the country less The benchmark oil price that Nigeria uses to vulnerable the next time this happens.” Aside plan spending for the 2015 fiscal year will also from cutting waste, experts say Nigeria needs be cut from $78 to $73 — a budget revision to crack down on crude-stealing gangs who that must be approved by lawmakers. The syphon oil out of pipelines, sometimes with head of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group the tacit backing of local politicians and think tank, Frank Nweke, described the moves reportedly the security services. as “pragmatic” given the severity of the rev- Crude theft is estimated to cost Nigeria at enue shortfall. “But this has happened before,” least $6 billion a year. “We must be prepared he noted, and said the government remained to make sacrifices where necessary,” Ngozi vulnerable to oil market shocks because a fail- said as she announced the cutbacks, while ure to cut graft and waste has made it chroni- stressing that key programs linked to infra- cally difficult to save for a rainy day. structure and housing will not be affected.

ALDIE: Brick masons load up a concrete mixer while building single family homes in Aldie, Virginia. New US housing construction slowed in Savings account? Election spending October from September, weighed down by a drop in starts on multifamily properties, government data released yesterday showed. —AFP Nigeria, which is Africa’s leading economy, Critics warn that President Goodluck in theory sets a modest benchmark oil price Jonathan’s administration will be forced to each fiscal year to ensure savings. When spend lavishly to secure his re-election in prices were higher earlier in the year, any rev- February polls. The ruling Peoples Democratic US home construction enue earned above the benchmark $78 per Party has long been accused of using public barrel was supposed to be deposited in the money to fund its campaigns. State govern- country’s Excess Crude Account (ECA). ments have already complained about short- Analysts say the ECA should be well-funded falls in federal allocations. Some state finance drops 2.8% in October given the relatively strong oil market in commissioners have said they are struggling recent years. Oil prices have fallen by over a to pay salaries and meet other commitments, quarter since June, and were still above $100 which, aside from constituting a major failure Volatile apartment sector leads to weakness just two months ago. of governance, would also likely have political But the government has been repeatedly consequences. WASHINGTON: Construction of new homes fell down in October, analysts said the weakness in coming months. At the same time, econo- accused of raiding the account to meet budg- “Politicians will try to muster enough cash slightly in October after a big surge in the previ- was confined to apartment building, which had mists are concerned about price gains, which so et shortfalls brought on by corruption. to prosecute their elections,” said Utomi, argu- ous month, but the weakness was largely driven seen a huge increase in September. They noted far have been outpacing wage increases. Documenting graft in Nigeria-Africa’s top ing that failure to crack down on wasteful by the volatile apartment sector. upward revisions to overall activity in September Price increases have cut into affordability for oil producer which churns out roughly two political spending will inevitably make things Builders started construction at a seasonally and August and forecast further gains in the would-be buyers, limiting sales growth for new million barrels of crude per day-is notoriously worse. — AFP adjusted annual rate of 1.009 million last month, months ahead. homes and cutting into sales for existing homes. the Commerce Department reported yesterday. “The improving trend should continue, sup- But in an encouraging sign, US homebuilders’ That was a drop of 2.8 percent from September ported by generally low rates ... and strong job confidence rebounded in November as both when construction had jumped 7.8 percent to growth,” said Jennifer Lee, senior economist at sales expectations and buyer traffic improved. 1.038 million. The weakness stemmed from a BMO Capital Markets. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells 15.4 percent plunge in apartment construction, Showing strength in October was the South, Fargo index rose to 58 this month, up from 54 in a category that tends to have big swings from which posted a 10.1 percent jump on construc- October. month to month. Construction of single-family tion starts. All other regions of the country That puts the index just short of September’s homes was up 4.2 percent, the third gain in the recorded declines. Construction fell 18.5 percent reading of 59, which was the highest level since past four months. in the Midwest, 16.4 percent in the Northeast November 2005, shortly before the housing Applications for building permits, a good sign and 10.9 percent in the West. Solid employment bubble burst. Readings above 50 indicate more of future activity, rose 4.8 percent in October to gains, lower mortgage rates and somewhat easi- builders view sales conditions as good rather 1.08 million. While overall construction was er lending standards are likely to boost housing than poor. — AP Energy giant Shell wins major India tax case MUMBAI: Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal to the government initiatives to improve the dence to a great extent,” said Girish Vanvari, co- Dutch Shell has won a lengthy court battle investment climate,” the company said in a state- head of tax at KPMG in India. Foreign companies against Indian tax authorities, marking a signifi- ment yesterday. allege that Indian tax laws are sometimes cant victory for multinationals involved in taxa- The amount demanded by Indian tax authori- applied in an uneven and capricious manner, tion wrangles in the country. The Bombay High ties was not immediately known and Shell did making it difficult to do business in the country. Court ruled in favor of Shell, whose Indian unit not disclose the figure. The government has not A court ruled in October in favor of Vodafone had been accused of under-pricing shares issued said whether it will appeal the ruling. The tax India, which had been engaged in a $490-million to its parent firm by about 180-billion rupees ($3 claim was one in a string imposed by Indian tax battle with authorities after they accused the billion). authorities on foreign firms including HSBC, IBM company of also underpricing its shares in a The company had challenged a demand by and Nokia. rights-issue to its British parent Vodafone Plc. Indian authorities for tax on the interest that These suits, too, are now most likely to be Vodafone, however, is still battling a more than would have been earned. The judges on resolved in a fashion similar to the Shell case, $2-billion tax demand over its $10.7-billion pur- Tuesday quashed the income tax department experts say. chase of Indian mobile operations in 2007 from order, a move Shell welcomed. “This is a positive The ruling “shows there are viable legal reme- Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa. outcome which should provide a further boost dies for investors in India. This restores confi- Uncertainty about India’s regulatory climate has dampened foreign investment interest at a time when the country urgently needs funds to upgrade its dilapidated roads, rails and other infrastructure and spur economic growth. Vikram Dhawan, equities director at Mumbai’s Equentis Capital, called the Shell rul- ing “a very positive development”. But Dhawan said the Indian government now had to remove ambiguities surrounding inward investment “if more of such suits that hurt investor sentiment are to be avoided”. Foreign investors have been disappointed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power in May promising to boost growth, has not yet repealed a 2012 law that allows officials to tax companies retroactively. So-called transfer pricing-the value at which companies trade assets between units in different countries-has become a major legal issue in India and in other countries. Tax authorities often contend that compa- nies set the prices for transferring assets for their own gain. Legally, prices for cross-border LONDON: The Shell logo is pictured outside a Shell petrol station in central London. Anglo- transfer of assets are supposed to be carried Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has won a lengthy court battle against Indian tax out as if the transactions involved separate authorities on Tuesday.—AFP companies. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 BUSINESS Shares fall, dollar gains as outlooks diverge

LONDON: Shares fell in Europe and Asia FTSEurofirst 300 index was down 0.3 per- “This incoherence shows that equities ahead in the world’s third-largest a much longer period. The yen fell as yesterday while the dollar rose broadly, cent. are mostly supported by the input from economy and the Nikkei share index low as 117.44 to the dollar, its weakest hitting a new seven-year high against the “There’s been no pause in the sell-off in the central banks, and not economic indi- closed 0.3 percent lower. On Tuesday since October 2007 and was last at yen, as investors focused on the divergent commodity prices, which drags the shares cators.” Attention was again drawn to it made its biggest daily gain in two 117.32, down 0.4 percent on the day. outlooks for the world’s major economies. of all the basic-resources companies. The Japan. Tokyo stocks fell as investors took months. The euro edged down to $1.2533. Oil prices stayed near 4-year lows on signs slide in oil and metal prices is sending profits on gains made on Tuesday when The Bank of Japan on Wednesday Petr Krpata, currency strategist at ING, of disagreement between OPEC members warning signals about the outlook for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delayed a sales kept its monetary policy unchanged, said the Fed minutes were likely to before a meeting next week. global growth, signals that for now the tax and called a snap election. as expected. Governor Haruhiko reiterate a hawkish tone as reflected European shares opened lower, broad stock market is ignoring,” Talence While the Japanese premier’s actions Kuroda told a news conference the in the central bank’s statement after dragged down by miners after a sharp fall Gestion fund manager Alexandre Le were seen as positive for risky assets, BOJ’s monetary stimulus program its October meeting. “Such a message in iron ore prices. The pan-European Drogoff said. investors took stock of the challenges was exerting its intended effect. will likely send US rates and the dollar Japan unexpectedly slipped into higher and increase expectations for a recession in the third quarter. Other more material shift in the FOMC bias Asian shares also fell. MSCI’s broadest at the Dec. 19 meeting,” Krpata said. index of Asia-Pacific shares outside German government bond yields Japan was down 0.5 percent. dipped as markets focused on the This contrasted with Tuesday’s prospect of further monetary easing action on Wall Street, where the Dow by the ECB. Jones Industrial average and the S&P Brent crude oil, which has fallen 500 closed at record highs, lifted by nearly a third in recent months, held healthcare stocks. Later in the day, below $79 a barrel after data showed eyes will be on minutes of the latest Saudi Arabia increased crude exports policy meetings of the Bank of in September and as divisions England and the Federal Reserve. between OPEC members appeared to Both are expected to raise interest grow before a meeting in Vienna on rates at some point in 2015 as eco- Nov 27. “It’s going to be hard to reach nomic recovery takes hold, although any sort of agreement to cut produc- market bets on the timing of these tion,” said Michael McCarthy, chief hikes have been pushed back toward market strategist at CMC Markets in the end of the year. Sydney. A stronger dollar saw gold The European Central Bank and the slip from a near three-week high hit Bank of Japan, on the other hand, are on Tuesday. Spot gold was last at expected to keep policy very loose for $1,199.00 an ounce. —Reuters

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Market Commentary Kuwait real estate sector The long-awaited correction By Byron Wien posts 33% annual growth ll through the summer the United States equity market made new Ahighs in spite of increasing turbu- Kuwait International Bank Report lence around the world. The economy was continuing to grow modestly, earn- KUWAIT: In October 2014, Kuwait real estate same levels on annual basis. The Residential sec- ings were coming through and the market maintained the same approximate level tor had 39.3 percent only of the total number of geopolitical problems were a long way realized last month, whereby the total real estate deals concluded in the market against 40.7 per- away. The Ned Davis Crowd Sentiment deals value indicator dropped by 3.8 percent cent last month and 59 percent in the compara- Poll, which includes transactional data only, achieving an annual growth of 33 percent ble month last year. like the put-call ratio, showed that compared to October 2013. The total value of As for the Investment sector, the sales volume investor mood was very optimistic. real estate deals reached KD 383.9 million. This tremendously dipped by 31 percent on monthly Historically, the market is vulnerable to a has been achieved though the total number of basis reaching KD145 million only. However it is correction when optimism is extreme. working days in October was only 17 days due still higher by 124 percent of the sales volume of You don’t know what will cause the sell- to Eid Al-Adha holiday. In return, the total num- the sector for the same month last year (Oct- off, but you have the uneasy feeling it’s ber of deals fell by 20 percent on monthly basis, 2013). The number of deals concluded in the coming. The market had gone through thus the total number of deals reached 650 only sector fell by 14 percent on monthly basis, while two years without so much as much as a (161 contracts and 34 power of attorneys) that is raised by 38.7 percent on annual basis. As for the 10 percent correction and we were due less by 5 percent compared with the number of average deals value, it amounted KD1.12 million for one. deals concluded in October 2013. The average dropping by 20 percent compared to last Identifying the precipitating event is deal value indicator increased to KD 590.5,000, month, ,while still higher by 61.6 percent com- hard and probably unimportant. A few to last forever and nothing is ever going that is by 20.4 percent on monthly basis and by pared to last year. The investment sector’s share of the geopolitical problems had actual- to go wrong. That’s when the “animal 39.9 percent on annual basis. of total market liquidity for this month (October ly cooled somewhat, albeit temporarily. spirits” take over. Having established a comparison between 2014) reached 37.9 percent compared to 52.9 Russian troops had pulled back from the During the decline, there was wide October’s performance this year and the compa- percent last month and 22.5 percent for October Ukraine border; there was a cease-fire in suspicion that the end of Federal rable months for the period (2007-2014), though 2013. the Gaza conflict; the Iran nuclear talks Reserve monetary accommodation in the slight drop in the Total Value of Real Estate It is also noticeable this month the increase of weren’t making much progress, but they October had something to do with it. Deals concluded last month, October 2014 came commercial sector indicators following the pro- were continuing; and in the South China The balance sheet of the Fed was $1 tril- the second in terms of total value of real estate portional stillness witnessed in the last three Sea issues had quieted down for a while. lion in 2008. It is over $4 trillion now. deals (after October 2007),came the first since months. Thus, the total value of sales in the sec- However, the situation in Syria and Iraq, There is general agreement that easy 2007 in terms of the average value of deals indi- tor reached KD79.6 million, which is approxi- which had been invaded by the Islamic money was a factor in the rise in the cator, and was in the middle level in the total mately four times its level last month, and State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), remained stock market over the past five years as number of deal concluded in the market as increasing by 59.6 percent compared to 2013. serious. The two threats that may have well as the low level of interest rates. shown in the following table. The number of deals was doubled in the sector unsettled investors were the possibilities Accordingly, the end of the tapering Having perused the monthly performance of compared to last month. However the total that the Ebola virus might spread to process was pointed to as one of the the different market sectors, the Residential sec- number of deals is still less than the number in market, the Coastal sector concluded two deals Europe and the United States and that causes of the decline. tor’s sales volume indicator decreased by 6.9 2013 by 21.4 percent, while the average deal val- for an amount of KD6.4 million, while the the economic slowdown in Germany In October, I spent a week in the percent on monthly basis and by 11.3 percent ue was higher by 8.3 percent compared to last Warehouse Sector had one deal for an amount might abort Europe’s weak recovery and Middle East to visit clients and get some on an annual basis. Thus the total Residential month and higher by 116.7 percent compared of KD1.3 million. Showrooms and Crafts Sectors bring the continent back into recession. feeling for the mood there. It was not sector sales reached only KD151 million during to last October 2013. As a result, the commercial have not concluded any deals this month. The decline in stocks gained intensity as cool in terms of temperature - in the the month. The count of deals indicator for resi- sector realized a remarkable share of the total it moved along, with many days down 1 high 90s minimum every day - but I did dential sector dropped by 21.8 percent on market liquidity during this month reaching 20.7 Conclusion percent or more on the Standard & observe that the conflicts in the region monthly basis and by 11.4 on annual basis. The percent compared to 4.3 percent last month, With following up the annual performance of Poor’s 500. Rallies gave way to further are not a part of everyone’s daily conver- average deal value indicator rose by 19 percent and 17.3 percent for October 2013. As for the the market up to the end of October 2014, till declines and eventually the market fell sation in the places I visited. Most of on monthly basis and kept approximately the other sectors which have lesser impact on the this last moment, the market has realized almost 10 percent before prices stabi- those living there are focused on eco- approximate total sales of 90.3 percent com- lized. The correction did pound some of nomic opportunity, and the price of oil pared to 2007 which was the highest since 2004 the optimism out of investors’ minds. is more important to them than the according to the data available. The investment The Crowd Sentiment Poll dropped from fighting in the western part of the sector registered a new record with a total sales optimistic into pessimistic territory, set- region. A range of opinion exists on value of KD1.84 billion till end of October 2014 ting the stage for a rise in the market what price is necessary for Saudi Arabia compared to KD 1.72 billion in 2007. In conclu- through year-end. There may be further and others to finance their domestic sion, and having perused Kuwait Real Estate declines, but in my opinion the worst is activities. Some believe $80 will do it Market performance last months, the market over. I believe that this was a necessary and there are estimates as high as $110. sustained the same expected performance level correction and not the beginning of a Oil is priced in dollars and the strength without any structural changes or fallbacks due bear market. of the American currency has obviously to any global economic changes, which might Sometimes, the market is smarter increased its purchasing power. The pre- be related to the drop in oil prices, and the clut- than all of us participating investors and vailing view is that the price of oil is gen- ters in the region. In spite of the slight drop in a sharp downturn precedes a recession erally influenced by cyclical factors. certain indicators of the market this month in by about seven months. I do not think Since the economies of the United comparison with last month, the levels achieved States, Europe and China are slowing, that was the outcome signaled by the are still in coherence with the market perform- you would expect weaker demand to be September/October correction. The US ance during this period of the year taking into reflected in the oil price. North America economy is actually doing quite well. account the performance achieved during the is also becoming more energy self-suffi- Real growth is expected to be approach- last few years. All in all, the following chart ing 3 percent in the second half of 2014 cient as a result of hydraulic fracking and conservation. The emerging mar- shows the shares realized by all Kuwait real and growth of 2.5 percent to 3 percent is estate sectors in October 2014 and outlines a expected to continue into 2015. The kets, where the incremental demand is expected to come from, are not growing comparison between these shares during last economy usually provides some warn- month and the comparable month in 2013. ing signals before a recession occurs. as fast as they were previously. On the According to an Omega Advisors study, other hand, the expanding middle-class danger is signaled when the yield curve throughout the developing world will is inverted, unemployment claims are want motorized vehicles, and this will rising, personal income is down, con- drive future prices higher. In the mean- Jazeera Airways official carrier sumer confidence is falling, industrial time the present price is sufficient to production is declining, and/or invento- finance current operations in the pro- ries are increasing. Virtually none of ducing countries. If some capital proj- of Nuqat Creative Conference these indicators are giving a warning ects need to be deferred because of signal now. There have been some insufficient funds, it is not a great tragedy. KUWAIT: Jazeera Airways, a Kuwait-based airline notable earnings disappointments serving the Middle East with the highest on-time (including IBM, Amazon, AT&T, If there were any geopolitical issue that troubles those living in the Middle performance, yesterday announced it has part- McDonald’s and Coca-Cola), but Apple, East, it is the rise of ISIS. At this point, nered with Nuqat, a pioneer cultural organizer in Caterpillar, Microsoft and others did nobody expects ISIS to move beyond the Arab world, as the official carrier of this year’s well. More worrisome is the shortfall in Syria, Iraq and possibly Afghanistan. In Nuqat Creative Conference which launched this revenue growth, and because margins the places I visited there is concern but week under the theme of “The Missing Link: are no longer increasing, net profits not fear. Observers in the region are dis- Practicing the Collective Approach.” have only improved modestly. appointed that the United States has The 24 creative artists participating in the Companies have continued their share not played a broader role. They believe Creative Conference have flown to Kuwait, and will buyback programs, however, and this that the US is not willing to back up our animate 24 lectures, a dynamic weekend of cultural has played an important role in earnings “red lines” after witnessing our failure to entertainment, and 11 workshops and seminars to per share growth. That is expected to act when Syria used chemical weapons teach new skills to participants. Every year, more continue. against its own people and when Iran than 1200 participants from the GCC and Middle I believe we are in a prolonged peri- moved forward with its nuclear East and North Africa region attend the Nuqat od of slow growth in the United States, weapons development program. The Creative Conference in Kuwait. Europe and Japan. As a result I think a foreign nationals and the local citizens Jazeera Airways Vice President of Marketing and favorable environment for stock prices in the Middle East have a fatalistic atti- Product, Dr Mohamed Barakat, said: “We are glad to could continue for several more years. In tude. They are used to living in warlike support Nuqat for the second year in-a-row and my mind, valuations are not excessive conditions and general adversity is part look forward to continue serving the art communi- Luxor, Assiut, Sohag, Mashhad, Jeddah, Riyadh, and operates one of the youngest Airbus A320 fleets and equities can appreciate in price in of the way of life there. They know that ty in its endeavors to share, teach and express arts Cairo. across the Middle East. Nuqat, first known as accordance with earnings increases. I do ISIS is a threat, but believe it is not likely through cultural, creative and social platforms.” The airline operates eight fully owned Airbus “NuqatAla Al Huroof,” started off with one objec- not expect much in the way of multiple to affect them over the near term. Right During the period of the conference, the airline A320s with two class cabins comprising a Business tive in mind to develop Arab creativity on all lev- expansion, except perhaps at the end of now they are more concerned about the displayed a board for participants and speakers to Class and an Economy Class. Business Class travel- els, encompassing design, advertising, architec- the cycle when everyone becomes com- price of oil and the direction of the share and express their thoughts on “What kind of ers get both an upgraded experience and exclusivi- ture, fashion, production and all other pertinent fortable that the good times are going financial markets. link do they want to bridge”, in parallel with the ty, starting with exclusive check-in lines, business social and cultural fields. Established out of frus- topic discussed throughout the conference. lounge access, up to 60 kilograms in free baggage tration with the lack of spirited exchange in the Jazeera Airways serves from Kuwait 20 popular allowance, and an exclusive on-board cabin. The Middle East, the Nuqat team is made up of like- destinations in the Middle East, including high- airline’s Economy Class offers travelers free bag- ≠minded cultural visionaries from Lebanon, BoJ keeps growth outlook demand business, leisure, family, and weekend gage allowance of 40 kilograms and free on-board Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Dubai who destinations such as Dubai, Bahrain, Beirut, meals with a changing menu every month. have a growing optimism about fueling creative despite Japan recession Alexandria, Amman, Istanbul, Sharm El Sheikh, Jazeera Airways is an IATA-member airline and dialogue in the region.

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan yesterday kept its Tokyo’s decision-and Abe’s call on Tuesday upbeat economic view despite data showing for a snap election ahead of a party leader- the country had slipped into recession, which ship vote next year-came after a sales levy Al-Muzaini Exchange Company to prompted Premier Shinzo Abe to delay a hike in April slammed the brakes on growth scheduled tax hike and call a snap election. just as the deflation-plagued economy Following a two-day meeting, the BoJ stood appeared to be turning a corner. open its 63rd branch in Khaitan pat on monetary policy-after expanding its The perennially optimistic Kuroda echoed already huge stimulus package last month-as a BoJ statement earlier Wednesday which KUWAIT: With the objective to meet Al-Muzaini Exchange has the provision of utmost convenience services that includes issuing checks markets eyed governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s said the world’s number three economy was the expanding needs of its cus- increased its footprint across the in the exchange and remittance sec- and collection of checks drawn on reaction to Tokyo’s announcements. still on track for a recovery. tomers, Al-Muzaini Exchange Co, country by being critically placed at tors. Through the expansion of our foreign banks and the sale and pur- But Kuroda-Prime Minister Abe’s hand- Kuwait’s leading Exchange and convenient locations such as one chain, we have also ensured equip- chase of foreign currencies and picked central bank chief-said little about the Snap election, tax hike delay Remittance Company, announces the stop shop Co-op’s and in other com- ping the new branch with state-of- remittances (to all parts of the world), issue at a post-meeting press briefing, despite Despite its bullish view, however, the cen- launch of its 63rd branch on mercial areas to support its cus- the-art technologies, enabling it to DHL related services while also bene- earlier calls for Tokyo to press on with tax rises tral bank was more cautious on inflation Thursday, November 20, from 5pm - 8 tomer’s efficient and quick transfers. provide even more efficient and fitting from Western Union’s varied aimed at generating fresh revenue to trim an expectations, saying that they “appear to be pm. The branch, which is located in In addition to the soon-to-be inaugu- effective services to Al-Muzaini services that are on offer. enormous national debt. rising on the whole from a somewhat longer- Khaitan, will officially be inaugurated rated branch in Khaitan and in effort Exchange’s customers.” “I’m not going to comment on a decision term perspective”. by Al-Muzaini’s Deputy General to provide further convenience on all Al-Muzaini Exchange Company, a made by the government,” Kuroda told “While board members noted that some Manager, Ali Al-Fajhan followed with levels, Al-Muzaini also guarantees a pioneer and leader in the foreign reporters. weakness on the production side remained, a series of activities. mobile van express that is equipped exchange business in Kuwait for over “But, generally speaking, it’s important to they upgraded their views on exports, hous- Guests can look forward to differ- to undertake transactions in areas 70 years now with network branches maintain confidence in Japan’s finances. I still ing investment and private consumption,” ent events and activities along with where there is little or no accessibili- that spans currently through 63 expect the government will implement meas- said Marcel Thieliant from Capital Economics. exciting prizes to be won and much ty. branches located across Kuwait. To ures” to pay down the debt. He also dismissed “However, the BoJ now expects inflation to more. Additionally, as part of the cel- Commenting on the inauguration ensure customer satisfaction, arrival suggestions that the BoJ’s move to expand its remain at current levels of 1.0 percent for the ebrations, Al-Muzaini Exchange of the latest branch, Ali Al-Fajhan, Al- and departure sections of the Kuwait vast easing plan was based on the assump- time being, rather than to pick up as in previ- Company is providing an exclusive Muzaini’s Deputy General Manager International airport and the Sheikh tion Tokyo would lift the country’s taxes next ous statements.” offer where one could enjoy transfer- said: “The new branch addition Saad airport guarantee 24 hours 7 year. “I never thought we should have waited Thieliant added that “the statement sug- ring KD 100 or above with free mon- reflects our commitment to deliver days a week full service. more before expanding our monetary easing,” gests additional stimulus in the near-term is ey bank transfers up until December outstanding service for our cus- Al-Muzaini Exchange Company Al-Muzaini Deputy General Kuroda said. not on the cards.”—AFP 31. tomers, reaching out to them with provides customers a broad range of Manager Ali Al-Fajhan technology THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 WhatsApp encrypts messages from beginning to end

SAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp, the globally developed the “TextSecure” program with assumed that authorities eavesdropped on certain points by the companies them- notice its presence, according to a state- popular instant messaging system owned help from US government grants and pri- their phone calls. The move comes as other selves, for commercial purposes such as ment from Open Whisper Systems. by Facebook, has begun using a powerful vate funding. leading tech companies also are boosting advertising, and can be read by authorities WhatsApp declined comment Tuesday. new encryption program aimed at protect- Privacy advocates say WhatsApp’s deci- data encryption, despite criticism from if subpoenaed. Apple and Google also Apple’s iMessage service also encrypts ing users’ conversations from unwanted sion to incorporate so-called “end-to-end” some in law enforcement who say that can encrypt user data when it’s stored on their data from “end-to-end” but some experts surveillance and snooping. The messaging encryption will help users communicate make it more difficult for authorities to mobile devices. TextSecure takes that a say Apple’s program has technical features service, which has 600 million users and is without the fear of someone reading their catch terrorists or other criminals. step further; it’s designed to make that may leave it vulnerable to determined especially popular in Europe and Asia, messages. WhatsApp cofounder Jan Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. encrypt WhatsApp messages unable to be read by snooping. TextSecure isn’t yet available for added the new encryption to its last Koum has said he’s deeply committed to users’ email and messages while they anyone but the sender and recipient, even WhatsApp on iPhones, but Open Whisper update for Android smartphones, accord- user privacy because he grew up in the move within each company’s network, so if subpoenaed. The encryption feature is said it is working to make the feature avail- ing to Open Whisper Systems, the San Soviet Union during the 1980s, when his they can’t be read by outsiders. But experts offered by default, meaning WhatsApp able to iOS and other non-Android mobile Francisco-based software group that mother and other adults routinely say those messages can still be scanned at users don’t have to turn it on and shouldn’t users. —AP Facebook’s newest free app unbundles Groups feature New tech news page launched

NEW YORK: Facebook is launching a figures for Creative Labs apps. Facebook essentially forced users to lion users. Unlike with Messenger, new free mobile app for its popular Messenger, which predates the download it after it removed the though, the company says it won’t Groups feature that lets users create Creative Labs division, has fared messaging functionality from its require people to use the stand- and interact with communities on much better, though it helped that main app. It has more than 500 mil- alone app if they want to use the site, whether they’re based on Facebook Groups. They will still be hobbies, geography or culture. able to access Groups through the More than 700 million of Facebook app or on the website. Facebook’s 1.35 billion members use Facebook on Tuesday launched Groups, according to the company. It FB Techwire, billed as a showplace for says the site hosts hundreds of mil- technology talk shared by influential WUZHEN: Lu Wei (center), China’s Minister of Cyberspace Affairs Administration, lions of groups, which people use sources. “The goal of FB Techwire is to speaks at the opening ceremony of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, in talk to others who share their reli- aid in the discovery of original con- eastern China’s Zhejiang province yesterday. —AFP gion, to plan holiday dinners, or to tent including breaking news, first- discuss hobbies or health issues. person analysis, photos and videos The new app is meant to make for journalists that care about and China urges stronger accessing Groups easier on a mobile cover tech,” Facebook said in an device, allowing users to avoid having email. to dig through the Facebook app. It “With every breaking tech story, Internet management lets people manage their existing debate, launch or event we will find, groups or discover new ones, either verify and share the most relevant based on recommendations or by and high-value content to the tech WUZHEN, China: A top Beijing official the Internet, as well as joint efforts to thwart searching for different topics. Users community on Facebook in real called for stronger management of the cyber attacks. can also create a shortcut on their time.” Internet yesterday at a government-orga- phone’s screen for their favorite The amount of newsworthy con- nized conference condemned by rights ‘Elephant in the room’ group if they want to access it quickly. tent shared at the world’s leading campaigners as a Chinese attempt to pro- China and the United States have traded Facebook says that, as with its social network is climbing, and fea- mote its online controls globally. China, accusations of state-sponsored cyber-spy- messaging app, having a stand-alone tures, such as trending topics, along which censors online content it deems to be ing, with Washington in May charging five Groups function “helps people share with changes to the news feed have politically sensitive, opened the World Chinese military officers for breaking into US faster and more easily with all the been intended to make such tidbits Internet Conference in Wuzhen with the computers for industrial espionage purpos- groups in their life.” easier for journalists to access, country’s biggest Internet companies in es. The head of China’s powerful State Facebook Inc. has been working according to Facebook. attendance alongside a sprinkling of foreign Internet Information Office, Lu Wei, dangled to expand its presence on people’s Posts on the page will also be executives and officials. the promise of the world’s largest Internet mobile devices by creating - and buy- shared on Twitter from an @fbtech- Participants at the three-day conference market before the companies attending. ing - apps such as Messenger, Paper, wire account, the California-based in the tiny eastern Chinese town have unfet- “China has a population of over 1.3 bil- Instagram and WhatsApp. The apps company said. The launch came a tered Internet access to sites denied to the lion and an Internet population of over 600 Facebook created from scratch day after word spread that Facebook rest of the country, such as Facebook and million,” he told the opening ceremony. “I through its Creative Labs have faced is creating a version of the social net- Twitter, attendees said. hope everyone can find a market here and varying levels of success. work tailored for the business world. As well as the social media giants, Beijing seize business opportunities.” Paper, a mobile news reader, Facebook at Work is being tested blocks some Western media websites Amnesty urged business leaders at the hasn’t really caught on. Slingshot was with a small group of businesses and including the New York Times and search conference to speak out for online freedom This product image provided by Facebook shows the compa- launched as a rival to the ephemeral could make its public debut in a mat- engine Google, among others. and “challenge the Chinese government’s messaging service Snapchat but it ny’s new Groups app. Groups lets users create and interact ter of months, according to a source Vice Premier Ma Kai, the highest-ranking shameful record”, with Nee adding: “Human hasn’t proven much of one. Facebook with communities on the site, whether they’re based on hob- familiar with the project being led by Chinese official attending, said the Internet rights should not be the elephant in the on Tuesday declined to provide user bies, geography or culture. —AP a team in London. —Agencies could help spur the healthy development of room.” the world’s second largest economy but Foreign company representatives attend- made clear the medium should be under ing include the executive chairman of net- control of the state. “The Chinese govern- working site LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, and ment will strengthen administration of the Facebook’s vice president for corporate Game on for Ukraine’s video Internet under the law,” Ma said. “A well- development Vaughan Smith. LinkedIn managed Internet concerns state sovereign- launched a Chinese version of its site earlier ty, dignity and development interests, and this year, which unlike its English-language games makers despite conflict international security and social stability,” he counterpart does not allow group discus- said. sions. Ahead of the conference, rights group Facebook has an office in Hong Kong, KIEV: With empty pizza boxes and coffee cups “When Maidan started, many people at the stu- including the STALKER series, set in the after- Amnesty International described the gather- where it is not blocked, and has also report- littering the desks of bearded young program- dio were involved with it,” said Frogwares CEO math of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant dis- ing as a chilling attempt by Beijing to pro- edly rented office space in Beijing in a bid to mote its own domestic Internet rules as a boost its business selling online ads to mers, Frogwares looks like any other successful Wael Amr. “We started to think about thanking aster in 1986. model for global regulation. Chinese companies and local governments video games company, even though this is not the people that gave their lives in Maidan... and But industry figures speak of a sense of uncer- China imposes strict limits on freedom of seeking to promote themselves abroad. Its California, but Kiev. The firm’s latest game, so we voted for implementing a splash screen”. tainty as they watch to see how the conflict in expression, and rights groups say it uses founder Mark Zuckerberg has been learning “Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments”, fea- That led to its publisher in Russia refusing to the east, in which Russia strongly denies any mili- state security as a pretence to crack down Chinese and impressed observers last turing the legendary London detective, was release the game there and in a string of other tary involvement despite Western accusations, on political dissent. month when he conducted a 30-minute released worldwide in September to positive former Soviet states. But Frogwares refused to develops. “China appears eager to promote its own Q&A session in Mandarin at a top Beijing reviews. Its 80 staff are already working on a back down and the game is now available in While big international gaming names such domestic Internet rules as a model for global university. sequel. Russia as a download. as Ubisoft still have offices in Kiev, 4A Games, regulation. This should send a chill down the Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant spine of anyone that values online freedom,” Alibaba which recently listed on the New one of the biggest Ukrainian firms, moved its William Nee, China researcher at London- York Stock Exchange, told the conference headquarters to Malta in May. It has kept a stu- based Amnesty, said in a statement. the Internet had “deeply influenced and dio in the Ukrainian capital. Oleg Yavorsky, PR Ma also called for cracking down on changed Chinese society and the economy and marketing director of Vostok Games, anoth- crime and terrorist activities making use of in all aspects”. —AFP er leading Kiev studio, said they had discussed relocating earlier this year but decided against it. “In Kiev, it’s calm but we constantly keep an eye Feds say Web privacy on the news,” he added. Sergiy Galyonkin, who has worked in the firm cheated consumers gaming industry for 20 years and writes a blog on it, predicted that some could leave if the situ- SAN FRANCISCO: Federal regulators said a saging service WeChat. TRUSTe also certi- ation gets significantly worse. “In gaming, most respected Internet privacy company gave fies such products as downloadable soft- people I know do have a backup plan,” he added. its seal of approval to commercial websites ware and cloud computing services. “They’re ready to pack up their things and leave and mobile apps but failed to check But from 2006 to early 2013, according the country, but it’s not like they’re leaving right whether they were indeed meeting stan- to the FTC, the company failed to conduct now.” dards for safeguarding customers’ data. more than 1,000 annual reviews of compa- The company known as TRUSTe nies to which it had already granted a ‘Pick up laptop, grab family’ describes itself as a leading independent TRUSTe seal, even though TRUSTe prom- authority on consumer privacy. But the ised in its literature that it checks every Video gaming is part of a much broader, mul- Federal Trade Commission said it deceived year for continued compliance with its ti-billion dollar IT sector in Ukraine. One of its consumers by not following through on standards. biggest names is Ciklum, which develops soft- annual reviews of websites and apps that “TRUSTe promised to hold companies ware for companies around the world and carried its privacy seal. The FTC also said accountable for protecting consumer pri- employs some 2,500 staff in six Ukrainian cities. the San Francisco-based company let vacy, but it fell short of that pledge,” FTC The firm’s Danish CEO, Torben Majgaard, said websites describe TRUSTe as a nonprofit Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said in a state- that figure used to be seven until they left the service, even after it became a for-profit ment. While TRUSTe told clients that it was KIEV: Frogwares programmers work at the video games company in Kiev. With empty business in 2008. no longer a nonprofit, she added, it did pizza boxes and coffee cups littering the desks of bearded young programmers, eastern city of Donetsk in April due to escalating “Seals and certifications are persuasive not ensure that clients changed the way Frogwares looks like any other successful video games company, even though this is violence. to consumers,” the FTC said in a blog post, they described TRUSTe’s service. not California, but Kiev. —AFP He is optimistic that Ukraine’s IT sector can after announcing Monday that TRUSTe Babel said the failure to conduct fol- help the country’s economy grow significantly in had agreed to a legal settlement in the low-up reviews involved companies that However as the conflict in eastern Ukraine Other than this, the conflict has had little the coming years. Majgaard contrasted how oli- case. “So it’s important that representa- had signed multi-year contracts with drags on, employees do so against a backdrop of direct impact on Frogwares, said Amr, a 39-year- garchs are key players in major Ukrainian indus- tions conveyed by those remarks are TRUSTe. He said “the vast majority” were instability which raises questions for the future of old Frenchman in a hooded top who started the tries such as electricity and gas, with how the IT truthful.” reviewed every other year. TRUSTe now TRUSTe agreed to a legal settlement requires companies to remove any refer- the country’s growing IT industry as well as the company in 2000. sector spreads wealth among the middle class. without admitting wrongdoing. It will pay ence to TRUSTe’s former nonprofit status nation itself. While the stylized Victorian England But he added: “Of course, there is this con- “I most certainly see the IT industry as being $200,000 to the FTC and file detailed before they can be re-certified, Babel said. of “Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments” is stant pressure that we don’t know what is going the one that can really help change Ukraine over reports on some of its practices in the Under the settlement, the FTC said a virtual world away from the war-torn Donbass, to happen tomorrow.” the next decade,” he said. For the country as for future. In a company blog post, CEO Chris future violations could be subject to civil a reference to Ukraine’s political situation has the industry, though, much depends on how the Babel said TRUSTe regrets not living up to penalties. TRUSTe is also required to make crept into the game. ‘Keep an eye on the news’ conflict develops. And Galyonkin argued that, “our own standards” but characterized the detailed annual reports to the FTC about It features a splash screen-a screen that appears Ukraine has a strong reputation for talent in even if the situation in Ukraine does worsen sig- problems as isolated. He said the company the steps it takes to make sure clients when the game is loading-mentioning the the video games industry, thanks in part to its nificantly, it will not be talented individuals work- conducted compliance reviews in a major- comply with standards for a special certifi- ity of cases. cation that TRUSTe offers for websites and “Heavenly Hundred”, which is the collective name education system’s traditional strength in maths ing in gaming and IT who suffer most. “In cre- The company’s privacy seal is displayed apps that collect data from children under for those who died in protests on Kiev’s and engineering, a Soviet-era legacy, plus the rel- ative industries, you just pick up your laptop, by a variety of popular websites and 13. The FTC considers children to be espe- Independence Square, known as Maidan, earlier this ative cheapness of labor. grab your family, move abroad and find a new mobile apps, from NFL.com to the mes- cially in need of protection online. —AP year. The action there led into the current unrest. It has produced a string of big name hits job,” he said. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Love in the time of Ebola: Teen pregnancy and violence

FREETOWN: In Ebola-hit Sierra Leone teenage girls, some aged as young as rently no way to conduct a statistical of vulnerability, the lack of schools, the Dalling said. “We are expecting to see a people abide by a chaste new set of 13. “If you were expecting a decline in study due to Ebola, but we can expect a impossibility of going anywhere, it surge of gender-based violence and social norms which can be broken down the birth rate, it is quite the opposite,” large increase in teenage pregnancies,” makes sense that it must be growing,” he exploitation and abuse in the coming to an easily remembered mantra: no says Musab Sillah, director of the said Matthew Dalling, UNICEF’s head of said. Sierra Leone, like its neighbor months.” Rights group Humanist Watch touching, and definitely no kissing. Yet Kuntorloh clinic in the capital Freetown. child protection in Sierra Leone. “This is Liberia, is struggling to recover barely a Salone said it has seen a spike in sexual aid workers and health professionals “Everyone recommends avoiding con- a logical assumption, as 2.8 million decade after the end of a brutal civil war. and gender-based violence in eastern worry that under the surface the epi- tact but at the same time schools are young people are out of school,” he Sierra Leone, the area hit hardest as the demic is giving rise to a darker trend- closed and there is no more social activ- added, noting that even before Ebola, Sex attacks epidemic began to spiral out of control spiralling teenage pregnancies and vio- ity. The girls stay at home and meet the 38 percent of girls were getting preg- The conflict left the world with in July and August. The head of the lence against women. The closures of boys,” he said. “As you see fewer and nant before 18 and half were married images of child soldiers and rebels fund- agency, Christopher Braima, told a schools, stadiums and entertainment fewer women coming to deliver their before 15. ed by “blood diamonds” hacking off recent news conference his staff had venues coupled with a ban on public babies there are more girls coming in Sierra Leone languishes in 183rd limbs, and by 2002 some 50,000 people recorded 33 cases of sex attacks, mostly gatherings have left young people idle (who are) two months, three months place on the UN’s human development had died. The teenagers coping with on girls aged under 14, in the last four and disaffected, and their parents wor- pregnant,” said Eugenia Bodkin, a nurse index of 187 countries and is also near Ebola were born during the 11-year con- months, according to local media. ried. The ABC of Ebola-”Avoid Body at the Mabella clinic overlooking the the bottom in terms of GDP per capita. flict, in many cases to parents who were Meanwhile, parents agonize over Contact”-is now deeply ingrained, with Freetown slum of Susan’s Bay. Hunger has given rise to what Dalling themselves in their young teens. The how much freedom to give their chil- people renouncing handshakes and calls “transactional sex” among young epidemic, with its accompanying mili- dren and whether they are safe-parents hugs, but the rule stops at the bedroom Transactional sex people-not quite prostitution “but a rela- tary roadblocks, curfews and all-pervad- like Michael, a driver in Freetown who door. The evidence is anecdotal but tionship in exchange for a favor, a ing fear of other people, has opened old has blown his savings on an expensive Maternity wards in Freetown have UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s mobile phone, bread, some food”. “We wounds. “Sierra Leone is experiencing a television for his 13-year-old daughter. been deserted by women who fear fund, expects the experience of medical know there was a problem before. It’s collective trauma with Ebola. That is a “I’m afraid she’s going to get herself into being infected by Ebola, yet nurses personnel to be borne out eventually by hard to estimate how much it has big stress on people and people are in trouble. I’d prefer that she stays at home report seeing an increase in pregnant the data. We have no evidence or cur- increased, but combined with the levels pain and getting frustrated and angry,” and watches films,” he said.—AFP

Sierra Leone trading hub Ebola-free but still suffering

KENEMA: There is little to celebrate in the thought to be much higher. tribal chiefdoms of eastern Sierra Leone, Eleven checkpoints dot the 300-kilome- where the retreat of the Ebola virus is miti- tre (185-mile) route between Freetown and gated by grinding poverty worsened by Kenema, with police or soldiers stopping draconian quarantine restrictions. In travelers to question them about their busi- Kenema, a diamond exporting hub and the ness. Cars are banned from the roads heart of the west African nation’s cocoa and between 5:00 pm and 9:00 am and in the coffee industry, no new infections have early morning, long lines of trucks, vans been recorded since October and the town and taxis wait for the go-ahead to continue bustles with trade and traffic. But the dis- their journeys, surrounded by traders offer- trict-part of the Ebola epicenter straddling ing rice, soda, banana and pineapple. Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea-remains Drivers and their passengers have to under- isolated by a largely unsuccessful lockdown go temperature checks and sometimes a imposed in August to keep Ebola from subtle exchange of notes eases the pas- spreading elsewhere. “The trauma is still sage eastwards. there and business is difficult,” says “We haven’t been able to go to the fields Mohamed Basma, sitting in shorts and flip- for six months. We lost our cassava crops, flops behind a desk blasted by over-zealous rice and vegetables. The disease is declin- air-conditioning. A leading diamond trader ing, but we still have seven houses in quar- in Kenema, Basma hasn’t even the most antine,” says Mohamed Fofanah at tiny rock to show off. “We can’t say we’re Mayemba, a hamlet on the route that has finished with Ebola, although here we’ve seen 25 deaths and 17 survivors. “We’re not done a better job in controlling the virus supposed to go anywhere else and others than elsewhere and no new cases for aren’t supposed to come here to Kenema,” almost 21 days is encouraging,” he says. says Sidie Fofanah, founder of Starline Yet the authorities continue to prohibit radio, which educates its audience in the public gatherings, preventing locals from east on the ravages of Ebola. working with spades and sieves the dia- mond-rich flood plains to the east, thus Prices soaring Sierra Leone is certain to miss its goal of He says it is difficult to travel to exporting $200 million (160 million euros) Freetown and even getting to the neigh- SRINAGAR: In this photograph Kashmiri Muslim schoolchildren hold placards during a protest against the supply of spurious drugs like antibi- in gems in 2014. An ethnically-diverse, boring town of Kailahun, four hours further otics to government hospitals.—AFP Krio-speaking city of 190,000, Kenema east on a potholed, often flooded muddy already has the highest incidence of Lassa road, is a Herculean task. Prices are soaring fever-another viral haemorrhagic disease- as a result and, in the absence of market in the world. Ebola has killed more than stabilization measures, inflation is out of Sterilization deaths spotlight 5,000 in west Africa since it emerged in control. “Everything changes in a flash- southern Guinea in December, spreading something that which costs $2 today will first to Liberia and cutting a swathe be worth $5 tomorrow, or $15,” says India drug safety record through Sierra Leone since May. Fofanah. “Life seems back to normal, with people at work, but banks still only open NEW DELHI: The deaths of 13 Indian women Stronger regulation tia” in tackling drug regulation. But India’s top Chain reaction from 9:30 am to midday, there is still no allegedly given tainted antibiotics after under- A 2009 Indian government survey suggested drug regulatory body-the Central Drugs Highly infectious through exposure to school and, above all, no doctors,” he adds. going sterilization surgery have raised fresh 0.5 percent of drugs sold were substandard, Standard Control Organization-has a staff of bodily fluids, its early rapid spread was “We’ve lost three who died of Ebola at the questions about India’s giant drug industry, while a 2010 survey of New Delhi pharmacies by just 124, according to a 2012 parliamentary attributed in part to relatives touching vic- beginning of the epidemic, and the others already under international scrutiny over its non-governmental organizations said the prob- report. That compares with some 14,500 for tims during traditional funeral rites. fled without being replaced.” troubled safety record. India exports $15 billion lem was far greater. It found 12 percent of sam- its US counterpart, the FDA. The FDA Epidemiologists agree that it was brought Nevertheless, cocoa farmers are begin- in over-the-counter and generic prescription pled drugs to be below-standard-though most announced in February it was strengthening into Sierra Leone by a herbalist in the ning to return to Kenema carrying jute drugs annually and is the second-largest sup- contained substances such as talcum powder its regulatory presence in India to 19 investi- remote eastern border village of Sokoma. bags full of their produce to the city’s plier of drugs to the United States after Canada, rather than deadly ingredients. Roger Bate, gators from 12. She claimed to be able to heal Ebola and exporters by motorbike or taxi. “Our prob- earning it the title of “pharmacy to the world”. author of “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified “We need the same level of oversight encouraged sick patients to cross from lem is transportation,” says Bassam Ayoub, But some of its biggest pharmaceutical compa- and Substandard Medicines”, studied more than whether it is within our borders or outside,” it Guinea for treatment. She died and the owner of the Ayoub Trading business. To nies such as Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy and 6,000 drug samples from Asia and Africa, of said at the time. G.N. Singh, India’s Drug mourners at her funeral fanned out across reach the port of Freetown, from where the Wockhardt have faced a string of US import which nearly half were made in India. The quali- Controller General, promised in May to set up the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, starting a chain company exports its beans to the bans over quality concerns. ty of many was either degraded or contained testing labs at ports to ensure exports meet reaction of infections which has so far led Netherlands and Turkey, its trucks take up The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) too little of the active ingredient, Bate’s inves- global quality standards and follow “a zero to an official toll of around 1,200 deaths in to two days to negotiate 350 kilometers of has in the past few years banned generic ver- tigation found, concluding that the best solu- tolerance standard for any laxity”. Misra said Sierra Leone, although the real figure is road.—AFP sions of popular medicines such as the acne tion would be to improve oversight not just by regulatory improvements were happening in drug Accutane, the anti-pain medicine US regulators, but by Indian ones, too. states such as Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Neurontin and the antibiotic Cipro after the “India does not treat regulatory standards Gujarat, where information about whether agency’s investigators determined they were seriously,” Bate said in a February report. A drug companies’ products made the grade is adulterated. While it remains unclear exactly parliamentary standing committee last year available online. “There needs to be ruthless what caused the deaths of the 13 women who accused the health ministry of “paralytic iner- regulatory oversight,” he added.—AFP had undergone surgery at state-run mass steril- ization camps in an impoverished part of cen- tral India, a claim by local officials that the antibiotics they took were laced with rat poison has created damaging headlines. “This will act as a wake-up call” for tougher regulation, D.G. Shah, secretary general of Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, made up of Indian drug companies, told AFP. “This reflects on the image of the country,” Shah said, even if the allegedly sub-standard drugs consumed by the women involved only a small manufacturer distributing products locally, he added. Bejon Misra, founder of the Partnership for Safe Medicines India, said it only took “one unsafe medicine to threaten patient safety”-and with it, the industry’s reputation. “These things hap- pen because of an ill-designed procurement SIERRA LEONE: A worker stamps bags of cocoa at a trading post in Kenama. procedure with no checks on the quality of drugs bought-people buy the drugs because of the lowest price,” Misra told AFP. The products Wildlife devastated in of most Indian pharmaceutical companies are of top-notch quality, but critics say lack of regu- latory oversight means there are also lapses. South Sudan war Japanese-owned Indian company Ranbaxy pleaded guilty in 2013 to seven US charges of NAIROBI: Warring factions in South Sudan them ever closer towards national extinction.” falsifying clinical data and distributing adulter- INDIA: In this photograph destroyed bottles of medical drugs, including a bottle of lignocaine have slaughtered, poached and eaten “alarm- The survival of South Sudan’s wildlife was ated antibiotic and other drugs and paid a hydrochloride which is administered as a local anaesthetic in minor surgeries, is pictured in ing” numbers of endangered wildlife, devas- once a rare cause for hope in a land left in record $500 million fine. the backyard of the Name Chand Jain Mathura Wale Charity Trust hospital in Bilaspur.—AFP tating one of Africa’s largest migrations, con- ruins by the decades of conflict that paved servationists warned yesterday. Government the way for its independence in 2011. But and rebel troops, locked into a war marked by since war broke out again in South Sudan in widespread atrocities in which tens of thou- December last year, almost a third of ele- UN calls for end to open defecation amid Ebola threat sands of people have been killed, are pushing phants fitted by WCS with satellite monitor- GENEVA: The UN called yesterday for an end to fined to Ebola. In sub-Saharan Africa, where the Universal access to sanitation has a clear role to elephants to the brink of extinction in the ing collars are believed to have been defecation in the open, with fears growing that UN said a quarter of the population defecate play in defending women’s safety, dignity and young nation, said Paul Elkan from the poached. it has helped spread the deadly Ebola virus rav- outside, diarrhoea is the third biggest killer of equality,” he said. Progress had been made, but a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). “In less than a year we have witnessed this aging west Africa. Half the population of Liberia, children under five years old. Studies estimate lack of money continued to hinder progress, Elephants have been slaughtered for their enormous loss,” Elkan said. “This indicates that the country worst hit by the epidemic, have no that a child dies every 2.5 minutes because of with the 80 percent of open defecation confined tusks, while giraffe and antelope have been there are an alarming number of elephants access to toilets, while in Sierra Leone nearly a unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and to 10 countries. Nearly half the world total for mowed down with machine guns for meat to being poached.” The latest war erupted when third of people live without latrines, a new UN hygiene, the report said. those who have no access to toilets are in India, feed the tens of thousands of soldiers and President Salva Kiir accused his sacked report to coincide with World Toilet Day estimat- Women suffer most from the lack of facilities, followed in Asia by Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal rebels battling each other since December. deputy Riek Machar of attempting a coup. ed. Before it was declared Ebola-free last month, with girls often denied schooling because of a and China. In Africa, 39 million people do not “It is a tragedy, the conflict is having a ter- Violence has escalated into an ethnic conflict Nigeria warned against defecating in the open lack of toilets, said UN Deputy Secretary-General have toilets in Nigeria, with high rates also in rible impact,” Elkan told AFP from Juba, where involving multiple armed groups. With gun- to guard against the virus, which spreads Jan Eliasson. “Girls are more likely to drop out of Ethiopia, Sudan, Niger and Mozambique. he works with the government to set up men shooting down aircraft-including UN aid through contact with bodily fluids. school if they don’t have access to a safe and Eliasson said that “success at ending open defe- parks and protect the wildlife. “South Sudan’s helicopters-the WCS have been unable to The report said nearly a billion people world- clean toilet. Women and girls can also risk cation goes beyond infrastructure. It requires the war weary elephants are now at a precipice, deploy its low level flights to verify exact wide are forced to go to the toilet in the open. harassment and sexual abuse when trying to understanding of behaviors, cultural attitudes and the ongoing fighting threatens to push numbers of wildlife killed.—AFP But the health risks of the practice are not con- find somewhere to defecate in the open. and social norms.”—AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE WHO braces for bird flu spread in European poultry

GENEVA: The World Health Organization that has been infecting birds in China, cautioned Tuesday that a new kind of Japan and South Korea since the begin- bird flu hitting European poultry farms ning of the year, she said. The virus most would spread among birds, after Britain likely moved from Asia to Europe with confirmed its outbreak was of the same migratory wild birds, the WHO has said. strain as in the Netherlands and An EU source said on Monday that “more Germany. Sweden meanwhile ordered outbreaks would not be surprising” in farmers to keep hens and other poultry countries such as France, Spain and Italy indoors “as a precaution”, amid concerns as the “disease might have come from that the highly infectious H5N8 strain is swans migrating from north to south.” being spread by wild birds. “We should all be quite vigilant,” Elizabeth Mumford, Individual human cases likely a scientist with the WHO’s Global The WHO is urging people in Europe Influenza Program, told reporters in to avoid touching sick or dead wild birds Geneva. She said she “absolutely” expect- and said those involved in culls should ed more bird flocks to fall sick, but said it check for any fever over the next fort- remained unclear whether the virus will night. Mumford stressed that no cases of spread to humans. human infection of H5N8 have been ITALY: The director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan and the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, Jose Dutch authorities have culled 150,000 detected either in Asia or in Europe, Graziano da Silva attend the International conference on Nutrition (CIN2) yesterday at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquar- hens at an egg farm in Hekendorp, near which was “encouraging”. But she said flu ters in Rome. —AFP Utrecht, following an outbreak on viruses were “very unpredictable”, and Sunday. The same day, the British gov- until more is known about this one, “it’s a ernment announced an outbreak at a bit wide open”. The H5 component of the UN urges action to fix duck breeding farm in Yorkshire, north- virus appeared similar to that found in ern England, which on Tuesday was con- the H5N1 strain of bird flu that has killed firmed to be the same H5N8 strain. more than 400 people, mainly in south- Britain’s environment ministry, which has east Asia, since first appearing in 2003, ‘broken’ world food system ordered the cull of 6,000 birds at the Mumford explained. farm, said it was “a very low risk to But the N-component was from a ROME: The United Nations urged political lead- two billion people suffer from deficiencies in He said poor diet habits and access to food human health and no risk to the food completely different virus with no ers from around the world yesterday to up their nutrients such as vitamin A, iron and zinc-a con- had “overwhelming human, social, environment chain”. human component, indicating it really game in the fight to wipe out malnutrition, a dition known as “hidden hunger” by experts- and economic costs”. Star guests at the confer- Both countries have also sealed off prefers to attach to birds, she said. Since global scourge which afflicts poor and rich alike. while 42 million children and 500 million adults ence include Queen Letizia of Spain, King of the affected sites and are conducting H5N8 seems to be spreading quickly “Part of our out-of-balance world still starves to are overweight or obese. “Our planet, ladies and Lesotho Letsie III, philanthropist Melinda Gates tests on farms within a 10-kilometre (six- among poultry, “we will probably see death. Another part stuffs itself into a level of gentlemen, is losing its capacity to sustain and economist Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Pope mile) restricted area. The Netherlands some human cases”, she told AFP. But obesity,” Margaret Chan, head of the World human life in good health. No one is predicting Francis, a fervent campaigner against hunger announced Tuesday that no other farms while some people may be infected by Health Organization (WHO), told delegates at that population growth will outpace the produc- who is expected to give a speech on Thursday. in that zone had tested positive for bird sick birds, so far it appeared unlikely that the Second International Conference on tivity of the world’s food systems. But this food Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pulled Nutrition (CIN2) in Rome. Representatives from must be health promoting,” Chan said. At the out at the last minute but a protest over her flu, and as a result lifted a ban on the the virus would begin spreading 190 countries gathered 22 years after the first opening ceremony, the delegates adopted a walkover re-election and stifling of dissent in the transport of poultry products nation- between humans, she added. Even if it malnutrition meeting for a three-day conference “Rome Declaration on Nutrition” and impoverished South Asian state went ahead. wide. A bird flu outbreak also occurred did, there is a tool to fight it-in lab tests, organized by the UN food agency (FAO) and “Framework for Action”, which the FAO said were “Her government is violating every principle two weeks ago in Germany in a turkey the virus responded to anti-virus drug WHO, and boasting appearances from leaders based on a consensus reached by over 200 of democracy and human rights that there is,” farm, which the WHO’s Mumford said Tamiflu, she said. For consumers, she including Pope Francis. national governments after consultations with said businessman Faiz Ahmed Faisal, one of sev- involved the same subtype of the highly stressed that “poultry meat safely pre- “The world food system is broken, with its civil society organizations and the private sector. eral hundred expatriates attending the protest. infectious strain. pared and well-cooked is completely reliance of the industrialized production of ever The action framework which accompanies the H5N8 appears to be similar to a virus safe”.—AFP cheaper highly processed and unhealthy food,” Overwhelming human, economic costs Rome Declaration presents 60 recommenda- Chan said, adding that for some parts of Africa The declaration focuses not only on access to tions, including developing and implementing and Asia it was cheaper to import food than pro- healthy food but also the growing problem of national plans and policies to better nutrition, as duce it locally. She called on countries across the inactive over-eaters, finding that “dietary risk fac- well as boosting related investments. It stresses world to “have the creativity to work with civil tors, together with inadequate physical activity, the need for universal health coverage and society, academics and the private sector to find account for almost 10 percent of the global bur- urges governments to ensure universal access to the right solutions for good health”. A lot of den of disease and disability”. But FAO director safe drinking water and protect children from progress has been made already, with the num- general Jose Graziano da Silva told participants infections, such as diarrhoea, malaria and intes- ber of undernourished people in the world that “we’re not at the finishing line yet. “Our tinal worms. The framework aims to meet WHO dropping by over half in the past two decades, responsibility is to transform these commit- targets of reducing deaths from NCDs-diet-relat- from one billion people in 1992 when the first ments into concrete results. I hope that during ed non-communicable diseases-by 25 percent conference (CIN1) was held, to 805 million in this conference, you ministers will announce tar- by 2025, as well as reducing salt intake by 30 2014. gets that even go beyond what we have already percent and halting the increase in obesity But malnutrition is not just about hunger: agreed,” he said. prevalence in adolescents and adults.—AFP World must speed up AIDS fight to end scourge

LOS ANGELES: The world can end AIDS as a global health threat by 2030, but must bolster its efforts now or risk the virus spiralling back out of control, a UN report said Tuesday. Introduced here by Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, and South African actress Charlize Theron, the report calls for adoption of a new set of “fast-track” targets to counter the disease, with the goal of pre- venting some 21 million AIDS-related deaths. “We have bent the trajectory of the epidemic,” said Sidibe. “Now we have five years to break it for good or risk the epidemic rebounding out of control.” The proposed strategy employs a “90-90-90” formula as the goal for 2020: 90 percent of people with HIV knowing their HIV status; 90 percent who know their HIV-positive status on treat- NETHERLANDS : Eggs are pictured at Van Raai egg factory in Woudenberg.—AFP ment; and 90 percent of those on treatment with suppressed viral loads. The goal would then be stepped up to 95-95-95 by 2030, which if met would avert nearly 28 million new HIV infections, Egyptian woman dies of bird according to the study. The fast-track strategy also aims to cut the annual number of new HIV infections by more than 75 percent to flu, second death in two days 500,000 in 2020 and then to 200,000 in 2030, while setting a tar- get of zero discrimination against those with the virus by 2020. CAIRO: An Egyptian woman died on The 30-year-old woman was from the Theron, a UN “messenger of peace” and head and founder of Tuesday of H5N1 bird flu after coming province of Minya, south of Cairo, the her own Africa Outreach Project, added: “When young people into contact with infected birds, the health ministry said in a statement have access to quality HIV health and education options, they CALIFORNIA: Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the second death from the disease in two reported by Al-Ahram on its website. She make smart choices for their futures. “Let’s make sure adolescents United Nations; UCLA student Zakk Marquez, and Charlize Theron, United days and the third death in the country died in a hospital in the southern city of everywhere are empowered to be part of the solution to ending Nations Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Charlize Theron Africa this year, state newspaper Al-Ahram Assiut. A 19-year-old woman died of bird this epidemic,” she said. “Meeting UNAIDS fast-track targets will Outreach Project, pose at the UNAIDS Fast-Track: Ending the AIDS epidemic by reported. flu on Monday in Assiut.—Reuters ensure no one is left behind.”—Reuters 2030 event at UCLA.—AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

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November 20 - In view of high rate of heart attacks in Kuwait among the Indian Community, the Indian Doctors Forum will hold an interactive function on heart related problems and issues on Thursday, November 20 at 7 pm in the Indian Embassy auditorium. A leading team of Indian cardiologists will be present on this occasion. 22 - Kuwait Textile Association Bazaar - Held at Sadu House on November 22. 22 - Kuwait English School Annual Bazaar - At KES in Salwa, block 11 on November 22. Tables are KD 20. Doctors seen at Sebamed stand. Dr Nafisa Kazim. Nuclear medicine doctors of Amiri Hospital at Sebamed stand. 21 - World Cities Day celebration at Yarmouk Park organ- ized by UN-Habitat and Ooredoo. The celebration features By Abdellatif Sharaa mentation are currently in use to combine was built attached to the hospital and the as Positron Emission Tomography (PET). recycled art displays, youth projects and entertaining activ- fine anatomical details to the functional department moved to an entire floor dedi- The department is currently the only he nuclear medicine department at nuclear medicine images by using hybrid cated to nuclear medicine. Recently, in department in Kuwait doing cardiac via- ities. Join us on Friday, 21 November 2014, from 10AM until Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital actively CT and gamma cameras. Molecular imag- 2010, renovation and expansion of the bility studies by PET imaging to provide 5PM. Address: Yarmouk, Block 2, Street 1, Avenue 2 Tparticipated in the annual nuclear ing is an emerging subspecialty with vast department occurred to meet the increas- very accurate information about the heart - Kite flying in Bnaider Desert starting at noon (after Friday medicine week (November 16th-20th, applications in oncology, neurology, cardi- ing demands for this service. Yearly, more perfusion in patients with previous prayers) with Andrew Beattie, a member of Al Farsi Kite 2014). The slogan for this year is myocardial infarction. team. “Discovering the Nuclear Medicine World”. Dr Nafisa Kazim said the working staff - Kidsville Carnival representing Universal Children’s Day in Head of Nuclear Medicine Department at the department is a dedicated team of Wahran Park, Shamiya. On Friday from at Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital Dr. Nafisa nuclear medicine physicians, technologist Kazim said nuclear medicine is an impor- and nurses. The mission of the depart- 3pm-8pm and on Saturday from 12pm-8pm. There will be tant medical imaging modality that uti- ment is to deliver safe and high quality lots of games, shows, booths for kids, street food and more. lizes tracer amounts of radioactive materi- diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medi- 22 - Kuwait Textiles Arts Association holds its annual holi- al to safely follow physiological process in cine service while preserving the patient’s day bazaar at Sadu House from 10am to 5pm. the body and the way these processes are dignity. The staff is also committed to pro- - Kuwait English School holds its Winter Bazaar from 10:30am altered in response to disease processes or vide education to the public and patients to 4pm at main school campus in Salwa, block 11, street 9. by medications. and continuing medical education for - Equate is organizing a Scavenger Hunt from 10am to 1pm She said the major advantage of technologist, students and colleagues, in a nuclear medicine procedures is their abili- vision to be a recognizable Nuclear in Qortuba, block 3, street 5, house 19. ty to detect diseases very early before any Medicine centre of excellence providing - The Embassy of the Republic of Korea, in collaboration structural changes take place, and are both safe and quality nuclear medicine with Korean-Kuwaiti (Han-Kut) Culture Diwaniya, is organiz- therefore a very powerful diagnostic tool diagnostic and therapeutic services, in ing a special event for “Chuseok” (Korean Thanksgiving day) particularly in cancer patients. Nuclear addition to be being an updated educat- on 22 Nov (Sat), between 11:00 and 15:00 at the Embassy medicine studies are used in various ways ing department. premise in Mishref. Traditional Korean food, games and to study brain, heart, kidneys, bone, diges- Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabeyah and its prin- handicraft workshop. tive tract, and endocrine glands, she cipal Sebamed are keen on participating added. Furthermore, different radioactive in all activities that aim at serving the pub- - Visit the Secret Garden in Baghdad Park, on Baghdad materials are used to treat medical condi- Doctors at Amiri Hospital. lic in all ways, and was at hand during street in Salmiya, with your kids to help grow the garden, tions, not only malignant diseases but also Mubarak Al-Kabeer’s Hospital event. As dig in the dirt, plant flowers and other fun gardening time. benign conditions, such as thyroid disor- ology and infection imaging. than 5,000 nuclear medicine studies are the week continues Sebamed will be avail- 28 - British Ladies Society Bazaar - at BSK on November 28. ders and joint diseases. The nuclear medicine department at acquired at the department at the highest able at all venues. 28 - Nominations are invited for ‘Pravasi Kalashri Award’ Dr Kazim pointed to the fact that the Mubarak Hospital was established in 1985 international standards. These cases Sebamed was present during the Amiri instituted by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi (KSNA) field of nuclear medicine is a continuously as a small department in one of the hospi- include general nuclear medicine studies Hospital Activity to celebrate nuclear growing specialty whereby new instru- tal wards. In 2000, a new diagnostic centre and specialized molecular studies known medicine week, yesterday. for the year 2015 from Malayalam theatre personalities in Kuwait. Non-resident Keralites with more than 15 years of expatriate life in Kuwait and have contributed significantly Jaber Al-Ali wins M. Kabeer oral fluency competition and comprehensively to Malayalam theatre may apply. By Hassan A. Bari

epresented by 12 grader, Abdul Aziz Essam Al-Saeed, What’s On - Submission Guidelines Jaber Al-Ali Secondary School for Boys recently took Rpart in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Educational Area’s Oral Fluency Competition organized by the area’s ELT supervision All photos submitted for What’s On and, for the third year in a row, it won the first place amongst the area’s seven male secondary schools. Al-Saeed will, thus, should be minimum 200dpi. represent the area in Kuwait Oral Fluency Competition due to Articles must be in plain text and be held next month. Al-Seed made a presentation about the danger drugs should include name and phone speaking about drugs in general, their medical and illegal numbers. Articles and photos that uses, their types, why people may become addicted to them and how some Kuwaiti NGOs play a role in healing drug fail to meet these requirements will addicts and rehabilitating them. Participants presentations not be published. were hosted at Khaled Soud Al-Zaid Secondary School for Boys where English HOD, Ahmed Abdullah warmly wel- Please send them to comed the participating students and teachers as well as the jury panel comprising of Mubarak Al-Kabeer ELT senior [email protected] supervisor, Ayesha Al-Awadhi and supervisors, Al-Habib The jury headed by ELT S.Supervisor Al-Awadhi and HOD, Abdullah Essam during his presentation Rezzouq, Mahmoud Al-Najjar and Mohammed Sallam. behind them. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 McDonald’s turns up heat with new Tabasco line-up

cDonald’s Kuwait yesterday announced ture the signature flavour of TABASCO hot toma- spiciest offering. the launch of its new selection of to sauce for beef and TABASCO creamy tomato While McDonald’s is focused on providing MTABASCO(r) sandwiches, its newest pre- sauce for chicken, bringing together an unfor- unique menu choices, it’s also committed to mium line to satisfy their spice-hungry. This gettable medley of taste. serving the very best ingredients in the quick- powerhouse combination of two iconic brands is “Our new TABASCO sandwiches bring togeth- service restaurant sector, and will not compro- available across the country now for a limited er two flavour heavyweights for our customers. mise on food quality. All products served at all time only. At McDonald’s, we constantly see to provide McDonald’s restaurants in the Middle East are McDonald’s customers can indulge in a new and unique choices. Our partnership with Halal, inspected and approved by local authori- mouth-watering stack of two Quarter-Pounder TABASCO brings an exhilarating kick of heat to ties and Halal officers at the countries of export beef patties or a tasty Grand Chicken patty, our menu, and we look forward to having our and customs officials at the port of entry. Meat topped with tangy pepperjack cheese, jalapeno customers enjoy this special limited time offer,” used in McDonald’s restaurants can be traced peppers, shredded lettuce, and onions layered commented Sherif Coutry, Marketing Director at back to a trusted supplier that shares its dedica- on a fresh chili bread roll. Each sandwich will fea- McDonald’s Kuwait, on the launch of McDonald’s tion to the highest quality standards.

IIT-IIM Alumni Association attracts quizzing buffs Q8 Open Quiz 2014

he IIT IIM Alumni Association in School Kuwait (DPS Kuwait), won the At the event, the association also Kuwait successfully concluded the first prize. Everyone was amazed as the launched its flagship initiative - THINK Tinaugural edition of its annual quiz young students of DPS Kuwait blazed FUTURE. THINK KUWAIT, an initiative to event - Q8 Open Quiz, on 15 November through all rounds of the quiz, always create awareness and encourage social at the Indian Embassy auditorium. The maintaining their lead over the other responsibility towards sustainability in first of its kind in Kuwait, the quiz was teams that had participants who were Kuwait. As part of the effort, the IIT IIM open to all, irrespective of age, educa- working professionals. Team Al-QueIZDa alumni in Kuwait intend to create a tional qualifications and nationality. The of Kalai Selvam K, Mayukh Mukherjee platform for discussing sustainability quiz attracted huge participation -75 and Noufal Basheer, professionals work- and will strive to invite world’s tech- teams or 225 participants, representing ing with the Al Shaya Group, won the nocrats and business leaders, leverag- 12 different nationalities, participating second prize, followed by the team ing their strong alumni network, for in the prelims round -with the top five Incredibly Brilliant Syndicate - of Chris regular discussions in order to come up teams progressing to the finals. Peeyush Morgan, Delphine Vallier and Beth with implementable actions. Jain, the president of the association Reese, the principal and the teachers, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) said that he was pleased to see the huge respectively at the International British Ambassador of India to Kuwait, Technology (KCST) - Dirar Alghanim, ulate in the fall of 2015.The president and Indian Institute of Management turnout at the event and was proud of School - at the third place. The prize for Sunil Jain, graced the event as the Chief Tony Jashanmal and Minoo Patel. Patel, of the association thanked all the spon- (IIM) are globally renowned premier the fact that the event attracted partici- the most innovative team name went to Guest, along with other distinguished who is also the CFO of the Al Mulla sors who had been generous in sup- Indian institutions of higher education pants across age groups from all major the team - Veni, Vidi, Vici, which in Latin guests that included Prof. Fawaz S Al- Group, presented the vision of the porting the event. KCST and the Al in the fields of Engineering Technology nationalities in Kuwait. means, “I came; I saw; I conquered”. Dr Anzi, Dean of the College of KCST founders to bring the highest Mulla Group were the Platinum and and Management, respectively. The Quizzards of Oz, a team of Mohsin Naresh Akkur, himself an alumnus of IIT Computing Sciences & Engineering, quality of education in the fields of sci- Diamond sponsors, respectively along association can be reached at con- Mustafa, Robin Cherian and Vijai Kanpur, was the quizmaster with Mrs and three of the founding trustees of ence and technology to Kuwait. The with Petrofac and Gulf Cryo as the Gold [email protected] or the official Krishnan, students of Delhi Public Reva Akkur as the anchor. the Kuwait College of Science & first batch of KCST students will matric- sponsors. website www.iitiimkuwait.com. Ali Asger, Hard Kaur steal hearts at ‘Indian Cultural Carnival’ fter back to back two grand success- stage, she is the first female Indian rapper, ful event “Jai Ho - Live Sukhwinder she sang most of her hit songs from her ASingh” and “Shukraan Ya Kuwait - A album called ‘Mujhe peeney do’, famous tribute to great country Kuwait “ It was one song like ‘Ek Glassy’ which was a chart top- more with pleasant and sunny day at per in 2007, she rapped for Sriram Entertainment City, Doha, Kuwait on Friday, Raghavan’s movie Johnny Gaddaar’s song November 7. ‘Paisa Phek (Move Your Body)’. Since then, An amazing and grand successful event she has sung in movies like ‘Ugly Aur Pagli organized by Apna Bharat Society - Kuwait (Talli)’, ‘Singh Is King’, ‘Kismat Konnection’, at open garden venue in Doha ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno’, ‘Ram Gopal Varma Ki Entertainment City, Kuwait. Aag’, ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’, and “Indian Cultural Carnival” attended by ‘Prince’. Last attraction of the event was old over 3,800 people as the biggest crowd ever Indian songs sung by Kuwait’s Kishore in the Kuwait entertainment history. The Kumar fame Mubarak Al Rashid Al Aazmi. He event featured the famous rock star & is a Kuwaiti, Mubarak is a young man gifted singing sensation Hard Kaur and famous with an extraordinary talent. He sang all comedians of Comedy Nights Ali Asger Indian songs very professionally and beauti- (known as Dadi), Kiku Shrda (known as Palak fully. He loves legendary Kishore Kumar and Laccha) resulting he is now known and popular as The Carnival started with cultural activi- ‘Kuwait’s Kishore Kumar’. Ending was fantas- ties, kids competitions, prizes and dances tic when audience was called at stage and performances from the different - different offered to propose Palak for marriage; Dadi groups Super Dancing Divas kids, Ballerine’s was the host of the particular segment. We Kids local and other real talents from Kuwait want to do something different to make were introduced. They performed different people a real feel of carnival that was the dance forms for which they are famous in reason we have kept the carnival at the Indian Community and prior events. Entertainment City, Doha Said the President Event started upon the arrival of chief of the society Akash S.Panwar. guest, Sunil Jain, Ambassador of India. A grand event with mix of comedy, cul- Welcome message was delivered by hosts. A tural performances, great music and most group photo session carried at the stage and successful event was done by Apna Bharat chief guest was introduced with the spon- Society - Kuwait. sors. Ambassador of India delivered vote of Apna Bharat Society - Kuwait is a non- thanks speech and congratulated President political, non profitable and non commercial Akash S. Panwar & team on such a successful organization established in the year 2010 by event. Dadi (Ali Asgar) and Palak (Kiku) per- a group of professionals with purpose to formed various comedy items and different serve community in Kuwait and India. Its acting skills. Audience fully enjoyed their mission is to develop and help community items and felt happy amongst them. Air was with a message of humanity and hardwork- full of joy, laughter and excitement. ing to build a strong nation and peaceful & Rock star, Hard Kaur, was invited at the prosperous world. TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

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CHANGE OF NAME Kuwait I, Akther Begum (old KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (20/11/2014 TO 26/11/2014) name) R/o. D. No. 3/154, Kotha Bazar, Railway Kodur, YSR Dist., A.P. changed my name as Patan Doulath (new name) (C 4859) SHARQIA-1 CATCH HELL 1:00 AM BIG HERO 6 6:15 PM AL-KOUT.3 DUMB AND DUMBER TO 12:15 PM JESSABELLE 8:30 PM CATCH HELL 11:45 AM JESSABELLE 2:15 PM FANAR-2 JESSABELLE 10:45 PM CATCH HELL 1:45 PM I, Shaik Imam Bee (old DUMB AND DUMBER TO 4:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 1:00 PM JESSABELLE 1:00 AM INTERSTELLAR 3:45 PM name) R/o. D. No. 3/154, HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 6:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 3:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:30 PM CATCH HELL 7:00 PM Kotha Bazar, Railway Kodur, DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:15 PM INTERSTELLAR 5:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:45 PM INTERSTELLAR 9:00 PM YSR Dist., A.P. changed my NO WED DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:30 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 1:00 AM CATCH HELL 12:15 AM name as Patan Imam Bee HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 10:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 10:30 PM (new name). (C 4859) NO WED JESSABELLE 12:30 AM AVENUES-2 AL-KOUT.4 DUMB AND DUMBER TO 12:15 AM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:30 PM POKER NIGHT 1:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:00 PM I, Shaik Khader (old name) NO WED NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:30 PM POKER NIGHT 3:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 2:00 PM R/o. D. No. 3/154, Kotha NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:15 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:30 AM POKER NIGHT 5:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 4:15 PM WED 71 7:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 6:30 PM Bazar, Railway Kodur, YSR NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:15 PM FANAR-3 POKER NIGHT 9:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 8:30 PM Dist., A.P. changed my WED HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 11:45 AM POKER NIGHT 11:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 10:30 PM name as Patan Khader Khan NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:15 AM NO FRI+SAT POKER NIGHT 1:00 AM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:30 AM S/o. Patan Abdulla Khan WED BIG HERO 6 11:45 AM (new name). (C 4859) BIG HERO 6 2:30 PM AVENUES-3 BAIRAQ-1 SHARQIA-2 BIG HERO 6 4:45 PM CATCH HELL 12:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 7:00 PM CATCH HELL 2:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:30 PM JAZEERA 2 -Arabic 9:00 PM CATCH HELL 4:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 5:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 5:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:05 AM CATCH HELL 6:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:30 PM LOST THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:30 PM CATCH HELL 8:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:00 PM FANAR-4 CATCH HELL 10:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:30 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:15 PM CATCH HELL 12:15 AM Press notification. It is noti- THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:45 PM BAIRAQ-2 fied that my original quali- SHARQIA-3 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 5:15 PM 360º- 1 CATCH HELL 11:45 AM fying examination certifi- CATCH HELL 11:30 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:45 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 11:30 AM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 1:45 PM cate of main secondary BIG HERO 6 1:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 1:45 PM CATCH HELL 4:00 PM examination of year 2011 CATCH HELL 3:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:45 AM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 4:00 PM HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 6:00 PM and roll no. 8105491 issued BIG HERO 6 5:30 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 6:15 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 9:00 PM by CBSE has been actually INTERSTELLAR 7:45 PM FANAR-5 DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:30 PM CATCH HELL 11:00 PM lost. Osama Vahid, street CATCH HELL 11:00 PM HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 12:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 10:45 PM CATCH HELL 1:00 AM 81, building 132, CATCH HELL 1:00 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 1:00 AM HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 5:45 PM BAIRAQ-3 Farwaniya, Kuwait. Ph: MUHALAB-1 HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 8:45 PM 360º- 2 BIG HERO 6 1:00 PM 66904671. HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 11:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:30 PM THE SIGNAL 3:15 PM (C 4858) HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 2:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 2:45 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 5:15 PM 15-11-2014 INTERSTELLAR 4:00 PM MARINA-1 71 5:00 PM BIG HERO 6 7:15 PM HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 4:00 PM INTERSTELLAR 12:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 7:15 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 9:30 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 7:15 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 3:15 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 9:30 PM THE SIGNAL 11:30 PM INTERSTELLAR 9:15 PM THE SIGNAL 5:15 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 11:45 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 9:30 PM ACCOMMODATION HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:30 AM INTERSTELLAR 7:15 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 11:30 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 9:15 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 10:30 PM 360º- 3 One big full furnished NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 11:30 PM THE SIGNAL 12:30 AM BIG HERO 6 12:45 PM PLAZA room available for one BIG HERO 6 3:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 3:30 PM bachelor or couple (without MUHALAB-2 MARINA-2 BIG HERO 6 5:15 PM NO FRI+SAT+MON children), attached bath. DUMB AND DUMBER TO 11:45 AM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 11:30 AM BIG HERO 6 7:30 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 3:30 PM Room includes bed, cup- BIG HERO 6 1:45 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 1:30 PM 71 9:45 PM FRI+SAT+MON board, TV satellite dressing BIG HERO 6 4:15 PM BIG HERO 6 3:30 PM 71 12:05 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 5:30 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 6:45 PM BIG HERO 6 5:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 8:00 PM table. Salwa block 9, near DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:45 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:00 PM Sultan Center, 3 BR central THE SIGNAL 10:45 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 10:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:30 PM A/C flat. Rent KD 130. Call THE SIGNAL 12:45 AM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 12:05 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:00 PM 98007972. 51066770. NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 5:30 PM LAILA (C 4680) MUHALAB-3 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 8:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:45 PM 19-11-2014 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 11:30 AM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:05 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:30 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 6:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:00 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 1:00 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 8:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 4:30 PM MARINA-3 CATCH HELL 10:45 PM Prayer timings THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 11:45 AM AL-KOUT.2 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:45 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 9:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:15 PM THE SIGNAL 12:15 PM Fajr: 04:54 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:05 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 4:45 PM BIG HERO 6 2:15 PM AJIAL.1 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:15 PM BIG HERO 6 4:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:30 PM Shorook 06:16 FANAR-1 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 9:45 PM THE SIGNAL 6:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 6:00 PM CATCH HELL 11:30 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:15 AM POKER NIGHT 8:45 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 8:15 PM Duhr: 11:34 CATCH HELL 1:30 PM THE SIGNAL 10:45 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:45 PM POKER NIGHT 3:30 PM AVENUES-1 POKER NIGHT 12:45 AM Asr: 14:31 CATCH HELL 5:30 PM BIG HERO 6 11:30 AM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:45 PM AJIAL.2 HAPPY NEW YEAR - HINDI 7:45 PM BIG HERO 6 1:45 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:45 PM BIG HERO 6 3:00 PM Maghrib: 16:50 POKER NIGHT 11:00 PM BIG HERO 6 4:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:45 AM HAPPY ENDING-HINDI 5:15 PM Isha: 18:11

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Cairo 17:45 KKK 6507 Istanbul 03:20 UAL 982 IAD 17:55 FDB 070 Dubai 06:30 UAE 858 Dubai 17:45 QTR 1076 Doha 03:45 JZR 777 Jeddah 17:55 JAI 525 Abu Dhabi/Chennai 06:35 ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:50 MSC 401 Alexandria 04:05 UAE 875 Dubai 18:00 JZR 164 Dubai 06:55 RJA 641 Amman 17:55 JZR 503 Luxor 05:25 JZR 177 Dubai 18:20 RJA 643 Amman 07:05 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 THY 770 Istanbul 05:35 KAC 118 New York 18:30 JZR 240 Amman 07:15 GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 DHX 170 Bahrain 05:40 FDB 063 Dubai 18:40 GFA 212 Bahrain 07:15 JZR 184 Dubai 18:40 BAW 157 London 06:40 ABY 121 Sharjah 18:40 THY 771 Istanbul 07:30 JZR 238 Amman 18:50 JZR 563 Sohag 06:45 KAC 786 Jeddah 18:45 KAC 537 Sohag 08:20 JZR 134 Bahrain 19:10 TAR 327 Tunis 07:45 QTR 1080 Doha 18:50 FDB 054 Dubai 08:25 UAL 982 Bahrain 19:15 FDB 053 Dubai 07:45 AXB 393 Kozhikode 19:15 TAR 327 Dubai/Tunis 08:35 ABY 121 Sharjah 19:20 QTR 1086 Doha 07:50 KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 BAW 156 London 08:45 UAE 876 Dubai 19:40 IRA 673 Ahwaz 07:50 KAC 618 Doha 19:15 IRA 672 Ahwaz 08:50 QTR 1081 Doha 19:50 SVA 512 Riyadh 07:55 KAC 542 Cairo 19:25 QTR 1087 Doha 08:50 FDB 064 Dubai 19:55 KAC 352 Kochi 08:10 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 SVA 513 Riyadh 08:55 AXB 393 Kozhikode 20:15 IRA 667 Esfahan 08:10 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:30 IRA 668 Mashhad 09:10 GFA 218 Bahrain 20:15 KAC 382 Delhi 08:15 KAC 176 Geneva/Frankfurt 19:45 JZR 534 Cairo 09:15 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:30 KAC 302 Mumbai 08:20 KAC 502 Beirut 19:50 KAC 671 Dubai 09:25 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 KAC 206 Islamabad 08:25 KAC 104 London 19:55 KAC 787 Jeddah 09:25 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 KAC 332 Trivandrum 08:30 KAC 742 Dammam 20:00 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:40 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:05 UAE 855 Dubai 08:40 KAC 614 Bahrain 20:00 KAC 101 London/New York 09:50 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:05 KAC 362 Colombo 08:45 MSR 618 Alexandria 20:05 UAE 856 Dubai 09:55 MSR 619 Alexandria 21:05 KAC 284 Dhaka 08:50 JAI 572 Mumbai 20:05 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 10:20 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:10 ABY 125 Sharjah 09:00 JZR 189 Dubai 20:15 KAC 561 Amman 10:25 ABY 124 Sharjah 21:15 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:20 OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 JZR 778 Jeddah 10:30 KAC 351 Kochi 21:15 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 FDB 061 Dubai 20:20 FDB 056 Dubai 10:35 FDB 062 Dubai 21:20 KAC 412 Manila/Bangkok 10:00 ABY 123 Sharjah 20:35 JZR 174 Dubai 10:45 OMA 648 Muscat 21:20 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 DLH 634 Frankfurt 20:50 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 KAC 165 Rome/Paris 11:15 KAC 381 Delhi 22:00 IZG 4161 Mashhad 11:10 MEA 402 Beirut 21:20 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:25 ALK 230 Colombo 22:10 RBG 553 Alexandria 11:15 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 RBG 554 Alexandria 11:55 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:15 MSC 405 Sohag 11:25 FDB 073 Dubai 21:35 KAC 501 Beirut 12:00 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 JZR 165 Dubai 11:30 UAE 859 Dubai 21:40 KAC 541 Cairo 12:05 KAC 203 Lahore 22:20 JZR 561 Sohag 11:45 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 IZG 4162 Mashhad 12:10 MEA 403 Beirut 22:20 TBZ 5483 Mashhad 11:50 QTR 1074 Doha 21:55 JZR 776 Jeddah 12:20 MEA 404 Beirut 11:55 KNE 480 Taif 22:00 MSC 402 Alexandria 12:25 FDB 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CROSSWORD 730 STAR TRACK

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

You may find yourself having emotional differences with someone. Those Things are happening and your career or path depends upon your own around you, or the situation you find yourself in, may not feel right to you- ambition and drive. Consider your options and put your good sense to use. If you are very you could be challenged. However, this is of short duration; you are in the mood to seek the discreet, you can restore a difficult situation at work to a state of harmony. A new profes- right solution for all. Your instinctive thinking at this time is toward becoming focused and sional assignment appeals to you this afternoon. You may feel that you will be able to make completing unfinished business. You have a love affair going with the mind and you value those important strides forward as you take on this new assignment. If you are not as tech- the intelligent use of words, ideas, thoughts and such. This afternoon you may enjoy games nically skilled as you would like, this is a good time to invest in a class or the equipment you of trivia. You love to talk and may find yourself in several good conversations all day long. need. Someone you respect will be able to advise you. This evening is a good time for sur- These stimulating mental adventures are among the most exciting experiences for you. You rounding yourself with friends and young people and for having a good time. You appreci- teach young people the art of generosity tonight. ate and enjoy support from those around you.

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

This morning you may find you are at odds with others regarding matters of It may not be possible for anyone but your close friends to know what you convention. If you do not become carried away by other people’s foolish ideas you will be are really thinking today. There are times where it will be impossible to hide the joy of being able to insert some positive, commonsense alternatives to projects that may need sal- noticed and in having gained the attention of those with whom you work. In the early days vaging. Connecting with others through an attitude of teamwork will make for profitable of your professional life, you may have concentrated on the work itself and not necessarily results. Your enthusiasm could become popular, particularly if you point out the good the people that surround you or that give you support. You set the example in the way you points that others have created and how they will fit with the group. This makes you ideal do business and people around you tend to do the same thing you do: concentrate on as a teacher or group leader, especially with young people. Know when to pull back and work. Today, work may ease up a bit so that you can get to know the people that work with take the back seat, so to speak. You will feel real harmony this afternoon from those around you, support you, contribute to the work or add to your work financially. This afternoon and you. Music can be quite a lot of fun this evening-dance. evening are full of surprises.

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

You have blind courage and sheer guts-a self-starter. Innovations-new and New forms of creativity and self-expression seem to open up new avenues possibly unconventional approaches to being productive or making money- for accomplishments. Increased confidence and a more outgoing manner are in order today. Independence is a very good thing. We are all connected, but we also may be the keys that open many a new door in your career. This is certainly a time during need to be in control of our own goals and this is something you strongly work to achieve. which your career or life path undergoes a certain amount of change and transformation. ACROSS which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of Listen to your own inner guidance particularly if you have the sense of being pulled into You find yourself firmly against sidetracks: the unessential. You can really home in on how to 1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying. rain. investments or other projects that seem to distract you from your path of success. Your solve problems and get where you want to go. Your support system that consists of family response to life is becoming more original and innovative. You look to home and family for and friends becomes more secure at this time. You are able to dispense with some of the 5. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that 3. A fully differentiated structural and functional unessential things in your life and develop what is most basic and true in your environment. blocks the formation of angiotensin in the kid- unit in an animal that is specialized for some support and encouragement. Security and having roots are important to your productivity now. Someone close to you wants to see you succeed. You encourage better support. Progress is unavoidable. ney and so results in vasodilation. particular function. 12. An association of countries in the western 4. A game in which numbered balls are drawn hemisphere. and random and players cover the correspon- Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 15. The time that has elapsed. ding numbers on their cards. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 16. The god who fathered the islands and gods 5. Someone who visits. There is a project due at work today and you enjoy being able to concentrate of Japan with his sister Izanami. 6. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of This is a great time to be working in group or team situations. Discovering on it. There are no interruptions and if you wish, others are ready to lend a 17. Committee formed by a special-interest AIDS. what you truly believe in-fighting for it, even-is a high personal priority now. Religion, law, helping hand. A number of new goals make a lot of sense to you and you work to create politics, travel and higher education are some of the areas where this takes place. This is a group to raise money for their favorite political 7. The main city of ancient Phoenicia. greater success. Feeling successful and prosperous is the first step toward becoming those candidates. time of testing your limits to see how far you can go. Learning what makes people tick is things. Picture yourself living the life you want to lead and you will be very pleased at the 8. Being the only one. exciting and enlightening psychological information. There is an emphasis on close rela- 18. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeast- outcome. A family member, perhaps a child, wants to share some quality time with you this 9. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and tionships and a preoccupation with ideas of fairness and harmony that are part and parcel afternoon. Later this evening you may meet an old friend for dinner. If you have been over- ern India and western Burma. vulgar. of the mental cycle you have just begun. This afternoon you may decide to shop and pre- doing it lately, this evening may be a good time to relax. Poetry, music and the arts interest 19. English blue cheese. 10. Attempting to get personal recognition for pare for the winter months ahead-perhaps it is time for a new style-hair or clothes. you, as do psychology and the psyche. 20. A period marked by distinctive character or yourself (especially by unacceptable means). Romance is an outlet for much of your energy this evening. reckoned from a fixed point or event. 11. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color. 21. Malevolent aspect of Devi. 12. A drama set to music. 23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) group. 13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs Others will follow your lead today. Obtaining and exchanging information northeast into the Rhine. This is a period of increased mental activity and sensitive communication 24. Made tough by habitual exposure. takes on more emotional importance for you now. You could come up with plenty of new 14. Any of a number of fishes of the family with others. Intellectualism, the exchange of ideas and the idea of being smart as a fox are 26. A member of the Wakashan people living on ideas for making the work you are doing run as smoothly as possible. Your instinctive orien- Carangidae. the things that have a special appeal and importance today. You are most persuasive with Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery tation now is toward getting down to business and accomplishing your goals for the day. others and eloquent in speech and communication. You should be able to get your ideas region of northwestern Washington. 22. A licensed medical practitioner. The power of organization on a social scale-business, politics and such-seems to take on a across with ease. The makings for a bright and witty day are at hand. Your communication 25. An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest. larger than life energy, as you enter into a new cycle. It’s as if ambition and authority are 29. A state in north central United States. skills are at a high-water mark. New understandings of those around you bring about a spe- 27. A bag carried by a strap on your back or answers in themselves, rather than only a means to an ideal objective. This could be a time 31. An argument opposed to a proposal. cial time of enjoyment. General good feelings and a sense of support and harmony makes during which your career undergoes a certain amount of change and transformation. You 32. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of shoulder. this a happy time. Stress relief this evening may encompass the fun of being entertained by are focused and attentive to your work. South America having a broad trunk with high 28. Large high frilly cap with a full crown. a friend. water content and dark green oval leaves. 30. Tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval 35. French poet and novelist and dramatist. fruit with a hard spiny rind. 38. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar. 33. Mental infirmity as a consequence of old Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 40. An ancient city in southeastern Greece. age. 42. A Dravidian language closely related to 34. A genus of Stromateidae. You may find that both your personal growth and your career depend on This is a great time to be with others and to work together. A period empha- Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of south- 36. Tropical tree of Central America and West how you can handle the very sensitive psychological material that may be sizing an enhanced sense of personal possibility and potential has just coming up now. You will benefit from analytical insights, getting to the heart of things: western India. Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white begun. This is a time of tremendous psychological growth, which can lead to personal suc- penetrating. You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working with oth- cess if you follow through with it. You might also find that you will put on the pounds if you 44. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte). flowers. ers. This is a time of much energy and drive, perfect for beginning a new project or taking are not careful. Everything points to your taking the initiative. In the working world you will 46. Deciduous South African tree having large 37. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm care of business-very physical too. You may be asked for your advice and counsel regarding find yourself coming up with all sorts of productive ideas. This could mean a new advertis- odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant used in India for writing paper. some very personal and emotional issues. You will have an opportunity to either be a lis- ing strategy or new sales approach. At home or in your own artistic expression it could just orange-yellow flowers. 39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs tener or to lend a helping hand without getting in too deep. An evening out for dinning be the touch that gains you recognition. You could find that you are appreciated for your and dance is possible tonight, perhaps even a little romance. 47. Lean end of the neck. northeast into the Rhine. ability to follow through and try new ideas. 48. (British) Your grandmother. 41. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are pro- 49. A guided missile fired from shipboard duced. against an airborne target. 43. State capital and largest city of Georgia. Word Search Yesterday Solution 50. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in 51. A collection of things wrapped or boxed Turkey). together. 52. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising 54. Squash bugs. only the crested cariama. 56. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle 53. English actor noted for his portrayals of where driver sits. Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789- 58. Yellow-fever mosquitos. 1833). 59. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful 55. The bottom of a sea or ocean. earth spirits or genii. 57. The branch of computer science that deal 63. Artificial and inferior. with writing computer programs that can solve 70. African tree having an exceedingly thick problems creatively. trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has 60. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan an edible pulp called monkey bread. and neighboring areas. 72. An informal term for a father. 61. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain. 73. Look at with amorous intentions. 62. A port city of south central Ukraine on an 74. Discrimination in favor of the able-bodied. 76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made arm of the Black Sea. from aba cloth. 64. A feeling of intense anger. 77. A condition requiring relief. 65. Being the only one. 78. A festival featuring African-American cul- 66. A submachine gun operated by gas pres- ture. sure. 79. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or 67. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. water or to keep out the sea. 68. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system. DOWN 69. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 1. Make synchronous and adjust in time or 71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part manner. of an organism. 2. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and 75. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to his family and the animals by building an ark in destroy men and animals or food. Yesterday’s Solution

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Cairo Film Festival

In this handout picture released by the Cairo Film Festival media office, Egyptian film star Yusra addresses the audience during the closing ceremony of the 36th Cairo International Film Festival at the Giza Pyramids on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital late on November 18, 2014. Yusra headed the festival’s jury. (Inset) In this handout picture actor Mahmud Himeda hands fellow film star Khaled Abul Naga the Silver Pyramid Award for Best Actor in the Egyptian film “Eyes of the thieves”.—AFP photos From Arnie to Zsa Zsa:

The immigrant road to Hollywood rnold Schwarzenegger that made up a significant portion throughs: in 2002 Denzel tern was confirmed at this year’s famously made it big in of the early moviegoing audience,” Washington and Halle Berry won Oscars, where Mexico’s Alfonso AHollywood from humble- Gubler writes. Later the steady best actor and actress, in 2012 “The Cuaron (“Gravity”) became the and foreign-beginnings. But he was trickle of Jewish writers, producers Help” secured a win for Octavia fourth non-US filmmaker in a row hardly the first newcomer to strike and others turned into a flood as Spencer, while this year black to win Best Director, after Ang Lee gold in Tinseltown. From Charlie Hitler’s Nazi regime took hold, forc- British director Steve McQueen’s (Taiwan, “Life of Pi”), Michel Chaplin’s 1917 film “The Immigrant” ing an exodus of actors and film- “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture Hazanavicius (France, “The Artist”) File photo shows Justin Timberlake accepts the award for favorite album - to 1990’s hit “Green Card” and makers including Fritz Lang, Billy and an Oscar for Kenyan-born star and Tom Hooper (Britain, “The soul/R&B for “The 20/20 Experience” at the American Music Awards in Los 2011’s “A Better Life,” the story of Wilder and Marlene Dietrich. Lupita Nyong’o. On the Asian front, King’s Speech.”) Angeles. —AP Tinseltown has long been a tale of Hollywood’s Jewish roots have Thompson said: “In the more mod- “It is a trend,” said Thompson. immigrants, whose lives are reflect- led to the old anti-Semitic chestnut ern era, over the past half century “Part of it has to do with the fact ed back on screen. Be it Jews arriv- that Tinseltown is entirely con- or so we’ve had various immigra- that big budget movies are made Timberlake becomes co­owner ing from-or often fleeing-eastern trolled by Jews-a variant of which tion waves from Asian countries. here. And when you rise to a cer- Europe, the Italians and Irish bring- erupts into the news every so often, tain place ... Hollywood is one of ing their distinctive styles, or British typically involving a drunken out- Globalization the places that you go... if you want of audio tech company actors landing plum roles in the lat- burst from an actor. “You would “That immigration wave has not to make it truly big.” Thus all those est blockbusters, the path is well ustin Timberlake wants to make sure you have respected in the entertainment community.” trodden. a 20/20 sound experience when you listen to “Beyond the Jewish emigres, music: He’s now a co-owner of the audio tech- Clearer and fuller (the entertainment business) has J benefited from all of America’s nology company AfterMaster Audio Labs, Inc. Timberlake had last year’s top-selling album AfterMaster, a subsidiary of Studio One Media Inc, with his comeback effort, “The 20/20 Experience.” great immigrant tribes,” Tom announced yesterday that the Grammy-winning The singer, with a group of other investors, bought Nunan, a film producer who teach- pop star will join the company, which focuses on MySpace in 2011. AfterMaster’s technology will be es at the University of California, enhancing and re-mastering audio quality. Its offered in a chip that would be embedded in prod- Los Angeles told AFP. These includ- website showcases examples of songs pre- and ucts such as mobile devices, headphones and tele- ed “the black Irish humor, the post-AfterMaster enhancement, including Michael visions. It will also be available in software form for Italian operas, the dance traditions Jackson’s “Thriller” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” computers and streaming services. of South America and Spain .. All “I’m thrilled to be a part of this groundbreaking “We think this is probably the biggest break- influenced first Broadway, then our company,” Timberlake said in a statement. “The first through in audio,” Ryckman said. “We can take any film and TV traditions,” he told AFP. time I heard audio, post AfterMaster, I knew that I audio and make it substantially louder, clearer and The list of foreign actors drawn by had to be a part of this company and that we had fuller.” AfterMaster software will be available for Hollywood’s bright lights is like a something revolutionary on our hands.” The 33- licensing on Dec 1. Products with chips will launch Who’s Who of Golden Age showbiz: year-old Timberlake joins the company’s founders, early next year. “AfterMaster takes the audio and Audrey Hepburn (British/Dutch), CEO Larry Ryckman and chief engineer Shelly keeps it musical and clean sounding, and takes it Cary Grant (English), Sophia Loren Yakus. Ryckman and Yakus launched the audio further than anyone’s taken it before in terms of (Italian) or Zsa Zsa Gabor technology company QSound along with Jimmy quality, volume, size (and) depth. Everything about (Hungarian). Iovine in 1986. it enhances the audio without changing the intent The link between immigrants “Justin is an audiophile. He really understands of the creator,” Yakus said in an interview. The com- and Hollywood goes all the way quality audio,” Ryckman said in an interview. pany will announce its “first partnerships in the back to Tinseltown’s founding in “We’ve worked with the world’s biggest artists, and near future,” Ryckman said. AfterMaster is also the early years of the 20th century. not all of them have a focus on audio quality on launching an online music mastering service next As waves of newcomers arrived, the their own; they look to their producers and their month, where musicians can upload songs, early silent movies were the perfect entertainment for masses who did- This September 12, 2001 file photo shows one of the movie bill- engineers. Justin loves technology, completely receive a re-mastered version and decide to pur- boards advertising Arnold Schwarzenegger’s film about a bomb understands audio and he’s very powerful and chase it.—AP n’t speak the language, and had just enough spare change for the blast “Collateral Damage,” at the entrance to a Los Angeles free- cheap seats. The original way in Los Angeles, California. (Inset) File photo shows actor and Hollywood moguls were all Jews former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as he speaks Take two from U2 with film version of album from central or eastern Europe. at a press conference in Beverly Hills, California. —AFP photos Universal was founded by 2, who faced mockery for sending their dimensional drawings as the base for street per- Germany’s Carl Laemmle; hear complaints about Hollywood, been reflected very much in main- British and Irish stars making their album for free to iTunes’ half billion users, are formances, and Oliver Jeffers, a Belfast native best Hungarians Adolph Zukor and and sometimes it was just ‘it’s too stream culture, which I always names in Tinseltown including: Uback with a new experiment-a film version known for his illustrations of children’s books. Street William Fox started Paramount and violent, it’s too sexy’,” said Robert found kind of surprising,” he added. Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony by leading urban artists. “Films of Innocence” will life has been a running theme for U2 from classic hit Fox Film Corporation; Russian Louis Thompson, media professor at Everything is relative, of course- Hopkins, Benedict Cumberbatch, feature motion pictures by 11 artists known for work “Where the Streets Have No Name” to the latest B Mayer launched Metro-Goldwyn Syracuse University in New York Ang Lee, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ewan in city spaces. The Irish band said the artists were album, in which frontman Bono repeatedly conjures Mayer, while the Warner Brothers state. “But often it was disguised have made careers. And one thing McGregor, Liam Neeson, and Colin given “complete creative freedom to showcase their up imagery from his boyhood. hailed from Poland. ways of simply being anti-Semitic,” is for sure: Hollywood is increasing- Farrell. personal responses” to the album “Songs of he told AFP. ly targeting Asia, and specifically Other Europeans have joined Innocence.” “Taking the political murals of Northern Free release Fleeing from Nazis Two areas of the world which China, as a huge market for its them: French stars Jean Dujardin in Ireland as a reference point, U2 pioneered the proj- U2 announced the free release of “Songs of Their arrival and achievements have been under-represented in products. Of course, a key influ- “The Artist” and “The Wolf of Wall ect to celebrate the unique democratic power of Innocence” as part of a promotion campaign for in their adopted land are detailed Hollywood are Africa and Asia, ence on Hollywood in the last 20 Street”, Omar Sy of “X-Men” fame, urban art,” said an announcement of the project on Apple’s new iPhone 6. Bono initially hailed the in “An Empire of Their Own: How along with the story of African years has been globalization, the and Austria’s Christoph Waltz, a iTunes. move as an innovative way to share his music with the Jews Invented Hollywood” by Americans within the United States. force which has impacted every favorite of Quentin Tarantino. Arnie, And this time, the work won’t be free. The iTunes the widest possible audience, but he later apolo- Neal Gubler, a standard textbook Eddie Murphy famously made a other facet of public and economic the Austrian muscleman turned A- site said that “Films of Innocence” will cost $12.99 gized and blamed what he called both his ego on the subject. “As immigrants speech about the lack of black life in the late 20th and early 21st list actor, made it so big here that and come out on December 9. Artists who took part and generosity. While many U2 fans welcomed themselves, they had a peculiar Oscar winners at the 1988 Academy century. he became governor of California-a in the project include Robin Rhode, the South the free album, Apple received so many com- sensitivity to the dreams and aspi- Awards, pointing out that there had Both actors and directors in rags-to-riches story that, some African artist who uses simple but falsely three- plaints that it offered special advice on how users rations of other immigrants and only been three in the past six Hollywood can now just as easily might say, could only have been working class families ... groups decades. There have been break- be from overseas. The director pat- dreamt up in Hollywood. —AP Steve Carell vows not to ‘play it safe anymore’

ong before Steve Carell was showered in acclaim for his befriends Olympic wrestler brothers Mark (Channing Tatum) shoo-in for a best actor nomination. “It’s definitely darker than startling transformation into John du Pont for the true- and Dave (Ruffalo) Schultz, certainly had the potential of fail- most anything I’ve ever done,” Carell said. “The fact that Lcrime drama “Foxcatcher,” he was walking home from ing to pin down its stranger-than-fiction tale and leave Carell Bennett had faith in me to do it, that was really a reward in set, commiserating with co-star Mark Ruffalo. “We both flopping on the mat. “We weren’t going to go halfway with it. itself, getting that kind of affirmation from someone like that.” looked at each other really in agreement that the whole That would have ended up being nothing,” Carell says. “We thing was crazy and what we were doing was so far out both felt very vulnerable, that it could potentially be the Villainous actor there,” Carell recalled in a recent interview. “We both felt we worst thing we’d ever done or the best, but there was little in Miller, the director of “Capote” and “Moneyball,” was were taking huge swings.” You, too, might be a tad nervous between.” attracted to the idea of casting du Pont - who was convicted about how you’d come off if you were - like Carell - fitted with The needle has clearly swung to “best.” Carell’s perform- of murdering Dave Schultz on his family’s 800-acre a prosthetic nose, covered in three-hours of makeup, and ance has been hailed as one of the most extraordinary of the Foxcatcher estate in Pennsylvania in 1996 - with not an overt- This image released by Sony Pictures asked to portray, with somber severity, an increasingly psy- year, one immediately inducted into the rich history of ly villainous actor. Instead, he was drawn to Carell for his Classics shows Steve Carell in a scene from chotic, chemical empire heir with both a raging mother com- comedic actors veering into dramatic territory. Carell, who unthreatening demeanor and reputation. “I did believe in my ‘Foxcatcher.’—AP plex and a proclivity for sweat pants. was named the most outstanding performer of the year by heart that if it could work with Steve, that that would be the Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher,” in which du Pont tragically the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, is considered a best for the film,” says Miller. —AP

LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 Features38 Fouz: My journey with ‘Roacutane’ ‘We want to enhance our features and not remove or change them’

y journey with skin care pretty much once in a while, but at that point my skin was started a few months ago, I always very unhealthy and exhausted. Mjust moisturized my skin and called Going through the changes with Roacu- it a day. However, after my trip in Bodrum, tane were somewhat weird to me, my body Turkey, I suffered from severe allergies and was very dehydrated, drinking loads of water acne. This took me by surprise because grow- is extremely important! I had blood work ing up I never had skin problems, neither done every month; my doctor would review does it run in the family. This was something the results with me, because Roacutane I was extremely insecure from being that I’m can affect your kidneys, due to dehydra- 24 years old, suffering from acne, doing what tion. Some of the side effects that I went I do now, which is constantly being in the through were extreme dehydration, I never spotlight. Honestly speaking, we do live in a could have enough water, my lips became time where we are expected to look our best extremely dry and chapped where they all the time, having my career that should would bleed, and my nose was bleeding due come as a priority. At the end of the day, we to dryness as well. Other than that, I was very are all human, and our bodies go through pleased with the results, I think it was a really different changes, and a few months ago my good decision to make. I got back my skin skin went through one of those crazy phases. and quite honestly my confidence.

Extremely insecure Know your body Right after I came Having people photoshop back from Bodrum, your skin for magazine cov- I started obsessing ers really makes you feel over whatever I put bad about yourself, and I on my face in terms really felt for everyone who of moisturizers, make was going through skin up and even facials. I problems and acne. I thought maybe my do recommend anyone skin was having an to take Roacutane, of allergic reaction to course after seeing a one of the products, it dermatologist. Each and got to a point where I couldn’t put every one of us has a different way make up on at all because it emphasized on of our body reacting to medication, some all the acne and just looked wrong. I decided people suffer from severe side effects and to see a dermatologist after I found out I others don’t. At the end of the day, in order was going to have a huge photo shoot for a to have flawless make up, you should always magazine cover (which was very irrespon- have healthy skin. My journey with Roacu- sible, I should’ve went earlier). The derma- tane taught me that first hand. tologist suggested to give me antibiotics to We think by layering make up we will relief any infection on my skin and redness, look flawless, which is one hundred percent and I refused. I told him I wanted something wrong, because less is more. We want to faster and stronger, because I felt extremely enhance our features and not remove or insecure going out, taking photos and at- change them. Know your body, know your tending events. That’s when I started taking skin and from there you will look better, and Roacutane. I think we can all agree that this most importantly healthy. Don’t go for what is one of the most controversial medicines everyone is else is doing or using, maybe it out there. 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lifestyle THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014 FEATURES Lagos photo festival: Turning negatives into positives

zu Nwagbogu sits in a futuristic, almond- green armchair created by a young ANigerian designer in his Lagos home, sur- rounded by hundreds of books and dozens of photographs from floor to ceiling. Nwagbogu is the founder of LagosPhoto, an annual festival started five years ago that has since become one of the biggest photography festivals in Africa. Since its inception it has tried to reflect the reali- ty of life on the continent through the eyes of Africans, rather than just photographers from elsewhere in the world. This year organizers have turned to the realm of fantasy and fiction, to encourage artists to go beyond showing just the realities of daily life and worries about basic necessities. “The aim is to give Africa, Nigeria, Lagos-the city (and) its people — a voice. We want people to be able to tell their stories,” he said. “And beyond that, we want that to be an equal playing field for local and international guys to show their work here, in a world-class standard.”

House-maids to the super-rich A crafted picture by French photographer Patrick Willocq is displayed in Freedom Park at LagosPhoto, an annual festival started five years ago. (Right) A picture of a local rapper by Photos on vast canvasses held up by bamboo Belgian photographer Leonard Pongo is displayed. line the paths of Freedom Park, a former colo- nial-era prison turned cultural centre and green in service for three generations-the work is a An artistic medium for all on their own daily life. “The goal is to keep This time round, he is exhibiting “When Light space, nestled among the skyscrapers of down- way to ask questions about the role of women in For Nwagbogu, who set up the African reclaiming contemporary visual culture, to tell Shines in the Dark, the Darkness is town Lagos. Similar prints are displayed in art African society. In Freedom Park, the French Artists’ Foundation, African story-telling through our own stories and to empower more people,” Uncomprehending”, a series of shots from a galleries, a luxury hotel and a fashion boutique photographer Patrick Willocq uses the young African eyes is a key driver of the festival that Nwagbogu said. “Photography is the most pow- working-class Lagos suburb receiving electricity in Nigeria’s economic capital. At the Eko Hotel, in women from the Ekonda pygmy tribe in the first began in 2010. “The history we’ve been erful (medium) because everyone can do it, for the first time. the upmarket Victoria Island area, Mary Sibande Democratic Republic of Congo for a wry look at taught about Africa is so false. The way we’ve everyone can get involved.” The scenes of daily life, printed on plexiglas, is displaying her work “Long Live the Dead initiation ceremonies. come to accept ourselves as Africans is so bas- have an abstract and supernatural feel as natural Queen”, a series of photos featuring a female Several Nigerians photographers are among tardised through popular media,” he explained. Electricity and urban wildlife light shines through-an imagining of social protagonist called Sophie. the 40 artists exhibiting this year. Ade Adekola “It’s time for us to take charge of our own LagosPhoto is also a chance to plunge major change through the surrounding environment. Sophie, a voluptuous black woman in a explores the myth of reincarnation in the Yoruba narrative... and to understand that we can tell foreign photographers into the chaos of Lagos British photographer Martin Parr, known for his majestic blue Victorian dress and a house-maid’s culture of the southwest. Jide Odukoya portrays our own stories and we have the ability on an life and to capture their take on the fascinating satirical take on tourists around the world, was starched white apron, is shown in fantastical the life of Africa’s super-rich, documenting dis- equal footing with the rest of the world.” In megacity of nearly 20 million people. Dutch guest of honor at the festival last year. During images with grand accessories. For the South carded boxes of brandy, dancefloors strewn with debates and workshops, young Nigerians have photographer Hans Wilschut, a self-confessed that time he took a range of urban wildlife shot African artist-whose female relatives all worked naira notes and young men in bespoke suits been encouraged to study the exhibits and Lagos addict who has shot in the city half a from the back of his car while stuck in traffic brandishing $100 bills. exchange photos to develop a more critical eye dozen times, was one of the exhibitors last year. jams. — AFP Rocky love: Letters by great women are auctioned n unprecedented collection of 1,500 doc- heir. In the 1529 letter intended to reach the French teacher after the girl came up short in uments from some of history’s greatest pope, she argues: “I am completely innocent” class. “Please excuse Stephanie for not having Awomen is being auctioned in Paris, includ- and being cast aside “without cause.” She asks for done her French lesson. She left her book at ing everything from Catherine the Great’s imperi- Henry’s planned annulment to be blocked. She school, Wednesday. Grace de Monaco.” ous letter shunning her lover, to Brigitte Bardot’s also warns - correctly, as it turns out - that Henry plea to cancel the release of a song that ended will try to split from Rome. It’s simply signed Edith Piaf’s “la vie en rehab” up being banned in several countries owing to “Katherina.” After their divorce, which was not Dated Jan 5, 1956, the bittersweet letter from its sexual content. The documents, which range singer Edith Piaf is a loving ode to her then-hus- from the profound to the banal, also include band Jacques Pills from the clinic where she was ones from Napoleon’s long-suffering wife undergoing detox after alcohol and morphine Josephine, and a note to a teacher from Grace addictions. In it, the French cabaret singer of the Kelly. famous signature song “La vie en Rose” reminds Pills that there will be good days ahead, when Catherine of Aragon: save my marriage she gets released. “Lovely man, have confidence (and your church) in me as you have always had and you will see it’s Catherine - the queen of England from 1509 the good side in me that will win, by the end of until 1533, and the first of King Henry VIII’s six the detoxification... you will see that things can wives - fell out of favor with the fearsome start again!” Piaf died seven years later of liver Auction expert Thierry Bodin, displays a letter from Catherine of Aragon, 1487-1536, at an monarch after she failed to produce a son and cancer, aged 47. auction house in Paris, Monday. — AP photos her marriage to Gunter Sachs. Written a day after wanted to make a political union with the Queen Catherine The Great: Hands off my empire the song was first broadcast in 1967 to Phillips Charlotte’s daughter, so he dictated what she The famously amorous Catherine II of Russia, record company, the letter speaks of the “serious could say. More broadly, it shows how women’s who was linked to the coup that killed her hus- and grave personal reasons to not release under roles became more submissive in the 18th and band Peter III, is seen in this 1762 letter shunning any circumstances” the recording. The song was 19th centuries.” — AP her lover Stanislas Auguste Poniatowski. He withdrawn and later recorded with Gainsbourg’s wanted to come to Russia and become her new wife Jane Birkin to become one of the iconic hits husband, but he is warned to stay away. Why? A letter dated 1762 by Catherine II Empress of the 60s. Despite this, Bardot and Sachs still The fearsome Catherine had another lover and of Russia also known as Catherine the divorced in 1969. Great, 1729-1796, is displayed at an auc- no intention of letting her old flame return to her life or take over her empire. “You read my letters tion house. Josephine is under with very little attention. I’ve told you and Napoleon’s thumb (and quill) recognized by the pope, Henry sets up a sepa- repeated that I risk being assaulted from all sides Hardly anything remains of Empress rate Church of England, with himself as its head. if you put one foot back in Russia,” she says in the Josephine’s letter to a friend, crossed out with It sold yesterday for 68,750 euros ($86,000). blunt letter. aggressive ink scribbles by her domineering hus- band. The friend, Queen Charlotte of Princess Grace makes excuses Bardot’s sachs appeal Wurtemberg, was apparently too politically cru- When a royal’s daughter fails to do her home- Blond bombshell Brigitte Bardot’s letter is a cial to receive heartfelt thoughts in writing. work, she doesn’t tell the teacher a dog ate it. request to a record company to scrap the sug- Napoleon left about 20 of the original words Grace Patricia Kelly - the American actress who gestive, sexually-provocative song “Je t’aime, Moi untouched, with Josephine’s hand nearly com- married Prince Rainier III to become the Princess non Plus.” (“I Love You...Me Neither”) that she had A letter from French singer Edith Piaf, is pletely erased. According to manuscript special- Part of a display of letters displayed at an of Monaco - wrote to her daughter Stephanie’s recorded with Serge Gainsbourg. It was straining displayed at an auction house. ist Thierry Bodin, “In this instance, Napoleon auction house. New modern metro threatens India’s historic Pink City

s she expertly leads tourists past honking cars and rick- would not be of a level which can harm any structure,” JMRC almost impossible to guarantee centuries-old buildings will said. “The government should reconsider whether they want shaws to a majestic dusty-pink palace, Sunita Sharma chairman and managing director N C Goel said. “The vibrations not be weakened by modern-day construction underneath. to create a facility at the cost of heritage,” Hooja, a member of Avoices fears for the northeastern Indian city’s historic will be low hence the monuments will be safe,” he told AFP, “Today’s engineers can guarantee strong foundations of a the National Monument Authority, told AFP.”Who will be landmarks as a new transport link looms large. Authorities are adding that preparations for the tunnelling were at an building they are constructing today, but not those of a struc- responsible if a loss to these sites occurs?” building an underground metro near the Hawa Mahal or the advanced stage. But some are not convinced, arguing it is ture which was built 200 years back,” archaeologist Rima Hooja “Palace of the Winds” in Jaipur’s old city, a bustling place that Terrible consequences blends historic charm with the allure of ancient royalty and One of the metro stations is set to be built at a market that lies draws millions of domestic and foreign visitors. But archaeolo- just 100 meters (328 feet) from the palace. The tunnel will pass gists as well as tourist guides like Sharma fear the multi-million near the neighboring UNESCO heritage-listed Jantar Mantar site, dollar project will disturb the foundations of the monuments, with its giant astronomical instruments carved from sandstone. built in the 1700s by the all-powerful Maharaja rulers. Even slight damage to the 20-odd instruments, designed to “Jaipur is known worldwide by these monuments, and if observe astronomical positions with the naked eye, would be “a any loss occurs, the grandeur and architectural heritage can great loss”, said Hooja. Known as India’s first planned city, Jaipur never be revived,” Sharma told AFP. Tour operator Sanjay was built in 1727 on a grid system with a fort, palace and other Kaushik agreed, adding he feared visitor numbers would also impressive buildings. Construction was overseen by the Maharaja drop because of the years of looming construction work and ruler Sawai Jai Singh II, who had a keen interest in architecture resulting traffic chaos. “Tourist season is beginning next and astronomy. Its thick perimeter walls and imposing entrance month and we fear a decline in the footfall,” Kaushik said from gates drew merchants from around the country who settled in his office in the old city. Tunnelling in the old city is also the new city to ply their trade in relative safety. Designed in the expected to start next month for the project, which authorities form of the crown of the Hindu god Krishna, the five-storey hail as a much-needed upgrade of infrastructure in the “Pink palace has more than 900 small windows. Decorated with intri- In this photograph City”, capital of the desert state of Rajasthan. cate latticework, they were designed to allow ladies of the royal Indian construction The Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC), which is spear- court to sit and observe everyday life in the street below without workers labor on a heading the multi-year project with a loan from the Asian being seen. Another archaeologist, Akshya Jagdhari, said he was Metro Rail site in Development Bank and state government funding, denies the concerned that damage to some of the monuments may not be the old city area monuments are under threat from tunnelling or from eventual immediately noticed, but could have terrible consequences if left between Chhoti vibrations from the trains. “An environmental impact assess- unattended. Jagdhari also pointed to the recent discovery at one Chaupad and ment report was prepared a year ago which said that the vibra- of the proposed railway stations of a buried structure that he Chandpole in tions created during the boring and operation of the metro believes may date back to when the city was built. —AFP Jaipur. — AFP Fouz: My journey with38 ‘Roacutane’ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A girl makes soap bubbles near the Colosseum on November 18, 2014 in Rome.—AFP A taste of home for war-weary

ot long ago chef Abu Wassim saw him- most refugees per capita in the world, and the self as king of the shawarma in influx has created some resentment in a coun- NDamascus with students, businessmen try of four million already facing economic and and even actors queueing outside his stand for political challenges. Mindful of the strain on a bite of his succulent wraps. Today, he is a his host country, Abu Wassim said he buys all refugee in Beirut trying to make ends meet his ingredients in Lebanon and several of his and bringing a taste of home to fellow Syrians employees are Lebanese. who sought safety in Lebanon. “In Damascus, I “I buy everything locally: the chicken, the used to sell 3,000 beef or chicken shawarma meat, the spices,” he said. In the same district sandwiches a day,” the 48-year-old said wistful- of Hamra, another restaurant offers famed deli- ly while serving customers at his small restau- cacies from Aleppo. Beit Halab, or Aleppo rant in Beirut’s bustling Hamra district. House, has become a sort of haven for those “Here, I barely sell 250 but at least I am forced to flee Syria’s second city who come eking out a living,” he said. While in Syria he here to soak up the scents and aromas of made a 50 percent profit on each sandwich, in home. Beirut he scrapes 15 percent. “Every day, I give “It reminds me of Aleppo. I even meet peo- away 40 wraps to the poor,” he added. “When a ple from Aleppo here whom I had not seen for poor Syrian woman with three kids comes a very long time,” said Aisha, a blue-eyed 20- begging for help I can’t turn away.” His story is year-old wearing a white headscarf who fled to by no means unique in Lebanon where a num- Beirut from Syria’s former economic hub. Beit ber of Syrian restaurants and eateries have Halab manager Mosaab Hadiri, who fled sprung up, tapping into the rich culinary tradi- Aleppo seven months ago, can barely hold tion core to the Middle Eastern country’s iden- back the tears while looking at the pictures of tity. his city that hang on the restaurant walls. On the menu are Aleppo’s famed cherry “In Aleppo, restaurants would stay open kebab, hindi kebab with tomato sauce and until 4:00 am. It breaks my heart to watch the pomegranate molasses or a spicy red pepper news,” he said. But the mere sight of the dishes dip known as mohammara-all aimed at win- served at Beit Halab makes Hadiri’s eyes light ning over Lebanese taste buds or offering up. Mouth-watering kebabs are on display Clients eat lunch at a Syrian restaurant from Aleppo in the Lebanese capital Beirut.—AFP photos home comforts to Syrian exiles. here, including the Aleppo variant, served with cooked in yogurt, another is stuffed with Like fellow restaurateurs, he has had to jug- Lebanese restaurants are hiring Syrian chefs, salt and black pepper, as well as cherries. quince. Here too, chefs have gone out of their gle with a steep increase in labor cost. In Syria while local butchers have started to offer spe- ‘Reminds me of Aleppo’ way to adapt. “In order to penetrate the he paid employees 10 dollars (eight euros) a cialties from the war-torn country. But in spite More than three million people have fled Pine nuts and pomegranate Lebanese market, you have to offer something day, while in Lebanon it is 30 dollars. In east of the success, Hadiri has only one wish-to Syria since the uprising began in March 2011, There is also the kheshkhash kebab served special, and the cuisine of Aleppo is definitely Beirut, the upscale Bab Sharqi restaurant return to Aleppo. “We cannot forget our roots,” morphing into a multi-sided civil war that has with red pepper and pine nuts as well as sever- unique,” said Hadiri. “But we have also adapted attracts Lebanese clients on the lookout for he said. “The secret to our cuisine lies in the fla- killed nearly 200,000 people. With more than al types of kibbeh, a traditional meat and spice to local tastes, and we use less fat here,” he new flavors. The popularity of cuisine from vor, the mix of spices. “And nothing can replace 1.1 million Syrian refugees, Lebanon has the dumpling made with bulgur. One variant is chuckled. Aleppo and Damascus means that even the taste of home.”—AFP

A man prepares Aleppan kebab at the renowned Syrian restaurant Beit Halab, which means Aleppo A Syrian musician plays the lute, known in Arabic as “Oud”, as clients eat Aleppan food at a A waiter serves traditional food from Aleppo House in Arabic. Syrian restaurant. at a Syrian restaurant in Beirut.